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In my enthusiasm for efficiency, the IDF says it struck Hezbollah arms convoy article was stacked with Israeli airstrikes wound 24 in Lebanon as both are about the same event from opposite perspectives.
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Easy on the Eyes, or, The Goofy Shoefi
The Mollah thought something not right
With Ms. Hyers's feet in the night.
In a canine inflection:
"I'll make an inspection
And issue an edict. More light!"
More normalcy now that Donald Trump is returned to the White House.
[IsraelTimes] Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announces that Israel will be opening an embassy in Zambia.
A statement from the Foreign Ministry calls Zambia a “friend of Israel” and says opening an embassy there will advance bilateral relations and is also “part of a broader move to strengthen relations with countries in Africa.” Sa’ar invites his Zambian counterpart, Mulambo Haimbe, to visit Israel.
Diplomat Ofra Farhi currently serves as a non-residential ambassador to Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana. Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema visited Israel in August 2023. Zambia and Israel re-established ties in 1991 and the African nation opened an embassy in Tel Aviv in 2015.
…a project launched last October by the March 30 Movement, itself named in memory of the Palestinian general strike on that date in 1976 in the West Bank against the Israeli government, since referred to as Land Day. Both groups are lawfare boiler rooms generating endless lawsuits against Israelis and those who support Israel in Western Europe and elsewhere, and between times propagandizing against Israel using the currently fashionable far left shibboleths. March 30 is the hobby of lawyer Haroon Raza, appearing at the end of 2023, but at bottom it’s a Hezbollah front founded by Dyab Abou Jahjah (Dyab Abu Jahjah) …
says that its president recently filed a criminal complaint against Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli for allegedly “making terrorist threats against him.”
Chikli was forced to cancel a visit to the European Parliament in Brussels this week, reportedly over concerns that pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel groups would seek a warrant for his arrest after Belgium officials said that he would not have diplomatic immunity due to the unofficial nature of the visit.
The foundation, which is named for a 6-year-old Gazan girl killed in January 2024, has sparked alarm in Israel recently by seeking the arrest of Israeli officials and soldiers traveling abroad over alleged war crimes.
The foundation says in a statement that its founder, Dyab Abou Jahjah,
…a serial founder of Hezbollah fronts — his first, the Arab European League, was stirring up trouble between Moslem colonists and native Europeans since 2002……
filed a criminal complaint accusing Chikli of “making terrorist threats against him, a Belgian national, with the intent to intimidate and suppress the foundation’s advocacy for justice and accountability for war crimes.”
The complaint cites a comment made by Chikli on X on January 6, in which he told Abou Jahjah to “watch your pager,” in reference to the Hezbollah pagers detonated by Israel in a September operation.
“By evoking this event, Mr. Chikli threats Mr. Abou Jahjah with death or at least with the intentional infliction of blows and injuries resulting in mutilation,” the foundation says, charging that Chikli’s comment “constitutes an act of terrorism under Belgian law.”
The foundation claims that the reason Chikli wouldn’t have had diplomatic immunity while in Belgium was not because his visit was unofficial, but rather due to “Belgium’s commitment to upholding its international obligations to address crimes effectively.”
[IsraelTimes] UAE-based advanced defense technology group EDGE will invest $10 million to buy a 30% stake in Israel’s Thirdeye Systems, a developer of AI-based electro-optical systems to detect drone threats.
The deal is subject to approval by Israel’s Defense Ministry. The Netanya-based defense tech startup says that Abu Dhabi’s EDGE group has also committed to investing $12 million to create a joint venture with Thirdeye that will be tasked with development and sales of electro-optical object recognition systems to new global regions and markets.
Founded in 2010 by CEO Lior Segal, Yoel Motola and Gil Barak, Thirdeye develops fully automated electro-optical scanning systems to detect fast-evolving threats on the battlefield, including UAVs and enemy drones.
EDGE, an Abu Dhabi-based conglomerate of private firms and government-owned bodies, has 25 subsidiaries and employs 12,000 workers across various sectors: defense platforms and systems; missiles and precision-guided weapons; cyber defense; electronic warfare and intelligence; and mission support.
[IsraelTimes] The Hezbollah terror group has reportedly handed over an underground missile facility to the Lebanese Armed Forces, as Jerusalem and Beirut agreed to extend the deadline for Israeli troops to depart southern Lebanon as part of a truce that came into effect in late November.
Al-Arabiya reports that the subterranean facility in southern Lebanon, which has large tunnels through which trucks can drive, was emptied of all heavy equipment before the LAF took control of it.
The Saudi-owned outlet airs footage purporting to show Lebanese troops inspecting the premises.
Hezbollah boasted about the missile facility, dubbed Imad 4, in an August propaganda video — before Israel launched its military campaign that wiped out most of the Iran-backed terror group’s top leadership, including long-time chief Hassan Nasrallah.
Israel has said that it needs to stay past the 60-day deadline stipulated in the ceasefire agreement to ensure that Hezbollah does not reestablish its presence in southern Lebanon, because the LAF has not deployed to all areas south of the Litani River — about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the border with Israel, as agreed.
The White House said in a statement on Sunday that the deadline for the IDF to withdraw has been extended to February 18.
[IsraelTimes] The United States transferred some 90 Patriot air defense interceptors from Israel to Poland this week to then deliver them to Ukraine, Axios reports, citing three sources with knowledge of the operation.
The US took 90 Patriot air defense interceptors out of storage in Israel and sent them to Poland to pass on to Ukraine this week, according to a Tuesday report that cited three unnamed sources familiar with the matter.
The sources told Axios that Ukraine asked the US to pass on the Patriot interceptors to it after Israel announced that it was decommissioning the air defense system, though Israel had dragged its feet at first for fear of retaliation from Russia.
One of the sources, a Ukrainian official, was cited as saying that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dodged Ukrainian calls on the issue for weeks and only agreed to discuss it after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky refused to take calls from him on the issue of ultra-Orthodox Israelis making their annual Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage to Uman.
Spokespeople for Netanyahu denied that there was any connection between Israel agreeing to the transfer of the interceptors and Uman. They also confirmed to Axios that Israel returned a Patriot system to the US but said they didn’t know if it was then delivered to Ukraine.
Another source, an Israeli official, was quoted as saying that Israel had notified Russia of the interceptors’ transfer back to the US, while emphasizing that the Jewish state was "only returning the Patriot system to the US."
The Pentagon and the US European Command declined Axios’s request for comment.
Throughout the war in Ukraine, Israel has consistently condemned Russia’s invasion, but only provided limited support to Ukraine, including humanitarian aid and an aerial warning system — not weaponry, despite repeated pleas from Kyiv.
Overall, Israel produced a relatively restrained response to the invasion due to Russia’s widespread military presence in Syria, Israel’s northern neighbor, and the need to balance security interests at home and policy abroad while maintaining relations with both Moscow and Kyiv.
The Israeli Air Force began fazing out the use of the Patriot system last year in favor of more advanced Israeli-made air defenses.
As the Patriot, which was known in Israel as "Yahalom" (diamond), was retired for good, its staff was retrained to work with the Iron Dome instead and the remaining batteries and interceptors have since been put in storage.
The US-made system officially entered Israeli service in 1991 but only made its first interception in 2014, downing a Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... drone launched from 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.
Over the following decade, the system, designed to shoot down aircraft, intercepted only some 10 targets, according to the military, including Syrian fighter jets that breached Israeli airspace in 2014 and 2018.
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Soros-tied Celeste Wallander, who became Biden's top military strategist in Ukraine, has been booted from the Pentagon. I'm told she is no longer employed by DOD.
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Not much to be found about Wallander on the nets.
Washington, January 27, 2025 — The Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is delighted to welcome Celeste Wallander as an adjunct senior fellow.
Most recently, Wallander served in the Biden administration as the 29th assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs. In this role, she led U.S. defense policy in support of Ukraine following Russia’s February 2022 invasion, organized U.S. policy on modernizing NATO, and managed U.S. national security policy toward Europe, NATO, Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia, the Middle East, and Africa.
“Celeste brings a wealth of insight, experience, and leadership on the most critical issues facing the transatlantic community,” said Andrea Kendall-Taylor, senior fellow and director of the Transatlantic Security Program. “We are thrilled to welcome her onto our team and look forward to partnering with her on the Center’s research agenda.”
The Transatlantic Security Program aims to contribute to a stronger and more cohesive transatlantic partnership through research and analysis on Russia, Ukraine, European politics, and more. They also produce the Brussels Sprouts podcast, providing weekly updates on transatlantic relations and foreign policy.
Wallander is currently a senior advisor with the strategy firm WestExec Advisors. During the Obama administration, she served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia before serving as special assistant to the president and senior director for Russia/Central Asia on the National Security Council. From 2017 to 2022, she was the president and chief executive officer of the U.S. Russia Foundation. Wallander is the author of more than 90 publications on European and Eurasian security issues, focusing especially on NATO, Russia, and Ukraine.
[Rudaw] Thousands of Arab settlers have left the Kurdish city of Afrin in northern Syria and returned to their hometowns since the fall of Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... ’s regime, a local council member said on Monday, and over 70 thousand Kurds have returned.
"The local police in Afrin have given us the latest figures, saying that 71,000 Kurds have returned to their homes in Afrin, but it is not clear how many families they are," Azad Osman, an Afrin local council member, told Rudaw.
Osman, however, lamented that "gangs" have occupied Kurdish houses, demanding money as ransom for returning the properties.
"They continue to take money from the Kurds who are returning," Osman stated. "Some groups either take no money or very little, but the al-Amshat group requires a lot of money and they now charge $1,000 to $1,500 for any family that wants to return to the area they control."
The Suleiman Shah Brigade, also known as al-Amshat after its commander Mohammad Hussein al-Jassim (Abu Amsha), is sanctioned by the US Treasury over grave human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. violations committed in Afrin, including abductions and extortion.
Osman said they expect all Arab settlers to leave Afrin by May "because they want to return to their hometowns," adding that thousands continue to leave the Kurdish city.
The return process to Afrin has also seen arrests. Osman said that young people returning have been detained by gangs on charges of links to the Kurdish-led administration in Rojava.
According to Osman, an administrative decision has been made to replace gangs in Afrin with a local police force - a decision he called "important" for the city’s Kurds.
"With the withdrawal of the gangs, the police force will replace them," he said.
Afrin, previously under the control of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), was seized by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... and its allied Syrian militia groups in a military campaign code-named Operation Olive Branch in 2018. The YPG is the backbone of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) that control northeast Syria.
Hundreds of thousands of Kurds fled Afrin in the face of the offensive, mostly residing in the nearby Shahba region.
As a coalition of rebels led by the Islamist Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS) were marching on Damascus and toppling Assad’s regime, Ankara-backed gunnies who call themselves the Syrian National Army (SNA) attacked the SDF in Shahba and took control of the area, causing a new wave of displacement from the region to other areas under Kurdish control.
[Rudaw] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Sunday arrested two suspected Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) members in a security operation in northeast Syria’s Qamishli city.
"Following extensive investigations, intelligence gathering, and surveillance, our forces identified the cell’s hideout and successfully raided the location, dismantling the terrorist cell and capturing two terrorists, Osama Muhammad al-Ahmad and Issa Muhammad al-Ahmad," the SDF said in a statement.
It accused the alleged ISIS members of plotting to carry out explosions in Qamishli "to spread terror and sow chaos among the civilian population."
The SDF and its international allies have fought to prevent an ISIS resurgence since the group attempted to take advantage of the Islamist-led rebel takeover of Damascus and the fall of the former Syrian regime last month.
On Friday, the SDF said that they arrested two ISIS leaders in eastern Syria’s Deir ez-Zor province.
On Tuesday, the SDF revealed they had arrested more than 270 ISIS members in 2024.
The SDF announced on Tuesday that it carried out nearly 100 operations against ISIS in 2024, resulting in the capture of 270 suspected members, including high-ranking leaders.
[Rudaw] Around 150 high-ranking Syrian military officers remain in Iraq and all other soldiers who previously fled to Iraq after the fall of Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... ’s regime have been repatriated, the mayor of a border district said Sunday.
"Besides 150, mostly high-ranking officials, who have not returned and been sent to Baghdad, all others [Syrian soldiers] have returned to Syria," Imad al-Dulaimi, the district mayor of Rutba in Anbar province, told Rudaw.
"No Syrian soldiers are left in the camp where they were settled about a month and a half ago," he added.
Iraq said in mid-December that it had sent back approximately 2,000 Syrian soldiers, who had sought refuge in the country a day before the collapse of the Assad regime to Syrian authorities.
The soldiers fled to Iraq through the al-Qaim border crossing on December 7. Iraqi officials said at the time that they had entered the country with Baghdad’s permission.
Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS) led a blistering offensive against Assad’s Syrian army in late November, ending over five decades of Baathist rule in less than two weeks.
Thousands of former Syrian soldiers have surrendered to HTS under a national reconciliation process aimed at reintegrating Assad's former forces into the new administration.
[IsraelTimes] Armed with hard-won experience from first release, central Israel medical center preps rooms and staff amid speculation that 10 foreign nationals could be released in side deal
At least 31 Thai nationals were among the more that 250 people kidnapped from southern Israel on October 7, 2023. Nearly 16 months later, eight of them remain in captivity.
As speculation ramps up over a possible side arrangement that would free the eight and two other foreign nationals, Shamir Medical Center in central Israel is gearing up for the possibility that it may once again be tasked with the challenging but rewarding job of treating them upon their released.
The hospital near Rishon Lezion — one of six medical centers preparing to receive hostages, according to the Health Ministry — was the first stop for 23 Thai nationals and one Filipino who were released by Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... in late November 2023 as part of a deal brokered by 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... between the Paleostinian terror group and Bangkok. It did not receive any Israeli hostages.
"Although it was complicated, we did, objectively speaking, an amazing, amazing job," recalled Dr. Osnat Levtzion-Korach, the director of the hospital formerly known as Assaf Harofeh.
Levtzion-Korach told The Times of Israel that when the medical center took in the foreign nationals, it "involved a lot of common sense because no one knew what to do."
This time, they are armed with that experience and will have teams and procedures in place to best help those emerging from Gazook captivity.
"We will be privileged to treat them again," she said.
There are eight Thai nationals still 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... : Surasak Lamnau, Pingsa Nattapong, Bannawat Seathao, Sathian Suwankam, Sriaoun Watchara, and Pongsak Tanna, as well as Sudthisak Rinthalak and Sonthaya Oakkharasr, both of whom are confirmed dead.
Nepal’s Bipin Joshi and the remains of slain Tanzanian captive Joshua Loitu Mollel are also thought likely to be released alongside the eight Thai hostages.
The Thais are not part of the 33 Israeli hostages expected to be set free during the first stage of a hostage-ceasefire deal agreed to by Israel and Hamas earlier this month.
Seven Israeli women have so far been released under that arrangement, with Jerusalem freeing hundreds of Paleostinian prisoners in exchange. The rest of the hostages are set to be released in later stages of the deal, which have yet to be negotiated.
[IsraelTimes] Visiting position on Syrian side of Mount Hermon, Katz vows Israel will not allow ‘hostile forces’ to gain a foothold in area, or be dependent on others for security in area
Defense Minister Israel Katz said during a visit to the Syrian side of Mount Hermon on Tuesday that the Israel Defense Forces will remain there indefinitely, apparently backtracking on repeated assurances from Israel that the move was temporary.
"The IDF will remain at the summit of the Hermon and the security zone indefinitely to ensure the security of the communities of the Golan Heights and the north, and all the residents of Israel," Katz said, apparently referring to a buffer zone on the Syrian side of the border that Israel seized following the fall of the Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... regime last month.
"We will not allow hostile forces to establish themselves in the security zone in southern Syria... we will act against any threat," he said. "We will not be dependent on others for our security."
Katz said Israel will make contact with "friendly populations" in the southern Syria area, "with an emphasis on the large Druze community which has historic and close family relations with our Druze brothers in Israel."
The defense minister visited an army post at the Mount Hermon summit, where he held an assessment with senior officers and spoke with troops, according to his office.
Israel has previously described its takeover of the buffer zone as a temporary measure aimed at preventing hostile forces from taking advantage of the power vacuum in Syria to enter the strategic zone and threaten Israeli territory.
Katz’s remarks came as the IDF published footage showing the construction of what it called a "temporary" army posts atop the Syrian side of Mount Hermon, where troops have been deployed since last month.
The military says the Technological and Logistics Directorate provided troops with insulated structures and equipment to reside on the mountain during the harsh winter weather.
Among the structures erected in the army posts is a medical building that is equipped to treat cold weather injuries.
The IDF provided the forces with generators, heating devices, and clothing and shoes for snow.
After the fall of Assad’s regime in Syria on December 8, the country’s de facto leader, Ahmad al-Sharaa, responded to Israeli concerns and offered reassurance that the new Syrian government would not threaten the Jewish state or allow 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... to reestablish itself in Syria.
Sharaa has also asserted that Israel had a right to target Iranian-backed forces, who supported Assad and backed Hezbollah, prior to the former Syrian leader’s fall, but he said that Israel has no legitimate basis to keep operating in Syria since the regime change.
Israel has also signaled its desire to have "correct ties" with the new regime, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in early December, but "if this regime allows Iran to reestablish itself in Syria, or allows the transfer of Iranian weapons or any other weapons to Hezbollah, or attacks us, we will respond forcefully and we will exact a heavy price from it."
Israel and Syria do not have diplomatic relations and have formally been in a state of war since Israel declared independence in 1948.
While the fall of the Assad regime, which stood for over five decades, could provide a historic opportunity for recognition between Israel and its neighbor, the Jewish state maintains concern that the new leadership in Syria could lead to further chaos and serve as a breeding ground for a resurgence of terror in the region.
[IsraelTimes] US representative tells Security Council Jerusalem justified in effort to shutter UN agency over its ties to Hamas, rejects claims that doing so will spark humanitarian disaster
Breaking with the previous Biden administration, the Trump administration came out on Tuesday in favor of Israeli legislation to sever Jerusalem’s ties with the UN relief agency for Paleostinian refugees UNRWA and to severely restrict its operations 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 the West Bank.
"It is Israel’s sovereign decision to close UNRWA’s offices in Jerusalem on January 30. The United States supports the implementation of this decision," US chargé d’affaires ad interim Dorothy Shea said in remarks during the UN Security Council’s monthly session on the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict.
The Biden administration raised concerns over the extent to which Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... has managed to infiltrate UNRWA and moved to freeze US funding to the agency following revelations that a number of its members actively participated in Hamas’s October 7 onslaught.
However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... it came out against Congress’s decision to extend that freeze to this coming March — when politicians are expected to maintain the hold indefinitely.
Biden officials argued that UNRWA plays too essential of a role in Gaza’s humanitarian operations, and that it therefore should not be shuttered. It is behind many logistical aspects of aid delivery, including storage and transport.
The Knesset legislation passed last fall also bars Israeli officials from any contact with UNWRA, which the agency says will lead to the collapse of its operations in Gaza and the West Bank where coordination with Israeli authorities is essential.
Israel after passing the legislation said it would work with international organizations to ensure that a vacuum in the humanitarian effort would not be created by UNRWA’s departure, but Israeli officials have acknowledged to The Times of Israel that those preparations have not yet been completed as the law comes into place.
These concerns were not voiced by Trump’s interim envoy at the UN, who echoed Israeli stances questioning the UN’s objectivity.
