The court's ruling prevents Biden from instituting the sort of sweeping emissions rules the EPA tried to implement under the Obama administration
The case declares it unlawful for federal agencies to make 'major' decisions without clear authorization from Congress
It appears to allow for regulations focused narrowly on capping pollution from smokestacks, but blocks wider rules that set state-by-state targets for emissions
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The Guardian, typically, misreports this as "Supreme Court Hobbles Government Power To Limit Harmful Emissions". That's true unless you consider Congress to be a part of the federal government, which, really, it kind of is. The Court is saying that the correct part of the government to make changes this big is Congress, where even conservatives get a vote and politicians sometimes have to go on record.
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It seems the Count loves more than just the Faith.
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When you see a lady on the side of the road with a flat tire and pull over to change the tire, why do they always smirk when you ask them to hold their nuts??
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What's that old saying about tits or tires being trouble? My dad told me but he's not around anymore.
[AmericanMilitaryNews] Chinese agents pretending to be concerned Texans executed an online disinformation campaign against a company building a rare earth minerals facility in Texas for the Department of Defense, the cybersecurity firm Mandiant revealed on Tuesday. The Pentagon later released a statement confirming Mandiant’s findings.
Mandiant found that agents for a pro-China disinformation campaign used fake social media accounts to cast doubt on Lynas Rare Earth Ltd. and other mining firms in an effort to weaken the rare earth minerals supply chain in the United States and elsewhere.
Lynas is the largest rare earth mining company in the world and currently has a contract with the Pentagon to build a facility in Texas.
Mandiant said Chinese actors lied about being local Texans online in order to stir up opposition to Lynas building a rare earth minerals plant in Texas. They used thousands of fake Twitter and Facebook accounts to claim the plant would cause permanent environmental damage, in addition to exposing residents to harmful contamination that could cause cancer, gene mutation and newborn deformities.
The accounts "promoted various narratives in support of the political interests of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)," Mandiant said.
"We observed accounts post primarily in English, with an additional lesser amount of content in Chinese," Mandiant said in a report on the campaign. "Additionally, we observed extremely limited messaging in Malay, and Dragonbridge accounts promoted photos of demonstrations against Lynas that took place in Malaysia sometime between 2012 and 2019, due to controversy surrounding the disposal of radioactive waste produced by its rare earths processing facility in the city of Kuantan." That must be the Thorium produced as a by-product of the mining. It can be used as a nuclear fuel.
"Dragonbridge" is a code name used by Mandiant to identify Chinese disinformation efforts.
Liu Pengyu, a Chinese Embassy spokesman, said that while he has not seen Mandiant’s report, he thinks it is the result of "forces in the world" that want to slander China.
"China is one of the biggest victims of disinformation," Liu said in an email, according to The Washington Times. "China always opposes the creation and dissemination of disinformation. There are some people and forces in the world who are keen to fabricate rumors, slander and discredit China."
The disinformation campaign comes as China moves to dominate the market for rare earth minerals, which are used in numerous tech productions, including smartphones, TVs, medical equipment, water treatment systems and more.
"DoD appreciates the diligence of Mandiant in identifying this disinformation campaign, and will continue to work with our partners to provide accurate information related to this and other supply chain investments," the Pentagon’s statement read.
[Fox News] Making it doubly hard for Chuck Schemer to get 50+ votes. Leaky Leahy was gonna retire anyway. Here's hoping the duplicitous anti-American POS shuffles off this mortal coil expeditiously Patrick Leahy, 82, is the longest serving sitting senator
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Leahy, Feinstein...even Sanders for that matter, Biden and certainly many others. And then there's Pelosi. I wouldn't know but that power fix must be even more addictive than fentanyl if these people can't see how enjoyable their retirement might have been.
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I'm not even rich and would never even consider going back to work.
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Still working at 82? Appears he needs to re-look his financial planning program.
[LegalInsurrection] Justice Breyer announced he is hanging up his robe tomorrow.
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Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... Justice Stephen Breyer has announced that he will step down from the high court effective Thursday at noon.
Breyer, who notified President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. A latter-day version of Romulus Augustulus, only more friendly to the barbarians at the gates...... in January of his intent to retire at the end of the current term, updated the president in a letter Wednesday, after the Supreme Court made it known that it will issue its final opinions of the term Thursday morning.
"The Court has announced that tomorrow, beginning at 10 a.m., it will hand down all remaining opinions ready during this Term. Accordingly, my retirement from active service under the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 371(b) will be effective on Thursday, June 30, 2022, at noon," Breyer wrote.
That statute allows justices to retain their title but step down from active duty and continue to collect a salary if they reach a certain age and serve for a designated number of years. Breyer, who is 83, is well beyond the required 10 years of service for those who retire at age 70 or older, as he has served on the Supreme Court since 1994.
"It has been my great honor to participate as a judge in the effort to maintain our Constitution and the Rule of Law," Breyer wrote.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will replace Breyer on the bench. Lord help us.
Hershel "Woody" Williams, the last living Medal of Honor winner from World War II, has died at age 98.
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For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as demolition sergeant serving with the 21st Marines, 3d Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces on Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, 23 February 1945. Quick to volunteer his services when our tanks were maneuvering vainly to open a lane for the infantry through the network of reinforced concrete pillboxes, buried mines, and black volcanic sands, Cpl. Williams daringly went forward alone to attempt the reduction of devastating machinegun fire from the unyielding positions. Covered only by 4 riflemen, he fought desperately for 4 hours under terrific enemy small-arms fire and repeatedly returned to his own lines to prepare demolition charges and obtain serviced flamethrowers, struggling back, frequently to the rear of hostile emplacements, to wipe out 1 position after another. On 1 occasion, he daringly mounted a pillbox to insert the nozzle of his flamethrower through the air vent, killing the occupants and silencing the gun; on another he grimly charged enemy riflemen who attempted to stop him with bayonets and destroyed them with a burst of flame from his weapon. His unyielding determination and extraordinary heroism in the face of ruthless enemy resistence were directly instrumental in neutralizing one of the most fanatically defended Japanese strong points encountered by his regiment and aided vitally in enabling his company to reach its objective. Cpl. Williams’ aggressive fighting spirit and valiant devotion to duty throughout this fiercely contested action sustain and enhance the highest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service.
"It staggers the mind to think of what sort of bravery, and there isn’t a man of any age who reads that who does not wonder, “Could I have done that if I was called upon to do so?”
God bless him. What a life. What a patriot. What an American."
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My father was in the South Pacific during WWII in the Army, not the Marines. A lot of people died on those islands by many causes. The ones that survived had to be ruthless in battle. He showed no mercy and was threatened with court marshal for pouring a 5 gallon can of gas he got off of an officers jeep followed by a sack of grenades down a vent in a bunker of 100 jap soldiers who were picking of his men and had blocked all bunket openings with their mattresses to prevent incoming rounds.
General Swift came to his rescue as he asked the lieutenant what was the difference between that and using a flame thrower?
That one act of his killed all 100 japs from the blast and intense smoke inhalation in the bunker.
His group took out 10,000 Japs by sinking 3 large troop transports who had just anchored in a harbor unloading reinforcements into small boats. His men took the harbor shore batteries and kept flying the rising sun flags knowing the three transports were about to arrive per US intelligence.
Two of quite a few events of his groups battle experiences.
During those battles all of his teeth were ground down to the guns from sleeping with stress, two flesh wounds, one bayonet wound from hand to hand combat, and hair singed from his units outgoing artillery fire in close quarter battle formations. They had more artillery than the Marine units had.
When I was a kid a guy showed up one day without both legs from the knee down and wanted to see my father. My mother called my father at work to tell him he had a visitor and when she told him his name. My father told her to ask him to wait outside, lock the doors and get a gun, he was on his way home as fast as he could get there.
When he arrived he thanked my father for not killing him and apologized for when he spun a huge 50 caliber machine gun around and started trying to shoot his own people when he went crazy during battle. My father could only see his legs behind the big gun now facing him and his people and shot them both out from under him.
He learned to be leary of not only Japs during battle but his own units. And he was quick to take out Japs and friendly fire on those islands to live though the South Pacific war.
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To clarify that last sentence he was always quick to bracket friendly fire with his own fire ad only suppression fire while his radio man quickly notified command of the situation which usually worked in a hot battle.
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Commentary bi Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
"You give us Zmeinny as a goodwill gesture, we'll shut up about Kremenchug." -- my speculation.
The RF Ministry of Defense announced https://t.me/boris_rozhin/55644 that as part of a "goodwill gesture" it will withdraw troops from Zmeinny Island to unblock Ukrainian ports for the withdrawal of grain.
Negotiations on this matter continued in Turkey for more than a month.
With regard to the withdrawal of troops from the Zmeinny Island, which is presented as a "step of good" will, all this is seen as part of behind-the-scenes agreements on the export of grain from Ukraine, negotiations on which have been dragging on for a long time in Turkey and progress on which was announced through the UN.
Goodwill here As for the military component of leaving Zmeinoye, which is hiding behind agreements in Turkey to unblock the export of grain, it is quite obvious that the attacks on the island (using Western guns and issues of ensuring the retention of the island (from the last, which was stated, a hit from the Pantsir air defense missile system last week).
It is obvious that this "goodwill gesture" will be presented as a success of the NATO weapons that have been fired at Zmeinny since May and, accordingly, serve as a motivation for further increasing supplies in order to achieve new "goodwill gestures" - the wording is, of course, complete atas.
Also, all the targeting coordinates have been carefully mapped.
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I’m waiting for some ‘goodwill’ to fall out of the sky on that damn bridge linking Crimea with the mainland; thing sticks out like a nudist in a convent just begging to be hit…
[American Mil News] The USS Montana was commissioned Saturday during a ceremony at a shipyard in Norfolk, Virginia, making it the first Navy ship named after the Treasure State in more than 100 years.
"Today the USS Montana is tested and battle ready," Chris Jessel, executive officer of the submarine, said as more than 100 Montanans sat in the audience at Naval Station Norfolk.
The $2.6 billion Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarine will add the next generation of stealth, surveillance and special warfare capabilities to the Navy fleet, officials said.
Gov. Greg Gianforte spoke as he stood near a banner for the submarine that read: "Vigilantes of the deep," a nickname adopted by the crew in an homage to the state’s period of vigilante justice in the 1800s.
"Now more than ever, American strength on the world stage is needed," he said. "Today, the world’s most powerful, advanced and capable Navy adds to its fleet one of the most sophisticated submarines ever built."
Gianforte said missions conducted on the USS Montana SSN 794 will make the nation and world more secure. He hoped the submarine’s crew members would draw strength from the state’s value of resilience, talking about recent flooding that ravaged communities.
"I am proud, honored and humbled you will carry that resilience to all corners of the world in the service of our nation," he said, adding he knew the submarine would live up to its name.
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With the retirement of the Iowa Class battleships, state names mainly went to Ohio Class SSBNs. But not entirely. SSBN-730 is the USS Henry M. Jackson. The Ohio, Michigan, Florida and Georgia were converted to SSGNs, in part to meet treaty requirements.
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I prefer the World War II tradition of Fuck You names.
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I feel old today. I found out the only commissioned ships in the US Navy older than me are the Pueblo and Constitution. The next oldest was commissioned a few weeks after I was born.
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The deep blue sea is hard on a ship.
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Along the lines of retired ships, understand an exhibition basketball game between michigan state and gonzaga will be played on a flattop in san diego. Hope the players can wear long pants, that nonskid can do a number on the knees.
[IsraelTimes] Citing Iranian and Israeli defense officials, The New York Times says Brig.-Gen. Ali Nasiri, who served in the IRGC’s Protection of Information Unit, was detained earlier this month
A senior general in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corp was secretly arrested earlier this month for allegedly spying for Israel, according to a report published Wednesday by New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... Citing officials with close ties to the IRGC speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , the report said the arrest of Brig.-Gen. Ali Nasiri marked a growing level of distrust among the country’s big shotship partly attributed to Israel’s alleged recent operations in the country.
Nasiri served as a senior commander in the IRGC Protection of Information Unit, The New York Times reported. His arrest came about two months after a few dozen security officials involved in Iran’s missile program were arrested for allegedly leaking classified information to Israel, the newspaper said.
Reportedly arrested sometime in early June, Nasiri’s arrest came shortly before the replacement of the IRGC’s intelligence chief Hossein Taeb. Taeb, who held the position for more than 12 years, had been tasked with exposing Israel’s spy network in Iran, an unnamed adviser to the Iranian government and an individual affiliated with the IRGC both told the Times.
Taeb’s downfall is seen by some as a prime example of the long-running campaign by Israel to expose failures by the IRGC by allegedly stepping up attacks against Iran’s nuclear facilities in recent months and targeting high-level officials inside Iranian territory — all meant to generate conflict between the political and defense establishments in Iran, Israeli officials told the newspaper. The Times reported that Taeb had "seemed untouchable" before a number of recent high-profile killings blamed on Israel and before the apparently foiled Iranian plan to attack Israelis in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... Israeli intelligence officials who requested anonymity told the newspaper that the thwarting by Israeli and Ottoman Turkish security forces of the plot had proved the final straw for officials, who abruptly removed Taeb from his position. Jerusalem reportedly told Ankara that Taeb was behind the planned attacks.
But the report also said calls for Taeb to be ousted had already been voiced following the arrest of Nasiri and the suspicion of his alleged contact with Israel.
Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... and Israel have been engaged in a years-long shadow war but tensions have ratcheted up following a string of high-profile incidents Tehran has blamed on Jerusalem. A number of members of the IRGC and scientists have been killed in recent weeks, with Iran often pointing the finger at Israel. Iran reportedly suspects Israel killed two Iranian scientists several weeks ago by poisoning their food. The details of the men’s work, the circumstances of their deaths and their ties to the government remain unclear.
[IsraelTimes] NYT: Israeli distrust-sowing moves see Revolutionary Guard intel chief ousted after foiled Turkey plot, senior officer nabbed; Israel ‘infiltrated deep’ into Iran security circles
Israel has deeply infiltrated and drastically shaken Iranian intelligence operations in recent months, a senior Iranian official told the New York Times.
The report published Wednesday cited the recent ousting of the intelligence chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the secret arrest of a senior commander accused of spying for Israel as examples of the growing levels of distrust in Iran.
Mohammad Ali Abtahi, a former vice president of Iran ...The nation is 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... who lives in Tehran and still maintains close ties with brass hats, told the newspaper that Israeli operations had seriously damaged trust within the country’s security establishment.
"The security breaches inside Iran and the vast scope of operations by Israel have really undermined our most powerful intelligence organization," he said.
"The strength of our security has always been the bedrock of the Islamic Theocratic Republic and it has been damaged in the past year," Abtahi said, telling the newspaper that the Iranian defense establishment would now be looking for a new approach.
The report said that unnamed Iranian officials also admitted that "Israel’s spy network has infiltrated deep into the rank and file of Iran’s security circles."
Iranian officials with knowledge of Nasiri’s detention said he was placed in jug earlier this month, around two months after a wave of arrests in which several dozen Iranian Defense Ministry employees were arrested on suspicion of leaking classified materials to Israel.
The report said the leaked information included the design blueprints of missiles.
Taeb was a trusted ally of Iranian Lord High Potentate and Supreme Leader of All He Surveys Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... , and prior to his appointment in the IRGC was notorious for his role in brutal crackdowns on protestors.
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Getting the other side to eat itself up from the inside is a force-multiplier, turning them against each other and really, really messing up their operations.
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I would think that Mossad could make alot of 'mystery payments' to various people with the goal of getting them gakked for 'spying' for Israel. So easy to pay the enemy for wetwork killing their own guys.
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So the colonel,whoever he is, gets nabbed. You mean to tell me his XO, his senior NCO and his personal clerk saw NOTHING? Doesn't compute. Round them up.
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[IsraelTimes] Salah Abdeslam, the chief suspect in the case, faces up to life in prison without parole, the toughest sentence possible under La Belle France’s justice system
A French court has found 19 men guilty of terrorism-related charges for the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... terrorist attacks on the Bataclan theater, Gay Paree cafes and La Belle France’s national stadium in 2015. The deadliest peacetime attacks in French history killed 130 people.
Presiding judge Jean-Louis Peries was rendering the verdict Wednesday in a courthouse surrounded by unprecedented security, wrapping up an exceptional, nine-month trial. The chief suspect, Salah Abdeslam, was found guilty of murder and attempted murder in relation with a terrorist enterprise, among other charges.
Over the course of the extraordinary trial, the lone survivor of the Islamic State holy warrior team that attacked Gay Paree in 2015 has proclaimed his radicalism, wept, apologized to victims and pleaded with judges to forgive his "mistakes."
For victims’ families and survivors of the attacks, the trial for Abdeslam and suspected accomplices has been excruciating yet crucial in their quest for justice and closure. Abdeslam faces up to life in prison without parole on murder and other counts, the toughest sentence possible under La Belle France’s justice system.
For months, the packed main chamber and 12 overflow rooms in the 13th-century Justice Palace heard the harrowing accounts by the victims, along with testimony from Abdeslam. The other defendants are largely accused of helping with logistics or transportation. At least one is accused of a direct role in the deadly March 2016 attacks in Brussels, which also was claimed by the Islamic State group.
La Belle France was changed in the wake of the attacks: Authorities declared a state of emergency and armed officers now constantly patrol public spaces. The violence sparked soul-searching among the French and Europeans, since most of the attackers were born and raised in La Belle France or Belgium.
Fourteen of the defendants have been in court, including Abdeslam, the only survivor of the 10-member attacking team that terrorized Gay Paree that Friday night. All but one of the six absent men are presumed to have been killed in Syria or Iraq; the other is in prison in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... Most of the suspects are accused of helping create false identities, transporting the attackers back to Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... from Syria or providing them with money, phones, explosives or weapons.
Abdeslam, a 32-year-old Belgian with Moroccan roots, was the only defendant tried on several counts of murder and kidnapping as a member of a terrorist organization.
The sentence sought for Abdeslam of life in prison without parole has only been pronounced four times in La Belle France — for crimes related to rape and murder of minors.
Prosecutors are seeking life sentences for nine other defendants. The remaining suspects were tried on lesser terrorism charges and face sentences ranging from five to 30 years.
