[ShabelleMedia] : The United Nations announced Friday it is scaling back its humanitarian aid goals in Yemen and Somalia in the latest fallout from a drastic drop in funding from member states.
It said the cuts are putting millions of lives at risk around the world.
In January the UN launched an appeal for $2.4 billion to help 10.5 million people in war-torn Yemen this year, far below the 19.5 million people it deems as being in need of assistance.
But with funding down, the global body and its humanitarian aid partners established new priorities so as to be able to help at least the neediest people there.
The UN announced similar changes in strategy in Ukraine and Democratic Republic of Congo in recent weeks.
Now the focus in Yemen will be on 8.8 million people with a forecast budget of $1.4 billion, said Stephanie Tremblay, a spokeswoman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
In violent and unstable Somalia, an initial $1.4 billion plan to help 4.6 million people has also been trimmed back to $367 million for 1.3 million people, she said.
“This does not mean that there’s been a reduction in overall humanitarian needs and requirements,” Tremblay said.
She said huge funding cuts are forcing humanitarian aid programs to scale back, “putting millions of lives at risk across the world.”
“As in other crises, the consequence will be dire. If we fail to deliver, millions more people will be acutely hungry and lack access to clean water, education, protection and other essential services,” she added.
UN agencies are scaling back operations and staffing around the world as they grapple with big cuts in contributions from member states, in particular the United States under President Donald Trump.
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After the UN graft, the NGO graft, and the local graft is taken out the remaining "aid" does more long-term harm. The introduction of 'free food' distorts the local agriculture -- "Why lose money growing food crops when you can only make money growing khat (or marijuana or opium poppies)?" ...Then the local tribal warlords steal the food and starve their enemies.
[ShabelleMedia] Fierce festivities between Somali government forces and al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... fighters entered a second day Saturday along the border between the Middle Shabelle and Hiiraan regions, with both sides sustaining heavy casualties.
The fighting is centered around the village of Ceel Hareeri, located between the strategic towns of Adan Yabal in Middle Shabelle and Moqokori in Hiiraan. Government troops, backed by local militias known as Macawiisley, are battling al-Qaeda-linked hard boyz from al-Shabaab in what observers say is one of the fiercest confrontations in recent weeks.
"Fighting is intense and has escalated since yesterday," a local resident told Radio Shabelle by phone. "Both sides are receiving reinforcements, and the sound of heavy weapons has been ongoing since morning."
Unofficial reports suggest that over 20 people may have been killed or maimed, but the exact toll remains unclear as the area is inaccessible to independent observers.
Al-Shabaab is reportedly attempting to seize control of key routes connecting Adan Yabal and Moqokori, which could allow the group to launch further operations in central Somalia. Meanwhile,
...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. The whole thing smelled phony, kind of like a dead mackeral but without the scales... government forces and allied militias are defending territory and aiming to retake ground lost in previous counter-offensives.
"The village is of high strategic value to both sides," said a security source in Mogadishu. "For al-Shabaab, it offers a potential launch point into Hiiraan. For the government, it could serve as a base for operations to pressure Adan Yabal."
The fighting comes amid renewed efforts by the Somali government to push al-Shabaab out of Hirshabelle state, where the group has recently regained control of several areas, including the town of Abooreey.
[ShabelleMedia] A fierce battle erupted overnight in the Nuurdugle area of the Middle Shabelle region, as al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... bully boyz launched a heavy assault on the town.
The heavy clash saw intense fighting between the bully boyz and Somali National Army (SNA) forces, who were supported by local militia fighters from the area.
While the exact toll of casualties remains unclear, both sides sustained significant losses during the confrontation. However,
there's more than one way to skin a cat... Somali military officials confirmed that they successfully repelled the attack and currently control the area, with the situation now reported to be calm.
Colonel Ali Mohammed Jimcale, a senior SNA officer stationed in the region, told the media that al-Shabaab had attempted to seize Nuurdugle but were met with strong resistance from Somali forces. He stated that the bully boyz suffered heavy losses, with several of them killed during the fighting.
Feel the love! It’s not New Amsterdam anymore. ;-)
[IsraelTimes] Israel Day on 5th, a significant yearly celebration for the region’s Jewish community, features ex-captives and state’s political leadership
Some spectators wept as former Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... hostages marched through New York City on Sunday, while others reached out to shake the ex-captives’ hands or chanted "Bring them home" for the Israelis remaining in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... The former captives and hostages’ families were the spiritual center of the city’s annual pro-Israel parade, called Israel Day on 5th, a major event for the Jewish community that was focused on the plight of the hostages for the second year.
During the march, tens of thousands march down Manhattan’s 5th Avenue, led by the state and city’s politicianship. Marching groups include Jewish nonprofits, non-Jewish allies, dancing troupes, identity groups such as Russian-speaking Jews, and thousands of children from Jewish day schools. Organizers estimated that 50,000 people participated in Sunday’s march.
At the head of the parade, former New York State Governor Andrew Sonny Cuomo marched alongside Jewish community leaders. Cuomo is the leading candidate to become the city’s next mayor and has made combating antisemitism and support for Israel a central part of his campaign.
New York’s politicianship has remained staunchly supportive of Israel despite tensions surrounding the war. New York State Governor Kathy Hochul marched alongside Ruby Chen, the father of Itay Chen, an American-Israel from New York who was killed on October 7 and whose body is held hostage by Hamas.
An array of city and state leaders also marched, including Mayor Eric Adams ...Hizonner da Mare of Noo Yawk. As a Manchurian candidate, Hizonner was all in favor of law and order and that kind of stuff. Once in office, a bunch of his friends found cushy jobs with the city, the windows kept getting broken, and Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg remained right where he was. Most people comfort themselves with the thought that he's not Bill di Blasio but that's pretty small comfort with kids who actually go to school getting bumped off while standing in front of them. But he's a Dem, so the rubes will vote for him next election too, so he's what they deserve... , state Attorney General Letitia James, US Reps. Dan Goldman, Jerry Fester Bestertester Nadler ...the Dem New York representative-for-life who stepped whole from a Don Martin drawing in the pages of Mad® magazine, head of the House Judiciary Committee... , Tom Lawler, Gregory Meeks and Grace Meng, and Sen. Chuck Schumer ...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is NaN years. Senate minority leader as of 2017... Political leaders repeatedly brought up the hostages in speeches at the start of the march.
"We will not rest until these three words become a reality: Bring them home," Hochul said.
The New York branch of the Hostages and Missing Families Forum advocacy group led a group of hundreds who paraded with Israeli flags and a banner reading "Bring them all home now." Participants held signs that said "58," the number of hostages remaining in Gaza, and wore stickers with the number 590, the number of days they have been in captivity.
They chanted, "We will never stop, you are not alone," and, "Seal the deal."
Released hostage Ilana Gritzewsky and the family members of other hostages including Hagai Angrest, father of hostage Matan Angrest, and Yehuda and Yotam Cohen, father and brother of hostage Nimrod Cohen, were part of the delegation. Nimrod Cohen and Matan Angrest are two of the remaining soldiers held hostage in Gaza.
Gritzewsky, who recently received signs of life from her hostage partner Matan Zangauker, was at the front of the hostage forum bloc.
Standing next to her, Yehuda Cohen said that last week’s release of Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander, which was negotiated solely by the US, proved that the Israeli government does not care about the hostages, and is only interested in occupying Gaza.
"We hoped that Trump’s visit to Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... this week would yield something else, an end to the war and the return home of the hostages," he said.
"It’s more important to be here than to be in Israel," said Yotam Cohen. "There are more people paying attention here than in Jerusalem."
The hostage delegation at the parade was led by a float carrying released hostages Keith and Aviva Seigel, rescued captive Andrey Kozlov, and the family members of other hostages. Scott Stringer, a Jewish candidate for city mayor and former city comptroller, also marched with the group.
An additional Hostages Forum float in back of the marchers blasted the song, "Am Yisrael Chai," and last year’s Eurovision song, "Hurricane," as onlookers standing several rows deep echoed the call to bring them home.
Keith Siegel, who was freed in February 2025, said he cannot stress enough the horrendous conditions of captivity in Gaza, and noted that he personally knows four people still held in Gaza, mentioning brothers Ziv and Gali Berman, from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, by name.
"Aviva and I are on a mission and we’re doing whatever we can to get them home," he said. "We’re grateful for your support, it’s urgent."
Aviva Siegel, who was released from captivity in the November 2023 truce, thanked the crowd multiple times.
"Keith is home," she said. "I am the lucky one. I know what it feels like being held hostage in Gaza, touching death and being treated in such a brutal way."
Parade organizers also introduced Dani Miran, whose son Omri is still held hostage in Gaza. Delegations from Kibbutz Be’eri and Kibbutz Kfar Aza, two of the hardest-hit communities in the October 7 attack, marched near the start of the parade.
The march mostly retained its festive tone, with day school groups doing choreographed dances and costumed performers playing music.
The event took place under heavy police security. The NYPD used drones, helicopters, canine units and anti-terrorism officers to secure the parade’s route, and police intelligence specialists monitored security video and social media for potential threats.
The parade is a significant show of support for Israel in the city, and a moment of solidarity for the Jewish community, as Jewish New Yorkers continue to deal with the fallout from the October 2023 Hamas invasion of Israel.
The theme for this year was "Hatikvah," meaning "The hope" — the title of Israel’s national anthem.
There are near-daily anti-Israel protests on the city’s streets and college campuses, and the parade acts as a counterweight and a show of force in support of the Jewish state.
There did not appear to be any anti-Israel protesters along the parade route. Last year, a small group of demonstrators gathered on the sidelines of the march. This year, a handful of protesters were turned away from the parade route by coppers, and walked away chanting "Shame on you" at the police.
In addition to the protests, Jews in the city are targeted in hate crimes more than all other groups combined, and anti-Israel rhetoric is graffitied on the streets and rampant on social media.
The annual event is organized by the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, with the support of the UJA-Federation of New York. Organizers strive to keep the march nonpolitical in tone.
The annual parade began in 1965 with an impromptu march by thousands of Zionist youth in support of Israel. JCRC-NY has managed the event since 2011.
[IsraelTimes] In days prior to assault, leader Sinwar said ‘extraordinary act’ needed quash Riyadh’s openness to diplomatic ties with Israel; other documents show great concern over issue
Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... ’s Gazoo chief Yahya Sinwar told associates in the days prior to the terror group’s devastating October 7, 2023, attack, on Israel that an "extraordinary act" would be required to derail normalization talks between Israel and Saudi Arabia ...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 rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... , according to a document reportedly found by the IDF in Gaza.
The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday on a number of documents from recent years that discussed Hamas’s concerns about Saudi movement toward diplomatic ties with Israel, and the terror group’s efforts to hamper it.
Successive American administrations have sought to broker such an agreement, framing it as the "crown jewel" of potential normalization deals, in light of Saudi Arabia’s overarching status in the Arab and Moslem worlds.
Arab intelligence officials familiar with Hamas told the Journal that the documents appeared to be genuine.
The Journal did not publish any images of the documents, and there was no official Israeli comment.
The minutes of a meeting of Hamas’s political bureau in the Strip on October 2, 2023, cite Sinwar as saying, "There is no doubt that the Saudi-Zionist normalization agreement is progressing significantly." The Hamas leader warned a deal would "open the door for the majority of Arab and Islamic countries to follow the same path."
According to the Wall Street Journal, Sinwar said that it was time to activate an attack plan that the terror group had been working on for some two years "to bring about a major move or a strategic shift in the paths and balances of the region with regard to the Paleostinian cause."
Without directly quoting the document, the Journal said Sinwar — who was killed by the IDF about a year into the war — expected other Iran-backed terror and proxy groups to join the fighting.
Other documents apparently seized by the IDF and reviewed by the newspaper included one from September 2023 that recommended escalating violence in the West Bank and Jerusalem to decrease the chances of normalization between Jerusalem and Riyadh.
That document criticized the Saudis for what Hamas saw as their "weak and limited steps to neutralize" the terror group and prevent it from blocking normalization.
A Hamas briefing from August 2022, marked "secret" and composed by the group’s military leadership, urged a "reposition" in order to "preserve the survival of the Paleostinian cause in the face of the broad wave of normalization by Arab countries, which aims primarily to liquidate the Paleostinian cause." That realignment increased its coordination with, among others, the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah.
Then, in October that year, Hamas prepared a job advertisement, also found by the Israeli military, for a position in its Department of Arab and Islamic Cooperation to lead diplomatic efforts to stop normalization. It described the job as, in part, "Marketing the movement’s programs to confront normalization" and organizing activism groups in the Arab world to call for boycotts on entities that backed having ties with Israel.
Hamas did not respond to a request for comment on the report, the Journal said.
Though Israel and Saudi Arabia have not established diplomatic relations, their clandestine ties strengthened in recent years as they confronted a shared threat in Iran. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Saudi Arabia in November 2020 to meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
...Crown Prince and modernizer of Saudi Arabia as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists... , the first publicly reported meeting between the two.
Former US president Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant.... ’s administration sought to include a normalization accord between Israel and Saudi Arabia in a "mega-deal" it worked to sign with Riyadh, which has long made clear, however, that such an agreement would require a political horizon for the Paleostinians.
The Biden administration had managed to make significant progress in the series of bilateral agreements with Saudi Arabia — and was slated to begin serious discussions with Riyadh regarding the exact terms of the Paleostinian component of the package — when Hamas launched its October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, in which some 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage.
The onslaught and ensuing war derailed the normalization effort and Riyadh began to recognize that it would need more concrete steps toward the establishment of a Paleostinian state, as solidarity with the Paleostinians in Saudi Arabia and the region on the lam skyrocketed due to the devastation in Gaza.
US President Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... has also pledged to broker an Israel-Saudi normalization deal, repeatedly asserting that additional countries would quickly join the Abraham Accords, which normalized ties between Israel and several Arab countries at the tail end of his first term. But during a visit to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, part of a three-day regional tour that did not include Israel, he indicated his recognition that Riyadh won’t be joining as quickly as he may have hoped.
It is not the first time that documents ostensibly found in Gaza have been leaked to the international press.
[IsraelTimes] Verdicts address two ISIS-linked shootings in 2022 and 2023 that killed 15 at the Shah Cheragh mausoleum in Shiraz
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has sentenced three people to death and nabbed I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! several others convicted over their roles in deadly attacks on a Shiite shrine in the southern city of Shiraz, the judiciary said Sunday.
The verdicts stem from two shootings — in October 2022 and August 2023 — that killed 15 people at the Shah Cheragh mausoleum in the capital of Fars province. The attacks were claimed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
"Three of these defendants were sentenced to death for aiding and abetting in ’corruption on earth’ following proceedings" at Shiraz Revolutionary Court, Fars chief justice Sadrollah Rajaei-Nasab said, quoted by the judiciary’s Mizan Online website.
They were also sentenced to 25 years in prison for "aiding and abetting in moharebeh," he added, referring to the capital offence of enmity against God.
Two other alleged members of the jihadist IS were sentenced to 15 years and 10 years in prison "based on their level of cooperation and influence in the Shah Cheragh terrorist events."
Two women were each sentenced to five years, but "their sentences will be served under Islamic leniency, monitored by electronic ankle bracelets, and within a one-kilometer radius of their homes."
Rajaei-Nasab said other parts of the case, including charges related to weapons trafficking, remained under review, and that some verdicts had been appealed to Iran’s Supreme Court.
In July 2023, Iran executed two men in public over the first attack on the shrine.
Following the second attack, the judiciary said in August 2023 that security forces had arrested nine people — all foreigners — and later sentenced a Tajik IS member to death the following month.
[IsraelTimes] PM shifts from insistence only on limited, temporary hostage-truce deal; conditions end of conflict on Hamas fighters going into exile; announcement comes amid new IDF offensive
Israel’s negotiation team in Qatar was exhausting “every possibility” for a deal to free the hostages, including a framework that would consider an end to the war, the Prime Minister’s Office said Sunday, indicating a shift in position by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Netanyahu has until now insisted that the team would only negotiate on the basis of the US special envoy Steve Witkoff’s proposal for a short-term ceasefire and limited hostage exchange.
However, in a statement, the PMO said that the team was now working toward the possibility of either Witkoff’s proposal, or an agreement to end the war through a comprehensive release of all hostages in Gaza and the complete surrender and exile of Hamas.
“Under the prime minister’s direction, even at this hour, the negotiating team in Doha is working to exhaust every possibility for a deal — whether according to the Witkoff outline or within the framework of ending the war, which would include the release of all hostages, the exile of Hamas terrorists and the disarmament of the Gaza Strip,” the statement said.
Talks are being held as the Israel Defense Force ramps up a new military offensive in Gaza aimed at seizing most of the Strip. The fighting was likely to significantly expand should the talks fail.
