[IsraelTimes] Nine people appear in a London court to deny offenses including burglary, criminal damage, violent mostly peaceful disorder and hitting a police officer with a sledgehammer, over an incident at a warehouse linked to Israeli defense firm Elbit.
The nine, who prosecutors have said were activists from the protest organization Paleostine Action, are accused of smashing their way into the Elbit Systems UK facility in Bristol, southwest England, in August.
At a previous hearing, prosecutors said a repurposed prison van was used to smash through fencing before some of the group damaged items in the warehouse using sledgehammers.
Four men and five women, aged between 20 and 51, appeared by video link at London’s Old Bailey Court. All nine plead not guilty to aggravated burglary and causing criminal damage which has been estimated at 1 million pounds.
Seven of them also deny a charge of violent mostly peaceful disorder, while one, Simon Corner, pleads not guilty to a charge of causing grievous bodily harm with intent, for allegedly striking a police officer with a sledgehammer.
Another nine people also charged with offenses over the incident appear at the hearing but do not enter pleas.
The first trial involving eight of the defendants is due to start in November, with the others appearing at two subsequent trials. A hearing will also be held to determine whether the cases should be treated as a terrorism matter.
Pro-Paleostinian protesters have repeatedly targeted Elbit Systems UK and other defense firms in Britannia linked to Israel in the wake of the conflict in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Paleostine Action has said the targeted site was Elbit’s new 35 million-pound ($43 million) research and development hub. Elbit’s website says its UK subsidiary employs 680 people at 16 sites, working on multiple programs for the British military.
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Palestine Action - Wikipedia
Palestine Action was established on 30 July 2020 when activists broke into and spray-painted the interior of Elbit Systems' UK headquarters in London. The organisation's co-founders are Huda Ammori, whose father is Palestinian, and Richard Barnard, a long-term left-wing activist.
[IsraelTimes] The Paleostinian Authority has reached an agreement with the Jenin Battalion that will end over a month-long standoff in the northern West Bank city and adjacent refugee camp, a Paleostinian official confirms to The Times of Israel.
The PA has been conducting a counterterrorism operation in Jenin since last month, targeting the so-called Jenin Battalion, which is made up of operatives affiliated with terror groups such as Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... Ramallah has blamed Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... for funding and arming the Jenin Battalion and other armed factions throughout the West Bank. Fifteen Paleostinians were reportedly killed throughout the operation, including six members of the PA security forces, eight civilians, and one terror suspect. A handful of Jenin Battalion members have also been arrested by PA forces.
The gangs have gained significant prominence in the northern West Bank over the past several years, with the PA seen to have largely lost control over the area.
The PA launched its counterterrorism operation ahead of US President-elect Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... ’s return to the White House, as it seeks to demonstrate its ability to maintain stability in the West Bank.
Early on in the operation, the Jenin Battalion managed to steal a pair of vehicles belonging to the PA security forces, who subsequently intensified the raid of the refugee camp.
While the operation has continued, the sides have held negotiations aimed at reaching a truce under which the gangs would hand over their weapons in exchange for immunity.
A deal was on the verge of being reached early this week, but talks blew up following a pair of Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in the camp on Tuesday and Wednesday that killed 12 people including civilians, two Paleostinian officials told The Times of Israel on Thursday.
The IDF had held off on conducting any strikes or raids in Jenin when the PA began its raid but ended that policy this week.
One of the Paleostinian officials speculated that the decision was pushed by far-right elements in the Israeli military and government who don’t want the PA to succeed in its effort.
The official said the strikes may have also been designed to scuttle the brewing truce — something that Ramallah believes would significantly calm tensions in the northern West Bank.
The talks resumed later Thursday, and the sides managed to reach an agreement Friday evening, the official says.
The deal requires specific members of the Jenin Battalion to hand over their weapons and allows the PA to operate freely in the refugee camp, the Paleostinian official says.
PA vehicles have already been filmed entering the refugee camp this evening with bomb-squad units to detonate explosives that the Jenin Battalion placed throughout the area to harm Israeli and PA forces.
[Independent] The jury awarded Zachary Young $5 million in compensatory damages and found that the security contractor was also owed punitive damages. The network eventually settled with Young on the punitive damages for an undisclosed amount.
A Florida jury found CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... liable on Friday in a high-stakes defamation trial against U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young, who alleged that the network maligned him as an "illegal profiteer" with a report on Afghan evacuees being charged thousands of dollars to flee the country following the U.S. military withdrawal.
Following two days of deliberations, the jury ruled that CNN must pay Young $4 million in financial damages and $1 million for emotional damage, adding that Young is also owed punitive damages. After the trial entered a second phase to determine punitive damages, the network eventually settled with Young for an undisclosed amount.
"We remain proud of our journalists and are 100% committed to strong, fearless and fair-minded reporting at CNN, though we will of course take what useful lessons we can from this case," a CNN spokesperson said in a statement after the settlement was announced.
Once both sides had moved to arguie their case for how much additional money Young should be awarded, Judge William Henry told the jurors on Friday that during this second phase, the punitive damages against CNN could only apply to its actions in this specific case and not on any other stories or issues. Following an extended break in the testimony, during which the two legal teams engaged in discussion, Henry informed the jury that the two sides had settled.
One juror asked Henry if they could "have the privilege to know the settlement amount," only for the judge to look towards both legal teams before responding: "Apparently not."
Though the amount was not disclosed, the settlement came after a business expert for the plaintiff testified that, based on his review of CNN’s earnings, he estimated that CNN brought in roughly $150 million of revenue a month. He further suggested that it could be a fair amount to pay in punitive damages.
The verdict comes weeks after ABC News paid $15 million to Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... ’s presidential library fund and another million dollars to his legal team to settle the president-elect’s defamation lawsuit against the network — a move that First Amendment experts warned could have a "chilling effect" on the free press.
The jury in the trial, which was held in deeply conservative Bay County, Florida, was tasked with determining whether CNN acted with "actual malice" during its reporting on Young. The court defines actual malice as a reckless disregard of the truth while publishing false information. Additionally, the burden of proof in this case was lower because the judge ruled before the trial that Young was not a public figure.
Young, a security contractor who once worked for the CIA, sued CNN in 2022 over a story it ran the year before on private contractors charging desperate Afghans large amounts of money to help evacuate them from the war-torn country after the Taliban ...Arabic for students... retook control. The investigatory piece, reported by national security correspondent Alex Marquardt, was first aired on Jake Tapper’s show and warned of "exorbitant fees" from "black market" rescue operations that had "no guarantee of safety or success." Young was the only contractor named throughout the story.
In his complaint, Young said his inclusion in the story suggested that his activities were criminal, specifically because of an on-air graphic that used the term "black market." That banner was also used when the story ran on CNN programming and the network’s website. Young said that he only charged corporate sponsors to extract Afghans and never took money directly from residents, pushing back on the story’s implication that he was exploiting people fearful of the Taliban.
CNN’s legal team and witnesses, meanwhile, argued during the trial that their intention behind the use of the term "black market" was to show that evacuations in the region were taking place in an "unregulated market" and didn’t explicitly mean the actions were criminal. Young’s attorneys, however, noted that the dictionary defined the term as "illegal."
"Do not let CNN rewrite the English language to avoid liability in this case," attorney Devin Freedman told the jurors during his closing arguments on Thursday.
Young has argued that the CNN story destroyed his reputation and left him unable to make a living, claiming his yearly salary went from six figures to zero. He also said that the network caused psychological damage to him, prompting Freedman to urge the jury to "send a message that news organizations must be held accountable."
Months after the story first ran on CNN, the network issued an on-air apology after Young’s attorneys threatened legal action. Delivered by anchor Pamela Brown, who was substituting for Tapper, the correction stated that the term "black market" shouldn’t have been used in the report and the network "did not intend to suggest that Mr. Young participated in a black market."
During the trial, however, Marquardt and other CNN employees testified that they didn’t feel the correction was necessary and that it was merely issued at the behest of the network’s legal counsel to avoid a lawsuit. Well, that was effective, right?
Additionally, CNN’s legal team argued in court filings that at the "time of its reporting, CNN knew little about Young’s financials, his model, or whether he’d successfully evacuated anyone because whenever anyone [including CNN] asked Young to explain his business, he obfuscated, behaved unprofessionally, lied, and hid." They also stated last summer that Young’s "operation was very different from how he publicly portrayed it" and he never planned any evacuations.
"I reported the facts. I reported what I found. Everything in there was factual, accurate and, I believe, fair," Marquardt said on the stand on Monday, defending his reporting. He also took issue with his story being described as a "hit piece" by Young’s lawyers, claiming he wasn’t personally going after the security contractor.
"You needed a bad guy for your scandal story," Freedman told Marquardt at one point. "You hated him, did you not?"
Throughout the trial, Freedman presented a series of Slack messages and emails from Marquardt and other CNN staffers in which they referred to Young as a "s***bag" with a "punchable face." In one message to an editor, Marquardt said they were "gonna nail this Zachary Young mf***er," while an editor responded: "Gonna hold you to that one cowboy!" In another message, Marquardt said of Young: "It’s your funeral, bucko."
In depositions and court filings, CNN and its lawyers defended the harsh remarks as "banter" that’s part of a candid newsroom and that it didn’t impact the editorial process. "I hear a lot of profanity at work," one producer said. "Few things are more common in newsrooms than journalists using tough and indignant language to refer to persons whose misdeeds they believe they are in the process of exposing," the network acknowledged in a filing last month.
In a December court order, though, Judge William Henry stated that while the network "downplays the ’coarse and harsh language’" as "journalistic bravado," a "reasonable jury could find with convincing clarity that the news hounds acted with ill will, hostility or an evil intention to defame and injure Young or intended to personally harm him."
The jury may have tipped its hand on Wednesday when they repeatedly peppered CNN news hound Katie Bo Lillis — who first attempted to contact Young for the story — with pointed questions about the vague messages she initially sent the contractor. "Do you feel Americans are obligated to speak to you?" one juror asked, while another wondered: "At what point do you accept someone not wishing to speak or comment?"
Additionally, network lawyer David Axelrod ...a Chicago-based political hack, political adviser to Barack B.O. Obama since 2004. Following the 2008 election, he was appointed as Senior Advisor to Obama and we all see how well that worked out.... (no relation to the CNN pundit of the same name) was severely reprimanded by Henry on Wednesday for "blatant misrepresentations" he made about a document related to Young. Saying Axelrod’s credibility with him was "none," Henry urged the lawyer to apologize to Young for repeatedly calling him a "liar."
The network’s editorial process and fact-checking also came under intense scrutiny during the trial, especially since some editors seemed to express reservations about publishing the story. "The story is full of holes like Swiss cheese," breaking news editor Megan Trimble wrote, while senior national security editor Thomas Lumley replied: "Agree. The story is 80% emotion, 20% obscured fact lol."
"I’m never going to publish a story that is factually incorrect or unfair," Lumley said on Tuesday, insisting that he didn’t doubt the facts of the story. "That’s the red line."
The trial took part in the Florida Panhandle, a deeply red part of the country that voted overwhelmingly for Trump. It also comes at a time when CNN, which the president-elect has repeatedly called "fake news," and the rest of the mainstream media face ideologically polarized perceptions from the public. Conservative discontent has only grown more engrained as Trump has made legal and political threats against the press a regular occurrence.
Perhaps because of this, some legal observers called on CNN to settle before the case went to trial, especially in light of the "damning" text exchanges that had become public during discovery.
"The internal communications certainly make it sound as if the main journalist on the story wanted to ruin the plaintiff, and that there were reasons to believe that ... he was overplaying their hand factually," University of Florida law professor Lyrissa Lidsky told NPR earlier this month.
"My advice to CNN would be to cough it up. Settle," former Bloomberg News media legal counsel Charles Glasser added. "Admit you’re wrong. Admit your hyperbole was out of line, and move on."
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My guess would be a settlement offer Tuesday or Wednesday, while the rest of the world is going nuts over the Inauguration. Won't be nine figures, but you'll see it from there.
At least 12 Indians have died serving in the Russian armed forces, #India's foreign ministry says, adding that 18 more are still serving in the army, of whom Russia has categorized 16 as “missing.”https://t.co/kX8wZThL84
Companies transporting their products around the world are not ready to return to the Red Sea trade route in the wake of a #Gaza#ceasefire deal because of uncertainty over whether #Yemen’s Houthis will continue to attack shipping, experts say.https://t.co/5HeY03PSOz
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Companies transporting their products around the world are not ready to return to the Red Sea trade route in the wake of a #Gaza #ceasefire deal because of uncertainty over whether #Yemen’s Houthis will continue to attack shipping, experts say.
...Well, 1) of course they're going to still attack shipping, and will continue to do so until someone(s) makes it too painful for them to continue and 2) they make a LOT more money going the long way.
Analysts and diplomats believe the likelihood of direct #US or Israeli military action against #Iran’s nuclear facilities is now higher than ever, while prospects for a diplomatic solution remain slim.https://t.co/ouWK3gF5wx
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Get it over with. This can has been kicked down the road far too long. Same with the N.K. Forty plus and thirty odd years on ,respectively, it's time to deal with these piss ants.
NEW: Bill Maher torches the LA Mayor for picking the “best lesbian” as fire chief instead of the best person.
“That’s not good enough.”
“Am I against a lesbian being chief? Of course not. Do I think a lesbian can do the job? Of course, I do. And maybe she’s the best person for… pic.twitter.com/dRSDG0HjPZ
Best at quenching an egotist's thirst
With superior tears, best-rehearsed,
Best at beating the rest
Of Diversity's best
To that gilt rotten apple of "FIRST!"
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I wanna see Californx v. California.
State sues itself for $10 Trillion in Carbon Credits to offset the CO2-spewing monster fires (no, not Schiff at a BBQ).
That'll learn 'em.
[NY Post] How about some time in the gray-bar Hotel, next to Fauci?
The Department of Health and Human Services on Friday barred EcoHealth Alliance and the group’s former president, Peter Daszak, from receiving federal funding for five years after they failed to report potentially dangerous gain-of-function research experiments to the government.
HHS determined that a five-year period of debarment for the Manhattan-based nonprofit and Daszak was “necessary to protect the Federal Government’s business interests,” according to a letter sent to both parties by the government agency.
The House Oversight Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic had been investigating the novel bat virus research that EcoHealth Alliance and Daszak conducted out of China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology leading up to the COVID-19 outbreak.
The panel uncovered evidence last year indicating that EcoHealth Alliance and Daszak “willingly” and “repeatedly” violated multiple requirements of a multimillion-dollar National Institutes of Health grant for the controversial project.
“Justice for the American people was served today,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said in a statement after releasing HHS’ debarment notices.
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[FoxNews] It's necessary to create a culture where having children is celebrated in order to reverse the falling birthrates.
AND increase security and reduce government interference so the economy expands and people are not terrified by government and social media totalitarian Karens, not to mention criminal colonizers. Happy, confident people have babies because they trust the future will not destroy their children. TLDR: Turn President Trump and his MAGA people loose to downsize government and upsize freedom.
WE CAN AVOID THE LOOMING FERTILITY CRISIS WITH THESE STEPS
In my neighborhood, families regularly have five or more children. Playgrounds fill up with 100 or more kids on holidays. Youth multiply on the streets on the way to school or friends’ homes. Meanwhile, families support each other by watching kids, carpooling, establishing meal trains for new mothers, lending or giving away toys and clothes and by doing countless acts of kindness day in and day out.
This kind of high fertility community — and the culture of neighborliness it engenders — used to be the norm everywhere. But today, my neighborhood just north of Washington, D.C., stands out as highly countercultural — an island of fertility in an ever-widening sea of infertility sweeping the world. This natalism isn’t a product of happenstance. It’s largely the result of countercultural norms that governments concerned about low birthrates have the power to foster.
According to the UN Population Division, over two-thirds of the world’s population live in sub-replacement countries. Iran has been below replacement level for a quarter-century. Italy has not seen as few births since before unification in 1861. Even in Africa, rates are dropping, with a few countries now below replacement level. In South Korea, which has the lowest birthrate in the world, less than one-fourth as many babies were born in 2023 than in 1970. With only 0.72 children per woman in 2023, its population will dramatically fall from today’s 51 million to as low as 20 million by the end of the century. Will it have enough soldiers to defend itself from North Korea?
The North Koreans also aren’t having enough children — according to the CIA World Factbook it’s estimated at 1.81 children born/woman, and the reality is probably considerably less — officially more than twice South Korea, but still well below replacement. Like Russia and Ukraine, it’s a race toward extinction.
