Blowhard politicking instead of focussing on the war that is his duty.
[IsraelTimes] Minister lists 6 key goals including alternative to Hamas rule in Gaza, return of hostages, Saudi normalization; Netanyahu’s office: He should issue ultimatums to Hamas, not the PM.
War cabinet minister Benny Gantz issued an ultimatum to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday night, demanding the premier commit to an agreed-upon vision for the Gaza conflict that would include stipulating who might rule the territory after Hamas’s defeat, and warning that he would bolt the coalition should this not happen.
In a statement that provoked swift outrage from other members of the government, Gantz said he believed that the war triggered by the Hamas-led October 7 massacre had been drifting off course in recent months due to the cowardice of some of Israel’s leaders.
To this end, Gantz warned that if no clear plan of action has been set in motion by June 8, he will pull his centrist party from government and return to the opposition.
The war cabinet must “formulate and approve a plan of action,” Gantz said, in order to achieve “six strategic goals”:
“Bring the hostages home.”
“Topple Hamas rule, demilitarize the Gaza Strip and gain Israeli security control [over Gaza].”
Alongside that Israeli security control, “create an international civilian governance mechanism for Gaza, including American, European, Arab and Palestinian elements — which will also serve as a basis for a future alternative that is not Hamas and is not [Palestinian Authority President] Abbas.”
“Return residents of the north [who were evacuated due to Hezbollah attacks] to their homes by September 1, and rehabilitate the western Negev [adjacent to Gaza, targeted by Hamas on October 7].”
“Advance normalization with Saudi Arabia as part of a comprehensive process to create an alliance with the free world and the West against Iran and its allies.”
“Adopt a framework for [military/national] service under which all Israelis will serve the state and contribute to the national effort.”
Gantz’s statement came days after Defense Minister Yoav Gallant appealed for Netanyahu to set out a postwar plan for the Gaza Strip, as the lack of planning was eroding the gains of the war, putting Israel’s long-term security at stake.
Gantz barely finished speaking before condemnation began pouring in from right-wing coalition lawmakers, some of whom have already called for him to be out of the government.
SCATHING RESPONSE FROM NETANYAHU
In a scathing statement released via his office, Netanyahu accused his coalition partner of “issuing an ultimatum to the prime minister instead of issuing an ultimatum to Hamas.”
Gantz’s demands would mean “an end to the war and defeat for Israel, abandoning the majority of the hostages, leaving Hamas in power, and creating a Palestinian state,” the statement claimed.
If Gantz truly prioritizes the national interest and not the toppling of the government, the Prime Minister’s Office argued, he must answer three questions:
Does Gantz want to see the operation in Rafah through to its end, and if so, why is he threatening to topple the unity government during the IDF operation?
Does he oppose Palestinian Authority rule in Gaza, even if Mahmoud Abbas is not involved?
Would he support a Palestinian state as part of a normalization process with Saudi Arabia?
“Prime Minister Netanyahu is determined to eliminate the Hamas battalions,” the Prime Minister’s Office stated. “He opposes bringing the Palestinian Authority into Gaza, and establishing a Palestinian state that will inevitably be a terror state.”
Netanyahu, continued the statement, believes that the unity government is key to achieving the war aims, “and expects Gantz to make clear to the public his positions on these issues.”
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Anyone direct me to a link of the Allied postwar plan for Germany in December 1944? While there may have been general philosophical concepts, I don't thing there was much of any plan other than 'win first'.
[IsraelTimes] Mother of Eitan Cohen says he was told by fellow students that they would ‘do to him what Hamas did to Israel,’ adds that he’s been pushed, kicked and had stones thrown at him
Members of the Jewish community in Toronto escorted a boy to school on Friday after he suffered repeated antisemitic bullying.
According to the Toronto Sun, Eitan Cohen, the son of two Toronto-based Israeli doctors, began being bullied in November 2023, a month after the terror group Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... ’s October 7 attack on Israel, in which snuffies killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped 252.
His mother, Adi, told the newspaper that Moslem students had told Eitan that he must bow down to them because he is Jewish and they are Moslem. In a separate interview with the National Post, she said he was told by fellow students that they would "do to him what Hamas did to Israel."
"Students told my son ’we need to kill you,'" she told the Kan public broadcaster. "They started pushing and kicking him." She said she filed three police complaints and asked for the school to intervene but received no help.
Adi also told the Sun that students display anti-Israel and pro-Paleostinian messages inside the school’s classrooms. "It’s propaganda and they are allowing it to happen on school property."
While no official comment has been provided by the Toronto school district, a school official said antisemitism and anti-bullying training have been deployed.
All very passive voice in response to a very active little jihad.
Adi said she began seeking assistance from the community on Thursday after students threw stones at Eitan as he was on his way to school. A social media post invited people to walk to school with Eitan, but asked that no flags or megaphones be brought along.
According to the Kan report, some 150 members of the local Jewish community came out to walk with Cohen so he could feel safe.
"I feel so much better, and my son feels so much better because of the support he received," Adi told the Sun.
Deborah Lyons, Canada’s antisemitism envoy, told The Times of Israel in an interview this month that there has been a large increase in antisemitic crimes in Canada since October 7.
[IsraelTimes] 2.5 years in, museum’s first permanent installation on role of Jewish immigrants in founding America’s film industry is set to open Sunday after outcry at their initial exclusion.
The original presentation ignored the Jewish contribution to the founding of Hollywood — they went west because they were shut out of the original film companies on the East Coast — because Jews are icky, donchaknow.
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THOUGHT
When Justice, Equality and Morality are so easily put on hold. Due to the rants of so few, that are given overamplified
voices and exposure for political or social reasons.
Then the questions really are.
Was there true Justice, Equality and Morality to begin with?
Or is it just who controls the volume.
Plus who is feeding and controlling the volume for end game?
[IsraelTimes] Footage appears to show wreckage of $30 million UAV; missile fired at Panama-flagged vessel off the coast of Yemeni port Hodeida, crew all safe
Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels on Friday claimed to have shot down an American drone, hours after footage circulated online of what appeared to be the wreckage of an MQ-9 Reaper drone. Early Saturday, a vessel also came under attack in the Red Sea.
Houthi military front man Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree claimed that rebels shot down the Reaper on Thursday with a surface-to-air missile. He described the drone as "carrying out hostile actions" in Yemen’s Marib province, which remains held by allies of Yemen’s exiled, internationally recognized government.
The Houthis later released footage they claimed showed the surface-to-air-missile being launched at night, along with night-vision footage of the missile hitting the drone. A man, whose voice had been digitally altered to apparently prevent identification, chanted the Houthi slogan: "God is the greatest; death to America; death to Israel; curse the Jews; victory to Islam."
Online video showed wreckage resembling the pieces of the Reaper on the ground, as well as footage of that wreckage on fire.
The United States military did not respond to a request for comment from The News Agency that Dare Not be Named over the Houthi claim. While the rebels have made claims about attacks that turned out later not to be true, they have a history of shooting down US drones and have been armed by their main benefactor, Iran, with weapons capable of high-altitude attack.
Since the Houthis seized the country’s north and its capital, Sanaa, in 2014, the US military has previously lost at least five drones to the rebels.
Reapers, which cost around $30 million apiece, can fly at altitudes up to 50,000 feet and have an endurance of up to 24 hours before needing to land.
The drone shootdown comes as the Houthis launch attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, demanding Israel ends the war against Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... 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 an 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 Houthis have launched more than 50 attacks on shipping, seized one vessel and sunk another since November, according to the US Maritime Administration.
Early Saturday, the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said a ship came under attack off the coast of Yemen’s port city of Hodeida. The captain "has confirmed sustaining slight damage after being struck by an unknown object on his port quarter," the UKMTO said. "The vessel and crew are safe and continuing to its next port of call."
Houthi attacks have dropped in recent weeks as the rebels have been targeted by a US-led Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... campaign in Yemen. Shipping through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden still remains low because of the threat, however.
Last week, the Houthis threatened to extend their attacks to Israel-bound shipping to the Mediterranean.
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It would be reasonable for these expensive and sophisticated drones to be equipped with an independent, hardened watchdog computer that would destroy sensitive data and instruments with thermite charges if certain conditions are met.
If that's the case this will not really benefit the Houthis.
However, is there any political will to erase Houthi piracy permanently either by means of deterrence or neutralization of their capabilities?
The damage inflicted on the world economy by even small attacks is ridiculously high.
[IsraelTimes] Opposition site says Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani was defending himself against knife attack when he killed Amir Shokri in brawl; victim’s family can spare him, but refused to do so
It is forbidden for an unbeliever to raise a hand against a member of the Master Religion, even in self-defense. Naturally, the government of Iran must act in such cases of rebellion against Allah and the natural order of things.
A Jewish Iranian man is set to be executed on Monday for killing a man in a brawl two years ago, an Iranian human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... group said.
The opposition linked 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... International news website said that Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani was allegedly defending himself after being attacked with a knife, and that the sentence came under the penal code for "retributive justice."
According to the Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights (IHR) Ghahremani, 20, from the southwestern city of Kermanshah was set to be executed on Saturday, but his family was informed the execution will now take place on Monday.
Ghahremani was convicted of the "intentional murder" of Amir Shokri for his role in the fight two years ago.
The reports said that his only hope of being spared under Iran’s Islamic code is if the family of the dead man agree to forgive him, something they have so far refused to do.
IHR carried a voice recording from Ghahremani’s mother pleading for people to pray for her son to be saved.
Video circulated on social media apparently showed prayers being held for Ghahremani this week at the Rachel’s Tomb pilgrimage site in the central West Bank city of Bethlehem.
Prior to the Islamic Revolution in 1979, there were some 100,000 Jews in Iran; by 2016, according to an Iranian census, that number had fallen to below 10,000.
Iran is openly sworn to Israel’s destruction and financially supports terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... that are also committed to this aim. Prominent figures in the Jewish community of Iran intermittently issue anti-Israel statements that match the regime’s agenda.
Amnesty International said last month that Iran executed 853 people in 2023, the highest total since 2015.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli fighter jets struck additional Hezbollah buildings and infrastructure in southern Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. 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. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the 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. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ’s Ayta ash-Shab, Odaisseh, Aitaroun, and Ramyeh earlier today, the military says.
The IDF also says that one explosive-laden drone launched from Lebanon earlier struck an area near the border community of Yiftah, causing no injuries.
Other incidents of sirens warning of incoming drones have ended without damage or injuries, the IDF adds.
Several rockets were also fired from Lebanon at northern Israel today, causing no injuries, according to the military.
Hezbollah has claimed 10 rocket, missile and drone attacks on the border today.
[IsraelTimes] Hundreds of protesters rally within sight of the US Capitol in Washington to demonstrate against Israel and mark the "Nakba," or catastrophe, of Israel’s founding and the accompanying exodus of some 700,000 Paleostinians who fled or were forced from their homes during the War of Independence in 1948.
There are calls in support of the Paleostinians and an immediate end to Israeli military offensive against Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... 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 an 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 was launched following the terror group’s devastating October 7 onslaught. "No peace on stolen land" and "End the killings, stop the crime/Israel out of Paleostine," echo through the crowd.
Protesters also focus their anger on US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... for his support of Israel.
"Biden Biden, you will see/genocide’s your legacy," they say. The Democratic president is in Atlanta on Saturday.
[IsraelTimes] Campus police say 7 students among the 19 protesters arrested for trying to occupy building at Philadelphia university, including person who assaulted officer
A half-dozen University of Pennsylvania students were among 19 pro-Paleostinian protesters arrested during an attempt to occupy a school building, university police said Saturday.
Their arrests came a week after authorities broke up an anti-Israel protest encampment on campus and arrested nine students — and as other colleges across the country, anxious to prepare for commencement season, have either negotiated agreements with students or called in police to dismantle protest camps.
Members of Penn Students Against the Occupation of Paleostine announced the action Friday at the school’s Fisher-Bennett Hall, urging supporters to bring "flags, pots, pans, noise-makers, megaphones" and other items, the University of Pennsylvania Division of Public Safety said in a news release.
Officers could be seen closing in "within the hour," The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. University police supported by city police then escorted the protesters out and secured the building, news outlets reported.
Police said after clearing the building that they recovered "lock-picking tools and homemade metal shields fashioned from oil drums."
Exit doors had been secured with zip ties and barbed wire and barricaded with metal chairs and desks, while windows were covered by newspaper and cardboard, and bike racks and metal chairs blocked entrances, police said.
Seven of the students arrested on Friday remained in jug Saturday awaiting felony charges, including one person who assaulted an officer, campus police said. A dozen were issued citations for failing to disperse and follow police commands. They have been released from custody.
The attempted occupation of Fisher-Bennett Hall came a week after city and campus police broke up a two-week encampment on the campus, arresting 33 people, nine of whom were students and two dozen of whom had "no Penn affiliation," according to university officials.