“Thanks to [Netanyahu’s] policy of exerting military and diplomatic pressure, the government has so far succeeded in bringing home 197 hostages, and is doing everything possible to return the 58 remaining captives,” the PMO said.
Meanwhile, an Israeli official told Ynet: “We are giving Hamas a chance to come back from the brink before we take the drastic action in Gaza. We may reach a deal after the fighting, but the conditions will be less favorable for Hamas, so it would be better for them to release our hostages now and reach a deal.”
Israel has consistently said that the war will not end without the destruction of Hamas as a military and governing power. In recent talks, Netanyahu has insisted on only agreeing to a temporary ceasefire of roughly 45 days, which would begin with Hamas releasing about 10 hostages.
However, in the past, he has floated the willingness to end the war if Hamas surrenders and disarms.
Hamas has indicated a willingness to give up power in Gaza, but has so far refused to give up its weapons.
Before addressing the negotiations in Qatar, the PMO statement began by criticizing former Israeli hostage negotiator, Brig. Gen. (res.) Oren Setter, who resigned from the team in October and in a February interview accused Netanyahu of missing two opportunities last year for a hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas.
In an interview with the Kan public broadcaster, Setter said that he saw an opportunity, under the current combined military and diplomatic pressure, to reach a comprehensive deal for the return of all hostages, but was “concerned it’s going to be missed — that once again, we’ll end up with a partial agreement.”
Setter “undermined government policy through deliberate leaks and biased briefings from within the cabinet that harmed the negotiations, endangered our hostages and echoed Hamas’s false propaganda,” wrote the PMO, reiterating its February denial of his statements.
“His claims that an agreement could have been reached earlier are completely baseless. As senior American officials have repeatedly testified, Hamas refused for many months to enter negotiations and was the sole obstacle to a deal,” the statement said.
The reports come as the IDF significantly ramped up its military pressure in the Gaza Strip after launching its offensive dubbed “Gideon’s Chariots,” which will seek to “seize strategic areas” of the Hamas-run Strip.
According to Israeli officials, the operation aims to seize strategic areas of the Strip, target Hamas, prevent the terror group from taking control of humanitarian aid supplies, and move Palestinians from northern to southern Gaza.
Gaza’s Hamas-run authorities reported that widespread Israeli airstrikes have killed over 400 people since Thursday, including 100 people over Saturday night. The tolls cannot be verified and do not differentiate between civilians and fighters.
Israel has blocked the entry of medical, food and fuel supplies into Gaza since the start of March to try to pressure Hamas into freeing Israeli hostages and has approved plans that could involve seizing the entire Gaza Strip and controlling aid.
Mediators Egypt and Qatar, backed by the US, began a new round of indirect talks with Hamas on Saturday. However, sources close to the negotiations told Reuters there had been no breakthrough.
A Hamas official told the news agency: “Israel’s position is unchanged, they want their prisoners released, without a commitment to end the war.”
However, US hostage envoy Adam Boehler said Hamas’s release of American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander last week was a “sign” that the terror group “understands” that it needs to release hostages “if they want this barrage of attacks to stop.”
Boehler told ‘Fox News Sunday’ that hostage negotiations in Doha are very “fluid,” denying reports that they were not going well.
At the same time, far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who has been a major opponent of any ceasefire deal, expressed his opposition to the negotiations in Doha and emphasized that no deal had been reached in a radio interview: “If we don’t collapse Hamas, if we don’t go to war until the end, this government has no right to exist.”
“If our hostages don’t eat — there is no reason in the world for us to introduce humanitarian aid. It’s a mistake to make a deal right now and it’s a mistake to give humanitarian aid,” he said.
Ben Gvir also tweeted: “A framework to end the war without defeating Hamas will not come to pass.”
Potentially complicating the ceasefire talks further, a series of Israeli airstrikes last week killed Muhammad Sinwar, the de facto commander of Hamas in Gaza, according to reports on Sunday that said his body was found in a Khan Younis tunnel.
His brother Yahya Sinwar, the former Hamas leader in Gaza, was killed last October, and another brother, Zakaria Sinwar, was reportedly killed in an airstrike Saturday.
[IsraelTimes] Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri tells the Qatari Al Jazeera channel that a CNN report claiming Hamas is willing to release nine hostages in exchange for a two-month ceasefire is false.
The report had cited an unnamed Hamas official.
Abu Zuhri further claims that Hamas is prepared to release all the hostages in one phase, on the condition that Israel agrees to end the war with international guarantees.
He accuses Israel of trying to “confuse the public” with false reports in order to pressure Hamas.
One has to wonder if Shin Bet has known about these people for a while, and just waited to pick them up — tracing back to their handlers and beyond in the meantime…
[IsraelTimes] 18-year-old documented floor on which ex-premier’s bodyguards were located, police say, alleging he knew it could harm Israel’s security, but did so for money
The police and Shin Bet last month arrested an Israeli citizen suspected of spying for Iran, including on former prime minister Naftali Bennett during a hospital stay.
In a joint statement Sunday, the Israel Police and Shin Bet said Moshe Attias, an 18-year-old resident of the central Israeli city of Yavne, was "in contact with Iranian terror elements and carried out a large number of different missions on their behalf."
Attias did so "with the understanding that [the missions] could harm the security of the state," and did so for money, the statement said.
Among other tasks, Attias is suspected of "gathering intelligence in the cardiology department of a hospital in central Israel," presumably Kfar Saba’s Meir Medical Center, where former prime minister Naftali Bennett was hospitalized last month, undergoing a cardiac catheterization.
"He documented, at the request of an Iranian operative, a floor in the hospital containing a room with guards protecting the former prime minister," the statement said.
Police said that Attias carried out other missions for his Iranian handlers, but did not elaborate on the additional suspicions.
Bennett’s office said in a statement Sunday that the former premier was "confident in the Shin Bet, in the IDF, and in all the security bodies, and is continuing his tours and meetings with the Israeli public all throughout the country."
"Iranian attempts to assassinate world leaders have failed and will fail here too, and will certainly not deter Bennett from continuing his activities for the sake of Israel’s security," the statement continued.
His office also called on Israel to take a more aggressive position towards Iran, insisting that "Tehran, not Tel Aviv, should be on the defensive."
The former premier is expected to re-enter politics ahead of Israel’s next elections, which must take place next fall at the latest, with polls showing Bennett potentially pulling ahead of Netanyahu. Last month, he announced the formation of a new party, with the temporary name "Bennett 2026."
LATEST IN SERIES OF SPYING CASES
Over the past two years, Iranian intelligence operatives have ramped up their efforts to recruit ordinary Israelis as spies in exchange for money.
There have been several recent cases — including one on Friday — in which 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... was revealed to have recruited Israelis to conduct various activities, from spreading propaganda and photographing sensitive sites to arson and even the attempted liquidation of bigwigs.
[IsraelTimes] Legislation would bar Gulf state from serving as mediator in talks between Israel and third parties — but allows government to make exceptions
The Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday advanced a bill to designate Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... a "terror-supporting state," citing the controversial Gulf country’s support for Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... , Hezbollah and other terror groups.
The bill was approved amid the ongoing, so-called "Qatargate" scandal, in which several of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s top aides are accused of having worked for Qatar to shift public opinion in Israel. It also comes as Israeli negotiators are in Doha, attempting to reach a hostage deal with the Hamas terror group, whose leadership has long been hosted there.
The legislation, brought by Likud MKs Moshe Saada and Dan Illouz, Otzma Yehudit MK Yitzhak Kroizer and Religious Zionism MK Michal Woldiger, has been considered several times over the last year.
The Ministerial Committee on Legislation, though not a formal part of the legislative process, is a way for the government to determine which bills it will back. The proposed legislation now awaits its preliminary reading in the Knesset.
If passed, it would establish a legal category of "terror-supporting states" for the first time, with its preamble explicitly naming Qatar as the world’s leading financier of terrorism.
Any nation given "terror-supporting" status would be subject to restrictions similar to those imposed on enemy states, including bans on donations, trade and diplomatic processes with Israel.
The proposed law would also prevent Israel from allowing a "terror-supporting state" to be involved in any negotiations between Israel and a third party. However,
the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... this would not necessarily prevent Qatar from mediating on the issue of the Gazoo hostages, since a subsection of the bill determines that "the Ministerial Committee for National Security Affairs may determine that a specific terror-supporting state shall be exempt from this restriction."
Qatar is one of the states mediating the talks, though Israeli officials have publicly blamed Doha for Hamas not accepting recent compromise proposals.
The bill has reached the Ministerial Committee for Legislation two separate times — once at the end of 2024, and once in January — but according to a Channel 12 report citing minutes from the meetings, the National Security Council blocked it at the request of Prime Minister’s Office officials, while citing opposition from the security establishment.
The National Security Council said at the time that it did not oppose the legislation, and that, on the contrary, it supported it. The PMO called the Channel 12 report "fake news," and said the bill was being "seriously considered."
The PMO is currently embroiled in the so-called "Qatargate" scandal, in which several of Netanyahu’s top aides are suspected of taking money from the Gulf state in exchange for public relations work while working for Netanyahu, in the process committing multiple offenses.
Netanyahu has also come under criticism for allowing Qatar to fund the Hamas-run Strip, and even dispatching officials to ensure the payments continued, in the years before the October 7, 2023, attack that started the ongoing war. Some reports — rejected by the prime minister — have alleged that he ignored intelligence that the funds were going to the terror group’s military wing.
The preamble to the bill approved Sunday alleges that Qatar — "acting as a wolf in sheep’s clothing" — has, "in addition to its direct support for terror organizations," also "invested more than $1 trillion around the world with the goal of advancing global Jihad, through ’donations’ to campuses in the US, support for sports teams, [and] investments in leading lobbying groups in the US."
The Gulf state has done so, the bill says, "with the goal of directing public opinion, in the US and globally, against Israel and against Jews."
Recent investigations — in the wake of the emirate’s plan to donate a plane for US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... ’s use — have outlined Qatar’s billion-dollar investments in American educational institutions, its retention of dozens of lobbying firms in Washington, and its personal relationships and business ties to members of Trump’s inner circle.
The Gulf state also funds the Hamas-friendly Al Jazeera network, which broadcasts to hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide.
The Trump administration has praised Qatar’s role in hostage talks and in the Middle East generally. The US president visited the state at the end of his Mideast tour last week, which did not include Israel, and lauded its investment in a US air base, as well as its recently announced deals with American companies and defense contractors.
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And Trump just took an airliner from Qatar that is full of bugs built in to the skin, and dealt with Qatar without Israeli input.
When does AIPAC unleash hell on him?
There won't be a Republican left in Congress after the midterms and Trump will get impeached again.
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Consider a Herb McCoy spherical
And perfectly, um, ahysterical.
Satirical, slick
Marble gadfly! ["A prick!"]
Sure, at times he seems almost Amer-- er, a miracle.
[UPI] May 17 (UPI) -- A manhunt is underway after an unknown number of shooters entered a tavern in Durban, South Africa, and killed eight people Friday night.
The mass shooting occurred in the Zama information settlement at U Section, Umlazi, the South African Police Service in KwaZulu-Natal, said Saturday in a news release.
"The victims were inside the dwelling when an unknown number of suspects entered and opened fire, killing them at the scene," the news release says.
"Investigations into the possible motive of the killings are underway, and police have launched a manhunt for the suspects."
Local police found six men and two women between ages 22 and 40 with multiple gunshot wounds lying dead in a pool of blood after receiving multiple calls about murders.
Durban is South Africa's main cargo port and is located on the northeastern coast of South Africa. About 4.2 million people live in the greater Durban area.
South Africa averages 75 murders every day and reported 6,953 murders from October to December in 2024.
Gangs often commit the murders, which sometimes target entire families or prominent people.
Gunmen killed a family of seven, including three children, in September and last month abducted a U.S. missionary while he was delivering a sermon at his church.
[JustTheNews] Federal committee found tens of thousands of dishonest or erroneous Paycheck Protection Program applications.
In a new investigation, a federal committee tasked with tracking COVID-19 assistance fraud found tens of thousands of dishonest or erroneous Paycheck Protection Program applications.
It was designed that way, to get money into the economy as quickly as possible.
The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) report, released this month, revealed more than 40,000 instances when applicants for more than $860 million in taxpayer-funded PPP loans “significantly misrepresented their incomes.”
The Small Business Administration, which distributed the PPP loans, allocated more than $1 trillion in taxpayer-funded pandemic assistance to more than 10 million small businesses.
A recent report from the Government Accountability Office showed that nearly 2 million potentially fraudulent SBA applications – including the 40,000 PPP applications – still require investigation, as The Center Square reported.
PRAC said it achieved its findings by comparing the reported incomes of sole proprietor PPP applicants with the reported incomes of applicants for Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) assistance grants using the same personally identifiable information.
Data analysts found “significant [income] misrepresentations…where the derived income for PPP applicants was at least 10 times greater than the income reported to HUD by housing assistance recipients.”
PRAC said the inconsistencies could be due to fraud, identity theft, data entry errors, or data timing issues.
One confirmed example of fraud involved an applicant who received a $20,833 PPP loan based on his alleged $100,000 annual income reported to SBA. But the same individual reported an annual income of $600 to HUD, while claiming to own multiple other businesses receiving nearly $900,000 in PPP loans and other pandemic aid.
Since the pandemic, when the federal government cumulatively spent $5 trillion in COVID-19 related aid, lawmakers and organizations have held oversight hearings into at least $200 billion lost to fraud, only $5 billion of which has been recovered.
Most of that fraud was preventable, according to PRAC and other watchdog groups.
“We hope that by sharing this potential fraud scheme with the public and the oversight community we can alert (1) Offices of Inspectors General (OIGs) to be on the lookout for similar cross-program schemes, (2) program implementers to build better internal controls and checks upfront to mitigate this risk, and (3) policymakers to consider issues related to cross-agency risks including income verification,” PRAC concluded.
[BBC] Among the cactuses in the desert of Arizona, just outside Phoenix, an extraordinary collection of buildings is emerging that will shape the future of the global economy and the world.
The hum of further construction is creating not just a factory for the world's most advanced semiconductors. Eventually, it will mass produce the most advanced chips in the world. This work is being done in the US for the first time, with the Taiwanese company behind it pledging to spend billions more here in a move aimed at heading off the threat of tariffs on imported chips.
It is, in my view, the most important factory in the world, and it's being built by a company you may not have heard of: TSMC, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. It makes 90% of the world's advanced semiconductors. Until now they were all made on the island of Taiwan, which is 100 miles east of the Chinese mainland. The Apple chip in your iPhone, the Nvidia chips powering your ChatGPT queries, the chips in your laptop or computer network, all are made by TSMC.
Its Arizona facility "Fab 21" is closely guarded. Blank paper or personal devices are not allowed in case designs are leaked. It houses some of the most important intellectual property in the world, and the process to make these chips is one of the most complicated and intensive in global manufacturing.
Trump wants TSMC Arizona to become a foundation stone for his American golden age. But the company's story to date is perhaps the ultimate expression of the success of modern globalization.
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TSMC was originally to be built here to protect the intellectual property and physical asset against the increasingly likely invasion of Taiwan by Communist China. The financial advantages of manufacturing in America under the new Trump rules only came years later.
But one does understand why the BBC might not want to notice that all sorts of people and businesses see America as the ultimate haven. The tale is America, however imperfect, benefitting because she’s a light in the darkness.
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They’ll just move on. Joe had a lot of problems. They had to cheat in multiple states to get him across the finish line. The real question is what kind or terrible candidates ran against him in the 2020 Dem primary. The Dems scammed the system
to install Joe over the top of a large field. He was dealing with a number of disqualifying medical issues at the time. We have seen why Kamala would have been terrible, but the others must have been bad as well.
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Oh noes! Another air traffic control breakdown. What could be the cause? The article does not say. Neither, apparently, do any of the other online articles (or my google fu is weak).
This suggests the cause of the breakdown is embarrassing. Not just a routine oopsie like the cleaning lady plugging in the vacuum and crashing the computers, or backhoe fade from construction of a new parking log. Could it be Green Energy Follies, like the recent crash in Spain do to lack of dispatchable power? Or possibly system failure do to lack of working backup-systems? Inquiring minds...
[Breitbart] Authorities in Mexico are looking into the targeted killing of two men and the injury to a third who provided training to Mexican police agencies and worked as advisors for the U.S. Department of State and other agencies.
The attack took place on Friday night in the city of Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, where a group of gunmen pulled up and began firing dozens of shots at three men who were eating tacos.
The three men had just finished teaching a series of courses to Jalisco State Police officers.
Breitbart News Foundation confirmed that Chavela and Cajigal worked as advisors for the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement.
Similarly, Guzman worked with Interpol and various other agencies, including Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office and the Jalisco State Police.
While a motive for the targeted killing has not been revealed, the city where the attack took place is controlled by Cartel Jalisco New Generation, one of the Mexican criminal organizations designated as terrorists by the U.S. Department of State.
