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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Former SC Attorney To be Charged With Murder Of Wife And Son...
...For those who may not have been following this story, it would be popcorn-worthy were it not for the fact that at least two people are dead, and - up to this point - as many as FIVE, though that's still being looked at by the authorities.

Short version: A drug addicted embezzling lawyer into his dealers for possibly millions and likely fixing cases, a bank that was helping him out, a suspicious wife about to file for divorce, a deranged and possibly homicidal alcoholic teenager, a suicide-for-insurance plot that literally misfired, a maid who died under extremely suspicious circumstances, a drug-dealing cousin who was a lousy choice for a hit man, and two dead classmates of the above mentioned teenager. As they used to say on the radio, stay tuned...

[WSOCTV] A lawyer for disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh said Tuesday that investigators have indicated they intend to pursue murder charges against him for the deaths of his wife and son, who were fatally shot outside their home more than a year ago.

Murdaugh already faces dozens of criminal charges that have piled up in the months since his wife Maggie, 52, and their 22-year-old son, Paul, were killed. But until now he has not been charged in connection with their deaths; he’s repeatedly denied any role in those killings.

Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were shot several times between 9 and 9:30 p.m. the night of June 7, 2021, outside their home on the family’s land near Islandton, authorities said. Their bodies were found near dog kennels, according to Colleton County Coroner Richard Harvey.

The South Carolina Supreme Court also disbarred Murdaugh on Tuesday, confirming the inevitable after Murdaugh’s attorneys declined to contest arguments at a June disbarment hearing. In the order, the state Supreme Court noted its decision “in no way” affects ongoing investigations.
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 07/13/2022 08:09 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Truly, you don’t get more lurider than this.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/13/2022 11:34 Comments || Top||

#2  If you tried to sell it as a crime movie screenplay, it would be considered too unbelievable, even though the villain of the story is a white guy.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2022 11:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Totally in Netfix territory.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/13/2022 12:29 Comments || Top||

#4  ...This is going to get well and truly ugly - the Murdaugh family was, to put it gently, 'entitled', and there's a LOT of questions as to whether or not Alex was completely honest with the court as to whether or not he's accounted for all his funds. (And just to be on the safe side, the state has frozen his surviving son's accounts too.)

State Law Enforcement Division - a state police agency that answers ONLY to the Governor, and has the kind of reputation for honesty, integrity, and ferocity that the FBI used to have - is going over everything this guy touched, because there's a feeling he might have been fixing cases. His family law firm 86'd him, a friend who worked at a large local bank was helping him steal and quite possibly launder money, and the Feds are keeping an eye on that.

Mike

Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 07/13/2022 14:03 Comments || Top||

#5  If you believe you couldn't sell it as a crime story script, you never seen Blood Simple.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/13/2022 17:57 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ One of my absolute favorites. The plot can best be described as everyone double-crosses one another until there's only one person left.

Fantastic film.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2022 18:17 Comments || Top||

#7  The Murdaugh story has elements of Double Indemnity, too
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2022 18:19 Comments || Top||

#8  ^ Seen The Outfit, MM? It was such a refreshing change from all the candy ass limpdickery nowadays. Old school.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/13/2022 18:22 Comments || Top||

#9  No, but it's on my list. I mostly read crime novels when I'm not reading history, biography or technical literature. I've read all of Westlake, so I'm sure I will like it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2022 18:27 Comments || Top||


Florida family fight over estate of ailing mother leaves two dead, one injured
[NYPOST] A vicious family feud over the vacation home of a Florida woman who recently moved into an assisted living facility left two people dead and one maimed from gunshots in Boca Raton over the weekend, cops said.

Several members of the family were scheduled to gather at the residence when it was discovered that another relative who had not been invited was already in the home.

The first family member who arrived at the house on Saturday found the suspect inside and demanded that he leave. But the shooter refused and fatally shot her, cops said.

The following day, two more relatives arrived and found the door locked.

They texted the dear departed initial victim and received a response from her phone that the side door was open.

When they entered, the unidentified killer began attacking them, cops said.

Both were able to ultimately flee the scene after one pulled out their own firearm and distracted the estranged relative.

SWAT teams descended on the scene and called for the shooter to come out onto the street.

The officers eventually smashed their way into the house after they were unable to contact the suspect. Inside, they found him dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Boca Raton officials declined to release any names in connection with the incident, including that of the gunman.
Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The house is no shanty. It would be interesting to know where these people are from, as the residence is referred to as a "vacation home."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2022 7:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Worst timeshare nightmare story ever.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/13/2022 12:18 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't see why they had to get snippy about it. (That's my John Kerry quote for the day).
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 07/13/2022 22:38 Comments || Top||

#4  "A day without ketchup is like... a day without a toupee!"

"The hair! Er, the horror!"
Posted by: Shatle Gurly-Brown1146 || 07/13/2022 22:58 Comments || Top||


NYC duo opens fire, barely missing girl in wheelchair, woman
[NYPOST] Shocking video captures the moment two button men opened fire on a Brooklyn street, barely missing their target — as well as a girl in a wheelchair and a woman standing nearby.

The footage, released early Tuesday, shows the duo walking up to their target — a man sitting on a scooter on Liberty Avenue near Junius Street in Brownsville around 7:40 p.m. Monday and letting off a few rounds.

The man jumped off the scooter and ran off without being struck, according to cops and the video.

A girl in a wheelchair, whose age was not known early Tuesday, as well as a woman, were standing close by on the sidewalk when the shots rang out, the footage shows.

The woman can be seen pulling the wheelchair away and backing down the block. Her relationship to the girl is unclear.

Neither the woman nor the girl reported any injuries, cops said.

Police are still looking to track down the suspects.
Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Paroled robbery suspect holds up California store at gunpoint: video
[NYPOST] A brazen Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, gunman already on parole robbed a cellphone store outside Los Angeles, police said.

Lawrence Bell, 37, of Torrance, was wearing an ankle monitor when he stormed into a Boost Mobile store in Culver City on Sunday afternoon and pointed a semi-automatic handgun at two clerks, police said in a statement.

"The suspect then jumped over the counter and forced both employees to lay face down while he grabbed money from the cash register," Culver City police said.

Bell made off with about $500 in cash and fled on foot, but officers realized upon reviewing surveillance footage that he dropped a set of car keys as he took off. Investigators soon located Bell’s vehicle, which was parked about a block away from the store, police said.

"When the officers looked inside the vehicle, they observed the clothing that was worn by the suspect in the rear seat," the police account continued.

Cops then tracked down Bell nearby and he was detained without incident. A subsequent search of his car revealed a loaded Glock semi-automatic, as well as clothing he wore during the robbery and $500 in cash, police said.

Bell, who was charged with armed robbery, was already on parole for an earlier alleged heist and had on an ankle monitor as a condition of his release, authorities said.

The case will be presented to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, which is led by George Gascón, who has been dogged by accusations of being soft on crime. A recall campaign against him has generated more than 715,000 signatures, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday, citing elections officials.
Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:


The video Uvalde cops didn't want you to see: 17 officers RAN AWAY from gunman as he sprayed 100 rounds into two classrooms full of kids - and they spent 77 minutes doing nothing while 19 children and two teachers were killed
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Footage of the Uvalde police response to the shooting was leaked on Tuesday

  • It shows how Salvador Ramos, 18, sauntered through the halls at Robb Elementary School carrying an AR-15 as a teacher called for help

  • He then walked into two classrooms and fired for two and a half minutes, shooting off 100 rounds

  • The new video shows Sheriff's Deputy Felix Rubio in the hallway, in tears being held back by fellow officers, feet away from where his 10-year-old daughter Lexi was shot dead

  • The first officers arrived three minutes later, but stood back, with one seen checking his cellphone

  • Nothing happens until Border Patrol agents ran to the classrooms and began firing at Ramos, killing him

  • Two teachers and 19 children were killed in the May 24 massacre
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The cop who stopped to use hand sanitizer from the dispenser on the wall. YJCMTSU.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2022 7:22 Comments || Top||

#2  are they all not accessories to murder then?
Posted by: 746 || 07/13/2022 8:59 Comments || Top||

#3  They were bravely redeploying to the rear.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/13/2022 9:11 Comments || Top||

#4  I would like to hear what the cop who they stopped has to say about his fellow officers .
Posted by: Chris || 07/13/2022 9:50 Comments || Top||

#5  About the only thing missing at this point is shooter wearing a dress at a range.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/13/2022 11:20 Comments || Top||


Escaped inmate Casey White charged with murder of ex-jail boss Vicky White
[NYPOST] Casey White, the Alabama convict who escaped prison with his jail boss-turned-lover Vicky White, was charged Tuesday with felony murder in her death.

The charge was announced by Lauderdale County District Attorney Chris Connolly, according to AL.com.

Casey White and Vicky White, who were not related, were on the lam for 11 days after Vicky helped him escape Lauderdale County Jail in Florence, Alabama, where she was a corrections officer.

They were caught on May 9 in Indiana, after Casey crashed his car during a police chase and Vicky fatally shot herself in the head.

It’s not clear if the murder charge for Casey means prosecutors have changed their account of how the prison guard died but felony murder charges are filed when a murder is committed in the commission of a felony.

He is also facing charges of first-degree escape.

He is currently serving time for a 2015 crime spree and facing a capital murder charge, which is expected to go to trial at the end of this year.

Casey’s former lawyer, Dale Bryant, has said the inmate "suffers from a mental illness."

"When he’s on medication and in a supervised environment ... he’s a decent person," Bryant said. "When he gets out of incarceration, he is unable to stay on his medication and he even self-medicates by smoking methamphetamine or taking other illegal substances."
Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Casey’s former lawyer, Dale Bryant, has said the inmate "suffers from a mental illness."

"When he’s on medication and in a supervised environment ... he’s a decent person," Bryant said. "When he gets out of incarceration, he is unable to stay on his medication and he even self-medicates by smoking methamphetamine or taking other illegal substances."


...May well be true. It's also most definitely irrelevant at this point.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 07/13/2022 8:08 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Starbucks closing 16 stores in L.A, other cities due to employee safety concerns
[YouTube] Starbucks is shutting down 16 of its stores, six of which are in Los Angeles.
Followed by Seattle, then Portland, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC.
More from the New York Post:
Starbucks to close 16 US stores because of crime, rampant drug use

[NYPOST] Starbucks is shuttering 16 store locations nationwide after store managers reported a surge in drug use among customers and outsiders as well as an increase in crime in certain areas.

