[Breitbart] The head of the Yemeni Ansarallah terrorist organization, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, boasted in a national address on Thursday that his jihadists had turned American aircraft carriers into “obsolete weapons.”
Big talk from a small man.
Houthi’s group, which controls the Yemeni capital of Sana’a and received significant backing from state sponsor of terror Iran, declared war on Israel in October in support of fellow jihadist terrorists Hamas. The Houthis’, as they are commonly known, main contribution to terrorism in the Middle East has been a campaign against commercial shipping in the Red Sea in which they use drones, missiles, and other often rudimentary weapons to attack random civilian vessels in the region. The campaign has resulted in skyrocketing shipping fees and the collapse of toll revenue at the Suez Canal in Egypt as many companies choose to redirect ships around the Cape of Good Hope in Africa.
The Houthis have also done significant damage to trust in global shipping, prompting the international shipping community to issue an outraged letter in June demanding state governments act more decisively to protect civilian ships in the Red Sea.
President Joe Biden responded to the threat by announcing the creation of an international coalition, “Operation Prosperity Guardian,” in December. The operation inspired doubt from the start, as the Pentagon refused to reveal all the countries that had committed to joining it or what exactly it was planning to do in the Red Sea to protect ships. “Operation Prosperity Guardian” remains officially active at press time, but the Biden administration has offered little information on any actions taken within the scope of the operation or how it is preventing Houthi attacks.
Al-Houthi, the leader of the terrorist group, mocked American attempts to protect global shipping in his address on Thursday, which coincided with American Independence Day.
“Battle in the Red Sea has attested the fact that US aircraft carriers are an obsolete weapons system, and are not worth spending money on,” al-Houthi declared, according to a translation of his remarks by the Iranian state propaganda outlet PressTV.
“US attempts to Yemeni maritime operations are ineffective, and have so far failed to produce any promising results,” the Houthi leader claimed. “Americans have come to realize the extent of the Yemeni Armed Forces’ military might.”
Abdul-Malik al-Houthi claimed that his terrorists had committed 12 “operations” against allegedly Israeli-linked forces in the past week, according to coverage of his remarks by the Hezbollah-affiliated al-Mayadeen press network, using 20 ballistic and cruise missiles and a drone in addition to a maritime vessel.
Houthi also boasted that Washington had allegedly “retreated” from the Red Sea and “the Americans are re-evaluating their capabilities, tactics, and methods.”
“American warships in the Red Sea are being chased by missiles and drones, and they are fleeing at the highest speed they can muster,” he claimed.
Houthi terrorists claim they have attacked 162 “Israeli-linked” ships since the barbaric October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel, which killed an estimated 1,200 people and featured widespread instances of torture, gang rape, and other atrocities. The Houthis have not consistently offered accurate information on their activities, however. Independent reports suggest the Houthis launched over 70 attacks between November and June. Those attacks have featured the sinking of two ships – the Belize-flagged MV Rubymar in February and the Greek-owned MV Tutor – and attacks on several ships with ties to Houthi allies.
Ansarallah claims that it only attacks ships affiliated with Israel, America, and Britain, the latter two in response to airstrikes in Yemen meant to degrade Houthi capabilities to target ships in the Red Sea. In reality, however, Houthi attacks often appear to be targeting random commercial ships. An assessment by the American Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) this week indicated that Houthi attacks have affected 65 different countries, including Houthi-friendly nations such as Russia, China, and top patron Iran. Some of those attacks have targeted ships previously owned by American or British entities, suggesting the Houthis are using outdated information to choose targets.
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This of course is why the Chinese are trying to build them.
They're a particular tool for a particular job in a particular environment. The strait off Yemen isn't a good place for them. It's a good place for carpet bombing.
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they're just big targets for submarines.
Oh my — I needed that laugh after a couple of exhausting weeks. Thank you for being too cute for words, Vortigern Borgia1150. But the Royal Canadian Navy doesn’t have such things, so there’s no way you’d know what carrier groups do to submarines.
[BBC] More than 50 candidates and activists in La Belle France have come under physical attack in the run-up to Sunday's tense final round of parliamentary elections, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has said.
He revealed the figure after government spokeswoman Prisca Thevenot, her deputy Virginie Lanlo and a party activist were brutally assaulted as they put up election posters in Meudon, south-west of Gay Paree.
The motive for the attack is not clear, but Ms Thevenot returned to Meudon on Thursday with Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who condemned what he called "attacks of intolerable cowardice".
The spate of assaults across La Belle France reflects the febrile mood on the final day of campaigning in an election that the far-right National Rally (RN) is poised to win.
Although RN is well ahead in the polls, 217 candidates have dropped out from local run-off races so another candidate has a better chance of stopping them winning an outright majority in the National Assembly.
Mr Darmanin told news channel BFMTV the attacks were taking place in a climate in which La Belle France was "on edge" and more than 30 people had been arrested.
He said the attackers were either people who had "spontaneously become angry" or they were the "ultra-left, ultra-right or other political groups".
Images filmed from a block of flats showed the youths swarming around the candidate, her deputy Virginie Lanlo and a party activist for President Emmanuel Macron's Ensemble alliance.
Ms Thevenot told Le Gay Pareeien website that when she and her colleagues objected to the youths defacing party posters "they immediately attacked one of my activists, injuring Virginie". Ms Lanlo suffered an arm injury, while the activist was punched and hit with a scooter, ending up with a broken jaw. The car windscreen was also smashed by the scooter.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A nationwide discount homeware chain with almost 1,400 stores is the latest to warn of money problems.
Big Lots has told financial regulators it may not be able to continue as a 'going concern' - raising the risk of store closures and bankruptcy.
The Columbus, Ohio-based chain has seen its takings fall consistently for each of the past ten quarters. And it lost an eye-watering $132milloin in the first three months of 2024.
Managers of its stores say they are not surprised. They have complained that the company's bosses at HQ send truck-loads of products that customers don't want.
In a recent filing with regulators, Big Lots said that the losses so far this year - on top of further losses in 2022 and 2023 - meant it had used up most of its spare cash. Retailers need money in the bank to cover the cost of stock.
Big Lots used to be a neat little place to pickup items at a good discounted prices. Then it started selling furniture, mattresses, and other high ticket items at typical prices. Many food items on the shelf started showing beyond the BB dates.
OLLIE'S is now what Big Lots use to be 20 years ago.
An urgent warning has been issued to all 1.46 billion iPhone users after tech experts uncovered a new cyberattack targeting Apple IDs.
Bad actors are using SMS phishing campaigns that send messages claiming to be from Apple, prompting users to visit a link to an 'important request' about iCloud.
California-based Symantec security firm discovered the attack this month, warning the links lead to fake websites that urge users to hand over their Apple ID information.
Apple has established guidelines for such an attack, urging iPhone owners to use two-factor authentication that requires a password and six-digit verification code to access their account from an outside device.
[FoxNews - liveblog] In a Truth Social post, Trump requested a "no holds barred" and "all on" discussion with Biden about the future of the country.
"Let Joe explain why he wants Open Borders, with millions of people, and many violent criminals from parts unknown, pouring into our once great Nation, or why he wants Men Playing in Women’s Sports, or demand ALL ELECTRIC VEHICLES within five years, or why he allowed INFLATION TO RUN RAMPANT, destroying the people of our Country, and so much more," he wrote.
ABC News is scheduled to host the second debate between Biden and Trump on Tuesday, Sept. 10 at 9 p.m. ET. The network has not yet announced the moderators for that debate.
[JPost] On May 20, the same day International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan made a surprise request for warrants to arrest the leaders of Israel and Hamas involved in the Gaza conflict, he suddenly canceled a sensitive mission to collect evidence in the region, eight people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
Planning for the visit had been under way for months with US officials, four of the sources said.
Khan's decision to request the warrants upended the plans backed by Washington and London for the prosecutor and his team to visit Gaza and Israel.
The court was set to gather on-site evidence of war crimes and offer Israeli leaders a first opportunity to present their position and any action they were taking to respond to the allegations of war crimes, five sources with direct knowledge of the exchanges told Reuters.
Khan's request for a warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - the court's first attempt to detain a sitting, Western-backed head of state - also flew in the face of efforts the US and Britain were leading to prevent the court from prosecuting Israeli leaders, the sources said.
The two states have said the court has no jurisdiction over Israel and that seeking warrants would not help resolve the conflict.
Khan's office told Reuters the decision to seek warrants was, in line with its approach in all cases, based on an assessment by the prosecutor that there was enough evidence to proceed, and the view that seeking arrest warrants immediately could prevent ongoing crimes.
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Why hasn't Mossad popped this guy yet? And his whole family. Like that antisemitic US Congressman whose beloved wife up and died suddenly?
Mossad motto: "it's never a coincidence"
[ZH] The top prosecutor in Arkansas warned on July 2 that Americans should be wary of using the Temu marketplace app because it’s effectively a "data theft business."
"The threat from China is not new, and it is real," Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin told Fox Business on July 2, a week after his office filed a lawsuit against the company. "Temu is not an online marketplace like Amazon or Walmart. It’s a data theft business that sells goods as a means to an end."
He said that it’s "common for an online marketplace like Amazon, like Walmart, to collect certain consumer data as part of the normal course of business. I think we all know that that’s not what’s going on here."
Instead, the company is using malware and spyware to "get into your phone, your device, and to collect your data," Mr. Griffin told the outlet.
"Not just traditional consumer data, but using malware, spyware to have complete access to your information. And [taking it] one step further, their code is written in such a way to evade detection," he said.
Temu is operated by Shanghai, China-based parent company Pinduoduo Inc., which includes "former Chinese communist officials" in its ranks, Mr. Griffin said.
The lawsuit, filed against the firm’s parent company, is seeking a jury trial as well as a permanent block against Temu’s data-collection activities. It also seeks a $10,000 fine for each violation of an Arkansas state law known as the Deceptive Practices Act.