Concerned about how declining populations will affect everything from economic growth to national security, the number of countries trying to increase birthrates grew from 19 in 1986 to 55 in 2015, according to the U.N. These efforts have centered predominantly on providing material incentives that putatively lower the cost of raising kids, such cash handouts, reduced taxes, and subsidized day care. More generous parental leave and reduced work hours have also been dangled. Yet, such efforts to boost birth rates have repeatedly failed. What gives?
Policymakers have neglected to address snowballing cultural norms that have led to fewer marriages and children. Many younger people write off having kids as an undertaking that threatens the climate or spells the end of their personal freedom, financial ease and happiness itself. If everyone you know thinks it's disadvantageous to get married or have kids, more money is unlikely to change your calculus. The norm that having zero or few kids is a favorable life path then spreads. As the demographer Nicholas Eberstadt has written in "Foreign Affairs," "Many women (and men) may be less keen to have children because so many others are having fewer children."
My neighborhood, which is overwhelmingly orthodox Jewish, shows how a reimagined set of cultural norms can drive natalism. According to the Pew Research Center, the birth rate of American orthodox Jews is well above three children per woman, with some subgroups reaching much higher numbers.
Yes, orthodox Jewish birthrates are often high worldwide because of religious and cultural factors. But I think our fecund neighborhood reflects another factor at play: the simple normalization of childrearing. From the inside of a high fertility community, young people (as well as anti-natalists and child skeptics) are exposed to the joy and relative ease of handling what can seem to the uninitiated to be an insurmountable, joyless task. Life here is centered on bringing more life into the world, with celebrations for births, birthdays, growth milestones, bar or bat mitzvot, with marriages a regular part of it. When you see your neighbors finding joy in their children despite the daily grind of raising them, the sacrifices that attend childrearing are perceived as easier to bear. And by living in a community whose participants are willing to help each other out each day, raising kids becomes less arduous for all of us.
Changing cultural norms is not easy, but as we have seen with societal views of smoking, homosexuality and teenage pregnancy, it is quite possible. Several academic studies have concluded that "having babies is contagious," highlighting how our thinking on the subject depends on those near us.
Governments concerned about low birth rates can help reset cultural norms by shifting more of their resources into the development of child-centric, place-based communities. These "neighborhoods of joy" should be designed to attract and bond large families so that they create islands of countercultural norms. This means affordable housing geared towards their needs, highly walkable streets, high quality schools that kids can easily commute to on their own, playgrounds and compelling activities for youth, kid-friendly shops, and sympathetic churches and other houses of worship eager to support norm-setting efforts.
Once these neighborhoods have attracted enough families to establish their own communal ideas of what is normal, they can be incrementally enlarged in ways that incorporate more families, especially those just starting off. The cost for such efforts is modest when compared to the subsidies currently being offered in many countries.
The Japanese town of Nagi offers intriguing evidence of what might be possible. By not only easing the financial burden of having children by offering a range of subsides, but by building a child-centric place-based community, it has been able to achieve a birth rate that is double the Japanese national average — 2.68 in 2021 versus a national average of 1.3. While some of this may be because it attracts families eager to have kids, the community support system and norms are clearly playing a role. As Yuki Fukuda, who has three children, says, "Mothers feel safe having more children; it’s not easy to create those conditions."
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Keep kids in school, unable to get a job, until they're in their mid-20's. Make sure they are unable to support a family until they're in their 30's...or maybe never. Then wonder why they're not having babies.
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Isn't this what the Environmentalists / Globalists want anyway?
Or has the Political Elite class finally "woke" up to understand it needs more TAXPAYERS to cover their spending sprees?
[Atlanta Journal Constipation] A voting rights group founded by Stacey Abrams will pay $300,000 for illegally supporting her 2018 gubernatorial campaign — the largest fine ever assessed for violating Georgia campaign finance laws. NOT the first time Stacey and "largest" have been linked in a sentence
Under a consent order approved by the State Ethics Commission on Wednesday, the New Georgia Project admitted it raised and spent millions of dollars to support Abrams’ unsuccessful campaign without registering as an independent political committee and disclosing its activities, as required by state law. It also supported the campaigns of other Democratic candidates that year, as well as the unsuccessful 2019 Gwinnett County MARTA referendum.
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An just like the HARRIS campaign, they spread lots of $$$$$$$$ around to certain greedy media & SIG's. The $300k fine is nothing out of her pocket or the DNC. It is coming from NON-PROFIT Funds. The same used & abused NON-Profit donated funds.
[Cigar Officiando] With less than a week left in office, the Biden administration has issued a surprise announcement that it is removing Cuba from the list of states that sponsor international terrorism and lifting other Trump-era sanctions against the island nation, as an apparent quid pro quo for the phased release of 530 Cubans imprisoned after street riots in July 2021.
According to a statement issued yesterday from the White House, the Biden administration has been "informed by the Catholic Church that the Cuban government will soon begin releasing a substantial number of political prisoners."
The statement noted that "in taking these steps to bolster the ongoing dialogue between the government of Cuba and the Catholic Church, President Biden is also honoring the wisdom and counsel that has been provided to him by many world leaders, especially in Latin America, who have encouraged him to take these actions, on how best to advance the human rights of the Cuban people."
In addition to removing Cuba from the State Department’s terrorism list, the White House stated it would once again waive Title III of the 1996 Helm’s-Burton legislation that allows U.S. companies and individuals to sue international companies that are operating on expropriated properties in Cuba. Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama had all similarly waived that provision of the legislation, but President Trump imposed it during his first term.
The White House also said it would terminate the Trump-era "Restricted Entities List" which prohibits U.S. companies and citizens from engaging with Cuban businesses that are administered by the military. In addition to that list, the administration said it would end "additional regulations on engagement by U.S. persons and entities with Cuban persons and entities."
The 11th hour accord, negotiated between Washington and Havana through still-secret back-channel diplomacy, involved the Cuban Catholic Church, as well as Pope Francis who played a role a decade ago in a clandestine talks between the Obama administration and Raúl Castro to normalize relations. President Biden was scheduled to meet the Pope at the Vatican on January 10, but cancelled his trip because of the fires in Los Angeles; the two conferred via phone instead.
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The White House also said it would terminate the Trump-era "Restricted Entities List" which prohibits U.S. companies and citizens from engaging with Cuban businesses
The actual reason likely involves money and gambling.
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Considering the election results, both. Its all very gay passive aggressive. I don't mean that as a slur here, its that very catty gay passive aggressive even normie gays hate.
[Stars and Stripes] A former Army first lieutenant is going to prison for unlawfully deleting training materials and lying to investigators about a call he made to the Russian diplomatic mission in Washington. Manfredo Martin-Michael Madrigal, 38, was handed a term of four years and six months Thursday during his sentencing in a federal court in Virginia, according to a Justice Department statement the same day.
He had pleaded guilty in July to one count of destroying Army materials and three counts of making false statements. An attorney who was assigned to a staff position at the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School in Charlottesville, Madrigal was under investigation by the Army in early 2022 for not disclosing a previous DUI arrest, the statement said. Amid the investigation, he filmed himself deleting online JAG training materials without authorization and "graphically describing ill will toward the Army," according to the DOJ statement, which didn’t give the date of that crime. The training materials were related to national security, the Charlotte Observer reported in July, citing an FBI affidavit.
Madrigal sent the video he took of himself deleting the materials to a woman described as a former romantic partner, according to the affidavit. Later the same day, Madrigal called the Russian Embassy in Washington.
The Justice Department statement doesn’t provide further details about the call, which lasted about 2 minutes and 26 seconds, the Observer reported. Madrigal told the woman that Moscow wanted to know what he knew and also that he was planning to travel to Russia, according to court filings. On Feb. 22, 2022, Madrigal was discharged from the JAG School, and in an exit statement he denied that he had been in contact with any foreign nationals, according to the Justice Department statement.
[CBS] London - Britain's Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced Thursday that there would be a number of new central government-backed local inquiries into years-old allegations of child grooming gangs, weeks after Elon Musk accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer of failings in relation to the handling of the crimes in a series of tweets. The crimes took place a decade ago when Starmer was the country's top prosecutor.
This has been going on for decades, plural, O CBS reporter. To say that for generations, plural, “Asian” grooming gangs, primarily Moslem Pakistanis, have made the poor, white schoolgirls of England their private hunting preserve would not be an exaggeration. And except for briefly exploding into the light from time to time, for all those years the authorities have brushed it under the rug with threats of punishment against the girls and their families so that England’s Moslem colonists would not feel judged and become restive.
Musk's tweets targeted Starmer personally, suggesting he should be in jail and that "America should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government," thrusting the crimes back into the political conversation in Britain.
No matter what else he has done, for these tweets alone Elon Musk has a guaranteed reservation in Heaven.
Starmer defended his record and denounced the criticism as politically motivated.
The record is indefensible. The political interest is downstream from that.
"Those that are spreading lies and misinformation as far and as wide as possible, they're not interested in victims. They're interested in themselves," Starmer told reporters after Musk's tweets earlier this month, not mentioning the tech mogul and close associate of Donald Trump by name.
Keep trying, pervert protector. It’s already too late — your career is dead.
In 2012, a newspaper report on the grooming led to a major government inquiry, which two years later found that at least 1,400 children had been subjected to sexual exploitation in Rotherham, northern England, between 1997 and 2013. Similar exploitation was discovered in other towns, leading to a national inquiry.
A few “Asian” groomers went to jail. Most carried on without a ripple, secure in the knowledge that they were still protected by the police, local authorities and important peoole like Sir Keir Starmer.
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Musk's tweets targeted Starmer personally, suggesting he should be in jail and that "America should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government,"
Apparently no love for Perfidious Albion. Who knew ?
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We really must start correcting language that seeks to obscure reality. They aren't "grooming gangs", they are *rape* gangs.
And its not "reproductive rights", its the right to kill the unborn. They already have "reproductive rights", what they are seeking is the opposite of reproduction.
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Had to hunt around to find out why he got banned in the first place. Besides being a general P-i-t-a to the powers that be, he decided to badmouth a member of the legislature at his funeral. Casis Belli
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Moore should sue a lot of people for allowing the assault to happen, including the Georgia State Patrol. He should also be publically asking over and over when the battery charges will be filed.
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He'll save a buttload of $$$$ in upcoming elections. No chance of him being defeated in any future electon after taking on the Fulton County syndicate.
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Two Supreme Court judges shot dead in Tehran, Iranian judiciary says ...The judiciary identified the judges who were killed as ayatollahs Mohammad Moghiseh and Ali Razini. Opposition websites have in the past said Moghiseh was involved in trials of people they described as political prisoners.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Paleostinian resistance movement Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... has hailed the Paleostinians in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip's triumphing against the Israeli regime during the latter's 15-month-long war of genocide against the coastal sliver.
Khalil al-Hayya, deputy head of the movement's Political Bureau, made the remarks in an address on Wednesday.
He thanked the Islamic Theocratic Republic, Leb ...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade.... 's Hezbollah resistance movement, Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... 's Armed Forces, and the Iraqi Resistance®.
The official commended Hezbollah for offering ''hundreds of deaders, leaders and fighters, on the road to [liberation of the holy occupied city of] al-Quds, headed by His Eminence the Secretary-General, Sayyed ...Arabic term meaning your/his lordship. Groveling in His Exalted Presence is encouraged... His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> .''
The official was referring to thousands of retaliatory operations that were staged by the group, the Yemeni troops, and Iraqi fighters towards responding to the regime's brutal military assault against Gaza and simultaneous escalated deadly aggression towards Lebanon.
He also thanked Paleostinian resistance fighters in the occupied West Bank ''especially in the heroic Jenin [refugee] camp, in al-Quds, and the occupied interior,'' who likewise brought pressure to bear on the occupiers during its (the regime's) atrocities.
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UPDATE at 10:50 a.m. ET: For interception details, see Old Salty and Grom ‘s comments below.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i Armed Forces have announced a series of coordinated military operations targeting Israeli and US assets. According to the statement, these actions were in response to ongoing aggression in the region.
The missile force of the Yemeni Armed Forces, with the help of Allah Almighty, carried out a military operation, striking vital targets for the Israeli enemy in Eilat area, south of occupied Paleostine, with four winged missiles and hitting achieving direct hits, according to a statement read on Friday by the military front man Brigadier General Yahya Sare'e in a direct address to the Yemenis holding their weekly rallies in Sana'a.
Moreover, the UAVs Force carried out two military operations against vital targets in Tel Aviv with three drones and Ashkelon with one drone, achieving direct hits as well, General Sare'e added.
''These three operations coincided with a fourth military operation carried out by the Yemeni Armed Forces' naval forces, targeting the American aircraft carrier 'USS Harry S. Truman' in the northern Red Sea with a number of drones. This targeting of the carrier is the seventh since its arrival in the Red Sea. The operation achieved its goals successfully, thanks to Allah.''
''The Yemeni Armed Forces confirm their readiness for any developments or American-Israeli escalation against our country and that they will continue to monitor the developments of the situation in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... and will take appropriate escalation options in the event that the enemy breaks the agreement or escalates its operations against the oppressed Paleostinian people in Gaza,'' the statement added.
''The Yemeni Armed Forces confirm to the Paleostinian people and their dear Mujahideen that the Yemeni people, their leadership, army and people, are with you and by your side, whatever the repercussions and results are, and will not abandon Paleostine and its just cause until every inch of it is land is liberated and the Israeli enemy is expelled from all of Paleostine.''
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I haven’t seen any reports today or yesterday about that, Grom, have you? I realize that the news media are obsessing about the hudna, but you’d think they’d notice a huge explosion if it actually happened.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) announced on Thursday its stance on the partnership within the Presidential Leadership Council, loyal to the Saudi-led coalition.
During a meeting of its presidency, the STC stressed the need to reformulate the partnership in a manner consistent with the reality on the ground.
It emphasized the importance of building the partnership on fair foundations that guarantee an effective role for the South in making fateful decisions and ensure achieving justice, equality in various fields, and real participation in governance.
The STC's presidency also firmly rejected recent measures taken regarding the oil investment company ''Ycom,'' considering that the Leadership Council's attempts to impose management on the company from outside the oil concession areas are unacceptable.
It accused some leaders of the Leadership Council and the pro-coalition government of approving ''illegal agreements'', demanding a comprehensive and detailed investigation into the Block 5 file in Shabwah province and the developments that the region has witnessed over the decades until today.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip said on Friday that the death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Strip has risen to 46,876, with 110,642 wounded.
''The Israeli occupation forces committed four massacres in Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours killing 88 Palestinian citizens and injuring 189 others,'' the ministry said in its daily report.
There are still a number of missing people under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them, according to the report.
Sadly, nobody cares. Especially not the Hamas government and all the vicious idiots protesting around the world.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Georgia mayor has been accused of blowing thousands in taxpayer money for a 20-day luxury vacation to Ghana.
Khalid Kamau, a Black Lives Matter activist who has renamed himself Mayor Kobi, allegedly used the city's funds for non-official activities like the Ghana trip, food and a $1,300 drone.
Kamau used a city-issued credit card to spend nearly $26,000 in unauthorized purchases between October and December, according to bank records seen by WSB-TV.
Kobi bought multiple plane tickets totaling over $5,000 - including a flight on Air Kenya that cost more than $1,500.
He also made a single purchase on Amazon of over $1,800.
Local Reshard Snellings told the local outlet he wants to know if the luxurious trip Kamau flaunted on Instagram was paid by taxpayer funds.
'I wanted to find out if taxpayers paid for this trip,' Snellings said.
'We should not be asked to go without something so that our elected officials can travel all over the globe.'
Mayor Kobi posted on Instagram throughout his trip to Ghana, flaunting the over-the-top welcome he received at the airport.
It included traditional dancers and a cavalcade of luxury cars to pick him up.
He also posted images partying with the locals and enjoying a spacious apartment.
Councilwoman Helen Z. Willis told WSB-TV that the city of Fulton has no business with Ghana or Africa.
'Not to my knowledge, that isn’t even a priority,' Willis said.
City council has been looking into the mayor's trip and his spending, with Willis adding that 'We need more economic development here and we don’t need to go to Africa in order for the city to have a multi-business deal.'
City rules dictate that employees must obtain written authorization from the Purchasing Director and City Manager before making any purchases with taxpayer funds.
Willis says the mayor did not follow the rules for the controversial purchases.
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Kamau the Quiet Warrior, or, "Pleased to meet you, Mr. Bell!"
Swahili word, from the Kikuyu,
For someone who'd sneakily do you
And never get caught:
"Is it in yet, or not?"
"Dude, I'm through. Like, I already knew you."
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When did all this happen? Was Kamau there for the new Ghana president's inauguration, along with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass? They are, after all, birds of a feather.
