[IsraelTimes] The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... has decided to sanction six people and three companies for financing Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... and 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... , the EU council says.
The EU says it is sanctioning Jamil Yusuf Ahmad Aliyan, Ahmed Sharif Abdallah Odeh, Zuheir Shamlakh, Ismail Barhoum, Ali Morshed Shirazi and Maher Rebhi Obeid.
It adds that it is also sanctioning the companies Zawaya Group for Development & Investment Co Ltd., Larrycom for Investment Ltd. and the Al Zawaya Group for Development & Investment Sociedad limitada.
The individuals and companies will be subject to an asset freeze, and the six people will also be banned from traveling to the EU.
[IsraelTimes] The amphibious assault ship USS Wasp entered the eastern Mediterranean Sea this week as the US positions warships to try to keep fighting between Israel and 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... from escalating into a wider war in the Middle East.
While the Wasp has the capability to assist in the evacuation of civilians if full-scale war breaks out between Israel and the Iranian-backed terror group along the Lebanon border, that’s not the primary reason it was rotated in, a US official says. "It’s about deterrence," the official says.
A second US official says the rotation is similar to the US sending the USS Bataan assault ship into the waters around Israel shortly after Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... ’s October 7 attack, with the vessel remaining for months in the eastern Mediterranean to help provide options and try to contain the conflict. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive operational details.
US officials said last week that the deployment of the Wasp was likely as the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier and its air wing left the region. The Wasp carries F-35 fighter jets, which do short takeoffs and vertical landings, so they can do Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... missions off smaller ships.
US European Command, which is responsible for ships operating in the Mediterranean, announced the move this week, saying the Wasp and the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard would sail with the dock landing ship USS Oak Hill, which is used to transport Marines, landing craft, vehicles and cargo. The Oak Hill is already in the Mediterranean.
The Wasp also is sailing with the amphibious transport dock ship USS New York, which can deliver troops either by on-deck helicopters or landing vessels.
It all comes as Hezbollah and Israel have escalated their near-daily attacks on one another.
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The WSP ARG consists of the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1), San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS New York (LPD 21), Harpers Ferry-class dock landing ship USS Oak Hill (LSD 51), and the embarked 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit."... non-combatant evacuation operations,"
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Is an 'assault ship' like the big version of the 'assault rifle?
Sort of. They both have magazines that hold multiple rounds. And ships tend to be painted gray which is a lighter shade of the black used in scary black rifles.
[IsraelTimes] The US military says that it destroyed seven Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... drones and one ground control station vehicle in Houthi-controlled Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... .
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They're far past line-of-site. Find the radar sites and Iranian surveillance radar ships and destroy them. I doubt Houthis have "homemade satellites" for targeting info
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/\ Russian P-14 Tallking system or a follow-on. Probably Russian manned as well.
[IsraelTimes] Over 14,000 MK-84s, which Biden paused a shipment of, are among the US munitions sent to Israeli forces fighting against Hamas and Hezbollah
The Biden administration has sent to Israel large numbers of munitions, including more than 10,000 highly destructive 2,000-pound bombs and thousands of Hellfire missiles, since the start of the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , said two US officials briefed on an updated list of weapons shipments. Between the war’s start last October and recent days, the United States has transferred at least 14,000 of the MK-84 2,000-pound bombs, 6,500 500-pound bombs, 3,000 Hellfire precision-guided air-to-ground missiles, 1,000 bunker-buster bombs, 2,600 air-dropped small-diameter bombs, and other munitions, according to the officials, who were not authorized to speak publicly. While the officials didn’t give a timeline for the shipments, the totals suggest there has been no significant drop-off in US military support for its ally, despite international calls to limit weapons supplies and a recent administration decision to pause a shipment of powerful bombs.
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Rather than sending thousands of 2,000 lb bombs, why not send a couple 2,000,000 lb bombs and deal with the Gaza Problem once and for all. Economies of scale, man!
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If you don't mind a bit of radioactivity, a C-141 can carry the equivalent
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From dropping grenades from our biplanes
To two-million-pounders? My migraines!
The best I can do,
And innumerate, too,
Is a swarm of a hundred-plus Skycranes.
[IsraelTimes] White House working to convince Netanyahu that Russia’s closeness with Iran justifies risk of fallout, FT reports, as Western countries make push for Ukrainian air defense.
[IsraelTimes) Atomic energy agency says Tehran’s four new cascades have been put in place but haven’t yet started enriching uranium
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has installed half the advanced uranium-enriching machines it said earlier this month it would quickly add to its Fordow site dug into a mountain but has not yet brought them online, the UN nuclear watchdog said in a report seen by Rooters.
Iran informed the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency two weeks ago it would rapidly expand its enrichment capacity at Fordow by adding eight cascades, or clusters, of IR-6 centrifuges at Fordow within three to four weeks.
Within two days the IAEA had verified that two of the cascades had been installed. In a confidential report to member states on Friday the agency said that number had now doubled.
"The Agency has verified that Iran has installed four of the aforementioned eight IR-6 cascades in Unit 1 at FFEP (Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant)," the report said, adding that the verification happened on Sunday.
"Iran has not specified to the Agency when it would start feeding any of the cascades in Unit 1 with UF6 or the planned enrichment level," it added, referring to uranium hexafluoride gas, the feedstock for centrifuges.
Diplomats say the addition of the IR-6 machines was a response to a resolution against Iran by the IAEA’s 35-nation Board of Governors on June 5 calling on Tehran to step up cooperation with the watchdog and reverse its recent barring of inspectors. Iran tends to bristle at such resolutions.
The United States announced new sanctions targeting Iran’s oil trade on Thursday, saying it was acting in response to "steps (by Iran) to further expand its nuclear program in ways that have no credible peaceful purpose."
Iran is enriching uranium to up to 60% purity, close to the roughly 90% of weapons grade, at two sites: Fordow and an above-ground pilot plant at Natanz. It has enough material enriched to up to 60%, if enriched further, for three nuclear weapons, according to an IAEA yardstick.
At Fordow, it is currently using the two only operating cascades of IR-6 centrifuges there to enrich to 60% from 20%.
Iran also informed the IAEA this month that it would bring online more of the dozens of advanced centrifuges it has installed at its largest enrichment site, the underground Fuel Enrichment Plant (FEP) at Natanz.
The report said Iran plans to feed UF6 into 15 cascades of IR-2m and IR-4 machines already installed but not yet enriching. The last quarterly IAEA report in May put the number of those machines installed but not operating at 21.
Iran has now carried out passivation, a process that involves feeding UF6 into centrifuges in preparation for enrichment without accumulating enriched uranium, on six of those cascades, Friday’s report said.
"Iran has started feeding, for passivation purposes, 4 natural UF 6 into an additional three IR-2m cascades and three IR-4 cascades for the first time," it said.
Iran had also begun installing one of the 18 extra IR-2m cascades it said this month it would set up at the FEP, the report added.
[IsraelTimes] Head of Jewish physicians’ group had warned event could become ‘vehicle’ of antisemitism amid numerous anti-Israel resolutions, with attacks on British Jews spiking since Oct. 7
A doctor speaking at the British Medical Association’s annual conference on Monday was disrupted by shouts of "shame" after she said she was Jewish, British media reported.
The BMA was holding deliberations on numerous motions about the Gazoo
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[IsraelTimes] Anas Saleh, 24, charged with attempted coercion after widely circulated footage showed man matching his description yelling, ‘Raise your hand if you’re a Zionist’ on packed carriage
But though arrested, will he be tried, and if tried, will he be convicted? Those Soros DAs aren’t keen on acting against their comrades.
A US man who demanded that "Zionists" identify themselves on a New York City subway train during a protest over the Israel-Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... war, then suggested that they get out, was charged Wednesday with attempted coercion, a misdemeanor, local police said.
[IsraelTimes] Police say Amar Nasrallah was shot and injured as he fled security forces in Tulkarem; during interrogation incriminated others who recently fired at Bat Hefer
A Paleostinian gunman behind shooting attacks from the West Bank against the Israeli town of Bat Hefer in May was detained earlier this month, the Israel Police announced Wednesday.
A joint IDF, Shin Bet and police statement said Amar Nasrallah was arrested on June 5 in the Tulkarem refugee camp.
Last month, Paleostinian terror group Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... said its operatives from the Tulkarem area in the West Bank had fired shots at Bat Hefer.
Hamas posted videos on social media of its button men opening fire.
During his interrogation, "Amar admitted that he was a member of a terror cell that carried out shooting attacks on towns near the [border] fence, and in addition, incriminated other suspects belonging to the cell," the statement said.
Footage published by police showed officers shooting Nasrallah as he allegedly attempted to flee. He was maimed and captured.
A Paleostinian gunman behind shooting attacks from the West Bank against the Israeli town of Bat Hefer in May, was detained earlier this month, police announce.
Hebrew media reports at the end of May said that three times in the space of the previous two weeks shots had been fired at Bat Hefer, a town of about 5,000 people that sits just west of the so-called Green Line separating Israel from the West Bank.
There have also been similar shooting incidents at Kibbutz Meirav, a religious community of less than a thousand, from the West Bank city of Jenin.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Employees of a multistate rehab company have been left in the dark after several facilities shut across the country following the suicides of the two top executives.
Retreat Behavioral Health, which has facilities in Florida, Philadelphia and Connecticut, abruptly closed their facility in Palm Beach, Florida, last week. Employees told WPTV that around 100 mental health and substance use patients were told to pack up and leave, including 30 who had nowhere to go.
Facilities in Lancaster County, PA, and New Haven, CT, have also since shuttered following the deaths of CEO Peter Schorr and CAO Scott Korogodsky.
Korogodsky had taken up the leadership of the company after Schorr killed himself at his home in Delray Beach, according to LancasterOnline.
Days after Schorr died, Korogodsky also killed himself life - according to the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner's Office.
Lissa Franklin, the VP of Southeast Florida Recovery Advocates, told CBS12: 'I'm sure there’s more to the story, but from the employees that I spoke with most everybody that was there did find safe and supportive discharge options.
'It’s very sad what happened to the Retreat. From my experience. it was a great program.
'They always helped everyone in the community. They treated everybody with compassion and kindness.'
According to Franklin the facility was one of the only ones in the area that accepted Medicaid or VA health insurance policies.
Internal emails sent to staff and seen by the outlet show that Korogodsky assured members of staff they would be paid after a delay in receiving paychecks.
On Thursday, Alexander Hoinsky, the chief financial officer for the facility, said that the company had been on dire straits financially for at least a year. Hoinsky told WPTV that he had grew concerned after executives at the company stopped taking his calls. He said: 'I left messages and emails [and] laid out what was going to go forward. Basically, they did not want to hear it.'
[Federalist] Just before Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton faced off in their second presidential debate, then-National Intelligence Director James Clapper met in the White House with a small group of advisers to President Obama to hatch a plan to put out a first-of-its-kind intelligence report warning the voting public that "the Russian government" was interfering in the election by allegedly breaching the Clinton campaign’s email system.
On Oct. 7, 2016 — just two days before the presidential debate between Trump and Clinton — Clapper issued the unprecedented intelligence advisory with Obama’s personal blessing. It seemed to lend credence to what the Clinton camp was telling the media — that Trump was working with Russian President Vladimir Putin through a secret back channel to steal the election. Sure enough, the Democratic nominee pounced on it to smear Trump at the debate.
And that wouldn’t be the only historically consequential maneuver for Clapper, whose role in skewing presidential campaigns might deserve a special place in the annals of nefarious election meddling — by, in this case, a domestic, not foreign, intelligence service.
In 2020, he was the lead signatory on the "intelligence" statement that discredited the New York Post’s October bombshell exposing emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop, which documented how Hunter’s corrupt Burisma paymasters had met with Joe Biden when he was vice president. It was released Oct. 19, just three days before Trump and Biden debated each other in Nashville. Fifty other U.S. "intelligence community" officials and experts signed the seven-page document, which claimed "the arrival on the U.S. political scene of emails purportedly belonging to Vice President Biden’s son Hunter, much of it related to his time serving on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."
In hindsight, Clapper’s well-timed pseudo-intelligence in 2016 and 2020 helped Clinton and Biden make the case against Trump as a potentially Kremlin-compromised figure, charges that crippled his presidency and later arguably denied him reelection.
The phony laptop letter actually helped Biden seal his narrow victory since many of his voters in the close election told pollsters they would have had second thoughts about backing him had they known of the damning materials contradicting his denials he knew anything about his son’s shady foreign dealings.
An authoritarian dad, boss, or government says: my way or the highway. They are forever barking orders and see compliance as the answer to all human problems. There is no room for uncertainty, adaptation to time and place, or negotiation. It’s ruling by personal dictate while tolerating no dissent.
To be authoritarian is to be inhumane, to rule with arbitrary and capricious imposition. It can also mean to be ruled impersonally by a machine regardless of the cost.
