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I will not call these ladies loafers--
"We will!" creak their weary sofas.
"Lolling round in frilly cuffs..."
"Why don't these gals get off their duffs--"
"And do the dishes--"
"Take some classes--"
"Spare us poor upholstered masses!"
Swoons and fits! A thousand ouches
From a thousand grouchy couches!
Doink! A shriek. A sudden spring.
One ottoman begins to sing.
[Insider] There were plenty of nice houses in the village, but this building was one of the few that was left to crumble. The cottage was old and weathered, and the masonry walls were full of cracks.
"It was kind of dilapidated, so I always thought it was a bit of a shame that it was left to this condition," Dunnett, a 28-year-old video editor, told Insider.
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Renovated a rock house once.
Previous owner didn't want to pay for a garbage service so he packed the crawl space with trash bags. Painted the windows shut. Had a huge gun safe next to the bed to sag the floor.
[History.net] Behold the Lockheed U-2, as imperfect an airplane as has ever flown. A hastily designed stopgap intended to fly for two or perhaps four years at most, its fragility and truculence a destroyer of airframes and killer of pilots at an unprecedented rate. An airplane so difficult to land that YouTube is filled with videos of careening U-2s being chased by landing coaches in Camaros and Firebirds. A quasi-military spyplane that was originally ordered and paid for by civilians—that in fact was largely postulated and laid out by MIT and Harvard academics and a Cambridge entrepreneur, nary a pilot nor aeronautical engineer among them.
Some in the U.S. Air Force called it the Useless Deuce, yet the U-2 became one of the most important aircraft ever to fly. The U-2 kept us out of World War III with the Soviet secrets it revealed during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. And though its Soviet overflights ended in disaster—the infamous Francis Gary Powers shootdown in May 1960—the U-2 had already proved that Americans needn’t have worried about Soviet bombers targeting us. Mutually assured destruction, if it ever came to that, meant the U.S. would assuredly destroy the USSR.
Sixty years after the U-2A entered service, the latest model, the U-2S (an improved version of the highly modified U-2R), continues to fly carrying sensors undreamed of during the U-2’s photorecon glory days. Its intended successor, the SR-71, quickly came and went at Mach 3, and is today parked in museums. Surveillance satellites that supposedly could read license plates from space have yet to fully replace the U-2, and this remarkable reconnaissance platform’s real successor will be a drone—a UAV based on, yes, the U-2R.
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Satchel Paige: "It ain't braggin' if you can do it..."
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Loiter time and relatively cheap to operate compared to the Blackbird or orbital platforms, and it goes where you have minimal coverage and boosts imagery bigly. I'm reminded of large scale maneuvers at Ft. Irwin in the early 80's when we would stop certain things or reconfigure the location of key assets so that the SovBirds couldn't get a solid template of what went where for targeting doctrine. The Sat overpass times were specific and upon occasion we wrote things on white packing materials that were decidedly impolite and often anatomically impossible.
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...A tactical draw, but a strategic victory for the US - the Japanese lost one CV, losses to the Japanese carrier aircrews were bad, and that was aggravated by the fact that the IJN's aircrew training couldn't turn out anywhere near the numbers needed fast enough to sustain combat.
That meant that two fleet carriers sat out Midway...and history tells us what happened next.
So Macron's party has been bitchslapped, Johnson's government is about to fall, Scholz's Germany is facing ruin, and Biden's party is about to lose control of Congress.
What's all this then?
Just a month or two ago we were told it was Russia that was going to collapse and that "the West is united" in facing down Russia. That Ukraine was winning the war. That "the ruble will be rubble" and that Putin was ill, deranged, deluded, disappeared or about to be disappeared in a putsch and blah blah blah.
Oh, and let's not forget Justin Castro Trudeau. Then again, he was just recently voted in, more or less, so Canada get what it voted for (unless those election results were of dubious origin, too).
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The "I'm a conservative. Really!" scam is almost all burned down now.
Hope the RINOs are next.
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We already have a TV show (Servant of the People) involving a comedian who becomes president of an eastern european country. In a perfectly symmetrical world, Boris would go on to a career in stand-up comedy.
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Glad you named the show; my first thought was CNN.
Not sure who else could have got Brexit along, and perhaps some more locals could help with other good deeds, but his hard work to be on the starting eleven for playing Covid was embarrassing for freedom. Energy policy sucks too, "We're going to give you tax money to help you pay for your overtaxed electricity."
Does Britain have a person/policy on the bench who can start pulling cocks out of chickens, or are we doomed for a British Whitmer but with better teeth?
[IsraelTimes] Video said to show blindfolded Paleostinians led through street by troops near Ramallah; military holds drill near Hebron
A Paleostinian man, Rafiq Riyad Ghannem, 20, was shot and killed by Israel Defense Forces fire close to the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday morning, the Paleostinian Authority health ministry said.
The IDF said in a statement that troops were carrying out an operation in the town of Jaba’ to detain an individual suspected of involvement in terror activities, and that he was shot as he tried to escape.
"During the operation, the force initiated arrest procedures, which included shooting, for a suspect who beat feet from a building," the military said.
The IDF said troops provided medical treatment to the suspect, but he was later declared dead.
Despite the military’s assertion that the "circumstances of the case are clear," no further information was provided as to whether the suspect was armed or posed a threat.
Army Radio said that Ghannem’s body was being held by Israeli authorities.
Ghannem’s death came three days after 17-year-old Paleostinian Kamel Abdullah Alawneh, shot by Israeli soldiers during festivities also in Jaba’ over the weekend, died of his wounds. According to both military and Paleostinian media accounts, Alawneh was shot while clashing with Israeli troops who set up a checkpoint at the entrance to the village. The IDF said a Paleostinian hurled a Molotov cocktail at the soldiers, who fired at the suspect in response. The Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... -ruling Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terror group claimed Alawneh as a member, though pictures from the funeral Sunday showed his body wrapped in a yellow flag of the Fatah movement, led by PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... Fifty Paleostinians have been killed since late March across Israel and the Paleostinian territories, including attackers or individuals clashing with troops, suspected Lions of Islam and innocent bystanders.
Over the same period 19 people — the majority of them Israeli civilians inside Israel — have been killed in terror attacks, mainly by Paleostinians. Three Arab Israeli attackers have also been killed.
Wednesday’s Jaba’ clash took place as 24 wanted Paleostinians suspected of terror activities were arrested by Israeli security forces during raids across the West Bank overnight, the IDF said. Weapons were also seized and festivities broke out in a number of locations.
The military said 14 people were detained in Silwad, near Ramallah. Video circulating on social media purported to show a number of men wearing blindfolds being escorted by Israeli troops through a street in the village.
The reported shooting and arrests came as the IDF kicked off a military exercise in the area surrounding Hebron. The military said that the exercise, set to end Wednesday afternoon, was pre-planned as part of its training program.
On Tuesday, the IDF said troops were targeted in a drive-by shooting near a checkpoint by the entrance of an illegal outpost in the northern West Bank.
According to the military, troops returned fire but the vehicle expeditiously departed at a goodly pace. No Israeli injuries were reported. The military launched a manhunt for the button men.
Last week, three Israelis, including a senior IDF officer, were lightly hurt after Paleostinian button menshot up Joseph’s Tomb on the outskirts of Nablus, while Jewish worshipers were visiting the site.
[IsraelTimes] Yitzhak Dahan, 47, says assailant passed him on pedestrian bridge outside city, assaulted him from behind with metal object
The Shin Bet security agency said on Wednesday that a Paleostinian man who allegedly attacked and seriously hurt a Bnei Brak resident a day earlier had been arrested.
Early Tuesday morning, Yitzhak Dahan, 47, was maimed in a suspected terror attack on a pedestrian bridge between the ultra-Orthodox city and neighboring Givat Shmuel. His condition has since improved.
The Shin Bet did not say where or when the suspect was arrested and further details relating to the attack were barred from publication due to a court-imposed gag order.
Dahan told Channel 12 news on Wednesday that he passed the alleged assailant at the entrance to the bridge as he saw him reaching into a bag. "And after a few seconds, he came up behind me and inflicted blows on my head with something, probably metal," Dahan said.
Citing unsourced assessments, Channel 12 said the weapon could have been a hammer or an axe.
Dahan was taken by medics to the Tel Hashomer hospital in Ramat Gan, which said he was suffering from a wound to his head.
The suspected terror attack came following a string of deadly incidents between mid-March and the beginning of May that left 19 people dead.
The most deadly attack — in which five people were killed — occurred in Bnei Brak.
[MAIL] Surveillance footage caught the shocking moment a New York City bodega worker allegedly stabbed a customer to death, after the man violently confronted him about the price of some snacks.
Video shows the employee - 51-year-old Jose Alba - sitting behind a counter at the Hamilton Heights grocery store, tending to customers on Friday night.
A man then pushed Alba into a shelf and appears to confront him, before yelling at another customer trying to purchase something.
He pulls Alba up out of the chair, at which point Alba reaches to the right toward shelves displaying an assortment of candy, and pulls out a large knife, which he allegedly plunges into the man's neck and chest at least five times.
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People get all freaked out about guns and fail to understand that you can still die from a flint tipped spear or sharpened stick as much as you can from a gun.
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If you come across the video, take a moment, dude half his age has him trapped in a corner, throws him into a shelf where he bangs his head, and continues to have "customer" assault him.
DM makes it out like they were having an unpleasant discussion about record profit margins when Jose dirks him in the neck.
Heh, 'to the point'.
I thought the name Fairbairn was familiar, as in the Sykes-Fairbairn pattern knife. The gentlemen himself seems to have been quite the bad-ass, a one-man RAB if you will.
BLUF:
[Jerusalem Post] In the course of their research, scientists found that the neurological effects of long-COVID were strikingly similar to neurodegenerative diseases caused by cytotoxic aggregates on the brain. This is to say, they witnessed a buildup of protein fragments from the SARS-CoV-2 virus which formed clumps in the brain, similar to those found in patients with Alzheimer's or Parkinson's diseases.
"If further studies are able to prove that the formation of these amyloids is causing long-COVID, then anti-amyloid drugs developed to treat Alzheimer’s might be used to treat some of the neurological symptoms of long-COVID."
Dr. Mirren Charnley
The study also showed that the clumps, in addition to being problematic by their presence, are highly toxic to brain cells.
However, this grim prognosis may actually be a compass to point in the direction of a treatment plan.
Dr. Mirren Charnley, a postdoctoral researcher at Swinburne explained that "if further studies are able to prove that the formation of these amyloids is causing long-COVID, then anti-amyloid drugs developed to treat Alzheimer’s might be used to treat some of the neurological symptoms of long-COVID."
A plague virus that kills off older and medically ill burdensome humans, reduces mental capabilities and coupled with a Vax that reduces fertility and causes Blood Clot / Heart related death for a certain healthy part of the population.
Do people still doubt it wasn't developed in a lab for a greater reason?
My Example.
Hearing aide test taken about 7-8 weeks after my C-19/22 infection. Showed I lost additional hearing starting in the 3,800hz high frequencies, Plus, I now need more DB amplification than just 6 months before the Pre-C19/22 infection.
Plus Side ... is I can actually feel very low audio sounds like our Postal Mail Vehicle 1/2 a block away or feel a car rolling down the street.
My Audiologist said he has seen this in a number C-19/22 post infected people.
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TW because they specifically mention need for testing in their info add on radio. This office has at least two Doctors of Audiology at my location. Losing high frequency at 3800 and above is normal for most people. Age related but more common in men but that's because he hears only what he wants to hear. 3,500 inner hair cells and 12,000 outer hair cells at birth but outer are the ones that suffer most damage. When you hear ringing after a loud noise that is damage. I have always felt magnesium helped hair cells. Say the word Thaw and high frequency loss is Th sound whereas aw is low frequency sound. Yes, most will want to fit you with hearing aids for both ears 4000 on up. Use both ears to hear and cup each ear for a 10db increase in hearing for each ear. Lip read works also. A pair might cost 3-11,000 dollars and be good for 3-5 years. I would say you are borderline. It is your own mind that will motivate you. I don't believe you will see much benefit. Use speaker phone as this will aid you for the summation effect. Little things like cell phone ring on TV you may not hear. Rubbing fingers together next to your ear you might not hear (that shows you range of hearing). Pen click sound also.
[WND] A string of recent overdoses in Gadsden County, Florida, are believed to be tied to laced pills containing fentanyl in what the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) characterized as a "mass fentanyl poisoning event."
Gadsden County Sheriff Morris Young said his office received about 15 calls on Friday related to the incident. There were nine deaths between Friday and Tuesday, according to the Tallahassee Democrat.
The fatalities are due to a suspected strain of fentanyl suspected to be 1,000 times more potent than pure fentanyl, Young explained on a Sunday Facebook livestream, citing his conversations with the DEA.
"So, we suspect that this was due to some type of an opioid or poisoning, such as fentanyl," Young said.
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a suspected strain of fentanyl suspected to be 1,000 times more potent than pure fentanyl,
That sounds like BS. Unlike viruses, isomers or variants of organic chemicals are seldom referred to as strains, and if there was a 'strain' of fentanyl 1000x more potent (whatever that means exactly), wouldn't that be in common medical use instead?
Some of the fentanyl consumed was believed to be laced with cocaine and marijuana.
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Kill all illicit drug users? How retarded. Let people kill themselves with drugs on their own. That's their business, not yours or mine. Drugs should be legal. Whether you or I want to indulge
in drugs or whether we detest drugs or not should be up to us.
One of the biggest causes of death in the country is from prescribed medication. What's the difference?
Puzzling
?????????????? ... 1,000 times more potent than pure fentanyl ... ???????????????
I guess I am a little milder on the situation.
I purposed Death Sentences for any addictive Illegal Drug Dealer.
Where I feel, users should be at least treated.
WHY?
I have known several addicted Vet's that Army & VA Hospitals have strung out and dumped, that never got addiction treatment.
Why?
Because it pointed the finger back at the Military & VA DOC's for not doing their jobs in treating instead of tossing a pill at them to handle the case loads dump on them due Congressional UNDER $$$$$ FUNDING.
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The opioids that originally started the current epidemic were controlled. Look at how well that turned out.
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Drugs should be legal.
You wanna see school children dropping dead on their playgrounds? Because that's what would happen. You'd be stepping over their excrement and their lifeless bodies on the sidewalks too. We know this because in San Francisco drugs are essentially legal and that is exactly what is happening there. Yeah, and they're too stoned to hold jobs so they steal and rob when they need money for their next fix so you'll have to deal with that too. Don't believe me? Ask the Chinese. It only ended in that country when Mao had them all shot. Millions of them. That's what you want for America?
But, yes, we are stuck with the problem in America as long as our political and corporate elites keep pretending that it's OK to do business with China and that it's OK to leave our southern border wide open.
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Stop making drugs a grift for the gummint. Don't let the law enforcement community make any money off it. Don't let the courts make any money off it. Don't let the "drug treatment" community suck at the gummint teat.
Accept that it's a human weakness and some people will succumb to their weaknesses.
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And yet Biden keeps talking about gun control. The man is evil.
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Now keep in mind this was reporters...if they could understand science, they might have learned to code instead. Getting crap wrong is what they do. Anytime they are right it's purely accidental.
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an estimated 100,306 drug overdose deaths in the United States during 12-month period ending in April 2021
How many of those who died had first been saved repeatedly by that emergency injection first responders now routinely carry in their kit? Because X died, 5X saved who would otherwise have died , or possibly X died, on average each one who died had been saved from an overdose death three times previously would put the raw death number into perspective.
[Aljazeera] United States President Joe Biden spoke with the wife of basketball star Brittney Griner, who is being detained in Russia, the White House has said, and assured her that he is working to win Griner’s freedom as soon as possible.
During Biden’s conversation with Griner’s wife, Cherelle Griner, on Wednesday, he offered his support to the family and committed to making sure they receive "all possible assistance" while the administration pursues steps to win her release, according to a White House statement.
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Its even more fun if you believe the rumors Brittney is a tranny.
I don't; I think even a shitty male athlete at that height would be able to accidentally dunk and would have dominated college ball instead of just being a big presence. Still, lady looks like a dude...