The suit primarily cites research from Grizzly Research, which analyzes publicly traded firms, and alleges that Temu can "purposely ... gain unrestricted access to a user’s phone operating system, including, but not limited to, a user’s camera, specific location, contacts, text messages, documents, and other applications."
In its report, Grizzly Research said that it suspects that Temu is "already, or intends to, illegally sell stolen data from Western country customers to sustain a business model that is otherwise doomed for failure."
"Temu is estimated to be losing $30 per order. Its ad spending and shipping costs (1 to 2 weeks from China, expedited to U.S. delivery) are astronomical," the report states.
"One is left wondering how this business could ever be profitable. Temu is a notoriously bad actor in its industry. We see rampant user manipulation, chain-letter-like affinity scams to drive signups, and overall, the most aggressive and questionable techniques to manipulate large numbers of people to install the app."
In a statement to The Epoch Times on Tuesday evening, a Temu spokesperson that it was "disappointed" and said the Arkansas lawsuit doesn’t cite "any independent fact-finding."
"The allegations in the lawsuit are based on misinformation circulated online, primarily from a short-seller, and are totally unfounded. We categorically deny the allegations and will vigorously defend ourselves," the firm stated. "We understand that as a new company with an innovative supply chain model, some may misunderstand us at first glance and not welcome us."
The spokesperson continued, "We are committed to the long-term and believe that scrutiny will ultimately benefit our development. We are confident that our actions and contributions to the community will speak for themselves over time."
According to analytics website Backlinko, Temu was the most downloaded shopping app around the world in 2023, with more than 330 million downloads—about 1.8 times more than the Amazon Shopping app.
On July 1, the Texas Public Policy Foundation issued a similar warning about the app, saying that it "can access almost anything on your phone," which means that Chinese Communist Party officials "could theoretically install applications and spyware files on an individual’s smart device to use for complete surveillance of all user activity on a phone.
"This would allow China to monitor keystrokes and logs to have direct insight into login credentials for other social media, emails, and bank accounts," the foundation warned.
Temu officials didn’t respond by press time to a request by The Epoch Times for comment.
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Since ACA JOE endorsed Temu, that should be enough warning to NOT shop at Temu!
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I get contant TEMU ads on my mobile, the last one offering a summer dress for 1.30 Euros (1.40 US$). This is absurd, so the warning seems warranted.
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^^ Stuff made in prison camps by Uigars, EC.
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the last one offering a summer dress for 1.30 Euros (1.40 US$). in your size?😎
Both privacy rapists. At least the Chinese don't give a crap about ordinary Americans. The deep state can and has ordered us censored: see the Twitter Files.
[Washington Examiner] With President Joe Biden today dismissing critics of his poor debate performance with former President Donald Trump, a "Plan C" is being urged to help his wounded reelection effort across the finish line first on Election Day.
Advocates of "Plan C" said the solution to Trump’s surging campaign and Electoral College advantage is a simple one: replace Vice President Kamala Harris with former President Barack Obama.
"A Biden-Obama ticket would have a much better chance of beating Trump," said legal scholar John Banzhaf, a professor at George Washington University Law School.
He is more completely described by Wikipedia as a legal activist, a perfect example of the dangers of letting engineers (BSEE from MIT) apply their skills to law. His causes have been many and varied, over the years, including objections to President Trump that informed the 2021 prosecution in Fulton County, Georgia.
"Barack Obama is probably one of the few persons whom a majority of Americans would want and trust as president, so Plan C might be the least objectionable of a number of very unpopular and dubious options now open to Biden and the Democratic Party," he said on Thursday.
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...I'm gonna say no on this one. I still say that any attempt to remove Harris as a candidate will result in a civil war within the Democratic Party that will end any chance of a victory this year.
And consider this - even if Obama was to go along with something like this, he's no idiot: right now , there's a damned good chance that no matter what he does, Donald Trump will beat him. He's not going to take that chance.
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There are separate issues with Obama replacing Harris in office or in the ticket.
Barack would be ineligible for the ticket in either slot based on the plain text of the Amendment. The VP always has to be eligible for the presidency. You can’t put Schwarzenegger in the VP slot in hopes of upgrading him later - not that that would be a good idea to begin with.
To install Obama in as VP, he would have to face hearings and get approval in the House and Senate. The American people aren’t going to accept giving the shadow operation legitimacy. Obama has done a lousy job as shadow president. They will oust any RINOs who went along with this fantasy. It’s fantasy, because Barak isn’t going to sit for hearings.
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/\ The American people aren’t going to accept giving the shadow operation legitimacy.
"Legitimacy" hasn't been much of a challenge for decades.
This report describes and defines what alternate route traffic routes are and how traffic and highway agencies can implement them. The need for, planning, and execution of alternate routes withstakeholder agencies is addressed. Highway and traffic agencies, public safety agencies, and State, county and local municipalities are the target audience.
[Washington Examiner] A group of top Democratic donors and strategists is pooling resources into a new political action committee to help fund an alternative candidate to President Joe Biden should he withdraw from the presidential race, according to a report from the New York Times.
The fund, coined the Next Generation PAC, is aiming to raise as much as $100 million to help support a candidate who replaces Biden at the top of the ticket, according to the outlet. If Biden doesn’t drop out of the race, the money would then be used to fund down-ballot candidates.
The Next Generation PAC is being spearheaded by Mike Novogratz,
…yet another hopeful tech billionaire with more money than sense…
a cryptocurrency investor who previously backed Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) in the Democratic primary, the outlet reported. The group has not yet filed federal paperwork, but PAC officials have reportedly told donors it hopes to raise between $50 million and $100 million.
People connected to the Biden campaign have heard of the possible stealth project and have attempted to convince those involved not to join, according to the outlet.
If the PAC manages to raise large sums, it could benefit Vice President Kamala Harris if she replaces Biden as the nominee, especially as some major donors have remained skeptical about her at the top of the ticket.
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Money will not be the issue. It will be time. They might claw back Virginia and NJ, but knocking out Trump the first time took a full four years of prep and no hiccups. This race is too far along. It can’t be rescued.
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SH-
Never underestimate the power of rich globalists who have no morals.
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[Powerline via Hot Air] Note that Sotomayor dishonestly fails to characterize the majority’s holding correctly. She claims that immunity attaches when the president "uses his official powers in any way," such as by ordering a political assassination. But obviously, ordering assassinations, pulling off military coups, and taking bribes are not "actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority." The president has no constitutional authority to order murders, carry out military coups or take bribes. On the contrary, murders and coups would be high crimes and misdemeanors, and the Constitution specifically calls out taking bribes as a ground for impeachment.
Do these justices seriously think that if a future president were to carry out a political assassination, and the case were to come before this Court’s majority, they would say, "Yes, that is what we had in mind. Political assassination is A-OK!" Of course not. These three are not intellectual giants, but they can’t possibly be that stupid.
The Democrats’ dissent is so dishonest, and so obviously a political rather than a judicial document, that it must sadden anyone who believes in the rule of law, and who has any respect for the Supreme Court as an institution. It was obviously intended to provide fodder to rile up Democratic voters so as to help Joe Biden (or whoever) win the 2024 election. Justices Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson should be ashamed of themselves, but it seems that on the Left, shame is an obsolete concept.
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Sometimes Jackson acts sane and Barrett goes statist. It is a weird mix where even Roberts does something decent 30% of the time. Mostly the direction of the rulings is towards the good.
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The problem is, they're used to deciding things based on how they feel about it. That doesn't work in their current job.
Someone needs to explain to them, the only reason that they have any authority at all is because the Constitution gives it to them.
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ed, I'm not a constitutional scholar or anything, but I believe it was Marbury v Madison where the court gave itself the power of judicial review.
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I think they lack the kind of motivation required to be absolutely crazy.
That said, they plainly aren't bright enough to do minimal research (cough, cough CLERKS) if for no other reason to not appear the public fool.
[Breitbart] A San Antonio, Texas, homeowner armed with a shotgun killed an alleged intruder who reportedly lunged at him just before 1:00 a.m. Sunday.
CBS Austin reported that the alleged intruder came to the front door seeking entry to the home, and the homeowner told him to leave. The alleged intruder then reportedly sought entrance again, and was again told to leave. Thereafter, the homeowner "heard noises in the backyard and upon investigation, encountered the same man."
The homeowner then grabbed his shotgun and was standing with his wife when the intruder allegedly lunged at him. The homeowner fired one round, fatally wounding the alleged intruder.
Police indicated the homeowner "[feared] for his wife’s safety," KENS 5 noted.
The alleged intruder was described as 47-year-old male.
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it doesn't matter what the skin color is. he was violent and he is dead. reduce the bill-of-rights to the first 10 and add ... 11: no preference for shape or color skin ... 12 all elections in person on election day on paper hand counted.
The Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah met today in Lebanon with a Hamas Delegation led by Khalil al-Hayya, a Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council. pic.twitter.com/Aj8j2fyElh
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Wiki: Khalil al-Hayya is a senior Hamas official. He holds the position of the head of the communications office for Hamas and serves as the deputy to Yahya Sinwar, who leads the organization in Gaza. Al-Hayya was elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council in 2006 as a representative of Gaza City. He has a past that includes a three-year stint in an Israeli prison and has survived multiple attempts on his life.
[Breitbart] Texas Department of Public Safety officials announced the arrest of 12 dangerous “criminal illegal immigrants” from the State’s most-wanted lists.
Texas DPS officials reported the arrests of a dozen “criminal illegal immigrants” from the State’s lists of most-wanted fugitives, according to a DPS report. The list includes migrants who entered the U.S. illegally and committed additional crimes while in the state of Texas.
Those arrested include fugitives wanted for human smuggling, commercial sex trafficking, evading arrests, indecency with a child, driving while intoxicated, sexual assault, assault causing bodily injury, deadly conduct by discharging a firearm at a person, indecency with a child by sexual contact, burglary of a residence, and aggravated sexual assault of a child.
One female, all the rest male; primarily from Mexico and El Salvador, one each from Guatemala, Honduras, and Cuba — details at the link.