Sounds like a conventional government bureaucracy, right? Indeed. Think of the Department of Motor Vehicles. Think of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy which are right now issuing edicts that will end in the ability of your washing machine to clean your clothes and your car to go the distance.
They have been doing this to us for many decades, with or without the permission of Congress or the president. The agencies have become literally out of control in the sense that no one can control them.
Any society managed by a large and intrusive bureaucratic machinery is necessarily authoritarian. A government that is not authoritarian is necessarily limited in size, scope, and range of power.
Let’s say you have a political leader who has routinely called for less in the way of authoritarian rule by bureaucracies. He intends to use whatever power he has to curb the autonomous rule by administrative bureaucracies and subject them more to the wishes of the people, who should ideally be in charge of the regime under which they live.
Such a leader would not be called an authoritarian. He would be called the opposite, an emancipator who is trying to dismantle authoritarian structures.
If all of the above makes sense to you, try to make sense of this news story in the New York Times. It’s about the growing efforts on the part of many activists to resist a second term of Donald Trump.
In passing, the story says: “If Mr. Trump returns to power, he is openly planning to impose radical changes — many with authoritarian overtones” including “making it easier to fire civil servants.”
The story quickly adds that he intends to replace the fired employees with “loyalists.” Maybe. But consider the alternative. The president is supposed to be ostensibly in charge of 2 million plus bureaucrats that are employed by 400-plus agencies in the executive branch — but they don’t actually have to carry out the policies of the elected president. They can in fact completely ignore him.
How is this compatible with either democracy or freedom? It is not. There is nothing in the Constitution about a vast army of bureaucrats who rule behind the scenes that is in no way reachable or manageable by elected representatives.
The attempt to pull back, rein in, and otherwise do something about this problem is not authoritarian. It is the opposite. Even if “loyalists” replaced the fired employees, that would be an improvement over a system of government in which the people truly have no control at all.
Two years into Trump’s first term, the administration came to figure out that this was a problem. The administration intended some dramatic turns in policy in a number of areas. All they experienced was dogged resistance from people who believed they and not the elected president were in charge. Over the next two years, they undertook many efforts to at least solve this problem: namely, the president should be in charge of the government that falls under his jurisdiction.
This only makes sense. Imagine you are the CEO of a company. You discover that the main divisions that actually run the company care nothing about what you say and cannot be fired even if you demand it, and yet you are personally held responsible for everything these divisions do. What are you going to do?
It is not “authoritarian” to unseat or otherwise attempt to gain control over that for which you are held responsible, professionally or politically. That is truly all that the Trump people are suggesting. This is nothing other than a Constitutional system: we are supposed to have a government by and for the people. That means that the people elect the administrator of the executive branch. At a minimum, the winner of the election needs to be able to have some influence over what the agencies in the executive branch do.
[JustTheNews] At a statewide level, “ghost” student funding accounted for 6.2% of total state formula aid to school districts.
As state enrollment continues to decline due to outmigration, falling birthrates, and parents choosing to pull their children out of public school, the number of “ghost” students could continue to rise.
Funding guarantees and enrollment decline stabilization measures mean California is paying for 400,974 "ghost" students who don't exist, costing the state $4.06 billion in the 2022-2023 school year, according to a report from the libertarian Reason Foundation.
Study authors Aaron Garth Smith and Christian Barnard examined the cost of so-called “hold harmless” policies that provide funding protections for public schools in the face of declining enrollment. The two main policies used are declining enrollment protections, which allow schools to use prior, higher enrollment numbers to determine funding, and funding guarantees, which provide schools with a minimum level of state financial support regardless of enrollment. Notably, California’s charter schools, which are public schools, do not qualify for “hold harmless” funding.
Eighty-five percent of school districts received some form of “hold harmless” funding. Of the 148 schools that received minimum state aid funding, 111 were “property-wealthy districts that didn’t otherwise qualify for state formula aid.”
California’s enrollment-based funding policy allows the use of the greater of the current year’s average daily attendance, the last year’s, or the average of the three most recent years (not including the current year). “Ghost” students are the difference between the number of actual students, and the number the school district used for funding. Los Angeles Unified School District, the largest in the state, had an estimated 50,417 “ghost” students directing $507.74 million from state funds to the district. Of the over 1,400 California public schools with enrollment declines of 20% or more since the pandemic, 125 of them are in Los Angeles Unified.
At a statewide level, “ghost” student funding accounted for 6.2% of total state formula aid to school districts. Given finite state resources, funding “ghost” students impacts funding for real students.
“California’s hold harmless policies untether the relationship between K-12 funding and students,” said Smith to The Center Square. “The state’s fiscal outlook is bleak, and policymakers should consider ways to allocate public school funding more strategically. Eliminating ghost students and the state’s [minimum state aid] provision would be a good step in this direction.”
California public school enrollment declined 325,311 between the 2019-2020 and 2023-2024 school years, even after creating a whole new grade — transitional kindergarten — to boost attendance figures and funding.
California plans on spending approximately $23,940 per TK-14 student for the coming fiscal year. Should enrollment declines continue as one-in-four Californians are projected to be 60 or older by 2030, the state may someday have no choice but to shift education funding towards elder care.
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If you buy a ticket to see Carrot Top, it is Carrot Top that you will see.
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SO lets say the 25th is in play it will take hearings and votes. A couple months to make this legal, if he does not fight it. By then the state will not have the time to redo the ballots. We will have to delay the election. Blue states will sue saying they need months, it will get tied up in the courts and our election wont happen for a year....
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How does he fight it? Take the tests he refuses to take?
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Considering the recently viewed public evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that someones other than Biden are in control, it would be an improvement, in my opinion, that to continue the current arrangement the most unpalatable, obnoxious face possible be put on it.
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The debate likely cements the decision to jail Trump on July 11. These are dangerous times, and some very determined people in power are very worried. If Trump wins, risk losing their fortunes and freedom because of the crimes they have committed...
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Re #3 - if the election is delayed. is there any Constitutional support for the idea that the term of the incumbents be extended or do they just go directly to coup d'etat.
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Something not written down is how the American people might respond. That gets made up as we go along.
Anyone who expects the Army or National Guard to exert control will be direly disappointed.
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Five, six good red state governors. Watch the blue morons fold.
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America's fall back was always the states.
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Some might call it a "constitutional crisis." Others might simply call it anarchy. I could be stating the obvious, but I have a sense urban areas may not be the place to be if and when it hits the fan.
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Places where gummint checks are the only income?
Yeah, could get real.
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Will it be rayciss when the gummint printing office stops printing welfare checks and USPS stops delivering?
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Actuarily, it could be any time. More people are dead by 81 than aren't, recall. If some morning Joe wakes up embalmed, who's gonna look closely at what's on the death certificate, especially if a month or two had gone by since the debate?
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Hopefully she's stupid enough to go pick up the playoff in person.
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Some poor Chinese print warehouse worker is asking his boss whether he should keep printing ballot box stuffing ballots with Biden’s name filled in.
[BLAZE] Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky announced on Friday that his wife Rhonda passed away on Thursday.
"Yesterday my high school sweetheart, the love of my life for over 35 years, the loving mother of our 4 children, the smartest kindest woman I ever knew, my beautiful and wise queen forever, Rhonda went to Heaven. Thank you for your prayers for our family in this difficult time," the lawmaker tweeted.
"She was valedictorian at our high school where we went to the Prom together, accepted at MIT and Harvard, earned a Mechanical Engineering degree from MIT, and devoted her life to our family," he added. "We spent last week touring Mt Rainier with our grandson - she was the best mammaw ever! We love you Rhonda," Massie wrote.
Back in late August 2022, the congressman posted about their 29th anniversary, writing, "Happy 29th Anniversary today to my high school sweetheart & lovely wife. Who else could be valedictorian of her high school class, solve differential equations at MIT, run a farm, can green beans, bake apple pies, set tobacco, rake hay, raise 4 perfect kids, and tolerate me?!"
Condolences have been pouring in on social media.
"I was in Massie's office just yesterday afternoon," Blaze Media's Steve Baker noted. "I had a scheduled appointment with him and other members of his staff. His chief of staff messaged me just before I arrived and said his boss had to go to Kentucky for a 'family emergency.' The meeting went on with the staffers, and they showed no sign of this tragedy. (They may not have even known.) I even joked with them that Massie needed to clean his desk - which was piled high with papers and books and other junk. One staffer said, 'We always make him clean it before the August recess.' My gut aches right now. Prayers up for Thomas Massie and his family."
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RIP. I like the guy, but living in his homemade house would be too much Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for most sensible humans.
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Mossad motto: "it's never a coincidence"
Just in case you don't know who he is, here you can get a taste of the ugly antisemitic conspiracy theories this piece of shit was pushing.
You know what I find odd about all of this? Thomas Massie disclosed info I do not think was supposed to get out regarding congress having an AIPAC handler who has influence on all of their policy decision making. Which is an extreme detail that is not being brought up about this… pic.twitter.com/JqvYfVtxMe
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I watched the interview about a week ago. It was my first introduction to Massie. He made a lot of good points. Borgia has done us a great service.
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Bitter Herbs, or, The Gas of Passover. Or, less obnoxiously, The Sacred Cows
For all you goy Semites, good news:
Your McCoy's now defending the Jews
In a sarcasm dark
And obscure as his mark...
[blood-daubed Hakenkreuz, "Deaf to the Moos!"]
Taking angel's trumpet can cause confusion, dilated pupils, intense thirst, dry skin, flushing, fever, high or low blood pressure, fast heartbeat, difficulty breathing, hallucinations, nervousness, loss of memory, convulsions, paralysis, coma, and death.
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Sadly, all the pharmaceutical potential is wasted on me. I just enjoy the outlandish appearance and smell of the blooms (foliage is mildly disgusting). My parents had a dense little grove of it that couldn't have been much more than a couple of hundred square feet in extent and fifteen or twenty feet high, but it was like a whole other world in there. Dunno why I suddenly decided to spell it with two Ns. Is this Monday?
[Gateway] If one watches corporate media or listens to the narrative coming out of Washington DC, inflation is going down and everyone should be happy with the economy. If one looks at the prices at the grocery store, they realize that the narrative doesn’t match reality.
With some foods skyrocketing in price over the last year, it’s getting harder for Americans to keep their cupboards full. But some Americans are looking ahead, seeing the writing on the wall, and realizing the trajectory of the nation and the world points to food shortages and government-controlled distribution.
"Who controls the food supply controls the people," Henry Kissinger once said. He was right. It doesn’t matter how independent and patriotic someone is. If they’re given the choice between bowing to government or letting their family members starve to death, nearly everyone will bow.
"We don’t want anyone to bow to a tyrannical government because they didn’t have enough food to feed themselves and their families," said Jason Nelson, CEO of Prepper All Naturals. "I fought for a free country and the direction America is heading is away from freedom."
Nelson, a disabled veteran who served in both the U.S. Marines and U.S. Army, left the military after a long career because of the Covid-19 "vaccine" mandates. When he returned, his desire to serve compelled him to launch his company in order to empower Americans with their own long-lasting supply of freeze-dried food.
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I had an aunt who had survived the Great Depression. She kept a second floor bedroom in her farmhouse for canned goods and expendable items. Two years was her rule of thumb, donating some dated items to charity from time to time then replacing.
At her estate sale in 1990, relatives found 91 roles of TP. Someone handed me a roll to take home. Many of them chuckled. I did not. I kept the roll in a plastic bag for many years. "Prepper" or plain old common sense. You decide.
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Way back in 1990 I was in Beaverton, Oregon working on the design of a TP mill. One week a group of Russians came in and spent the week studying our design, They bought a lot of TP to take home.
[LawEnforcementToday] Bernardo Raul Castro Mata, a 19-year-old Venezuelan illegal immigrant arrested for shooting two NYPD Officers, revealed to police how guns are being smuggled into the illegal immigrant encampments in New York and told detectives .
What if a Communist Venezuelan, who is allied with Red China, is sneaking in a 5th column using Illegals as a cover?
[Hot Air] Even though four years have passed, new information continues to leak out about the 51 supposed intelligence officials who signed a statement in 2020 declaring that the story about Hunter Biden's laptop had "all the hallmarks" of a Russian disinformation campaign.
Joe Biden would go on to cite those officials during a debate with Donald Trump. Of course, the laptop was real and they all knew it the entire time, leading some outlets like the New York Post to dub them, "the spies who lie." The lies have apparently not ended yet, however. Newly revealed documents show that at least two of the officials were employed as CIA contractors at the time that the letter was created. Former CIA acting director Michael Morell and ex-CIA Inspector General David Buckley were under contract to the agency. Yet when they were contacted to ask about that relationship, they both either denied it or refused to comment. (NY Post)
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Newly revealed documents show that at least two of the officials were employed as CIA contractors
Commonly referred to as 'agency annuitants.' Accept Federal retirement and return the next day to the same desk (or other assignment) via Form 1099-NEC, Nonemployee Compensation.