"We are concerned about reports that returned Israeli hostages were held by Hamas in UN facilities during their prolonged captivity in Gaza. It is vital for a full and independent investigation to assess these very serious allegations," Shea said. "Unfortunately, this follows a pattern of serious allegations on the misuse of UN facilities — particularly UNRWA facilities — by Hamas terrorists."
For his part, UNRWA’s chief told the UN Security Council that the ban — due to come into effect on Thursday — would be disastrous and cripple the body’s work in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of UNRWA, claimed the ban would "heighten instability and deepen despair in the occupied Paleostinian territory at a critical moment," undermine the ceasefire in Gaza, and sabotage the enclave’s recovery and political transition.
"The relentless assault on UNRWA is harming the lives and future of Paleostinians across the occupied Paleostinian territory. It is eroding their trust in the international community, jeopardizing any prospect for peace and security," he contended.
Shea, in turn, criticized UNRWA for "exaggerating the effects" of the Knesset legislation by "irresponsibly and dangerously... suggesting that they will force the entire humanitarian response to halt."
"What is needed is a nuanced discussion about how we can ensure that there is no interruption in the delivery of humanitarian aid and essential services," the US envoy said.
"UNRWA is not — and never has been — the only option for providing humanitarian assistance in Gaza. Many other agencies have experience and expertise to do this work and have done this work," she said, echoing the Israeli stance. "UNRWA’s work has been tainted and its credibility questioned due to the terrorist ties to Hamas that UNRWA staff had that were exposed as a result of Hamas’s October 7 attack."
Shea still urged Security Council members to support the US, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i and Egyptian efforts to scale up aid into Gaza.
"We must ensure Hamas or other terrorist groups are not permitted to seize, divert, or profit from this assistance — and that if it does so, it is reported immediately and held accountable," she said, adding that Gaza must all be fully demilitarized and without a governing role for Hamas.
Notably, Shea said the US is "strongly committed" to implementing the ceasefire and hostage release deal. It appeared to be one of the Trump administration’s firmest statements yet in support of implementing all three stages of the agreement, amid calls from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right coalition partners to resume the war after the first phase ends next month.
"The United States is strongly committed to implementing the ceasefire agreement, so that the hostages can return home and the people of Gaza can look toward a brighter future under new leadership," Shea said.
US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... and his Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff have also spoken about the importance of returning all of the hostages, but the former has also said he’s not confident the ceasefire will hold.
Netanyahu says he has received assurances from Trump that the US will back Israel in resuming the war if Hamas violates the terms of the ceasefire or stops negotiating in good faith regarding the terms of the second phase. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has suggested that the premier has given him an assurance to resume fighting that isn’t conditional on whether Hamas violates the deal.
Shea — who is part of an interim staff running the US Mission to the UN until Trump’s nominee Rep. Elise Stefanik is confirmed by the Senate — was careful not to criticize Israel in her remarks or even suggest that Netanyahu is not supportive of sticking with the hostage deal.
The speech was overall a clear departure from the previous Biden administration, which also consistently sought to defend Israel at the UN, but did so while criticizing Israeli policy in the West Bank and for not doing enough to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza — and sometimes even exacerbating it.
Shea avoided criticizing Israel altogether, placing all of the onus for civilian casualties on Hamas.
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said at a presser that UNRWA must vacate all of its properties in Jerusalem.
"UNRWA must cease its operations and evacuate all premises it operates in Jerusalem."
"Israel will terminate all communication with UNRWA or anyone acting on its behalf."
Danon said the ban on UNRWA "was not a political decision. It was simply a necessary one."
"UNRWA has failed in its mandate. It has failed the people who were supposed to benefit from its services."
He said UNRWA "had failed to investigate the widespread infiltration of its ranks by Hamas and other terrorist organizations."
"No sovereign state should facilitate operations of an agency that threatens its national security and blatantly violates its laws."
Israel, he said, is ready to cooperate with other UN agencies "that are not tainted by terror."
[IsraelTimes] Decision on where to send the prisoners is coordinated with Israel, officials tell ToI; Hamas said to vow Fatah and PFLP terror chiefs will be released in ceasefire’s 2nd phase
Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... are slated to host the Paleostinian murder convicts who were released and subsequently deported to Egypt as part of the hostage-ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... , two officials tell The Times of Israel.
Israel demanded that the Paleostinians convicted of the most series crimes not be released to 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... or the West Bank. Egypt agreed to serve as a temporary landing spot for those murder convicts, 70 of whom were released last week and now reside in Cairo.
Turkey has agreed to take in around 15 of those Paleostinians and Qatar is expected to take in the remainder, though talks are ongoing and an additional country may be asked to host some of the prisoners deported later on in the deal, according to a regional official and an Arab diplomat familiar with the matter.
The decision on where to send the various Paleostinian murder convicts is done in coordination with Israel, the two officials said.
A number of senior Hamas members already live in Qatar, where Israeli officials frequently travel to for hostage negotiations, and Turkey has previously hosted top members of the terror group.
Israel has committed to releasing 1,904 prisoners, including 737 serving life sentences, in return for 33 women, children, men over 50 and those considered especially ill, during the ceasefire deal’s 42-day first phase. Seven Israeli hostages have already been released, in return for 290 Paleostinian prisoners, including 121 serving life sentences.
Talks have yet to begin on the deal’s second stage, in which Hamas is expected to release young, relatively healthy male hostages, including soldiers, for whom the terrorist organization is likely to demand Israel pay a heavier price.
The Kan public broadcaster reported Tuesday that Hamas has promised the families of prominent terror convicts Marwan Barghouti and Ahmad Saadat that they will be released from Israeli prison in the second phase.
According to the source, Hamas is preparing a strategic plan to take over the West Bank-based Paleostinian Authority after the latter’s elderly leader the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....> is no longer in office. If Hamas secures his release, Barghouti, a member of Abbas’s Fatah movement, will owe the terror group his life and freedom, Kan said.
Earlier this month, Kan cited a Paleostinian source as saying Hamas had prepared a list of five "heavy" prisoners that it wants Israel to release in the deal’s next phases: Barghouti, and four Hamas prisoners cumulatively serving over 200 life sentences for the murders of dozens of Israelis. Saadat was not on the list.
Israel has reportedly ruled out releasing Barghouti — a demand Hamas is said to have made as early as December 2023, two months into the Gaza war.
Saadat and Barghouti are senior terror chiefs considered icons by many Paleostinians. Both were arrested in 2002, at the height of the 2000-2005 Second Intifada.
Saadat, 72, the leader of the Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine (PFLP), was sentenced in 2008 to 30 years behind bars for criminal masterminding the 2001 liquidation of then-Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze’evi, who advocated for Israel to "transfer" Paleostinians abroad.
Barghouti, 64, was sentenced in 2004 to five life sentences for his part in planning three terror attacks that killed five Israelis during the Second Intifada.
Barghouti had been a leader of the Tanzim, an offshoot of Fatah. He is a popular political figure, especially among younger Paleostinians who see him as untainted by Fatah’s corruption and cooperation with Israel. He is considered a leading candidate to win potential Paleostinian national elections and has also been touted as someone who can bring both the West Bank and Gaza his wing.
Barghouti has petitioned the High Court of Justice against his prison conditions following his transfer to solitary confinement after October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led holy warriors stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza.
Hamas banished the Fatah-dominated PA from the Strip in 2007, a year after besting the secularist faction in the last Paleostinian legislative elections.
Although both belong to Fatah, Barghouti had launched a slate of candidates separate from Abbas’s during the 2021 legislative election, which Abbas ultimately canceled, accusing Israel of blocking East Jerusalem Paleostinians from voting.
Observers believe Abbas has avoided holding elections for years due to fear of defeat, despite his term officially expiring in 2009. He took power in 2004, following the death of Fatah founder Yasser Arafat.
[IsraelTimes] Security forces briefly arrest Sheikh Raed Salah, accuse him of using committees that mediate disputes between families as cover to continue his Islamist political activities
Security forces shuttered the offices of reconciliation committees in the Arab city of Umm al-Fahm on Tuesday, citing the body’s Islamist ties.
Police and Shin Bet raided the committees’ offices and arrested their head, Sheikh Raed Salah,
... alternately Raed Saleh, he fancies the title "Sheikh of Al Aqsa" as suitable for the head of the outlawed Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, the militant arm of the Israeli branch of the Muslim Brotherhood based in Umm al-Fahm in the Galilee. The Southern Branch went in for Israeli politics as part of the Obama-era Arab Joint List project, though their goals are the same. Sheikh Saleh’s role is to cycle in and out of Israeli prisons for cause...
but released him later in the day.
The "peace spreading" committees were an initiative of the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel, a leading umbrella organization among Israel’s Arab minority. Established by Salah in 2017, the committees operate with the stated goal of curbing violence in Arab society by mediating between feuding families.
Given that the violence has been increasing, either they’re really bad at it or they’re aiding and abetting for reasons of their own.
The raid came in the wake of a decision by Defense Minister Israel Katz to outlaw the reconciliation program, citing its links to the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, which Salah heads.
Israel declared the Northern Branch illegal in 2015 over repeated incitement to terrorism.
Two years later, police arrested Salah for sermons he gave lauding bandidosbully boyz from Umm al-Fahm who killed two coppers on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, and in 2020 he was convicted of incitement to terror.
After being released from prison in 2021, Salah expanded the program’s reach to other towns, amid surging violence in Arab communities.
Over the past two years, the number of Arab murder victims reached nearly double that of 2021, jumping from 126 in 2021, to 244 in 2023. This past year, the number stood at 230, according to data from the Abraham Initiatives group.
The program established a uniform set of guidelines for local reconciliation committees in resolving disputes between families, which often lead to violence.
Police alleged that the network acts as a cover for Saleh to continue his Islamist political activities, which are "in step with the worldview of the Moslem Brüderbund and disseminate the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement’s anti-Israel agenda."
Ra’am party chairman Mansour Abbas
...political head of the political arm of the Southern Branch of the Islamic Movement, the Muslim Brotherhood in Israel, now known as the Ra’am OPrty. Like Muslim Brotherhood parties elsewhere, they will ride the train down the iron rails of democratic politics and charity until the train reaches their station at the formation of the Caliphate, avoiding as much as possible all that messy bloodshed until afterward. It’s also important to check his public statements against what he says in private in Arabic, just in case taqqiya is involved...
criticized law enforcement’s move as inappropriate, asserting the reconciliation committees do not belong to any particular ideology or political movement while warning the ban could harm efforts to curb violent mostly peaceful crime.
"I would expect the Defense Ministry, minister of national security and attorney general to use their power against the criminal organizations dominating Arab citizens, and to take a tough stance against criminal organizations, rather than reconciliation committees," he told the Haaretz daily.
[IsraelTimes] John Fetterman is lone Democrat to vote to advance bill, which House already approved; GOP lawmakers now likely need to resume compromise talks in order to overcome filibuster
US Senate Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... on Tuesday blocked a Republican effort to advance legislation sanctioning the International Criminal Court over the arrest warrants it issued against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant over Israel’s military campaign 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... against Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... A vote to invoke cloture fell six politicians short of the 60 needed in order to bring the legislation to a floor vote.
The 54-45 vote result allows Democrats to continue filibustering the legislation and will likely require Republicans to resume negotiations with the Democrats aimed at reaching a compromise on the matter — one that at the very least will likely necessitate tweaking the legislation that already passed the Republican-led House.
Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the only Democrat who votes with Republicans to advance the bill.
While denouncing the warrants, the Biden administration had refrained from backing the effort, and Democrats seem to have decided to double down on that stance by blocking the bill.
"Deeply disappointed by the outcome of the ICC sanctions bill," Fetterman said. "My vote follows Israel — not the ICC that equivocated the democratically elected leader of our special ally to the hard boyz and rapists of Hamas."
Despite the outcome of the vote, it’s unclear whether the Congressional legislation is necessary, as US President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... signed an executive order on his first day in office restoring sanctions that were imposed during his first term against the ICC, which former president Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Too old and senile to be prosecuted, not too old and senile to set national policy... revoked with his own executive order.
Along with the arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continued as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintained a separate PM in the West Bank. Zapped during the 2023-24 war, to eveyone's satisfaction... and Mohammad Deif over the terror group’s October 7, 2023, attack that started the Gaza war. All three of them have have since been killed, though the warrant for Deif remains standing as Hamas has yet to confirm his death.
[FoxNews] A tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has become the largest documented on record in the United States.
As of Jan. 24, 2025, there have been 67 active cases reported in Wyandotte County (60) and Johnson County (7) since January 2024, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE).
There have also been 79 latent, or asymptomatic, tuberculosis (TB) infections reported over the last year, including 77 in Wyandotte County and two in Johnson County.
KDHE has reportedly been working with local health departments in response to the outbreak, following guidance on proper treatment and prevention from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In a statement sent to Fox News Digital, KDHE confirmed that the outbreak is "still ongoing, which means there could be more cases."
Two TB deaths associated with this outbreak were reported in 2024, KDHE noted.
In comparison, the CDC recorded 46 active TB cases in Kansas in 2023.
"In an effort to provide efficient and quality care to those individuals affected by the outbreak, KDHE assumed responsibility for the coordination and distribution of testing, treatment and medical consultation in Wyandotte County," the agency shared.
TB is an infectious disease that most often affects the lungs, according to KDHE. It is caused by bacteria that spreads through the air when infected people cough, speak or sing.
"Kansas is not alone in its battle against TB, which kills more than a million people each year."
It is not spread by kissing, shaking hands, sharing food and drink, or touching objects, the same source stated.
Then Typhoid Mary could have gone on working as a family cook so long as she wore a simple cloth mask and wshed her hands, and need not have spent the rest of her life in isolation? That doesn’t sound right.
TB symptoms can include coughing, chest pain, coughing up blood or mucus, fatigue, weight loss, fever and night sweats.
KDHE confirmed to Fox News Digital that there is a "very low risk" of infection to the general public.
Wendy Thanassi, M.D., senior medical director of TB and Infectious diseases at QIAGEN North America, encouraged employers, doctors and community leaders to "organize testing" to stop the spread.
"One simple blood test can identify this sleeping killer before it awakes, and one course of antibiotics can stop it from infecting the people we love," she said.
A person with active TB will no longer be infectious "shortly after beginning treatment" with antibiotics, according to KDHE.
There were 9,633 cases of TB disease reported in the U.S. in 2023, according to the CDC, which is 15.6% more than the prior year.
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This isn't Kansas, this is Wyandotte and Johnson Counties, Kansas City Kansas.
Wyandotte had been a hardscrabble with manufacturing, Johnson used to be affluent and conservative, but I think the kids were raised to be too good to work at an entry level job, and didn't look so hot last I was there.
Coupled with my feed getting Holy Shit Pandemic! oh yeah where? ummmmm...Kansas, going hard with Illegals.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Thousands of ICE officers have been dispatched to the San Diego border crossing as they prepare to take '100,000 immigrants' back to Mexico and Central America in one of the biggest migrant raids in recent times.
Marines have already descended on the area in an attempt to secure the crossing as President Trump ramped up his promise of cracking down on illegal immigration.
Around 1,500 active duty troops were deployed to the nearly 2,000-mile border this week, including 500 Marines from Camp Pendleton in California.
DailyMail.com can now reveal that they have been joined with what has been described as a 'mile long line of DHS trucks and CBP'. A White House intelligence source said: 'There is a 'mile long line of DHS trucks and CBP in front of Camp Pendleton right now, ready to do the biggest illegal immigrant grab in recent history.
'The West Coast is this week and the East Coast is next week. It is about to get crazy in California. They need to fill 100,000 spots', meaning arrests is the directive.
The source continued: 'They are going to be taking 100,000 immigrants back to Mexico, Columbia, El Salvador and Guatemala in this grab.'
The Pentagon expects additional troops to be ordered to deploy in the next few days as defense and homeland security leaders iron out requests for more support.
It was also announced on Tuesday that the military would allow ICE to use Buckley Space Force Base in Colorado to detain migrants. The U.S. military's Northern Command said in a statement it started providing facilities at Buckley to ICE starting on Monday. Buckley Space Force Base is located in the city of Aurora, a Denver suburb, which figured prominently during Trump's presidential campaign last year.
Trump said that apartment complexes in Aurora had been taken over by members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, which was refuted by city officials. During a campaign event there in October, Trump pledged to launch an Operation Aurora targeting gang members
Immigration arrests have reached about 1,000-1,200 per day in recent days, according to ICE, far above the daily average of 311 in fiscal year 2024.
ICE officers have already begun storming properties across the country in sanctuary cities like New York. Sanctuary cities including the Big Apple have become a haven for migrants who flock to them in the knowledge that officials there limit cooperation with federal immigration agents.
The president has since said he 'might have to consider' pulling funding to sanctuary cities, which include the likes of Chicago, Los Angeles and Philadelphia.
Trump, who ran on a mass deportation platform, has made immigration his first order of business since assuming office.
ICE agents have arrested more than 3,500 people since the inauguration last Monday, Axios reports.
Almost 5,000 Homeland Security and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers have been deployed by the Trump administration to carry out raids.
The raids have sparked fear in migrant communities, especially since Trump signed an executive order which will now permit raids in the likes of schools and churches. Many migrants are said to be in hiding, turning usually crowded factories, warehouses and grocery stores into ghost towns. Frightened undocumented migrants began hunkering down after Trump took office for the second time last week, with dozens failing to turn up to work.
Trump ordered each of ICE's field offices to make 75 arrests per day and managers would be held accountable for missing those targets.
ICE insiders told the Washington Post they are concerned that the quotas make it more likely that agents will 'engage in more indiscriminate enforcement tactics or face accusations of civil rights violations.'
However, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt reportedly told the outlet, 'your story is false,' but did not elaborate.
The operations are being overseen by Trump's hardline border Czar Tom Homan.
He justified relaxing rules governing enforcement actions at 'sensitive' locations such as schools, churches and workplaces, saying it sends a clear message to illegal immigrants.
'There are consequences of entering the country illegally. If we don't show there are consequences, you're never going to fix the border problem,' Homan, who was on the ground in Chicago this weekend to oversee the bolstered ICE plans, told ABC News.
However, the move was criticized by Catholic Charities USA which called for 'dignity' in dealing with the border crisis. Grifters and Illegals hardest hit
'We recognize the need for just immigration enforcement and affirm the government’s obligation to carry it out in a targeted, proportional, and humane way,' the organization wrote.
'However, non-emergency immigration enforcement in schools, places of worship, social service agencies, healthcare facilities, or other sensitive settings where people receive essential services would be contrary to the common good.
'All people have a right to fulfill their duty to God without fear.'
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The full weight of the tragic recriminations about lives disrupted/uprooted and the impacts on the community for the arrest and deportation of illegal aliens rests entirely with those demokrat government officials, community leaders and NGOs who let them in because they just assumed, arrogantly, that they are above the law when they feel rightious about something!
It was ruthlessly unkind to the illegals to just presume that they could circumvent existing law because they didn't like it, all the while lecturing the rest of us that "no one is above the law" while selectively using it to punish those with who they disagree.
Those smug hypocrites are the actual authors of all the suffering among the victims they created by allowing illegal entry in the first place.
Politics is how large groups of people agree on what must be done, and then do it to keep society running more or less smoothly.
[FoxNews] The window to take advantage of the program runs Jan. 28 through Feb. 6
The Trump administration is offering buyouts for nearly all federal employees, including those who work remotely, as part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to get employees back into the office, but they only have until Feb. 6 to opt-in.