[Breitbart] Unnamed sources in the Department of Justice (DOJ) are claiming the Trump administration is planning to gut safeguards that prevent politically motivated prosecutions — ironically, a safeguard that was not triggered by the prosecution of Donald Trump when he ran for president in 2024, supporters say.
Reports this weekend by the Washington Post and the Daily Beast allege Attorney General Pam Bondi is considering removing a requirement that an internal department group called the Public Integrity Section (PIN) sign off on any prosecutions of public officials, such as lawmakers and other elected officials.
The Post reported:
Federal prosecutors across the country may soon be able to indict members of Congress without approval from lawyers in the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section, according to three people familiar with a proposal attorneys in the section learned about last week. Under the proposal, investigators and prosecutors would also not be required to consult with the section’s attorneys during key steps of probes into public officials, altering a long-standing provision in the Justice Department’s manual that outlines how investigations of elected officials should be conducted.
A DOJ spokesman confirmed the proposal and said no final decisions have been made, according to the Post. The newspaper also reported that three people familiar with the proposal spoke on the condition of anonymity because “they fear reprisals.”
The ongoing controversy about politically motivated prosecutions has continued to unfold as a two-way street since Donald Trump took office.
Bondi is among the many Trump supporters and officials who have repeatedly accused the Biden administration of having weaponized the DOJ against Trump with politically motivated prosecutions in order to prevent him from running in 2024.
Unnamed sources who, along with other career prosecutors, remained quiet when the department and special counsel Jack Smith went after candidate Trump, are now implying the Trump administration is planning take down its enemies with federal prosecutions.
Cutting the Public Integrity Section out of the approval process would give appointed U.S. attorneys more power in bringing public corruption cases, Dan Schwager, a former Public Integrity Section attorney who now works in private practice, told the Post. He explained:
The reason you have the section is exactly what this administration says they want, which is stop politicization. That requires a respect and ability to understand how the laws have been applied in similar situations in the past. The only way to ensure that public officials on both sides of the aisle are treated similarly is to have as much institutional knowledge and experience as possible.
Ninety-three U.S. attorneys’ offices across the country handle many public corruption investigations and prosecutions in their jurisdictions, the Post article stated. “But, according to the Justice Department manual, which is posted online, the PIN section must still be consulted on key steps in those investigations,” the newspaper wrote.
The Daily Beast reported:
Since Trump took office, PIN has already been hollowed out, as have other DOJ offices. The 30 prosecutors working in the office at the end of the Biden administration have been cut to fewer than five. Several have resigned, been reassigned, or were fired after clashing with Bondi and other Trump appointees.
However, Aaron Reitz, Assistant Attorney General, said the new attorney general is cleaning house. Writing exclusively for Breitbart News last week, he wrote, “In short, AG Bondi assumed office with a monumental task: restoring a justice system rotted with left-wing weaponization and lawfare so that it might instead reflect the very best of American legal values, ideals, and standards. By any objective measure, she’s been extraordinarily successful.”
Controversy over the proposal comes after Trump-appointed acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, Alina Habba, earlier this month launched an investigation into a detention center riot that included immigration activists and three Democratic lawmakers and the arrest of Newark’s mayor, as reported by Breitbart News.
Vice President JD Vance also weighed in on the melee and the investigation, saying that being “a member of Congress doesn’t give you a right to obstruct the law.”
Soros DAs doing their best to fight a rearguard action in a changed zeitgeist. The heart bleeds.
[Breitbart] Five Texas prosecutors are suing Attorney General Ken Paxton over a rule the AG says is a way to “rein in rogue district attorneys” who offer lenient treatment and sweetheart deals to criminals.
In the two lawsuits filed on Friday, the Texas Tribune reported, the district attorneys allege the rule, in effect since April, is an unconstitutional overreach that violates the separation of powers. It would impose unnecessary logistical and financial burdens on county prosecutors, they claim.
Paxton’s provision gives his office broad authority to access local DA office records. District attorneys who do not comply with the reporting may be charged with misconduct and removed from office.
DAs in Dallas, Bexar, and Harris counties filed one lawsuit, while others in Travis and El Paso counties filed another. Both pleadings seek to block Paxton from enforcing the rule, arguing that it violates the state constitution and federal law.
The new rule only applies to counties with at least 400,000 residents. That impacts only 13 of Texas’s 254 counties, the Tribune reported. It requires those local offices to provide all documents or communications produced or received by their offices, including confidential information.
Paxton’s rule was created after revelations, as Breitbart News reported in 2023, that billionaire George Soros spent more than $40 million to elect far-left district attorneys across the United States with the agenda to decriminalize crimes and enact no-bail policies.
In March, Paxton said lenient DAs were endangering Texans’ lives by failing to prosecute criminals “and allowing violent offenders to terrorize law-abiding Texans. This rule will enable citizens to hold rogue DAs accountable.”
In response to the lawsuits, Paxton told the Tribune Friday that it “is no surprise that rogue DAs who would rather turn violent criminals loose on the streets than do their jobs are afraid of transparency and accountability.”
The attorney general added, “My DA reporting rule is a simple, straightforward, common-sense measure that will shed light on local officials who are abdicating their responsibility to public safety.”
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[Regnum] At least 11 people were killed in an explosion at a military recruitment center in Mogadishu, and several others were injured. This was reported on the social network X by the SMS Somali TV channel.
The incident took place at the Damaanyo military base during the recruitment process for the Somali National Army.
According to Dalsan radio, the explosion was carried out by a suicide bomber who was among the young people wanting to enlist.
None of the groups operating in the country have yet claimed responsibility for the incident. Somali authorities have not commented on the incident. The area where the incident occurred has been cordoned off.
The number of casualties reported is significant and may rise.
The blast occurred around 9:20 am outside the Damaanyo military camp, where large crowds of young men had gathered to enlist in the Somali National Army. The Ministry of Information confirmed the attack in an official statement.
Unverified reports suggest that more than 11 people may have been killed, with some sources placing the corpse count as high as 20. Dozens more were reportedly injured, though this could not be independently confirmed.
According to the government, the attacker was intercepted by security forces before reaching his intended target within the facility.
"The assailant failed to reach his objective of inflicting mass civilian casualties," the ministry said.
The al-Shabaab group claimed responsibility for the military recruitment base in Mogadishu, Sunday, in one of the deadliest attacks targeting hundreds of young men intending to join the armed forces in Somalia.
Struggling with an insufficient number of troops on the frontlines, the government of Somalia had started a recruitment process in Mogadishu, targeting young and energetic men, with the Somali National Army racing against time to assume security responsibilities.
According to reports, a suicide bomber detonated explosives, killing at least 15 people, with 20 more were critically injured. The injured people are receiving medical treatment in various hospitals within Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia.
The attack occurred as dozens of youths lined up voluntarily to join the army in the Damaanyo barracks, southwest of Mogadishu. Through one of the radio stations affiliated with its activities, the Al-Shabaab militants claimed responsibility for the attack.
Previously, the militants have used similar tactics to paralyse national events, including an attack against the Turkish military training school in Somalia, where the elite Gorgor troops are prepared. The militants usually try to upset the recruitment policy of the SNA.
The government has deployed several soldiers in various frontlines to fight the militants, but the group has recently made inroads, including the seizure of the strategic Adan Yabaal town within the central regions. The group is also believed to have infiltrated the Somali National Army.
Authorities in Moqokori, led by the District Commissioner, have not ruled out the Al-Shabaab's involvement in the latest case, but preliminary indications suggest the soldier may have been under the influence of narcotics. He noted that drug use among government troops, even in combat zones, remains a huge setback.
[ZH] You know times are getting tough when grocery stores resort to good ole' fashion ripping off customers via mispricing.
Shoppers at Kroger-owned stores may be unknowingly paying more at checkout due to pricing errors, according to a Consumer Reports investigation with The Guardian and the Food and Environment Reporting Network.
Even if you don’t shop at Kroger, similar issues have been found at other retailers, according to Consumer Reports and NBC affiliate KCRA.
Investigators found expired sale tags on over 150 grocery items, leading to overcharges on products like beef, salmon, coffee, juice, vegetables, cough medicine, and dog food. "Imagine picking up an item on sale only to be charged full price at checkout. That's exactly what Consumer Reports says is happening at Kroger-owned stores across the country."
The investigation began after Kroger workers in Colorado, currently in union talks, reported widespread pricing problems. CR recruited shoppers to check 26 Kroger-owned stores in 14 states and D.C., finding overcharges averaging $1.70 per sale item, or 18.4% more. Workers blamed staffing cuts and reduced hours, saying it’s impossible to keep up with thousands of discount tags.
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Same at too many other stores.
We have taken to using our cell phone cameras, when there is not a sticker on the item, to photo the shelf listed prices.
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I caught a radio news update thing today, went something like, "Consumers confused and trying to come to terms, when after months of being told prices were going to skyrocket because of tariffs, prices remain stable."
[FoxBusinessNews] Recent blackouts in Spain and Portugal highlight the need for reliable base power as Nordic countries rethink nuclear energy policies.
After four decades of Denmark’s ban on nuclear power, the country is now considering reversing its anti-atomic stance. And that move may be part of a big change in how electricity gets generated in Europe.
The Danes took note of the massive power outage last month that cut off electricity for the whole of Spain and neighboring Portugal plus some of southern France. The problem was that there was no reliable base power such as nuclear energy running on the grid at the time. Instead, those countries had to rely on frequently unstable renewable energy, such as solar and wind.
Yet when the blackout arrived, Spain’s Prime Minister categorically ruled out an overreliance on solar and other renewable energy as a reason for the grid crashing. Still increasing numbers of people don’t see it that way.
"Without nuclear, net-zero is impossible," Daniel Lacalle chief economist at Madrid-based investment company Tressis, told FOX Business. That’s because renewable energy such as solar or wind is not reliable enough to provide consistent energy.
All electricity grids need to have a so-called base-power that can be relied on, experts say. Historically, the base has been coal, natural gas and nuclear. But of those three, only nuclear produces carbon-free electricity.
Meanwhile, much of Europe’s population has been terrified of nuclear power for decades with anti-nuclear activists citing the disasters at Chernobyl, Ukraine and Fukushima, Japan. But Lacalle says there’s some good news for nuclear now.
Denmark isn’t the only Nordic country warming to nuclear power. In March, Sweden said the EU needs to push for nuclear power to ensure there is energy security. Likewise, Norway was already toying with the idea of small modular nuclear reactors. The Left in Europe always mentions the Nordic countries for everything, Lacalle says. "The fact that Denmark, Norway and Sweden are deciding to change policies, that is huge in terms of sentiment," he told FOX Business.
Near the end of the last decade, leading politicians in Europe began to embrace what’s commonly known as net-zero. It was an effort that refers to a change in energy use that results in having zero carbon emissions on a net basis. The prevailing view by many of Europe’s elites is that this reduction in carbon use will help slow warming of the earth.
[UK] shadow energy minister Andrew Bowie yesterday called on Labour's Secretary for Energy Security and Net Zero Ed Miliband to carry out an 'immediate pause and review' of its efforts to transition to green power.
[GEO.TV] Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s killed at least 100 Paleostinians 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 a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip overnight, local health authorities said on Sunday, as mediators hosted a new round of ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, which has expanded its strikes on the enclave, killing hundreds of people since Thursday, in preparation for a new ground offensive to achieve "operational control" in parts of Gaza.
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🚨 Breaking: Zakaria Sinwar, the brother of Yahya and Muhammad Sinwar who were eliminated, was eliminated pic.twitter.com/eNLUGHF8GR
For those wondering: Sinwar came up from the tunnel to film with Al Jazeera, thinking he’s in control. He didn’t know Qatar had sold him out. That was his last frame—alive. pic.twitter.com/UtcBdVCGkU
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rohzin.
[ColonelCassad] CONSEQUENCES OF THE ATTACKS ON TETKINO IN KURSK OBLAST.
The commander of the 1st Battalion of the 47th Separate Mechanized Bbrigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "Magura" resigned and threw a public tantrum about how bad everything was, and that the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was to blame for everything, which stupidly killed a huge number of people for nothing. In the 4th year of the war, he woke up... The tasks turned out to be idiotic.
THEN BUTUSOV STARTED THE HYSTERIA.
Of course, there will be no adequate reaction there. Otherwise, we will have to admit that not only the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Syrsky are responsible for the PR offensive on Tetkino, but also the cocaine Fuhrer personally, who demanded that the attacks continue even after the offensive had obviously died out in blood. Of course, they didn’t like the videos of our operators working in the Tetkino area.
As a result, the enemy was unable to capture even this unfortunate Tetkino, having lost several dozen armored vehicles (including several valuable engineering vehicles) and several hundred people killed and wounded during the entire attack (drone operators and the Russian Aerospace Forces with their FABs collected a rich bloody harvest in the plantings in the Tetkino area).
P.S. This morning, the enemy tried to change the record and again attacked the village of Novy Put, located right on the border. There he has already been hit in the head 3 or 4 times.
The editor-in-chief of "Censor", Kiev propagandist Yuriy Butusov writes about this. According to him, the battalion commander spoke out against "incompetent decisions of the Ukrainian command in Kursk region".
Butusov writes that in the Tetkino area, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are attacking in columns head-on under attack from Russian drones, which leads to significant losses of equipment and personnel.
"The assigned tasks do not always correspond to the capabilities of the troops, the terrain and basic tactics. Underestimation of the threat from drones by the military command leads to failures in engineering support, protection of equipment and people, gross errors in the management and use of troops," the enemy observer states.
He considers the attack on Tetkino "a political task to conduct military operations on enemy territory," but it is poorly organized and planned. "No one is trying to draw conclusions and learn, but on the contrary, they continue to repeat the same mistakes over and over again, without regard for losses," Butusov said.
Let us recall that the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attacks on Tetkino began on the eve of May 9. At the same time, Ukraine began massive drone raids on Moscow.
At the same time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces were unable to consolidate their position in Tetkino, and attacks by Ukrainian troops are being repelled. Our Telegram channels are posting many videos from near Tetkino with the destruction of Ukrainian equipment.
The publication of the dissatisfied Butusov was commented on by KP.ru special correspondent Alexander Kots:
"The rebellious battalion commander Shirshin, by the way, is known in the independent country as an intellectual and competent commander. I hope the system will chew him up and spit him out. And in the Armed Forces of Ukraine there will remain only people-functions who meekly drive their subordinates to the slaughter."
"On May 2 of this year, Ukrainian militants used an unmanned aerial vehicle to attack a private home in the village of Kukuyevka, where a married couple was doing landscaping work. As a result of the deliberate dropping of an explosive device, a civilian was injured by shrapnel. A criminal case on a terrorist act has been opened on this fact," said Svetlana Petrenko, official representative of the Russian Investigative Committee.
During interrogation, the injured villager told military investigators about the circumstances of the incident.
"I didn't even understand what happened. I felt a blow to my right shoulder, flew up, and fell on my left side," the woman explained.
On May 2, Acting Governor of Kursk Oblast Aleksandr Khinshtein reported that a 47-year-old woman was injured when debris from a Ukrainian drone fell in the village of Kukuyevka in Kursk Oblast. He noted that she was taken to Kursk Oblast Hospital with a bruise, abrasions on her neck and right shoulder.
Earlier, on May 17, investigators opened a criminal case on a terrorist attack after a drone attack by Ukrainian militants on an electrical substation in the city of Rylsk in the Kursk region. According to investigators, on the evening of May 16, Ukrainian Armed Forces troops dropped an explosive device on an electrical substation in Rylsk using a drone, which damaged a transformer and left local residents without power.
Since 2014, the Kiev regime has been killing civilians, including those whom the Ukrainian authorities formally consider their citizens. Since then, more than 6,500 people have died as a result of Ukrainian aggression, and about 16,500 thousand civilians have been injured.
The man who died bombing the fertility clinic in Palm Springs, Calif. allegedly did it as an act of war against the pro-life and pro-natalist movement. A manifesto allegedly written by the man was posted online before the bombing.
BOMBING: The bomber of the Palm Springs fertility clinic was a Democrat named Guy Edward Bartkus, a member of a anti-natalist cult who believes that it’s wrong to have more children. He’s also an abolitionist vegan and an atheist who prefers satan. pic.twitter.com/xiQbI3bT0T
The father of Guy Edward Bartkus, the suspect in the Palm Springs in vitro fertilization facility explosion, says that he was “shocked” when a relative reached out and said his son was implicated in the bombing.
Speaking to the New York Times, Richard Bartkus said that he hadn’t seen his son in a decade. He told NYT that, growing up, Guy liked “tinkering with small model rockets” and once set the family’s home on fire while playing with matches when he was nine years old.
As a teenager, Guy would make “smoke bombs” and “stink bombs” but never anything “major.”