[IsraelTimes] Prosecutors say Nikolas Cruz’s Nazi symbols, racist posts, cruelty to animals show he’s not mentally ill, was not impaired when he killed 17 people in Florida in 2018.
Prosecutors and attorneys for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz
...pre-attack diagnoses of autism, anxiety, depression and significant psychological problems, described as a troubled kid obsessed with guns — the police came to the family home frequently to deal with him. Mr. Cruz was adopted at birth, then his adoptive father died when he was young, followed into the grave by his adoptive mother a few months before he ran amok. So really he was a classic school shooter. Interestingly, his biological sister Danielle Woodard, a decade older, also has a long rap sheet and is classified as a habitual violent offender...
battled Wednesday over whether jurors at his upcoming penalty trial should learn about the swastikas carved on his gun’s magazine, his racist, homophobic and threatening online posts, his computer searches for child pornography and his cruelty to animals.
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...When I was a mere lad, in the Jurassic '60s, I remember a lot of - shall we say - rebellious - young men thought it was cool to draw or carve swastikas in things to show how tough and edgy they were.
Many were never caught, but those that were usually ended facing a teacher or principal who had seen up close what the swastika stood for, and received guidance. And then they were marched up to their parents, many of whom had boots on the ground in the ETO...and from who more guidance was given.
And did not do it again. I wish this young man had had just one man like that in his life; maybe things would have been different.
Exactly what we would expect from the Biden administration, both the actions and the public claim.
[IsraelTimes] State Department contradicts IDF assertion that Israeli officials examined projectile, which was found to be too damaged to conclusively conclude who killed Al Jazeera journalist.
The United States said Tuesday that only experts on its own team examined the bullet that killed journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, after Israel claimed its own authorities had participated in the forensic analysis.
The Paleostinian Authority had reluctantly handed over the bullet to the United States and said it was not giving it to Israel, fearing a whitewash. But on Monday, the Israeli army said in a statement that Israeli experts had done forensic analysis on the bullet in a laboratory in the Jewish state.
This came two days after IDF front man Ron Kochav further fanned the flames by claiming after the bullet was transferred to the US embassy in Jerusalem that US officials would merely be observing the Israeli analysis of the bullet.
The IDF clarified in its Monday statement that the bullet remained in the possession of US authorities from the moment the PA transferred it to them on Saturday until it was returned on Monday. Nonetheless, Kochav’s comments led to criticism in Paleostinian circles that the analysis had been a joint US-Israeli venture.
On Tuesday, State Department front man Ned Price insisted that the examination was carried out by two members on the team of the US Security Coordinator (USSC), which liaises with the Paleostinian Authority and Israel on security assistance.
He did not identify the experts by name or nationality, noting that non-Americans were on the staff, but said they had "a combined 42 years of experience."
"Local experts, whether they were Israeli or Paleostinian, did not conduct the USSC examination of the bullet," Price said.
"The USSC had full custody of the bullet from the moment it was provided by the PA to the USSC until the moment it was returned by the USSC to the PA," he said.
[IsraelTimes] ‘Resilient Gaza team has never wavered,’ news agency’s president says; Israel claims bureau was in building that also housed a Hamas unit.
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Separated single story building where they are the sole occupant or they can expect Hamas to tunnel under them again. It sucks to be a "human shield" when the other side thinks you are a co-conspirator.
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Separated single story building where they are the sole occupant or they can expect Hamas to tunnel under them again.
Meh. If the building is on the ground, they can expect Hamas to already be tunnelled underneath. The only questions are whether they’ve taken offices upstairs and whether there will be a tunnel entrance in one of the closets or something.
A novel approach. It smells more than a bit of the tail wagging the dog...
[IsraelTimes] Ice cream maker files lawsuit in US federal court against agreement between Unilever and Ben & Jerry’s Israel, saying it violates acquisition deal and firm’s social mission.
Ben & Jerry’s filed a US federal lawsuit on Tuesday against its parent company, seeking to block an agreement with an Israeli firm that would allow sales of its product in the West Bank, as the legal battle over the ice cream maker’s attempted boycott of settlements continued.
The Vermont-based firm filed the civil suit in the US Southern District Court of New York against Conopco, the main US branch of Unilever, the parent company of Ben & Jerry’s.
The lawsuit argues that Unilever breached its acquisition deal with Ben & Jerry’s by announcing an agreement last week with the Israeli vendor that produces and distributes the ice cream in the country to continue sales in the West Bank, after the Ben & Jerry’s board said it was halting sales in "occupied Paleostinian territory" last year.
Unilever reached an agreement with Avi Zinger, the owner of Ben & Jerry’s Israel, and his company American Quality Products (AQP), giving it permanent independence to continue sales in Israel and the West Bank with the Ben & Jerry’s logos in Hebrew and Arabic, but not English. The boycott was set to come into effect at the end of 2022, when Ben & Jerry’s contracts with Zinger were due to expire.
Ben & Jerry’s is seeking an injunction to prevent the move, as well as damages from the agreement and all profits Unilever makes from it. Ben & Jerry’s had previously said it would no longer profit from sales in Israel.
The court denied a Ben & Jerry’s request for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against Unilever’s agreement with Zinger.
In response to the lawsuit, Unilever told The Times of Israel it "had the right to enter this arrangement. The deal has already closed. We do not comment on pending litigation."
The board decided to file litigation against the move on Friday in a 5-2 decision, with its two Unilever appointees dissenting.
The lawsuit refers to sales in the West Bank only and does not refer specifically to settlements, Jerusalem or sales in Israel at any point.
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As a subsidiary their parent corporation Unilever has a fiduciary responsibility to stop them from violating anti-BDS laws. Full stop. They do not have a license to commit felonies on Unilever's watch (or at least they need to be far less blatant!).
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Watched cars from Starcuck's spilling out into traffic this morning waiting to go thru the drive thru. I don't want to hear a gahdamn thing about how undertaxed I am while people wait in line for that stupidly overpriced stuff.
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Seems to me that the board of directors and all the C*O are trying to get themselves out of a job.
I wouldn't want those people with a poor understanding of how to run a business in charge, I'll fire them all!
Beside, the "occupied Palestinian territory" doesn't exist, the Palestinians never had their own territory to begin with. It all belongs to Israel anyway.
[IsraelTimes] For second time in weeks, Moscow slams Israel for ’violating Syrian illusory sovereignty,’ says 2 civilians were maimed in strike and severe damage caused to civilian infrastructure.
Moscow on Monday condemned an alleged Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... near a Russian stronghold in Syria over the weekend, calling Israel’s years-long air campaign in Syria "categorically unacceptable" and demanding it cease. Moral Authority card was dishonored.
"We strongly condemn such irresponsible actions that violate the illusory sovereignty of Syria and the basic norms of international law, and we demand their unconditional cessation," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said in a statement.
The relatively rare daytime strike on Saturday targeted an area near the Syrian town of al-Hamidiyah, south of Tartus, which is home to Russia’s main naval base in the region. Two civilians were maimed and serious damage was caused to civilian infrastructure, Moscow said.
Syria has fingered Israel as responsible as well, though the IDF has yet to respond, in line with its policy of generally maintaining silence regarding specific actions in Syria.
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:Heh: I remember a political cartoon showing a giant Russian commissar pointing at the Middle East at a bonfire centered on Israel while leaning forward and had a bloody hand clutching Hungary. 1956 vs. 2022, how little the Russian diplomacy changes.
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Given the apparent coordination between Russia and Israel when it comes to blowing up Syrian stuff, I wonder how much of this is simply pro-forma diplomatic babble.
Just press F11 for the "We strongly condemn blah-blah blah and we demand their unconditional cessation" macro.
[PJ] There might be something strange going on with the Highland Park killer’s parents, and the authorities aren’t yet willing to say exactly what.
It’s a story involving guns, police visits, a mysterious UPS Store mailbox, and a legal system with a "catch-and-release" policy regarding the dangerously mentally ill.
We’ve learned in the last couple of days that the alleged killer was yet another one of those "known wolves" that police were powerless to do anything about. What stands out in this case is what the parents may have done to enable their son.
Before we continue, please understand that I’m not saying the parents did anything in particular to make this young man into a murderer or that they knew he would kill. Parents all have their own blind spots when it comes to our kids.
That’s what makes this a tough column to write. It’s every parent’s darkest fear — the one we try not to talk about: what if it were our kid suspected of mass murder?
CBS Chicago reported Tuesday on two strange incidents but the station hasn’t yet been able to explain either of them.
The man charged with killing seven people at an Independence Day parade confessed to police that he unleashed a hail of bullets from a rooftop in suburban Chicago and then fled to the Madison, Wisconsin area, where he contemplated shooting up an event there, authorities said Wednesday.
The gunman turned back to Illinois, where he was later arrested, after deciding he was not prepared to pull off a shooting in Wisconsin, Lake County Major Crime Task Force spokesman Christopher Covelli said at a news conference following a bond hearing.
An Illinois judge ordered the suspect to be held without bail.
Lake County Assistant State’s Attorney Ben Dillon said in court that the gunman “looked down his sights, aimed” and fired at people across the street, killing seven and wounding more than two dozen. He left the shells of 83 bullets and three ammunition magazines on the rooftop.
Federal agents were reviewing Crimo’s online profiles, and a preliminary examination of his internet history indicated that he had researched mass killings and had downloaded multiple photos depicting violent mostly peaceful acts, including a beheading, a law enforcement official said.
The official could not discuss details of the investigation publicly and spoke to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on condition of anonymity.
At a bond hearing, Judge Theodore Potkonjak orders Crimo, who has been charged with seven counts of first-degree murder, to be held without bail and to appear on July 28 for a preliminary hearing.
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^ It was a S&W Military and Police AR-15. 5.56 mm. Lots of caterwauling about the name. Remember Bushmaster? After Sandy Hook, that name was going to go away? Yeah, right. You can still get. Who cares if you just call it a Plymouth Fury or Christine? It's all marketing.
When are we going to do something about high-powered LGBTQWERTY weirdness? About high-powered drug-fueled nihilism being celebrated instead of discouraged?
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Lake County Assistant State’s Attorney Ben Dillon said in court that the gunman “looked down his sights, aimed” and fired at people across the street, killing seven and wounding more than two dozen. He left the shells of 83 bullets and three ammunition magazines on the rooftop.
I'm no expert but it seems like it might take some time for one lone shooter to fire that many shots and hit that many people. Surely the people were all running for cover after the first few shots. Couldn't they find any cover? How were that many people like so many sitting ducks? Or...did this admittedly deranged young man have an accomplice?
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Crowd on sidewalks. It says nothing about a skilled shooter. Anyone could get those results with high ground and a penned in crowd.
No need to believe the Lon Horiuchi Gun Club was backing him up.
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Just asking. Like I said, I'm no expert. Just seems like an amazing number of hits for a whack job of a kid.
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Kid looks like a Fetal Alcohol Disorder poster child.
No matter what the PJ Media pansy says, I have judged both parents, and find them wanting.
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Mr. Crimo is apparently a middle child, with nothing of interest reported about the two siblings.
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The background info looks worse and worse on this for the parents. Of course, the Crumbleys don't look good either.
We allow people to sue companies over defective products. The judicial establishment likes to blame the gun, not the shooter.
Nothing will change until that misplaced focus is corrected...
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Mayor “Civil Discourse” Lightfoot announced that if she gets re-elected there will be a NASCAR street course race in Chicago the next three years. What could go wrong? “The Drive-By Shooting 500, sponsored by Glock, featuring Sniper Corner.”
[Breitbart] Harvard University professor Kenneth Rogoff warned of the possibility of a recession in the United States and predicted that the Federal Reserve is unlikely to secure a "soft landing" for the economy during a Wednesday appearance on the Fox Business Network.
A transcript is as follows:
MARIA BARTIROMO: I’m wondering if the sell-off in the price of oil has to do with these expectations that we’re seeing in this sharp slowdown in the macro. If you believe things will slow real fast and pretty significantly, you’ll believe oil prices will come down, right? Or is it a different scenario because of the supply and demand dynamics of not a lot of supply of oil and gas from here in America?
KENNETH ROGOFF: First off, Europe is in worse shape than we are. They have the energy problem, dependent on Russia and facing the costs of the war much more. That’s also part of the global oil story. Maybe China isn’t picking up as fast as some reports are saying. The oil is a globally determined price. But the United States still has a very high level of inflation and a very strong job market. I feel from strong conviction is the Fed’s not going to get its wish of a soft landing and I’m betting they’re going to blank, but I don’t think they’re going to be able to bring inflation down to target in the next year or year and a half and not have a pretty big recession.
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The future can dramatically change with new administration. I hope the big guy gets in. He has the ability to orchestrate a massive recovery. It would be historic.
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The indication that some people are starting to show that they think they may need their credibility later is a hopeful sign that maybe there will be a "later..."
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[ZERO] Police claim a tip from a concerned citizen foiled a planned mass shooting at an evening July 4th celebration at a packed Richmond amphitheater.
Now, 52-year-old Julio Alvardo-Dubon and 38-year-old Rolman A. Balacarcel sit in the Richmond city jail, each initially charged with being a non-U.S. citizen in possession of a firearm. Both are Guatemalans in the United States illegally, and it's been claimed at least one has already been deported multiple times.
Suggestive. Vicious criminal or straight up gangster?
Apparently reflecting the fact that he was only charged with illegal possession, Alvardo-Dubon's bond was set at just $15,000, and it isn't clear if he's already been released, according to the Associated Press. There's no report yet of Balacarcel's bond.
“The Fourth is over, so he won’t be thinking about doing it again until the next major American holiday with parades — Thanksgiving, probably.”
At a Wednesday afternoon press conference, Richmond police chief Gerald Smith credited a "hero" citizen who called police after overhearing a conversation about a planned mass murder at the city's July 4th celebration at Dogwood Dell, a 2,400-seat amphitheater in the city's Byrd Park.
"There's no telling how many lives this citizen saved with one phone call," Smith said. The tip came in on July 1. That same day, police proceeded to a residence on the 1000 block of Columbia Avenue.
Smith said Alvarado-Dubon consented to police entering without a warrant. "Once inside that residence, they saw evidence in plain view that corroborated the witness's statement," said Smith, who later specified that the evidence was "firearms in plain view."
Under advice from the Department of Homeland Security, police arrested Alvarado-Dubon for being an alien in possession of a firearm, and seized two assault rifles, one handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
Richmond police then put surveillance on Balacarcel, whom Smith described as Alvardo-Dubon's roommate. On July 5, police concluded they had probable cause to arrest Balacarcel on the same charge, and did so near Charlottesville, Virginia.
[Shafaq News] On Wednesday, Ottoman Turkish warplanes targeted the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Duhok Governorate, Kurdistan.
A military source told Shafaq News Agency that "The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... struck Pakerman Mountains of Nahla region north of Duhok."
The source added that many villages inhabited by Christians were attacked and bombed PKK fighters ten times within one hour in this location.
No further information was disclosed.
The Ottoman Turkish military has regularly attacked PKK positions in Iraq and Syria.
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[Shafaq News] The deputy head of the United Kingdom's mission in Iran, Giles Whitaker, and a number of other diplomats were detained by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) on claims of spying and taking samples of soil from a "prohibited area" during a missile exercise, Iranian media reported on Wednesday.
Video footage released by the IRGC claimed to show the deputy ambassador near a site where the IRGC was conducting missile exercises at the time. The deputy ambassador has since apologized and been expelled, according to the reports.
One of the suspects detained by the IRGC had entered the country as part of a scientific exchange with a university. The report claimed that one of the suspects was from the Nicolaus Copernicus University, adding that the university is "associated with the Zionist regime." The IRGC claimed that the suspect sampled soil in some areas.
The IRGC claimed that diplomats are often used to look for military sites and identify equipment and munitions. The report also claimed that the diplomats were being used in order to build a new case concerning the "military aspects of Iran's file in the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)."
The claims come as talks between Iran ...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence... and the world powers to attempt to return to the JCPOA nuclear deal remain stalled.
The US has complained that Iran has brought new demands unrelated to the JCPOA deal to the table, while Iranian officials have complained that the US is not willing to lift sanctions before a return to the deal.
US special envoy for Iran Robert Malley called recent indirect talks in Doha a "wasted occasion," saying that Iran "needs to provide an answer" on the issue, in an interview with NPR on Tuesday.