During Trump’s first week in office, he issued several directives to the federal workforce, including a requirement that remote employees must return to in-person work.
The senior administration official said, "We expect 5 to 10 percent of federal employees to quit, and it could lead to $100 billion annually in savings for federal taxpayers."
"After four years of incompetence and failure, President Donald Trump is committed to making our government efficient and productive again," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement on Tuesday. "American taxpayers pay for the salaries of federal government employees and therefore deserve employees working on their behalf who actually show up to work in our wonderful federal buildings, also paid for by taxpayers.
"If they don’t want to work in the office and contribute to making America great again, then they are free to choose a different line of work, and the Trump Administration will provide a very generous payout of eight months," she added.
That is indeed generous.
On Tuesday, a government-wide email was sent out to ensure all federal workers were on board with the Trump administration’s plan.
The email pointed to four pillars that Trump set forth, to bring accountability back to the federal government, including a return to in-person work, restored accountability for employees who have policy-making authority, restored accountability for senior executives, and a reformed federal hiring process based on merit.
"The government-wide email being sent today is to make sure that all federal workers are on board with the new administration’s plan to have federal employees in office and adhering to higher standards," a senior administration official said. "We’re five years past COVID and just 6 percent of federal employees work full-time in office. That is unacceptable."
The email noted that the majority of federal employees who have worked remotely since COVID will be required to return to their physical offices five days a week.
"Going forward, we also expect our physical offices to undergo meaningful consolidation and divestitures, potentially resulting in physical office relocations for a number of federal workers," the email read.
For those who returned to office, the Trump administration thanked them for their "renewed focus" on serving the American people. But the future of their position could not be guaranteed, according to the email.
For those who do not want to continue in their role with the federal workforce, the Trump administration thanked them for their services, informing them they will be provided with a "dignified, fair departure from the federal government utilizing a deferred resignation program."
The program begins on Jan. 28 and will be available until Feb. 6, and should a federal employee choose to resign under the program, they will retain all pay and benefits, regardless of workload, and will be exempt from their in-person work requirements until Sep. 30, 2025.
The buyouts do not apply to military personnel of the armed forces, the U.S. Postal Services, positions related to immigration enforcement and national security, and any other positions specifically excluded by the agency the federal workers are employed by.
"To be clear, as it was with President Trump’s executive order on Day One, implementation of return-to-work policies will be done by each individual agency in accordance with applicable law," the senior administration official said. "We expect 5 to 10 percent of federal employees to quit, and it could lead to $100 billion annually in savings for federal taxpayers."
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Switch payroll to daily and physical check to be picked up at office. No show, no pay. Stop hiring anyone until department head count for surviving departments is below 50%
[SOWETANLIVE.CO.ZA] The military governor of Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... 's North Kivu province has died from gunshot wounds suffered on the front line during an offensive by M23 rebels, the army said on Friday.
The rebels are advancing on two fronts near the quiet provincial capital Goma in the nation's turbulent east, where tens of thousands are fleeing and the UN is warning that the violence could spill into a wider regional war. Not so quiet
The UN Security Council will meet on Monday to discuss the situation, diplomats said.
Major General Peter Cirimwami Nkuba, who led the province since 2023, has died, army front man Sylvain Ekenge said at a press briefing. An internal UN report seen by Rooters said he was injured while supervising troops 20km from Goma.
Ekenge said Nkuba was maimed "on the field" and evacuated to the capital Kinshasa, where he departed this vale of tears. He did not provide any further details on the circumstances.
Fighting has flared more fiercely in Congo's mineral-rich east since the start of the year as the Tutsi-led M23 group seized control of more territory than ever before.
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[SOWETANLIVE.CO.ZA] Insurgents deployed improvised bombs and jacket wallahs to ward off attacks by the military, killing at least 22 soldiers and wounding several others in Nigeria's northeast. File photo.
At least 22 soldiers have been killed and several maimed in Nigeria's northeast after Death Eaters deployed improvised bombs and suicide bombers to ward off attacks by the military, army spokesperson Edward Buba said.
The Nigerian military said late on Sunday that it had launched an assault 10 days ago against Death Eaters in the northeast and killed over 70 holy warriors including three commanders.
Buba said government forces also shot down drones used by the holy warriors.
Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... and Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... West Africa Province (ISWAP) holy warriors have mainly operated in Borno state, targeting security forces and civilians in an insurgency that has killed and displaced tens of thousands of people.
On Friday suspected Islamist Death Eaters killed at least 20 Nigerian soldiers, including a commanding officer, in an attack on an army base in a remote Borno town, according to security sources and local residents.
An Islamist insurgency has plagued the northeast of Africa's most populous country for 16 years, while kidnapping and banditry are rampant in the northwest and gang and separatist violence is common in the southeast.
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[Spiked] One of the most striking things in the aftermath of 7 October was the silence of the fascism-spotters. You know these people. They’re the centrists and liberals who see fascism everywhere. Who think everything is ’like the 1930s’. The vote for Brexit, Donald Trump, the rise of populist parties in Europe — all of it reminds them of the Nazi years. And yet when the Islamofascists of Hamas stormed the Jewish State and butchered a thousand Jews, suddenly they went quiet. No more Nazi talk. No more trembling warnings of a return to ’the dark days of the 1930s’. No more handwringing over ’new Hitlers’. It seems that to a certain kind of liberal, everything is fascism except fascism.
...There was a time when you couldn’t open a newspaper or peruse social media without seeing some pained liberal hold forth on how populism will drag us back to the death camps. Fascism panic was the fashion of the day. And then it stopped. In the wake of the 7 October pogrom — the worst act of slaughter against the Jews since that period of the mid-20th century these people love talking about — their fascism chatter evaporated. In fact, they started warning people not to use Nazi analogies. Not to compare 7 October to the 1930s. Not to engage in the very fascism fretting that had been the bread and butter of their own political commentary for years.
Just two weeks after the pogrom, the Guardian published a piece denouncing Israel for ’weaponising the Holocaust’ in its response to Hamas’s assault. It is an outrage, it argued, that Israeli leaders are likening Hamas to fascist Germany and thus portraying Israel as ’powerless Jews in a struggle against Nazis’. This is the same Guardian that had been namedropping the Holocaust for years. Which ran pieces asking ’Are we living through another 1930s?’ after the vote for Brexit. Which published columns saying that, thanks to Trump, ’the world could be heading back to the 1930s’. Yet when Israelis suggested that the slaughter of a thousand Jews by fascistic men with knives, guns and rocket launchers was somewhat reminiscent of the 1930s, the Guardian essentially tut-tutted. The left's eventual solution to the problem was to accuse Israel of genocide. ("Say that you like about this fellow Hitler - but he knows how to treat the Jews.")
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[LaughingWolf] Part of my family is from Ireland, and I appreciate Irish contributions to the world. Heck, the enclosed Catholic confessional came from the Irish I’m told (by an Irish priest no less). However, there comes a time when you have to let rubbish go; and, to call the current leadership and government of Ireland rubbish is to insult every midden heap and landfill in the world. They are a disgusting lot, and you should pay attention to the ethnic and religious makeup (and how few generations they’ve been in Ireland) of many of them.
As I noted in the previous post, the despicable fascista midget serving as president had Jews removed from the Holocaust Memorial service yesterday, with his goons dragging a pregnant Jewish woman out by the arms. My understanding was that he has been asked by the Jewish community not to attend, but did anyway just to be the largest anti-Semitic ass he could possibly be. Suspect he’s more than happy that many Jews are fleeing Ireland (and I strongly suggest they do as this guy would be right at home in the Third Reich and I suspect he mourns that they no longer exist).
Made the decision a few weeks ago to stop buying Irish products, but decided to go public with it after yesterday.
Kerrygold butter? Not any more. Plugra is as good, costs a little less, and is made here in the US I think.
Alcohol? On the stout front, America as a large abundance of good stouts, not to mention craft beers, that are flat-out better than Guinness. It may be heresy to some, but Guinness mostly coasts on reputation. Diageo is the owner and is not Irish, but promotes it as an Irish brand. Had just been introduced to an independent Irish distiller, but Irish whiskey is off the list. Frankly, lots of small independents to explore here, and I would offer that Scotch was the better choice usually. Again, easy choice to make and I won’t suffer for doing without.
Irish wool and fabrics? Eh, check out this U.S. company that I’ve heard good things about. Again and again there are a lot of good options here to check out, and you would be helping small U.S. businesses.
Seriously, it may not make a huge difference but it is something I can do. I don’t have to support Nazi-loving politicians. I can instead invest in American products and small American businesses. Hope you join me in so doing, as if enough of us do, it might help make a difference.
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I started drinking Tullamore Dew just a couple of months ago and buying Kerry's for a few years now..used to be $4.69 and in some places now it's $6.29..and that increase only in a little more than a year. I had Plugra before and it ain't Kerry's. Plugra is a Texas company.
As everyone knew he would, reprehensible troll-doll made Irish president, Michael Higgins, hijacked a Holocaust memorial event and made it about Gaza, even adding in the debunked Gaza famine blood libel. A blood libel at a Holocaust memorial...
… by the tiny Irish Jewish community not to attend and defile this event, seeing as he is an obsessed anti-Zionist who never found an antisemite he wouldn't mourn or embrace.
He came and lectured Jews anyway. Some who objected to his trivialization of the Holocaust and his conflation of it with the (fake) "famine" in Gaza, were dragged out.
Free tip: Antisemitic nations fail. Don't bet on Ireland.
[The Free Press] Retired Air Force Brigadier General Christopher Walker, 59, spent almost two years as a senior adviser to the Air Force’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion at the Pentagon, attending dozens of meetings about implementing DEI initiatives. This was an unusual role given Walker’s career path: He had over 400 hours of combat flights and, most recently, had overseen West Virginia’s Air National Guard.
But in 2021, when the Air Force established its Office of Diversity and Inclusion, staffers assumed that Walker would be on board with their belief that DEI was a "warfighting imperative." Why? Because Walker is black. But that assumption was wrong.
Walker was a mole.
Alarmed by DEI programs that were little more, in his view, than "Soviet indoctrination," he leaked information to an organization called Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services (STARRS). This group consists of retired military veterans and civilians who oppose woke ideology in the military. They, in turn, alerted lawmakers like Sen. Tom Cotton and Rep. Mike Waltz about what they were hearing from Walker and other active duty service members who opposed the military’s diversity policies.
"No one delved into how I thought," Walker told The Free Press. "They took one look at me and assumed I believed these things. I learned to listen and had to bite my tongue a lot."
Walker, who prefers to go by his pilot call sign, Mookie, took notes and mostly kept his head down, so he could keep reporting what was going on. "I thought, If this is allowed to stand, all of the senior people within the [Department of Defense] are going to bring along this propaganda and get rid of anybody who doesn’t go along with it."
Mookie recalled a private meeting in 2022 attended by generals and other key Pentagon staffers. At the meeting, Alex Wagner, the Air Force assistant secretary, asked the group to brainstorm ways to get the general public to accept drag shows on Air Force bases.
Close to retirement and with nothing to lose, Mookie finally spoke up. "I reminded the group that since the 1980s, the Air Force has not allowed lingerie shows," he said. "They don’t allow burlesque shows. So why would we allow drag shows?"
His comment seemed to have an effect. In June 2023, the Department of Defense officially banned drag shows on all military installations.
But that was the exception, not the rule. In 2022, Mookie recalls attending a training course at Georgetown University for Air Force generals and senior officers called "Managing for Inclusion." The professor, he said, informed the group that white people were oppressors and black and Hispanic people were the oppressed, so they couldn’t be racist. The professor also taught the class how to ask someone for their pronouns at the beginning of a conversation.
[The Free Press] On October 4, 1957, the USSR launched Sputnik, a 184-pound satellite, into Earth’s orbit. The satellite didn’t do much—it just "beeped" over radio waves. But those beeps sounded a wake-up call for the United States.
Fearful of falling behind its Cold War strategic rival, the federal government launched an expensive crash program to spur technological development. The U.S. went from a laggard in the space race to unified, fast-moving behemoth. By 1969, we had landed men on the moon, a feat the Soviets never accomplished. And more than that: The Sputnik moment began decades of across-the-board American dominance in science and engineering.
Now comes what many are calling a new Sputnik moment: the release of DeepSeek, a low cost, high-performing Chinese-created artificial intelligence (AI) model. The analogy is a bit imprecise though—and probably understates the significance of last week’s event.
Rockets are bounded by the laws of physics and the scarcity and movement of materials—which is why we say that hardware is hard. The only constraint on software development is the human imagination. Small, far-flung teams can accomplish extraordinary things. If a rocket explodes, it takes 12 months to get the next one built. Software can instantly be replicated 7 billion times into every human’s pocket. And updated seamlessly.
Another difference: The space race (notwithstanding its many peace dividends) was primarily focused on the next weapons of war—ICBMs and the like. Building leading AI or, better yet, artificial general intelligence, is more like building the brain layer for everything—weapons, yes, but also "agents" for almost every kind of imaginable work, and potentially the source of almost all knowledge and information to be consumed by humans in the future.
Whoever controls AI will control the answers to questions like: What happened on June 4, 1989? How many genders are there? Did Covid-19 lockdowns work? What’s happening in Israel? What happens when you ask AI these questions depends on who created the AI, where it’s hosted, and what information it was trained on. Which is why every cultural warrior and government wants to control AI.
And, unlike rockets, AI models are fundamentally "black boxes" that can be observed, but not deterministically explained. AI models generate responses probabilistically, meaning they weigh countless possibilities and choose outputs based on likelihood rather than fixed rules. This makes them flexible but also unpredictable—and if adversaries control the models, they could manipulate the underlying probabilities to subtly distort truth, influence decisions, or spread falsehoods at scale. This makes the geopolitical risk of having an adversary control these "brains" real. The space race operated at the intersection of national pride and national defense; the AI race is about so much more—and progressing at breakneck speed.
Unlike rockets, AI is primarily bounded by math, compute (the processing power needed to train an AI model), and data.
For the math part, it’s largely vector math—linear algebra and multivariable calculus. China finished first in the International Mathematical Olympiad from 2019 to 2023, with a United States team of four Chinese Americans (out of six team members) finally besting China in 2024. China is very, very good at math.
There’s a joke that in every International Mathematical Olympiad, the top teams are China versus those of Chinese background. It’s why the allegations that DeepSeek is some kind of Communist psyop ring hollow. While it’s hard to confirm the exact amount of money spent or chips used to train the model, China is the world leader in human capital around this type of work, so it’s not surprising to see a tremendous advance come from that nation.
By making its model open-source, the Chinese hedge fund behind DeepSeek has confirmed how counterproductive the Biden administration’s pro-containment, pro-hegemony, anti-open source AI strategy had been.
Biden issued an executive order which sought to constrain compute under an arbitrary threshold, bar open source as an alleged threat to national security, and effectively allow regulatory capture by the biggest players. The administration and its enablers wanted to limit math, and in turn, limit code—but ended up just limiting America’s lead.
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A gift? There is stupid past moronic. DeepSeek is in fact the largest security hole in our nation right besides ChiCom cell phone towers. How the hell can any rational person not see that?
[ET via Zero] A bulletin released by the U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Mexico said a "Level 4: Do Not Travel" advisory has been issued for parts of Tamaulipas state. It cites Reynosa, Rio Bravo, Valle Hermoso, and San Fernando, where IEDs have been found. The area borders the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.
The warning also confirmed that officials are "aware of increasingly frequent gun battles occurring in and around Reynosa in the late night and early morning hours."
"An IED destroyed a Government of Mexico (Conagua) official vehicle in Rio Bravo and injured its occupant on January 23," the statement said. As a result, U.S. government officials were ordered to avoid travel near Rio Bravo and Reynosa outside of daytime and to stay away from dirt roads across Tamaulipas state, which shares a lengthy border with southern Texas.
The entirety of Tamaulipas is under a "Level 4" travel warning due to kidnappings and crime, said the bulletin, which was released on Monday evening.
"Organized crime activity—including gun battles, murder, armed robbery, carjacking, kidnapping, forced disappearances, extortion, and sexual assault—is common along the northern border and in Ciudad Victoria," the bulletin said.
Americans traveling in the state are advised to avoid dirt roads and stay on paved roads. They should not touch unknown objects near roads, plan their travel during daytime hours, and check local media for updates. They’re also advised to be aware of their surroundings and to inform friends or family of their safety.
The State Department notice did not elaborate on whether the gun battles were occurring between Mexican criminal organizations or those groups and the Mexican government.
While the State Department has not issued a Level 4 travel advisory for all of Mexico, several states and regions are under that designation, according to a map provided by the agency.
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So they've regularized things there. Used to be, you were occaisionally in danger there.
Now it's continuous.
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Now that Trump is in office, the cartels no longer will be hesitant in the use of fore and intimidation to protect their territory on either side of the border. Any bets on how long before SOCOM/Delta/players-to-be-named-later begin to be involved in Mexico?
A pity your opinion no longer contains the threat of serious force, which proves that Allah wants you to learn to suck it up.
[GEO.TV] Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... said on Monday that the group would not accept any justifications to extend the period given for Israeli troops' withdrawal from southern 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.... Israel said on Friday that its army's withdrawal would last beyond the 60-day period stipulated in the ceasefire agreement with the Lebanese group, saying the terms of the deal had not been fully enforced by the Lebanese state.
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Saying two astronauts are 'stuck' in space is like saying a gymnast is stuck at the olympics.
It's what they trained their whole life for. Be getting free drinks for years on this story.
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[GEO.TV] Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> said Tuesday that 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... had brought Israel "to its knees", in a reference to the recent ceasefire in the Paleostinian territory.
The ceasefire and hostage-release deal between Iran's arch-enemy Israel and Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... went into effect just over a week ago, aiming to put an end to more than 15 months of war.
"The small, limited Gaza brought the Zionist regime, armed to the teeth, and fully supported by America, to its knees," Khamenei said during a meeting with officials in Tehran.
Also on Tuesday, Iran's foreign ministry front man, Esmaeil Baqaei, criticised US President Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... 's idea to move Paleostinians out of Gaza to other locations such as Egypt or Jordan.
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Don't confuse "its" with "yours".
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Says the man wearing a bulletproof vest to Friday prayers.
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Snark all you want, IDF has been at war with a refugee camp for over a year and still hasn't won.
Maybe the same training as the US generals who lost against the goat fuckers in Afghanistan.
[GEO.TV] More than 376,000 Paleostinians displaced by the war between Israel and Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... have returned to northern 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... , the UN's humanitarian body OCHA said Tuesday.
"Over 376,000 people are estimated to have returned to their places of origin in northern Gaza, following the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the two main roads along the Netzarim corridor" that leads into the north, OCHA said in a humanitarian update.
All the unnecessary screaming about ethnic cleansing and genocide…
The IDF says it operated against several threats in the Gaza Strip today.
[IsraelTimes] In central Gaza, a drone strike was carried out as a warning after a vehicle attempted to travel to north Gaza via an area that is prohibited for vehicular traffic per the agreement, and as such would not have undergone inspection, the military says.
In southern Gaza, the IDF says troops fired warning shots after suspects were approaching forces “and posed a threat.” After the suspects continued to near the troops, theywere directly targeted.
In other areas of Gaza, warning shots were fired at suspects who “posed a threat” to troops, the army adds.
Hamas claimed yesterday that “over 300,000 displaced” returned to the Strip’s north.
The Times of Israel has learned that according to the IDF’s assessments as of this morning, that number is far lower, estimated in the tens of thousands.
