Good God man. The President of the United States is one big clogged fuel filter. Durrdurrrdurrdurdurrrrr No one in their right minds can justify voting for this level of brain damage. pic.twitter.com/xvnWLWopmM
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Trump made his fortune then decided to enter politics. Biden entered politics to make his fortune. It was recently disclosed that he has now re-financed his Delaware residence 22 times to leverage equity.
Biden, a failure in both politics and personal finance.
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The puppeteers have conceded that their puppet is worn out and can’t be re-elected; he will be replaced. At this point, doing so at the Convention would be consistent with the operation of a representative democracy (which is what we are) though some rules or laws may have to be changed or Lautenburged.
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Trouble is, China probably agrees.
If Jojo were to remain in power, China would probably hold off and let the rot continue. If Trump is in the offing, they probably think they need to act soon.
Israeli Airstrikes were launched Overnight against Hezbollah Military and Infrastructure Targets within the Towns of Khiam and Odaisseh in Southern Lebanon, resulting in Significant Damage to several Buildings. pic.twitter.com/imbWSWqtf3
Diplomats and Officials of U.S. Allies have expressed Disappointment and Worry about tonight’s Debate Performance by President Joe Biden, with some Hinting they are Concerned that Biden may not be ready for a Second Term as the Leader of a Nuclear-Armed Superpower. pic.twitter.com/2V3TrlomzX
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And be sure and take your talking dust mop when you go.
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Jill controls all the delegates and a huge pile of campaign cash that serves as her IRA. Explain to me why she should relinquish her throne and state dinners. For the good of her husband? For the good of the country? Give me a break.
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As I said in another comment here, she wants to get the Jean Carnahan promotion.
Ain't gonna happen. She should take the money and run.
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[IsraelTimes] Move by US philanthropist and New England Patriots owner comes as Modern Orthodox institution readies for influx of students who left secular universities amid anti-Israel protests
[IsraelTimes] Army bulldozers didn’t detect large explosives buried deep under road in northern West Bank; most damage caused when 2nd bomb exploded as troops came to assist
An Israeli soldier was killed and several others were maimed by roadside kabooms in the northern West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp early on Thursday, the military said.
The slain soldier was named as Cpt. Alon Sacgiu, 22, a sniper team commander in the Kfir Brigade’s Haruv reconnaissance unit, from Hadera.
The Israel Defense Forces had been carrying out an overnight raid in Jenin aimed at arresting or killing members of a Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... terror network in the city and adjacent refugee camp. It was part of a long series of counter-terrorism operations in the area, military sources said.
According to an initial IDF probe, a Panther armored personnel carrier (APC) used by a medical force was hit by a bomb planted under a road in Jenin during the operation, at around midnight between Wednesday and Thursday.
The blast slightly hurt the soldiers inside the APC. As additional forces reached the scene and worked to evacuate the maimed soldiers, another bomb went kaboom!, leading to the death of Sacgiu and the injury of additional troops.
The Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group grabbed credit for the attack.
In all, 16 soldiers were maimed by the bombs — one seriously, five moderately, and the rest lightly.
The slain soldier and the more seriously maimed were all outside of their armored vehicle when the second bomb went off, according to the IDF’s initial probe. The APC was largely able to protect the soldiers inside from the initial attack, with only minor injuries from the blast and smoke inhalation.
Before the APC drove along the road where the attack took place, a military D9 bulldozer and backhoe had scraped the road to uncover any potential improvised bombs (IEDs).
Armed groups in Jenin frequently plant IEDs under roads to attack Israeli forces carrying out arrest raids, and as such, the military rips up the roads with armored bulldozers before entering with lighter-armed vehicles.
Still, the two large IEDs were not discovered by the bulldozer and backhoe, and the military believes that they were planted much deeper in the ground than usual — around a meter and a half (5 feet) below ground. Normally, such explosives are buried a few dozen centimeters (one or two feet) under roads.
The IDF was probing how the bombs were activated, either by wire or wirelessly. Findings at the scene indicated that both methods could have been used, an initial probe found.
The military was also investigating how to detect such IEDs better and how to extract maimed soldiers from such incidents in a safer manner.
Tensions have been high in the West Bank amid the war in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, which began on October 7 when thousands of Hamas forces of Evil attacked southern Israel under a barrage of rockets fired at population centers all over the country. They brutally killed 1,200 people, amid instances of torture and rape, and seized 251 hostages.
Since October 7, troops have arrested some 4,150 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,750 affiliated with Hamas.
According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 540 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed amid raids or forces of Evil carrying out attacks.
During the same period, 21 Israelis, including security personnel, have been killed in Paleostinian terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another four members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank, including in Thursday’s incident.
[IsraelTimes] Residents seen fleeing with belongings as IDF calls on Palestinians to evacuate; Hamas’s Mashaal says Gaza destruction part of the ‘march of our people toward liberation’
The Israeli military called on Paleostinians in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... City’s Shejaiya neighborhood to evacuate the area and head toward the designated "humanitarian zone" in the Strip’s south on Thursday as Paleostinian media reported a series of Israeli strikes and tanks advancing into the neighborhood.
Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, the Israel Defense Forces’s Arabic-language front man, published a list of the zones that needed to be evacuated alongside the announcement.
Residents in a messaging group shared video showing large numbers of people fleeing the neighborhood on foot with their belongings in their arms.
First responders with Gaza’s Civil Defense, which is part of the Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... -run government, said Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s hit five homes in the neighborhood, killing at least three people and wounding another six. It said rescuers were still digging through the rubble for survivors.
There was no immediate comment from the military.
Residents said they were taken by surprise by the sound of tanks approaching and firing in the early afternoon, with drones also attacking after overnight strikes of the city, which Israel had swept early in the war.
The IDF last operated in Shejaiya in April.
"It sounded as if the war is restarting, a series of bombings that destroyed several houses in our area and shook the buildings," Mohammad Jamal, 25, a resident of Gaza City, told Rooters via a chat app.
The armed wing of Hamas ally Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... said it had detonated a pre-planted bomb against an Israeli tank east of the district.
Israel accuses the forces of Evil of hiding among civilians and says it warns displaced people to get out of the way of its operations against the fighters.
Meanwhile,
...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... in the south of the Gaza Strip, a group of Hamas operatives at a school in Khan Younis were targeted in an airstrike, the military said on Thursday.
According to the IDF, the al-Hasna school was being used by Hamas as a command center where operatives "planned, directed and carried out many attacks" against Israeli forces in the Strip.
The operatives were hit by fighter jets and drones.
The IDF said that the strike was "carefully planned and carried out," and it used precision munitions to mitigate harm to civilians.
Senior Hamas official Khaled Mashaal acknowledged in an interview with Sky News Arabic on Thursday the damage wrought on the territory in the aftermath of the terrorist organization’s October 7 attack.
"Gaza is now destroyed," he said. "Every fair-minded person sees that this is absolutely true."
However,
there's more than one way to skin a cat... he said, this is all part of the "march of our people toward liberation."
Meanwhile,
...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... since the start of the war, the United States has transferred security-related aid totaling some $6.5 billion to Israel, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing an American official.
The unnamed official said almost half of that was provided last month alone. The report indicated the official was seeking to counter charges of insufficient US backing for Israel amid the conflict.
"This is a massive, massive undertaking," the official said, noting that Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and his teams sat down with American officials and went over the "hundreds of separate items" sent to Israel during their visit to Washington this week.
The war in Gaza broke out on October 7 with Hamas’s unprecedented attack on southern Israel in which forces of Evil massacred some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 251 hostages.
According to an IDF tally, 315 troops have been killed during the ground offensive against Hamas and amid operations along the Gaza border. The toll includes a police officer killed in a hostage rescue mission. A civilian Defense Ministry contractor has also been killed in the Strip.
[IsraelTimes] Financial Times analysis of satellite imagery shows extensive destruction of structures, but IDF says it is only targeting Hezbollah, which admits to using civilian homes
Israel Defense Forces strikes in southern Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , responding to near-daily attacks by the Hezbollah terror group, have created a "dead zone" around 5 kilometers (3 miles) deep along the border with Israel, The Financial Times reported Thursday, citing data gleaned from aerial photographs.
"Near-daily aerial bombardment, artillery shelling and the incendiary chemical white phosphorus have made much of the 5 kilometers north of the Blue Line uninhabitable," the report claimed.
The Financial Times analyzed data from commercial satellites with research from the CUNY Graduate Center and Oregon State University to detect changes to buildings.
According to the report, only "handfuls" of Lebanese civilians remain in the area, with most buildings empty and many destroyed. The analysis identified 1,500 badly damaged structures, although this figure was considered a "conservative lower-bound estimate." A Lebanese official, Hashem Haidar, told The Financial Times that 3,000 homes in the country’s south have been completely leveled, and 12,000 have incurred medium-level damage.
Haidar added that Israeli strikes have thoroughly damaged civilian infrastructure. "The type of weaponry that’s being used is different from what we saw in 2006," he told The Financial Times. "Before, when a house was bombed, the damage would be confined to the house and its immediate surroundings. Now, there are entire neighborhoods that are being affected by one bombing." Call it "The tunnel effect"
Haidar also said 12,000 square kilometers (7,456 square miles) of agricultural land have been destroyed by the Israel Defense Forces’s use of white phosphorus. The IDF denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! Guess that's different than flaming balloons saying their use of the substance is consistent with international law and it is not used for incendiary purposes, but rather to create smokescreens.
In total, Haidar estimated the cost of damages exceeded $1.7 billion.
The report quoted Mohammad Srour, the mayor of Ayta ash-Shab, as saying that the strikes amount to "systematic destruction." The analysis showed 292 buildings were damaged in the southern Lebanese village.
A senior IDF official denied the conclusions of the analysis, telling The Financial Times: "This is not a buffer zone."
"We just want Hezbollah pushed back. We don’t have an issue with [UN peacekeeping troops], [Lebanese Armed Forces] or Lebanese civilians staying there... But we have to ’clean out’ the area of Hezbollah’s presence," the official added. "They pose a direct threat to Israeli homes via sniper fire, anti-tank guided missiles, cross-border attack and other means. This is a tactical need to provide security for Israeli residents.
"Every third home in south Lebanon is used by Hezbollah for weapons storage, training, firing positions and meeting points for a possible cross-border attack."
The report added that some of the 95,000 evacuated Lebanese civilians from the south take advantage of funerals of Hezbollah bully boyz to visit their homes, as it is understood that Israel does not strike areas during an internment.
During these visits, they are heartbroken by the sites, with one local mayor telling The Financial Times, "There are neighborhoods that look like Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ." Eight residents told The Financial Times that their homes were struck within hours of their visit, allegedly a warning by the IDF not to return.
The report quoted Hezbollah bully boyz as saying that they use abandoned civilian homes to shelter and store weapons, and that these homes have been targeted by Israeli strikes.
The FT article did not mention the damage caused to homes in Israel from daily Hezbollah attacks or the thousands of Israelis who have had to evacuate their homes.
Under United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Security Council Resolution 1701, adopted in 2006 to bring an end to the war between Israel and Hezbollah terrorists, UN peacekeepers were deployed to monitor a ceasefire along the 120-kilometer (75-mile) demarcation line, or Blue Line, between Israel and Lebanon.
The resolution also called for Hezbollah to withdraw its forces behind the Litani River, some 30 kilometers (19 miles) north of the border with Israel— a demand the terror group has ignored.
The report quotes an unnamed Hezbollah terrorist as saying, "Asking us to withdraw from the south is like asking a fish not to swim in the sea."
Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there.
So far, the skirmishes on the border have resulted in 10 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 15 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Hezbollah has named 349 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 64 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed.
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"Before, when a house was bombed, the damage would be confined to the house and its immediate surroundings. Now, there are entire neighborhoods that are being affected by one bombing."
[IsraelTimes] Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, former mufti of Jerusalem, is accused of praising terror attacks in 2022 in which four Israelis were killed; he says charges are ‘fabricated’
The imam of Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque denounced on Thursday a "fabricated" campaign against him after being charged with inciting terrorism for allegedly praising Paleostinian button men who killed four Israelis, including a soldier.
Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, 85, formerly mufti of Jerusalem and now head of the Supreme Islamic Council in the city, preaches at the contested Jerusalem holy site.
Sabri was indicted this week for inciting terrorism for comments he made that allegedly supported an attacker who shot at guards in the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim, killing a soldier, in October 2022.
The imam is also accused of praising a second attacker, Raad Hazam, who killed three Israelis and maimed six others in an April 2022 shooting in Tel Aviv. The 28-year-old was later killed in a shootout with security guards.
"The state attorney’s office submitted to the Jerusalem magistrate court an indictment against... the former mufti of the city, after he incited terrorism and praised terrorists," the Justice Ministry said in a statement Wednesday.
It said Sabri had "praised and sympathized with terrorists" during a visit to Hazam’s family home.
Sabri denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! saying he merely offered condolences to the families of the attackers after their deaths.
"This is a false accusation; the indictment is fabricated and malicious," he said.
"Offering condolences does not mean that we support what the children did."
Sabri’s lawyer Khaled Zabarqa said his client had been targeted for political reasons.
"The indictment is the result of political action and not legal action. The sheikh has been persecuted for two years," he told AFP.
The al-Aqsa Mosque compound sits on the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism. The flashpoint site is considered the third holiest in Islam and the holiest in Judaism.
The site’s status is the emotional epicenter of the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict, and even perceived changes have ignited previous rounds of violence.
Jews are officially only allowed to visit, but not pray.
Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir this month called for Jews to be allowed to pray at the sensitive site, but higher officials have rebuffed the idea, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly said that the status quo will not change at the site.
[IsraelTimes] UK files amicus brief contesting the ICC’s 2021 decision asserting jurisdiction over Israeli actions in Palestinian territories; potential moves against Netanyahu, Gallant delayed
The International Court of Justice has allowed the United Kingdom to file an amicus brief challenging the court’s jurisdiction over Israeli nationals in the investigation by The Hague tribunal into alleged Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The court’s Pre Trial Chamber I decided on Thursday to give the UK until July 12 to submit its brief, meaning that the decision-making process on whether or not to issue arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant will be suspended until a decision can be made on the UK’s challenge.
According to court documents published on Thursday, the UK made its request on June 10, where it cited a decision by the same chamber from 2021 when it ruled that, despite the State of Paleostine not being a sovereign state the ICC did have jurisdiction over any alleged violations of the Rome Statute, the ICC’s foundational charter, in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, 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 an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... The UK’s brief noted that the court at the time ruled that it would need to make a final decision on Israel’s claim that the Paleostinian Authority’s request to join the ICC violates the Oslo Accords if and when an ICC prosecutor requests arrest warrants against Israeli nationals.
The UK’s argument is that the Paleostinian authorities cannot have jurisdiction over Israeli nationals under the terms of the Oslo Accords, and so it cannot transfer that jurisdiction over to the ICC to prosecute Israelis.
"The United Kingdom submits that the Chamber, pursuant to Article 19(1) of the Rome Statute, ’is required to make an initial determination of jurisdiction in resolving the application for arrest warrants’ of which ’[t]he Oslo Accords issue necessarily forms part,’" the court noted.
The court said that other member states of the ICC could file similar briefs if they so wished by the July 12 deadline.
Dr. Tal Mimran, a lecturer in law and technology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a program director at the Tachlith Institute, said he did not expect the decision to delay the ICC’s decision-making process on the arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant for very long.
ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan announced in May that he was seeking arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant due to suspected crimes of "causing extermination, causing starvation as a method of war including the denial of humanitarian relief supplies, deliberately targeting civilians in conflict."
The decision was fiercely criticized by Israel, the US and others, arguing among other claims that Israel’s independent judiciary and legal system was capable of investigating any criminal wrongdoing during the ongoing Gaza war, and that the prosecutor had not allowed enough time to Israel to exercise that power.
Critics also argued that Khan had not engaged with Israel to understand what steps it might have taken or was currently carrying out to investigate any possible criminal actions during the war, unlike his attitude in other investigations such as against Caracas where he has engaged with the dictatorial regime of Nicolás Maduro ...Commie el presidente para la vida of Venezuela, successor to Hugo Chavez. Nick is his country's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy, except that even though his country's sitting on an enormous puddle of oil, he can't manage to get it out of the ground. Unlike Qadaffy and Hugo Chavez, he's not dead yet...
[IsraelTimes] Patients and relatives exiting enclave did not know where they were heading; Gaza doctor says 21 patients a ‘drop in the ocean’ compared to Strip’s medical needs
Twenty-one critically ill children exited Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... on Thursday in the first medical evacuation since the territory’s sole travel crossing was shut down in early May, Paleostinian officials said.
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[IsraelTimes] Stats compiled by Haaretz, while incomplete and unconfirmed, show average monthly shipments were at 30 through January before falling to 15 in the five subsequent months
The number of United States weapons shipments to Israel dropped significantly after the first four months of the Israel-Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... war, according to figures published Thursday by the Haaretz daily. The publication of the figures come after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s public claim last week that the US has been "withholding" weapons shipments from Israel.
Tracking the number of American military and civilian cargo planes landing in Israel from US military bases around the globe, Haaretz tallied 173 deliveries to date since October 7. The majority of flights landed in October (22), November (47), December (32), and January (20). Then, figures began tailing off significantly, with only eight planes arriving in February and 11 in March.
April saw a slight uptick to 17 against the backdrop of the Iranian missile and drone attack against Israel, which the US helped the Israel Defense Forces thwart.
But May and June saw a return to lower numbers, with seven and nine shipments landing in Israel respectively.
The tally doesn’t include another 100 leased cargo planes that originated from non-US Army bases. Also left out of the tally were dozens of US military planes that landed in Israel as part of visits by senior American officials, Haaretz said. Maritime arms shipments to Israel weren’t included either, even though ships are able to carry much larger cargo than planes.
On Wednesday, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and the Biden administration announced separately that progress had been made toward resolving what Jerusalem considers to be an insufficient flow of arms.
A senior Biden administration official briefing news hounds confirmed for the first time that there had been some "bottlenecks" in weapons transfers that are now being addressed.
The official clarified that these bottlenecks weren’t intentional and that Gallant’s meetings with brass hats in Washington were an opportunity for the US to order the acceleration of certain shipments while reprioritizing others based on Israel’s needs.
The comments were the closest the administration has come to confirming Netanyahu’s public claim last week that the US has been "withholding" weapons shipments and that there had been a "dramatic drop" in transfers. The accusation made in a video statement infuriated Washington, which vociferously denied the assertion and insisted that it has only held one transfer of heavy bombs that Biden didn’t want the IDF using in the densely populated Paleostinian city of Rafah.
As for other weapons shipments, the senior administration official said, "There are some things we are able to maybe pull up a little faster or reprioritize."
"The progress made [during Gallant’s meetings] was the ability to sit down with the people who do this work every day and go through every single case and where it is in the system."
"Where there were some misunderstandings, those were clarified," he added, noting the highly complex bureaucracy within the US weapons transfer system.
A US team went through each of the hundreds of planned weapons shipments with Israeli counterparts, explaining where each stood in the transfer process, the senior administration official said.
Further explaining the apparent slowdown, a second US official told The Times of Israel that Jerusalem submitted fewer weapons and ammunition requests in recent months as the intensity of its fighting in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... waned.
The official said that during the early months of the war, the US had been able to expedite the transfer of weapons that had been further along in the approval process. In recent months, though, such shipments ran low.