Six Starbucks locations will be closed in the company’s hometown of Seattle and six more will be shuttered in the Los Angeles metro area.

Two Starbucks restaurants will cease operating in Portland, Ore., while one store each will close in Philadelphia and Washington, DC, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Store managers have complained to company executives that employees have not felt safe amid a surge of assaults, thefts and drug use in and around each location.

The company responded by giving store managers discretion to deny free access to the store’s bathrooms, which are open to the public as per corporate policy, according to the Seattle Times.

Last month, Starbucks interim CEO Howard Schultz said the company was rethinking its "open bathroom" policy due to mounting concerns about public safety.
Posted by: Omiting Theting7288 || 07/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The unchecked anarchy of the urban centers could eventually paralyze the nation. Perhaps this is what our new masters have intended.

If we could only get the trucks and trains to stop running, we could achieve real chaos.

ZERO - Trains Could Literally Stop Running In The US One Week From Now
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/13/2022 0:30 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm proud to say I've never stepped foot inside of a fucking pretentious burnt coffee shop like Starbucks. I bet I'd get better flavored coffee running hot water over my ass cheeks covered with bark from a maple tree.
Posted by: Raj || 07/13/2022 0:39 Comments || Top||

#3  American Greatness - Marilyn Mosby Pushes Baltimore Toward Anarchy
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/13/2022 0:45 Comments || Top||

#4  I thought that piece of sh!t Mosby (and her hubby) was in trouble with the law. Oh, wait, a Mosby? The "law"? Never mind. Sorry I mentioned it.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/13/2022 7:09 Comments || Top||

#5 

Are they talking about street thugs robbing their Karen/Darens Caffeine Junkies leaving the stores, or the Karen's that pitch fits over thing less than 1000% perfect to them and throwing hissy fit tantrums in the store

Or maybe the fact the Coffee Social-Political WOKE agenda ticked off a lot of customers and caused a sizeable revenue loss?

Or maybe they are still closing some of the 400+ stores that they already announced they planned to even back in June 2020?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/13/2022 8:06 Comments || Top||

#6  ...I'm wondering how many of these stores also just happened to be among the ones that were trying to unionize.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 07/13/2022 9:21 Comments || Top||

#7  Like the old "29 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean" joke, it's a start...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2022 9:22 Comments || Top||

#8  Back in the day, I visited an inner city Detroit package store to buy liquor underage. The employees were behind bullet-proof glass and the transaction was made through a teller trap door rig that used to be common at bank windows. Several years later I had to make a similar but legal transaction through a like contraption at a Churches Fried Chicken. That gave me a strong indication that my hunger had lured me to a very wrong neighborhood. I see a future SF Starbucks where people are getting their Grande Macchiato through the same bulletproof trapdoor. Hipster ambiance at its best.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/13/2022 12:15 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ Going to the liquor store in Cleveland was like that when I was in college in the late 1970s. There was one bottle of each product behind glass, with a tag that had the stock number and unit price. You wrote stock number, price and quantity on a little form with a golf pencil and took it to the cashier, who sent a runner for your booze.

I discovered after a while I could write the stock number and what I wanted to pay (within the bounds of credibility) and get the desired result every time.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2022 12:23 Comments || Top||

#10  I didn't see San Francisco in the list of cities where stores will be closed. Makes me wonder if maybe all the Starbucks stores in San Francisco have already been closed.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/13/2022 12:28 Comments || Top||

#11  Ge woke. Go broke.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/13/2022 12:29 Comments || Top||

#12  Starbucks are mostly empty and with teenagers at $20 an hour roughly. There’s no money to be made. The drugs in the bathroom, the homeless, the lack of police services, are just an excuse to breach or break a lease without penalties.
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/13/2022 15:37 Comments || Top||

#13  According to the internet:

Average Salaries at Starbucks

Barista
$13.83 per hour

Food Service Worker
$11.50 per hour
Baker
$19.74 per hour
Cafe Assistant
$14.07 per hour

Shift Manager
$16.80 per hour
Supervisor
$16.83 per hour
Shift Leader
$16.41 per hour


Though perhaps the pay is higher in California.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/13/2022 16:21 Comments || Top||

#14  TW Los Angeles minimum hourly wage is $ 16 add workers compensation and taxes and other costs it’s probably going to be around 20\25 dollars for hour. Now….. the reality is in Los Ángeles fast foods outlets are paying already way above minimum in order to keep employees, some offering $24 for hour to start.
In and out for example…
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/13/2022 16:56 Comments || Top||


Texas death row inmate asks governor to delay his execution by 30 days to donate a kidney before his execution 'to atone for his crimes'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Why not both kidneys with a liver, heart and lungs, with eyes?
  • Ramiro Gonzales, 39, has asked Gov. Greg Abbott for a 30-day delay so that he can donate his kidney

  • Gonzales has Type B blood, an extremely rare blood type the organ recipients wait for years to receive

  • Judith Frith of Washington state has been waiting four years for a compatible kidney

  • She wrote to Abbott pleading for him to allow the convicted killer and rapist to be allowed to donate

  • The Texas Board of Pardons and Parole denied a request for a 180-day reprieve

  • Gonzales killed Bridget Gonzales, the 18-year-old girlfriend of his drug dealer, after tying her hand and feet and raping her

  • Anti-death penalty advocates say this is not an attempt to delay his execution

  • He recently won a case that would require his spiritual advisor to be at his side during his execution

  • Gonzales is scheduled to be put to death on July 13 unless Abbott intervenes

  • The governor has not responded to the death row prisoner's request
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sorry pal,TX has already scheduled your atonement. Say "hi!" to Lynn Stewart foe me.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/13/2022 11:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Harvesting transplant organs from those condemned to death. I think that's being done somewhere already...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2022 11:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Just trying to leverage some kind of sympathy. Strip him of everything of value, bury the offal.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/13/2022 12:58 Comments || Top||

#4  I think Micky Rourke ought to get dibs on his face. Anything would be an improvement - just don’t let the same surgeon do this one.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/13/2022 13:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Choose to go by guillotine and donate the whole kabob then.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/13/2022 13:29 Comments || Top||

#6  Because the new discoveries regarding “cellular memory” this sort of organ donation should no be allowed, criminal organs should not be used .
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/13/2022 14:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Criminal Organs is an album with 2-Pac covers on a Kawai.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/13/2022 14:20 Comments || Top||

#8  You mean body memory, Aca Joe. Cellular memory is the conditioning of certain cells to respond better to stimuli they encounter repeatedly.

And there's no 'discovery' regarding the body as capable of storing semantic memory. It's a half baked hypothesis.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/13/2022 14:29 Comments || Top||

#9  "I am Pablo Escobar's spleen."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/13/2022 14:32 Comments || Top||

#10  Goes a ways in explaining all the trouble Stalin's Organ has caused in the middle east...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2022 14:39 Comments || Top||

#11  Holy moly! Woke up again, skimmed this thread backwards, and all I want to know is... who put what in my coffee?
Posted by: Glonter Peacock9977 || 07/13/2022 14:49 Comments || Top||

#12  It's a half baked hypothesis.

More like a B horror movie plot
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/13/2022 14:51 Comments || Top||

#13  You mean body memory

Do you mean muscle memory, Dron? Training a series of motions until it no longer requires conscious thought to execute, just starting the first step in the sequence? Examples are martial arts forms, choreographed dances, playing a piece of music.

Or possibly Aca Joe was referring to epigenetic learning. This is from a few years ago:

Inherited Learning? It Happens, but How Is Uncertain

Studies suggest that epigenetics allows some learned adaptive responses to be passed down to new generations. The question is how.


According to the article, McConnell’s multi-generation flatworm maze-learning studies from the 1960s were discredited, more’s the pity. The things I would already know if only cannibalism weren’t evil as well as unhealthy! ;-) (That’s for you, Glonter Peacock9977.)
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/13/2022 15:46 Comments || Top||

#14  Like the movie Ravenous?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/13/2022 15:54 Comments || Top||

#15  I meet I guy in a local Greek restaurant, nice guy, and told me that reason that was not drinking was because was recovering from an organ transplant . One of the fascinating think was that even if was vegetarian his entire life, was now a carnivore and love to drive motorcycles witch never did before. Exactly like the dead motorcycle donor was. Basically the theory of cellular memory suggests that it isn't only the brain that is capable of storing and recalling experiences. Rather, the body itself can hold memories.
Now rebranded as body memory.

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


Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/13/2022 16:15 Comments || Top||

#16  Gil the ARM, white courtesy phone. Gil the ARM to the white courtesy phone, please!
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/13/2022 16:31 Comments || Top||

#17  No, TW. Body memory is a hypothetical concept by weed-cake eating new age scientists. They like to believe that the entire body is storing long term implicit memories including emotional responses to stimuli and the conditioning to pre-empt such thereof.

Muscle memory is natural conditioning of motor nerves and development of kinesics on repeated movements.

While some geniuses say our emotional states and semantic or long term memories, basically our persona is being distributed all over the body via somatic markers that link emotions to biological changes. Something like that, I still can't pin it down to any coherent theory, just like any new age hypothesis. But one crazed dogma that could arise from that is, that a psychopathic paedophile's heart or liver may bring with it not just a lease of life for a recipient but also a little implicit assholery, or viscerally remembered happy happy expectations of dopamine at seeing little girls cry.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/13/2022 16:32 Comments || Top||

#18  ^ Vibes. Echoes of former lives. Karma, man...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2022 16:33 Comments || Top||

#19 
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2022 16:36 Comments || Top||

#20  There was this experiment. A little rigged in my opinion, one of those things where you try and fit the facts to the theory.

Scientists taught some rats to negotiate a maze. Then they ground up and minced the rats, made nice slim jims outta them and fed 'em to new, clueless rats. Well, what do you know, the rats went through the maze in one try!

And they all but concluded that the dead rats' meat still held the memory of the maze. Brrrr...

