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I had a lady friend who everyone called Angel that was on Sabrina's level beauty wise. She had a young child and she informed her ex she was coming by to pick the child up. Her ex had a new girl friend who made all of these remarks about how she better not come over and start any thing. When Angel walked into the room her ex's girl friend was suddenly so intimidated she literally could not say a word.
When Angel and I walked into a bar once almost all the men AND WOMEN lit up cigarettes at once like when you are enjoying a view so much you need a smoke...
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^^^ Angel
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Any old Orleanian would know that facade anywhere. Or at least the mysterious igneous material thereof.
One night outside Popeye's...
[TOOT! TOOT!]
"Whoa! Low hanging fruit!"
"You're too cute."
"Two breastses, two thighs...
Too-wise, world-weary eyes--"
"And two mighty tired livers, to boot."
[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel] MADISON — The state Department of Natural Resources has issued a number of notices over the last several years for anglers to limit their consumption of some fish caught in certain water bodies due to high levels of toxic "forever chemicals."
PFAS — or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — are a family of man-made chemicals used for their water- and stain-resistant qualities in products like clothing and carpet, nonstick cookware, packaging and firefighting foam.
PFOS (perfluorooctane sulfonate), one of the most well-researched in the family of compounds, has most often been found in the tissue of fish harvested and tested by the DNR.
The chemicals have been linked to types of kidney and testicular cancers, lower birth weights, harm to immune and reproductive systems, altered hormone regulation and altered thyroid hormones. The chemicals enter the human body largely through drinking water.
The chemicals can also accumulate in the body of people who routinely consume fish caught in waters with high levels of PFAS.
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Firefighters? A job where breathing toxic smoke and particulates is normal. Courageous and often Heroic --- the latter term is something I do not use lightly.
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Yes. The very first smoke particle that was not the result of a lightning strike, volcanic activity, spontaneous biologic combustion or meteorite crash was the first carcinogenic particle. Even though it occurred before any mammals existed to develop cancer...
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Soooo... Can my Brita water filter remove the nasty chemicals mentioned above?
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If you are really worried, distilled water is the best. But if you don't oxygenate it and add minerals, it's nasty. Truly de-ionized water is just bad for you.
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A friend of mine who was an analytical chemist said "De-I water will wreck your skin quick..."
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[Breitbart] President Joe Biden’s scandal-ridden son, Hunter Biden, received a front-row seat at the White House Medal of Freedom ceremony held on Thursday.
Hunter Biden, who attended the ceremony with his wife Melissa Cohen, became a de facto greeter for the attendees due to his front-row seat. The president’s son was seen shaking hands and hugging multiple ceremony attendees as they entered the White House’s East Room and took their seats. Did they check their wallets?
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Once you have awarded Rapino, Fonzi has jumped the shark. Let’s see Tonya Harding and some Kardashians next year.
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They have no sense of decorum or decency, and the arrogance of a lifetime of power using the sham of public office to grift shamelessly. This is a brazen display of disdainful corruption, Imperial hubris, epic even by Roman standards.
Perhaps Hunter has tired of hiding, so he must be seen as still intimate with all the favors of the Puppet Show. How else can he sell his artwork to discerning foreign buyers?
[Fox via Guns America] We covered this story last week for GunsAmerica readers, but it’s good to see Fox News’ Tucker Carlson also spreading the word as to what happened after Brazil made it easier for law-abiding citizens to keep firearms for personal defense.
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Specifically, as Dr. John Lott who conducted the original research observed in a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, the homicide rate fell 34% after President Jair Bolsonaro made firearms permits easier and cheaper to obtain.
As friend to a wonderful large Brazilian family whose male family members are "Militar" they are fortunate to live on a gated military community in the Amazon area. Other family members live in Southern Brazil in the Balneário Camboriú area in secure residential highrises away from the favelas that are dangerous.
Still, however, Jair Bolsonaro was stabbed with a knife, when guns were harder to obtain by law abiding Brazilians.
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The latest study from the University of Geneva explored the BA.4/5 Omicron variant and its interaction with the immune system. Researchers found that the COVID-19 BA.4/5 mutation evades antibodies generated by earlier strain infections and vaccines.
How contagious a disease is, is measured by its basic reproduction number (R0).
The COVID-19 BA.4/5 mutation has an 18.6 RO, or is over 450% more infectious than the original Wuhan strain that only had an R0 of 3.3.
Interesting that even CNN admits the currently used C-19/22 Vaccine is no longer effective against NEW Covid-19/22+ strains. BUT being part of the MSM it has played the UBER-PRO-VAX positions from the start also.
[IsraelTimes] Accord now needs domestic approvals, which could be held up because of Israeli coalition’s collapse; Israeli carriers still locked out of lucrative market over security spat
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Turkey was prideful of their drones and gifted some to Kiev. Well Russia has just invented and produced an electronic Stupor electromagnetic drone gun.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli organization says that rather than taking the material out of the 2022 curriculum, the UN Paleostinian refugee agency has merely taken it off its public education portal.
IMPACT-se CEO Marcus Sheff said in the statement that UNRWA promised last year to remove all offending content.
“It seems that UNRWA has interpreted this as removal from the website where it can be scrutinized, rather than removal from actual classrooms,” Sheff said. “UNRWA was again made aware of our concerns just two months ago.”
[IsraelTimes] Shehadeh Abu Alqian, 25, charged with joining Mujahideen Brigades after authorities issued demolition order for his father’s illegal home, providing terror group with intel
A Bedouin man from southern Israel joined the military in order to spy for a terror group in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, the Shin Bet security service charged Thursday.
The agency said Shehadeh Abu Alqian, 25, from a Bedouin village near Hura in the northern Negev region, was instructed by the Gaza-based Mujahideen Brigades to join the Israel Defense Forces "for the purpose of promoting terrorist activity and gathering intelligence in Israeli territory."
Abu Alqian was detained on May 30, more than a week after he enlisted in the IDF.
The Shin Bet said his investigation revealed Abu Alqian performed various tasks for the terror group, including gathering internal intelligence from the army, photographing sites in Israel, and stealing weapons in order to transfer them to "terrorist elements."
The agency said Abu Alqian conducted "most" of his actions before he enlisted in the IDF.
According to the indictment, filed Thursday, Abu Alqian sought to "act against the State of Israel and against its security" after his father’s illegally built home was given a demolition order by authorities in 2019. The indictment didn’t specify whether the house had since been demolished.
On September 9, 2019, Abu Alqian stole an M4 rifle from a soldier waiting at a bus station in the Yatir Forest area of southern Israel, according to the charges, and in 2021 he joined Mujahideen Brigades.
"The defendant contacted an operative in a terrorist organization, a resident of Gaza, [and] expressed his desire to support the Gaza Strip’s fight against Israel and enlist in a terrorist organization," the indictment read.