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Some lady in accounting wasn’t signing off on that expense report.
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"This is a woman that was there with kids, that was disrupting everything... and she wasn’t watching the kids... and… pic.twitter.com/q6lB2WF8rS
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^ #1 Agreed
But given, she likely didn't properly raise the brats. She'll be in the principles' office (with police escort), to collect the expelled brats for future behavioral issues.
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She wearing flip flops too, so I'd go with couldn't be bothered to do the wig thing that evening.
If I wanted to get in trouble, I'd guess that it is because the mother couldn't be bothered to get a player to the game and grandma got a last minute call. Again.
Sounds like the DC judges held quite the banger in court today--partisan hacks until the very end.
Per Politico:
Tanya Chutkan before sentencing a J6er to 10 days in prison on misdemeanor: “I only wish the rest of the country could see some of the things I see. This may be,…
… This may be, based on what happens outside these courthouse walls, the last one of these. I don’t know.” Chutkan claimed that “people came in and desecrated that beautiful space.” She went on and on. "Jan. 6 exposed … serious cracks in our democracy. We have not reached an understanding of what really happened that day. Anyone who ever thinks of doing something like that again has to understand there will be consequences.”
Judge Amit Mehta before sentencing the Oath Keepers' attorney to 12 months in prison. "You’ve done a lot of damage to the country." Her conduct, the always drama queen Mehta said, was “a coda to the events of Jan. 6 that hopefully will not be forgotten anytime soon.”
And Crisis Actor Mike Fanone, last seen drunk and raging in his mountaintop home on election night, gave a "victim impact" statement in the sentencing of a J6er accused of assaulting him. (Fanone has repeatedly lied under oath about the extent of his injuries.) Fanone to Judge Dabny Friedrich: “I no longer have faith in any of our institutions. Our justice system has proven feckless to hold those truly responsible for Jan. 6 to account. Sentence him to whatever the hell the government is asking because it’s nothing compared to what my family and I have endured, and will most likely endure for the rest of our lives.”
Friedrich sentenced the man to 71 months in prison, which is exactly what the DOJ asked for.
Trump to take oath of office in chamber Jan. 6 rioters ‘desecrated’ - POLITICO
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Try the judge, prosecuters and everyone else involved for deprivation of rights under the color of law, RICO and anything else they can toss at them, then hold them pre-trial for 3 years in a black site in a stan, any who live get to go to jail for decades.
[IsraelTimes] In joint press conference with Qatari PM, HTS leader Ahmed Al-Sharaa says Damascus will welcome presence of UN peacekeepers in demilitarized area between countries.
Though Sharaa’s comments appeared to show a hardened tone toward the Israeli incursion, his Hayat Tahrir al-Sham jihadi group has not commented on an Israeli strike targeting a weapons convoy in southern Syria Wednesday that was said to have killed several people, including military officials of the new government.
“Israel’s advance in the region was due to the presence of Iranian militias and Hezbollah. After the liberation of Damascus, I believe that they have no presence at all. There are pretexts that Israel is using today to advance into the Syrian regions, into the buffer zone,” said Sharaa, whose HTS spearheaded the rebel forces that toppled Assad last month.
“We’ve notified international officials that Syria honors the terms of the 1974 agreement and is willing to accept UN peacekeepers to protect them,” he said. “Everyone knows the advance was a mistake and that [we] should go back to the way things were.”
Sharaa made similar comments soon after Israel moved into the area in December.
Sharaa’s latest criticism of the Israeli incursion came a day after his foreign minister, Asaad al-Shaibani, also told reporters in Ankara that Damascus was committed to the 1974 agreement but that Israel had to “respect Syria’s sovereignty.”
Speaking in Damascus Thursday, Al-Thani also said Israel “must immediately withdraw” from the buffer zone, assailing the “reckless” entry into the area.
The two men’s press conference marked al-Thani’s first visit to Syria since rebels overtook Damascus, ending the country’s long civil war.
Sharaa said his authorities were counting on the support of Qatar to help stop Israel from making any further advances into Syrian territory.
Qatar “supports this view and will use all means available to exert pressure on Israel” to withdraw, he added, hailing Qatar’s “central role” in that pressure.
Al-Thani pledged Qatar’s support to Syria’s rehabilitation effort, saying his country “extends its hand to our Syrian brothers for future partnerships.”
Unlike the other Arab countries that broke with Damascus at the start of the war, Qatar never renewed diplomatic relations with the Assad regime. Together with Turkey, it was also one of the first to back the armed rebels. Upon Assad’s ouster, Qatar was the second state to recognize the new Syrian government after Turkey.
Last week, Syria’s national electricity company said Qatar and Turkey would send power plant ships to increase supply after the United States eased some sanctions on Damascus. Meanwhile, a diplomatic source said Qatar was weighing a plan to provide Syria with funds after Damascus decided to increase public sector salaries.
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Al-Thani pledged Qatar’s support to Syria’s rehabilitation effort, saying his country “extends its hand to our Syrian brothers for future partnerships.”
For more than a half-century the Thani family that rules Qatar has welcomed and supported the Muslim Brotherhood presence in Qatar. It has provided a home to the most radical of Islamists and to left-wing USA non=profits. The only people it has really fooled can be found in the Pentagon and Foggy Bottom.
[IsraelTimes] Syria’s public security directorate announces that it foiled an attempt to smuggle arms into Lebanon via an illegal border crossing in the Tartous area.
Images released by Syrian media show a shipment of rifles, grenade launchers, Iranian Shahed drones, and other weapons that were captured and seized by authorities.
Israel has been concerned that weapons from the former Assad regime in Syria could be sent to the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon. The IDF has also struck several border crossings between Syria and Lebanon to prevent arms from reaching the Lebanese terror group.
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn ...Democratic Representative-for-Life from South Carolina. He has been warming his safe seat since 1993... believes Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body.... will go down as one of the greatest presidents in American history.
In an interview on MSNBC's Chris Jansing Reports, the South Carolina congressman said that history will judge Biden kindly.
''Given everything that was in place when he took office, Covid the economic challenges, do you think that this was in some ways inevitable?'' Jansing asked.
''And how do you think history will judge this presidency?''
Clyburn responded:
I think that he will go down as one of the greatest presidents we ever had. I think the same thing about Jimmy Malaise Carter
...only the second worst president ever. Now the third worst, after Obama and Biden... , who we just funeralized. Jimmy Carter left the presidency with very, very low ratings. Harry Truman, the same thing.
People who do big things, people who break with the status quo. These people do not get judged well in the currency.
But when history gets a chance to look back to read the things he said and did, rather than to respond to the way he said them.''
I heard people this morning or last night talking about him not being a great communicator.
Well, some people are good speakers, other people are great doers, and some people just know how to write. And that is what it is all about.
We are judging people on substance when we look back on them, not on style.
If you're looking for style, Joe Biden is not your guy. On substance, he's everybody's person.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] On Friday, January 17, in the Kremlin,Russian and Iranian Presidents Vladimir Putin and Masoud Pezeshkian signed an agreement on a comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries.
Let us wish them much joy of one another while they await President Trump’s next steps.
The signing of the agreement will give additional impetus to cooperation between the countries in all areas, Putin said earlier on January 17, during a meeting with Pezeshkian. The agreement will become a new, solid chapter in relations between Moscow and Tehran, the Iranian president said in turn.
During the signing ceremony, Putin called the agreement a breakthrough and noted that the document is aimed at creating conditions for stable and sustainable development. Relations between the two countries are built on the principles of equality, respect and mutual assistance, the head of the Russian state said.
The agreement will secure the status of relations between Russia and Iran as strategic partners. The document sets out the legal framework for further development of cooperation in the long term. The agreement will cover the defense sphere, the fight against terrorism, energy, finance, transport, industry, agriculture, culture, science and technology.
Currently, Russia and Iran are guided by the provisions of the Treaty on the Fundamentals of Relations and Principles of Cooperation. It was concluded in 2001 for a period of 10 years and was automatically extended every five years. The new treaty was concluded for 20 years.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, the official representative of the Iranian Foreign Ministry Esmail Bagai previously noted that the new agreement between Russia and Iran will affect defense and security issues. In the last 20-30 years, Moscow and Tehran have significantly increased the volume of cooperation, and there was a need to update the document, he said.
The agreement between Moscow and Tehran is not directed against third countries, noted the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov. After the signing of the main agreement, one should also expect the conclusion of sectoral bilateral agreements, Peskov pointed out.
Though the agreement, which can be extended, does not specify arms transfers between the two countries, Putin said Moscow was willing to undertake more nuclear projects on behalf of Iran.
At their joint presser in Moscow, the two leaders, whose countries are subject to heavy Western sanctions, also expressed hope for the success of the Israel-Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... ceasefire deal.
The agreement did not include a mutual defense clause of the kind included in a treaty between Russia and North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... , which the West says has seen North Korean troops deployed to fight in Ukraine, something Moscow has neither confirmed nor denied.
The agreement made no specific mention of arms transfers, a topic of particular concern to the US and its allies, though the two sides said they would develop "military-technical cooperation."
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has already supplied Russia with self-detonating "Shahed" drones that Moscow fires on Ukraine in nightly barrages, according to Ukrainian and Western officials.
Iran, in turn, wants sophisticated Russian weapons like long-range air defense systems and fighter jets to help fend off possible attacks by Israel. Russia has supplied Iran with S-300 air defense missile systems in the past, and there have been reports in Iranian media of potential interest in buying more advanced systems such as the S-400 and acquiring advanced Russian fighter jets.
Tehran has long hoped to obtain advanced Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets from Russia to upgrade its aging fleet that’s been hobbled by international sanctions, but only received a few Yak-130 trainer jets in 2023.
However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... speaking alongside Pezeshkian Friday, Putin said his country was open to taking on more nuclear projects in Iran despite delays in building new nuclear reactors there.
Russia built Iran’s first nuclear plant that was launched in 2013 and is building two more nuclear reactors there.
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Unlikely that either regime will survive Trump's term, much less 20 years.
Throw the book at him. The little pipsqueak dared arrogate to himself decisions about America’s foreign policy and Israel’s survival!
Update: I’m told he got 6.5 years, which is absurd if true. This seems exactly the thing the new Trump guy should take an interest in.
[IsraelTimes] Asif William Rahman admits he illegally downloaded, printed and distributed classified information on several occasions; sentencing is scheduled for May
A CIA employee accused of leaking classified documents about Israel’s plans to strike Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... pleaded guilty on Friday to criminal charges that he willfully retained and transmitted national defense information, the US Department of Justice said.
In pleading guilty, Asif William Rahman, who worked at the US intelligence agency since 2016, acknowledged that he illegally downloaded, printed and distributed classified information on multiple occasions, including several in 2024.
In the spring of 2024, he printed five documents that were labeled as secret and top secret from his work computer and took them home, court records in the case said. He then reproduced and altered them and shared them with people who were not legally entitled to receive them. To hide his conduct, Rahman deleted his activity from his electronic devices, brought the records back to work and had them shredded.
A second time, in the autumn of 2024, the court filings said he printed another 10 documents with a top-secret classification, took them home, and shared them with others.
Then on Oct. 17, 2024, he printed two more documents related to plans by a US ally to strike a foreign adversary, the court records said.
Those documents, which entailed plans by Israel to strike Iran, later appeared online after a pro-Iranian Telegram account called "Middle East Spectator" published them. The strikes on Iranian military sites came in response to the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s ballistic missile barrage on Israel on October 1.
The documents, attributed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency, noted that Israel was moving military assets in place to conduct its military strike, based on satellite imagery from October 15-16.
They were shareable within the "Five Eyes," an intelligence alliance comprised of the US, Great Britannia, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
The case was filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Rahman, 34, is from Vienna, Virginia, and was arrested in Cambodia, according to court records. He is scheduled to be sentenced on May 15.
Update the second from X at 9:40 a.m. ET:
CIA Analyst Admits to Leaking Israeli Strike Plans on Iran
Asif Rahman, a CIA analyst stationed at the U.S. Embassy in Cambodia, admitted in court today to leaking classified documents detailing Israel’s preparations for an attack on Iran in October. Charged with two counts of… pic.twitter.com/dvcLmT6AnK
…with two counts of sharing sensitive national security information, Rahman faces up to 20 years in prison.
Despite the maximum sentence, both sides have reportedly agreed to a plea deal of 6.5 years, which could be reduced further due to his admission of guilt. Prosecutors allege Rahman acted out of ideological motives and warned of the risk that he could leak additional classified documents.
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...I'm inclined to think that somebody may have explained to the lad that if you plead guilty now, we can lock you into a short sentence that likely can't be changed.
It should be noted that a large part of this post on Vk.com was cribbed from the historical text "Scorched Earth" written by Paul Carrell, considered one of the best and best written narratives about WWII on the eastern front.
Carrell was the pen name for the high ranking German Nazi official Paul Schmidt, who was involved in Nazi pogroms in Hungary.
[VK] On January 17, 1943, the 3rd Shock Army of the Kalinin Front liquidated the encircled 7,000-strong enemy garrison in Velikiye Luki and liberated the city. The battles for Velikiye Luki were the most fierce. After all, the capture of this city by the Red Army opened up the opportunity for it to advance on Vitebsk, this was understood on both sides of the front line.
Hitler, as he had promised Paulus in Stalingrad, promised assistance to the commandant of the encircled city, Lieutenant Colonel von Zass, and even promised to name Velikiye Luki after him – Zassenstadt.
The German historian Paul Karel called what was happening here a “miniature Stalingrad”. He wrote: “The Soviet rifle battalions fought with amazing courage. Especially the Komsomol members, fanatical young communists, in the next few weeks glorified themselves with their devotion to duty. Private Aleksandr Matrosov of the 254th Guards Rifle Regiment earned the title Hero of the Soviet Union at the cost of his life."
The Germans really did their best to help the dying garrison in Velikiye Luki. Karel wrote: "The last attempt was made on January 9. The strike group of Major Tribukait, commander of the 5th battalion, went to the fortress: several armored personnel carriers from the 8th tank division, tanks of the 1st battalion of the 15th tank regiment and assault guns of the 118th reinforced tank battalion.
"Move and shoot!" - that was the order. Do not stop.
The crews of the destroyed vehicles were to immediately climb onto the armor of others. With this method of "non-stop movement" Tribukait really managed to break through the enemy ring. Several of his tanks and armored personnel carriers remained on the battlefield, but the group reached the target.
At exactly 15:06, Darnedde's exhausted men saw their tanks from the citadel ramparts. They cried with joy and embraced each other. "They did it!" came from everywhere. "They did it!"
Fifteen combat vehicles clanked into the fortress courtyard, among them the last three tanks of Lieutenant Koske's 1st Battalion of the 15th Tank Regiment. However, the fortunes of war had once again turned against Darnedde's battalion. As soon as the outflanked Russians realized that the Germans had broken through, they concentrated their artillery fire on the fortress.
Tribukait immediately ordered the tanks to get out of the small courtyard among the ruins, to which the only road led. But everything seemed to be against him now. At that very moment, as one of the fifteen tanks was passing through the gate, it was hit by four shells. The tank with torn tracks blocked the exit for the others.
Tribukait's small force was trapped and turned into a target for fierce fire from guns of all calibers. One tank after another fell victim to the Soviet bombardment. The surviving Tribukait tankers joined the defenders as infantry.
On January 15, a parachute battalion tried to break into the fortress, but this attempt also failed."
On January 17, it was all over in Velikiye Luki. The last surviving Germans surrendered. Many of them died after they had already capitulated, as they were severely exhausted and frostbitten. And no one was going to arrange sanatorium conditions for them after the surrender...
The most "irreconcilable" of the Germans decided not to surrender, and tried to reach their own in small groups. Only eight out of several hundred succeeded. The rest were killed by the Red Army or simply froze to death on the way.
In 1946, von Sass was convicted of war crimes and was publicly hanged with a group of accomplices in Velikiye Luki, which never became Sassenstadt.
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[LB] Since the beginning of the day, 97 clashes have occurred at the front.
by Ivanna Kapustianska
The Ukrainian Defense Forces are holding back the Russian occupiers' offensive. Terrorists continue to kill Ukrainians and destroy Ukrainian cities and villages with rocket, air, and artillery strikes.
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, during this time the number of combat clashes increased to 97.
Today, the communities of Tymonovychi, Leonivka, Mkhy, Dibrova, and Klyusy in Chernihiv region; and Ryasne and Tovstodubovo in Sumy region were affected by enemy artillery and mortar fire.
In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy attacked the positions of our units near Vovchansk, and a battle is currently underway.