Malley stated that Iran is "much closer" to having enough fissile material for a bomb, but had not resumed it weaponization program. The special envoy added that it would take Iran "a matter of weeks" to make a nuclear weapon. "It would be something that we would know, we would see and to which we would react quite forcefully, as you could imagine."
The UK Foreign Ministry denied a claim by Iranian state media on Wednesday that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards detained a British diplomat and other foreign representatives over accusations of spying.
It was not immediately clear if the diplomat and other foreigners were currently or previously detained. Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported that the foreigners had been arrested, but did not say when or whether they were currently in jug.
The news outlets said the deputy head of mission at the British Embassy, Giles Whitaker, and other foreigners faced "spying" charges after visiting various forbidden areas in the country while the Guard was carrying out ballistic missile tests. The semi-official Fars news agency, believed to be close to the Guard, claimed that Whitaker was expelled from the country after apologizing.
Britannia’s Foreign Ministry described the reports that a diplomat was expelled as "completely false."
Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:22 Despite the obstacles created by the Kyiv regime, over the past day, without the participation of the Ukrainian authorities, 24,068 people, including 3,726 children, have been evacuated from dangerous regions of Ukraine and the republics of Donbass to the territory of the Russian Federation, and since the beginning of the special military operation - 2,359,135 people, of which 371,925 are children. 22:39 On the roof of the building of the Odessa Regional Organization of the Red Cross Society of Ukraine (Kanatnaya St.), servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine equipped positions with portable anti-aircraft missile systems, including foreign-made ones, and placed armored vehicles on the adjacent territory.
22:14 In Vuhledar of the Donetsk People's Republic, in the city dental clinic (Molodyozhnaya St.), Ukrainian nationalists have equipped firing positions and sniper points, the approaches to the institutions have been mined, but the local population has been deliberately not notified about this.
21:30 The consequences of the shelling of the Armed Forces of Skadovsk, Kherson region, were filmed from a bird's eye view. On the video- a huge crater, destroyed residential buildings and nearby buildings.
19:30 Summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
▪️In the Slavic direction, the Russian Army is conducting offensive operations in the direction of Dovgenkoye - Mazanovka;
▪️In the Bakhmut direction, Russian troops are advancing in the areas of Mironovka - Luganskoye and Golmovsky - Novoluganskoye;
▪️On the Avdeevka, Kurakhovsky, Novopavlovsky and Zaporozhye directions, Russian troops fired at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from tanks, mortars, cannon and rocket artillery. Also, the Russian Aerospace Forces launched an airstrike on an AFU facility near Maryinka;
18:05 In Zaporozhye region destroyed soldier of the Ukrainian SOF. Anton Solovyov, the commander of a detachment of a special forces company of the MTR of Ukraine, was killed in the Gulyaipol area in the Zaporozhye region. The affiliation of the deceased to a specific unit has not yet been established.
17:01 The Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a missile attack on the liberated Russian Armed Forces Skadovsk in the Kherson region. The projectile worked out air defense, but there is destruction of civilian objects ..
17:01 According to media reports, Lithuania will hand over Bayraktar "Vanagas" to Ukraine this week.
17:01 The Russian language is approved by the head of the Kharkiv CAA as the unified state language in document management and office work, as well as in the exchange of correspondence in the region.
16:12 Summons are handed out right in the mountains in the Transcarpathian region
16:10 From Bashkiria to Ukraine to fight the Nazis and mercenaries, as part of the Brave group, a volunteer battalion named after. General Shaimuratov
“The battalion was formed on the initiative of organizations of combat veterans and patriotic movements.
15:06 In Melitopol, from today, a one-time payment in the amount of 10,000 rubles from the Russian Federation may parents of seriously ill children, low-income families, adoptive parents of children and parents-educators of family-type orphanages.
15:05 FSB officers in Kherson detained local residents who organized the assassination attempt on Yevgeny Sobolev. FSB officers detained Andrei Serezhenko and Oleg Pronko, who, on the instructions of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, organized an explosion in the car of the head of the USIN in the Kherson region. They have already confessed.
14:10 Women will also be banned from traveling outside the borders of their region without the permission of the military registration and enlistment office, MP Roksolana Pidlas said yesterday. Due to the fact that the project has a lot of conflicting interpretations and interpretations, and the fact that it will be finalized, it is not a fact that everything will remain in its current form. But rumors that women will soon be mobilized in Ukraine are growing.
14:08 Until July 15, all liberated settlements in the Zaporozhye region must be provided with mobile communications, and the cost of SIM cards has been significantly reduced. The head of the military-civilian administration of the Zaporozhye region reported.
"I think that raising prices for a communication tool by mobile operators is unacceptable. The cost of SIM cards should be accessible to everyone and not exceed the cost of 100 rubles, especially in the context of a complete blockage of mobile communications from the adjacent territories of Ukraine. Public sector employees will be provided with SIM cards free of charge."
14:07 There is an explosion in the Skadovsky district of the Kherson region. According to preliminary information, Russian air defense shot down a missile that fell and detonated
13:01 9 Ukrainian Tochka-U missiles were intercepted.
13:01 A total of 11 drones of Ukrainian nationalists have been destroyed.
13:00 Two Mi-24 helicopters, one Mi-8 helicopter and one Su-25 aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were shot down.
13:00 As part of the counterbattery fight, a platoon of Uragan rocket systems was destroyed, three artillery platoons in firing positions, as well as Grad rocket systems, were hit.
12:59 Six command posts were hit, including the operational group of troops "South", the 79th Air Assault and 57th Mechanized brigades.
12:59 The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed the 57th Mechanized Brigade's missile and artillery depot, which stored 1,500 shells of various calibers and more than 100 foreign-made anti-tank missile systems.
12:59 The S-300 radar station has been liquidated, as well as the point of temporary deployment of foreign mercenary units.
12:58 High-precision weapons destroyed two launchers of the US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system and two ammunition depots for them.
12:57 The Russian Aerospace Forces attacked the temporary deployment point of the 22nd Motorized Infantry Battalion of the 92nd Mechanized Brigade, up to 100 Ukrainian nationalists and four units of military equipment were destroyed.
11:59 The RF Armed Forces destroyed the S-300 guidance station and the point of temporary deployment of foreign mercenaries in the Nikolaev region.
11:59 The Russian Su-35 fighter during air combat in the Nikolaev region shot down two Mi-24 helicopters and one Su-25 aircraft of the Air Force of Ukraine.
11:58 Russian Aerospace Forces with high-precision missiles destroyed two launchers of the US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system in the DPR.
11:58 Russian Aerospace Forces attacked the point of temporary deployment of a motorized infantry battalion in Kharkov, killing up to 100 nationalists.
08:50 From the morning summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: the Russians are attacking in the Kherson region. The attack took place in the Lozovoye area on the eastern bank of the Ingulets.
03:10 The situation in the liberated districts of the Kharkiv region remains tense, many settlements are under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The danger of the work of sabotage groups also remains, TASS reported with reference to the head of the temporary civil administration of the Kharkiv region, Vitaly Ganchev. He noted that today about 20% of the region's territory has been liberated.
01:01 It is reported that as a result of hits on defense facilities in one of the districts of Kharkov, a strong fire broke out, which can be seen from almost anywhere in the city.
0:35 Kharkiv's defense infrastructure is under attack. An air raid alarm roars in the city, powerful explosions are heard from arrivals.
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[Vesti] Armed Forces of Ukraine struck a military facility in the "DPR" in the area of "Technosnab"
Ukrainian defenders dealt a precise blow to the arsenal of Russian troops in Makiivka in the Donbass. On Wednesday, July 6, eyewitnesses reported on social networks .
"Makiivka, Donetsk region. The city has been occupied by Russia since 2014. A blow was struck at a military facility of the Rashists," the report says.
Local residents report that the strike was carried out on a military facility of the so-called "DPR" in the "Technosnab" area.
As of 22:00 , information has been confirmed that an oil depot is on fire in Donetsk.
As of 20:00 , it is reported that three children were killed during the shelling of the center of Makeyevka, and three more were injured. Updated information was provided by the so-called "DPR" territorial defense headquarters. They added that two adult civilians were also wounded.
As of 18:30 , local Tg-channels write that in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, which is not controlled by Ukraine, a fire broke out at an oil depot as a result of shelling.
In addition, the "DPR" claims that a child was killed as a result of the shelling of Makeevka, which is not controlled by Ukraine.
Also, according to media reports, the Azotny microdistrict in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk came under fire. In particular, a large column of smoke is visible from the Kievsky district.
Russian troops shelled Toretsk. This was announced by the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko.
The rockets hit two private houses. One person was injured, three are under the rubble. The rescue operation continues.
THE SITUATION IN THE DONETSK REGION ON JULY 6
As a result of the shelling of Slavyansk on July 6, one person was killed, seven were injured. This was announced by the mayor of the city Vadim Lyakh.
According to the Donetsk OVA, now 350,000 people need to be evacuated from the region so that the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine can focus on defending the region from the onset of Russian troops.
In addition, the head of the city military administration of Slavyansk Vadim Lyakh said that the enemy still needs to go a long distance to the city.
He said this on the air of one of the Ukrainian TV channels.
"Urban battles in Slavyansk are still far away. The enemy has yet to overcome our fortified areas. Ukrainian defenders courageously defend the borders. They are in dugouts and ready for arrivals, and civilians, not understanding the threat, are on the street. Since the beginning of hostilities in Slavyansk, 17 people have died civilians, 67 were injured. The enemy is not successful at the front and is moving slowly. In the Izyum direction, the front line has changed by 5 km, but this is not for long," Lyakh emphasized.
The head of the city military administration also added that all medical institutions in Slovyansk are working.
In addition, residents of Slavyansk, for which fierce fighting may begin in the coming days , are being urged to evacuate.
As reported in the Slavyanskaya VA, on July 7, a bus is scheduled to go to the Pokrovsk railway station to the Pokrovsk-Lviv evacuation train.
On Friday, July 8, another bus trip to the Rivne region is expected.
It also became known that the Russian Ministry of Defense is spreading a fake about the preparation of a terrorist attack at the Slavyanskaya TPP by our servicemen in order to hide their crimes and blame the Armed Forces of Ukraine for everything.
THE SITUATION IN THE LUHANSK REGION ON JULY 6
In Severodonetsk , enterprises where engineers and workers worked are hosting occupying authorities, said the head of the UVA, Sergei Gaidai. The Russians promise a lot to the remaining people.
In the villages around Lisichansk, heavy fighting is underway, some settlements have already passed under one control or another twice.
[AlAhram] Two United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... peacekeepers from Egypt were killed and five others seriously maimed when their vehicle hit a landmine planted by suspected jihadis in northern Mali on Tuesday, the U.N. said.
The deadly attack comes just days after the renewal of the mandate of the U.N. Mission to Mali, known as MINUSMA.
"This morning, an armored vehicle of a MINUSMA logistics convoy hit a mine on the Tessalit-Gao road,'' the mission announced in a blurb.
"According to an initial report, two peacekeepers shuffled off the mortal coil and five others were seriously maimed as a result of the attack,'' the statement added.
"The victims are all Egyptian nationals,'' a U.N. official told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, insisting on anonymity because he is not allowed to speak to the press until the U.N. informs the families.
Ten U.N. peacekeepers have been killed in Mali since the beginning of the year.
First deployed in 2013, the mandate of the U.N. mission in Mali to help battle against Islamic hard boy rebels was renewed last week although the Malian government said it will not support the mission's aim to promote and safeguard human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. Russia and China abstained from the French-drafted U.N. resolution, which extends the mandate of the mission until June 30, 2023, with its current ceiling of 13,289 military personnel and 1,920 international police.
More than 270 peacekeepers have died in Mali, making it the U.N.'s deadliest peacekeeping mission, according to U.N. officials.
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Ain't no tellin' where the money went: Boycott's only as good as the money comin' in... By Zoe Papadakis
[NewsMax] Singers David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash returned to Spotify months after pulling their music from the streaming platform in protest over comments by podcaster Joe Rogan.
The folk-rock band's music returned to Spotify on Saturday, according to Billboard which cited a source as saying that the group will donate proceeds to COVID-19 charities for at least a month.
Earlier this year the group denounced Rogan after he came under fire for controversial comments he and some guests on his podcasts made about COVID-19. Neil Young pulled his music from Spotify in an attempt to pressure Spotify from de-platforming Rogan, and several musicians followed suit, including Crosby, Stills and Nash. Read the rest at the link
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Typical of the champagne/cocaine socialist all bluster and loud, Che-like exhortations to 'fight to the death my brothers' while in the reality of their world the eternity of the struggle is about 5 months.
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This must be old news. I've been listening to Stephen Still solo and CSN on Spotify ever since obtaining an account in May.
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Saw Stephen Stills in concert just before the pandemic hit. I think he was using a teleprompter for the lyrics but he can still play that guitar. It's just amazing that a man can have all that talent and so little common sense. Maybe he was just out voted by his band mates. From what I've heard they never even speak to each other anymore.
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Our grandkids will be ecstatic upon hearing this news.
[Khaama] Where else would I look for the Philosopher of the World™
But wait — there’s more!
According to the Taliban security officials, unidentified assailants killed Ibn-e-Sina private institute Director, the self-proclaimed “philosopher of the world”, Dr. Anwar-ul-Haq Jabbarkhail in Kabul’s Bagrami district.
The Taliban’s spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior, Abdul Nafi Takor, Dr. Jabbarkhail’s body was found in Kabul’s Bagrami district and brought to forensics for further investigation.
According to him, Dr. Jabbarkhail’s body was handed over to his family later on Tuesday, July 5.
According to Khalid Zadran, Taliban spokesman for the Kabul police chief, Dr. Jabbarkhail was mysteriously killed two days ago in Sayed Jamaluddin town, located in the Bagrami district of Kabul province.
While some public sources claim that Anwar-ul-Haq Jabbarkhail was shot to death by unidentified assailants, others claim that his beheaded body was discovered.
Why not both? That would be loads more mysterious than just one or the other.
Anwar-ul-Haq Jabbarkhail allegedly served as the director of a private hospital in Kabul, and recently, his contentious remarks have attracted a lot of attention on social media.
He had long referred to himself as the “philosopher of the world,” and some social media users have always criticized him for his multiple marriages and ridiculed his discussions of polygamy.
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Multiple marriages may make you a 'philosopher of the world'. Just sayin'.
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^ whoop, that was me. Your friendly loon from oceans away. Phone rests the cookies...
As did India and China.
And Brasil, and South Africa, and Saudi Arabia and Argentina and Hungary and Serbia and Iran and Egypt and Indonesia and Nigeria and Senegal and Thailand and....
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Of course, JJ. Why would I want Sørōs' phlegm spattered flunkeys dominating the Caucasus? Or crazed suicidal Europeans pushing some dead bohemian bastard's NWO bullshit this side of the world? Americans may not understand before it's too late, their polity has been a captive state to morons from both right and left for too long, but we in the east know. Russia was never their enemy as long as they push hegemonic agendas. Trump was the only one who understood and tried putting a stop to all that. BZZZt! Big mistake. Ousted.
The future does not contain psephocracies like the west is fond of. There are only authoritarian, militarized States run by committees or single leaders for life. They shall contend with the dominions of the globalists and hold out for quite long. Suffice to say, all of us shall probably be dead by the time the last pillars of sovereignty and the concept of 'nation states' itself fall, giving way to absolute tyranny. Putin is just one of the tough bastards standing in the way of the lickspittle 'liberal world order' that awaits the world.
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[LB] In one day, the Russians killed six civilians in the Donetsk region. Two of them - during the massive attack on Slovyansk.
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The enemy hit the university in Kharkiv with a rocket and does not stop shelling Donetsk region, regional administration
The night was relatively calm in Volyn, Zakarpattia, Rivne Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Chernivtsi, Vinnytsia, Zaporizhzhya, Khmelnytskyi, Ternopil Oblasts, Kirovohrad Oblast, Cherkasy Oblast, Odesa Oblast, Poltava Oblast, Chernihiv Oblast, Zhytomyr Oblast and Kyiv Oblast.