Meanwhile,
...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase... a group protesting Israel over 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 an 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 ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... and demanding that the University of reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... divest from companies doing business with the Jewish state temporarily took over a building on the school’s campus Friday afternoon.
Members of the group surrounded the Institute of Politics building around 5 p.m. while others made their way inside, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. The demonstrators hung a sign renaming the building "Casbah Basel al-A’araj," after the "hipster terrorist" killed in a 2017 shootout with Israeli forces in the West Bank.
The Chicago protest follows the May 7 clearing of an anti-Israel tent encampment at the school by police. University of Chicago administrators had initially adopted a permissive approach, but said earlier this month that the protest had crossed a line and caused growing concerns about safety.
On Friday, campus coppers using riot shields gained access to the Institute of Politics building and scuffled with protesters. Some protesters climbed from a second-floor window, according to the Sun-Times.
The school said protesters attempted to bar the entrance, damaged university property and ignored directives to clear the way, and that those inside the building left when campus coppers entered.
"The University of Chicago is fundamentally committed to upholding the rights of protesters to express a wide range of views," school spokesperson Gerald McSwiggan said in a statement. "At the same time, university policies make it clear that protests cannot jeopardize public safety, disrupt the university’s operations or involve the destruction of property."
No arrests or injuries were reported.
Nearly 3,000 people have been arrested on US campuses over the past month. As summer break approaches, there have been fewer new arrests and campuses have been calmer. Still, colleges have been vigilant for disruptions to commencement ceremonies.
On Thursday, police began dismantling a pro-Paleostinian encampment at DePaul University in Chicago, hours after the school’s president told students to leave the area or face arrest.
The war in Gaza began when Hamas and other murderous Moslems stormed into southern Israel on October 7, killing around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 252 hostages. The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 35,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though only some 24,000 fatalities have been identified at hospitals. The tolls, which cannot be verified, include some 15,000 terror operatives Israel says it has killed in battle. Israel also says it killed some 1,000 murderous Moslems inside Israel on October 7.
280 soldiers have been killed during the ground offensive against Hamas and amid operations along the Gaza border. A civilian Defense Ministry contractor has also been killed in the Gaza Strip.
[IsraelTimes] 53-year-old father of two was slain by Hamas near Mefalsim; the body was returned to Israel Thursday along with three others previously announced
The Israel Defense Forces announced on Saturday evening that soldiers had recovered the body of an additional hostage 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 an 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, after the announcement the previous day that three slain captives had been returned in a special mission.
The hostage was named as Ron Benjamin, 53, who was kidnapped by Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... holy warriors on the morning of October 7 while returning home from a planned bike ride near the Gaza border, which he canceled when rocket sirens sounded at 6:30 a.m. as Hamas’s attack began.
It is now known that Benjamin was killed near Kibbutz Mefalsim on the day of the attack, and his body was taken to Gaza, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said in a statement to the press.
His body was recovered during an overnight operation on Thursday, along with the bodies of Itzhak Gelerenter, Amit Buskila, and Shani Louk, all of whom the IDF said were killed by Hamas inside Israel on October 7, and their bodies kidnapped. All four were recovered in northern Gaza, according to the IDF.
The efforts to recover their bodies had "been ongoing for a long time," Hagari said on Friday, and some of the intelligence for the operation came from Paleostinian terror suspects captured by the IDF and interrogated by the Shin Bet.
The military had not initially planned to announce the recovery of three hostages on Friday, as it had preferred to wait until the operation concluded. However,
women are made to be loved, not understood... due to a flurry of rumors spreading on social media about the operation, it was decided to release some information, including the names of the hostages found.
Until recently, Benjamin, like Gelerenter and Buskila, had been presumed to be alive, while Louk had been confirmed dead in late October after a piece of her skull was identified following widely shared footage of holy warriors kidnapping her.
On the morning of October 7, Benjamin set out to meet up with friends for a bike ride near Kibbutz Be’eri, but amid the cascading rockets, he decided to turn around and head home to Rehovot. He spoke with his wife, Ayelet, and at 7:30 a.m. he left a message for one of his two daughters. He never returned home.
For two months following the October 7 attacks, Benjamin was considered missing, and his family was told they may never find out what happened to him, as there were no initial leads on whether he had been killed or kidnapped. On December 2, however, the IDF informed the family that he was indeed taken to Gaza.
Last week, amid rehearsals for the Independence Day torch-lighting ceremony, Benjamin’s daughter, Shai Benjamin, handcuffed herself to the gates of Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl military cemetery in protest of the event.
"It seems absurd to me to hold a ceremony celebrating the State of Israel when there are 132 hostages in Gaza whom the country is abandoning right now," she said. "My father has not seen the light of day for seven months."
Idiot girl — instead of complaining, notice that it was the IDF that found your father’s body, because Hamas had collected him for selling to advantage later.
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Thanks TW, sad news
Hamas have controlled the narrative so much that now in australia ordinary people are willing to believe israel stood down deliberately oct 7
And that it must be about gas deposits
This comes from not reporting the role of islam
By tiptoeing around islam as a motivating animus it allows hamas to traffic in these lies
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Can't help but wonder about the horrible forensics needed to confirm identities of 9 month old bodies, likely in some form of body bag at best, kept in a tunnel. Don't imagine there was a refrigerated morgue, and how ghoulish a mind is needed to hold the corpse for trading.
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Sort of draws out the hostage negotiations when that important detail is left out.
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how ghoulish a mind is needed to hold the corpse for trading.
That's an Olde School tradition.
IIRC back in the Ottoman Expansion Era, a VIP was captured, body ransom wasn't paid, and the body was skinned and stuffed with straw and fastened on the prow of one of the raider's ships.
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Although I'm not the type of person they are after (high net worth, high earner) I have never bothered to go back to the Commontheft of PeeAye for any reason and I don't expect that to change. I do understand people who have a strong attachment to a place they grew up in or have generations of family in.
But it ain't me.
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I'd be fully down with Texas taxing California and New York for being a**holes. I'd like it even more if they refuse to pay and we can foreclose on them. Then we evict them all and start making money
[YouTube] D-Day: June 6, 1944. The Allied invasion along the beaches of France that changed the course of World War II. As the conventional forces landed, America’s first Special Forces units operated deep behind enemy lines.
This is the story of Operation Jedburgh. Three man teams of one American, one French and one British operator parachuted deep into occupied France starting the night before D-Day. Their mission: link up and partner with French Resistance Forces to conduct sabotage, subversion and disruption attacks to prevent the German Army from reinforcing the beaches of Normandy during Operation Overlord. Win at all costs.
Post World War II, American Jedburghs went on to form the foundation of the Central Intelligence Agency and later United States Army Special Forces Green Berets.
Text added with all updates posted at the site as of 3:00 pm ET. Not prettied up, but y’all can go to the tweets if you want. Also, I set it as an update to today’s headline. Finally, thank to Frank G for posting, and all who added updates in comments — you all are why we all come here to find out what’s going on in the world.
[HotAir, HT Grom] A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, Iranian state media reported, without immediately elaborating.
Raisi was traveling in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. State TV said the incident happened near Jolfa, a city on the border with with the nation of Azerbaijan, some 600 kilometers (375 miles) northwest of the Iranian capital, Tehran.
Traveling with Raisi were Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, the governor of Iran’s East Azerbaijan province and other officials, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. One local government official used the word “crash” to describe the incident, but he acknowledged to an Iranian newspaper that he had yet to reach the site himself.
Beege Welborn
There's lots of CYA and fancy lingo coming out of Tehran right now as you can imagine. Shoud be interesting watching this shake out and what - or WHO - gets blamed.
Raisi would be no loss to humanity, that's for sure.
As a young man, Ebrahim Raisi sentenced thousands of innocent Iranians to execution.
He was known as the hang man and butcher of Tehran. Now he's the hangman of the whole nation.
If Raisi is confirmed dead, millions will celebrate across Iran. pic.twitter.com/7v5NZg9AYG
— Nioh Berg ♛ ✡︎ אסתר (@NiohBerg) May 19, 2024
Time and unraveling the various stories will tell.
UPDATE Welp, looks like the Iranian news services are setting the stage for news. They'd already deleted a tweet where Raisi was taking a cab home (seriously - they did).
As has President Rais...oops https://t.co/S1h71ewdNe
— tree hugging s*ster 🎃 (@WelbornBeege) May 19, 2024
So I guess things are a bit grimmer on the ground and they can't cover for what they're going to pull out of the site.
#BREAKING: "high" possibility of casualties due to the "seriousness" of the accident involving President Raisi - IRIB News Agency
— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) May 19, 2024
UPDATE to the UPDATE: Let me just add as an aviation type, with these videos coming out of the crash site, no one should have been flying in that goo to begin with in a helo. Ask Kobe Bryant if you don't believe me.
Iranian television is airing coverage of the rescue efforts and the accident site. https://t.co/HvVVeO0ng5 pic.twitter.com/TUQZyVd9vs
— Israel News Pulse (@israelnewspulse) May 19, 2024
UPDATED UPDATE: As Ebola just said, this is starting to sound like Warhammer Fantasy. Wolves and bears enter the picture, baby.
JUST IN: REPORT:
It's now nighttime, and the rescue teams have yet to reach the crash site.
The Iranian Red Crescent has reported that some of their own rescue teams are lost.
Locals suggest that the area becomes a hunting ground for wolves and bears at night, raising… https://t.co/2n29JQviTT pic.twitter.com/cqJaVK8y60
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) May 19, 2024
It's now nighttime, and the rescue teams have yet to reach the crash site. The Iranian Red Crescent has reported that some of their own rescue teams are lost.
Locals suggest that the area becomes a hunting ground for wolves and bears at night, raising concerns that if the crew is injured, nature may take its course.
I'm not concerned. You concerned?
HELLO: Looks like they've stumbled across something in the dark. Nothing more than that at the moment.
BREAKING - IRAN'S PRESIDENT RAISI'S CRASHED HELICOPTER HAS BEEN FOUND BY SEARCH TEAMS - STATE TV pic.twitter.com/ISgNiQIOIB
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) May 19, 2024
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Zero: Iranian President Raisi's Helicopter Goes Down In Remote Area, Rescuers Trying To Reach Site
There are breaking reports that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has been in a helicopter crash in a remote northern area of the country and that rescuers are trying to reach him and his crew.
State media is currently calling it a "hard landing" - suggesting that the president is alive and well, however no other details on the precise nature of the helicopter incident have been revealed. According to the NYT, 16 rescue teams have been dispatched to locate the helicopter, however inclement weather are hampering the effort, according to the reports. The teams have failed to locate the crash after nearly five hours.
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It's a helicopter. The fact that it flies at all is unnatural.
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A Significant Deployment of Iranian Security and Military Personnel has been noted across the Capital of Tehran, with Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed to be taking up Positions near several Government Buildings.
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Biden will order US flags to be flown at half staff. Will send Hussein Obama as head of US delegation.
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Iran's Tasnim news agency said that after communications with the chopper carrying the Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, one of the passengers on board was able to make contact "and therefore it seems there were no casualties."
Malek Rahmati (Persian: مالک رحمتی) is an Iranian politician who has served as governor-general of East Azerbaijan province since 2024.[1] He previously headed the Privatization Organization of Iran from 2023 to 2024.[2]
On May 19, 2024, a helicopter carrying Rahmati — alongside president Ebrahim Raisi, foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and representative of the Supreme Leader in East Azerbaijan Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem — crashed in Varazqan in East Azerbaijan province. His condition is unknown.[3]
Raisi, 63, is a hard-liner who formerly led the country’s judiciary. He is viewed as a protégé of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and some analysts have suggested he could replace the 85-year-old leader after his death or resignation from the role.
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Raisi won Iran’s 2021 presidential election, a vote that saw the lowest turnout in the Islamic Republic’s history. Raisi is sanctioned by the US in part over his involvement in the mass execution of thousands of political prisoners in 1988 at the end of the bloody Iran-Iraq war.
Under Raisi, Iran now enriches uranium at nearly weapons-grade levels and hampers international inspections. Iran has armed Russia in its war on Ukraine, as well as launched a massive drone and missile attack on Israel last month, and continued arming proxy groups in the Mideast, like Yemen’s Houthi rebels and Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
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The last thing that went through the pilot's mind: Ebrahim Raisi's teeth...
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I think it'd be wonderful if the people on the helo are killed and eaten by wildlife. I would pity the wildlife of course, but it would be a fitting end for them.
Early Monday morning a Turkish drone identified a "source of heat suspected to be wreckage of helicopter carrying Iranian President Raisi and shares its coordinates with Iranian authorities," reported the Anadolu News Agency on X
[NY Post] Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were reportedly welcomed to Lagos, Nigeria by a fugitive wanted in the United States for money laundering and bank fraud. Grifters gotta grift
Dr. Allen Onyema, 59, was among a small group of officials who greeted the Duke and Duchess of Sussex when they touched down in the city last Sunday, according to the Daily Mail.