Moreover, Axios reported that some officials in the administration interpreted Biden’s freeze of the shipment of 2,000-pound bombs as a signal that all arms shipments should be scrutinized more closely, slowing the process in comparison to the beginning of the war.
There is also concern in Washington about a potential Israeli preemptive offensive against Hezbollah in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , which the administration fears could lead to a regional war, the second official said.
Nonetheless, the senior administration official briefing news hounds stressed that the US has sent more than $6.5 billion in weapons to Israel since October 7, with nearly $3 billion alone in May.
Have such piecemeal sanctions worked against Iran thus far?
[IsraelTimes] Sanctions announced by Blinken will affect companies in the UAE accused of being involved in the transport of Iranian petroleum or petrochemical products
The United States on Thursday issued fresh sanctions targeting 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... in response to "continued nuclear escalations," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... said in a statement.
"Over the past month, Iran has announced steps to further expand its nuclear program in ways that have no credible peaceful purpose," Blinken said.
"We remain committed to never letting Iran obtain a nuclear weapon, and we are prepared to use all elements of national power to ensure that outcome."
Iran’s mission to the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... in New York did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Thursday’s action imposes sanctions on three companies based in the United Arab Emirates the US accused of being involved in the transport of Iranian petroleum or petrochemical products, as well as 11 associated vessels.
Earlier this month, the Group of Seven rich nations warned Iran against advancing its nuclear enrichment program and said they would be ready to enforce new measures if Tehran were to transfer ballistic missiles to Russia.
Iran rebuked the statement, calling on the G7 to distance itself from "destructive policies of the past," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said.
Earlier in June, the UN nuclear watchdog’s 35-nation Board of Governors passed a resolution calling on Iran to step up cooperation with the watchdog and reverse its recent barring of inspectors.
Iran is enriching uranium to up to 60 percent purity, close to the 90 percent of weapons-grade, and has enough material enriched to that level, if enriched further, for three nuclear weapons, according to an IAEA yardstick.
Western powers say there is no credible civilian reason for that. Iran says its aims are entirely peaceful but officials have recently said it could change its "nuclear doctrine" if it is attacked or its existence was threatened by arch-foe Israel. That has prompted alarm at the IAEA and in Western capitals.
[IsraelTimes] Demonstrators set fire, try to break through barricade near premier’s Jerusalem home, but no arrests reported and water cannons not used; Likud says incitement ‘crossed red line’
Fewer than 10,000 across the country, considerably less than the 200,000 they used to regularly bring out
Anti-government demonstrations were held Thursday throughout Israel as protesters called for new elections a deal to release hostages held by the terror group Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... About 3,000 people demonstrated outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private home in Caesarea, according to unofficial estimates. In Jerusalem, a crowd estimated at some 5,000 people marched from the Chords bridge on the western edge of the city to Azza Street, where the prime minister also has a home. Smaller protests were also held in other cities around the country.
Protesters held signs calling for the removal of the government, blaming it for the lack of progress in reaching a deal to free hostages kidnapped on October 7 and mismanaging the war effort.
"We’ve been abandoned — Elections now!" read one sign that rose above the crowd. Demonstrators yelled through megaphones, waved flags and banged on snare drums while coppers stood at barricades.
"How much more blood will be spilled until you leave," protesters in Caesarea chanted, along with "bring home the hostages and leave."
As the sun began to set, protesters in Jerusalem blocked traffic and lit a large fire.
Police in Jerusalem said in a statement they were restoring order after demonstrators "set a fire in the middle of a road, in a residential neighborhood and another group of lawbreakers attempted to break through a police barricade."
There were no reports of major scuffles and police did not use a water cannon to control the crowd, as they have during more rowdy demonstrations. No arrests were announced.
Earlier in the day, police said they detained a suspect en route to Jerusalem with containers of flammable material and devices for creating smoke screens. Police also said they discovered a cache of tires stuffed with flammable cloths on Thursday morning, meant to be used to block traffic on Route 1.
In Caesarea, police reportedly found a smoke grenade attached to a wire in the area designated outside Netanyahu’s home designated for the demonstration.
Netanyahu’s Likud party complained in a statement that "incitement against Prime Minister Netanyahu has crossed another red line tonight... The writing is on the wall."
Among those demonstrating in Jerusalem was Einav Tzangauker, whose son Matan is being held captive in Gaza, who has become a central fixture of the near-nightly demonstrations.
"The prime minister decided to give up on the hostages," she said, accusing him of being less interested in winning the war or recovering the hostages than in staying in power.
"We will topple him to bring them home and to bring back security to the citizens of Israel," she declared. "There will not be a deal or reconstruction without the fall of the Netanyahu regime. When he falls, we will rise."
Efforts to reach an agreement with Hamas to free the estimated 116 hostages and remains still in captivity have failed to progress in recent weeks, with Hamas demanding the war first end before anyone in released, a condition rejected by Netanyahu’s government.
The US and Israel have both blamed Hamas for rejecting Israel’s last offer earlier this month.
Earlier Thursday, anti-government demonstrators blocked main highways near Tel Aviv and Haifa.
On the Ayalon Highway near Tel Aviv, demonstrators set a metallic cage on fire emblazoned with the word "Help."
The war in Gaza was sparked by Hamas’s October 7 rampage in southern Israel, in which Death Eaters killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped 251 more into Gaza.
Israel says at least 42 of those held by Hamas are no longer alive, and unofficial estimates are thought to be even higher, with families saying time is running short for those still alive. Despite conquering most of the Strip over the past eight months and decimating the terror group’s fighting forces, Israeli troops have only managed to recover seven hostages alive, and have failed to locate most of Hamas’s top leaders.
A week-long truce in November saw 105 civilians released from Hamas captivity during a weeklong truce, and four hostages were released prior to that. The bodies of another 19 hostages have also been recovered, including three mistakenly killed by the military.
Hamas is also holding two Israeli civilians who entered the Strip in 2014 and 2015, as well as the bodies of two IDF soldiers who were killed in 2014.
[Townhall] In a 6-3 opinion, the Supreme Court handed down a massive blow to federal prosecutors, concluding, per SCOTUS Blog’s Amy Howe, that for the statute to be used in this way, there must be evidence to the fact that "the defendant impaired the availability or integrity for use in an official proceeding of records." In a blow to the narrative that the Supreme Court is rogue and right-wing, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joined the majority. Justice Amy Coney Barrett dissented.
The question before the court was whether the "obstruction of an official proceeding" statute could be used in how the Justice Department weaponized it to go after hundreds of January 6 defendants. The plaintiff, Joseph Fischer, a former police officer, argued that the statute only pertained to evidence tampering in a congressional investigation.
The court reverses the D.C. Circuit, which had adopted a broader reading of the law to allow the charges against Fischer to go forward. The case now goes back to the D.C. Circuit -- which, the court says, can assess whether the indictment can still stand in light of this new and narrower interpretation.
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Wow. This has to be the worst 24 hours for the Democrats since Appomattox
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In a blow to the narrative that the Supreme Court is rogue and right-wing, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joined the majority. Justice Amy Coney Barrett dissented.
This is what happens when politicians in the other two branches threaten the Justices.
The Justices screw with thir heads.
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[PJ] Also overturned J6 Obstruction Law use. Presidential Immunity decision on Monday
Today, the Supreme Court ruled to overrule the so-called Chevron deference in a 6-3 decision. The ruling is a HUGE victory for those who hate the massive power the administrative state has amassed in recent decades.
Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, concluded: "Chevron is overruled."
In the most basic terms, the Chevron deference (also called the Chevron doctrine) allows the courts, through a two-step process, to defer to "reasonable" administrative agency interpretations if a federal statute is unclear or ambiguous. It was/is essentially a get-out-of-jail-free card for presidents and agency hacks who liked to claim that a law says whatever they want it to say. It gave federal agencies broad authority to regulate everything from health care to immigration to women's sports to Covid jabs.
According to Ballotpedia:
The principle derives its name from the 1984 U.S. Supreme Court case Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. which concerned disagreement over a change in the Environmental Protection Agency's interpretation of a permitting provision of the Clean Air Act of 1977. The case established a two-step review approach used by courts to analyze an agency's legal interpretations. Under the review process, courts consider (1) Congress' clear intent in passing a law and (2) (if the court finds ambiguities in the law) whether an agency's rule was reasonably construed and not arbitrary, capricious, or manifestly contrary to the statute.
Amy Howe at SCOTUSblog wrote:
Chevron, Roberts explains, [Chevron] "defies the command of" the Administrative Procedure Act, the law governing federal administrative agencies, "that the reviewing court--not the agency whose action it reviews--is to decide all relevant questions of law and interpret ... statutory provisions. It requires a court to ignore, not follow, the reading the court would have reached had it exercised its independent judgment as required by the APA."
Chevron's presumption that statutory ambiguities are implicit delegations of authority by Congress to federal agencies "is misguided," Roberts explains, "because agencies have no special competence in resolving statutory ambiguities. Courts do."
Roberts notes that today's decision does "not call into question prior cases that relied on the Chevron framework. The holdings of those cases that specific agency actions are lawful--including the Clean Air Act holding of Chevron itself--are still subject to statutory stare decisis despite our change in interpretive methodology."
The high court had consolidated two cases—Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce—and heard oral arguments in January of this year.
Howe reports, "The vote is 6-3 (although 6-2 in Loper-Bright because Jackson is recused). Kagan dissents, joined by Sotomayor and Jackson as it applies to Relentless, from which she is not recused."
Both cases concern the National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS) interpretation of a federal fishing law (George W. Bush's Magnuson-Stevens Act) requiring government monitors to accompany certain fishing boats. At issue: Who would pay for the monitors—the agency requiring them or the fishermen themselves? The statute is unclear on that point, and using the Chevron deference, the lower court ruled that the NMFS had the right to require the fishermen to pay for the $700-a-day monitors on trips that often last several days.
After losing at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the plaintiffs argued before the Supreme Court that the lower court's decision “perceives ambiguity in statutory silence, where the logical explanation for the statutory silence is that Congress did not intend to grant the agency such a dangerous and uncabined authority.” They added, "Whether by clarifying Chevron or overruling it, this Court should grant review and reverse the clear agency overreach at issue here."
Most of us learned in school (I hope!) that the judicial branch interprets the law. It's explained in both Marbury v. Madison and Alexander Hamilton's Federalist 78. The Chevron doctrine takes some of that power to interpret from the courts and hands it to unelected bureaucrats. The word "deference" in Chevron means that the court defers rulemaking to "experts" in the administrative state.
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The J6 Obstruction Law overturning will screw the DOJ's prosecutions and Jack Smith's case against Trump
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Well it must be said that a lot of the underlying problem is that some legislation is written poorly (maybe poorly on purpose). Also, there are laws where previous judicial decisions have made the law incomprehensible.
The Chevron decision, made in 1984, was on such a case where the issue was what was a 'source' of pollution for the purpose of requiring a lengthy govt review. Chevron argued it was only a 'source' if it was a new or rebuilt facility. An environmental org said it was a source even if Chevron did a minimal alteration of the source. The EPA (this was in 1984 under Reagan) argued for Chevron's position and the SCOTUS agreed.
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...we achieved the goals of the 1984 organization. The Administrative State has taken upon themselves to keep moving the goalposts for decades.
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Einstein was irrationally resistant to much more than black holes, and Tesla. Space is not empty. That is one of the biggest lies ever told. And it is because of this dogma we are decades behind where we should be. Once we stop accepting that space is empty, we do not need to account for the exotic bs theories like Dark Matter and Dark Energy. The science being done in Huntsville Alabama, all protected by NDAs, is beyond Einstein.
#TeslaWaves
[News With Views] Geoengineering refers to manipulating the environment for man’s ends. However, most of the current applications thereof are intended to end man thus meeting at least some of the goals/demands of the New World Order regarding a significantly reduced world population. One important component of the program is climate or weather modification, the former for long term change in the normal/average weather and the latter to create or modify a short term event, such as storms or an increase — or decrease — in the ambient temperature. With the apparent success of the effort to reduce the influence of God in our lives, we have come to rely on "our leaders" playing God or believing that what we (through them) are fulfilling the role we previously assigned to God — and doing it as well if not better! Thus, humanity has become conceited, believing that we have instrumentally had an effect on climate as reflected by what the influencers tell us humans have done in effecting "climate change," a matter that when examined closely is nothing more than the normal variability in the weather as well as short term changes in the climate that come and go with few existential consequences.
As a result, our so-called scientists believe that they have all the answers and thus feel free to attempt to modify weather and climate, having confidence in the efficacy or correctness of their actions. One major element of the current geoengineering effort is the removal of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the environment, especially as it exists in earth’s atmosphere. This is the conclusion that their contrived "scientific consensus" has decided is the right thing to do because CO2 as a "greenhouse gas" and thus supposedly warms the climate in a detrimental manner. Of course, they also believe that most CO2 arises from human activities instead of merely being a part of earth’s natural environmental processes. The percentage of the various gasses in our atmosphere is as follows: Nitrogen: 78.1%, Oxygen: 20.9%, Argon: 0.93%, Carbon Dioxide: 0.04%, Trace Gasses: the rest.
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Joe also appears to have had ordered note cards for his canned answers. Surely, they drugged him as well. They did everything they could except bang on trash can lids.
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The finger to ear thing basically says he was being prompted.
How they thought that would work is beyond me.
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Interesting too was he would stone blank on a subject, and when the subject was brought back up, he would have a talking point and a delivery style ready to go.
[BBC] A snap election called after a deadly helicopter crash. A candidate promising a different approach both at home and abroad. And suddenly there’s an element of suspense and unpredictability in Iran, as voters go to the polls to choose a new president.
Elections in the Islamic Republic are tightly-controlled affairs - the candidates are all vetted by an influential committee of clerics before they can stand. And recently voter apathy has been widespread.
But this time there is a wild card: a reformist former heart surgeon and health minister, Massoud Pezeshkian, who has declared “immoral” the actions of Iran’s morality police, who enforce strict dress codes on women.
The rules on wearing the hijab are now being regularly flouted by women and Mr Pezeshkian, 69, has said: “If wearing certain clothes is a sin, the behaviour towards women and girls is 100 times a greater sin. Nowhere in religion is there any permission to confront someone because of their clothing.”
He has also promised to try to improve relations with the West and revive nuclear talks, in the hope of bringing an end to sanctions that have crippled Iran’s economy.
Mr Pezeshkian has been publicly backed by two former reformist presidents, Hassan Rouhani and Mohammad Khatami, and the former foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif.
His campaign rallies attracted growing crowds in the run-up to polling day.
And on Thursday two candidates dropped out of the contest - in an apparent attempt by the clerical establishment to avoid splitting the conservative vote.
The most recent opinion polls showed Mr Pezeshkian ahead of Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, a former commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards who is currently speaker of parliament, and Saeed Jalili, a hardline former nuclear negotiator.
The conservatives oppose engagement with the West and argue that Iran can succeed despite sanctions.
One other candidate remains in the race to replace Ebrahim Raisi - the hardliner who died on a foggy mountainside last month in a helicopter crash that also killed seven other people.
Turnout figures are seen as a key test of the legitimacy of the Islamic Republic.
They hit record lows in parliamentary elections in March and the last presidential election in 2021.
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - who is the ultimate authority in Iran - has called for “maximum” turnout. And a solid core of regime supporters are sure to vote.
But many young and middle-class Iranians are deeply disillusioned and distrustful of any political process organised by the Islamic Republic, and now want an end to 45 years of clerical rule.
“There are lots of billboards in the streets asking people to ‘vote for a better tomorrow’, but we just don’t buy it any more,” a 20-year-old student in Tehran told me via text message. “Nobody wants to vote any more.”
Since the death of a young woman, Mahsa Amini, in morality police custody in 2022 - and the nationwide uprising it sparked - the gulf between Iran’s leaders and its people has widened dramatically.
A brutal crackdown on protesters hardened hatred of the regime, particularly among Generation Z.
Hopes pinned on reformists in the past have repeatedly been dashed. And, over the past few years, those wanting reform of the system have been increasingly marginalised.
Former president Hassan Rouhani wasn’t even allowed to stand in recent elections for an influential body, the Assembly of Experts, whose job it is to appoint the Supreme Leader.
From a Skid comment which deserves it's own posting.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF releases images showing Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket expert Fadi al-Wadiya wearing the terror group’s uniform, after Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders, named him as a staffer but denied he was a terror operative.
Al-Wadiya was killed in a drone strike in Gaza City yesterday.
The organization then said in a post on X that al-Wadiya was killed while riding his bicycle to the MSF clinic where he worked.
The IDF said he was a prominent member of Islamic Jihad, involved in developing missiles for the terror group, as well as being an electronics and chemistry expert.
Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, says al-Wadiya worked for Islamic Jihad’s rocket manufacturing unit for more than 15 years.
He attaches three images showing al-Wadiya in Islamic Jihad uniform.
Adraee adds that in 2018, the same year that al-Wadiya joined Doctors Without Borders, the latter tried to leave Gaza for Iran to undergo training there with two other terror operatives.
[American Thinker] The Trump-Biden presidential debate went so badly for Joe Biden that the Dems (and contributors) want a rebate. Rather than their usual Machiavellian machinations, they are openly considering ways to dump the reprobate who’s riddled with hate.
Conservatives tend to be magnanimous and compassionate, but our republic is at stake so sorrow for Biden is not forthcoming while he dares to remain in the ring.
Biden’s debate performance was so atrocious that it’s almost tempting to sympathize with his inflictions and infirmities — but not quite. Not quite because he is unrepentant. Not quite because he is so harmful to America, and because he is a threat to democracy and our national security.
He is so loathsome that commiseration for his handicaps is grudging. He’s essentially public enemy number one, who, frankly, doesn’t engender much sympathy, pathetic though he is.
Despite the grave topics discussed during the debate, and Trump’s stark reminders that America, under Biden, is "failing," there was a humorous moment related to Biden’s age and infirmity.
When asked by the CNN debate moderator about his age, Biden mentioned he has six handicaps. I can think of more, but I wonder if the six include these: learning disabilities, mobility disabilities, medical disabilities, psychiatric disabilities, visual impairments, and hearing impairments?
There are many more handicaps by which Biden is encumbered. And while compassionate conservatives don’t relish schadenfreude, Joe and Jill brought the attention upon themselves. If they weren’t so pigheaded, they’d step aside gracefully, yet grace is not in their constitution.
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They're running in to issues with state laws that stipulate the 'drop dead date' for getting a name on the November ballot.
If I was in a Machiavellian mood, I would thinking they're doing this intentionally to undermine the Electoral College. Remember you are not voting for the man but the state electors who represent the man. The Left can then say 'if you vote for Brain Dead, our electors will cast their vote for X' even though many state laws stipulate that the electors must vote for the name on the ballot. the Left hates the federal nature of the Electoral College. They just want pure power.
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Betting sites are showing a yuuuge drop in Biden's chances of winning in November, with bets being placed on Captain Hairgel and Mooch as replacements.
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Big Mike isn't campaigning for Joe because she wants to run? I dunno. As for Governor Dippity Do, Trump would only have to keep reminding people that California these days is an insane asylum with the inmates running the show.
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[X] It seems even the New Consumer Generation (whatever) has figured out the O'Biden Admin / DC Swamp / Power Brokers are outright LYING about what the true inflation rate is.