The indictment said Abu Alqian provided the terror group with information on military helicopter activity, IDF training in the area of his town, and photos of a military base and of Beersheba’s train station.
On May 22, Abu Alqian enlisted in the IDF and during the recruitment process, provided the Mujahideen Brigades operative with names, telephone numbers and photos of Bedouin soldiers serving in the military, the indictment read.
The Mujahideen Brigades is a relatively small armed faction in the Gaza Strip, and is somewhat allied with the coastal enclave’s rulers, Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,. The terror group fought alongside Hamas during last year’s 11-day war with Israel.
The charges against Abu Alqian carry a potential life sentence.
The Shin Bet said it and the Israel Police "take any involvement of Israeli citizens in terrorist activities very seriously, and will work to thwart any such activity in order to bring to justice those who seek to harm the security of the country’s citizens."
[IsraelTimes] The father of Shehadeh Abu Alqian, a 25-year-old Bedouin who was charged Thursday with joining the Israel Defense Forces in May as a spy on behalf of a Gazoo-based terror group, has said that if the allegations are true, his son should be punished.
Speaking to Channel 12 news, Abu Alqian’s father, Shahadeh, said he would "sign off" on his son’s punishment if the charges are proven true.
"I didn’t know about this but if my son did do it, he should be punished. I really hope they look into this and find out whether it’s true or not," he said in an interview with the TV network which aired Thursday evening.
"If let’s say, my son made a mistake, and did something stupid, he will receive the punishment, and I will even sign off on the punishment," he said.
"Anyone who acts against the State of Israel, and against the security [of Israel], doesn’t matter if it’s my son, my brother, anyone who does such difficult, dangerous [things], should receive a punishment," Shahadeh Abu Alqian said.
He continued: "I have nothing bad to say about Israel, it’s my country and it’s where I will die. My son enlisted [to the IDF] on his own accord. He wanted to live in dignity and to follow his heart."
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will visit the CIA Friday at a time when his administration’s support for Ukraine has pushed the work of the normally secretive intelligence agencies into the limelight.
Biden will commemorate the agency’s 75th anniversary since its founding after World War II. While at the agency’s headquarters in Virginia, Biden will meet with CIA officers who have worked on Ukraine to thank them for their work, according to a U.S. official who requested anonymity to discuss the plans.
Biden has established a more traditional relationship with the CIA and other agencies after former President Donald Trump repeatedly cast doubt on intelligence findings and attacked what he alleged was a "deep state" of opponents.
Still, there were tensions last year stemming from Afghanistan, with finger-pointing across the government during the fall of the American-backed government as the Taliban overran Kabul. Current and former intelligence officials worked frantically to evacuate Afghans who had helped the U.S. during the two-decade war.
Enthusiasm, Disillusionment, Panic and hysteria, Search for the guilty, Punishment of the innocent, Praise and honor for the nonparticipants
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] 1. Lisichansk-Sverodonetsk.
The regrouping of troops to the Seversko-Soledarsk and Artemovsk directions continues. There is a combing of the area, not all the lagging groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have yet been caught. The cities themselves are still being shelled by the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
2. Seversk.
Battles near Grigorovka and Verkhnekamensky. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have indicated their readiness to fight for Seversk and are not going to surrender the city without a fight.
At the same time, the RF Armed Forces are beginning to probe the chain of settlements between Seversk and Soledar for the possibility of bypassing Seversk from the south.
3. Artemovsk.
Fights in the Klinovoye area, as well as for Pokrovskoye.
The enemy is still holding Kodema and Semigorye.
4. Soledar.
Battles for Berestovoye and Belogorovka.
After the capture of the Disputable, one can expect a gradual "folding" of the front from the north towards Soledar.
5. Avdievka.
No significant changes. Positional battles near the Avdievka-Konstantinovka highway, there is no advance to Krasnohorivka.
Fighting on the outskirts of New York.
The enemy is intensively shelling Donetsk, Gorlovka, Yasinovataya, Makeyevka.
MLRS and OTRK strikes are underway at ammunition depots, fuel depots and locations of LDNR units deep in the territory of the DPR and LPR.
6. Ugledar.
After an unsuccessful offensive attempt by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the front in the area of Pavlovka, Shevchenko and Yegorovka stabilized, and the battles returned to the positional format.
In the area of Marinka and Novomikhailovka - no significant changes.
7. Slavyansk.
Battles at the Valley, Krasnopolye, Bogorodichny and Sidorov.
The front from the northwest is located 8-10 km from the outskirts of Slavyansk. The attacks of the RF Armed Forces on Slavyansk and Kramatorsk intensified.
8. Kharkov.
Positional battles to the north and north-west of the city in the area of the settlement. Udy, Tsupovka, Dementievka, Upper Passages, Upper Saltov.
There are regular strikes on targets in Kharkov, Chuguev and Zolochev. The enemy is waiting for the fresh units of the Russian Armed Forces to be brought into battle and their further advance to the northern outskirts of Kharkov. However, the assault on the city is not yet expected.
9. Nikolaev.
On the Nikolaev, Krivoy Rog and Nikopol directions - positional battles.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to gain a foothold in the area of the settlement. Potemkino and create the preconditions for further offensive actions.
The RF Armed Forces are actively striking targets in Nikolaev and in the Krivoy Rog region.
Despite all attempts, the AFU could not organize a significant attack on Kherson.
10. Odessa.
Against the backdrop of ongoing strikes on targets in the Odessa region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine held the expected photo shoot on about. Serpentine, received several blows on the landing and retreated. The island is still in the gray zone.
BLUF:
[ZERO] Our popular culture reflects this multifarious growing reluctance to raise children. And currently only 65% of children grow up in families with both parents.
The 2012 Obamacare ad, “The Life of Julia,” fixated on the new ideal American woman: a single parent of one child, unmarried, and utterly reliant on nearly 65 years of government support.
The 2013 follow-up bookend ad fetishized “Pajama Boy.” He was supposed to be a typical prolonged-adolescent, man-child — sitting at home in his child-like footie pajamas, sipping hot chocolate.
“Pajama Boy” was likely the sort that “Julia” had no intention of marrying.
There are historical downsides — economic, cultural, social, and military — to nations that shun child-raising.
They shrink in size, age, no longer believe in transcendence, become mostly agnostic or atheistic, and obsess on the self.
And sometimes they eventually become dysfunctional — and slowly disappear.
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Religious Christians and Jews and the wealthy — those with faith in the future and a desire to participate in its formation — are having three or more children. We’re in a Darwinian bottleneck, though the selection is between meme carriers, as it were, rather than gene carriers.
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Since the discovery of 'Rosie the Riveter' the gov't has encouraged two earner families. 'Replacement people' can always be brought in to prop up big gov't.