In the Kupyansk direction, Russian occupiers carried out four attacks near Golubivka, Stepovaya Novoselivka, and Kruglyakivka, and two clashes are still ongoing.
In the Lyman direction, the invading army carried out 11 attacks on Ukrainian positions near Kopanky, Tverdokhlibovye, Makiivka, and Terni during the day. Five clashes are still ongoing.
In the Siversky direction, the enemy attacked in the direction of Belogorivka. The enemy was repulsed.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy is trying to advance in the area of Chasovy Yar and in the direction of Stupochok and Bila Hora. Eight out of 16 attacks were repelled by the Defense Forces units, and fighting continues.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy is trying to wedge into our defenses in the area of Toretsk, Diliivka, Krymske, and Shcherbinivka. Five attacks are ongoing, and our defenders have already repelled seven assaults by the invaders.
In the Pokrovsky direction, since the beginning of the day, Russian invaders have made 41 attempts to push our defenders from the occupied positions in the areas of Zeleny Pole, Vodyany Drugy, Elizavetivka, Promeny, Lysivka, Shevchenko, Zvirovye, Udachny, Uspenivka, Sribny, Dachny, Ulakly, and Yantarny. The defense forces are holding back the onslaught and have repelled 27 enemy attacks, 14 clashes are still ongoing.
Also, once the enemy unsuccessfully attacked our defenders in the Dnieper direction.
Operation in Kursk region - Ukrainian soldiers have repelled six enemy attacks today, four more clashes are still ongoing.
[IsraelTimes] Only peacekeepers, Lebanese military should be in the area, says Guterres, calling for end to Israeli ‘occupation’; Macron, Aoun also demand IDF withdraw, as Jan. 26 deadline looms
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday that UN peacekeepers have discovered more than “100 weapons caches” belonging to Hezbollah and its allies in south Lebanon since the November 27 ceasefire between Israel and the terror group.
Well done, O UNIFIL peacekeepers! So did you destroy the caches in place, give the nasty things back to their original owners, give them to the Lebanese army (many of whose soldiers double dip on the Hezbollah payroll), or did you back away quickly and forget exactly where on the map this latest find is located?
Guterres, speaking near the Israeli border, and French President Emmanuel Macron, speaking in Beirut, also called on Israel to withdraw from south Lebanon.
Have Hezbollah and the Lebanese army both fulfilled the conditions of the hudna? Israel’s withdrawal is contingent on both of them doing what was promised. Nobody expects UNIFIL to do more than look pretty, since they have refused to do more than that since the last time Israel withdrew.
Guterres reiterated that under the November 27 agreement, Lebanese government forces and UNIFIL peacekeepers are the only parties entitled to bear arms in Lebanon south of the Litani River, some 30 kilometers (18 miles) from the border with Israel.
In an apparent reference to Israel and Hezbollah, Guterres said that the “presence of armed personnel, assets and weapons” in south Lebanon — other than those of the Lebanese army and the UNIFIL peacekeeping force — would “undermine Lebanon’s stability” and also violate UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war.
Never mind Hezbollah and the Lebanese army violating 1701 every day until the IDF had to go back over the border.
Guterres, who spoke on a visit to the UNIFIL headquarters in southern Lebanon’s Naqura, near the Israeli border, said Israel’s operations inside Lebanon “must stop.”
“The continued occupation by the Israel [military] inside the UNIFIL area operations and the conduct of military operations in Lebanese territory are violations of Resolution 1701,” said Guterres, who also met with Macron in Beirut on Friday.
Resolution 1701 requires Hezbollah to withdraw permanently north of the Litani River. Have they done so?
Israel has said its operations in south Lebanon were in response to Hezbollah’s violations of the ceasefire, and accused UNIFIL and the Lebanese military of failing to enforce both Resolution 1701 and the November 27 agreement.
Under the agreement, the IDF is required to cede all of its positions in southern Lebanon to Lebanese and UNIFIL forces within 60 days, by January 26. At the same time, Hezbollah is required to retreat north of the Litani.
The agreement, which ended almost 14 months of war, allows Israel to act against imminent threats by Hezbollah, while less imminent threats are to be referred to a five-member committee comprising representatives of the United States, France, Lebanon, Israel and UNIFIL.
Macron, whose government helped broker the deal, called on Israel on Friday to accelerate its troop withdrawal from southern Lebanon.
“We need a total withdrawal of the Israeli army,” Macron said, speaking in Beirut alongside Lebanon’s new president, Joseph Aoun, who also stressed the “importance of consolidating the [Israel-Hezbollah] ceasefire and Israel’s withdrawal,” according to an X post by the Lebanese presidency.
Macron said France supports “the increased power of the Lebanese armed forces and their deployment in the south.”
“The Lebanese Armed Forces constitute a pillar of the sovereignty of Lebanon,” added Macron.
Prove it.
He also hailed Aoun’s election, saying it represented the possibility of a new path for Lebanon and that “the true, authentic Lebanon has returned.”
That would be really nice.
Macron is the first foreign head of state to visit Lebanon since Aoun’s election, which was supported by France, the United States and Saudi Arabia. As a former French protectorate, Beirut has strong historical ties with Paris.
Aoun had led the LAF until the Lebanese parliament elected him head of state on January 9, ending a two-year vacancy.
Aoun’s appointment signaled a shift in Lebanon’s power balance after Iran-backed Hezbollah was left deeply weakened by its war with Israel.
The new president has vowed to uphold the Lebanese government’s monopoly on the right to bear arms — a thinly veiled threat against Hezbollah, the only group in Lebanon that refused to surrender its weapons to the state following the 1975-1990 civil war.
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“We need a total withdrawal of the Israeli army,” Macron said..." So says the leader of a nation that cut and ran out of Lebanon after serving nearly 1,000 years as its protector.
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[Regnum] The heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser Admiral Nakhimov of the Russian Navy is a unique vessel that has no analogues in the West, analyst Caleb Larson said in his article for the publication 19FortyFive.
“The Kirov-class battlecruisers represent a unique class of warships with nuclear-guided missiles that have no exact analogues in Western navies,” he noted.
The expert noted the cruiser's great capabilities in the areas of defense and offense, as well as its ability to counter NATO formations, including the US Navy's carrier strike groups.
The heavy nuclear missile cruiser Admiral Nakhimov is a Soviet cruiser of Project 1144.2M Orlan. Its former name was Kalinin. It belongs to the ships of the 1st rank. It was assumed that the cruiser Admiral Nakhimov, after repairs and modernization at the Sevmash plant, would begin sea trials by the end of 2023, and its improvement was planned to be finally completed a year later.
The modernization of the missile cruiser involves equipping it with modern state-of-the-art equipment. The ship will receive 80 UKSK 3S14 launchers, which can launch missiles such as Kalibr, Oniks and Zircon, use Fort-M and Pantsir-M air defense systems, as well as Paket-NK and Otvet anti-submarine systems and other weapons.
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Nobody's mentioning the one Ukraine sank earlier in the war. Or the fact that Russian maintenance isn't the best in the world. It's nice not to underestimate your enemies, but it's also necessary to not OVERestimate their abilities.
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[Regnum] Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President-elect Donald Trump held a telephone conversation, Xinhua reported on Friday, January 17.
"Chinese President Xi Jinping held a telephone conversation with US President-elect Donald Trump on Friday," the statement said.
No further details are provided.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on November 16, 2024, Xi Jinping announced Beijing's readiness to work with the Trump administration. He emphasized that China is interested in maintaining stable relations with the United States.
The following day, at a meeting with outgoing US President Joseph Biden, the Chinese leader noted that the discrepancy between statements and actions on the part of the American authorities could lead to Beijing losing confidence in Washington.
On December 13, it became known that Xi Jinping will not attend the inauguration of the US president-elect in January 2025. China will be represented at the event by a “high-level delegation.”
On January 15, at a hearing in the US Senate, CIA director nominee and former director of national intelligence John Ratcliffe said that US intelligence should focus on China as the main threat to Washington.
[BREAKINGTHENEWS.NET] Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS News, is said to be exploring options to resolve a lawsuit filed by former President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... in response to the network's interview with Vice President Kamala Harris What can be, unburdened by what has been , sources revealed to The Wall Street Journal on Friday.
The move comes as the company seems keen to make concessions in an effort to gain approval from the Trump administration for its proposed merger with Skydance Media, insiders noted.
In November, Trump sued CBS News, seeking $10 billion in damages over its "60 minutes" interview with the vice president. The lawsuit alleges that the network engaged in "partisan and unlawful acts of election and voter interference through malicious, deceptive, and substantial news distortion."
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Maybe they could settle by giving the J6 prisoners 5 million each for their time....
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They all guilty as hell and they know it. These are all PR moves to make it appear they have made concessions, so if there is real pursuit into the matter they scream persecution.
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It’s a novel legal theory. That generally only works for the Dems in NY and GA. See if the suit can make it to discovery. That would end 60 Minutes.
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#3 Probably could get a reasonable deal simply to rebroadcast NewsMax. Think of all the office space that would free up, let alone reduce the load in HR.
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Multiple local police departments from areas surrounding Washington, DC will reportedly refuse to assist with security for Trump's inauguration on Monday as the swearing-in ceremony has been moved indoors.
The Gateway Pundit reported earlier that President Trump announced his ceremony will be held inside the Capitol Rotunda, citing cold weather. However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... there have also been concerns about Trump's safety following the two recent liquidation attempts.
Local police refusing to help comes after the Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith announced last week that "nearly 4,000 officers from across the United States who were generous enough to raise their hands and commit their time to assist the Metropolitan Police Department" during inaugural events.
However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... several agencies in nearby Maryland, including Montgomery, Howard, and Queen Anne's County police, have reportedly said they will not be assisting.
The reason they will not help is unclear, but it may stem from internal disputes over Metro PD's use-of-force policy. DC police agreed in a lawsuit settlement to restrict the use of sting balls or bombs on protestors and rioters.
Oy. Someone need to stage an intervention with the DC authorities. Perhaps it’s time for Congress to revoke their semi-independent status, because this is completely unacceptable.
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DC police agreed in a lawsuit settlement to restrict the use of sting balls or bombs on protestors and rioters.
'What are we supposed to use now, harsh language?'
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Pamela Smith joined the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPD) in May 2022 as the chief equity officer, assigned to the executive office of the chief of police.[4][8] She led the department's efforts on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).[4][8] She developed an organizational channel for department-wide accountability by providing strategic advice to the MPD chief of police, executive leadership, and senior management officials within the department.[4] In addition to her DEI focus, she supervised the directorates for employee well-being and support unit and equal employment opportunity office.
Its a non-serious choice to put a black woman in a position of authority. None of the biography cited above qualifies her to be the Chief of one of the largest police forces in the US.
[FoxNews] Special Counsel Robert Hur's report called President Biden 'an elderly man with a poor memory'
CNN host Jake Tapper reminded Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., how he was "relentlessly harsh against Special Counsel Robert Hur" and his report on President Biden despite it being "pretty accurate."
During a segment on Thursday, Tapper brought up Schiff's questioning of President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee Pam Bondi, particularly after she claimed most Americans no longer trust the Justice Department.
Schiff blamed Republicans "trashing" the DOJ, but Tapper remarked that he and other Democrats have also attacked the Justice Department in the past.
"President Biden gave a pretty harsh assessment of the investigation into his son Hunter," Tapper began. "He basically threw the Justice Department under the bus there for those investigations. And Democrats, including you, were relentlessly harsh against Special Counsel Robert Hur for making an observation that proved pretty accurate, about how Joe Biden might appear to a jury as a ‘well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.’"
"I was critical of that for good reason," Schiff argued. "And that is, you don’t put gratuitous personal observations like that in a prosecutorial memo. You just don’t. And it was done for a political reason. So it’s not that, you know, everyone, including special counsels, necessarily follow [Department of Justice] policy the way I believe they should. And when they don’t, I call it out. And as indeed I did, I disagreed with the president’s comments about the prosecution of his own son."
Schiff continued to blame Republicans for a "a multi-year campaign" to paint the Justice Department as the "deep state." Tapper briefly explained the context of Hur’s comments before moving on to another topic.
"I think Robert Hur would say he needed to explain why he wasn’t going to prosecute President Biden for what he thought was a violation of the law," Tapper said.
Though Hur found that Biden willfully retained classified materials in violation of the law, he ultimately wrote in his February report that he would not recommend charging him based on his diminished mental capacity.
"Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory," Hur wrote.
Schiff viciously attacked Hur on this report when he questioned him during a House hearing in March.
The Main Stream Media did not just fail us, it deliberately played and schemed against US, the Voters.
It knowingly spewed lies and actively played the role of a Gov. Propaganda Machine, censoring actual facts and persons exposing the agenda of lies.
Instead, acting as an independent investigative reporting arm of a free, citizen/voter run nation, and keeping a suspiciously elected Government in check.
It joined the Regime/Coup and openly became a Propaganda tool.
Spewing a daily wave of lies:
* placing 100's of millions of US Citizens in harms way.
* placed the nation in a serious risk posture.
* that allowed shadow puppet government to operate.
* that incited 100's of 1,000's to loot and riot.
* all of which resulted in the harm and or death of 1,000's of US Citizens.
* that made the Elite $$$ Billions.
There is actually legal evidence of Brandon's cognitive testing from the FBI private interview. What was that, three years ago? All this signing, all this amendment process by tweet, all bullshit. I'd put together a wild weasel team to pursue that angle. It has to be blocked, because it has to, because if it would succeed anything signed comes undone. But just resources and illumination would put points on the board.
[FoxNews] Tren de Aragua has grown across states throughout the US
A Republican congressman, whose district covers part of the southern border, is introducing legislation that would take a step closer to declaring Tren de Aragua (TdA) and Mexican cartels foreign terrorist organizations.
Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, is introducing the "Security First Act" which would require the secretary of state to consider designating Mexican drug cartels and TdA as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs).
An FTO designation allows for targeted action against members, including financial penalties. It is illegal for anyone to provide support or resources to an FTO, and financial institutions must report those funds to the Treasury. According to the State Department, designations also deter donations and support efforts to curb financing.
Gonzales’ bill would also increase funding to Operation Stonegarden, which is a federal grant to provide resources to states and local law enforcement for border security. It would also demand a report on technology needed at the border to stop terrorists entering the U.S., and another report on Customs and Border Protection hiring practices.
The crisis at the southern border saw a sharp increase in the presence of TdA, a gang that is believed to have originated in Venezuelan prisons and moved north. Border officials told Fox last year that they see the gang as a top priority, as its presence has been felt in states like Texas, Colorado and New York.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced in September that he was declaring TdA an FTO and establishing a database to verify if arrestees are TdA members. Now, Gonzales wants to see more action from the incoming administration on the bloodthirsty gang.
"It's time to call them what they are, they're terrorist organizations, and they terrorize our community," he said. "I'm grateful President Trump is in there, and it's time for us to not only take the gloves off, but put some teeth in the legislation. So that way we throw the book at these guys."
While the bill does not itself declare TdA an FTO, and would require the secretary of state to consider it, Gonzales said he is confident that it would be in line with the administration’s thinking.
"Those of us that live along the border, you know, we don't need a commission to to tell us that we're being terrorized, but some people do, but I feel very confident with this administration, with the way Trump has handled things and talked about it, is they would go along with that route," he said.
Pam Bondi, Trump's pick to lead the Department of Justice, said this week at her confirmation hearing that she is in favor of designating Mexican cartels as FTOs.
"I personally went to Mexico. I personally dealt with these cartels when I was a state prosecutor. And they are a grave and violent threat to our country," she said.
Gonzales also stressed that the threat from the gang is not merely a border issue.
"They're not staying in Texas. One thing that I suspect is TDA is in all 50 states. So this isn't a border issue. This is an American issue," he said. "And how do we get TDA out of all 50 states? You label them as a terrorist organization, and you turn law enforcement loose to go after and scoop them up."
Gonzales has a record of bipartisanship over border security, often sponsoring bills that pick up Democratic support. He says that he is hopeful this bill will have a similar effect given a change in the temperature on immigration among some Democrats -- who have recently put their support behind bills like the Laken Riley Act.
"I think you're seeing the shift on that," Gonzales said. "House Democrats have seen, Democrats in general have seen, they lost the Senate, they lost the House, they lost the White House, and a big part of that is because of their positions on the border and on border security."
This bill already has the backing of sheriff groups in the area.
"The Security First Act will be a tremendous tool in bolstering the functionality and effectiveness of Operation Stonegarden, as well as designating cartels as terrorist organizations, and using new and updated technology to police and patrol areas of our southern border that are difficult to reach in a vehicle. We are in support of this bill," Clint McDonald, a retired sheriff and Executive Director of the Southwestern Border Sheriff's Coalition and Texas Border Sheriff's Coalition, said in a statement.