In closing arguments, prosecutors stressed that all 20 defendants, who had fanned out around the French capital, armed with semi-automatic rifles and explosives-packed vests to mount parallel attacks, are members of the Islamic State holy warrior group responsible for the massacres.
"Not everyone is a jihadi, but all of those you are judging accepted to take part in a terrorist group, either by conviction, cowardliness or greed," prosecutor Nicolas Braconnay told the court this month.
During his testimony, former President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... dismissed claims that his government was at fault.
The Islamic State, "this pseudo-state, declared war with the weapons of war," Hollande said. The Gay Paree attackers did not terrorize, shoot, kill, maim and traumatize civilians because of religion, he said, adding it was "fanaticism and barbarism."
The night of the attack was a balmy Friday evening, with the city’s bars and restaurants packed. At the Bataclan concert venue, the American band Eagles of Death Metal were playing to a full house. At the national stadium, a soccer match between La Belle France and Germany had just begun, attended by then-President Hollande and then-Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... The sound of the first suicide kaboom at 9:16 p.m. barely carried over the noise of the stadium’s crowd. The second came four minutes later. A squad of button menshot up several bars and restaurants in another part of Gay Paree. That bloodshed outside came to an end at 9:41 p.m.
Worse was to follow. At 9:47 p.m., three more button men burst into the Bataclan, firing indiscriminately. Ninety people died within minutes. Hundreds were held hostage — some gravely injured — inside the concert hall for hours before Hollande, watching people covered in blood make their way out of the Bataclan, ordered it stormed.
Abdeslam was silent for years, refusing to speak to Sherlocks. In April, his words started flowing, in testimony that at times contradicted earlier statements, including on his loyalty to the Islamic State.
He told the court that he was a last-minute addition to the group. He said he "renounced" his mission to detonate his explosives-packed vest in a bar in northern Gay Paree that night. He hid out at first near Gay Paree, and then fled with friends to Brussels, where he was arrested four months later.
Prosecutors emphasized contradictions in Abdeslam’s testimony — from pledging allegiance to the Islamic State at the start of the trial and expressing regret that his explosives strapped to his body failed to detonate, to claiming he had changed his mind in the bar and deliberately disabled his vest because he did not want to kill people "singing and dancing."
During closing arguments Monday, Abdelslam’s lawyer Olivia Ronen told a panel of judges that her client is the only one in the group of attackers who didn’t set off explosives to kill others that night. He can’t be convicted for murder, she argued.
"If a life sentence without hope for ever experiencing freedom again is pronounced, I fear we have lost a sense of proportion," Ronan said. She emphasized through the trial that she is "not providing legitimacy to the attacks" by defending her client in court.
Abdeslam apologized to the victims at his final court appearance Monday, saying his remorse and sorrow is heartfelt and sincere. Listening to victims’ accounts of "so much suffering" changed him, he said.
"I have made mistakes, it’s true, but I am not a murderer, I am not a killer," he said.
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...Only took seven years. Lightspeed when you remember there's people sitting in Gitmo who have been there since, what - 2002?
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This really isn't about whores and whore keepers. Revealing client lists would reveal intelligence shortfalls and endanger other ongoing project efforts. We really don't have a need to know.
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Seems like all the stuff we didn't have a need to know is coming home to roost the last few years.
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Apparently no record of Hunter ever visiting Little St. James Island. I thought he liked wimins? Who kept him away and why ?
Separate funding streams, separate assert.
Who kept him out? Compartmentation was essential. One goes down, they don't all daisy-chain into oblivion together.
While our little Kurdish Iranian jihadi is enduring his two weeks isolation in jail, more is revealed.
[Rudaw] Kurds in Norway condemned Saturday’s fatal shooting in Oslo’s nightlife district that killed two people and left more than 20 dead in what Norwegian security services labeled as an "Islamist terror act."
In the morning hours of Saturday on Oslo’s Rosenkrantz Street, a man wearing a yellow t-shirt opened fire near the popular LGBT+ bar London Pub in the Norwegian capital, killing two and injuring dozens others.
The shooter was arrested shortly after and identified as 43-year-old Zaniar Matapour, a Norwegian citizen originally from Iran’s western Kurdish Region, also referred to as Rojhelat.
Born in the city of Sina, Matapour and his family migrated to Pakistain in the late 1980s where they sought asylum through a United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) program that sent them to Norway.
"Zaniar’s [Matapour] family is known in Sina for being virtuous and unproblematic. He and his siblings studied in Norway and have graduated from engineering and medical universities. Zaniar’s father was like-minded with one of the parties in Rojhelat [western Iran], but did not actively join the organizations," a Kurdish resident in Oslo, who preferred to remain anonymous, told Rudaw earlier this week.
Soon after Matapour was arrested, the police stated that the attack had a "radical Islamic" background with a history of mental illness.
The incident angered Kurds in Norway.
"As a human being, I condemn it, and as Kurd, I condemn it as well," said Hoshang Younisi, a Norwegian resident from western Iran.
"What can make things easier for Kurds ... is an organization which is separated from all personal opinions and announces a shared national and humanitarian stance towards those who have violated the liberties of others at times like this," he added.
Masoud Nasiri, the spokesperson of the Kurdish diaspora center in Norway, stated that Kurds in Norway in general "oppose" the attack, adding that they have attempted to demonstrate to the Norwegian community that Kurds have long struggled against terror and tyranny and fought for democratic values.
There are an estimated 25,000 to 30,000 Kurds in Norway, most fleeing their homes because of war or political instability.
The suspect has a criminal record with Oslo’s security and has been previously arrested for cases of narcotics and violence, and once tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! for a period of nearly three months.
"According to the investigations, the suspect will be convicted. But it is still not confirmed whether this case will be treated in accordance with terror law or another law," said Sayran Ahmad, a criminal lawyer in Norway.
London Pub, a highly coveted spot in the Norwegian capital where acquiring reservations is extremely challenging, has been a hub of Oslo’s LGBT+ community since the late 1970s. A mural in the pub’s basement reads: "The main headquarters of gay men since 1979."
Nothing like looking like a target to a certain kind of colonist...
"We will open up the pub again as to say that hatred and grudge cannot stop us," said the proprietor of the pub, who preferred to be simply referred to as Owner of London.
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... said on Wednesday it will renew demand from Sweden and Finland to extradite over 30 Ottoman Turkish nationals who are wanted for alleged terror links but live in both Nordic countries which on Tuesday made compromises to Ankara in return of its support to for their NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... membership.
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Did the Nordics get to add and extra 10 free draft picks to the return package as well?
It’s not his fault the poor man has missed the new Zeitgeist — he was, after all, taken on as a special project by Iran’s Mullahcracy. He would never have got through his courses otherwise.
[Rudaw] Prominent Shiite holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry... on Tuesday harshly criticized Iraqi President Barham Salih for withholding from signing the legislation criminalizing ties with Israel in a move that is seen as a blow to Salih’s second-term candidacy.
In a harsh tone, Sadr in a tweet said it is "very, very shameful that the so-called President of the Republic of Iraq (Barham) ... refuses to sign the law" criminalizing relations with Israel.
Sadr added that it would be "shameful" for Iraqis to have a president who supports normalizing ties with Israel and is "unpatriotic and affiliated with the west or east."
A spokesperson for Salih said in a statement later in the day that the President had approved the law as it was sent by the parliament "without having any notes" and ordered its publication on the Official Gazette.
The statement added that Salih has "always" supported the Paleostinian cause.
The Iraqi parliament on May 26 passed a bill criminalizing ties with Israel, marking the act as a crime punishable by death. The bill requires almost all officials, including those in Kurdistan Region, government institutions, and media to refrain from establishing relations with Israel.
Sadr at the time called on the Iraqi people to take to the streets in celebration of what he called a "great achievement."
The law must be signed by the president, according to the Iraqi constitution. However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... if he fails to do so then it would nonetheless take effect within 15 days.
The passage of the bill put Salih in a puzzle that came amid severe political tensions that have engulfed Iraq. The current president is running for a second term for the post.
"I absolve myself of his crime in front of God and the Iraqi people," Sadr added saying he "regrets" Salih’s previous and subsequent candidacy for the presidency post.
The normalization of ties with Israel as part of the Abraham Accords is a US-led joint Middle East peace initiative. Four countries - the United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Bahrain, and Morocco - have announced normalization agreements with Israel, with America's support.
A conference in September advocating for Iraq to join the agreement was met with widespread condemnation and criticism from the public and officials.
We know it’s Iran’s sockpuppets, but perhaps the Kurds have a specific name.
[Rudaw] The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has "complete information" on the party behind the recent rocket attacks on the Region’s key gas field in Sulaimani province, deputy prime minister said on Wednesday.
Three rockets struck the Khor Mor gas field in Sulaimani’s Chamchamal district in a matter of four days, the latest being on Saturday. The KRG Prime Minister has said he is "deeply troubled" by the strikes and the US has called for an investigation into the attacks.
The KRG held its weekly meeting on Wednesday, discussing a range of topics, including the attacks on the gas block. According to a statement from the government, Deputy PM Qubad Talabani told the cabinet members that the perpetrators have been identified.
"We have full information about the perpetrators of attacks on Khor Mor gas field and a detailed investigation has been carried out to take measures against them," Talabani was quoted in the KRG statement as saying. "The attacks have targeted the expansion project in Khor Mor field rather than the part which produces gas."
The UAE-based Dana Gas, which runs the gas field, said in a statement on Monday that it has temporarily suspended the work on the expansion of Khor Mor gas station following the attacks.
The KM 250 project is the first stage of a two-train expansion project at the field that aims to boost total production capacity to over 1 billion cubic feet per day by 2024. Work at the plant resumed in April of last year after it was halted due to the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic.
Khor Mor field produces 452 million standard cubic feet of gas per day, according to Dana Gas.
No group has grabbed credit for the three rocket attacks.
[KhaamaPress] The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s front man Zabihullah Mujahid has announced that the grand assembly of the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... is set to take place tomorrow, Thursday, in Kabul at the Loya Jirga hall.
The assembly, reportedly, will bring together 3,000 tribal elders, influential figures, and Ulema to Kabul from all over the country.
The Taliban leadership convenes the assembly of Islamic holy mans at the Ulema’s repeated request, a senior Taliban official, Zabihullah Mujahid previously stated on his Twitter account without mentioning a specific date.
Many organizations and groups, including Human Rights Watch, the National Resistance® Front, and political analysts, are concerned about the Taliban’s Grand Assembly’s participants.
Heather Barr, the co-director of Human Rights Watch’s division for women’s rights, no other groupss will be allowed to speak during the Taliban Jirga, and participants from all groups, including will not be there. She emphasized that a decision-making body excluding women will not be legitimate.
The National Resistance® Front’s Council of Ulema, released a statement on Tuesday claiming that the participants of the gathering will be the Taliban loyalists and will not speak for the Afghan people.
Anas Haqqani, the Interior Minister of the Taliban government, said this previously on two separate occasions, that the issue of the reopening of the girls’ schools will be discussed by a gathering of the holy mans.
There are no indications, however, of what the upcoming assembly of the holy mans will discuss.
Hanafi said that the gathering will be attended by clerics, influential figures, political figures and national businesspeople.
“They will discuss Afghan issues: national unity, nationwide security and stabilization and other issues. Once they sit together, the results will be shared,” he said.
Hanafi said a range of topics such as the Islamic system, independence, national unity, and economic and social issues will be discussed at the gathering.
He said that there are no obstacles for participation of young people, but he did not mention if any women would be participating in the gathering.
This comes as Jamiat-e-Islami
...not The Islamic Society founded in Lahore in 1941 that opposed the independence of Bangladesh and is associated with the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda, but the primarily Tajik party whose militant arm used to be the Northern Alliance and in the current generation is called the National Resistance Front (NRF)....
in a statement downplayed the gathering as symbolic and said that holding the gathering will not bring any benefit for countering the current crisis.
[KhaamaPress] Taliban’s religious scholar and tribal elders grand gathering, which is to be held tomorrow at the Loya Jirga Hall in Kabul, will convene without the participation of women, said the deputy prime minister of the Taliban, Mawlawi Abdul Salam Hanafi, on Wednesday.
Mawlawi Abdul Salam Hanafi, the deputy prime minister of the Taliban, in an interview with the state run National Television, stated that the meeting will be attended by over 3,000 religious scholars, tribal elders, intellectuals, influential figures and national traders on Thursday.
When prompted whether women could attend the Taliban’s grand gathering, deputy minister Hanafi responded that male delegates would speak on their behalf.
“The women are our mothers, sisters, we greatly respect them, when their sons are in the gathering it signifies that they are also involved, in a way, in the gathering,” he said.
The senior Taliban official responded that the assembly was called at the Ulema’s request and that the Taliban organized it so that they could discuss a variety of topics, including but not limited to the Islamic regime, national unity, and the improvement of economic and social affairs, to the question regarding the gathering’s agenda.
The top Taliban official expressed hope as he said that the group expects a positive outcome from the gathering and that more of these events would be arranged in the future.
According to civil society groups, if women are not present, the gathering will not be legitimate.
However, it still remains unclear what issues would be discussed at the gathering and whether the issue of reopening girls’ schools and women rights are included in the agenda.
[ToloNews] Following the arrival of other former government officials and political figures, Habibullah Ahmadzai, the former president's adviser, and Hasibullah Kalimzai, the Senate's second deputy, as well as a cancer specialist named Abdul Wardak all returned today.
"Afghanistan is our homeland and we cannot live without it. Our dignity is in this homeland. those friends who are abroad believe that they should return to the country," said Habibullah Ahmadzai, adviser to the former president.
"In my opinion, those who have committed crimes shouldn't be forgiven and should be held accountable, including us," said Habibullah Kalimzai, former 2nd deputy leader of the Senate.
"I was in the profession of teaching physicians. I specialize in cancer operations. Now that I have come to the country, I’ll see what I can do," said Abdullah Wardak, physician.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had a cup of coffee. Even instant would do... officials of the "Commission for the Return and Communications with Former Afghan Officials and Political Figures" said that a number of other former government figures will return to the country in the near future.
"The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has its own norms and processes in the area of governance, and anyone returning to the country in accordance with those procedures may engage in political activity," said Mawlawi Zaker, head of the Secretariat of the Commission.
According to data from the "Commission for the Return and Communications with Former Afghan Officials and Political Figures," more than 150 political figures have already returned to the country.
[ToloNews] Ahmad Khan Ahmadzai, the former police commander of Bagram district of Parwan province, and two of his family members have been detained by Islamic Emirate forces, relatives claimed.
The family claimed that Ahmadzai, his son, and his nephew, were arrested over one week ago.
"I opened the door, they tied my hands, when my father came out, they arrested him and then my brother," said Bahram, 14, son of Ahmadzai.
"If he was responsible for anything, he would not stay here. He was retired five years ago," said Shah Agha, a relative.
Other reports were published about the violation of the general amnesty and the detention of former military officials, but the Islamic Emirate always denied the reports.
"They detained him and his younger son and they arrested his other son and nephew as well," said Sayed Muhammad Khateb, head of Alljahad seminary.
TOLOnews was unable to obtain a comment from the Islamic Emirate about this issue.
"Targeting military leaders has become routine. We can clearly see the detentions, execution, and extra-judicial courts," said Asef Nang, a military analyst.
Ahmad Ahmadzai is a resident of Robat village in Bagram distract of Parwan province. He retired five years before the fall of the former government.
[KhaamaPress] Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai, has dispatched emergency relief planes to deliver life-saving humanitarian aid to Kabul in order to assist hundreds of thousands of people in the areas of Afghanistan devastated by last week’s catastrophic earthquake.
UAE State news agency WAM said on Wednesday that a cargo flight from Dubai to Kabul took out on Tuesday carrying 24.5 metric tonnes of essential medicines, medical supplies, and cholera kits that were provided by the WHO.
A senior UAE health official, Giuseppe Saba was quoted by Alarabiya News agency that “The [International Humanitarian City] IHC [in Dubai], under the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, is accelerating the rapid response of the international humanitarian community as it rallies to come to the aid of those impacted by the disaster.”
As a result of the earthquake, the landlocked country in Southern Asia, Afghanistan, needs immediate humanitarian assistance. There are also concerns about the possibility of a cholera breakout in addition to the already severe humanitarian situation in the southeast earthquake-stricken region of Afghanistan.
More than 1,000 people were killed and tens of thousands were left homeless by the high magnitude earthquake that struck on Wednesday.
The consignment comes at a time when another 30 tonnes of humanitarian assistance, including essential food supplies, were supplied by the UAE last week.
[KhaamaPress] According to the United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s announcement on Tuesday, the United States would provide Afghanistan immediate assistance amounting $55 million in response to the devastating earthquake that struck last week in a remote part of the country’s southeast.
The high magnitude earthquake that hit the region close to the Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan on June 22 left at least 1,000 people dead, over 3,000 more wounded, and 10,000 homes in ruins.
According to a statement from Blinken, the new US aid will be used to provide cooking equipment, water water containers, blankets, clothing, and other items, including hygienic supplies to stop an outbreak of waterborne diseases, to those affected by the calamity.
In a tweet, secretary Blinken stated on Tuesday, 28th June, “The U.S. will provide additional humanitarian assistance of nearly $55 million to Afghans affected by the June 22 earthquake. Our support to the Afghan people in working with USAID and partners is vital during this difficult time.”
He stated that the earthquake “intensified the ongoing humanitarian crisis that the Afghan people have long endured.”
After the UN issued an emergency plea for $110 million to support more than 360,000 Afghans devastated by last week’s earthquake in the provinces of Paktika and Khost, the US announcement came merely hours later.
In addition to causing deaths and injuries, the earthquake also destroyed homes, hospitals, schools, and water networks, leaving thousands of people vulnerable to more suffering, according to the UN statement.
[KhaamaPress] The United Nations announced on Tuesday that it had started an emergency appeal for $110 million to aid hundreds of thousands of people in parts of Afghanistan devastated by last week’s catastrophic earthquake.
Homes were destroyed and landslides were started when a high magnitude earthquake hit villages in the mountainous Paktika and Khost provinces on June 22. The earthquake caused at least 1,150 fatalities and hundreds of injuries. Over 10,000 homes were destroyed, leaving the people homeless.