Some tribe in North India, descended from Mongols, believes if you eat your enemy, or some part of him, you will own all his experience and wisdom collected over the years. Also all his wives, who will love you just as they did him. 🙃
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/13/2022 16:40 Comments || Top||

#21  The Aztec thing of eating a conquered enemy's heart.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2022 16:41 Comments || Top||

#22  "Hannibal Lecter, eat yer heart out."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/13/2022 16:43 Comments || Top||

#23  The world is divided into people who can do that "thppp thppp thppp thppp thppp" thing and the rest of us.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2022 16:48 Comments || Top||

#24  The epigenetic carriage of essential survival characteristics vital to all organisms is not concerned with semantic or cultural memories, as most people like to refer to in conversation. We just say that... genetic memory... for basically what is classical conditioning that starts at at infancy. In reality the cellular memory passed down in the DNA is mostly carrying only vital information about dietary habits, geographic situation, basically what the body should expect to encounter. As I understand it.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/13/2022 16:53 Comments || Top||

#25  Pray tell, Murcek, what is the thpp thhp thing? 😀
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/13/2022 16:56 Comments || Top||

#26 
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2022 16:58 Comments || Top||

#27  😁

But fava beans. Man, whatta waste. I personally thought Hannibal was a shit chef.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/13/2022 17:01 Comments || Top||

#28  Some great stories of Polynesion warriors taking prisoners and then tossing them in a pit. They would be subjected to constant ridicule while being tossed into the cooking pot as needed. The following morning, the warriors would then continue to insult and laugh at the pile of feces that had the day before been their enemy.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/13/2022 17:17 Comments || Top||

#29  What ever happened to just "cutting off their heads and sh*tting down their necks?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2022 17:18 Comments || Top||

#30  Anyone remember this gem?

Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/13/2022 17:22 Comments || Top||

#31  https://youtu.be/wJjvg-Gq1LE

Dunno why link didn't show.
The Twilight Zone story - To Serve Man
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/13/2022 17:24 Comments || Top||

#32  To Serve Man

That one gave me nightmares. Also the one where they were domesticated around a messiah-like figure as they headed into a long space journey.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/13/2022 17:26 Comments || Top||

#33  Yupp. I remember them nights. Cheez crackers and my dog by my side. Watching Twilight Zone and then going to sleep wondering just what if...
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/13/2022 17:40 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Experts slam US response to monkeypox as a 'failure' because public health officials and bureaucrats did not ramp up testing or acquire vaccines in time to control virus: America's infection tally reaches 866
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] We lose more than that to summer potato salad.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Currently a disease of the adventurously promiscuous, according to reports. Monogamous homosexuals appear no more at risk than their monogamous heterosexual peers.
  • Public health officials in the U.S. are being slammed by many experts over their failure to handle the recent monkeypox outbreak

  • Testing for the virus in America has been limited and fractured - likely allowing the virus to spread undetected

  • Access to vaccines has been limited as well, and when they do become available there is rarely enough supply to meet surging demand

  • Some fear that the un-surveilled spread will allow for the virus to become endemic in the United States
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#1 
866 cases since 2021.
CDC Info

Plus, as we know the latest outbreak was traced directly to the LGB-T? community.

BTW: this isn't the USA's 1st Monkey Pox Rodeo, there was one back around 2003-2004 a few cases prior to that also.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/13/2022 8:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Currently a disease of the adventurously promiscuous, according to reports. Monogamous homosexuals appear no more at risk than their monogamous heterosexual peers.

Absolutely!
Posted by: Frank G || 07/13/2022 8:34 Comments || Top||

#3  'Experts...'
Posted by: magpie || 07/13/2022 8:44 Comments || Top||

#4  You experts can go fuck yourselves.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/13/2022 9:10 Comments || Top||

#5  What darth said
Posted by: Chris || 07/13/2022 9:11 Comments || Top||

#6  experts can go fuck yourselves

Should keep them safe from monkeypox as long as they don't already have it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2022 9:18 Comments || Top||

#7  Fauci wasted our money on enhancing this virus. The at-risk people seem not to care much. Big Pharma will likely reduce his bonus.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/13/2022 12:25 Comments || Top||

#8  Active 1st Sargent using burn phone lamented the extremely poor morale in today's service. Many looking to get out as soon as possible any way possible.Thousands booted for not getting vaxed is welcomed by many. He says the most depressing thing is hearing the men crying at night in the racks enduring basic.
Posted by: Dale || 07/13/2022 17:22 Comments || Top||

#9  I almost forgot. 1st Sargent went on it is not the military doing outrageous things but our government. Overseas and domestically. They experiment on everything and everyone. All ages. You name it they are doing it.
Posted by: Dale || 07/13/2022 17:27 Comments || Top||

#10  Monogamous shonogamous. Why does everybody keep politely dancing around the truth?

Do not have sex with African men. Or anybody who's been mucking around with African men.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/13/2022 17:30 Comments || Top||

#11  People from anywhere in the Third World, including Mexico, are at higher risk to suffer from or be carrying diseases and parasites we are not vaccinated against or have treatments for here. While ugly to look at, monkey pox does not appear to be the worst thing brought in by illegal immigrants not stopped and cured at the border before being allowed entry.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/13/2022 17:40 Comments || Top||

#12  ^ But Trump was a bigot for pointing out the obvious.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2022 17:46 Comments || Top||

#13  Lyrics that are at once controversial and at the same time, what exactly is being said that isn't so:

Immigrants and f*ggots, they make no sense to me
They come to our country and think they'll do as they please
Like start some mini Iran, or spread some fucking disease
They talk so many Gah damn ways, it's all Greek to me



Guns 'n' Roses, One in a Million
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2022 17:51 Comments || Top||


Four VERY brave New Mexico cowboys play ‘Cowboy Poker' that infamously featured in hit Yellowstone show
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Four cowboys braved an angry bull during Cowboy Poker at the Wild Thing Championship Bull Riding competition in Gallup, New Mexico, on Saturday

  • Cowboy Poker, made popular by the show Yellowstone, involves four players whose objective is to remain at the table the longest while a bull charges at them

  • The bull launched one of the men several feet, starting out the game strong, before turning around and hitting another, and then taking out a third man

  • The fourth man, the only one left sitting in his seat, gets up seconds later and cheers as he sprints to safety

  • Organizer Larry Peterson said players rarely get seriously injured, but do get 'banged up pretty good'

  • None of the poker players this year were seriously injured
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#2  Here we call it cowboy pinball; a couple of years ago our postmaster was severely injured doing it.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/13/2022 1:38 Comments || Top||

#3  cowboys my ass, bunch of overweight wannabe idiots.
Posted by: 746 || 07/13/2022 8:58 Comments || Top||

#4  made popular by the show Yellowstone

It may be a surprise to some, but this game has existed since forever.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/13/2022 11:26 Comments || Top||

#5  been working with cowboys for 25 years, aint never seen it....
Posted by: 746 || 07/13/2022 15:07 Comments || Top||

#6  I once played Russian róulette with a khalistani tango. He gave up on the second cylinder, bloody poseur.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/13/2022 15:17 Comments || Top||

#7  been working with cowboys for 25 years, aint never seen it....

A regional thing maybe?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/13/2022 15:31 Comments || Top||

#8  Got a friend in Barcelona who does the running of the bulls every now and then. Get in a doorway. Don’t be drunk, he says.
Posted by: Moonbeam Mcswine || 07/13/2022 23:15 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
New York City releases PSA for a NUCLEAR ATTACK after Russian state media boasted Putin could wipe out the US East Coast: Video says 'keep radioactive dust away from you'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • In a new 90 second clip, NYC's Emergency Management Department tells New Yorkers to: 'Get inside, stay inside and stay tuned'

  • The bizarre timing of the video is raising questions with one official simply saying: 'We really didn't want to put this off'

  • This year has seen Russian President Vladimir Putin issue a range of vague threats against Ukraine's allies following the February invasion

  • In May 2022, a member of Putin's puppet parliament bragged on TV that the Russians could wipe out the US with just four missiles

  • A nuclear blast in New York City would likely kill 1.2 million people instantly
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Duck & Cover 2 - Electric Boogalo!
Posted by: Raj || 07/13/2022 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  To be fair, Aliens was a better sequel to the original than this one is.
Posted by: Raj || 07/13/2022 0:21 Comments || Top||

#3  I don'that care..I was 13 back in 62 living near Homestead A.F.B and after that nightmare I learned to love The Bomb and didnt worry about it anymore.
Posted by: Omiting Theting7288 || 07/13/2022 6:07 Comments || Top||

#4  ...Pardon me, but this is unpossible. All the best people have assured me that there is NO POSSIBLE DEFENSE OR PREP FOR A NUCLEAR ATTACK.

Unless, of course, those best people have suddenly realized that there's people out there insane enough to try it, and they live in the freaking bullseye.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 07/13/2022 6:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Publishing the grid coordinates of “command and decision centers” isn’t exactly a vague threat. Seems pretty explicit to me. Amazing that while it’s in a Reuters news release it isn’t covered by the US MSM. Somebody needs a cluebat. https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-publishes-pentagon-coordinates-says-western-satellites-work-our-enemy-2022-06-28/
Posted by: Slenter Panda4300 || 07/13/2022 6:57 Comments || Top||

#6  We have had a strategic target list since ICBMs and the strategic bomber force. I'm sure the Russians have theirs too.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/13/2022 7:15 Comments || Top||

#7  These idiots say stay tuned to media. We'll be down to smoke signals and semaphore at that point.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/13/2022 11:45 Comments || Top||

#8  Nuke fear *pron in case the MonkeyPox and latest killer COVID variant don't work to bring about the desired result in the 2022 and 2024 elections. Trying to prep the field for keeping the voting machines, mail-in ballots, fake ballots, drop boxes and other rigging methods?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/13/2022 14:12 Comments || Top||

#9  One could reason that following a low level nuke attack on NYC, Putin will send his troops in, but that would be foolish. The Secret New York Irregulars would push every one of them on the tracks in front of a subway train.
Victory!
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 07/13/2022 17:15 Comments || Top||

#10  Biggest response to a nuke attack on an American blue city would be dems screeching that they need spotted some votes in the next 29,000 years worth of elections.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2022 17:17 Comments || Top||

#11  Get inside, stay inside and stay tuned'

"Ellen DeGeneres will be coming for a three hour special! The celebrities will blow you away! After that, sixteen hours non-stop Disney/Marvel woke-a-thon! Why, all y'all will wanna run outside and face the suck before the first 24 hours are up!"
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/13/2022 17:17 Comments || Top||

#12  I plan on sitting in my lawn chair with a bottle of Jim Beam and watch the fireworks.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/13/2022 18:55 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Ukrainian rockets reportedly strike Russian forces, killing 52
[NYPOST] Ukrainian rockets struck Russian forces in the country’s south on Tuesday and killed 52 people, Kyiv said.