This is stated in the summary from the regional military administrations. In Khmelnytskyi last night, during the air raid, the Rashists fired four rockets. One rocket was shot down by our air defense forces, the debris fell on the territory of the Shepetiv district. Three other rockets hit the territory of one of the Khmelnytskyi district communities. As a result of the explosions, one person was injured. There are no victims.
In the Sumy region, the enemy shelled five border communities yesterday. There were 10 mortar attacks in the Novoslobodsk community, two houses were damaged, windows and power lines were broken. Shalyginsk community - 18 arrivals. Drones also dropped explosives there. There was shelling from small arms and mortars of the Krasnopil community. The fertilizer warehouse was damaged. 4 mines flew over the Seredino-Buda territorial community. Previously - without victims.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, Russian artillery again hit the Kryvorizka district. The Shirokiv community was shelled. Several residential buildings were damaged in the village of Shestirnia. Previously, people were not injured.
In Kharkiv, nighttime rocket strikes hit an open area, the administrative building of Novobavarskyi, Osnovyanskyi and Kyiv districts . The Russians hit the building of the National Pedagogical University named after H.S. Frying pans
The Izyum, Kharkiv, Chuguyiv, Bogoduhiv districts were shelled across the region. Residential buildings and open areas were burning. Previously, three people were injured in the region in one day: two in the Chuguyiv district, including a child.
In the Luhansk region, artillery shelling of our military positions on the administrative border near Lysychansk in the direction of Bakhmut continues . Russia does not stop "missile terrorism".
The establishment of "people's power" continues in the recently occupied territories: a "prosecutor's office" has been opened in Severodonetsk, the occupiers are appointing traitors to Ukraine to leadership positions, and simulating the restoration of infrastructure.
In the Donetsk region, shelling of the entire territory. Toretsk (school, repair and mechanical plant), Sloviansk (housing sector, market), Bakhmut, Kurakhove, Krasnohorivka, Avdiivka (vocational technical school, residential sector, railway crossing) came under fire; with. Pervomaiske, village Orlivka, village Semenivka 26 objects were damaged, including 19 residential buildings, a school, a school, a vocational school. During the day, six people died, 21 civilians were wounded.
Mykolaiv Oblast: in the past day there were shellings in Shirokivska hromada, as a result of which one residential building was damaged and another was destroyed. There are no victims. Shelling of villages along the demarcation line continues in the Berezneguvat community. Information on casualties and damage is being clarified. Mykolaiv district: the village of Nechayane of the Nechayan community was shelled at night. According to preliminary information, one person died.
Kherson Oblast: shelling and explosions in Beryslav district, part of wheat and forests burned down there. The situation is consistently difficult, hundreds of occupied villages and towns are without water and electricity, gas, mobile and Internet connections.
Again, shelling and numerous explosions destroyed the social infrastructure in the Visokopil and Novovorontsov communities, and damaged many houses in the neighboring TG.
The Russian military and newly appointed local authorities continue to make loud statements, in particular, they want to join the existing wind power plants in the Kherson region to Crimea and continue active preparations for the new school year.
It will be recalled that the Ukrainian defenders repelled an attempt by the Russians to cut the Lysychansk-Bakhmut road. The enemy retreated with losses. A small part of Luhansk region is under our control.
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[RIA Novosti] The Basmanny District Court of Moscow has arrested Assistant Minister of the Interior of Russia Sergei Umnov, accused of abuse of power, RIA Novosti correspondent reports.
"The court ruled: to satisfy the investigator's petition, to choose a measure of restraint in the form of detention," the judge announced the decision.
She motivated her decision by the presence of the defendant's many years of experience in law enforcement - he is familiar with the methods of investigation and at large he can try to oppose him, hide and agree on a position with accomplices.
The judge also pointed to the confirmation of involvement in the crime - the testimony of witnesses and evidence.
The defense, in response, announced the expiration of the statute of limitations and the positive characteristics of the accused.
The meeting was held behind closed doors in order to protect the data of prosecution witnesses and prevent disclosure of information on the investigation. The deadline for the investigation of the case was set until October 5.
In addition, the court arrested Ivan Abakumov, retired Major General, former Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Alexei Semenov, Head of the UGIBDD of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, and bailiff Elena Kopeva on a similar charge.
Earlier, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case in June 2020 on the grounds of a crime under article 285 of the Russian Criminal Code (“Abuse of power”).
Former Deputy Prosecutor Arrested in Absentia in Case of FCS General
According to law enforcement agencies, from 2016 to 2020, several officials from among the senior staff of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region committed abuses of official powers in the form of acquiring property for personal use using funds from the Fund "Assistance to the programs of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region".
Now the defendants in the criminal case are the assistant to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia, Lieutenant-General Sergey Umnov, the head of the UGIBDD of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Major General Alexei Semenov, and the former deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Major General, retired Ivan Abakumov.
Why would the big regional jihadi powerhouse bother murdering a harmless old lag?
[Garowe] A man who was convicted by Italian authorities for allegedly killing two Italian journalists only to be released later has died in Mogadishu, the Somalia capital, following a kaboom believed to have been triggered by an Improvised Explosive Device [IED].
Hashi Omar Hassan died on Wednesday in Dharkaynley district, southern Mogadishu after unknown individuals attached the IED to his vehicle, abruptly ejecting him from the gene pool. No group is yet to take responsibility but al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... hard boyz are known to activate such attacks.
He was released from an Italian prison 18 years after his conviction following the 1994 death of two renowned journalists. The court had sentenced him after finding "sufficient evidence" on his hand in the death of Ilaria Alpi and Miran Hrovatin.
Throughout his time in prison, he insisted on his innocence, leading to his surprise release by Italian authorities. His trial was one of the most followed court episodes internationally, with Hashi often accusing prosecutors of bias in their unprecedented findings.
Before his release from prison, prosecutor Dario Razzi told the court Hassan "did not commit" the crime he served 16 years in jail for. He was the only person convicted of the murders. "If it is true that Hassan was convicted, we must also have the courage to admit that he may be innocent," Razzi said.
The al-Shabaab hard boyz in Somalia usually target security forces, government officials, and innocent civilians. In most cases, they kill those who don't support their ideologies or those believed to be spies of the military forces within the Horn of Africa nation.
Although the group is yet to take responsibility, such murders are associated with it for the last 15 years. The former prisoner has reportedly been living a quiet life in the capital Mogadishu until he met his unprecedented death on Wednesday.
Currently, the government has heightened the war against al-Shabaab with President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud saying he's keen to ensure the hard boyz are defeated. On Tuesday, he hinted at future negotiations between the government and the krazed killers.
[Rudaw] The northeast Syria (Rojava) administration on Wednesday announced a state of emergency in light of the continued Ottoman Turkish attacks that have targeted area, signaling to the Kurdish administration’s institutions to prepare the emergency plans to address the situation.
The administration’s general council held a meeting on Wednesday to address the "continuous threats" of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... in the area, which have targeted civilians and civil service facilities, according to a statement from the council.
The meeting was concluded with announcing a state of emergency in the areas under the administration, urging the administration’s councils, bodies, committees, and institutions to make the necessary preparations appropriate for the current circumstances, and dedicating all capabilities "in service of the people from any hostile attacks."
Ankara often targets areas in northern Syria and Rojava.
Ottoman Turkish artillery shells targeted northern Syria’s Ain Issa district on Monday killing at least two and injuring two others.
Ankara launched its last military incursion in northern Syria in October 2019, which was followed by a deal between Turkey and Russia to drive Kurdish fighters 30 kilometers away from the Ottoman Turkish-Syrian border.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... Turkey has recently renewed threats to carry out a new military operation against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern Syria’s Manbij and Tal Rifaat towns in a bid to complete the 30 kilometer "safe zone" it began creating along its southern borders.
The administration’s statement accused Turkey of attempting to carry out demographic change in Rojava and creating a state of chaos and instability that would pave the way for "direct occupation of Syrian lands."
Ahmet Davutoglu, former Ottoman Turkish prime minister and leader of the Future Party in June responded to the claims that Turkey has attempted to carry out demographic change in Syria, stating that such an occurrence was not in the best interest of Turkey, as most of those who were displaced in Syria are now refugees in Turkey.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:37 Implementing the practice of terrorist attacks on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, Ukrainian militants once again attacked the Azotny microdistrict of Donetsk. As a result of the Nazi strike, residential houses of civilians were damaged. 21:21 The mayor of Donetsk informedRIA Novostithat more than 100 residents have already become victims of Ukrainian shelling, almost 500 more were injured, including children. Kyiv receives new weapons from the West, and the concept of a “front-line region” as such does not exist in the city, all quarters are subjected to shelling.
20:43 Another girl died in Makiivka due to the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - she died in intensive care. Another child died in intensive care after being shelled by the Ukrainian military in Makiivka. Doctors fought for the life of an eight-year-old girl, but she died in intensive care. Now there is another child there - the doctors are doing everything possible to save her.
20:01 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Makeevka (Chervonogvardeisky district): three shells of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Nevelskoye - n.p. Lozovoe: fired five shells with a caliber of 122mm.
19:30 Statement by the official representative of the NM DPR: the Ukrainian side continues to terrorize the civilian population of the Republic, inflicting massive artillery strikes on residential areas and civilian infrastructure, which in turn are not military facilities and do not pose a danger to the enemy.
Over the current day, according to information from the DPR JCCC, the enemy fired more than 160 shells from Uragan and Grad multiple launch rocket systems, 155mm, 152mm and 122mm cannon artillery, as well as 120mm mortars.
The fire was fired at the districts of fourteen settlements of the Republic. As a result of shelling, eight civilians were injured. Thirty-one residential buildings and three civil infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about the injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.
We regret to inform you that while performing military duty in the struggle for independence, three were killed and eleven defenders of the Donetsk People's Republic were injured. We express our sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims.
18:59 Representatives of the public movement "People's Front" delivered equipment and ammunition to the fighters of the People's Militia of the LPR
18:52 According to reports from social networks, an oil depot is on fire in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk.
18:47 In Makiivka, a little boy was killed as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine In Makiivka, near the Cheryomushki microdistrict, a small boy was killed by shelling by the Ukrainian military - two more girls are in intensive care.
According to eyewitnesses, the boy died due to the fact that the projectile fired from Ukraine had a cluster warhead - air defense worked over the city, fragments scattered in different directions. A powerful gap was also heard in Donetsk.
In addition, according to the headquarters of the DPR’s territorial defense, four civilians were injured due to shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and three civilians were injured in the village of Mironovsky. Petrovsky district of Donetsk was also subjected to shelling - a woman was killed, there are wounded.
According to updated data, two children were killed, three children were injured. Two adult civilians were also wounded.
18:46 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Pravdovka - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
18:46 Kyiv district of Donetsk in these minutes under artillery fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. A. Rudenko
18:15 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Avdiivka - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): six shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
17:54 Makiivka - loud! Air defense works!
17:39 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Kurdyumovka - n.p. Dolomite: fired six shells with a caliber of 152mm;
— n.p. Kalinovo - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: three shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
17:24 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Marinka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
17:04 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): eight shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
16:59 "People's Front" with the support of the NM of the LPR delivered humanitarian aid to the village of Borovskoye.
16:42 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): six shells of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Georgievka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
16:32 Khartsyzsk city administration showed the consequences of the morning shelling of the city, as a result of which two civilians were injured.
16:26 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Yelenovka: three shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
16:21 Denis Pushilin awarded unit "Somalia" for the liberation of Mariupol.
16:14 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): 10 shells of 15 mm caliber were fired.
16:10 State educational institutions in Severodonetsk leaves much to be desired, because it was in them that Ukrainian militants were located.
16:08 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
15:52 The head of the administration of Donetsk, Aleksey Kulemzin, reports:
According to updated information, as a result of the shelling of the Kuibyshev region, residential buildings were damaged at the following addresses:
- st. Marshal Zhukov, 3 - the glazing of the balcony block was damaged;
- st. Electronic, 8 - window glazing is damaged;
- st. Umova, 48 (a) - the glazing of the windows of the Plant store was damaged.
15:51 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): seven shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
15:41 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Zaitsevo (northern) - n.p. Mironovsky: five shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
15:34 NM of the LPR, together with the volunteers of the Loaf project, delivered humanitarian aid to the city of Lisichansk
15:26 Employees of the prosecutor's office of Pervomaisk visited the residents of Gorskoye, who, due to constant shelling from the armed forces of Ukraine, were forced to live for more than two months in a bomb shelter, on the territory of the Gorskaya mine, without electricity and water supply. Employees of the prosecutor's office handed over the necessary food and sweets for children to the residents.
15:22 By the forces of our air defense in the district of the settlement Stakhanov destroyed missile tactical missile system "Tochka-U". As a result of the scattering of fragments of the body of the downed rocket, four garages in the Severyanochka garage cooperative, two cars, as well as a scooter and bicycles were damaged. There are no victims or injured. Representation of the LPR in the JCCC
15:21 Shelling was recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine: 13.30 from the direction of Uglegorskaya TPP along the settlement Mironovsky (DPR) using 120mm mortars (two mines). As a result of the shelling, three civilians were injured of varying severity. Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.
15:17 AFU attacked Mironovsky, wounding three civilians. As a result of shelling from the positions of Ukrainian militants, a man and a woman were injured on the street. Artem, a civilian was also wounded on the street. Lenin, residential buildings were damaged.
14:44 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Codema - n.p. Bayrak: four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
14:34 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the following directions:
— settlement Avdiivka - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): eight shells of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): four shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
13:47 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): 10 shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
13:42 Only according to the official data of the RF Ministry of Defense, Ukraine lost 5,500 militants in the battles for Lisichansk, dozens of units of military equipment were abandoned or destroyed, and they tried to build barricades from city minibuses. Reported by Rodion Miroshnik.
13:40 About 700 teachers from the liberated territories of the Republic completed advanced training courses at the Luhansk State Pedagogical University. This was announced by the director of the Institute for Professional Development of the Leningrad State Pedagogical University, candidate of philological sciences, associate professor Oksana Shkuran.
13:35 Footage of damaged and abandoned vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Lisichansk.Personnel: Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
13:19 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): three shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
13:17 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kyiv district): four shells of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Artemivsk (ukr. Bakhmut) - n.p. Golmovsky: six shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
13:09 They report arrivals in the Azotny microdistrict in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk.
12:57 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Kurakhovo - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): two missiles were fired from the BM-27 "Hurricane";
— n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): three shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
12:48 The second St. Mitrofanov Church in Lisichansk was seriously damaged during the hostilities. Its roof has completely collapsed. During the fighting, services were held in the basement of a nearby building.
12:11 From the report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine (07/06/2022):
- In the area of the settlement of Malotaranovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, high-precision air-launched missiles destroyed two launchers of the US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system and two ammunition depots for them.
- As part of the counter-battery fight, a platoon of multiple launch rocket systems "Hurricane" was destroyed, three artillery platoons were hit at firing positions in the areas of Dzerzhinsk and Leninskoye of the Donetsk People's Republic
- On the eastern outskirts of the village of Soledar, Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft destroyed the depot of rocket and artillery weapons of the 57th Mechanized Brigade, which stored 1,500 shells of various calibers and more than a hundred anti-tank missile systems of foreign production.
12:10 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): five shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
11:38 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): six shells of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: four shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kyiv region): five shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
11:20 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirov district): seven shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
11:11 Shelling was recorded from the VFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Majorsk - n.p. Zaitsevo (southern): four mines of 120mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Bayrak: fired five mines in 120mm caliber.
11:02 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Mineral: fired three shells with a caliber of 122mm.
10:53 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— settlement Kleshcheevka - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of mine named after Izotov): four shells of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Avdiivka - settlement Yasinovataya: three shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
10:35 The 11th Regiment of the NM DPR took the Controversial settlement. By the morning of July 6th, Disputed is completely controlled by the allied forces. The area is currently being cleaned up. The Armed Forces of Ukraine, which retreated in the direction of Seversk, are actively shelling. Disputed with artillery.
10:30 Statement by the official representative of the NM DPR: the Ukrainian side continues to terrorize the civilian population of the Republic, inflicting massive artillery strikes on residential areas and civilian infrastructure, which in turn are not military facilities and do not pose a danger to the enemy.
