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I'd say lots of support for lefty stuff is more "go along get along with the kewel kids" than heartfelt conviction.
So, eliminate the need to be "with it" (looking at all social media "influencers' and the culture of celebrity that sustains them) and the support dwindles rapidly.
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[AMERICANGREATNESS] My new book, A Few Bad Men, details the mendacity and mad dishonesty of retired Marine General James "Mad Dog" Mattis. The fact that it was written by a Marine once under his command, whom he betrayed for the sake of politics and getting to slap on another star, says volumes about this once-lionized figure.
It all goes back to an incident in Afghanistan in 2007, and the Court of Inquiry trial of innocent Marines that followed, which Mattis himself instigated.
Lt. Colonel Steve Morgan, USMC (retired) and jury member of the 2008 Marine Special Operations Command’s Court of Inquiry says in the foreword to A Few Bad Men, "This is a case of a perfect storm of toxic leadership."
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Just as you can bet soon after the media calls someone a "rising democrat star," they will have a scandal, you can bet soon after the media calls some military officer "the adult in the room," they will turn out to be a back-stabbing buffoon.
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Sounds like Mattis was a great combat leader who was promoted into political levels of the Corps and found lacking.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
His interview questions are in bold typeface.
[ColonelCassad] Just now I answered questions during the NWO for the military commissar Kotenok's channel. About the course of the NWO
After Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu inspected the headquarters of the groupings, the RF Armed Forces intensified strikes against the Armed Forces of Ukraine and enemy infrastructure. Is the "operational pause" over or never happened?
- The operation, in fact, did not stop. The regrouping of troops or the withdrawal of individual formations for rest does not mean that offensive operations or missile strikes against enemy troops and infrastructure have ceased.
In the last week, we have seen how the focus of strikes has shifted to the destruction of concentrations of troops and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as the destruction of artillery missile systems, which can be interpreted as a "softening" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass before the upcoming offensive operations on the Seversk-Soledar line and in the Artemovsk region, as well as increasing efforts to move into the Slavic-Kramatorsk agglomeration.
- The pace of progress towards Slavyansk slowed down. What is it connected with?
- The main efforts are now concentrated on breaking through the Seversk-Soledar front in order to provide access to Artemovsk from the north and to Slavyansk from the east. The group advancing on Slavyansk from the northwest is obviously in the phase of replenishment and regrouping after the past battles in the area of the Valley, Bogorodichny and Svyatogorsk. The terrain and large forest areas to the north-west of the city, as well as the line of the Seversky Donets covering Slavyansk from the north, make the offensive difficult.
- The DPR announced the semi-encirclement of Avdievka. When can we expect the blockade of Donetsk to be lifted? What factors facilitate and, conversely, inhibit the process?
- Avdievka is well supplied through Orlovka, and the Avdievka-Konstantinovka highway could not be used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine before after they were kicked out of Novobakhmutovka and Novoselka-2.
The assault on Avdievka from Kamenka and the industrial zone at this stage does not promise quick results, so here and in the future we will observe a positional front and intensive work of artillery and MLRS from both sides. The main problem is that the entire Advievka and the adjacent territories have been turned into a solid fortification, a frontal assault on which, for military reasons, is inexpedient.
- The announced counter-offensive of Kyiv still does not begin. Where to wait for the activation of the enemy? What are the manpower reserves of the regime, taking into account the heavy losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass?
- The most probable directions of the enemy's offensive are Krivoy Rog, Nikopol and Zaporozhye (in the direction of Vasilyevka, Tokmak and Pologa).
The ongoing capture of random citizens on the streets, as well as mass cases of desertion from the front, indicate that the declared 1 million people in the Armed Forces of Ukraine is a purely propaganda figure. In fact, the total number of people under arms is significantly less.
Nevertheless, work is underway not only to plug holes in the front with poorly trained cannon fodder, but also to prepare more well-coordinated brigades that can be concentrated for an offensive in one of the indicated directions.