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The trolls like Zeihan. That's enough to keep me reading cop fiction.
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People who screech about problems but have no solutions are assholes. No matter how good their credentials.
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Example: I just sent DeSantis' handpicked candidate for state agriculture commissioner an email to ask if he would be more 2A friendly than the current dem Nikki Freid (he won't be.) At least I asked. And, no, I won't vote for him.
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Clap clap go the flip-flapping lids
Of biddies in bidness: It's SIDS,
That new Netflix thriller
On cute contract killers
Who knock off invisible kids!
[brat topples pudding onto old lefty's lap]
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My afternoon's fine. My arguments are sound. You are not a licensed therapist so let it go.
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Stuff I read, in certain books
Would make the world a perfect place
Except that other people
Just jamb those books back in my face...
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VDH's literal trade is making cultural moments and narrating a trend.
It is up to us to find solutions, solutions which are unique to us as individuals.
Someone whose kids are all grown up might do so by exposing the chin music their employer's HR Department is throwing. Mine is to make sure my kids don't fall for the largest propaganda machine ever assembled. VDH did his by breaking with National Review colleagues in that propaganda effort, which had to be ballsy.
We are our solution. He is identifying the problem for us to solve.
AFGHANISTAN ISLAMIC NATIONAL & LIBERATION MOVEMENT
This is believed to be the only major Pashtun anti-Taliban group. Led by Abdul Mateen Sulaimankhail, a former Afghan Army special forces commander, the group launched on February 16. Sulaimankhail has said he set up the group in response to the Taliban’s alleged killings of former military personnel, calling their amnesty a "lie."
In an April 13 interview with the Afghanistan International TV network, Sulaimankhail claimed his group was engaged in “military and political activities” in 26 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces, a claim questioned by researchers. Citing security reasons, he declined to say how many members his group has.
The group has claimed responsibility for attacks in its home base of Nangarhar and several other provinces, but it has offered little proof of the attacks, with videos posted on the group’s Facebook page showing armed masked men indoors vowing to fight the Taliban.
While the group’s recent claim of killing a Taliban commander in Helmand appears credible, Mills said its “actual capability seems to be limited.”
The ISKP’s numerous atrocities do not justify the Taliban’s horrific response. Taliban forces have repeatedly carried out summary executions and other war crimes against people in their custody and have yet to hold those responsible to account. https://t.co/YgOtMwjJt6
Taliban ...Arabic for students... security forces have summarily executed and forcibly disappeared alleged members and supporters of an 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.... offshoot in eastern Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch said today. Since the Taliban took power in August 2021, residents of Nangahar and Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... s east of Kabul have discovered the bodies of more than 100 men dumped in canals and other locations.
Taliban forces have carried out abusive search operations, including night raids, against residents they accuse of sheltering or supporting members of the Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP) gang, the Afghan affiliate of the Islamic State (ISIS). During these raids, Taliban forces have beaten residents and have detained men they accuse of being ISKP members without legal process or revealing their whereabouts to their families. An unknown number have been summarily executed — shot, hanged, or beheaded — or forcibly disappeared.
"We investigated an emptied canal in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. in which over 100 bodies have been dumped between August 2021 and April 2022," said Patricia Gossman, associate Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "Taliban authorities appear to have given their forces free rein to detain, ’disappear,’ and kill alleged krazed killers."
Between October 2021 and June 2022, Human Rights Watch, working with a local organization that cannot be identified for security reasons, interviewed 63 people, including 42 in person in Nangarhar and Kunar provinces, and 21 by phone.
In November, a team from both groups counted 54 bodies of men, many in an advanced state of decomposition, along a 15 to 20 kilometer stretch of the emptied canal. The bodies showed evidence of torture and brutal executions: some had missing limbs, ropes around their necks, or had been beheaded or had slit throats. Healthcare workers in Nangarhar said that they had registered 118 bodies that had been found across the province between August and December.
It was said in a recent national security meeting in Pakistan that there are approximately 30K TTP fighters. Previous estimates from UN were around 1500-3000. I don't know about the 30K figure but it's true that TTP strength has increased due to recent defections.
[Washington Examiner] Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter celebrated their 76th marriage anniversary on Thursday. They are the longest-married presidential couple in the history of the United States.
Wedded on July 7, 1946, the former president and first lady made plans to enjoy a quiet anniversary for their marriage that has lasted over three-quarters of a century. This follows a party in their hometown of Plains, Georgia, last year for their 75th anniversary that was attended by such political figures as former President Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Jimmy Carter is now 97, while his wife is 94 and has a birthday coming up next month. The former president was a 21-year-old U.S. Naval Academy graduate when he married Rosalynn Carter, who was 18 at the time. "The best thing I ever did was marrying Rosalynn," Jimmy Carter said in 2015. "That’s the pinnacle of my life."
[Dawn] At least 26 people were killed and 50 others injured when a powerful blast occurred near the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) office on Nisatta Road in Mardan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, on Tuesday.
The attack was claimed by Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP) splinter group Jamaatul Ahrar ...A Pak Taliban splinter group that split off from the Mullah Fazlullah faction because it wasn't violent enough... , which was also behind last year's deadly blast at Wagah Border.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... TTP central front man Mohammad Khorasani in a statement distanced his group from the Mardan attack, saying "we have nothing to do with blasts at public places," reported BBC Urdu.
The explosion destroyed the front entrance of a regional branch of Nadra.
"At least 26 people have been killed and more than 50 injured," said provincial information minister Mushtaq Ghani. "[The] condition of 11 of them is still critical," Ghani added.
The blast took place at a time when the office was crowded with people lining up to make applications for National Identity Cards (NIC).
'SUICIDE ATTACK'
Deputy Inspector General Mardan Division Saeed Wazir told DawnNews the blast was a "suicide kaboom carried out by a bomber".
The DIG added that a security guard posted at the office stopped the bomber at the gate, after which he detonated his boom jacket. The suicide attacker was on a cycle of violence and rammed it into the gate after being denied entry, he said.
Conflicting reports suggest that explosives may have been planted on a cycle of violence parked near the Nadra office.
District police chief Faisal Shahzad said the jacket wallah was riding a motorbike. "Apparently the target was the queue as there were around 400 people standing there," Faisal said.
Some of those critically maimed were taken to the main Lady Reading Hospital in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... city.
POWERFUL EXPLOSION
Officials of the Bomb Disposal Unit that reached the scene of the earth-shattering kaboom said around 8 to 10 kg of kaboom was used in the attack.
According to initial reports, the powerful blast took place near the gate of the office and damaged doors and windows in the building. At least 40 people are said to be injured, with some at death's door.
Human body remains were strewn across the blast site.
The area was cordoned off as rescue and security sources rushed to the site. The injured were shifted to Mardan Medical Complex, while an emergency was declared at all medical facilities in the area.