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[Regnum] At a meeting with the leadership of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukrainian military spoke about the need to end the conflict in the first half of 2025, explaining that they lack resources and assistance from the West. This was stated by parliamentarian Anatoly Burmich on the air of the YouTube channel "News Live".
The deputy said that meetings with the Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters are held weekly and at the last meeting with the speaker of the Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk they “hinted” at their unwillingness to fight for a long time.
"Whether we have enough resources or not, I would not like to voice this, but I can say briefly. At a meeting with the military, they told us that it would be desirable to end the war in the first half of the year. Why? Because it is connected with resources, weapons, help from partners, and so on. That's what they hinted at," Burmich admitted.
The MP also stated that the Kyiv authorities will have to compromise. According to him, "we need to look at things realistically" and end the war.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, according to the Ministry of Defense, Russian military personnel liberated eight settlements in the area of the special military operation over the past week.
The head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, is doing everything to prove to his partners that his regime can still conduct military operations. This was stated on January 16 at a meeting of the UN Security Council on Ukraine by the Permanent Representative of Russia to the international organization Vasily Nebenzya.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces brigade, trained and equipped by French forces, faced problems with desertion and disorganization in Ukraine.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] CNN star Jim Acosta could soon be banished to 'the Siberia of television news' in an effort from the network to curry favor with incoming President Donald Trump.
The CNN veteran, 53, has been locked in a longstanding feud with Trump, who has described him as a 'rude, terrible person' and accused him of reporting 'fake news' during Acosta's time as a White House correspondent in the first administration.
Now, CNN chief Mark Thompson has reportedly floated moving Acosta's successful, high-rating 10am show to the dreaded timeslot of midnight, the Status newsletter reports.
'They want to get rid of Acosta to throw a bone to Trump,' an insider told the publication.
'Midnight is not a serious offer when his ratings are among the best on the network.' A VERY low bar to clear
This move would 'effectively exile Acosta to the Siberia of television news,' the report stated.
Thompson allegedly hopes to slot Acosta into programming from midnight to 2am ET, with assurances that the show would in turn be airing during prime time on the West Coast and be streamed internationally.
Acosta's ratings in his current 10am slot are some of the network's best.
The timing of the call - just days before Trump is due to take office again - has raised suspicions CNN is trying to build a better relationship with the incoming President.
Acosta's relationship with Trump was so sour during the first term that the White House revoked his press pass in 2018 after a heated clash.
That decision was later challenged when Acosta and CNN presented it in front of a federal judge.
Acosta's back-and-forth with Trump went viral, and resulted in Trump telling him to 'sit down', while aides wrestled the mic from his hands.
Trump said: 'CNN should be ashamed of itself having you work for them. You are a rude terrible person. You shouldn't be working for CNN.'
Then, during a separate press conference in 2020, Acosta said: 'Mr. President, I think our record on delivering the truth is a lot better than yours sometimes.'
'Let me tell you about your record, your record is so bad you ought to be ashamed of yourself,' Trump shot back. 'You have the worst record in the history of broadcasting.'
On another occasion, Acosta asked Trump: 'What do you say to critics who say that you are creating a national emergency? That you're concocting a national emergency here to get your wall.'
Trump snapped back: 'Your question is a very political question because you have an agenda. You're CNN. You're fake news.'
Acosta's reported move is the latest in a series of shake ups the network is reportedly considering, and would pave the way for longtime anchor Wolf Blitzer, 76, to slide into a new morning timeslot to replace him.
He currently enjoys a plum spot on the cusp of primetime manning The Situation Room weekdays from 6pm to 7pm ET. He has done so for the past two decades, and the new shuffle could see him gain an extra hour of exposure.
However, some suggested the move could be a way 'something of an off-ramp' for the broadcaster, as he enters his golden years.
The revelation comes hours after Acosta was mocked for holding a placard hailing his own achievements live on air.
He held up a bright pink sign that reads: 'I march for Jim Acosta and a free press.'
Journalist Glenn Greenwald shared the clip and added: 'This nakedly partisan b**** really does think he's the Conscience of America.
'Never seen a more self-important, sanctimonious blow hard in my entire life. And no, I'll never get over the fact that he wrote a book bought by dumb liberals where he depicted himself as endangered.'
Earlier in the segment, Acosta referenced Biden's farewell address which took place on Wednesday night, in which he openly lamented a supposed rising oligarchy in the United States.
'[President Biden] warned the free press is crumbling in this country, I would add that's only if we the people let that happen.
'Journalists exist to seek the truth, to tell people stories, to lift up voices that may not be heard otherwise.
'To shine a light on injustice and hold the powerful accountable, we are not the enemy of the people we are the defender of the people.'
CNN has more problems than just one blowhard reporter, and they don’t know how big the final bill will be. See here for details.
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So their ratings are in the toilet, yet they intend to take their best preforming product and shitcan to NoWheresVille?
Why don’t they just call for All Engines Ahead Full as they drive into that iceberg?
No shortage of stupidity over there.
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It is a curious use of their best asset. Given that Trump won the popular vote, maybe the shine is off being the anti-Trump network, and they are looking to re-brand. Perhaps something to do with actual news.
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[REGNUM] The situation on the eastern flank of the Donetsk front has sharply worsened. Units of the "East" group of the Russian Armed Forces have gone on the offensive in the area of the settlement of Velikaya Novosyolka, dislodging the enemy from their positions.
A number of sources rushed to report the complete liberation of settlements adjacent to Velikaya Novosyolka and the beginning of fighting directly in the village. But it is too early to talk about this, notes a source of IA Regnum from the field - while fighting is still ongoing on the outskirts.
Over the past few days, Russian troops have completed the liberation and cleansing of the village of Neskuchnoye and continued their offensive in the direction of the village of Vremevka. Russian forces are also advancing west of the village, where the Ukrainian Armed Forces are suffering heavy losses. The Russian Armed Forces are penetrating the enemy's defenses, trying to encircle the settlement.
The advance of the Russian army is confirmed, among other things, by the Ukrainian analytical resource DeepState.
“The enemy has occupied Peschanoye, Slavyanka, Yasenovoye and also advanced into Vrem'yevka and Chasovy Yar,” the authors of the resource write.
At the same time, fighting continues north of Velikaya Novosyolka, where units of the Russian army are expanding their bridgehead on the right bank of the Mokrye Yaly River.
The key task of the Russian Armed Forces remains the same: to disrupt the enemy’s communications in order to encircle the populated area and the Ukrainian Armed Forces group defending it.
"We will be able to talk about a strategic change in the situation after the enemy's supply is completely cut off. Now they have a route through the fields from Shevchenko to Vrem'evka, as well as across the Mokrye Yaly River. The supply is hanging by a thread, but it is still coming. The cauldron is almost ready, but the lid is not yet closed," a source at the scene told IA Regnum.
According to the latest information, fighters of the Vostok group have occupied part of the settlement of Vrem'evka: assault units are continuing the operation to completely liberate the settlement.
THE MOST IMPORTANT BRIDGEHEAD OF THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES
Throughout 2023 and part of 2024, Velyka Novosyolka remained an important hub of enemy defense on the line Ugledar - Novosyolka - Gulyaipole - Orekhov - Kamenka. At this line, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, using the terrain, were able to stop the advance of the Russian army in the Zaporizhzhya direction. Due to the predominantly flat landscape, control over large settlements located on dominant heights acquired strategic importance.
The Ukrainian command sought to use fortified positions along the front line to create a bridgehead for a counteroffensive. In the summer of 2023, it was from the area of Novosyolka, Orekhov and Gulyaipole that the Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to break through to the Sea of Azov during an unsuccessful "counteroffensive".
Despite the fact that the Russian army repelled all attacks, the threat of a new offensive by Ukrainian troops did not disappear. That is why in 2024 the decisive offensive on Ugledar began: after the city was threatened with encirclement, the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison retreated with heavy losses.
The liberation of Ugledar made it possible to establish fire control over the surrounding areas and begin an offensive to the west, in the direction of Velikaya Novosyolka.
The decisive success was the breakthrough to the village of Novy Komar, as a result of which the road leading to the Zaporozhye-Kurakhove-Donetsk highway was cut off, as well as to the north - to Pokrovsk. This led to the fragmentation of the enemy's defense.
Later, the forces of the Vostok group crossed the Mokrye Yaly River and seized control of the road between Velikaya Novosyolka and Gulyaipole, another line of enemy defense.
JUNCTION OF THE DPR, ZAPORIZHZHYA AND DNEPROPETROVSK REGIONS
The offensive of Russian troops in the Velikaya Novosyolka area continues simultaneously with the advance near Pokrovsk. The Russian Armed Forces are using the battle-tested tactics of powerful flanking maneuvers with simultaneous pinning attacks along the contact line. This approach allows them to repeatedly push the enemy out of large populated areas without protracted urban battles.
The threat of encirclement has already led to panic in the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Velyka Novosyolka. The enemy forces in the Novosyolka direction are facing a shortage of forces, said Ivan Sekach, a representative of the 110th separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
"The enemy continues to put pressure on this area. In such agglomerations, when one settlement passes into another, a large number of infantry are needed for active defense. But, unfortunately, we do not have such resources," Sekach said.
Ukrainian Armed Forces officers also complain about bad weather, which makes aerial reconnaissance and the use of drones difficult. However, Kyiv is not yet ready to give the order to retreat - and this is easy to explain.
After leaving Velyka Novosyolka, Ukrainian troops will be forced to retreat several kilometers to the west - to the area of the settlements of Novosyolka and Zelenoye Pole. Here the borders of the DPR, Zaporizhzhya and Dnipropetrovsk regions converge, which gives the Russian army the opportunity to advance to territories that have so far remained outside the SVO zone.
"Based on the experience of Ugledar, we can say that they hold out until the very end. Then, in an emergency mode, they retreat, suffering heavy losses. They retreat 3-4 kilometers to gain a foothold again. But there is nothing to cling to there - there are no large settlements in this area. So the enemy's defense can seriously sag," explains a source of IA Regnum.
"ELITE OF THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES" PERISHES IN KURSK REGION
It is quite possible that after the liberation of Velyka Novosyolka, Russian troops will begin an offensive in the direction of the city of Gulyaipole, the next major enemy defensive node on the front line in the Zaporizhia region.
At the same time, the advance of Russian troops could trigger a domino effect: the Ukrainian Armed Forces currently have no additional lines of defense in the region, which opens up opportunities for the Russian army to successfully attack the city of Zaporizhia. But in order to build on the success achieved, time will be needed to consolidate and fix the new front line.
In general, the development of events on the Zaporizhzhya Front will largely depend on the outcome of the battles for Velyka Novosyolka.
In turn, the enemy command is unable to turn the tide - the Ukrainian Armed Forces simply do not have enough trained reserves. The most combat-ready units of the Ukrainian troops, including the so-called "offensive guard", were previously transferred to the Kursk region, where the "elite of the Ukrainian Armed Forces" are suffering heavy losses.
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[NewsFront] 20:19 Soldiers of the 150th Motorized Rifle Division of the 8th Army of the Russian Armed Forces successfully destroyed a command and observation post of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kurakhovsky direction. This operation cleared the way for the assault units, ensuring their advancement and the fulfillment of combat missions.
The actions of the drone operators significantly weakened the enemy's positions and contributed to the successful offensive of our troops, -video. 19:20 Scouts from the Sever group have identified an enemy pickup truck in a wooded area of the Khar'kov region, transporting Ukrainian Armed Forces militants for rotation. Objective control means have recorded a direct hit on the target, –video.
18:40 Telegram channel «Colonelcassad»:
The Vostok group liberated the settlement of Vrem'evka.
- Assault units of the motorized rifle regiment of the 127th Motorized Rifle Division of the 5th army of the "Vostok" group have liberated the settlement of Vrem'evka!!! Our soldiers have installed the Russian flag on the building on Partizanskaya Street in front of the bridge over the Mokrye Yaly River. The Far Easterners are consolidating their positions.
– Over three days of fighting, about 600 buildings were cleared, more than 70 servicemen of the enemy’s 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade were destroyed, and up to a platoon of personnel from the same brigade voluntarily surrendered.
- As was said earlier, the capture of this settlement means the complete cutting off of the western road to Velikaya Novosyolka at the very "root". The encirclement of enemy troops took place because the remaining corridor through the forest belts on the northwestern outskirts is under fire control, and, due to the lack of normal roads, cannot be used for supply or large-scale withdrawal of troops.
17:16 Fighters of the "Southern" group of troops identified and destroyed personnel and an armored combat vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the settlement of Yantarnoye in the DPR, –video.
16:20 UAV crews of the 150th Guards Motor Rifle Division of the "Southern" group of forces provide successful advance of assault groups, destroying fortifications and manpower in the Kurakhovsky direction.
The servicemen conduct constant surveillance. Having detected equipment or militants of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, they destroy the targets with attack UAVs or FPV drones or adjust artillery strikes.
14:15 Powerful missiles struck a Ukrainian Armed Forces facility in Krivoy Rog.
According to preliminary data, a non-functioning educational institution used by the military was hit.
13:10 Strike UAV crews of the Southern Group of Forces revealed and destroyed personnel and an armored combat vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the vicinity of the settlement of Yantarnoye in the Donetsk People's Republic.
12:20 Russian Defense Ministry report on the progress of repelling the attempted invasion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces into the territory of the Russian Federation in the Kursk region
The offensive of Russian troopsis coming in all directions. The enemy suffers significant losses and retreats from the occupied territories, despite the transfer of additional reserves.
63.2% (801 sq. km) of the territory of the Kursk region originally occupied by the enemy (1268 sq. km) were liberated.
During two weeks of January, during offensive operations, units of the North group of forces liberated four settlements: Alexandria, Leonidovo, Russkoye Porechnoye and Kruglenkoye.
During their liberation, military units and subdivisions of the 7th Guards Airborne Assault Division of the Airborne Forces, the 76th Guards Airborne Assault Division of the Airborne Forces, the 83rd Separate Guards Airborne Assault Brigade of the Airborne Forces, the 155th Separate Guards Naval Infantry Brigade of the Pacific Fleet, the 810th Separate Guards Naval Infantry Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet, as well as the 1427th Motorized Rifle Regiment distinguished themselves.
In addition, a counterattack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction of the Berdin farmstead was repelled, which the enemy undertook with the aim of stopping the advance of Russian troops in the Kursk direction and breaking out of the blockade zone.
The joint actions of the Akhmat units of the 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division and the 106th Guards Airborne Division of the Airborne Forces inflicted significant losses on the enemy, after which he abandoned further action in this direction and was thrown back to his original positions.
The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk direction in January amounted to more than 5,600 people and over 570 units of military equipment, including 40 tanks, 213 infantry fighting vehicles and other armored vehicles, 91 artillery pieces and mortars, and more than 210 vehicles.
Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 230 servicemen in the Kursk direction. A tank, three armored personnel carriers, including two US-made Stryker armored personnel carriers, two combat armored vehicles, seven cars, four artillery pieces and a mortar were destroyed.
12:00 Russian Aerospace Forces destroy concentrations of occupiers on the Kursk Front, –video.
Smuglyanka's detachment identified the location of Ukrainian militants in hangars and positions in the forests, after which they directed aircraft to the concentration of enemy forces in the Kursk border area.
The bombers quickly covered the occupiers with strikes from guided aerial bombs (FABs with UMPK).
On the right flank, in the area of the settlement of Tikhoye, Russian soldiers carried out successful assault operations in the southern part of the settlement.
The video shows the assault on Ukrainian positions and the clearing of the village's buildings. Our soldiers advanced into the enemy's defenses to a depth of 0.5 km, entering the southern part of Tikhyi.
11:00 Russian Ministry of Defense:
Calculation of the FPV drone of the Rubicon centerstrucka communications and observation tower with Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen stationed on it.
10:45 Information on strikes carried out by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Belgorod region over the past 24 hours:
In Belgorod after the air defense systems repelled an air attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forcesdamaged2 cars.
In the Belgorod district, six munitions were fired at the villages of Novosadovy, Oktyabrsky, Razumnoye and the village of Belovskoye during one shelling, and two drones were shot down by the air defense system. In the village of Belovskoye, two people were wounded: one man was wounded during an air attack, he continues treatment in the regional clinical hospital. His condition is assessed as satisfactory.
The second man was injured as a result of a car blowing up on an explosive device. The victim with multiple shrapnel wounds in serious condition was also hospitalized in the regional clinical hospital. All necessary assistance is being provided. 29 private houses, four outbuildings, a gas pipe, a social facility and 15 cars were damaged.