Over the past day, according to the DPR JCCC, the enemy fired more than 500 shells from Grad multiple launch rocket systems, 155mm, 152mm and 122mm cannon artillery, as well as 120mm and 82mm mortars.
The fire was fired at the areas of eleven settlements of the Republic. As a result of the shelling, twelve civilians were injured, and four civilians were killed, of which one was a child. Twenty-five residential buildings and 16 civil infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about the injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.
Joint actions of the military personnel of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the following enemy weapons and military equipment: two BM-21 Grad MLRS, two M-777 howitzers, one truck and more than 30 personnel. Two enemy firing points were suppressed in the areas of the settlement. Avdievka and Kurdyumovka.
We appeal to all citizens who are on the territory temporarily controlled by Ukrainian nationalists. If you have become eyewitnesses to the crimes of Ukrainian militants, try to covertly record a video or photo recording of these facts without endangering yourself.
We guarantee your anonymity. After sending the specified information through the official feedback bot (@nmdnr_bot) of the People's Militia of the DPR in the Telegram application, these materials will be used as an evidence base for punishing Ukrainian war criminals to the fullest extent of the law.
10:20 Air defense worked over the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk.
10:12 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yakovlevka: four each 122mm rounds were fired
09:58 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the LPR, Captain Filiponenko I.M. according to the situation as of 07/06/2022:
"the enemy continues to terrorize the civilian population of the Republic, shelling the civilian infrastructure facilities of the front-line settlements of the LPR, which do not pose a danger to the enemy and are not military facilities.
So, as a result of the shelling by the armed formations of Ukraine from the Tochka-U shopping center in the settlement of Stakhanov, 6 residential buildings, the office building of the First Transport Company and the State Unitary Enterprise LPR Republican Grid Company were damaged. There are no victims or injured.
Engineering and sapper units of the People's Militia of the LPR continue demining the territory of the Republic.
So yesterday, sappers of the NM LPR cleared more than 3 hectares of territory from explosive objects left by Ukrainian nationalists in the areas of the settlements of Lisichansk and Severodonetsk.
The forces of the NM of the LPR, together with public organizations, continue to deliver humanitarian aid to residents of the liberated territories of the Republic.
Yesterday, volunteers from the Russian Humanitarian Mission, with the support of the NM of the LPR, delivered humanitarian aid to the needy residents of Lisichansk."
09:50 Fires per day destroyed 13 hectares of wheat in Starobelsky and Stanichno-Lugansk districts. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the LPR.
09:48 Two employees of the state unitary enterprise of the LPR "Republican Grid Company" were blown up by an unidentified explosive device near the Seversky Donets in the Slavyanoserbsky district. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the LPR.
09:43 Belarusian nationalist Ivan Marchuk, who fought on the side of Kyiv, was eliminated near Lisichansk - NM LPR
09:07 The headquarters of the DPR TeroO reports: as a result of the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Khartsyzsk, two people were injured.
09:05 The Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR reports: over the past day, from 08:00 on July 5 to 08:00 on July 6, as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, four people were killed and another 14 civilians were injured.
09:04 Makeyevka DPR under fire. Since the morning, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been hitting the outskirts of the Soviet district of the city, as a result of an artillery strike, a fire broke out.
08:56 Cars of the next, 161st, convoy of the Russian Emergencies Ministry delivered food, medical equipment and building materials to Lugansk, the press service of the Emergencies Ministry of the LPR reported.
08:56 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired five shells of 122mm caliber.
08:48 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Khartsyzsk: five shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
08:29 Report on a series of arrivals in the Kyiv and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk. The network also reports arrivals in the Topaz area.
08:24 Shelling was recorded from the VFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Makeevka (Sovietsky District): five shells fired with a caliber of 155mm;
— n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): four shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
07:59 After 03:00, shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky and Kyiv districts): five shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
05:39 Over the past day, on July 5, 2022, the LPR representation in the JCCC did not record shelling in settlements.
0:01 Kyiv propagandist Arestovich accidentally let slip that the Russian Army occupied the village of Novoluganskoye in the DPR. This fact is also confirmed by a number of media. The settlement is located to the west of Svetlodarsk and south of Bakhmut (Artemovsk), which means success in the assault operations of the Russian troops in the Bakhmut direction.
0:05 Air defense is working on Stakhanov in the LPR, a series of powerful explosions is heard, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. The day before, at about the same time, Ukrainian troops hit Stakhanov with Tochka-U.
[AlAhram] Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch... hopes to start repatriating Syrian refugees within months over objections by the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... and rights groups, a minister said in an interview Wednesday.
Lebanon has one of the world's highest numbers of refugees per capita and currently hosts over 1 million Syrians who fled the decade-old conflict. Officials say the influx has cost Lebanon billions of dollars and further damaged its crippled infrastructure.
``We are serious about implementing this plan and we hope to do so within months,'' Issam Charafeddine, Lebanon's caretaker Minister of the Displaced, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. ``This is a humane, honorable, patriotic and economic plan that is necessary for Lebanon.''
The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and rights groups oppose involuntary repatriation to Syria and say the practice risks endangering the returning refugees.
The U.N. refugee agency in a press statement denied that it is engaged in negotiations with Beirut and Damascus on refugee returns.
``UNHCR continues to call on the government of Lebanon to respect the fundamental right of all refugees to a voluntary, safe and dignified return,'' the statement read.
The United Nations estimates that 90% of Syrian refugee households live in extreme poverty. But since late 2019, poverty has worsened for both Lebanese and Syrians as the Mediterranean country continues to struggle with crippling economic crisis. Sky-rocketing fuel prices coupled with a currency collapse has meant many essential commodities are now out of reach.
In recent months, a surge of Lebanese, Syrians, and Paleostinians have tried to flee cash-strapped Lebanon by sea to Europe.
The Lebanese minister on Monday presented the plan to President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... . A committee consisting of caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, Charafeddine, six other ministers and the country's General Security organization had been working on the proposal since March to gradually return some 1.5 million Syrian refugees from Lebanon.
Charafeddine plans to visit Syria next week to meet Local Administration and Environment Minister Hussein Makhlouf. He hopes they will agree on a concrete timeline for the plan to repatriate 15,000 Syrian refugees every month. The minister says Maklouf had told him that the Syrian government could provide temporary shelter for repatriated refugees in areas that are ``entirely safe.''
``We have statistics from the Interior Ministry of the names of the displaced, where they live, and where they're originally from, and so we would return them by neighborhood,'' the minister said. He said Lebanon is willing to repatriate refugees in larger numbers if the Syrian government is able to receive them ``at a later stage''.
Human rights organizations in recent reports have documented cases of arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, and a host of human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... violations against returning refugees.
Charafeddine rejected these reports as a ``fear campaign'' and said the Syrian government has agreed to drop charges against former opposition fighters and political opposition.
``I was surprised that the Syrian state has eased matters a lot for returns even when it comes to security matters - even those who held weapons will get waivers,'' Charafeddine told the AP.
The caretaker minister also criticized the UNHCR and donor countries for not being willing to redirect refugee aid to Syria, which he says deters refugees from returning.
``Whatever the UNHCR's position is, we will go ahead with the plan,'' he said.
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[LB] There are many wounded and dead.
by Anna Steshenko
The situation in Sloviansk is tense, the city is being shelled with anti-aircraft guns, the mayor said
Due to constant shelling, the number of people willing to evacuate has increased. 23,000 people remain in the city. The authorities ensure safe and free evacuation.
This was announced at the briefing by the mayor of Sloviansk, Vadym Lyakh.
"The situation in the city (Slovyansk - ed.) is tense. The city has been bombarded with MLRS for the past two weeks, these are cluster charges. There are many wounded and dead. A total of 17 residents of the community have died since the beginning of hostilities in the city. 67 were injured," he said.
According to the mayor, critical infrastructure continues to work, but centralized water supply has been missing for over a month.
"We deliver water. Wells are working. There are also problems with electricity. Periodically, about a third of the population remains without electricity. We are restoring it. But the enemy is constantly destroying it."
The evacuation of the civilian population also continues.
"We are evacuating people... There are still approximately 23,000 residents of the city. The number of people willing to leave has increased. Unfortunately, the latest "arrivals" were the impetus... But there is an opportunity to safely leave in the direction of the Dnipro. We work on evacuation to Lviv, Dnipro or Rivne. All this is done free of charge and with the accommodation of people," added Vadym Lyakh.
At the same time, all ATMs are working, so payment obligations are fulfilled.
"People can receive all pensions and social benefits."
We will remind, yesterday around 15:00 the occupying forces of the Russian army covered the city of Slovyansk with artillery fire . As a result of the shelling, one civilian died on the spot, and seven others were injured.
[Rudaw] The United States on Wednesday imposed a fresh wave of sanctions on Iran’s petroleum trade amid continuing efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear deal and ahead of Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage. The dumbass who abandoned Afghanistan.... ’s trip to the Middle East.
The US State Department said it was designating dozens of global entities and individuals linked to Iran's illegal petroleum trade which are funding Tehran with vast amounts of funds. The 15 sanctioned individuals and entities have "engaged in the illicit sales and shipment of Iranian petroleum," and are located in Iran, Vietnam, Singapore, the UAE, and Hong Kong, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced, adding that they "have supported Iranian energy trade generating millions of dollars' worth of illicit revenue."
The sanctions come a week after Tehran and Washington held a round of indirect and EU-mediated talks in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... in attempts to restore the nuclear deal that yielded no result. The US said the negotiations made "no progress."
In the statement, Blinken also highlighted the talks, blaming Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... for deterring the pathway of achieving a mutual return to the full implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
"It is Iran that has, to-date, failed to demonstrate a similar commitment to that path. Absent a change in course from Iran, we will continue to use our sanctions authorities to target exports of petroleum, petroleum products, and petrochemical products from Iran," he added.
Iran and world powers, including the US, have held talks for over a year aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear deal, also known as the JCPOA. The Islamic republic has demanded that the US must lift its crippling sanctions, including on the IRGC, which Washington has placed on a terror blacklist.
Occurrences of the US imposing sanctions on networks backed by Iran are common.
Washington in May designated an oil smuggling and money laundering network backed by an elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) branch and the Russian government.
The US in January also seized a vessel transiting from Iran in the Gulf of Oman carrying kabooms. The ship was stopped along a route infamously used to smuggle weapons to the 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... s in 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...
[Daily Wire] Millions of barrels of oil President Joe Biden released from the United States’ Strategic Petroleum Reserve found their way to European and Asian nations, including China, according to a Tuesday report from Reuters.
Biden has frequently touted the release of one million barrels of oil per day as an "unprecedented" move to "provide a historic amount of supply" as Americans face surging prices at the pumps. Indeed, the national average price of gas in the United States is currently $4.80 per gallon, according to AAA, with the national average temporarily surpassing $5.00 per gallon last month.
However, Reuters found through customs data that at least five million barrels of oil were exported to Europe and Asia last month as the strategic reserve drains to its lowest level since 1986. American oil refiner Phillips 66, for instance, shipped 470,000 barrels of sour crude from Texas to Trieste, Italy, while Atlantic Trading & Marketing (ATMI) — a division of French entity TotalEnergies — exported two cargoes of 560,000 barrels each.
Meanwhile, industry sources told the outlet that more crude oil was sent to China, India, and the Netherlands.
When asked about the report, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that she was not aware of the matter and needed to "look into it."
Fuel costs across the world have risen since the Russian invasion of Ukraine — yet the Biden administration has pursued policies such as nixing expansions to the Keystone XL Pipeline last year and delaying new drilling permits. Beyond releasing fuel reserves, Biden has also resorted to pleading with oil companies to cut into their own profits.
"There is no question that Vladimir Putin is principally responsible for the intense financial pain the American people and their families are bearing," Biden wrote in a recent letter to seven oil and gas companies. "But amid a war that has raised gasoline prices more than $1.70 per gallon, historically high refinery profit margins are worsening that pain."
Biden has likewise set his sights on gas stations — which run on margins as low as 1.4%, according to industry research company IBISWorld.
"My message to the companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump is simple: this is a time of war and global peril," Biden said on social media. "Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you’re paying for the product. And do it now."
The U.S. Oil and Gas Association — a petroleum industry advocacy group — responded to Biden by affirming that they are "working on it." The organization wished Biden a happy Fourth of July and asked him to "please make sure" the White House intern who posted the tweet "registers for Econ 101 for the fall semester."
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Blame everyone but the US government. The real villains of this story.
They hate our guts. They want gas up to $10 a gallon to hurt us. They want all of our cars off the road. They all drive Tesla electric vehicles anyway, so what the fuck do they care? It doesn't affect them at all.
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My concern is no mention of refilling reserve or military gifts being sold on the dark web by Ukraine. Everything the liberal touches turns to you know what.
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'Found it's way', what a delightful turn of phrase. For some reason it brings back an adversarial conversation years ago in rural Oklahoma, around 2 AM.
Yessir, that unmarked 80 bbl bobtail just 'found it's way on to one of our leases, just didn't expect anybody else out there.
Sri Lanka, Holland, Pakistan and transparent theft here before our very eyes. There will be a breaking point, and there will be a reckoning.
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Why learn how gasoline gets into the tank when you can remain fundamentally ignorant and blame profiteers and saboteurs. Even get to chant a Mantra, "We know that Putin is to blame for the high prices."
"please make sure" the White House intern who posted the tweet "registers for Econ 101 for the fall semester."
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NN2, I don't follow your post. There sure are a lot of empty oil company lots here in Oklahoma.
Chesapeake is gone, Four Point gone, GEO 720 gone, R.K. Pinson sucking, where is E.O.G., Black rock gone, Apache gone. Not to mention Oneok,DCP Mainstream. The oil patch is not making money. Now if you mean the big boys you might be right.
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For the love of God, this man cannot remain in power.
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When asked about the report, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that she was not aware of the matter and needed to "look into it."
IOW, her handlers had not yet concocted a lie for this subject.
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On paper it looks like the oil patch makes tons of money, but that's not exactly true. Rigs cost between $100-$200k a day now onshore. Offshore it's typically a 1 million dollar minimum. I've been offshore, sitting in my metal box waiting for an entire 3 week hitch for the currents to change, went home, came back 3 weeks later and we were still waiting. At 1 million per day. Paying for that is where all this 'profit' goes. Paying for seismic surveys, etc. Drilling isn't cheap and right now, we can barely keep our rigs operating due to lack of spare parts.
[DW] Gunmen ambushed Kuje prison near Nigeria's capital city of Abuja, freeing around 600 of the nearly 900 inmates late Tuesday. Bandits attacked the maximum-security prison with guns and high-grade explosives. One security officer was killed during the raid and three others were maimed.
Half of the escaped prisoners are now back in police custody, according to officials.
"They have reported themselves to the police, some we have successfully retrieved from the bushes where they were hiding, and (as of) now we have retrieved about 300 out of about 600 that got out of the jail cells," said Shuaib Belgore, who serves as the permanent secretary at Nigeria's Interior Ministry.
Belgore pointed to Boko Haram ...the name means Western education is forbidden, They're what you get as the result of a traditional African or Islamic education... as collaborators in the attack and said that the button men came "specifically for their co-conspirators."
"Some of them are in the general (prison) population so they broke out and other people in that population escaped as well but many of them have returned," Belgore said. Kuje prison housed 64 suspected members of the Boko Haram krazed killer group — all of whom are still on the run.
While the Kuje prison raid was the first to occur in the capital, rebels have conducted several similar jailbreaks in northeastern Nigeria.
REBELS ATTACK PRESIDENTIAL CONVOY
The attack occurred around the same time as an ambush carried out by rebels on a presidential convoy. The motorcade was en route to the hometown of President Muhammadu Buhari in northern Nigeria. Buhari was not present at the time.
"Attackers opened fire on the convoy from ambush positions but were repelled by the military, police and security personnel accompanying the convoy," a presidential front man said in a statement.
The two incidents underscore growing security concerns in Nigeria. Extremist violence is a primary security challenge for Africa's most populous country. Violence carried out by Boko Haram and an off-shoot group calling itself "Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Central African Province" has caused more than 35,000 deaths and displaced over 2 million people in Nigeria, according to the UN.