“Nothing like a ‘bomb’ bomb, but he’d build rockets [and] shoot them in the air,” Richard Bartkus told the outlet.
FBI deems Palm Springs explosion a ‘terrorism’ act, experts explore possible motives
The New York Times reported that Bartkus, 75, said that his son was always “impressionable” and had often allowed himself to be “drawn in by friends who got him into trouble,” mentioning a time when one of Guy’s friends — whose parents owned a demolition yard — talked him into smashing cars there.
Guy was also a “pretty good shot” since the elder Bartkus taught him how to use firearms.
“If he told you he was going to hit the ‘C’ on a Coke can, he’d hit the ‘C’ on the Coke can,” Richard said. “Whatever he put his mind to, he was pretty good.”
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[Korrespondent] Ukrainian Armed Forces repel Russian assaults.
Aviation, missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces hit seven areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment, as well as Russian air defense systems.
There were 167 combat clashes on the front in 24 hours. In the Pokrovsk direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled 54 enemy assaults. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on May 18.
Aviation, missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces hit seven areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment and one air defense system of the Russians.
It is noted that yesterday the Russians carried out 75 airstrikes on the positions of the Defense Forces and populated areas of Ukraine and dropped 106 guided aerial bombs.
In addition, the enemy deployed 2,960 kamikaze drones and carried out 4,735 attacks, including 122 from multiple launch rocket systems.
The Russian army carried out airstrikes on the areas of the settlements of Bunyakine in Sumy Oblast, Kupyansk in Kharkiv Oblast, Berezove in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Kurtovka, Konstantinovka, Belitskoye, Yablunovka, Novopol in Donetsk Oblast, Novodarovka, Temirovka, Gulyaipole, Kamenskoye in Zaporizhia Oblast, and Nikolaevka in Kherson Oblast.
In the Kharkov direction, the enemy attacked three times in the area of Vovchansk and in the direction of Stroyevka.
One attack by the Russian army took place in the Kupyansk direction. The defense forces repelled an enemy assault near Zagrizovoye.
In the Liman direction, the enemy attacked 24 times, trying to advance near the settlements of Novoegorovka, Lozovaya, Ridkodub, Grekovka, Katerinovka, Yampolivka and Zelenaya Dolina.
In the Seversky direction, in the areas of Belogorovka and Verkhnekamyansky, the Russians attacked the positions of Ukrainian troops 10 times.
In the Kramatorsk direction, eight offensive actions of the Russian army were recorded near Chasovy Yar, Kurdyumovka and in the direction of Predtechnoye, Stupochki and Belaya Gora.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy carried out 14 attacks in the areas of Toretsk, Ozaryanovka, Dilievka and Druzhba.
In the Pokrovsk direction, Ukrainian defenders stopped 54 assault and offensive actions of the Russian army in the areas of the settlements of Staraya Nikolaevka, Yablunovka, Vozdvizhenka, Novaya Poltavka, Mirolyubovka, Elizavetovka, Promen, Novosergeevka, Troitskoye and Andreevka.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the enemy attacked the positions of the Defense Forces 23 times near Constantinople, Bogatyr, Volnoye Pole, Ravnopol, Novopol, Zeleny Pole and in the direction of Komar.
In the Orekhov direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled seven enemy assaults in the areas of Shcherbaki, Stepovoye and Malye Shcherbaki.
In the Dnieper direction the enemy carried out two offensive actions, without success.
There were 14 combat clashes in the Kursk direction. The enemy carried out 15 airstrikes, dropped 20 guided bombs, and carried out 224 artillery attacks, including three from multiple launch rocket systems. No active offensive actions by the Russian army were recorded in the Gulyai-Polye direction.
In the Volyn and Polesie directions, no signs of the formation of offensive enemy groups were detected.
[Conservative Post] Since Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez first took office in 2019, major crime across her 14th Congressional District has soared by 70 percent—a spike that far outpaces the citywide increase of 30 percent over the same period, according to NYPD data. In some parts of the Queens-Bronx district, the numbers are even worse. And for many of the congresswoman’s constituents, the more staggering figure is zero—the number of times they say they’ve seen AOC show up to confront the crisis.
Nowhere is the explosion in lawlessness more stark than in Queens’ 110th Precinct, home to the Roosevelt Avenue corridor, a long-troubled stretch linked to organized prostitution and human trafficking. There, major index crimes—ranging from murder and rape to burglary and grand larceny—have risen by 105 percent, the highest jump in any precinct citywide. The 115th Precinct, encompassing Jackson Heights and East Elmhurst, has seen an 85 percent increase. Other precincts across the district are experiencing crime growth well above city averages, leaving residents feeling abandoned by their representative, writes The New York Post.
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I get it, AOC is a nut job. But, this issue has nothing to do with her. The NYPD needs to fix it.
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Congress-members maintain offices in their district with a staff that work on problems for their constituents. It is a position that is supposed to address both national and local concerns.
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FBI Director Kash Patel hinted at a "wave of transparency" on the horizon as the agency struggles to rebuild public trust, especially in the wake of longstanding controversy over alleged politicization and selective prosecution.
Sitting alongside FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino for a "Sunday Morning Futures" exclusive interview, Patel pointed to the FBI's handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation as an example of political bias and institutional failure. He claimed senior officials within the Department of Justice "hijacked" their constitutional responsibilities by selectively deciding which cases to pursue.
"You asked in the beginning how the FBI was weaponized," he said to host Maria Bartiromo. "Well, the FBI hijacked the constitutional responsibility of the Department of Justice and the Attorney General, and James Comey and others specifically decided what cases to prosecute and not prosecute. Don't believe me? Go to the videotape in the Hillary Clinton investigation."
"We don't decide prosecutions, and neither does any agent or intel analyst. We have great partners under Attorney General [Pam] Bondi. We work with them and discuss the matter with them, but the prosecutorial decision is with them," he said.
Patel said that new agency leadership has uncovered additional details regarding the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into President Donald Trump's alleged ties to Russia and are working with Congress to put out information surrounding the episode.
"That's how vindictive and vicious the former leadership structure here was. Not only did they bastardize the FISA process and lie to the American public, they withheld and hid documentation and put it in rooms where people weren't supposed to look," Patel said.
"It's a good thing we're here now to clean it up, and you're about to see a wave of transparency… Just give us about a week or two."
Despite the statute of limitations having expired on prosecuting any criminality, Patel told host Maria Bartiromo to expect a “wave of transparency” in a week or two.
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BARTIROMO: I watched it with you and Devin Nunes, when you were truth-tellers on all of this, and you were as well, Dan, throughout the Russia collusion story and the rest.
PATEL: Look, I can speak to the folks that were in our seats, our predecessors, and they intentionally failed the American public by putting on the biggest D.C. deception game we have ever seen. They said the FBI was the most storied institution for law enforcement, and it was. And it will be again very soon.
But when the likes of Comey and McCabe and Strzok and company came in here with the James Bakers of the world and intentionally lied to a federal court, only to rig a presidential election by lying to the American public and using taxpayer dollars, likely illegally, to fund this entire operation, and then withholds sculptor information from a federal court that I used to appear before to manhunt terrorists, that’s what broke the FBI.
And then, when they were caught, they lied about it. And you and a few others like Dan and others were brave enough to cover it six, seven, eight years ago. And we’re still talking about it today, because, as Congress is working rigorously with us, the Crossfire Hurricane documents are coming fast and hard. And they’re being sent there unredacted, so we can have full accountability.
And that’s how you restore what the — the trust that was lost to the American public when it comes to the FBI.
BARTIROMO: Yes, but, come on, Director. With all due respect, we have been talking about this for a long time, and I have been demanding accountability for many, many years.
One of the — you mentioned Comey, Strzok and the rest. They have got TV shows. They have got media platforms. They’re fine. There’s been no accountability.
PATEL: Well, look, it’s a fair criticism. But what I will tell people is, we weren’t here in the FBI in the last five years, when we had statute of limitations that were still in play, where we could have investigated criminal conduct. Most of these statute of limitations are 5 years old.
And we will investigate criminal conduct where we find a righteous case to do so and the law and the facts allow us to. But a lot of it, we’re precluded from. So we will take the criticism, and it’s rightfully so, that could we have done more in the past? Sure, people before us could have.
But what we can do now is continue to put out the documents and the information that these people withheld from the American public. And I’m just telling you, right now, as much as we know about Crossfire Hurricane, he and I just found out more last week. And we’re continuing to work with Congress to put those documents out.
That’s how vindictive and vicious the former leadership structure here was. Not only did they bastardize the FISA process and lie to the American public. They withheld and hid documentation and put it in rooms where people weren’t supposed to look. And it’s a good thing we’re here now to clean it up, and you’re about to see a wave of transparency.
BARTIROMO: What do you mean?
PATEL: Just give us about a week or two.
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Bartiromo to FBI Director Patel: Why Don't We Have More Info On Trump Assassination Attempts? (video)
[Real Clear Politics] FOX News host Maria Bartiromo asked FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino when we will learn more about the assassination attempts against President Trump last summer during an interview on "Sunday Morning Futures." Worth the time to watch.
“We’re going to ruin your summer …if you’re a bad guy.” That’s a malevolently bad headline. Interview with FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Dir Dan Bongino. They looked at the data to see where the problems are worst — Memphis,TN per capita murder capitol, human trafficking in Ohio because of the highways, domestic inner city gangs metastasized as well as the Latin American narco gangs — and will be concentrating on the basics to make a difference. More impressive hires by President Trump — this is an A Team bringing their A game.
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Yeah, we're working on it. And will release the docs Real Soon Now[tm].
Just like they did for Jeffrey Epstein.
Who killed himself in his cell under suicide watch and 24/7 video surveillance.
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Two clowns in a clown car on the social media circuit.
Patel, Bongino, and Bondi need to stay off the socials until they have made some high profile arrests - every time they open their mouths, every tweet the publish, they only clown themselves.
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i started
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clothing i mean they're literally called
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tent dresses genderneutral bordering on
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anti-feminine it's a fashion trend that
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background gone are the days when young
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women wanted to show off their figure
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now they appear to be doing everything
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invisible now of course there's still
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plenty of women in Western European
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cities or to be more specific UK cities
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who choose to dress like
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this and that's a whole different debate
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but the overarching style and that being
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catered to by the fashion industry is
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and downright boring
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the mainstream explanation for this
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fashion trend is that it's a resurgence
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of '90s nostalgia anecdotal evidence
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… i wear baggy clothes that kind of
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make me look like a boy as a shield
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against [ __ ] men sexualizing me on
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the street it doesn't always work but it
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helps it's really sad that I need to
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wear men's clothing aka baggy when I run
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errands because otherwise I'll get
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harassed dressing in super baggy
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masculine clothing when I go out so men
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don't harass me oversized clothes
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inevitable objectification vogue
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androgynous and oversized as a form of
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armor redditors are confused as to why
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women hit the gym seven times a week yet
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Eastern countries our culture still
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Perfect timing. The needs of treatment won’t interfere with pretending to run the country.
[FOX] Former President Joe Biden's office confirmed on Sunday that he was diagnosed with an "aggressive form" of prostate cancer.
"Last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms," Biden's team shared in a statement. "On Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone."
"While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management. The President and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians," the statement said.
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And so, once again, the DC Swamp and their propaganda media arm deflect from the truth.
This time, using Cancer to deflect from the real issue of Mental Incapacity. By playing a Cancer narrative for sympathy, in attempts to cover up and deflect from the massive criminal wrong doing, done by those actually running the WH.
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Ref #3: Yes, "timeline" points to a typical 'Deep State' Cover for Action. PSA testing? Blood in urine, pain, difficulty in urination. Testing; MRI, DRI analysis all neglected on the #1 man ?
Like everything else about the Bidens, very suspect.
Dr. Steven Hatfill, a senior medical advisor at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has just blown the whistle to warn the public about the deadly impact of Covid mRNA "vaccines."
How many boosters did he and other DC Swampers get????????
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My understanding is the DC Elite received the approved.......
.....UH60 evacuation plan from the Capital to National Airport. No issues with the historically crowded airspace, it'll be a commercial 'NO FLY' zone in a national emergency.
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^ Zeke Emmanuel, brother to Ari and Rahm. No Republican
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...I'm starting to wonder if now some poor bastard isn't going to be thrown to the wolves as 'the one responsible for the cover-up', whether they were or not.
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some poor bastard isn't going to be thrown to the wolves
The White House physician who did his annual exams, pronouncing him healthy, at the very least, MikeKozlowski. Can RFK, Jr. yank his license? What about the doctor(s) who certified him healthy to run?
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Just because he was on TV getting an injection doesn't mean it was the Clot Shot. Could be any one of a number of innocuous liquids like normal saline, D5W or Ringers etc..
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Is it possible that Joe B refused to take the PSA test during his Presidency or that he convinced his doctor to not give this test?
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^ It's part of common blood tests that any responsible sentient person would be taking annually at least...
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PSA test was not mentioned in the Feb 2024 report by the WH Physician although report did report a urinalysis and full blood analysis
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^ i.e.: They knew. He would withdraw after winning re-election and Qweeen Kamala would take over (Obama's 4th and 5th terms)
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Various medical talking heads are now saying he's had to have had the condition for years, which means the WH doc and family have likely been lying for years.
Sympathy play at this point. Might have even been why they pulled him from the running in 2024. Just speculation on my part.
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Immediate family made the decisions on how to frame this announcement. Dr Jill’s fingerprints are all over this. Cancer is the latest basement to avoid talking about who was running the autopen.
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State medical boards control whether or not a physician practicing in the USA has a license. The feds (or the courts) have no say in the matter. Last I checked Fauci still has his Maryland license to practice medicine.
Is it possible that Joe B refused to take the PSA test during his Presidency or that he convinced his doctor to not give this test?
Quite possible. The oncologist Ezekiel Emmanuel "“It is a little surprising that the doctor didn’t take it. And if he took it and didn’t report it and it was elevated, that is another case of doctors not being straightforward with us."
It is also possible Biden was getting his actual care for the past several years from a physician whose existence/name has never been disclosed. That would be an ideal way of having all this known for some time and concealing it 100% from the public.
In addition:
Emanuel noted that while some doctors recommended not doing a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) exam – a routine bloodwork test – after the age of 70, he [Biden] should have had those exams when he was younger.
From an online Harvard newsletter:
USPSTF guidelines: These independent experts on preventive medicine do not recommend PSA screening for prostate cancer in men at any age, due to a lack of definitive evidence that the benefits of PSA testing are greater than the risks.
"Several large studies asked whether PSA screening of men with no urinary symptoms would save lives, but people don't want to believe the answers that came from these studies," says Dr. Marc B. Garnick, a prostate cancer specialist at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Editor in Chief of the Harvard Medical School Annual Report on Prostate Diseases. "If you want to know whether you have prostate cancer, you should have a PSA test and a biopsy, but that decision is primarily driven by emotion."
I have quoted this to several old guys my age in the last 24 hours, and they were astounded to learn this is the currently recommended do-nothing advice of medical "experts". Of course a decision to have a PSA test done is "primarily driven by emotion". I don't know about the rest of Rantburgers, but my desire to keep living has ALWAYS been "primarily driven by emotion." Dr. Garnick is a different breed of human being, I guess.
Dr Emanuel also noted that PSA tests on Biden have never been published, to the best of his knowledge.
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"It's part of common blood tests that any responsible sentient person would be taking annually at least..."
Are you implying this nationally known prostate cancer "expert" Dr. Marc Garnick is NOT a responsible sentient person, along with those who formulated the USPSTF guidelines???
We definitely need a better class of experts, but then we have been aware of that since COVID-19.
Keep in mind that 80% of men over 80 years old have some amount of prostate cancer cells. Though the American Urological Association and the US Preventive Services Task Force don’t recommend routine PSA screening in men over the age of 70, I believe they are wrong.
Could it be that the president didn’t have even a PSA during his yearly physical? That would be disturbing, and difficult to believe.
The test is not pointless. With today’s advanced treatments, from robotic prostatectomy to targeted radiation to advances in hormone treatments, there is no reason not to know that an 82-year-old president has prostate cancer these days, or anyone for that matter.
Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), who served as White House physician under Trump and former President Barack Obama, told the Washington Examiner that it's "completely unbelievable" that Biden's cancer diagnosis went unnoticed during his term in office.
"Just the nature of the disease, he's had prostate cancer for years now. If it's to that point, and it wasn't picked up by his physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, I mean, it's complete malpractice in my mind, to be honest with you," he said in an interview. "Either he did the exam and he didn't report it, and then that makes you wonder, why did he not report it? Was it positive? Did they know he had prostate cancer? Or he didn't do the exam. He didn't do the PSA or Digital Rectal Exam, or anything like that, and there's no excuse for not doing that. He's the President of the United States."