Potential forces that are desirable for the Armed Forces of Ukraine for some serious actions - from 5-7 armored personnel carriers to 80-100 guns, MLRS and heavy mortars + several aircraft and helicopters. In addition to the actual organization of such a grouping, an equally important problem for the Armed Forces of Ukraine is the problem of secretive concentration of these troops in order to avoid strikes by the RF Armed Forces even before advancing to the lines of attack.
The experience of failed offensives in the area of Gulyaipol and Davydov Brod has shown that the RF Armed Forces have the ability to stop enemy activity with concentrated artillery and air strikes.
- Following the "holy javelin" in Ukraine, the "holy haymars" has already been invented. Attacks on warehouses, headquarters and communications of the Allied Forces are not weakening. What does the tactics look like using the MLRS and OTRK supplied to Kyiv in targeting objects and overcoming air defense? Is there an antidote for the wunderwaffe?
- The United States operates within the framework of the concept of network-centric warfare, hoping to slow down the intensity of their fire impact on the Armed Forces of Ukraine and reduce their offensive potential by strikes against the command and logistics structure of the RF Armed Forces and the armies of the LDNR. The APU here is only performers and a screen. Target designation data is provided by American technical intelligence, as well as agents of the SBU on the ground.
Countermeasures - tracking down and destroying complexes (one has already been destroyed, so that with proper work they are destroyed in the same way as the S-300 complexes, Tochka-U OTRK and Uragan MLRS), as well as the active use of the dispersal of fuel and lubricant depots and ammunition to reduce the effectiveness of such strikes.
The same applies to the issue of protecting command infrastructure facilities. In general, it is necessary to adapt to this tactics of the enemy, since he, obviously, will adhere to it further.
- Are we ready to drag out the conflict in Ukraine and, in fact, does Russia have options other than victory?
- It is quite obvious that the Russian Federation has long been acting within the framework of the concept of a long-term conflict in the framework of the “Syrianization” of the war in Ukraine. The official position on achieving all the goals set by the NWO has not changed since February.
Specific terms, as before, are not indicated - the need for long-term work to achieve the stated goals has already been completely reconciled, and a number of processes to increase the grouping of troops in Ukraine and changes in the military-industrial complex also indicate preparations for a long confrontation with the United States and NATO in Ukraine.
Of course, Russia will strive only for victory, which will not only guarantee its sovereignty, but also provide advantageous positions in the formation of a new world order. In this case, the victory will write off all costs. The absence of a positive result in Ukraine will, in turn, have severe domestic political consequences for the country. This, in fact, is what the United States is betting on, dragging out the war in Ukraine in every possible way and raising the degree of escalation.
- How adequate are the statements that the collective West is running out of stocks of weapons and ammunition for deliveries to Ukraine?
- Supply problems are more of a logistical and production nature. In the long run, with the active production of the necessary range of weapons, they are quite solvable for the US and NATO.
This seems to be a less significant problem for the US than the economic and political costs of the sanctions war against Russia. In the first case, the consequences are exclusively military and Ukraine bears the costs. In the second case, the costs hit directly those establishment groups that unleashed the war.
- When will the Polish factor "shoot" in the Ukrainian theater of operations and how is this connected with the situation on the border with Belarus, Kaliningrad and the Baltic states?
- According to the data of the SVR, Poland has not abandoned its plans to occupy Western Ukraine and continues to actively build up its military capabilities by increasing the size of the army (the plans for increasing it increased to 400,000 people) and re-equipping with American weapons.
The build-up of Poland's military capabilities creates additional challenges for the Russian grouping in Kaliningrad and complicates the configuration of any conflict around the "Polish Corridor" in the event of a cessation of transit to Kaliningrad.
Poland in the current realities is a long-term threat to Russia, in the same sense in which the “Remediation regime” in Poland was a threat to the USSR from 1922 to 1939. In those years, the Polish General Staff directly pointed out that "the dismemberment of Russia lies at the heart of Polish policy in the East." Now the goals of Poland are exactly the same. The revival of the Eastern European hyena in the same role is another consequence of the criminal actions of Gorbachev and Yeltsin, which we will have to deal with in the coming years and decades.