[Garowe] Somalia is the main example that shows the importance The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... attaches to the economic development, social peace, and stability of the African continent, President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... said Wednesday.
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[DonRF] If anything, this is Petersburg, the Smolensk cemetery. These are flowers and a stone near the temple at the site of the first burial of Taras Shevchenko. Not desecrated, not de-Ukrainian and well-groomed empty grave. Taras Shevchenko is a Ukrainian writer of some note.
And this is Donetsk:
Over the past day, Ukrainian bastards fired more than 500 shells on the territory of the DPR. The following artillery systems were used: MLRS "Hurricane" and "Grad", howitzers with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm, as well as 120mm mortars. As a result of shelling, 20 civilians were injured, four civilians were killed, among whom was a child.
Yesterday. Today, the shelling resumed in the morning, under the howl of their propagandists "the orcs themselves are damming bambas and burning cotton wool" (quotes). They are having fun. Then the truth, when it arrives again, they will yell "and we are for sho."
We are not them. We do not erase cities into rubble, turning apartments into firing points, and schools and kindergartens into barracks. We don't shoot for the past. We do not shoot peaceful quarters. And I don't know if that's good. As a person, I just do understand that yes, as a Donetsk resident, I think that if there were more misses, then less would fly across the DPR.
The most terrible thing is that these shellings kill morale. When yours are under threat, you want to take her away. At any price. They shoot at her, simply because:
The representative of the Odessa OVA, Sergei Bratchuk, believes that the vast majority of men will pass through the front, as well as many women.
There is an order to kill most Ukrainians. And more Russians. Tightly. And there is a lack of understanding in Moscow that these agreements are useless. For them, both peoples are firewood. For some, in the breeding of ubermens, for some, in the locomotive of their personal well-being.
No need to mock the past. You don't have to become them. You just need to start fighting, to collect men not for a contract, but for mobilization (partial) and destroy the saloreich. We have to save people. Tens of millions of psychopaths hostage soared to the top in 2014. Otherwise, the Russians will also become hostages. Already in the Borderlands.
The more we give in, the more they will kill. Psychos cannot be stopped by bargaining.
[Townhall] When President Joe Biden heads to Ohio today for another stop in which he hopes to brag about his administration's accomplishments — presumably not 40-year high inflation, an energy crisis, or failed foreign policy — he won't be getting a warm welcome from two nominated Democrats seeking statewide office in the Buckeye State as his party's candidates try to distance themselves from the unpopular president.
U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio's 13th Congressional District — the Democrat running for U.S. Senate against Republican nominee J.D. Vance — won't be appearing with Biden on Wednesday. Nor will Nan Whaley, the Democrat candidate for Ohio governor challenging incumbent GOP Governor Mike DeWine.
Conveniently, both claimed they had "unavoidable scheduling conflicts," according to The Hill. Right. Surely it has nothing to do with Biden's sinking popularity or the fact that Cook ranked the senate race as "lean Republican" and the gubernatorial race as "likely Republican."
If the highest-ranking member of your party is coming to the state you're running in, there's no reason not to clear the schedules and make an appearance happen in front of Democrat supporters, get some photos, and land some press with quotes from the "leader of the free world" saying how great you are. But this is Biden, and the normal conventions around campaigning don't apply when his approval ratings are lower than Trump's were.
According to a presidential poll tracker from Civiqs, Biden has just 26 percent approval in Ohio, even less than his 30 percent national approval mark from the same tracker. There are some Democrats in Ohio who will be appearing with Biden — but they have less to worry about from being tied to Biden's sinking popularity. U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, who doesn't have to face voters again until 2024, will join Biden. As will Rep. Shontel Brown, who is on the ballot this November in a D+30 district. Cleveland's Democrat Mayor Justin Bibb is not up for reelection until 2025 and will also be appearing with President Biden on Wednesday.
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by Petr Ogradov
[REGNUM] INTRODUCTION
Russia is conducting a special military operation (SVO) in Ukraine. Its goal is to protect the Russian minority living in this country from persecution, discrimination, destruction, as well as to ensure the security of the core of the Russian nation in Russia from aggression from the collective West.
After the end of the NMD, the Russian leadership will be forced to reconsider its attitude towards all Russians scattered in the post-Soviet space in order to also protect them. However, the solution of this important managerial task encounters a weak theoretical study of the problem. Russian social scientists give a more or less detailed description of the situation of Russians in the former Soviet republics, but say nothing about the reasons for their persecution, discrimination, extermination, and are not ready to formulate proposals for the eradication of these misanthropic practices.
Partly the cause of theoretical helplessness is the dogmatic approach to the development of the Marxist-Leninist theoretical heritage, partly the timidity in rethinking the theoretical developments of Anglo-Saxon researchers. It does not help the solution of the problem, and the fact that Russian social science is financed at its key points by Western funds, which impose restrictions on the development of research needed by the country's leadership.
It seems to us that the concepts developed by the Anglo-Saxons to solve their own managerial problems can be successfully used to solve the important managerial problem that has arisen. First of all, it is the concept of genocide and ethnocide. This concept was developed in the USA by the Jewish scholar Raphael Lemkin as a response to the persecution, discrimination, and then mass extermination of European Jews in the first half of the last century. It formed the basis of many decisions taken by the US leadership regarding Nazi Germany, its allies and satellites.
For the last fifty years, the development of the concept of genocide and ethnocide in the West has been occupied by hundreds of research centers, in which many thousands of scientists work. They provide their customers with recommendations that are of great practical importance. The acquired knowledge is used, among other things, to manage ethnic conflicts in the post-Soviet space, to disorient the ruling Russian elites.
Let us apply the concept developed by Lemkin to analyze the position of Russians in Eastern Europe at the present time and compare the results obtained with the position of the Jewish diaspora in Western Europe before and during World War II. The basis for this kind of comparison is that both ethnic groups we have chosen are numerous, highly developed socially, dispersed in many countries and deprived of protection from their state. The Jewish diaspora in the first half of the last century did not have its own state at all, Russians living abroad for three decades after the collapse of the USSR did not receive real protection from their "mother" state - Russia. In view of the multidimensionality and volume of the topic, we will focus only on the ethnocide of these two minorities.
ETHNIC GROUPS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH EACH OTHER
The total society consists of separate ethnic groups - groups of individuals interconnected by common spiritual values and common social practices arising from them. The reproduction of such developed forms of an ethnos as a people and a nation presupposes the use of social institutions. These are churches, schools, universities, libraries, theaters, media.
The main burden in the process of the formation of developed ethnic groups falls on people who act within the framework of social institutions, manage through them the bulk of people - social elites.
Ethnic groups also create institutions of force protection from destructive internal and external influences. For peoples and nations, this is a system of power institutions - the state. The state is run by political elites.
For the production and distribution of material goods, ethnic groups create economic institutions. For peoples and nations, these are manufactories, factories, trading establishments, banks, stock exchanges. They are controlled by economic elites.
Elites, thus, dispose of the main part of the members of the ethnos - the masses. The masses are predominantly engaged in the production and circulation of material goods.
Ethnic groups compete with each other for the possession of the material resources necessary for their existence. With equal strengths of ethnic groups, competition between them is in the nature of an exchange of goods, spiritual values and social practices. The elites who implement this kind of policy can be conditionally defined as "white".
Ethnic groups that gain sufficient strength often attack weaker neighbors in order to profit from their material wealth, to appropriate other people's territories. Between the conflicting parties there are armed clashes - wars.
Winners in wars initially destroyed their ethnic competitors. The policy of physical destruction of a competing ethnic group is called genocide. The elites who pursue this kind of policy can be conditionally designated as "black".
When a certain level of development of productive forces is reached, it becomes profitable not to destroy an ethnic competitor, but to enslave or enslave its members so that they create a surplus product for the conqueror on a permanent basis. Between these two ethnic groups for a long time relations "domination - submission" are established. The elites who pursue this policy can be conditionally defined as "brown".
The ruling "brown" elites seek to consolidate their privileged position in society and therefore pursue a policy of suppression and discrimination of the conquered ethnic group. This policy is called ethnocide. The meaning of ethnocide lies in the destruction of the collective identity of the enslaved ethnic group and depriving it of the ability to organize resistance through this. The result of the policy of ethnocide is the relegation of the enslaved ethnos to the lower rungs of the social ladder or its complete dissolution in the environment of the dominant ethnos. In the first case, the strategy of the separate existence of ethnic groups is carried out - segregation, in the second case - the assimilation of the subordinate ethnic group by the dominant ethnic group. Complete assimilation allows you to increase the number and, accordingly, the strength of the dominant ethnic group,
The ethnos-"lord" is often referred to as the titular ethnos, since it gives the name-title to its state. The enslaved ethnos is often referred to as a minority, although this is not entirely accurate, since the dominant ethnos may be small in number, while the subordinate ethnos may be numerous. For example, the Manchus ruling in the Celestial Empire at the beginning of the 20th century were barely 4 million people, while the Hans controlled by them numbered about 400 million people.
Further in the article, we will use the term "ethnic minority" to refer to an ethnic group that lives in a "foreign" state and is subjected to persecution and discrimination by the titular dominant ethnic group.
Ethnic groups living outside their state or not having a state at all are often referred to as diasporas or, in Russian, scattering. Diasporas become the first victims of aggressor ethnic groups. In the context of the presented material, the term "diaspora" is used by us as a synonym for the term "ethnic minority".
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Whining that "everything bad I've ever done is now being done to me" is no way to go through life, son...
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Winners.
Suck on it, bitches. No one gives a fuck about Ukraine. Because no one loves a loser, and NATO LOST. The client state is in ruins. It has no GDP. It's lost over 22% of its territory. Its citizens are being annihilated.
It's over, folks. A total unmitigated disaster of the West's own making -- and now every western government has fucked up so completely that they're all fighting for their lives.
The doughty little comedian, the puppet in his khaki T-Shirt, is now demanding that the US and EU pay him $5 billion EVERY MONTH to prop up his government.
$60 billion a year. For the most corrupt government in Europe. The shit-stirrers and kleptocrats who stoked this whole disaster.
That is an unbelievable sum. Even when Ukraine was at peace this amount would have been 1/3 of Ukraine's entire economy. So now Ukraine's government equals 2/3ds of the entire economy? Really?
How much of this $60 billion annual extortion fee will actually end up being funneled through PrivatBank and eventually land in T-short Guy's offshore accounts?
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How much of this $60 billion annual extortion fee will actually end up being funneled through PrivatBank and eventually land in T-short Guy's offshore accounts?
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If you are reading or watching Hollyweird the 'Russian Mafia'' are certainly a safe target to make a villain... Most other minorities have defenders that will leap out of the woodwork scream *RAYCISS* or the like.
Easier than enforcing the laws as promised to the citizenry, I s’pose.
[DW] Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government has begun to overhaul Germany's immigration system to allow more migrants colonists to stay in the country. Refugee rights organizations say the measures don't go far enough.
The German government is hoping to give over 130,000 migrants colonists trapped in legal limbo the chance to stay permanently, as part of an overhaul of Germany's immigration system.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government on Wednesday agreed on a package of reforms that will open the prospect of residency rights to people who have lived in Germany for more than five years with a so-called "Duldung," or tolerance status.
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[Korrespondent] 23:25 Zelensky said that for the first time in the history of Ukrainian-Paraguayan relations he had a conversation with the President of Paraguay. I also spoke today with the President of Mozambique - I congratulated him on the election of his state to the UN Security Council. "I believe that Africa should receive greater representation on international platforms and in solving global issues. It is African countries that are most threatened by the food crisis provoked by Russia, and we must do everything to force the terrorist state to unblock Ukrainian agricultural exports," Zelensky stressed.
23:21 Zelensky commented on the supply of Western weapons: “Finally, it is felt that Western artillery, the weapon that we received from our partners, has started to work very powerfully. Its accuracy is really as it should be. "are important for the logistics of the occupiers. And this significantly reduces the offensive potential of the Russian army. The losses of the occupiers will only grow every week, as will the complexity of their supplies."
22:48 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has come close to resigning, but until the last he refuses to leave. Read more about what is happening - in the material of the Friend of Ukraine, will they be fired?
22:42 The UOC and the OCU signed a Declaration of Understanding and condemned the position of the Moscow Patriarchate, which has become a "servant" of the Putin regime and blesses Russian soldiers for bloodshed.
22:24 Zelensky, in an evening video message, said that Ukrainian forces are advancing in several tactical directions, including in the south, and asked to communicate with people in the occupied territories: "In the south of our country, in the occupied areas, Russian forces have blocked any opportunity for people to know the truth about what is happening. They block access to social networks, instant messengers and YouTube. People should know about it. Therefore, if you have the opportunity to talk with people in the south - with Kherson, Genichesk, Berdyansk, Melitopol and other cities and villages, spread "please tell the truth there. Use every opportunity to tell the people in the occupied areas that we remember them and we are fighting for them."
22:01 The Lugansk region is not 100% occupied, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, in four and a half months, the Russians traveled only 30 km. Fighting continues in the vicinity of the region, the Russians continue to suffer losses. Gaidai also noted that in the occupied territories in the rear, "pops" continue to occur - Russians have fewer ammunition depots every day. Gaidai predicts that the Russian army will develop an offensive against Bakhmut and Slavyansk.
21:39 Scholz announced new military supplies to Ukraine on the principle of "circular exchange". Speaking in the Bundestag, the chancellor said that these deliveries would take place in the near future according to the following principle: the countries of Eastern Europe would give Kyiv their remaining Soviet weapons, and in return they would receive modern ones from the FRG.
21:36 The Bayraktar drone, which was raised in Lithuania, has already been sent to Ukraine.
21:19 Tonight, the Russians fired at the Sinelnikovsky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region from the MLRS, hit the Pokrovskaya community. Three people were injured, one of them in serious condition. A fire started at one of the enterprises, said the head of the OVA Valentin Reznichenko. Also, from the very morning, the enemy has been shelling the Krivoy Rog region - Shirokovskaya, Apostolovsky, Nivotrudovskaya and Zelenodolsk communities.
20:45 Another bridge between the occupied Melitopol and Tokmak is "tired", said the head of the Zaporizhzhia OVA Oleksandr Starukh.
20:27 During the conference in Lugano, agreements were reached on the allocation of almost $1.9 billion for the restoration of Ukraine, Shmyhal said. In particular, 600 million will go to financial support; more than $500 million - for the development of the agricultural sector, storage, improved logistics, liquidity for enterprises; $500 million - to prepare for the heating season; almost $250 million - for the development of digital transformation projects.
19:59 Russian troops are planning a large-scale offensive from Izyum to Slavyansk and are now concentrating forces in this direction, Konstantin Mashovets , a military expert and coordinator of the Information Resistance group, said. According to him, the Russians south of Izyum are now regrouping, there are massive artillery strikes on the positions of the Ukrainian Defense Forces. Also, the Russian Federation has a small tactical success in the Mazanovka area.
19:47 The timing of the end of the war depends on sanctions against Russia and the supply of weapons to Ukraine, Zelensky said, answering the question of how long the war will continue. According to him, it depends on when Russia realizes what it has done and starts to leave the territory of Ukraine: “I don’t really believe that they can understand this on their own. Therefore, the second thing is how the whole world puts pressure on Russia and ousts them from our We are on the battlefield with weapons, and the whole world is sanctions, politically, with help and quick deliveries of weapons to us." The President added that the timing of the end of the war also depends on the citizens of Ukraine - their support for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the domestic economy.
19:41 Ukraine no longer expects planes from the West, but expects to receive air defense systems, Zelensky said at a joint briefing with Irish Prime Minister Michol Martin: "Maybe I'm very persistent, but still, the safety of the sky is a priority. And no one expects that or other aviation, but we all count and have confirmation, so far theoretically, but we count on the arrival of powerful air defense systems in Ukraine."
19:29 The Armed Forces of Ukraine successfully repelled enemy attacks in several directions, the General Staff announced in the evening summary . Thus, the invaders were rebuffed in the direction of Dolgenka - Mazanovka and retreated with losses. In addition, the defenders of Ukraine successfully repulsed the enemy assault in the direction of Cossack Lopan - Sosnovka. Also, the Armed Forces of Ukraine stopped the enemy’s offensive in the directions of Mironovka-Lugansk and Golmovsky-Novoluhansk: the invaders had to withdraw.