Health guidance for the general public from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends against PSA-based screening for men age 70 and older due to false positives, as well as diagnosis of problems that wouldn’t have caused death.
However, as president, Biden should have had access to the "pinnacle" of treatment, Jackson said.
"If you pick it up early, it's curable, right? And just to have the President of the United States, who's supposed to have access to world-class health care, whose White House medical unit is supposed to be the pinnacle of concierge medicine, executive medicine, and to not pick up on something like this," Jackson continued. "I'm quite honestly shocked, and it's just, it's not good."
But Allah has been content to allow Israel to continue. Inshallah, dudes.
[NAHARNET] At an Arab summit in Baghdad, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam denounced "daily Israeli violations" of Lebanese illusory sovereignty and "the ongoing Israeli occupation of positions" in the South.
He said Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel... was working to "fully implement" a United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Security Council resolution that formed the basis of the ceasefire.
The resolution says Lebanese troops and U.N. peacekeepers should be the only forces in south Lebanon, and calls for the disarmament of all non-state groups.
Salam again urged international pressure "to oblige Israel to stop its attacks and immediately and fully withdraw from all Lebanese territory."
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[IsraelTimes] Eric Adams cites need for ‘decisive action’ as he announces Office to Combat Antisemitism, 1st of its kind in a major US city, amid upsurge in anti-Jewish hate crimes
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Why do we not have this in every US city? And state? And town hall?
This won't stop until people start going to prison for it.
Tons of people rotting in jail cells in Germany for the same reason. Antisemitism is a human rights violation.
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Maybe they can share office space with the task force on street crime and the task force on drug use.
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Have the DAs and criminal justice system enforce existing laws and the problem solves itself ...this is why I find the very concept of 'hate crimes' logically repulsive.
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[Regnum] At least 37 people have drowned in a ferry accident in southwestern Nigeria. This was reported by The Guardian.
Third World problems.
The tragedy occurred near Gbajigbo in Kwara State. According to available information, the vessel sank due to overload. Search and rescue operations are underway at the scene.
Eyewitness and survivor Salisu Danladi, who claimed to have swum to shore, said the tragedy happened three nights ago as they were returning from Niger State.
"I thank God that I survived, but the truth is that there were too many of us on the boat. We were desperate to get home because the day was long gone. It was that day that I realized the benefit of my swimming skills," he said.
[GEO.TV] The health ministry in Gaza said Sunday that all public hospitals in the north of the territory were now "out of service" after Israeli forces besieged the Indonesian hospital.
"The Israeli occupation has intensified its siege with heavy fire around the Indonesian hospital and its surroundings, preventing the arrival of patients, medical staff, and supplies — effectively forcing the hospital out of service," the ministry said.
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[Regnum] At least 27 people have died as a result of hurricanes and tornadoes in the central United States. This was reported on May 17 by The New York Times.
According to the publication, 27 people were killed by destructive tornadoes that were caused by a strong storm in the mid-Atlantic and swept across the central part of the United States from May 16 to 17. According to preliminary data, 26 tornadoes were registered.
Twenty-five people were killed in Missouri and Kentucky, two in Virginia, and dozens were injured. Police say the death toll could rise.
At London-Corbin Airport in Laurel County, Kentucky, the storm left hangars twisted and flattened. One plane flipped over, and a medical helicopter was damaged. Airport Manager Matthew Singer said no workers were hurt, but several structures and buildings sustained significant damage.
In St. Louis, Missouri, authorities say cell phone towers were damaged, power was out in several neighborhoods, and homes and buildings were severely damaged. City Mayor Kara Spencer said preliminary estimates suggest about 5,000 buildings were damaged.
[X] Possibly President Trump can do something about it with an executive order, but I suspect Congress needs to pass a law to prevent this permanently.
CALIFORNIA'S MEDICAID SHELL GAME STEALS FROM TAXPAYERS.
California uses a loophole to inflate provider payments, draw down more federal funds, then diverts the money –- including $4 billion to pay for illegal aliens on Medicaid.pic.twitter.com/frZOWzPh0s
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[Regnum] At least 17 people died in a fire that occurred in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. This was reported by the agency ANI.
According to preliminary information, the cause of the fire was a short circuit.
What’s the Hindu version of inshallah?
Firefighters who arrived at the scene were unable to quickly put out the fire.
"The fire broke out in a pearl shop owned by a family. Their residence was one floor above the shop. Many people, including women and children, died in the fire. There are also injured people," said local government official Kishan Reddy.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed condolences to the families of the victims. It is specified that their relatives will be paid $2.3 thousand each. The injured will receive $580 each.
[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved the immediate resumption of humanitarian aid into Gaza during a security cabinet meeting earlier this evening.
In a statement confirming the decision, the Prime Minister’s Office says that it is being done “at the recommendation of the IDF and due to the operational need to enable the expansion of intense fighting to defeat Hamas.”
He says Israel “will allow the entry of a basic quantity of food for the population in order to prevent the development of a hunger crisis in the Gaza Strip,” as such a crisis “would endanger the continued operation to defeat Hamas.”
“Israel will act to deny Hamas the ability to seize control of the distribution of humanitarian aid in order to ensure that the aid does not reach Hamas terrorists,” he concludes.
The move comes amid increasing international pressure for Israel to end its months-long blockade on aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip and thus prevent a deepening humanitarian crisis.
Israel has thus far refused to do so, saying Hamas has been stealing the aid to benefit its own members, and that it won’t resume deliveries until a new mechanism has been put in place to circumvent Hamas
However, according to the Walla news site, the resumed transfer of aid will be facilitated through several international organizations, including the UN World Food Programme and the World Central Kitchen, until the new US and Israel-backed mechanism begins operating later this month.
According to Ynet, Netanyahu informed the security cabinet that it was necessary to resume the deliveries at once due to growing pressure from the US.
This gives President Trump ammunition to go back to the Arabs and say, “I was able to push Israel to give in on this thing, so now you have to give up something.”
He did not hold a formal vote on the issue, as would generally be expected, and instead informed the cabinet that this was what had been decided.
[GEO.TV] The Israeli army on Sunday issued an evacuation order for several areas in Gaza ahead of what it said was an imminent attack.
Addressing Gazans "in the Al-Qarara area, the Salqa municipality, and the south of Deir al-Balah, and the neighbourhoods of Al-Ja farawi, Al-Suwar, Abu Hadab, and Al-Satar", the army said: "This is a preliminary and final warning before the attack... For your safety, you must move immediately west to the known shelters in Al-Mawasi."
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[GEO.TV] At least four people were killed and several others injured in a kaboom near FC fort in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Qila Abdullah.
The explosion occurred near Jabbar Market, adjacent to the back wall of the FC fort, in the Balochistan's district.
Deputy Commissioner Riaz Khan said that at least 20 persons were maimed in the earth-shattering kaboom and shifted to different hospitals.
Detailing the incident, Khan said that several vehicles and shops were destroyed in the powerful blast as Death Eaters apparently wanted to target the wall of FC fort.
Armed men and FC soldiers also exchanged fire following the kaboom.
According to the government official, some maimed persons were being shifted to Quetta due to lack of health facilities in the area.
At the time of the earth-shattering kaboom, tribal leader Haji Faizullah Khan Ghabizai was also present at his office. The tribal leader, his security guard and a passerby were also among maimed persons.
Heavy contingents of law enforcement agencies cordoned off the whole area and commenced a search and clearance operation.
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LAND GRAB: The California Coastal Commission is effectively seizing much of the land lost in the Pacific Palisades fire. Homeowners in Malibu will be required to spend up to $5 million on ground upgrades per home before they’re even allowed to rebuild. pic.twitter.com/P1xA1gB5Lr
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Oh, boo-fuckity-hoo for the wealthy pricks who live on the beach in Malibu.
How does anyone feel one shred of sympathy for them?
To say nothing of the fact that they're Sierra Club and Democrat and voted for this shit.
It makes you wonder how effective propaganda is today that people actually feel like these people are being oppressed and are the good guys.
Good guys don't live in Malibu.
Or Pacific Palisades. Or anywhere in LA, really.
But they'll flee and bring their destructive bullshit with them like they're doing to Texas.
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Jai, that's just it. I have no sympathy for them. But I would like them to stay in California. They deserve it.
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Ronald Reagan lived in Pacific Palisades.
You cannot paint all these people with the same brush.
And ground upgrades? What is that?
These people, no matter what you think of them, paid good money for their homes. It's true that many of those homes should have never been built because of the risk of exactly what happened. It's true that many of them probably vote for Democrats. Then the Democrat office holders like Newsom and Bass betrayed them by their failure to provide the protections and services that people rightfully expect when they pay their property taxes. Nonetheless, you don't just deprive people of their property unless you're a communist.
Then there is the suspicion that these fires were set intentionally and allowed to destroy all these homes so that wealthy, elite insiders could steal that land. That is a suspicion in Lahina and now it's a suspicion in Malibu and Pacific Palisades. When government acts in inexplicable ways, people are left with their imagination to fill in the blanks. That's when conspiracy theories thrive. With a governor like Gavin Newsom and a mayor like Karen Bass, who can blame them?
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About those septic systems - ever hear of a grandfather clause? The way things work in California, it'd take years if not decades to run a sewer line up Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. And, unless the city is willing to pay to pay for it, let the people rebuild. Do NOT use the fire as an excuse to steal their property.
It was the city that allowed those homes to be built in the first place and it was the city and the state that failed to prevent the fire or to fight it effectively once it started. The city and the state are at fault here, not the homeowners.
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COVERUP: Rep. Comer has identified staffers that used the autopen to sign EOs and pardons, but not who was making the decisions. Biden was incoherent months before the autopen’s heavy use. Those involved will face interviews, subpoenas, and depositions. pic.twitter.com/CBNMXVmbgs
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[Regnum] The American nuclear aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman has left the Red Sea, where it was stationed to carry out airstrikes on military facilities of the Yemeni Houthis. This was reported by the Indian publication Oneindia.
According to the online ship tracking service Marine Traffic, the aircraft carrier, which had been in the region since last fall, had passed through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean Sea the day before.
The publication also clarified that a destroyer from an aircraft carrier strike group and a missile cruiser followed along with it.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the US Navy aircraft carrier Harry Truman has set off for the Middle East. It is specified that the ship is heading to the Red Sea against the backdrop of the return from the region of the Dwight Eisenhower, which has been in the Middle East since 2023.
Harry Truman will be accompanied by two destroyers and a guided missile cruiser. An Italian Navy frigate is also expected to join the strike group.
Earlier it became known that the United States and Britain attacked the port of Ras Isa, which is under the control of the Houthis. At least two strikes were reported on the territory of the port of Ras Isa in the As-Salif district of the Houthi-controlled Yemeni province of Hodeidah by the forces of the United States and Great Britain.
Al Masirah TV reported that the US and British air forces carried out four airstrikes each on October 4 on the Yemeni capital Sanaa and the city of Hodeida, which are controlled by the Houthis. There were no reports of casualties or deaths.
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USS Harry Truman has left the Red Sea ... passed through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean Sea
OR the US Navy aircraft carrier Harry Truman has set off for the Middle East
AND An Italian Navy frigate is also expected to join the strike group. Somewhere.
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The US Navy took their shot. Now they’re giving the IDF room to work. Hopefully they’re going to concentrate on basic drills after clearing away the Biden-Harris administration’s DEI superstructure.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The Mexican Navy ship that crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge likely suffered a 'mechanical issue' before losing power, according to police.
The massive 160-foot-high Cuauhtémoc Training Ship, carrying a crew of 277, smashed into the iconic New York City bridge around 9pm Saturday.
Two unidentified crew members were killed after falling from the masts to the ship's deck.
A total of 22 crew members have been reported injured as of Sunday morning, with at least 11 in critical condition, Mexican Navy officials said.
After the tragic incident, Chief Wilson Aramboles with the NYPD Special Operations Bureau said 'some mechanical issues' most likely caused the ship to hit the bridge.
'The captain that was maneuvering the ship lost, I guess, power of the ship,' Aramboles told reporters, while advising that the information was preliminary.
A graphic posted to X appeared to show the massive ship losing power and stalling in the water just before reaching the bridge.
The records show the ship undocking at Seaport in Lower Manhattan around 8.20pm alongside alongside a tugboat. It was then seen rapidly losing control as it started to move backward toward the Brooklyn Brooklyn bridge.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has been brutally roasted online following a bizarre speech he made to graduation students.
Walz used his platform at the University of Minnesota’s law school commencement ceremony to blast US President Donald Trump and his administration.
Walz had previously been up against Trump in the 2024 US election as Kamala Harris’ vice-presidential pick attempted to inspire the students.
The Minnesota Governor called on the students to stand up to those who abuse power and asked them to “live up to” the oath they’re about to make.
“Right now, more than any other in my lifetime, we need you to live up to the oath that you’re about to make because I have to be honest with you, you’re graduating into a genuine emergency."
“Every single day, the president of the United States finds new ways to trample rights and undermine the rule of law."
The Minnesota governor’s remarks have been blasted online, with many taking to X to roast him.
And still the spineless MN GOP refuses to impeach the mass murdering commie.Gisscopo? Ice cream Nazis?
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] President Donald Trump has shared a shocking conspiracy theory linking Bill and Hillary Clinton to a series of high-profile deaths.
Trump shared an explosive video on his Truth Social account on Saturday accusing the powerful political couple of eliminating several enemies and potential threats over the decades.
Titled 'THE VIDEO HILLARY CLINTON DOES NOT WANT YOU TO SEE', the footage attempts to connect the former First Lady and her husband President Bill Clinton, to a string of deaths including those of John F. Kennedy Jr., DNC staffer Seth Rich, and former White House lawyer Vince Foster.
Trump didn't offer any comment of his own to accompany the bizarre post.
The controversial footage pushes the 'Clinton Body Bags' conspiracy theory that has circulated since the 1990s.
The video shockingly claims that Hillary Clinton was somehow involved in JFK Jr.'s fatal 1999 plane crash because he was allegedly a 'frontrunner' for the New York Senate seat she would later win.
‘Remember John F Kennedy Jr? He was declared the front runner for the New York Senate seat back in 1999 days later, his plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, and his rival Hillary Clinton was elected senator,’ the video begins.
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[Regnum] Yemeni Houthis from the Ansar Allah movement launched two ballistic missiles at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv. This was stated on May 18 by Yahya Saria, a spokesman for the armed forces formed by the Houthis.
"Yemen's rocket forces carried out a military operation, attacking Ben Gurion Airport in the occupied Jaffa region with two ballistic missiles. The operation achieved its goal and forced millions of occupiers to take refuge in bomb shelters," a spokesman for the movement said on Al Masirah TV.
A much more realistic aim than actually hitting Israel, since yesterday we were informed that the IDF shot down one, while the other was never even on Israel’s radar — presumably falling very short.
A Houthi spokesman also said Yemeni rebel forces launched an attack drone towards the Israeli airport on the morning of May 17.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on May 18, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) recorded a new rocket attack from Yemen. It is noted that air raid sirens were activated in several areas of Israel after the rocket was launched from Yemen. Later, the IDF reported intercepting the rocket.
Earlier it was reported that the IDF intercepted a rocket launched from Yemen on May 9, and on May 4 Israel reported that debris from a rocket launched from Yemen fell in the Ben Gurion area. After the rocket attack, the use of airspace was suspended for an hour, then the airport resumed receiving and releasing aircraft.
[IsraelTimes] Police and border cops arrested nine protesters this evening during a hundreds-strong march along the Gaza border calling for an end to the war, as Israel ramps up its offensive in the Strip.
The protest, a march from the Sderot train station to the border with Gaza, was planned and approved in advance with police and the army on short notice, in light of yesterday’s announcement of a major new offensive dubbed “Gideon’s Chariots.”
Officers declared the anti-war demonstration illegal when protesters tried to burst onto Route 34 near the border. Organizers call the move a “non-violent act of civil disobedience, confronting police brutality, to block the roads leading the army into Gaza.”
Every word a lie.
Footage from the march shows several protesters attempting to disrupt traffic on the road while calling for an end to the war in Hebrew and Arabic, as police rush to shove demonstrators away from the highway guardrail. They later carry away several protesters to police vehicles, detaining them for questioning.
Among those arrested is prominent left-wing activist Alon Lee Green, who co-founded the Standing Together movement.
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As a column of tanks rolls down the road towards the Gaza border, Standing Together @omdimbeyachad activists, along with many more anti-war protesters, confront the border police, try to block the road, and distrupt the new offensive against the Palestinian civilians in Gaza. 🟣 pic.twitter.com/WgAuy5pXFW
— 🟣Uri Weltmann אורי וולטמן أوري فلطمان (@uriweltmann) May 18, 2025
There are always chest-puffing promises made at these conclaves. Often promises are all that appear.