The UN agency for humanitarian affairs announced that UNOCHA and its partners have issued an appeal for $110 million to support 362,000 people urgently over the course of the following three months in the worst-affected regions of Paktika and Khost provinces.
The Central Emergency Response Fund has released $10 million to support the earthquake response as of last Friday, or June 25th, according to Martin Griffiths, the Emergency Relief Coordinator.
The UN statement notes that the earthquake not only resulted in fatalities and injuries, but it also devastated homes, hospitals, schools, and water networks, leaving thousands of people susceptible to additional suffering.
The UN appeal for additional aid comes at a time when another aftershock, shook the earthquake-stricken, and impoverished villages of southeastern Khost and Paktika provinces.
[KhaamaPress] In a clash between "armed miscreants" from Afghanistan and Iranian border guards yesterday afternoon, an Iranian border guard was killed on the Afghan-Iranian border, according to Iran’s state news agency IRNA.
The clash that resulted in the death of an Iranian soldier, according to the Iranian news agency, was sparked by a number of armed miscreants who launched an attack on the Afghan-Iranian border on June 28th.
Although the Iranian source does not specifically mention the Taliban ...Arabic for students... forces when it refers to "armed miscreants," local Nimroz provincial sources claim that the Taliban entered the Iranian territory, after two Afghan boys were killed and injured by Iranian border guards, and clashed with them for an hour.
One of the Iranian border guards, Mohammad Sayadi, is alleged to have died in an armed encounter in the Hirmand county border region of the Sistan and Baluchestan province of Iran.
According to reports, the Iranian border guard who died in the armed confrontation is survived by his wife and daughter.
The conflict has not received any comments from Taliban officials yet.
The Taliban forces have often triggered armed festivities with the neighboring countries since seizing control of Afghanistan in mid-August of last year, particularly at the borders with Tajikistan, Iran, and Pakistain.
[Townhall] Every branch of military in the U.S. is struggling to recruit members under the Biden pentagon due to the Biden administration going to great lengths to implement wokeness across the military. Giving up meritocracy for a radical leftist social agenda, the Pentagon is scrabbling to meet its fiscal year 2022 recruitment goals.
According to NBC, the military recruitment has nosedived in 2022 leaving a record low of Americans either not eligible or not willing to consider ever serving for the U.S.
Center for Military Readiness President Elaine Donnelly said that President Joe Biden’s woke policies are to blame.
The culture of the military has been eroded by several years of social engineering and woke polices," Donnelly said, adding that "it’s been accelerated by the current administration."
Facing a long drought of recruiting, the military has not seen similar issues since 1973.
Biden prioritizing transgender, LGBTQ and race are the driving forces turning young Americans away from wanting to serve.
Donnelly said it send a "poor message" that discourages people from supporting the U.S.
"It sends a message that if your son or daughter joins the military, if they’re not of a certain skin complexion or sex, they might be investigated for extremism," Donnelly said, adding "They alienated their constituency."
This comes four months after Biden announced that nearly six million hours and $535,000 was spent indoctrinating the left’s "woke agenda" into the ranks.
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Red State White boys don't see the point in serving under POS Austin, "White Rage" Milley, or Biden.
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Their 'woke' indoctrination is basically anti-American. So, why try defending it. They missed some fundamentals here. Now if you understand the Left, they've always accused our servicemembers as being just mercenaries. From that you get the disconnect and the head scratching why their program isn't working. Watch standards devolve (just like in education). One of those who served in the transition from draft to volunteer army, you're going to bring back the unmotivated, druggies, criminals, social misfits that command will spend 80% of its time dealing with rather than training. Better to have 6 men in a 10 squad who are trained and motivated than fill it in with the destructive distractions that destroy good morale and discipline.
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I can see it now....women (if that's what we are calling them these days) who want an abortion will run off and join the military. GI Bill? Nah. Defend the nation? Definitely "nah".
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There is a character named Coke Bottle Glasses in Phase Line Green that is indicative of the McNamara’s Morons stage of the Vietnam Era draft. The Civil War draft obliterated the readiness of solid units like The Iron Brigade and The Irish Brigade. I don’t even want to fathom what type of draftees our current degraded society might poop out. Certainly wouldn’t want woke people on my left and right even in peacetime operations.
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The irony is the young folks of today could use some old style boot camp.
[Washington Examiner] NATO is putting Russia and any other "nuclear-armed peer-competitors" on notice that the trans-Atlantic alliance can and will retaliate against any nuclear attack.
The latest edition of the security bloc’s guiding strategic concept evinces a more muscular posture regarding NATO’s nuclear forces than the 2010 document, which characterized Russia as a "partner" just four years before the Kremlin seized Crimea from Ukraine. And the latest document implies that as North Atlantic allies send a stronger signal about threats from Russia’s nuclear threats, they also won’t fail to keep an eye on China’s nuclear arsenal.
"We have a wartime strategic concept, actually, not a peacetime one, so [we] want to use stronger language," a senior European official told the Washington Examiner. Like it wasn't clear before? Only a puff has to blowhard their way to respect. Grow a spine and be consistent.
The balance of nuclear military power emerged as a burning issue in the last several months, as Russian President Vladimir Putin has invoked Moscow’s arsenal to deter at least some Western support or intervention for Ukraine. His nuclear saber-rattling has spurred some European officials to wonder if Putin thinks he could win a limited nuclear war; the allies, for their part, asserted such a conflict would be a losing proposition for their enemies.
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I seriously don't trust Bidet to nuke anyone back even if we get nuked. At this point I also have zero faith we have military leaders with enough spine to do anything other than their nails either.
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All the Trump haters I know hoisted the blue and gold within hours, and were pretty darn excited about a nuclear exchange.
Everything Team Brandon has done has been an escalation; saw something about deploying the 101st and 35s into theater, in addition to the HIMAR transfer.
That bottled covid power; addictive stuff. Remember them all wetting their panties when some artillery was near Chernobyl and they were like NUkes! NUkes! WMDs!
[Breitbart] Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell admitted on Wednesday how little he understands soaring inflation.
"I think we now understand better how little we understand about inflation," Powell stated at the European Central Bank forum on central banking in Sintra, Portugal. "This was unpredicted," the expert admitted.
Powell is in charge of reducing President Biden’s 40-year-high inflation by a difficult process of increasing interest rates. By law, the Federal Reserve is charged with a dual mandate of pursuing maximum employment and stable prices.
"We believe we can do that. That is our aim," he said. "It’s gotten harder... the pathways have gotten narrower."
"The process is highly likely to involve some pain but the worst pain would be from failing to address this high inflation and allowing it to become persistent," he continued.
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data not available for a few week but forecasts are that M1 will shrink quite a bit from 2022 Q1 to 2022 Q2
unfortunately a lot of inflation is baked in so a return to 2%/yr inflation (which is the Fed Reserve target) isn't likely until 2023 at best
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Powell isn't responsible for what the Harris-Biden Administration has done. Powell can't drill for oil or drive a truck or open up more/better supply lines.
And this isn't a monetary inflation--yet. When you look at the velocity of M2 it's been decreasing despite all of the trillions "printed" by the Fed.
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And remember when that numbskull Janet Yellen said on TV some months ago that she was monitoring inflation "closely". I wonder what size clown shoes that hack wears.
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Some thousand years of modern banking theory, with an emphasis on the last fifty - if they don't know it is because they don't want to know, don't care to know, and won't listen to those who do know.
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^^The M2V refers to tracking how often dollars are used to purchase DOMESTICALLY made goods and services within a certain time-frame.
People haven't been spending a lot of money since the second quarter of 2020 (for one mysterious reason or another). Something about massive layoffs around that time, too.
They're certainly not buying cars or other big-ticket domestically produced items at any great rate or going out to eat 2-3 times a week (at least in my neck of the woods and prairie).
Chinesium products from Wokemart aren't considered 'domestic'. Don't know about payments to advocacy groups, 'charities' or 'movements', however.
All this results in a lower frequency of currency usage for domestic goods and services.
You will notice that, on the FRED M2V chart 1YR tab, that 4th quarter 2021 did bump up some as it normally does around the holidays.
DooDahMan, I don't know for certain where all that extra printed cash went or how it was used, but I have some pretty good ideas.
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I'm not certain, but I imagine a lot of the "printed" (actually digital) dollars went to purchase the stuff on the Fed's balance sheet.
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I read somewhere that the Fed's original (current?) charter was for it to buy corporate bonds, not T-bills, etc. That got corrupted by Thomas "Woodrow" Wilson or FDR.
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Of a piece with grade inflation and calling 25 year old gang-bangers "children" for gun-violence statistic purposes.
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Biden says Americans will pay high prices for 'as long as it takes' and again blames Putin for surging food and gas costs
Well, with Trump out of office he's gotta blame on somebody.
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Speak for yourself, Jerome. Or go back and read your Econ 101 textbook where it says, MV = PQ.
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When I was at the Libertarian Convention, I went to a Mises Caucus event and listened to Ron Paul speak. At 86 he was more coherent - and more interesting - to listen to than Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, or any of the rest of the octogenarian crowd in DC. (A low bar admittedly.)
One thing which he said which stuck with me was "Nobody running the Federal Reserve knows anything - especially about the Federal Reserve! Most of you in the crowd probably know more about the Federal Reserve than they do." Prescient words from one of our eldest eldest statesmen as it turns out.
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Powell shouldn't be in the job if he doesn't understand the problem. We have too many of these pogues. The people tasked with solving supply chain problems, border problems, drug problems, crime problems, etc; you name them and they are inept thanks to this illegally installed cue-card POTUS.
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Deep State is still trying to process tax returns filed in 2021 for 2020. They have not started on returns filed in April for last year.
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BCS,
The IRS has processed over 50% of returns for tax year 2021 that were e-filed by April 18 2022.
That's pretty weak but not as bad as your comment implies.
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I had to form an S-Corp to resume work post-retirement in C (Fuck you, Lorena Gonzalez and AB 5!) (btw an LLC seems to be the better choice in hindsight) via Legal Zoom. It has cost me $$ in compliance for no return
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[SARA] A Supreme Court ruling released Tuesday sides with an Iraq War Veteran, determining that states cannot be exempt from being sued for discrimination against Veterans. CNN reports "The ruling will strengthen work protections for thousands of state-employed veterans returning to work after service in the Reserves or National Guard."
LeRoy Torres enlisted in the US Army Reserve in 1989 and was an employee of the Texas Department of Public Safety as a state trooper before he was deployed to Iraq in 2007. While serving in the War, Torres suffered lung damage after being exposed to toxic chemicals in so called burn pits.
CNN reports that upon his return he sought reemployment, but told the agency he could no longer serve as a state trooper and sought a comparable job to accommodate his service-related disability. When he was denied the job, he filed suit under federal law but lost in state courts. He appealed the decision to the US Supreme Court.
Torres argued the DPS failing to offer him a job to accommodate his disability violated the federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994. The law — meant to protect veterans from employment discrimination — was passed under Congress’ power to "raise and support Armies."
[IsraelTimes] Military says troops shot up suspects who hurled explosives; 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... claims Mohammed Marei as member; 13 wanted Paleostinians detained across West Bank
A Paleostinian man was reportedly rubbed out during festivities with Israeli forces who were conducting an arrest raid early Wednesday in Jenin.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, troops entered the northern West Bank city to detain two wanted Paleostinians.
"During the operation, IDF forces fired at several suspects who hurled bombs at them, and shooting was also heard in the area," the IDF said, adding that "hits were identified."
Paleostinian media reported that the man, Mohammed Maher Marei, died of his wounds shortly after being shot. The Paleostinian Islamic Jihad later claimed Marei as a member and images showed his body wrapped in the flag of the terror group.
Elsewhere in the West Bank, the IDF said troops fired at a Paleostinian who hurled stones at forces during the arrest of a wanted Paleostinian in the al-’Azza refugee camp near Bethlehem. A rifle was also seized in the camp, the IDF said.
In total, 13 Paleostinians suspected of "terror activities" were detained overnight, the military said.
[IsraelTimes] No security personnel hurt in alleged assault in Jerusalem’s Old City; suspect in his 20s from Bethlehem area detained at al-Aqsa Mosque compound
A Paleostinian man was detained Tuesday night on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City after he allegedly attempted to stab officers before fleeing the scene, police said.
Police closed off the entrances to the Temple Mount and other areas of the Old City immediately after the suspect, a resident of the Bethlehem area in his 20s, fled after he attempted to stab police guarding one of the gates.
According to police, no officers were hurt in the alleged attack.
Video footage showed officers taking the suspect for further questioning following his arrest near at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which sits atop the Temple Mount.
A knife allegedly used in the attack was also found in the area, police said.
Paleostinian media reports said officers had gun sex during the attack. Police later said the shooting was amid an unrelated incident nearby, where an armed civilian had gun sex after a man used pepper spray against passersby. That suspect — who police said was apparently suffering from mental illness — was detained.
[IsraelTimes] Belgian police arrest civilian suspects who brewed ecstasy around the corner from thermonuclear warheads on American base
Belgian police raided an illegal lab producing the rave drug ecstasy on an airbase that reputedly houses part of the US nuclear arsenal in Europe, Sherlocks said Tuesday.
Two suspects — not military personnel — were arrested during the raid, according to a spokesperson for the prosecutor’s office in the Belgian province of Limburg.
The Kleine-Brogel base in northeast Belgium is best known for housing a stock of US nuclear weapons.
Belgian officials are discreet about the deployment, having briefly confirmed its role in the 1980s, but in 2019 a Green MP told parliament that US forces hold ten to 20 warheads there.
Prosecutors said that local police had discovered the drug lab on military land on June 22 and that it had been dismantled by specialist federal officers.
The lab was found to produce MDMA, a synthetic recreational drug most commonly known as ecstasy.
The Kleine-Brogel airbase is often a target of Belgian anti-nuclear and anti-NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... protesters.
It is in a rural area between the port city of Antwerp and the border with Germany’s industrial heartland, an area dotted by labs and hideouts used by international narco gangs.
[NYPOST] Long Island Congressman Lee Zeldin clinched the Republican nomination for governor Tuesday, handily winning the party primary against former White House staffer Andrew Giuliani, businessman Harry Wilson and ex-Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino.
"Are we ready to fire Kathy Hochul?" he asked a crowd of supporters as he gave a victory speech just before 11 p.m.
"For us, we believe that public service is about serving the public," he added. "Kathy Hochul has been acting as if the public has been there to serve her."
Zeldin held a roughly 43% to 23% lead over Giuliani with more than 60% of the votes counted. Astorino was in third at 19% and Wilson at 15%.
The four-term House member from eastern Long Island entered the race in April 2021, before any of his rivals, helping him obtain big fundraising and endorsement advantages.
Party leaders gave Zeldin, endorsed by the Post Editorial Board, their backing at the GOP state convention held on Long Island earlier this year.
He led most polls throughout the race, including a June 13 survey that showed Zeldin with 34%, compared to 16% for Astorino, 15% for Wilson and 13% for Giuliani.
[NYPOST] Ghislaine Maxwell has been sentenced to 20 years behind bars for aiding Jeffrey Want Some Candy, Little Girl? Epstein ...A high class pimp financier who was alleged to maintain a stable of underage whoressex slaves who were paid big bucks to entertain the rich and/or famous. He was really surprised when he committed suicide... — but she won’t be doing hard time in high security.
On Tuesday, Judge Alison Nathan recommended that the disgraced British socialite, 60, be sent to the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut — a low-security facility 55 miles north of New York City.
Maxwell won’t be the first famous jailbird to be incarcerated at the prison, with FCI Danbury having housed a slew of other A-list inmates, including songstress Lauryn Hill and "Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Teresa Giudice.
Author Piper Kerman also spent 13 months at the facility before writing her best-selling memoir "Orange Is the New Black," based on her time there. The book was later turned into the smash Netflix series of the same name.
Since her arrest back in 2020, Maxwell has been incarcerated at the notorious Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where she has complained about dismal food, poor sleeping conditions and "creepy" guards.
In comparison, FCI Danbury will feel like "Disneyland," one prison expert told the Daily Mail.
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/\ This is likely where it is intended to end. She'll do a few years in a quiet setting, write a book, give cooking lessons, keep a dog... then be released due to illness.
Executive level memory hole with a comfort pallet.
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Ghislaine Maxwell is a master manipulator with a penchant for seducing troubled young women. Putting her in Danbury will give her nearly unlimited access to... troubled young women. In relatively pleasant low-security circumstances.
[NYPOST] Megyn Kelly blasted Rep. Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore... (D-NY) as a "moron" and a "Kardashian in Congress" after the progressive politician called for impeaching Supreme Court justices over their decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
During an appearance on Eric Bolling’s Monday night program on the right-leaning cable channel Newsmax, Kelly unloaded on the congresschick from the Bronx and Queens during a discussion of the aftermath of Friday’s dramatic child sacrifice abortion ruling.
Kelly was asked to opine on the Sunday comments by Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) when she demanded that Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh be impeached for allegedly lying under oath during their Senate confirmation hearings.
Both justices told senators that Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling which legalized child sacrifice abortion nationwide, was settled precedent, giving politicians the impression that they would vote down any attempt to undo it. Plessy v.Ferguson was settled precedent, too.
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Stupid people easily lie because they willingly believe these things are a dice roll rather than consequences of actions.
Actively recruited even, unless you think someone who likely can't organize their sock drawer put together a political campaign in one of the most coveted districts in the nation.
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^ Why does that description remind me of Bath House Barry, both senators from Georga, and so on?
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On Stephen Colbert she said the Supreme Court exceeded their authority. What a bugwit.
I have always thought that Colbert was a 'toilet bug'... oh, you meant AOCQ?Q She's barely a 'midge'...
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If the Supreme Court had the authority to decide Roe versus Wade in the first place, they have the authority to reverse the decision. The Dobbs decision holds that there is no Constitutional Right to abortion so states have the authority to decide. Either AOC is in agreement with Alito or she is unable to understand the decision. AOC can keep the argument going by continuing to push for federal action but the unfolding logic of more Supreme Court Jurisprudence is probably that a fetus is alive and has rights. Her actions going forward will be consistent with her stupidity. She will continue to win more stupid prizes as if she is addicted to Skee Ball at Chuckie Cheese.