This guy checked using the Wally World reorder button for a 2022 food order. It was 126.67 in 2022.
In 2024 and without SHRINKFLATION taken into account.
That same order at Walmart is now $414.39.
That's a 227.14% increase in 2 years.
NOTE: Remember that does not include Shrinkflation that Wally World and other businesses have snuck in on us also.
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[Jerusalem Post] Iran smuggled two planes out of Lithuania, the country's public broadcaster announced on Thursday. The planes were due to fly to Sri Lanka and the Philippines.
The two Airbus A340s, leased by the Gambian company Macka Invest, were due to fly to South Asia in February but reportedly ended up in Iran. The aircraft's transponders—which enable them to be identified on air traffic control radars—were turned off upon entry into Iranian airspace. The aviation data site ch-aviation reported that one plane had landed at Mehrabad airport in Tehran and another at Konarak airport in Chabahar.
The incident was originally reported by vz.lt, a Lithuanian business news website.
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Iran’s Civil Aviation Administration has confirmed the purchase of four Airbus A340 wide-body aircraft, despite US sanctions.
On December 24, 2022, the four Airbus A340 airliners, formerly flown by Turkish Airlines and recently registered in Burkina Faso, departed for a scheduled flight from South Africa to Uzbekistan. However, as they flew over Iran, the aircraft disappeared from flight tracking services.
Days later, their presence at Mehrabad International Airport (THR) in Tehran, Iran, was confirmed by satellite imagery.
[ToI] Feeling abandoned by the university, at least two pro-Israel lecturers are preparing to leave UMCE in Santiago over fears for their safety amid student agitation
In April, Gladys Briceño removed a Palestinian flag that had been affixed without permission to the façade of a building in a public university where she teaches, near the Chilean capital of Santiago.
A musicology lecturer, who is not Jewish but who believes Israel has a right to exist, Briceño did this because she “didn’t think university facilities are the place to fly flags to make statements about controversial geopolitical conflicts,” she told The Times of Israel this week.
But in Chile, which has one of the largest Palestinian communities outside the Middle East, this action had major consequences for Briceño’s career and the entire university. The flag removal helped trigger an ongoing campus occupation by anti-Israel activists seeking the dismissal of “Zionist professors,” as they call Briceño and another faculty member, Noemi Grinspun, who is Jewish.
Occurring amid an uptick in violent antisemitism in Chile and beyond, the standoff (Spanish-language article) at the Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences (UMCE) stands out amid a global wave of anti-Israel campus protests for its targeting of individual lecturers, who feel abandoned by their university administration.
The campaign coincides with weeks-long harassment of Chilean Jews at their community centers, a development that recently prompted the heads of Chile’s Jewish schools to tell students not to walk outdoors in their school uniforms for fear this would invite attacks against them.
In a list of demands that the organizers of the May 29 occupation submitted to the administration, they wrote that the university should “disconnect” itself from “the Zionist lecturers Gladys Briceño and Noemi Grinspun.” They “inhabit and transgress on our university space, actively teaching hate speech in the classroom and through their social networks,” the organizers wrote.
The campaign against Grinspun and Briceño is part of a broader pattern of anti-Israel harassment that escalated on October 7 following the Hamas onslaught on southern Israel that saw some 1,200 people murdered and 251 taken hostage to Gaza. The public outcry against the ensuing war with Hamas has bled over to antisemitism on several notable occasions, according to Ariela Agosin, the president of the Jewish Community of Chile organization, which represents the country’s 20,000-odd Jews.
Part of the problem, many Chilean Jews believe, is that protesters feel emboldened by the government led by Gabriel Boric, a far-left politician who became president of Chile in 2021.
In 2019, he spurned a Rosh Hashanah gift, a small pot of honey, that the Jewish Community of Chile had sent lawmakers.
“I appreciate the gesture but they could start by asking Israel to return the illegally occupied Palestinian territory,” Boric wrote on X (then Twitter) about Chilean Jews, many of whom cited this post as proof that he is antisemitic. Boric is the only Chilean president who has declined to meet with representatives of Chilean Jews, Agosin said.
His government has recalled its ambassador to Israel, as have several other Latin American countries after October 7.
[IsraelTimes] 15-year-old claims he was given gun and was unaware taxi he was riding in was heading toward embassy; Swedes claim Iran recruiting local gang members
A Swedish court on Thursday found a 15-year-old boy guilty of possession of a semi-automatic weapon while heading to the Israeli embassy in Stockholm in a taxi. The conviction came less than a month after Sweden’s intelligence agency accused Iran of recruiting gang members to attack Israeli interests in the Scandinavian country.
The boy was arrested on May 16 when police stopped a taxi in the Tyreso suburb south of Stockholm, en route to the Israeli embassy in the capital. He was carrying the gun in his jacket.
The following night, a 14-year-old boy was arrested after a shooting near the Israeli embassy. That investigation is still underway.
The 15-year-old, who was sentenced to 11 months of juvenile supervision, told the Nacka district court he had been ordered to pick up an item in Tyreso for delivery, according to the verdict obtained by AFP. He said he thought he would collect drugs and only discovered it would be a gun on the way to pick up the item.
Not exactly an innocent, then.
He said he found out he was going to the Israeli embassy when he got in the taxi, which a woman had ordered for him. fThe taxi driver confirmed that a woman, whose identity has not been established, gave the driver the embassy address. The teen told the court he felt tricked, but still went ahead with the assignment.
Prosecutors presented evidence from the boy’s smartphone showing that he had looked up the route to the embassy, and the court ruled the youth “knew that the trip was going to the embassy even if he was unable to give the taxi driver an address.”
The fact that the weapon was discovered en route to the embassy meant “the weapon typically could be feared to be used criminally,” the court said.
However, the ruling emphasized that there was “no investigation in the case about what was actually planned to happen” that night. It was not known why the police stopped the taxi.
Sweden’s intelligence agency, Sapo, on May 30 accused Iran of recruiting gang members in Sweden, some of them children, as proxies to commit “acts of violence against other states, groups or people in Sweden that it considers a threat.”
It cited in particular “Israeli and Jewish interests, targets and operations in Sweden.”
According to Sapo, Iran has conducted “security-threatening activities in and against Sweden for several years.”
On January 31, police found a live grenade in the grounds of the Israeli compound.
Sweden has seen a sharp rise in antisemitic incidents since the October 7 Hamas onslaught, which saw terrorists infiltrate Israel, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping 251.
A total of 110 complaints were registered by police between October 7 and December 31, according to the report by the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention. In 2022, the figure was 24.
Anti-Israel sentiments were also prominent when the Scandinavian country hosted the Eurovision song competition last month, as protesters demonstrated against Israeli contestant Eden Golan, who was booed during her performances.
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"You know, like Mookie, your honour. And you know how that shit turned out."
"Hey, judge, how come you ain't got no pictures of mujtahidun up here on the wall?"
"Shut up, kid. Can't you see they got a couple right over there? I mean, this Sweden!"
"Oh yeah... sorry."
The fact that anyone is shocked by Biden's brain-dead performance tonight is a scathing indictment of the media which has gone to great lengths to cover this fact up for the public.
I understand that the two big shocks for Biden suporters last night is that they got to see the real Biden and that they got to see the real Trump. Not just the media stereotypes and edits.
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[IsraelTimes] Haredi demonstrators rail against High Court order to draft yeshiva students, call police ‘Nazis’ and vow to die before enlisting
Ultra-Orthodox protesters blocked a main traffic junction for several hours on Thursday at a demonstration against proposals to draft them into the military. The demonstrators scuffled with police, who arrested at least 32 participants.
Police said some protesters blocking Route 4 at the Coca-Cola Junction in Bnei Brak called them “Nazis” and lay under police vehicles to block them.
Police were seen using mounted officers in attempts to clear the road during rush hour. After some three hours police announced that the road was finally open.
Some protesters called for violence, while others vowed to go to jail or die instead of enlisting.
Demonstrators carried signs reading: “All Haredi Jews are forbidden from enlisting, even those who are not yeshiva students.”
The sign was referring to a talking point often made in public discourse that many of the ultra-Orthodox men who receive exemptions on account of their status as yeshiva students do not actually study at yeshivas.
The demonstrators belonged to the extremist Jerusalem Faction, which numbers some 60,000 members and regularly demonstrates against the enlistment of yeshiva students.
Many ultra-Orthodox Jews believe that military service is incompatible with their way of life and fear that those who do enlist will be secularized.
The protest was a response to the High Court of Justice’s landmark ruling on Tuesday that ordered the Israel Defense Forces to begin conscripting ultra-Orthodox men and halt funding to yeshivas that do not comply.
BREAKING: Illegal alien who gunned down two NYPD officers says kiIIing cops is his culture.
He works for the Venezuelan TDA gang. …short for Tren de Aragua… Bernardo Raul Castro Mata (19) revealed that firearms are smuggled into the NYC shelters through the food deliveries.
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Doe anyone seriously believe his handlers didn't purposely set him up for failure by agreeing to a public debate, so they could get rid of him more easily?
Hildebeast or Michelle Wildebeast coming to a ballot near you soon.
[Bee] LAS VEGAS — Tonight's presidential debate ended abruptly when Donald Trump was served with papers notifying him that he had been indicted for the murder of an elderly man on CNN.
"Hey, I didn't do anything!" Trump told authorities. "He was like that when I got here!"
Trump, who had planned to debate President Joe Biden, argued that the strange old man keeled over all on his own.
"The very idea..." the old man said before slumping over onto a nearby podium. It was also at this point that Trump discovered the man had been propped up by an apparatus and could not stand on his own.
"You know, I got here and everything was fine. CNN is fake news, but I'm here and they've been nice tonight," Trump said. "But then there was this dead old man in the corner. And I thought, wow, the game must be afoot, you know? And believe me, I was about to solve this murder before you got here."
"Yeah, yeah," said Officer Nolan of the LVPD. "Why don't we talk about this downtown."
At publishing time, Trump had been indicted again for the murder of the Democratic Party.
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Thank you Frank
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Now I have to wipe up some spilled coffee.
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Only question now: Where do I get a refund for 90 minutes of my life wasted?
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Wasted? The political establishment, the media (but I repeat myself,) the Leak of Wimmin Voters, etc all say debates are so important to the "political process" that they must be fixed, stage managed, set up and otherwise artificialized into meaninglessness.
Sort of like protest - which is the "most sacted thing" in duhmocracy - until it's not. See: George Floyd riots vs. Jan 6.
If Bidet had "won," we would be hearing about how the debate was a "bellwether" and a "stunning success."
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Sacred, not sacted
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Joe Robinette Vince Foster Biden?
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If the dems could pull a Jean Carnahan and coronate "Dr. Jill," Joe would be gone already. Since they are stuck with Kamala-lala-dingdong, he's safe from everything but an actual fatal accident or natural causes.
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#10 - then there are the fatal accidents disguised as natural causes.
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Missed quite a bit due to dealing with weather things, so a bit general take.
Trump had a fairly aggressive posture; see how that plays with normies, could be that is the only way to get those statements out with the censors doing their thing. I do notice the book of face is extra retarded today. Also, may be dinged for not answering the questions directly but hitting talking points only. Depends if you think the questions were Corner Questions or not.
Now.
Biden was trying to peak when I had to go get cars out of the hail. He talked himself into a corner at least three times like Ukraine being a weapons sales program, I'll let the experts touch on that. The training paid off, because as soon as he started rambling about the mods called time and he insta-stopped talking. He had all the posture grace of someone strapped onto a snow board. But my favorite is when he stuck his finger in his ear for just a half second. Why would someone do that you ask?
All of that above really doesn't matter, because I couldn't understand a full one quarter of what Biden was saying, and that's my take.
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Starting to look like the debate was held on a Thursday night specifically to make sure this sort of debacle was Friday news.
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Behind closed doors deep state has to be freaking out.
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All that stuff about getting advanced questions, cue cards, an ear piece, forrest gump braces, whatever are, yes, cheats, but:
Whatever the intention was of this showing, there are two very important takeaways:
The media are absolute in the tank no doubt liars.
So who has been running the country?
They rolled a 0. If your goal was to get rid of him, what you want is a Well Its Retirement Time old bean, not this total narrative implosion. Like its been noticed, the Champions of Democracy! are out in the open screaming about how to invalidate their elected primary candidate and sitting president so they can install a new puppet.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] …280 miles off the Spanish coast - before cops arrest them.
The men can be seen standing on top of a sinking submersible.
Dramatic footage shows how drug smugglers aboard a narco submarine headed for Spain's southern coast were rescued on Wednesday from the sinking vessel before getting arrested in the middle of the Atlantic.
In a video released by the Spanish civil guard and the Spain's Tax Agency, four men, who are Colombian nationals, can be seen in life vests standing on top of a sinking submersible as a customs surveillance ship approaches the vessel.
Another clip shows the sub's crew floating in the sea as waves crash against them, alongside black barrels - which the crew appear to have held on to to stay afloat.
The men can then be seen climbing up a ladder onto the ship, before another video shows them getting arrested once they get onboard. The drug smugglers are then seen lying face down while they are handcuffed civil guards.
The blue vessel had been navigating the waters 280 miles west of the coast of Cadiz when its crew spotted a surveillance ship.
According to the Tax Agency, the men came to the surface and opened the submarine's valves, allowing the vessel to fill with water and sink to the bottom of the sea, along with its precious cargo.
Police believe the vessel was carrying a large shipment of cocaine given its similarity to previously-seized narco submarines.
The operation, which was jointly carried out by the Spanish civil guard, the national police and the Tax Agency, started on Monday when authorities received a tip from the US's Drug Enforcement Agency.
The DEA had reportedly detected a potential drop off between an unknown vessel and a semi-submersible.
The 20-meter blue submarine was eventually spotted off the coast of Cadiz, which authorities successfully intercepted.
It so happens that the customs surveillance ship was already loaded with 900 kilograms of seized cocaine following an operation just a few days prior.
The surveillance ship on Saturday had spotted a speedboat carrying a shipment of cocaine near the Canary Islands after having had received a tip from the British National Crime Agency and the DEA.
9000 kg of cocaine were dumped into the ocean by the seafaring criminals as the civil guard attempted to catch the drug mules during what was reported to have been a six-hour-long chase, according to Canarias7.
While the speedboat managed to escape and reach the island of La Palma, authorities discovered the abandoned boat on Tazacorte beach on the island the following day. Police said the boat corresponded with the one chased the day prior.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Naomi Elkins, 27, was arrested at her home in the predominantly Orthodox Jewish community of Lakewood Tuesday night and was charged with two counts of murder, possession of a weapon and other offenses relating to the deaths of her two children, ages just 1 and 3.
She told authorities who rushed to the scene that she felt she 'needed to kill the children for religious purposes' after they returned home from Giggles Daycare - where she worked and where the children attended, according to arrest documents obtained by the New York Post.
She is said to have told the officers she realized she had done something wrong, and called Hatzolah Medical Services - a Jewish volunteer ambulance program - telling dispatchers there she had hurt her children.
As cops questioned Elkins in the aftermath, she reportedly noted she previously struggled with bad feelings when her husband left on a business trip on May 24.
She said she dropped her kids off at the daycare that day, and spent the night praying, according to 6ABC.
The buried lede:
Elkins' family now says she has a history of mental health issues.
So many repetitions that this is a Jewish community, but only one hint and this statement that the poor woman is nuts.
#4
Glenmore, not just nuts but unnatural and evil. Mothers are supposed to naturally protect and cherish their children, but Jewish mothers…
mossomo, looking at the situation, I imagine his presence gave an external reason to resist the urge. Without him there she hadn’t the strength, and so succumbed.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The boss of Oklahoma public schools has ordered teachers to incorporate the Bible into lessons and keep a copy of the holy book in every classroom.
Republican State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters made the decree on Thursday.
'Effective immediately, all Oklahoma schools are required to incorporate the Bible, which includes the Ten Commandments, as an instructional support into the curriculum across specified grade levels, e.g. grades 5 through 12,' Walters said.
Adherence to the mandate is compulsory and 'immediate and strict compliance is expected.'
'The Bible is an indispensable historical and cultural touchstone,' Walters said. 'Without basic knowledge of it, Oklahoma students are unable to properly contextualize the foundation of our nation which is why Oklahoma educational standards provide for its instruction.'
Oklahoma law already explicitly allows Bibles in the classroom and lets teachers use them in instruction, said Phil Bacharach, a spokesman for state Attorney General Gentner Drummond.
It's not clear if Walters has the authority to mandate that schools teach it and critics have spoken out against the order.
The head of the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations slammed the directive as a clear violation of the Constitution's Establishment Clause, which prohibits the government from 'establishing' a religion.
'We adamantly oppose any requirements that religion be forcefully taught or required as a part of lesson plans in public schools, in Oklahoma, or anywhere else in the country,' Adam Soltani said.
Rachel Laser, president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State: 'Public schools are not Sunday schools.
'This is textbook Christian Nationalism: Walters is abusing the power of his public office to impose his religious beliefs on everyone else´s children. Not on our watch.'
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...it is historical in its impact upon Western Civ. As much as one may despise the Roman Church, it was the one thing holding together what was the West in the post Roman era till around the Treaty of Westphalia. Even Luther started the translation process into local languages.
So it's historical because believers fought wars over it and the different interpretations of it.
History is just the result of all the wars fought to date and survivor's/victor's notions about each other. Doesn't matter if they were "believers" or otherwise, just that they were left standing after the most recent war ended. "They killed God at Magdeburg" - line from the movie "The Last Valley"
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Abu's tribe had abandoned its bible
But neighbors soon held a revival
On top of the tell
Where his god used to dwell,
For their force was of course more reliable. ;-)
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So it's historical because believers fought wars over it and the different interpretations of it.
You mean like the 20th Century godless Marxists? One hundred million and they're still racking up the count. Given they still imbue or teach that dogma in our universities, its fitting to put something counter to it.
#12
You mean a serpent really did convince Eve to eat fruit from the forbidden tree?
Consider the Bible as a major work of Western Civilization’s great literature, jpal, like Shakespeare and Aesop’s Fables and the Robin Hood tales, that give us common images and phrases. Whether or not one believes the stories themselves — and nobody will argue that Romeo and Juliet or The Mouse and the Lion are historically true — they provide a useful common shorthand and illuminate a common understanding of how people work.
[MSN] Michelle Obama has resisted campaigning for Joe Biden in part because of how the family treated Hunter Biden's ex-wife, according to reports....Along with her concerns over Ms Buhle's treatment, Mrs Obama is also said to be reluctant to support Mr Biden during his re-election campaign due to her dislike of partisan politics.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Walgreens is to set to close a 'significant' number of its 8,700 US stores, it said Thursday.
The news came as the company - which also operates under the Duane Reade banner - cut its profit forecast for fiscal year 2024 as shoppers continue to cut spending its stores.
Bosses did not specify an exact number or where the closures would be.
But it could shutter a 'meaningful percent' of the stores of the quarter-or-so locations that are underperforming, CEO Tim Wentworth said in an interview to the Wall Street Journal.
Closures will focus on stores that aren't profitable, are too close to each other or are struggling with theft. It is not yet clear which ones will be affected.
Shares of the Illinois-based company fell more than 15 percent in premarket trading, after having declined 40 percent for the year so far.
Walgreens is to blame for slumping sales by having 'lackluster' deals and high prices, retail expert Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData, said.