The famous "Double-bubble." Excellent work if you can get it.
Newly released transcripts of interviews with eight of the intelligence officials who were among 51 signatories of the infamous letter labeling reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop as a potential “Russian information operation” show the letter drafters were motivated by politics while freely admitting they had no hard evidence for the claims.
The transcripts, which include interviews with former CIA Director Michael Morell, one of his key former deputies Marc Polymeropoulos, and former CIA Director John Brennan, show the behind the scenes maneuverings to publish the infamous letter which then-candidate Joe Biden used to deflect accusations against him stemming from the material found on his son’s laptop.
“Look, there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he’s accusing me of is a Russian plan. They have said that this has all the characteristics – four, five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage,” Biden said during the final debate abasing then-President Donald Trump.
The immediate political benefits of the open letter were far from coincidental, according to testimony from several signatories. Marc Polymeropoulos, a deputy to Morell when he served as director, testified to congressional investigators that Morell told him “the Biden world had asked for this.”
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I read the transcript of Kristen Wood, and she like many others (including the hyper-partisan Morel) who signed the statement had been out of the intel loop for some time. I believe that in Wood's case, she should have been asked, "Aside from politics, left wing news sources, and your now attenuated history in the CIA', what EVIDENCE do you have that Russia is trying to influence the 2020 election in support of Trump." If she were honest she would have had to respond, "None."
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[Regnum] Russia must respond to the actions of the United States, apparently, it is necessary to start producing intermediate- and shorter-range missiles (INF), President Vladimir Putin said on June 28 at an operational meeting with permanent members of the Security Council.
“Apparently, we need to start producing these strike systems and then, based on the actual situation, make decisions about where, if necessary to ensure our security, to deploy them,” the Russian leader said.
The President drew attention to the fact that the United States not only produces ground-based intermediate-range and shorter-range missile systems (INF), but also brings them to exercises in Europe, in particular to Denmark.
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty has been in force between the United States and Russia since 1987. In August 2019, the United States officially withdrew from the treaty. The document prohibited the production, use, and storage of ground-based ballistic and cruise missiles of intermediate (1,000 to 5,500 km) and shorter (500 to 1,000 km) range, and also applied to missiles with conventional and nuclear warheads.
Following this, the United States also refused to ratify the agreement on adaptation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe and withdrew from the Open Skies Treaty.
As Regnum reported, in April, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that Moscow would respond by refusing a moratorium on the deployment of intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles (INF) if Washington deploys such systems in any region of the world, including the Asia-Pacific and European directions. Ryabkov noted that Washington’s intention to deploy INF is irreversible.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i armed forces said they had carried out four military operations against four ships in the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.
In support of the oppressed Paleostinian people and their fighters, and in response to the massacres committed by the Zionist enemy against the people of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , the Armed Forces carried out several qualitative military operations, including a joint military operation with the Islamic resistance in Iraq targeting the oil tanker "Waler" in the Mediterranean Sea with a number of drones. It was on its way to the port of Haifa, and the ship was targeted violating the ban on entering the ports of occupied Paleostine," the armed forces said in a statement issued this evening.
The armed forces added in the statement that the missile force in our Yemeni Armed Forces, with God’s help, also carried out an operation targeting the ship "Johannes Maersk" in the Mediterranean Sea with a cruise missile, and the operation successfully achieved its goal by Allah’s grace.
The armed forces explained in the statement that this ship belongs to the "Maersk" company, which is one of the most supportive companies for the Zionist entity and the most violative of the ban on entering the ports of occupied Paleostine.
The operation was carried out simultaneously with another military operation by the naval forces in the Red Sea against the ship "Ioannis," which was targeted with several drones for violating the ban on entering the ports of occupied Paleostine, and it was directly hit by Allah’s grace, according to the statement.
"The Yemeni Armed Forces salute all the struggling Yemeni people for their constant and continuous response to the call of Sayyid Abdul-Malik Badr El-Din al-Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... (may Allah protect him) in the massive public rallies in support of the Paleostinian cause and to confirm the rejection of the American-British aggression against our country," the statement read.
"The Yemeni Armed Forces will continue, with Allah’s help, to carry out their religious, moral, and humanitarian duties on behalf of the great Yemeni people and all the free people of the nation in support of Paleostine and in victory for its struggling people and brave resistance. The military operations will not stop except with the cessation of aggression and the lifting of the siege on the Paleostinian people in Gaza," the statement stressed.
Yemen’s Houthi militant group have claimed responsibility for attacking a Liberia-flagged vessel in the Red Sea that a maritime agency said had survived five missiles, while also saying they targeted three other vessels including two in the Mediterranean.
Yahya Saree, the Houthi military spokesperson, says in a televised statement that the group launched ballistic missiles at the Delonix, an oil tanker, and that it took a “direct hit.”
However, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) monitor said earlier in the day that the ship, which was targeted 150 nautical miles (172 miles) northwest of the Yemeni port of Hodeidah, reported no damage and was heading northward.
Saree also says the Houthis attacked the Ioannis ship in the Red Sea, as well as the Waler oil tanker and the Johannes Maersk vessel in the Mediterranean.
He says the Johannes Maersk, which is owned by Maersk MAERSKb.CO, the world’s second-largest container carrier, was targeted because it belongs to “one of the most supportive companies for the Zionist entity and the most that violates ban decision of access to the ports of occupied Palestine.”
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[REGNUM] American strategic drones are increasingly circling over the Black Sea. Their tasks are reconnaissance and designation of targets for high-precision weapons supplied to the Ukrainian Armed Forces by the West for strikes on our country's territory, the Russian Defense Ministry stated.
The department clarified that this indicates the increasing involvement of the United States and NATO countries in the conflict in Ukraine on the side of the Kyiv regime. At the same time, the appearance of American drones in the region greatly increases the likelihood of incidents in the air with Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft. Consequently, the risk of a direct clash between NATO and Russia is growing.
“NATO countries will be responsible for this,” the Ministry of Defense warned.
On June 28, Defense Minister Andrei Belousov instructed the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces to make proposals for measures to promptly respond to provocations.
THEY TRACK DOWN AND BEAT
American reconnaissance drones regularly fly off the coast of Crimea and the Krasnodar Territory. In particular, the NATO RQ-4B Global Hawk UAV was seen there at least on May 26 and June 5. It is noteworthy that during the attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Sevastopol on June 23, the Global Hawk also circled in the airspace over the Black Sea.
Military analysts believe that the drone flies in with the main goal of assessing the results of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attacks on Russian territory. Along the way, it collects information about new potential targets and the operation of air defense systems.
After this, the obtained data, military expert, editor-in-chief of the magazine "National Defense" Igor Korotchenko told IA Regnum, are transmitted to Western centers for processing intelligence information. Then a flight mission is drawn up and targets are determined for the Ukrainian Armed Forces to strike our forces using NATO weapons - in particular, American ATACMS operational-tactical missiles.
On June 26, a telephone conversation took place between Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov and Pentagon head Lloyd Austin. A number of sources stated that the reason for the conversation was an alleged incident with an American UAV over the Black Sea.
At the same time, the previous conversation between the heads of the Russian and American military departments took place back in March 2023, when, as reported, the parties discussed the crash of the US MQ-9 Reaper reconnaissance and attack drone in the Black Sea.
HOW WILL RUSSIA RESPOND?
The Russian Ministry of Defense will soon decide how to stop or at least limit the activity of American drones near the territory of our country, Igor Korotchenko is sure. But we learn about these measures after the fact - not from statements, but from specific actions.
The situation is complicated by the fact that we cannot take the most obvious route, that is, shoot down American drones over the Black Sea, since they are hovering over neutral waters, military expert Vasily Dandykin explains in a commentary to IA Regnum.
At the same time, he notes, one should not forget that NATO manned reconnaissance aircraft are also monitoring the situation in the region from the airspace of Romania and Bulgaria.
On June 28, an American Boeing RC-135V Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft and a Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker refueling aircraft were operating over the Black Sea from Romania. A similar aircraft from the British Air Force was also recently spotted in the region, along with two Eurofighter Typhoon fighters that flew off the coast of Crimea.
In any case, there are ways to solve the problem with NATO manned and unmanned reconnaissance aircraft “hanging” over the Black Sea, experts say. In particular, it is possible to complicate the collection of data using passive and active camouflage, military expert Anatoly Matviychuk told IA Regnum.
“The protection of our military facilities can be carried out both through changing their configuration and location, and through the active operation of electronic warfare systems.
In addition, we may be talking about the unarmed influence of our aviation, which will prevent the passage of American aircraft near our borders and displace them from dangerous flight trajectories for us,” Matviychuk said.
The Ministry of Defense may also create a no-fly zone: drones entering it will be destroyed or actively interfere with their work, Igor Korotchenko believes.
[GEO.TV] A trio of rights groups took the Dutch government back to court on Friday, arguing that a ban on supplying F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel is not being respected in practice.
In a landmark verdict in February, an appeals court ordered the Netherlands to stop delivering parts for fighter jets used by Israel in its offensive 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.
The court said at the time there was a "clear risk" the planes would be involved in breaking international humanitarian law.
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"Fearing a French arms boycott, which was to become a reality in 1969, Israel created an entire industry for the production of spare parts to keep the Mirages flying."
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[Regnum] The United States intends to continue patrols and drone flights over the international waters of the Black Sea, Deputy Pentagon Spokesperson Sabrina Singh said on June 28.
"We will continue to patrol, conduct sea passage and operate in international airspace and international waters where permitted by law," she said during a briefing.
Singh noted that she had not seen the statement from the Russian Ministry of Defense regarding the increasing frequency of flights of American strategic drones over the Black Sea.
As Regnum reported, on June 28, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that the increased intensity of UAV flights indicates the increasing involvement of the United States and NATO countries in the conflict in Ukraine. In addition, flights of American drones significantly increase the likelihood of incidents in the airspace, which creates increased risks of direct confrontation between the alliance and the Russian Federation.
In this regard, Defense Minister Andrei Belousov instructed the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces to take prompt response measures to US provocations over the Black Sea.'
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Imagine China patrolling the Gulf of Mexico. It's international waters, remember. Freedom of navigation, missile frigates in easy range of our oil platforms. Would that be viewed as a provocation?
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"The United States intends..." Why the United States? Why not NATO? Or Turkey? Why the hell do WE always have to appear to be poking our nose in some explosive part of the world.
[Field Ethos] We live in a time where words once set aside to describe those who accomplish great deeds are being used up like they have an expiration date. Where any man willing to throw on a dress, paint his face as gaudy as a baboon’s ass, and step out in public armed with a list of acceptable pronouns is hailed as a hero for his bravery. There was a time, not so long ago actually, where superlatives were reserved for individuals willing to grab cold hard steel and enter the arena in service of his fellow man, regardless of the risk to life or limb.
One such individual who embodied the spirit those words were meant to impart recently passed, leaving behind a lasting legacy in the Ranger community. He lived by an ethos and creed few are willing to follow and even fewer able to uphold. He was a legend in a community of men that can call themselves warriors without equivocation. His name was Colonel Ralph Puckett Jr.
Puckett first answered the call to arms in 1943, enlisting in the U.S. Army Air Corps Enlisted Reserve to become a pilot and kill Nazis in Europe. His plan would not come to fruition, though, due to the program being terminated. Not a man to let bureaucracy stand between him and a good fight, he went on to graduate from West Point in 1949.
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During the presidential debate, masked far-left militants were prevented from rushing to the CNN building to shut down the event. Antifa, socialists, communists and pro-Palestine extremists had called for the debate to be shut down. pic.twitter.com/91PGrPmmlo
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unlike the DA and Atlanta Judges, the cops appear up to the task
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I remember back in the 2000’s when we had better quality protests. ZombieTime was the best.
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Holy moly how do they justify this?
They are corporate shocktroops - BLM raised hundreds of millions from all the large corporations invluding Daily Mail Group
They are the donors who run the Democrats for the policy and laws they want and get
In the fallout from the debate - Dr John Campbell has an excellent video out on recognising Lewy Body Dementia, mentioning no names. But on watching it, seems clear the Commander in Chief has the symptoms.
I posted the link to the video in non-WoT just now. Well worth a watch. Purely a medical explainer no politics in it.
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They are used to shutting down free speech on uni campuses so now they apply everywhere
These movements were created by the Dems and their corporate donors before the 2020 election to remove Trump
That is why there was a summer of BLM rioting. The problem is once you start something like that it gets entrenched
The brownshirts dont just go away once their use is over
Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know. But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself.