Under Governor Abbott’s Operation Lone Star, Texas law enforcement officials arrested more than 43,400 criminal aliens who illegally crossed the border from Mexico into the Lone Star State. Those arrests led to the filing of nearly 39,000 felony charges.
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OMG! The in-humanity! Now those poor souls, victims of capitalistic oppression will not spontaneously transition to civilized liberal angels in their own neighborhoods (they're not one of us).
[NAHARNET] The Israeli military said Thursday its forces were "striking launch posts in southern Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... " after "numerous projectiles and suspicious aerial targets crossed from Lebanon into Israeli territory".
It said that most were intercepted by air defense systems but that "fires broke out in a number of areas in northern Israel" following the attacks.
Israel on Wednesday killed a senior Hezbollah commander, Mohammed Naameh Nasser, near the Lebanese coastal town of Tyre.
A source close to the group described him as the "Hezbollah commander responsible for one of three sectors in south Lebanon". Another border sector chief was killed in an Israeli strike last month.
Hezbollah said that "as part of the response to the... liquidation carried out by the enemy" it had fired "more than 200 rockets" and "a squadron of explosive drones" at Israeli bases.
Air raid sirens blared across northern Israel in the morning, and an AFP correspondent witnessed rockets crossing the frontier that were intercepted.
Israel did not report any deaths in its northern border area, where most communities have been evacuated, but quickly said it had responded with strikes on targets in southern Lebanon.
Israeli artillery shelled al-Qantara, Kounine and Qabrikha, including with white phosphorus bombs, while warplanes struck Bani Hayyan, Deir al-Seryan, and a forest between Kfarhamam and Kfarshouba.
A photojournalist and a civilian were meanwhile injured in Israeli shelling on Kfarshouba and a Hezbollah fighter was killed in a strike on the southern border town of Houla.
Israel and Hezbollah, an ally of Paleostinian krazed killer group Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... , have exchanged near daily cross-border fire since the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... war erupted on October 7, stoking fears the festivities could escalate into all-out war.
U.N. chief António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... is "very worried about the escalation of the exchange of fire", his front man Stephane Dujarric said Wednesday, warning of the risk to the wider Middle East "if we were to find ourselves in a full-fledged conflict".
Hezbollah and Hamas are part of an Iran-led "Axis of Resistance®" against Israel and the United States, a regional alliance that also includes Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... 's Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels and krazed killer groups in Iraq and Syria.
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[NYPOST] President Biden made several odd gaffes and misstatements throughout the official White House Fourth of July celebration, appearing confused at times and puzzlingly greeting the crowd with a hearty "Ho ho ho! Happy Independence Day!"
The president, 81, and first lady Jill Biden were joined on stage by Vice President Kámala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, and Joe Biden's wing nut... and second gentleman Doug Emhoff. Harris introduced the "extraordinary" President Biden who then began a short statement of well-wishing for the holiday.
Biden looked more sprightly than during his much-maligned June 27 debate performance. But his statements weren’t much more coherent despite being louder in volume.
"We gotta do what our founders did: show the world we’re a nation of dignity, honor, and just devotion to one another," he said before telling the audience to enjoy the fireworks.
As Bruce Springsteen’s "Born in the USA" blared, the group made their way off the stage.
Biden, bringing up the rear, suddenly paused his gait mid-step, seemingly unsure to whom he should hand the microphone.
He then took a few slow steps across the stage, now by himself, before handing off the mic to a stagehand.
He then slowly descended a short flight of stairs before mingling with the crowd.
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There has been a lot of speculation about who the replacement VP will be when Joe is canned. I recommend that no one be approved by the House until the Dems pony up an outrageous wish list in the House confirmation hearing.
I want everything from the Epstein clients to the Hur tapes. Stuff that they have no intention of giving us. Let the hearings go on and vote against every single person proposed because they lied about Joe’s health. They cheated to get him elected. Now that their tire is flat, make them ride the donut. They had it easy with Joe doing everything they wanted. Kamala thinks she’s brilliant. I don’t want to imply that she is a moron. I intend to state that she is a moron directly.
Not only is she a moron, but she will be a great detriment to the Dems as president. Make her perform with no backup so that they can’t remove her and have to run her again in 2028.
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Same as it ever was
And you may ask yourself, "How do I work this?"
And you may ask yourself, "Where is that large automobile?"
And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful house"
And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful wife"
Once in a Lifetime
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Democrat from the past...
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[IsraelTimes] When you appoint dangerous incompetents to vital ministerial positions, don’t be surprised when the result is dangerous incompetence.
Thus, on Monday, Mohammad Abu Salmiya, the director of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... City’s Shifa Hospital, who was arrested in November for alleged complicity with Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... , was released from detention in Nafha Prison in the Negev and sent home to Gaza. Under Abu Salmiya’s watch, Shifa had developed into a major Hamas command center, where the IDF has killed hundreds of button men and uncovered a substantial tunnel network, where hostages were held, and where, according to the IDF, at least one hostage, Noa Marciano, was killed.
The mind boggles at the denunciations and threats that would have rained down from the far right on any other government that presided over the debacle of Abu Salmiya’s homecoming. But the far right, of course, is a core and dominant part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, and far-right Netanyahu appointee Itamar Ben Gvir is the minister of national security, responsible for the Israel Prison Service, in turn responsible for the incarceration of Abu Salmiya and the fiasco of his release.
An oft-arrested thug horrifyingly placed by Netanyahu in charge of the forces of law and order, which he is now in the process of brutalizing, Ben Gvir is entirely incapable of fulfilling ministerial responsibilities or, obviously, of acknowledging his failures to do so.
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What makes Leftists so dangerous is that they really believe their own shit.
The scum who penned this article is really unhappy that Ben Gvir set the police on Israeli analog of Antifa.
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Killing or removing anyone inside a territory is harder than it looks. The Germans had years with zero opposition, none, and they couldn't finish the job. I don't think with another decade they could have done it.
[GEO.TV] The US Central Command says it destroyed two Houthi radar sites in Yemen and two unmanned surface vessels (USVs) in the Red Sea during the past 24 hours.
“It was determined the radar sites and USVs presented imminent threats to U.S., coalition forces, and merchant vessels in the region”, CENTCOM said in a statement on X.
“This action was taken to protect freedom of navigation and make international waters safer and more secure.”
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
Units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 57th Motorised Infantry Brigade, 92nd Assault Brigade, 125th, 127th Territorial Defence brigades, 13th, and 17th National Guard brigades near Volchansk, Veseloye, Russkaya Lozovaya, Neskuchnoye, and Tsirkuny (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 225 Ukrainian troops, one pickup truck, one Grad MLRS combat vehicle, one 203mm 2S7 Pion self-propelled artillery system, one 155mm U.S.-made M198 howitzer, one 152mm D-20 howitzer, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system.
Units of the Zapad Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and inflicted losses on formations of the AFU 14th, 66th, 115th, 116th Mechanised brigades, 77th Airmobile Brigade, and 117th Territorial Defence Brigade near Makeyevka, Stelmakhovka, Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic), Sinkovka, Petropavlovka (Kharkov region), and Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
Three counter-attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 117th Territorial Defence Brigade were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 600 Ukrainian troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, and two motor vehicles.
In the course of counter-battery warfare, one U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzer, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, two 122mm D-30 howitzers, and one UK-made 105mm L-119 howitzer were destroyed.
Three AFU field ammunition depots were destroyed.
Units of the Yug Group of Forces improved the tactical situation along the front lines, as well as inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 30th, 54th, 72nd Mechanised brigades, 143rd Infantry Brigade, 46th, 81st Airmobile brigades, 5th, 80th Assault brigades, 109th, and 119th Territorial Defence brigades near Georgieyvka, Serebryanka, Minkovka, Spornoye, Krasnogorovka, Katerinovka, and Chasov Yar (Donetsk People's Republic).
Five counter-attacks launched by formations of the AFU 10th Mountain Assault Brigade and 79th Air Assault Brigade were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 630 Ukrainian troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, and 12 motor vehicles.
In the course of counterbattery warfare, one U.S.-made 155mm M198 howitzer, one U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzer, one U.S.-made 105mm M119 howitzer, one UK-made 105mm L119 howitzer, and two electronic warfare stations were neutralised.
Eleven AFU field ammunition depots were destroyed in that direction.
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on formations of the AFU 24th, 41st Mechanised brigades, 109th, 129th territorial defence brigades, and 2nd National Guard Brigade near Mikhailovka, Novgorodskoye, and Toretsk (Donetsk People's Republic).
Six counter-attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 31st, 47th mechanised brigades, 95th Air Assault Brigade, and Lyut Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 490 Ukrainian troops, three tanks, two motor vehicles, and three 122mm D-30 howitzers, and one 100mm Rapira anti-tank gun.
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 58th Motorised Infantry Brigade, 116th, 120th, and 123th Territorial Defence brigades near Konstantinopol, Bogatyr, Neskuchnoye, Storozhevoye (Donetsk People's Republic), and Novosyolovka (Zaporozhye region).
Moreover, three counter-attacks launched by formations of the AFU 108th and 129th Territorial Defence brigades were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 140 Ukrainian troops, eight motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzer, and two UK-made 155mm FH-70 howitzers.
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 141st Infantry Brigade, 128th Mountain Assault Brigade, and 35th Naval Infantry Brigade near Zherebyanka, Nesteriyanka (Zaporozhye region), and Tokaryovka (Kherson region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 140 Ukrainian troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, four motor vehicles, four U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzers, one 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, one 152mm D-20 and one 152mm Giatsint-B howitzers.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces destroyed one MiG-29 of the Ukrainian Air Force on the base airfield, two enterprises of military-industrial complex, one fuel refinery, one AFU POL depot, and one production and one storage facility of attack UAVs, as well as clusters of enemy manpower and military hardware of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 128 areas during the day.
Air defence units shot down 37 unmanned aerial vehicles, one French-made Hammer guided aerial bomb, one U.S.-made HARM anti-radiation missile, and 14 U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles.