The attack, which has not been independently verified, apparently hit the town of Nova Kakhovka in the Kherson region with long-range rockets.

The rockets also destroyed Russian ammunition, including seven armored vehicles, Ukraine’s southern military command said.

Ukraine said the strike signals their new counter-offensive to hit back at the Kremlin in the south with hundreds of thousands of troops.

Russian officials said they had been attacked by HIMARS missiles, which have recently been provided to Ukraine by the US and hailed by Kyiv as a "game-changer" in its fight.

"There are still many people under the rubble. The injured are being taken to the hospital, but many people are blocked in their apartments and houses," a Russian news agency quoted a military official saying. The Kremlin said so far at least seven people have died and around 60 are injured.
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Russian General Killed With U.S.-Supplied Missiles, Ukraine Says
Getting it on record. Hattip Matt.
[MSN] Serhiy Bratchuk, front man for the Odessa regional military, wrote on Telegram about the "liquidation" of Major General Artem Nasbulin, the chief of staff of the 22nd Army Corps "after HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) missiles hit the headquarters in the Kherson region" of southern Ukraine.

It came as Ukraine released footage it said showed a HIMARS attack on a mobile command post in Tavriis'k, in the Kherson region.

If confirmed, Nasbulin could be the ninth Russian general to have died since the start of the invasion on February 24, according to one estimate. Ukraine's claims that it has killed Russian commanders give its forces a considerable PR boost although most of them have not been confirmed by Moscow and Russia's Defense Ministry, which Newsweek has contacted, rarely comments on such losses.

The Telegram post was from Monday night but it was not clear when the attack took place.

Ukraine has said that it has carried out significant strikes against Russian forces using the HIMARS system which is part of a package of military support announced by the U.S. The weapons can hit targets at a range of 50 miles, which is much further than the M777 howitzers, which the U.S. has also given Ukraine.
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#1  A proxy war with free advertising. Just what we want for our $40B plus.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/13/2022 12:20 Comments || Top||

#2  How long before the dems let the relatives of such casualties sue the arms makers, like Cali and New York want to do to gun manufacturers?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2022 12:24 Comments || Top||


Summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Vesti] The enemy ship grouping continues to block civilian shipping in the northwestern part of the Black Sea. This is stated in the operational summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 18:00 on Tuesday, July 12, 2022.

The department notes that in readiness for launching missile strikes on targets on the territory of Ukraine, the enemy is holding six carriers of high-precision weapons.

Besides:

in the Volyn and Polesye directions, the activation of reconnaissance in order to clarify the positions and nature of the activities of our troops in the areas bordering Belarus is not ruled out;

in the Seversk direction, in order to demonstrate the presence, to pin down the actions of units of the defense forces in the border areas of the Bryansk and Kursk regions, the enemy continues to hold units of the armed forces of the Russian Federation. Enemy artillery shelled the settlements of Starikove and Novaya Sloboda in the Sumy region and Nikolaevka and Karpovichi in the Chernihiv region. In this direction, the enemy is actively using UAVs and electronic warfare;

in the Kharkov direction, the enemy carried out artillery shelling of Kharkov and the settlements of Sosnovka, Staraya Gnilitsa, Ukrainka, Zamulovka, Petrovka, Cherkasy Tishki, Korobochkino, Prudyanka, Chernoglazovka, Kutuzovka, Old Saltov, Novoe, Bayrak, Dementievka;

Russian troops tried to force the Ukrainian military out of the Dementievka area. But our soldiers successfully repulsed several assaults on the indicated village and forced the enemy to retreat;

in the Slavic direction, the invaders fired at the areas of the settlements of Dibrovnoye, Mazanovka, Adamovka, Barvenkovo, Gusarovka, Bolshaya Kamyshevakha, Novaya Dmitrovka, Krestishche, Nikopol, Suligovka and Konstantinovka;

enemy units carried out assault operations in order to improve the tactical situation near Krasnopolye, Dolgenkoe, Mazanovka and Ivanovka. Ukrainian soldiers skillfully defended themselves, inflicted significant losses on the invaders and forced them to flee. An enemy reconnaissance attempt near the Valley ended with the same result;

the enemy did not conduct active operations in the Kramatorsk direction. He fired at our positions near Mayakov, Raygorodok, Krivoy Luka, Verkhnekamensky and Prishib. Also launched air strikes near Serebryanka and Disputed;

in the Bakhmut direction, artillery shelling was recorded in the areas of the settlements of Berestovo, Soledar, Vershina, Novoluganskoye, Bakhmut, Yakovlevka, Mayorsk and air strikes near Berestovoye, Belogorovka, Vershina and Yakovlevka.

When trying to advance in the direction of Spirno - Ivano-Daryevka, the enemy suffered losses from the dagger fire of the Ukrainian military and chaotically retreated;

in the Avdiivka, Kurakhovskoe, Novopavlovsk and Zaporizhzhya directions, the enemy, in order to tie down the actions of our troops, continues shelling our positions on the existing ground weapons along the entire line of confrontation. Also launched an air strike near Novoandreevka;

in the Yuzhnobugsky direction, the main efforts of the enemy are concentrated on holding occupied lines. Activated aerial reconnaissance. He fired from cannon artillery at the areas of the settlements of Aleksandrovka, Novaya Zarya, Osokorovka, Bolshaya Kostromka, Murakhovka, Lyubomirovka, Polyana, Partizanskoye, Blagodatnoye, Kalinovka, Ternovka and Pribuzhskoye.

Shelling of a house in Chasovoy Yar: the number of victims reached 45 people

[Vesti] As of 22:30, 45 bodies of the dead have been recovered from the rubble in the Chasovy Yar, head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko said on the air of the telethon. Among them is a five-year-old child. The analysis of the rubble, according to him, will continue for at least one more day, then the exact number of victims of the shelling of the Russian invaders will become known.

During rescue operations in a five-story residential building in the town of Chasov Yar, the bodies of 4 more dead people were found (the bodies of 41 dead people were found in total, including 1 child, 9 people were rescued from the rubble. This was reported by the press service of the State Emergency Service July, 12.

As of Tuesday morning, 35 people were known to have died. During the night, rescuers removed two more bodies from the rubble.

According to the head of the OVA, as of 06:30 on July 12, the employees of the State Emergency Service cleared about 70% of the rubble. The State Emergency Service noted that by 11:00 a.m. they had cleared and dismantled more than 320 tons of destroyed elements of the house, work continues.

As reported, the Russian military from "Hurricanes" on Saturday, July 9, attacked Chasov Yar, destroying a five-story residential building.

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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: July 12th, 2022
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] 00:05 Russia blocks the removal of grain from Ukraine by sea, which is why our country does not receive income, and African countries risk finding themselves on the threshold of hunger. Ukraine is negotiating with Turkey and the UN regarding grain export. But the most effective export provides the Armed Forces of Ukraine, for example, having kicked the invaders from the island of Snake. Read more - in the material what will happen to Ukrainian grain .

00:02 Zelensky in an evening video message explained the significance that Ukraine became an associated member of the NATO special multilateral program for technological interrelation: “Simply speaking, this is about the standards of the North Atlantic Union. Ukraine now not only introduces NATO standards, but can also participate in the development of new ones Standards. Experience of our military, the capabilities of Ukrainian institutions, the IT potential of our country - all this will be a Ukrainian contribution to the development of collective security in Europe. "

23:44 Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that today aviation struck the ammunition warehouse of Russians in the South Buzhsky direction, and also destroyed the accumulation of the invaders and their equipment in the Izyum and Donetsk directions. Destroyed up to 30 units of equipment.

23:32 Zelensky said in an evening video message that the Minister of Defense of Poland Marius Blashchak brought to Ukraine self -propelled howitzers AHS Krab. According to the president, they "powerfully feed our enemy with fire."

23:01 Mayor of Nikopol of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Alexander Sayuk, announced the evening shelling of the city. According to preliminary information, there were no casualties.

22:05 US authorities are working on the inclusion of Americans detained in June under Kharkov, Alexander Dryuke and Andy Winch, on the list of people whose negotiations could be conducted about the potential liberation, writes The Washington Post. According to the publication, the former American soldier Alexander Dryuke is currently in contact with both his family and representatives of the US State Department.

21:29 Danilov on the air of Radio Liberty said that Zelensky set the APU the task of freeing the entire territory of Ukraine: “I would like to pay attention that it is not only about the Kherson region, but about the de -Ukrainian de -knowledge. And when the president sets the task for our military, Then it implies all of Ukraine. Of course, we cannot at once free up all the territories, but the Supreme Commander -in -Chief sets the task that all our territories are freed from the aggressor. The question is only time and priority. ”

21:22 Deputy Secretary of State for Monitoring the Arms and International Security of Bonnie Jenkins said that Washington was monitoring the use of American weapons in Ukraine: "Without going into operational details, I can say that the United States is actively cooperating with the Ukrainian government to ensure the accountability of defense articles and assistance in the field of security provided by the United States. "

21:13 The head of the Kiev Ova Alexei Kuleba announced the signing of a memorandum with USAID, which provides, in particular, the use of international technical assistance in modernizing and resuming heat supply in the Kiev region. USAID will also support the supply of specialized equipment for critical infrastructure damaged as a result of hostilities. We are talking about modular boiler rooms, pumping and other equipment.

21:09 Slovenia and Germany agreed to speed up the supply of Soviet BMP to Ukraine - such a statement was made at a press conference Prime Minister Robert Golob and Chancellor of Germany Olaf Sholts. We are talking about a circular exchange, in which the German BMP Boxer will go to Slovenia in exchange for Soviet BMPs for Ukraine.

21:04 After foreign vessels began to arrive on the Danube, a mash was formed near the mouth of Ukrainian grain, this follows from the Marinetraffic service data . As of 20:00, several dozen ships are in line, many of them go to Izmail and Reni. Meanwhile, the mininfrastructures reported that already 16 merchant ships passed the mouth of a quick one, more than 90 ships are waiting on the Raid of the Sulin Canal. In total, 135 ships are on the Romanian channel raid.

20:59 Sweden transferred 577.7 million Swedish crowns (almost 1.7 billion hryvnias) to help the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Bank said.

20:53 NATO and the EU countries insist on a more strict control over the weapons that they provided to Ukraine, fearing its entry into the black market. In this regard, a discussion of the weapon monitoring system is underway, writes Finance Times.