Between someone who tells the truth; who knows right from wrong and will give it to the American people straight — and someone who lies through his teeth for his own benefit. Last night didn’t change that, and it’s why so much is at stake in November. http://joebiden.com
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Barak now understands that Joey is not going to make to the line to start BO's 4th term. Kamala is airheaded enough to be maleable, but she's likely to think she's in charge.
And all this time, Hillary is wanting to return the favor and shank him back.
This is the problem with kneecapping all your competition: sometimes you need help, and nobody can or will.
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There are also stories of Obama led meetings on replacing Joe. Would Barack Tweet support while trying to replace Joe? Of course he would.
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/\ Yes, there is still time for a Litvinenko style physical deterioration.
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Remember when Joe was trying to get elected and talked about how he would be willing to step aside and let presidential ready Kamala Harris take over at some point. I guess nobody talked to Jill about that.
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Now Bill Clinton claims Biden is fine for the job. That means all of the old Democrats are on board.
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The Clinton entry into the equation is a desperate move that is usually accompanied with a body count.
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Tom Friedman is crying because you think that's funny. No worries. Im laughing too.
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I would just love to see a huge fight at the Democrat convention. Fur flying all over the place. Bloody noses. People walking around indignant and all butt hurt. Yelling and screaming at each other. Machiavellians sharpening their knives in smoke filled back rooms, trying to keep it hidden but everybody's too desperate and it spills out onto the convention floor. I can dream, can't I?
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I would just love to see a huge fight at the Democrat convention.
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[Regnum] The United States of America will soon face a new recession. This opinion was expressed by American investor Jim Rogers.
The financier believes that it will begin at the end of 2024 or in 2025.
"I know it's coming," Prime quoted the analyst as saying.
Rogers reminded us that the United States experiences recessions every few years. This has been happening for centuries, since the country's founding.
The American investor also did not rule out that a new recession will begin in the US even before the presidential elections, which will take place in November of this year.
Earlier, Rogers said that the US economy and the world as a whole would face difficulties after the presidential elections in the country.
As IA Regnum reported, columnist for The Washington Post newspaper David Ignatius, citing a report by the RAND Corporation analytical center (included in the register of organizations whose activities are recognized as undesirable in the Russian Federation), prepared by order of the Pentagon, said on April 27 that the United States is facing a period of decline, after which they are unlikely to recover from. The reason for this, he said, will be the lack of a common understanding of the problem and ways to solve it.
He noted that the competitiveness of the United States is under threat, highlighting the declining respect for the country's power from dozens of developing countries and rivalry from China. He also pointed to problems in the form of slowing productivity growth, excessive military tensions and the polarization of the country's political system.
On June 27, it became known that the first bank in the United States in 2024, Republic First, had collapsed. The country's authorities took control of the American bank, closed it, and appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as its successor.
The US, Japan and Europe will suffer a “horrific” recession that will be accompanied by a collapse of the banking system, Rogers said in May 2023. The investor pointed out that countries are trying to combat the collapse of banks by merging them with larger organizations.
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Recession is a defined economic term. Since Bidets admin already “massaged” that terms parameters. We will have a “recession”. When They want us to, when it benefits Them. So odds are pretty good it will be soon.
The Pentagon has announced that the U.S. Army’s Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore (JLOTS) Temporary-Floating Pier for Humanitarian Aid off the Coast of the Gaza Strip, will once again be Dismantled and Transferred to the Port City of Ashdod in Southern Israel amid possible Severe… pic.twitter.com/AlxFhzaN5t
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They should be worried that their deployment will continue until after the election. Nobody inside the Pentagon wants them to come home to the news interviews about what they "accomplished". Victims of the "photo-Op" mindset of the children who staff the periphery of the Puppet Show and are always looking for anything the government has that can look good, regardless of actual effect.
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You forgot the medals. Everyone involved will get medals. They are drafting each other awards packages and asking for email updates of their own. Medals for all my friends.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The Supreme Court decided on Friday that cities can enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outdoors, even in West Coast areas where shelter space is lacking.
The case is the most significant to come before the high court in decades on the issue and comes as a rising number of people in the US are without a permanent place to live.
In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, the high court reversed a ruling by a the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... -based appeals court that found outdoor sleeping bans amount to cruel and unusual punishment.
The majority found that the 8th Amendment prohibition does not extend to bans on outdoor sleeping bans.
'Homelessness is complex. Its causes are many. So may be the public policy responses required to address it,' Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the majority.
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I have a Christian love of the poor, but claiming that the homeless had a Constitutional right to make camp and shoot up on the sidewalk in front of someone’s house was always Marxism.
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Notice, however, SCOTUS does not impose any requirement that cities enforce bans on homeless encampments. Cities will now get to decide whether or not to clean their streets but it's a good bet that cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco will not.
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Just in: Extremely violent trans So Cal Antifa member Samuel Howard Ogden said he took responsibility for his role in the violent Antifa conspiracy in an attempt to get a lighter sentence.
Ogden pleaded guilty to felony conspiracy and admitted to beating a woman with a stick… pic.twitter.com/0GbmudQhX4
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[KavkazUzel] The Sergokalinsky district is considered secular in Dagestan, however, relatives of the former head of the region Magomed Omarov were participants in a militant attack in Derbent and Makhachkala, Dagestan journalists emphasized. This is not the first case of radicalization of members of the local elite in Dagestan, although status and place of birth are not key factors in joining militants, they say.
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", on June 23, on Trinity Day, 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 were killed and 46 were injured. On June 26, doctors described the condition of six of those injured in the militant attack as serious. Sources reported that the 22nd victim of the militant attack died - a random passerby who happened to be at the synagogue in Derbent.
[CMS.GOV] President Trump Announces Lower Out of Pocket Insulin Costs for Medicare’s Seniors
May 26, 2020
Today, under President Trump’s leadership, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that over 1,750 standalone Medicare Part D prescription drug plans and Medicare Advantage plans with prescription drug coverage have applied to offer lower insulin costs through the Part D Senior Savings Model for the 2021 plan year. Across the nation, participating enhanced Part D prescription drug plans will provide Medicare beneficiaries access to a broad set of insulins at a maximum $35 copay for a month’s supply, from the beginning of the year through the Part D coverage gap. The model follows on the Trump Administration’s previously announced 13.5 percent decline in the average monthly basic Part D premium since 2017 to the lowest level in seven years.
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Despite pointing out Biden’s errors, Dale did not point out that, upon taking office, Biden froze Trump’s rules to lower the cost of insulin, and eventually rescinded them, only to put forth his own proposal which many pointed out wouldn’t help enough people.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The Supreme Court decided on Friday that cities can enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outdoors, even in West Coast areas where shelter space is lacking. Any nearby vacant office buildings?
The case is the most significant to come before the high court in decades on the issue and comes as a rising number of people in the US are without a permanent place to live.
In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, the high court reversed a ruling by a San Francisco-based appeals court that found outdoor sleeping bans amount to cruel and unusual punishment.
The majority found that the 8th Amendment prohibition does not extend to bans on outdoor sleeping bans.
'Homelessness is complex. Its causes are many. So may be the public policy responses required to address it,' Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the majority.
'A handful of federal judges cannot begin to ‘match’ the collective wisdom the American people possess in deciding "how best to handle" a pressing social question like homelessness.'
He suggested that people who have no choice but to sleep outdoors could raise that as a 'necessity defense,' if they are ticketed or otherwise punished for violating a camping ban.
A bipartisan group of leaders had argued the ruling against the bans made it harder to manage outdoor encampments encroaching on sidewalks and other public spaces in nine Western states. That includes California, which is home to one-third of the country’s homeless population.
'Cities across the West report that the 9th Circuit’s involuntary test has crated intolerable uncertainty for them,' Gorsuch wrote.
Homeless advocates, on the other hand, said that allowing cities to punish people who need a place to sleep would criminalize homelessness and ultimately make the crisis worse. Cities had been allowed to regulate encampments but couldn’t bar people from sleeping outdoors.
'Sleep is a biological necessity, not a crime,' Justice Sonia Sotomayor said, reading from the bench a dissent joined by her liberal colleagues.
'Punishing people for their status is ‘cruel and unusual’ under the Eighth Amendment,' she wrote in the dissent. 'It is quite possible, indeed likely, that these and similar ordinances will face more days in court.'
The case came from the rural Oregon town of Grants Pass, which appealed a ruling striking down local ordinances that fined people $295 for sleeping outside after tents began crowding public parks.
The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction over the nine Western states, has held since 2018 that such bans violate the Eighth Amendment in areas where there aren’t enough shelter beds.
Friday’s ruling comes after homelessness in the United States grew a dramatic 12 percent last year to its highest reported level, as soaring rents and a decline in coronavirus pandemic assistance combined to put housing out of reach for more people.
More than 650,000 people are estimated to be homeless, the most since the country began using a yearly point-in-time survey in 2007. Nearly half of them sleep outside. Older adults, LGBTQ+ people and people of color are disproportionately affected, advocates said. In Oregon, a lack of mental health and addiction resources has also helped fuel the crisis.
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Easy: take on the ACLU and open up the state hospitals again. These are untreated mentally ill. Involuntary commitment until they can get the treatment they need. The cruel and unusual punishment is letting them suffer untreated and as prey for drug dealers.
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Someone getting the feeling in the judicial community that they've f*uped for decades trying to play social engineer rather than adhering to and sticking with the 'law'? Those vagrancy laws evolved for a reason. Maybe its time to quit sacrificing good members of the community to murdering insane people who indeed need to be removed from general society.
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#1, #3 - He's actually not wrong about that for a large segment of the homeless population, Skid.
'Deinstitutionalization' forced a lot of moderate to serious mentally ill folks back out on the streets and continues to do so today. It's like mainstreaming mentally disabled kids into normal K-12 classrooms where the instruction then focuses on the lowest level of comprehension and ignores any actual learning.
Interesting, but long, read about this from the Kaiser Commission here (pdf).
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Doesn't say a municipality has to clear out public usage spaces, just that if they don't its local governments' choice to let them.
No fig leaf for you.
Maybe even call it something snazzy, like Sanctuary City, or Right to Shelter, Foyer sans Frontiers. That should attract and maintain voters.
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i have come to the conclusion that the two genders have unique roles. A female preserves the species and a male defends the female. how not-woke am i?
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[Regnum] Russia has never interfered in US electoral processes and does not intend to do so now. This was stated on June 28 at a briefing by the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov in response to a request to comment on the past election debates between US President Joe Biden and his political opponent Donald Trump.
The Kremlin representative noted that the debate is an internal matter of the United States and therefore Moscow is not going to give any assessment to it.
"We have never interfered in election campaigns. We are not going to do so this time," he said.
Peskov also stressed that the election debates in the US are not an issue on the agenda in Russia.
“We have many issues that are really important for our country, that are relevant for us,” he explained, specifying that Russian President Vladimir Putin is dealing with these issues.
As reported by IA Regnum, the televised debates between Trump and Biden took place on the evening of June 27. During them, the candidates for the post of US President mentioned the Russian leader seven times. At the same time, Trump also mentioned Russia 16 times during the meeting, while Biden did not do so even once.
The former US President also called the conditions for settling the conflict in Ukraine, which were previously put forward by the Russian President, unacceptable. Biden, in turn, made the assertion that after the liberation of Kiev by the Russian Armed Forces, a third world war would allegedly begin.
The Politico newspaper reported on June 27 that a number of representatives of the US Democratic Party began to actively discuss replacing Biden after his failure in the televised debate with Trump. According to the publication, one of the major donors of the Democrats advised the current head of state to end the presidential campaign after this.
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[Regnum] Russia will take countermeasures in connection with Japan's plans to conduct military exercises near Russian borders, according to a statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry published on June 28 on the website of the foreign policy department.
“A strong protest was lodged with the Japanese Embassy in Russia in connection with the plans of the Japanese authorities to conduct a series of joint military exercises with Germany and Spain on the island of Hokkaido from July 19 to 25,” the statement said.
The Ministry pointed out to the Japanese side that such provocative military activity involving NATO member countries is absolutely unacceptable. Russia regards the exercises as a potential security threat. The Foreign Ministry also called the policy of the Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida 's government irresponsible, as it leads to an escalation of tensions in the Asia-Pacific region, including Northeast Asia.
As Regnum reported, on June 21, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported that the director of the third department of Asia, Lyudmila Vorobyova, at a meeting with the director of the European department of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, indicated that the new package of anti-Russian sanctions adopted by Tokyo was another step towards the complete destruction of relations between the countries. The Russian diplomat called Kishida's policies hostile, noting that his actions had brought bilateral ties to an unprecedented low.
On June 6, President Vladimir Putin said that Russia does not refuse to resume dialogue with Japan after Tokyo changed its position on Ukraine. He emphasized that the Russian side did nothing to complicate bilateral contacts. The head of state also called Japan's position on the Ukrainian crisis biased.