From what I am reading in Russian socialist media, most of the casualties to civilians were caused by shrapnel from downed missiles.
The missile strike was on a target in the city center of Vinnitsa.
[ColonelCassad] At least three names of high-ranking Ukrainian Air Force officers liquidated during the attack on the House of Officers in Vinnitsa, where Ukrainian officers discussed with foreign curators the supply of weapons to Ukraine, have already become known.
Colonel Dmitry Burdiko, Acting Chief of Armaments of the Logistics Command of the Ukrainian Air Force.
Head of the Military Scientific Department of the Headquarters of the Ukrainian Air Force Command Lieutenant Colonel Konstantin Puzyrenko.
Head of the Armament and Logistics Service of the Ukrainian Air Force, Colonel Oleg Makarchuk.
Of undoubted interest are the personalities of the foreign military who were liquidated at the same meeting, along with high-ranking officers of the Ukrainian Air Force.
Well, of course, the list of those killed in Vinnitsa is clearly not exhausted by these three characters.
Hence, in fact, the scale of the hysteria around Vinnitsa with attempts to switch attention to accidental victims of a downed rocket, and the US warning to American citizens to leave the country, and the resignation of the head of the SBU. This blow really looks like a blow to the decision-making centers. Hence the howl about Vinnitsa and the indirect consequences.
Says Southfront.org:
On July 14th, the Russian Aerospace Forces struck objects in Vinnytsia and the region with high-precision long-range missiles. According to preliminary information, the targets of the attack were military facilities adjacent to the House of Officers of Vinnytsia, where the formation of Ukrainian Territorial Defense units was carried out. Another target was a military unit in the city of Gaisin in the Vinnytsia region, where Ukrainian forces were amassing and military equipment, including armored vehicles and artillery supplied from abroad, was stored.
At least 20 people were killed, including civilians. Three children were reportedly killed. 52 others were wounded.
According to the city police said a total of three missiles hit the downtown. Ukrainian air defenses shot down four other missiles over the city, according to Sergey Borzov, the head of the Vinnitsa Region administration. However, the city administration did not clarify where they fell.
On the first videos and photos a large number of people in military uniforms are clearly visible, including with weapons. This refutes the thesis of the Ukrainian side that the building of the House of Officers was used exclusively as a civilian object.
Judging by the footage from the region, civilians were injured and houses were damaged in different areas by the missiles that were intercepted by Ukrainian air defence systems.
RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan cited a Russian defense official as confirming the attack and saying that the House of Officers was the intended target. Ukraine used it as a temporary shelter for its “Nazi” fighters, the source claimed. In turn, Ukrainian media claimed that the weapons hit an office building in the city center. Reports said they also damaged nearby residential buildings and the building of the House of Military Officers, an institution operated by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, which normally serves as a concert hall.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky decried the incident as the latest atrocity allegedly committed by Russia, claiming on social media that that Russian troops targeted civilians on purpose. According to Zelensky and Ukrainian media, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation struck at the maternity hospital and medical center in Vinnitsa.
However, footage from the area confirms that the main target was the House of Officers used by the Ukrainian military. Under martial law in Ukraine, the building was turned into a temporary accommodation point for Ukrainian troops. According to the footage, Russian missiles hit two wings of the building. Most likely, they were used for military purposes. The central part of the building, where the entertainment hall is located, was also damaged.
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[Regnum] At the end of 1919, Kolchak's front agonized. His armies constantly retreated, chaos reigned in the rear, all the opponents of the Supreme Ruler became more active. However, so do his allies. The Czechoslovaks, who had pledged to control the railway line, no longer wanted to remain in Siberia. They were removed from their positions and moved towards Vladivostok, not forgetting their material interests. Soviet intelligence reported:
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Presume you’ve read “Setting the East Ablaze” by Peter Hopkirk but some Rantburgers may have missed that opportunity. Amazing and often jarring recounts of the Bolshevik drive east.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] Alexander Druke, born in 1982, native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He has a higher education in management.