Since yesterday morning, as part of a ceasefire deal with Hamas, Gazans have been able to freely return to northern Gaza after being prevented by the IDF from doing so since the beginning of the war — when civilians were called to head for the Strip’s south to avoid combat zones.
Many of the buildings in northern Gaza have been destroyed amid the fighting, and it is unclear where civilians are supposed to reside. In southern Gaza, tent camps were constructed for displaced civilians.
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The only long-term solution is to move them to Egypt. Since the Egyptian regime objects, it'll have to be destroyed - Israel have to take Sinai back anyways.
[GEO.TV] Israeli strikes maimed 24 people in south Leb ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... Tuesday despite a ceasefire in force for more than six weeks, the Lebanese health ministry said.
The first strike hit the southern town of Nabatiyeh al-Fawqa, wounding 20 people, the ministry said, updating a previous toll of 14 injured.
It added that another strike on the neighbouring town of Zawtar maimed four people.
At around 7:30 pm, an Israeli drone carried out "a strike with a guided missile targeting a small vegetable truck" in Nabatiyeh al-Fawqa, the state-run National News Agency reported.
The town lies north of the Litani River but only around 10 kilometres (seven miles) from the Israeli border.
[israelTimes] Lebanon PM condemns strike, also says Israel freed 9 Lebanese POWs and calls for release of 9 more; IDF again warns displaced southern Lebanese against returning after deadly riots
The IDF said it targeted a truck and other Hezbollah vehicles used to transfer weapons on Tuesday in southern 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.... in violation of the ceasefire agreement. Lebanon’s health ministry reported fourteen people maimed in the Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... "The truck and vehicles were struck after being monitored by the IDF while transferring the weapons," the military added.
The strike came as the IDF again warned Lebanese civilians against returning to villages in southern Lebanon, where Israel has said it would remain until February 18. Israel had been due to withdraw by January 26, but said it could not do so as the Lebanese army had not yet deployed in those areas.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said that at around 7:30 p.m., "a strike with a guided missile targeting a small vegetable truck" in Nabatieh al-Fawqa, which lies north of the Litani River but just 10 kilometers (seven miles) from the Israeli border.
Under the deal, Hezbollah must pullback north of the Litani — some 30 kilometers (18 miles) from Israel — while Israel is entitled to strike threats it considers imminent, and forward less imminent threats to a monitoring committee comprising representatives of Lebanon, Israel, La Belle France, the United States and UNIFIL.
Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati assailed the strike on Nabatieh al-Fawqa. During a phone call with US General Jasper Jeffers, who chairs the monitoring committee, Mikati urged a firm stance to guarantee Israel implements its commitments, according to a statement from the premier’s office.
Mikati also said Tuesday that Israel had freed nine Lebanese prisoners of war, whose identities and affiliations were unclear, under the terms of the six-week-old ceasefire deal. He called on Israel to free nine more prisoners, and thanked the Red Thingy, which welcomed the release. Israel has yet to comment on the statement.
Mikati had already appealed to the United States on Sunday to use its influence with Israel to secure the release of Lebanese detained by Israel during the war.
A source close to Hezbollah told AFP on Monday that seven of the terror group’s operatives had been captured in the fighting.
IDF troops also detained some Lebanese on Sunday — Israel’s original deadline for withdrawal — amid deadly protests as displaced residents tried to return to southern Lebanon.
Lebanon’s health ministry has said 24 people were killed and over 130 maimed by IDF gunfire in demonstrations on Sunday, and another two were killed and 17 maimed in demonstrations again on Monday.
The military has issued warnings to the displaced residents not to return, and accused Hezbollah of "provocations" in the protests, where returning residents were seen hoisting the Iran-backed terror group’s insignia. In an interview Monday, a leading Christian Lebanese politician accused Hezbollah of sending displaced residents to a "certain death" by pushing them to return.
On Tuesday, Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language front man, again cautioned displaced southern Lebanese to stay away as Israeli troops in the area work to "enable the effective deployment of the Lebanese army, and dismantle and remove the Hezbollah terror group."
"I remind you that the agreement period has been extended and IDF forces are still deployed on the ground. The deployment process is taking place gradually and in some sectors, it is being postponed and requires more time to ensure that Hezbollah cannot re-establish its strength there," he said.
"Hezbollah, as usual, puts its narrow interests above the interests of the Lebanese state and tries through its mouthpieces to heat up the situation, despite being the main reason for the destruction of the south," he added.
The IDF front man said that "until further notice, all previously published instructions remain in effect," and the military will update when it is safe to return to the border villages.
The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... High Commissioner for Refugees reported in December, days after the ceasefire began, that some 1.3 million Lebanese had been displaced in the Israel-Hezbollah war.
Hezbollah’s near-daily attacks on Israeli border towns forced the displacement of some 60,000 northern Israelis.
Unprovoked, Hezbollah began firing at the north on October 8, 2023 — a day after thousands of Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... -led gunnies stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war 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...
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[FoxNews] Governor says there are nearly 5,400 migrants with active warrants statewide
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed the state's Department of Public Safety (DPS) tactical strike teams to assist with the Trump administration’s operation to locate and arrest criminal illegal immigrants statewide.
"Texas is expanding our operations to assist President Donald Trump to protect Americans and enforce the rule of law," Abbott said Tuesday. "Today, I directed the Texas Department of Public Safety to deploy tactical strike teams to work alongside our federal partners to enforce immigration laws throughout the state.
"These teams will coordinate with Homeland Security agencies to track down the thousands of illegal immigrants with active warrants across Texas and deport them from our country," Abbott added. "After four years of failed policies, Texas finally has a partner in President Trump. Together, we will end this crisis and make America safe once again."
Abbott’s office said DPS tactical strike teams will work with the Homeland Security Task Force to utilize personnel and resources in order to identify and arrest the nearly 5,400 illegal immigrants with active warrants from across Texas.
The order comes just days after Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis announced that her department will not assist federal agents with civil immigration enforcement efforts.
Austin PD did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment on the matter.
Still, the Austin American-Stateman reported on Monday that ICE arrests were conducted in Austin over the weekend, and in response, Davis contacted federal officials about the operations. She was told by federal officials the operation targeted "wanted violent offenders."
She also told the publication that even though Austin police officers were not involved in the raids, "these are people APD would be looking for as well. They were wanted for violent offenses."
[DAILYTRUST] The Nigerian Police Force has arrested a syndicate supplying cycle of violences to Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... holy warriors in Niger and Kaduna states.
Terrorists in Northern Nigeria mostly use cycle of violences as operational vehicles for kidnapping and attacks on communities.
Briefing newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday, the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 7, Benneth Igweh, said acting on credible intelligence, detectives apprehended three suspects in Suleja Local Government Area, Niger State.
Igweh identified the suspects as Shamsuddeen Yunusa, 30; Zaharadeen Saidu, 25; and Mustapha Haruna, 22.
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According to him, a total of 22 cycle of violences, multiple master keys, and stolen phones were recovered from the suspects.
He said the syndicate specialises in the trade and modification of stolen cycle of violences, which are sold or rented to criminals, including suspected Boko Haram operatives active in parts of Niger and Kaduna States.
He said: ''In a proactive move to destabilize criminal activities, crime financing, and enabling in the FCT, Niger State, and its environs, detectives of the Zone 7 Headquarters were deployed to Suleja LGA, Niger State, where they successfully apprehended three suspects, namely: Shamsuddeen Yunusa, male, 30 years, from Hong LGA, Adamawa State; Zaharadeen Saidu, male, 25 years, from Soba LGA, Kaduna State; and Mustapha Haruna, male, 22 years, from Gwami, Adamawa State. Twenty-two cycle of violences, different types of master keys, and stolen phones were recovered from them.
''The syndicate specializes in buying and selling stolen cycle of violences in Suleja, Niger State. They further sell or hire these cycle of violences to criminals believed to be Boko Haram elements terrorizing parts of Niger State and Birnin Gwari LGA, Kaduna State.
''The leader of the gang, Shamsuddeen, revealed that he sells the cycle of violences at the rate of N200,000 to N250,000. He further added that he recently received N250,000 from one Ibrahim Kabiru, who resides in Birnin Gwari LGA, Kaduna State, as part payment for the supply of Bajaj cycle of violences.
''Zaharadeen, on the other hand, is the courier of the cycle of violences to the intending buyers. He voluntarily confessed to delivering cycle of violences he collects from Shamsuddeen to one Mustapha in Suleja Town. Mustapha Haruna is the cycle of violence mechanic of the syndicate. He fixes the stolen cycle of violences before their delivery to customers.''
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[DAILYPOST.NG] Nigerian Army's 6 Brigade and Sector 3 of Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS), have again made significant progress in securing Taraba State by apprehending a suspected member of the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... terrorist group.
In a statement made available to journalists on Tuesday by the Brigade acting spokesperson, Captain Oni Olubodunde, he said the suspect was arrested on January 26, 2025, following credible intelligence.
The troops, according to the statement, successfully tracked down and arrested Gambo Grema, also known as Gamboi, in Mai-Hula town, Bali Local Government council of the state.
''During initial questioning, Grema admitted to being part of a Boko Haram syndicate that had infiltrated Taraba State.
''Their objective was to engage in kidnapping for ransom to fund terrorist activities and establish a new operational cell in the region.
''Grema also revealed that members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in West Africa Province (ISWAP) were working alongside them to execute other criminal operations,'' the statement read.
The Commander of the 6 Brigade Nigerian Army, Brigadier General Kingsley Chidiebere Uwa, commended the success of the operation, emphasizing the brigade's ongoing commitment to countering terrorism and ensuring the safety of citizens.
He assured the public of the army's resolve to maintain peace and stability in the region and urged continued cooperation among security forces in the fight against terrorism.
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To be fair, having all the illegals in one central location makes it much easier for ICE to round them up and send them home… Oh, and guys — make sure you vote for the Republicans in the next couple of elections, or this will keep happening to you.
[FoxNews] Bronx residents vented during a heated community board meeting, during which the mayor’s office said the taxpayer-funded mega shelter is set to open next month
Furious New York City residents expressed their anger Monday after learning they were powerless to stop a massive 2,200 male-only migrant shelter from opening in their neighborhood, raising concerns that the new facility will make their community less safe, especially for women.
Animated residents vented their fury during a heated Bronx community board meeting, during which the mayor’s office told them the taxpayer-funded mega shelter will open next month at a 275,000-square-foot former warehouse, according to Fox 5.
The building will be retrofitted for between $250,000 and $340,000 in order to cater to the migrants, many of whom will be transferred from the sprawling migrant tent shelter on Randalls Island, according to the New York Post, citing city records.
However, residents say they are frightened about the prospect of such a large influx of migrant men being housed in the community.
"I have young women who come to me to study. I have never been afraid in the South Bronx, I am now terrified," Judy Kudlow, an artist who said she operates an art school directly across from the building said. "I'm terrified for me, for my students. I will have to move… You have made a terrible mistake."
Another woman slammed the situation, saying that New Yorkers are living on the streets while migrants are being catered to in these types of facilities as well as hotels.
Community board member Audrey Dejesus said she empathized with the migrants but feels residents' concerns are not being heard.
"I understand people need a place to be, and it's getting cold and everything in the future, but we feel like it's a dumping ground," Dejesus told Fox 5. "We getting the jail right across the street, and now we're going to get a 2,200 bed for homeless men. No. Think about women and families first."
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] President Trump is on a roll and cleaning house.
Trump fired Biden-appointed Democrat chair of the National Labor Relations BoardGwynne Wilcox and the general counsel of the board in the latest shakeup.
Trump’s decision to fire pro-union members Gwynne Wilcox and the labor board’s general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo is getting pushback from the agency and is being described as an “unprecedented and illegal” move.
Gwynne Wilcox may challenge Trump’s decision to fire her. In a statement to Reuters, Wilcox said she will pursue “all legal avenues” to challenge Trump’s firing.
Axios reported:
President Trump fired acting chair of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Democrat Gwynne Wilcox late Monday night, she told Axios. He also fired the general counsel of the labor board, Jennifer Abruzzo, a strong advocate for unionization.
The big picture: Together the dismissals signal a broad purge at the nation’s labor regulator, which had been an exceptionally strong ally to workers and unions over the past four years.
Wilcox was the NLRB’s first Black woman board member.
Where it stands: Under the national labor law, board members can only be fired for neglect of duty or malfeasance. Wilcox had served as acting board chair just for a few days at the end of the Biden administration — and it had been expected she would be replaced and resume her duties as board member.
[RS] Does Disney enjoy losing money? Because it really seems like they enjoy losing money. From the complete botching of the "Star Wars" universe to the obsession with girl-bossing live-action remakes of its classic films, the once-storied production company simply refuses to learn any lessons.
Sure enough, despite Disney's Marvel franchise flopping over the last several years, some genius decided it'd be a great idea to race-swap "Captain America" with a guy who doesn't believe the role represents America. No, I'm not kidding. That's an actual thing Anthony Mackie said while promoting the upcoming fourth installment in the series.
Anthony Mackie explains what Captain America represents for him:
"Captain America represents a lot of different things & I don’t think the term ’America’ should be one of those representations. It’s about a man who keeps his word, who has honor, dignity and integrity."
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Swap out the white guy and have a highly pro-American black guy and you might have a chance to keep the character appealing. Swap out the American for globalist and you just torched to whole thing, because now you made it clear you were determined to make a DEI point. Morons...
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[Regnum] German law enforcement agencies have detained a Russian citizen suspected of collecting funds for the terrorist group ISIS. This was reported on January 28 by the Prosecutor General of Germany.
“The Prosecutor General’s Office today ordered the detention of a Russian citizen in Berlin on the basis of an arrest warrant issued by an investigating judge of the Supreme Court of the Federal Republic of Germany,” the agency said in a statement.
In addition to financing ISIS, the man is suspected of membership in a criminal organization and violating German laws on foreign economic activity.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in July, two Russian citizens were detained in Germany on suspicion of collecting money for ISIS. The arrest was accompanied by searches at sites in Berlin, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Saxony. According to the German investigation, in early summer 2022, these individuals joined a terrorist organization, where they were engaged in collecting funds in Germany and other European countries.
In June 2024, a man suspected of having ties to ISIS was detained at Cologne-Bonn Airport in Germany. It was established that the detainee has triple citizenship: Germany, Morocco, and Poland. According to the investigation, in September 2023, the man transferred almost $1,700 through a cryptocurrency exchange to the account of another terrorist group associated with ISIS.
Update from comments, below, for future searchability: the miscreant is Zelimkhan D., 35, from Chechnya. His three henchman, arrested last summer, are also Chechen.
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I notice no names are given - so, I'm assuming, Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov.
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Key bits from EC’s link, in addition to the photo:
The Russian national Zelimkhan D. was part of a financing network for the terrorist militia. He is said to have organized donation collections mainly in the Berlin area and managed one of the joint donation funds. He had participated in several transactions in favor of the IS in the amount of a total of more than 60,000 euros, according to the investigators.
The group collected donations mainly through social media and forwarded them partly through middlemen to IS members abroad. "The money mainly benefited IS female members in Kurdish detention camps and IS fighters," according to the Federal Prosecutor's Office.
Already on the 25th. In July, two alleged members of the financing work had been arrested in the district of the Herzogtum Lauenburg (Schleswig-Holstein) and in Hamburg. At the same time, seven objects in Berlin, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Saxony were searched on that day on behalf of the Federal Prosecutor's Office. On 1. In August, another suspect was arrested in Berlin. All three are also said to come from Chechnya. They are in pre-trial detention.
[FoxNews] The incident in Coral Gables comes days after a similar incident there saw a group of over 30 migrants in vans stopped
Police in Florida say that two vans packed with 26 Chinese migrants were stopped on Tuesday morning while two alleged smugglers were detained, Fox News Digital has learned.
The incident took place in Coral Gables, a city near Miami, and comes more than a week after a group of more than 30 migrants in vans were also apprehended there.
In today’s incident, Coral Gables Police Department Detective Khaled Tahah said that an alert citizen contacted police at around 8 a.m. regarding possible Chinese migrants being transported in passenger vans.
"Our units responded to the area and were able to locate both vans. Traffic stops were conducted on each van and it resulted in a total of 26 people who appear to be Chinese migrants."
Taha said that the occupants of the vans are a mix of both males and females. The two alleged smugglers are males.
One of the vans was stopped at 11600 Old Cutler Road, while the other was stopped at the 8800 block of Old Cutler Road at Kendall, he said.
Several people could be seen sitting on the side of the road as police conducted the stop, WSVN reports. They were later loaded onto county trolleys and transported to an undisclosed location, per the outlet.
Department of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Customs and Border Patrol responded to the scene and have taken over the investigation, Tahah said.
Fox News Digital reached out to both agencies for further information but did not immediately receive a response.
Tuesday’s incident comes more than a week after a group of more than 30 migrants, most of them Chinese citizens, were found inside a Toyota and U-Haul truck also in Coral Gables after a report of an alleged abduction.
That incident took place on Jan. 17, after a security guard for a homeowners association reported seeing an abduction around 9:35 a.m., Coral Gables Police Chief Edward James Hudak Jr. told reporters.
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.
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[Regnum] The Russian interdepartmental delegation held talks in Damascus with the head of the Syrian administration, Ahmad al-Sharaa. The nearly three-hour meeting was generally constructive, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Bogdanov told journalists on January 28.
"The conversation was mainly led by the head of the new administration of the interim government of Syria, Ahmad al-Sharaa, the negotiations were also attended by Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani, and the Minister of Health Maher al-Sharaa, who is Ahmad al-Sharaa's older brother, and our interdepartmental delegation... There was a good atmosphere. But we understand how difficult the situation is (in the country. - Ed.)," the Russian diplomat noted.
According to Bogdanov, the parties discussed trade and economic ties and further mutually beneficial cooperation. During the talks, the Russian delegation emphasized the traditionally friendly nature of relations since Syria gained independence after World War II. In addition, Russians and the Syrian people are linked by ties of friendship and cooperation, the Deputy Foreign Minister added.
Also at the meeting, Russia called for the resolution of problematic issues in Syria through dialogue with the participation of all political forces in the country and ethno-confessional groups. This kind of work should be built on the principles of national accord, since this is the key to preserving the unity and territorial integrity of the republic, Bogdanov concluded, wishing prosperity to the Syrian people.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on December 8, 2024, Bashar al-Assad resigned as president and left Syria, ordering a peaceful transfer of power. He and his family arrived in Russia, where they were granted asylum. On December 10, 2024, Mohammed al-Bashir announced his appointment as head of the Syrian government for a transitional period that will last until March 1, 2025. The de facto leader of Syria was Ahmed al-Sharaa, head of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group (banned in Russia and recognized as terrorist).
For several years, Russia has supported the Syrian government led by Assad in their fight against terrorist forces. The country has pledged to provide support as long as the Syrian state itself is conducting military operations, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted earlier. At the same time, back in 2015, the head of state indicated that "we are not going to be more Syrian than the Syrians themselves," since this problem is an internal matter for Damascus. Nevertheless, Moscow has always advocated for the normalization of dialogue between political and religious Syrian forces and organizations, stating the need to conduct the most fruitful negotiations under the auspices of the UN in Geneva.
Adds Boris Rozhin:
The main issues are the preservation of the Russian Khmeimim airbase and the Russian Navy logistics center in Tartus, recognition of the new Syrian authorities, the work of the embassy in Damascus and issues of humanitarian aid to Syria. This visit should clarify the prospects for preserving Russian bases in Syria. At the current stage, it would be advantageous for Russia to preserve these bases even in a truncated version.