Onyema is the founder and CEO of Air Peace, a Nigerian carrier that Meghan and Harry used on their 3-day tour of the country.
The charismatic businessman is well-known in Nigeria, but is the subject of a US federal indictment filed back in November 2019.
At the time, the US Department of Justice released a statement saying Onyema was "charged with bank fraud and money laundering for moving more than $20 million from Nigeria through United States bank accounts in a scheme involving false documents based on the purchase of airplanes."
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Professional courtesy.
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Sam Bankman-Fried could not be reached for comment.
[BEE] HEAVEN — According to sources in the celestial realm, God is scratching is head in wonderment that Democrats somehow managed to mess up California.
"You guys were literally given everything! How do you even do that?" said a spokesangel for the Almighty. "You have perfect weather, beautiful coastline, great surfing, skiing in the mountains, fish tacos, rolling vineyards, the list goes on. How on earth did you manage to take the most beautiful stretch of land on God's earth and turn it into a huge dump?"
"It doesn't make any sense."
Sources say Democrats in California took issue with the idea that they were to blame, claiming instead that everyone else was to blame and definitely not them or anything. "Yeah, it's like global warming and stuff," said Governor Gavin Newsom to a crowd of homeless meth heads on Pier 39. "And not enough taxes. If we had more taxes, all the things would be better."
Sources confirmed the host of Heaven is watching in amazement as people are actually leaving the beauty of California in the millions, choosing to live instead in places like Ohio and Florida. "We intended Ohio to be a place of torment for those who displease the Lord. We filled Florida with man-eating snakes and gators so mankind wouldn't live there," continued the spokesangel. "But somehow, Democrats have made those places actually look attractive to people. It's truly baffling."
At publishing time, God finally decided to pour out his divine wrath after finding the Democrats had figured out how to ruin fish tacos.
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I left California for the place of torment 10 years ago. It was a good plan.
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"You guys were literally given everything! How do you even do that?" said a spokesangel for the Almighty. "You have perfect weather, beautiful coastline, great surfing, skiing in the mountains, fish tacos, rolling vineyards
[Breitbart] Activists immediately retaliated against the celebration by dubbing the month as "Black April," referring the fall of Saigon, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Fonda, who has been denigrated as "Hanoi Jane" for decades, is notorious not just for opposing the U.S. war effort but for actually traveling into North Vietnamese territory and giving aid and comfort to the Chinese-backed enemy.
"She may be a very strong activist for climate change, but besides that, we also view her as being a person who was very cruel to the rights of the South Vietnamese people during the antiwar protests," said L.A. resident Phat Bui, chairman of the Vietnamese American Federation of Southern California.
Bui also sent a letter to county officials to change the date and added that choosing "such a date can inflict so much pain to our community and to the Vietnam War veterans."
U.S. forces fled the South Vietnamese Capitol on April 30, 1975. Members of L.A.’s Vietnamese community gather every April 30 to memorialize that dark day.
Republican State Sen. Janet Nguyen blasted the county, saying Fonda Day was "alarming and profoundly disrespectful to over half a million Vietnamese Americans in California."
Rep. Michelle Steel, also a Republican, also blasted the county.
"To elevate Hanoi Jane over the Vietnamese Community, Americans who sacrificed their lives, and the loved ones they lost to communism, is deeply offensive to the freedom-loving Vietnamese Americans who bear such tragic and painful memories of the Vietnam War," Steel said.
With all the pressure over the offensive choice of dates, the county’s board of supervisors agreed to move the date and is now considering April 8 instead. The board also insisted that the choice of April 30th for Fonda’s honors "was unintentional."
Fonda, who spent many years refusing to apologize for her aid to the Communists, did relent later in life. In 2013, she admitted to making a huge mistake posing for her infamous photos alongside North Vietnamese soldiers in 1972.
"I made one unforgivable mistake when I was in North Vietnam, and I will go to my grave with this," she said at the time, adding, "I don’t know if I was set up or not." "I was an adult. I take responsibility for my actions..."
[FoxNews] Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said Friday that it is not yet releasing the identities of two Jordanian nationals who attempted to breach a Marine Corps base in Virginia — something former officials say raises a number of possibilities about the case.
"We cannot proactively release the names, as this could potentially affect their removal proceedings," ICE said in a statement.
Officials had confirmed Thursday that there was an attempted breach on May 3 at Quantico Marine Corps Base in Virginia. A Marine base spokesperson said that two people in a box truck had been stopped at a gate.
The driver allegedly told military police officers they were making a delivery to the post office and worked for a company subcontracted by Amazon.
Officials later turned them over to ICE after their arrest for trespassing. In a statement, ICE confirmed the arrest of two Jordanian noncitizens and said they were in Enforcement and Removal Operation (ERO) custody, but did not provide any more information about their cases.
Former officials who spoke to Fox News Digital noted that officials are limited by regulation 8 CFR 208.6, which generally blocks disclosure of information to third parties pertaining to asylum applications, credible fear determinations, except for limited circumstances.
"This regulation safeguards information that, if disclosed publicly, could subject the claimant to retaliatory measures by government authorities or nonstate actors in the event that the claimant is repatriated, or endanger the security of the claimant's family members who may still be residing in the country of origin," DHS says of the regulation. There is a similar DOJ regulation.
Former officials said this likely means that one or both of the nationals have an asylum claim pending, and noted that releasing the information could impact efforts to remove them.
"They probably made a claim of asylum, or they already had an asylum claim made," former acting ICE Director Tom Homan told Fox News Digital. "So ICE is protecting information based on [the regulation]."
However, Homan noted that the DHS secretary has authority to override that regulation if there is derogatory information about the nationals, for instance if they have prior criminal or terrorist charges or convictions.
Homan said if that’s the case, then DHS should override the regulation and provide the information.
"I think if there's derogatory information, these guys are a terror threat then the Secretary has a duty to override 8 CFR. The American people have a right to know, are there terrorists in this country, and it'd be further proof that the border is open to those who want to do us harm."
He said that if there’s derogatory information on the nationals, then the impact on any asylum case would be irrelevant.
"I think if there is derogatory information, the Secretary should override 8 CFR for the interests and safety of America, because if there's [derogatory information] on them, it's not like we're going to release them into the United States anyways, at that point I don't care about their asylum case," he said. "I think that the safety and security of the United States is a little more important."
John Fabbricatore, a former ICE field office director who is now running for a congressional seat in Colorado as a Republican, said, "If it is an asylum claim, I think ICE should just come out and say, ‘Due to an asylum claim, we're not going to release these two names, but these two individuals did enter, say, on the southern border illegally, or they entered as students and then claimed asylum later on," he said. "I don't see the negative in at least allowing the public to know how the method of entry was, at least that."
"I don't think they're releasing it because I believe that they probably entered illegally over the southern border," he said.
Fabbricatore, who authored the new book "DE-ICED," said the only way ICE doesn’t know their immigration history is if they had somehow managed to enter the U.S. with no detection whatsoever as a gotaway.
"But that's even more alarming. If these two were gotaways and got in a truck and tried to enter a military base, that's even more concerning, right?" he said.
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"I don't think they're releasing it because I believe that they probably entered illegally over the southern border," he said."
Gotta cover FJB's butt. Scum.
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Phony cover story, like the usual FBI "cannot comment about ongoing investigation" meme. Just further suggests a darker, more troubling story they want to bury to protect the Puppet Show.!
[BillionBibles] Sharia law in the United States of America has reached penetration Phase 3: Infiltration of the 5 phases.
NEXT IS PHASE 4: CONFRONTATION
Where the crying eyes and those running to the cameras seeking public acceptance of their ways, even if they violate US Laws and civil rights, then go on a growing campaign of increasing hostile and destructive activities.
Then once selectively allowed in certain areas under disguise of Freedom of Religion moves to Phase 5: Imposition.
Where outsiders become subject to Sharia Law for being in their ethnic area of control. Eg. A White Anglo-Saxon, Hispanic, Asian or Africa-America Female college student is whipped for not wearing head covering and having a knee lenght dress, or just blue Jeans on.
[Gateway] 2024 is starting off as a challenging year for cattle ranchers in America and the domino effect will push those challenges even further, according to reports coming from across the nation. Costs of feed and resources are going up while weather conditions have not been conducive to ranching for nearly two years.
"We’re hearing it from just about everyone," said Jason Nelson, Co-Founder of Prepper Beef. "They are paying more for everything they need and they are raising prices to match. But higher prices means lower demand as consumers seek alternatives."
In an ideal scenario, it would be demand that drives prices. Things are not ideal. Not only are ranchers facing cost hikes that they’re partially passing onto consumers, but they’re also facing a slew of other challenges on the horizon. The push for "green" alternatives like lab-grown protein or bugs has prompted a rush on particular cuts of meat, particularly Ribeye and NY Strip.
"We are going to be stocking up as much as we can," Nelson said, referring to Ribeye and NY Strip. "Since our beef is freeze dried with a 25-year shelf life, we have the luxury of getting it at today’s prices so we can continue to make it affordable for our customers who want to stockpile for the future."
To make room in the warehouses for additional NY Strip and Ribeye, Prepper Beef is putting their Beef Steaks products on sale. With promo code "TGP15" our readers can take 15% off, whether it’s a 1-pack, 4-pack, or a variety pack.
"The original ’Beef Steaks’ product is, oddly enough, my personal favorite," Nelson said. "It’s a combination of Sirloin, Chuck, and other quality cuts and goes so well in stews that I open up one of those bags instead of the others when we need a quick meal."
The preparedness community has been exploding since the beginning of 2021. Americans are concerned about the future, especially as it pertains to food and the economy. They see what’s happening at the southern border. They hear what’s being discussed in Davos. They don’t trust politicians and they aren’t sure if they can wait for better ones to take office... IF better ones are even allowed to take office.
Prepper Beef is an all-American, veteran-owned company based in the heart of Texas. Their cows are sourced directly from the ranches where they’re raised. This is important as most food companies in "Big Ag" are turning overseas to import their lower quality beef.
[NBC] In towns across America, children working in dangerous jobs in slaughterhouses is an open secret. Data from the Labor Department says that children are illegally working at alarming rates. NBC News takes you inside these slaughterhouses in an investigation that spans six states, two countries, dozens of interviews and thousands of pages of public records.
[PJ] Earlier this month, the Biden administration floated a trial balloon, suggesting "senior officials across several federal U.S. agencies have discussed the practicality of different options to resettle Palestinians from Gaza who have immediate family members who are American citizens or permanent residents."
No other Middle Eastern country is crazy enough to want large numbers of Gazans to enter their country. The history of Palestinians in Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria suggests that the refugees would look to overthrow the government or launch terrorist attacks against Israel from within their borders.
This apparently isn't deterring Joe Biden. Perhaps it should.
Pinhas Inbari, a veteran Arab affairs analyst, told Fox News "I cannot say all Gazans are Hamas, but you can say they are brainwashed by Hamas. Muslims are indoctrinated with Islam and jihad [in Gaza]. You can’t take them as they are now and plant them in the U.S. Biden has to see Europe to understand."
Europe accepted about 1.2 million refugees from North Africa and the Middle East and is finding out that many of the resettled refugees refuse to assimilate.
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HEADLINE ADJUSTED
Biden Brings Ethnic Conflict To America
Seriously, as sad as it is to have to say.
The US Melting Pot died long ago and likely for (LSD) Political Vote reason.
The US now has a growing number of Politically created Racial/Ethnic enclaves of races and colors. If allowed to continue, it can only result in internal domestic conflict issues and ethnic battles for the US.
But then, I guess the LSD's & DC Swamp would use the turbulence of their created voter areas and plantations, to increase Governmental controls.
Maybe even suspend parts of the Bill Of Rights due to emergency issues.
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BOMBSHELL: Liberal Activist You've Never Heard of Quits Job Who is Lily Greenberg Call? Born in the late 1990s, her résumé makes her sound like a satirical version of a super-striving liberal wunderkind who has since childhood dreamed of becoming a professional political activist. In 2010, when she was just 12 years old, Call founded "a leadership group for teenage girls" and published a book of poems.
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#2 An imam linked to prominent Michigan Democrats like Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Rep. Rashida Tlaib said in a sermon this month that pro-Israel members of Congress were "stooges" of the Jewish state who should be charged with "treason."
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Put them up in the pro-Palestinian colleges and universities. Then those young little wannabe white Nancys can get a personal and up front experience with them.
[Federalist] As Joe Biden’s reckless foreign policy puts the world on the edge of catastrophe with conflicts already raging in Ukraine and the Middle East, the Air Force is directing its focus toward the biggest issue implicating U.S. national security: LGBT "pride."