An air defense system shot down a drone over the Valuysky municipal district. There were no consequences.
In the Volokonovsky district, nine munitions were fired and eight drone strikes were carried out in three attacks on the villages of Novoye and Tishanka, the hamlets of Plotvyanka, Stary and Shakhovka. Two private houses and a car were damaged.
In the Grayvoronsky municipal district, the villages of Bezymeno, Dronovka, Kozinka and Spodaryushino were subjected to four attacks with the use of 10 rounds of ammunition. No casualties or damage.
An air target was shot down over the Korocha district. Two private houses and four cars were damaged.
In the Krasnoyarsk district, the village of Prilesye, the villages of Grafovka, Demidovka, Kolotilovka, Popovka, Repyakhovka and Staroselye were subjected to six attacks, during which 34 munitions were fired, and attacks by 18 UAVs. Three private homes, an enterprise hangar, a car, a commercial facility, a communications infrastructure facility and a power line were damaged.
In the Shebekinsky municipal district, in the city of Shebekino, the settlement of Krasnoye, the villages of Arkhangelskoye, Murom, Novaya Tavolzhanka, Rzhevka and the farm of Pankov, two artillery rounds were fired during wo artillery attacks and 13 drones were attacked, 12 of which were shot down. 10 private houses, six outbuildings, a warehouse, two cars and a GAZelle were damaged.
9:48 During night observation was the movement of Ukrainian Armed Forces units in a US-made M-113 armored personnel carrier was detected. The combat vehicle was destroyed by fire from 12.7mm Kord and Utes heavy machine guns.
8:20 Rubicon drone drivers arranged night hunting. The FPV drone crew destroyed a Ukrainian Armed Forces vehicle.
8:12 Destroying communications repeaters and antennas installed by the enemy in the Kurakhovsky direction is one of the priority tasks of FPV drone operators in the units of the Russian Armed Forces and they cope with it superbly, –video.
8:10 Crew of TOS-1A "Solntsepek" of the NBC protection troops unit of the combined arms army of the "West" groupdestroyedplatoon stronghold and shelters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at night, which allowed the assault groups to advance in one of the directions.
8:08 The operator of the Lancet loitering munition deftly hit a Ukrainian tank at a closed firing position in the Kursk border area, –video.
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[EngMilRu] From 11 to 17 January 2025, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out eight group strikes by high-precision weapons and attack unmanned aerial vehicles, which hit Ukraine's crucial gas and energy infrastructure facilities that support the work of the Ukrainian defence industry. The strikes also engaged armament depots, a fuel base, and infrastructure of military airfields.
Moreover, the group strikes hit assembly facilities and storage areas for strike UAVs and uncrewed surface vehicles, as well as temporary deployment areas for Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries.
The Sever Group of Forces continued fighting against the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of Kursk region.
As a result of the active offensive operations, the settlements of Aleksandriya, Leonidovo, Russkoye Porechnoye, and Kruglenkoye have been liberated.
In addition, aviation and drone strikes and artillery fire hit manpower and hardware of one tank brigade, four mechanised brigades, three air assault brigades, one naval infantry brigade, and two territorial defence brigades.
In Kharkov direction, Russian troops inflicted losses on units of one mechanised brigade, one motorised infantry brigade of the AFU, and two territorial defence brigades over the past week.
In the area of responsibility of the Sever Group of Forces, the AFU losses amounted to over 2,225 troops, 10 tanks, and 71 armoured fighting vehicles. Seventy motor vehicles, 34 field artillery guns, including two manufactured by Western countries, were eliminated.
The Zapad Group of Forces has liberated Kalinovo (Kharkov region) and Terny (Donetsk People's Republic).
The Group inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of one tank brigade, three mechanised brigades, one infantry brigade, one air mobile brigade, and one assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine along with three territorial defence brigades and one National Guard brigade.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 3,300 troops, four tanks, 27 armoured fighting vehicles, including six U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carriers, and one Turkish-made Kirpi armoured vehicle. Moreover, the enemy sustained losses of 72 motor vehicles, 44 field artillery guns, with eight of them manufactured by NATO countries, nine electronic warfare stations, and 15 ammunition depots.
As a result of decisive actions, units of the Yug Group of Forces liberated Yantarnoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
They also hit six mechanised brigades, two motorised brigades, two assault brigades, one infantry brigade, one mountain assault brigade, one airmobile brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and two territorial defence brigades.
The AFU losses in this direction during the week amounted to up to 1,655 troops, two tanks, 22 armoured fighting vehicles, including two U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carriers and one French-made VAB APC, 31 motor vehicles, 20 field artillery guns, including two U.S.-made 155mm M-777 howitzers. Seven ammunition depots were destroyed.
The Tsentr Group of Forces continued advancing into the depths of enemy defences and liberated Shevchenko, Peschanoye, Ukrainka, and Slavyanka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The Group inflicted losses on eight mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one naval infantry brigade, two territorial defence brigades, two National Guard brigades, and the Lyut Brigade of the National Police of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian armed formations sustained losses of more than 3,770 troops, six tanks, including three German-made Leopard tanks, 29 armoured fighting vehicles, including five M-113 APCs, one Bradley IFV, and two U.S.-made MaxxPro armoured vehicles, one French-made VAB APC, and one Turkish-made Cobra II armoured vehicle. Twenty-seven motor vehicles and 45 field artillery guns, including three manufactured by Western countries, were eliminated.
The Vostok Group of Forces liberated Neskuchnoye (Donetsk People's Republic) as a result of intensive operations.
The Group inflicted losses on formations of four mechanised brigades, one tank brigade, one air assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one naval infantry brigade, three territorial defence brigades, and one National Guard brigade.
The enemy's losses amounted to more than 1,445 troops, four tanks, seven armoured fighting vehicles, including one HMMWV and one Stryker, 48 motor vehicles, and 18 field artillery guns, with five of them manufactured by NATO countries. Two ammunition depots were destroyed.
The Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades, one infantry brigade, two coastal defence brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one National Guard brigade, and two territorial defence brigades.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 550 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, 49 motor vehicles, 20 field artillery guns, four electronic warfare stations, and five ammunition depots.
On 16 January 2025, Ukraine once again attempted to launch a missile strike against facilities in Belgorod region by six U.S.-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles.
All the missiles were shot down by air defence systems. There were no casualties or destruction.
The Russian Defence Ministry will take measures to provide a retaliatory strike.
Over the past week, Russia's air defence system have shot down 12 U.S.-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles, eight UK-made Storm Shadow cruise missiles, seven French-made Hammer aerial guided bombs, 48 U.S.-made HIMARS projectiles, and 747 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
Over the past week, 49 Ukrainian servicemen have surrendered on the line of contact.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 40,643 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,650 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,510 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,742 field artillery guns and mortars, and 30,433 units of support military vehicles of the enemy have been neutralised.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which broke into the territory of Kursk region.
?? Russian troops are in offensive in all directions. Despite the transfer of additional reserves, the enemy suffers heavy losses and retreats from the occupied areas.
A total of 63.2% (801 sq km) of the area originally occupied by the enemy (1,268 sq km) has been liberated in the Kursk region.
In two weeks of January, during the offensive operation, the Sever Group of Forces has liberated four settlements: Aleksandriya, Leonidovo, Russkoye Porechnoye, and Kruglenkoye.
Servicemen of the 7th Guards Air Assault Division, the 76th Guards Air Assault Division, the 83rd Separate Guards Air Assault Brigade, the 155th Separate Guards Naval Infantry Brigade of the Pacific Fleet, the 810th Separate Guards Naval Infantry Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet, as well as 1427th Motorised Rifle Regiment distinguished themselves in actions when liberating the settlements.
In addition, a counter-attack launched by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction of Berdin was repelled. The enemy resorted to the counter-attack to stop the Russian offensive in Kursk direction and get out of the blocking area.
The Akhmat units of the 42nd Guards Motorised Rifle Division together with the 106th Air Assault Division of the Airborne Troops inflicted significant losses on the enemy, after which the enemy abandoned further actions in this direction and was driven back to initial positions.
In January in Kursk direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine sustained losses of more than 5,600 troops and more than 570 units of military hardware, including 40 tanks, 213 infantry fighting vehicles and others, 91 artillery guns and mortars, and more than 210 motor vehicles.
Over 230 troops of the AFU have been neutralised in Kursk direction during the day. One tank, three armoured personnel carriers, to include two U.S.-made Stryker armoured personnel carriers, two armoured fighting vehicles, seven motor vehicles, four artillery guns, and a mortar have been eliminated as well.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses amounted to more than 52,450 troops, 304 tanks, 231 infantry fighting vehicles, 173 armoured personnel carriers, 1,562 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,493 motor vehicles, 371 artillery guns, 44 MLRS launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 16 anti-aircraft missile launchers, eight transport-loading vehicles, 93 EW stations, 13 counter-battery warfare radars, four air defence radars, 30 units of engineering and other materiel, including 13 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, eight armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
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[REGNUM] More than half of the population of Greenland, an autonomous province of the Danish Kingdom, spoke out in favor of leaving the rule of His Majesty Frederick X and joining the world's largest island to the United States.
According to a recent (January 6–11) poll, 53.7% of respondents essentially supported the idea of US President-elect Donald Trump, while only 37.4% were against it. The poll, we note, was conducted by the American non-governmental organization Patriot Polling. This public opinion survey coincided with Donald Trump Jr.'s "strictly private" visit to the island.
While a shocked Danish cabinet expresses deep concern about the new leader of the allied country's insistence on "making Greenland great again", King Frederik has taken a more decisive stance - within his powers.
BEAR, RAM, THREE CROWNS
His Majesty has deigned to change the Great Coat of Arms of Denmark so that it better reflects the overseas possessions that the kingdom retains in the 21st century, namely the Faroe Islands and Greenland. The coat of arms now “emphasizes the silver ram and polar bear,” which symbolize the respective North Atlantic territories.
If previously the heraldic animals were placed in the basement of the coat of arms, then from now on the symbols of the overseas provinces are equated with the two historically main parts of the kingdom - the original Denmark and Northern Schleswig.
Perhaps, in order not to irritate their great overseas partner, the Danes explained: the new coat of arms "with an emphasis on Greenland" is not Copenhagen's answer to Washington, but nothing more than a tribute to tradition. Indeed, the details of the large coat of arms change with the beginning of each new reign. And Frederick is a new king, and January 14 is precisely the first anniversary of his accession to the throne.
But Danish patriots still cherish the hope that the kingdom has put both Donald Trump and Greenlandic Prime Minister Mute Egede in their place. The latter, although he told Trump that “the island is not for sale,” believes that Greenland should become independent, because such is the will of the island’s indigenous population, the Kalaallit Eskimos.
Somewhat lost in the news that Greenland now occupied an important place on the Danish coat of arms was the news of another change. For the sake of the polar bear, the Danish king symbolically "sacrificed" three crowns.
This fragment of the coat of arms still reminded us that once, in the 14th–16th centuries, the monarchs of Denmark ruled all of Scandinavia, from the Norwegian fjords to the “cold Finnish cliffs.” These were the times of the Kalmar Union, a united Danish-Swedish-Norwegian kingdom under the supreme authority of Copenhagen.
For all its symbolic changes, this era of great power remains important for understanding the relationship of a small European kingdom to its vast (if sparsely populated) North American possession. But for greater understanding, we must go back even further: to the Viking Age.
RED, OLD AND LEATHER PANTS
Denmark is the oldest continuously existing state in Europe. Since King Harald Bluetooth was baptized in 965, the state has never been re-established there. Only Japan can boast such continuity. Neither the Reformation of 1527 nor the Nazi takeover of 1940 shook the monarchy.
The Danes can consider themselves the oldest colonial power, since the sons of King Ragnar Lodbrok occupied the east of England in the 9th century and subsequent kings held on to this “area of Danish law” for another hundred years.
And if we consider Greenland as part of North America, then America was discovered by the Scandinavians. As is known, the first to land on the "Green Island" in 980 were the Vikings, led by the Icelander Eric the Red,
…who was not a famous baseball player, I was once shocked to learn…
who was expelled from his native island for killing a neighbor. Free Icelanders and their Greenland "settlements" in the 13th century recognized the authority of the Norwegian king Haakon the Old.
A century later, in 1397, Norway, together with its possessions – Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland – entered into a union – a union proclaimed in the Swedish city of Kalmar. But, as was said above, Denmark played the first violin in the great Scandinavian “concert”. Copenhagen, albeit nominally, could rule the seas – from the Baltic to the Greenland glaciers (by the way, the strait between Iceland and Greenland is called the Danish Strait).
True, there was no Christian population left in Greenland by that time: by the 15th century, the descendants of the Vikings had died out. Historians are still passionately debating the reasons for this. This happened either because of the "little ice age" and the epidemics associated with the cold snap and the cessation of contacts with Iceland and Europe, or because of the raids of the Kalaallit Eskimos (who settled the island almost later than the Vikings), or because of a combination of factors.
Be that as it may, at the beginning of the 18th century Greenland had to be made European again. On the initiative of the missionary "Apostle of Greenland" Hans Egede (the current Prime Minister, ethnic Kalaallit Mute Egede is his namesake), Danish settlers flocked to the island. For the Eskimos, who by that time had become the indigenous population and still make up the majority, the European colonists turned out to be "newcomers", so the current desire expressed in opinion polls to free themselves from the old masters (and even to become the 51st state of the USA) looks quite plausible.
But let's go back to the beginning of the 18th century, to the time of the pastor-apostle Hans Egede. By that time, the Kalmar Union had already collapsed a hundred years ago, Sweden had become an independent (and very strong) European player, but Denmark continued to own Norway, and therefore Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland.
DENMARK - A PRISON?
But the medieval great power continued to crumble, at first partly due to Bonaparte.
In the Napoleonic Wars, Denmark – not very prudently – sided with France, and Sweden was part of the coalitions that fought the “Corsican monster.” The Swedes took advantage of this when they won Norway from the Danes in 1814.
Ironically, the Swedish armies were led into battle by the former Napoleonic Marshal Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, aka Prince Carl Johan, adopted by the Swedish king, aka the future King Charles XIV. The Danish-Norwegian Union turned into the Swedish-Norwegian Union, but the Danes were left with the old Norwegian colonies – the same Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
During World War II, when Germany occupied Denmark in one day, the British and Americans occupied the kingdom's overseas possessions. Against this backdrop, Iceland declared itself an independent republic in 1944. American military bases appeared here and in Greenland.
During the reign of the current monarch's mother, Queen Margrethe II (who is still alive, but who ceded the throne to her son a year ago), Greenland, like the Faroe Islands, received self-government and is not under the jurisdiction of the European Union.
Both territories periodically raise the question of independence. For example, the far-left party Inuit Atakwatigiit (Eskimo Community), which rules the Greenland Autonomous Region, historically considers Denmark to be almost a prison of nations.
ELIZABETH, YOU WERE RIGHT.
For Denmark, losing the shadow of its former greatness and turning from the second largest country in Europe (after Russia) into a territorial dwarf is a blow to its national prestige. Therefore, although support for all US initiatives, including support for the Kyiv regime, is sacred for all Danish governments, “Greenland is not for sale!” Even if the price of this “non-sale” is a quarrel with the elected US president.
Should we be the third rejoicing in this quarrel?
Russia is doomed to be a neighbor of Denmark, and for a long time we were allies. Since the time of Ivan III, we had common enemies - the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and then Sweden. Several times, rulers tried to conclude dynastic marriages, but only the union of Ivan the Terrible's niece Maria Vladimirovna with Prince Magnus ended successfully.
But the alliance between Russia and Denmark did not stand the test under Elizabeth Petrovna and has not been restored since. Initially, it was due to dynastic reasons.
The daughter of Peter the Great appointed as her heir the Duke of Holstein, Karl Peter Ulrich (the future Peter III), who had irreconcilable territorial contradictions with Copenhagen, and then the Danish King Frederick V entered into a second marriage with Juliana Maria of Brunswick in 1752. The new queen was related to the "Brunswick family" - the same one that Elizabeth overthrew.
Russia and Denmark have never fought each other. But the Danes were Napoleon's allies (for which we must say "thank you" to the English, whose fleet shelled neutral Copenhagen), and after 1814 the country that in ancient times owned half of England found itself in the wake of London's politics.
A bright spot in Danish-Russian relations was the marriage of Tsarevich Alexander Alexandrovich (the future Alexander III ) and the Danish princess Dagmar, in Orthodox baptism Maria Feodorovna. But this episode rather concerned the personal relations of the royal houses - thanks to which, after the revolution of 1917, Maria Feodorovna's nephew Christian X of Denmark provided asylum to his aunt.