If an agreement cannot be reached, then the bases will most likely be withdrawn to the African continent, where the Russian military presence continues to expand. I believe that everything will become clear by mid-February.
The bases themselves are currently operating and are not being withdrawn, although the air group at Khmeimim has already been reduced, since the need for a large group of strike aircraft has disappeared (they managed to slap on a few hundred militants before Assad's fall, sweetening the pill).
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[REGNUM] Young Ukrainian fascists, veterans of the battles of 1917–1920, internment camp survivors, and activists from the now defunct republics gathered on January 28, 1929, for the first Great Gathering at the Vienna Hotel on Kant Street, in a recognizable style. Their goal was to create the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) as a new political center. At that time, there were already three such political centers in Europe alone.
The government of the UPR in exile and the similar government of the ZUNR, who hated each other because of the betrayal of Symon Petliura, who gave Western Ukraine to the Poles. And in addition to them, there was the "hetman center" headed by Pavlo Skoropadsky, overthrown by Petliura in December 1918. Naturally, the first two organizations treated the former hetman with contempt. Well, the new office, headed by the former colonel of the Austrian army Yevhen Konovalets, showed deep disappointment in both the social democratic tradition and the hetman's conservative one.
Among the "correct" nationalists, it was believed that it was the democratic efforts of the Central Rada that prevented the Ukrainian forces from defeating all enemies. And since the enemies (in the form of Soviet Russia and Poland) turned out to be more effective, it would be completely logical to imitate them, and not those who had lost everything.
In addition, totalitarian movements were already rapidly gaining popularity in Europe, and Italian fascism in particular could already even boast of some successes.
By the end of the 1920s, strict censorship had already been established, a ministry for press and propaganda had been created, all opposition parties had been banned, lustration had been carried out in government bodies, and all non-fascist youth organizations had been dispersed. And in the year of the Ukrainian nationalists' rally in the elections in Italy, voters were asked to vote "for" or "against" a list of candidates for a single party - the National Fascist Party.
In principle, there are already analogies here with modern Ukraine, where the ideological heirs of the OUN received all the power. But then, in 1929, all this was a dream about the future. One of the founders of the organization, Dmytro Andriyevsky, a former member of the government under the Central Rada and the Hetman, a member of the diplomatic mission of the UPR in Sweden and Switzerland, convinced everyone that the Ukrainian people also needed a leader with a firm hand.
"The idea of Hetman is entirely consistent with the idea of the Dictator, the Ukrainian Musoline, and you are afraid of it," he instilled in his colleagues, specifying that such a Dictator should be elected not through stupid popular elections, but for life, by a constituent assembly of representatives of the "Active Fighters for Independence." Party struggle was to disappear forever, "the place of a flock of eternally warring parties and their eternally changing blocs should be taken by an organic monolithic ruling class" - another dream come true.
The only bearer of the ruling state ideology according to the plan was the OUN. Having borrowed the term “totalitarian” from the Italian fascists, the nationalists invested a positive meaning in it: the complete control of their state over all spheres of public life was presented as constructive and necessary for the creation of a new system and a new man.
Because he himself, without the right, ideologically verified leadership, will not be able to become a “proper Ukrainian.”
So the colleagues did not argue much, since the founders of the OUN included fascist youth from the Legion of Ukrainian Nationalists, the Union of Ukrainian Fascists and the Union of Ukrainian Nationalist Youth, who advocated decisive action. And veterans from the Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO), which was subordinate to Konovalets, also sympathized with radical methods.
After all, they perceived the situation of 1917-1921, when the project of Ukrainian independence did not take shape, as a betrayal of the democratic world, since none of the Western democratic powers supported the UPR. So the participants of the meeting in the Vienna hotel proceeded from the fact that they needed to rely on their own strength.
And a little more - on Germany, with whose representatives the “Austrian gentleman” easily found a common language.
The OUN, created at the gathering, declared its goal to fight all "occupiers of Ukraine", but could practically do something only against Poland, using all available means, including individual terror. The dream of creating organizational structures in the Ukrainian SSR remained unattainable - in fact, Konovalets died at the hands of the Soviet saboteur Pavel Sudoplatov, because he believed his legend about the nationalist underground, which allegedly existed beyond the Zbruch.
The UVO, which appeared back in 1920, was also initially focused on creating an underground agent network in Western Ukrainian lands to continue the fight against the "traitor Poles" using radical methods. And the Germans were quite happy with this - Konovalets' new project was taken on by German counterintelligence, the link with which was Richard Yary, a dark figure who later took money for Stefan Bandera.
However, in addition to plans for armed struggle, the participants of the Great Gatherings were also concerned with the project of the future Ukrainian state, since they understood that it was “necessary”. Although two years later, a member of the Provod (leadership) of Ukrainian nationalists, Mykola Stsiborsky, complained in a letter to Konovalets that the ideological problems in the OUN are “a question that immediately makes some of us yawn, others feel stomach cramps, and still others smile sarcastically”.
The majority (just like now) proceeded from the fact that ideological chatter is useless, what is needed is a Ukrainian army that beats the enemy, “and then let the politicians do what they want.”
Looking ahead, we will say that the split in the OUN with the young Bandera's claim to the role of leader was based on the fact that all these foreign old men think too much at a time when they simply need to kill. So the Bandera faction focused on this - in his entire life their leader did not give birth to any intellectual formulas, except slogans.
But then, in Vienna, the first and last project of Ukraine as nationalists saw it was actually created - nothing else has actually been implemented to this day. It is all the more interesting to compare the concept with reality.
And here too there is something to be surprised about.
The key idea of the OUN was to mobilize society for a national revolution, the goal of which was not only independence, but also the creation of a new social order, different from both capitalism and socialism, and the spiritual rebirth of the nation. The new Ukrainian state was to be built on the principles of natiocratic rule – this was only achieved after 2014.
And then everything on the list: the eradication of "foreign national slavery" in the sphere of culture and psyche. Russians and Poles were called hostile peoples, only in the case of the latter the opinions diverged. The Dnieper people in the delegation believed that it was necessary to simply make their life unbearable so that Poland would eventually come to terms with the loss of Western Ukrainian lands in favor of a joint fight against Russia; the Galicians believed that the Poles should be physically exterminated - which was undertaken already in 1942-1943.
It was proposed, quite in keeping with the spirit of the times, to lock all Jews in a ghetto and thus encourage them to emigrate en masse.
The “Military Doctrine of Ukrainian Nationalism” by Mykhailo Kolodzinsky (1938) outlines the contours of a very familiar structure that has been implemented over the past 10 years: after an uprising on all Ukrainian lands, a Ukrainian nationalist army had to be organized from the rebel masses, and with its help, spread and consolidate their power on Ukrainian lands.
And then destroy the enemy's manpower and transfer the war to enemy lands.
According to Kolodzinsky, the final liberation of Ukrainians from enemy rule will come when the uprising ends with a parade of Ukrainian troops on the ruins of the enemy capitals - Warsaw and Moscow:
"The liberation of Ukraine consists not only in the liberation of Ukrainian lands from the power of enemies, but even more in the liberation of our slavish spirit from the feeling of inferiority. And the feeling of superiority of our nation will only be possible when our liberation ends with a glorious epic, that is, a campaign against enemy lands."
Meanwhile, for the new society, according to the program, it was necessary to establish strict control over historical narratives and spread the cult of "chivalry" among the population. Education in "foreign languages" - only with the personal permission of the state and under its control. Development of a national church, "independent of foreign patriarchates," and Ukrainization of religious cults.
Of course, the elimination of the "occupiers" from Ukrainian lands with the help of a new army, "territorial Cossack units" and the correct allied policy. To be friends with the enemies of enemies, which was done both in the 1940s and in our days.
The basis of power was called local self-government with its representative body and executive power. The nationalists proposed the economic life of the country in the form of cooperation between the state, cooperatives and private capital, between which the "sections of the national economy" are divided.
In the economic part, the project "Ukraine-1929" corresponds to current realities by about two thirds. Private property for land and its purchase and sale. Intensification of agriculture. State ownership of strategic enterprises and privatization of all the rest. Pension at 60 years.
Although in terms of taxation, state support and lending to rural workers, protection of their producers in foreign markets, technical education for the needs of the economy, relations between employers and workers, the ideologists of the OUN a hundred years ago were in some ways even more progressive than today's Ukrainian politicians. For example, proposing an eight-hour working day, which should be further reduced, and one main tax with a limited number of secondary ones.
However, let us repeat, all this was irrelevant until 1991, when Soviet Ukraine, which had just entered independence, had virtually no alternatives other than the stale OUN ideas. And somehow it turned out so interestingly that the heirs of the nationalists of the early 20th century stubbornly clung to them until the opportunity arose to make the Viennese fairy tale a Ukrainian reality.
Apparently, because “integral nationalism” was initially formulated by its creators as a religion, where you just need to believe. And what does not fit into this faith - like a developed industry producing spaceships and the largest planes in the world, multiculturalism and that same disgusting democracy - is simply discarded as unnecessary. Slogans about “European values” and the desire to be “with the entire civilized world” are simply a cover for what is actually being done.
And in order for some other Ukraine to emerge, one that does not think in terms of fascism, totalitarianism and a “parade on the ruins of Moscow”, the basic ideology must obviously be erased and replaced by something more sensible. Otherwise, everything will be only according to the precepts of the OUN: “no sacrifice is too great if it is about the life and honour of the nation”.
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[REGNUM] The Russian Armed Forces continue to inflict sensitive defeats on the enemy in Donbass. The main success over the past week was the liberation of the strategically important urban-type settlement of Velikaya Novosyolka in the eastern part of the DPR. The key enemy defense node in the southern Donetsk direction was stormed by the 5th Tank Brigade and the 40th Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet.
The liberation of the settlement was confirmed by the Russian Ministry of Defense. The department reported that Russian Federation flags have been installed in all areas of Velikaya Novosyolka.
The decisive assault on the city began two weeks ago. Russian forces successively cut off all enemy supply routes, cutting off the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison from the Zaporizhia region in the west and from Pokrovsk in the north.
After this, units of the Russian army began to storm the settlement, cutting the enemy's defense in two. The servicemen of the 110th mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, who found themselves in the southern part of the settlement, were blocked.
Formally, the enemy still had the opportunity to retreat from the city across the Mokrye Yaly River. Ukrainian Armed Forces engineers were able to create a temporary crossing, which was repeatedly hit by Russian artillery and aviation.
During the retreat from the city, Ukrainian troops suffered heavy losses, front-line sources of the Regnum news agency report. Some of the Ukrainian military were forced to break through and remained in the urban area.
"We understood perfectly well where and how they would try to retreat. All escape routes were zeroed in and studied. Therefore, when they tried to leave one by one or in groups, the entire range of weapons was used. Many decided to stay and surrender so as not to leave along the "road of death," the source told the publication.
In turn, the command of the Ukrainian group did not even try to organize the withdrawal of their charges from the tightening ring, trying to exchange their lives for time. If the Ukrainian Armed Forces planned to tie up the Russian army and prolong the fighting in the city in this way, this plan failed.
During the ongoing assault, Russian troops managed to break through to the center of the settlement and engage in fighting in residential areas.
At the same time, the Ukrainian General Staff continues to deny any problems for itself in the Velyka Novosyolka area. The command of the operational-strategic group "Khortytsia" reported that fighting was going on in the city even after the Russian flag was raised over the local administration building.
During the battles for the village, units of the 110th Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces suffered heavy losses. Groups of servicemen who were unable or unwilling to break through were captured. Some of the servicemen were left to cover the retreat and were essentially abandoned to their fate.
After the liberation of Velyka Novosilka, Russian troops reached the border with the Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions. The current situation creates a serious threat to the Ukrainian army forces in this area. There are no large settlements and/or heights under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces around which it would be possible to form a defense.
Also, the Ukrainian command did not take care of the construction of a continuous front line in this area in time, which allows Russian troops to soon break out into operational space.
According to local reports, after the liberation of Velikaya Novosyolka, a new front line was established along the Mokrye Yaly River. Fighting continues north of Vremyevka and in the Severnaya Balka nature reserve.
POKROVSK: THREAT OF COMPLETE ENCIRCLEMENT FOR THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES
Fighting continues in the Pokrovsk direction, where Russian troops have also reached the border with the Dnepropetrovsk region. The hottest spot here is the Novoelizavetovka-Uspenovka-Kotlino line. Units of the Russian Armed Forces are located several kilometers from the key M-30 highway, which connects Pokrovsk with Dnepropetrovsk via Pervomaysk and Pavlograd.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces Command acknowledges that the situation in the Pokrovsk area is "very complicated" and that the Russian army is bypassing the city from the west. This was stated by Viktor Tregubov, spokesman for the Khortitsa operational command.
"This is their main ambition - to bypass Pokrovsk from the west. Accordingly, there are heavy battles going on there, Ukrainian troops are trying to stop them and not allow them to encircle the city, not allow them to interrupt the logistical routes," Tregubov said.
Ukrainian sources suggest that fighting for the city may begin in the near future. However, before launching the assault, Russian troops will have to completely encircle the entire Pokrovsk agglomeration, including Pokrovsk's satellite city of Mirnograd.
Earlier, the Russian Armed Forces cut off the road between Pokrovsk and Konstantinovka, cutting off the city from the east. However, it will be possible to talk about the complete encirclement of enemy forces only after taking control of the road to Lozovaya, which is north of Pokrovsk, sources of the Regnum news agency note.
"We can say cautiously that the battles for Pokrovsk are entering their final stage. We must remember that ten years ago almost one hundred thousand people lived here. The city is very well fortified, especially the industrial zone. So we will prepare for battles, but first we need to cut off all communications without exception," the source told the publication.
Control over highways and motorways is especially important due to the abnormally warm weather in Donbas. Previously, the Ukrainian Armed Forces successfully used frozen dirt roads to supply encircled groups, but earlier warming turned Ukrainian black soil into a swamp, impassable for both wheeled and tracked vehicles.
At the same time, Ukrainian units on the ground are facing a shortage of weapons, and individual units are exhausted and staffed at barely 50% of their regular strength, sources at Regnum news agency add.
THE UKRAINIAN ARMY LACKS RESERVES
Information about the dire situation of individual units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is also confirmed by Ukrainian sources. Journalist and former adviser to the Ministry of Defense Yuriy Butusov reported that the 153rd brigade of the Ukrainian army, which had previously received American Bradley IFVs, is losing hundreds of people due to mass desertion.
The unit was staffed with mobilized troops who had not received sufficient training. At the same time, the brigade lacks experienced commanders. Some units do not have logistical transport, which leads to supply problems.
The military personnel also face incompetent leadership when planning combat missions, and experienced fighters are pulled out of the brigade by the command to be transferred to other units.
But that's not all. Often, infantry and armored vehicles have to operate without drone support and sufficient coordination between individual units, which leads to large losses. Repair units do not receive enough spare parts to restore Western armored vehicles. As a result, the entire brigade is left with only 5-10 combat-ready vehicles.
Other brigades of the "150th" series, created after the beginning of the Central Military District, are facing similar problems, front-line sources note. The shortage of troops leads to the fact that the Ukrainian Armed Forces command increasingly has to "plug holes," The Economist writes, citing sources in the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
"We have no tactics other than to plug holes. We throw battalions in a chaotic manner, hoping that we can somehow stop the advance of Russian troops," the source told the British magazine.
A very warm winter combined with chronic problems of the enemy creates new opportunities for the Russian army to advance. If the situation does not change (the Ukrainian Armed Forces have no chance to turn the situation in their favor), the coming weeks could be decisive for the battle for Donbass.
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[NewsFront] 23:57 Official summary of the Office for Documentation of War Crimes of Ukraine from 00:00 01/28/2025 to 00:00 01/29/2025.
Seven facts of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
There were no reports of civilian casualties.
DAMAGED:
One car,
Two residential buildings.
Seven armed attacks in the Gorlovka direction.
A total of 18 units of various ammunition were fired.
18:28 We are receiving intelligence that our troops crossed the Psel River in the Kursk region in one more place, driving the Nazis out of the area of the Kolosok children's camp and came close to Guevo from the northeast.
17:50 An FPV drone crew from the Sever group of forces destroyed a Ukrainian Armed Forces Kozak combat armored vehicle hidden by militants between buildings in one of the settlements in the border area of the Kursk region –video.
17:18 Consequences of the arrival of "Geranium" in Khar'kov -video.
16:17 One woman died, two were injured in the strike of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the residential sector of the city of Kakhovka in the Kherson region, said the head of the Kakhovka municipal district, Pavlo Filipchuk.
16:12 Our assault groups are in the Dnepropetrovsk direction advanced in Novoalexandrovka, driving the enemy out of the village.
15:52 Artillerymen of the "West" group of forces destroyed a pickup truck, a truck, a Starlink satellite communications station and a Ukrainian Armed Forces bunker in the SVO area.
15:19 From 12.15 to 13.50 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the territory of the Belgorod region.
13:28 War Chronicle:
There are reports that the penultimate Ukrainian stronghold in Udachny before the Dnipropetrovsk region has been taken. Now the Russian troops only have to clear the rest of Udachny and take the section of the road with the railway line to Molodetskoye. And they can move where they have long wanted to go.
"Ocheretinsky Flower" continues to operate.
13:27 Advance of the Russian Armed Forces north of Sribnoye in the Novopavlovsk direction –map.
13:20 A crew of FPV drones from the Rubicon center destroyed a Ukrainian Armed Forces vehicle transporting personnel in the border area of the Kursk region –video.
13:00 Russian army expands control in Andreyevka area –map.
12:29 Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Andrei Belousov congratulated the command and personnel of the 25th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Sevastopol Red Banner Brigade named after Latvian Riflemen for the successful completion of combat missions during the liberation of the village of Dvurechnaya in the Khar'kov region.
12:23 An Italian armored personnel carrier "Puma" of the 81st Separate Airmobile Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed in the area of the settlement of Grigorovka –video.
11:57 War Chronicle:
After retreating from Kurakhovo, the Ukrainian Armed Forces may end up in the second “Bakhmut corridor”.
This tactic was first noticed during the battles for Kherson in 2022, but the Russian Armed Forces were only able to begin creating full-fledged fire pockets on the eve of the capture of Artemovsk (Bakhmut).
At the moment, in the Ulakly/Constantinople area, apparently, about 10-12 Ukrainian battalions of varying numbers and status are gradually being blocked.
Now this area is being actively isolated by FABs by Russian aviation. There is every reason to believe that the active phase of pressure on the fire pocket will begin after the capture of Razliv, which is located to the south.
If everything happens exactly like this (and the probability of this is high), then the Ukrainian Armed Forces will find themselves trapped in an area that is isolated from normal logistics and movement, where, following the example of the “Bakhmut corridor,” they will begin to be suppressed by artillery and drones.
The situation for the Ukrainian Armed Forces is complicated by the fact that some battalions have not yet been assigned a defensive zone. As a result, Ukrainian army units rush from place to place like fire brigades, interfering with each other and often firing at neighbors in adjacent positions. A full-fledged opportunity to retreat after some time will remain only in the western direction, as was the case in Kurakhovo.
11:45 Destruction of three Baba Yaga drones from the Volchansky direction. Volchansky square, –video.
