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9 soldiers embrace martyrdom as military winds up operation after ‘dastardly’ attack on Zhob garrison: ISPR
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-Great Cultural Revolution
Journalists Stop By Shelter To Inform Trafficked Children They Are A QAnon Conspiracy
[Bee] U.S. — Victims of child sex trafficking are reportedly disheartened by the extra attention they've been getting since the theatrical release of Sound of Freedom. Sources say the film has prompted visits by members of the nation's media who, instead of showing support, inform them they are merely unhinged QAnon conspiracies.

"Rest easy, little girl," reporter Richard James explained to 7-year-old Maria Gomez. "You don't even exist."

The children, who actually do exist, have thus far failed to correct the now-popular narrative that they exist solely as imagined nightmares floating in a sea of deranged MAGA minds. "I don't understand! We're here! We're literally slaves!" said one child before her microphone was cut off to protect the public from believing dangerous conspiracy theories.

"We're going to expose these QAnon followers who keep pretending child sex trafficking is a very real and prevalent problem," reported CNN anchor Anderson Cooper. "Those monsters."

To date, no one has been able to explain where the traumatized children filling up shelters keep coming from.
Posted by: Frank G || 07/13/2023 11:03 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In related news:

New York City Mayor Eric Adams says it’s ‘anti-American’ not to allow 84,000 migrants to legally work

Sounds like...Slavery.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/13/2023 14:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Is it "American" to import workers while those already here need a job?

Just askin...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2023 14:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Laughed my a$$ off then saw it was the Bee and laughed even harder.
Posted by: jpal || 07/13/2023 16:54 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ You're welcome ;-)
Posted by: Frank G || 07/13/2023 19:34 Comments || Top||


Britain
The Decline of the BBC
[The Naked Emperor's News Letter] Today, the BBC’s worst kept secret was revealed to the normies - presenter Huw Edwards is the man behind the sex pics scandal.

Will they start to ask questions such as why random articles about Huw have been popping up in the mainstream press over the last few weeks? Will they realise that the newspaper editors have been playing with them because everybody knew Huw was involved in the scandal? Probably not, they will just chalk it down to a coincidence, if they even noticed at all.

This was the man they used as the face of the BBC news, lecturing us on ethics and honesty. They selected him to present the Queen’s funeral to the world. And yet a section of society still defend his actions because nothing illegal happened and he’s suffered from depression in the past. The allegations are still that he was texting a school child, how can that be defended even if it was legal?

But are we surprised the BBC has been trying to keep this scandal quiet for a while now? Of course not, they protected Jimmy Savile for decades. Jimmy Savile was the UK’s equivalent of Jeffrey Epstein. He was a BBC presenter with his most famous TV show being ’Jim’ll Fix it’ which made the wishes of children come true. He was knighted and described as a "prodigious philanthropist" by the Guardian.

Everyone knew the reality but it wasn’t until his death that the sexual assault allegations started pouring out. He had assaulted staff and patients aged between 5 and 75 for several decades and had been given the keys to hospitals (including a psychiatric hospital) so that he could let himself in and ’see’ patients when he wanted.

The outside of the BBC’s flagship building, Broadcasting House, is adorned with statues by another paedophile. Sculptor Eric Gill produced various sculptures for the BBC in the ’30s, including ’Prospero and Ariel’ and ’Ariel between Wisdom and Gaiety’.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/13/2023 07:15 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I can't say exactly when it all "began", but definitely since the 2000's when the Beeb started pushing the global warming rubbish one could see the Davos/Soros in them.

And try posting on a BBC message board about [possible] vaccine injuries (e.g., in its Football section). Those posts will get summarily deleted.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/13/2023 7:48 Comments || Top||

#2  I don’t care if they are libs. They can grind and lib on each other all day long. The kid stuff is going to merit millstone floaties yesterday, today and tomorrow. The BBC itself is deader than Disney to me. They ruined Dr Who.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/13/2023 8:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Like PBS and NPR its tax funded. Why should they care?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/13/2023 8:03 Comments || Top||

#4  They ruined Dr Who.
The bastards!
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/13/2023 9:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Every new revelations makes PizzaGate just that much more believable. Our elites are evil, depraved perverts.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/13/2023 11:56 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
July 13, 1941: The first Soviet Counterattack
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

From the V Kontakte page of THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR, Sergey Veter

Note that in the first summer, the Red Army had corps for all of its units on the western front. After this time, corps were eliminated and, replaced with armies, which function as corps to this day.