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The audience applauded her inane ranting. We are doomed!
Those people don’t bother to vote, thank goodness.
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To be more precise, they may not vote but their votes are counted in the algorithm Dominion Systems has in their software. Its what they would have voted if they had voted, so its ok!
[NYPOST] A Pennsylvania man allegedly admitted to beating and strangling his girlfriend to death in front of her two young daughters as one of them pleaded, "Please stop. You are killing my mom," authorities said. He oughta know better than to do that in front of the kids.
They weren’t his kids, so he probably cared about as much as he did about their mom.
Thadius McGrath, 35, was charged with first- and third-degree murder and endangering the welfare of a child on Tuesday over the slaying of his 31-year-old girlfriend, Samantha Rementer, in Bucks County.
McGrath, who authorities say tried to kill himself in the aftermath, admitted to murdering Rementer in their home on June 8 "after she made me mad," according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by the Courier Times. Has anyone ever murdered his girlfriend while feeling content?
He allegedly told cops he hit Rementer with a black step ladder and a lamp in her daughters’ bedroom. He then allegedly strangled his girlfriend with the lamp cord, the affidavit said.
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[TheHill] A group of House Democrats on Tuesday announced they would move to codify federal protections for transgender people.
The proposal, dubbed the “Transgender Bill of Rights,” would codify the Supreme Court’s 2020 Bostock v. Clayton County decision that protects employees against discrimination for being gay or transgender.
The proposal would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to explicitly include protections for gender identity and sex characteristics, expand access to gender-affirming care and ban conversion therapy.
It would also require the attorney general to designate a liaison dedicated to overseeing enforcement of civil rights for transgender people and invest in community services to prevent anti-transgender violence.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and co-chair of the Transgender Equality Task Force, said in a statement that the resolution would ensure transgender people can lead “full, happy lives.”
“As we witness Republicans and an extremist Supreme Court attack and roll back the fundamental rights of trans people across our country, and as state legislatures across the country target our trans community with hateful, bigoted and transphobic attacks, we are standing up and saying enough is enough,” Jayapal said.
Jayapal introduced the proposal alongside Reps. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), Marie Newman (D-Ill.), Mark Takano (D-Calif.) and Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.). The bill has 84 other co-sponsors.
The bill’s proponents cited Friday’s Supreme Court decision overturning the constitutional right to an abortion.
To normalize their Sexual Fetishes and Mentally Illnesses, the Liberals, Socialists, & Democrats(LSD's) move to legally protect another of their perversions.
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The people writing this shit and passing it are just as mentally ill as the trans genders. It's amazing the amount of people in this country that are just stupid as shit for electing these assholes.
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I don’t think this will get support of 2/3 of the states if brought forward as an amendment to the constitution. It is probably intended to be implemented some other illegitimate way so it is named in a way to stifle opposition. Somebody will rename it more accurately as a Groomer Bill of Rights and people will argue.
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Wouldn"t the Transgender Act also allow T's to legally use Real Females dressing,bathrooms and locker rooms, with female children present?
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[Vesti] A large-scale exchange of prisoners was carried out, thanks to which 144 Ukrainian defenders returned home . Among them are 95 Azovstal defenders. This is stated in the operational summary of the General Staff as of 18:00 on Wednesday, June 29.
In the Volyn and Polesye directions , within the framework of the exercises in Belarus, the assigned staff and the possibility of mobilization on the territory of certain regions are being checked.
In the Seversky direction, the enemy continues to carry out enhanced protection of a section of the Ukrainian-Russian border. In addition, the aggressor fired on civilian and military infrastructure in the areas of the settlements of Turya and Lugovka in the Sumy region. Inflicted an air strike on the settlement of Ugroid.
In the Kharkov direction , the enemy fired from tanks, mortars, cannon and rocket artillery into the areas of the settlements of Kharkov, Bazalievka, Prishib, Shestakovo, Russian Lozovaya, Verkhniy Saltov, Ivanovka and Zamulovka.
In the Slavic direction , the enemy is regrouping troops and holding the previously occupied lines. Shelling was recorded in the areas of the settlements of Dolina, Bogorodichnoye, Nikolskoye, Grushuvakha and Dovgenkoye. Infidels also launched an airstrike near Gusarovka.
In the Donetsk direction , the enemy, with the support of artillery, is trying to block Lisichansk and take control of the section of the Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway . He carried out shelling of civilian and military infrastructure in the areas of the settlements of Lisichansk, Verkhnekamenka, Seversk and an air strike on the area of the Lisichansk oil refinery. To support offensive operations in the area of the settlement, Verkhnekamenka deployed sabotage and reconnaissance groups. Ukrainian soldiers discovered and neutralized them , the remnants of the DRG retreated.
In the Kramatorsk direction , the enemy did not conduct active hostilities, fired artillery at the Tatyanovka area.
In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy fired at the positions of our troops with artillery of various calibers near Klinovoye, Razdolevka, Vyemka and Ivano-Daryevka. Launched an airstrike near the village of Vidrodzhennya. He tried to improve the tactical situation in the area of the settlement of Spirne by offensive actions, but to no avail , he retreated. Our soldiers neutralized the sabotage and reconnaissance group of the enemy not far from Berestovoye.
On the Avdeevka, Kurakhovsky, Novopavlovsky and Zaporizhzhya directions, the enemy fired at our positions from mortars, cannon and rocket artillery in the areas of the settlements of Avdeevka, Vesele, Pavlovka, Belogorye, Engineering, Olgovskoye, Preobrazhenka and Gulyai. In addition, the Russian military carried out air strikes against civilian infrastructure near Orekhovo and Shcherbakov.
In the Yuzhnobuzhsky direction, the enemy carried out systematic shelling of civilian and military infrastructure from cannon and rocket artillery, and is regrouping troops.
On the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine, the occupying authorities continue to carry out activities of the administrative-police regime. The collection of personal information of local residents, forced passportization and a ban on the departure of the population to the territory controlled by the Ukrainian authorities continue.
Separate units of the armed forces of the Russian Federation, withdrawn from the territory of Ukraine for the restoration of combat capability, cannot complete the units in a timely manner due to the unwillingness of the personnel to participate in the war against Ukraine. Personnel who refused to participate in the war are dismissed, there are attempts to bring such persons to criminal responsibility.
Our units continue to carry out rocket and artillery fire missions in certain directions and beat the invaders in close combat.
June 29 - 126th day of the war between Russia and Ukraine . Fighting continues, shelling is carried out in almost all directions, including civilian infrastructure. Briefly about the main thing that happened in the country on that day, about the situation in the regions, the addresses of the president and the government, as well as all the relevant information from key departments - online Vesti.ua .
[Vesti] The situation in Lisichansk is reminiscent of what happened in Severodonetsk just over a month ago.
This was announced by the head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
"The invaders stop at nothing. Once in Severodonetsk, when they could not advance for a long period, they fired about 200 shells from various types of weapons at one of the intersections of the city, turning several houses into ashes. This is the price of the "Russian world" , the head of the OVA recalled.
According to him, the Russian army continues its offensive in the direction of Volcheyarovka - Verkhnekamenka, trying to encircle Lisichansk. Zolotarovka, Volcheyarovka and Lisichansk were shelled.
Earlier, Gaidai said that it was dangerous to move around Lisichansk, since the whole city was strewn with mines.
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NO WORRIES Putin, they'S be the WOKE pronoun army.
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Does Congress need to vote on this, or at least the Senate advise and consent?
...There's no legal requirement for Congress to approve deployments - that comes under the President's prerogative as CinC. However, Congress does have the power of the purse, and can say no in whatever passes for the Budget these days.
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Anything new? Other than operationally, the Baltic geographical position is rather exposed to being cut off.
West Hollywood City councilmember Sepi Shyne led a 3-2 vote on Monday night to cut funding from the local sheriffs' department
They will reduce the current size of the sheriffs department from approximately 60 deputies to 56, and the funds saved will be redistributed
With the money from reducing the headcount by four, the council plans to pay for 30 unarmed 'security ambassadors' to patrol the area
Shyne said it's city's best 'bang for the buck,' yet she also voted for the city to spend $85,000 updating it iconic LGBTQ crosswalk to be more inclusive
The city will also spend $50,000 on its troubled Russian Culture festival, which will forgo celebrating the country after its brutal invasion of Ukraine
Mayor Lauren Meister and a councilman who voted against the measure said that residents and business owners were worried about soaring crime rates in the city
Crime in West Hollywood has this risen by 137 percent from last year
Related: The New York Post points out that West Hollywood City hosts the famous Sunset Strip, which has recently become a destination for pickpockets — whatever that means — and in the same vote approved keeping bars open until 4 a.m.
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[Korrespondent] 23:45 As a result of today's shelling of the Belopolskaya, Krasnopolskaya and Velykopisarevskaya communities of the Sumy region, two people were killed, eight were injured, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky.
23:38 Putin said that the goals of the "special operation" have not changed, but "tactics can be different." The ultimate goals, according to him, are the "liberation" of the Donbass and "guarantees of the security of Russia itself." He also commented on the missile attack on Kremenchug, saying that "there is no terrorist attack there, the Russian army does not strike at any civilian targets."
Commenting on statements in the West that the war in Ukraine should be ended on the battlefield, Putin said that "we must treat this as a fact," and for Moscow "it was not a surprise that they had been preparing since 2014." He also stressed that Western calls to continue hostilities "confirm our assumptions that the good of Ukraine is not a goal, but a means of protecting their interests."
As for the membership of Finland and Sweden in NATO, then, according to the Russian president, if NATO military infrastructure is deployed in these countries, "the Russian Federation will have to respond in a mirror manner."
23:33 Zelensky announced sanctions against Syria: “Russia nevertheless squeezed out from Syria messages about the alleged recognition of the occupation structures in Donbas as supposedly states. This is an insignificant story. And in this case, there will be no more relations between Ukraine and Syria, and sanctions pressure against Syria On the contrary, there will be even more.
23:30 Zelensky said in an evening video message that the "transport visa-free" signed today removes barriers for Ukrainian carriers in the EU: "This is precisely the task of our state now - not to lose a single week in relations with the European Union. We will always be, despite this war, despite all the difficulties, to do what brings us closer to full membership in the European Union."
23:14 Branson shared his thoughts after visiting Ukraine: "I would like to convey what I think many of us feel in the West: every day Ukrainians fight and die for the entire free world. The least that the rest of the world can do is - is to give our unwavering and unconditional support until the last Russian soldier leaves the territory of Ukraine. Anything else would be a defeat - a defeat not only of Ukraine's right to freely choose its own destiny, but also of the rule of law and the sovereignty of peoples."
22:49 Ukraine has received $1.3 billion in grant aid from the United States as part of a $7.5 billion budget financing package, Shmyhal said.
22:10 Beijing called on the G7 to stop attacks and slander against China, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said. According to him, the G7 inflates the rhetoric in the spirit of "democracy against autocracy" and provokes confrontation, fully proving that the Group of Seven does not intend to conduct dialogue and cooperation on the basis of equality and respect.
21:58 Podolyak commented on the results of the NATO summit: “Giving heavy weapons to Ukraine, our partners can not be afraid of the “Russian military machine” at all. According to a well-known tradition, any machine made in Russia quickly breaks down, stalls and turns into scrap metal. ".
21:47 NATO has been preparing for a confrontation with Russia since 2014, Stoltenberg said in Madrid: "NATO has been preparing for this for a long time, not that on February 24 we realized that Russia is dangerous. The reality is that we have been preparing for this since 2014 Therefore, we have increased our military presence in the east of the alliance, and NATO has begun to invest more money in defense."
21:29 Fighting is going on in the vicinity of Lisichansk, the Russians are trying to storm the city, the head of the Lugansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai, said on the air of the telethon. According to him, 15,000 people remain in Lisichansk, and the "quiet" evacuation continues. Due to shelling, the Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway is not passable, so alternative routes are used.
21:20 If the fact of sending a message about the work of the Amstor shopping center during an air raid is confirmed, it will be a fact of official negligence, Yury Belousov, head of the war department of the Office of the Prosecutor General, said on the air of the telethon: "Their actions led to such grave consequences. These people must be punished, accordingly, they will be held accountable."
20:59 Putin has not abandoned plans to seize most of the territory of Ukraine by military means, said Avril Gaines, Director of National Intelligence of the United States: "We are still in a situation where we consider Putin and believe that he has essentially the same political goals that were before, that is, he wants to capture most of Ukraine."
According to Gaines, American intelligence has developed three possible scenarios for the further development of the war in the short term. She considers the scenario of a “mired” conflict to be the most probable, in which the Russian Federation will achieve only minor gains. Other scenarios are a large-scale Russian breakthrough or successful stabilization of the front line by Ukrainian forces, with possible but insignificant successes in the Kherson region and other settlements in southern Ukraine.
"In short, the situation looks pretty bleak," summed up the US Director of National Intelligence.
20:46 The EU political community proposed by Macron should include not only Europe, but also the countries of North Africa, Johnson said in Madrid. In his opinion, such a community should become a kind of modern likeness of the Roman Empire.
Earlier, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said that London would not join the new community.
20:44 The Czech Republic plans to transfer two Bivoj drones of its own production to Ukraine, the ČTK news agency reported. The Bivoj UAV is designed for reconnaissance, it is equipped with a high-precision video surveillance camera, and can also be used to correct artillery fire.
20:42 As a result of the NATO summit in Madrid, Ukraine will receive more non-lethal weapons through trust funds in the amount of up to $300 million, Yegor Chernev, chairman of the permanent delegation of Ukraine to the NATO PA, said on the air of the telethon. He called the recognition of the Russian Federation a threat (for which the eastern flank is being deployed) and the rearmament of Ukraine in accordance with NATO standards as other important decisions. Commenting on today's start of the meeting between the presidents of the United States and Turkey, Chernev suggested that a compromise would be found on Syria.
20:40 Zelensky met with Branson: "The visit of British businessman Richard Branson to Ukraine is another reminder that the world and famous people continue to support us. We talked about maintaining world attention to the war in Ukraine, as well as about the prospects for cooperation in post-war reconstruction."
20:16 Indonesian President Joko Widodo offered to convey Zelensky's message to Putin, Sky News reports. After meeting with Zelenskiy, who is now on his way to Moscow, he said he would urge the Russian President to agree to a ceasefire: "Despite the fact that this is very difficult to achieve, I expressed the importance of a peaceful solution ... I offered to convey the message of President Zelensky to the President Putin, whom I will meet soon.
20:11 Johnson urged Western colleagues not to boycott the G20 summit in Indonesia if Putin visits it: "If you miss events like the G20, you risk giving others propaganda opportunities." The British prime minister also added that he would be "genuinely surprised" if Putin came in person.
20:05 The occupation "administration" of Kherson, together with employees of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation and a local collaborator, seized individual facilities that belong to Khersonoblenergo and provide electricity to the residents of the region, the company said. Thus, Khersonoblenergo partially lost control over the maintenance of the power grids of the Kherson region. The occupying authorities are now putting pressure on workers and forcing them to cooperate with the Russians. During the seizure of the enterprise, the invaders introduced a new "leader" by the name of Zhakhanovich.
19:53 The Armed Forces of Ukraine neutralized Russian DRGs in two directions, the Russian army continues to try to blockade Lisichansk, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in the evening summary .
19:22 In the village of Demidov, Kiev region, as a result of a lightning strike and detonation of an explosive device, a bridge over the Irpen River was destroyed, traffic was impossible. The Kyiv regional military administration reported one dead and two wounded.
19:16 The European Commission is discussing the possibility of excluding the Kaliningrad region from the sanctions regime, which provides for the restriction of transit through Lithuania, so as not to provoke an escalation with Moscow, writes Reuters.
18:59 Since the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, more than 5.5 million displaced persons out of 11.7 million have returned to their homes, the International Organization for Migration reported.
18:57 The Ministry of Infrastructure signed an agreement with the EU on the liberalization of road transport. Thanks to it, Ukrainian carriers will not need permits to carry out bilateral and transit traffic across the EU countries and will be able to freely deliver goods to European markets, the agency said.
18:46 One of the outcomes of the G7 meeting was an agreement on the introduction of a price ceiling for Russian oil, which, according to the leaders of the G7, will reduce the possibility of financing Russia's war against Ukraine. A similar initiative is being discussed with respect to Russian gas. About what this means - in the material G7 introduces a ceiling on oil prices in the Russian Federation .
18:20 NATO has officially started the process of Finland and Sweden joining the alliance. This was preceded by long negotiations with Turkey, which slowed down the process of integration of the Scandinavian countries. As a result, Turkey, Sweden and Finland reached special agreements. About what Ankara managed to bargain for - in the material NATO Expansion .
18:18 Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Igor Zhovkva, who heads the Ukrainian delegation at the NATO summit, said in Madrid that Ukraine is already compatible with the standards of the alliance: "Today, during the war, it is difficult to say that Ukraine does not meet NATO standards - this applies strategies or tactics of military operations. Ukraine is at war, if not with the second army in the world, but not with the weakest. And we prove that every day we are mutually compatible with NATO standards." Zhovkva stressed that NATO membership remains the best security guarantee for Ukraine.
18:04 The father of a Moroccan "sentenced" to death in the "DPR" turned to Putin with a request to help pardon him, Russian media report.
18:02 Ukraine and Indonesia have agreed to introduce a visa-free regime between the countries , Zelensky said.
18:00 Zelensky said at a joint briefing with Indonesian President Joko Widodo that Ukraine's participation in the G20 summit in Indonesia would depend on the situation in Ukraine and on the composition of the summit participants: "I am grateful to you, Mr. President, for the personal invitation to take part in the Group's summit twenty. And, of course, I accept this invitation. Ukraine's participation will depend on the situation in Ukraine and on the composition of the summit participants."
17:58 Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdan said that the signed memorandum with Finland and Sweden "does not mean at all that the process of the two Scandinavian countries joining the Alliance is completed." According to him, Turkey "will continue its struggle for these countries to stop being a base for terrorist organizations, and also for them to return the terrorists that Turkey wants." In particular, now Ankara will demand the extradition of 33 terrorist suspects by Sweden and Finland.