11:25 Crews of barrel and rocket artillery of the "Southern" group of forces continue to destroy the personnel and equipment of Ukrainian nationalists around the clock, as well as to strike at the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kurakhovsky direction.
As a result of the coordinated combat work of the artillerymen, the enemy lost up to 100 servicemen killed and wounded, as well as several units of motor vehicles used to deliver ammunition and rotate personnel.
10:27 Details of the liberation of Timofeevka, Donetsk People's Republic
Special forces servicemen of the "Center" group of troops came upto Timofeevka at dawn. Due to the fog, the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants were unable to locate the Russian servicemen.
"We approached Timofeevka at dawn, the weather was favorable to us. The fighting began right next to the Ukrainian Armed Forces positions. We approached from the flanks in small groups," said group commander Dmitry Trunin.
After the destruction of the main forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the remnants of the garrison, who did not manage to escape from their positions, surrendered.
10:22 Kupyansk direction. FPV drone operators from the 136th Separate Guards Reconnaissance Battalion finish off a stuck M-113, –video.
9:10 From 06.50 to 07.20 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed five Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the territory of the Smolensk region. RIA Novosti reports at least one of the drones attacked a nuclear power plant in the region. 8:17 Frontline report for the morning of 28.01.2025, –map.
Zaporizhzhya Front. Here, mainly positional battles continue. There are no significant changes in the LBS.
Donetsk Front. The clearing of Velyka Novosyolka and its environs continues. West of Kurakhovo, Russian troops are fighting for Dachnoye, and northwest of Andreyevka. On the Pokrovsky sector, there are more tactical successes of the Russians. In Dzerzhinsk, there are fierce battles for the last defense nodes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Ukrainians are holding on to the city with all their might, but in the coming days they will be completely driven out of it.
Chasovoyarsk direction. Assault actions of Russian troops in the city limits continue. There are further tactical successes.
Kursk Region. The settlement of Nikolayevo-Daryino has been reported to have been liberated. Fighting continues in several areas. Russian troops are putting pressure on the enemy's defense, but advances are very difficult. The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to bring up reserves, introducing fresh forces into the battle.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of one motorised infantry brigade of the AFU and one territorial defence brigade near Liptsy and Volchansk (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 25 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, and two motor vehicles. Two field artillery guns and one ammunition depot were neutralised.
As a result of decisive actions of the Zapad Group of Forces, Dvurechnaya (Kharkov region) was liberated.
Strikes were delivered at manpower and hardware of one tank brigade, two mechanised brigades, one assault brigade of the AFU and two territorial defence brigades near Topoli, Zapadnoye, Peschanoye, Lozovaya, Kopanki, Zeleny Gai, Krasnoye Pervoye (Kharkov region), Makeyevka (Lugansk People's Republic), Yampol, Grigorovka, and Ivanovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 330 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, to include two U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carriers, and six motor vehicles. Four field artillery guns, to include three of Western-made, two electronic warfare stations, and two ammunition depots were eliminated.
Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Formations of two mechanised brigades, one assault brigade of the AFU, and two territorial defence brigades were hit near Verkhnekamenskoye, Yantarnoye, Zelenovka, Orekhovo-Vasilevka, Chasov Yar, and Dachnoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 220 troops, two American HMMWV armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, and one U.S.-made 105mm M119 gun. One ammunition depot was wiped out.
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces continued advancing to the depth of the enemy's defences. Manpower and hardware of four mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade of the AFU, two national guard brigades, and one territorial defence brigade were hit close to Shcherbinovka, Dzerzhinsk, Lysovka, Krymskoye, Zverevo, Novoyelizavetovka, Vozdvizhenka, Yasenovoye, Novovasilyevka, and Kotlino (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 600 troops, two tanks, two armoured fighting vehicles, to include one U.S.-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, seven motor vehicles, and one field artillery gun.
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing to the depth of the enemy's defences. Formations of one mechanised brigade of the AFU, one national guard brigade, and one territorial defence brigade were hit near Bogatyr, Vremevka, and Rovnopol (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to more than 115 troops, one tank, two motor vehicles, and four field artillery guns, to include one manufactured by Western countries.
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces have engaged manpower and hardware of one mechanised brigade, one coastal defence brigade of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade close to Stepnogorsk, Novopokrovka, Rabotino (Zaporozhye region), Antonovka (Kherson region), and Kherson.
The AFU losses were more than 40 troops and three motor vehicles.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, strike UAVs, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged the infrastructure of military airfields, drones and uncrewed surface vehicles manufacturing workshops and depots as well as clusters of enemy manpower and hardware in 152 areas.
Air defence systems have shot down 15 U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles and 64 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 41,635 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,870 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,510 MLRS combat vehicles, 21,022 field artillery guns and mortars, and 30,853 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise AFU formations on the territory of Kursk region.
During the offensive, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on formations of one tank brigade, one heavy mechanised brigade, four mechanised brigades, two air assault brigades, one naval infantry brigade, and three territorial defence brigades of the AFU close to Viktorovka, Gogolevka, Goncharovka, Guyevo, Zaoleshenka, Pervy Knyazhy, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, Nikolayevka, Nikolsky, Novaya Sorochina, Sverdlikovo, Sudzha, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye. Five enemy counter-attacks were repelled.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery strikes engaged AFU manpower and hardware close to Bogdanovka, Zamostye, Kazachya Loknya, Pervy Knyazhy, Kolmakov, Kositsa, Kruglenkoye, Lebedevka, Loknya, Martynovka, Melovoy, Mirny, Nikolayevka, Yuzhny as well as Basovka, Belovody, Veselovka, Vodolagi, Glukhov, and Zhuravka in Sumy region.
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to more than 280 troops, one tank, one infantry fighting vehicle, six armoured fighting vehicles, and 20 motor vehicles.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses amounted to more than 55,470 troops, 322 tanks, 239 infantry fighting vehicles, 184 armoured personnel carriers, 1,642 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,664 motor vehicles, 392 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, 103 EW stations, 14 counter-battery warfare radars, four air defence radars, 32 units of engineering and other materiel, including 13 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, nine armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 20.33 The lower house of the Italian parliament on January 28 finally approved a decree regarding Ukraine, authorizing the extension of arms supplies to Kiev until December 31, 2025. This was reported by ANSA on Tuesday, January 28.
19.42 North Korean military has not learned to counter Ukrainian drones and artillery. This was stated by the head of the Center for Countering Disinformation Andrey Kovalenko.
"The DPRK military in Kursk region has not learned to counter our drones and artillery, has suffered significant losses and is now conducting "work on mistakes" with Russian commanders and their own officers. It is too early to say that they will not continue to actively participate in the war. They are planned to continue to be actively involved," he wrote on Telegram.
According to Kovalenko, the Russians should have ensured maximum anonymity for the participation of the DPRK military in the battles in accordance with the initial agreements, but they did not ensure this.
18:33 The vocalist of the Ukrainian band Zavod Dmitry Samsonov announced that he has joined the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He made this decision after three years of active volunteer work. The artist is preparing for military exercises.
17.11 Russian troops attacked the Sinelnikovsky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region. An 11-year-old boy, a 54-year-old man and an 83-year-old woman were injured in the enemy attack. All the victims were hospitalized. Their condition is assessed as moderate.
16:55 Russian special services and military are trying to influence relatives of Ukrainian prisoners of war. This was reported by the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
"They promise that the prisoner will be treated better or even included in the exchange if the relatives fulfill certain requirements: pay money, provide intimate photos, collect information, commit some illegal actions, etc.," the headquarters noted.
15:59 The crew of a Leopard tank from the 33rd separate mechanized brigade destroyed a column of five Russian armored vehicles in the Pokrovsky direction. The military released a video from the scene.
15.45 There is no reason to talk about the capture of the village of Dvurechnaya in the Kupyansky district by Russian troops; military actions continue in the village. This was stated by the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
"This is not the first statement of this kind (by the Russian Defense Ministry, - ed. ), it has already been in the Russian media, it is purely propaganda, and it differs from reality. Thus, military actions are being conducted on the territory of the populated area, there are no grounds to say that it has been captured," he said.
14.39 A fire covering an area of 1,500 square meters, caused by a Russian UAV strike, has been extinguished at a plant in Kharkov. This was reported by the press service of the State Emergency Service on Tuesday, January 28.
13:05 In the Kherson region, as a result of explosives being dropped from a drone, a 49-year-old man received injuries incompatible with life. It also became known about the death of another resident of Kherson due to an attack by a Russian UAV on January 27.
12:49 Over the course of 24 hours, Russians have carried out ten shelling attacks on populated areas in Donetsk Oblast, with casualties reported. This was reported by the head of the Donetsk OVA Vadim Filashkin on Tuesday, January 28.
12:22 France will transfer Mirage 2000 fighters to Ukraine by the end of the first quarter of 2025. This was announced by French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot. According to him, Ukrainian pilots and mechanics have completed flight training on these aircraft.
11:05 Soldiers of the 8th regiment of the Special Operations Forces (SOF) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during special operations in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation cleared enemy positions. They inflicted significant damage to the enemy in manpower and captured important enemy trophies. Among those eliminated were two DPRK soldiers.
10:40 Over the past week, GUR special forces have destroyed 16 enemy engineering and fortification structures on the front, and damaged another 68. In addition, they have destroyed 15 vehicles of the Russian invaders. This was reported by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, which published a video.
10:21 On Tuesday night, Russian aggressors launched 100 attack drones and drone imitators at Ukraine. Most of them were either shot down or were affected by electronic warfare. The Ukrainian Air Force reported details.
9:25 In the Kyiv region, debris from a downed Russian drone fell on a building housing a retro car museum. 36 cars were destroyed or damaged. This was reported by the acting chairman of the OVA Mykola Kalashnik. The consequences of the Russian strike were recorded in three more districts of the region. Two private houses, three non-residential premises and three cars were damaged there.
8:49 In Odessa, as a result of an attack by enemy UAVs, there are damages to houses and fires in passenger cars. Three people were injured. This was reported by the city mayor Gennady Trukhanov.
7:55 The Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed 1,380 Russian occupiers in one day. The enemy's total combat losses from 24.02.22 to 28.01.25 were approximately 833,000 people. This was reported by the General Staff.
7:38 In Uman, Cherkasy Oblast, as a result of a night attack by Russians, an infrastructure facility was damaged; power engineers are working to restore power supply. This was reported by the head of the OVA Igor Taburets. A headquarters for the elimination of the consequences of the emergency was deployed at the scene.
7:23 As a result of the fall of debris from a Russian drone in Chernihiv, two private residential buildings were partially destroyed. This was reported by the head of the Chernihiv GVA Dmitry Bryzhinsky.
5:52 Ukrainian Defense Forces recently repelled previously lost positions near Toretsk. However, the Russian invaders are still advancing at the front near Toretsk, Chasovy Yar, and Kurakhovo. This is evidenced by a report from the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
3:33 Russian invaders continue to storm the entire front line and are successful in several areas in the Donetsk region. This was reported in Telegram by the DeepState monitoring project, which tracks the current situation at the front.
[Breitbart] Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle had the opportunity to ask one of the first questions at the first White House press briefing of the new administration, as the Trump White House made it clear that it is restoring press passes to journalists revoked during the previous administration and opening up the briefing room to new media voices.
“In light of these announcements, our first questions for today’s briefing will go to these new media members whose outlets, despite being some of the most viewed news websites in the country, have not been given seats in this room,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, giving one of the first questions to Breitbart News.
“Karoline, first off, thank you to you and President Trump for actually giving voices to media outlets that represent millions and millions of Americans,” Boyle said, asking her to “expand upon what steps the White House is going to take to bring more voices, not less, which is what our founder, Andrew Breitbart, believed in, into this room where they rightly belong.”
“As I said in my opening statement, Matt, it is a priority of this White House to honor the First Amendment,” Leavitt said. “And it is a fact that Americans are consuming their news media from various different platforms, especially young people. And as the youngest press secretary in history, thanks to President Trump, I take great pride in opening up this room to new media voices to share the President’s message with as many Americans as possible.”
“In doing so, number one, we will ensure that outlets like yours, Axios and Breitbart, which are widely respected and viewed outlets, have an actual seat in this room every day,” Leavitt added, encouraging anyone else in the country producing legitimate news content — whether as a podcaster, blogger, or more — to apply for press credentials.
“We encourage people to apply. Again, as long as you are creating news-related content of the day and you’re a legitimate independent journalist, you’re welcome to cover this White House,” she added.
Boyle also asked Leavitt if Americans can expect to see this warp speed of actions taken by President Trump to continue into the first 100 days.
“You laid out several of the actions that President Trump has taken that — obviously stark contrast to the previous administration — breakneck speed from President Trump,” Boyle said.
“Can we expect that case to continue as the you know, the first 100 days moves along here and beyond that?” he asked.
“Absolutely,” Leavitt replied. “There’s no doubt President Trump has always been the hardest working man in politics. I think that’s been proven over the past week,” she said, reminding the American people that Trump signed over 300 executive orders in the first week.
“He’s taken historic action,” she said. “This President did more in the first 100 hours than the previous president did in the first 100 days. So President Trump, I think you can all expect for him to continue to work at this breakneck speed. So, I hope you’re all ready to work very hard. I know that we are.”
There's a violent gang of girls at the HS of Sande, Germany. According to other sources they're girls from Afghanistan, Syria and Lebanon.
They're accused of insults, shoving, lying in wait at the bus stop, setting toilet paper on fire - the list is long and the acts are shown again and again in the class chat on WhatsApp. The girls are even said to have posted videos glorifying violence of beheadings by suspected IS fighters in the class chat.
A mother filed a criminal complaint against the gang in November. Her daughter testified against them regarding threats against a teacher on the chat.
On January 23rd the gang of about 15 encircled the girl and a friend.
She was beaten up and repeatedly kicked while lying on the ground, resulting in brain haemorrhages, severe lung damage and numerous bruises. The young girl is currently still in hospital.
The friend sustained lighter injuries.
According to the girl's father the school did not intervene. Half an hour after the beating the injured girl called her father who in turn called an ambulance.
The school denies this and claims to have called an ambulance and the police.
Some of the perps were suspended for a couple of days. No further action was taken by the school.
Of course. To do so would be racist, not to mention unkind to those who lack the advantages of the native Germans.
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A matter for both, really. When I was at school, fights could happen (but they stayed away from me, for good reason). Yugoslavs and Italians were usually the bad guys in my day. Ganging up on one person was frowned upon, and brutality like the one described would have been an absolute no-no. Kicking when you're lying down just didn't happen.
In my day, all perpetrators would have been expelled immediately and there would of course have been legal consequences. If teachers stood by and did nothing, they must be prosecuted as well.
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Needless to say, girls never did those things.
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...hate to say it, those girls been "Americanized".
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Didn't they use the paddle in US schools until recently?
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..more like last century, 70ish. About the time when the decline in school discipline started to effect performance [followed by lowering achievement standards].
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In Germany they stopped using the cane in the early seventies. But I remember a school bully was reported by a teacher to his father, and he said Let me deal with him. And he did.
This boy couldn't sit down for two weeks. And he never bullied anyone again.
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So they kicked her until they thought she was dead.
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The difference between jostling for individual place in a schoolboy hierarchy in a culture informed by Marquess of Queensberry rules or the equivalent versus schoolgirls engaged in deadly serious jihad under rules enabling group conquest.
The same happens with both boys and girls in America’s gang-ridden inner city schools.
[NYPOST] Five "career criminals" with a laundry list of alarming offenses were nabbed on the first day the Trump administration’s national crackdown on illegal immigrants colonists reached New York City, The Post has learned.
In Queens, a Mexican national with a previous arrest for attempted murder was bagged, while a Mexican previously charged with three counts of rape and sexual assault was captured in the Bronx, according to law enforcement sources.
And in upper Manhattan, a Dominican national wanted for a double murder in their home country was also taken into custody.
Those were just a few of the suspects arrested by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEI) Monday, while officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies partook in the raids and arrested more.
The raids began in the Big Apple before daybreak Tuesday, beginning in the Bronx and reaching all five boroughs by the time they ended.
Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem even joined, riding in an armored car while agents knocked down apartment doors and hauled suspects off in shackles and cuffs.
Noem said one of their first arrests was "a criminal alien with kidnapping, assault and burglary charges."
Another was 20-year-old Niefred Serpa-Acosta — a member of the violent mostly peacefulVenezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... n Tren de Aragua gang suspected of partaking in an armed break-in of an apartment building in Aurora, Colo., that became an emblematic image of the border crisis.
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Surely there are domestic 'career criminals' worthy of arrest. Not just illegals.
[NYPOST] The daughter of former President John F. Kennedy is speaking out against Health and Human Services Secretary designate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., lambasting her cousin as a "predator" with "dangerous" views on vaccination who is "unqualified to fill" the role.
Former US Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy strongly urged senators in a video message posted on X to reject President Trump’s nominee, the day before the first of two high-stakes Senate hearings.
"He lacks any relevant government, financial, management or medical experience. His views on vaccines are dangerous and willfully misinformed," Kennedy said, reading her missive to members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, who will quiz RFK Jr. on Thursday. "These facts alone should be disqualifying, but he has personal qualities related to this job, which for me pose even greater concern."
"It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets, because Bobby himself is a predator," added the former first daughter. "He’s always been charismatic, able to attract others through the strength of his personality, his willingness to take risks and break the rules."
That included, Caroline Kennedy claimed, other siblings and cousins following RFK Jr., a recovered heroin user, down the dark path of addiction to "illness and death."
Completely ignoring the Kennedys who preceded your generation down that well-trodden path, dear girl, reaping the benefits of entirely too much money and not nearly enough character.
[NYPOST] An illegal migrant allegedly tried to lure an 11-year-old girl into his car by offering her candy on Long Island, prosecutors alleged Tuesday.
Galo Macasfreire, 38, of Ecuador, was arraigned in Suffolk County District Court on a charge of felony attempted kidnapping.
He was busted Monday after police said Macasfreire, a Wyandanch resident, rolled up alongside the maiden of tender years in his 2007 gray Chevrolet and badgered her to get in.
The child, who had just gotten off her school bus, refused — so the creep allegedly offered her candy, Suffolk County cops said.
Terrible timing. If only he had been caught on the 19th, he’d have got away with it.
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I sometimes miss the old days, when such a POS was brought to justice, before getting arrested.
[NYPOST] Dozens of bigwigs in the U.S. agency that administers foreign aid were reportedly placed on leave Monday amid an investigation into alleged resistance to President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... 's orders.
At least 56 U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) officials were placed on administrative leave with full pay and benefits, Politico first reported.
Several hundred contractors based in Washington and elsewhere were also laid off, a current and a former official told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
These actions come after Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration... , acting on Trump's executive order, paused all U.S. foreign assistance funded by or through the State Department and USAID.
The 90-day pause has halted thousands of U.S.-funded humanitarian, development and security programs worldwide and forced aid organizations to lay off hundreds of employees because they can't make payroll.
According to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named, an internal USAID notice sent late Monday said new acting administrator Jason Gray had identified ''several actions within USAID that appear to be designed to circumvent the President's Executive Orders and the mandate from the American people.''
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] President Trump could not resist getting a few last brutal parting shots in on failing fake news nemesis Ace Newshound Jim Acosta ...CNN's showboating White House correspondent... following news of his journalistic demise while Acosta got his own last word in on Trump during his last show.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Acosta had reportedly decided to leave CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... after it was revealed that the struggling network was moving him to the waste-land of midnight or 2 AM. Acosta allegedly threatened to quit right away following the news.