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Japan should insist Russia return the northern Kurile Islands to its proper owner -- Japan. That will blow a few minds in a government that now seems determined to create a major war.
If he won’t resign, and the party can’t force him off the ticket, the blob could have no choice except to bump him off. I imagine they would get it done humanely, say late at night sometime, in bed, using the same method as for putting down an old dog who has peed on the carpet one too many times.
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I'm waiting for the pivot to the idea that we actually need a dementia crippled elderly twit in office, so his helpers can actually run things. That's the ticket!
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I wouldn't even know where to look, but I'm sure Harry Sisson is making a huge ass of himself today? Over and above what he already does.
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Text is cribbed from an announcement by the governor of Sevastpol' Razvozhaev.
Commentary by Russian military journalist is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Today I signed a decree on admission to capital facilities of all types of ownership during the announcement of the signals "Attention everyone! Air raid siren!" and "Ballistics!"
Let me remind you that last year we had a law that provided for fines for institutions and firms that did not allow people into shelters and coverts from the city register during an alarm.
Now that we have a threat of ballistic missile attacks, the list of premises where you can take refuge during an alarm is expanding.
All enterprises - both state and private - are required to let people into their premises. The exception, of course, will be all restricted facilities.
I appeal to everyone: every person should have the opportunity to hide from danger, no matter where it overtakes them. From an ethical point of view: imagine that you did not let a person in, and he was wounded by shrapnel right next to your store - how will you live with this, knowing that you could have helped him and did not? From a legal point of view: for failure to comply with the decree, legal entities are subject to a fine of 100 to 300 thousand rubles.
The decree was published on the website of the Government of Sevastopol and will come into force in 10 days.
(c) Governor of Sevastopol Razvozhaev
These are generally obvious things, although a little late, they should have been implemented in 2023. But after Uchkuyevka, they reasonably decided that it was enough to convince those who do not understand the obvious.
In addition, 576 temporary shelters for citizens will be erected in the city and Balaklava Bay will be closed at night. The beaches will not be closed.
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[Regnum] An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 was recorded in Peru, the Peruvian Geophysical Institute reported on June 28.
The earthquake occurred at 08:36 Moscow time, its epicenter was located 54 km southwest of the city of Karaveli. The epicenter was located at a depth of 42 km.
There were no reports of damage. A tsunami threat of up to three meters high was declared.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on June 23, an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 occurred in Kamchatka. Seismologists recorded tremors 46 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in the Pacific Ocean. The source was located at a depth of 127 km.
BLUF: Unnamed accused jailed for supporting unnamed organization.
[KavkazUzel] A native of Malgobek, convicted of illegal possession of explosives, is suspected of aiding a member of a terrorist organization. The suspect is being transported from the colony to Ingushetia.
The investigative authorities of Ingushetia opened a criminal case on the financing of terrorism (Part 1.1 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) against a native of Malgobek, the investigative department of the Russian Investigative Committee for Ingushetia reported today. “According to the investigation, on March 30, 2023, the suspect provided financial assistance to a member of an organization recognized as terrorist by a decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, who was wanted for committing terrorist attacks,” said a representative of the department.
The investigation explained that the suspect had previously been sentenced to three years for illegal possession of explosive devices (Part 1 of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). “The investigative authorities have taken measures to transfer the suspect from a correctional colony located in the neighboring region to the Republic of Ingushetia to conduct investigative actions and establish all the circumstances of the crime he committed,” the department’s Telegram channel says.
"Kavkaz Uzel" also wrote that the security forces put on the wanted list a native of Nazran, who left for Syria eight years ago. According to the investigation, she joined a terrorist organization and collected money for its needs.
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[Korrespondent] The Ukrainian Armed Forces are fighting heavy battles in the east and south of Ukraine.
The Pokrovsky direction has the largest number of clashes. Since the beginning of the day, the invaders have already made 28 assault attempts.
Since the beginning of the day, Russian troops have continued to increase the pace of offensive actions. The number of combat clashes along the entire front line has increased to 102. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Friday, June 28.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy stormed the defensive lines of Ukrainian units in the areas of Stepnaya Novoselivka, Stelmakhovka, Sinkovka and Kruglyakovka six times. The Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers are holding the line steadfastly. Five attempts by the occupiers to advance have been repelled, one battle is still ongoing.
In the Liman direction, the Russian army carried out 16 attacks on Ukrainian positions near Nevsky, Makeyevka, Torsky and Serebryansky Les during the day. 14 clashes ended without success for the enemy, two more clashes are ongoing.
The enemy continues to look for weak points in the defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Seversky direction. Near Belogorovka, Sporny, Verkhnekamensky, Ivano-Daryevka, Razdolevka and Vyemka, the military repulsed 15 enemy attacks. Four military clashes have not yet ended.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the occupiers made three unsuccessful assaults on Ukrainian troops' positions near Chasovy Yar, Novy and Ivanovskoye. Another battle is ongoing.
In the Toretsk direction the number of enemy attacks increased to nine. The aggressor's aviation is actively operating, in particular, the city of Toretsk suffered a strike with two UABs, and the Russians hit the village of New York with another bomb.
The Pokrovsky direction has the largest number of clashes. Since the beginning of the day, the occupiers have already made 28 attempts to push our defenders from their positions in the areas of Vozdvizhenka, Novoaleksandrovka, Progress, Novoselovka Pervaya and Umanskoye. The defense forces are holding back the pressure and have repelled 21 enemy attacks, seven battles are still ongoing.
Alexandropol received two strikes from two NARs, and Russian troops inflicted damage on the settlements of Lozovatskoye, Volchye, Evgenyevka, Progress, Vesyoloye, Novoselovka Pervaya and Nikolayevka.
Fighting continues near Krasnogorovka, Georgievka, Konstantinovka and Paraskoveevka in the Kurakhovsky direction. So far, Ukrainian defenders here have repelled seven attacks by the Russian army, two more are ongoing.
In the Vremiv direction there is a battle not far from Vodyanoye. The situation is tense. The defense forces are taking measures to prevent the invaders from advancing deeper into our territory.
In other areas, the situation has not undergone significant changes.
Let us recall that over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces eliminated 1,170 occupiers. Since the beginning of the full-scale war, the total combat losses of Russian troops amount to 540,490 people.
The Pokrovsk direction remains the hottest spot on the front.
During the day, the enemy increases the intensity of attacks and tries to dislodge Ukrainian units from occupied lines.
At the front, the number of clashes increased to 131. Pokrovskoye remains the hottest area. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the evening report on Friday, June 28.
In the area of Volchansk in the Kharkov region, fighting has been going on throughout the day. Soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled six enemy attacks, and five more are ongoing.
In the Kupyansk direction, since the beginning of the day, Ukrainian defenders have repelled seven attacks by the invaders near Stepnaya Novoselovka, Stelmakhovka, Sinkovka and Kruglyakivka. Currently, two clashes are still ongoing.
Fourteen attempts by Russian troops to advance deep into our territory in the areas of Nevskoye, Makeyevka, Torskoye, Grekovka and Serebryanskoye forestry in the Liman direction have been unsuccessful. Three combat clashes are still ongoing.
Previous losses of Russians in this direction since the beginning of the day amounted to: 90 invaders killed and wounded, five dugouts and one ammunition warehouse were destroyed.
In the Seversky direction, the enemy attacked Ukrainian defenders 19 times near Belogorivka, Spornoye, Verkhnekamenskoye, Ivano-Daryevka, Razdolovka and Vyemka. Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters repelled 15 enemy assaults. Four combat clashes have not yet ended.
According to preliminary data, the losses of the invaders here amount to 63 occupiers. Two tanks, six armored fighting vehicles, a self-propelled artillery unit and a car were destroyed.
In the Kramatorsk direction, Russian troops continue to put pressure on our defenders' positions near Chasy Yar, Novy and Ivanovskoye. Ukrainian defenders have repelled three assault actions, two combat clashes are still ongoing.
In the Gorlovka-Toretsk direction, the aggressor, with air support, unsuccessfully attacked our defenders' defensive lines 14 times during the day. The situation is under control.
The hottest spot along the entire front line remains the Pokrovskoe direction. The number of enemy assaults here per day has grown to 36. The units of the Defense Forces repelled 27 attacks by the Russians, and nine more clashes are ongoing.
The fighting in the Kurakhovsky direction continues. Since the beginning of the day, the enemy has been attacking near Krasnogorovka, Georgievka, Paraskoveevka and Konstantinovka. The total number of attacks here has grown to 11, of which nine have been repelled and two are still ongoing.
In the Vremevsky direction, Russian troops tried four times to break into our defenses near Vodyanoye. Two clashes are still ongoing.
In the Dnieper direction, five assaults by Russian invaders in the Krynki area ended unsuccessfully. The situation is under control. In other directions, the situation has not undergone significant changes.
Let us recall that over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces eliminated 1,170 occupiers. Since the beginning of the full-scale war, the total combat losses of Russian troops amount to 540,490 people.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:23 The number of victims as a result of a missile attack on a residential building in Dnieper has increased to 12, said the head of the OBA Sergei Lysak.
21:57 Ukraine has returned ten more of its citizens from Russian captivity , Zelensky said. Among them are Nariman Dzhelal, deputy chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, captured in Crimea in 2021; two priests of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, captured in Berdyansk; two civilians who were in captivity since 2017-2018; five civilians who were captured in Belarus and deprived of their liberty.
21:51 During the first Peace Summit in Switzerland, the participating countries developed a new mechanism for the return of Ukrainian civilians from Russia, said Human Rights Commissioner Dmitry Lubinets. In addition, the issue of the return of Ukrainian children and prisoners of war was raised. "I cannot disclose the details, because we all agreed that this is a closed part, and we will make it public when we implement it, when Ukrainian society sees the results," the ombudsman added.
21:04 As a result of a Russian missile hitting a nine-story building in Dnipro, one person was killed and nine were injured, including a seven-month-old child. Two more people have not responded to calls, rescue operations are ongoing, said OVA chief Serhiy Lysak.
19:49 The Russians launched a missile strike on the Dnieper and hit a residential building. Four floors were destroyed, three casualties are known, Zelensky said and showed a photo:
19:01 On Saturday, June 29, regional power companies will apply hourly shutdown schedules from 00:00 to 24:00, Ukrenergo reported. The company also reported that it received new high-voltage equipment from Energy Community worth 4.4 million euros, which will help restore Ukraine's energy system after massive Russian strikes. We are talking about shunt reactors for Ukrenergo substations.
18:57 Lithuania will raise the issue of Ukraine's membership in NATO at the summit in Washington, Defense Minister Laurynas Kasciunas said: “We discussed the priorities of the upcoming summit - issues of Ukraine's membership, issues of invitation, or at least stronger language. We will firmly stand on the side Ukraine to achieve something greater than what we had in Vilnius."
18:43 Sri Lanka demands compensation from Russia for the death of 17 citizens in the war against Ukraine, the country's Foreign Ministry reported. In addition, Sri Lanka demands early termination of contracts and settlement of the issue of salary for citizens who are still fighting.
18:32 The Russians attacked Tsirkuny in the Kharkov region with at least three KABs, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OBA. Eight people were injured, fires occurred in two private houses, and ten more were damaged.
18:14 The Burshtyn TPP cannot be restored after Russian attacks, said the head of the Ivano-Frankivsk OVA Svitlana Onyshchuk: "More than 12 attacks were directed at our energy facility. All services responded each time, but now we understand that the Burshtyn TPP cannot be restored. It is extremely badly damaged."
17:39 EU leaders have instructed the European Commission, the EU's top diplomat and the European Council to continue working on allocating additional $50 billion in funding for Ukraine in the form of a loan secured by frozen Russian assets, according to the final communiqué of the EU summit. The document notes that the funds will be used for current and future military assistance to Ukraine, budget support and the country's reconstruction.
The EU also hopes that Ukraine will receive the first payments on income from frozen Russian assets this summer. In addition, the EU emphasizes that Russian assets will remain blocked until Moscow stops its aggressive war against Ukraine and compensates for the damage caused by the war.
17:06 Preparation of a security agreement between Slovenia and Ukraine is at the final stage, Slovenian President Natasha Pirc Musar said during her visit to Kiev. She expressed hope that the agreement will be signed before the NATO summit in Washington. Pirc also said that Slovenia will allocate 5 million euros to Ukraine for humanitarian needs.
16:58 The EU has expanded sanctions against Russia due to the war in Ukraine, adding two individuals and four organizations to the list. The restrictions included the largest Russian railway transportation operator TransContainer and its director.
In turn, South Korea added 243 units to the list of products prohibited for export to Russia and Belarus due to the possibility of their use for military purposes. The list, in particular, includes metal-cutting equipment, parts of optical instruments, and sensors.
16:34 The Czech Republic will sign an agreement on security guarantees with Ukraine on July 18 at the European Political Community summit in London, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said.