The office is located on the link road that connects Charsadda to Mardan. Mardan is situated in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, which has seen several terrorist attacks over the past several years — many of them targeting security officials.
SEARCH AND STRIKE OPERATION
Earlier in December, a search and strike operation was launched in Mardan, resulting in the arrest of about 327 suspected persons, including 16 illegally staying Afghan nationals, and persons involved in various crimes.
Mardan District Police Officer Faisal Shehzad, talking to media persons, had disclosed that the search and strike operation was carried out in Par Hoti, Bashkhali, Gujraat, Iranabad, Chora, Bhaijan, Surakh Dheray, Katakhet, Barikab, Galyara and localities adjoining the city.
He said they had also established checkposts jointly manned by police and army personnel at different points of the district and around 500 vehicles were searched with the purpose to take suspected passengers into custody if there were any inside those vehicles.
[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Finance (MoF) said it has collected more than 24 billion Afs in revenue from customs offices within the first three months of the fiscal year — a promising figure for a country that has been suffering from financial loose since the fall last August.
The ongoing political crisis has "hit hard" private sectors in Afghanistan, where businesses were halted and put to uncertainty, according to a latest survey conducted by the World Bank, private companies have laid off more than a half of their employees on average.
"Approximately, so far, more than 24.16 billion Afs has been made in revenue," said Ahmad Wali Haqmal, a front man for the MoF, as TOLOnews quoted. "This is good revenue compared to the previous years."
The Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Investment (ACCI) said that the exports and imports have had a positive impact on this year’s revenue, adding the surge in exports of coal caused the rise in the country’s annual revenue.
"The previous year’s first period (three months), the exports were worth nearly $200 million, and it is now more than $400 million," said Khanjan Alokozai, a member of the ACCI. "Last year, we had one billion dollars in exports and this year I hope it increases to one and half billion dollars.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea, one that didn't involve kerosene... Afghan economist expressed joy over the increased revenue, saying such a progress is promising and it could help the country improve its economy amid ongoing concerns about poverty across Afghanistan.
"The exports caused an increase in investment and it helps to develop of the country’s economic status," said Seyar Qureshi, an economist, as local media quoted.
Based on the available numbers of the MoE, more than five billion Afs from Islam Qala port, 3.5 billon Afs from Torkham crossing, nearly three billon Afs from Spin Boldak were made in revenue for the government within the first three months of the fiscal year, according to the report.
Pakistan has huge coal deposits. It doesn't need to buy coal from Afghanistan. The only reason this is being done is to make Taliban happy so they might not give tough time to Pakistan at the border and with TTP. That's the only real story here. https://t.co/ztY7vNs5d3
[KhaamaPress] The National Resistance® Front of Afghanistan (NRF),
...the necessary reincarnation of the primarily Tajik Northern Alliance that drove back the Taliban a generation ago, based in the Panjshir Valley...
headed by Ahmad Massoud,
...son of the late Northern Alliance commander Ahmad Shah Massoud...
will reportedly meet with Taliban ...Arabic for students... leaders in Dushanbe, according to Sputnik Tajikistan.
The date of the conference is currently undetermined, but it is planned to invite 50 participants to attend, including representatives from political parties, intellectuals, prominent people, and others.
According to Sputnik Tajikistan, citing a source within the National Resistance® Front of Afghanistan, the purpose of the conference is to seek a political solution to the current crisis and to build an inclusive government that includes all political factions in Afghanistan.
The Afghan Embassy in Dushanbe—the embassy of the former Afghan government—has been cited by the media as the source of this information’s veracity.
They claimed that neither official bodies nor National Resistance® Front representatives had informed them of such information; hence they did not have such information.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... met with Ahmad Massoud on his visit to Tajikistan and was interested in Massoud’s vision of the circumstances in Afghanistan, according to Asia Plus News, citing reliable sources.
The National Resistance® Front of Afghanistan (NRF), often referred to as the Second Resistance®, is an anti-Taliban military alliance largely composed of members of the Northern Alliance and other fighters who are faithful to the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan.
News reports suggest that the NRF led by Ahmad Massoud is determined to hold a meeting in #Tajikistan with the presence of #Taliban representatives. The exact date of this meeting has not been determined; but it has been said that representatives of political parties... pic.twitter.com/mc9mJ8CMNJ
[ToloNews] The Ministry of Vice and Virtue at a presser said that the ministry has received 214 complaints in the month of June.
Akif Mahajir, the front man of this ministry, said that all these complaints have been addressed.
"The ministry received 214 complaints during the month of June, of which 12 petitions were linked to prisoners, 5 petitions were related to the seizure of houses, and the other 6 petitions were related to the seizing of cars. All of them have been addressed," said Akif Mahajir, the ministry's spokesperson.
According to the front man of the ministry, the orders of the Islamic Emirate are recommendations for the people but are mandatory for the members of the Islamic Emirate.
"At the Ministry of Vice and Virtue we behave with people as gently as possible, but we behave seriously with the members of the Islamic Emirate and the military, because with the reform of the system, the society will also be reformed," Mahajir added.
Mawlawi Abdurrahman Mounir, a deputy in the Ministry of Vice and Virtue's complaints department, said that the ministry's activities are focused on the military, civilians and complaint processing, and about 8,000 people are employed across the country.
Good to know.
"Our policy is that it belongs to the civilian, we conduct this process very properly and softly, and nobody has been harassed or treated brutally, and God willing, no one will present such an example, but the activities of the previous government do not belong to us," he stated.
Officials of this Ministry of Vice and Virtue added that men and women can go to recreation cites separately and women must observe the Islamic hijab defined by the Islamic Emirate.
[KhaamaPress] In a letter to Congress dated July 6th, US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. The guy who single-handedly lost Afghanistan... stated that he officially intended to revoke Afghanistan’s designation as a major non-NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... ally.
"In accordance with section 517 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (22 U.S.C. 2321k), I am providing notice of my intent to rescind the designation of Afghanistan as a Major Non‑NATO Ally," president Biden wrote to House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... The United States designated Afghanistan as a major non-NATO ally in 2012, paving the groundwork for the two nations to continue their defense and economic ties.
As a non-NATO ally, there is no mutual defense guarantee, in contrast to the NATO allies of the US, who are tied together by a joint defense agreement.
Afghanistan’s ally status has allowed for expedited sales and leases of military equipment even after NATO forces had left, as well as eligibility for military training and assistance.
Nearly a year has passed since the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan, which the United States had supported, was tossed by Taliban ...Arabic for students... forces in Kabul, which prompted the Defense and State Departments under Biden’s administration to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan.
[KhaamaPress] According to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... officials, the event in 315 of Khair Khana neighborhood in northwestern Kabul, on Wednesday night, July 6, was an operation by the group’s forces against a group of "criminals".