In total, 626 airplanes and 277 helicopters, 27,197 unmanned aerial vehicles, 537 air defence missile systems, 16,499 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,364 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 11,326 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 23,318 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
[GEO.TV] Australian Senator Fatima Payman Thursday resigned from Labour party saying it was with "a heavy heart but a clear conscience".
She has decided to work as an independent lawmaker and sit on the crossbench "to represent the western Australia".
The party had earlier suspended the senator for voting in support of a motion on Palestinian statehood, against the party policy.
Payman said on the one hand she had great support from common Labour party members, unionists and volunteers who were calling on her to "hang in there and make change happen internally".
“On the other hand, I am pressured to conform to caucus solidarity, and toe the party line. I see no middle ground, and my conscience leaves me no choice.”
She said the Israeli genocide in Gaza is a “tragedy of unimaginable proportions”. It was “a crisis that pierces the heart and soul, calling us to action with a sense of urgency and moral clarity”.
[GEO.TV] Fresh assaults by the Israeli forces have killed at least seven more people in Gaza’s Khan Younis as senior UN official says there was nowhere in Gaza where people could take refuge or find protection as they were always on the front-line, Al Jazeera reported. FAFO
Head of UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) Andrea De Domenico said, "Nowhere and no one is safe in Gaza", which has become a place "where people cannot find a safe refuge, and can’t leave the front line".
Israeli military’s strike on a building left at least seven dead near Khan Younis’ Nasser Hospital, days after Israel directed residents of the area to leave the war-torn city.
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[JustTheNews] Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Governor Gavin can't be Bee'd Newsom ...mayor of San Francisco as it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of California as it transforms itself into Cinderland... withdrew his competing ballot measure to reform the state’s reduced prosecution of drug dealing and theft just days after Democratic politicians rejected his supported amendments to their anti-crime bills.
Newsom’s measure would have required the majority of politicians’ support on July 3 to make it on the November ballot, and would be in competition with another prosecution reform measure that earned nearly one million signatures.
The official website and Twitter account of the Office of the Governor of California took down mention and links to a July 1 blurb from Newsom, Senate President pro Tempore Mike McGuire, D-North Coast, and Speaker of the Assembly Robert Rivas, D-Hollister, announcing their drug and theft initiative, which initially had a vote set for Wednesday, July 3. Through a special rules change, the measure would have required only a majority, not the usual two-thirds, of politicians’ votes to make it on the ballot. But with the governor’s withdrawal and hiding of the announcement, it seems he may not have even had a majority despite Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... ’ supermajority in both houses of the legislature.
"We are pleased the Governor and Legislature have dropped their countermeasure and welcome them to join our campaign to responsibly amend Prop 47 to deal with retail theft, the fentanyl crisis and homelessness," said Greg Totten, CEO of the California District Attorneys Association and a spokesperson for the now-only Proposition 47 reform ballot measure, in a statement to The Center Square.
California voters passed Prop. 47 a decade ago making most theft and drug crimes into rarely-prosecuted misdemeanors, leading a coalition of businesses and law enforcement to launch the Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act. If passed in November, the TRA will allow for felony charges against serial thieves and combining thefts to meet the $950 felony threshold, and create new penalties for fentanyl dealers on the level of dealers of other hard drugs.
It would also create a new "crime" called a a "treatment-mandated felony" that would let an individual who "successfully completes drug and mental health treatment" have the conviction expunged and face no jail time, and receive shelter, job training, and other services to get back on their feet post-treatment.
Newsom’s competing measure would have introduced penalties for drug pushers who sell drugs with fentanyl mixed in, but these cases would be difficult to prove, as prosecution would need to prove dealers knew fentanyl is present in the drug, that the buyer did not know there was fentanyl in the drug, and have not told the buyer there is fentanyl in the drug. It also would have allowed thieves to face felony charges after two theft convictions over $50 within the last two years, but TRA supporters argued this would cause "repeated thefts" under $50.
Newsom tried to force Democrats to add "poison pill" amendments invalidating their bipartisan package of anti-crime bills if the TRA passes, but opposition from Republicans and moderate Democrats left those amendments on the floor. Newsom’s proposition withdrawal marks his second defeat from Democrats in the last week over his response to the TRA.
Newsom appears to have moved on from the issue, and today announced his new nationally-distributed podcast and radio show called "Politickin" with Super Bowl Champion Marshawn Lynch and NFL superstar agent Doug Hendrickson. Today he’s also at the White House meeting with President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?... and other Democratic governors.
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[Regnum] Over the Syrian province of Homs, a Russian pilot managed to avoid a collision between an An-30 of the Russian Armed Forces and a Typhoon fighter of the "coalition", which could have occurred due to a dangerous approach. This was reported by the deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides (CRPS) in the Syrian Arab Republic, Major General Yuri Popov.
The incident occurred on July 3 between 09:44 and 09:51 over the At-Tanf region.
After a dangerous approach, a collision was avoided thanks to the high professionalism of the Russian pilot, who took the necessary measures in a timely manner, Popov clarified.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, a dangerous approach occurred in the skies over Syria between an American reconnaissance and strike unmanned aerial vehicle and a Su-35 fighter jet of the Russian Aerospace Forces.
The Russian Armed Forces, together with the Syrian military, conducted exercises during which they repelled enemy attacks on the Tartus base.
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#2 exhibits elites delusions. Less than 20 day oil reserves, troops totals as I recall at a 20 year low at the least. Cannibalizing spare parts. How many years missiles have sat in silos?. Upgrades? if at all. For about 20 years Putin has pushed for upgrades and technological advancements. Dream on but going toe to toe with Russia and China is a fools mission. What better way to destroy the western world. Perhaps this was the idea of elites anyway.
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Any pilot capable of holding the control in his hands should know that a drone can't manuever away from you. It's basically like encountering a really big bird in the air; You'll have to get around it.
It doesn't know where you are.
Happened repeatedly in Afghanistan. Our drones lost signal, and the default is 'go higher to regain signal', right into air lanes.
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^ .....or out of the engagemwnt box and into Paki controlled airspace.
[NYPOST] Britannia’s left-wing Labour Party was poised Thursday for a landslide victory over the ruling Conservative Party after 14 years out of power.
According to an exit poll commissioned by all three major UK broadcasters and released as soon as the polls closed at 10 p.m., Labour was set to win 410 seats in the 650-member House of Commons, a majority of 170.
The result means that Keir Starmer,
…Sir Keir’s wife is Jewish, donchaknow…
61, a former public prosecutor and human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... lawyer who has led Labour since early 2020, will be the next prime minister after guiding the party to its first general election victory since 2005.
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A plan, a Koran, and a rucksack;
A fully stocked pointy-toed shoe rack,
Silk shalwar kameez,
All your kids, if you please,
And roast beef on relief for John Buraq!
Also a lot of people not voting. About 60% voting compared to about 67% in 2019. Although not known to a high degree it is probable a lot of them, maybe a majority, were voters who favored the Conservatives in the previous election.
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The idiots leading the Tories screwed the Brits, and have been doing so since they reluctantly backed Brexit, dragged to it by their voters. When it got out that despite promising to cut illegal immigration, the current Tory leadership deliberately increased it, they were toast. The only question is whether Britain will survive the punishment.
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[Regnum] The 235th Garrison Military Court in Moscow arrested the commander of the 83rd Separate Guards Airborne Assault Order of Suvorov Brigade, Guards Colonel Artyom Gorodilov, suspected of fraud, Interfax reports.
“To choose a preventive measure in relation to Gorodilov in the form of detention for a period until August 19, 2024,” the court’s decision states.
Gorodilov is charged with fraud on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
As reported by the Regnum news agency, Gorodilov's arrest became known on July 4. According to Kommersant, the brigade commander was detained in Ryazan and then taken to Moscow. The case is being handled by the Main Military Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.
On the same day, the Main Military Investigative Directorate of the Russian Investigative Committee asked the court to remand him into custody.
[GEO.TV] US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body.... and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed in a call in Thursday efforts to finalise a deal for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... and a release of hostages held by Hamas, the White House said.
The two leaders also discussed the recent response received from Hamas, the White House said. They also welcomed a meeting to take place on July 15 between the US and Israeli national security teams, it said.
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Hope it was before 8pm...
Washington DC, USA Time (DC): 8:00 PM (20:00)
Israel Daylight Time (IDT): 3:00 AM (3:00) Next Day
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[Regnum] The Houthi movement Ansar Allah has attacked a total of 162 vessels in the Red and Arabian Seas since November last year, said the movement's leader Abdel Malek al-Houthi.
It’s so cute that they (and the Russian reporter) only count how many they shot off, and not how many actually hit anything other than water… not to mention the very, very few that actually caused significant damage.
According to the leader of Ansar Allah, over the past week, six ships were attacked using ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as drones and boats.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, the Houthis began attacks on ships linked to Israel and its allies in the fall of 2023, after the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East, in order to support the Palestinian Hamas movement. In January 2024, the US and Great Britain began retaliatory strikes on the positions of the Yemeni movement.
On June 29, the movement was reported to have attacked four commercial vessels in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. At the time, Ansar Allah military spokesman Yahya Saria said the Houthis had launched a ballistic missile attack on the Delonix oil tanker. The UK Navy's Maritime Trade Operations Centre (UKMTO) said the vessel, which was 150 nautical miles northwest of Yemen's port of Hodeidah, was undamaged in the attack.
The Houthis also attacked the Ioannis in the Red Sea, the Waler oil tanker and the Johannes Maersk in the Mediterranean. There were no reports of any consequences from the strikes.
On June 26, Yahya Saria said the Houthis had attacked the Israeli ship MSC SARAH V in the Arabian Sea for the first time with a hypersonic missile. The following day, the Houthis attacked the Israeli city of Haifa and the Seajoy in the Red Sea using drones, missiles and an unmanned boat.
Scare quotes mine for Hamas’s imaginary numbers. The real numbers are about a third less, and almost entirely Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad made men.