[NAHARNET] Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-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... i, whose country hosted an Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... summit, said Baghdad would provide $40 million for the reconstruction of Leb ...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade.... and Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... after wars with Israel.
Iraq backs the creation of an "Arab fund to support reconstruction efforts" after crises in the region, Sudani told Arab leaders in Baghdad.
Iraq will contribute "$20 million to the reconstruction of Gaza and $20 million for the reconstruction of Lebanon," he added.
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[NAHARNET] An Israeli dronezap on Sunday targeted Renault Rapid car near an army checkpoint in the southern town of Beit Yahoun, wounding two people including a soldier, the Health Ministry said.
A Lebanese Army statement said the soldier sustained a moderate injury.
Israel has continued to launch strikes on Leb ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects.... despite a November 27 truce which sought to halt more than a year of hostilities with Hezbollah including two months of full-blown war.
Under the ceasefire, the Iran-backed Hezbollah was to pull back its fighters north of Lebanon's Litani River and dismantle any remaining military infrastructure to its south.
Israel was to withdraw all its forces from Lebanon, but it has kept troops in five areas that it deems "strategic".
The Lebanese Army has been deploying in the area as Israeli forces have withdrawn and has been dismantling Hezbollah infrastructure there.
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He's got that look in his eyes like he's able to sincerely believe that while simultaneously continuously looking for opportunities to steal other people's money.
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This is just a straight-up, in your face, what are you going to do about it comment thinly masquerading as an answer! He knows its a BS answer, the reporters know its a BS answer, and the smile is because he knows they know and are unwilling to press it.
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“ Richard Michael Daley is an American politician who served as the 54th mayor of Chicago, Illinois, from 1989 to 2011”
The current Mayor is just carrying on “Rich’s” actions. All the south side boys have moved on to different cities and states. It looks like Johnson learned his trade from one of the best.
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Mayor Brandon "Conehead" Johnson (D-CTU)
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Shorter "All Blacks are the same". Disgusting.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed Trump’s remarks as lies unworthy of a response, declared that Israel will be ELIMINATED , while the crowd repeatedly chanted “Death to America.”
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Iran would be an idiot to sign anything - they'll never give up their nukes - it's existential for them - plus trump killed their boy - why trump is even doing this in the first place is beyond me, except maybe so he can say 'i tried' before Israel wipes em out for good
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maybe so he can say 'i tried' before Israel wipes em out for good
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The people Trump thinks he can trust to make a deal, everyone.
AIPAC needs to destroy him in the midterms.
Wreck his shit.
He is putting Israel in mortal danger.
If Dems take the House he's getting impeached for sure. If they take the Senate he's getting convicted.
Arlington, Virginia bans their police from cooperating with ICE, even in the cases of illegal migrant gang members, Murderers, Rapists.
The Arlington County Board in Virginia, unanimously voted to ban Police from cooperating with ICE even in cases involving serious offenders… pic.twitter.com/zNPzpioOYG
[IsraelTimes] Project, slated to begin in June, is expected to take 3 years, cost over $1 billion; plan also calls for ‘mission centers’ in Jordan Valley to boost Israeli presence
The security cabinet on Sunday announced its approval of Defense Minister Israel Katz’s plan to construct a high-tech security barrier along the eastern border with Jordan to strengthen Israeli presence in the Jordan Valley.
The project — slated to begin in June — will include a 425-kilometer (264-mile) multi-layered defense system from Hamat Gader in Israel’s north to the Samar Sands, north of Eilat.
The NIS 5.2 billion ($1.4 billion) initiative is expected to take three years and will combine a physical barrier with advanced sensors, mobile military units and command infrastructure.
The plan also calls for bolstering Israeli presence in the Jordan Valley, which is part of the West Bank, by establishing "national mission centers," including pre-military academies and national service frameworks.
Officials said strengthening the border will deter Iranian efforts to smuggle weapons into Israel and create a new terror front via Jordan.
"The establishment of a security fence along the Israel-Jordan border...is a critical strategic step against Iran’s attempts to turn the eastern border into another terror front," said Katz.
"This is a strategic move that will bolster national security, reinforce our hold on the Jordan Valley, ensure Israel’s illusory sovereignty for years to come — and deal a blow to Iran’s efforts to turn the eastern border into a terror front," he added.
Work will begin on two priority segments totaling 80 kilometers (50 miles), while planning continues for the remainder of the fence. The project is being coordinated by an inter-ministerial team led by the Defense Ministry’s director general Maj. Gen. (res.) Amir Baram.
Currently, there is an aging chain link fence equipped with sensors along some of the border that Jordan shares with Israel and the West Bank. Other sections are only equipped with barbed wire.
The new fence will run from Hamat Gader at the southern edge of the Golan Heights to the Ramon International Airport north of Eilat. A 30-kilometer (18-mile) portion of the border with Jordan, from Eilat to Ramon Airport, was already upgraded in a similar fashion to Israel’s border barriers with Egypt and the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip in the 2010s.
The border’s porousness has made it a site of frequent gun- and drug-running. Officials say that weapons that have made it over the border — likely tens of thousands over the past decade — have fueled a surge in violence in the Arab community in Israel, and have been used by Paleostinian terrorists.
It has also allowed for migrants colonists seeking work to enter Israel illegally. On Sunday, two such migrants colonists entered from Jordan and reached the community of Yardena, north of Beit She’an, before residents encountered them and called the army. A similar incident occurred on Saturday, with one suspect crossing the border from Jordan and reaching the moshav, also undetected.
The idea of boosting the border fence or building some sort of border wall has been floated repeatedly by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others for more than a decade, although many see any such effort as unrealistic due to the sheer length of the border and the enormous cost.
The project was revived after the Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... terror group’s October 7, 2023, attack started the ongoing war. The onslaught also demonstrated the limits of border infrastructure, as thousands of forces of Evil breached Israel’s NIS 3.5 billion ($1.1 billion), state-of-the-art border fence with Gaza, and proceeded to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages.
Late last year, the Israel Defense Forces also announced the formation of a new division that will be tasked with defending the country’s border with Jordan.
In a statement, the IDF said the decision to launch the new eastern regional division was made following an examination of the military’s "operational needs and defense capabilities in the area, in accordance with the planning of the IDF’s force build-up, in the light of the lessons of war and the situational assessment."
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] Tomorrow, Trump and Putin are scheduled to hold talks to discuss direct talks between Russia and Ukraine, as well as the possibility of a ceasefire.
A phone call will be held at Trump's initiative. Trump expects that direct talks (first by phone, then in person) will help end the war on "acceptable terms."
The terms of the ceasefire have been announced - withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the territory of 4 regions of the Russian Federation. And then 30 days of truce. Ukraine, of course, does not want it.
Judging by the comments of Putin and the Foreign Ministry, the Russian Federation has not deviated one iota from the demands voiced last summer.
The current stage of negotiations only confirms this, as well as the voiced threat to make these conditions even worse by the next round of negotiations.
In reality, the US can certainly go for it if they see specific benefits in it for themselves. If there is a deal, then the question is (whether Trump will be able to completely bend Ukraine and Europe to this demand). Of course, there are significant doubts about this due to the position of the globalists, for whom such a scenario is a defeat. But without the US, they are forced to act now from a position of weakness. The negotiations in Istanbul took place according to the scenario of the Russian Federation and the US. Europe was not allowed to the negotiating table.
Threats of sanctions were ignored. It was not possible to disrupt the negotiations in one way or another. Zelensky's hysteria was ignored. Putin did not even consider it necessary to come. That is why the Western press is gnashing its teeth about "Putin's tactical victory" and quoting the Poles, "expecting hard days." No matter how Europe struts, it is dependent on the US. And this dependence on the US limits the military-political subjectivity of the EU. Moscow and Washington know about this and that is why they behave this way towards the European hysterics who draw their brown lines.
For now, apart from the 1000 for 1000 prisoner exchange, there is no actual progress, so while the sluggish negotiations will continue, Russia has already effectively begun the summer offensive campaign of 2025. Of course, if the goals of the SVO are achieved diplomatically, the war can be stopped in the coming months, but if the negotiations are disrupted, these goals will be achieved militarily in the next couple of years.
Literal Red Shirts demonstrating their heartfelt impotence and Jew hate.
[IsraelTimes] Organizers say 100,000 attend demonstration, calling it the Netherlands’ biggest protest in two decades, as new Israeli military offensive begins in war against Hamas terror group
Tens of thousands of red-clad protesters marched through the Dutch capital on Sunday to demand that their government do more to halt Israel’s campaign in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , in what organizers called the country’s biggest demonstration in two decades.
Human rights groups and aid agencies — including Amnesty International, Save the Children and Doctors Without Borders — estimated the crowd at more than 100,000 people.
The protest came as Israel launched the first stage of a new offensive in the Strip, dubbed "Gideon’s Chariots," aiming to "seize strategic areas" of the enclave. Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... -linked officials, who don’t distinguish between civilians and fighters, have reported over 100 people killed over the last 24 hours.
"We hope this is a wake-up call for the government," said teacher Roos Lingbeek, attending the march with her husband and their 12-week-old daughter, Dido, who slept in a carrier as her parents brandished a sign simply reading: "STOP."
David Prins, whose yarmulke was printed with the image of a watermelon — which shares the colors of the Paleostinian flag — told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named he was attending the protest "to speak out against the atrocities." The 64-year-old was standing across the street from the synagogue he attended growing up, which overlooks the field where the demonstration began.
Protesters walked a 3-mile (5-kilometer) loop around the city center of The Hague, to symbolically create the red line they said the government has failed to set.
Videos of the protest captured crowds chanting "From the river to the sea, Paleostine will be free!" — a phrase often interpreted as calling for the elimination of Israel altogether — as well as "Free, free Paleostine." Crowds also chanted, "Starving people is a crime."
The Hague is the site of both the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, both of which have seen cases in which Israel and its leaders are accused of violating international law, including by intentionally starving the Gazook population, during the campaign against Hamas.
Israel denies the allegations, pointing to its efforts to avoid civilian casualties, and, for much of the war, to facilitate the flow of aid into the enclave. Israel also points to Hamas’s practice of embedding itself among civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and mosques.
Marjon Rozema, of Amnesty International, told the AP on Sunday, "We are calling on the government to stop political, economic and military support to Israel," while the country continues to block humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Aid hasn’t entered Gaza since March 1, with Israel arguing that sufficient humanitarian assistance entered the Strip during a six-week ceasefire and that Hamas had been stealing much of that aid.
In recent weeks, though, some officials in the IDF have begun warning the political echelon that the enclave is on the brink of starvation. Israel has been involved in creating a new body — the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation — to distribute aid in the Strip. The GHF said it would begin to operate in the Strip by the end of the month, though Israel has yet to confirm this.
Dutch policy toward Israel is just one of many issues causing splits in the Netherlands’ fragile coalition government. Hard-right leader Geert Wilders is staunchly pro-Israel and his anti-immigrant Party for Freedom holds the largest number of seats in the country’s parliament.
Last week, however, foreign affairs minister Caspar Veldkamp of the minority center-right VVD party urged the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... to review a trade agreement with Israel, arguing that its blockade of humanitarian aid violated international law. Wilders hit back, denouncing the call as an "affront to cabinet policy."
The war in Gaza began October 7, 2023, when some 5,000 Hamas-led bully boyz invaded southern Israel from the Strip, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages. Fifty-eight captives remain — including 20 who are believed to be alive, and three about whom the government has grave concerns —and 35 who have been confirmed dead by the military.
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Red is the color of Trump.
These are just deluded populists being led around by the nose by sophisticated propaganda, probably funded by Russia.
Do the Dutch have an equivalent to AIPAC? Are they asleep at the wheel?
Somebody should be terrified that Mossad agents are wandering freely across Syria and elsewhere, presumably accidentally misplacing cell phones as they go….
[IsraelTimes] Covert operation retrieves entire Syrian archive 60 years after his execution in Damascus, includes passports, final will, letters, keys to his apartment
Some 2,500 documents and personal items belonging to legendary Israeli spy Eli Cohen were returned to Israel from Syria in a covert operation carried out by the Mosssd ...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end... , the Prime Minister’s Office said Sunday.
The announcement coincided with the 60th anniversary of Cohen’s public execution in Damascus on May 18, 1965, and was made during a ceremony in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mossad Director David Barnea presented the materials to Cohen’s widow, Nadia Cohen.
The thousands of items collectively made up the entirety of the Syrian intelligence archive on Eli Cohen, the PMO said, calling the operation a "historic" achievement. The operation was conducted with the help of a foreign intelligence agency, according to the statement.
Among the recovered materials were handwritten letters from Cohen to his family, proof of communications between the Israeli spy and senior Syrian officials, photos taken during his years undercover in Syria, and forged passports.
The collection also featured a host of Cohen’s personal belongings, including the keys to his Damascus apartment, which were confiscated by Syrian intelligence upon his arrest.
Cohen’s original will, drafted just hours before he was hanged, was also retrieved, the Prime Minister’s Office said.
Also found were extensive handwritten notes collected from his home by Syrian intelligence, which included tasks assigned to him by the Mossad such as instructions to monitor a target and gather intelligence on Syrian military bases in Quneitra.
The original document sentencing Cohen to death, as well as a letter allowing Rabbi Nissim Andabo — head of Damascus’s Jewish community at the time — to accompany Cohen in his final hours were also secured.
Finally, a thick orange folder was found, titled "Nadia Cohen," containing surveillance records tracking Cohen’s widow and her efforts to secure international intervention, including letters she sent to world leaders and the Syrian president pleading for his release.
The PMO attributed the success of the operation to decades-long efforts by the Mossad "to locate every piece of information about Eli Cohen in an attempt to shed light on his fate and burial place."
Barnea called the recovery "another step in advancing the investigation to locate the burial place of our man in Damascus."
"We will continue to work to locate and return all the missing, the fallen and the kidnapped," he added.
Netanyahu, in a statement of his own, said that the archive "will educate generations, and expresses our tireless commitment to returning all of our missing persons, prisoners of war and hostages."
Cohen, born in Egypt to a Jewish family, joined the Mossad in the early 1960s and infiltrated the top echelons of Syria’s politicianship under the alias Kamel Amin Thaabet.
The intelligence he obtained over four years was credited with playing a key role in Israel’s stunning success in the 1967 Six Day War, particularly in the capture of the Golan Heights.
He was tried and executed by the Syrian government for espionage on May 18, 1965.
His body has never been recovered, despite repeated efforts over the years by successive Israeli governments and the Mossad.
The recovery of the documents comes a week after the Mossad and the Israel Defense Forces recovered the remains of Sgt. First Class Zvi Feldman, who went missing in the First Leb ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... War’s battle of Sultan Yacoub in 1982. The body was recovered from "the heart of Syria" in a special operation.
The IDF has been deployed to nine posts inside southern Syria since the fall of the Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo... regime in December, mostly within a UN-patrolled buffer zone on the border between the countries.
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[Regnum] The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) ground forces have launched a large-scale ground operation, "Gideon’s Chariot," in the northern and southern areas of the Gaza Strip. This was reported on the Israeli army's Telegram channel.
"Over the past week, the Israeli Air Force has carried out a preliminary wave of strikes, hitting more than 670 Hamas terrorist targets across the Gaza Strip in an effort to disrupt enemy preparations and support ground operations," the statement said.
It is specified that the Israeli military hit such targets as warehouses with weapons and ammunition, launchers of anti-tank missiles, underground infrastructure facilities. It is also claimed that members of the movement, recognized by the Israeli side as terrorists, were eliminated.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the Gaza Strip Health Ministry reported on May 18 that 96 people were killed and more than 140 were injured after the morning attack by Israel. The ministry noted that civilian objects were hit. The ministry also added that after the resumption of shelling by Israeli troops in Gaza, a total of more than 3,000 people were killed and about 9,000 were injured.
The IDF also struck the Palestinian semi-exclave in early May. According to Al Jazeera, at least 66 people were killed in an Israeli air force attack on May 7, and 63 Palestinians the day before.
Israel will allow the import of a “basic amount” of food products to the Gaza Strip to prevent the threat of famine in the enclave. This was reported on May 18 by the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"On the recommendation of the Israel Defense Forces and in view of the urgent need to expand the intensive fighting to defeat Hamas, Israel will provide the population with basic food supplies to prevent a hunger crisis from arising in the Gaza Strip," the statement said.
Netanyahu's office also added that Israel intends to work to prevent Hamas from taking control of the distribution of humanitarian aid so that it does not end up in the hands of terrorists.
The office added that the hunger crisis would jeopardize the continuation of the large-scale ground operation "Gideon's Chariots" to defeat Hamas
[IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian man who spat on a female IDF soldier earlier today has turned himself in to the Paleostinian Authority, Hebrew outlets report.
Israeli police are currently trying to extradite him to Israel.