In an under-the-radar maneuver, Marianne Malizia, the Air Force’s chief diversity officer, issued a memo Monday informing service members that the Department of the Air Force recognizes June as "LGBTQ+ Pride Month 2024." In doing so, she claimed the month represents "a time to celebrate the diversity and inclusivity of our force, and to honor the contributions of our LGBTQ+ Airmen, Guardians, and dependents."
"Our Air and Space Forces are stronger because of the unique backgrounds and experiences of our Total Force that engender a more inclusive, and ultimately more effective, team," Malizia wrote.
An Air Force representative confirmed the authenticity of the memo to The Federalist. A copy of the document was initially posted on X by former Space Force Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, who was relieved of command in 2021 after publicly discussing the increasing pervasiveness of leftism in the military.
The Air Force memo’s contents are hardly just celebratory, however. In fact, the communique advances core tenets of neo-Marxist ideology, such as so-called "diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)." Employing an "oppressed versus oppressor" dynamic, Malizia contended: "While we acknowledge the progress we have made, we are also mindful that real challenges persist for members of the LGBTQ+ community."
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Marianne Malizia
Director, Diversity And Inclusion, US Air Force
In 2021, Malizia took over U.S. Air Force DEI for 697,000 active duty airmen. She is responsible for advancing the Air Force's diversity and inclusion mission.
Prior to joining the Air Force, she established the first diversity and inclusion program at XPO Logistics, a global logistics company with over 43,000 employees.
She worked for Booz Allen Hamilton for over 20 years, where she co-led the establishment of and eventually co-chaired the firm's LGBTQ Employee Resource Group. She is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and served nine years as an active-duty Army officer, during which she had assignments in Germany and also provided operational support for Desert Storm and Desert Shield.
[Gateway] A low-life career criminal paid the ultimate price after breaking into a Florida man’s home and shooting his wife.
WESH reported that Highland County police officers responded to a suspicious incident at a home in Avon Park at roughly 8:30 p.m. Once deputies arrived on the scene, they found a male and female with severe injuries. Both were revealed to be 69-years-old.
In addition to the wounded couple, cops found there was a dead man not related to the couple inside the residence. Police identified the person as 62-year-old Lindsey Glenn and said he broke into the residence and shot the female victim in the face.
Highlands County Sheriff Paul Blackman told reporters Glenn gained entry into the couple’s home under a scam that involved the woman’s job as a notary.
After the male victim witnessed Glenn try to kill his wife, Blackman said the man grabbed a seven-inch garden knife and went to work on the intruder. Glenn ended up dying brutally as a result.
Blackman revealed the thug was "cut to pieces" and "very much deceased" when deputies found him. The sheriff thanked the male victim for his heroic actions.
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After the male victim witnessed Glenn try to kill his wife, Blackman said the man grabbed a seven-inch garden knife and went to work on the intruder. Glenn ended up dying brutally as a result.
Here we have a multiple convicted Violent Felon, with a firearm and Laws that only make it increasingly difficult for citizens, who obey the law, to defend themselves.
Another example of the growing need for a convicted violent felon, 3 strikes law.
Glory be — someone actually did a proper scientific study, then published the results for all the world to see.
[WIRE] A study published last month shows that those who underwent gender surgery had a suicide risk 12 times higher than those who did not, adding more data showing the dangers of the life-altering procedures.
The study utilized patient data from 56 health care organizations in the U.S. and over 90 million patients. Four different groups of patients were looked at in the study, including 1,501 people aged 18-60 who had "gender-affirming surgery" and an emergency visit (cohort A) and 15,608,363 adults who visited the emergency room but had no "gender-affirming surgery" (cohort B). The third group (cohort C) included 142,093 "adults with emergency visits, tubal ligation or vasectomy, but no gender-affirming surgery," while a fourth group of patients with pharyngitis (cohort D) was studied "to validate the results from cohort C."
"Data from February 4, 2003, to February 4, 2023, were analyzed to examine suicide attempts, death, self-harm, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) within five years of the index event," the study said, adding that its results found that "Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not."
The study concluded, "Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support."
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interesting study but in this case it is essentially impossible to get a double blind study and almost impossible to get a valid randomized study where the 'with surgery' and the 'without surgery' samples both come from the same population
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^ it appears the medical, education, and Donk communities are working hard on such a study.
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“adding more data showing the dangers of the life-altering procedures.
The procedures in and of themselves, while major, are not to blame for the increased suicides. A very mis-leading conclusion by the author. It’s the unrealizable expectations of the mentally unbalanced who seek them…..as Grom more succinctly indicated.
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According to Canada, gender surgery is "an adventure" for children. We may need to do dome nation building up north.
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In-laws family tree has been self-pruned on occasion. After initial teeth-gnashing and hand-wringing postures, general acknowledgement the tree is healther.
[Washington Examiner] Former President Donald Trump’s four criminal cases have created an unprecedented legal gauntlet for him to run before voters have a chance to decide if he should return to the Oval Office. While Democrats cheer what they see as long-overdue accountability for the former president, some legal experts have expressed concerns that the cases — half are brought by partisan district attorneys, and the other half are overseen by the Biden Justice Department — are built on novel and unfair interpretations of the law.
In this series, the Washington Examiner will take a look at the flaws that could unravel the cases against Trump. Part four will look at the Washington case and the tough time Jack Smith will have securing a conviction.
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It all depends the Judiciary deciding whether or not they want to cool things off or go pell mell into civil war.
Come on the Constitution explicitly says electors will be chosen in a matter as determined by the states legislative branch. They ignored that in the challenge to PA's vote in 2020. The 14th Amendment is clear about 'equal protection' before the law but have ignored that time after time.
[PJ] Just when you thought the corruption surrounding the Manhattan case against Donald Trump couldn't get shadier, the Nepo Baby has arrived to prove you wrong.
Remember the guy who worked for House Democrats to prosecute the first Trump impeachment? The case in which President Trump "made a perfect phone call" to the Ukrainian president to find out Joe and Hunter Biden were shaking down oligarchs and changing U.S. policy to fire the prosecutor investigating their shady dealings? The one where he said he'd temporarily stall Ukrainian help he'd been providing if they didn't look into this shady behavior?
Remember the guy who, as a federal prosecutor in New York, sat at the right hand of the most anti-Trump, anti-GOP U.S. Attorney on the planet, Preet Bharara?
The same guy who served as Adam Schiff's counsel at the House Intel Committee and lied, and lied, and lied about Russia! Russia! Russia! Do you recall that guy?
Do you remember the Nepo Baby who's heir to the Levis fortune?
Yeah, that guy's in Congress now. And you'll be interested to know that Dan Goldman paid Trump trial Judge Juan Merchan's daughter's firm to help him get elected. I didn't realize that one of the world's most populous cities was so small.
This week, we found out that Goldman has been bragging about "prepping" former Trump attorney Michael Cohen "a number of times to prepare him" for his various legal proceedings before the House Intelligence Committee. That was Schiff's committee to Get Trump and frame the president as a Russian secret agent. For years, they kept up this sham to undermine support for the president even when they knew it was a lie.
[Daily Caller] A Washington State Patrol (WSP) Trooper fatally shot a man armed with a hammer during an altercation Thursday afternoon, according to a statement.
The Trooper was responding just after 4 p.m. to a road rage incident in which the suspect rammed a Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) vehicle on the shoulder of the I-5 northbound near milepost 197, according to the statement from the Snohomish County Multiple Agency Response Team (SMART). The vehicle had a lift that was operating over a slough and carried two contractors, according to the statement.
An altercation broke out between the suspect, the contractors and the Trooper, during which the Trooper shot the suspect, the statement revealed.
One of the contractors sustained non-life-threatening injuries, the statement added.
[ET] In turbulent times, classicist and military historian Victor Davis Hanson is always a voice of reason.
To make sense of the Trump trials, the stunning recent protests on college campuses, and where the 2024 election is headed, I’ll be doing a live Q&A with Mr. Hanson on Wednesday, May 8, at 2 p.m. ET here on EpochTV.
His new book is "The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation," and there are a lot of lessons to be learned here for America.
Post your burning questions in the live chat or in the comments below, and we’ll see you all there.
Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
[ET via ZERO] Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said Thursday that many officials who tried to warn the public about potential problems with COVID-19 vaccines were pressured into silence and that it’s high time to admit that there were "significant" side effects that made people sick.
Dr. Redfield made the remarks in a May 16 interview with Chris Cuomo on NewsNation, during which he lamented the loss of public confidence in public health agencies because of a lack of transparency around the vaccines, which he said "saved a lot of lives" but also made some people "quite ill."
"Those of us that tried to suggest there may be significant side effects from vaccines ... we kind of got canceled because no one wanted to talk about the potential that there was a problem from the vaccines, because they were afraid that that would cause people not to want to get vaccinated," Dr. Redfield said.
In his role as head of the CDC, Dr. Redfield was part of the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed, a project to surge COVID-19 vaccine development at a time during the pandemic when little was known about the virus and rapid vaccine rollout was widely seen as key to getting the outbreak under control and lockdowns lifted.
In September 2020, a few months before the first COVID-19 vaccines were given in the United States, Dr. Redfield testified before the Senate that COVID-19 represented the "most significant public health challenge to face our nation in more than a century," and that the prevailing view among scientists at the time was that the overall case fatality rate of the disease was somewhere between 0.4 and 0.6 percent in the United States.
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Corrupt and criminal is what they did with those gene-vaccines
That product killed and maimed millions of people
People i know died from that mRNA product
MRNA murderers at moderna, pfizer, gates foundation pushed it all
Cuomo now trying his hand at claiming he was injured so he can be controlled opposition
And no, the shots did not save any lives. They did not work. It is just more lies based on fake predictive modelling from corrupt universities claiming it saved lives. No evidence.
1. the way the statistics were kept, what defined 'a case', and what defined 'a covid fatality'
2. the vaccines available - for example, Peru mainly used a Chinese made vaccine and had relatively low percentage of the population vaccinated (especially in rural areas) and had a very high case fatality rate. Denmark had access to both the Moderno and Pfizer vaccines and had a very high rate of vaccination
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case fatality rates varied a lot by country
Too bad there wasn't a world health organization monitoring ... oh!
Too bad many did not embrace globalist standard vaccine provisioning ... oh, damit!
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[Regnum] The Tanzanian-flagged ship Mohammad-Z sank in the Black Sea 26 nautical miles from the Romanian city of Sfintu Gheorghe. This was reported by the Romanian Maritime Administration.
It is noted that the alarm was received at about 4:00 am. Two border police ships and two nearby merchant ships were sent to the scene.
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[Korrespondent] The Armed Forces of Ukraine successfully resist attacks from the invaders in all directions.
In the Khar'kov direction, the enemy lost 73 military personnel killed and wounded and 16 pieces of equipment, of which two were tanks.
During the current 24 hours, 77 military clashes took place at the front, seven of which are still ongoing. The hottest situation was in the Pokrovsky direction, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on Saturday, May 18.
Thus, 10 clashes occurred in the Khar'kov direction. The Russians again launched an air strike on Khar'kov, using two KABs. They carried out assault operations in the directions Glubokoe-Lukyantsy, Lukyantsy-Veseloye, Bugrovatka-Staritsa.
In this direction, the enemy lost 73 military personnel killed and wounded and 16 pieces of equipment, of which two were tanks.
“The remaining data on enemy losses is being clarified. The defense forces are taking measures to stabilize the situation and regroup in certain areas,” the message says.
In the Kupyansky direction the number of battles per day increased to nine, and in the Limansky direction - to seven. The defense forces are taking necessary measures to contain the enemy.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the invaders are carrying out assault operations in the direction of the settlements of Ivanovskoye and Kalinovka. The total number of Russian attacks in the direction increased to 14.
The Pokrovskoe direction remains the hottest. Of the 23 military clashes since the beginning of the day, four are currently still ongoing. Netailovo was added to the list of settlements where the enemy is directing his attacks. The Russians carried out airstrikes using KABs in the area of Alexandropol, Voskhod, Evgenievka.
In the Kurakhovsky direction, the enemy made 10 attempts to overcome the defenses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The battle continues near Krasnogorovka.
In the Dnieper direction, the number of Russian assaults stopped by Ukrainian defenders on the bridgeheads on the left bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region has grown to four today.
Since the beginning of the current day, Ukrainian aviation has hit 18 areas where enemy personnel are concentrated and two of their air defense systems. Our rockets and artillerymen struck three more enemy concentration areas and one radar station.
Let us remind you that in one day on May 17, Russia lost more than 1,200 soldiers at the front. The total losses of the aggressor country are gradually approaching 500 thousand since the beginning of a full-scale war.
[Breitbart] Poland is investing about $2.5 billion to step up security and deterrence on its border with Russia and its ally Belarus, the prime minister said Saturday.
Donald Tusk said work on the Shield-East project which includes building proper military fortifications has already begun. Poland is on the eastern flank of NATO and of the European Union and Tusk stressed it bears additional responsibility for Europe’s security.