[GEO.TV] More than 38,011 Palestinians have been killed and 87,445 have been injured in Israeli military offensive on Gaza since October 7, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
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[BBC] Australian fans of a late morning McDonald's breakfast are having to wake up earlier.
The fast food giant has temporarily shortened the hours of its breakfast service in the country by 90 minutes due to an egg shortage caused by a bird flu outbreak.
It is currently serving its full breakfast menu only until 10:30am, instead of the usual midday.
"Like many retailers, we are carefully managing supply of eggs due to the current industry challenges," McDonald's Australia said in a statement sent to the BBC.
"We’re continuing to work closely with our network of Aussie farmers, producers, and suppliers, as the industry comes together to manage this challenge."
Several strains of bird flu have been detected in 11 poultry facilities across southeast Australia in the past two months.
Authorities have said they have the situation under control.
"Consumers can expect to see some empty shelves in the short-term, however, supplies are being re-directed to areas with short supply," the Australian government said.
"Consumers should refrain from purchasing more eggs than required."
Bird flu has affected fewer than 10% of Australia's egg laying hens but, some businesses have imposed limits on how many eggs people can buy.
The outbreaks have led to the culling of about 1.5m chickens in Australia.
So far, none of the strains detected have been the H5N1 variant of bird flu.
H5N1 has spread through bird and mammal populations globally, infecting billions of animals and a small number of humans.
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[RedStar] From June 30 to July 2, 1941, the SS and their Ukrainian nationalist henchmen carried out the Lemberg, or, in other words, Lvov, pogrom.
by Alexander Tikhonov
The Public Relations Center of the FSB of Russia publishes on the official website of the agency in the “Archive Materials” section of the “History” section a digital copy of a previously unpublished interrogation protocol of Corporal Hans Isenman, a serviceman of the SS volunteer division “Viking”, who participated in the mass extermination of Jews in late June – early July 1941 in Lvov and in the executions of civilians in other territories of Western Ukraine.
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[Korrespondent] The Ukrainian Defense Forces have withdrawn from the Kanal microdistrict of the city of Chasiv Yar, which is located west of occupied Bakhmut.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces retreated to Chasovy Yar. According to Nazar Voloshin, a representative of the Khortitsa OSUV, the Ukrainian military left the Kanal microdistrict, which was inadvisable to hold due to the risk of major losses. “The positions of our defenders were destroyed, and the command decided to retreat to more protected and prepared positions,” Voloshin said. What risks does this create on this section of the front? BATTLE FOR CHASOV YAR
According to DeepState analysts, the occupiers have completely destroyed the Kanal (Novy) microdistrict, so the withdrawal of the Defense Forces from there is logical. According to Voloshin, the occupiers are trying to completely take the city in order to meet certain deadlines. In the Chasovy Yar area, 230 shellings from all types of weapons were recorded in 24 hours.
The situation in the Chasovy Yar area is critically grave, reported Ivan Petrichak, press officer of the 24th King Daniel Brigade, on July 3.
According to Petrichak, battles with the occupiers are taking place on the border of the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal. The Russians are attacking with forces of former prisoners from the Storm-V units, paratroopers and special forces.
“We do not see a decrease in the number of attacks, the enemy is using both artillery and multiple launch rocket systems... The situation remains tense, however, the 24th King Daniel Brigade is holding its lines,” he said.
As Petrichak added, the occupation army covers the assault operations with artillery shelling, drops from kamikaze drones and Lancets. He noted that the Russians' tactics have not changed - they are conducting "meat assaults".
"We have several armed formations of Russians here. These include special forces, airborne forces, and the first echelon against us is former prisoners... They are trying to advance in small groups," the brigade added.
ARE THE MAIN BATTLES AHEAD?
"The fighting gradually moved towards the Seversky Donets-Donbass Canal, because it is easier to defend from the Canal than to attack. And therefore the main fighting is still ahead," notes military expert Mikhail Zhirokhov.
He also said when the situation could be considered critical: “While the fighting continues up to the Seversky Donetsk-Donbass canal, it is very difficult, very unpleasant, but it only has tactical significance. If the Russians manage to cross the canal, to seize at least some bridgehead, then it will be close to a catastrophe.”
IMPORTANT POINT
If Russian troops manage to capture Chasov Yar, they will begin an offensive on Konstantinovka, Druzhkovka, Kramatorsk and Slavyansk, predicts Voloshin.
“This is a commanding height in the region, control over which will allow Russian occupiers, if they achieve it, to significantly simplify their advance in the direction of Konstantinovka, Slavyansk and Kramatorsk,” said OSUV spokesman Khortytsia.
He also added that these cities are the last stronghold of the Donetsk region, which is now under Ukrainian control.
NOT ENOUGH WEAPONS
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky does not consider the situation on the front to be a stalemate, but at the same time notes that Ukraine’s counteroffensive and success on the battlefield depend on the supply of Western weapons.
"This is not a stalemate, this is a problematic situation. A stalemate is hopelessness, and the problem can be solved," Zelensky said in an interview with Bloomberg, which was published on Thursday, July 4.
He said that currently the Ukrainian Defense Forces have 14 under-equipped brigades because the weapons promised by the West are not arriving on time.
"We don't have the weapons that have already been voted on (in the US Congress), talked about, the packages are coming slowly. We are grateful to Congress for its support, but it all has to come," Zelensky said.
A lot of time passes from the decision to buy weapons to their actual delivery, which is “the greatest tragedy of war,” he stressed.
[GEO.TV] St. Philip's church once offered a haven of devotion to Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... 's small Christian community. After nine months of Israeli military action that has devastated the Paleostinian enclave's health system, priests have turned it into a hospital.
Beds line the pale stone walls under a vaulted roof as doctors tend to patients unable to find a space at the Anglican-run al-Ahli al-Arabi hospital, which like Gaza's other remaining medical facilities is straining under high demand.
"The space designated for prayers was converted into a clinic due to the lack of available places. Today, our priority is to save the life of every human being that we can," said priest Munther Isaac, wearing a black shirt and holy manal collar.
A man stood by one bed, fanning the elderly patient lying with an oxygen mask over his mouth. Crosses were carved into the walls of the nave. St Philip's is located in the same compound as the al-Ahli al-Arabi hospital.
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Hamas moves in right now, and - next week - all the "bleeding hearts" can be outraged by IDF attack on church.
Leftist pro-Palestine rioters are marauding through Manhattan in an anti-Fourth of July direct action. They’re urging for a violent leftist revolution in the U.S. pic.twitter.com/LSl6DTtBAL
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They don't know what they want. Dead end kids. Direct action ? ; yea, direct street on the site news. Instead sitting at home drinking his Red Bull. Then of course a fact checker. More like a fat checker or more accurately ambulance chaser.
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Be careful what you wish for. They wouldn't survive an actual "violent leftist revolution" because the other side would be shooting back, accurately.
Trashing university administration offices without opposition makes them think they are invincible. A couple of .223 hollow points will end that thought.
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How fortunate, my dear, that our method and theirs align, though they want to make the normies afraid, while we want to improve targetting information for law enforcement — it’s illegal to hold a torchlight parade without a permit, donchaknow.
And it’s awfully interesting how few people they got to join in — it appears that even in Manhattan they’re tired of the KKK-style nonsense.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21:51 The death toll from yesterday's attack on the Dnieper has risen to seven - another person has died in hospital. The number of injured has risen to 58, with 21 wounded remaining in hospital, OVA chief Serhiy Lysak reported.
21:46 Zelensky said in an evening video address that he held a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's Headquarters, with drones and electronic warfare among the main issues. Following the reports, "very important decisions were made, time will show these decisions at the front," the president promised.
In addition, Syrsky reported on the situation in the main directions, the head of state said: "There are most of the battles in the Pokrovsky direction, but we are now strengthening each direction, from the Kharkov region to the southern ones."
Zelensky also announced "good things, including on air defense" following the NATO summit in Washington next week. In addition, according to him, a new security agreement has been prepared - "a strong agreement that will truly support our entire architecture of security agreements. And this is what will guarantee our security until Ukraine joins NATO - a decision that is irreversible."
21:40 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense attacked the Tambov Gunpowder Plant in the Russian city of Kotovsk with kamikaze drones, Ukrainian media reported, citing an intelligence source. One of the UAVs successfully hit the enemy's military-industrial complex, the consequences are being clarified.
21:37 Ukrainian fighters from the 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade named after King Daniel showed a photo of the destroyed city of Chasov Yar in Donetsk Oblast: "Chasov Yar. Hell on earth. The Russians continue to destroy the city with all possible types of weapons... The Kanal microdistrict near the Seversky Donets Canal - Donbass has turned into a pile of ash - this is what it looks like now."
20:19 Russians launched a missile attack on the port infrastructure of the Odessa region, OVA head Oleg Kiper reported. As a result of the attack, one person was killed and seven were wounded. Port buildings and administrative and household premises were damaged.
19:31 Peskov said that Putin has repeatedly said that the Istanbul agreements could be the basis for dialogue with Ukraine, but this does not mean that they "will become the basis point by point." The Kremlin spokesman also noted that Erdogan cannot currently be a mediator because "Ukraine rejects any negotiations."
19:25 One of the Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups attempted to enter the village of Sotnitsky Kazachok in the Kharkiv region, located directly on the border line, and now the Defense Forces are carrying out measures to detect and destroy the remnants of the group, the Kharkiv operational-tactical group reported. They also noted that Russian troops are concentrating their main efforts in the areas of Vovchansk and Liptsy.
19:18 Putin said that a ceasefire on the contact line is impossible until peace talks with Ukraine begin. According to him, "Russia cannot declare a ceasefire because it is not sure of the Ukrainian side's response." In addition, "to ceasefire, Ukraine must agree to steps that would be irreversible and acceptable to the Russian Federation," the head of the Kremlin said.
19:13 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will travel to Moscow on Friday, July 5, after his visit to Kiev, journalist Szabolcs Pani reports, citing sources. According to him, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, who was not in Orban's delegation in Kiev, will also travel to the Russian Federation.