After World War II, the Anglo-Saxons finally took Denmark "into development" - in 1949, the country abandoned its 200-year policy of neutrality and enthusiastically joined NATO, designed to protect against the "Russian threat". It is noteworthy that the country joined the European Union in the 1990s with less enthusiasm, and never joined the euro zone.
Now a small (not in terms of territory, but in terms of population and GDP) Scandinavian country holds the palm in terms of supporting Ukraine with funds and weapons and, along with the Balts and Poles, is at the forefront of all possible anti-Russian initiatives. Let us recall that the undermining of the Nord Streams took place in the territorial waters of Denmark. So we certainly should not regret the quarrel between Washington and Copenhagen that is unfolding “out of the blue” thanks to Trump.
Another item checked off before the handover, nonetheless. On the surface, however imperfect, he looks like someone President Trump can work with. and he’s another vote on the Republican side when things get close.
[Politico] Gov. Mike DeWine announced his own Lt. Gov. Jon Husted as the next senator from Ohio, passing over entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
"Jon Husted will be right at home in the United States Senate, and he’ll be at home on day one," DeWine said Friday in a press conference at the statehouse in Columbus.
Husted, a Republican more in DeWine’s institutionalist mold, had long planned to run for governor in 2026 to succeed DeWine. His ascent to the Senate will likely scramble the field in that race.
Ramaswamy learned mid-morning Friday he would not be the pick, according to a person familiar with the discussion and granted anonymity to describe it.
DeWine’s deliberations were upended when Ramaswamy, the billionaire Columbus-area entrepreneur and co-head of the Department of Government Efficiency, made a late appeal for the vacancy. Despite insisting he was interested in running for governor in 2026, the DOGE co-chair was "lobbying like hell" for the Senate post, according to a source familiar with DeWine’s thinking.
"It was bizarre," said this source.
A source close both to Trump world and Ramaswamy said that the Ohio billionaire enjoys the backing of the Trump family.
"They’re not supporters of DeWine," this person, granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the Trump family’s behalf. "They didn’t want to see Husted in the governor race. Trump supports this."
The governor, a former two-term senator himself, is an outspoken internationalist. And in recent years, he has openly expressed unease about his party’s drift toward the sort of isolationism Ramaswamy often voiced in his short-lived presidential bid. DeWine said he called Trump at 10 a.m. today to disclose his pick, but did not disclose their conversations.
"He’s a serious guy for very serious times," said the source of Husted. "And nobody knows the state better."
I wrote in December that Husted was "low-key building a gubernatorial campaign with the support of DeWine. He most likely doesn't want to go to the Senate, but never say never. Until he states publicly that he doesn't want the job, he can't be completely ruled out."
Never say never, indeed.
Husted, 57, has held elected office since 2001, first in the Ohio House (with four years as the speaker) and then in the Ohio Senate. He was elected secretary of state in 2010 and held that position until 2019 when he became the Buckeye State's 66th lieutenant governor.
DeWine had set out some qualifications ahead of his decision:
A good candidate who could both win primaries and keep the seat in Republican hands come 2026 (midterms tend to be challenging for the party in power) and again in 2028
He's looking for someone who wants to serve beyond 2026 rather than a "placeholder" because with seniority in the Senate comes more power
Potential to be productive in the Senate, serving the state's constituents rather than building a celebrity profile.
His press secretary, Dan Tierney, added one additional qualification in an interview with the Dayton Daily News last month: “The only additional thing is the governor served 12 years in U.S. Senate, so he’s got some strong opinions on what he likes to see in a senator. And what you probably know from covering the governor, is when he was in the Senate he really tried to do the work of the Senate in terms of working through the committee process, focusing on legislation, working across the aisle.”
Husted fits the bill with his long history in the legislature and state offices. He knows how to work the levers of power in legislative bodies, which no doubt appealed to DeWine.
Frank LaRose, who had been vying for the open Senate seat, praised Husted on X:
In an apples-to-apples comparison, Husted will be an improvement over moderate Sen. Rob Portman, whose resignation paved the way for Vance's Senate bid, but many Ohioans are still angry about the DeWine/Husted regime's draconian COVID lockdown policies. Husted was famously heckled at a 2020 Trump rally where he tried pushing masks.
Prior to today's announcement, there had been rumors swirling that Vivek Ramaswamy would be chosen, but that was never going to happen. DeWine is, at heart, an institutionalist, and Ramaswamy is a disrupter, which would go against everything in DeWine's long political career. Plus, there are rumors that Ramaswamy will run for governor. That may have been just the writing on the wall that pushed Husted to abandon his gubernatorial hopes. Anyone reading the room would know that Ohio is Trump country, and faced with the choice of a MAGA disrupter or a 20-year politician, voters would opt for the former. The Senate seat may very well have been Husted's consolation prize.
Over the last two years, Husted has built up a significant war chest in his bid to succeed DeWine. He won't be able to use any of that for a future Senate campaign, so it may end up in the coffers of the Ohio Republican Party. I would not be surprised if that played heavily into DeWine's decision.
Two years later, he became Ohio’s Secretary of State and oversaw elections and business registrations. He employed new technology to reduce the average time it takes to register a new business to only a few hours. He also slashed fees for business registration as well.
During his tenure as Ohio’s secretary of state, he ran the office without the use of taxpayer funds and generated a $10 million surplus before he left office.
In his position as lieutenant governor, Husted heads the Office of Workforce Transformation. This department helps to match workers to businesses. He has also been instrumental in decreasing business regulations.
He has focused his entire career, both in the private sector and public service, on creating a strong economy and thriving communities. As Lt. Governor, his work has driven some of the largest economic development deals the state has ever seen, including attracting new investment in every region of the state from companies like Ford, Abbott Labs, Medpace, General Motors, Honda - - and the largest economic development deal in Ohio's history with Intel’s chip manufacturing facility in Licking County.
As Director of the Governor’s Office of Workforce Transformation, he’s worked to ensure our residents have the skills they need so all those new jobs are filled by Ohioans, in addition to attracting new talent to our state. He pioneered new strategies for job training through business (not government)-driven programs like TechCred and Industry Sector Partnerships in order to give new opportunity to every Ohioan.
As senator he will be one of a hundred, able to work at the national level on the things that drive him, and removed from the governor’s race. Governor DeWine knows how to play the game — the Senate Republicans need more people who bring that seasoning. Even if, as Walking Unvaxxed predicts, Mr. Husted does not get reelected in 2026, he can spend the next two years showing his inexperienced colleagues how it’s done.
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Dewine implemented the same Covid policy for retirement homes that was implemented in NY, Michigan and the Dem states with high death rates. I refused to sign his petition for re-election in my county GOP office. The folks weren’t pleased. Husted has an opportunity to tick us off as well. He will be primaried.
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[NYPOST] Israel's full Cabinet on Saturday approved the long-awaited cease-fire deal with Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... that will halt the fighting in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... and allow for the release of dozens of hostages held captive by the terrorist group for 15 months.
Prime Minister's Benjamin Netanyahu's 33-member cabinet signed off on the deal hours after the smaller security cabinet voted to move forward with the agreement that could open the door to permanent peace in the Paleostinian territory.
The cabinet debated for hours into early Saturday and well past the start of the Jewish Sabbath — an emphasis on the importance of the situation — before the high-stakes deal was accepted.
Macron’s announcement comes after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said that the release of hostages held in Gaza since Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack on Israel is expected to begin on Sunday as planned.
“Our fellow citizens Ofer Calderon and Ohad Yahalomi are on the list of 33 hostages to be freed in the first phase of the Gaza accord,” Macron says in a social media post.
“We remain mobilized without pause to ensure their return to their families,” he writes.
Notorious Fatah terrorist Zakaria Zubeidi to be freed in first phase of hostage-ceasefire deal
[IsraelTimes] Notorious Fatah terrorist Zakaria Zubeidi, who was part of a prison break from a high-security detention facility in northern Israel in 2021 before he and the other escapees were again apprehended, is included on the Justice Ministry’s list of Palestinian security prisoners that Israel is slated to release in the first stage of the hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas.
The list in Hebrew published online states that Zubeidi will not be sent abroad, allowing him to return home to the northern West Bank city of Jenin, where he was the commander of Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
The IDF last year killed his son Mohammed alongside several other gunmen in a drone strike, describing the younger Zubeidi as “prominent terrorist from the Jenin area,” which has been a hotbed of terror activity over the past year.
Nobody cares, guys — nobody wants you, not even your own people in the West Bank.
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The IDF will do a better job killing these bastards upon release this time. What are bookies saying. It will only be minutes before one or more are sent to paradise (Hell) after being set loose. Head shots please and no world class surgeons need be present to keep them from the cold embrace of death they yearn.
I think there should have been a provision in the agreement to keep them from doing that. It should be grounds for burning the agreement and a fresh wave of bombings...not to mention continuing missiles from Yemen and Iran.
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[FoxNews] The migrants were mostly Chinese citizens along with citizens from Brazil, Cuba and Ecuador, police said Friday
A group of more than 30 migrants, most of them Chinese citizens, was found inside a U-Haul truck Friday after a report of an alleged abduction, Florida authorities said.
The discovery began when a security guard for a homeowners association in the Miami suburb of Coral Gables reported seeing an abduction around 9:35 a.m., Coral Gables Police Chief Edward James Hudak Jr. told reporters.
The guard reported seeing a Toyota and a U-Haul truck involved in the incident and immediately alerted a patrol officer, the chief said. The officer then issued a BOLO, a be on the lookout alert, for the vehicles.
The vehicles were stopped by officers, and the woman who was allegedly abducted was taken from the Toyota. Officers then began investigating the U-Haul truck, which had 16 Chinese females, 15 Chinese males, one male from Cuba and a female from Ecuador, according to police.
"Officers opened the back of the truck, which revealed 21 predominantly Chinese nationals," Hudak said.
In addition to the migrants in the Toyota were a Cuban man, a Brazilian woman and a man from Ecuador, police said.
"We do believe these individuals were brought here by the water," the chief said. "They were probably dropped off, we're assuming somewhere around the southern end of Coral Gables and approached on foot to the van where they were loaded into.”
Investigators were looking into whether the woman who was possibly being abducted was trying to escape her alleged smugglers. The Coral Gables Fire Department responded to provide medical care to the migrants, who were "tired" but in good condition, police said.
"Today’s event is a prime example of why FDLE is supportive of the governor’s proposed special session to tackle illegal immigration immediately," Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Mark Glass said. "The actions of law enforcement are an integral part in preventing these smuggling ventures that happen too frequently on our southern border."
The migrants were handed over to the U.S. Border Patrol, and four others were taken into police custody related to the incident.
"This started off as a crime," Hudak said. "The police department responded to that alleged crime by a very alert citizen. By that, I mean I think we've saved some lives."
Authorities patrolling the waters near the city stopped several vessels but have not identified the boat in which the migrants were transported, authorities said.
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shouting questions at Blinken about why he had kept "the bombs flowing when we had a deal in May?"
The heart burns, as Fred says. Which reminds me, I’m due to make another batch of chili con carne.
[FoxNews] Secretary of State Antony Blinken's final press conference quickly devolved into chaos Thursday after reporters had to be forcibly removed from the event, including one, an activist, who was physically carried out.
The men were upset that a cease-fire deal between Hamas and Israel had not been reached sooner, accusing Blinken of "genocide" and being a "criminal."
Writer and activist Sam Husseini had to be dragged out of the event by security. Another reporter, Grayzone News' Max Blumenthal, left more peacefully but still had to be escorted out after shouting questions at Blinken about why he had kept "the bombs flowing when we had a deal in May?"
"You pontificate about a free press?" Husseini erupted. "I'm asking questions after being told by Matt Miller that he will not answer my questions, and so I ask them. Wasn't – wasn’t the point of the May 31st statement to block the ICJ orders? You blocked the ICJ orders!"
Blumenthal questioned Blinken on why he had allowed "the Holocaust of our time," as he was escorted out, but that didn't stop the uproar. Blinken kept trying to get back on course amid the interruption, at one point asking people to "respect the process," but Husseini refused.
"Oh, respect the process?" Husseini yelled as he was being carried away. "Respect the process while everybody – everybody from the International – from Amnesty International to the ICJ’s saying that Israel’s doing genocide and extermination, and you’re telling me to respect the process. Criminal! Why aren’t you in The Hague?"
Three security guards ultimately had to grab Husseini in an attempt to remove him from the room. Husseini shouted as he clasped the table he was sitting at while he continued shouting at Blinken: "You're hurting me! You're hurting me!" "Really? How does this feel?"
The United States, Egypt, Qatar, Israel and Hamas agreed this week to a cease-fire deal – the basis of which was proposed by President Joe Biden in May. Israel still has to fully ratify the agreement, but it is a three-phase process that is expected to commence as early as Sunday. The deal marks the first reprieve in fighting since a short truce took place in November 2023, but fighting resumed several days later with both sides arguing violations of the agreed upon deal.
"Three hundred reporters in Gaza were on the receiving end of your bombs. Why did you keep the bombs flowing when we had a deal?" Blumenthal shouted at Blinken, after the secretary of state thanked members for their "hard questions" during the past four years of his tenure. "You all knew we had a deal. Everyone in this room knows we had a deal, Tony, and you kept the bombs flowing."
A spokesperson for the State Department told Fox News Digital that it is committed to advancing press freedom and values the opportunity to regularly communicate with members of the press. But they said the State Department also follows agency norms, which posit that anyone attending department press briefings must act in a professional manner, observe restrictions that may be laid out in advance and not impede other speakers.
[IsraelTimes] Investigation into 2020 explosion that killed more than 220 people, injured thousands and devastated swathes of Lebanon’s capital, restarts after 2-year hiatus
Lebanese judge Tarek Bitar resumed his investigation into the deadly 2020 Beirut port blast on Thursday, charging 10 people including security, customs, and military personnel, a judicial official said.
The fresh charges come after a two-year hiatus in the investigation into the August 4, 2020 explosion that killed more than 220 people, injured thousands, and devastated swathes of Leb ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... ’s capital.
Authorities said the earth-shattering kaboom was triggered by a fire in a warehouse where a huge stockpile of ammonium nitrate fertilizer had been haphazardly stored for years.
But nobody has been held responsible for the blast, one of history’s largest non-nuclear explosions.
The probe stalled two years ago after Lebanese terror group Hezbollah had accused Bitar of bias and demanded his dismissal, and after officials named in the investigation had filed a flurry of lawsuits to prevent it from going forward.
The resumption comes with Hezbollah’s influence weakened after its recent war with Israel.
It also follows the election of a Lebanese president after the top position had been vacant for more than two years, with the new head of state Joseph Aoun last week pledging to work toward the "independence of the judiciary."
The judicial official told AFP that "procedures in the case have resumed," speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered... to discuss sensitive matters.
The official said that "a new charge sheet has been issued, charging three employees and seven high-ranking officers in the Lebanese army, in the General Security, [and] in customs" with negligence and "possible intent to commit murder."
Intent? Oh my.
Their interrogations would begin next month.
In March and April, "investigating sessions" would resume for those previously charged in the case, including former ministers, politicians, security and military officers, judges and port management employees, after which Bitar would ask public prosecutors to issue indictments, according to the judicial official.
’HOPE’
Analysts say Hezbollah’s weakening in its war with Israel last year allowed Lebanon’s deeply divided political class to elect Aoun last week and back his naming of Nawaf Salam as premier on Monday.
Salam, until recently the presiding judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, on Tuesday promised "justice for the victims of the Beirut port blast."
Hundreds of individuals and organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, had previously called for the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... to establish a fact-finding mission on the disaster — a demand Lebanese officials have repeatedly rejected.
Cecile Roukoz, a lawyer whose brother died in the earth-shattering kaboom, said she was optimistic after "the promises made by the president and the prime minister, then the probe resuming."
"There is hope that the rights of the victims, for whom we never stopped fighting, won’t be forgotten," said the attorney, one of several representing the relatives of those killed.
’MUST BE HELD TO ACCOUNT’
Visiting Lebanon on Thursday, UN rights chief Volker Turk called for the "resumption of an independent investigation into the earth-shattering kaboom."
"I repeat that those responsible for that tragedy must be held to account and offer the support of my office in this regard," he said.
The probe has been repeatedly stalled since 2020.
In December of that year, lead investigator Fadi Sawan charged former prime minister Hassan Diab — who had resigned in the earth-shattering kaboom’s aftermath — and three ex-ministers with negligence.
But Sawan was later removed from the case after mounting political pressure, and the probe was suspended.