17:47 The prosecutor's office announced the suspicion of the "head of the commission" appointed by the Russians in Kherson to hold a "referendum" on the region's joining the Russian Federation. According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, the collaborator has repeatedly participated in election processes under Ukrainian law and headed the Kherson city election commission. And in May-June, she agreed to cooperate with the "authorities" appointed by the Russian Federation and voluntarily took the position of "chairman of the commission" for holding a "referendum" in the Kherson region.
17:33 During the next exchange of prisoners of war, 144 Ukrainian defenders returned home - this is the largest exchange since the beginning of a full-scale Russian invasion. Of the 144 released - 95 defenders of Azovstal , including 43 servicemen of the Azov regiment, said the Coordinating Headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war.
In total, 59 fighters of the National Guard, 30 - of the Naval Forces, 28 - of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 17 - of the State Border Service, 9 - of the Territorial Defense, 1 - of the National Police were released. Of these, 23 officers and 69 military sergeants and petty officers. Most of the liberated Ukrainians have severe injuries: gunshot and shrapnel wounds, explosive injuries, burns, fractures, limb amputations.
17:28 Arakhamia said that he had discussed with Branson the issue of building a new Mriya aircraft and the prospects for cooperation in the space sector. According to him, Branson "expressed his willingness to help in any way he can, was pleasantly stunned by our optimism and the fact that even in such difficult times we are thinking about how to make a leap in aerospace construction."
17:22 Podolyak said that the victory of Ukraine is the unconditional goal of the West: "Every day I communicate with advisers, members of parliament and representatives of Western countries and I can say one thing. The fact that Putin should shamefully lose this war is the absolute consensus of the leaders of the civilized world. I emphasize once again: the loss of the Russian Federation is the unconditional goal of the civilized world for the sake of the progressive development of mankind, and not a return to the Soviet camps and cold wars ... There is no question of concessions and compromises. There is a question of specific areas that must be worked on for the sake of victory. "
The adviser to the head of the Presidential Office emphasized that Ukraine would return the temporarily occupied territories by military means: "This is not a 'soothing mantra' and not a political slogan, this is pure mathematics and military calculation. All that is needed for this is a specific number of positions of specific heavy equipment to form parity weapons. We are working on this."
17:14 466 people were deported from Mariupol to Russia with the active participation of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Piotr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of the city, said. According to him, the house at Blvd. Meotida, 8, was completely destroyed by Russian artillery and aircraft, and the surviving 466 Mariupol residents were deported by the Russians to Novoazovsk during March 25 - April 10. Later, all of them were taken from Novoazovsk to the Chuvash Republic of the Russian Federation - with the active participation of the ICRC. In time, this coincides with the announcement of the opening of the ICRC camp for refugees from Ukraine in the Rostov region.
16:52 Summons to the army through the Diya application are not issued and will not be issued, Fedorov said and urged not to believe the Russian propaganda.
16:39 Stoltenberg said that NATO is now focused on supporting Ukraine: “Now we are focused on supporting Ukraine. This war, like most other wars, will someday end at the negotiating table. But it is important that Ukraine be able to agree on its own terms. And so we know that there is a very strong connection between what they can achieve at the negotiating table and their strength on the battlefield."
16:36 For two days across Nikolaev 19 rockets were let out. Today, the situation in the city and the region is even more dangerous than three weeks ago - the region is shelled every day "many times more", said the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim. On June 28, the Russians fired 11 missiles in the region, on June 29 - eight. There were hits on residential buildings, a stadium, a market, a garage cooperative, and infrastructure facilities. According to Kim, the Russian army is shelling the region "to intimidate the local population and demoralize our military."
16:17 The families of the victims and those injured as a result of the shelling of the Amstor shopping center in Kremenchuk will be paid material assistance, Mayor Vitaliy Maletsky said. Families of each deceased will receive 50,000 hryvnias, 25,000 hryvnias will be allocated to each victim who is on inpatient treatment, and 10,000 hryvnias to everyone who is treated on an outpatient basis and seeks medical help.
16:14 Syria has decided to recognize the independence and sovereignty of the "DPR" and "LPR", Russian media report, citing the Syrian Foreign Ministry.
16:10 The NATO summit decided to strengthen the military force, increasing the eight battalion groups in the east to brigades and response forces from 40 to 300 thousand.
16:08 NATO leaders left the strategic nuclear forces of the alliance as the highest guarantee of the security of the allies. At the same time, NATO believes that circumstances in which the alliance may have to use nuclear weapons are extremely unlikely.
16:06 NATO's new strategic concept says that the alliance wants to maintain channels of communication with Russia to reduce risks, but no longer considers Moscow its partner. It also states that NATO does not seek confrontation and does not pose a threat to the Russian Federation, but is strengthening its capabilities to contain it. At the same time, the rapprochement between China and Russia is contrary to the interests of NATO, the document says.
16:03 The United States, together with its allies, blocked and froze $330 billion worth of Russian assets in 100 days, the US Treasury said.
16:01 Madrid became the first Spanish sister city of Kiev, the corresponding memorandum was signed by the mayors of the cities, Klitschko said.
15:59 The NATO summit communiqué also says that "China is challenging our interests, security and values and is seeking to undermine the rules-based international order."
15:43 Zelensky, in an address to the NATO summit, said that the real goal of Russia's invasion of Ukraine is to seize and enslave countries that were previously in Moscow's zone of influence: "She wants to swallow, city after city, everyone in Europe whom the Russian leadership considers their property, not independent states. This is Russia's true goal. The question is who is next for her? Moldova? The Baltic States? Poland? The answer is all of them. Russia's goals are known. They are obvious. The Russian leadership sees the world differently. Not the way you "They look at Lithuania, for example - not as a member of your alliance, but as a republic of the Soviet Union. For us, it is a former republic of the USSR, for us it is the past, but they see it as a possible future, they want to enslave it again."
15:39 NATO leaders approved a new strategic concept for the alliance until 2030. In the summit declaration, Russia was called the most significant and direct threat to the security of the alliance.
Also, NATO countries officially invited Sweden and Finland to join the alliance and approved an assistance package for Ukraine , including accelerating the supply of non-lethal equipment, strengthening cyber defenses and modernizing the defense industry.
15:24 This morning, as a result of enemy shelling in the Izyum district, one person was killed, another was injured. During the day, four civilians were injured in the Chuguevsky district, among them an 11-year-old girl, Kharkiv OVA reports.
15:19 Severodonetsk thermal power plant has been almost completely destroyed by Russian troops, Energoatom reports.
15:07 The Russians fired a rocket at the Odessa region, it was shot down by air defense forces, reports the Operational Command Pivden. The Kh-22 missile was fired from a Tu-22 aircraft from the Black Sea. Air defense shot it down over the fields of the Odessa region, no damage or casualties.
14:52 NATO is ready to return to considering the issue of Ukraine's entry after its victory in the war with Russia, an alliance representative said during a summit in Madrid: "Now the focus of the Ukrainian government is to win the war. And this is what we fully support. And when Ukraine wants to talk again about the next steps, we will return to this issue. Now the focus of all of us is to make the greatest contribution that would help Ukraine on the battlefield against the Russian invaders. And when Ukraine is ready to return to the issue of time gaps ... And, again It's up to Ukraine to decide, but the focus now is to win the war."
14:47 The founder of Virgin Galactic Richard Branson visited Gostomel, the head of the local village administration Taras Dumenko reports. The billionaire was interested in the Antonov airfield and the possibility of restoring it.
14:44 The Russians are preparing a provocation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant - they want to accuse Ukrainian nuclear scientists of storing weapons on the territory of the plant, Energoatom said. Thus, the occupiers detained several workers and tortured them to "confess" that in March they dropped some kind of weapon into the concrete bowls of the cooling pools at the ZNPP.
The Russians insist the cooling pools need to be drained to check the bowls and to stop the sediments supplying water to the safety systems of the power units. Energoatom says that during the "test" the Russians can throw explosives, non-detonating shells and other weapons into concrete bowls, and then blame ZNPP workers for this.
14:40 The ECHR accepted for consideration the claim of Ukraine against Russia received on June 23. The head of the ECHR, Robert Spano, referred the case to the fourth section of the court and informed Russia about this. This case was preceded by four other submissions by Ukraine and some 8,500 individual complaints. Ukraine accuses Russia of violating a number of rights enshrined in the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
14:37 Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that Russia, in response to the strengthening of the US military presence in Europe, "will take compensatory measures, we have opportunities and resources."
14:32 Great Britain imposed sanctions against 12 Russians and eight companies. Among them are the oligarch Vladimir Potanin, the head of the main operational department of the Russian General Staff, Sergei Rudskoy, and the Moscow Industrial Bank.
14:29 Mayor of Nikolaev Alexander Senkevich published a video of the consequences of a morning missile attack on a five-story building. A rocket hit in one of the entrances destroyed apartments from the third to the fifth floor. Nearby residential buildings were also damaged from the shock wave and debris.
14:27 Odesa OVA from June 30, 2022 prohibits the use and sale in the territory of Odessa and the region of pyrotechnics, including fireworks, salutes and firecrackers, regardless of class. It is also prohibited to operate vehicles used in unauthorized auto and motorcycle competitions.
14:14 Zelensky, in his address to the NATO summit, urged "to find a place" for Ukraine in the common security space: "NATO's open door policy should not resemble the old Kiev metro turnstiles: they are open, and when you come up, the turnstiles close until you pay. Is Ukraine still little paid? Is our contribution to the defense of Europe and the whole of civilization still insufficient? So what else is needed? "
14:07 Norway will remove from storage and transfer three MLRS M270 installations to Ukraine, the country's Ministry of Defense said.
13:43 Zelensky addressed the participants of the NATO summit in Madrid: "To help Ukraine now end this war with a victory on the battlefield, that is, to give a really strong response to Russia's actions - this is what we need, and each of your states, and everything alliance, the entire Euro-Atlantic community. If you really define Russia as your main threat, you must fully support its main, first target. This is not a war of Russia only against Ukraine, this is a war for the right to dictate terms in Europe. For what the future world order will be Therefore, to support Ukraine in particular now with weapons, finances and politically such sanctions against Russia that will stop its ability to pay for the war is an absolute necessity.
The goals of Ukraine absolutely coincide with the goals of the alliance. We are interested in security and stability on the European continent, in the world. We are interested that the life of peoples be determined not by the notorious Munich speech of one leader, but by international law. We are interested in ensuring that there are no "gray" zones and territories of total war, where nothing remains but ruins. NATO is also interested in this."
13:17 To compensate for the refusal of Russian gas supplies, the EU countries will need at least three years, according to a Fitch Ratings report. The most dependent on Russian gas are Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic, analysts say.
13:03 NATO will supply weapons to Ukraine for as long as necessary, Scholz said in Madrid. In addition to weapons, the members of the alliance will continue to supply Kyiv with financial and humanitarian aid.
12:53 Russian troops fired at least 11 missiles across Nikolaev in the morning, Anna Zamazeeva, head of the regional council, said. According to preliminary information, as a result of falling into a high-rise building, four people died and five were injured. The rescue operation continues, people remain under the rubble.
12:49 Oleksandr Babich, the Golopristan mayor, and Ivan Samoylenko, the village head of Stanislav, were returned from Russian captivity, the Association of Ukrainian Cities reported. Alexander Babich was abducted by the invaders on March 28, Ivan Samoylenko - on June 24. Four more mayors remain in captivity, their fate is unknown.
12:43 The US has imposed sanctions against five Chinese companies for supporting the Russian army. As Deputy Secretary of Commerce Alan Esteves said, this decision "sends a powerful signal to businesses and individuals around the world: if they try to support Russia, the US will cut them off from its market."
12:41 It is becoming increasingly difficult to train recruits for the front or reserves on the territory of Ukraine due to Russian shelling, Arestovich said: “There are no safe places in Ukraine. Russian cruise missiles always fly - it’s impossible to shoot them all down. attacks on training centers.
Therefore, according to the adviser to the head of the OP, it is difficult to simultaneously concentrate a large number of military personnel in training centers. Britain has offered to train 10,000 men, but basic standard quality infantry training takes four months.
12:37 Collaborator of the occupiers of the Kherson region Kirill Stremousov announced the start of preparations for a "referendum" on joining Russia: "Yes, we are preparing for a referendum, and we will hold it. And, oddly enough, the Kherson region will make a decision and join the Russian Federation, becomes a full-fledged entity. At the same time, the representative of the occupying "authority" did not name the date of the "voting".
12:24 Biden announced his intention to create a permanent headquarters of one of the US army corps in Poland.
12:23 Reznikov said that he had a telephone conversation with the head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin: "On the eve of the NATO summit, I had a telephone conversation with my friend Lloyd Austin III. He confirmed NATO's strong support for Ukraine's struggle for freedom and independence. We also discussed another package military assistance to Ukraine from NATO member countries. To be continued".
12:17 Zelensky said in an interview with NBC that the atrocities of the Russian troops are a consequence of the information policy of the Russian Federation: "The leadership influenced this. These people are not free. They do not choose what to watch, what to read. They live in the information forest, deaf and dark. "And they don't even understand how civilization develops. And they are told that they are a super-nation. The same that the Nazis had. All the rest are second, third, fifth grade, like in a butcher's shop. Information policy always comes from the leadership. The leader does not tells them - go, rape. The leaders have made of them those people who are capable of these terrible steps. "
11:50 SBU interrogated a Russian sailor who, after the crash of the cruiser Moskva, joined the infantry. He participated in an attempt to rescue the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in April: “There were a lot of corpses and, basically, the rescue was very sad. The ship was lost, it sank, they couldn’t tow it ... I had seen enough of what was in Moscow, and did not want to see further "You die in the middle of the sea. It's very scary. And I refused."
11:47 Zelensky said in an interview with NBC that, despite the growing war weariness of the world, the civilized world cannot afford to let Ukraine lose: "We have no right to lose ... If we lose, whoever and whatever said, then democracy will lose, which means the United States will lose. European states that declare the values that we all talk about so much will lose."
"The war will definitely end. I am sure that it will end with the victory of Ukraine. Whatever it is. No matter how hard it is. We must oust the occupiers from our land. And how else can the war end? This is the only way," the President stressed and urged more allies to support Ukraine, because "we cannot win alone."
11:43 Biden said the United States will send two additional squadrons of fifth-generation F-35 fighters to Britain, strengthen air defense forces in Germany and Italy, and increase the number of destroyers based in Spain from four to six.
11:28 Zelensky, in an interview with the American NBC television channel, said that where Ukraine loses one tank, Russia loses five: "We need to understand that not only we are losing. Where we are losing one tank, they are losing five. That's how we "We fight, but it's difficult for us. Because, again, the numbers are different. They have ten tanks for one of our tanks, ten of their soldiers for one of our soldiers. There are ten times more of them, and it's very difficult."
11:26 British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said in Madred that peace talks with Russia are possible only after her defeat in Ukraine: "We need to ensure Russia's defeat in Ukraine. This is necessary for European security, freedom and democracy. This is the only way we can achieve lasting peace in Europe."
She stressed that she does not consider it possible to negotiate with the Russian Federation while its troops remain in Ukraine: “There are people who say that there are opportunities for negotiations now, while Russia is still in Ukraine. But I think that this will bring a false peace. This will lead to further aggression in the future. We must learn the lessons of the past - the mistakes of the Minsk protocol, for example, which failed to ensure lasting peace in the region."
11:21 The occupiers are collecting personal data of Mariupol residents and are trying to recruit evacuated citizens. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, in order to collect data, an acceptance of applications for damaged property has been organized. In applications, citizens must indicate without fail that property was allegedly damaged as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
It is also necessary to list all owners of housing and citizens registered there and provide information about the place of their current residence. If the citizens registered in the house left for the territory controlled by Ukraine or abroad (except for the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus), then the people who filed applications are summoned for interrogation and further required to establish contact with those who left and try to force them to cooperate with the occupiers.
At the same time, the process of restoring residential premises has not yet begun, no compensation has been paid, and options for relocation to other housing have not been provided. Those who lost their homes are offered to move to the housing of local residents who have left the city.
11:14 The death toll as a result of a rocket attack on a residential building in Nikolaev has increased to four people , the State Emergency Service reported.
11:12 Ukraine does not give up the idea of joining NATO, Kuleba said in an interview with the French radio station RFI: "Why not? The issue of joining NATO is spelled out in the Constitution. In addition, the structure of the alliance is the most effective security mechanism in the European space."
11:11 Briton Sean Pinner, "sentenced" to death in the "DPR", filed a cassation appeal against this decision, Yulia Tserkovnikova, the prisoner of war's lawyer, said: "We filed a cassation appeal, the consideration period is two months. If it is rejected, we will write a petition for pardon. The client asks, I am obliged."
11:09 Poland has included the anti-war survival simulator This War of Mine in the extracurricular program. A detailed plan of lectures has already been prepared for teachers, the country's Ministry of Education and Science said. This War of Mine was released in 2014 and is based on the siege of Sarajevo during the war in Yugoslavia. Users play for the civilian population, which is trying to survive in the fighting.
11:07 France will give Ukraine six more self-propelled artillery mounts Caesar, said the Minister of the armed forces of the country, Sebastien Lecornu. At the same time, he did not specify the delivery time. The self-propelled guns will come in addition to the 12 howitzers that were delivered earlier.
11:03 British intelligence reports that Russian troops continue to gradually advance and are trying to cordon off Lisichansk. Since June 25, they have advanced another 2 km in the area of the Lisichansk oil refinery to the south of the city. Analysts believe that Russia will continue to strike and will try to prevent the Ukrainian military from resupplying. The lack of modern high-precision strike weapons in the Russian Federation is likely to lead to the fact that there will be new victims among the civilian population.
10:56 German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock confirmed media reports that Berlin does not want to abandon the Russia-NATO Founding Act of 1997: "We have a new strategic concept here at the NATO summit, which we will adopt. We are facing this new the bitter reality that we should now be able to defend ourselves against the Russian Federation if this happens ... But we have always made it clear, as the federal government of Germany, that we, for example, do not want to denounce the Russia-NATO Founding Act" .
10:52 Stoltenberg confirmed that Russia in the new Strategic Concept of the alliance will be called the main threat to security, and the concept itself "will become a blueprint for how to lead the alliance into a future more competitive and dangerous world and how to ensure the security of NATO and almost a billion of its citizens in it."