“We have taken the decision to invest into our safety and first of all, into a safe eastern border, some 10 billion zlotys ($2.5 billion),” Tusk said.
“We are opening a great project of the construction of a safe border, including a system of fortifications and of the shaping of terrain, (of) environmental decisions that will make this border impenetrable by a potential enemy,” Tusk said.
“We have begun these works, to make Poland’s border a safe one in times of peace, and impenetrable for an enemy in times of war,” he added.
He was addressing Polish troops in Krakow, in the south, to mark 80 years since the allied victory in the Battle of Monte Cassino against the Nazis, during World War II.
Poland’s previous right-wing government built a $400 million wall on the border with Belarus to halt massive inflow of migrants that began to be pushed from that direction in 2021, but the current pro-EU government says it needs to be strengthened.
Poland is a staunch ally of Ukraine in its defensive war against Russia’s invasion.
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[Korrespondent] The Russian aggressors used the hospital in Volchansk as a shelter and a gathering place for their assault units.
Ukrainian aviation struck the central hospital in the city of Volchansk, Khar'kov region, where dozens of Russian military personnel were located. This was reported by the Operative Inform Telegram channel on Saturday, May 18. Continued on Page 49
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[NewsFront] 21:35 Explosions are heard in Khar'kov and the region,reportUkrainian channels.
They also write about explosions in the Sumy region and in Kherson, controlled by Kyiv.
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[REGNUM] Odessa, May 18, city beach “Chaika”. One o'clock. The weather is sunny and warm, but there is not a single person on the beach, a favorite vacation spot for the townspeople. A local man with his wife and school-aged son is filming a video, amazed that the city has practically died out, and he is the “only man” left.
Same day, Khar'kov. A resident of the city carefully, without attracting attention, films how two employees of the TCC (territorial recruitment center - an analogue of Russian military registration and enlistment offices) almost drag a struggling young man along the street and throw him into a white minibus.
Another video is from a service station: three policemen are strangling a guy and trying to twist his arms. He shouts that he shouldn’t go to the TCC, the police respond with the official “We’ll sort it out there.” After about a minute of struggle, another “cop” standing nearby asks the guy why he’s not going to fight. He, trying to escape from the grip, exhales: “Because I’m not a military man!”
A similar thing is happening today throughout Ukraine - on May 18, a law on tightening mobilization came into force. Men are caught everywhere. Another video from Odessa: several TCC employees literally burst into a minibus and, trying to detain a guy, beat him and spray him with pepper spray. And the minibus passenger filming on her phone is insulted, and the phone is promised to be broken.
There is a catastrophic shortage of people at the front, so even those who were previously considered untouchable have to be taken away. Last week, the new head of the territorial recruitment center of the Cherkasy region, Roman Bogdan, invited to a meeting of the City Council, handed out subpoenas to six deputies. Bogdan urged them to make the “right decision.”
DISENFRANCHISED MEN
The law that came into force established new requirements for those liable for military service in Ukraine and minimizes their rights.
All men between the ages of 18 and 60 were required to carry a military ID at all times. Without it, citizens will also be limited in providing consular services abroad. Military personnel stationed abroad must provide their credentials within 60 days.
Men aged 25 to 55 years who received a disability of the second and third groups after the start of the special operation must undergo a second medical examination. Military registration and enlistment offices, subject to a number of restrictions, received the right to confiscate vehicles from citizens for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In addition, the new law allowed military registration and enlistment office employees to serve summonses around the clock and anywhere. Also, the right to issue summonses was given to alert groups, which include police officers, representatives of local authorities and educational institutions, business managers and citizens who are not subject to mobilization.
If the summons was sent by mail, but the recipient does not live at the address he declared, he will still be considered notified of the summons to the military registration and enlistment office.
At the same time, the new law actually deprives draft dodgers of the right to appeal court decisions in disputes with the TCC. The theoretical opportunity to appeal the court decision for those who do not want to serve in the army will remain, but by that time they will already be mobilized, said Alexander Fedienko, a member of the Verkhovna Rada Defense Committee.
On May 17, the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, signed a law that will allow prisoners to be mobilized into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in exchange for parole. At the same time, those convicted of crimes against the fundamentals of national security, murder, sexual violence, pedophilia and fatal accidents committed under the influence of alcohol or drugs will not be subject to voluntary conscription.
According to the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, the number of mobilized prisoners will not exceed 20 thousand people. The Minister of Justice of Ukraine Denis Malyuska previously reported that from the mobilized prisoners they would create separate units for digging trenches and building infrastructure.
TISZA - RIVER OF LIFE OR DEATH
On the afternoon of May 17, a large traffic jam formed in the Lviv region on the border with Poland. More than 760 cars and 25 buses were queuing at checkpoints. People used the last opportunity to flee the country.
And already on May 18, Ukrainian truckers went out to protest and blocked the Kyiv-Odessa highway. The protesters placed dozens of trucks on the road and caused a large traffic jam. Drivers said they are against the new law, since it does not allow truckers transporting goods to other countries to receive military service exemption. Drivers fear that they will be mobilized while crossing the border.
In turn, the mayor of Dnepropetrovsk Boris Filatov said the day before that due to tightening mobilization measures, the city’s critical infrastructure may be left without workers. If there is a massive recruitment into the army, there is a risk of stopping the work of public transport, water utilities and the heat and power sector. Filatov called for a review of the categories of citizens who can be taken to the front.
To avoid getting there, men try to leave Ukraine by any means, including risking their lives. On May 17, the body of another dead man was found in the Tisza River on the border of Ukraine and Romania. This is the 31st such tragic incident.
Notably, a recent New York Times article reported that thousands of draft dodgers are sailing from Ukraine to Romania, crossing the Tisza. At the same time, those who are caught are not only fined, but also immediately issued a summons.
But there are no fewer risk takers. On May 10, Slovak media reported that the number of draft dodgers fleeing mobilization from Ukraine had doubled in the country. Since the beginning of 2024, Slovak law enforcement agencies have detained 338 men who tried to illegally enter the territory of the republic.
At the same time, the speaker of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine Andrey Demchenko noted on April 21 that Ukrainian border guards detect about ten attempts every day to leave the country using fake documents. In addition, evaders are constantly looking for places where they can illegally cross the border, and also bribe border guards.
“THE WHOLE WORLD IS TO BLAME FOR THE FAILURE OF THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES”
Now the Russian army is developing an offensive in the Khar'kov region. On May 17, the official representative of the Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, said that units of the North group of troops of the Russian Armed Forces liberated 12 settlements in the region within a week.
In turn, Zelensky, in an interview with ABC television, said that all countries of the world are to blame for the fact that the defense of the Ukrainian army has failed, and the Russian army is successfully advancing in several directions. According to him, to confront Russia, the support of all countries is required, he accused them of allowing the start of the Northern Military District, and now they are not helping to stop the Russian army.
“It’s the whole world’s fault,” Zelensky said.
At the same time, on May 16, he stated that the Russian army could soon drive the Ukrainian Armed Forces out of Khar'kov, and added that the delay in assistance from the United States greatly influenced the course of the conflict.
At the same time, Zelensky rejected French President Emmanuel Macron's call for an Olympic truce during the Summer Olympic Games in Paris. On March 17, the French leader said that he would ask Russia to establish a ceasefire for the duration of the Olympics. Zelensky, in an interview with Agence France-Presse, said that Kyiv does not believe in such an idea. He noted that in a telephone conversation with the French leader he asked who could guarantee that Russia would not take advantage of this to send troops into Ukrainian territory.
“[Ukraine] is against any truce that plays into the hands of the enemy,” said the head of the Kiev regime.
Obviously, Zelensky intends to continue the conflict. Against this background, it is noteworthy that two contradictory statements appeared on the same day, May 17. The same Zelensky publicly stated that “For the first time, Ukraine has enough artillery shells, not a single brigade is complaining that there are no shells.” And in a material published by the French publication Le Monde, the Ukrainian military reported that “they lack everything - drones, anti-drone weapons, shells, missiles.”
It’s hardly worth asking who Ukrainian men believe. Especially those who dive into the cold Tisa or who are dragged along a deserted street into a white minibus.
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[Regnum] In Ingushetia, 73.6% of the sowing campaign has been completed. This was announced on May 17 by the Minister of Agriculture of the Republic, Magomed-Bashir Gagiev, during a working meeting with the head of Ingushetia, Magomed-Ali Kalimatov.
According to the minister, 42,600 hectares were prepared for spring sowing, and to date 31,363 hectares have already been sown. Winter crops occupy 29,200d hectares, and all necessary agrotechnical measures have been taken to ensure their growth and development. To maintain the pace of spring field work, 600 units of equipment are involved.
[IsraelTimes] Physicians leave via Kerem Shalom after working in one of the few hospitals in Strip still functioning amid war; several others choose to stay despite uncertain plan for departure
The United States on Friday evacuated out of 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 an 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... 17 American doctors who had been stuck since Israel took over the Paleostinian side of the Rafah Border Crossing with Egypt earlier this month, according to official American sources.
US diplomats arranged for the doctors to leave instead through the Kerem Shalom Crossing into Israel.
"Some of the US citizen doctors who had been stuck in Gaza have now safely departed and made their way to safety with assistance from the US embassy in Jerusalem," a State Department spokesperson said.
"We have been in close contact with the groups that these US doctors are part of, and we have been in contact with the families of these US citizens," he said.
At least 14 doctors from a delegation made up of 35 US and other international volunteer physicians, including three Americans, chose to stay despite the uncertainty on when they will again have a chance to leave, according to the Paleostinian American Medical Association. The US-based non-profit medical group FAJR Scientific, which organized a second volunteer team, could not immediately be reached.
The Rafah crossing into Egypt has been the main gateway for goods and people entering Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has put the onus on Egypt to reopen the crossing.
Egypt has accused Israel in turn of denying responsibility for a humanitarian crisis in Gaza and says that truck drivers and aid workers do not feel safe crossing through an Israeli checkpoint.
The doctors came to help one of the Strip’s few hospitals still functioning. They brought suitcases full of medical supplies and had trained for one of the worst war zones in the world. They knew the health care system was decimated and overwhelmed, with local doctors and nurses beyond exhausted after seven months of treating never-ending waves of Paleostinians maimed since war erupted in Gaza after Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... ’s October 7 massacre.
"I did not expect that (it) will be that bad," said Dr. Ammar Ghanem, an ICU specialist from bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... with the Syrian American Medical Society. "You hear the news, but you cannot really recognize ... how bad until you come and see it."
The teams were trapped beyond the scheduled end of their two-week mission when Israel began what it has called a "pinpoint operation" into the crowded southern Gaza city of Rafah on May 6.
Those who left included Ghanem, who said the 15-mile trip from the hospital to the Kerem Shalom Crossing took more than four hours as explosions went off around them. He described some tense moments, such as when an Israel Defense Forces tank at the crossing apparently took aim at the doctors’ convoy.
"The tank moved and blocked our way and they directed their weapons (at) us. So that was a scary moment," Ghanem said.
You’re in what the experts call a “war zone”, buddy. What on earth did you expect?
The 14 doctors with the Paleostinian American Medical Association who stayed behind include American Adam Hamawy. US Sen. Tammy Duckworth credits Hamawy with saving her life when, as a military helicopter pilot in Iraq in 2004, she was hit by an RPG, causing injuries that cost her her legs.
The two international teams have been working since early May at the European General Hospital, just outside Rafah, the largest hospital still operating in southern Gaza. The volunteers are mostly American surgeons but include medical professionals from Britannia, Australia, Egypt, Jordan, Oman and other nations.
The World Health Organization said the UN, which coordinates visits of volunteer teams, is in talks with Israel to resume moving humanitarian workers in and out of Gaza. The IDF said it had no comment.
Now an answer for those who wondered how many hospitals Gaza has:
Nearly two dozen hospitals in Gaza are no longer operating, and the remaining dozen are only partially working.
Much of the European Hospital’s Paleostinian staff left to help families fleeing Rafah amid new evacuation orders to find new shelter. As a result, the foreign volunteers are stretched between medical emergencies and other duties, such as trying to find patients inside the hospital. There is no staff to log where incoming maimed are placed. Medicines that the teams brought with them are running out.
Thousands of Paleostinians are sheltering in the hospital. Outside, sewage overflows in the streets, and drinking water is brackish or polluted, spreading disease. The road to the hospital from Rafah is now unsafe: The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... says an Israeli tank fired on a marked UN vehicle on the road Monday, killing a UN security officer and wounding another.
That other: was he a gunny for Hamas or for Palestinian Islamic Jihad?
When the Rafah assault began, FAJR Scientific’s 17 doctors were living in a guesthouse in the city. With no warning from the IDF to evacuate, the team was stunned by bombs landing a few hundred meters from the clearly-marked house, said Mosab Nasser, FAJR’s CEO.
They scrambled out, still wearing their scrubs, and moved to the European Hospital, where the other team was staying.