[VK] The counteroffensive of the Soviet troops began in the area between the Dnieper and Berezina rivers.Bobruisk, occupied Zhlobin and Rogachev. In August, as a result of a German counterattack, the corps was surrounded.

On August 13, 1941, Leonid Grigorievich was appointed commander of the 21st Army of the Central Front (the order was delivered to him by plane), but he appeals to the command with a request to postpone his appointment until the corps is withdrawn from the encirclement. During a breakthrough from the encirclement on August 17, 1941, Petrovsky died. He was buried in a mass grave near the village of Staraya Rudnya, Zhlobin District.

Having completed the encirclement of eleven Soviet divisions of the Western Front in the Bialystok and Minsk pockets, the Germans at the end of June 1941 resumed the offensive with the forces of some tank units, since all the infantry units were pinned down by the surrounded Soviet units.

So, on June 28, 1941, the 3rd German Panzer Division of Lieutenant General Walter Model occupied the city of Bobruisk, located on the Berezina River. The capture of this important junction of railways and highways gave the enemy the opportunity to advance unhindered on the southern flank of our Western Front. The enemy was not slow to take advantage of this opportunity, and four days later his tank units reached the cities of Rogachev and Zhlobin located on the Dnieper: at dawn on July 2, Nazi motorcyclists and tanks of the advanced units of the 3rd Panzer Division of the 24th Panzer Corps appeared on the western bank of the river. However, here the Germans ran into stubborn resistance from the 63rd Rifle Corps under the command of Commander Petrovsky. At that time, the corps included: 117, 167, 61 Rifle Divisions and other separate corps units.

Only on July 5, at 1 pm, after artillery shelling and air strikes, did the enemy manage to cross the Dnieper northeast of Rogachev, in the area of ​​​​the village of Zborovo near the bend of the river, which juts out far to the north. However, after our counterattacks, the enemy, leaving 256 corpses and eight wrecked Pz.III tanks on the battlefield, was forced to return to the western bank, after which the front stabilized for another week.

However, despite the fact that the 63rd Rifle Corps successfully defended this line.

The general situation in the western direction worsened: on July 10, the enemy crossed the Western Dvina and the Dnieper and began to develop an offensive against Smolensk. In this situation, on July 12, 1941, the commander of the troops of the Western Front ordered the troops of the 22nd, 19th and 20th armies to destroy the enemy that had broken through and capture the city of Vitebsk by joint actions. The troops of the 21st Army were tasked with the forces of the 63rd and 66th Rifle Corps to deliver concentric attacks on Bobruisk, and the 67th Rifle Corps to advance north of Shapchitsy along the western bank of the Dnieper in order to eliminate the enemy grouping that had broken through to the eastern bank of the Dnieper in the area Bykhov.

On July 13, the 21st Army, under the command of the former commander of the North-Western Front, Colonel General Fyodor Isidorovich Kuznetsov, went on the offensive with the task of capturing Bykhov and Bobruisk, to go behind enemy lines in the Mogilev-Smolensk direction.

In the morning, with the beginning of an intensive twenty-minute artillery preparation, units of the 63rd Corps began crossing the Dnieper. In these July days there was a sweltering heat that subsided little even at night. The Nazis, not at all expecting our offensive, carelessly hid from the heat in their homes in Rogachev and Zhlobin. They took off their weapons, and sometimes their uniforms. In this position, our first fire raid found them.

The divisions of the 63rd Rifle Corps successfully crossed the Dnieper, captured the cities of Rogachev and Zhlobin, and continued their offensive towards Bobruisk. To the south, the 232nd Rifle Division of the 66th Rifle Corps advanced up to 80 km and captured the crossings on the Berezina and Ptich rivers. At the same time, the 67th Rifle Corps of the 21st Army and units of the 13th Army detained the divisions of the 2nd German Panzer Group in the Roslavl direction.