The Secretary General also said that the expansion of NATO response forces from 40 to 300 thousand will take place next year. These forces will be paid for and organized by their NATO countries, they will be deployed in their countries, but will be dedicated to the defense of specific territories. In addition, a large number of heavy weapons and equipment will be placed, as well as warehouses in these territories.
10:48 Johnson said in an interview with ZDF that Putin's actions towards Ukraine are "a perfect example of toxic masculinity."
10:46 NATO told Zelensky that Russia needs to be defeated militarily, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Cros said at the summit of the alliance in Madrid: "We had the opportunity to talk with President Zelensky ... We made it clear: this war can only be won by battlefield, and we must continue to support President Zelensky and the Ukrainian population as much as possible to win on the battlefield against Russian aggression."
10:43 Andrey Klishas, head of the constitutional committee of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, said that Norwegian sovereignty over Svalbard is "a big question" after the refusal to let Russian cargo go there. The day before, the Norwegian government announced that it had joined the fifth package of EU sanctions against Russia and closed the border with the Russian Federation for land transport and its ports. For trucks and cars from Russia, the only checkpoint on the Russian-Norwegian border, Storskog, will be closed.
Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Konstantin Kosachev said that Oslo violated the Paris Treaty of 1920, according to which the parties, including Norway and Russia, recognize Norway's sovereignty over Svalbard on the condition that the import of goods from countries participating in the agreement will not be subject to restrictions.
10:29 In Dnipro, as a result of yesterday's missile attack, seven people were injured, among them a six-year-old boy - he was hit by a fragment from a broken window glass, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko.
10:26 In Kremenchug, rescuers examined and dismantled the debris of building structures on 75% of the total area of the shopping center destroyed by the Russian missile. As a result of the shelling of the Amstor shopping center, 18 people were killed (one of whom died in the hospital), eight fragments of human bodies were found during the rubble, the State Emergency Service reports. 61 people applied for medical help, 26 of them were hospitalized.
10:17 Kuleba urged partners to disconnect Gazprombank from SWIFT, which Russia uses both to receive payments for oil and gas and to pay salaries to its military.
09:54 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the provision of new assistance to Ukraine in the amount of 151.7 million Canadian dollars (about 117.7 million US dollars). Canada will also provide a $200 million loan to Ukraine through the IMF. The funds will be used for humanitarian aid, agricultural solutions, demining, as well as establishing accountability for human rights violations.
09:49 NATO today at the summit in Madrid will take Sweden and Finland into an alliance , Stoltenberg said.
09:47 The head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, said that Azovstal fighters who had surrendered would not be exchanged: “We decided not to give them up, we agreed where it was supposed to. in a pre-trial detention center. Now there are two thousand such fighters who arrived yesterday. We are working with them in detail and thoroughly."
09:28 In Kharkiv, the Russians fired at the Industrial, Shevchenkovsky and Sloboda districts, six people were injured, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. In the region, during the day, the Russian army fired at Izyumsky, Chuguevsky, Kharkov, Bogodukhovsky districts - two people were killed, three were injured.
09:10 Indonesian President Joko Widodo announced that he was already on a train to Kiev. One of the main topics that Widodo and Zelensky will discuss will be the November G20 summit.
09:07 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of June 29. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Bakhmut direction.
personnel - about 35,450 (+200) people liquidated,
tanks - 1572 (+5),
armored combat vehicles - 3720 (+16),
artillery systems - 781 (+3),
MLRS - 246 (+3),
air defense systems - 103 (+1),
aircraft - 217 (+0),
helicopters - 185 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 640 (+4),
cruise missiles - 142 (+3),
ships/boats - 14 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2598 (+9),
special equipment - 61 (+0).
09:02 More than 20 residents of Lisichansk were wounded as a result of shelling by Russian cluster shells, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. Among the wounded there are children aged 14 and 15.
08:48 British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has ruled out the possibility that London will become part of the European Political Community, the creation of which was initiated by Macron. Presenting the new community as an alternative to EU membership, Macron noted that this idea could unite countries with EU-like values in trade, the rule of law and freedom of movement from "the UK to Ukraine."
08:44 The main efforts of the enemy are focused on conducting military operations in the Lisichansk and Bakhmut directions with the aim of encircling Lisichansk. The enemy is advancing with partial success in the Bakhmut direction and is storming in the Slavic direction, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report . Near the border of Ukraine, the Russians are deploying MLRS Grad to strike at the Sumy region.
08:36 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that the Ukrainian defense of Severodonetsk cost the Russians dearly, despite Moscow's new tactics aimed at limiting Russian losses. Russian forces advancing in Severodonetsk will need time to recover before participating in the Lisichansk assault. At the same time, the location and number of Russian troops that captured Severodonetsk remain unclear.
Analysts believe that Ukrainian forces are likely to withdraw, which could include a withdrawal from Lysychansk and the Luhansk region in the near future. Kyiv can continue this approach until the Russian attack culminates or Ukrainian forces move into more secure positions along a straighter line dotted with fortified cities and towns.
08:32 The situation in Lisichansk is reminiscent of what happened in Severodonetsk, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. He also said that now the Russian army continues its offensive in the direction of Volchoyarka - Verkhnekamenka, trying to surround Lisichansk.
08:23 The number of victims after blow on a high-rise building in Nikolaev grew to three, five people are injured , the head of OVA Vitaly Kim reported.
07:55 The Russians launched a missile attack on a residential high-rise building in Nikolaev in the morning, it is known about two dead and three wounded , the rescuer of the State Emergency Service also suffered, the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim said.
07:21 In the south of Ukraine, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched five airstrikes, eliminating 22 Russian soldiers, the Uragan MLRS and two ammunition depots, OK Pivden reported. According to the command, the Russians attacked the outskirts of Aleksandrovka in the Kherson region with a pair of Ka-52 attack helicopters, in response, the Armed Forces of Ukraine used aviation five times, in particular in the area of the administrative border of the Nikolaev and Kherson regions.
07:13 In the Dnieper, under the rubble of a building of a motor transport company destroyed by an enemy missile, rescuers found two dead - a man and a woman. They were not military, there was a peaceful enterprise where peaceful people worked, stressed the head of the UVA, Valentin Rezichenko. At the scene, experts found fragments of a Caliber rocket. The day before, the enemy sent six such missiles across the Dnepropetrovsk region, four of them were shot down.
07:09 The partisan movement in Melitopol is working in close communication with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The occupiers and collaborators are afraid to leave the house and enter the entrance, said the mayor of the city Ivan Fedorov.
06:47 The leadership of Ukraine specially stores weapons supplied by the West in the centers of large cities, covering it as a shield with civilians, Russian diplomat Dmitry Polyansky said at a meeting of the UN Security Council.
01:38 The UN Security Council condemned the death of people due to a Russian missile attack on a shopping center in Kremenchug: "We strongly condemn the death of civilians as a result of these rocket attacks, in particular, the shelling of a crowded shopping center in Kremenchug, Poltava region of Ukraine. This strike was flagrant attack on civilian infrastructure and the civilian population."
The UN Security Council also condemned the intensification of Russian missile strikes on residential areas and civilian infrastructure on June 25-27. Countries stressed the need to investigate and bring to justice violators of international humanitarian law and perpetrators of war crimes.
The opposition's Syrian Civil Defense, also known as White Helmets, said the attack occurred just south of the rebel-held city of Idlib. The White Helmets said there were no other fatalities except the man on the motorcycle, adding that they have handed over the man's body to morgue officials in Idlib.
Syrian opposition activists did not identify the slain man while the U.S. Central Command statement indicated he was a Yemeni citizen.
Members of Horas al-Din, Arabic for "Guardians of Religion," are hardcore al-Qaida elements who broke away from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the strongest insurgent group in Idlib, the last major rebel enclave in war-torn Syria.
In June 2020, the U.S. military killed Khaled Aruri, a top Jordanian commander with Horas al-Din, also in Idlib. A drone strike in December 2019 killed a senior Horas al-Din commander, the Jordanian citizen Bilal Khuraisat, also known as Abu Khadija al-Urduni.
CENTCOM said in its statement that violent extremist organizations, including Al Qaida-aligned organizations such as Horas al-Din, "continue to present a threat to America and our allies." It added that al-Qaida-aligned militants use Syria as a safe haven to coordinate with their external affiliates and plan operations outside of Syria.
"The removal of this senior leader will disrupt al-Qaida's ability to carry out attacks against U.S. citizens, our partners, and innocent civilians around the world," CENTCOM said.
Brett McGurk said at the time when he was the top U.S. envoy for the coalition battling the Islamic State group, that Idlib is the largest al-Qaida haven since bin Laden's days in Afghanistan.
Hmmmmm. Perhaps we should no longer support their independence from Syria....
A U.S. airstrike killed al-Qaida's second in command, former bin Laden aide Abu al-Kheir al-Masri, in Syria in 2017.
In February, the U.S. military killed the latest IS leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, in Idlib province near the Turkish border. The first leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was also killed in a U.S. strike in Idlib, in 2019.
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22:49 Nationalists and foreign mercenaries intend to wipe the city of Avdiivka in the DPR from the face of the earth. They plan to blame the Russian military for this, said Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation.
He stressed that the Ukrainian military for this will copy the tactics of the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War.
21:37 Children's playgrounds will be banned in the capital's shopping centers.
18:36 Melitopol School No. 15 was the first in the Zaporozhye region to receive Russian accreditation. This was announced by the head of Rosobrnadzor of the Russian Federation Anzor Muzaev. And now the 15th school has received the right to issue Russian-style certificates.
17:30 The first branch of Promsvyazbank was opened in Kherson. From June 29, Kherson residents can open accounts and issue bank cards at Promsvyazbank. This is the first Russian bank that started its work in the liberated Kherson region.
17:05 Russian Armed Forces column moving on the Kharkov direction.
15:33 NATO informed Ukraine that they do not want its membership in the alliance.
13:37 On July 1, Promsvyazbank starts working in Kherson. Address: Ushakov Ave., 53
12:50 “The entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO and the attempts to blockade Kaliningrad together may mean the beginning of NATO attempts to take Kaliningrad away from Russia as punishment for Russia taking the Black Sea coast from Ukraine. They want to make the Baltic Sea a NATO sea," they write inTelegram.
11:37 New briefing by the Russian Defense Ministry, the main thing:
- In the area of the settlement of Pitomnik, Kharkiv region, as a result of a strike by Russian artillery, up to a 100 militants of the Nazi Kraken formation and about 10 units of military equipment were destroyed
- The high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed four command posts in a day, including the Kharkiv-1 and Kharkiv-2 territorial defense battalions and the training base for foreign mercenaries near the city of Nikolaev
- Affected: manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 32 districts, a base for the repair of equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Lysichansk region, eight ammunition depots and weapons in the regions of the Kherson region, the Donetsk People's Republic, Mykolaiv region, as well as a fuel base in the Mykolaiv region
11:08 A resident of Kherson told how, for a reward of 1,500 hryvnias (about 3 thousand rubles), she went to the frontline zone with her son, who is not even two years old, to collect data on the location of the Russian military.
11:05 The calculation of the Krasukha-S4 electronic warfare complex suppressed the airborne radar of a reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The performance characteristics of the Krasukha-S4 complex make it possible to detect all types of air targets, including those moving on the ground.
09:40 The war will end with the victory of Ukraine - Zelensky in an interview with NBC.
09:00 The military-civilian administration of Berdyansk reports that today, June 29, demining work continues in the port of Berdyansk. Residents are asked to remain calm.
08:30 4 Tochka-U missiles were fired at Novaya Kakhovka. All of them were intercepted by Russian air defense, but three adults were injured and one child was killed by the wreckage. The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kherson region clarifies that the missiles were supposed to strike civilian and social infrastructure.
08:20 Mi-35M VKS of the Russian Federation with BKO Vitebsk in the NVO zone. Work from the cabling, the operator's story.
[FoxNews] Every day, scientists at the Texas Department of Public Safety crime lab have their hands on one of the deadliest drugs in America.
"This here is a kilo of fentanyl," says DPS Forensic Scientist Jennifer Hatch as she handles the package wearing gloves.
Hatch gave Fox News a tour of the DPS Houston lab, explaining that nearly every street drug she analyzes is laced with the synthetic opioid.
"We are more surprised when they do come back legitimate, than when they don’t," says Hatch.
Last year, fentanyl was the number one cause of death among Americans 18 to 45 years-old, according to data by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Most of the time the drug is pressed into pill form. Though, authorities also confiscate kilos of fentanyl smuggled in from the border. Those large shipments also end up at the lab.
DPS says the kilo of fentanyl could produce up to 500,000 lethal doses. Which has the potential to kill hundreds of thousands of people.
Before the drug ends up at the lab, law enforcement has to find it. Which is not an easy task. Investigators say the Mexican Cartels hide it in everything from tires to water pumps. One of the people leading the charge to find the drug is Texas DPS Lt. Chris Olivarez.
"Every state is a border state because of what is taking place right now," says Lt. Olivarez.
The Lieutenant is one of many leading the charge in Texas to stop the pounds of what he calls poison being shipped into the U.S. from China and Mexico.
"The drug cartels are using the chemicals to mass produce fake pills," says Lt. Olivarez.
Fox took a close look at the cannot tell the difference between the prescription pills and the counterfeit pills that are laced with fentanyl. Even scientists must use high-tech instruments to analyze the components to know for sure.
"These are all fake Xanax tablets, and they look excellent," says Hatch.
DPS says the cartel makes big money off the synthetic opioid, but Americans pay the ultimate price.
"It is killing hundreds of Americans daily," says Lt. Olivarez.
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[REGNUM] Western leaders need to cut back on alcohol to keep fit. This was announced on June 29 by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a press conference following the results of the VI Caspian Summit.
“I don’t know how they wanted to undress, to the waist, below the waist. I think it would be a disgusting sight anyway,” Putin said. Except for the Finnish prime minister
“Well, if you recall the words of Pushkin, he said the words, in my opinion: you can be a sensible person and think about the beauty of underwear. Therefore, I completely agree with this. Everything in a person should be harmonious: both the soul and the body. But in order for everything to be harmonious, you need to give up alcohol abuse, other bad habits, go in for physical culture, sports. Colleagues - I know them all personally. We are not in the best period of relations, this is understandable. But nevertheless, they are leaders, they have character. And if they want, they will achieve the desired success. But you need to work on yourself,” he continued.
But was he in one of his customary shirtless glamour poses when he said it?
Earlier, the heads of the G7 remembered the Russian leader at the dinner table. Preparing to be photographed, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson asked the others whether to keep their jackets or take them off to look "cooler" than the Russian leader. Later, Johnson also said that the special operation in Ukraine was a sign of the "toxic masculinity" of the Russian leader.
The Kremlin strongman made the snarky comment during a visit to the Russia-friendly Central Asian republic of Turkmenistan Thursday when asked about G7 leaders poking fun at him earlier this week.
As they sat down for talks in the German Alps, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson quipped that G7 leaders could take their clothes off to “show that we’re tougher than Putin” and “show them our pecs.”
His Canadian counterpart, Justin Trudeau, joked that they could try to match Putin’s infamous 2009 naked torso pictures with a “bare-chested horseback riding display.”
[Fox8Live] Disgraced R&B superstar R. Kelly was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison for using his fame to sexually abuse young fans, including some who were just children, in a systematic scheme that went on for decades.
Through tears and anger, several of Kelly’s accusers told a court in New York City, and the singer himself, that he had misled and preyed upon them.
"You made me do things that broke my spirit. I literally wished I would die because of how low you made me feel," said one unnamed survivor, directly addressing Kelly, who kept his hands folded and his eyes downcast.
"Do you remember that?" she asked.
Kelly, 55, didn’t give a statement and showed no reaction on hearing his penalty, which also included a $100,000 fine. He has denied wrongdoing, and he plans to appeal his conviction.
The Grammy-winning, multiplatinum-selling songwriter was found guilty last year of racketeering and sex trafficking at a trial that gave voice to accusers who had previously wondered if their stories were being ignored because they were Black women.
Victims "are no longer the preyed-on individuals we once were," another one of his accusers said at the sentencing.
"There wasn’t a day in my life, up until this moment, that I actually believed that the judicial system would come through for Black and brown girls," she added outside court.
A third woman, sobbing and sniffling as she addressed the court, also said Kelly’s conviction renewed her faith in the legal system.
The woman said Kelly victimized her after she went to a concert when she was 17.
"I was afraid, naive and didn’t know to handle the situation," she said, so she didn’t speak up at the time.
"Silence," she said, "is a very lonely place."
Kelly’s lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean, said he was "devastated" by the sentence and saddened by what he had heard.
"He’s a human being. He feels what other people are feeling. But that doesn’t mean that he can accept responsibility in the way that the government would like him to and other people would like him to. Because he disagrees with the characterizations that have been made about him," she said.
The sentence caps a slow-motion fall for Kelly, who is known for work including the 1996 hit "I Believe I Can Fly" and the cult classic "Trapped in the Closet," a multipart tale of sexual betrayal and intrigue.
He was adored by legions of fans and sold millions of albums even after allegations about his abuse of maiden of tender yearss began circulating publicly in the 1990s. He beat child pornography charges in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... in 2008, when a jury acquitted him.
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I had to revisit how Macklemore torched him in Thrift Shop. All makes sense now.
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Having worked a hotel/inn in Fresno on Blackstone Ave. (mid 1970's). Where many Music Entertainment groups stayed.
Even before the groups arrived in town, the groupies, ages teen to granny, Parents with older teen daughters were already flooding in from surrounding areas and states.
Too many willing to party, ride or be ridden.
The Hotel Mgt.even hired off-duty police to walk the halls to keep it in the rooms.
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Was at a hotel bar back in the day - they had karaoke, my friends could sing and I can watch and shoot pool, we knew the bartender. Modest crowd for a weekend night.
Suddenly the place started getting packed with girls all dressed up. Filled in for some thirty minutes when I leaned right and asked what the hell was going on. "Celebrity Musician" is going to stay here tonight. "Who the hell is Celebrity Musician" I asked. Turns out CM was on my left ordering a drink.