Dr. Mohammed Tahir, an orthopedic surgeon from London with FAJR, does multiple surgeries a day on little sleep. He’s often jolted awake by bombings shaking the hospital. Work is frantic. He recalled opening one man’s chest to stop bleeding, with no time to get him to the operating room. The man died.
Tahir said when the Rafah assault began, Paleostinian colleagues at the hospital nervously asked if the volunteers would leave.
"It makes my heart feel really heavy," Tahir said. The Paleostinian staff knows that when the teams leave "they have no more protection; and that could mean that this hospital turns into Shifa, which is a very real possibility." IDF troops raided Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital, the territory’s largest, for a second time in March, killing and detaining hundreds of terror suspects. Israel says that Hamas uses hospitals as command centers and hideouts, an accusation denied by Gaza health officials. The Gaza health ministry is run by Hamas.
”Pshaw! Pish and tosh! Fiddlesticks! Where do you people get such silly ideas?”
The patients Tahir has saved keep him going. Tahir and other surgeons operated for hours on a man with severe wounds to the skull and abdomen and shrapnel in his back. They did a second surgery on him Wednesday night.
"I looked at my colleagues and said, ’You know what? If this patient survives — just this patient — everything we’ve done, or everything we’ve experienced, would all be worth it,'" Tahir said.
Dr. Ahlia Kattan, an anesthesiologist and ICU doctor from Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, with FAJR, said the hardest case for her was a four-year-old boy, the same age as her son, who arrived with burns on more than 75 percent of his body, his lungs and spleen shattered. He didn’t survive.
Human shields so often don’t — it’s the strangest thing.
"He reminded me so much of my son," she said, holding back tears.
"Everyone has different stories here that they’re taking home with them."
Weighing heavily on all the volunteers, Kattan said, is "the guilt that we’re already feeling when we leave, that we get to escape to safety."
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[REGNUM] A small temple built on Starokievskaya Hill next to the foundations of the Tithe Church - an echo of legendary times - was mercilessly demolished at night. The fitted equipment destroyed the walls along with icons and church decorations; the debris was immediately thrown into trucks and taken out in an unknown direction. There are all sorts of rumors about the fate of the main icon of the Mother of God “Vladimir-Tithe ”, a copy of the original miraculous one - either the priest managed to remove it or not. In any case, the historical site is now a flat area, and rare brave souls mourn out loud what happened. They curse the evil spirits, who were not afraid of higher powers, and remember Batu Khan and the Soviet government, who destroyed the two previous temples. The “evil spirits” do not feel any remorse at all - they declared the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, to which the now defunct church belonged, a “sect” and are fighting it to the best of their ability.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
As a result of active actions, units of the Sever Group of Forces liberated Staritsa (Kharkov region) and continued advancing into the depth of the enemy's defence.
Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of the AFU 106th, 113th, and 129th territorial defence brigades near Veterenarnoye (Kharkov region), Miropoliye, and Loknya (Sumy region).
Four counter-attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 42nd Mechanised Brigade, 57th Motorised Infantry Brigade, 82nd Air Assault Brigade, and 125th Territorial Defence Brigade were repelled near Liptsy, Tikhoye, and Volansk (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 150 Ukrainian troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, and two motor vehicles.
In the course of counter-battery warfare, one 122mm Grad MLRS combat vehicle, one Polish-made 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery system, one 155mm Bogdana self-propelled artillery system, and one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system were neutralised.
One AFU field ammunition depot was destroyed.
Units of the Zapad Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and inflicted losses on formations of the AFU 14th Mechanised Brigade and 110th Territorial Defence Brigade near Sinkovka, Ivanovka (Kharkov region), and Artyomovka (Lugansk People's Republic).
One counter-attack launched by an assault detachment of the AFU 63rd Mechanised Brigade was repelled near Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 270 Ukrainian troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, two pickup trucks, one U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzer, two 152mm D-20 howitzers, and one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system.
Units of the Yug Group of Forces improved the tactical situation along the front line, as well as inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 59th Motorised Infantry Brigade, 72nd Mechanised Brigade, 105th, and 111th Territorial Defence brigades near Krasnogorovka, Konstantinovka, and Noviy (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to more than 690 Ukrainian troops, one tank, five armoured fighting vehicles, and six motor vehicles.
In the course of counterbattery warfare, one U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzer, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, one 152mm D-20 howitzer, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, two 122mm D-30 howitzers, and one 100mm Rapira anti-tank gun were wiped out.
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on formations of the AFU 68th Jaeger Brigade, 24th, 100th Mechanised brigades, and 2nd National Guard Brigade near Semyonovka, Mayorsk, Kalinovo, and Novgorodskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
Five counter-attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 25th Airborne Brigade, 47th, 110th Mechanised brigades, and 142nd Infantry Brigade were repelled near Netaylovo, Umanskoye, Arkhangelskoye, and Solovyovo (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 420 Ukrainian troops, one German-made Marder infantry fighting vehicle, and five motor vehicles.
In the course of counterbattery warfare, one U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzer, one U.S.-made 155mm Paladin self-propelled artillery system, one 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, one 152mm Giatsint-B howitzer, one 152mm D-20 howitzer, two 122mm D-30 howitzers, and one U.S.-made AN/TPQ-37 counter-battery warfare radar station were neutralised.
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces took more advantageous lines, as well as inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 58th Motorised Infantry Brigade and 128th Territorial Defence Brigade near Urozhaynoye and Staromayorskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
Four counter-attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 72nd Mechanised Brigade were repelled near Vladimirovka and Novomayorskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 155 Ukrainian troops, two infantry fighting vehicles, two motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155mm M198 howitzer, and one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system.
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 35th Naval Infantry Brigade and 65th Mechanised Brigade near Ivanovka (Kherson region) and Rabotino (Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 40 Ukrainian troops, two tanks, and three motor vehicles.
In the course of counter-battery warfare, four U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzers, one UK-made 155mm FH-70 towed howitzer, and one 152mm Msta-B howitzer were neutralised.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces wiped out one German-made IRIS-T air defence system radar station and uncrewed surface vehicle storage facility.
Enemy manpower and hardware clusters were engaged in 134 areas.
Air defence units shot down 37 unmanned aerial vehicles, one Tochka-U tactical missile system, 21 U.S.-made HIMARS, Czech-made Vampire, and Olkha MLRS projectiles.
Two AFU high-speed uncrewed surface vehicles were neutralised in the west part of the Black Sea and on the Dnepr River.
In total, 601 airplanes and 274 helicopters, 24,271 unmanned aerial vehicles, 522 air defence missile systems, 16,074 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,304 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 9,664 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 21,783 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[Regnum] Russian President Vladimir Putin found an unconventional move and responded with an ultimatum to British Foreign Secretary David Cameron’s statement that Ukraine has the right to strike Russian regions with weapons produced in the kingdom, according to an article in the Chinese newspaper Sohu.
The author noted that the Russian leader did not look for ways to mitigate the situation, but decided to escalate it. First, the Foreign Ministry summoned British Ambassador Nigel Casey for a conversation, after which he looked confused, since, according to the publication, they explained to him the consequences of British strikes on Russia.
“This is not a joke, Putin has given Great Britain an ultimatum,” the publication says.
It is noted that Moscow did not limit itself to this, and soon the Ministry of Defense conducted exercises of non-strategic nuclear forces. In addition, Russia adopted the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile.
As Regnum reported, Reuters published an article on May 2 in which it cited Cameron’s words that London allows the Kiev regime to strike at Russian territory. The publication was soon withdrawn, but then reinstated without changes.
The British ambassador was summoned to the Foreign Office on May 6, where he stayed for about half an hour. On the same day, exercises of missile formations of the Southern Military District began to practice strikes with non-strategic nuclear weapons. The Ministry of Defense emphasized that the maneuvers are also being carried out as a response to provocative anti-Russian statements by individual officials in the West.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 20:36 Soldiers of the 110th separate mechanized brigade reported that they shot down a Russian Su-25 attack aircraft in the Donetsk region. In two weeks, this is already the fourth Su-25 shot down by the 110th Brigade.
18:57 On Sunday, May 19, emergency outages of household and industrial consumers in the Poltava and Kharkov regions are possible during the day, Ukrenergo reported. The reason is emergency restoration work at power facilities after drone strikes on May 18. No outages are forecast for other areas.
17:49 The next meeting in the Ramstein format will be held on Monday, May 20, online, chaired by US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and US Chief of Joint Staff Charles Brown, the Pentagon said. Before the start of the meeting, Austin will make a statement at 15:00 Kyiv time.
16:35 The Russians once again shelled Volchansk - one person was killed, four were wounded, the prosecutor's office reported. Another person was injured as a result of shelling. Ukrainian Volchansk community.
16:11 The Russians hit Kharkov again - there is destruction of housing infrastructure, five people were injured, including two teenagers 13 and 16 years old, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. He also said that the number of deaths as a result of yesterday's attack in the city had increased to four - one of the wounded died in the hospital. 16 people remain in hospital, two of them are in serious condition. Sinegubov also said that about 100 people remain in Volchansk, “even fewer” in settlements along the Lipetsk direction, and the evacuation continues.
15:48 The Ministry of Defense announced the start of testing a new service - an electronic queue at the TCC. Pre-registration is already possible at 19 TCCs - testing is taking place in separate centers in Kyiv, Kharkov, Odessa, Dnepr, Sumy, Vinnitsa, Kropyvnytskyi. They promise to connect “much more” soon.
14:40 A car with civilians came under enemy fire in Volchansk, Kharkov region, the prosecutor’s office reported. According to the investigation, on May 16, four civilians tried to leave Volchansk by car, but on the way to the city they came under Russian fire. Two people were killed and two were injured.
12:59 In the Kharkov direction, the Russians are trying to attack in the direction of the settlements of Liptsy and Volchansk, but they are not successful. Defense forces are trying to push the enemy in the direction of Glubokoe, the General Staff said. In the Kupyansky direction, the Defense Forces continue assault operations in the Sinkovka and Ternov areas, and have partial success in certain areas.
11:57 Ukraine recently sent a request to the United States asking for help in identifying targets in the Russian Federation that Kiev could hit with its own weapons. Ukraine is also asking to lift the restriction on US strikes on Russian territory, The Wall Street Journal writes. Previous similar requests, as well as the request to allow the United States to use weapons, were invariably rejected by Washington, the newspaper notes.
10:54 The Ministry of Defense reported that as of now, 150 thousand Ukrainians have successfully logged into the Reserve+ application, and hundreds of thousands more requests are in the queue. The department notes that the application is protected from DDOS attacks and enemy attempts to hack it, so the authorization function may not work for everyone at the same time.
09:31 In the Donetsk region on May 17, three people were killed as a result of Russian shelling - two in Krasnohorivka and one in Chasovoy Yar. Five more people in the region were injured during the day, said the head of the OVA, Vadim Filashkin.
09:27 The number of victims as a result of yesterday's attacks on the Shevchenko district of Kharkov increased to 31, three people were killed, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. One person was also wounded as a result of enemy shelling. Liptsy, Kharkov district, another one - in the village of Kupyansk-Uzlovoy.
09:23 In the Kherson region over the past 24 hours, five people were injured as a result of Russian shelling, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin. In particular, two high-rise buildings and 14 private houses, an educational institution, agricultural enterprises, a store and gas pipelines were damaged.
09:20 Ukraine and Western allies often have “different views” on what the end of the war might look like, Zelensky said in an interview with AFP: “We want the war to end with a just peace for us... The West wants the war to end. Period. As soon as possible. And for them this is a fair world... We are in an absurd situation where the West fears that Russia will lose the war and does not want Ukraine to lose it."
At the same time, the president emphasized that “no one is going to give up.” “We must be sober and understand that they are going deeper into our territory,” he said. According to Zelensky, in the Kharkov region the situation is controlled, but not stabilized. The Russians want to attack Kharkov, but they understand that it will be difficult. The President believes that the Russian offensive “may consist of several waves”; in the Kharkov region “there was the first wave.” As for Kyiv, according to the head of state, the Russians do not have enough forces for a large-scale offensive.
Zelensky also said that Ukraine has only about 25% of the required amount of air defense systems. In addition, Ukraine needs 120-130 modern F-16 combat aircraft.
08:43 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of May 18:
personnel - about 491,080 (+1210) people,
tanks - 7560 (+13),
armored combat vehicles - 14,595 (+43),
artillery systems - 12,639 (+36),
MLRS - 1071 (+0),
air defense systems - 801 (+1),
aircraft - 354 (+1),
helicopters - 326 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 10 108 (+35),
cruise missiles - 2203 (+3),
ships/boats - 26 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 17,169 (+65),
special equipment - 2075 (+6).
08:29 At night, enemy UAVs damaged the energy infrastructure in one of the districts of the Poltava region, no people were injured, said the head of the OVA, Philip Pronin. Ukrenergo noted that at night Russian drones attacked two energy infrastructure facilities in the eastern and central regions; consumers did not lose power.