By the end of the day, the divisions had to conduct an offensive battle, in the full sense of the word uprooting with a bayonet and a grenade, shooting at point-blank range the Nazis who had settled in houses and dugouts. In these battles, many soldiers and units distinguished themselves. The battalion of the 437th Infantry Regiment was the first to break into Zhlobin. When the next morning the enemy made an attempt to encircle the battalion, our soldiers not only did not retreat, but again put the Nazis to flight.

Six times Captain Batalov raised his battalion to attack, twice it came to bayonet strikes, and the enemy fled. As a result of such perseverance, the battalion diverted significant enemy forces, contributed to the advancement of our units and the complete liberation of Zhlobin.

For the German command, this blow was a complete surprise. It hastily sent against the 21st Army from its 2nd Army the 43rd and 53rd Army Corps, which hardly stopped the offensive of the Soviet troops.

Nevertheless, on July 25, the 63rd Rifle Corps, having regrouped, resumed the offensive in the direction of Bobruisk, and by 1900 hrs reached the line of Verichev, Zabolotye, Great Forest, Rudnya Malaya, Lesan. The enemy fiercely resisted. Especially heavy fighting took place on 28 July. The Nazis launched a counterattack on the night of July 29, although at that time they still observed their habit of resting at night. The counterattack was repulsed with heavy losses for them.

By the end of July 1941, units of the 63rd Corps wedged into the depth of the enemy’s location up to 30 km and moved forward, especially in relation to the neighbor on the right (67 sk). In connection with the concentration of fascist troops in this direction, the commander of the troops of the 21st Army on July 30 ordered the 63rd Rifle Corps to go on the defensive. Thus ended the first successful counterattack of the Soviet troops during the Great Patriotic War.

Posted by: badanov || 07/13/2023 07:57 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Democratic jitters grow over Cornel West's third-party bid
*Snicker* Everyone saw what the party elites in the smokey back rooms did to Bernie Sanders.
[The Hill] Cornel West’s third-party presidential campaign is stirring up unpleasant flashbacks to 2016 for members of the Democratic Party, some of whom are starting to grow anxious about the effect it could have on President Biden’s reelection.

West, a philosopher, Ivy League academic and leftist, recently announced he is newly registered with the Green Party as he seeks to challenge Biden and the eventual Republican nominee for the White House.
He started out in the generically leftwing People’s Party, which originally intended to be Bernie Sander’s vehicle, but the Bern rejected them as unworthy. Mr. West was mocked for associating with them, so he moved over the the slightly less politically hapless Greens.
Now, some prominent figures supporting Biden, from the head of the Democratic National Committee to veteran campaign hands, are already sounding the alarm about his quixotic White House run.

"This is not the time in order to experiment. This is not the time to play around on the margins," warned DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison, a close Biden confidant, over the weekend.

Seven years ago, when Hillary Clinton lost to former President Donald Trump, many in her orbit blamed Green Party nominee Jill Stein as a factor that contributed to her defeat. Heading into 2024, Democrats worry West could emerge as a similar spoiler by earning just enough votes to fracture the coalition Biden needs to win.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/13/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The LSD's badly need a 3rd party candidate to suck off the independent voters fed up with Biden/LSD's) craziness and headed to the MAGA camp.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/13/2023 6:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Ah, the Entitlement Party. If he can suck near 20 percent of his self identified special interest group from the limousine commies, that'll shut down the urban ballot box stuffing.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/13/2023 7:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Manchin is running as well.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/13/2023 7:44 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Brueggeman - "Blessed are the peacemakers." Only peacemakers are blessed.
Their plowshares are beat into swords
~ Walter Brueggemann