20:50 Already 45 bodies of the dead were taken by rescuers from under the rubble of a high-rise building in the city of Yar , the head of Donetsk Ova Pavel Kirilenko said. According to the State Emergencies Ministry, 80% of the ruins have already been dismantled - about 420 tons of destroyed structures have been cleared.

20:27 The Lyapis Trubetskoy group quit their cult song Warriors of the Light in Ukrainian and presented a video for a new version in the acoustic version. The text of the song was translated by Ukrainian poet, activist and volunteer Serhiy Zhadan.

19:58 From under the rubble of a destroyed house in the city of Chasov Yar, the bodies of 43 dead were taken out , the State Emergency Service reported.

19:56 Reznikov stated that he was waiting for good news after a conversation with a colleague from Germany Christine Lambrecht: "We discussed Germany by Germany to Ukraine, which will strengthen our defense capabilities. Thanks to our German partners for the unwavering devotion of Ukraine. We are soon waiting for good news."

19:45 Canada decided to transfer the turbine from the filing and under the influence of Germany, the Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada Julia Kovaliv said on the telemarathon. According to her, the embassy is working with the Canadian government, urging them to reverse the scandalous decision. The ambassador added that there is enough time for this, because "this is not about days."

19:42 The British Ministry of Defense showed a video of the Ukrainian military training. It is reported that military personnel from Ukraine undergo training courses according to European standards.

19:39 The European Union intends to further finance military assistance to Ukraine by 500 million euros, increasing the total amount of up to 2.5 billion euros, the press service of the EU Supreme Commission for Foreign Affairs said.

19:34 In the Slavic direction, the enemy conducted assault actions near Krasnopol, Dolgenky, Mazanovka and Ivanovka. He tried to conduct reconnaissance in battle in the Valley area, had no success, he walked away with losses, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces in the evening report. In the Kharkov direction, the invaders tried to oust the Ukrainian troops from the Demyntievka region, the Armed Forces successfully repelled several assaults and forced the enemy to move away. In the Bakhmut direction, when trying to advance in the direction of the disputed - Ivano -Daryevka, the enemy suffered losses and walked away randomly.

19:31 The Ukrainian military the day before after the explosion of the warehouse of the invaders in the New Kakhovka destroyed another Russian warehouse with ammunition near Kherson - in Charven, the operational command of Pivden.

19:28 from the DPR from today came into force the abolition of the moratorium on the execution of death sentences, the People’s Council said.

19:25 Energodar mayor Dmitry Orlov claims that the Armed Forces of Ukraine do not strike around the city, and the explosions and shootout that the locals heard are a provocation of the invaders: "The shelling of the SBU building is a provocation of rashists. Like the subsequent shooting in the air on the streets. There is not the slightest meaning to shell the SBU building, since it has not been used by the orcs for a long time, and our special services know about it. ”

Earlier it was reported that the SBU building was attacked at night in Energodar, which was occupied by Russian soldiers after the occupation of the city. The attack took place from drones, allegedly a direct hit in the building was recorded.

19:11 Russia in the near future will not declare war on Ukraine or mobilization within the country, the representative of the GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Vadim Skibitsky said on the air of the telemarathon: “Putin does not admit that he has not reached his main occupation goal in a short time. He continues the so -called so -called "Special military operation" and does not want to admit that this is really a full -scale war against Ukraine and its people. "

At the same time, Skibitsky noted that Putin will not initiate general mobilization in the Russian Federation without declaring war.

19:05 Ermak confirmed that tomorrow in Istanbul there will be negotiations on navigation in the Black Sea. A meeting of Ukrainian and Turkish representatives is planned there. After that, an expanded meeting will be held between Ukraine, Turkey, the UN and the Russian Federation, which should discuss the functioning of sea corridors for grain export. For Ukraine, the security issue is key, the head of the OP emphasized.

18:43 On the night of July 12, the arsenal of Russian troops was blown up in the occupied new Kakhovka, the detonation of ammunition continued until the morning. Himars missed not only the warehouse, but also the enemy headquarters in the Kherson region. Read more - in the material minus general and officers .

18:17 The number of those who died in the hourly Yar of the Donetsk region increased to 41 , the State Emergencies Ministry said. The emergency rescue work in the destroyed five-story building continues, the number of saved from the rubble remains the same-nine people.

18:07 In Mariupol, the invaders began the exhumation of the bodies at the site of the first mass burial of the dead inhabitants of the city in the area of ​​the Necropolis cemetery, said mayor adviser Petr Andryushchenko. People there were buried with identification by Ukrainian authorities and doctors. Exhumation is held by the Investigative Committee. If there are close and relatives, they promise them a separate grave in the Staro-Krymsky cemetery, but "only after mockery in the morgue on the subway and in line behind the coffin." The dead, whose relatives did not turn to the "authorities", are buried in the mass grave in the old Crimea - "without identification, without a separate grave, without a hint of humanity," said Andryushchenko.

18:03 Eight foreign companies received recommendations from the State Emergencies Ministry on how to join the process of humanitarian clearance in Ukraine. Another 20 such structures expressed a desire to work in this direction, said Viktor Vitovetsky, director of the Department of Civil Protection of the State Emergencies Ministry on the telemarathon.

17:56 The invaders plan to create a new military unit of the brigade level in the Kherson region - staffing of officers is planned to be carried out at the expense of the officers of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. However, according to the State Unitary Enterprise of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, this causes open discontent from the candidates who refuse to business trips and do not want to transport families close to the war zone. Given the situation at the front, the generals consider Syria’s service a safer place of service.

Also, Ukrainian military intelligence reports that in the 38th anti-aircraft missile brigade of the RF Armed Forces, more than 26 military personnel were dismissed in connection with the refusal to participate in the so-called "special operations." All of them received the entry "Traitor of the Motherland" in military documents.

17:31 Odessa was visited by the head of the Foreign Ministry of Greece. Odessa mayor Gennady Trukhanov and Minister Nicos Dandias discussed the issue of adopting the historical center of Odessa on the main list of the UNESCO World Heritage List. Nicos Dandias said that in Odessa excellent architecture, which deserves to be on the list.

17:10 In the Cabinet of Ministers will prepare bills on the introduction of a comprehensive exam for obtaining citizenship of Ukraine, Shmygal said. The corresponding protocol order to fulfill the task of Zelensky was supported today during the meeting. The exam will include the level of ownership of the state language, the history of Ukraine and the foundations of the Constitution of Ukraine.

17:06 Ukraine returned the bodies of 30 dead defenders, said Oleg Kotenko, Commissioner for the missing issues. The operation was carried out in the Zaporizhzhya region in the cooperation of the Commissioner, the GUR of the MOU, the SBU, the General Staff of the Armed Forces and other power structures of Ukraine.

17:03 Ten citizens of Russia applied for Ukrainian visas, said the speaker of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine Oleg Nikolenko. Six of them on short-term visas and four for long-term, in order to reunite with the family.

16:42 to the Donetsk region transferred the new Tesla Powerwall 2 system, said Mikhail Fedorov. The system is charged from solar panels, thanks to this, all residents of the region will have the Internet. Tesla Powerwall 2 will also be transferred to the Nikolaev region.

16:14 In the Hague on July 14, the Ukrainian conference on responsibility will be held. The purpose of the event is the coordination of general efforts so that the war crimes of the Russian army are not unpunished, the Government of the Netherlands reports.

The Ministerial Conference will be held by the head of the Netherlands Foreign Affairs Vopka Hukstra, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan, the royal lawyer, the EU Commissioner Didier Reynders. The participation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Prosecutor General of Ukraine, special representative of the UN Secretary General on sexual violence in the context of the conflict of Pramila Patten, was also announced.

16:01 As a result of today's shelling of the industrial region of Kharkov, five people were injured, Yevgeny Vasilenko, representative of the State Emergencies Ministry, told the suspension. According to him, garages burned, outbuildings, extensions near a hundred, as well as destroyed nearby residential buildings. In addition, fires occurred at several enterprises. In total, six fires broke out at different addresses.

15:55 The number of those killed in the hourly tier increased to 38 people , rescue work continues, the State Emergencies Ministry said.

15:44 The invaders do not pass the inhabitants of Melitopol and other occupied settlements through a checkpoint in Vasilyevka. As the mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, told Babel, from July 12, the Russians completely blocked the exit towards the territory controlled by Ukraine. Neither people nor cars pass through the checkpoint in Vasilyevka.

15:20 Ukraine became an associated member of the program of technological cooperation of the Armed Forces of NATO countries, Reznikov said. Thus, Kyiv received the right to jointly develop and make changes to the key standards of NATO regarding the interaction of combat control systems and related standards.

14:53 In Europe, they fear that after the planned repair of the gas pipeline, Russia will not resume its work. The upcoming days will become a kind of rehearsal of life without Russian gas. Read more - in the material a gas war with the EU .

14:51 Lukashenko said that he discussed with Putin the Western plans to attack the Russian Federation through Belarus and Ukraine ":" Recently, strategic plans for the attack on Russia have been developing. And the main direction of the blow is through Ukraine and Belarus. "

14:33 The head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin announced the preparation of starting tests and serial production "The most powerful Sarmat global -range nuclear missile in the world.

14:19 In the village of Mirny, the Melitopol district, the base of the military unit of the Ministry of Emergencies is burning, which was captured by the invaders, the mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov said. According to him, the inhabitants heard about 25 explosions near a peaceful, and thick black smoke is visible from the base of the invaders. Fedorov noted that it was there that the Russians transported their military equipment after a week ago the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces inflicted destructive blows to the Russian Federation in the area of ​​the airfield in Melitopol.

14:06 Turkish Ministry of Defense said that tomorrow in Istanbul there would be a four -sided meeting with representatives of Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the UN regarding unlocking the export of Ukrainian grain.

13:47 The head of the Kharkov ova Oleg Sinegubov announced the shelling of the industrial region of Kharkov and called on local residents to stay in shelters.

13:36 Autumn in the EU will present a directive that will confiscate the assets of Russian companies in the event of a detour of anti -Russian sanctions, said the European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders. According to him, the directive "will allow the EU to launch judicial procedures that ensure confiscation of assets that can be transferred to the Fund for supporting the restoration of Ukraine." He also stated that the European Union has now frozen 13.8 billion euros owned by Russian oligarchs.

13:17 Russia since the beginning of the war in Ukraine has received 43 refusal to extradition from European countries. Issues did not take place even in cases where people could only put on the plane, writes Kommersant.