Although, local sources in Kabul reported that there had been a kaboom and armed skirmishes in Khair Khana area of Kabul, which was sparked by the launch of three rockets by gunnies to a Taliban post.
Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesperson for the Taliban, however, wrote on his Twitter handle that "the operation against the Kharijites
...a Third Caliph insult that basically means Moslems we don’t like...
hideout ended with the death of two people and the capture of four others."
Earlier, several media outlets said, citing unnamed sources, that the Taliban were confronting ISIS radical Islamists in Khair Khana neighborhood and that they were surrounding the entire 315 area.
To be fair, we call ISIS nasty names, too.
Nonetheless, the spokesperson for the Taliban mentions nothing close to that, saying "weapons and other means of destruction were destroyed and obtained," calling those in battle "Kharijites" and "professional criminals".
Previously, media outlets also reported on the arrest of 60 people by Taliban forces in Khair Khana neighborhood in Kabul.
[revolver] If one takes the ideologues who rule over America at their word, then the governing principles of this country’s reigning regime are things like fairness, equality, diversity, or "anti-racism."
But of course, anybody with a brain today isn’t taking America’s rulers at their word. It is obvious, and has been for many years now, that there is no spirit of "fairness" or "anti-racism" in the heart of their ideology. Instead, the spirit at the heart of America’s leadership is bitter, envious, resentful, hateful.
Who is it hateful toward? You know who. The modern American regime is built on explicit, institutionalized hostility to the people who most resemble the great Americans of the past. It is anti-white, anti-male, anti-Christian, anti-rural, and anti-middle class. The more of these traits a person has, the more worthy of hate they become. The more the Globalist American Empire decays and squanders the inheritance it was given, the more bile and hatred it directs against those who symbolize what came before.
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[Military] Some 40,000 National Guard and 22,000 Reserve soldiers who refused to be vaccinated against COVID-19 are no longer allowed to participate in their military duties, also effectively cutting them off from some of their military benefits, Army officials announced Friday.
"Soldiers who refuse the vaccination order without an approved or pending exemption request are subject to adverse administrative actions, including flags, bars to service, and official reprimands," an Army spokesperson said in a statement.
The move comes in the midst of the annual training season, during which part-time soldiers are often ordered to serve from two weeks to a month with their units for summer training exercises. Those training events are usually critical for soldiers to sharpen their military skills and for unit commanders to ensure their formations are ready to deploy if needed.
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NOTE: Can them for NOT taking a VACCINE the even CDC and other Medical Establishments agree is NO LONGER effective against the new C-19/22 Omnicom B4/B5 Variants.
Yep! The DOD/Fed's and WH sure are following the "science".
#5
Biden and his socialist cadre will likely declare a Federal military zone (US Border FEMA Region) and prevent State law enforcement or National Guard from entering.
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Need a Constitutional Amendment: "Any gummint entity that does any harm to the citizens of the US will be disbanded, its employees barred from future federal employment and its head subjected to capital punishment."
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...This is going to render some Guard units NMC for the foreseeable future. Hopefully nothing happens till then that we might need them.
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It is the equivalent of what they did to pilots. The result is not enough pilots. A portion of the pilots that took the vaccine can no longer fly. It is a brilliant plan only if your goal is to weaken the military.
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Give everyone who took the vaccine disability. Charge it to the dumbocrap party.
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Then China jumps up and calls for the death of anybody who doesn't support reunification of Taiwan and China saying this should be an example for those people.
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Single use, you don't have to get fancy. Re-usable, you need to be a bit more elaborate. The one in the video from Japan went off like an elephant gun. I'm guessing it was a hand-load.
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As of a few minutes ago, the President of the United States has yet to say a single goddamned word about this.
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Yes. There's this notion Japan is antiseptic. It's not like that at all...
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3D printed parts, some tape and slapdash machined barrels. Double barrels came off in the melee. Gun could be assembled and disassembled for easy access. All I got.
Yamagami had been working for the Maritime Self-Defense Force for three years until around 2005.
The other posted article now has close-up photos of gun: two plumbing pipes thoroughly duct-taped to a length of 1x4” wood, attached to what I believe is a one-point sling. The pipes appear capped at the back end.
Donald Trump tweeted about the shooting shortly after midnight, apparently. Ditto Mike Pence, who added prayers and a nice photo of him speaking with Shinzo Abe.
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Abe retired a few years ago. Why shoot him now?
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Abe Shinzo Spent His Last Days Advocating for Defending Taiwan from a Belligerent China
Breitbart Headline. He was campaigning for Taiwan Defense and Military Buildup - the reach of the CCP cannot be overstated, althought often unseen or through cut-outs.
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Nothing is impossible. But a pro-china japanese is very unlikely...
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False flags and cut outs my friend. I recall a case of the recruitment of an American to unknowingly spy for the Soviet Union by an initial recruitment meeting staged in the cafeteria of the CIA back when access to the building was less controlled.
[DW] The rebel group called the de-escalation deal between DRC and Rwanda "irrelevant" amid new festivities with Congo’s military. M23 also said it would only negotiate with Kinshasa.
Clashes broke out in Eastern Congo on Thursday between the military and M23
... also known as the Congolese Revolutionary Army, the Tutsi group was founded in 2012 as a sock puppet of Rwanda, which no doubt seemed a good idea at the time. But in less than a year the Congolese army defeated them, and then Rwanda publicly stepped back in response to international pressure. Recently M23 has started acting up again, possibly again at Rwandan instigation...
after the rebel group said that a ceasefire deal signed the previous day was "irrelevant."
"We are Congolese, not Rwandan," he said M23 spokesperson Willy Ngoma. "If there's a cease-fire, it can only be between us and the Congolese government."
The Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... and Rwanda agreed to a "de-escalation process" to curb the fighting and violence along their shared eastern border on Wednesday. The agreement included a withdrawal of M23 fighters from Congo.
"Only the M23 can sign the cease-fire with the government," Ngoma added.
New festivities broke out after Congolese groups attacked M23's position around Kanyabusoro, according to the front man. Residents in the area were forced to flee their homes.
Congo on Wednesday agreed to a six-goal plan for de-escalating violence, AFP reported. Other measures involved setting up a joint DRC-Rwanda committee.
A 'ROADMAP' TO RESTORE DIPLOMATIC TIES
AFP specified some goals of the roadmap, with one of them being: "Defeat FDLR and its splinter groups which are at the origin of tensions between Rwanda and DRC and play a major role in the insecurity of the DRC in order to ensure that the threat to security ceases completely."
The Congolese presidency asked that the M23 cease hostilities under the roadmap, saying the "exploitation of natural resources in the region must be done in strict respect of the illusory sovereignty of states," AFP reported as being another goal.
TENSIONS BETWEEN DRC AND RWANDA
Tensions especially flared in March 2022 in eastern DRC after M23 rebels, after a decade of relative calm, attacked Congolese army positions near the border between Uganda and Rwanda.