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How many Walgreens are in the state that do not prosecute shoplifting?
Inquiring minds, you know?
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are too close to each other
In my little 'Burg of 60,000 they built 2 Walgreens within a couple miles of each other. One shut down within a year and is still vacant
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"too close" About 15 years ago I noticed an explosion of newly built drug stores in my area, it was remarkable then, but none remarked on it. About 3/4 of them have since closed. The expansion seemed senseless at that time.
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Ditto the above in pre- and post-K NOLA. Second drugstores (albeit different companies) on certain corners. And for months now at local SoCal K&B... "Dude, where's my Mint Milanos?" Not that they've stocked 'em, or any other cookies, in forever. "Uh, we've got a truck coming in Thursday... you could try back then." Like Gaza! Was amazed recently, kidding a cashier about it, to learn that management had her convinced that Steiner kommt. Sure, who knows?
CVS and Walgreens have tentatively agreed to pay a combined $10 billion to settle lawsuits brought by states and local governments alleging the retailers mishandled prescriptions of opioid painkillers.
[IsraelTimes] Hezbollah launched a barrage of some 40 rockets at northern Israel on Thursday afternoon, in what the terror group said was a response to recent Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon, including the killing of one of its operatives earlier in the day.
The exchange of fire came as American intelligence expected a major escalation between Israel and Hezbollah in the coming weeks in the absence of a ceasefire with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Politico reported.
An unnamed senior US official told the outlet that the risk of war is higher than it has been for weeks. The officials said that a major attack by either side, which could spark a war, could happen with “little notice.”
Amid travel warnings from Washington and several European countries, two senior officials who spoke to Politico said the start date of a war was unclear, but that Israel was acquiring arms and building up forces quickly.
Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces said most of the rockets fired in the major barrage at the northern city of Safed and nearby communities were downed by the Iron Dome air defense system.
[HotAir] In the world of climate scientists, everything causes the apocalypse. Whatever day or hour it is, it is time to panic.
Well, I just learned that if you burn fossil fuels, you warm the planet, but if you quit burning fossil fuels, you will still warm the planet.
...This terrible news comes via a Washington Post article, in which we learn that climate scientists have discovered that reducing the use of fossil fuels containing sulfur will increase temperatures by as much as a degree because we will be eliminating the cooling effects of the pollution and cloud formation caused by the sulfur particles released into the air.
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That's been known and understood for quite some time. The boom in low-sulfur coal from the Wyoming Powder River Basin started 50 years ago. On the other hand, scrubbers have reduced particulates a ton.
Complex systems, beyond the reach of Greta and Company.
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[OffThePress] The Atlanta-based sports bar chain, Hooters, abruptly shuttered dozens of “underperforming” restaurants across the U.S., as it joins a growing list of eateries facing the harsh realities of inflation and changing consumer habits, according to reports.
Nation’s Restaurant News (NRN) reported that word began to spread on Sunday evening that Hooters locations in places like Bryan, Texas; Lakeland, Florida; and Louisville, Kentucky were closing abruptly, with nearly 40 restaurants in the U.S. shutting their doors.
“Like many restaurants under pressure from current market conditions, Hooters has made the difficult decision to close a select number of underperforming stores,” the company reportedly told the publication in a statement on Monday. “Ensuring the well-being of our staff is our priority in these rare instances.”
[NYPOST] President Biden lied during his most recent debate against Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... when he claimed a group of former intelligence operatives had determined files from his son Hunter’s abandoned laptop were "garbage" and a "Russian plant" — so signers of the "Spies Who Lie" letter told Congress in testimony made public Thursday, just hours before the first Biden-Trump debate of 2024.
The former spies, whose letter was drafted specifically to give Biden, now 81, a "talking point" at the second and final debate of the 2020 campaign, said they merely suggested that files from Hunter’s hard drive were bogus, but didn’t assert it as a fact — days after bombshell reports by The Post showed the elder Biden was involved in his family’s Chinese and Ukrainian business relationships.
"When he said that it is a Russian plan or whatever — garbage — that’s not what we said in there," said former CIA Director John Brennan ...director of the CIA under the Obama administration. One of the deeper dwelling denizens of the Deep State, probably the guy who lit the match that launched the Russiagate coup attempt... , who was among the best-known signers.
"What he said was not an accurate reflection of what the statement said," Brennan added in a May 11, 2023, deposition before the House Judiciary Committee.
Asked if Biden had been "accurate" with his debate claim, James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, said, "Not exactly."
"If he had said ’could have’ or ’may have,’ that would comport with what the intent, as I felt it was, of
the public statement, not a definitive statement [that] this was Russian interference," Clapper said in a May 17, 2023, deposition.
The controversial letter said the laptop files had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation" and was organized by former CIA acting director Michael Morell, who wrote in an email acquired by House Sherlocks that "we think Trump will attack Biden on the issue at this week’s debate, and we want to give the Vice President, VP, a talking point to use in response."
"I wanted [Biden] to win the election," Morell said in his own April 4, 2023, desposition.
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Is it really a lie if he has no free will of his own but merely repeats what Jill and Baraq tell him? Isn't that like blaming a zombie because some voodoo priest put a spell on him?
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It takes a certain level of mental acuity to knowingly utter a falsehood. OTOH if you don't know what you're talking about, you're just wrong, not a liar.
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Many people have covered up Biden stuff. Let’s compare the Hur transcript and tapes as a starting point. I’ll like to see indictments if they don’t match.
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Commentary by Oleg Yasinsky
[ColonelCassad] Hot on the heels of that sleepless night. Yesterday's attempted military coup in Bolivia was extremely strange, improvised and doomed to failure from the start. If there were a world competition of poorly prepared coups, this one would be the winner. The military did absolutely nothing to actually seize power. Older generations of Bolivians, who understand a lot about coups, can easily compare the bloody battles of the past with the current production.
At the same time, the general assessment of the events remains unchanged - the Bolivian oligarchy and the United States want to overthrow the current legitimate government of Bolivia at any cost and restore the colonial status quo in one of the richest resource countries in the region. The enemy's work in this direction continues and decisions here are not made by maddened traitor generals with tin eyes (and not only because in Bolivia, along with lithium, there is tin, gas and a lot of other things, even those not yet explored). In all likelihood, this clumsy coup attempt was a test of strength and, most importantly, a tool for measuring the reaction of different layers of Bolivian society and other countries to the army mutiny.
One thing is absolutely clear - the tragic split in the ruling party MAS ("Movement Towards Socialism") between supporters of the historical leader Evo Morales and the current president Luis Arce, is more dangerous today than any military actions. Both groups have a large social base and there are practically no political differences between them. The main irreconcilable conflict is in the political ambitions of the leaders. The current coup attempt, instead of uniting and reconciling the parties, will most likely serve to further split them, as a result of which MAS risks losing the next presidential elections without any coups.
The last governments of Evo Morales and Luis Arce did more for the Bolivian people than all the previous ones put together, returning the country's main wealth, state independence and raising the standard and quality of life of the majority of the population, especially the poorest. Their enormous role in overcoming the racism of white elites in the most Indian country of Latin America is immeasurable.
Many years ago, during Evo's rule, when we were filming a movie about Che Guevara's last guerrilla war in Bolivia, following in his footsteps through the most forgotten corners of the hinterland, I remember how I was already surprised and amazed by the real war within the MAS party. At that time, many officials and random people signed up en masse for Evo's party solely for power. And their struggle for power and control began almost immediately. Of course, despite the mass of beautiful slogans and declarations, there is nothing political in it.
The main and incredibly difficult task of Bolivian social movements is to overcome this split, equally mortally dangerous for everyone. The next coup, military or electoral, could be real.
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[REGNUM] On June 26, 2024, it became known that on October 2 of this year, the new, fourteenth Secretary General of NATO will be the former head of the government of the Netherlands Mark Rutte, who recently resigned as prime minister of the kingdom.
There has been speculation for quite some time about who will replace the Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg, who was Secretary General for almost ten years, in the combat post of head of the “defensive” (as he positions himself) alliance.
The London Telegraph two years ago confidently wrote that ex-Prime Minister and catalyst of the Ukrainian conflict Boris Johnson would sit in the post of Secretary General. The Canadian CBC predicted the “secretary general” for the head of the Canadian Ministry of Finance, the ethnic Ukrainian Chrystia Freeland.
Up until a certain point, there were two more ladies on the shortlist: former British Prime Minister Theresa May and her current Estonian counterpart Kaja Kallas. In general, the transformation of the alliance into a "women's kingdom" was the most common forecast, and it was the Baltic women who were mentioned most often: former Lithuanian Prime Minister Dalia Grybauskaite and former Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid were mentioned. In addition, it was said that the Balkans could be encouraged by inviting former Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic as Secretary General.
But the four main players in the alliance – the USA, Britain, France and Germany – came out in support of the man from Old Europe – Mark Rutte.
“I know that I am leaving NATO in good hands,” Jens Stoltenberg commented on the appointment on the social network X (formerly Twitter). Why would a Norwegian hand over his post to a Dutchman?
AN OLD BACHELOR WITH A TEFLON REPUTATION
Mark Rutte was born on February 14, 1967 in The Hague, the birthplace of the artist Vermeer, the group Shocking Blue, and one of the de facto capitals of the kingdom: the parliament and the cabinet of ministers sit in The Hague, and the royal residence is also located here. But what is more important is that the headquarters of globalist and Atlanticist structures, about one hundred and fifty in number, are concentrated here. In this “city of peace and justice” (the official title of The Hague), the tribunal for the former Yugoslavia sat, Slobodan Milosevic died here, and the headquarters of the International Criminal Court are also here.
Rutte, who had a successful career that earned him the nickname "Teflon Mark," was an early graduate of the globalist school. The future prime minister was born into a family of one of the country's richest citizens, the director of a large trading company that made money in the colony of the Netherlands East Indies, now Indonesia.
The family professed rather strict religious views of the Calvinist persuasion, Mark was the seventh child. The future politician received a history education, graduating in 1992 from Leiden University with a corresponding specialization. After completing his studies, he worked at Unilever, a company engaged in the production of food and household chemicals (and at the same time demonstratively caring for the environment), as a personnel manager. Since 2008, he has taught courses in sociology at the Jan de Witt College in his native The Hague.
At the same time, Mark Rutte began his political career. While still a student, the future prime minister headed the youth organization of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (NPSD). From 1993 to 1997, he was a member of the party's Executive Council.
The NPSD was created in 1948 on the basis of the conservative-liberal Freedom Party and several leaders of the Labor Party who left the latter because, in their opinion, it was too socialist. For most of the time since its founding (53 out of 75 years, from 1948 to 2023), the NPSD has been part of the ruling coalition, which was achieved due to the “half-hearted” liberal-conservative ideological direction of the party, divided by this factor into two approximately equal wings. Mark Rutte considers himself to be on the liberal wing.
In 2002–2004 he served as Secretary of State (deputy minister participating in government meetings) of labor and social protection, and after, until 2006, the formation in the government of Jan Peter Balkenende, a leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal party, the NPSD was a partner in the ruling coalition. At the same time, since 2003, Rutte occupied the seat of a deputy in the lower house of parliament.
In 2006, after the resignation of Josias van Aertsen, the previous chairman of the NPSD, Rutte nominated himself for this post, his main opponent was Rita Verdonk, a figure in the conservative wing of the party. During the voting, Mark won, gaining 52% of the votes against 46% for Verdonk. The following year, 2007, Rita Verdonk was expelled from the ranks of the NPSD.
The reason was that Verdonk accused her party and parliamentary colleague, Somali migrant and feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, of either not having received Dutch citizenship or having received it with violations. Ali's documents were corrected, the conservative Verdonk was ostracized, and "Teflon Mark", who did not interfere in the scandal, came out on top.
Let us add that Rutte’s personal reputation also seems to be unblemished – the unmarried and childless politician has nevertheless not been suspected of anything reprehensible, unlike, for example, the married family man Donald Trump.
COVID ALMOST RUINED CAREER
In 2010, Rutte led the party in the parliamentary elections and was declared the winner of the televised debates. In his election program, the liberal Rutte played with nationalist and left-wing populist agendas: he promised to tighten immigration laws, raise the retirement age and reduce benefits for immigrants, and to use the freed-up money to combat the consequences of the 2008 economic crisis.
In the October 2010 elections, the PPSD won 20% of the vote and 31 seats (9 more than before) in the second chamber of parliament. On October 14, Queen Beatrix announced the appointment of Mark Rutte as Prime Minister of the country. A coalition government of the NPSD and the Christian Democratic Party was immediately formed.
Subsequently, Mark Rutte resigned from his post and returned to it three more times: in 2012, due to disagreements over the formation of the budget, the coalition split and Rutte had to reorganize the cabinet, this time together with the Labor Party. In 2017, regular parliamentary elections were held, as a result of which Rutte again headed the cabinet.
Finally, in 2021, his government resigned again as a result of mass protests caused by anti-coronavirus measures. However, in the early elections, the cabinet of the winning coalition was again headed by Mark Rutte. In all of the above cases, between elections, Rutte led the country as acting head of government.
On 7 July 2023, Rutte submitted his resignation to King Willem-Alexander due to disagreements with the Christian Union, a coalition party, on the migration issue: the Christian Union refused to support measures to restrict migration to the Netherlands put forward by the NPSD. On 14 August, Rutte also resigned as party chairman. However, following the November 2023 elections, a new government was not formed due to the impossibility of forming a coalition, so Mark Rutte is still acting Prime Minister.
A STAUNCH PRO-UKRAINIAN
The politician was first offered the post of NATO Secretary General back in January 2023, but then Mark Rutte refused, citing a desire to end his political career after the end of his next term. However, after his resignation in July of that year, Rutte returned to the proposal.
In February 2024, it became known that the Dutch politician was the main contender for the post of Secretary General, his candidacy was supported by 28 of the 32 member countries of the alliance. The current Secretary General of the organization, former Prime Minister of Norway Jens Stoltenberg, announced his resignation on October 2, 2024. In June 2024, all members of the alliance confirmed Rutte's candidacy.
It is worth mentioning that the Dutch politician, while serving as prime minister, ardently supported Ukraine back in 2014.
On March 1, 2022, almost immediately after the start of the SVO, Rutte signed a bilateral security agreement with Vladimir Zelensky, promising to provide financial assistance. Rutte also warmly supported the recent summit in Switzerland, saying that Russia has no right to participate in it until it “complies with international principles.”
"Mark is a true transatlanticist, a decisive leader and a consensus builder," Stoltenberg, his predecessor, said of Rutte.
Rutte himself said the following during his April visit to Lithuania:
"It is vital that NATO maintains deterrence, that we all understand that this border of the Baltics and other countries on the eastern flank with Belarus and Russia is our collective border... First of all, this means that we all spend at least 2 percent (of GDP) on defense. This also means strengthening the defense of the eastern flank."
So there is no need to expect any changes in the alliance’s policy towards Russia. It was in this spirit that Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov assessed the appointment:
“It is unlikely that this choice will change anything in the general line of NATO and the members of the Atlantic alliance.”
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[REGNUM] Vladimir Putin's recent visit to the DPRK and the signing of a cooperation agreement between the two countries have greatly alarmed the South Korean authorities. The response was swift: if Moscow transfers modern weapons and technology to Pyongyang, Seoul will lift the current restrictions and begin deliveries to Kiev. This was stated by the head of the National Security Department of the Presidential Administration of South Korea, Chang Ho-jin, on the air of the KBS television channel.
The agreement signed by Putin and Kim Jong-un provides for military assistance in the event of an attack on one of the parties to the agreement. The text does not directly stipulate arms supplies, but Seoul is seriously concerned about North Korea acquiring modern strike weapons. Supplies to Kiev are seen there as a mirror response.
At the same time, the country’s authorities previously insisted that they do not plan to send weapons to Ukraine.
For Kyiv, a possible partnership with Seoul opens up rich prospects, since South Korea has effectively become the workshop and forge of NATO’s eastern flank.
They are pushing out Germany and the USA
South Korea has a developed military industry, which operates under conditions close to martial law. Since the Republic of Korea and the DPRK are in a constant state of readiness for war, Seoul keeps defense enterprises in good shape and increases production speed.
In addition, South Korea is actively entering the global arms market.
In August 2022, Poland ordered several batches of weapons worth a total of $12.4 billion from Korea. South Korean companies will supply the Polish army with 230 multiple launch rocket systems, 980 tanks, 648 self-propelled howitzers and 48 aircraft. The first batches of weapons have already arrived in Poland in 2022–2023.
The second stage of the deal between Warsaw and Seoul provides for the creation of industrial capacities on Polish territory for the production of K2 tanks and K9 self-propelled guns. After 2026, Poland plans to produce 800 tanks. Therefore, do not think that Korea is far away and cannot have any relation to Ukraine. Korea is close.
At the same time, military cooperation between Poland and South Korea began back in 2008, when Warsaw began production of AHS self-propelled artillery mounts, based on the same Korean K9 self-propelled guns.
In addition to Poland, the Romanian authorities also showed interest in the Korean self-propelled guns.
On June 19, the country's Defense Minister Angel Tilvar confirmed plans to purchase K9 self-propelled artillery units from South Korean manufacturers for a total of $920 million. The statement was made after a meeting between the head of the Romanian Defense Ministry and his South Korean counterpart Shin Won-sik.
The turn of the former Eastern Bloc countries from European suppliers to South Korean ones is understandable, military expert Alexander Mikhailovsky noted in a commentary to Regnum. Manufacturers from Germany and the USA were unable to produce large quantities of armored vehicles for export. In addition, German and American tanks did not perform well on the fields of the Northern Military District.
"It turned out that European countries, and the US, have not fought a serious enemy for a long time, and their requirements for armored vehicles do not meet modern standards. Therefore, buyers are turning their attention to Israel or South Korea. Their military-industrial complex is constantly in good shape, and their products better meet modern requirements," the expert notes.
In 2019, the US purchased Iron Dome missile defense systems from Israel for the first time, which are better suited to repel drone and rocket attacks than American weapons.
At the same time, Mikhailovsky says, South Korean enterprises produce weapons manufactured according to NATO standards, which allows them to be integrated into the armed forces of any European country. Korea is also actively introducing civilian developments into military equipment, which makes it modern and high-tech.
“The same K9 self-propelled guns are produced by Samsung Techwin - the flagship of modern technologies. K2 tanks, aka “Black Panther”, are produced by a whole club of advanced Korean enterprises. In this regard, they are ahead of both the German Rheinmetall and the American General Dynamics, manufacturers of the Leopard 2 and Abrams tanks,” adds IA Regnum’s interlocutor.
In turn, the Norwegian armed forces are considering purchasing K2 tanks instead of Leopard 2A7 tanks, and Turkey has chosen a Korean tank as the basis for the Altay tanks - the first armored vehicle to be produced on Turkish soil, despite the fact that the Turkish defense industry has close ties with the German ones manufacturers, and the main tank of the armed forces is the Leopard 2.
In general, South Korea is becoming a supplier of weapons to NATO countries. If we talk about Ukraine, cooperation with it is possible, but only in the distant future.
WHAT SEOUL CAN GIVE TO KYIV
The Ukrainian troops need artillery shells most of all. The EU countries cannot increase their industrial capacity to the level that would allow them to meet their own needs, let alone the needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. At the same time, aid from the US comes to Ukraine every other time and with long delays.