West Bank District commander Moshe Pinchi warns that police will reach the suspect themselves should he decline to turn himself in to Israeli authorities.
"It would be better for the suspect who spat on an IDF officer in the incident that occurred in Bat Yam to turn himself in to the Judea and Samaria District... before district forces reach him," Pinchi says in a statement.
The soldier had been on the way to her IDF base on a bus from Tel Aviv to Ramat Gan when she moved away from a young man listening to videos in Arabic.
"At some point, I moved to another seat because I was uncomfortable hearing that music," she recounted to the Walla news outlet.
"Then, when he got up to get off at a stop — I believe on Herzl Street in Ramat Gan — he stood next to me, spat in my face, and got off the bus," she said.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] Advertisement for the Chinese high-altitude strike UAV "Jiutian", which is expected to enter service with the PLA this summer.
Of interest (in addition to various suspended weapons), it is worth noting the declared ability to launch swarm kamikaze drones in clusters, which should automatically capture and destroy targets. For these purposes, two containers for batch launch of drones are built directly into the UAV body. The Chinese previously installed such containers on pickups and trucks.
Among the disadvantages, it is worth noting the large size, which makes the machine vulnerable to modern air defense systems. In a theater of military operations without serious air defense, such a machine will certainly punish.
I will assume that this is only a desired concept, and not a ready-made system, although the Chinese have been experimenting with this topic since the mid-10s. Then experiments were conducted with a mass drop of drones from a military transport. When technical problems (communication, guidance, coordination, range) are solved, swarm drones with a batch launch will become the new standard.
Well, large drones launching a bunch of small drones that can distinguish between a person, heavy, light armored vehicles, artillery, other drones - this is an approach to the very future (not the brightest), which was described by science fiction writers predicting the robotization of war.
It is necessary to dig in this direction now, so as not to find ourselves in a situation identical to the beginning of the SVO, when it turned out that the unmanned revolution was not fully understood in our country.
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Too big to lose? The ideal niche for a drone is small, cheap and deployable in large numbers. And for missions that are too hazardous for humans -- like the robots sent into the ruins of the Chernobyl reactor.
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[REGNUM] For several days now, the Spanish-speaking segment of the Internet has been actively sharing an ominous video in which a curly, golden-haired beauty in a pink bodysuit is rapidly sent to the next world.
Viewers of the uncensored versions understand that the girl was shot, and on the table - right in the area of the dying woman's cleavage - a pool of blood can be seen. Titillating. Might have been the aortic arch.
The deceased turned out to be a well-known Mexican beauty blogger Valeria Marquez from the municipality of Zapopan in the state of Jalisco. The girl often appeared on social networks, demonstrating her luxurious lifestyle.
Here you have posing on board private jets, bouquets of hundreds of roses taken from all angles, and gatherings with girlfriends in expensive restaurants.
Evil tongues said that Valeria owed all this not to her blogging success, but to very specific boyfriends involved in the criminal world of Mexico.
At the moment, local investigators have not been able to establish the cause of the murder, but one thing is clear: it is unlikely that drug cartels were involved.
DANGEROUS "FRIENDS"
Valeria arrived at the beauty salon in Zapopan where she worked and planned to stream for her subscribers. At the same time, she was expecting a gift from an unknown admirer, so when the courier entered the room, she was not at all scared.
The man fired several accurate shots and quickly fled the scene, most likely on a motorcycle, as killers in this region do.
Social media immediately suggested that the girl had been “ordered” by her ex-boyfriend Jesus Hernandez, a millionaire and one of the influential members of the Honduran mafia, who is wanted.
There was evidence that Hernandez threatened Marquez and she even told someone somewhere about it. The girl did not take any real measures for her own safety.
A little later in the story, another character emerged - a member of the Jalisco New Generation cartel nicknamed "Double R" (RR, Double R - he has many names like that).
In the world, Double R turned out to be Ricardo Ruiz Velasco , who first came to the attention of law enforcement after successfully organizing riots in the states of Guanajuato and Jalisco in August 2022.
Then Ricardo Ruiz not only paralyzed traffic in several cities by precisely marking the locations for car blockades, but also showed himself to be a talented media manager.
He organized the mass distribution of videos filmed on the streets of cities in chaos, showing cartel fighters threatening rivals and police and promoting the invincibility of the Jalisco New Generation.
It is unknown how Double R and the beauty blogger met, but there were quite a few people who claimed that there was some kind of relationship between the two and that Ricardo was very jealous.
Allegedly, because Valeria easily accepted gifts from other members of the Jalisco New Generation cartel, as well as from fans of this organized crime group.
A less frivolous person would have every reason to fear Ricardo's jealousy. It turns out that several years ago he was a suspect in the unsolved murder of Venezuelan model Daisy Ferrer Arenas .
The girl was dating one of the regional leaders of the Jalisco New Generation cartel, did something wrong and was kidnapped from the bar where she worked at the time.
Daisy was held captive for several days and then executed with a shot to the head. Her body was dumped in a gutter. One of the four killers involved in this black deed, according to separate accounts, was Double R.
Valeria allegedly knew very well what Ricardo was capable of, was very afraid of him, but even in this version of events she did not take any real precautions.
There were people who suggested that Double R and the former Valery from Honduras were acting together - they say, the Jalisco New Generation cartel is cooperating with the organized crime group of this small Central American country, so there is no contradiction here.
IT'S ABOUT JEALOUSY
The story of Valeria Marquez's murder could not do without the famous "cherchez la femme".
Social media users found recent videos and photos where Valeria danced and hugged with her equally beautiful friend and wrote that they had finally made peace, although they had recently been “fighting to the death.” The reason for the conflict remained unknown to the public.
Other details also emerged: it turned out that this very friend had advised Valeria to stay in the beauty salon and stream. Right during the broadcast, she had been sending her messages asking her to stay longer, and the day before, she had allegedly said goodbye to her with the words, “Next time I won’t see you in person.”
There has been no official confirmation of this version from the authorities of the state of Jalisco and the municipality of Zapopan. However, everyone agrees on one thing - the main motive of the customer was clearly jealousy.
SPOILED THE STATISTICS
Valeria Marquez's murder is currently being investigated under the so-called femicide protocol, when it comes to killing a woman for hateful reasons. The problem is so widespread in Central and South American countries that a separate term was even coined to describe it.
Girls often become both accidental victims of mafia clashes and incur the wrath of drug cartels who are not accustomed to ceremony and are alien to chivalrous morals.
Apparently, something exactly like this happened to Valeria, who got involved with representatives of the criminal world.
As experienced matrons note, many young Mexican women want to date drug lords and devote their time to improving their appearance, and not at all to education or building a career.
The calculation is simple: such a lover, husband or (best of all) father of the child will provide physical protection and financial support. Girls prefer not to think about the fact that at some point they will have to pay for their relationship with a criminal - maybe it will pass.
Valeria Marquez was not spared. The mayor of Zapopan confirmed that the girl had indeed received threats and that the murder was clearly a contract killing.
True, the official made a reservation that such a case was only an isolated episode, and in general they are successfully solving the problem of violent crimes in the state of Jalisco. If, they say, what happened to Valeria had not happened, then the crime statistics would have been quite acceptable.
While the authorities are frantically simulating a vigorous investigation into the murder, information has already leaked into the media that the sinister Double R is not even on the list of suspects.
It is possible that his name will eventually disappear from the case file, as once happened in the case of Daisy Ferrer.
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[REGNUM] Donald Trump has once again stated that the honor of victory in World War II belongs exclusively to the United States. This includes the implication that without American Lend-Lease supplies, the USSR and its allies would not have defeated Hitler. But was this aid a decisive or significant factor in the defeat of Nazism?
"In Russia they celebrated (the 80th anniversary of the Victory), in France they celebrated, except for us. We didn't celebrate. But we won this war," the US President said. The same thesis in a more moderate version (which was voiced , among others, by the same Trump) sounds like this: before the opening of the second front in Europe, the Americans helped Britain, and then the Soviet Union, with Lend-Lease equipment, shells and food. And that means that this help predetermined the victory.
A quote attributed to Joseph Stalin has been circulating on social networks and even in press publications : “Without these (American) machines, we would not have won the war.” In fact, this is a distorted fragment of the book “Through His Eyes” – a blitz memoir by Franklin Roosevelt’s son, Elliot, who accompanied his father to international conferences.
According to Roosevelt Jr., "on the sidelines" of Tehran in 1943, Stalin said in the presence of Roosevelt and Winston Churchill : "The main thing in this war is machines. The United States has proven that it can produce 8,000 to 10,000 planes a month. Therefore, the United States is a country of machines. These machines, received under Lend-Lease, are helping us win the war."
Roosevelt responded by "praising the mighty Red Army, which is using this technique and, while we are here dining, is stubbornly pushing back the Nazi hordes."
There is nothing similar to this dialogue in Soviet sources from the 1940s and 1950s. But note that the book "Through His Eyes" was translated and published in Moscow in 1947. This means that there was no objection to this interpretation of Lend-Lease in the USSR.
Today, the debate about the criticality of Lend-Lease deliveries continues unabated, and is exacerbated by Trump's boasts. But to appreciate the significance of American aid, we must understand how it was organized.
WHAT IS LEND-LEASE
The term "lend-lease" itselfThis is a tracing of two English words: to lend — to lend and to lease — to rent out, to lease. Hence the modern business term "leasing".
In part, Lend-Lease was similar to this type of long-term lease, when a leasing company buys, say, a truck from a car dealership, and hands the car over to a grocery store owner for a certain period of time. The owner uses the truck, makes payments to the "lessor," and at the end of the contract either buys the car or refuses it.
Only in this case, the role of the car dealer was played by the American military-industrial complex and other big US businesses, the role of the leasing company was played by the Roosevelt administration, and the role of the clients was played by the British Empire, the Republic of China , the Soviet Union, and then Australia, New Zealand, and Charles de Gaulle's "Fighting France".
Another catchy metaphor for Lend-Lease was coined by Roosevelt himself. If your neighbor's house is on fire and you have a garden hose, you lend it to your neighbor before your own house catches on fire. Once the fire is out, your neighbor will either return the hose or, if it breaks, pay for it.
The legal basis for Lend-Lease was the " Defense of the United States Act " passed by Congress on March 11, 1941 (that is, almost 9 months before the United States entered World War II). It allowed the president to transfer military and civilian equipment, ammunition, food, medicine and medical equipment, petroleum products and other raw materials to any country whose defense was "vital" to the national security of the United States.
The law prescribed the Lend-Lease scheme. The US provides a long-term loan to an ally country (usually an interest-free loan). Then the "fire hose" is transferred: equipment, machinery, etc. Purchases are made at the expense of the US Treasury.
After the end of military operations, the property delivered under Lend-Lease, which was not lost and remained suitable for civilian purposes, is paid for in full or in part from the provided credit. Or it is returned in kind. And then the ally returns the loan itself.
HOW THE SCHEME WORKED AND HOW THE USSR WAS CONNECTED TO IT
The United States had been transferring goods to Britain and China to defend against the Germans and Japanese since 1940, even before the Lend-Lease program began. But these were cash-and-carry deliveries. Each of the Roosevelt administration's deals had to be manually carried through Congress, overcoming the resistance of isolationists who called for maximum distancing from a new world war in Europe, East Asia, and the Pacific.
When Roosevelt ran for a third term in 1940, he promised: "Our boys will not be sent to fight any foreign wars." But at the same time, the US president was determined to support Britain. Especially since Churchill pleaded: "Give us the tools, and we will finish the job." But in November 1940, London notified its ambassador : "Britain is broke" financially, and only supplies on credit can save it.
Roosevelt handed over the Lend-Lease Declaration to Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek in December 1940, but it was only in March that the corresponding law was pushed through Congress.
On March 27, 1941, Congress approved $7 billion (152 billion today's dollars) for the Lend-Lease program.
At the end of October 1941, at the most difficult moment of the Battle of Moscow, the program was extended to the USSR. Our country was granted an interest-free loan of 1 billion dollars (21.7 billion in today's equivalent). It is curious that the program was launched on November 7, 1941, the day of the historic parade on Red Square.
Historians ask: why was the Soviet Union not included in the Lend-Lease program immediately after June 22? The most plausible answer is political. One of the obstacles is considered to be the inclusion of the Baltic republics in the USSR in 1940, which the USA did not recognize.
However, the Roosevelt administration had been secretly negotiating with Moscow since the summer of 1941. Roosevelt's special envoy Harry Hopkins, who spoke with Stalin, wrote that the Soviet leader had already been working out the logistics of future shipments in July:
"He told me... that it was difficult to enter Arkhangelsk, but still possible. He was sure that his icebreakers could keep the port free all winter. Vladivostok was dangerous, he said, because it could be cut off by Japan at any time, and the railways and roads in Persia were inadequate. Nevertheless, all these routes had to be used."
After the USSR was included in the Lend-Lease program, Washington was informed that Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek were unhappy that the US had divided the supply flow not between two, but between three, including Stalin.
But for some time all clients were left without what was promised.
On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, and the United States entered the war. Due to the urgent rearmament of the army, supplies abroad slowed down (for their resumption, Roosevelt's order was needed not to break the commitments). But soon the American military-industrial complex, the auto industry, and "big chemistry" began to work with renewed vigor. And their owners could be pleased with the fact that the goods were going not only to the US army, but also to the allies.
As a result of World War II, Britain received $31.4 billion (683 billion in 2025 prices) in Lend-Lease aid, the Soviet Union received $11.3 (245) billion, France received $3.2 (about 70) billion, and China received $1.6 (less than 35) billion.
FOUR WAYS
Lend-lease in the USSR went along four routes: the Pacific, the Arctic, through Iran, which had been occupied by Soviet and British troops since August 1941, and through the Black Sea. The first three routes accounted for more than 90% of deliveries.
The shortest, but most dangerous, was the Arctic route – across the North Atlantic and further into the Soviet Arctic.
Here the convoys were under constant threat from the German Air Force and Navy based in Norway. The most famous loss was the American-British-Soviet convoy PQ-17 (June–July 1942), of which 22 of 35 ships were sunk. The blame for the incident is placed on First Lord of the Admiralty Dudley Pound , who ordered "Convoy scatter!" leaving the transport ships unescorted.
The Iranian route was the longest and safest. The journey from the US to Iranian ports alone took 75 days. There were frequent cases when ships waited in Iranian ports for unloading for more than 30 days, and equipment arrived in Soviet Transcaucasia with sand in its engines. Unlike the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the Persian Corridor was almost unhindered, with the exception of raids by local bandits, for defense against whom the crews were issued Thompson submachine guns.
The most spectacular delivery method was the “Alsib” – the “Alaska-Siberia” air route, along which American planes were ferried from the city of Nome, Alaska, to Krasnoyarsk.
IT LOOKED SMOOTH ON PAPER
Of the 15.7 million tons of cargo that arrived in the USSR during the entire war, 11 million tons, or 70.7% of deliveries, fell in 1943–1945. Before that, things had been going neither here nor there, not only because of force majeure in the form of the threat of Luftwaffe raids and German submarines, but also because of the fault of the suppliers themselves.
In early 1942, the head of the Soviet military mission to the United States, Alexander Repin, visited the White House and handed Roosevelt a list of complaints. In addition to the long shipping times, Moscow complained about the poor quality of equipment and the carelessness of personnel:
"The crews of the transport ships are assembled indiscriminately and several days before departure... The amount of ammunition sent along with the weapons is so insignificant that soon most of the tanks and aircraft will be inoperative... There is an acute shortage of spare parts for US-made aircraft, and 30% of the machines delivered are inoperative."
For his work in securing supplies, Repin was awarded the American rank of Commander of the Legion of Honor. At the close of the Yalta Conference, Roosevelt presented this award to Stalin.
"COBRA" WITH A TELEPHONE AND "MASS GRAVE - 7"
Opinions about the quality of military equipment arriving in the USSR varied.
For example, the American fighter P-39 "Airacobra", of which 4500 units were delivered to the USSR, had a good radio that worked as a "city telephone" and great firepower: the ability to simultaneously shoot bullets and shells, from which the German "Junkers" literally fell apart. Soviet ace Alexander Pokryshkin flew such a machine, who came up with the idea of using this "mixed" combination in combat.
Despite a serious drawback - the engine was located at the rear, which made it easy for the aircraft to go into a flat spin - in the hands of a professional pilot it turned into a formidable weapon. True, the Airacobras were supplied to the Soviet Union due to the lack of demand in other theaters of military operations, where air battles took place at high altitudes: this model operated at medium and low altitudes.
Reviews of the tanks were less flattering. The M3 "Li" looked like a prototype of a fantasy robot: it was three meters high, had two guns and a crew of seven. Despite a good acceleration of up to 40 kilometers per hour, to fire the main gun, it was necessary to turn the tank itself: our tankers nicknamed it BM-7 "a mass grave for seven."