19:02 On Friday, July 5, the hourly power outage schedules will be in effect throughout the day, Ukrenergo reported. From 00:00 to 03:00 and from 23:00 to 24:00, two stages of the outage schedules will be in effect, and during other hours, three stages.
18:54 As a result of shelling of the Novogrodivka community of Donetsk region, one person was killed and eight were wounded, reported the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin. Among the wounded are four children. In particular, in the village of Zavetnoye, Russians killed a woman with a drone, and in Novogrodivka they hit a two-story building with an FPV drone, and a little later they shelled the center with Uragans.
18:21 There are still about 10,000 local residents in the Toretsk community of the Donetsk region, said the head of the GVA, Vasyl Chinchik. He called for evacuation, since the enemy is using scorched earth tactics, carrying out 10-20 airstrikes on the community daily.
17:43 More than 60 foreign policy experts urged NATO countries to avoid moving toward Ukraine's membership at a summit in Washington, warning that it would endanger the U.S. and allies and tear apart the coalition. The letter, seen by Politico, warned that if Ukraine were admitted to NATO, Russia would attack it in the future, triggering Article 5.
Analysts believe that Kyiv's push for NATO membership could backfire by "turning Ukraine into a site of prolonged confrontation between the world's two leading nuclear powers" and playing into Putin's hands.
17:12 Russia is using the Kerch Bridge to transport stolen minerals from occupied Ukraine, British intelligence writes. According to analysts, one of the reasons why Russia is seeking to improve transport networks in the occupied part of Ukraine is that it wants to extract more Ukrainian minerals. For example, south of Dneprorudnoye in the Zaporizhia region, Russia continues to extract minerals, transporting ore by rail. Trains go through Crimea, across the Kerch Bridge to Russia.
16:38 Erdogan told Lukashenko that it is possible to stop the war in Ukraine if there is a "solid peaceful basis," the Turkish president's office reported. And in a conversation with Xi Jinping, Erdogan drew attention to the threat of the conflict spreading to a "global level."
16:23 Russians struck Russkaya Lozovaya in Kharkiv Oblast with a KAB - one person was killed, one was wounded, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
15:56 A powerful explosion has thundered in Sevastopol and a column of smoke is now visible in the area where the Russian electronic warfare unit is deployed on Cape Fiolent, the Crimean Wind Telegram channel reports. The "governor" of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev stated that the fleet allegedly conducted training in the area of the Northern Mole - one training shot was fired. The explosion occurred at the time when an air raid alarm was declared in the city.
15:11 Putin said that the Istanbul agreements remain "on the table." According to him, in 2022 they "suited Ukraine" and could form the basis of the negotiation process.
14:45 As a result of the Russian strike on Poltava Oblast on July 3, a Ukrgazdobycha facility was damaged, the company reported. As a result of the attack, a company employee was killed, and there are also other injured workers. Work is underway to localize and eliminate the consequences of the emergency. The Ministry of Energy specified that an Ukrgazdobycha electrician was killed, and three more employees were injured.
14:38 As of today, there are about 11.1 million men aged 25 to 60 in Ukraine who are potentially subject to mobilization. Of these, 565 thousand have been reserved, said MP Dmytro Natalukha.
13:57 The Cabinet of Ministers adopted a resolution according to which the state will be able to purchase Ukrainian-made drones through the closed functionality of Prozorro, said the head of the Ministry of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov. He called this "a logical step in developing transparency and increasing the efficiency of drone procurement." The minister explained that manufacturers will have equal access to government contracts, and thanks to competition, the state will be able to purchase drones more profitably. For manufacturers, this is an opportunity to develop more actively, create jobs and scale up production dozens of times.
13:09 Ukraine is ready to launch a counteroffensive when the West helps staff 14 new Ukrainian Armed Forces brigades, Zelensky said in an interview with Bloomberg: "We have unarmed brigades. We have reserves. We have 14 understaffed brigades that do not have the appropriate weapons that we have already voted for, that we have already talked about. The packages should arrive, but they are, unfortunately, coming slowly."
13:03 Zelensky commented on the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO without occupied territories: "I am the president and the guarantor of the Constitution. And if we talk about any changes regarding our territories, these are changes to the Constitution and this is a crime. And therefore, if we are offered a German model or some other, Korean, etc., in any case, we must understand what is being offered to us, who is offering it to us, why it is being done. And after that, understand the opinion of all of us. Not only mine, but first of all the society, the people of Ukraine."
The president also believes that many would benefit from a weak Ukraine: "A Ukraine that no one talks about and no one hears about would satisfy many. A strong Ukraine is a problematic Ukraine, and many do not need it."
12:42 Zelensky said that it is impossible to simply talk about a ceasefire, a plan is needed. This is how he commented on Orban's proposal: "We cannot trust Putin in principle, because for us he is a murderer and an aggressor. It is important that Hungary recognizes that Russia is an aggressor, recognizes the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine." The President recalled that Ukraine had "hundreds of meetings" since the Minsk agreements with ceasefire agreements, but Russia violated these agreements each time.
The president also said in an interview with Bloomberg that Ukraine is striking Russian oil refineries in response to attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure: "Our position is simple: the world is hurt that we are striking at Russia's energy sector - make sure that Russia does not strike at our energy sector."
11:35 Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces Wieslaw Kukula arrived in Kiev. The Polish General Staff reported that the visit took place at the invitation of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky.
11:29 Ukrainian presidential spokesman Serhiy Nikiforov denied information from scandalous American journalist Tucker Carlson that Zelensky would allegedly give him an interview: "Mr. Tucker Carlson should check his sources in the FSB more carefully. The Ukrainian president has a completely different schedule, and Tucker Carlson is not there."
11:16 Since May 2023, after Ukraine received the Patriot air defense system, not a single Russian Kinzhal has reached Kiev, Serhiy Yaremenko, commander of the 96th anti-aircraft missile brigade, told Ukrinform in an interview. According to him, all these missiles were successfully intercepted. In total, the enemy has already fired more than 20 Kinzhals at Kiev.
10:47 The number of victims as a result of yesterday's attack on the Dnieper has increased to 55, six people have died, the Prosecutor General's Office reported.
10:36 In Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region, seven people were wounded as a result of today's shelling, reported the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak.
10:32 Ukrainian troops have retreated from the Kanal microdistrict in Chasovy Yar, confirmed Nazar Voloshin, spokesman for the OSGV Khortitsa. According to him, it was inappropriate to hold the microdistrict, and the positions of the defense forces there were destroyed.
09:58 In the Kherson region, over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed and seven were injured, reported the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin.
09:27 In Donetsk region on July 3 as a result of Russian shelling three people were wounded - in Druzhkovka, reported the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin.
08:46 In the Zaporizhia region, over the past day, two people were killed as a result of enemy shelling of the Vasilievsky and Pologovsky districts. Another person was wounded as a result of Russian attacks on the Zaporizhia district, said the head of the OVA Ivan Fedorov.
08:40 In the Chernihiv region, during a night attack, an enemy "shahed" hit one of the objects, 5963 consumers were left without electricity, reported the head of the OVA Vyacheslav Chaus.
08:31 Russians shelled the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region in the evening and morning, one person was wounded, said the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak. In addition, a woman who was wounded during yesterday's attack on the city died in the hospital. In total, six people died as a result of the attack.
08:19 Over the past 24 hours, 161 combat clashes have been recorded at the front, the General Staff reported. The enemy has significantly increased its activity in the Toretsk direction - it has carried out 25 attacks, including in the areas of the settlements of Dilievka, Toretsk, Pivnichnoye and New York in the Donetsk region. Another 37 attacks have been repelled in the Pokrovsk direction - near the settlements of Kalinovo, Novoaleksandrovka, Vozdvizhenka, Evgenyevka, Progress, Yasnobrodovka, Umanskoye, Karlovka in the Donetsk region. In the Liman direction, the Defense Forces repelled 32 enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Grekovka, Makeyevka, Nevskoye in the Luhansk region, Terny in the Donetsk region and Serebryanskoye forestry.
According to the military public DeepState, Russian troops captured the villages of Sokol and Voskhod in the Pokrovsk direction, and in Toretsk they advanced in Pivnichnoye and in the Druzhby area. And in the north of the Kharkov region, according to analysts, the enemy almost completely captured the village of Sotnitsky Kazachok.
ISW analysts report that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had success in Volchansk near Kremennaya, but the enemy is putting pressure on the Toretsk direction.
08:13 Air defense destroyed 21 of 22 Shahed-131/136 UAVs that Russia used to attack from the Kursk region at night, the Air Force reported. The drones were shot down within the Kyiv, Chernihiv, Zhitomir, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk and Poltava regions.
07:34 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of July 4:
personnel - about 547,470 (+1200) people,
tanks - 8132 (+9),
combat armored vehicles - 15,600 (+17),
artillery systems - 14,777 (+65),
MLRS - 1115 (+0),
air defense systems - 878 (+2),
aircraft - 360 (+0),
helicopters - 326 (+0),
Operational-tactical level UAVs - 11,694 (+26),
cruise missiles - 2342 (+6),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 19,923 (+73),
special equipment - 2468 (+4).
05:28 Russia attacked Kiev with drones. As the head of the KGVA Sergey Popko said, the attack drones approached in waves and from different directions, all of them were destroyed on the approaches to the capital. According to preliminary information, there are no casualties or damage.
02:56 At the NATO summit in Washington next week, Ukraine will be offered "concrete paths" to accelerate its future membership in the alliance, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Douglas Jones told Voice of America. The final declaration is expected to confirm Ukraine's membership in NATO.
01:22 American journalist Tucker Carlson, who interviewed Putin, said Zelensky agreed to talk to him. Carlson claims that he had been trying to invite Zelensky for an interview for two years, and "especially actively" after a conversation with Putin in February.
"It seems we got Zelensky's interview. The point is to provide the Americans with much-needed information about a conflict that is completely changing their country's position in the world. Hopefully it will be out soon," the journalist noted.