19:26 Head of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin reminded the United States that Alaska was Russian and the Russian Federation can begin to "return" it.
19:17 The General Staff reported that ValriZaluzhnyi's Twitter account is fake. Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny is not on this social network.
18:40 Due to a full-scale attack by Russia, Ukraine is facing incredible economic challenges. One of the ways to overcome them was the additional issue of the hryvnia, that is, in other words, its printing. But this cannot go on for long. For more details, see What's Happening in the Economy .
18:38 The United States and allies are discussing setting a ceiling price for Russian oil at $40-60, Bloomberg reports. The US Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellen, came up with the idea of introducing a ceiling price. The concept is to tie the provision of important services related to the transportation of Russian oil to a predetermined price ceiling.
18:35 China and India have bought $24 billion worth of energy resources from Russia since the start of a full-scale war in Ukraine, writes Bloomberg. So, according to customs data, in the three months before the end of May, China spent $18.9 billion on Russian oil, gas and coal. This is almost twice as much as a year earlier. India paid $5.1 billion in the same period, more than five times last year's amount. Thus, the Russian Federation received an additional $13 billion in revenue from both countries compared to the same period in 2021. Analysts note that China is already buying almost everything that Russia can export through pipelines and Pacific ports.
18:17 The Russians attacked the Odessa region from a Su-35 aircraft with an X-31 missile, they managed to shoot it down over the sea, said OVA speaker Sergei Bratchuk.
17:37 The Russian army turns the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant into a military base, writes The Wall Street Journal. At the nuclear power plant, more than 500 Russian soldiers deployed heavy artillery batteries and laid anti-personnel mines along the banks of the reservoir.
17:19 As a result of the Russian missile attack on Kharkiv on June 30, the 39-year-old Brazilian actress and supermodel Talita Do Valle, who worked as a volunteer in the structures providing the Armed Forces of Ukraine, died. At the time of the impact, she was hiding in a shelter along with another Brazilian volunteer, former soldier Douglas Burigo, writes with the BBC. As a result of the impact, a fire started in the bunker, the woman suffocated from the smoke. Burigo also died: he returned to the hideout to find Talita and try to save her. Also, according to the Brazilian media, in early June, the Brazilian volunteer Andre Hac Bahi died.
17:14 Ukraine doubts that an agreement on unblocking grain exports will be reached in the near future, Kuleba said in an interview with Bloomberg: "We are just a few steps away from the agreement, but these steps are the most difficult. I do not want to join the chorus of those who say that the agreement will take place next week." According to the Foreign Minister, the negotiators have not yet reached an agreement on protecting Odessa from Russian attack, as well as foreign patrols guarding non-military cargo. "We need firm guarantees," Kuleba stressed.
16:53 The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted a law on providing for the armed forces during "operations" outside the country. Under the new rules, companies in Russia will not have the right to refuse contracts in order to ensure such operations. The Cabinet will also be able to regulate labor relations in individual organizations, including the conditions for granting leave, work after hours, at night or on weekends.
16:51 Zelensky told reporters that there are no misunderstandings between him and the General Staff, and the issue of permits for the movement of conscripts is a "minor mistake" compared to unity against Russia: "Today we had a meeting with the military. Every day we have these meetings, but today there was a separate meeting on the decision of the General Staff on July 5 ... We decided that the decision was not taken quite correctly, and it will be canceled."
16:47 GTS of Ukraine is ready to work in conditions of "zero" transit, said the head of the GTS Operator of Ukraine Serhiy Makogon: "It will be necessary to carry out a very large-scale optimization, we no longer need such a capacity of the GTS. We understand: most likely, in the years, Europe will completely abandon Russian gas, and there will be no actual need for transit through Ukraine's GTS."
16:35 In Kherson, near the railway station, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the warehouses of the occupiers, the adviser to the head of the OVA Serhiy Khlan confirmed.
16:32 Russian propagandists are actively spreading a fake that the Russian army destroyed HIMARS, but this is not true, said Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar: "This is that they wishful thinking. Perhaps information that we have HIMARS , led to panic and increased fear in Russian society. Therefore, they were advised to provide such information. This is work for their internal information market."
16:26 Another fuel depot caught fire in Kherson. According to local residents, the explosion occurred near the railway station. At the same time, they note that there were no shelling, although an explosion was heard. The enemy used the warehouse to refuel armored personnel carriers and other military equipment. A column of thick black smoke is visible from several places in the city.
15:58 The State Bureau of Investigation reported on suspicion of treason to ex-People's Deputy Alexei Kovalev, he faces up to 15 years in prison. Kovalyov joined the Russian-appointed "government of the Kherson region" as "deputy prime minister for agriculture."
15:47 The security guarantees promised to Ukraine by the German federal government at the G7 summit cannot yet be specified, Scholz said. He explained that the procedure for guarantees should first be discussed with partners, as well as with Ukraine itself.
15:33 Zaluzhny confirmed that the order banning men from leaving their place of residence without the permission of the military registration and enlistment office was canceled and sent for revision: “I emphasize that this document initially dealt exclusively with the internal work of the TCC and the Joint Venture and did not create obligations, restrictions on the rights and freedoms of citizens of Ukraine. Despite to this, his appearance on the network led to numerous manipulations, discrepancies and even illegal actions to prevent the movement of citizens, which became the basis for discrediting the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the military-political leadership of the state.Therefore, the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in order to prevent further manipulation around this issue, a decision was made to cancel the procedure with sending it for revision.
15:22 The Armed Forces of Ukraine handed over a helicopter and a plane used by the family of a people's deputy suspected of treason, the Prosecutor General's Office said. Earlier, at the request of the prosecutors, the Medvezhya Oakwood complex and other assets were seized, the ultimate beneficiary of which is the wife of a people's deputy of Ukraine, suspected of treason. The name of the deputy is not disclosed, but ex-People's Deputy Sergei Leshchenko wrote that the property belonged to Medvedchuk.
15:16 The restoration of Mariupol will cost more than $14 billion and will take 7-10 years, Mayor Vadim Boychenko said. According to him, 1,356 multi-storey buildings were destroyed or damaged in the city, 40% of private houses were bombed. Most of them are not subject to reconstruction.
15:14 Peskov said that Japan "occupies an extremely unfriendly position towards Russia. In any case, such an unfriendly position does not contribute to the establishment of trade and economic relations, including energy dialogue."
15:11 The European Commission will present in mid-July an emergency EU action plan in case Russia cuts off gas, Ursula von der Leyen said.
15:07 Russia tried to attack Serpent's Island after the Ukrainian flag was returned there, Natalya Gumenyuk, head of the press center of the Southern Defense Forces, said. According to her, the occupiers tried to carry out aerial reconnaissance and, probably, strike, but when they realized that weapons would be used against them, they decided to stay away.
15:05 The White House gift shop has released a collector's coin dedicated to the defenders of the Serpentine. The coin costs 100 dollars, it is delivered free of charge to Ukraine and residents of NATO countries. 20% of sales will go to help Ukrainian women and children.
14:43 The European Commission is preparing a legislative framework for the transfer of frozen Russian assets for the restoration of Ukraine , Ursula von der Leyen said: "The European Commission considers it fair and is preparing a legal framework for the frozen Russian assets and the assets of Russian oligarchs to be transferred for the needs of the restoration of Ukraine."
14:20 Yermak criticized the report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on human rights violations during the war in Ukraine, which notes violations from both sides of the conflict: "There is one culprit in this war - this is Russia. Given this, make sacrifices and the aggressor in one row - this is a blurring of responsibility and a shift in focus from the main problem. From the fact that Russia attacked Ukraine. And it is killing our people."
"The Ukrainian side is investigating war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Russian side is covering up its tracks. This is a fundamental difference between us," the head of the Presidential Office stressed.
14:11 Zelensky instructed the General Staff to cancel the scandalous procedure for issuing travel permits for military personnel in the country, Ukraine 24 TV channel reported, citing sources.
13:58 After Russian troops captured Severodonetsk and neighboring Lisichansk, the entire Luhansk region was under their control. Now the main battles are going west and south - for the cities controlled by Kyiv in the neighboring Donetsk region. The main ones - Kramatorsk, Slavyansk and Bakhmut - have not only strategic, but also symbolic significance for both sides. Read more about this in the article Decisive Battle for Donbass .
13:52 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the destruction of two HIMARS MLRS launchers near the village of Malotaranovka in the Donetsk region. Advisor to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Anton Gerashchenko, said that this is not true - "all HIMARS complexes are ready to strike the enemy."
13:33 Limiting the movement of those liable for military service violates the principle of legal certainty and contains corruption risks, Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets said. According to him, when preparing the order of the General Staff, "one of the constituent principles of the rule of law was not observed - the principle of legal certainty, which guarantees the ease of clarifying the content of the law and the opportunity to use this right if necessary."
13:19 Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov urged Kharkiv residents to refrain from walking: “If you choose between refraining from walking and taking a walk around the square, of course, you need to refrain. I understand how hard it is: good weather, I want to go out into the fresh air, but it is very dangerous ". He stressed that the residents are being psychologically affected by regular shelling at 4 am, but added that "despite this, we will stand: we will not be intimidated, we have a very strong spirit."
12:57 Irish Prime Minister Michal Martin visited Borodyanka, Bucha and Irpen, head of the Kiev OVA Oleksiy Kuleba said.
12:48 The head of the Donetsk OVA, Pavel Kirilenko, reported on the shelling of Toretsk: rockets hit two houses in the private sector, it is known for sure that one was wounded. Also, according to preliminary information, three people are under the rubble. Another rocket hit near a social facility, but did not explode.
12:43 Podolyak explained why Russia needs "constant performances" with the shelling of its own cities: "To distract the Russians from the" refrigerator ", maintain the degree of anti-Ukrainian hysteria and disrupt the supply of Western weapons. But everything is fixed. The Kremlin is waiting for a tribunal for crimes not only against the Ukrainian people , but also in front of one's own.
12:19 The guerrilla movement BOAK - the Combat Organization of the Anarcho-Communists - claimed responsibility for the arson of military registration and enlistment offices in Russia. According to the partisans, the war unleashed by Putin against Ukraine forced them to declare their existence publicly. They plan to continue to commit sabotage on the territory of the Russian Federation without harm to the civilian population.
12:03 Russia has several scenarios for waging war in Ukraine, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said in an interview with Channel 24. According to her, it is difficult to predict the course of the war, since it is influenced by many factors, and besides, the Russian Federation cannot predict Ukraine's actions: "We also focus on how they will act, and in this way we will counteract."
According to Malyar, the Russian Federation also has several scenarios for integrating the occupied territories of Ukraine, but these processes are facing resistance from local residents. Of the forecasts, Malyar named the imminent depletion of the resources of the Russian Federation: "We can make predictions that it will be more and more difficult for them to fight at such an intensity."
11:49 Danilov said that after four months of war in Ukraine, "instead of demilitarization, maximum militarization took place - Ukraine is rapidly rearming according to NATO standards, there is a constant accumulation and saturation of defense forces with Western weapons and technologies." He also added that about a million Ukrainians receive combat and military experience.
The Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council also stressed that the Russian troops were not "tired" after the battles for Lysychansk - "they were very battered by our military, and many Russian military are already" resting "in another world." At the same time, he added that the war would not be short - "the enemy is powerful, insidious and has not changed its plans for the complete destruction of Ukraine." Danilov added that the final unified anti-Putin coalition does not yet exist today, it is only being formed. And the main security guarantees for Ukraine are membership in NATO.
11:33 Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijarto said that Budapest refused to participate in the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine so as not to endanger the Hungarians living in Transcarpathia: "Obviously, these supplies will be the target of the Russians for shelling. We do not want them to shoot at regions where Hungarians live. We must take into account the security of Hungary and Hungarians."
11:29 In the occupied territories of the Kharkiv region, the invaders intend to create four "administrations" - Kupyanskaya, Izyumskaya, Volchanskaya and Kharkiv, Vitaly Ganchev, appointed by the Russians, told TASS. According to him, a "regional temporary civil administration" has already been created. Ganchev stressed that "the authorities and residents of the Kharkiv region are striving to ensure that the region becomes part of Russia."
11:25 In Latvia, following Germany, they are discussing the return of conscription to military service as a reaction to the Russian threat. "Now we have no reason to believe that Russia will change its behavior," Defense Minister Artis Pabriks said. Compulsory military service is planned to be introduced from 2023 for men from 18 to 27 years old. The call will be carried out for 11 months. For women - on a voluntary basis.
I guess they never reinstated military training for schoolboys after the Soviet Union broke up.
11:23 After a rocket attack on a university in Kharkov, a 40-year-old watchman died, the regional prosecutor's office said.
11:21 In the Mariupol port, the invaders seized two foreign cargo ships. According to Reuters, the invaders told the owners of the ships that their property was being transferred to "state property." The first vessel arrived at the port of Mariupol on February 21 and is the property of the Liberian company Smarta Shipping, the second was set with the flag of Panama, its name is Blue Star.
11:10 In the occupied Mikhailovskaya and Razdolsky communities of the Zaporozhye region, local "authorities" have banned the sale of any alcohol to Russian servicemen. According to Ukrainian military intelligence, there is a massive abuse of alcoholic beverages by Russians in the region, which leads to numerous violations of discipline and serious offenses.
10:48 YouTube and Instagram have been disabled in the occupied territory of the Kherson region, the press secretary of the "military-civilian administration" Serhiy Moroz said in Telegram: "We are now without YouTube, without Instagram. Well, nothing, we manage somehow, normally." According to him, the resources were turned off a few days ago.
10:37 Irish Prime Minister Michol Martin has arrived in Ukraine. He will hold a series of meetings designed to reaffirm Ireland's solidarity with the Ukrainian authorities, writes The Guardian. "The spirit and determination of the Ukrainian people have inspired us all, and Ireland will provide all possible support for Ukraine's path to full EU membership and will continue to welcome and support civilians fleeing this war," the prime minister said.
10:21 Tonight, the military of the anti-aircraft missile division of the Pivden air command destroyed two enemy sea-based cruise missiles of the Caliber type, with which the Russians tried to attack Nikolayevshchina. The missiles were fired from a submarine in the Black Sea.
09:44 Russia has stopped the transit of oil from Kazakhstan to Europe. The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), by decision of the Primorsky District Court of Novorossiysk, will suspend the operation of the marine terminal for 30 days. The reason for this decision was violations allegedly revealed by Rostransnadzor during the assessment of the technical condition of hazardous production facilities and compliance with environmental requirements during their operation.
Last night, President of Kazakhstan Tokayev said that Kazakhstan is ready to use its hydrocarbon potential in order to stabilize the situation on the world and European markets. According to Tokayev, the country is committed to developing sustainable ties with the European Union, Kazakhstan's largest trading partner.
09:32 The State Bureau of Investigation initiated the dismissal of the deputy head of the Kharkiv Regional Council, who had a Russian passport he received in 2014, as well as a driver's license and a tax number, which is needed, in particular, to pay taxes in Russia.
09:21 As a result of rocket attacks in the Kievsky district of Kharkov, the building of a higher educational institution was almost completely destroyed, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. Three people were injured in the area during the day.
08:55 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of July 6. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Slavic and Donetsk directions.
personnel - about 36,500 (+150) people liquidated,
tanks - 1600 (+6),
armored combat vehicles - 3789 (+17),
artillery systems - 812 (+6),
MLRS - 247 (+0),
air defense systems - 107 (+2),
aircraft - 217 (+0),
helicopters - 187 (+0),
UAVs of the operational-tactical level - 664 (+4),
cruise missiles - 153 (+9),
ships/boats - 15 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2648 (+14),
special equipment - 65 (+0).
08:49 In the Nikolaev area for the past day two people were lost, reported OVA. One of them - as a result of the shelling of the village of Zaselye of the Pervomaisky community, the second - during the shelling of the village of Nechayane. Also on July 5, the Russians fired at the water zone of the Ochakovo community and the village of Aprilskoe of the Pervomaisky community. As a result, crop fields caught fire.