Congo saw people fleeing to its towns for safety, with the government in Kinshasa blaming Rwanda for aiding M23 rebels, a largely ethnic Tutsi group that accuses the Congolese government of not incorporating more fighters in the Congolese army as part of a 2009 agreement.
Tensions kept rising as M23 rebels kept up their offensive in weeks that followed, either encircling key cities like the thriving provincial capital Goma or capturing strategic towns like Bunagana on the Congolese-Uganda border.
Rwanda has denied claims of aiding M23 rebels and has accused Congo's army of fighting alongside the FDLR, an gang mainly comprised of ethnic Hutus who fled Rwanda after the 1994 genocide.
In May, Congo suspended RwandAir flights and summoned Rwanda's ambassador to express disapproval. At the end of May, Rwanda's foreign minister told news hounds it would "not sit idly by" if attacks continued along the border.
At the end of June, the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Security Council also released a statement and said that the alarming resurgence of gangs was "threatening the security and stability of the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo."
The Democratic Republic of Congo accuses Rwanda of backing the rebel group M23. According to the DRC's government, Rwanda is seeking to cause instability to be able to exploit the region's mineral riches. DW went to Goma, North Kivu, to find out more.
[Rudaw] As the U.N. Security Council prepares to vote Thursday on humanitarian aid deliveries to rebel-held northwest Syria from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... , Russia agreed to continue such deliveries but only for six months - not a year, as many U.N. Security Council members, Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... and more than 30 nongovernmental groups want.
Russia proposed amendments to a draft resolution by Ireland and Norway reducing their year-long time frame for deliveries. Council diplomats said consultations were continuing late Wednesday to see if a compromise could be reached.
The Security Council scheduled a vote for Thursday morning. If no compromise appeared, the draft resolution by Ireland and Norway to extend cross-border deliveries for 12 months would be voted on first. If it failed to get nine votes, or was vetoed by Russia, the Russian resolution with a six-month extension would then be put to a vote.
In early July 2020, China and Russia vetoed a U.N. resolution that would have maintained two border crossing points from Turkey to deliver humanitarian aid to Idlib. Days later, the council authorized the delivery of aid through just one of those crossings, Bab al-Hawa. That one-year mandate was extended for a year on July 9, 2021, and expires this Sunday.
The Russian proposal called for increased efforts to ensure "full, safe and unhindered" deliveries of humanitarian assistance across conflict lines within Syria, according to the Russian draft obtained Wednesday by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
It also would authorize the establishment of "a special working group" comprising concerned council members, major donors, interested regional parties and representatives of international humanitarian agencies "in order to regularly review and follow-up on the implementation of this resolution."
Neither of those proposals were in the Ireland-Norway draft resolution.
Northwest Idlib is the last rebel-held bastion in Syria and al Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... is the strongest holy warrior group in the region. The U.N. said last week that the first 10 years of the Syrian conflict, which started in 2011, killed more than 300,000 civilians -- the highest official estimate of civilian casualties.
In a letter to Security Council ambassadors obtained Wednesday by the AP, former International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo warned that by approving cross-border deliveries to northwest Syria, council members "could find themselves materially supporting a U.N.-designated terrorist organization."
He said northwest Syria "is controlled by Al-Nusra, a U.N. designated terrorist organization affiliated with al Qaeda and currently called Hayat Tahrir al-Sham."
Any support to a "terrorist organization, including humanitarian assistance," is prohibited by previous U.N. Security Council resolutions, Ocampo said.
To avoid a "flagrant violation" of its resolutions, he said the Security Council should have the operation monitoring cross-border deliveries confirm that the al Qaeda-linked groups "are not involved in implementing humanitarian aid" or remove Al-Nusra-Hayat Tahrir al-Sham from the "terrorist" list.
[Garowe] Somali National Army (SNA) said its forces arrested five al-Shabaab ...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... murderous Moslems during security operations conducted in the outskirts of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, Wednesday.
The SNA commanders who led the operations told the SNA Radio that the turbans were involved in staging liquidations and bombings in Deynile, Kahda, Elasha Biya, and Garasbaaley.
"The security operations to pursue al-Shabaab murderous Moslems will continue in Banadir region to ensure Mogadishu city can be safe," the military radio reported.
The arrests come a day after President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud ruled out negotiating with the terrorist group and vowed instead to pursue the military strategy to flush out the turbans in Somalia.
The government forces which have intensified security operations across the country since early this year have pledged to sustain the onslaught against the bad boy group until their fighters are subdued.
The al-Shabaab terrorist group which still controls some parts of rural southern and central Somalia, however, continues to carry out high-profile attacks in Mogadishu and elsewhere across the country.
[Rudaw] The Kurdistan Region has pocketed over three billion dollars in the first three months of 2022 from oil revenue, according to the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) media and information department, reaching a net income of over one billion dollars.
The data from the KRG stated that the Region had exported over 34.3 million barrels of oil since the start of the year, at the average price of 85.4 dollars per barrel.
The total revenue for the first three months of 2022 was estimated to be over three billion dollars, while the net income, following the repayment of debts to oil companies, operation costs, and pipeline costs, was placed at over 1.3 billion dollars.
The KRG exported a total of nearly 80 million barrels of crude oil in the first half of 2021, collecting a net $1.7 billion, from a total revenue of 4.1 billion dollars.
Iraq’s oil ministry claimed on Monday that US energy giants Schlumberger, Baker Hughes, and Halliburton had informed them of their decision to stop tendering for projects in the Kurdistan Region, adding that this comes in compliance with the Iraqi top court’s decision to outlaw the Region’s oil and gas law. It is unclear what effect this will have on the Region’s future revenue.
The Iraqi Federal Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... in February found the Kurdistan Region’s oil and gas law to be "unconstitutional," therefore striking down the legal basis for the independence of the Region’s oil and gas sector. The KRG responded to the decision, saying that the court’s ruling is not only "unconstitutional" but also "unjust."
According to the KRG’s annual report audited by Deloitte,
...a nice touch — very professional...
over 152 million barrels of oil were exported throughout 2021 via the Kurdistan Export Pipeline. Sold at an average $59.459 per barrel, the Region’s oil made a revenue of nine billion dollars, with a net income of 3.965 billion dollars.
[Garowe] al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... is financing other Death Eater groups across Africa, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has revealed, in what could trigger coordinated crackdown against the turbans within the Horn of Africa nation, which is battling with instability.
The group, which has been earmarked as one of the most dangerous terrorist organization with links to al-Qaeda, controls huge swathes of rural central and southern Somalia, and had vowed to topple the UN-backed government, which is yet exposed to fragility.