16:22 Ukraine is considering participation in several platforms within the framework of the NATO summit to bring peace closer, Zelensky said. According to the president, firstly, this is an air defense coalition platform, secondly, a “serious package” of military assistance and thirdly, a meeting of all security guarantors on Ukraine’s path to NATO.
The president also noted that no one is waiting for any alternative to the Ramstein format: “No one is waiting for any alternative... That is, Ramstein will work, this is important for us. More than 50 countries, and not only NATO countries. We cannot find an alternative in such a wide representative office."
15:49 The Russians attacked Odradokamenka, Kherson region, from a drone, one person was killed, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin.
15:14 Ukraine will receive $60 billion in military support annually under security guarantee agreements, Shmyhal said. He recalled that Ukraine has already signed 20 such agreements, including with the EU and the US. "According to these agreements, over the next four years, our partners plan to provide Ukraine with total military support worth $60 billion annually," the prime minister noted.
15:05 The Russians hit a KAB-250 in New York in the Toretsk community of the Donetsk region - four people were killed, three were injured, including an eight-year-old child, the prosecutor's office reported. One of the shells hit an apartment building, destroying the entrance to a five-story building.
14:52 The Russians launched a ballistic missile attack, presumably an Iskander-M with a cluster charge, on the Odessa region, the Southern Defense Forces reported. As a result of the hit, a wheat field caught fire; the fire is being extinguished. There was no information about damage or casualties.
14:41 Zelensky said that a detailed peace plan will be ready this year. He repeated again that Ukraine does not want to prolong the war. “We want peace, but we must be strong,” the president emphasized.
14:03 Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that the security agreement with Ukraine is almost ready and will be signed "99%" before the NATO summit in Washington, which will take place on July 9-11.
13:16 The Federated States of Micronesia joined the joint communique of the Peace Summit, Zelensky said. Micronesia is a country located on part of the Caroline Islands in the western Pacific Ocean.
13:02 Denmark has already trained 50 Ukrainian specialists to service the F-16, they are preparing to receive the first aircraft, said the commander of the country’s air force, Jan Dam. “Right after the summer holidays we will take on the next 50,” he added. At the same time, the first batch of pilots is not yet fully trained, Dam noted.
12:54 Slovenian President Nataša Pirc Musar is visiting Kyiv. Zelensky said that they honored the memory of the fallen defenders of Ukraine together.
12:29 The Border Committee of Belarus stated that it is taking additional measures to cover the border with Ukraine in the Zhytomyr region due to the alleged presence of fighters of the Russian Volunteer Corps nearby. Minsk claims that they are going to the border, conducting reconnaissance of the area and reconnaissance. Also, a cache of components for making explosives was allegedly found at the border.
11:51 Finland has announced the transfer of the 24th package of military aid to Ukraine. According to estimates by the country's Ministry of Defense, replacing the assets included in this batch will cost Finland approximately 159 million euros. The exact content, methods, and timing of the package are not disclosed. The total cost of defense equipment supplied by Finland to Ukraine is 2.2 billion euros.
11:44 Over the past 24 hours, June 27, six UAVs were shot down in the south and east of Ukraine: two Lancet strike drones, ZALA, Orlan-10, SuperCam reconnaissance drones, as well as one more drone, the type of which is being determined, the Air Force reported.
11:23 National Guard fighters reported that they shot down an enemy Su-25 in the Donetsk region.
11:15 In his congratulations on the occasion of Constitution Day, Syrsky recalled Article 65, which establishes that "the defense of the Fatherland, independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine, respect for its state symbols is the duty of citizens of Ukraine." "This article of the Constitution of Ukraine is especially symbolic and important now, during a full-scale Russian aggression. Respecting rights, we must not forget about responsibilities. No one but us will defend Ukraine. Therefore, I call on all citizens to join the ranks of the Defense Forces!" the commander-in-chief said.
10:58 The Cabinet of Ministers has changed the procedure for sending summonses by mail to Ukraine. Now documents on summoning to the TCC can be sent by registered mail with a description of the enclosure and a notice of delivery. This rule has also been included in the regulatory documents on military registration and conscription.
10:21 As a result of shelling near the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, a radiation monitoring station was destroyed, said IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi. This further reduced the ability to detect and measure any radioactive releases during emergencies, he said. The destroyed station is located approximately 16 km from the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
09:50 On Thursday, June 27, Russians shelled the village of Kovsharovka in the Kupyansk district of the Kharkiv region, wounding two people, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. Another person was injured in the village of Kruglyakovka in the Kupyansk district. In addition, two people were wounded during the construction of fortifications in the Borovsk community of the Izyum district.
09:12 Zelensky addressed Ukrainians on the occasion of Constitution Day: "Article 17 of the Constitution - the protection of Ukraine - is the most important function of the state and the business of the entire Ukrainian people. Millions of Ukrainians prove their dedication to this every day. Heroes on the front lines and those who work hard to strengthen the state. Ukrainians who changed their lives, changed their profession, but did not change their choice in favor of freedom, Ukraine, Europe."
08:55 On the evening of June 27, Russians shelled Zolotaya Balka in the Kherson region, one person was killed, reported the head of the OVA Oleksandr Prokudin. Also, over the past day, six people were wounded in the region as a result of Russian shelling. 17 private houses and a critical infrastructure facility were damaged.
08:31 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of June 28:
personnel - about 540,490 (+1170) people,
tanks - 8066 (+24),
armored combat vehicles - 15,480 (+21),
artillery systems - 14,423 (+60),
MLRS - 1109 (+1),
air defense systems - 871 (+3),
aircraft - 360 (+1),
helicopters - 326 (+0),
Operational-tactical level UAV - 11,509 (+50),
cruise missiles - 2329 (+5),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 19,514 (+46),
special equipment - 2431 (+11).
08:02 On the evening of June 27, Russians launched a missile attack on industrial infrastructure in the vicinity of a settlement in the Nikolaevsky district, said OVA head Vitaly Kim. A fire broke out, which has already been extinguished, and two people were injured.
06:25 Trump and Biden held a televised debate where they argued about Ukraine . In particular, the Republican criticized the current president for spending money to support Ukraine. He also said that if the United States had a real president whom Putin respected, he would never have invaded Ukraine. At the same time, Biden responded that Putin made it clear that he wanted to restore what was part of the Soviet empire, and not just part of Ukraine. At the same time, when the hosts asked whether Trump supported Putin's conditions for ending the war, he answered: "No."
05:59 A drone attacked an oil depot in the Michurinsky municipal district of the Tambov region, said Governor Maxim Egorov. According to him, “a small fire started” and there were no casualties.
[GEO.TV] Israeli forces deepened their incursion into two northern and southern areas of the Gaza Strip on Friday, and Palestinian health officials said tank shelling in Rafah killed at least 11 people.
Residents and Hamas media said tanks advanced further west into the Shakoush neighbourhood of Rafah, forcing thousands of displaced people there to leave their tent camps and head northward to the nearby Khan Younis.
The Israeli military did not immediately comment.
Since May 7, tanks have advanced in several districts of Rafah, and forces remained in control of the entire border line with Egypt and the Rafah crossing, the only gateway for most of Gaza's 2.3 million people with the outside world.
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[GEO.TV] Palestinians fled eastern Gaza City on Thursday under heavy bombardment as the Israeli military issued an evacuation order for the area it had previously declared clear of Hamas fighters.
The flare-up in the northern Gaza Strip’s Shujaiya district, which witnesses and medics said caused numerous casualties, comes as fears grow of a wider regional conflagration involving Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah, a Hamas ally.
In Gaza City, a witness in Shujaiya who declined to be named told AFP the situation was "frightening" as Israeli military vehicles approached amid air strikes and shelling.
"Residents are running through the streets in terror... wounded and martyrs lie in the streets."
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The IDF confirms it launched a new pinpoint operation in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood yesterday.
The raid, being carried out by the 98th Division, comes following intelligence information on Hamas operatives and infrastructure in the area.
The IDF says the division’s 7th Armored Brigade pushed into the Shejaiya area during the day, and overnight, the Paratroopers Brigade began to raid sites in the neighborhood.
Dozens of Hamas sites were struck from the air as the ground forces pushed in, the military says.
In separate “significant” strikes in northern Gaza, the IDF says it killed dozens of terror operatives who were holed up in a school and other UNRWA facilities.
Meanwhile, overnight, the military says a fighter jet struck a Hamas operative in a building in central Gaza’s Deir al Balah, within the Israeli-designated “humanitarian zone.”
“The terrorist operated from within the humanitarian area, which the organization uses as a shield for terrorist activity,” the IDF says.
The military says that ahead of the strike, it worked to evacuate the civilian population from the area of the building. It also says it used aerial surveillance, a precision munition, and other means to mitigate harm to Palestinian civilians.
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Israel is a country that includes two enclaves of people whose religion orders them to kill jews.
How can Israel continue to exist with those two existing? Would you continue to live in the same house as/with a person sworn to kill you?
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Incompatible cultures, Smuts tried to explain it from biblical, scientific (Darwinian) and historical perspectives, but no one would listen. Still, no one listens.
BTW, Smuts was a leading advocate and promoter of the Balfour Agreement.
Under the Balfour, in 1922, the League of Nations granted Britain a mandate over Palestine which included, among other things, provisions calling for the establishment of a Jewish homeland, facilitating Jewish immigration and encouraging Jewish settlement on the land.
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i know that they are incompatible cultures. what puzzles me is that israelis knowing they will be handed the short straw dont go for broke and just absorb gaza and west bank. forgiveness is easier to obtain than permission. once they have taken them who will throw them out. evict muslims.
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[REGNUM] The night in the Eastern Hemisphere and the evening in the Western turned out to be unusually restless: everyone was closely watching what was happening on the streets of the de facto capital of Bolivia - La Paz (legally the capital of the South American country is Sucre) - and wondering whether the glory days of Latin American dictatorships had returned or not yet.
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[NewsFront] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 06/28/2024 to 00:00 06/29/2024.
A total of 36 cases of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
There were reports of two civilians being killed, and four civilians were injured, including a child born in 2013.
DAMAGED:
Six residential buildings,
Two cars.
A total of 18 artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction.
A total of 17 artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction.
One artillery attack in the Yasinovataya direction.
A total of 95 units of various ammunition were fired.
22:31 Khar'kov operational direction : area of the settlement of Gontarovka.
A pair of front-line Su-34M "Duck" bombers of the Russian Aerospace Forces struck the enemy's manpower and equipment. Fire adjustment and aerial reconnaissance were carried out by our Orlan-10 UAV. New personnel of operational control with the toasted equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are expected.
21:00 The commander of the Ka-52M reconnaissance and attack helicopter, Alexander, told how his Alligator destroyed an enemy company stronghold in a special operation zone.
19:57 FPV drone operators continue to carry out precise strikes on camouflaged Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in Kharkiv Oblast
Thanks to the high professionalism of the UAV operators of the North group of forces, it was possible to destroy the dugouts at the enemy platoon stronghold.
19:41 In Grigorovka, Russian troops carried out precise strikes against enemy shelters in the forest belt near the road to Bogdanovka.
In the microdistrict "Kanal" the enemy continues to bring in manpower just north of the broken bridge across the Seversky Donets-Donbass via the embankment, reports Dnevnik Desantnik.
Our unmanned crews operate 24/7.
19:25 The vaunted Abrams in the Avdeevka direction are being turned into a pile of scrap metal by the shots of the fighters of the Center group.
Russian troops have already disabled more than ten American tanks out of 31 transferred to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Each of them costs US taxpayers $10 million (over 855 million rubles).
"They still praised that it can't be hit: it has all kinds of protection there, that GPS can't see it, the camera can't see it. It sees everything there, everything is perfect - as if in the palm of your hand," said a fighter with the call sign Yerzhik
18:47 They report the advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the village of Arkhangelskoye.
18:42 The Russian army launched a missile strike against targets in Dnepropetrovsk. The “arrival” was recorded at the Aviatorskoye airfield.
18:34 Crews of 122mm D-30 cannons are successfully conducting counter-battery combat in the Kherson direction.
The personnel of the 122mm D-30 howitzer battery of the Dnepr group of forces inflicted fire damage on the identified camouflaged firing positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In addition, reconnaissance confirmed the destruction of an enemy observation post, which was set up in an abandoned house.
17:44 The Russian Aerospace Forces are helping our infantry move forward; before the attack, pilots are “leveling” the dugouts with FAB-500 bombs.
17:41 A series of explosions occurred in Khar'kov, the publication "Public. News" reported, no other details were given.
17:30 The Burevestnik unit destroyed a Ukrainian CV-90 infantry fighting vehicle of Swedish manufacture near Artemovsk – video.
17:00 Footage of the destruction of the US-made M270 A1 MLRS multiple launch rocket system launcher. Having tracked the movement of the American MLRS by operators, the hangar in the village was opened. Shevchenkovo, which housed specialists in the maintenance and operation of the American M270 A1 MLRS and transport-loading and trucks with ammunition.