08:31 British intelligence believes that the next key battle in the fight for Donbass could be the battle for Slavyansk. Continuing to strengthen its control over Lisichansk and Lugansk region, the Russian Federation transferred most of the remaining units of the Eastern and Western groups of forces to the Izyum direction. Over the past week, Russian forces have likely advanced another 5km towards Slovyansk along the main E40 highway from Izyum, analysts say.
According to them, Russian forces from the Eastern and Western Groups of Forces are now probably located about 16 km north of Slovyansk. In addition, the city is also under threat from the Central and Southern groups of troops.
08:25 Ukrainian and Russian telegram channels report that during the battles for Lisichansk, a Belarusian unit, which fought in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, suffered losses. So, on June 26, the commander of the Belarusian battalion Volat Ivan Marchuk with the call sign Brest died. The battalion was part of the regiment of Kastus Kalinovsky, where mostly people from the Republic of Belarus fight. Several more Belarusians went missing in Lisichansk and one was taken prisoner.
08:23 The Russians are trying to seize the Bakhmut-Lysichansk road, at the moment the Armed Forces of Ukraine are holding back the onslaught, said the head of the Lugansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai. According to him, as soon as more long-range weapons appear, the advantage of the Russian Federation in personnel will be leveled.
08:20 The mayor of Slavyansk Vadim Lyakh said that as a result of yesterday's shelling of the city, one person was killed, seven more were injured. In total, since the beginning of hostilities, 17 people have been killed and 67 injured in the community.
08:18 In the controlled territory of the Donetsk region over the past day, five civilians were killed by Russian shelling: two in Avdeevka, one each in Slavyansk, Krasnohorivka and Kurakhovo. Another 21 people were injured, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
08:11 The head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA, Valentin Reznichenko, announced the shelling of the Krivoy Rog region. The village of Shesternya, Shirokovskaya community, was hit, several houses were damaged, but no one was injured.
08:00 The Ukrainian Armed Forces stopped the enemy offensive near Seversk, in the area of Disputed, not far from Vershina, as well as in the area of Bakhmut and Slavyansk, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report .
05:15 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) suggests that the goal of Russia's invasion of Ukraine is regime change in Kiev and the destruction of the sovereignty of the Ukrainian state.
ISW also reports that Russian troops continued offensive operations to the northwest and east of Slovyansk, trying to move west of the Lisichansk area in the direction of Seversk. It is likely that Russian troops are trying to gain access to rural roads southeast of Bakhmut in order to attack the city from the south.
Ukrainian forces launched a limited counterattack southwest of Donetsk. Russian troops continued limited and unsuccessful assaults in the north of the Kharkov region. The Russian authorities are carrying out enhanced conscription measures in the occupied territories in order to compensate for the losses incurred in manpower. The Kremlin continues to consolidate administrative control over the occupied territories of Ukraine, which is likely to create conditions for the direct accession of these territories to the Russian Federation, analysts say.
04:37 Kadyrovites deliberately destroyed a Muslim mosque in Severodonetsk. According to the head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai, in June, Kadyrov's men opened fire on the Bismelie Islamic Cultural Center in Severodonetsk. They knew that people were hiding there, and they deliberately started shelling when the civilians went into the yard to draw water from the well. Probably, there are dead, the information is being specified. The religious center was completely destroyed.
03:16 About 200 Russian intelligence officers are working in Germany. The German security authorities are now shadowing them while their curator works at the Russian embassy, writes Bild. The main task of spies is to collect and transmit information about local politicians and leaders of large companies.
01:40 The first rotation of the Ukrainian military arrived in the UK for exercises. According to the press service of the British Parliament, the Ukrainian military will take courses based on basic military training. These will include weapons handling, battlefield first aid, combat skills, patrolling tactics, and training in the laws of armed conflict. Each course will last several weeks.
00:34 The Ukrainian company UkrSpecSystems, which produces PD-2 drones, has decided to move production to Poland. Such a step is necessary to ensure that the needs of the Ukrainian military are met.
00:22 For the Register of Oligarchs, information is collected on potential defendants, the decision of the Venice Commission is expected on the work of the Register, Minister of Justice Denis Malyuska said on the air of the telethon. According to him, the war significantly "deoligarchized" many of the holders of the status, and the oligarchs in Ukraine no longer have their former influence.
00:09 Erdogan hopes that it will be possible to reach an agreement on opening grain corridors in 7-10 days. According to him, Ankara seeks to be a mediator for a speedy resolution of the issue under the auspices of the UN: "The Black Sea Grain Corridor is of great importance. The approaches of both leaders are important - both Mr. Putin and Mr. Zelensky. We continue our negotiations."
[Rudaw] Iran ...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence... demands the immediate release of an Iranian national facing charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes in Sweden, the Iranian foreign minister told his Swedish counterpart on Tuesday.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Tuesday spoke to his Swedish counterpart Anne Linde, during which both sides discussed the case of Iranian national Hamid Noury, Iranian state media reported.
The Iranian foreign minister "demanded the immediate release of Hamid Noury, an Iranian citizen, who is in jug on completely baseless charges of the hypocrite terrorist group."
Iranian national Noury, 60, is on trial for "committing grave war crimes and murder in Iran during 1988," Swedish prosecutors announced on July 27.
Noury had served as assistant to the deputy governor of Gohardasht prison in Karaj, near the Iranian capital of Tehran, when an estimated 5,000 prisoners were killed across the country, following an order from then Lord High Potentate and Supreme Leader of All He Surveys of Iran Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
On July 26, 1988 thousands of fighters with the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK), an Iranian opposition group that sided with Saddam Hussein’s regime in the Iran-Iraq war, crossed the border into Iran with the support of Iraq’s air force for Operation Mersad, the last major offensive of the conflict before a United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... ceasefire came into effect.
The Iranian government put prisons across the country on lockdown, and soon rumors spread around the country of prisoners killed and their bodies dumped into mass graves. Those killed had been locked away Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! for their opposition to the Iranian regime, including followers of MEK.
The Swedish court wrapped up its proceedings in May, with a verdict expected on July 14, however the proceedings have been criticized by the Iranian government, and Iran has taken what many call as retaliatory measures against Sweden.
Ahmadreza Djalali, a Swedish-Iranian national and an expert in emergency medicine, was arrested during an academic visit to Iran in October 2016 and subsequently sentenced to death the next year on spying charges.
Iran repeatedly claimed that Djalali spied for Mossad and said "his situation is absolutely clear ... his sentence is definite and the judiciary has announced that."
The spokesperson for the Iranian judiciary, Zabihollah Khodaian, had confirmed in May that Tehran will go ahead with the execution, ruling out the possibility of a prisoner exchange with Noury.
While Abdollahian met with Noury’s son on Tuesday, he raised concern over the Iranian national’s status in Swedish prison.
"He is not only kept in solitary confinement and does not have access to a doctor, but also to contact or meetings with the family are also severely restricted," Iranian state media reported Abdollahian as discussing.
However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... rights groups have raised concerns of dire treatment from Iran against foreign nationals.
[Dawn] Four coppers were martyred in separate attacks in Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... and Tank districts on Tuesday.
Dera police front man Imtiaz Ali Janjua said unidentified button men riding cycle of violences opened fire on traffic coppers — ticketing officer Shaukat Mekan and constable Habibullah — near the New Sabzi Mandi area on Tuesday morning. They went titzup.
Following the incident, a contingent of police led by DSP Saddar Hafiz Adnan Khan and SHO Saddar cop shoppe Saleem Baloch reached the spot along with teams of Rescue 1122 and shifted the martyred personnel to District Headquarters Hospital for postmortem.
The front man said the police had cordoned off the area and launched a search operation to trace the attackers.
Later, funeral prayers of the martyred cops were offered at the Ijaz Shaheed Police Lines.
Afterwards, bodies of deaders were dispatched to their native areas for burial.
Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, there was only one thought in the mouse's mind: I can do this! I can do this! Then the trap sprung... three armed motorcyclists killed two Tank police officials on Nasran-Daudkhel Road near in Nasran village.
The police said constable Naheed Khan went titzup, while constable Hameed Shah succumbed to injuries while being taken to Hospital. They said the button men also took away cash and mobile phones from the dear departed.
The police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against unknown killers and launched a search operation to trace them.
District police officer Waqar Ahmed along with DSP headquarters Inam Khan Gandapur, DSP rural Hussain Ghulam Bangash and DSP Jandola subdivision Alamgir Khan met with families of the martyred personnel and offered condolences.
[AndMagazine] One of the many assurances we are given by our corporate overlords and their minions in the liberal press is that we should be more like Europe. By that they mean we should accept a social welfare nanny state and surrender our rights to our betters in the elite. The Dutch don’t seem to have gotten that memo.
About a week ago the government of the Netherlands announced it was declaring war on the nation’s farmers. In order to reduce what it considers nitrogen pollution the government has adopted a policy of drastically reducing herds, forcing many farmers out of business and cutting back on meat, pork, poultry, and dairy products for human consumption. The government wants to eliminate one-third of Holland’s 50,000 farms by 2030.
Are they mad?? The world is facing famine as it is, between Russia invading the Ukraine and the drought in the Middle East, not to mention reduced production in the rest of the world because of the China-controlled fertilizer shortage, and the Netherlands government wants to shut down farms?
In response, all hell has broken loose.
Dutch farmers have blocked supermarkets, food distribution centers, and roads in protests this week. Supermarket shelves are bare throughout the Netherlands as food distribution has been brought to a standstill. Wednesday morning, farmers are expected to demonstrate at the Groningen Airport Elde, according to Dutch media. The farmers have been joined now by Dutch fishermen who are blockading ports in solidarity.
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Funny thing - I have not seen squat on this in almost any MSM. I don't consume that much, but one would think this is newsworthy considering how much the Dutch actually export in terms of agricultural goods.
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I don’t have cable. All I see on network news is J6 and global warming. Nothing about the Dutch.
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The Dutch police fired “warning shots” at tractors the protesters were driving according to DerWelte https://www.dw.com/en/dutch-farmers-protests-over-emission-cuts-resume-after-police-fire-shots/a-62381532
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Last night protesters gathered outside the home of the minister for nitrogen policy, Christianne van der Wal, for the third time in a week. The group dumped a lorryload of manure on the minister’s doorstep and attacked a police car that was parked in the road.
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Was on a bus tour in Holland a few weeks ago, and the tour guide said the Dutch were the most efficient farmers in earth, with some figures to back it up.
For a little country, with big cities, there was a LOT of farmland!
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"How much effluent can you safely dump into the North Sea?" By 'effluent' we mean nitrates, phosphates and the like from fertilizers and animal / human excreta. Before you get Red Tides and the like...
The farmers want to farm and the Greens want all human effects to disappear returning the world to a utopian 'pre-human paradise. The Nomenklatura seem to feel they can always 'just import it' -- exporting the problems and Dutch jobs to the Third World. Sound familiar?
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I have meetings most mornings with coworkers over there in the Netherlands and not a single one of them has mentioned anything. I assume a massive divide between the bike riding city-based technocrats and the farmers.
I also wonder with all the bad news that has happened in the last few years if most have just tuned out, deciding to be blissfully unaware rather than go nuts with what is happening.
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Gouda cheese from Holland is good. Aged of course. Hope they get this figured out before I can't find it on the store shelves anymore. Last time I looked I couldn't find it.
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"Are they mad?? "
No, they are green. Though that may be the same thing these days.
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More from Slenter Panda4300’s Deutsche Welle link:
The government has appointed an intermediary to lead talks between farmers' organizations and officials drawing up pollution reduction measures.
However, Prime Minister Mark Rutte has ruled out negotiating with farmers responsible for radical protests.
[AnNahar] Belgium's parliament on Wednesday approved a controversial prisoner-swap treaty with Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... in a first reading of a text that still has to be submitted to a full vote to be ratified.
The treaty has been slammed by an Iranian dissident group, the National Council of Resistance® of Iran, as well as some U.S. politicians and Amnesia Amnesty International as paving the way for an Iranian diplomat placed in durance vile You have the right to remain silent... in Belgium on a terrorism conviction to be allowed to return home.
Belgian Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne on Tuesday told MPs that unless the treaty was adopted, "the threat to our Belgian interests and certain Belgian citizens will increase".
He said Iran was already "illegally" holding captive a Belgian aid worker, Olivier Vandecasteele, 41, on trumped-up "espionage" charges.
The full parliamentary vote on the treaty, which was signed in March, is expected to take place on Thursday.
Tehran also holds a Swedish-Iranian academic, Ahmadreza Djalali, who taught at a Brussels university under the same charges, and has sentenced him to death.
The NCRI and Amnesty says they are the latest foreigners seized by Iran as leverage against Western countries.
Tehran is furious that Belgium last year placed in durance vile You have the right to remain silent... one of its diplomats, Assadollah Assadi, 50, after he was found guilty of criminal masterminding a thwarted kaboom on an NCRI event outside Gay Paree in 2018.
Assadi, who was convicted of attempted "terrorist" murder and "participating in the activities of a terrorist group", is serving a 20-year sentence which he declined to appeal.
Attached to Iran's embassy in Austria, he was arrested in Germany where his claim to diplomatic immunity was denied, and extradited to Belgium for his trial.
Belgian authorities had intercepted a car carrying a bomb made from explosives supplied by Assadi as it was on its way to the targeted NCRI event. They were informed by several European intelligence services of the plot.
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[Regnum] At the beginning of October 1919, the threat to Moscow became more and more real, on October 8, A.I. Egorov was appointed to command the Southern Front. He recalled:
"In these days of October 1919, the fate of the proletarian revolution was decided in the vicinity of Orel and Voronezh."
On October 13, the Volunteer Army took Orel. On October 15, the Southern Front once again began to gather forces to prepare a counteroffensive. The situation was so difficult that on October 13 the Central Committee decided to withdraw everything possible from all fronts and direct it against Denikin. Lenin was exceptionally energetic:
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[Page Six - NY Post] - Lena Dunham is living her best bikini life.
The "Girls" creator, 36, gave her Instagram followers a glimpse at her colorful swimsuit collection on Instagram Wednesday, posing in a series of bikinis (plus a classic one-piece) from Hollywood-loved label Hunza G.
"One piece two piece red piece blue piece," Dunham captioned the playful pictures, in which she models the brand’s black "Pamela" suit ($215), lime green "Juno" bikini ($215), lavender "Jean" bikini ($177) and orange "Gigi" bikini ($215).
Famous for its signature crinkle-stretch fabric, the sustainable company makes its swimsuits in just one size that promises to fit UK sizes 6 through 16 (or US sizes 4 through 14). Click on the link for lots & lots of 'stretch fabric'...
No doubt it’s better, health-wise to bare as much skin to the sun as possible, to maximize conversion of cholesterol to Vitamin D. Still, she ought to be able to afford pieces cut better for her body.
Fats Waller: "Gesundheit! Good night!"
He rallies, face pallid from fright
As, leering, he croons
A new quodlibet tune, Lena left hand and Lydia right.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Insider] There were plenty of nice houses in the village, but this building was one of the few that was left to crumble. The cottage was old and weathered, and the masonry walls were full of cracks.
[MAIL] Surveillance footage caught the shocking moment a New York City bodega worker allegedly stabbed a customer to death, after the man violently confronted him about the price of some snacks.
[Aljazeera] United States President Joe Biden spoke with the wife of basketball star 
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[Townhall] When President Joe Biden heads to Ohio today for another stop in which he hopes to brag about his administration's accomplishments — presumably not 40-year high inflation, an energy crisis, or failed foreign policy — he won't be getting a warm welcome from two nominated Democrats seeking statewide office in the Buckeye State as his party's candidates try to distance themselves from the unpopular president.
According to a presidential poll tracker from Civiqs, Biden has just 26 percent approval in Ohio, even less than his 30 percent national approval mark from the same tracker. There are some Democrats in Ohio who will be appearing with Biden — but they have less to worry about from being tied to Biden's sinking popularity. U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, who doesn't have to face voters again until 2024, will join Biden. As will Rep. 
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[AndMagazine] One of the many assurances we are given by our corporate overlords and their minions in the liberal press is that we should be more like Europe. By that they mean we should accept a social welfare nanny state and surrender our rights to our betters in the elite. The Dutch don’t seem to have gotten that memo.
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