13:05 In the Kherson region, in the course of a special operation, five Ukrainians were released from captivity, the GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reports. Among them are the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a former police officer and three civilians. One of the released has a serious combat wound.

12:53 Military exercises began in the Gomel region of Belarus - they will last until July 14. According to Belarusian Gayun, during the exercises they will work out the "protection and defense of the territorial defense object", as well as "carry out service at the checkpoint in the conditions of martial law."

12:42 In the occupied Kadievka (Stakhanov) in the Lugansk region in the morning, the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces worked out highly at the accumulation of the technology of Russians near the local school. Three different accumulations of equipment are burning, said the speaker of Ova Sergey Bratchuk.

12:39 AM APU stratimum reports that according to the results of the fire defeat of Himars, all deputies of the 106th Airborne Division of the Russian Federation except one, which is in serious condition, died in the Shakhtersk area. The head of the RAO 58A service (military unit 47084, Vladikavkaz) of the Southern Military District of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Valentin Danilov also died.

12:35 The number of those killed in the hourly fierce increased to 35 people , the State Emergencies Ministry reported.

12:33 Lithuania Government approved a 10 million euros for the restoration of Ukraine, the country's prime minister Ingrid Shinitu said: “This state aid is funds for critical infrastructure, the main needs and main services. Ukrainians will win because they are true and decisiveness on their side Protect and build, and they outweigh the destruction and cruelty of the aggressor. "

12:22:22 Putin will be fastened on July 19, where he will meet with Erdogan, as well as with the Iranian President of Raisi and take part in the tripartite summit, Peskov said.

12:20 The EU Council approved the allocation of a new microfinance loan of 1 billion euros to Ukraine, the vice president of the European Commission Valdis Dombrovskis said.

12:14 Nikolaev was fired at at night with cassette ammunition and tornado-s, they said in OP. Destroyed by the lyceum, hospital and private houses were damaged, 12 people are injured. The head of the Nikolaev Regional State Administration Vitaly Kim specified that at least 19 rockets hit Nikolaev at night.

11:56 Department of Emergency Situations of the city of New York published a video with instructions in case of a nuclear strike.

11:52 Prime Minister of Poland Matuesh Moravetsky called Putin the heir to Ukrainian nationalist organizations: "Ukraine sees where nationalism and imperialism leads, and that the heir to Ukrainian nationalist organizations and the UPA is Putin, who is trying to bring the Russian world."

11:21 T.N. The "authorities" of the Kherson region said that as a result of a hit on the new Kakhovka, 80 people were injured, five more were killed, seven were missing.

11:18 Ukrainian investigators daily introduce more than ten new criminal proceedings under the article for collaboration activities, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said. There are already more than 900 such cases. Among the most common crimes are the assistance of the army of the Russian Federation, the spread of propaganda, voluntary participation in the occupation "authorities". Most of the suspects are in the occupied territories, so the message about suspicion and condemnation occurs in absentia. 163 people were brought to justice.

11:15 Ukraine received 1.7 billion dollars of grant from the United States, Shmygal said.

11:08 In Iran, Putin’s visit is waiting for next week, Iranian media reported with reference to the parliament’s statement. Earlier, the United States reported that Iran is preparing to supply drones to Russia.

10:57 The first 150 Ukrainian military had already begun to study at the operators of drones as part of the Dronov Army program , said Mikhail Fedorov, Minister of Digital Transformation. The purpose of the program is to close the entire front line with drones, only about 2470 km.

10:53 About 50 UN states disseminated an application with the conviction of Russia's attempts to justify the military invasion of Ukraine with false narratives, the Ukrinform correspondent reports in New York.

“We condemn Russia for abusing its place again in the UN Security Council to disseminate misinformation,” the statement said. “We reject Russia's efforts to distort history for its political purposes and promote extremely harmful false narratives and misinformation about neighboring countries, In particular, by hanging neo -fascists and neo -Nazis on other labels, who have no reason. ”

The authors of the application also indicate that the unofficial meeting organized by Russia for members of the UN Security Council is "another cynical and transparent attempt by Russia to justify its unprovided, full -scale and illegal invasion of Ukraine." Among the signing the statement is Ukraine, the EU states, Australia, Canada, Croatia, Georgia, Japan, Moldova, Montenegro, Great Britain, the USA.

10:40 AM ADU reports that the SBU building was attacked at night in Energodar, which was occupied by Russian soldiers after the occupation of the city. The attack took place from drones, a direct hit in the building was recorded.

09:58 The number of victims of the enemy shelling of Nikolaev increased to 12 people, said the head of the ova Vitaliy Kim.

09:55 The Coordination Headquarters on the issues of prisoners of war reports that for the legal, social and psychological support of families of the failed Ukrainian defenders, the consulting line works: +380 (95) 412 74 24. Reception of calls: Mon-Fri C 10:00 to 16:00.

09:34 Russians fired at Kharkov tonight. Two missiles hit between the buildings in the Shevchenkovsky district, there were no injured, according to the head of the Ova Oleg Sinegubov. He also said that all wounded as a result of yesterday's shelling are alive and undergo outpatient treatment. In Zolochev, two people were killed as a result of missile shelling.

09:08 The General Staff voiced the estimated loss of the enemy on the morning of July 12. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Nikolaev direction.

  • personnel - about 37,470 (+70) a person is eliminated,

  • tanks - 1649 (+4),

  • Military armored vehicles - 3829 (+1),

  • artillery systems - 838 (+0),

  • MLRS - 247 (+0),

  • air defense systems - 109 (+0),

  • aircraft - 217 (+0),

  • helicopters - 188 (+0),

  • UAV operative -tactical level - 676 ​​(+0),

  • cruise missiles - 155 (+0),

  • ships/boats - 15 (+0),

  • automotive equipment and tankers - 2699 (+3),

  • special equipment - 66 (+0).

09:05 Mayor of Slavyansk Vadim Lyakh announced the shelling of the city tonight. As a result, several private houses were damaged, a woman was wounded. The city has established electricity, but it is impossible to resume the trolleybus movement.

09:03 British intelligence reports that Russian troops continue to gradually expand territorial acquisitions in the Donetsk region. In particular, the Russian Federation claims to be controlled by the city of Grigorovka. Russian forces also continue the offensive along the main E-40 supply route in the direction of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk.

Analysts predict that Russian forces will probably continue to exert military pressure on the Armed Forces of Ukraine, regrouping and reorganizing for further offensive actions in the near future. Also, intelligence suggests that the lack of personnel in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation may force the Russian Ministry of Defense to resort to non -traditional completion, which includes recruitment from Russian prisons for Wagner PMC. "If this is true, this step probably indicates difficulties with compensation for a significant number of Russian losses," the intelligence believes.

08:39 Nikolaev early in the morning underwent a massive missile shelling. It is known about getting into two medical institutions and residential buildings. As a result of shelling, four people were wounded, preliminary without victims, said the head of the Ova Vitaly Kim.

08:36 The number of those killed in the watch fierce increased to 34, among them a nine -year -old child. Nine people were saved from the rubble, the State Emergencies Ministry reported.

08:33 In the Luhansk region, the enemy of aviation is trying to supplant Ukrainian defenders, but they keep the defense and counteract the attempts of Russians to create conditions for future offensive operations, said the head of the OVA Sergey Gaidai. According to him, during the "operational pause" the invaders did not stop artillery and missile strikes, trying to capture small settlements located on the border of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions to block large cities.

Meanwhile, in Lisichansk, communal equipment "disappears" - the vast majority of such cases happen after the communal or private enterprise "officially examines" the commandant's office, Gaidai said.

08:11 Russian media write that "detonation and fire in the Selitra warehouse" continue in the new Kakhovka. Also, according to propagandists, supposedly “gum -warehouses” were destroyed. And local "authorities" say that at the moment it is known about two dead and four missing after a blow to the new Kakhovka "American Himars".

07:58 The Ukrainian military suppressed attempts by an enemy assault in the direction of Demtentievka, Kharkov region. In addition, the invaders were thrown in the areas of Mazanovka, Ivanovka and the valleys in the Donetskin, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in a morning summary.

06:40 Fourth meeting in Ramstein format will take place on July 20 in a virtual format, according to the Pentagon according to the results of telephone conversations of the US and Ukraine defense ministers: “Austin and Reznikov discussed the agenda of the next meeting of the Ukrainian Contact Group (UDCG), which will take place virtually 20 July, and exchanged opinions about future assistance to the United States and allies of Ukraine in the UDCG format. "

06:18:18 Lithuanians purchased 110 “Antrons” for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which will allow Russian drones to shoot down at a distance of up to 5 km, journalist Andryus Tapinas said. They called the gift of the murderer of the orcs .

03:44 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) notes that Putin is probably pressing on Lukashenko, so he is trying to support the war of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, avoiding the direct military intervention of Belarus. So, the Belarusian leader will probably continue to provide Russian forces with access to the airspace of the Republic of Belarus in order to demonstrate to Putin at least nominal support. ISW analysts believe that the probability of the direct participation of Belarus in the war in Ukraine remains low, as this will threaten Lukashenko’s stability and even survival.

01:27 The United States has information indicating that Iran is preparing to provide Russia with up to several hundred drones and teach Russian soldiers to use these drones, said Bayden adviser Jake Sullivan.

01:10 Boris Johnson announced his resignation, and in Britain they are already actively looking for him a successor. For Ukraine, the figure of the new owner of the house on Downing Street is also important, because London became one of the leaders of the anti-Russian coalition. The name of the new prime minister will become known until September 5. Read more - in the material who will replace Johnson .

00:16 Under the rubble of a residential building in the hourly Yar of the Donetsk region, the body of a deceased child was discovered, only the bodies of 33 dead were found by the present moment , the State Emergencies Ministry said.

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Ukraine Ministry of Defense of announced the preparation of intelligence for counteroffensive
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[RIA Novosti] Ukrainian intelligence officers are preparing to fulfill the task set by Volodymyr Zelensky to liberate the south of the country, work is underway to reveal the plans and locations of the Russian military, Vadym Skibitsky, a spokesman for the main intelligence department of the Defense Ministry, said.

Earlier, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov, in an interview with the British newspaper The Times, said that Volodymyr Zelensky had ordered the military to liberate the southern territory of the country.

For this purpose, "millions of fighting forces equipped with Western weapons" are being assembled. In turn, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk said that the Ukrainian army was launching a counteroffensive and called on the civilian population to leave the territories controlled by Russia.