07:18 Air defense at night destroyed all 13 attack UAVs of the Shahed-131/136 type, which Russia attacked from Primorsko-Akhtarsk and Kursk, the Air Force reported. Drones were destroyed in Kharkov, Poltava, Vinnitsa, Nikolaev and Dnepropetrovsk regions.
00:37 In the Kharkov direction, the Russians tried to break through the defenses of Ukrainian troops in the Glubokoe-Liptsy, Bugrovatka-Staritsa directions, the situation is under control, the General Staff reported. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are conducting assault operations in certain areas in order to improve the tactical situation, and are also combing the area. In the Volchansk area, Ukrainian units are strengthening their defenses in order to improve the tactical situation.
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[IsraelTimes] Two senior American officials held indirect meeting with Iranian officials in Oman this week in an effort to avoid a regional escalation, according to the Axios news site.
The talks focused on "clarifying the consequences of actions 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... and its proxies in the region and to discuss US concerns regarding the status of Iran’s nuclear program," according to two sources quoted in the report.
A government official confirms to the Times of Israel that White House Middle East czar Brett McGurk and special envoy on Iran Abram Paley were in Oman this week for the talks.
McGurk was also in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat Frational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... this week, according to the same official.
Axios says it was unclear who represented Iran at the Oman talks and there was no official statement from either country.
The talks come after Iranian threats in recent weeks that Tehran will change its doctrine on nuclear weapons — currently banned under a fatwa by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> — if its existence is threatened by Israel.
Similar talks were held between the United States and Iran in Oman January, when reportedly Tehran asked the Biden administration to secure a ceasefire in ongoing 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 an 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... war while Washington pressed the Islamic Theocratic Republic to curb attacks by its proxies.
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Really? They have two oil terminals they use to export oil. One in the gulf and one outside. Blow them both up and only western companies know how to replace them. If they start rebuilding them, blow them up again even if western nationals are there. Send a good signal. Iran will be broke in a couple months and unable to import gasoline, food or anything else as they can't pay for it.
[IsraelTimes] The Israeli Air Force struck more than 70 targets across 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 an 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 in the past day, the military says, as ground forces operate in Rafah, Jabaliya, and the Netzarim Corridor.
According to the IDF, the targets included weapon depots, infrastructure, and buildings belonging to terror groups, as well as operatives.
One of the Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in Rafah hit a senior Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... operative, who the IDF says was head of logistics for the terror group in the city in southern Gaza. "As part of his role, he was responsible for preparing the enemy for the IDF maneuver in Rafah," the military says.
In eastern Rafah, the military says troops of the Givati Brigade spotted and killed an RPG-wielding operative in a building near them. Givati troops raided several sites in the area, locating weapons, the IDF adds.
Also in eastern Rafah, the Egoz commando unit located a rocket launcher at a building used by terror groups, the IDF says.
Meanwhile in Jabaliya in the Strip’s north, the IDF says the Paratroopers Brigade killed several button men during several engagements; the 7th Armored Brigade located a primed rocket launcher and killed several more button men in battles; and the 460th Armored Brigade located several tunnel shafts and killed an RPG-wielding operative.
In the Strip’s center, the 99th Division continued to battle button men in the Netzarim Corridor area, including by calling in airstrikes, the IDF says.
In one incident in central Gaza, troops of the 414th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit spotted a cell that had fired RPGs at troops and directed a drone to strike and kill the operatives, the army adds.
[IsraelTimes] The Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in the West Bank city of Jenin a short while ago targeted a command room belonging to a local terror network and killed a terrorist behind the murder of an Israeli in May 2023, the military and Shin Bet say.
According to a joint IDF and Shin Bet statement, fighter jets and attack helicopters targeted a building used as an "operational war room" by Jenin’s terror network.
Several button men were gathered at the command room when it was struck, including those involved in several shooting attacks in the Jenin area, the IDF says.
It says that members of the network planned additional attacks in the near future.
Among those killed is Islam Khamayseh, who the IDF says was wanted over his involvement in a series of terror attacks, including a shooting near the settlement of Hermesh in May 2023, killing Meir Tamari, and another attack in the area in June 2023 that maimed four soldiers and one civilian.
The military says the targeted site was "a dangerous terrorist infrastructure," and the airstrike "was carried out to remove an imminent threat posed by the turbans who were involved in advancing terror attacks in the area of Jenin and Israeli territory."
[IsraelTimes] At least one person has been killed and eight maimed in an Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, according to Paleostinian reports.
The Paleostinian health ministry says the eight maimed people are in stable, pH balanced condition and receiving treatment at hospitals.
Rooters can not immediately confirm their identities.
A short while ago, the Israel Defense Forces said a fighter jet conducted the strike, a rarity in the West Bank, where violence had been surging long before 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 an 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... erupted with Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... ’s October 7 massacre.
Residents of the refugee camp say a house was targeted
[SHABELLEMEDIA] In a significant blow to the al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... Death Eaters, the Somali National Army, with the support of international security partners, launched a successful operation in the Lower Shabelle region.
This strategic move comes in the wake of a series of al-Shabaab attacks in the area, including a deadly assault on a Ugandan base in May 2023, which marked one of the most devastating attacks on African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) troops since their formation in April 2022.
The operation, which took place in the Lower Shabelle region, specifically targeted al-Shabaab strongholds, aiming to neutralize the Death Eaters’ capabilities and disrupt their operations.
The Somali government, through its intelligence agency, has been working closely with international partners to ensure the success of these operations, which are a part of a broader strategy to regain control of territories long held by the bully boy group.
The Somali government has reported that the operation resulted in the killing of at least 46 al-Shabaab members. This figure is consistent with the government’s ongoing efforts to counter the insurgency, which has seen numerous operations carried out across Somalia, particularly in the volatile Lower Shabelle region.
The Lower Shabelle region has been a hotbed of al-Shabaab activity, with the group using guerilla tactics to harass and attack Somali and ATMIS troops stationed there.
The latest operation is a testament to the Somali government’s commitment to securing the region and protecting its citizens from the threat of terrorism.
[TOLONEWS] After four days of festivities along the Durand Line in Paktia, a ceasefire has been reached through the mediation of tribal elders from both sides, bringing the fighting to an end.
Members of this joint jirga have stated that, after a week, the tribal elders from both sides agreed to form a 40-member committee to address issues arising on both sides of the Durand Line.
This jirga was held in the Dand-e-Patan district with the participation of bigwigs from the Islamic Emirate and the Pak side. It was decided that the route for commercial activities would also be reopened.
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[TOLONEWS] The Ministry of Interior reports that the corpse count from yesterday's (Friday) armed attack in Bamyan has risen to six.
Abdul Mateen Qani, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior, also stated that seven people have been arrested in connection with this incident.
Qani said: "Unknown armed individuals opened fire on civilians in the center of Bamyan city. Unfortunately, in this incident, three Afghan citizens and three foreign tourists bit the dust, and three Afghan citizens and four foreign tourists were maimed. The Ministry of Interior, while condemning this criminal act, assures that the incident will be thoroughly investigated, and the perpetrators will be identified and brought to justice."
The armed attack on civilians and foreign citizens occurred around 6 PM on Friday in the Bamyan city market. So far, no individual or group has grabbed credit for the attack.
According to local officials, four of the injured foreign tourists are women.
Abdul Razaq, who lost a relative and whose brother was injured in the attack, called on the interim government: "My brother has a shoe shop here. He was standing here when the incident occurred, and unfortunately, he was injured in the leg, and one of our family members was killed in this incident."
Abdul Ali Shafaq, a resident of Bamyan, told TOLOnews: "Our expectation from the Islamic Emirate is that such incidents should not be repeated, and they should work on ensuring the security of both foreign and domestic citizens."
Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Big Shirley was still trying to snatch Nunzio bald-headed. She was already halfway there... the relatives of the victims have called on local authorities to arrest and prosecute those responsible for this incident
[TOLONEWS] Nearly 70 people have died due to devastating floods in the provinces of Ghor and Faryab.
Thousands of homes, hundreds of shops, and thousands of acres of farmland have been destroyed in these floods, and thousands of livestock have also perished.
Local officials in Ghor province have reported that ten residents are still missing, and the corpse count from the floods that occurred yesterday evening (Friday) may increase.
Yesterday's floods in Ghor have devastated nearly eighty percent of the city of Ferozkoh.
Additionally, the floods have surrounded the Minaret of Jam in Ghor, raising concerns about the potential destruction of this 800-year-old monument.
Abdul Wahid Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... , the spokesperson for the governor of Ghor, told TOLOnews: "In these floods, fifty people, including women and kiddies, have died, and several are missing. Two thousand houses have been completely destroyed, and more than four thousand houses have been partially damaged. Furthermore, two thousand five hundred shops in the city of Ferozkoh and the districts of this province have been destroyed."
The destructive and deadly floods in Ghor have also affected the districts of Shahrak, Dolina, and Tiura alongside the city of Ferozkoh. The main Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... -Ghor highway and roads connecting the districts to Ferozkoh have been destroyed and blocked.
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[GEO.TV] Israeli troops and tanks pushed on Saturday into parts of a congested 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 an 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 district that they had previously skirted in the more than seven-month-old war, killing and wounding dozens of Paleostinians, medics and residents said.
Israel's forces also took over some ground in Rafah, a southern city next to the Egyptian border that is packed with displaced people and where the launch this month of a long-threatened incursion to crush Hamas
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[GEO.TV] In yet another blow to girls' education in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa amid the ongoing wave of terrorism, murderous Moslems have bombed a portion of a girls' school in the Wana tehsil of South Wazoo, The News reported on Saturday.
The country's north-western region has remained gripped by terror attacks since mid-2021, impacting several girls' schools in districts across KP.
The Sofia Noor School — established with support from Wana Welfare Association for the girls of the remote and underdeveloped district a few weeks back — was blown up on Friday, within eight days of a school destroyed in the southern districts.
The Islamia Girls School was bombed in Sheva town of North Waziristan on May 9. However,
a hangover is the wrath of grapes... no casualty was reported in the kaboom.
The blast on the school has triggered fear among residents of the province, who continue to witness attacks on educational institutions almost on a daily basis for years now.
According to The News, construction in some blocks of the school was continuing. As per reports, the blast damaged a portion of the building at around 3am, but no casualty was reported. Some social media reports also claimed that the school's administration had received letters for extortion. Locals, however, have categorically denied it.
"Those who attacked the school want to keep the people of Waziristan deprived of education and development. However,
a hangover is the wrath of grapes... this will not discourage us and we will continue to educate the new generation," said Wana Welfare Association spokesperson to AFP.
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[AFRICANEWS] A man in Malawi has been convicted of insulting President Lazarus Chakwera after posting a TikTok video showing an animated figure, with Chakwera's face superimposed on it, doing some quirky dance moves.
Sainani Nkhoma was found guilty by a court on Thursday, which said he had posted the video and insulting comments about the president on a community WhatsApp group.
Members of the group in the central town of Mponela reported him to the ruling Malawi Congress Party, and he was arrested on Tuesday night.
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[GEO.TV] Islamabad’s ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Hasan Zaigham has confirmed that the condition of Pak national, Shahzaib, who sustained injuries in a mob attack in Bishkek, was out of danger.
In a video message on Saturday, Zaigham said: "Alhamdulillah! His [Shahzaib] condition is out of danger."
The violence, triggered by an incident on May 13 involving Egyptian students, erupted in the Kyrgyz capital, affecting a large number of foreigners including Pak students.
Giving details about the violence, the Pak ambassador said: "Some local krazed killer elements attacked the hostels and private residences of the international students last night."
He further said that six hostels came under attack by the enraged mobs. Citing the Kyrgyz government, the ambassador said that 14 foreign nationals were maimed in the attacks.
"The mission has been told that one Pak national, Shahzaib, is currently under treatment at the Kyrgyz National Hospital."
In line with the directions of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, the envoy said that he visited Shahzaib at the hospital and inquired about his health. He maintained that the condition of the Pak national was out of danger.
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[JOHNALUCAS6] The following is a guest post (originally on LinkedIn), by an Army officer with extensive combat experience in the Mideast and the Levant.
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which is about as much as the Allies had in March 1945.
[SHABELLEMEDIA] On May 18, 2024, the Republic of Somaliland ...Republic of Somaliland is an unrecognised sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, recognised internationally as a de jure part of Somalia. It is located in the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden with approximately 5.7 million residents as of 2021. The capital and largest city is Hargeisa. The government regards itself as the successor state to British Somaliland, which united from 1960 to 1991 with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic. Under the Siad Barre regime, Somaliadestroyed ninety percent of Hargeisa Per international law, once you're in, you gotta stay in, no matter how bad it smells.... celebrated the 33rd anniversary of its decision to withdraw from its union with Somalia in 1991. The day was marked by celebrations, showcasing the region’s resilience and determination to forge its own path towards peace, freedom, and prosperity.