The Allied tanks, beautifully lined with leather and equipped with radios, were not winter-ready. The Valentine's tracks did not grip the ground well enough: if one roller was damaged, the armored vehicle was immobilized. Some American vehicles, including the Shermans, even lay on their bellies in the snow.
Many Soviet tank crews were afraid to receive Western tanks, preferring their native T-34. Churchill also highly praised the characteristics of this legendary machine:
"There were three great weapons in World War II: the English linear gun, the German Messerschmitt aircraft and the Soviet T-34 tank. However, if in the first two cases I know who did it and how, then I absolutely do not understand how such a miracle tank appeared!"
ROOSEVELT EGGS AND AGED BREAD
Strictly speaking, we should be talking about the allied Lend-Lease, not the American one. In addition to the USA, the USSR's suppliers were Great Britain and its dominion Canada. But the United States accounted for 94% of the total volume of deliveries.
More importantly, how did the allied aid compare with what the Soviet Union itself produced in the factories and plants evacuated deep into the country?
From 1941 to 1945, the USSR received 5,218 tanks from Great Britain and 7,500 from the United States. In total, 110,000 tanks were produced in our country at that time. That is, the share of allied vehicles did not exceed 12%, which does not allow us to talk about their decisive role in defeating the Nazis on the Eastern Front.
The ratio for aircraft was approximately the same: those supplied by the Allies accounted for 15.5% of those manufactured in the Soviet Union.
One of the symbols of the American Lend-Lease was the "commander's Willys" - the Willys MB army vehicle with increased cross-country ability. In total, in 1941-45, our country received 400 thousand passenger cars and trucks. This is significant, but the share of Western vehicles in the Red Army's "automobile fleet" did not exceed 32.8%, the rest was provided by our auto industry.
Under Lend-Lease, the USSR received about 1,900 steam locomotives. The aid was very timely, because due to enemy bombing and shelling, the number of locomotives, so necessary for the front and rear, decreased from 27.9 thousand in 1941 to 23 thousand in 1943. On the other hand, Lend-Lease steam locomotives made up less than 8% of the total number running on our railways.
Much less noticeable was the weapons aid. Guns of various calibers sent to the Soviet Union made up 1.26% of the total, and for machine guns this figure was even lower - only 0.1%.
At the same time, historians call toluene, from which trinitrotoluene (TNT) was prepared: an explosive material for shells and mines, a truly important component for the fight against the invaders. The USSR lacked oil, the main raw material for the production of this component.
Thank you for the help with food, especially considering that in 1941 the Nazis captured territories where up to 40% of the grain in the USSR was grown. In 1941-45, about 5 million tons of food were transported under Lend-Lease. True, more than half of these deliveries - 2.76 million tons - did not occur during the most difficult period of the beginning of the war, but in 1942-44.
The symbols of American aid were "Roosevelt eggs" - American egg powder and canned stew. In addition, the Soviet soldiers were provided with frozen allied beef and pork, canned goods, sausages and bacon, butter and vegetable oil, and cheese. Infantryman Vasily Lobachev also recalled more exotic products:
"Once we received, through Lend-Lease, bread baked in 1936 in special packages. And imagine, it was delicious! It was also given in dry rations."
WE HELP BY MAKING A PROFIT
The Lend-Lease program was essentially curtailed in May 1945 after Germany's capitulation and was completely terminated in September when Japan surrendered.
As has already been said above, Lend-Lease is not charity. In 1947, the Harry Truman administration presented the USSR with a bill for 2.7 (35.5 in today's prices) billion dollars for the undamaged Lend-Lease property that remained at our disposal by 1945. Moscow considered the assessment to be too high, and negotiations that dragged on until 1949 led to nothing.
The fact that the United States has reduced the amount of debt several times (and this is taking into account the inflation of the dollar!) indicates that they do not have a clear methodology for calculating it.
Or that they despaired of collecting the original and even revised amounts, and so presented numbers they hoped they might actually get.
In 1972, the administration of "Tricky Dick" Richard Nixon , against the backdrop of détente, agreed with Moscow that we would pay $722 million in installments (until 2001), but with interest. A year later, the USSR made the first payment of $48 million, and then the Americans themselves ruined everything. In 1974, Congress passed the Jackson-Vanik sanctions amendment, which not only complicated trade between the USSR and the USA, but also the credit relations between the two countries.
The negotiations were put on hold until 1990, and a year later, when the USSR collapsed, Russia, as the legal successor, took on the Lend-Lease debts.
The country, which paid in blood for the freedom of the planet from Nazism, paid off its debts only in 2006, although it received almost three times less cargo from Washington during the war than London.
On the other hand, American business clearly did not lose out during the years of World War II, both from military orders and from Lend-Lease exports.
Wages in the country increased by 44%. General Motors, which produced tanks, aircraft engines and the famous Studebaker trucks, increased its sales from $1.1 billion to $3.1 billion from 1938 to 1945. Douglas Aircraft achieved even more impressive figures, increasing its sales from $28 billion to $987 billion in 1941-1945.
To sum up, we can formulate a remote response to Trump: Russia is grateful to the United States for the timely deal concluded in 1941, which helped our country shoulder the main burden of fighting the common enemy. The importance of Lend-Lease supplies should not be underestimated. But they should be treated objectively: as a project that helped some to establish industry and earn money, and others to bring the long-awaited Victory closer.
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The man has the receipts. Partial note - while Soviet industry was shipping east during 1941, the critical steel for tanks and armored vehicles was coming from the US. Much more in the tome.
#2
We should have let the Russians get crushed.
Allying with communists was a HUGE mistake.
We created a monster, barely won the Cold War and today are dealing with a threat to Ukraine and all Europe from Poland to Paris.
We could have disposed of them long ago.
Don't forget Critical Theory and Cultural Marxism came from Russia.
And those books that the Germans burned? Turns out they were full of transgenderism and other horrid curses.
Via Bolshevik Soviet Jews.
Russia /= Soviets
Soviets were defeated, the CCCP crumbled, the Wall fell, Warsaw broke up - the Cold War was Won. The only people unclear of this are Millennials who have listened to their Boomer Grand Pa's tell too many stories. Papa's who prepared their whole life for a war with Soviets that never materialized and they are not letting it go their anthem that the Soviets Must Be Defeated.
In my timeline and life, I've met more American Marxists than Russian Commies - personally havent really seen a soviet since the Berlin Wall fell in 1989.
Orthodox Christians & Roman Catholics should be natural allies. WWJD? And in our battle against the Woke Eco Globalists, Russia again would make a natural ally.
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[NewsFront] 21:46 Night shots works of the Inokhodets UAV on Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment in the area of the settlement of Vorozhba in Sumy Oblast. 20:41 Servicemen of the tank regiment of the 90th Guards Tank Division of the Center group of forces are improving skills in conducting combat at a training ground in the rear area of the SVO zone.
The assault troops train in taking an enemy stronghold while dismounting from an infantry fighting vehicle, firing small arms and grenade launchers, passing through an obstacle course, and overcoming water obstacles.
19:40 Sappers of the 42nd Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the Dnepr group of forces daily discovering and destroying enemy mines in the Orekhov direction of the Zaporizhia region.
18:39 FPV drone operator of the Vostok military group destroyed Stryker armored personnel carrier and disrupted the rotation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the South Donetsk direction.
Scouts discovered a US-made Stryker armored personnel carrier transporting Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters near the village of Komar. The target was hit by an FPV drone with a night camera. The surviving enemy personnel fled, abandoning the wounded and dead.
17:51 Konstantinovskoye direction. Advance of the 20th Motorized Rifle Division to Poltavka –MAP.
17:33 South Donetsk direction. Russian Armed Forces storm Zelenoye Pole and Novopol –MAP.
16:36 Rear paratroopers of the Dnepr group of forces equipped a protected underground complex for restoring the unit's combat capability.
15:40 Night shots works UAV "Inohodets" on the equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement of Vorozhba, Sumy region.
15:11 Around 12:00 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle of the aircraft type over the territory of the Republic of Crimea.
13:15 Footage of the liberation of the settlement of Bogatyr has been published by the Russian Armed Forces –VIDEO.
12:35 The Russian Armed Forces were able to clear a large “pocket” southwest of Makeyevka, which had been held by Ukrainian occupiers for a long time –MAP.
12:20 From 9.30 to 11.00 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type over the territory of the Republic of Crimea.
12:19 Summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation as of May 18, 2025
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.
Units of the North group of forces defeated concentrations of manpower and equipment of a tank brigade, two assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and three territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Bessalovka, Ryzhevka, Sadki, Zapselye, Yunakovka and Volfino in the Sumy region.
In the Khar'kov direction, formations of three mechanized and a motorized infantry brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Chugunovka, Otradnoye, Volchansk and Vasilenkovo in the Khar'kov region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 160 servicemen, two combat armored vehicles, 11 automobiles, four field artillery pieces and an electronic warfare station.
Units of the "West" group of forces improved their tactical position. They defeated formations of two mechanized, mountain assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a territorial defense brigade, a national guard brigade and two border detachments of the border service of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Kolodeznoye, Dvurechanskoye, Novoosinovo, Kutkovka, Peschanoye, Kupyansk in the Khar'kov region, Kirovsk and Yampol in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 240 servicemen, three infantry fighting vehicles, seven cars, a 155mm self-propelled artillery unit AS-90 made in the UK, two electronic warfare stations "Quertus" and "Anklav", as well as three ammunition depots. Units of the "Southern" group of forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions. They inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of six mechanized, airmobile, motorized infantry and assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Seversk, Serebryanka, Belaya Gora, Pleshcheyevka, Zarya, Aleksandro-Kalinovo, Zaliznyanskoye, Kleban-Byk and Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost up to 200 servicemen, an Italian-made Puma armored personnel carrier, an armored combat vehicle, six cars, three artillery pieces and three electronic warfare stations.
Units of the "Center" group of forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense. They defeated formations of four mechanized, assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and three brigades of the National Guard in the areas of the settlements of Poltavka, Koptevo, Novoekonomicheskoe, Novosergeevka, Popov Yar, Udachnoye, Ulyanovka, Kotlino, Zverevo, Dimitrov and Krasnoarmeysk of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy's losses amounted to 420 troops, seven armored combat vehicles, including an M113 armored personnel carrier and a US-made HMMWV armored car, two Canadian-made Senator armored personnel carriers, eight pickup trucks, two field artillery guns and an Israeli-made RADA tactical airborne radar system.
As a result of active and decisive actions by units of the "East" military group, the settlement of Bogatyr in the Donetsk People's Republic was liberated.
The manpower and equipment of the mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the territorial defense brigade and the national guard brigade were damaged in the areas of the settlements of Temirovka in the Zaporizhia region, Otradnoye in the Donetsk People's Republic and Berezove in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 175 servicemen, a tank, two armored combat vehicles, seven cars and two field artillery pieces.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of the mechanized, mountain assault brigades, the coastal defense brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Pavlivka, Kamenskoye, Mala Tokmachka, Novodanilovka in the Zaporizhia region, Ponyatovka and Tokarevka in the Kherson region.
More than 50 servicemen, a US-made HMMWV armored fighting vehicle, four vehicles, a US-made M777 155mm howitzer, an electronic warfare station and an ammunition depot were destroyed.
Operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the groups of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted damage on military airfield infrastructure facilities, ammunition and fuel depots, storage sites for unmanned aerial vehicles, radar stations, as well as temporary deployment points of units of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 139 districts.
Air defense systems shot down seven US-made JDAM guided aerial bombs and 75 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:
662 aircraft,
283 helicopters,
57,591 unmanned aerial vehicles,
605 anti-aircraft missile systems,
23,384 tanks and other armored combat vehicles,
1,563 multiple launch rocket system combat vehicles,
25,019 field artillery pieces and mortars,
35,641 units of special military vehicles.
12:08 As a result of active and decisive actions by units of the "East" group of forces released the settlement of Bogatyr in the Donetsk People's Republic.
11:18 A light guided missile (LMUR) strike in Zarechny (Kirovsk) was destroyed UAV control point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
10:46 Oskol area. The Russian Armed Forces have taken up new positions south of Grekovka –MAP.
10:45 From 8.20 to 9.00 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed four Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type over the territory of the Belgorod region.
09:15 From 7.15 to 8.20 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed 14 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type over the territory of the Belgorod region.
07:33 Changes to map over the past 24 hours:
Advance west of the village of Bogatyr
Liberated np Bogatyr
Russian Armed Forces entered Romanovka
Advance west of Novaya Poltavka
Russian Armed Forces storm Dyleevka railway station
New Poltavka has been liberated
Russian Armed Forces entered Romanovka
07:08 During the past night, air defense systems on duty destroyed seven Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles:
Four UAVs – over the territory of the Belgorod region,
Three UAVs – over the territory of the Bryansk region.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] There have already been 130 clashes on the front since the beginning of the day.
The Russians carried out 54 airstrikes, dropped 80 KABs, attacked with kamikaze drones and shelled Ukrainian troop positions and populated areas more than 3,600 times.
Since the beginning of the day, 130 combat clashes have occurred on the front. Ukrainian defenders continue to resolutely repel the enemy's attempts to advance deep into our territory, inflicting fire damage on them. This was noted in the General Staff's report on Sunday, May 18.
In total, Russian troops carried out 54 air strikes, dropping 80 KABs. They also used 1,098 kamikaze drones to destroy the positions of our troops and populated areas, and carried out almost 3,700 attacks.
The enemy attacked four times in the Kharkov direction, in the Vovchansk area, and also carried out air strikes in the areas of the settlements of Kolodeznoye and Kamenka.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy made two attempts to attack in the direction of Novaya Kruglyakovka and was rebuffed.
In the Liman direction, the Defense Forces repelled 19 assaults on positions near the settlements of Tverdokhlebovo, Kopanki, Ridkodub, Grekovka, Torskoye and in the direction of Karpovka, Olgovka, Zelenaya Dolina and Grigoryevka. Two more clashes are ongoing.
In the Seversky direction, the enemy attacked six times near Belogorovka and Verkhnekamyansky, one combat clash remains unfinished.
Since the beginning of the day, the enemy has attacked in the areas of Chasovy Yar, Belaya Gora, Kurdyumovka and Stupochki in the Kramatorsk direction. Ukrainian units have repelled six attacks.
Six combat clashes took place in the Toretsk direction today. The enemy tried to storm the positions of Ukrainian units in the areas of Toretsk, Petrovka, Ozaryanovka, Dilievka and Druzhba, two combat clashes are currently ongoing.
In the Pokrovsk direction, since the beginning of this day, the enemy has attacked 44 times in the areas of the settlements Malinovka, Mirolyubovka, Elizavetovka, Lisovka, Dachenskoye, Zvirovoye, Novosergeevka, Udachnoye, Troitskoye, Alekseyevka, Andreyevka, Kotlinoe and in the directions of Zori, Shevchenko Pervy, Popovy Yar. Our defenders have repelled 40 assaults, four more clashes are still ongoing. Popov Yar, Shevchenko Pervy, Sukhoi Yar, Novoukrainka, Zaporozhye and Pokrovsk received airstrikes.
In this direction, according to preliminary data, 151 occupiers have been neutralized, 84 of whom have been irrevocably destroyed. In addition, Ukrainian soldiers destroyed four vehicles, a satellite communications system, eight shelters, 10 motorcycles, a mortar, and five UAVs.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled 22 attacks by invaders in the areas of Konstantinopol, Bogatyr, Shevchenko, Volnoye Pole, Ravnopol, seven clashes are still ongoing. Novodarovka and Burlatskoye were hit by airstrikes.
The enemy did not conduct offensive operations in the Gulyai-Polye direction, but launched an airstrike on Gulyai-Polye.
In the Orekhov direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled one enemy attack in the direction of Lukyanivske. Novoandreyevka came under air strike.
In the Dnieper direction, enemy units tried to advance once, but the attack was repelled. Odradokamyanka came under air strike.
There have been 14 clashes with the Russian invaders in the Kursk direction, one of which is still ongoing. The enemy carried out 18 airstrikes, dropped 32 guided bombs, and carried out 196 artillery attacks.
The General Staff noted the soldiers of the 128th separate mountain assault Transcarpathian brigade, the 406th separate artillery brigade named after General Ensign Oleksiy Almazov, and the 27th Pechersk regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine, who effectively destroy the enemy, inflicting significant losses in manpower and equipment.
Let us recall that over the past 24 hours , the Russian army lost 1,130 soldiers and more than 140 units of weapons and military equipment of the occupiers. The total combat losses of the Russians from 24.02.22 to 18.05.25 amounted to approximately 973,730 people.
As reported, the names of 108,608 Russian soldiers killed during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine have been established, including more than 5,000 officers.
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