[GEO.TV] Senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine threatened on Thursday to attack new locations within Israel as part of the group's response to the killing by Israel of a top commander in the group.
"The series of responses continues in succession, and this series will continue to target new sites that the enemy did not imagine would be hit," Safieddine said, speaking at the senior commander's memorial.
Hezbollah fired at least 200 rockets and nearly two dozen drones on Thursday in retaliation.
Big talk from people who’ve never faced a serious enemy.
[GEO.TV] As war rages in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... and threatens to spread to Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , Iraqi fighter groups warn they are ready to enter the fray against Israel and the United States.
A field commander of the so-called Islamic Resistance® in Iraq said there would be "escalation for escalation" in the event of a full-scale war in Lebanon.
The commander, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, said the Iran-backed group had already sent "experts and advisors" to Lebanon.
Iraqi political scientist Ali al-Baidar agreed that a major war between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah, if it happens, "will not be limited to Lebanese territory".
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Welcome to the future. No flying cars, just turbans and veils and riots on Fridays.
[GEO.TV] The British Muslim voters could play a crucial role in around 100 constituencies including a majority of swing seats around the country and a record number of around 300 Muslim prospective parliamentary candidates — most of them Pakistani origin — are standing in elections on 4 July across the country.
Muslims in the UK number at around four million and their participation in general elections is considered as of crucial importance in many swing seats and also in the traditional Labour safe seats where dynamics have changed this time.
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[REGNUM] American strategic drones regularly circle over the Black Sea. They conduct reconnaissance and indicate targets for high-precision weapons that the West supplies to the Ukrainian Armed Forces for strikes on our country, the Russian Defense Ministry said. On June 28, Defense Minister Andrei Belousov instructed the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces to submit proposals for measures to promptly respond to provocations. At the same time, in addition to aircraft and drones, the Ukrainian side is also being assisted by a large satellite group of NATO countries.
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There are two ways to counter space espionage: by shooting down satellites in orbit or by jamming satellite terminals on the ground.
The traditional satellite defense strategy had been to target the control and relay ground stations rather than the satellites themselves, because they are few. Musk offers a distributed control system for his constellations making them less vulnerable though loss of the Redmond WA facility would be catastrophic.
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[REGNUM] The battle for the city of Chasov Yar, which has been going on for three months, is entering a new phase. Russian troops have driven out the Ukrainian Armed Forces units that were holding the line in the urban area and forced them to abandon the Kanal microdistrict. It is located on the left bank of the Seversky Donets-Donbass Canal and divides the city into two unequal parts. The retreat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was initially reported by unofficial sources on both sides of the conflict, and on July 3 the withdrawal was confirmed by the command of the Ukrainian army. Continued on Page 49
[Breitbart] A Carnival Cruise ship’s dining hall plunged into chaos when a large group of women got into an all-out brawl, brazenly hurling chairs and fists at each other as shocked passengers and staff watched.
A six-and-a-half minute video captured by Nick Richardson, a guest on the early June voyage to Honduras and Cozumel, Mexico, shows the moment furniture began sailing through the air in the dining hall of the ship.
The fight included at least six women, with a few men who appeared to be trying to break it up.
Only about three apparent Carnival security guards were at the scene, but their efforts to stop the violence were virtually futile against the angry pack of women pounding on each other.
Richardson recorded the aftermath of the fight, showing broken plates and upside-down chairs as he helped the staff pick up the mess.
“This is just what happens at 3 in the morning when you got a bunch of drunk girls from Tampa,” Richardson, who was on the cruise with his fiancee and three children, told the New York Post. Continues..Vid here. It was everything I expected it to be..
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A comment on this story in the Daily Mail summed it up: "Carnival is the Section 8 of the cruise industry."
When I saw the headline, I knew the ship involved would be a Caribbean cruise, which I'll never ever go on. I hope they all got kicked off the ship at the next port.
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I read "CATFIGHT" and thought it was a furry convention. But NO! It was melanin poisoning and they didn't have a Waffle House to use. You can get the girl out of the ghetto but you can't get the ghetto out of the girl.
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I knew right off the demographic of those involved when I read brawl. Some people just can't be civilized. I don't mean the whole demographic, but this does seem "normal" for a significant portion.
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Start checking the passengers for criminal records before being allowed on board. I bet every one of these ghetto girls have multiple arrests and / or convictions.
Both sides are playacting to placate the Biden team while they get on with their war on the ground.
[NYPOST] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Biden that he has sent a negotiation team to have indirect talks with Hamas about a cease-fire deal, according to reports — as a possible hostage swap looked closer than it has it weeks.
The prime minister also told Biden that Israel is committed to “ending the war only after achieving all of its goals,” the Times of Israel reports. Netanyahu previously said that the goal was to destroy Hamas and ensure Gaza never again poses a threat to the Jewish state.
Both the US and Israeli governments are examining the Iran-backed terror group’s proposal, which was sent over to Egyptian and Qatari negotiators on Wednesday. A US official familiar with the matter called the proposal “constructive,” but in need of more work.
[GEO.TV] The Hamas said it has sent new "ideas" to Qatari mediators aimed at ending the nearly nine-month Gaza war with Israel.
Israel confirmed that it was "evaluating" Hamas "comments" on a deal to see its hostages in the Palestinian territory freed and would reply.
With the death toll from nearly nine months of war mounting and conditions worsening daily for Gazans, both sides are under increased international pressure to agree a ceasefire.
Israel says there can be no halt to hostilities until Hamas releases all of its hostages.
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[NewsFront] 23:57 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 04.07.2024 to 00:00 05.07.2024.
A total of 30 cases of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
There were reports of a civilian death and three civilians were injured.
DAMAGED:
Six residential buildings,
Three civil infrastructure facilities.
Nine artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction.
A total of 21 artillery attack in the Gorlovka direction.
A total of 89 units of various ammunition were fired.
22:14 Operational summary: Kherson direction.
It is reported that today, the Russian Aerospace Forces aviation worked on the identified enemy positions on the right bank. The M-777 gun crew and the engineering vehicle were destroyed. FAB-250 and FAB-500 with UPMK destroyed enemy fortified positions and deployment points of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
21:35 Drone operators of the Sever group, armed with the people's kamikaze drone Upyr, continue their hunt for important enemy targets –video.
20:28 Su-34 bombers hit enemy manpower and equipment in the area of responsibility of the West group of forces.
The strike was carried out using OFAB-250 unguided aerial bombs with a universal planning and correction module.
19:27 Arrival in Odessa.
Another explosion thundered. The enemy reports a missile strike.
18:31 Khar'kov direction (Kupyansk area).
It is reported, that our SAU 152mm "MSTA-S" worked on the enemy's fortified positions. The enemy howitzer 152mm D-20 and the ammunition for it were destroyed.
Currently, aerial reconnaissance is actively identifying new targets for the Ukrainian Armed Forces to strike with artillery.
17:51 Special military operation. Situation as of July 4 –map.
17:01 The Russian Armed Forces have broken through to Petrovskaya Gora in New York (Novgorodskoye) and are fighting there –map.
16:53 Statements by representatives of the North, West, South, Center, East and Dnepr groups on the progress of the special military operation (as of July 4, 2024) –video.
15:42 The crews of the Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft missile and gun system and the S-350 anti-aircraft missile system are on combat duty in the Donetsk direction, covering Russian troops from air strikes –video.
15:11 Enemy admits significant advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the northwestern part of Krasnogorovka. The city continues to slowly but methodically come under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. After the fighting moved to the private sector, things went a little faster.
13:44 Around 12:00 Moscow time stopped an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using an aircraft-type UAV against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.
A Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed by air defense systems on duty over the territory of the Belgorod region.
13:24 Advancement of the Russian Armed Forces near Druzhba and in Kirovo –map.
12:54 Russian Army attacked on a new section of the border, occupying Sotnitsky Kazachok.
In the north of the Khar'kov region, the village of Sotnitsky Kazachok, near the border with Russia, but west of the current main theater of military operations (Volchanskoe and Liptsevskoe directions), has been almost completely captured.
12:12 Calculation of the Iskander OTRK of the Russian Armed Forces inflicted missile strike on aircraft parking lot at Dolgintsevo airfield in Dnepropetrovsk region.
A MiG-29 combat aircraft of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, air weapons and vehicles of the engineering aviation service were destroyed.
11:39 It is reported that the village of Voskhod in the Sokol area has come under the control of Russian troops –map.
11:11 During the past night, during an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using unmanned aerial vehicles on the territory of the Russian Federation, air defense systems on duty destroyed two UAVs over the territory of the Bryansk region, one UAV over the territory of the Belgorod region and one UAV over the territory of the Tambov region.
10:47 Statement by the head of the press center of the Vostok group –video.
Units of the "East" group of forces continue to carry out combat missions in the area of the special military operation.
During active operations, the group's units improved the situation along the forward edge, thwarted the enemy's attempts to reinforce the forward positions and rotate units of the 58th Motorized Infantry Brigade, the 120th, 125th and 128th Territorial Defense brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Velyka Novosilka, Ravnopolye, Vremivka and Novoukrainka. They repelled three counterattacks by assault groups of the 108th and 123rd Territorial Defense brigades.
Over the course of 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 145 servicemen, an armored personnel carrier, six vehicles, a 155mm FH-70 howitzer, and a 155mm M198 howitzer.
10:08 Artemovsk direction.
Our stormtroopers were able to capture several Ukrainian Armed Forces strongholds advanced deeper into the enemy positions.
09:44 Criminal Kyiv regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of the settlements of the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from barrel artillery:
-- Four shells in the village of Kokhany;
-- Three shells in the village of Podstepnoe;
-- in the village of Novye Lagerya three shells;
-- Five shells in the village of Novaya Kakhovka;
-- by n.p. Tavriysk four shells;
-- by n.p. Sofievka three shells.