[IsraelTimes] Dozens of safe rooms being built adjacent to Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ... border in Shlomi; bids for construction begin in several other towns, with plans to eventually place them in 21 locations
The Defense Ministry on Tuesday announced that it had begun reinforcement work on dozens of homes in Israeli communities close to the Lebanese border — those that are most likely to be hit by rocket fire in a future conflict with the Hezbollah terror group.
The effort, dubbed Shield of the North, officially began in October, when the ministry’s Engineering and Construction Division, along with the Israel Defense Forces’ Home Front Command, started installing new bomb shelters in homes in the community of Kfar Yuval, northeast of Kiryat Shmona.
In the coming months, dozens of bomb shelters will be built in homes in the northern town of Shlomi, which were constructed in the 1970s without reinforced rooms, the ministry said.
Separately, the ministry published a tender for the construction of 110 bomb shelters in Misgav Am, and is set to publish similar tenders for the towns of Margaliot and Manara in the coming weeks.
The ministry said it was in the "architectural planning phase" of bomb shelters in 12 other locales, totaling some 1,000 homes.
Ultimately, the ministry intends to carry out its Shield of the North reinforcement plan in the 21 communities closest to the northern border. (Shield of the North is not to be confused with the IDF’s Operation Northern Shield, in which the military uncovered a number of attack tunnels dug into Israeli territory by Hezbollah.)
The reinforcement plan came after years of promises to improve the shelters in northern communities, which were regularly found to be lacking, despite the high probability that these areas would be hit by barrages from Hezbollah.
A 2020 state comptroller report found that nearly 30 percent of Israeli citizens do not have access to functioning bomb shelters near their homes, including over a quarter of a million people who live near the borders with 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 Hamaswith 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 and Lebanon.
The Defense Ministry has been conducting a similar effort to reinforce kindergartens in Israeli communities close to the border with Gaza.
According to some national security experts, Israel relies too heavily upon its offensive and active defense capabilities, like the Iron Dome and other missile defense systems, to quickly neutralize threats, instead of building up its physical fortifications and preparing to more safely absorb attacks.
Last month, the Home Front Command practiced a simulation in which Israeli cities could be bombarded with 1,500 rockets a day with 80 sites being heavily damaged and some 300 casualties during a several-day flare-up with Hezbollah.
The terror group has long been the IDF’s most significant adversary, with an estimated arsenal of nearly 150,000 rockets and missiles that can reach anywhere in Israel.
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[RIA Novosti] About 500 Ukrainian soldiers and 74 mercenaries left Lisichansk overnight for the Seversk region, Vitaly Kiselyov, assistant head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Luhansk People's Republic, said on his Telegram channel.
“At the moment, there are six battalions of Ukrainian troops in Seversk, and foreigners are also arriving. The personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine live in “abandoned houses” and apartments,” he wrote.
According to Kisilev, some battalions are going to leave the city in the near future.
Mercenaries from Poland and Georgia spotted in Severodonetsk and Lisichansk.
"Since April 28, there has been no water, no gas, no electricity. People communicate with the help of Kyivstar and Life. They charge batteries with a generator, but only if they produce gasoline," the assistant to the head of the LPR Ministry of Internal Affairs concluded.
On February 24, Russia launched a special operation in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal "the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years."
The DPR has already liberated Volnovakha , a strategically important regional center south of Donetsk, Mariupol, the largest city on the coast of the Sea of Azov, and Svyatogorsk, where a large Orthodox monastery with the status of a lavra is located. In the LPR, almost the entire territory of the republic was liberated, with the exception of Lisichansk.
[RIA Novosti] In Lisichansk, a group of Russian troops "O" ("Brave") actually cut the last major road connecting the Ukrainian military with the "mainland", RIA Novosti correspondent reports citing a military source.
As the interlocutor of the agency clarified, we are talking about the city of Seversk in the Bakhmut district.
"Already now we can talk about the operational encirclement of the enemy in Lisichansk," he said.
At the same time, according to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to stop the offensive of the Russian army and are actively mining the fields and forest plantations around Lysychansk with the help of the PFM-1 "Lepestok" (Ukraine ratified the Ottawa Convention in 2005, which prohibits the use, accumulation and production of anti-personnel mines.
In addition, the enemy is conducting intensive shelling, anti-tank crews are operating, but the Russian military continues to move forward, the source said.
Earlier, the Russian Armed Forces reported that they had taken control of an oil refinery 16 kilometers southwest of Lisichansk and liberated the neighboring village of Topolevka, Popasnyansky district.
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[ColonelCassad] 1. Lisichansk.
Today, the Lisichansk Oil Refinery has been taken, fighting continues in Verkhnekamenka, in the area of Belaya Gora, Privolye (there are reports of the withdrawal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine), as well as in Lisichansk itself. The enemy is partially withdrawing to Seversk, where a new line of defense is being built.
2. Artemovsk.
Fighting continues in Klinovoe, our troops have advanced in the village. Pokrovsky has no special changes. The enemy also holds supply lines to the Novolugansk and Uglegorsk TPPs.
3. Soledar.
Fighting continues near Nikolaevka, in Belogorovka and Berestovo. The enemy is still holding the front, but soon the Armed Forces of Ukraine will have to solve the problem of the offensive of the RF Armed Forces from the north, after the completion of the liberation of Lisichansk, the main pressure will be on Seversk and Soledar.
4. Slavyansk.
Fights at Bogorodichny, Krasnopolye, Prishib, Sidorovo. The pace of progress towards Slavyansk is still low.
5. Kharkov.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have ousted the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Dementievka and are intensifying the fire destruction of enemy positions on the outskirts of Kharkov. Opportunities for advancement are being felt in the area of the Upper Passages, Uda, Tsupovka. The processing of the Zolochevsky fortified area is also underway.
6. Avdievka.
On the front line without significant changes. Artillery shelling of Donetsk became less intense after the intensification of counter-battery work.
7. Ugledar.
After recent attempts at an offensive near Pavlovka, Yegorovka and Shevchenkovo, the enemy, having suffered heavy losses, was forced to reduce his activity, and the battles here are again developing in a positional manner. In the area of Novomikhailovka and Marinka, no changes.
8. Zaporozhye.
On the line Kamenskoe-Orekhov-Gulyaipole-Velikaya Novoselovka without significant changes. In the Kamenskoye area, the largest exchange of prisoners of war since the beginning of the SVO took place - they changed 144 to 144 people. Among those exchanged from the Ukrainian side were 43 wounded Azov militants. Among ours are several pilots.
9. Nikolaev.
At the front, no significant changes. In the Nikopol direction, the enemy is trying to crush in the Potemkino area. Nikolayev continues to be subjected to intense missile strikes. Activation in this direction is quite possible in July.
10. Odessa.
Ukraine continues to prepare for attempts to attack the island of Serpents as part of the political task. In the coming weeks, this will certainly result in shelling of the island from the MLRS and OTRK, as well as attempts to strike from the air. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the Black Sea Fleet are also preparing for these attempts.
Ukraine needs at least some kind of victory against the background of the retreat in the Donbass. In addition, the US and Britain are trying to challenge the control of the Black Sea Fleet in the northwestern part of the Black Sea.
[IsraelTimes] Highest corpse count estimate for conflict does not include tens of thousands of soldiers also dead.
The first 10 years of Syria’s conflict, which started in 2011, killed more than 300,000 civilians, the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... said Tuesday — the highest official estimate to date of conflict-related civilian deaths in the country.
The conflict began with anti-government protests that broke out in March 2011 in different parts of Syria, demanding democratic reforms following Arab Spring protests in Egypt, Tunisia, 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... , Libya, and Bahrain that removed some Arab leaders who had been in power for decades.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... it quickly turned into a full-blown civil war that killed hundreds of thousands and destroyed large parts of the country.
Tuesday’s report published by the UN Human Rights Office followed what it said were rigorous assessment and statistical analysis of the available data on civilian casualties. According to the report, 306,887 civilians are estimated to have been killed in Syria between March 1, 2011, and March 31, 2021, because of the conflict.
The figures released by the UN do not include soldiers and hard boyz killed in the conflict; their numbers are believed to be in the tens of thousands. The numbers also do not include people who were killed and buried by their families without notifying authorities.
"These are the people killed as a direct result of war operations. This does not include the many, many more civilians who died due to the loss of access to healthcare, to food, to clean water and other essential human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... ," said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet.
The report, mandated by the UN Human Rights Council, cited 143,350 civilian deaths individually documented by various sources with detailed information, including at least their full name, date, and location of death.
Also, statistical estimation techniques were used to connect the dots where there were missing elements of information. Using these techniques, a further 163,537 civilian deaths were estimated to have occurred.
"The conflict-related casualty figures in this report are not simply a set of abstract numbers, but represent individual human beings," Bachelet said. She added that the work of civil society organizations and the UN in monitoring and documenting conflict-related deaths is key in helping families and communities establish the truth, seek accountability, and pursue effective remedies.
The estimate of 306,887 means that on average, every single day, for the past 10 years, 83 civilians suffered violent mostly peaceful deaths due to the conflict, the report said. It was based on eight sources of information — including the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies, the Center for Statistics and Research-Syria, the Syrian Network for Human Rights, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, and the Violations Documentation Center.
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The Russians were onerous, paranoid bastids prior the invasion of Ukraine. The Russians will be onerous, parnoid bastids long after the invasion of the Ukraine.
Sort of like the views of the Zermatt across the Lake Riffelsee. Nothing changes really that much.
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The fascinating thing is that since Peter the Great, Russia has been invaded by the Swedes, the French (who at least got to Moscow), and the Germans. They all failed. The last one to actually conquer Russia were the Yuan Chinese (aka the Mongols). You would think that the ones that kept them in a yoke for hundreds of years would be of significant concern.
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^ This is why they are onerous, paranoid bastids. And they must know they are really not good at war fighting, or much of anything else except making vodka and Kalashnikovs. They have always relied on thousands of miles of empty steppes between their enemies and Moscow so that anybody who actually makes it to Moscow will be worn out, freezing and over extended.
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One might also understand if they are not impressed with NATO claims of strictly peaceful, defensive intentions. They've heard all that from other Western powers many times in the past.
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Also Britain dinking around in Chrimea and central Asia.
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To me it just looks like two more freeloaders who will be leveraging the US military to back up their provocations of Putin. If Lithuania and all the pipsqueaks are going poke the bear, I need at least a couple of months in the gym to get back in passable shape to mobilize in my late 50’s. It would be impossible to form a decent military out of what the left is churning out of our schools.
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How Nigerian Army Killed Septuagenarian, Burnt Houses, Displaced Residents In Cross River Community After Losing Six Officers To Militants | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/MMKSA5Gw0npic.twitter.com/CvViHMmp1y
Several persons, including a 70-year-old resident, identified as Mr. Okoi Egbai Cletus Offem, have been killed in a clash between troops of the Nigerian Army and residents of Nko and Onyadama communities of Cross River State.
SaharaReporters learnt from the daughter of the dear departed that members of the Nko community had attacked some soldiers who were deployed to restore peace between the warring Onyadama community in Obubra Local Government Area (LGA) and Nko community in Yakurr LGA of the state.
But the soldiers descended on the whole community, killing innocent residents.
She said, "The soldiers burned my father's house while he and my mother were inside. My mother ran out of the house naked but my father could not escape. He was burned to ashes," she said in a voice that reflected grief and sorrow.
She continued: "Many people are hiding in the bush to the attack. The soldiers have taken over our community."
Another source from the community also told SaharaReporters that many people had been displaced due to the attack.
He said, "These are Nigerian refugees from Nko community in Yakurr Local Government Area in Cross River State that were displaced from their homes by the military on account of communal war.
"The Nigerian Military alleged that one of their men was shot in the process of maintaining peace between the Onyoadama and Nko community. This eventually led to the deployment of more military men to Nko who have killed several, tortured our women, raped, looted and burnt down houses.
"This is callous and inhuman. We are also Nigerians. We need help and justice because the military has done more harm than good. This is a civil war experience and these people are traumatised.
"I appeal to the President and the Chief of Army Staff of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to quickly call the army personnel to order and also set up a panel to investigate this matter. We need justice. Today is the fourth day of military brutality in Nko," he added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, there was only one thought in the mouse's mind: I can do this! I can do this! Then the trap sprung... the Cross River State government has ordered the Nko community enmeshed in a clash with the military to produce the missing six personnel of the Nigerian Army alive.
The order was contained in a statement issued by the Deputy Chief press secretary to Governor Ben Ayade, Linus Obogo Tuesday.
The state security council comprising of all service commanders presided by Gov Ayade has been meeting since Monday morning over the weekend communal clash between Nko youths in Yakurr LGA and their neighbours, Onyadama community in Abi LGA over a parcel of land.
Media reports say Nko youths suspected the army of being partial in the matter and allegedly shot an army commander on Saturday evening alongside six other soldiers.
In reaction, more soldiers were mobilised from Edor Barrack in Ikom, which led to more violence, house burning and killings.
In the statement, the government ordered the army to sustain its operation in Nko community until those behind the shooting of the six military personnel are produced or fished out
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It's not like septuagenarians are a protected species or anything. In the US they get shoved in front of subway trains and barely get a mention in the newspaper.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:28 The operational lines of the JCCC DPR receivedadditionalinformation on damages as a result of shelling of the VFU of the following settlements:
Donetsk, Petrovsky district:
- st. Rodnikovaya, 75 - a direct hit of VFU ammunition in a private residential building;
- st. Rodnikovaya, 77 - a direct hit of the VFU ammunition in the outbuilding;
- the power line was damaged, without power supply to 92 subscribers of the Mandrykino village. 20:33 Eduard Basurin said that the joint actions of the military personnel of the DPR and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed:
-three units of automotive equipment,
-two armored personnel carriers;
-38 personnel.
-two enemy firing points were suppressed in the Krasnogorovka area.
19:18 Buses that will carry passengers from Kherson, Melitopol and Berdyansk to Crimea will be guarded by armed security forces until they arrive at the border with the peninsula, - the head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov.
18:22 Denis Pushilin: Today we are returning home 144 fighters of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Russian Federation who were captured by the enemy.
We handed over to Kyiv the same number of prisoners from the armed formations of Ukraine, most of whom were wounded. Several of them are ordinary nationalist battalions, their condition is deplorable: severe wounds, with amputation of limbs and other complications.
At the same time, our main task is to rescue the fighters who took part in the liberation special operation. The enemy turned out to have very valuable military personnel. Among the liberated there are those mobilized who were taken prisoner under various circumstances. Most of them are injured and need urgent qualified medical assistance. I wish them a speedy recovery.
18:07 Additional information about the death of a civilian, a man born in 1980, was received through the operational lines of the DPR JCCC. as a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Red Partizan on the street. Factory.
Additional information was received about damage caused by shelling of the VFU in the following settlements:
Donetsk, Petrovsky district:
- st. Petrovsky, 233 "g" - the fire of the Petrovsky landfill No. 4 was recorded.
17:13 The Sakhalin Region handed over a batch of new vehicles to Shakhtyorsk.
17:04 In Mariupol, 160 former Ukrainian police officers entered the service of the DPR police.
17:02 Arrival in the Kievsky district of Donetsk. Gorlovka and Yasinovataya are also under fire. In Yasinovataya, a man was killed as a result of shelling.
17:00 Report on the work of air defense in Donetsk.
15:30 Petrovsky district of Donetsk is now under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
15:20 The 108th battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is almost completely destroyed during the fighting near the Lisichansk oil refinery.
Of the 350 people, only 30 survived.
15:12 Kulemzin: Rescuers removed from the ground and took out an unexploded shell of the VFU in the Petrovsky district, at the address: pl. Pobedy, 6. The picture shows the place where the ammunition hit.
15:10 Residents of Snizhne are watching Russian fighter jets in the sky. The subscriber who shared the video with us said:
"Russian aviation for me has become a symbol of liberation and the nearest victory. Every time my soul becomes calmer when I notice her in the sky."
14:25 A man died in Yasinovataya. As a result of the shelling of the VFU on the street. Victory killed a man.
13:20 Almost 200 foreign mercenaries are in Ukrainian-controlled Seversk, mostly Poles. This is reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR.
13:03 Lisichansky cauldron: AFU retreats to Seversk. The NM of the LPR in the Kremennaya area is moving south to join the troops of the Donetsk Republic. The enemy is trying to retreat towards Seversk, leaving small mobile groups in the forests, which are destroyed upon detection.
13:00 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement.
Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 10 shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
11:35 New briefing by the Russian Defense Ministry, the main thing:
- During the offensive operations in the area of the Lisichansk oil refinery, heavy losses were inflicted on the 10th mountain assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
- As part of the counter-battery combat, high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit two Ukrainian platoons of Grad multiple rocket launchers, as well as two artillery platoons in the Avdievka area, which were shelling settlements in the Donetsk People's Republic.
11:31 Attack on Lysichansk: Exclusive frames from RT military correspondent Anna Abakumova from a key point in this direction - the village of Toshkovka. Allied troops managed to take control of this settlement. The abandoned positions of the militants are again abandoned by the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers, their uniforms and foreign-made products.
11:21 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleimonovka: five 152mm shells were fired;
n.p. Ceramic - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
10:31 According to the official data of the DPR JCCC since the beginning of the escalation* as of 10:30 06/29/22
During the 133 days of the escalation, 206 civilians were killed, incl. 12 children.
Complete data on the dead civilians in the territory liberated during the NWO are being established.
On the territory within the borders before the start of the NMD, 962 civilians received injuries of varying severity, incl. 72 children.
On the territory liberated during the NMD, 1451 civilians were injured, incl. 79 children.
Total: 2411 including children - 151.
Damage:
— 5,003 residential housing construction;
— 1,082 civil infrastructure facility, including 65 medical institutions, 204 educational institutions, 386 social security facilities, 31 critical infrastructure facilities, 396 electricity, water and gas supply facilities. VFU is under attack Petrovsky district Donetsk, Makeevka, Elenovka, Gorlovka i Yasinovataya.
- 581 vehicles.
At the moment, it is impossible to establish for certain the data on damage and destruction of residential housing constructions and civil infrastructure facilities in the territory liberated during the NWO.
During the 133 days of the escalation of the DPR JCCC, 5,038 facts of firing were recorded, of which 4,713 were using heavy weapons.