"We are not just preparing, we are conducting reconnaissance. Our main task is to reveal the plans, intentions, and locations of the Russian Federation, so that the General Staff can plan the appropriate actions of the defense forces. We are fulfilling this task, attracting all the forces and means that we have. That task, Once set, it will be carried out, but a lot will depend on the assistance we are provided, on the potential we accumulate to carry out more active counter-offensive actions," Skibitsky said on the air of the All-Ukrainian telethon.

During the special operation, the Russian military took control of the Kherson region and the Azov part of the Zaporozhye region in southern Ukraine. Civil-military administrations were formed in the regions, the ruble was put into circulation, and Russian TV channels and radio stations began broadcasting. The regions announced plans to become subjects of the Russian Federation.

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Russian Perspective: Operation to Denazify Ukraine: Operational Brief July 12th (updated)
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Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.

[NewsFrontInfo] 23:31 In Odessa, on the territory of school No. 120 (Dalnitskaya St.), units of Ukrainian armed forces, ammunition depots and armored vehicles are located.

22:47 In Kharkov, in the buildings of kindergarten No. 362 and school of arts No. 5 (Zernovy Lane St.), units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and territorial defense are deployed, and heavy equipment and artillery are located in the immediate vicinity of the institutions.

22:19 More than 477 tons of essentials and food products were transferred to the population of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, as well as Kharkiv and Zaporozhye regions.

20:15 The Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to hit the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant with kamikaze drones.

18:40 Today were ammunition depots in Kharkov, Nikolaev and Artemovsk were covered with blows. Also, the death toll during the strike on the location of the Volkssturm battalion in Chasov Yar continues to grow.

Officially, it's already 38,200x, while trying to pass off the dead as civilians. The actual death toll can reach 90-110 people, not counting the wounded and injured. In fact, a whole battalion was rendered incompetent with one blow.

17:45 The Spanish Ministry of Defense agreed on the transfer of 10 Leopard 2A4 tanks and 20 M113 armored personnel carriers to Ukraine, - Infodefensa.

17:38 The number of victims of the strike by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Nova Kakhovka has increased to 90, the administration of the Kherson region reported.

14:46 The Ukrainian military used a drone to strike a residential area in Enerhodar in the Zaporozhye region.

14:44 Armstor wholesale base in Melitopol has launched the production of bread for city residents

Up to 500 "City" loaves are baked per day in "Armstore," which are sold at the wholesale base for Melitopol residents both in retail and wholesale. If necessary, the Armstore shop will increase the production of bread and bakery products.

13:45 Nova Kakhovka was allegedly hit with HIMARS and Alder missiles - the Ukrainian version of Smerch -headcity ​​military investigation department.

13:28 Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine on 07/12/2022. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue a special military operation in Ukraine:

In the area of ​​​​the village of Berezan, Odessa region, high-precision ground-based Iskander missiles destroyed the launchers of the US-made Harpoon anti-ship missile system.

In addition, the high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed: manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 12 districts, four depots with ammunition of the 79th Airborne Assault Brigade in the Matveevka area of ​​the Nikolaev region, as well as a point for repair and restoration of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Seversk region.

Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery hit three command posts, three ammunition depots, artillery units at firing positions in 97 districts, as well as manpower and military equipment in 111 districts in a day.

During the day, Russian air defense systems shot down seven Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Izyum, Malye Prohody, Pitomnik of the Kharkiv region, including one attack unmanned aerial vehicle in the area of ​​​​the city of Nikolaev.

In addition, 12 shells of the Uragan multiple launch rocket system were intercepted in the areas of the settlements of Lisichansk, Luhansk People's Republic, Brazhkovka, Kharkiv Region, and Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson Region.

In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 243 aircraft, 137 helicopters, 1,513 unmanned aerial vehicles, 354 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,046 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 741 multiple rocket launcher combat vehicles, 3,135 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 4,165 units of special military vehicles.

13:16 A petition has appeared on the president's website asking to ban the issuance of subpoenas at checkpoints, gas stations and on the street: "We hear more and more about cases when people were taken directly from the queues at gas stations, which is also not very legal," the authors of the petition write. It is proposed to recruit a reserve from those who want to serve and to prohibit issuing subpoenas anywhere except military registration and enlistment offices.

11:25 At 11 o'clock on New Kakhovka:

five dead
seven missing
80 injured

11:02 The families of those killed in the attack on Novaya Kakhovka in the Kherson region will receive 2 million rubles each, the victims will receive 400,000 rubles each. - Head of the civil-military administration.

10:35 The number of victims of the strike by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Nova Kakhovka has increased to 80, local authorities report.

09:45 The death toll during the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city of Nova Kakhovka in the Kherson region has increased to seven people, and 60 victims are also known at the moment.

This was reported by the city authorities. According to eyewitnesses, explosions continue in the area of ​​the fire at the site of the missile attack. As a result of the shelling, a plant that produced equipment for hydroelectric power stations around the world was destroyed, the head of the CAA of the Kakhovka district said.

09:40 Six children were rescued from the rubble after the Ukrainian strike on Novaya Kakhovka, seven people were missing - the head of the CAA.

09:24 Night arrival in Nikolaev. Presumably, the artillery ammunition depot was hit. Also at night, attacks were made on Kharkov, Slavyansk, Seversk and the Artemovsk region.

08:48 The consequences of Ukraine's strike on Nova Kakhovka are comparable to the explosion in Beirut, where saltpeter exploded, this is a disaster for the city - the head of the city VGA Vladimir Leontiev.

08:30 At night, Ukrainian UAVs dropped two mines on a building near the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

"The roof and windows were damaged. There were no casualties," a spokesman for the military-civilian administration of Energodar told @rian_ru .

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Perspective from the Breakaway Republics: Invasion of Ukraine: July 12th, 2022
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:38 In Nikolaevka of the Donetsk People's Republic, Ukrainian neo-Nazis mined bridges across the Seversky Donets River, which they intend to blow up and, according to an already worked out scenario with wide coverage in Ukrainian and Western media, accuse the Russian Armed Forces of allegedly indiscriminate strikes on critical transport infrastructure facilities.

22:43 In Bakhmut of the Donetsk People's Republic, on the lower and upper floors of residential buildings (Levanevsky St.), territorial defense militants equipped firing positions, while local residents are forbidden to leave their apartments, and all attempts by citizens to evacuate to safe areas are severely suppressed.

22:09 In Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, at school No. 3 (Tsiolkovsky St.), Ukrainian nationalists set up a strong point, the approaches to the building were mined, but the local population was deliberately not notified about this.

19:30 As a result of shelling by Ukrainian militants, three dead and 10 wounded civilians have been killed and 10 wounded civilians in the DPR since the morning.

18:28 AFU attacked the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, a man was wounded and a woman was killed. As a result of shelling from the positions of Ukrainian militants, a civilian was wounded on the street. Dybenko, a woman died up the street.

18:08 VFU wounded a civilian in Yasinovataya. During shelling from the positions of Ukrainian militants in Avdiivka, a woman born in 1949 was wounded. on st. Lomonosov in Yasinovataya. A number of houses were also damaged there.

18:07 Local residents report two arrivals at the Shirokiy microdistrict in Donetsk.

18:05 The DPR is negotiating recognition with the DPRK. This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPR Natalia Nikonorova.

17:52 The shelling of Petrovka does not stop. Local residents report arrivals at Tihiy in the direction of landing and Aleksandrovka.

17:42 About an hour ago, Ukrainian formations inflicted a blow at the ammunition depot at the DZTO plant in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk.

17:41 A Ukrainian shell hit the territory of the Republican Specialized Orphanage (Torez St., 2) was recorded. Damage to the building, garages and cars is specified. There were no injuries among the pupils of the institution and employees.

17:40 Three residents of the Astrakhan region were killed during Ukrainian shelling of a volunteer center in the Shakhtyorsky district of the DPR. This was announced by the Governor of the region Igor Babushkin. The dead were named Alexander Matveev, Georgy Sherstyukov and Alexander Khovriko.

17:32 RIA Novosti footage from the kindergarten, on the roof of which a shell of the Armed Forces of Ukraine flew. During the shelling of this village of the Rumyantsev mine in Gorlovka, one civilian was killed.

17:30 While a real food crisis looms over Europe, the harvest is being harvested in the liberated territory of the Luhansk People's Republic. This enterprise alone is able to meet the needs of the population of the entire region, and there are a lot of such agricultural firms.

17:28 The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired on Yasinovataya from the Grad MLRS. At 16:10, eight rockets were fired at the settlement.

17:27 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC, additional information was received about the damage as a result of shelling of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:

Donetsk:
Petrovsky district:
- st. Fighting, 57 - a private residential building;
- per. Dante, 1 - a direct hit on the territory of the Donetsk plant of transport equipment.

Kirovsky district:
- st. Beranger, 13 - a fire was recorded in the carpentry shop.

n.p. Gorlovka:
Panteleimonovka settlement:
- st. K. Marx, 9 - apartment building;
- st. Nekrasova, 2 - a private residential building.

village of the Rumyantsev mine:
- st. Kalashnikov - gas pipelines ø325 and ø108 were damaged.

17:18 DPR artillerymen began to massively use howitzers with a new caliber for themselves. Now the 122mm D-30 howitzers are being replaced by the good old D-20 152mm howitzers.

The D-20 has twice the mass of the projectile than the D-30, and the effective range of fire when using an active-rocket projectile is more than 20 kilometers, which will allow even more effective strikes against the positions of the Ukrainian Nazis.

16:11 During the shelling of the VFU of the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka on the street. Artyomovskaya damaged residential buildings.

15:38 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC, information was received about civilian casualties as a result of shelling of the VFU n.p. Gorlovka:

the village of the Izotov mine:
Killed:
- a woman born in 1966;
- man born in 1993

Wounded:
— men born in 1942 and 1970;
- women born in 1984, 1950, 1993 and 1973

Panteleimonovka village:
- a woman born in 1949 was wounded.

According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage as a result of shelling of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:

n.p. Gorlovka:
the village of the Izotov mine:
- st. Mining, 45, 50 - private residential houses;
- st. Mining, 52 - a direct hit in a private residential building;
- st. Mining, 113 - apartment building;
- st. Mining, 115 - a private residential building.

Rumyantsevo village:
- st. Boris Makukha, 45 - a direct hit in Kindergarten No. 86; a fire has been detected;
- st. Boris Makukhi, 21, 23/1 - private residential buildings;
- a 110 kW power transmission line was damaged, without power supply to the village of Rumyantsevo and part of the Solnechny residential area.