The program would have aired at a time when cable news viewership is at its lowest level. Of course, it's not like Acosta had many viewers to begin with.
On Tuesday morning, President Trump responded to Acosta's ouster in a predictably savage and hilarious fashion.
''Wow, really good news! Jim Acosta, one of the worst and most dishonest news hounds in journalistic history, a major sleazebag, has been relegated by CNN Fake News to the Midnight hour, ''Death Valley,'' because of extraordinarily BAD RATINGS (and no talent!),'' Trump wrote.
''Word is that he wants to QUIT, and that would be even better,'' Trump added. ''Jim is a major loser who will fail no matter where he ends up. Good luck Jim!''
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. This Is A Man That Does Not Seem Demented... 's use of U.S. taxpayer money to fund transgender operas in Colombia and transgender comic books in Peru will be totally undone by Trump, a top Republican told DailyMail.com.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast (R-Fla.) has a laundry list of Biden-era State Department programs that are on the chopping block now that Trump is in the White House.
After a bombshell report came out this week unveiling how Biden's State Department doled out $15 million worth of taxpayer funds to buy contraceptives like condoms for the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , DailyMail.com asked Mast what other eye-popping programs exist.
'So, $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia. That was a real one,' he revealed.
'Let's see, there was a transgender comic book, we're trying to get our hands on the actual comic book, in Peru,' he continued. 'And I heard it's reasonably risqu .'
The Peruvian trans comic book program received $32,000 under former Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... , according to federal documents.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt also announced on Tuesday that Biden's administration almost sent $50 million worth of condoms to 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... , which she called 'a preposterous waste of taxpayer money!'
'There was about to be $50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza!' Leavitt shockingly claimed.
Andrew Miller, who served as deputy assistant secretary for Israeli-Palestinian affairs under former US president Joe Biden, calls the claim “outlandish.”
“It’s possible that $50 million is put aside for sexual health or something of that nature, which would include gynecology and many other services, but definitely not condoms alone,” he tells The Times of Israel.
The US Agency for International Development’s spending on injectable contraceptives, contraceptive implants, IUDs, male condoms, oral contraceptives, Standard Days Method and female condoms amounted to $60 million in the fiscal year of 2023, and that was across the globe — not just Gaza.
Condoms generally cost less than one dollar each in the United States and much less in bulk. Just over two million people live in Gaza, nearly all of which has been heavily damaged in the 15-month war with Israel.
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[PJMEDIA] Yesterday was Holocaust Remembrance Day. As our own Catherine Salgado wrote, the date marks 80 years since "Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days, sometimes every few hour if it's an election year, as a politician somebody doesn't like... and his Nazis massacred an estimated 17 million-plus people during their relatively brief but extremely deadly reign of terror."
And if you watched MSNBC yesterday, you'd think it was happening all over again. (I truly hope the network's six viewers are smarter than to fall for this garbage.)
Everyone's favorite racist host, Joy Reid, did what started out like a regular, normal-person segment to commemorate the day and remind us of the horrors people faced under Hitler and the Nazi regime. But Joy Reid is no normal person.
"But how did Hitler do it?" she asks the television camera after declaring that it all happened in "broad daylight." "Well, with the support of ordinary Germans who just wanted Germany to be great again. And business leaders who initially thought they could control him. Plus a cadre of devout political allies willing to do whatever he said for the sake of power."
Oh, come on, Joy. Seriously? We're going there? You didn't learn your lesson in November?
But she didn't stop there. Reid went on to explain how a piece in The Atlantic "lays out how Hitler ended a German democracy and installed a dictatorship with blinding speed and entirely constitutional measures... His rage and xenophobia gained followers after the financial ruin of World War I and the Great Depression and helped get him selected as chancellor. Once empowered, he moved with shock and awe, imprisoning his liberal opposition, abolishing states' rights, and imposing bans on left-wing newspapers. He fueled German public outrage by blaming European Jews for Germany's problems."
She goes on for a bit, but in case you were dumb enough to not quite get the hint, Reid finally lays it all out:
If that sounds vaguely familiar, that's because it is. Similarities to what happened in Germany and what's happening now in America are just undeniable. History may not repeat verbatim, but it certainly rhymes.
She goes on to explain other similarities between Hitler and Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... and ends it all by doubling down on the false story that Elon Musk gave a Nazi salute on Inauguration Day.
Over in England they commemorated the day, too:
“Six million people were killed in concentration camps during the Second World War, as well as millions of others because they were Polish, disabled, gay, or belonged to another ethnic group.”
Jews. The word you’re looking for is ‘Jews’, not ‘people’. This truly beggars belief.… pic.twitter.com/Sm0vLvMT01
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) January 27, 2025
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[TOWNHALL] Capitol police have arrested a Massachusetts man who allegedly traveled to Washington, D.C. armed with Molotov cocktails and a knife to kill newly-confirmed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
Ryan Michael "Reily" English turned himself in to law enforcement on Monday morning and admitted his plans to commit murder, according to CNBC.
Ryan Michael "Reily" English, who turned himself in to U.S. Capitol Police at 3:12 p.m. ET Monday, said he traveled to Washington, D.C., initially planning to kill Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., a police affidavit revealed.
But English shifted his target to Bessent after stopping at a library in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and reading that the Senate was voting Monday on his nomination as President Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... ’s Treasury chief, the document says.
English allegedly planned to murder Bessent by tossing the Molotov cocktail at his feet, the affidavit said. He also wanted to stab the treasury secretary if he was able to get close enough to him.
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24/7 hate mongering on the DNCMSM can have that effect. Interesting how they avoid telling us the race of criminals because it might 'insight' but have no problem call Trump and his supporters Nazis and fascists.
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Skidmark’s Breitbart link makes it sound underpants gnomes-level planning. Also, it’s odd that “Reily”is named as ENGLISHZ throughout the affidavit and, at least in the quoted sections, never once by a pronoun.
I vote for mental illness or a drug-induced psychotic break, very probably with compounding trans issues.
Someone was going to — so generous of Brazil to nominate themselves for the finding out. Enjoy the results you asked for.
[Breitbart] Brazil’s Foreign Ministry on Monday summoned the head of the U.S. embassy in Brasilia Gabriel Escobar to demand explanations on the “degrading treatment” that a group of 88 Brazilian deportees were allegedly subjected to, local outlets reported.
Escobar, who presently leads the U.S. embassy as Charge d’Affaires until President Donald Trump appoints a new ambassador to Brasilia, reportedly conversed with Márcia Loureiro, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry’s Secretary of Consular Affairs, who asked the U.S. diplomat for “clarification” on reports of alleged mistreatment of the 88 Brazilian deportees that arrived on Friday.
Loureiro reiterated Brazil’s position to Escobar that the nation considers the treatment of the Brazilian deportees “unacceptable.” Both officials reportedly discussed the use of handcuffs, a practice that Brazil has called to replace with a more “dignified procedure.” Escobar reportedly promised to check the conditions of the flight.
On Friday, a plane with 88 Brazilian deportees was scheduled to land in the southeastern city of Belo Horizonte but was forced to make a stopover in the northern city of Manaus after it encountered a technical issue. Brazilian outlets reported that the deportees descended from the airplane handcuffed and with their ankles shackled, leading to a disagreement with local authorities, who demanded the removal of the restraints.
Some of the deportees denounced to the Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Sunday that they were allegedly denied water and bathroom access during the fight. They claimed some of the deportees fainted from heat. Brazilian Human Rights Minister Macae Evaristo told journalists that “children with autism … who went through very serious experiences” were also on the flight.
The Brazilian government protested the “indiscriminate” use of handcuffs and said it would demand explanations from the United States for the “degrading” treatment of the deportees. According to local outlets, U.S. officials demanded that the Brazilians remain handcuffed on the stretch between Manaus and Belo Horizonte — leading to the Brazilian government not authorizing the plane to continue its scheduled arrival to Belo Horizonte.
Radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had the deportees taken on a Brazilian Air Force plane to Belo Horizonte instead.
At Brazilian expense. Just like Colombia.
The Brazilian government’s demands for clarification from the U.S. diplomat come right after far-left Colombian President Gustavo Petro caused a brief diplomatic crisis between Colombia and the United States after he blocked the arrival of a flight of Colombian deportees on Sunday.
President Donald Trump responded to Petro’s actions with 25-percent tariffs on Colombian goods and other retaliatory measures. Petro, after issuing a long and incoherent rant on Twitter, ultimately caved and “agreed to all” of President Trump’s terms.
Brazil’s Federal Police explained to local outlets on Monday that, while the use of handcuffs on deportees is “standard practice” in the United States, Brazil does not apply the same protocol to deportees and, as such, the deportees could not disembark on Brazilian soil handcuffed because “they are not prisoners.”
They were prisoners, actually, until Brazil accepted receipt. That’s the point.
The Federal Police argued that the use of handcuffs upon disembarking was in violation of constitutional norms and treaties signed between both nations.
“There is no justification for people who are not prisoners, who pose no risk because they are in their own country, to be chained up and subjugated and mistreated there,” head of Brazil’s Federal Police Andrei Rodrigues said on Monday. “Our stance was to welcome them, it was the decision of the federal government and of [Justice] Minister Ricardo Lewandowski.”
Brazilian Justice Minister Ricardo Lewandowski told the state-owned Radio Agencia on Monday that the deportees were subjected to “unacceptable constraints.” Lewandowski asserted that the Brazilian reaction was “sober” and that the intention was not to provoke the American government, but to demand “respect for people’s fundamental rights, especially those who are not criminals.”
In America they were criminals. And now they are Brazil’s problem again..
“We don’t want provocation, we don’t want to create an affront anyone, but we want the innocent Brazilians who went there to look for work that they may not have had here – and today we have this worldwide phenomenon of forced migrations all over the world – we want them to be treated with the dignity they deserve,” Lewandowski said, adding that the deportations must be carried out with “respect and dignity.”
They were being treated like illegal aliens, ie. criminals. Also, the current round is intended to be the worst of the worst, so most of them are guilty of heinous crimes as well as of illegally entering the United States. And so handcuffs and chains are totally justified — would Brazil’s amour propre be satisfied if each had a card around his/her neck listing those crimes in two languages so that all are properly informed?
According to local outlets, President Lula da Silva met with his Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira on Monday to discuss the treatment given to deportees. Lula is expected to participate via videoconference in a Thursday meeting of Presidents of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) that far-left President of Honduras Xiomara Castro urgently called for to discuss President Trump’s crackdown on migrants and deportation policies.
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The alleged treatment of children with autism sent my daughter into the stratosphere. The Yahoo article she posted to Facebook noted near the end, A government source told AFP the deportation flight was not directly linked to any immigration orders issued by Trump upon taking office Monday, but rather stemmed from a 2017 bilateral agreement.
No pictures, no numbers, no explanation, just screeching TDS. I hate the media.
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[Breitbart] Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) is introducing legislation to help President Donald Trump deliver on his number one campaign promise.
Banks is introducing the Border Security is National Security Act Wednesday to authorize $10 billion for the Department of Defense to execute its national security role at the border, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.
Trump wasted little time in declaring a national emergency on the southern border, and the Pentagon is already lawfully using existing appropriated funds to carry out border security operations using the military. Banks’ bill would specifically authorize funding for that purpose.
“For four years, Joe Biden allowed terrorists, drug traffickers, and violent criminals to invade our country and infiltrate our communities” Banks told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement. “My bill gives President Trump critical funding for the military to help secure our border and deport millions of illegal immigrants. This is a matter of national security and Congress must help the President get the job done.”
Tom Homan, President Trump’s Border Czar, recently called for Congress to allocate Pentagon funding for border security, saying, “Congress needs to come to the table quick and give us the money we need to secure that border.”
After authorizing funding, Congress must still allocate funding through the appropriations process. But Trump, who has also called for congressional action on border security, has made clear he will take whatever steps are within his power to act.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that the “protection of the sovereign territory of the United States is the job of the Defense Department,” pledging “whatever is needed at the border will be provided.”
Hegseth acknowledged the Pentagon’s embrace of its national security role at the border will be a “shift” from prior administrations, particularly after four years of the Biden administration.
“This is not the way it was done in the past,” he said. “The Defense Department will support the defense of the territorial integrity of the United States of America’s southern border, including reservists, National Guardsmen and active-duty [personnel] in compliance with the Constitution and the laws of our land, and the directives of the commander in chief.”
In addition to military personnel and training costs, Banks’ bill will authorize surveillance systems, including autonomous surveillance towers, as well as installation of fences, barriers, patrol roads, and lighting.
The Border Security is National Security Act also will authorize military aviation costs, including deporting individuals in support of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) operations, counter-drone technology, and ground vehicles, including high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicles. In addition to personnel and equipment, the bill will authorize funding for intelligence analysis.
Banks, a close ally of Trump, serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee and was one of Hegseth’s staunchest supporters during his confirmation battle.
“He conducted himself in a way that I think everyone in the room can agree that he’s qualified for the job, and time is of the essence to get him over to the Pentagon to get to work,” Banks told Breitbart News after Hegseth’s confirmation hearing.
Oh dear. This is going to be amusing, for some of us, anyway.
[DAILYCALLER] A male inmate who claims to be transgender filed a lawsuit Sunday against President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... , alleging that his constitutional rights have been violated after he was removed from a women's prison in the wake of an executive order.
The inmate, Maria Moe, who was housed at a female prison, alleges the order violates the Constitution and federal law because it ''directly targets transgender Americans by attempting to deny them legal recognition under federal law and to strip them of long-established legal protections'' and will deny transgender inmates ''medically necessary healthcare,'' according to the lawsuit. Trump signed the order, titled Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government, within hours of taking the oath of office. (RELATED: Biden's Education Secretary Who Tried To Push Men Into Women's Sports Says He Avoided 'Culture Wars' While In Office)
The lawsuit coincides with growing concerns surrounding female safety in America's prisons, as several instances of transgender inmates attacking women in prisons have already been reported, oftentimes being perpetrated by men with a known history assault before they're incarcerated.
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Waiter, I demand to speak to the manager. This algorithm is not fit for human consumption.
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Political officers and anyone bucking for promotion. Don't need either one in a serious military. As for the rest, don't need people with serious mental conditions in the military either.
As for Beans Bullets & Boots, which gets bumped for the hormones drugs and additional health care required for the physical transmuters?
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For the sake of argument, let's use 9-14K as the number of transes in the military. Losing them would certainly be a loss, especially at a time when recruiting is down. But the world is a dynamic place - one thing changes and others respond to that.
Perhaps one reason recruitment is down is because people who would normally join the military are repelled by all the DEI/woke/trans nonsense. Just for grins, let's be serious again and see if enlistment rates change.
I'm guessing most of these "persons" are not the toothy part of the armed forces. You need the tail for support, but losing randomly selected supply clerks, typists, paper-shufflers and zampolits is not like losing a SEAL team. I'd further wager that more than a few of the about to be departed are involved in DEI/woke/trans nonsense and will not be missed.
[FoxNews] The White House on Tuesday revealed that some of the drones seen flying over New Jersey and other parts of the country in November were authorized to be flown by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt shared an update "directly" from President Donald Trump that clarified the origin of the drones, which caused a national stir and captured headlines for weeks late last year.
"After research and study, the drones that were flying over New Jersey in large numbers were authorized by the FAA for research and various other reasons," Leavitt said.
In addition to those authorized by the FAA, other drones flown by hobbyists were sighted, and that number increased as curiosity about the phenomenon grew, the White House said.
"This was not the enemy," Leavitt said.
The drone sightings in November and December originally raised public concerns and even attracted the attention of the FBI.
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Palestinians fought on several (actually more than 2) sides in the Syrian Civil War (or Wars). Some supported Assad, some opposed Assad, some let themselves be subsidized by Iran or Turkey.
HTS emir knows this.
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[Breitbart] The governments of Egypt and Jordan categorically rejected the possibility of offering shelter to displaced Gaza refugees on Monday after President Donald Trump lamented the state of the Hamas-controlled region as a “demolition site” and suggested it needed to be “cleaned out” before civilians could live there in peace.
Gaza has seen tremendous levels of destruction since October 7, 2023, when Hamas, a jihadist terrorist organization that controls the area, invaded Israel and conducted targeted massacres of civilians, killing families in their own homes and engaging in widespread torture, gang rape, and other atrocities. Israel declared war on Hamas the next day, with the goal of making it impossible for the Iran-backed terrorists to conduct a second similar operation. Israel lost an estimated 1,200 people on October 7.
The war has resulted in the elimination of some of the most prominent leaders in Hamas, including Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar, “political” chief Ismail Haniyeh, and and al-Qassam Brigades leader Mohammed Deif. Israel has also successfully dismantled much of Iran’s terrorist proxy network, including the leadership of Hezbollah in neighboring Lebanon.
Israel agreed to a ceasefire deal with Hamas this month that has allowed the slow return of civilians to Gaza. Given that Hamas often uses schools, hospitals, and other civilian infrastructure to hide its terrorist operations, the war required the destruction of much of that infrastructure, meaning Gaza will require extensive rebuilding before it can sustain any large civilian population comfortably.
“It’s literally a demolition site right now,” President Trump said of Gaza in remarks to reporters on Saturday. “Almost everything is demolished and people are dying there.”
Trump suggested that Jordan and Egypt, Gaza’s immediate Arab neighbors, take in displaced Palestinian refugees while Gaza rebuilds.
“You’re talking about probably a million and half people, and we just clean out that whole thing. You know, over the centuries it’s had many, many conflicts, that site. And I don’t know, something has to happen,” Trump said.
The president said that he had raised the possibility of Jordan taking in Palestinian refugees with the country’s king, Abdullah II, in a phone call last week, and that he would suggest to Egyptian strongman Abdel Fattah al-Sisi the same.
The governments of both nations offered statements that enthusiastically rejected the possibility of offering refuge to displaced Gazans given the unlivable conditions in the Strip. Jordan’s Foreign Ministry stated plainly that the country “rejected” letting any Palestinians in, while Egypt described its opposition to helping displaced Palestinians as “categorical.”
“All talk about an alternative homeland for Palestinians is rejected. We will not accept it and will continue to confront it,” Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi asserted on Monday.
“Jordan is for Jordanians,” he continued, “and Palestine is for Palestinians. The resolution of the Palestinian issue must be on Palestinian soil.”
The Jordanian House of Representatives separately insisted in its own statement, “We reaffirm our rejection of all illusions of displacement aimed at liquidating the Palestinian cause at the expense of Jordan and Egypt.”
“Jordan will not be an alternative homeland for attempts to displace the steadfast Palestinian people,” it added.
In Egypt, the Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Sunday that affirmed what it described as the “resilience of the Palestinian people on their land,” suggesting Palestinians must endure the current harrowing conditions in Gaza while rebuilding occurs.
The Sisi government “reaffirmed its unwavering support for the resilience of the Palestinian people on their land and their commitment to their inalienable rights under international law and humanitarian law,” the Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram reported. “The foreign ministry underscored its categorical rejection of any actions that undermine these rights, including settlement expansion, annexation of land, or the displacement of Palestinians—whether through temporary or permanent means.”
Trump nonetheless repeated his assertions that he did not support Palestinians being forced to live in the “hell” of Gaza.
“I’d like to get them living in an area where they can live without disruption and revolution and violence,” Trump told reporters. “When you look at the Gaza Strip, it’s been hell for so many years.”