Hypothetically, South Korea could significantly ease the situation for the Ukrainian Armed Forces and allocate some ammunition from its reserves, for example, shells with an expiring shelf life. However, organizing the supply will be problematic.
Under normal conditions, Seoul could transfer 330,000 155-mm artillery shells to Kiev, the Washington Post reported in December 2023, citing National Security Advisor to US President Jake Sullivan. He explained that the delivery of ammunition from South Korea to Ukraine would take 41 days.
Now the period will increase, since any ship with shells must circumnavigate not only the entire Asian continent, but also Africa. Given that ships traveling through the Red Sea are constantly targeted by missile attacks, it is unlikely that ammunition cargo will be sent through the Suez Canal.
Accordingly, any cargo of Korean ammunition will be able to reach, say, Romania or Bulgaria only in a few months. Not to mention that the ammunition still has to be transported from NATO ports to the front line.
That is, if the South Korean authorities authorize the supply of ammunition to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, they will not be at the front immediately. Kyiv should not count on supplies of armored vehicles and weapons, especially against the backdrop of worsening relations between South and North Korea.
"The management of Korean enterprises is not made up of philanthropists, but businessmen. Yes, they like to expand their presence in the market, but they work for money.
The Korean government will also not supply weapons from its reserves, since the likelihood of a conflict with the DPRK in the coming years does not look zero. Every tank counts for them,” Alexander Mikhailovsky is sure.
The Ukrainian leadership can only wait for supplies from European partners, the expert adds. In the meantime, in response to Kyiv's calls to its allies for air defense supplies, NATO has generously donated two Patriot air defense missile system divisions. One will be donated by Romania, the second by the Netherlands together with an unnamed country.
Of course, Kyiv can also count on the supply of hundreds of tanks and self-propelled guns from Seoul, but not before Ukraine has the money for it. But they don’t exist, so we have to beg the allies for what’s lying around in warehouses.
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[NewsFront] 23:59 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 06/27/2024 to 00:00 06/28/2024.
A total of 25 cases of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
Information was received about a civilian being injured.
DAMAGED:
Two residential buildings,
One civil infrastructure facility.
A total of 15 artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction,
Nine artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction,
One artillery attack in the Velikonovoselkovsky direction.
A total of 65 units of various ammunition were fired.
23:48 Operational report: Kherson direction.
It is reported that today the Russian Aerospace Forces aviation worked on the identified enemy positions on the right bank. The crew of the 152mm D-20 cannon was hit.
UVAB-250 and UVAB-500 hit enemy fortifications and deployment points of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
It is reported that the location of the enemy's missile systems, from where launches were made against Crimea and the South, was hit.
21:35 Statements by representatives of the North, West, South, Center, East and Dnepr groups on the progress of the special military operation (as of June 27, 2024) -video.
20:55 Telegram channel «Fisherman»:
Slobozhansky direction: battles in Volchansk and counterattacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Glubokoye, the situation by the end of the day on June 27, 2024
Ukrainian formations do not give up attempts to advance, from time to time carrying out counterattacks in several areas in order to dislodge Russian troops from their positions.
In the Glubokoye area, the enemy from Liptsev conducts raid attacks, using infantry and armored vehicles, all attacks are successfully repelled by the Russian Armed Forces. Russian operational-tactical aviation is actively operating in Liptsy and nearby forest plantations, including covering enemy armored groups that are forming.
In the Zeleny area, fighting is still going on in the vicinity of the settlement. It is not possible to dislodge the enemy from strongholds near the village due to the lack of cover in the vast fields and the high activity of enemy drones in the sky.
Counter clashes continue in the Staritsa-Bugrovatka area. Ukrainian formations occasionally make forays from Izbitskoye and the forest south of the Vovcha River from Grafskoye. In fact, both sides conduct raids on each other's positions without significant changes in control zones.
In Volchansk, fighting continues unabated in the area of ??multi-storey buildings, which remains under the firm control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, even despite multiple air and artillery strikes, including the TOS-1A Solntsepek.
There are also battles on the territory of the Volchansk Aggregate Plant. The private sector to the east of Olesya Dosvitnogo Street and Korolenko Street to Zernovaya and Khleboroba Street is in a vast "gray zone" where assault groups of the Russian and Ukrainian Armed Forces sometimes exchange fire with each other from neighboring buildings, which, however, is quite typical for urban battles.
To the east, in the Tikhoy area, no significant changes in the situation are observed, and to the south of Volchaya, artillery crews of the Russian Armed Forces are constantly firing at enemy armored vehicles and personnel. Targets are also hit by aircraft and UAV operators, knocking out artillery and tanks of Ukrainian formations to a depth of up to 30 kilometers from the front.
In addition, according to data from enemy resources, fighting has broken out in the Sotnitsky Kazachok area to the west of the current areas of active clashes in the Slobozhansky direction and the activity of Russian special forces groups and intelligence officers is being recorded. However, at the moment we cannot confirm or deny this information.
20:11 Airstrikes by winged FABs, ODABs, and cluster RBK-500 for forest plantations with Ukrainian Armed Forces positions.
While the artillery is operating, you can see the consequences of the arrival of aerial bombs in the form of circles with no vegetation.
19:29 Volchansk. TOS crews continue to support storming the city with our forces.
18:25 Our artillerymen hit the target with precision destroyed Ukrainian UAV crew in the Berislav district of the Kherson region.
17:12 Around 16.15 Moscow time stopped an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using an aircraft-type UAV against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.
A Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed by air defense systems on duty over the territory of the Belgorod region.
16:52 BMP-3 crew destroyed fortified area with enemy infantry in the Orekhovsky direction.
During the combat work, servicemen of the Dnepr group of troops hit the dugouts of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and destroyed a group of infantry of up to seven people. The enemy unit also suffered medical losses.
16:25 Special military operation. Situation as of June 27 –map.
15:31 RF Ministry of Defense reported, that a strike was carried out using hypersonic Kinzhal missiles and other types of weapons on airfields where it was planned to deploy Western aircraft transferred to Ukraine. The goals of the strikes were achieved.
14:51 Relative situations with the activity of the Russian Armed Forces on the border with the Khar'kov region west of Liptsy.
For now, this is simply a probing of the enemy's front line. Just like it happened recently in Sumy Oblast, where the enemy lost a village on the border as a result of a similar probing.
In addition to keeping the enemy on edge, such activity allows the Russian Armed Forces to create operational ambiguity in their actions, forcing the enemy command to guess whether there is something more to these actions than tactical activity and whether there is preparation for a larger advance hidden behind it, as has already happened in the Volchansk region, where the enemy overslept the advance of our troops.
14:18 Khar'kov direction (area of Kupyansk settlement).
It is reported, that our barrel artillery has been actively working since early morning. In particular, our 152mm self-propelled guns 2S5 "MSTA-S" have been working on the enemy's fortified positions.
13:27 Telegram channel «Fisherman»:
Liman direction: battles on the Tor ledge.
For a long time, the situation in the Liman direction has undergone virtually no significant changes. However, now some revival of the combat situation has been noticed in the area again.
The attacks of the Russian Armed Forces in the direction of Tern resumed. The footage published by the enemy showed artillery attack of a Russian armored group, including with cluster munitions.
This is far from the first offensive of troops in Laptev Yar and Kruglaya Gully, the previous ones of which were not particularly successful, and the results of the latest attacks also remain in question.
At the same time, an attempt by the Russian Armed Forces to advance in the direction of Torskoye in the forest plantations four kilometers to the east of the village was recorded. The outcome of the battle is unclear, but the very fact of the attack in this area indicates that several forest belts to the east and a small reservoir have come under control.
At the same time, the Russian Aerospace Forces' operational-tactical aviation raids on Liman continue. In addition to the classic FAB-500 with UMPK, ODAB-1500 are often used for these purposes, and their frequency of use in this area has increased.
The settlement is used by the enemy as a transit base: both for the treatment of the wounded from the front lines and for the rotation of units and their subsequent dispatch to the Torsky salient and in the direction of Seversk.
12:14 They report that the assault units of the 106th Guards Airborne Division drove the enemy out of Razdolovka.
11:27 Statement by the head of the press center of the Dnepr group -video.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces carried out combat missions in the SVO zone, using artillery fire to prevent the enemy troops from regrouping. They continued to destroy Ukrainian Armed Forces watercraft seeking to land on the left bank of the Dnieper. They actively destroyed FPV drones, reconnaissance and attack UAVs.
During the day, the enemy's losses amounted to 60 servicemen; during the counter-battery battle, a 152mm D-20 gun and a 105mm M119 gun were destroyed. Three ammunition depots and two infantry fighting vehicles were destroyed.
The use of attack UAVs disabled three units of automotive equipment.
10:53 Summary on the morning of June 27, 2024.
In the Khar'kov direction, fierce fighting continues in the village. Volchansk. Assault groups of the Russian Armed Forces knock out the enemy from the area of high-rise buildings. The enemy tried to cross the Volchya River with up to a motorized infantry company, and up to 50 Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers were destroyed by artillery and FPV drones of our troops.
The enemy continues to build up forces on the right bank of the Volchya River. Missile weapons destroyed two UAV warehouses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with crews and transport. The enemy is bringing light rifle battalions into the battle, trying to increase pressure on our positions.
In the Kupyansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces have resumed offensive operations southeast of Sin'kovka. There are reports of battles for enemy strongholds.
North of Chasov Yar, the enemy brought in reserves and counterattacked in the Kalinovka area. The battle continues in the Kanal microdistrict, as well as near Kleshcheyevka and Andreyevka.
In the Toretsk direction, where the Russian Armed Forces recently resumed attack operations, they managed to reach the outskirts of the village. Zheleznoye (on the map – Zaliznoye, Ukrainian). A frontal protrusion also formed from the Mayorskaya railway station deep into the enemy’s defense at a distance of 1.7 km.
West of Avdievka there are oncoming battles, the advance of the Russian Armed Forces is noted on the southern sector of the front from Netailovo to Karlovka.
In the Vrem'yevsky direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched several unsuccessful counterattacks near Staromayorsky and Urozhayny, including using armored vehicles.
On the Zaporizhzhya Front, there are no significant changes in the LBS. In the Pyatikhatki area, the Russian Armed Forces are covering enemy positions with fire from the TOS
In the Kherson direction, shooting skirmishes were reported near the Antonovsky Bridge. The Russian Armed Forces continue to operate on the islands in the floodplain of the Dnieper River in difficult conditions. The enemy has intensified the use of FPV drones.
The civilian population of the Belgorod region continues to suffer from attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In the Shebekinsky urban district, a man was wounded in Novaya Tavolzhanka. Under attack by Murom, Bogun-Gorodok, Borisov district, Bezymeno, Grayvoronsky urban district, Kolotilovka, Krasnoyaruzhsky district.
A cynical blow hit the parking lot of the Grayvoronskaya Central District Hospital, and a couple suffered: the man suffered a mine-explosive injury, shrapnel wounds to the hip and forearm, and the woman suffered a closed craniocerebral injury. The enemy also continues to target cars on the roads. On the Arkhangelskoye-Ziborovka highway in the Shebekinsky urban district, a drone attacked a parked official car. Another drone attacked a car in the village of Novostroevka-Pervaya, Grayvoronsky urban district.
In the Kursk region, the Sudzha checkpoint, the villages of Gornal, Guevo, Nikolaevo-Daryino and Sverdlikovo, the village of Ol'eshnya in the Sudzhansky district, the village of Gordeevka and the village of Uspenovka in the Korenevsky district, the village of Tyotkino, the village of Sergeevka and the village of Elizavetovka in the Glushkovsky district, the village of Milaevka in the Belovsky district were repeatedly shelled.
Drone attacks were observed near the village of Glushkovo, the village of Uspenovka in the Korenevsky district, the village of Stropitsy in the Rylsky district, the Sudzha checkpoint, the village of Sverdlikovo in the Sudzhansky district, and the village of Goptarovka in the Belovsky district.
A Ukrainian missile was shot down by air defense over the Dmitrievsky district. During the day, 20 Ukrainian drones were destroyed and suppressed using small arms and electronic warfare equipment in the border areas.
In the DPR, as a result of attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine with 155mm artillery on Donetsk and Gorlovka, a civilian was killed and six were wounded, incl. two children.
10:17 During last night stopped an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Air defense systems on duty destroyed four UAVs over the territory of Tverskaya, two UAVs over the territory of Moskovskaya, and one UAV over the territory of Belgorod Oblast.
09:52 Criminal Kyiv regime continues to fire at the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from cannon artillery:
--in Kakhovka settlement five rounds;
-- n.p. Novaya Kakhovka four rounds;
-- Six rounds in the village of Dnepryany;
-- n.p. Lyubimovka three rounds;
-- Three rounds in the village of Malokakhovka;
As a result of the attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, one person was injured. In the village In Dnipro, residential buildings were destroyed, power lines were damaged, and an outbuilding caught fire. In addition, the village was attacked by UAVs. Kakhovka, and in the village In Lyubimovka, two households caught fire.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the villages of Novaya Kakhovka, Kakhovka, Korsunka, Aleshky, and Verkhniy Rogachik, firing a total of 20 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.
09:30 Telegram channel «WarGonzo»:
Frontline report for the morning 06/27/2024
- Zaporozhye Front. In the Rabotino area and north-west of Verbovoy there are positional battles. Long-range weapons are actively working.
- Donetsk Front. Fighting continues on the approaches to Konstantinovka. In Koasnogorovka there are more tactical successes of the Russian Armed Forces. In Nevelskoye - no changes. In the area of Karlovka, Russian troops continue to improve their positions, preparing for a further assault on the settlement. Heavy fighting in Yasnobrodovka, where the Ukrainian garrison continues to resist. Heavy fighting also continues in Sokol, the LBS has not changed significantly.
– Chasovoyarsk direction. Russian troops continue to push the Ukrainian Armed Forces to the west in the suburb of Chasov Yar. The Ukrainian garrison is resisting fiercely.
- Khar'kov Front. No major changes. Fierce fighting continues in Volchansk and in the Glubokoye area.
08:49 Telegram channel «Fisherman»:
Chronicle of a special military operation for June 26, 2024
– Russian troops hit Ukrainian Armed Forces facilities in Kharkov, Belgorod-Dnestrovsky, Odessa region, and in the Nikolaev region.
– The enemy continues to shell the Russian border area and tried to attack Russian Armed Forces facilities in the Smolensk region with drones.
– In the Kupyansk-Svatovsky direction, Russian troops are advancing in the direction of Petrovpavlovka from the side of Olshany, and have also expanded the zone of control on the approaches to Stelmakhovka.
– In the Avdeevka direction, Russian troops repelled an enemy counterattack in the Yasnobrodovka area and are engaged in fierce battles in the Sokol and Novopokrovskoe area.
– In the Vrem'evsky direction, clashes continue on the northern outskirts of Staromayorsky and in Urozhany.
08:00 Official summary of DPR Representative Offices in the JCCC:
46 cases of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC.
There were reports of a civilian being killed, and six civilians, including two children, were injured.
Damaged:
A total of residential buildings,
Two civil infrastructure facilities.
A total of 19 artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction,
A total of 26 artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction,
One artillery attack in the Volnovakha direction.
In total, the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired 147 units of various ammunition.
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[EngMilRu] This morning, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation delivered a group strike by long-range sea-based precision weaponry, Kinzhal hypersonic air-launched ballistic missiles, and unmanned aerial vehicles at the Ukrainian airfield infrastructure, where Western-made aircraft were planned to be stored.
The goal of the strike has been achieved. All the assigned targets have been engaged.
Units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 42nd, 57th Mechanised brigades, 113th, 125th, 127th Territorial Defence brigades near Volchansk, Neskuchnoye, and Lipsy (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 190 Ukrainian troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, two UK-made 155mm FH-70 howitzers, and three 122mm D-30 howitzers.
Units of the Zapad Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and inflicted losses on formations of the AFU 14th, 21st, and 115th Mechanised brigades near Nevskoye (Lugansk People's Republic), Sinkovka (Kharkov region), and Grigorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
One counterattack launched by assault detachments of the AFU 63th Mechanised Brigade was repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 585 Ukrainian troops, four motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzer, one 152mm D-20 howitzer, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, and one 122mm D-30 howitzer.
Four AFU artillery ammunition depots, one U.S.-made AN/TPQ-50 counterbattery warfare station, and one reconnaissance radar station were destroyed.
Units of the Yug Group of Forces improved the tactical situation along the front lines, as well as inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 79th Air Assault Brigade and 46th Airmobile Brigade near Kurakhovo and Konstantinovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to more than 640 Ukrainian troops, one armoured personnel carrier, five motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzer, one U.S.-made 155mm M198 howitzer, three 152mm D-20 howitzers, and one 122mm D-30 howitzer were eliminated.
Five AFU field ammunition depots were destroyed.
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on formations of the AFU 24th Mechanised Brigade and 109th Territorial Defence Brigade near Novgorodskoye and Toretsk (Donetsk People's Republic).
Six counterattacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 23rd, 41st, 31st, 68th Mechanised brigades, and 95th Air Assault Brigade were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 345 Ukrainian troops, three motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzer, one 152mm 2A65 Msta-B howitzer, four 122mm D-30 howitzers, and one 100mm MT-12 Rapira anti-tank gun.
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 123rd Territorial Defence Brigade and 17th National Guard Brigade near Urozhaynoye and Velikaya Novosyolka (Donetsk People's Republic). Two counterattacks launched by units of the AFU 58th Motorised Infantry Brigade were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to more than 115 Ukrainian troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, five motor vehicles, one UK-made 155mm FH-70 howitzer, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, and one U.S.-made 105mm M119 howitzer.
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 35th and 37th Naval Infantry brigades near Dneprovskoye, Tokaryovka, and Otradokamenka (Kherson region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 80 Ukrainian troops and 13 motor vehicles.
In the course of counter-battery warfare, three U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS, one U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzer, one UK-made 155mm FH-70 howitzer, and one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system were destroyed.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces engaged AFU manpower and hardware clusters in 117 areas during the day.
Air defence units shot down two MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force, 62 unmanned aerial vehicles, four U.S.-made Patriot air defence guided missiles, and two U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles.
In total, 615 airplanes and 276 helicopters, 26,704 unmanned aerial vehicles, 533 air defence missile systems, 16,439 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,356 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 10,963 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 23,008 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[KavkazUzel] Derbent resident Saidulla Badaev, wounded during a militant attack on a local synagogue, has died, sources reported today. The total number of victims of the attack increased to 22.
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", on June 23, on the Day of the Holy Trinity, which is one of the main Christian holidays, militants attacked synagogues and an Orthodox church in Derbent and Makhachkala. As a result of the attacks, 21 people died and 46 were injured. On June 26, doctors called the condition of six people injured in the militant attack serious.
During the attack on the synagogue, militants wounded local resident Saidulla Badaev, who lived in the Karyer microdistrict, Dagestan Online reported today.
Badaev died from his wound; he was 66 years old, the Mash Gor telegram channel reported today.
This brings the number of victims of terrorist attacks in Dagestan to 22.
Let us remind you that the attacks by militants in Derbent and Makhachkala were the first armed incidents in Dagestan in more than a year. The attack by militants on churches and synagogues interrupted a 13-month calm in the republic. At the same time, a number of incidents involving attacks on religious figures and places of worship occurred earlier in Dagestan.