Shirokaya Balka village:
- st. Dam, 23 - residential building.

Zaitsevo village:
- st. Artemovskaya, 40 - a private residential building.

Today, as of 15:30, the enemy fired 281 ammunition of various types, including the BM-27 Uragan and BM-21 Grad MLRS, as well as artillery ammunition with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm.

15:23 Kirovsky district of Donetsk. Arrivals in the residential sector. All these months, this area has been under massive fire from the VFU. Moreover, the blows go on for several hours in a row.

15:01 According to updated information, the shelling of the city of Stakhanov from the side of the VFU was carried out using the American MLRS M142 HIMARS (in total, six missiles were fired by the enemy). As a result of the shelling, two people were killed and two civilians were injured. The glazing of 11 multi-storey residential buildings, the Skazka kindergarten and the Stakhanov specialized school No. 10 were damaged - Representative office of the LPR in the JCCC.

14:17 The number of wounded civilians during the shelling of the Kalininsky district of Gorlovka increased up to six people. Two civilians were killed.

13:39 Due to the shelling, the Petrovsky district is de-energized.

13:36 As a result of the shelling in Gorlovka, two people were killed and three more were injured.

13:24 During the retreat from Krasny Liman, Ukrainian tanks demolished the houses of local residents. The city dweller Vladimir told about this channel Donbass decides.

"I drove in, they took out the wall, turned the tower, mowed it down and left. The Russians drove in, they were driven, driven. They (Ukrainian occupiers - ed.) simply did not stop in a straight line. Thank God that the Russians came in. It all stopped right away," he said.

13:21 AFU launched an artillery attack on the Kirovsky district of Donetsk. Fighters from positions in Avdiivka fired several 155mm NATO artillery shells in the direction of residential areas of the village. Rutchenkovo, Kirovsky district, Donetsk.

13:03 In four hours, from 08:30 to 12:30, from their positions in Novgorodsky, Dzerzhinsk, Kurdyumovka, Kodem and Nelepovka, Ukrainian militants fired at the residential areas of Horlivka:

▪️26 missiles BM-21 "Grad";
▪️six shells with a caliber of 155mm;
▪️eight shells with a caliber of 152mm;
▪️eight shells with a caliber of 122mm;
▪️six min caliber 120mm.

12:01 Seversky Donets-Donbass channel will be launched this week. The water conduit to saturate the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal from the Olkhovsky and Khanzhenkovsky reservoirs may be launched as early as this week. This was stated by the Head of the DPR on the air of the Russia 24 TV channel.

11:50 Horlivka. A direct hit on the roof of kindergarten number 86. The building is on fire.

11:48 Our artillery continues to destroy the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Maryinka. Observation and adjustment of fire is carried out using the Mavic-3 quadrocopter.

11:44 The village of Rumyantsevo, in the Kalininsky district of Gorlovka, was under aimed fire from Ukrainian terrorists. According to preliminary data, as a result of the shelling, the building of the Veteran Palace of Culture was damaged, near which a car was on fire. Residential buildings along the street were also damaged. Makukhi, 23/1, 21/3.

11:27 Social networks report on the work of air defense in Makeevka and the rear cities of the DPR

11:24 am Five medical institutions of the DPR received ambulances from Moscow. New equipment is now available in Donetsk hospitals No. 1 and 9, the Republican Trauma Center, Snezhny and Torez city hospitals.

11:06 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine shelling from the direction of N of the item is recorded. Soledar Stakhanov using a 155mm artillery gun (six shells) - Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.

11:00 Ukrainian militants attacked Novobakhmutovka using aircraft missiles. VFU fired 15 unguided rockets of 80mm caliber from positions in Keramika without the use of aviation.

10:13 At the moment, one civilian is reported to have been wounded in Stakhanov. Five apartment buildings and social facilities were also damaged. The data is not yet final. Information is still coming in.

09:56 AFU attacked the city of Stakhanov, LPR. According to preliminary information, the arrival was in the area of ​​the 10th school. Rescuers and paramedics rushed to the scene of the impact.

09:34 As a result of the shelling from the side of the VFU of the village of the mine named after. Izotov in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka on the street. Mining wounded two civilians.

09:22 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

09:02 VFU shelled the village of the mine named after. Izotov (Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka). An urgent request to the residents of this settlement - to leave the streets and go to shelters - Prikhodko.

08:33 Shelling from the VFU in the following directions was recorded:

n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleymonovka: five each 155mm shells were fired;
n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Mikhailovka: five shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

08:00 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:

n.p. Pobeda - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): five shells of 155mm caliber were fired;
n.p. Pobeda - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): five shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
n.p. Pobeda - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): five shells of 155mm caliber were fired;

Posted by: badanov || 07/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


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Eva Vlaardingerbroek Summarizes all the Merging Food, Energy and Farming Issues with Stark Advice to Americans
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[ConservativeTreehouse] Eva Vlaardingerbroek is a GB News correspondent and conservative voice from Holland. In this interview segment with NTDNews Ms. Vlaardingerbroek outlines what is happening in the Netherlands with the Dutch farm protests and how it connects to the larger Agenda 2030 goals.

In the last 20 seconds of the segment, Vlaardingerbroek has some solid advice for Americans. WATCH (2 mins):
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 07/13/2022 07:54 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They openly say the goal of the fundamental change in the global food system is to control what people eat, allocate specific amounts of calories according to the goals of the climate change officials, and completely take over the way farming is done.

These control freaks forgot to mention that they are exempt from Agenda 2030. They are special.

Is population control a part of Agenda 2030?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/13/2022 10:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Controlling calories is population control. Now, ad in ESG and you've got the behavioral component that will drive this effect.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/13/2022 10:58 Comments || Top||

#3  And every yard will become a garden, Americans will "rediscover" canning and drying, and eventually their allies will be out of power.

BTW -- there's now an Instantpot model that can pressure can.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/13/2022 11:23 Comments || Top||

#4  #3 Rob, During WWII people had Victory Gardens. Recycling of materials used in the war effort such as lard, tin cans, etc. was common. People also hunted. We put up fruit and vegetables. We got milk down the road from a farmer who had cows. We churned butter from the milk. We have moved a long way from self-sufficiency to dependency. However, we are a resourceful people.
Posted by: Snomogum Thomoper1753 || 07/13/2022 12:01 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ It will be fun watching blue city types get up to speed on all those skills. During WW II, we were "all in this together." This time, not so much.

And good luck sending teefa and BLammo to collect the city dwellers "share."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2022 12:13 Comments || Top||

#6  Thought experiment: what if having a garden and putting up your own food results in a deduction in your ESG score? After all, folks living in urban centers won't have that kid and of privilege. That would be an in acceptable inequity, especially given the systemic racism of the "rurals".
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/13/2022 12:13 Comments || Top||

#7  Spot on analysis about the havoc the Woke WEF alumni are creating worldwide. It makes perfect companion piece to Tuckers opening last night on the Green Energy fiasco.

As an aside, is it just me or is it hard to concentrate on the sounds while she is speaking. Seriously, that is one lovely woman, and proof that gender is NOT fluid!

Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/13/2022 13:28 Comments || Top||

#8  Huge fan of Eva Vlaardingerbroek.
Posted by: York Harding || 07/13/2022 23:53 Comments || Top||


Bucharest to check information about Romanian mercenaries fighting in Ukraine
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs will check the reports of a number of Western media about Romanian citizens allegedly fighting in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and draw their own conclusions from the current situation. On July 12, a source in the Romanian Foreign Ministry told a REGNUM correspondent about this.

According to the British newspaper The Guardian, during the special military operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, 21 Romanian citizens were killed. There is no independent confirmation of this information.

Earlier, official Bucharest declared its non-interference in the situation in Ukraine.

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Science & Technology
NASA reveals the first official deep-space pictures: James Webb captures the signature of water on exoplanet WASP 96-b, a dying star cloaked by dust, galaxy cluster Stephan's Quintet and baby stars in the Carina Nebula
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] For $10B it should feed the baby AND cure Monkeypox.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Some actual impressive science, as opposed to the expensive piffle done on the ISS.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2022 7:23 Comments || Top||

#2  President Biden called it 'a historic moment for science and technology, for astronomy and space exploration and all of humanity'.

Then he asked Jill for a breakfast taco.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/13/2022 7:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Carina has interesting hair. Perhaps Biden will schedule a visit.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/13/2022 7:34 Comments || Top||

#4  For $10B it should feed the baby AND cure Monkeypox.

Might as well, since the democrat doesn't believe in helping America, or Americans. I suspect they would rather spend the money on 'war' stuff and try to figure out how to get it in their pockets instead.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 07/13/2022 10:37 Comments || Top||

#5  ^^ At least something good came out of this 'investment'.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 07/13/2022 10:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Yes, but can it see the end of this economic policy?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/13/2022 15:04 Comments || Top||

#7  'Fraid not, it's simply too far away. We'll see after 2024, it might come to an abrupt halt. Heck, it might be as soon as this coming November!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 07/13/2022 22:24 Comments || Top||


Kalina: a Russian ground-based laser to dazzle imaging satellites
[SpaceReview]
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ?Huh? Didn't they have that in the 80's or was that Masers back then?
Posted by: magpie || 07/13/2022 3:56 Comments || Top||

#2  I've often wondered why a smaller version to thwart drone cameras was not already in use for some time.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2022 7:24 Comments || Top||


SpaceX's Starship booster is engulfed in an enormous FIREBALL during disastrous test – and it may delay Elon Musk's plans for the $216 million rocket's first orbital flight
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] That's NOT green!
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Q: What is the difference between math and engineering?
A: Engineering is louder.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/13/2022 0:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Mishaps happen when you are not operating on a Cost-Plus Contract with no penalties for being late... It may be messy, or even explosive, but SpaceX is getting results.
Posted by: magpie || 07/13/2022 3:51 Comments || Top||

#3  They were conducting a "spin test" -- starting the turbo pumps on the engines to make sure everything's plumbed up correctly.

Speculation is, since they were using actual fuel, the methane built up under the launch stand and something sparked it off. Presumably they expected it to dissipate, but it was a windless day and they had about 5 times as many engines going as they have before.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/13/2022 11:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Probably lots of oil field people in Texas could have foreseen the problems with that scenario.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2022 11:23 Comments || Top||



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