As a US Army reservist, Druke served in the Iraqi campaign with the 942nd Transport Company. He served several years directly in the war zone in Iraq. During the campaign, he held the rank of Sergeant in the US Army. In addition, he moved up the military ladder. During his service in Iraq, Drucke received several US awards and received a special lifetime pension.
Then, until 2022, he allegedly worked as a salesman for various companies in the United States. In February 2022, under the influence of US anti-Russian propaganda, he decided to take part in military operations in Ukraine on the side of Kyiv. Having sufficient financial resources, he bought military equipment at his own expense, including a helmet, body armor, tactical boots, etc.
On April 15, 2022, he arrived on the territory of Ukraine. He crossed the border without hindrance, telling the border guards that he was entering Ukraine with the “purpose of helping the Ukrainian people.”
Then Oleksandr Druke contacted representatives of the so-called Ukrainian Foreign Legion via the Internet. He was told that he was to arrive at the Yavoriv railway station in the Lviv region, where there is a notorious military training ground used to form and combat coordination of foreign mercenaries.
Arriving in Yavoriv, Druke signed a contract with the Ukrainian Foreign Legion to serve in its ranks on a paid basis. He was assigned to a unit that included only foreigners. Most of his colleagues did not have any military experience, which subsequently led to a lack of proper military discipline in the unit. The training of the unit was entrusted to the fighters themselves. At the training camp, Alexander Druke befriended three other US mercenaries.
A week later, he and his friends became disillusioned with the unit's training system and their command. They believed that the Ukrainian Foreign Legion was a large and professional unit, but their aspirations were radically at odds with reality. As a result, they terminated their contracts and left the Foreign Legion at the end of April 2022.
Through their personal contacts in Ukraine, they found another unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, located in the city of Rivne. They signed new contracts with this division. They were given personal weapons (AK-74, caliber 5.45x39), which Alexander learned to use from YouTube videos.
Service in the second unit allegedly also did not suit Alexander and his two friends. A group of mercenaries tried to find another professional unit where their combat skills could be applied to the fullest. They did it in a month. At the beginning of June 2022, the mercenaries were invited to the sabotage and reconnaissance group of foreigners, which operated in the Kharkiv direction.
They arrived in Kharkiv on June 8, 2022, where they were met by German and French citizens who were members of the Baguette tactical group.
The Baguette Group consisted of approximately 12 military personnel, of which about half were French citizens, former or current members of the French Foreign Legion or other units of the French Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces. In addition to Alexander Druke and two of his friends, there were 3 more US citizens in the group.
Upon arrival at the group's location, each of them was given a CZ807 assault rifle, 7 magazines of 30 rounds and a hand grenade. Alexander's partner was also given an RPG-7 with one grenade for a grenade launcher, and Alexander was given two more grenades for an RPG-7. Earlier, during their short service in the Ukrainian Foreign Legion, they were trained in the use of these weapons.
On the evening of June 8, 2022, a briefing was held. They were told that the next day they were to move to a combat position for reconnaissance and mining.
On June 9, 2022, a group of 8 foreign soldiers, accompanied by soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, went on a mission. On the spot, Ukrainian servicemen mined the area, and foreigners were instructed to conduct reconnaissance using drones. In the event that enemy forces were detected, they were to ambush them in order to destroy their military equipment.
During the operation, Druke's partner discovered a Russian tank, which he opened fire on with his RPG-7.
In response, the Russian military opened fire with small arms on the positions of foreign mercenaries. Alexander and his colleague retreated to the forest area, where they hid for a couple of hours until the fighting subsided. After that, they decided to dig out their RPG-7 and the two remaining grenades. Being armed, they moved to the side where the cars in which they arrived were parked.