Veterans of the special services interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" said that the attacks by militants in Dagestan were a failure of the security forces, who did not pay due attention to preventive work. On June 23, the American Institute for the Study of War stated that the Vilayat Caucasus cell, a division of the Islamic State, was behind the attacks.
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[Korrespondent] Should we expect North Korean soldiers in Ukraine?
North Korea may send military construction and engineering forces to participate in "reconstruction work" in the occupied Donetsk region.
North Korea is almost Russia’s main ally in the war against Ukraine. During a recent meeting between two dictators, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un, they signed a comprehensive strategic partnership agreement, seeking to expand economic and military cooperation. North Korea has been supplying the Kremlin with weapons for the war against Ukraine for a long time, but now it can also help with soldiers?
ENGINEERING TROOPS
North Korea will send military construction and engineering forces to participate in “reconstruction work” in the occupied Donetsk region as early as July this year, South Korean TV channel TV Chosun reports, citing a South Korean official.
Thus, South Korea expects the dispatch of large engineering forces from North Korea to the occupied Donetsk region as early as July. These forces will have to help restore the infrastructure in occupied Donetsk.
The North Korean military has 10 engineering brigades, and Chosun TV has estimated that North Korea could receive up to $115 million annually from Russia if it sends three or four engineering brigades to occupied Ukraine.
HOW WILL THIS HELP RUSSIA?
The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) states that they have not yet seen any signs or evidence that North Korean military personnel are preparing to take part in hostilities in Ukraine. However, as experts emphasize, direct engineering support from North Korea in the occupied territories can free up Russian army forces for operations along the front line, in particular, help Russia expand military infrastructure and defensive fortifications in the occupied part of Ukraine.
REACTION
Advisor to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podolyak reacted sharply to information that North Korea may send military construction and engineering forces to the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk Oblast.
He noted that the DPRK “calmly emerged from global sanctions” and is actively engaged in military cooperation with Russia. Now the country has decided to send special engineering troops to participate in a full-scale war against Ukraine.
"AND? Nothing. Silence. Instead of responding, the UN invites Russian Interior Minister Kolokoltsev, who is under “strict” personal sanctions, to a “peacekeeping summit” to publicly discuss “peacekeeping” and once again tell neutral countries that “to attack other sovereignties, kill civilians en masse. excellent, right,” Podolyak wrote on Telegram. The adviser to the head of the OP sarcastically noted that it is the demonstrative ignoring of North Korea’s direct participation in the war on the side of the Russian Federation, as well as the invitation of Russian representatives to summits, that leads to a “fair ending.”
US Department of Defense spokesman Pat Ryder expressed the opinion that the North Korean military, if sent to help Russian forces in Ukraine, would most likely become “cannon fodder.”
“If I were the head of the North Korean military, I would question sending my forces as cannon fodder in an illegal war against Ukraine,” Ryder said at a briefing.
He added that the United States will continue to monitor the situation as cooperation between Russia and North Korea strengthens.
* Joining the Americans was the coalition’s French Battalion, led by Lt. Col. Raoul Magrin-Vernerey. Better known by his nom de guerre, Ralph Monclar, he was a battle-tested veteran of the French Foreign Legion and World War II general who had accepted a demotion in order to lead the battalion.
The take away: Experts emphasize, direct engineering support from North Korea in the occupied territories can free up Russian army forces for operations along the front line, in particular, help Russia expand military infrastructure and defensive fortifications in the occupied part of Ukraine.
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[Korrespondent] The number of military clashes at the front increased to 104.
In the Toretsky direction, the number of Russian assaults increased to 25, in Pokrovsky - to 23.
Over the past 24 hours, the number of military clashes along the entire front line has increased to 104. The hottest areas are in the Toretsky and Pokrovsky directions, which account for almost half of all enemy assaults. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces announced this in an evening report on Thursday, June 27.
In the Kharkov direction, Russian troops attempted to attack here three times. Fighting continues in the Vovchansk area.
Since the beginning of the day, in the Kupyansky direction, Ukrainian defenders have repelled 10 assault attacks by the occupying forces. The battle at Sinkovka continues. The area around Petropavlovka received an air strike.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy increased pressure in the Chasovoy Yar area. There are two fights going on. In total, the enemy has attacked here five times today.
In the Toretsk direction, the number of assaults by the invaders has increased to 25. The units of the Defense Forces have repelled 22 offensive attempts by the Russian Federation troops, three attacks are still ongoing. The enemy used aviation and bombed Toretsk with KABs.
In the Pokrovsky direction, the occupiers are not reducing pressure. Since the beginning of the day, the enemy has attacked the defensive lines of the Ukrainian defenders 23 times. Seven assault operations are ongoing.
One hostile attempt to attack in the Dnieper direction was added. In general, this is already the seventh of the day, six are reflected. In other areas, the situation has not undergone significant changes.
Earlier it was reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces ousted the Russian invaders from the Kanal microdistrict in the city of Chasov Yar in the Donetsk region. At the same time, the Russians do not give up their intentions to break through.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces successfully repulse attacks.
In the Pokrovsky direction, the occupiers lost more than 300 servicemen and a dozen pieces of equipment in one day.
As of 22:00 on Thursday, June 27, 119 military clashes took place at the front. The hottest destinations during the day remained Toretskoye, Pokrovskoye and Kurakhovskoye. The situation in the combat areas is difficult, however, under the control of our defenders, the press service of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
During the day, the enemy launched six missile strikes (eight missiles in total) and 43 air strikes (dropped 56 UABs in total) on Ukrainian territory, used 458 kamikaze drones, and carried out 2,863 attacks on our troops' positions and populated areas using various types of weapons.
In the Kharkov direction, three enemy assaults in the areas of Volchansk, Liptsev and Sotnitsky Kazachok were unsuccessful.
Kupyansk direction. There were 10 combat contacts. The occupiers attacked in the areas of Stepnaya Novoselovka, northeast of Petropavlovka, Peschanoye, Stelmakhovka and Andreyevka. All attacks were repelled. The defense forces are taking measures to strengthen the lines and prevent the enemy from advancing.
There were no significant changes in the situation in the Liman direction. During the day, the aggressor tried eight times to break through our defenses in the areas of Kopanok, Nevsky, Makeevka, Ternov and Torsky. Four attacks were repulsed, fighting continues.
In the Seversky direction, the Defense Forces successfully repelled six enemy attacks near Sporny, Razdolevka and Vyemka.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy has already tried 6 times to oust units of the Defense Forces from their positions in the Chasov Yar area. Three attacks repulsed. The fighting continues.
The occupiers continued to actively operate in the Toretsk direction during the day. In total, the enemy attempted to storm the positions of our defenders in the areas of Druzhba, Zhelezny, Severny, Toretsky and New York 26 times. One battle continues.
According to preliminary information, in the Toretsk direction the enemy lost 70 people, five vehicles and an artillery system. Two vehicles and an artillery system were damaged.
The situation in the Pokrovsk direction also remains tense. The enemy does not abandon attempts to penetrate our combat formations in the areas of the settlements of Vozdvizhenka, Novoaleksandrovka, Evgenyevka, Progress, Novoselovka Pervaya, Karlovka and Umanskoye. In total, 27 attacks have occurred, one is ongoing.
According to available information, the enemy lost more than 300 servicemen, a tank, three armored fighting vehicles, five artillery systems and one vehicle in this direction. Three tanks, four armored fighting vehicles and four artillery systems were damaged.
During the day, in the Kurakhovsky direction, the invaders attacked the positions of the Defense Forces 18 times. Two clashes are still ongoing. The situation is under the control of our defenders.
Preliminarily, the enemy lost about 50 servicemen in the Kurakhovsky direction today. Four tanks and nine armored combat vehicles were also destroyed. Five more tanks were damaged.
In the Vremivsk direction, the enemy was pressing in the Konstantinovka area. Two attacks were repelled, one combat contact continues.
In the Orekhovsky direction, the aggressor’s attempt to attack our defenders in the Malaya Tokmachka area was unsuccessful.
Dnieper direction. Ten enemy attacks were successfully repulsed. Loss of positions is not allowed. The situation is under the control of the defense forces.
Since the beginning of the day, units of our aviation, missile forces and artillery have inflicted defeats on five areas where enemy personnel and weapons and military equipment are concentrated, an anti-aircraft missile system, a radar station and three enemy ammunition depots.
Earlier it was reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces ousted the Russian invaders from the Kanal microdistrict in the city of Chasov Yar in the Donetsk region. At the same time, the Russians do not give up their intentions to break through.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:07 As a result of today's Russian strike on Kharkov, five people were injured, the prosecutor's office specified. Private houses, university buildings and dormitories, as well as the State Emergency Service building were damaged. It was established that the Russian military used super-powerful modernized FAB-500 from the UMPK for the first time to strike Kharkov. One of the FAB-500 hit the wall of a private residential building and did not detonate. State Emergency Service specialists removed the explosive device and are retrieving an unexploded shell from the yard.
21:59 In the evening, the Russians struck the center of Kurakhovo, Donetsk region from Hurricanes - two people were killed, two were wounded, said the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin. In addition, during the day one person was wounded in Gornyak, Kurakhovskaya community, and two more in New York, Toretsk community.
20:53 The US, Israel and Ukraine are discussing the delivery of up to eight Patriot systems to Kiev, the Financial Times reports, citing sources. The agreement, which has not yet been finalized, will most likely involve sending the Patriot systems first from Israel to the US and then to Ukraine.
20:38 Ukraine has received 50,000 units of ammunition under the Czech initiative, iRozhlas reports. This is part of the 180,000 units of ammunition financed by Germany, the Czech Defense Ministry reported. As of today, the supply of 500,000 shells has been financially secured - they should be delivered to Ukraine by the end of the year in tranches of several tens of thousands per month.
20:16 Kyiv expects the Washington NATO summit to make a decision on strengthening the Alliance's role in coordinating security assistance and training for the Ukrainian military, as well as long-term financial commitments for stable support for Ukraine, Zelensky said following a meeting with Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
18:40 On Friday, June 28, regional power companies will apply hourly shutdown schedules from 00:00 to 24:00, Ukrenergo reported.
18:37 Today, for the first time, the Russians used FAB-500 with a planning and correction module in Kharkov, said the head of the regional prosecutor’s office, Alexander Filchakov. “It is twice as powerful as the KAB- and FAB-250 that were used before, which are used to bomb Kharkov every day,” he added. According to Filchakov, two aerial bombs were launched from a Su-34 aircraft from Maiskoye in the Belgorod region, from the launch site to the impact site - 65 km.
18:32 Stoltenberg believes that Russian troops are currently not capable of "significant breakthroughs" in Ukraine, while Kiev is causing significant damage to it with strikes deep into Russian territory. At the same time, the Secretary General warned that Russia will most likely "continue to advance along the front line" and carry out airstrikes on Ukraine. "But we see that the Ukrainians have been able to hold the front line. They have been able to continue to inflict heavy losses on the Russian occupiers - both along the front line and with strikes deep into Russian territory," Stoltenberg noted.
18:28 The Czech Republic will allocate about 35 million euros as part of its initiative to supply artillery ammunition to Ukraine, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said. He clarified that the funds will be used to purchase ammunition from the Czech company STV Group.
18:23 The Ukrainian Armed Forces have driven Russian troops out of the Kanal microdistrict in Chasovy Yar in the Bakhmut district of Donetsk Oblast, said Nazar Voloshin, spokesman for the Khortytsia operational-strategic group of forces. At the same time, he added that in the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy has not abandoned its intentions to break through in the Chasovy Yar area.
18:14 The Russians attacked the Kievsky district of Kharkov, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA. A private house and two buildings of a higher educational institution were damaged. Four people were injured, two more had an acute reaction to stress.
18:10 Germany will continue training Ukrainian recruits in 2025, said EU Command Head Andreas Marlow: "We have received more requests for training as Ukraine continues to mobilize, including for basic training, which is mainly carried out by the UK." In Germany, instructors from 14 countries train Ukrainian servicemen in various specialties.
17:43 Budapest has put forward a number of conditions to Kyiv to begin negotiations on Ukraine's accession to the EU, Ukrayinska Pravda has found out. In particular, Orban wants Kyiv to change a number of laws, grant special rights to the Hungarian minority, and even change the Constitution. His demands include recognizing schools with even one Hungarian class as Hungarian; abolishing the rule on a certain percentage of Hungarians who must live in a certain territory for it to be recognized as Hungarian; amending the electoral legislation to ensure representation of Hungarians in the Verkhovna Rada. Moreover, such government officials should have the right not to know the Ukrainian language, but to use Hungarian.
17:07 South Korea has imposed sanctions against a number of Russian ships and companies for transporting petroleum products and military equipment between the Russian Federation and the DPRK.
16:40 The security agreement between Ukraine and the EU does not have a clearly defined term, as is the case with the US and other countries - it will be in effect as long as Kiev moves along the European path, according to a document published on the presidential website. The document is called Joint Security Commitments between Ukraine and the EU. According to the document, the EU guarantees Ukraine sustainable and long-term support in terms of military equipment, assistance in defense reform, cooperation in the defense industry, assistance in cyber defense, support for energy and nuclear security, and intelligence sharing.
Ukraine is also guaranteed macro-financial and humanitarian assistance and support for the country’s reconstruction. Kyiv is committed to continuing reforms, strengthening transparency and accountability of aid received, and contributing to the security of the EU and its countries. In the event of future Russian aggression, Ukraine and the EU will hold rapid consultations to determine the country's needs.
16:13 PACE adopted a resolution in which it stated the need for payments to Ukrainian refugees so that they would return home after the end of the war. The document notes that the process of returning refugees to Ukraine cannot be instantaneous and may require many years of preparation, so it must begin now. The document also states that Ukrainian refugees must be given the legal right to reside in the country after three years of stay in it.
In addition, in its resolution, PACE called for long-term support not only for refugees, but also for internally displaced persons within Ukraine.
15:49 Ukraine and the European Union signed an agreement on security guarantees. EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell said that "this agreement covers military, financial, diplomatic assistance and will be a channel for the flow of resources from windfall revenues from frozen Russian assets." In addition, Zelensky signed an agreement on security guarantees with Lithuania and Estonia.
15:11 Ukraine and its partners must, within a few months, develop a joint action plan following the results of the first Peace Summit and the Ukrainian Peace Formula, which would force the Russian Federation to peace, Zelensky said at a joint press conference with European Council President Charles Michel in Brussels. "We need next steps now. The next steps are to work on a plan for every crisis point of this war that Putin has brought to our country. And we have to prepare this plan within months... We don't have much time because we have many people are dying. Therefore, we do not want the war to continue for many years. We want to prepare this plan as soon as possible,” the Ukrainian president added.
14:27 Russian troops attacked a civilian vehicle with an FPV drone in Novovorontsovka, Kherson region, two people were injured, OVA reported.
13:38 Zelensky said that he arrived in Brussels to take part in a meeting of the European Council. The President will meet with the heads of the EU and member states, hold bilateral negotiations and sign three security agreements, one of which is with the European Union. It will for the first time cement the commitment of all 27 member states to provide broad support to Ukraine, despite any institutional changes within.
13:33 The area of the fire at the military training ground on the Crimean Cape Chauda has grown several times over the past day, Radio Liberty reports. A comparison of satellite images from June 25 and 26 shows that the area engulfed by the fire has grown significantly, as a result of which the fire has reached buildings on the territory of the military unit.
13:24 The European Union provided Ukraine with a tranche of 1.9 billion euros as part of the Ukraine Facility assistance program, Shmygal said. According to him, total EU budget support since the beginning of this year has reached almost 8 billion euros.
13:15 After Zelensky’s trip to the Donetsk region, ministers will be sent to the regions, with special attention to the front-line regions, Shmygal said. “Based on the results of such trips, reports from government members will be heard on the situation in key areas. The social sphere, energy, defense, preparation for the school year, medicine, shelters, infrastructure, production - all this is in the focus of the government,” the prime minister added.
12:59 Ukraine plans to cancel power outages in frontline areas, Ukrenergo CEO Volodymyr Kudritsky reported. According to him, the Cabinet of Ministers is currently working on the possibility of changing the methodology for applying power outages for some frontline areas, where the humanitarian situation is already dire and there is a real threat to life due to shelling. It is planned that a zone close to the front line will be determined where power outages will no longer be applied.
12:22 On June 26, the Russian DRG attempted to conduct military operations in the area of the border Sotnitsky Kazachok in the north of the Kharkov region. The attack was repelled by border guards, said Andrey Demchenko, spokesman for the State Border Service.
12:14 Russians shelled Toretsk in Donetsk Oblast this morning, killing one person, OVA chief Vadim Filashkin reported. In addition, the enemy dropped an aerial bomb on Selidovo, wounding six people, including two teenagers. Another person was injured as a result of shelling of Yasenovo in the Pokrovskaya community. Over the previous day, one person was killed (in Toretsk) and 14 were wounded in the region.
12:09 At a summit in July, NATO will offer Ukraine a new headquarters in Germany to manage military assistance, The New York Times writes, citing sources. This will guarantee the Alliance's long-term commitment to the country's security, hailed as a "bridge" to Kyiv's eventual membership. The mission will operate under the auspices of NATO and should continue to operate even if Trump wins the US presidential election. The mission will coordinate military assistance to Ukraine, training of military personnel, etc. All NATO countries support the idea of its creation, officials said.
11:56 In the morning in the Nikolaev region, fragments of a downed rocket fell on the highway, a truck driver was injured. As a result of this, an accident occurred in which another person was injured, said the head of the OVA, Vitaly Kim.
11:37 Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are calling on the EU to build a 700-kilometer (430-mile) defense line on the border with Russia and Belarus, Reuters reports. The countries said the project is aimed at protecting the 27-nation bloc and its 450 million people, so it would require financial support from all EU members. Its cost is estimated at 2.5 billion euros.
11:05 The Ukrainian Armed Forces used HIMARS for the second time on the afternoon of June 26 to attack the Kursk region, reports the opposition Russian publication Astra. As a result of the strike, an inactive school where Russian military personnel were based was damaged in the area of the village of Stropitsy, Rylsky district. Five servicemen of the Russian Defense Ministry were wounded.
10:38 On the night of June 27, four drones attacked the Redkinsky pilot plant in the Tver region, reports the opposition Russian publication Astra. The company also produces aviation fuel. As a result of the attack, the pipeline, roof and building of one of the workshops were damaged, but no one was injured.
10:31 Zelensky said that he arrived in Lvov and had already visited the Field of Mars, where he paid tribute to the memory of the fallen soldiers. The media write that today, June 27, a summit of EU leaders starts in Brussels, at which they plan to sign a security agreement with Ukraine. For this, Zelensky must arrive there.
10:29 Owners of destroyed housing in temporarily occupied territories or in combat zones will be able to file an application to the international Register of Losses through Diya, said the head of the Ministry of Digital Development, Mykhailo Fedorov. According to him, the data from this Register will become the basis for reparations that the Russian Federation must pay.
10:24 The decision to begin negotiations with Russia will be made by Ukraine, said the US National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby, commenting on the “peace plan” of Trump’s advisers. According to him, Washington’s position remains unchanged - “nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.” Kirby also emphasized that the White House is not going to force Ukraine to make territorial concessions, because if Putin is allowed to conquer Ukraine, the consequences will be dire.
10:06 About 10 thousand migrants who received Russian citizenship went to war in Ukraine, said the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin.