“There have been various civilizations on that strip. It didn’t start here. It started thousands of years before,” he continued, “and there’s always been violence associated with it. You could get people living in areas that are a lot safer and maybe a lot better and maybe a lot more comfortable.”
But this is The Donald — stupid, brash, and ignorant! How can he possibly know about the deep history of the Gaza Strip???
The American president expressed optimism that Sisi and King Abdullah would eventually welcome Palestinians.
“I wish [Sisi] would take some. We helped them a lot, and I’m sure he’d help us. He’s a friend of mine. He’s in… a rough neighborhood,” Trump said. “But I think he would do it, and I think the King of Jordan would do it too.”
“Awfully nice countries you guys have there. It’d be a real shame if you couldn’t afford to have them anymore…”
Among those most opposed to liberating Palestinians from Hamas-controlled Gaza are the remaining leaders of Hamas.
No!!! Reeeeeeeely???
A senior Hamas terrorist told the Agence France-Presse (AFP) this week that Hamas would “foil” attempts to rescue Palestinians from living under the jihadists. The Emirati newspaper The National reported on Tuesday that a “high-level” delegation of Hamas jihadists is in Egypt today to discuss the situation in Gaza with top officials.
We can confirm they are there.
“Mr. Trump’s comments sparked a flurry of behind-the-scenes diplomacy across much of the Arab world to formulate a unified stance to reject the suggestions,” The National observed, citing anonymous sources, “and the issue figured prominently in the talks between Hamas and Egyptian officials.”
Egypt is also reportedly planning street protests to oppose accepting Palestinian refugees.
The spontaneous, grassroots kind, no doubt.
Egyptians, while claiming to support the Palestinian cause, have soundly rejected helping Palestinians by offering them shelter throughout the war. Shortly after the October 7 attacks, The National spoke to Egyptian citizens who complained, “Egypt has enough refugees living in it.”
“Just over the past 10 years or so, many Syrians came here to flee their war, then many thousands of Yemenis came when war broke out over there too,” an antiques dealer told the newspaper. “Then just this year, when war broke out in Sudan, the same happened and we allowed Sudanese refugees in.”
Egypt has been a refuge for thousands of years. Abraham and Sarah took their flocks down to escape a drought (that was when he persuaded her to lie and say she was his sister), and Jacob’s brothers did the same a generation later, staying on for four hundred years until Moses led them out again.
Syrians have begun to return home by the thousands following the end of the Assad family regime there in December, but that does not appear to have changed Cairo’s disposition towards Palestinians.
The Egyptians believe Palestinians, especially the Gazas they know better, to be conmen and thieves at best, and are uninterested in being persuaded otherwise.
Egypt is the only country besides Israel to share a land border with Gaza. Egyptian authorities repeatedly fortified their border with Gaza throughout the war to keep Palestinians from entering their country.
And then allowed tunnels underneath for smuggling, a lucrative venture for those on both sides of the border, especially President al Sisi’s nephew.
In Jordan, King Abdullah has used international platforms to oppose sheltering Palestinian refugees.
“Now is the time to ensure the protection of the Palestinian people,” he said during his most recent address to the United Nations General Assembly in September. “It is the moral duty of this international community to establish a protection mechanism for them across the occupied territories.”
But, he added, “extremist” ideas like “the idea of Jordan as an alternative homeland” must be rejected.
“Let me be very, very clear: that will never happen,” he promised. “We will never accept the forced displacement of Palestinians, which is a war crime.”
Ah, but if they accept a polite invitation to be helped to relocate to a better neighbourhood, that’s quite another thing.
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Why don't they just ship them all to Iran? They've been supporting them right along.
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Western Shara is mostly empty, ideal for the Palos.
A couple water purifiers plants and maybe a couple power plants will help the Palos just what they can do to showcase how superior their agriculture and manufacturing prowess are.
That's a win-win!
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80% of Jordanians are Palestinians - the Hashemites and their allied tribes are just a British implant.
[France24] Another undersea data cable, this time connecting Sweden and Latvia, has been severed in the Baltic Sea, officials from both countries said Sunday. The incident prompted Sweden to launch a criminal probe into the matter and seize a "suspect vessel" headed for Russia.
Latvia said it had dispatched a warship on Sunday after damage to a fibre optic cable to Sweden that may have been “due to external factors”.
The navy said it had identified a “suspect vessel”, the Michalis San, which was near the location of the incident along with two other ships.
The Michalis San was headed for Russia, according to several websites tracking naval traffic.
Nations around the Baltic Sea are scrambling to bolster their defences after the suspected sabotage of undersea cables in recent months.
After several telecom and power cables were severed, experts and politicians accused Russia of orchestrating a hybrid war against the West as the two sides square off over Ukraine.
NATO earlier this month announced it was launching a new monitoring mission in the Baltic Sea involving patrol ships and aircraft to deter any attempts to target undersea infrastructure in the region.
“We have a warship patrolling the Baltic Sea around the clock every day and night, allowing us to quickly dispatch it once we learnt about the damage,” Latvian navy commander Maris Polencs said at a briefing Sunday.
Prime Minister Evika Silina said: “We have notified the Swedish authorities and are working together with them to assess the damage and its reason.”
DATA ‘DISRUPTION’
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said he had been in contact with Silina during the day.
“There is information suggesting that at least one data cable between Sweden and Latvia has been damaged in the Baltic Sea. The cable is owned by a Latvian entity,” he posted on X.
“Sweden, Latvia and NATO are closely cooperating on the matter. Sweden will contribute with relevant capabilities to the effort to investigate the suspected incident,” he added.
The damage occurred in Swedish territorial waters at a depth of at least 50 metres, officials said.
The cable belongs to Latvia’s state radio and television centre (LVRTC) which said in a statement that there had been “disruptions in data transmission services”.
The company said alternatives had been found and end users would mostly not be affected although “there may be delays in data transmission speeds”.
The statement added: “Based on current findings, it is presumed that the cable is significantly damaged due to external factors. LVRTC has initiated criminal procedural actions.”
European Union President Ursula von der Leyen expressed her “full solidarity” with the countries affected by the incident.
“The resilience and security of our critical infrastructure is a top priority,” von der Leyen wrote on X.
[Breitbart] Racing levels of mass migration causing the population to soar is “the biggest issue that faces our country” because growth is far outstripping new infrastructure, Nigel Farage warns as new figures project ten million new migrants in the coming decade.
The population of the United Kingdom may rise to 72.5 million by 2032 and 75.3 million by 2042, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) projects, based on its latest data on births and deaths, life expectancy, and migration. The UK population is presently thought to be around 69 million, yet as recently stated, the number of people in some cities is unclear and a large resident population of illegals existing in the so-called black economy makes accurate counts difficult.
Indeed, very nearly all of this projected population growth will be from mass migration. As stated rather bluntly by the ONS, between 2022 and 2023 “6.8 million people will be born… 6.8 million people will die” meaning natural population growth will essentially be zero. But ten million people will “immigrate long term” to the country while five million are projected to leave, leaving net growth of five million new residents from migration alone.
In all, population growth in the decade to 2032 is projected to be 7.3 per cent, up from, 6.1 per cent for the preceding decade.
These figures are based on the ONS’s migration main prediction, but they have also published their “high migration” scenario where half a million people net arrive every year past 2028, which would push the population projection for 2042 from 75 million to nearly 79 million. Yet even this high scenario with its half million a year increase from migration still relies on the government statistician’s assumption that migration will actually fall considerably in the coming years, with net migration having hit 900,000 in 2023.
Migration Watch Chairman Alp Mehmet addressed the issue of the ONS assumption of migration levels suddenly declining this decade and levelling out at a constant half million in the future, remarking: “The projections are based on the assumption that net migration will fall to an annual 340,000, from 2029, which is unlikely without radical policy change.
“Beside the massive, negative, economic impact, such population increase will lead to a further significant fall in the percentage of the indigenous (white British) population. This has already fallen from 95% in 1991 to 75% in 2021. No wonder 71% are now saying immigration has been too high.”
While the ONS provides a population visualiser tool while allows users to project future population growth by editing factors like life expectancy and migration levels, it doesn’t even permit user input to simulate migration continuing at 2023 levels, as the net migration level tops out at 525,000 a year. It may be the statistician has judged now Boris Johnson is no longer a likely candidate for Prime Minister, such colossal levels of arrivals could never again be possible.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, whose party seems to get a polling bump every time Britain’s historic levels of immigration hit the news, responded to the latest ONS projections and stated “this is the biggest issue that faces our country”. Both Labour and Conservatives are to blame for the surge of arrivals, he said, while drawing attention to population growth — which is practically all migration-driven now, with natural population growth projected to go negative in the 2030s — totally outstripping the ability to build new infrastructure to accommodate them.
Speaking in Parliament on Tuesday, Farage said it was pointless to build endless new homes without the infrastructure to serve the people living in them and rhetorically asked whether any Members of Parliament from the Labour or Conservative Parties ever “levelled” with their own constituents about the causes for strained services.
Mr Farage further said in a statement to the public: “Labour say they’ll build [houses], that won’t even be enough to come with the numbers coming over the course of the next four years, never mind the backlog we have. You want to get a GP appointment? Forget it, it’s going to get even more difficult. Have you noticed how clogged the roads are? Our quality of life for all of us is diminishing directly as a result of the population explosion and here’s the other thing that really matters: the steeper our population rises through immigration, the poorer per head we get in this country.
“This is a complete betrayal by our political class and I promise you it’s on this issue that Reform are going to win the next General Election.”
[FoxNews] Milley has had a security detail since Iran vowed revenge for the killing of Qasem Soleimani
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will announce he is "immediately pulling" retired Gen. Mark Milley's personal security detail and security clearance, multiple senior administration officials tell Fox News. Perhaps the CCP will cover his ass
The secretary is also directing the new acting Inspector General to conduct a review board to determine if enough evidence exists for Gen. Milley to be stripped of a star in retirement based on his actions to "undermine the chain of command" during President Donald Trump's first term, officials say.
The Pentagon will also be removing a second portrait of Gen. Milley inside the Pentagon. This one is from the Army's Marshall Corridor on the third floor honoring his service as chief-of-staff of the Army. Fox is told the removal of this second portrait will take place as soon as tonight. This means there will be no more portraits of Gen. Milley inside the Pentagon.
The first portrait of Gen. Milley, from his time as the U.S. military's top officer, was removed from the Pentagon last week on Inauguration Day less than two hours after President Trump was sworn into office.
The now retired Gen. Milley and other former senior Trump aides had been assigned personal security details ever since Iran vowed revenge for the killing of Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike in 2020 ordered by Trump in his first term.
Gen. Milley served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2019 to 2023 under both Presidents Trump and Biden.
And he behaved improperly under both presidents, so there’s that.
Before leaving office, President Joe Biden pardoned Gen. Milley.
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[KavkazUzel] Security forces detained a resident of Novorossiysk when he removed an explosive device from a hiding place, which he intended to use for a terrorist attack.
According to investigators, a resident of Novorossiysk born in 1990 contacted members of a pro-Ukrainian terrorist organization on Telegram and received instructions from his supervisor to take an explosive device with a detonator from a hiding place in order to prepare a terrorist attack.
A resident of Novorossiysk arrived at the hiding place and removed an explosive device from it, after which he was detained by security forces. A criminal case has been opened against him for participating in the activities of a terrorist organization; the suspect faces up to 20 years in prison, RIA Novosti reported today, citing the press service of the FSB Directorate for Krasnodar Krai.
"Kavkazsky Uzel" also wrote that on January 25, a resident of the Dinsky district was detained for setting fire to three restaurants in Krasnodar. He said that he committed the arsons under pressure from unknown persons who hacked his social network account and threatened to use the data to commit crimes. Later, during interrogation, he said that his Ukrainian curator promised him 35 thousand rubles for setting fire to three restaurants.
[NYPOST] Federal health authorities have upgraded their recall of 13-ounce bags of Frito-Lay potato chips over fears that consuming the products, which may contain undeclared milk, could potentially be fatal. Betcha can't eat even one...
Last month, the Food and Drug Administration announced that Frito-Lay was voluntarily recalling a limited batch of products.
''Those with an allergy or severe sensitivity to milk run the risk of a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume the recalled product,'' the FDA said in a notice that was posted on Dec. 16.
The federal agency issued a risk clarification this week, calling the recall a ''Class 1'' recall — the highest level of alert.
According to the FDA, consuming the chip could cause ''serious adverse health consequences or death.''
But it’s only dangerous for those allergic or very sensitive to milk products, not the overwhelming majority of the population.
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Wonder if it is too late to squeeze this into the RFK hearing.
[NYPOST] A DC federal judge ordered the Trump administration Tuesday to keep distributing trillions in federal assistance, just as a days-long freeze was due to take effect at close of business.
US District Judge Loren AliKhan
… Loren Linn AliKhan was appointed to the bench by President Biden at the end of 2023. This is the first notable thing she has done since then…
issued the temporary restraining order in response to an appeal by a coalition of nonprofit groups almost exactly 24 hours after acting Office of Management and Budget Director Matthew Vaeth ordered agencies to ''temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance.''
The Vaeth memo further admonished agency heads to ''identify and review all Federal financial assistance programs and supporting activities consistent with the President's policies and requirements.''
Lawyers for Democracy Forward represented the National Council of Nonprofits, the American Public Health Association, Main Street Alliance and the LGBTQ nonprofit SAGE in filing the suit to block the funding freeze.
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Need to start the list of judges who play these games of 'entertaining' suits to undermine the separation of powers. One branch that sits for life and is unaccountable to the people does not make this country a republic.
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There is always some judge available with an injunction. Grants to search for tropical frog life in the Sudan will stay in force for the time being.
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[NYPOST] ''Two years ago Gavin Newsom was widely seen as a rising Democratic star and likely future presidential candidate,'' but ''how quickly things change,'' snarks Joel Kotkin at UnHerd.
In his weekend trip to Cali, President Trump ''wasted no time in attacking the state's progressive policies,'' calling ''on Newsom to change the state's water policies.''
''Trump's demands have drawn attention to the state's self-inflicted wounds, and its pattern of astounding incompetence,'' while his energy plans make ''things all the more difficult for Newsom's climate policies,'' since ''Texas, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Pennsylvania and Ohio are ready to get richer,'' while ''Newsom is taking California in the opposite direction.''
''As the fires are extinguished, so too are the California governor's presidential hopes.''
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Considering all the right people getting paid off, the PR campaign, the overseas meet and greets, and Obama himself certifying her 3am election results, I think Bass was being groomed to be the next Newsom.
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Once the water gets turned on, turning it back off would likely be unpopular with people considering the recall of politicians.
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#4 I've met her. (She's a friend of a friend.) Add "while she was having substance abuse problems and worked for the Democratic Party" to "his best friend and campaign manager's wife" to understand the level of Gavin's sleeze. To this day she can't tell the real story without ruining her and her husband's careers.
Gavin doesn't walk. He glides from place to place.
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[Korrespondent] The hottest area remains the Pokrovskoe direction, where the invaders organized 58 assaults in the areas of 19 settlements.
Since the beginning of the current day, 130 combat clashes have occurred on the front in nine directions. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an operational report as of 16:00 on Tuesday, January 28.
Thus, in the Kharkov direction, the Russians stormed the areas of Volchansk and Staritsa six times.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy attacked seven times in the areas of Kutkovka, Kondrashovka, Petropavlovka, Novaya Kruglyakovka and Boguslavka. Two clashes are still ongoing.
In the Liman direction, the invaders carried out seven attacks near Novoegorovka, Boguslavka, Makeyevka and Serebryansky forest. Two clashes are still ongoing.
In the Seversky direction, the enemy attacked 11 times in the areas of Belogorovka, Novosyolka and Verkhnekamenskoye. Nine combat clashes are still ongoing.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are repelling 11 enemy attacks in the directions of Predtechino, Belaya Gora and Chasovy Yar. Ten attacks have already ended without success for the Russians.
In the Toretsk direction, 13 armed clashes occurred in the areas of the settlements of Krymskoye, Dilievka, Dachnoye, Toretsk and Shcherbinovka. One battle is still ongoing.
In the Pokrovsk direction, the invaders organized 58 assaults in the areas of the settlements of Vodyanoye Vtoroy, Mirolyubovka, Elizavetovka, Promin, Sukhoi Yar, Lisovka, Zelenoe, Vozrozhdenie, Shevchenko, Pokrovsk, Sergeyevka, Udachnoye, Nadeyevka, Uspenovka, Novovasilyevka, Novoaleksandrovka, Alekseyevka, Dachnoye and Ulakli. The defense forces repelled 44 enemy attacks, 14 combat clashes are still ongoing.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, seven enemy attacks took place near the settlements of Konstantinopol, Novoselka and Razliv.
Five enemy attacks have been repelled in the Kursk direction, and another military clash continues.
Let us recall that in the course of 24 hours on January 27, Russia lost about 1,400 soldiers killed and wounded at the front. The total losses of the aggressor country have exceeded 830 thousand people since the beginning of the war.
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[Regnum] Ukrainian military carried out torture and executions of Russian prisoners in Novogrodovka, Donetsk People's Republic. This was reported by Elena, a resident of the city, who witnessed the events.
"I saw how Ukrainians executed Russians. We happened to be there by chance when we were driving past, but what we saw really shocked us. Vans were brought from Avdiivka, their (prisoners' - Ed.) eyes were closed, their hands and feet were tied," the witness explained in an interview with RIA Novosti.
According to the woman, at first the Russian prisoners of war were severely beaten, hitting them in painful areas, and then they were shot.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, torture chambers set up by militants of Ukrainian formations in the basements of residential buildings were discovered in the village of Russkoye Porechnoye in the Kursk region border area liberated by the Russian military, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said on January 23. She added that at least seven bodies of local residents of different ages with signs of torture were found in the basements. Ukrainian fighters threw grenades at the victims.
The human rights organization Human Rights Watch has recorded cases of torture and cruel treatment of Russian servicemen in Ukrainian captivity. At the same time, the organization stated that the conditions of detention of Russian prisoners generally met international standards.
In 2022, a concentration camp for torture was located at the headquarters of the Security Service of Ukraine in Kiev, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine deputy Oleksandr Dubinsky reported on November 14, 2024. The torture chamber was organized by the then head of the SBU Ivan Bakanov and his first deputy Vasyl Malyuk (an individual included in the Russian Federation list of terrorists and extremists). The concentration camp was located right under their offices, Dubinsky explained.
[NYPOST] The homeless man who allegedly shoved a woman into the path of a moving Manhattan train made a chilling confession — telling cops, ''I did it because I wanted to,'' a court heard Tuesday.
Markeese Brazelis, 26, brazenly admitted to tossing the 23-year-old victim into an incoming A train at the 168th Street station shortly after he was arrested for the savage Monday morning attack, prosecutors said at his Manhattan Criminal Court arraignment.
''I pushed her into the train because I was high and I was mad,''' Brazelis told cops, according to Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Lauren Hatz.
''I did it because I wanted to,'' he allegedly said.
Prosecutors said the unhinged man should be held on $150,000 bail — arguing he posed a danger to the public as this was his third arrest in the subway system in just over a week.
Brazelis was busted on Jan. 19 for entering the prohibited area of the Bergen Street subway station — only to be released and then arrested four days later for allegedly grabbing a woman's butt as she stood next to her partner on a subway platform, according to prosecutors.
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A homeless man with two prior arrests said 'voices' in his head goaded him into pushing a 23-year-old woman in front of a New York City subway train on Monday morning.
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