However, only one of the three cars remained, and that one had already been inspected by Russian servicemen. Alexander and his partner tried to leave the battlefield on their own and left in the direction of the location of their group. Having no maps and not knowing the area, they wandered for 6 hours. As a result, they came to the settlement, which was under the control of the Russian military, where they were captured.
All his appeals to Western governments asking for help or exchange were ignored.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Seversk.
Fights for the dominant heights in the city area. Statements about the occupation of Seversk are still ahead of events. It is not the city itself that is of key importance, but the heights around it. The enemy seeks to hold on to them, despite the blows of the RF Armed Forces.
Fights in Serebryanka and Verkhnekamensky, Ivano-Daryevka. The enemy is transferring reserves here from the Slavic-Kramatorsk agglomeration.
2. Soledar.
Fighting at Yakovlevka, Belogorovka and Berestovoye, so far without significant progress towards Soledar itself.
Fighting in the area between Stryapovka and Soledar and on the western outskirts of Novaya Kamenka. The Soledar-Seversk road is under attack by the RF Armed Forces, but is still accessible for the movement of enemy troops.
3. Artemovsk.
Battles near Pokrovsky and Vesela Dolina. Artemovsk is under attack. Strikes - on Krasnaya Gora, Kurdyumovka, Chasov Yar. In the area of Uglegorskaya TPP - no changes.
Kodem and Semigorye are still held by the enemy. From the Artemovsk area, the OTRK of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the western MLRS deliver pinpoint strikes deep into the territory of the LPR (Stakhanov, Alchevsk, Lugansk were attacked). The main targets are fuel depots, ammunition depots, command posts.
The RF Armed Forces are focusing on concentrations of manpower and equipment, artillery and missile systems.
"Friendly fire" shot down our plane (presumably Su-34), the pilots survived.
4. Slavyansk.
Positional battles in the area of the Valley, Sidorov, Prishib. Attacks on the Slavic-Kramatorsk agglomeration. In Konstantinovka, up to 250 foreign mercenaries and a large number of equipment were destroyed.
Western media: after the loss of Seversk and Soledar, the battles for the Slavic-Kramatorsk agglomeration and Artemovsk will be decisive for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The RF Armed Forces are completing their regrouping and are preparing for the start of a major offensive. Shoigu's visit with an inspection to the front is linked precisely with the upcoming big events.
5. Kharkov.
Positional battles in the area of Uda, Upper Passages, Tsupovka, Dementievka, Upper Saltov. In response to attacks on Kazachya Lopan and Kupyansk, the RF Armed Forces attacked Kharkov, Chuguev and the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the northern outskirts of Kharkov.
The RF Armed Forces are intensifying operations in the border areas of the Sumy region, from where the border forces of the Belgorod and Kursk regions were shelled. Attacks on the Sumy region are gradually intensifying.
6. Izyum.
Positional battles in the area of Bolshaya Kamyshevakha and Kurulka are complemented by attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to be active near Balakleya. The enemy is not taking large-scale actions against the flank of the Izyum grouping of the RF Armed Forces due to the impossibility of ensuring stable crossings across the Seversky Donets. Pontoon and makeshift bridges across the river are being destroyed, and DRG activity on the other side is of limited value.
7. Avdievka.
Positional battles near Kamenka, Novoselka-2, Novobakhmutovka and New York. The Avdiivka-Konstantinovka highway was cut in several places, but the enemy could not use it before. The Orlovka-Avdeevka road is under the control of the enemy, so there is no need to talk about the encirclement of Avdeevka. There is no serious progress in the Krasnogorovka area.
Active work continues on enemy artillery systems operating in Donetsk, Makeevka, Gorlovka, Yasinovataya. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, success was achieved in the destruction of cannon artillery and MLRS.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces, in addition to the terrorist shelling of Donetsk, continue to inflict pinpoint strikes with OTRK and heavy MLRS on the command and logistics infrastructure of the RF Armed Forces and the DPR army.