The festivities included a wide range of cultural events, parades, and traditional dances that highlighted the rich heritage and unity of the Somaliland people. The celebrations also served as a reminder of the challenges overcome and the progress achieved in the pursuit of illusory sovereignty.
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A memorandum of understanding involving Ethiopia and Somaliland’s president, Muse Bihi Abdi, on 1 January 2024 allows Ethiopia to lease for 50 years a 20-kilometre stretch of coastline in the breakaway Somali region and to establish a naval port there. In exchange, Ethiopia will become the first country in Africa to formally recognise Somaliland’s statehood. The memorandum has thus prompted a furious reaction from authorities in Mogadishu, the federal capital of Somalia, which claims sovereignty over the disputed territory.
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Still incredible to me. In late 1992 there was terrific starvation in Somalia. And Bush sent in the Marines to ensure that USAID food got to where it should go. He loses the election, the famine is halted, the Marines return home, and new President Clinton decides to play nation building in Somalia. No one to my knowledge has ever taken credit fort the moronic foreign policy that led to disaster.
[AFRICANEWS] A reset of Africa's relations with Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... is the only future in sight, Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... 's Prime minister predicted Thursday (May 16).
Ousmane Sonko pointed to a decisive context which requires a change in historical patterns.
The leader of the PASTEF political party held a conference on the future of Africa-Europe ties.
He hosted leftwing politican Jean-Luc Mélenchon who is a former French presidential candidate .
Speaking at the Cheikh Anta Diop University, in Dakar, Sonko said La Belle France's military presence in his country and across the continent raised legitimate concerns. He questionned the impact on national illusory sovereignty and strategic autonomy of the concerned African states.
He gave as an example La Belle France's decision in 1966 to close all NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... bases on the territory on illusory sovereignty grounds.
According to the French ministry for Armed Forces, nearly 400 soldiers providing regional military training are based at two camps in Dakar.
Ousmane Sonko said that his view do not call into question existing defense agreements with other countries.
In 2010, Senegal retook control of several military bases held by its former colonial ruler following an agreement.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] In a landmark declaration to resolve Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ’s ongoing conflict, former Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok, Abdel Aziz al-Hilu of the SPLM-N, and Abdel Wahid Mohammed Nur of the Sudan Liberation Movement committed to a path emphasizing secularism, state-religion separation, and the right to self-determination.
Hamdok signed the declaration in his personal capacity, while al-Hilu and al-Nour represented their respective movements. Although Hamdok also leads the anti-war civilian coalition "Tagaddum," the coalition did not formally endorse the agreement.
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[Regnum] The experiment, carried out at an underground test site in Nevada, is aimed solely at confirming the reliability of the nuclear weapons available to the United States. B But this does not mean at all that the United States is not strengthening its nuclear missile potential.The editor-in-chief of the magazine “National Defense” Igor Korotchenko shared these opinions with IA Regnum, commenting on reports of a special (subcritical) experiment conducted by the United States in an underground laboratory at a nuclear test site in Nevada.
The analyst noted that such tests themselves are not prohibited by any international agreements. Similar tests were carried out in Russia.
“The Americans are also doing it. The purpose of these tests is to confirm the reliability of nuclear weapons, their design, and simulate all explosion processes, but without detonating the nuclear warhead itself. There is practically no new production; warheads are stored and modernized. But we need guarantees that during an explosion a chain reaction will occur,” commented Korotchenko.
According to him, it is difficult to find any clear foreign policy implications in the very fact of what happened. Not to mention the escalation of the arms race. Rather, the explosions carried out recently in Nevada have a purely technical meaning.
However, this fact, as Korotchenko noted, should not be misleading: the United States does not at all refuse to strengthen its nuclear missile potential. The administration of President Joe Biden intends to allocate 2 trillion to modernize the strategic triad over the next 20 years. dollars. The main directions of this work are improving the composition and quantitative characteristics of nuclear forces, as well as improving the integration of the nuclear arsenal and general-purpose forces for their joint combat use.
The United States recently conducted a subcritical experiment in an underground laboratory at a nuclear test site in Nevada, near Los Alamos. This was reported by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) of the US Department of Energy. As the department clarified, tests at the Main Underground Laboratory of Subcritical Experiments (PULSE), which became the first experiment in the Nimble series, were successful.
NNSA noted that such subcritical experiments, which involve the detonation of explosives around radioactive material without reaching a critical mass and starting a chain reaction, are carried out to collect information on the condition, effectiveness and declared technical characteristics of US nuclear warheads without conducting underground nuclear tests.
As Regnum reported, earlier US Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Deterrence and Stability Mallory Stewart said in an interview with the Arms Control Association that the United States is not interested in resuming nuclear tests and does not consider them necessary. Also, Washington, according to her, does not plan to submit the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) to the upper house of Congress for ratification.
It was also previously reported that in the United States, for the first time since 1989, the production of key components of the “filling” for nuclear warheads, plutonium cores, is being resumed. NNSA head Jill Hruby said this at congressional hearings in April.
The Joe Biden administration, as noted by the British Independent, has requested a total of $18.8 billion for weapons development (10% more than a year earlier). Almost a third of this amount - $5.6 billion - concerns the modernization of weapons in the interests of the nuclear triad (strategic bombers, intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear submarines capable of carrying nuclear weapons).
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Short version: Existing nuclear weapons material degrades over time (half-life), and is refined to begin with to a weapons grade percentage purity.
So when does the degradation of the percentage become important? 'Cause we haven't made any of this stuff since the '70s.
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I expect less testing of the bomb and more of the control circuitry for radiation damage.
[CENTCOM] At approximately 1 a.m. (Sanaa time) May 18, Iranian-backed Houthis launched one anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) into the Red Sea and struck M/T Wind, a Panamanian-flagged, Greek owned and operated oil tanker.
M/T Wind most recently docked in Russia and was bound for China. The impact of the ASBM caused flooding which resulted in the of loss propulsion and steering. A coalition vessel immediately responded to the distress call by M/T Wind, but no assistance was needed. The crew of M/T Wind was able to restore propulsion and steering, and no casualties were reported. M/T Wind resumed its course under its own power.
Ambrey said a radio communication indicated the vessel was hit by a missile and that there was a fire onboard. It did not provide details of the communication.
Vessels in the vicinity were advised to exercise caution and report any suspicious activity, Ambrey added in an advisory note.
EARLIER HOUTHI ATTACKS ON SATURDAY
Earlier on Saturday, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency said a vessel in the Red Sea was struck by an unknown object and sustained slight damage.
"The vessel and crew are safe and continuing to its next port of call," UKMTO said in an advisory note, adding the incident occurred 76 nautical miles northwest of Yemen's Hodeidah.
Months of Houthi attacks in the Red Sea have disrupted global shipping, forcing firms to re-route to longer and more expensive journeys around Southern Africa, and stoking fears that the Israel-Hamas war could spread to destabilize the wider Middle East.
The United States and Britain have carried out strikes against Houthi targets in response to the attacks on shipping.
A fire broke out on an oil tanker flying the flag of Panama off the coast of the Yemeni city of Moha, Reuters reported, citing the British company Ambrey.
“The ship was hit by a missile and a fire broke out on board,” the British company said.
No other details of the incident were provided.
The UK Maritime Trade Office (UKMTO) reported on May 18 that the ship had suffered minor damage in the Red Sea. The vessel and its crew are safe and have continued to their next port of call. The incident occurred northwest of the Yemeni city of Hodeidah.
As Regnum reported, on April 27, the Houthis reported an attack on the British ship Andromeda Star in the Red Sea. On the same day, UKMTO reported damage to a tanker as a result of a missile attack in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait off the coast of Yemen. The ship belonged to a British company. Under the flag of Panama, it sailed from Primorsk to Vadinar (west coast of India).
At the end of April, the Houthis announced an attack on two US Navy destroyers and the bulk carrier Cyclades in the Red Sea, as well as the container ship MSC Orion in the Indian Ocean. Also in April, a merchant ship was damaged in an attack in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen. It was reported that none of its crew members were injured.
In May, Houthi Ansar Allah military spokesman Yahya Saria vowed to attack ships associated with Israel or going to its ports, including in the Mediterranean.
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[Breitbart] French security forces reported another death Saturday in armed clashes in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, the sixth fatality in a nearly a week of violent unrest scorching the archipelago whose indigenous population has long sought independence.
The person was killed in an exchange of fire at one of the many impromptu barricades blocking roads on the island, said a security official speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the situation publicly.
Two other people were seriously injured in the clash, the official said, confirming French media reports. The official said the firefight erupted at a blockade in the north of the main island, at Kaala-Gomen.
Le Monde and other French news outlets said the person killed was a man and that his son was among the injured.
This week’s violence erupted Monday following protests over voting reforms opposed by pro-independence supporters who have long pushed to break free from France.
Armed clashes, looting, arson and other mayhem have turned parts of the capital, Noumea, into no-go zones and left a vast trail of destruction. Charred hulks of burned-out cars litter roads, businesses and shops have been ransacked and buildings turned into smoking ruins, with fires sending billowing clouds of smoke into the South Pacific skies.
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/\ Ground zero, so far, for some of this new competition has been the Republic of Niger. The French are already out, the Americans are on their way out while the Russians, Chinese, Turks, and maybe even the Iranians are flowing in.
For the life of me, I cannot see a downside for the French or the US.
BLUF:
[American Thinker] Society has opened Pandora’s box with the abortion pill, and the impacts are significant. While there is no way to know just how many babies are dying because of these pills and how many mothers are harmed by them, we do know that the numbers must be staggering. And we know that Planned Parenthood will continue to do all it can to get these pills into the hands of young, desperate women. That is why we must work to shut it down for good.
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Planned Parenthood will continue to do all it can to get these pills into the hands of young, desperate women. That is why we must work to shut it down for good.
Huh?
Unlikely many readers here can appreciate the distress of a 12-19 yo with an unwanted pregnancy.
The best thing about 'this pill' is it's impact on the abortion industry dollars. There's too much money being made to advance safer contraception practices.
The worst, the usage becomes something like an alka-seltzer for a hangover. One could not drink, one could not drink to excess, one could not repeatedly drink to excess, but there is always alka-seltzer for when we do.
The Russian Federation Council is the Russian equivalent of the US Senate.
[Regnum] The successful offensive of the Russian troops, which began in the north of the Khar'kov region, is just the beginning; the liberation of Russian lands from neo-Nazis will continue, Vladimir Dzhabarov, first deputy head of the international committee of the Federation Council, said on May 18 in the Telegram channel.
"Walz also participated in a 7-hour spacewalk (EVA) to evaluate tools for the Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission."
Carl was a 'by-the-book' guy.
In the procedure, well practiced in a weightless simulation water tank, Carl was to use an electric socket wrench to open a Hubble access panel. With no footing or water mass resistance, he fitted the socket per protocol and with approval from Houston activated the wrench. Whereupon the video link showed Carl immediately begin to spin counter-clockwise, around the bolt.
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In the procedure, well practiced in a weightless simulation water tank, Carl was to use an electric socket wrench to open a Hubble access panel. With no footing or water mass resistance, he fitted the socket per protocol and with approval from Houston activated the wrench. Whereupon the video link showed Carl immediately begin to spin counter-clockwise, around the bolt.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. 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. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the 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. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
..always the voice of sweet reason...
[NY Post] Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were reportedly welcomed to Lagos, Nigeria by a fugitive wanted in the United States for money laundering and bank fraud.
[BEE] HEAVEN — According to sources in the celestial realm, God is scratching is head in wonderment that Democrats somehow managed to mess up California.
[BillionBibles] Sharia law in the United States of America has reached penetration Phase 3: Infiltration of the 5 phases.
[Gateway] 2024 is starting off as a challenging year for cattle ranchers in America and the domino effect will push those challenges even further, according to reports coming from across the nation. Costs of feed and resources are going up while weather conditions have not been conducive to ranching for nearly two years.
[Federalist] As Joe Biden’s reckless foreign policy puts the world on the edge of catastrophe with conflicts already raging in Ukraine and the Middle East, the Air Force is directing its focus toward the biggest issue implicating U.S. national security: LGBT "pride."
[WIRE] A study published last month shows that those who underwent gender surgery had a suicide risk 12 times higher than those who did not, adding more data showing the dangers of the life-altering procedures.
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat Frational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
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... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
Wazoo
...Republic of Somaliland is an unrecognised sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, recognised internationally as a de jure part of Somalia. It is located in the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden with approximately 5.7 million residents as of 2021. The capital and largest city is Hargeisa. The government regards itself as the successor state to British Somaliland, which united from 1960 to 1991 with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic. Under the Siad Barre regime, Somaliadestroyed ninety percent of Hargeisa Per international law, once you're in, you gotta stay in, no matter how bad it smells....
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