16:50 Two American-made Ukrainian M2A2 Bradley ODS-SA infantry fighting vehicles came under fire from the Russian Armed Forces in the Avdeevka direction, one was destroyed, the other was knocked out - video.
16:31 Ukrainian militants shelled Kremennaya in the LPR, two civilians were wounded, and an ambulance was also damaged, said the head of the city administration, Vyacheslav Tretyakov.
In turn, according to the mayor of Gorlovka Prikhodko, a man was wounded by artillery attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Thursday.
15:50 The liberation of the village of Razdolovka in the DPR allows Russian troops to expand their bridgehead in the Seversky direction, said Igor Kimakovsky, adviser to the head of the region.
15:22 The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked a substation with drones in the village of Ivanovka, Zaporozhye region, leaving 3,300 consumers without power supply, Vladimir Rogov reported.
15:08 Summary of the progress of military operations for the week from the Russian Ministry of Defense:
The Russian Armed Forces carried out 17 strikes with high-precision weapons on Ukrainian military-industrial complex facilities, and locations of foreign mercenaries were also hit;
Over the course of a week, six launchers of multiple launch rocket systems M142 HIMARS, one launcher M270 MLRS and one transport-loading vehicle were destroyed, along with the foreign specialists who ensured their use, as well as three radar stations for detecting and tracking air targets “P-18” of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Air defense systems shot down two MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force, 589 drones, six operational-tactical ATACMS missiles, eight Patriot anti-aircraft guided missiles, a HARM anti-radar missile, as well as 61 HIMARS, Vampire and Alder missiles;
A total of 56 Ukrainian military personnel surrendered;
The losses of Ukrainian troops in killed and wounded reached almost 14,000 militants.
15:01 The Russian army has liberated the settlement of Razdolovka in the DPR. This was reported by the Russian Defense Ministry.
14:45 A powerful explosion is reported in Odessa.
14:32 Footage of objective control of the use of the UMBP.
13:55 An American MLRS "M270 MLRS" - an analogue of HIMARS - was destroyed near Nikolaev. It is possible that it was from this installation that ATACMS missiles were launched at Crimea.
13:35 Russian troops advanced 1,300 meters southeast of Sin'kovka, reaching the ponds near Petrovpavlovka in the Kharkov-Kupyansk direction.
12:57 Units of the Russian Armed Forces destroyed repeaters of the surveillance system, UAVs and communications of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at the highest point in Chasov Yar.
11:51 A powerful explosion thundered in the Illichivsk area of Odessa Oblast. A missile strike was launched against Ukrainian Armed Forces facilities.
10:50 Enemy reports:
“In the Khar'kov direction there is an intensification of military operations with the participation of artillery and tanks.
Active hostilities continue in the Pokrovsky direction, using artillery and infantry. Despite the assault on the defense of Ukrainian defenders, the Russian Armed Forces advanced in the area of the settlements Sokol and Novoselovka Pervaya.
In the Ugledar direction, south of Novomikhailovka, fierce battles are taking place, with the use of heavy artillery. The Russian Armed Forces are conducting offensive operations in the area of ??the Solenenkaya, Shirokaya and Ikryannaya gullies.”
10:45 The Archangel of Special Forces reports the situation in the Seversky direction:
"Airborne units drove the enemy (54th Separate Motorized Brigade) out of private buildings in the settlement of Razdolovka. Fighting is currently underway for the settlement.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces tries to counterattack, but to no avail. The paratroopers have thoroughly gained a foothold and are holding a new line. The enemy is actively using artillery and UAVs. Positional battles are underway. We continue to crush the dry land in all directions.”
10:15 Statement by the head of the press center of the "West" group.
Units of the West group of forces continue to carry out combat missions in the special military operation zone.
In a coordinated action, motorized rifle units, supported by artillery and aviation fire, inflicted fire damage on Ukrainian militant formations from the 14th, 21st and 115th Mechanized brigades in the areas of Nevsky, Sinkovka and Grigorovka. A counterattack by assault groups from the enemy's 63rd Mechanized Brigade was repelled.
During the counterbattery fight, the following were destroyed: the 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount, American-made M777 howitzers, 122mm D-30 and 152mm D-20, as well as eight mortar crews.
Air defense crews and electronic warfare systems destroyed two reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles of the Fury and Valkyrie type.
During the day, the enemy lost over 585 militants and more than 18 pieces of weapons and military equipment, including the AN/TPQ-50 radar, an electronic warfare station, and four vehicles. Four ammunition depots and seven UAV control posts were destroyed.
09:56 Russian artillerymen destroyed a Ukrainian Armed Forces UAV crew, a communications center with a repeater, and expensive specialized Western reconnaissance equipment in the city of Chasov Yar with a high-precision strike. This was reported by military expert, retired LPR NM Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Marochko.
09:19 The "Leopard Hunt" continues. Russian Armed Forces reconnaissance and attack drone operators, working closely together, discovered, destroyed and burned another German tank. The Ukrainian crew managed to escape.
08:21 Front-line report for the morning of June 28 from military correspondent Evgeny Lisitsyn:
Kupyansko-Svatovskoe direction: Russian troops are conducting assault operations, advancing in several areas. It is reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces fled from their positions in the village. Stepovaya Novoselovka and our guys entered the village.
Avdeevka direction: counter battles continue in the area of Sokol and Novosyolovka Pervaya, where the advance of Russian troops has been recorded.
Ugledar direction: fighting is going on south of Novomikhailovka, Russian troops are advancing in the areas of the Solenenkaya, Shirokaya and Ikryannaya gully.
Khar'kov direction: in the area of ??the village of Sotnitsky Kazachok, Russian troops attacked enemy positions with small assault groups.
08:18 Destruction of an enemy FH-70 howitzer in the Khar'kov direction – video.
08:14 Destruction of a hangar with HIMARS MLRS. In addition to equipment, the enemy lost up to 20 personnel.
08:07 A 122mm BM-21 Grad crew from the Center group of forces hit the area of concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel and equipment in the Avdeevka direction.
08:00 Artillerymen of the "West" group disrupted the rotation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Svatovsky direction.
[GEO.TV] Two ministers were among four people arrested for allegedly performing "black magic" on Maldives President Dr Mohammed Muizzu, reports cited officials as saying.
As per Economic Times, the suspects include Fathimath Shamnaz Ali Saleem, the state minister for Environment, Climate Change and Energy, her ex-husband Adam Rameez, who is also a minister at the President's Office and two others.
The climate minister was remanded in jug for a week pending investigations, officers said, without giving details for her arrest in the mysterious matter.
"There have been reports that Shamnaz was arrested for performing black magic on President Dr Mohammed Muizzu," said the Sun, a local media outlet.
Notably, both Shamnaz and Rameez were known to have worked with Muizzu as members of the Male City Council when he was serving as the city's mayor, The Economic Times reported.
Police would neither confirm nor deny the report and have declined to share any information about the reasons for the alleged performance of black magic.
Shamnaz holds an important position in a nation which remains on the frontlines of the climate crisis, with UN environment experts warning that rising seas could make Maldives virtually uninhabitable by the end of the century.
Sorcery is not a criminal offence under the penal code in the Moslem-majority country, but it does carry a six-month jail sentence under Islamic law.
People across the picturesque archipelago widely practice traditional ceremonies, believing they can win favours and curse opponents.
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He's Not Dropping Out": Biden Digs In [like a tick] After Disastrous Debate
TRANSLATION: The Deep State is NOT "dropping out." The Biden's will do as they are told. The Deep State's ownership of power must continue. No interruptions, no exceptions.
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Translation - Gavin Newsom is not a viable candidate. Joe has all the delegates and money. The replacement operation was planned as well as the Afghanistan withdrawal.
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"Our Democracy"(tm) means you have no say in the real process. See - People's Democratic Republic of
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[REGNUM] Exactly 110 years ago the “long nineteenth century” ended. According to British historian Eric Hobsbawm, it lasted from the French Revolution until the outbreak of the First World War. The formal reason for the latter was the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in the Bosnian city of Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The course of events of that fateful day in Sarajevo is known minute by minute; journalists from the British media corporation BBC even reported on them ten years ago, using 21st century journalistic techniques, in the style of “live reporting”. IA Regnum will take the liberty of not only reconstructing the events that led to one of the two largest catastrophes of the 20th century, but also pointing out the forces that stood behind these events.
[ZeroHedge] A new report from Moody's offers yet another grim outlook that the commercial real estate downturn is nowhere near the bottom. Elevated interest rates and persistent remote and hybrid working trends could result in around 24% of all office towers standing vacant within the next two years. The office tower apocalypse will result in more depressed values that will only pressure landlords.
What about the return-to-the-office trend? Many companies are doing that, too.
"Combining these insights, with our more than 40 years of historic office performance data, as well as future employment projections, our model indicates that the impact on office demand from work from home will be around 14% on average across a 63- month period, resulting in vacancy rates that peak in early 2026 at approximately 24% nationally," Moody's analysts Todd Metcalfe, Anthony Spinelli, and Thomas LaSalvia wrote in the report.
In a separate report, Tom LaSalvia, Moody's head of CRE economics, wrote that the office vacancy rate's move from 19.8% in the first quarter of this year to the expected 24% by 2026 could reduce revenue for office landlords by between $8 billion and $10 billion. Factor in lower rents and higher costs, this may translate into "property value destruction" in the range of a quarter-trillion dollars.
In addition to remote working trends, Moody's analysts pointed out that the amount of office space per worker has been in a "general downward trend for decades."
At the peak of the Dot-Com boom, office workers used an average of 190 sq ft. The figure has since slid to 155 sq ft in 2023.
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Having a dedicated workspace with no personal distractions, and with definitive posted hours of availability and most efficient form of communication being face to face is ideal, I can see how trying not to get killed while walking through shit and needles can be motivating.
So fewer renters, and New York has decided that the government can just determine a buildings new property value and sue the owners for the difference, every tin pot DA can copy paste that process.
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The World Inside is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert Silverberg, published in 1971. The novel originally appeared as a series of shorter works in 1970 and 1971, all but one published in Galaxy, including the Hugo nominated novella "The World Outside". The World Inside was nominated for a Hugo Award in 1972, although Silverberg declined the nomination.
On March 2, 2010, Orb Books published this title as a trade paperback edition.
The novel is set on Earth in the year 2381, when the population of the planet has reached 75 billion people.[4] Population growth has skyrocketed due to a quasi-religious belief in human reproduction as the highest possible good. Most of the action occurs in a massive three-kilometer-high city tower called Urban Monad 116.
War, starvation, crime and birth control have been eliminated. Life is now totally fulfilled and sustained within Urban Monads (Urbmons), mammoth thousand-floor skyscrapers arranged in "constellations", where the shadow of one building does not fall upon another. An Urbmon is divided into 25 self-contained "cities" of 40 floors each, in ascending order of status, with administrators occupying the highest level. Each building can hold approximately 800,000 people, with excess population totalling three billion a year transferred to new Urbmons, which are continually under construction.
The Urbmon population is supported by the conversion of all of the Earth's habitable land area not taken up by Urbmons to agriculture. The theoretical limit of the population supported by this arrangement is estimated to be 200 billion. The farmers live a very different lifestyle, with strict birth control. Farmers trade their produce for technology and the two societies rarely have direct contact; even their languages are mutually unintelligible. A very interesting book. I did my architecture thesis proposal based on it.
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^4, Deacon, not unlike Niven & Pournelle's Oath of Fealty.
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Sometimes is people with stupid money who least understand the limits of money.
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I remember splashes of a story like that.
Everyone was wasted away from EV travel inside the buildings. Longer treks took the electric wheelchairs in horizontal escalators between buildings, like Musk's tunnels.
A rebel group masked themselves in blankets to reduce their muscle signature. Their goal was to damage the HVAC and elevators, forcing everyone outside.
It worked. Then everyone developed skin cancer and cornea burns as the sun had also evolved.
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[EngMilRu] From 22 June to 28 June 2024, the Russian Armed Forces have carried out 17 group strikes with high-precision weapons and attack unmanned aerial vehicles. Enemy energy facilities, infrastructure of military airfields, logistics centres for storing weapons delivered by Western countries to the AFU, as well as assembly and storage facilities for attack unmanned aerial vehicles and uncrewed boats.
Temporary deployment areas of AFU troops and foreign mercenaries have been also hit.
Over the past week, the units of the Sever Group of Forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy defence and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of three formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one marine brigade, and three territorial defence brigades.
The AFU losses were up to 1,560 Ukrainian troops, 12 armoured fighting vehicles, and 43 motor vehicles.
In the course of counter-battery warfare, 33 field artillery guns, including seven foreign-made howitzers, three Nota electronic warfare stations, Bukovel-AD, and two U.S.-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar stations have been eliminated.