8. Ugledar.
Positional battles continued in the area of Ugledar, Velikaya Noveselovka, Novomikhailovka and in Maryinka. The enemy, after an unsuccessful offensive attempt in the Ugledar region, again went over to the defensive.
9. Zaporozhye.
On the line Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole-Velikaya Novoseloveka without significant changes. Positional battles for the settlements between Gulyaipole and Velikaya Novoselovka continue. The enemy continues to slowly accumulate troops in the area of Zaporozhye, Orekhov and Gulyaipol, trying to create the prerequisites for offensive operations.
Shelling of Novaya Kakhovka and drone raids on Energodar also continue. The RF Armed Forces fire at the enemy in the Zaporozhye region. The State Administration of Zaporozhye calls on residents of the capital of the region to leave the city in order to avoid the role of another "human shield".
10. Nikolaev.
The enemy continues to put pressure on the Krivoy Rog and Nikopol directions in the area of Potemkino and Ivanovka. As before, this direction is the most likely for a potential offensive by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in accordance with the requirements of the United States and NATO to organize an offensive with operational-tactical goals before the beginning of autumn.
The RF Armed Forces are engaged in strengthening defensive positions and systematic strikes against the Armed Forces of Ukraine in potentially threatening areas. On the Nikolaevsky direction without significant changes. Nikolaev is hit almost daily with missile strikes, the losses from which hamper the activity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson direction.
[NYPOST] What comes after the end of public schools?
Anyone who cares about the education of children should be asking that question. So of course it’s one that the teachers unions don’t want us to discuss.
New York City schools are in trouble. As The Post reported Friday, "the city Department of Education expects to enroll roughly 28,100 fewer students this fall." Enrollment at the city’s regular public schools already fell during the pandemic, and this new projection suggests it’s not improving any time soon.
And New York leads a large pack: Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Illinois, Oregon, Mississippi and Michigan have all seen serious losses of students departing their public-school systems.
Why? A Gallup poll last week showed only 28% of Americans have "a great deal or a lot" of "confidence in U.S. public schools."
Much of this is tied to long closures during the pandemic. Teachers unions, with people like American Federation of Teachers chief Randi Weingarten leading the charge, pushed hard to keep schools closed for far too long. The shutdowns (and the travesty of remote learning) smashed public trust and it simply isn’t that easy to rebuild. Researchers at the American Enterprise Institute found that the longer a school district stayed remote, the larger its enrollment drop.
But parents tell me they have many reasons for saying "enough."
New York City’s crushing of merit-based admissions under Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him... pushed people out, as did general woke nonsense replacing academics. Other parents pulled their kids when toddlers stayed masked after the rest of the city had stopped.
Mayor Eric Adams isn’t mincing words: "We have a massive hemorrhaging of students — massive hemorrhaging. We’re in a very dangerous place in the number of students that we are dropping." But the City Council (clearly lobbied by the teachers union) is pushing for schools to retain funding at the old enrollment numbers. That’s crazy: These schools aren’t meeting families’ needs; they shouldn’t be rewarded for this failure with cash.
Especially because money is so often set on fire in the New York City system. Schools Chancellor David Banks and over 50 other staffers attended a conference last week "at a swanky hotel near Universal Studios in Orlando," The Post reports. Kids had to zoom to get an education for over a year, but the grownups need to meet up near theme parks to discuss their education plan? Ridiculous.
Public schools are in a serious downward spiral. The options are fixing them, which hasn’t worked for decades, or letting parents get their kids out.
Public charter schools are, understandably, booming despite getting far less funding. Former Mayor Michael Nanny Mike Bloomberg ...former Republican mayor of New York. He tried to take the credit for Rudy Giuliani's actions in the wake of the 9-11 attacks. He was known as Nanny Bloomberg for his war on 32-ounce Slurpees. Nanny was a candidate for the Dem presidential nomination in 2020. He was born on Valentine's day, 1942, which makes him 80.34636 years old, which is pretty ripe. Mike has lots of money, some of which he spends on grass roots organizations pushing for common sense gun laws along the same lines as his common sense Slurpee regulations.... recently pointed out, "Charter schools educate 7% of all public-school students, yet they receive less than 1% of total federal spending on K-12 education."