His successor, Bitar, also summoned Diab for questioning and asked parliament, without success, to lift the immunity of politicians who had served as ministers.
The interior ministry also refused to execute arrest warrants issued by Bitar, further undermining his efforts.
The public prosecutor at the time, Ghassan Oueidat, thwarted his attempt to resume investigations in early 2023 after Bitar charged him in the case.
[IsraelTimes] US Treasury Department designates Yemen Kuwait Bank, saying Houthis exploit Yemeni banking sector to launder money and transfer funds to Hezbollah, facilitate Iran oil sales
The US on Friday imposed sanctions on a Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... -based financial institution that Washington accused of financially supporting the Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s, as President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family... ’s administration sought to further pressure the hard boy group before Biden leaves office.
The US Treasury Department in a statement said it imposed sanctions on Yemen Kuwait Bank, accusing it of helping the Houthis exploit the Yemeni banking sector to launder money and transfer funds to allies, including Leb ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... ’s Hezbollah.
The US additionally said the bank helped the Houthis establish and finance front companies to facilitate Iranian oil sales.
The Houthis seized power in Yemen in late 2014 and control over most parts of the country including the capital Sanaa.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, the Houthis have launched some 40 ballistic missiles at Israel as well as dozens of drone attacks since Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... invaded Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages, starting the multifront war. Israel has responded by striking Houthi areas on several occasions.
The Iran-backed Houthis have also carried out more than 100 attacks on ships since November 2023. They have sunk two vessels, seized another, and killed at least four seafarers. The intensity of the attacks has disrupted global shipping and prompted route changes.
The attacks have disrupted international commerce, forcing some ships to take the long route around southern Africa rather than the Suez Canal, leading to increases in insurance rates, delivery costs, and time that stoked global inflation fears.
The US alongside Britannia launched a multinational operation in December 2023 to safeguard commerce in the Red Sea and has repeatedly conducted Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Houthi strongholds targeting weapons storage facilities.
Biden’s action, ahead of the inauguration on Monday of President-elect Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... , freezes any of Yemen Kuwait Bank’s US assets and generally bars Americans from dealing with it. Those who engage in certain transactions with it also risk being hit with US sanctions.
Earlier Friday, thousands of Yemenis crowded the capital to express their support for the Houthis, who say they will maintain pressure on Israel despite the imminent Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ceasefire and hostage deal, due to begin Sunday.
Every week for the past 15 months, people have filled the center of the rebel-held city on the Moslem day of prayer and rest to chant their backing for the Paleostinians.
A Houthi rebel, Khaled al-Matri, told AFP he supported the ceasefire deal for Gaza.
But he added: "We will not give in until the disappearance of the Zionist state, God willing", before breaking into chants of "Death to America, death to Israel!"
[IsraelTimes] Ministry official says new protocols differ ‘significantly’ from November 2023 hostage release, as captives to return from over 15 months in captivity
Dr. Hagar Mizrahi, head of the Health Ministry’s General Medicine Division, said the updated protocols differs "significantly" from those implemented for hostages released during the temporary ceasefire deal of November 2023, when 105 hostages were released.
Returnees will be emerging from more than 15 months in captivity.
"There is a risk that returning hostages may develop Refeeding Syndrome," Dr. Mizrahi explained. "This condition arises when individuals deprived of food during captivity attempt to compensate by consuming carbohydrates, potentially leading to serious harm."
Mizrahi said there will be documentation and collection of forensic evidence from any cruelties hostages have suffered. Among other things, hostages will undergo tests for sexually transmitted diseases, with female abductees given pregnancy tests.
The protocol advises a minimum hospital stay of four days for returning hostages. Mizrahi noted that some of the previously released hostages eventually regretted leaving earlier than recommended, suggesting extended stays could better support their recovery.
The guidelines emphasize the need for heightened attention to hygiene, due to concerns of potential exposure to pathogens during captivity.
The ministry also urges families and visitors to avoid taking photos or posting updates on social media from hospital premises, warning such actions could inadvertently harm the recovery process of those freed from Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... captivity.
Earlier in the week, before the agreement was signed, Dr. Noa Ziv of Schneider Children’s Medical Center said there was a major difference between the condition of the hostages returning now and the 105 civilians released during a week-long truce in late November 2023.
"We saw that the hostages then were in a difficult state, although they faced few medical issues," Ziv told The Times of Israel this week. "That was after about 50 days of captivity. One can only speculate about the complex health and mental states the hostages will be in after 466 days in captivity."
Ziv, who conducted a groundbreaking study about the 19 children and seven women who were released in November, said the hostages exhibited the effects of psychological terror due to warfare strategies that included isolation, intimidation, deprivation of food and water, and emotional abuse.
When Hamas released the 105 civilians, the hostages went to one of six Israeli hospitals: Soroka Medical Center, Sheba Medical Center, Wolfson Medical Center, Ichilov Medical Center, Shamir Medical Center, and Schneider Children’s Medical Center.
Israel says 98 hostages are currently held in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , including the bodies of at least 36 confirmed dead by the IDF.
The agreed-upon first phase of the deal will see Hamas release 33 "humanitarian" hostages over 42 days — children, women, female soldiers, the elderly and the sick. Israel believes most of the 33 are alive but that some are dead. Jerusalem has not yet received word on each hostage’s status.
[TennesseeStar] Todd Bensman Uncovers Billions of U.S. Taxpayer Money Funding United Nations Agencies, NGOs Aiding and Assisting Illegal Migrants
Todd Bensman, a senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, is bringing attention to the billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars that are continuing to fund United Nations agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that work to aid and assist migrants in crossing into the country illegally.
In a recent article published by the Daily Wire, Bensman revealed that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) continue to be funded with billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to support migrants “engaging in transit and onward movements” to the U.S. southern border.
Bensman’s report is based on data published in the UN’s 2025-2026 Regional Refugee and Migrant Response Plan.
“There are hundreds of these organizations that have grown very fat with profit, even though they’re nonprofits, to aid, assist, and abet the mass migration to our border. A lot of them are U.S.-based, a lot of other ones are international, but the United Nations put together an organization of them, a coordinated group, a conglomeration, of NGOs and about 15 UN agencies together in Latin America in 2019 and every year they’ve been spending $1.5 billion handing out food supplies, cash debit cards, transportation, shelter, basically supporting the migration and even incentivizing some of that to our border – predominantly paid for by U.S. taxpayers,” Bensman explained on Wednesday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
“They’re just being showered with U.S. tax money. That’s how this whole thing works,” Bensman added.
Bensman said taxpayer money funding the UN-based groups encouraging illegal immigration into the U.S. is still expected to flow under the incoming Trump administration in an effort to “induce failure” during the new administration.
“They’re still looking at $1.4 billion to support all of those migrants, to keep the pressure on the U.S. border, maybe to induce failure, this is my speculation, or just to not to give up and keep 2.5 million migrants, foreign nationals, sustained and on the trail pushing ever forward or to just wait out the Trump administration and hope a friendlier Democrat gets into office in four years. The point is, it’s still going on there,” Bensman said.
Bensman said the funding of such agencies is a “legitimate public policy debate” which Republican lawmakers – given their majorities in the U.S. House and Senate as well as the White House – should discuss.
“Maybe there ought to be some defunding. Maybe there ought to be some accountability or transparency. Maybe they ought to be rolled back, because the American people don’t like this. They don’t like this,” Bensman said.
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Zero out those budgets. One of easiest cuts DOGE can recommend. Bring Michael Yon in to testify before Congress and then bring in the heads of the agencies and NGOs raking in the budgets.
[FOXNEWS] The FBI assistant special agent in charge who told the media and the public the New Orleans attack was "not a terrorist event" has been reassigned, Fox News has learned. She used the 'T' word
Multiple sources tell Fox News that FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Alethea Duncan has been temporarily reassigned following her initial presser in which she stated: "This is not a terrorist event."
It was terrorism.
After the original presser, the FBI put out a statement using the word "terrorism." Attorney General Merrick Garland and President Biden also used the word "terrorism" in their statements.
No other details were offered about Duncan's new position, but she is still with the FBI.
The FBI declined to comment.
Authorities say that Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42,had an ISIS flag in his truck when he drove it into a crowd full of New Year's revelers on Bourbon Street, killing 14 and injuring dozens of others. After plowing through the crowd, he jumped out of his truck and began shooting at local coppers, who returned fire and killed him.
[Breitbart] “The Legislature will address illegal immigration, condominiums, petition initiatives, and hurricane recovery this Session, which starts in 50 days,” Perez and Albritton said in their statement, adding, “Calling a special session at this time is premature.”
“It is completely irresponsible to get out ahead of any announcements President Trump will make, especially when uninformed or ill-timed state action could potentially impair or impede the success of President Trump’s forthcoming efforts to end illegal immigration, close our borders, and protect the sovereignty of our nation,” they added.
We were told these marches were to bring about a cease-fire, not intimidate the Jewish community. We now have a cease-fire. The marches are carrying on regardless. https://t.co/wSxNK265ts
Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Palestinian Forum in Britain
Friends of Al-Aqsa
Stop the War Coalition
Muslim Association of Britain
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22.53 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's Headquarters on January 17, where the production of drones and the missile program were discussed. Zelensky announced this in his evening address.
21:52 A volunteer girl from Belarus, Maria Zaitseva, has died on the front in Ukraine. This was reported by Belarusian media. It is noted that the girl died in battles near Bakhmut, where she fought as part of the 2nd International Legion. She turned 24 on January 16, and she died on the morning of the 17th.
20.36 During the missile strike by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on December 30 on the Russian headquarters in the city of Lgov in the Kursk region, three lieutenant colonels of the 76th division of the Russian airborne troops were killed. This is reported by the Russian media.
18.45 Russia and Iran have signed a new bilateral cooperation agreement called the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty. The document was signed by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. The agreement does not seem to provide for mutual defense in the event of an attack and does not mention specific countries or military blocs.
18.40 A lieutenant of the Russian FSB, who threatened with a weapon and raped two girls in the Kherson region, received a sentence in absentia - 12 years of imprisonment. This was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General.
18.22 In Krivoy Rog, the number of victims as a result of the Russian ballistic missile strike has increased to nine people. The number of fatalities has not changed - four people. Emergency rescue operations have been completed. January 20 has been declared a day of mourning in Krivoy Rog.
18.19 A driver who tried to escape from the TCC after being stopped by police on the Kiev-Odesa highway has been detained. This was reported by the Patrol Police of the Odessa Region. The patrol officers drew up a number of administrative materials on the man and handed him over to the employees of the TCC and the SP.
18:09 Servicemen of the 79th separate airborne assault Tavricheskaya brigade stormed a Russian position in the Novopavlovsk direction and captured seven Russian servicemen. This was reported by the brigade's press service on Friday, January 17.
17.25 Russian troops have moved to a completely new level of attacks on the energy system this winter and are using all available weapons for this, which causes significantly greater damage and complicates the restoration of facilities. This was reported by Energy Minister German Galushchenko during the "hour of questions to the government" in the Verkhovna Rada.
16.39 Russian oil refineries last year cut oil processing to a 12-year low of about 267 million tonnes due to unscheduled maintenance after Ukrainian drone attacks and falling margins, Reuters reports .
16:32 President Volodymyr Zelensky posthumously awarded the title Hero of Ukraine to senior soldier Dmitry Maslovsky of the 71st separate ranger brigade of the Airborne Assault Troops. This was reported on the president's Telegram channel.
Also today, the President awarded orders to soldiers who managed to capture the first soldiers from North Korea in the Kursk direction. The Order of the 3rd degree - Bohdan Khmelnytsky and For Courage - was awarded to paratroopers of the 95th separate airborne assault brigade and soldiers of the Special Operations Forces of Ukraine - the Separate Special Operations Center West named after Prince Izyaslav Mstislavich.
15.39 In the Zaporizhia direction, Russian troops used a drone to attack a car in which Ukrainian Witness journalist Margarita Potapova and cameraman Alexander Davydenko were located. This is stated in the team's report .
14.58 A man who had previously buried his wife in the then occupied Kherson lost his second wife to Russian war criminals on Friday, January 17. She was killed by debris in her own car.
14.49 Operators of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed a group of Russians who executed captured TRO fighters. Three occupiers surrendered and are already giving testimony. This was reported by the press service of the SSO on Friday, January 17.
14:27 Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky took part in an extraordinary meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Council in a military format at the level of commanders-in-chief of the Armed Forces and presented the allies with Ukraine's strategy of action for 2025. The general reported this on Friday, January 17.
13:50 In Kryvyi Rih, the death toll from the Russian missile strike has risen to four. Another six people were injured. Two five-story buildings, an educational institution, and an unused building were damaged.
13:35 Law enforcement officers detained a Russian agent in Odessa who was adjusting Russian missile and drone strikes on local locations of the Defense Forces. For the sake of secrecy, the agent grew long hair and pretended to be a girl.
13:01 Russian aggressors attacked Krivoy Rog with ballistic missiles. At least three people were killed and there are wounded. According to the Dnepropetrovsk OVA, an educational institution and residential buildings were damaged in the city.
12:53 Basic combined arms training (BCT) for students of higher education institutions will begin in September 2025 and will include 300 academic hours. This was reported by Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Brigadier General of Justice Serhiy Melnyk.
12:13 A person injured in the shelling of the city on January 8 has died in a hospital in Zaporizhia. The death toll has risen to 14. This was reported by the head of the Zaporizhia OVA Ivan Fedorov on the air of a telethon on Friday, January 17.
11:44 Three Kyiv residents tried to flee to Transnistria , pretending to be military personnel. They were detained in the Odessa region. The violators were brought to administrative responsibility. The cases are already in court.
10:56 The Security Service exposed the chief accountant of one of the branches of Ukrzaliznytsia in the Poltava region as collaborating with the FSB. The agent's "liaison" turned out to be her husband, a militant of the Russian occupation groups fighting against Ukraine on the eastern front.
10:25 Law enforcement officers are conducting more than 200 searches in 19 regions of Ukraine as part of the investigation into cases of illegal border crossing by conscripts. According to the National Police, this concerns violations committed through fraud, document forgery, unauthorized interference in the operation of electronic registers and bribery of officials.
9:59 Ukrainian Defense Forces hit radar equipment of Russian troops. Soldiers struck targets in the Belgorod region. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
9:46 Russia attacked Ukraine with drones and ballistic missiles on the night of January 17. One of the drones flew into Romania. This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
8:58 Over the past 24 hours, January 16, the Russians exerted the most pressure in the Pokrovsk direction. In total, 141 battles took place on the front. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
8:47 Russian troops destroyed some positions of the Ukrainian forces in the Pokrovsk direction. The defense forces are taking measures to prevent the tactical situation from worsening. This was reported by the OSGV Khortytsya.
8:32 The Russians equipped the headquarters of the Russian Armed Forces in one of the civilian facilities in the temporarily occupied Crimea. The invaders also use civilian transport for movement. This was reported by the partisan movement Atesh.
7:59 On the night of January 17, Russian war criminals struck the Izmail district of the Odessa region during an air attack using drones. The target of the shelling was the local port infrastructure.
7:48 Over the past 24 hours from January 16 to 17, Russians have lost 1,670 soldiers at the front. This is evidenced by data from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
7:28 The North Korean contingent of about 12,000 people fighting against Ukrainian defense forces in the Kursk region may be killed or destroyed in the next three months. This is the conclusion reached in a report by analysts from the American Institute for the Study of War.
5:29 Russian troops captured Peschanoye, Slavyanka, Yasenovo in Donbass, and also advanced near Novoandriivka, Dachnoye, Kotlinoe, Zverevoye, in Vremovka and Chasovy Yar, DeepState reported.
1:30 In one of the settlements of the Kyiv region, a child was injured due to falling debris from a downed UAV. Also, due to falling debris, a fire occurred in a cafe-shop and an attached boiler room on an area of about 200 square meters.
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.
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
In 2012, a newspaper report on the grooming led to a major government inquiry, which two years later found that at least 1,400 children had been subjected to sexual exploitation in 
...Arabic term meaning 
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....
[Regnum] On Friday, January 17, in the Kremlin,Russian and Iranian Presidents Vladimir Putin and Masoud Pezeshkian signed an agreement on a comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries.
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
CNN host 
A Republican congressman, whose district covers part of the southern border, is introducing legislation that would take a step closer to declaring 
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] CNN star 
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
[TennesseeStar] Todd Bensman Uncovers Billions of U.S. Taxpayer Money Funding United Nations Agencies, NGOs Aiding and Assisting Illegal Migrants
[FOXNEWS] The FBI assistant special agent in charge who told the media and the public the 