At Ankara in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... while visiting Somalia soldiers training in the country, the Somali president alleged that al-Shabaab has been financing other terrorist groups in Mozambique and Nigeria, where the turbans have been killing thousands of people.
Although President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud did not name the specific groups, in Mozambique, a terror group called al-Shabaab controls parts of Cabo Delgado province in the north where thousands of people have been killed or subjected to forced displacement.
There is, however, no evidence linking the group in Mozambique to al-Shabaab turbans in Somalia. The African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... has dispatched security personnel, especially from Rwanda to the province where they are expected to assist local security forces in degrading the group.
In Nigeria, Boko Harum terror group has also been targeting security forces and innocent civilians but there is no evidence of close cooperation with al-Shabaab. The Somalia president did not give concrete evidence either in his speech.
The president further said the money collected by al-Shabaab also finances parent group al-Qaeda which has roots in Middle East and North Africa. He vowed to ensure the sources of revenue collected by the group are completely sealed by the government.
"We have evidence that the money collected by al-Shabaab is used in financing terror groups in Mozambique and Nigeria with some going to al-Qaeda," said the president. "We’ll shut down these revenue streams."
The president hailed the soldiers for their "patriotism" and urged them to focus on helping the country gain stability. He also thanked Turkey, which trains both Gorgor Special Forces and Haramacad coppers, noting that their support is invaluable to the Horn of Africa nation.
"We thank you for this patriotism of standing with our beloved country. You have indeed made us proud," he said. "To our partners Turkey, we are extremely happy for this support which we can't take for granted. This indeed demonstrates a good relationship existing amongst us."
Ottoman Turkish President Recep T. Erdogan who pledged continued strategic partnership with Somalia revealed that so far, Ankara has trained over 5,000 Gorgor special forces and over 1000 coppers. He vowed to continue helping Somalia in state-building.
A report published by the United States African Command showed that al-Shabaab is the most funded al-Qaeda partner in Africa, terming it "strategic and dangerous". Recently, Washington authorized the redeployment of over 500 US troops to the country, a year after unprecedented withdrawal.
The Heritage Institute of Policy Studies, a Mogadishu-based Think Tank, also revealed that al-Shabaab operates with an annual budget of $100 million. Of this budget, the report added, al-Shabaab sets aside over $24 million for the purchase of weapons mainly from 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... Hassan Sheikh Mohamud hinted at possible negotiation with al-Shabaab but maintained the country is currently determined to degrade the group through military and economic sabotage. There are close to 22,000 African Union Transition Mission [ATMIS] troops in the country.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:27 Ukrainian nationalists mined an orphanage in Slovyansk and plan to blow it up to accuse Russian troops of strikes on civilian targets - Russian Defense Ministry. According to these data, the staff of the orphanage is forcibly kept in the building. In addition, the Armed Forces of Ukraine use a multi-storey residential building in Avdiivka and educational institutions in Zaporozhye and Zmiev to accommodate weapons and equipment for firing positions, the report said. 21:08 As a result of today's shelling of the AFU in the Donetsk People's Republic, the number of wounded has increased to 11 people, another one civilian has died.
21:04 As a result of the shelling of the VFU in Oleksandrivka, a woman was wounded, who lives on the street. Kirov.
20:35 Putin supported the idea of equating the military personnel of the DPR and LPR with the Russian military. The breakaway republics' troops can be considered on their best days as militia.
19:40 AFU continues shelling of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk
Ukrainian militants from positions in Pervomaisky continue to deliver artillery strikes on the Petrovsky district of the city using NATO 155mm caliber.
18:42 Lisichansk, liberated from the occupation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, returns to peacefullife. Residents are finally coming out of the basements where they have been hiding from the Ukrainian army for the past four months, talking about the shelling and robberies of the UAF militants.
18:40 "Russia will help Donbass so that people there can live in good conditions," said President Vladimir Putin.
18:20 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC, additional information was received about a civilian injured as a result of shelling of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:
Donetsk, Petrovsky district:
- a man born in 1952 was wounded.
Additional information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk, Petrovsky district:
- st. Stakhanov, 1, 4 - multi-apartment residential buildings.
Today, as of 18:00, the enemy fired 229 ammunition of various types, including the BM-21 Grad MLRS, as well as artillery ammunition with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm.
18:13 In the Rutchenkovo microdistrict of the Kirovsky district, the arrival of VFU shells to the service of the Way of the municipal unitary enterprise of the administration of Donetsk "DEAT" was recorded, which caused a fire in the backyard. Information about the destruction and casualties is being specified.
17:50 In the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, the number of wounded has increased to four people, another civilian died as a result of the shelling of the VFU.
17:31 Isolation and genocide were in Donbass in relation to people from Ukraine - Putin.
17:15 In the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, the number of wounded has increased to four people, another civilian died as a result of the shelling of the VFU.
17:05 In the Rutchenkovo microdistrict of the Kirovsky district, the arrival of VFU shells to the service of the Way of the municipal unitary enterprise of the administration of Donetsk "DEAT" was recorded, which caused a fire in the backyard. Information about the destruction and casualties is being specified.
15:53 According to updated information, as a result of the morning shelling of the Petrovsky district, a woman born in 1993 died from her injuries. Death occurred before the arrival of the ambulance - A. Kulemzin.
15:27 Additional (https://t.me/DNR_SCKK/9304) information was received through the operational lines of the DPR JCCC about civilians injured as a result of shelling of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:
Donetsk, Petrovsky district:
- injured: teenage boy born in 2007, woman born in 1976. and a man born in 1953
n.p. Mineral:
- wounded: man (personal data is being established).
- Wounded man 1997 - Electrician KP "Water Donbass".
n.p. Alexandrovka:
- st. Lenina, 180 - a private residential building.
As of today, as of 15:15, the enemy fired 144 ammunition of various types, including the BM-21 Grad MLRS, as well as artillery ammunition with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm.
14:27 Effects of shelling from the VFU of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, as a result of which a civilian was killed.
13:53 Since March 1, 2022, Russian rescuers have sent 483 motorcades to the territory of the DPR, LPR and Ukraine. Residents were delivered 36,700 tons of humanitarian cargo. The cargo includes bottled water, food, medicines and building materials for the restoration of infrastructure.
13:42 A spontaneous memorial has appeared in Makiivka in memory of the children who died on July 6 due to shelling from the AFU.
13:30 According to updated information, as a result of the morning shelling of the Petrovsky district, housing construction was damaged:
- st. Stakhanov, 14a - the glazing is damaged;
- st. Stakhanov, 22, 6, 18, 12 - damaged glazing and roofing.
13:20 Pushilin released all mobilized students from paying tuition fees at universities and professional educational organizations.
13:05 The Federation Council will consider the issue of joining the DPR and LPR to Russia if the relevant referendums are held - Matvienko.