In total, the enemy fired 42,944 ammunition of various calibers, including 31 rockets from OTRK "Tochka-U", 14 MLRS missiles BM-30 "Smerch", 114 MLRS missiles BM-27 "Hurricane" and 7,597 MLRS missiles BM-21 "City".
09:08 The Russian Orthodox Church will undertake the restoration of churches in Mariupol. A delegation of priests of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate visited Mariupol to assess the state of the destroyed churches.
08:50 A third gave up, two thirds remained lying on the field. LPR Ambassador to Russia Rodion Miroshnik on the air of Soloviev Live spoke about the losses suffered by the enemy in the battles near Lisichansk. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR, the number of killed Ukrainian militants near Lisichansk exceeds a thousand.
08:45 As a result of night shelling of the Kirovsky area 65 transformer substations are de-energized. 5550 subscribers of the Kirov region and 750 subscribers of the Kuibyshev region were left without electricity. The mine "17-17 Bis" is de-energized. Two miners remain underground, rescue work is underway.
08:23 During the day, three people were injured on the territory of the DPR. Over the past day, from 08:00 June 28 to 08:00 June 29, three civilians were injured as a result of shelling of the VFU on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic.
08:00 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
--n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: four shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
--n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleymonovka: seven 152mm shells were fired;
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[KavkazUzel] Blogger from Kabardino-Balkaria Insa Lander, who escaped from house arrest, has been put on the wanted list, follows from the information in the database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Clearly something jihad related, though for some reason either the authorities or Kavkaz Uzel once again decline to be more specific.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that a blogger from Baksan, Insa Oguz, known under the pseudonym "Insa Lander", was able to fly to Lithuania . Earlier, she escaped from house arrest and on June 12 tried to leave for Georgia through North Ossetia, but the Georgian border guards did not let her through, and the blogger remained on neutral territory between the two countries.
Georgian laws allow those who are prosecuted for terrorism to be denied entry, the Interior Ministry explained on June 16. On June 27, the Georgian authorities allowed Inse Lander, a blogger from Kabardino-Balkaria, to enter the country, from where she flew to Lithuania on June 28.
On December 9, 2021, Insa Lander was detained and placed under house arrest on suspicion of facilitating terrorist activities. In early February, Lander was allowed to move into a rented apartment. The court repeatedly extended her term of house arrest, the defense stated that there were no grounds for this.
The attempt of the blogger from Kabardino-Balkaria Insa Lander to escape to Georgia may be related to judicial practice in similar cases - for the entire time this article was applied, there was not a single acquittal, lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov believes.
Insa Lander, previously included in the list of extremists and terrorists, was included in the list of wanted persons in the database of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, TASS reported today. "Oguz Insa Soltan Khamidovna, [known as Insa Lander], born January 23, 1992, is wanted under the article of the Criminal Code," the department's file says.
[DAILYCALLER] Rep. Lauren Boebert survived a primary challenge from state Sen. Don Coram in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District Tuesday night, The Associated Press reported.
The Colorado Republican handily defeated Coram, a moderate who has been known to reach across the aisle during his time as a GOP state senator, according to the AP. During the campaign Coram blasted Boebert for being “a right-wing celebrity pundit rather than a representative of the people she is paid to represent,” Newsweek reported. (RELATED: HHS Secretary Becerra Dodges Rep. Boebert’s Question On Whether ‘Men Can Get Pregnant’)
Boebert has generated attention over battles to carry handguns in Washington, D.C., public clashes with Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, and erupting during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address to remind him about the 13 Americans killed during the Afghanistan withdrawal.
I had no idea such a thing still existed, but even the Rantburg archives admit to it.
[Breitbart] Catholic League president Bill Donohue slammed House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... (D-CA) Wednesday for politicizing the Eucharist by receiving Communion at the Vatican.
Pelosi, "who rejects the Catholic Church’s teachings on child sacrifice abortion, marriage and sexuality, received Holy Communion on June 29 at a papal Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica," Dr. Donohue noted. "The pope was in attendance, but did not give out Communion."
"Pelosi’s stunt was done to undercut her bishop, 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... Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone: he has told her not to present herself for Communion, citing her lust for child sacrifice abortion rights," Donohue added.
Such discipline obviously depends on the good will of the person in question, because priests are not coppers, but pastors, and assume that anyone who approaches the altar to receive the sacrament is in a proper state to do so, Donohue observed.
Therefore, even though some will blame the Vatican for what happened and others might blame Cordileone, in point of fact, there is "only one person to blame — Pelosi," Donohue wrote.
In asking Pelosi not to receive Communion, Archbishop Cordileone invoked canon law and is "in total compliance with Catholic teachings," Donohue added.
The priest who gave Pelosi Communion in the Vatican Wednesday was just one of the many priests who were distributing it and he obviously had no clue who Pelosi was, Donohue said.
The priest simply did what was expected of him: "He gave Communion to everyone waiting on line to receive it," Donohue wrote, which does not exclude the possibility that someone will willfully exploit the sacrament.
#4
Each of us has the opportunity to enthrone Jesus within ourselves or we can kick Him out by sinning and replacing Him with Baal. We can rent to either tenant. Enthroning Baal and the taking the Eucharist is dangerous to your soul.
“For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.” 1 Corinthians 11:28.
Cordelione was trying to help her. She did not get it.
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The Pope can go to hell with her.
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Man goes to heaven and is escorted by St Peter to his room. As the walk down the hallway the new arrival sees a number of Popes in Motel-6 type rooms. Arriving at his eternal apartment, the door opens up to what would be considered an opulent 5 star suite. The man pauses. Turns to St. Peter and questions why he's getting such a home while the Popes are in so basic accommodations. St. Peter simply explains "We have lots of Popes here. You are our first lawyer".
Some people are born stupid. Others work really, really hard to develop it.
[IsraelTimes] Benjamin Briere’s attorney says Iranian authorities are holding him ’hostage’; he was arrested after taking pictures in a national park with a recreational drone.
An Iranian appeals court has upheld an eight-year prison sentence against a Frenchie convicted on spying charges, his lawyer said Tuesday.
Benjamin Briere was arrested in May 2020 after taking pictures in a national park with a recreational drone. His lawyers and family have accused Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... of holding him as a "hostage."
The lawyer, Philippe Valent, said Briere’s case was being "instrumentalized" by the Iranian authorities.
"It’s shocking and dramatic," he told AFP, adding that the verdict coincided with the resumption of negotiations between Tehran and Western powers on Iran’s nuclear program.
"This trial is a masquerade — the submerged part of a huge issue that is beyond us," Briere’s sister, Blandine, told AFP.
The appeals court explained its decision by accusing Briere of being "an agent in the service of an enemy state" in its verdict, which was translated by Briere’s Iranian lawyer, Valent said.
Briere, 36, who was convicted in January for spying and propaganda against Iran’s Islamic system, had appealed the sentence.
His lawyer said he had not even been given access to the full indictment against him.
The verdict against Briere comes as Iran and world powers are seeking to reach an agreement at talks in Vienna on reviving the 2015 deal over the Iranian nuclear program.
Chief negotiators from the United States and Iran were due to start indirect talks in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... on Tuesday, to try to remove obstacles stalling attempts to revive a landmark nuclear deal.
Nationals of all three European powers involved in the talks on the Iranian nuclear program — Britannia, La Belle France and Germany — are among the foreigners being held in Iran.
"We ask the French, American and British authorities to make the liberation of hostages a pre-condition for the resumption of negotiations," Valent said.
During his original trial, Briere’s sister Blandine told AFP her brother was a "political hostage" subjected to a "parody of justice."
"It is a political trial, and it is useful to Iran, which is sending a message to the French government," she said.
The French foreign ministry at the time described the verdict as "unacceptable", saying Briere was a "tourist."
Three other Frenchies are also being held in Iran.
Franco-Iranian researcher Fariba Adelkhah was tossed in the clink Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! for five years in May 2020 on a national security charge.
Two other Frenchies were arrested in May, accused by Iran of having entered the country with the aim of destabilizing.
Gay Paree has denounced that claim as groundless.
Iran insists all the foreigners held are tried in line with domestic law but has repeatedly expressed its readiness to carry out prisoner swaps.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] I'll try to be more vocal in my dislike for Meghan Markle. And she probably meant "visceral" rather than "gutteral."
Guttural means in the gut, right? Clearly a synonym for visceral.. and nothing to do with gutters, no matter where she’s from.
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That's cold, tw.
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I enjoyed her as an actress, Abu Uluque. I had hoped to enjoy her as a princess, too, but she chose to make it political. She dragged that nice young man into strife with his family, demonstrating the very old-fashioned idea that the character of the woman a man marries can make or break him.
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Harry can't stand his father, Prince Charles, as he takes after his mother Diana who divorced his father. I think his marriage to Markle is more of a rebellion against the Royals in general. An American African American wife is his ultimate middle finger to the British Crown and their values.
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By the way Harry's father, Prince Charles, refuses to take his calls.
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Ref #6: I think his marriage to Markle is more of a rebellion against the Royals in general.
"Rebellion" leading to a sad ending, as is so often the case.
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Meghan, I was counting on all the male 'birthing people' using their outrage for this issue. Clearly they are more impacted than myself. With so many issues to be outraged over, I have channel my outrage for maximum impact. Sorry!
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It's from the Latin guttur which means throat, not gut.
See? The reward for channeling my inner B-class starlet is to learn something I didn’t know. Thank you, Lionel Hatfield8646 — you’re responsible for my learning of today. :-)
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Ditto Badanov. There is something wrong with people who think "celebrities" are a good source of information they should go find for themselves.
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Someone should ask her if she's a biologist to be able to gender all those people ;p Honestly Harry used to be cool, now he's just his daddy writ small.
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I thought the way the Royals dealt with Prince Harry and the Tramp during the Jubilee was perfect. Utter cold indifference and icy correctness. Even Chuck didit right refusing to even make eye contact. Harry came home seeing he has descended to being adrift and without even the trappings of status. He's just HER husband now, and they are discovering even D list invites are drying up. Whatta Moroon as Bugs would say!
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I thought men weren't allowed to comment on abortion.
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I have to wonder what would happen if Meghan went and got herself an abortion at this point. The Royals may be cold to her but I think that would be a bit too far.
[IsraelTimes] Request said to be part of move toward regional cooperation against Iranian threats, with Israel part of an alliance that includes countries it has no official ties with
Israel intends to ask US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The guy who lost Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle... to approve the delivery of an Israeli laser-powered air defense system to Arab countries aligned against Iran, including Saudi Arabia
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Surveillance cameras captured Homero Zamorano, 45, driving the truck across the US-Mexico border
It came hours before the driver allegedly abandoned it on a dirt track on the outskirts of San Antonio
Texas police said that Zamorano, of Houston, Texas, was 'very high on meth' at the time of his arrest
They also claimed that he tried to pose as 'an irregular immigrant to avoid being detained by the officers
The semi-truck driver who transported up to 100 migrants across the southern border before leaving them to die in the sweltering Texas heat allegedly tried to disguise himself as a victim of the tragedy.
Mexican nationals Juan Francisco D'Luna-Bilbao and Juan Claudio D'Luna-Mendez were also taken into custody at a home in San Antonio. They were charged in federal court Tuesday with possessing firearms while residing in the US illegally.
The death toll in the tragedy, which is the deadliest human smuggling attempt in American history, rose to 53 Wednesday. Officials have identified 34 of the deceased, including four Hondurans and two Guatemalan sisters.
Police say the smugglers treated the migrants 'worse than animals' throughout the voyage, leaving them no water or visible means of air-conditioning. Several survivors are in critical condition after suffering brain damage and internal bleeding.
Investigators suspect the migrants paid the smugglers around $10,000 for safe passage to the US.
Investigators suspect the truck had suffered some sort of mechanical problem.
Yáñez also confirmed that Zamorano had been driving a semi with a stolen registration, saying: 'The plates, logos and license were cloned.'
Officials had first linked Zamorano's rig to an Alamo resident. However, investigation proved the Alamo man's truck had been out hauling grain in another part of Texas at the time of the incident.
Medical examiners have potentially identified 34 of the victims, said Bexar County Commissioner Rebeca Clay-Flores, who represents the district where the truck was abandoned.
But she says the identification process has proven to be a 'tedious, tedious, sad, difficult process' as many victims have been found with stolen IDs or no identification documents at all.
The deceased migrants included 39 men and 12 women. County officials told WOAI-TV five of the victims were under the age of 18. Investigators said they were not young children, but possibly teenagers.
Among the dead are 27 people from Mexico, 14 from Honduras, seven from Guatemala and two from El Salvador, he said. One of the victims had no identification, officials revealed.
Authorities believe the migrants were loaded into the semi-truck in Laredo, a border city, on Monday afternoon.
It appeared the migrants had recently crossed the border and were picked up by the truck to be taken to where they would work, according to a Mexican official.
They were driven 150 miles to San Antonio before smugglers abandoned the vehicle after it suffered mechanical problems.
The surviving migrants will likely be released into the U.S. to pursue asylum or other forms of humanitarian relief, the CBP official and two other law enforcement officials told Reuters. Some survivors of human smuggling in the past have been taken into American custody to testify as witnesses.
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Texas prosecuters announced they will seek the Death Penalty for Homero Zamorano.
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Just leave him in a transport van by "mistake" for a few hours in the Texas heat. Seems to happen to kids alot.
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Given the way the Biden/LSD's look the other way with open borders, and help facilitate the situation.
Shouldn't they be charged as accessories to the Murder?
Follow up to this story from two days ago, concentrating on the sheriff this time, not the criminals.
[FoxNews] Suspected drug traffickers Jose Zendejas, 25, and Benito Madrigal, 19, were arrested Friday and released days later.
Tulare County Court Commissioner Mikki Verissimo of California signed an order to release two suspected drug traffickers recently arrested with 150,000 fentanyl pills in their possession, Fox News confirmed Tuesday.
Officials arrested Jose Zendejas, 25, and Benito Madrigal, 19, during a traffic stop on Friday and transported them to the Tulare County Pre-Trial Facility on charges of possession, transportation and selling of illegal drugs, but they were released over the weekend.
The Tulare County District Attorney Tim Ward's office said in a statement to Fox News Digital that it was "not involved with or agree with the decision to release these individuals."
"The time in which they were released was after their arrest and prior to police reports being submitted to our office. Through a risk assessment by the county probation department, they were released by a judicial officer," Ward's office said. Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux is outraged by the release. His interview with Fox News can be heard at the link.
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Jose Zendejas, 25, and 19-year-old Benito Madrigal were discovered with 150 packages that each contained 1,000 fentanyl pills during a traffic stop in Tulare County, California on Friday, authorities said. (Tulare County Sheriff's Office)
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[IsraelTimes] Two men from southern Bedouin town arrested last month with four pistols, three M16 rifles; their Shin Bet interrogation leads authorities to two more suspects
The Israel Defense Forces announced Tuesday it had foiled an attempt to smuggle several firearms into Israel from Jordan last month, in what authorities suspected was part of a terror plot.
According to the IDF, on the night of May 22, soldiers monitoring surveillance cameras identified suspects approaching the Israeli border near the Dead Sea, and dispatched troops to the scene.
Two men — a-Rahman Abu Sabih and Majid Qashkar — from a Bedouin village near the southern city of Dimona were arrested, and a bag containing four handguns and four M16 rifles was seized, the IDF said.
Israeli authorities said they suspect the weapons were intended for terror purposes, rather than criminal.
The pair were questioned by the Shin Bet security agency, which led to the arrest of two other suspects, Mohammed Qashkar and Salman Aluj, who allegedly led gun-running operations on the Jordanian border, the military said.
All four were expected to be indicted in the coming days, and their remand was extended until the end of legal proceedings.
The military and police have stepped up efforts to halt smuggling attempts along the Jordanian border in recent months, but some officials have admitted that success has been limited thus far.
Last week, security forces arrested two men, also from Bedouin villages near Dimona, suspected of smuggling guns from Jordan, confiscating over a dozen rifles and handguns in the process.
Police said they had been following a network of gun smugglers in the area for several months, with last week’s suspects being part of that network.
Unlike Israel’s other frontiers — with Egypt, Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ... and Syria — its border with Jordan is largely open, often without significant fencing, and is relatively unguarded, making it an easy channel for large-scale smuggling.
"The IDF, Shin Bet, and Israel Police view any involvement of Israeli citizens in smuggling weapons into Israeli territory very seriously, thereby endangering the security of the state and its residents," a joint message said.
[BusinessInsider] Don't we just love the way we are getting screwed on top of screwed over gas prices?
* As gas prices rise, the hold on customers' cards at the pump increased from $125 to $175.
* Having a higher price hold increases the risk of overdraft fees for some consumers.
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Pretty much all financial security experts say it's stupid to use a debit card to make purchases. Unlike a credit card, it is a mainline into your bank account. If someone steals the data and empties your account, you have none of the fraud protections that credit cards do.
Yes, I do get some people can't get a traditional credit card. In that instance, a pre-paid credit card is the way to go, for safety's sake.
I don't even use a credit card at the gas station anymore. Skimmer gangs are everywhere. Use your debit card to get cash at an ATM instead.
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^^ Had that happen for the first (and only) time (knock on wood) about four years ago at a 7-11 gas station. A weird charge in Indian rupees (like I said, a 7-11) appeared.
Funny, I drove by that area last week...that petrol station has been levelled. Good.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
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...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
Hershel "Woody" Williams, the last living Medal of Honor winner from World War II, has died at age 98.
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
...The nation is noted for 
...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry...
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...Arabic for 
[Breitbart] Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell admitted on Wednesday how little he understands soaring inflation.
[SARA] A Supreme Court ruling released Tuesday sides with an Iraq War Veteran, determining that states cannot be exempt from being sued for discrimination against Veterans. CNN reports "The ruling will strengthen work protections for thousands of state-employed veterans returning to work after service in the Reserves or National Guard."
...A 
Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the 
[NYPOST] A Pennsylvania man allegedly admitted to beating and strangling his girlfriend to death in front of her two young daughters as one of them pleaded, "Please stop. You are killing my mom," authorities said.
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ...
[DAILYCALLER] Rep. 
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ...
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