The units of the Zapad Group of Forces have improved the tactical situation and inflicted fire damage on four mechanised and two tank brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as on two territorial defence brigades. Six counter-attacks of AFU assault detachments have been repelled.
The AFU losses were up to 3,230 Ukrainian troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, 40 motor vehicles, three 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS combat vehicles, 24 field artillery guns, six of them were U.S.-made.
In addition, three U.S.-made AN/TPQ-50 and AN/TPQ-37 counter-battery warfare radars, as well as 11 field ammunition depots have been destroyed.
The units of the Yug Group of Forces have liberated Razdolovka (Donetsk People's Republic) and seized more advantageous lines.
The strikes have been delivered at manpower and hardware of the three mechanised, two airmobile, and two air assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The AFU losses were up to 4,410 Ukrainian troops, two tanks, eight armoured fighting vehicles, 48 motor vehicles, and 39 field artillery guns, including 11 U.S.-made M777 and M198 howitzers.
In addition, seven Anklav, Bukovel electronic warfare stations, and 25 field ammunition depots have been destroyed.
The units of the Tsentr Group of Forces have improved the situation along the front line and defeated units of four mechanised, two infantry formations of the AFU and two territorial defence brigades. Enemy 39 counter-attacks have been repelled in this direction during the week.
The AFU losses were up to 2950 troops, three tanks, six armoured fighting vehicles, including two U.S.-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, 30 motor vehicles, and 42 field artillery guns, including six U.S.-made M777 howitzers.
The units of the Vostok Group of Forces have improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of two brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, three formations of the Territorial Defence and two National Guard brigades.
The AFU losses were up to 930 Ukrainian troops, six armoured fighting vehicles, 36 motor vehicles, and 19 field artillery guns, including six UK-made FH-70 howitzers.
The units of the Dnepr Group of Forces have defeated units of two formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and three brigades of the Ukrainian Territorial Defence.
The AFU losses were up to 740 Ukrainian troops, three tanks, two armoured fighting vehicles, 48 motor vehicles, and 23 field artillery guns, 11 of them were foreign-made.
In addition, eight Anklav, Bukovel electronic warfare stations, and six ammunition depots have been destroyed.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have destroyed six M142 HIMARS multiple-launch rocket system launchers, one M270 MLRS launcher, and one transport and loader vehicle together with foreign specialists who ensured their use, as well as three P-18 air target detection and tracking radars.
Air defence facilities have shot down two Ukrainian Air Force's MiG-29 aircraft, 589 unmanned aerial vehicles, six U.S.-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles, eight U.S.-made Patriot anti-aircraft guided missiles, one U.S.-made HARM anti-radiation missile, and 61 U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, Czech-made Vampire and Olkha projectiles.
Over the past week, 56 Ukrainian servicemen have surrendered on the line of contact.
In total, 615 airplanes and 276 helicopters, 26,777 unmanned aerial vehicles, 533 air defence missile systems, 16,446 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,357 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 11,020 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 23,049 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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Well duh. CNN leaked the debate questions to Hillary in 2016. They're Democrats. Why did Trump even agree to CNN? He should have used anyone else. OAN.
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It was fairly obvious within the first few minutes. No hesitancy in answering, he just fired off the pre-arranged responses, often messing them up as well.
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Trump agreed to the CNN debate precisely because it was hostile territory. He still got a fairer shake than under the Commission on Presidential Debates format.
And Trump probably killed the Commission on Presidential Debates in the bargain, which is a gift to all Americans.
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/\ Your's is I believe, an accurate assessment.
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The CNN anchor will argue that she meant that Joe’s debate prep had been so thorough that he should have been able to answer fluently. In reality, every American believes that they gave Joe the questions.
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Donald Trump - outnumbered but never outgunned.
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I think totally lost in the shuffle is how disciplined Trump was compared to past outings. The format helped. Whether Trump has actually become more disciplined (in which case many people inside the beltway are so screwed) or just had better coaching this time will be the behind the scenes story.
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He stayed on point with the migrant issue and economy. Letting the other guy bury himself was an effective strategy.
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At first I disliked it when Trump ignored a question to add time to his rebuttals, but it emerged as strategy and it worked. He mad the moderators repeat their questios with just enough time left for him to toss a zinger. Will he respect the outcome of the election whichever way it goes? "If it's free and fair and open, sure." Boom.
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Trump cut his teeth hustling 80 and 90 year old businessmen who thought they still had it - and didn't. He could smell Biden's senility from a mile away (hell; we all could), figured the debate rules didn't really matter, and went in for the kill.
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Well duh. CNN leaked the debate questions to Hillary in 2016.
I remember at one point Donna Brazille was being interviewed about her role in the leak and all she could say in response was how the information was unreliable because it was found in DNC emails that were hacked. She was very indignant about it. I couldn't find a link to that interview but it was precious. IIRC, the Russians were blamed for the hack but the FBI turned the email server over to a Ukrainian cyber security firm. Duh. Then there was the theory that the hack was an inside job because a disgruntled Bernie supporter was found dead and the FBI would never release his laptop. Can't remember that guy's name. Can't find any links about it. I search DuckDuckGo and all the articles are from outlets like the New York Times or the Washington Post. But there was a helluva lot more to the story than any of them would ever admit.
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I think we need to put the candidates on an island like Survivor for a year before the election.
It's not like they actually run the country.
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Donna Brazille? Her absence from the political spotlight clearly proves stupid has a shelf-life.
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And it's interesting to see Ukrainian involvement. Somehow, it always seems to be about Russia and Ukraine.
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Brazile nut is also called something else. Gimme a minute it'll come to me...
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I think if you have been thinking about leaving Ukraine, that creaking sound you hear is the window closing.
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Then there was the theory that the hack was an inside job because a disgruntled Bernie supporter was found dead and the FBI would never release his laptop. Can't remember that guy's name
Seth Rich
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Thanks, Frank. The disk drives were spinning. I would have gotten it sooner or later but probably later.
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^ Murdered in a "robbery" but nothing was taken
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Seth Rich playing cards with Judge Crater right now.
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Even Mahar is piling on: “I don’t want to say he s**t the bed, but his new Secret Service name is Amber Heard,”
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The problem the dems have is this is stand back so you don't get hurt time.
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Like I said, I missed portions on account of weather:
Did Dr. Jill really take the stage in a tacky dress looking like a postal package with tape wrapped around it?
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Picture I saw she seemed to be channeling Howard Dean.
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Trump should have asked the moderators a question when they asked if he would accept the results of the election: “how come you never ask Biden if he will not create Russian or other hoaxes to influence the 2024 election?”
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[KavkazUzel] Security forces blocked the exits from the Red Mosque at the Bolshiye Isady market and checked the documents of those gathered, some Muslims were put on buses standing at the exit, believers said, linking the events with the militant attack in Dagestan. A raid was conducted at the mosque to identify violators of migration laws, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Astrakhan Region stated.
As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, several dozen Muslims were taken to police stations without explanation on November 27, 2020, after prayers in an Astrakhan mosque. On the same day, the Muslims detained near the Red Mosque were released home by security forces. The police said that these were measures to search for people hiding from the investigative and judicial authorities. Muslims were offended that such checks were carried out in mosques during Friday prayers. Similar raids had previously taken place in other mosques.
Believers who came to the Juma prayer at the Red Mosque in the Bolshiye Isady market were blocked at the exit. Security forces checked the documents of those leaving the mosque, some were put on a bus parked opposite the entrance to the mosque, one of the believers told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent on condition of anonymity.
Today, the security forces arrived before the prayer began, the believer said. This mosque has three exits, two exits were blocked, one, the central one, was working for exiting after the prayer. There were many security forces there after the prayer, they made two narrow "corridors" - and through them people were let out one by one, checking documents. "Many did not have documents with them," the interlocutor emphasized.
Another believer, who attended Juma prayer today at the Red Mosque on the Great Isads, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that there were a lot of security forces, one bus and several minibuses stood near the mosque. “The bus was full (of detained people). But this is what I saw myself when I got out, at the end, and before that the buses could have already left,” he noted.
They noted that the security forces did not explain to the believers the reasons for what was happening, even when they asked about it. Both visitors to the mosque linked what happened to the terrorist attacks in Dagestan. "But because someone did something somewhere, to come to the mosque and do this... It's unfair," one of the interlocutors complained.
On June 23, Trinity Day, 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 were killed and 46 were injured. On June 26, doctors described the condition of six people injured in the militant attack as serious. Sources reported that the 22nd person injured in the militant attack died - a random passerby who happened to be at the synagogue in Derbent. On June 23, the American Institute for the Study of War stated that the cell "Vilayat Kavkaz"* - a division of the "Islamic State"* - was behind the attacks.
One of the believers at the mosque became ill, as follows from the video available to the Caucasian Knot. As follows from the video, the man is lying on the asphalt near the minibus, shaking with convulsions. Other men, including security forces, are trying to help him: they lift his legs, try to open his mouth. “Look at the language, language,” one of the men shouts. One of the security forces calls to move away from the scene of the incident. “Back up, back up,” he says.
The exact number of detainees is unknown. An employee of the press service of the Russian Interior Ministry for the Astrakhan Region linked the inspections at the mosque with raids against migrants. "This event is part of raids to identify violations of migration legislation, which are carried out regularly in Bolshie Isady. There are no other reasons," she told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
Let us recall that following the results of the raids after the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall, security forces reported massive violations of migration legislation. Thus, in the Rostov region, 46 citizens of Central Asia were ordered to leave Russia.
In Rostov-on-Don, 913 people were checked, of which 545 were citizens of the Russian Federation, 150 people received summonses to the military registration and enlistment office, 39 people were brought to administrative responsibility, of which 25 were foreign citizens. Human rights activists called the fight for the legality of migration ostentatious, emphasizing that the actions of security forces and court decisions on fines and expulsion often have neither legal grounds nor logical explanations. In their opinion, sending migrants to the front does not look like a mass phenomenon.
Hezbollah has claimed Responsibility for several Attacks today on Northern Israel including; a Rocket Attack against the 769th “Hiram” Brigade’s Base near the Village of Beit Hillel, a Rocket Attack against the Israeli Air Control Base at Mount Dov, a Rocket Attack against an… pic.twitter.com/vcFA3L2C3G
… Israeli Base in the Kafr Shuba Hills, an Attack utilizing several One-Way Aerial Attack Drone against the 411th Artillery Battalion, and finally an Anti-Tank Guided-Missile Strike against a Residential Building in the Town of Metula which is seen in the below Footage.
[IsraelTimes] Three explosive-laden drones launched from 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... struck areas in the Western Galilee earlier this evening, the military says.
The IDF says it launched interceptor missiles at the drones, but failed to down the devices.
Additionally, some 25 rockets were fired from Lebanon at the Western Galilee and the Kiryat Shmona area in separate barrages, according to the IDF.
Damage was caused to a building in the Western Galilee by one of the rockets, the military says.
The rockets also sparked several fires in northern Israel.
No injuries were caused in the drone and rocket attacks.
The IDF says it shelled the sources of fire with artillery.
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[GEO.TV] Some 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... 's Khan Younis expressed cynicism on Friday over the United States's genuine intentions surrounding the Paleostinian cause, following the US presidential candidate debate.
Democratic US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences... and his Republican rival Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... took the stage on Thursday night for a debate that offers voters a rare side-by-side look at the two oldest candidates ever to seek the US presidency.
On the topic of the Paleostinian issue, a Paleostinian living in Gaza, Hossam Youssef al-Araj, said he didn't believe the United States served Paleostinian interests, regardless of who takes the White House in the upcoming election.
"Mr Trump and Mr Biden are two sides to the same coin. Both sides seek only means to support of Israel with, by presenting them with all the destructive weapons from the American administration and maybe the scene that you can see is the biggest proof of the criminal and brutal nature of these American weapons," he said in an interview with Rooters.
The US elections are due to take place in November 2024 with both candidates hoping to win a second term in the White House.
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The US has a longstanding record of serving Israeli interests. The Palestinian stuff is because of Obama in the White House. It's his third term as Dementia Joe is unfit for the job.
America First is Trump. Who will nonetheless serve Israeli interests too.
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Ref #1- Consider that as in the case of most allies- Israel also serves most of America's Interests. Iran is the destabilizing force in the Middle East, revived Post-Trump by all the Money and Sanctions Two-Steps by the Puppet Show and the Cast of Light-Bringer 3.0!
In Response to several Attacks today by the Hezbollah Terrorist Group against Communities in Northern Israel; the Israeli Air Force has carried out Airstrikes against several Hezbollah Targets in Southern Lebanon including a Military Site in Zibqin, an Infrastructure Target near… pic.twitter.com/5NnhWlTeSp
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...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...
...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences...