On average, charters have higher math and reading scores than traditional public schools; Bloomberg notes, "Research has found that the benefits are especially pronounced for Black, Latino and low-income students."
But the teachers unions hate charters. They hate when parents have choices for their kids.
They also hate outspoken parents fighting for their kids. Weingarten called parents showing up to school board meetings "racists" and has argued that school vouchers, which would give parents a way to get their kids out of failing schools, are "the end of public education as we know it." To which we all should say: good.
Public education shouldn’t exist to serve Weingarten. It’s our money paying for our children to get an education.
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[Dawn] THE government wants the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain to shun militancy and play their role in mainstream politics. On their part, the TTP demand that the government withdraw its troops from the now merged areas of erstwhile Fata, repeal the 25th Amendment of the Constitution to reverse Fata’s merger with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, and implement the Sharia in Malakand Division. That much we seem to know. Right? But have you ever wondered what the people of those districts want?
According to a poll survey in 2016 by the Fata Research Centre, 68 per cent of the respondents in the ex-Fata region demanded the full abolishment of the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) and the introduction of a new governance system. The study further highlighted that 74pc of the respondents endorsed the option of merging Fata with KP. The idea of restructuring Fata as a separate province was endorsed by 26pc of the respondents.
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[NPASyria] Since the beginning of this year, the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Organization (ISIS) has transformed from launching individual attacks to mass ones, and is awaiting the Ottoman Turkish invasion of northern Syria, said Zana Omar, a Qamishli-based journalist, on Monday.
This was turned out during ISIS attack on al-Sina’a prison in the city of Hasakah early in January, and during planning several attacks in Hawl Camp, Omar added.
Since the beginning of 2022, the camp management has registered 29 murder cases for 12 Syrians, among them a paramedic for the Kurdish Red Islamic Thingy (KRC), 14 Iraqi refugees who constitute more than half of the camp’s population, 3 unidentified corps, and 15 failed attempt ...Curses! Foiled again!... ed murders.
Hawl Camp, 45 km east of the city of Hasakah, is a house for 55.829 individuals, including 28.725 Iraqis, 18.850 Syrians and 8.254 of foreign nationalities, according to the latest statistics obtained by North Press.
Omar believes that ISIS has made plans to release 11.000 members and families of the terrorist organization, including people called Jihad Sheikhs, who participated in critical operations in Europe, the Gulf States and the Arab countries during the years of the organization’s control.
If The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... launches its military operation, the SDF’s priorities in fighting ISIS will change, as it will shift to the stage of defending and repelling Ottoman Turkish attacks, Omar noted.
He described that ISIS is awaiting the Ottoman Turkish operation to escape the security pressure imposed by the SDF and to take advantage of the security gap in the deserts of Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa and Hasakah.
Last month, the Syrian Desert returned to the conflict forefront again between ISIS sleeper cells on one hand and the Syrian government forces along with Iranian-backed militias on the other.
In June, ISIS carried out about 11 operations in the Syrian Desert, during which 42 soldiers of the government forces were killed and 31 others were maimed to varying degrees, in addition to the death of a civilian and the injury of 14 others with varying injuries, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
Omar pointed out that Deir-ez-Zor desert poses the greatest danger, since it is open to al-Anbar desert in Iraq, where ISIS sleeper cells are present. This brings back the fears of 2014 scenario and the return of ISIS.
The journalist indicated that the second level of danger lies in the fact that any area "occupied" by Turkey is turned into a safe haven for ISIS members and leaders, through the support they get from the so-called Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA).
"Al-Baghdadi and Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi appeared in those areas, and finally Maher al-Aqal, and the list goes on," he added.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...former 
...Arabic for 
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