In addition, the UAV attacked the building of the bakery in the settlement of Aleshki, as a result of the attack two people were killed, one was injured. Also, the settlement of Raiskoye was attacked by the UAV. The victims and damage are being clarified.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the villages of Golaya Prystan, Aleshky, Dnepryany, Kakhovka, and Korobki, firing a total of 19 shells from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being clarified.
09:23 Telegram channel «WarGonzo»:
Frontline report for the morning of 04.07.2024
- Zaporizhzhya Front. Here, mainly positional battles with the use of long-range weapons continue. LBS without significant changes.
- Donetsk Front. In Konstantinovka, fighting continues on the outskirts of the settlement, without significant advances. In Krasnogorovka, Russian troops continue to push the Ukrainian garrison to the outskirts of the city, there are further advances, and the occupied positions are being cleared.
Heavy fighting continues in the area of Karlovka, the Russian Armed Forces are conducting methodical offensive actions, but the Ukrainian Armed Forces are stubbornly fighting back. There are also tactical successes in the area of Yevgenovka, fighting is taking place on the outskirts of this settlement. In the area of New York, the Russian Armed Forces continue to develop the offensive, there are successes.
- Chasov Yar direction. The fighting here is increasingly shifting to the area of ??the "Seversky Donets - Donbass" canal, where the Ukrainian Armed Forces have retreated from the eastern suburb of Chasov Yar to previously prepared positions. Artillery and aviation of the Russian Armed Forces are actively working on Ukrainian positions.
- Khar'kov Front. LBS without significant changes. Counter battles continue in Volchansk and in the area of Glubokoe. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are sending reserves into battle and trying to dislodge Russian troops from their positions, but to no avail.
08:50 Telegram channel «Fisherman»:
Chronicle of the special military operation for July 3, 2024
– Russian troops hit enemy industrial facilities in Dnepropetrovsk and destroyed a MiG-29 aircraft at the aircraft parking lot at the Dolgintsevo airfield in the Dnepropetrovsk region. Ukrainian formations attempted to attack the bay in Novorossiysk with unmanned boats and continue to shell the border area.
– In the Artemovsk direction, Russian troops have completely cleared the Kanal microdistrict in the eastern part of Chasov Yar.
– In the Aleksandro-Kalinovsky direction, the Russian Armed Forces have consolidated their positions on the outskirts of Druzhba and have also occupied most of Artemovo (Pivdenne).
– In the Donetsk direction, Russian troops are advancing in the private sector to the west of the central park in Krasnogorovka, and have also expanded the zone of control on the approaches to Yasnobrodovka.
– In the Ugledar direction, assault groups have secured a foothold on the southern edge of the pond on the outskirts of Konstantinovka, and are also fighting in the Ikryanoy gully west of Sladkoye.
– In the Vremyevsk direction, Russian soldiers completely liberated Staromayorskoye, having advanced almost a kilometer in the direction of Makarovka.
08:00 Official summary of DPR Representative Offices in the JCCC:
A total of 30 cases of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC.
There were reports of three civilians being injured.
DAMAGED:
Twelve residential buildings,
Four cars,
Five civil infrastructure facilities.
Eleven artillery attack incidents from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction.
A total of 19 artillery attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Horlivka direction.
A total of 88 units of various ammunition were fired.
[NYPOST] The New York City Department of Health has scrapped a requirement that fetuses aborted at or after 24 weeks be considered “human remains” and sent to funeral homes for burial or cremation.
Consistent with their goal of becoming the abortion capitol of the eastern U.S. It’s a potential income stream for a region whose historical income streams are being taxed and regulated out of existence.
The 24-week mark is generally considered the point of potential viability to survive early birth and until the rule change, it was mandatory to send such late-term aborted fetuses to funeral homes for burial or cremation.
Medical facilities will now instead be allowed to dispose of the “conceptus” — the term used by the health department — on premises, as is the case for earlier term aborted fetuses, relieving the patient or family of the responsibility and cost.
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Or they can run a side business selling the baby parts for experiments and for weirdos. Maybe they can keep them in jars in their garage like Gosnell and the guy in Ohio. Did they ever figure out what was going on in DC? I didn’t think so.
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[Regnum] The Taliban movement is Russia's ally in the fight against terrorism, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on July 4.
Somebody is grandstanding, because he can’t possibly stupid enough to believe that nonsense.
According to him, the Taliban movement has taken on certain obligations and “in general there are issues that require constant attention both within the country and the international community, but in general it is necessary to proceed from the fact that this movement controls power in Afghanistan.”
“And in this sense, the Taliban are certainly our allies in the fight against terrorism,” the head of state said, answering journalists’ questions.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on May 27, the Foreign Ministry and the Justice Ministry reported to President Vladimir Putin about the possibility of excluding the Taliban movement from the list of banned organizations. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov noted later, the Taliban are now the real power in Afghanistan. Russia and the Central Asian countries are not indifferent to what is happening in that country, he added.
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev noted on May 28 that Moscow is close to establishing full-fledged relations with the Taliban. The politician recalled that at the beginning of the century, the Russian side considered the Taliban a terrorist organization, considering the United States a partner in the fight against extremism.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] The Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ese army and its allied armed movements announced on Thursday the recapture of A-Dinder, a city in Sennar State, southeast Sudan, five days after it fell under the control of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The RSF had seized the town, located on the border between Sennar and Gedaref states in eastern Sudan, and engaged in widespread violations, including looting money, agricultural crops, gold jewellery, mobile phones, and cars, as part of a larger campaign impacting multiple villages.
Video clips released by sources affiliated with the army and the joint force revealed the destruction inflicted by the RSF on civilian property, including cars, houses, and shops. Other footage showed combat vehicles and cycle of violences belonging to the RSF, which were destroyed by the joint army and allied forces following intense battles in different neighbourhoods.
A statement from the joint force declared that they had "liberated A-Dinder and pursued the Janjaweed militia to the entrance of Sinjah," a nearby town. They also recovered looted property and urged citizens to return home, promising protection.
The joint force, composed of the Sudan Liberation Movement led by Minni Minawi, the Justice and Equality Movement led by Gibril Ibrahim, and a faction of the Gathering of Sudan Liberation Forces, has a strong presence in al-Faw of Gedaref State.
Strategically located about 25 kilometres from Sinjah, the capital of Sennar State, A-Dinder serves as a vital link between the Sennar and Blue Nile regions and eastern Sudan.
The A-Dinder Bridge, spanning the Blue Nile, became an escape route for thousands of civilians fleeing RSF abuses in Sennar State. They sought refuge in the eastern states.
Previously, on June 29, the RSF took control of Sinjah after moving their forces along dirt roads from the Jebel Moya areas, about 40 kilometres south of Sennar city. After capturing the army base and local government headquarters, RSF members reportedly engaged in looting and terrorizing residents.
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] The International Planned Parenthood ...has received federal funding since 1970, when President Richard Nixon signed into law the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act. It is sometimes described as the gynecololgical wing of the Democratic party... Federation (IPPF) said attacks on one of its healthcare clinics in Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... occurred this week, with several staff and volunteers from its member association in the country either injured or killed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
IPPF is a global healthcare provider and a leading advocate of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for all. We are a movement of 150 Member Associations and Collaborative Partners with a presence in over 146 countries.
In a statement on its website, the health provider said its clinic in the North Darfur capital, El Fasher has been destroyed, meaning there is one less option for women and girls to receive lifesaving sexual and reproductive healthcare in the region.
For over a month, ongoing battles around El Fasher have been taking place. The RSF have reportedly been indiscriminately shelling military and civilian targets.
A number of incidences are mentioned, with one being the death of Mahasen Abdul Jabbar, a volunteer linked to Sudan Family Planning Association (SFPA).
He was killed after being hit by a gunshot at the clinic while Dr Daifallah Mohammed, a volunteer family medicine specialist died as a result of the war
One of the nurses, it said, was hit with shrapnel and has been transferred to hospital in a critical condition and all contact with her has reportedly been lost.
The RSF has also been kidnapping patients, but their whereabouts unknown.
"We are devastated to learn of another attack on one of our clinics in Sudan, and the injuries and loss of lives to our staff and volunteers. Healthcare facilities, and most importantly, healthcare workers, must never be the target of war," Dr. Alvaro Bermejo, the Deputy Director of IPPF, said.
"The sexual and reproductive health and lives of 800,000 people in North Darfur — including women, children, and people with disabilities — are hanging in the balance as bombing and shelling cause widespread harm to civilians and severely disrupt the essential health services they very much depend on," he added.
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] Abdel Wahid al-Nur, leader of the Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... Liberation Movement (SLM), launched an initiative on Wednesday to address the dire situation in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state. The initiative calls for the withdrawal of all fighters and the handover of security responsibilities for the region’s historic capital to the SLM.
Since May 10th, El Fasher has witnessed violent mostly peacefulfestivities between the Sudanese army and its allies from armed movements that signed the Juba Peace Agreement. These festivities have resulted in the deaths of many civilians and the displacement of thousands.
The fighting between the warring parties, compounded by the siege imposed on El Fasher by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has caused a deep humanitarian crisis. There are increasing warnings of famine threatening the population of North Darfur state.
In a statement issued late Wednesday, seen by "Sudan Tribune," Abdel Wahid al-Nur stated, "We are putting forward an initiative to address the humanitarian situation in El Fasher and its surroundings, and to protect the remaining citizens and infrastructure. This requires the withdrawal of all fighting forces and their allies from El Fasher and its surroundings, as the city has no military value to any party."
Al Nur clarified that the SLM forces, as a neutral party, would assume the responsibility of protecting citizens, providing security and reassurance, and working with others to address the situation caused by the war. They would also facilitate the entry of international humanitarian organizations to assist the victims who are facing death by bullets, hunger, and disease.
He suggested that El Fasher be transformed into a demilitarized zone and a centre for managing humanitarian affairs and relief for all areas of Darfur, Kordofan, White Nile, and al-Jazirah. This is due to its geographical proximity, the presence of paved roads, and the potential to efficiently deliver relief and humanitarian aid to other regions of Sudan.
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