And now their plowshares are beat into swords-as are ours.
now their pruning hooks are beat into spears-as are ours.
Not only swords and spears,
but bullets, and bombs, and missiles,
of steel on flesh,
of power against bodies...
And you, in your indignation sound your mantra,
"Blessed are the peacemakers."
We dare to believe they are the aggressor,
and we are the peacemaker.
Yet in sober night dream, we glance otherwise
and think we may be aggressor,
as we vision rubbled homes,
murdered civilians,
and charred babies.
And you, in our sadness, sound your mantra,
"Blessed are the peacemakers."
We do not love war,
we yearn for peace,
but we have lost much will for peace
even while we dream of order.
And you, in your hope, sound your mantra,
"Blessed are the peacemakers."
Deliver us from excessive certitude about ourselves.
Hold us in the deep ambiguity where we find ourselves,
Show us yet again the gaping space
between your will and our feeble imagination.
Sound your mantra with more authority,
with more indignation,
through sadness,
in hope... "Blessed are the peacemakers."
Only peacemakers are blessed.
We find ourselves well short of blessed.
Give us freedom for your deep otherwise,
finally to be blessed,
in the name of the Peacemaker
who gave and did not take.

Amen.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/13/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  All battlefields are peaceful once they become graveyards.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/13/2023 7:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Camp David awaits the arrival of the Ukraine-Russia accords peacekeeping team.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/13/2023 7:57 Comments || Top||

#3  From the song The Devil's Right Hand:

"Bout a year later, got a Colt .45 - Called it Peacemaker, I never knew why..."

Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2023 9:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Not that I'm the biggest David Crosby fan but I think he got at least one thing right.

Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/13/2023 12:09 Comments || Top||

#5  What about the Greek? Aren't they blessed?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/13/2023 14:41 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
The Indian Ocean has a mysterious million-square-mile 'gravity hole' where sea levels are 300ft lower – and scientists finally think they know what caused it
[DM]
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/13/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So - Don Lemon was right?
Posted by: Raj || 07/13/2023 0:33 Comments || Top||

#2 
After all these years of being taught Isaac Newton's law of gravity, I guess a lot of school books will need editing?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/13/2023 6:34 Comments || Top||

#3  That gravitation is not uniform over the Earth's surface has been known for a long time. The effect is even accounted for in our ICBMs' inertial guidance systems.

If you want to treat the gravitation of any large mass like a point, you better warm up that HP calculator.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2023 6:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Wait a minute. If there is less gravity, shouldn't the ocean be higher, not lower?

Or has climate change changed physics, too?
Posted by: Bobby || 07/13/2023 7:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Alien craft should be circling over it like hawks use a cornfield for lift.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/13/2023 7:57 Comments || Top||

#6  Few have realized that it is triangular and constantly moving.


Posted by: Besoeker || 07/13/2023 8:02 Comments || Top||

#7  Wait a minute.

An interesting thought experiment.
The surrounding 'higher' gravity regions pull more water.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/13/2023 8:31 Comments || Top||

#8  A major scientific illumination occurs:
There is no gravity. The Earth sucks.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/13/2023 9:49 Comments || Top||

#9  DM/Not DM get easier.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/13/2023 10:21 Comments || Top||

#10  ...you better warm up that HP calculator.

I bought an HP 12C business calculator in 1984; I still have it and carry it in my briefcase.
Posted by: Raj || 07/13/2023 12:36 Comments || Top||

#11  Must be where they parked that Malaysian airliner.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/13/2023 12:42 Comments || Top||

#12  They just found Gaia's belly button!
Posted by: Sholuth Gloper3204 || 07/13/2023 13:24 Comments || Top||

#13  Um, they better hope it's a belly button.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2023 13:26 Comments || Top||

#14  Isn't this a family website?
Posted by: Snomorong Chusoper3371 || 07/13/2023 13:40 Comments || Top||

#15  ^ If your family is in to global terrorism, maybe you ought to consider camping or board games.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/13/2023 14:14 Comments || Top||

#16  Sure it is. uhem.

Which letter holds the most water?

C.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/13/2023 14:15 Comments || Top||



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  9 soldiers embrace martyrdom as military winds up operation after ‘dastardly’ attack on Zhob garrison: ISPR
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  Sudanese government declines to attend peace talks in Ethiopia
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  Spain possibly locates missing boat carrying 200 migrants, sends help
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