09:28 North Korea will send military construction and engineering forces to participate in "reconstruction work" in the occupied Donetsk region as early as July of this year, reports South Korean television channel TV Chosun.
08:37 In the Kherson region, over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed, 16 were injured, including two children, reported the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin. A multi-storey building and 15 private houses, an industrial facility, a store, a warehouse of the humanitarian headquarters and a gas pipeline were damaged.
08:20 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of June 27:
personnel - about 539,320 (+1260) people,
tanks - 8042 (+3),
armored combat vehicles - 15,459 (+9),
artillery systems - 14,363 (+42),
MLRS - 1108 (+0),
air defense systems - 868 (+5),
aircraft - 359 (+0),
helicopters - 326 (+0),
Operational-tactical level UAVs - 11,459 (+24),
cruise missiles – 2324 (+0),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 19,468 (+61),
special equipment - 2420 (+11).
07:49 Air defense destroyed five of six Russian missiles and all 23 Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs at night, the Air Force reported. In particular, air defense forces managed to destroy all four Kalibr cruise missiles and one Kh-59/Kh-69 guided air missile. In addition, Russia used one Kh-47 M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missile during the night attack.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] "Snitches get stitches" is a threat typically made by adolescents to avoid punishment by intimidating those who might expose their misdeeds. Yet it seems Harvard is a glorified junior high these days, with Lawrence Bobo, its dean of social sciences, threatening faculty who publicly criticize the university for its mistreatment of Jewish students.
Writing in the Crimson, Bobo argued that it is "outside the bounds of acceptable professional conduct for a faculty member to excoriate University leadership, faculty, staff, or students with the intent to arouse external intervention into University business."
You can always tell a Hahvahd Man but, they say, you can’t tell him much. No insult intended to Rantburg’s own Harvard men, who are of course very much out of the common way.
Faculty who appeal to external actors to reverse gross injustices at Harvard may not get literal stitches, but Bobo could deny them tenure or lower their pay. His piece has not been made official Harvard policy, but more senior administrators have not repudiated his interpretation of "acceptable professional conduct," and his discretion to punish snitches remains intact.
Bobo’s hostility to "external intervention" is reminiscent of something more menacing than junior high taunts about snitches. It echoes George Wallace’s complaints about "outside agitators." The segregationist governor of Alabama claimed in a 1964 letter that efforts by him and other Southern leaders to improve the condition of the "Negro citizen" were being undermined by "the national news media and the propaganda distributed by various organizations." If only outside agitators would avoid stirring up trouble, both "white and colored" could continue to live in "peace and equanimity."
Bobo similarly expresses a preference for managing Harvard’s problems through "internal discussion on key policy matters," threatening to sanction "behaviors that plainly incite external actors — be it the media, alumni, donors, federal agencies, or the government — to intervene in Harvard’s affairs." It’s as if Bobo were saying that Harvard’s Jews could be living in "peace and equanimity" without outside agitators in the media and government stirring up trouble.
Bobo and other Harvard leaders are right to fear outside intervention. Despite its more than $50 billion endowment, Harvard is a financial house of cards built on government subsidy and donor largesse. Harvard’s operating budget last year was $5.9 billion, of which about $650 million came from federal research grants, $55 million came from government student aid and loans, and another $500 million came from the "current use" gifts of donors
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Bobo argued that it is "outside the bounds of acceptable professional conduct for a faculty member to excoriate University leadership, faculty, staff, or students with the intent to arouse external intervention into University business."
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After Trump returns to Office and purges the DC Swamp of the National Liberal Socialist element now in the DC Swamp. The Harvard Dean, and many others like him, will be charged for Hate Crimes, Racial discrimination, and Civil Rights violations.
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Dr. Bobo: "A failure to heal!"
Larry, baby, quit squealing and deal
With your failure to thrive:
Give up speaking that jive
And stop judging the juice by the peel.
I mean, let's face it -- if you were half the dude your daddy was, you'd be a real doctor, and your "notable students" would be stitchin', not bitchin'. But there you stand, surfing a vast endless wave of government preference into the sunset of the greatest country in the history of the world, backwards, whining to the most powerful powers that ever were about the very people whose inhuman patience and generosity have empowered you and all the rest of your worse than useless class.
And if you were half the dude your mamas were... well, sociology?
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Harvard’s operating budget last year was $5.9 billion. In comparison, the operating budget of the Legislative Branch of the US Government was 7.6 billion. And, for example the budget of the Small Business Administration was 1.5 billion.
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Hahvahd gets $1.15 billion from research grafts grants and dupe donor "current use" gifts a year. When those stop, they will just have to get by on the other $5.9-$1.15 billion they are accustomed to. The horror!
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taxing excess college trusts and endowments, e.g., endowments which are greater than 2 years of the average of past 3 years of budgets would do a lot of good
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[NYPOST] The Department of Homeland Security has identified over 400 migrants colonists who were brought to the US from Central Asia and other places by an ISIS-affiliated human smuggling network — and the whereabouts of more than 50 of them are unknown, according to an unsettling report.
More than 150 of the migrants colonists have been arrested, but the locations of another 50 remain unknown, three US officials told NBC News, adding that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking to arrest those involved on immigration charges.
"In this case, it was the information that suggested a potential tie to ISIS because of some of the individuals involved in [smuggling migrants colonists to the border] that led us to want to take extra care," a senior Biden administration official told the outlet, "and out of an abundance of caution make sure that we exercised our authority in the most expansive and appropriate way to mitigate risk because of this potential connection being made."
The official noted that since ICE started arresting migrants colonists brought into the US by the smuggling group several months ago, no information has tied them to any threats to the US.
Many of the over 400 migrants colonists involved had crossed the southern border and were released into the country by Customs and Border Protection because they were not on the government’s terrorism watchlist, the three anonymous officials said.
While the agency did not have information raising concerns at the time the migrants colonists entered the country, recent terrorist attacks in Russia have caused heightened concern over ISIS and its offshoot ISIS-K.
As a result, the Department of Homeland Security has been monitoring migrants colonists coming from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and Russia — all places ISIS-K has been observed.
One of those hotbed locations, Tajikistan, had over 1,500 migrants colonists come into the US between October 2020 and May 2024, according to leaked border data obtained by The Post.
It’s unknown how many of the Tajik migrants colonists were released into the US, but the vast majority of migrants colonists caught at the border claim asylum and are allowed to stay while they await a court hearing.
ISIS-K was responsible for a massive attack on a concert hall in Moscow — carried out by citizens of Tajikistan — that killed 145 people and maimed hundreds more on March 22.
"The fact that the whereabouts were unknown is clearly alarming," former FBI counterterrorism section chief Christopher O’Leary told NBC.
According to O’Leary, ICE is likely looking to arrest these people even if there’s no evidence they are plotting a terrorist attack.
"I believe the [U.S.] is scrambling to locate these individuals, and using the immigration charges is not uncommon," O’Leary said. "They are in violation of that law. And if you need to take somebody off the street, that’s a good approach to do it."
Federal law enforcement agencies are "not panicking" about the group of people, but they have been identified as "subjects of concern," and are prioritizing them for arrest out an an abundance of caution, two of the officials noted.
Some of the 150 migrants colonists who were arrested have already been deported out of the country, the officials added.
While some of those detained or deported have been charged with immigration violations, none have been charged with terrorism-related offenses.
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[Regnum] Former Minister of Defense of the Donetsk People's Republic Igor Girkin (call sign: Strelkov), convicted of calls for extremism, was transferred to a penal colony, his wife Miroslava Reginskaya reported on her Telegram channel.
“According to information received from the lawyer, this morning, June 27, Igor Strelkov was transferred to a penal colony,” she wrote.
The ex-minister’s wife noted that she was not informed which colony her husband was sent to.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on May 29, the first appellate court of general jurisdiction upheld Strelkov's four-year sentence. Following the appellate court's verdict, the sentence came into force and is subject to execution.
The former minister was detained on July 21, 2023, he publicly called on Internet users to engage in extremist activities. On January 25, 2024, the Moscow City Court sentenced the former Minister of Defense of the DPR to four years in a general regime colony.
In April 2024, the convicted man's lawyer announced his desire to participate in the SVO in Ukraine. A document was attached to the appeal stating that one of the front-line military units agreed to sign a contract with Strelkov.
In 2014, he led a militia unit for several months during battles with the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Slavyansk (DPR). In early July 2014, Strelkov's unit retreated from the city on his orders. From May to August 2014, he commanded the DPR Armed Forces. In May 2014, he was appointed Minister of Defense of the republic. In August of the same year, Strelkov was dismissed.
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Well worth the 6 minutes. I live in Sydney and the stupid is very strong here. The entire city is one big HOA w/regulations and petty rules for everything. Most Aussies want nothing to do w/Sydney.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … greenhouse gas emissions by 70% by 2030. Livestock contributes around 14.5 percent of greenhouse gas emissions globally.
To tackle the scourge, Danish farmers will be expected to pay 300 kroner (around £35) per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent from 2030, up to 750 kroner (around £85) by 2035 - with cows, on average producing around six metric tonnes per year.
Due to an income tax deduction of 60%, the effective cost per ton will start at 120 kroner (£13.60) and increase to 300 kroner by 2035, amounting to a charge of around £75 per cow up to £190 by 2035.
The tax is to be approved in the 179-seat Folketing, or parliament, but the bill is expected to pass after the broad-based consensus.
According to Statistic Denmark, there were as of June 30, 2022, 1,484,377 cows in the Scandinavian country, a slight drop compared to the previous year.
[NYPOST] A Florida man became the sixth attacker indicted in the brutal caught-on-camera beating of a Jewish man in Times Square in 2021, Manhattan prosecutors said Thursday.
Salem Seleiman, 28, was arrested on a warrant on May 10 — nearly three years after he allegedly joined the hateful mob who pummeled victim Joseph Borgen during festivities between Israel and Paleostinian supporters in Midtown.
Seleiman was part of a pack of men that hurled antisemitic slurs like "dirty Jew," "filthy Jew" and "f—k Israel" at Borgen, who was wearing a yarmulke, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
The 29-year-old victim, who had been attending a pro-Israel rally when he was attacked May 20, 2021, was thrown to the ground, punched, hit with a crutch and pepper-sprayed — with footage of the vicious beating later going viral on social media.
As good Samaritans tried to intervene, Seleiman pretended to offer to help Borgen — only to then unload a kick in his face as he lay on the ground, prosecutors said.
"Seleiman’s alleged conduct was abhorrent and many of the other individuals who joined him have already been convicted and are serving state prison sentences," DA Alvin Bragg ...Soros-owned and operated Manhattan DA. Putting vicious and blood-thirsty criminals in jail only makes them unhappy, and they've led such hard lives after all... said in a statement.
"Violently assaulting someone because of their religion is unacceptable, and we will continue to work with our law enforcement partners, community groups and local leaders to address attacks on the Jewish community."
Seleiman, who was extradited from Tampa, Fla., was arraigned in Manhattan Supreme Court Thursday and pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to hate crime assault and attempted gang assault charges. Judge Felicia Mennin set his bail at $50,000.
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Thirteen U.S. troops were killed in a terrorist attack at the Kabul airport during Biden’s disastrous retreat from Afghanistan in August 2021. Three U.S. troops from a guard uniy in Georgia were killed in a terrorist attack in Syria in just six months ago.
Biden said at the debate, "The notion that we were this safe country. The truth is I’m the only president this century that doesn’t have any, this, this decade, that doesn’t (have) any troops dying anywhere in the world like he did."
Biden was confronted by Steve Nikoui, the Gold Star father of Marine Lance Cpl. Kareem M. Nikoui who was killed in the 2021 Kabul airport attack, during the State of the Union last March.
The names of the U.S. troops killed in the attack (via the Guardian):
Eleven US marines, one solder and one sailor were lost in the country’s deadliest day in Afghanistan in a decade.
The marines were: S Sgt Darin T Hoover, 31, of Salt Lake City, Utah; Sgt Johanny Rosariopichardo, 25, of Lawrence, Massachusetts; Sgt Nicole L Gee, 23, of Sacramento, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,; Cpl Hunter Lopez, 22, of Indio, California; Cpl Daegan W Page, 23, of Omaha, Nebraska; Cpl Humberto A Sanchez, 22, of Logansport, Indiana; L/Cpl David L Espinoza, 20, of Rio Bravo, Texas; L/Cpl Jared M Schmitz, 20, of St Charles, Missouri; L/Cpl Rylee J McCollum, 20, of Jackson, Wyoming; L/Cpl Dylan R Merola, 20, of Rancho Cucamonga, California; and L/Cpl Kareem M Nikoui, 20, of Norco, California.
The sailor who was killed was Navy Hospitalman Maxton W Soviak, 22, of Berlin Heights, Ohio.
The soldier was SSgt Ryan C Knauss, 23, of Corryton, Tennessee.
Excerpt from the Department of Defense statement on the deadly attack in Syria January 28, 2024:
Three U.S. soldiers were killed yesterday in Jordan, while more than 40 other service members were maimed following an uncrewed aerial system attack at a military base near the Syrian border. Those service members were in Jordan to support Operation Inherent Resolve, which is the U.S. and coalition mission to ensure the defeat of ISIS.
The three soldiers killed are Sgt. William Jerome Rivers of Carrollton, Georgia; Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders of Waycross, Georgia; and Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett of Savannah, Georgia. All three were assigned to the 718th Engineer Company, 926th Engineer Battalion, 926th Engineer Brigade, Fort Moore, Georgia.
The attack occurred in the early morning at the logistics support base located at Tower 22 of the Jordanian Defense Network. Approximately 350 U.S. Army and Air Force personnel are deployed to the base. The three soldiers were killed when a one-way uncrewed aerial system impacted their container housing units.
Biden’s lie was so blatant even USA Today fact checked him:
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[FoxNews] The mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, left 19 children and two teachers dead
The former police chief of Uvalde schools and another former officer were indicted for their response to the 2022 mass shooting at a Texas elementary school that left 19 children and two teachers dead, according to multiple reports on Thursday.
A grand jury indicted former schools police Chief Pete Arredondo and former officer Adrian Gonzales on multiple counts of felony child endangerment, per reporting from the Uvalde Leader-News and the San Antonio Express-News.
The indictments would make Arredondo and Gonzales the first officers to face criminal charges in one of the deadliest shootings in U.S. history.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Texas Department of Public Safety for comment.
A scathing report by Texas lawmakers that examined the police response described Gonzales as one of the first officers to enter the building after the shooting began.
The indictments come more than two years after an 18-year-old gunman opened fire in a fourth grade classroom, where he remained for over an hour before officers confronted and killed him.
In total, nearly 400 law enforcement officers responded to Robb Elementary School on May 24, 2022, some waiting in the hallway outside the classroom, even as the gunman could be heard firing an AR-15-style rifle inside.
Arredondo lost his job three months later. Several officers involved were eventually fired, and separate investigations by the Department of Justice and state lawmakers faulted law enforcement with botching their response to the massacre.
The DOJ released a 600-page report earlier this year that cataloged what it described as "cascading failures" in training, communication, leadership and technology problems that day.
Conservative candidate Don Stewart winning the closely-watched Toronto-St. Paul's federal byelection, and delivering a stunning upset to Justin Trudeau's candidate Leslie Church in the long-time Liberal riding, has sent political shockwaves through both parties.
Responding to the result, and facing calls from his main opponent now to call a general election, Trudeau acknowledged the outcome has made it clear that "I and my entire Liberal team have much more work to do to deliver tangible, real progress that Canadians across the country can see and feel." "The arrests, internments, and confiscations start now!"
According to the preliminary results, Stewart secured 42.1 per cent of the vote with 15,555 votes cast for him, while Church received 40.5 per cent of the vote, with 14,965 ballots cast for her. The NDP candidate Amrit Parhar came a distant third, and Green Party candidate Christian Cullis placed fourth.
Now that it has been confirmed that not only did the Liberal support slip, but the party has lost what has been a textbook definition of a Liberal stronghold for three decades to Poilievre's Conservatives, the prime minister is likely to face more tough questions about his future.
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[CyberNews] It is 10 times worse than what it's DNS logs report.
A single app can connect to dozens of websites while unused. An idle phone will make thousands of DNS queries per day. But the real situation is 10 times worse, one security expert explains.
Cybernews has already experimented with idle Android and iOS phones, each with 100 apps installed. When unused, the iPhone averaged 3308 DNS queries per day, compared to 2323 queries made by Android. Some requests, more often on Android, landed in high-risk countries such as Russia and China.
Say you install the Reddit app on your iPhone, start it once, and leave it without even logging in or interacting. It will connect to 30 different domains, according to research from Independent Advisor VPN...
Reddit was followed by QQ, the Chinese instant messaging software, which connected to 19 different domains.
Among the mainstream social networks, Instagram and X (Twitter) both connected to 10 different domains, each without any user interaction.
#7
You can turn it off or put it in a Faraday cage at night but it's doing that stuff in the daytime too. I don't have any social media apps on my phone but I wouldn't want to bet that some of these dubious activities aren't happening anyway. There is a whole lotta crap on that phone that I don't need, never use and have no idea what it might be doing.
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[NYPOST] A migrant from Ecuador who entered the US illegally is accused of suffocating a 21-year-old Syracuse woman on her birthday and then burying her body in a shallow grave in an upstate New York park, authorities said.
Jhon Moises Chacaguasay-Ilbis, 21, is charged with killing Joselyn Jhoana Toaquiza, a fellow Ecuadorian, after arranging to meet the victim for her birthday at his Airbnb in Syracuse on June 18, the Post-Standard reported.The pair, who are believed to have attended elementary school together in Ecuador, were captured on surveillance cameras entering the rental property just before 4:30 pm., cops said.
Just hours later, Chacaguasay-Ilbis allegedly re-emerged with a limp Toaquiza draped across his back — with her arms and legs wrapped around him — before carrying her body to a park opposite the Airbnb.
He allegedly buried her in the shallow grave and then hightailed it on a Greyhound bus back to his residence in Rockland County’s Spring Valley, according to cops.
Toaquiza’s remains weren’t discovered until Saturday after her family reported her missing.
The accused killer was slapped with second-degree murder and concealment of a human corpse charges after eventually turning himself in to cops late Tuesday.
He was arraigned Thursday in Syracuse City Court, where he claimed, via a Spanish interpreter, that he had zero recollection of the alleged slaying because he was too drunk.
Chacaguasay-Ilbis was picked up by US Border Patrol agents in January 2023 after illegally crossing the border in El Paso, Texas, a Homeland Security source told The Post.
Because there wasn’t enough space to hold him, he was released into the US with a tracking device.
The victim’s relatives said she had immigrated to the US last year. It wasn’t immediately clear, though, what the young woman’s immigration status was.
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[Breitbart] The Federal Bureau of Investigation is asking for help in locating an Arizona teenage female and her mother who are believed to have been kidnapped while traveling in northern Mexico. The kidnapping is believed to have occurred along a stretch of highway where the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas has abducted dozens of innocent victims who have never been heard from again.
U.S. authorities are working with their Mexican counterparts to locate 17-year-old Jessica Garcia Rojo and her mother 56-year-old Juana Marcela Rojo who went missing shortly after crossing from Laredo, Texas into Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, information provided to Breitbart Texas by the FBI revealed. Garcia Rojo was born in Phoenix, Arizona. She and her mother have family ties to Nuevo Laredo and Monterrey.
The women are believed to have been traveling to Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, in a white Dodge Caravan with New Mexico license plates, when they went missing shortly before 9 p.m. on May 15. Relatives reported them missing on May 28.
Two weeks later? At that point, why bother.
As Breitbart Texas reported, the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas controls the area between Nuevo Laredo and Monterrey. That hyperviolent criminal organization has been responsible for hundreds of forced disappearances in recent years. In addition to the kidnappings, the CDN-Los Zetas routinely set up highway checkpoints where they extort travelers and kidnap those who are unable to pay.
The ongoing violence and number of kidnappings led officials to call the highway connecting Monterrey and Nuevo Laredo the “Highway of Death.” In 2023, Mexican Senator, a state congressman, Waldo Fernandez called for government officials to put aside political differences and work to ensure public safety in the region, Breitbart Texas reported.
Despite Fernandez’s efforts, Mexican authorities have done little to stop the reign of terror that the CDN-Los Zetas and other cartels have spread through northern Mexico.
The ongoing violence and number of kidnappings led officials to call the highway connecting Monterrey and Nuevo Laredo the “Highway of Death.”
I thought of looking up pre-existing pronouncements from the US State Dept advising US citizens to stay the hell out of that area, but I'll leave that to someone else.
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Thanks, Skid. Here's a relevant snip from that page:
Do Not Travel To:
Colima state due to crime and kidnapping.
Guerrero state due to crime.
Michoacan state due to crime and kidnapping.
Sinaloa state due to crime and kidnapping
Tamaulipas state due to crime and kidnapping.
Zacatecas state due to crime and kidnapping.
Must be something in the wording of "do not travel" that people don't understand.
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We used to do Baja/San Felipe trips twice a year. Loved it and good times. When the Army started up checkpoints (on the way down) looking for documents on quads and trailers and searching vehicles - expecting mordida - we quit.
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expecting mordida
What is the point of being in a position of power or holding political office if you can't get your beak wet?
[FoxNews] The judge 'apparently needs a dictionary to discern the difference between a noun and a verb,' a spokesman for Gov. Gianforte said
A judge ruled that a Montana law which defined "sex" in state law, when referring to a person as only male or female, was unconstitutional, saying that the law's description did not explicitly state its purpose.
District Court Judge Shane Vannatta struck down the 2023 law on Tuesday after a group of plaintiffs who identify as transgender, nonbinary, intersex and other identities sued, arguing the law denies legal recognition and protection to people who identify as gender-nonconforming, according to The Associated Press.
Vannatta did not address the claim of a lack of legal recognition and protection, but did say that the bill's title did not adequately explain whether the word "sex" referred to gender or sexual intercourse and that it did not indicate the words "male" and "female" would be defined in the body of the bill.
"The title does not give general notice of the character of the legislation in a way that guards against deceptive or misleading titles," Vannatta wrote.
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[Regnum] The army of the Shiite rebel movement Ansar Allah (Houthis) ruling in northern Yemen launched a comprehensive attack on the Seajoy ship in the Red Sea using drones, missiles and an unmanned boat, as well as on the Israeli city of Haifa, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saria said on June 27 on TV Al Masirah.
"The operation targeted the Seajoy vessel in the Red Sea because the company that owned it violated the ban on entering occupied Palestinian ports," he said.
Saria also reported that Yemeni rebels, together with the Shiite movement, the Islamic Resistance of Iraq, launched several cruise missiles at a vital target in the Israeli Haifa.
As Regnum reported, on June 27, the Houthis announced that they had used a hypersonic missile for the first time to attack an Israeli ship. The plane was in the Arabian Sea during this attack.
The Houthis have been attacking Israeli-linked ships passing by Yemen since the fall of 2023. They say this is aid to the Palestinian Hamas movement, which is at war with Israel. On June 24, the rebels attacked the Greek bulk carrier Transworld Navigator in the Red Sea.
[NYPOST] The Wyoming 14-year-old who was killed protecting his girlfriend from a pair of ski mask-clad teens was held down by one of his attackers while the second assailant hacked him to death, prosecutors revealed.
Dominique Antonio Richard Harris, 15, could face life in prison after pleading not guilty to conspiracy to commit murder charges on Wednesday for his alleged role in the murder of Bobby Maher in April at the Eastridge Mall, in Casper, the Cowboy State Daily reports.
Harris, who is being tried as an adult, admitted to police that he held down Harris to help his alleged co-conspirator, Jarreth Plunkett, 15, stab him, according to court records.
Harris claimed he was only holding down Maher "to make sure the fight was over," but footage from the April 7 attack showed him slamming Maher to the ground and holding him in place as Plunkett stabbed the 14-year-old twice.
Officials said Maher had rushed to the mall to help his girlfriend after she called him about Harris and Plunket allegedly stalking her and a friend.
Harris and Plunkett, who are also accused of stealing knives from a Target prior to the fight, allegedly confronted Maher because they were mad about an incident that happened over spring break at a park in Evansville, according to court records.
Harris claimed that Maher asked the 15-year-olds if they were both "freaks" because he saw them exit a portable bathroom together.
Surveillance footage from the mall showed that Maher tried to usher his girlfriend and her friend out of the shopping center before Plunkett confronted him.
Harris is charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, aggravated battery and assault, and misdemeanor theft.
Despite pleading not guilty, defense attorney Brandon Booth said, his client reserved the right to change pleas by reason of mental illness or deficiency.
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[Regnum] Russia will soon present to the International Court of Justice evidence that Kiev committed genocide in the Donbass, Ambassador-at-Large and Russia’s representative for cases before the International Court of Justice Gennady Kuzmin said at the XII St. Petersburg International Legal Forum (SPBILF) on June 27.
“We will have to provide the court with evidence of the Kiev regime’s acts of genocide [in Donbass], which we plan to do in the near future,” Kuzmin said at a session on “International Justice: Contemporary Problems and Challenges.”
The diplomat added that the International Court of Justice decided to consider the issue of committing genocide in Kyiv in the Donbass. Thus, according to him, Ukraine not only failed in accusing Russia of genocide, but, while still a plaintiff, it itself found itself in the dock.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in February, the UN International Court in The Hague refused to consider a number of issues within the framework of Ukraine's lawsuit against Russia, filed in 2022 due to the special operation. In January, the UN court refused to recognize Russia as an "aggressor state" and the DPR and LPR as "terrorist organizations." In addition, the court rejected all of Kiev's demands for compensation.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in February that the International Court of Justice completely rejected all of Kiev's claims about Russia's alleged violation of the Genocide Convention. At the same time, the diplomat added that Kyiv put itself in the dock as part of its own claims. As a result, only one question remained pending in the Hague court - whether Ukraine committed genocide in Donbass, Zakharova explained.
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[Regnum] At the meeting, the Central Bank of Turkey kept the key rate at 50% ! per annum.
Time to round up more Gulenists to replenish the treasury at 0% interest.
The regulator’s press service reported this on June 27.
The Turkish Central Bank left the rate unchanged for the third meeting in a row. The last time it was changed was in March, immediately increasing it by 500 basis points.
It is noted that tight monetary policy will be maintained until there is a significant and sustainable decline in monthly inflation and inflation expectations reach the required range.
The regulator expects prices to fall in the second half of the year.
As Regnum reported, on March 21, the Central Bank of Turkey raised the interest rate from 45% to 50%. The regulator explained that the monthly inflation trend was higher than expected. He cited inflation in the service sector as the reason, while domestic demand remained stable.
This interest rate was a record since 2003. The Turkish Central Bank raised the key rate to 45% on January 25. Analysts did not predict a new increase. The previous increase took place on December 21, 2023 - up to 42.5%.
#4
No one talks about the deteriorating state of our nation's rail infrastructure, even though it is still the most cost efficient means of freight transport we have.
And, believe it or not, the drive motors run on electricity (with a diesel generator or two powering them). Their power generation system is the only thing 'icky' for some folks.
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Railroads and pipelines helped make America Great. They must be eliminated.
#7
Last week during the weeklong heat wave a stretch of downtown expressway was abruptly closed so that a failed piece of pavement could be replaced. There was no explanation of exactly why that happened. I go over that stretch twice a day & it was fine up until the closure a few hours later. I think it was because of the sustained heat. Local officials said nothing about the cause. Patch was fully functional after the repaving.
Consider the impact, and simplicity, of simultaneous railroad locations at key choke points, like the Cajon Pass for example. And consider how simple to do so at remote, unobserved locations by small teams of imported military-aged men among the 8 million illegals over the past 3.6 years.
Curious idea, but since the days of intermediate warehousing of commodities like food have been replaced by "just-in-time" logistics and "retail swipe to production demand" at centralized production locations, widespread interdiction by key rail arterial routes could produce enormous impact and shortages, with consequent disruption and public unrest. Who might find that useful?
#10
...the Urbanist islands that want to dictate to the rest of us their radical agenda don't appreciate that its not just 'foreign' agents that understand that vulnerability.
#11
To #6 - when rails were jointed every 39', expansion and contraction of the steel took place in the joints. When the joints were eliminated, with welded rail, the changes in rail length are restrained, so instead of movement, you get stress in the rail (50-60,000 psi, IIRC).
Ties and ballast are the restraint; too much (hot) stress leads to a track buckle and a derailment. Excessive cold stress leads to a 'pull-apart' which does not always lead to a derailment, since the rail alignment is maintained.
Requirements are well-understood in the business, but mistakes happen in rail installation or track maintenance. Extreme weather highlights the 'mistakes'.
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… charged with first-degree domestic assault and armed criminal action. Peters is accused of secretly putting the chemical Roundup weed killer in her husband’s Mountain Dew on several occasions during May and June of this year. Then, on Sunday, she spiked the drink with insecticide. The victim began suspecting the soda was being tampered with after feeling ill. He was the only one in the household who drank Mountain Dew, kept in that refrigerator. Peters was arrested after being interviewed at the Sheriff’s Office and is being held with no bond.
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He was the only one in the household who drank Mountain Dew, kept in that refrigerator.
Michelle was the only one who used Roundup. Mr. Peters finally connected the dots.
#2
"You should thank me. You didn't have any weeds in your Dew, didja?"
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Mountain Dew isn't poisonous enough by itself.
Snark O'The Day
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When Dew first came out, Dad liked it, straight out of the bottle, but when he poured it over ice, the color turned him off. Never had another drop.
#5
Mountain Dew, stylized as Mtn Dew in some countries, is a carbonated soft drink brand, produced and owned by PepsiCo. The original formula was invented in 1940 by Tennessee beverage bottlers Barney and Ally Hartman. A revised formula was created by Bill Bridgforth in 1958. The rights to this formula were obtained by the Tip Corporation of Marion, Virginia. William H. "Bill" Jones of the Tip Corporation further refined the formula, launching that version of Mountain Dew in 1961. In August 1964, the Mountain Dew brand and production rights were acquired from Tip by the Pepsi-Cola company, and the distribution expanded across the United States and Canada.
Tried it once in the '60s. Way too much sugar. Never again.
#7
Like Dr. Pepper, it's surprisingly palatable when diluted to about one-third strength. Not that my carbonated bev consumption tops a liter or two per year lately.
There's Nine on the Panel - All Democrats, and They're Frightened
#1-3: Probably need to remove Biden
#4: It's an unmitigated disaster, and Dem politicians are already worried about upcoming elections
#5: Painful. It's the old man v. the con man, and Biden failed
#6: Trump is bad for democracy
#7: Trump has a bad tone
#8: (#1 again) Pro-Democrat propaganda
#9: (#2 again) Only Biden can decide to walk away
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#11: Pray for the President. The Biden family and administration are responsible - they've been lying about mental acuity
#12: Dems are in panic mode
#13: (#1 again) Third-party Dems are a big threat to winning
#14: Hard to watch
These are Rantburg’s own Fairbanks’ thoughts as he watched. What are your thoughts, dear Reader?
Biden is a dead man walking and not a strong leader of the party. How could they subject that poor old man to such a beating.
Trump was quickly thrust into 'me vs him' role.
Perhaps a politician but no chance to show he is a statesman. Strong evidence on all issues Biden, few solutions.
#4
Joe was grimacing and contorting his face when trying to put together a simple sentence, yet he still said American women were being raped by their sisters.
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I watched all of a minute of it, right at the beginning, because I refuse to give CNN the satisfaction. Biden looked and sounded old and feeble, someone about to shit his pants.
Game over for Biden - let the long knives come out
now.
NEW: CNN's Erin Burnett says Biden knew "every one of these questions is coming" leading many to suggest that Biden was fed debate questions beforehand.
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[Regnum] In Sevastopol, close to the shore, Emergencies Ministry divers found three submunitions, the department's press service reported on June 27. The specialists began the search after the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched a missile strike on Crimea on June 23.
By surveying the bottom of the Black Sea in the area of the beach in Uchkuyevka, divers have completed half of the planned work to date.
“Two submunitions were found in the water within 24 hours, a total of three since the beginning of the search. They will be destroyed on site while observing security measures,” the department said.
It is noted that the work is being carried out by 19 specialists from the underwater demining group.
As Regnum reported, on June 23, the Ukrainian army fired five ATACMS operational-tactical missiles with cluster warheads into Crimea: four were intercepted by the air defense system, the warhead of the fifth missile exploded in the air.
Four civilians, two of whom were children, were killed and another 153 people were injured. The people killed and injured were on the beaches in the Uchkuyevka and Lyubimovka area at the time of the strike.
The Ministry of Defense named the United States as responsible for the strike on civilians. Kiev receives ATACMS from the United States, and American specialists enter flight missions into them, using US satellite intelligence data.
The day before, on June 26, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported the discovery of an unexploded cluster munition in the area of the beaches in Uchkuyevka and Lyubimovka.
[Breitbart] Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a press conference on Wednesday that Moscow is preparing to sign a “big treaty with Iran.” "It's on 11x17 paper and everything!" Huuuge
She implied the Iran treaty might be even more expansive than the security pact Russia signed with North Korea, which caused great alarm among the free world and considerable unease in China.
“Now we are working on a treaty — probably you have heard about it, and I ask you once again not to use the formula ‘the same as the one with North Korea’ — now the work is underway on the big treaty with Iran,” Zakharova said.
Several other Russian officials previously hinted that a deal with Iran that has been at least two years in the making could be signed soon. Both the Iranian and Russian foreign ministers declared their commitment to finalize an agreement at the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Nizhny Novgorod in June. BRICS is an economic bloc headed by China and Russia.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at the BRICS meeting that as soon as a few final steps were taken in Iran, “we can do this.” Iran made comments around the same time that indicated there was no problem or delay on its end.
On Tuesday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko said a comprehensive agreement would be signed with Iran “in the very near future,” and the text of the agreement is “already close to completion.”
On the same day, Russia’s Gazprom signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) to supply Russian gas to Iran. Gazprom has been desperately seeking customers to replace the European suppliers it lost after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.
Russia and Iran already have a strategic agreement, which was signed in 2001 and was extended for five years in 2020. The new pact has been touted as a substantial upgrade to that agreement.
Zakharova said, in January 2024, that the leaders of Iran and Russia would “meet in the near future” to sign an agreement that was “currently being finalized.” In the time since she made that comment, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash. Iran will hold a sham election on Friday to install his replacement.
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Russia continues its time-honored tradition of sucking up to totalitarians. It is recalled that in the 18th Century French diplomats sent to Russia were given a funeral before leaving. So a propos.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] So that would be “Christians” against Trumpism…
A founder of "Christians Against Trumpism" has been arrested in Florida for alleged child s—x crimes. Joel Searby allegedly tried to have s—x with a 15-year-old boy. He was denied bail at his first hearing. https://t.co/Mpdk284lqY
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[Regnum] Preparations for the coup d'état in Bolivia, the attempt of which was prevented on June 26, had been underway since May 2024. This was stated to journalists by the country's Minister of the Interior Carlos del Castillo on June 27.
The press conference at which he spoke was shown by Canal 26. The head of the department clarified that 17 people were detained in connection with the attempted seizure of power.
“17 people have already been detained in accordance with the order of the Prosecutor General’s Office,” del Castillo said.
The minister emphasized that those detained included people whom the authorities consider “ideologists of the coup.” He added that the Bolivian police are looking for three more soldiers who are suspected of involvement in the events.
As Regnum reported, on June 26, a group of military personnel tried to storm the Bolivian Government Palace. In addition, they occupied the territory of the residence of the head of state, Luis Arce.
The Bolivian leader called the incident an attempted coup. The president of the republic called on its residents to support the authorities and not allow the military to seize power in the country.
Some time later, Bolivian law enforcement agencies arrested the former commander of the Bolivian army, General Juan Jose Zuniga, who led the attempted coup.
Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the situation in the Latin American republic, called what was happening its sovereign matter. He wished a speedy restoration of calm in Bolivia.
The Russian Foreign Ministry, in turn, stated that Russia strongly condemns the attempted coup in La Paz. In addition, the department added that Moscow expresses full support for the government of Luis Arce.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...Commie el presidente para la vida of Venezuela, successor to Hugo Chavez. Nick is his country's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy, except that even though his country's sitting on an enormous puddle of oil, he can't manage to get it out of the ground. Unlike Qadaffy and Hugo Chavez, he's not dead yet...
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
[News With Views] Geoengineering refers to manipulating the environment for man’s ends. However, most of the current applications thereof are intended to end man thus meeting at least some of the goals/demands of the New World Order regarding a significantly reduced world population. One important component of the program is climate or weather modification, the former for long term change in the normal/average weather and the latter to create or modify a short term event, such as storms or an increase — or decrease — in the ambient temperature. With the apparent success of the effort to reduce the influence of God in our lives, we have come to rely on "our leaders" playing God or believing that what we (through them) are fulfilling the role we previously assigned to God — and doing it as well if not better! Thus, humanity has become conceited, believing that we have instrumentally had an effect on climate as reflected by what the influencers tell us humans have done in effecting "climate change," a matter that when examined closely is nothing more than the normal variability in the weather as well as short term changes in the climate that come and go with few existential consequences.
It seems even the New Consumer Generation (whatever) has figured out the O'Biden Admin / DC Swamp / Power Brokers are outright LYING about what the true inflation rate is.
[Bee] LAS VEGAS — Tonight's presidential debate ended abruptly when Donald Trump was served with papers notifying him that he had been indicted for the murder of an elderly man on CNN.
[IsraelTimes] Hezbollah launched a barrage of some 40 rockets at northern Israel on Thursday afternoon, in what the terror group said was a response to recent Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon, including the killing of one of its operatives earlier in the day.
...director of the CIA under the Obama administration. One of the deeper dwelling denizens of the Deep State, probably the guy who lit the match that launched the Russiagate coup attempt...
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[NYPOST] A Florida man became the sixth attacker indicted in the brutal caught-on-camera beating of a Jewish man in Times Square in 2021, Manhattan prosecutors said Thursday.
...Soros-owned and operated Manhattan DA. Putting vicious and blood-thirsty criminals in jail only makes them unhappy, and they've led such hard lives after all...
[FoxNews] The mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, left 19 children and two teachers dead
[CyberNews] It is 10 times worse than what it's DNS logs report.
[Breitbart] The Federal Bureau of Investigation is asking for help in locating an Arizona teenage female and her mother who are believed to have been kidnapped while traveling in northern Mexico. The kidnapping is believed to have occurred along a stretch of highway where the 