13:02 In the Kuibyshev district, an arrival at an apartment building was recorded at the address: st. Tumanyan, 17. Broken roof of the building. Details of other damage and casualties are being specified.
13:00 Operational lines of the DPR JCCC received information about the death of a civilian - a woman born in 1993. as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk at the address: st. Stakhanov, 14.
Additional information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk, Kuibyshevsky district:
- st. Tumanyan, 8 - GBU "TsPMSP No. 8 of Donetsk;
- st. Tumanyan, 17 - apartment building;
- st. Tumanyan, 18 "a" - MDOU "Kindergarten No. 221 of the city of Donetsk".
12:35 As a result of shelling of the VFU in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, a woman died and a civilian was injured.
12:34 As a result of shelling of the VFU in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, 1,600 household subscribers were de-energized.
12:33 VFU attacked a hospital and a kindergarten in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk
As a result of the shelling, the buildings of hospital No. 19 and kindergarten No. 221 on the street were damaged. Tumanyan.
12:32 In the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, a fire at an oil depot has been eliminated. At 18:27, line 101 of the operational dispatch service of the State Border Guard Service of Donetsk received a message that an explosive object had hit the territory of the enterprise next to a tank for storing oil products, resulting in a diesel fuel spill followed by fire.
It was impossible to extinguish the fire upon the arrival of the units due to shelling, but the rescuers liquidated it as soon as possible. The fire destroyed the diesel fuel in the embankment and the tank on an area of 400 sq. m. There are no dead or injured.
11:51 The head of the administration of Donetsk Alexei Kulemzin reports: As a result of the shelling of the Kuibyshevsky district, six substations have been de-energized and 1,600 subscribers of the Oktyabrsky RES remain without electricity.
11:35 Additional information was received through the operational lines of the DPR JCCC about the wounding of a civilian - a man born in 1978. as a result of yesterday's shelling of the VFU of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. Information was received about damage as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Gorlovka:
- 22 cars damaged;
— the infrastructure of boiler house No. 122 of Donbassteploenergo was damaged;
- st. Izotova, 1 - hostel of the Motor Transport College;
- st. Internatsionalnaya, 12 "a" - shop "Furniture City";
- st. Petrovsky, 10 - a private residential building;
- the railroad switch in the area of the railway station "Gorlovka" was damaged.
Donetsk, Petrovsky district:
— without power supply 2,300 subscribers n.p. Aleksandrovka and the village of Kremenets;
- st. Rodnikovaya, 1 "a" - Republican rehabilitation center.
11:17 As a result of the shelling of the Petrovsky district, 2,300 subscribers of the village of Aleksandrovka and the village remain without power. Kremenets.
11:02 The Ukrainian army struck at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk.
10:51 According to the official data of the DPR JCCC since the beginning of the escalation * as of 10:30 07/07/22
During the 141 days of the escalation, 232 civilians were killed, incl. 16 children.
Complete data on the dead civilians in the territory liberated during the NWO are being established.
On the territory within the borders before the start of the NMD, 1,063 civilians received injuries of varying severity, incl. 86 children.
In the territory liberated during the NMD, 1,474 civilians were injured, incl. 83 children.
Total: 2,535 including children - 169.
Damage:
— 5248 residential buildings;
— 1154 civil infrastructure facility, incl. 66 medical institutions, 219 educational institutions, 420 social security facilities, 32 critical infrastructure facilities, 417 electricity, water and gas supply facilities. VFU is under attackKirovskyandKuibyshevskydistricts of Donetsk,KhartsyzskandMakeevka.
- 634 vehicles.
At the moment, it is impossible to establish for certain the data on damage and destruction of residential housing constructions and civil infrastructure facilities in the territory liberated during the NWO.
During the 141 days of the escalation of the JCCC of the DPR, 5,445 facts of firing were recorded, of which 5,117 were using heavy weapons.
In total, the enemy fired 46,064 ammunition of various calibers, including 31 rockets from OTRK "Tochka-U", 14 MLRS missiles BM-30 "Smerch", 133 MLRS missilesBM-27 "Hurricane" and 8,228 MLRS missiles BM-21 "Grad".
09:45 On the issue of restoring housing damaged as a result of shelling, you need to contact the local administration. Based on the application of the homeowner, a special commission conducts an examination of the damage. After the conclusion of the commission, the object is included either in the restoration program or the construction of a new one, the Ministry of Construction explained.
09:19 Combat work of crews of Grad multiple launch rocket systems.Battery received data from artillery reconnaissance and unmanned aerial vehicle crews, advanced, took up positions and struck at the identified firing positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
09:17 With an accurate blow, the artillerymen destroyed the Czech self-propelled howitzer "Dana-M2" in the Seversk region.
09:03 During the day, as a result of shelling in the DPR, seven people were killed, 30 more were injured.
09:00 Tula doctors do not leave their own and go to where they are needed. — in Mariupol. The medical team will bring more than 80 types of medicines.
08:53 According to updated information, as a result of yesterday's shelling of the Kirovsky district, people were injured:
- a man born in 1957 (Semashko Ave., 18) - shrapnel wound to the right leg, sent to hospital No. 24;
- woman born in 1993 (pr. Semashko, 20) - incised wounds of the knee joints;
- girl born in 2008 (St. Ilovaiskaya, 7) - thermal burns of the left thigh, sent to hospital No. 24.
Enemy shells caused destruction at the following addresses:
- st. Kirova, 266 - the wall of the garage, the glazing of the windows, the roof of the house were damaged;
- st. Kirova, 341a - getting into the gas distribution point, without gas supply to 155 private sector subscribers;
— Semashko Ave., 19 (the building of the education department of the administration of the Kirovsky district) – the glazing was damaged;
— Semashko Ave., 34a (school No. 78) — the glazing of 18 window blocks was damaged;
— Semashko Ave., 30 – the glazing was damaged;
- st. Oil, 25, 30, 30a - the glazing is damaged;
- st. Ilovayskaya, 6 - the glazing is damaged.
08:44 Over the past 24 hours, from 08:00 on July 6 to 08:00 on July 7, three children were killed and eight more children were injured as a result of the shelling of the VFU in the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic.
08:23 From 0500 hrs in the morning, Kyiv again inflicted massive strikes on the center of Gorlovka. Numerous damage to civilian infrastructure, fires due to arrivals.
08:08 As a result of the shelling of the Central City district of Horlivka from the side of the VFU along Petrovsky Street, 2, cars are on fire in the parking lot of the Internal Affairs Directorate. According to preliminary information, the building was not damaged, there were no casualties.
08:03 Syria has given preliminary consent to participate in the international tribunal for war criminals in the DPR. This was reported to the TASS agency by the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the republic.
[NYPOST] In what he called an “unprecedented action” made necessary because “President Biden refuses to do his job,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too... has issued an executive order authorizing his state’s National Guard and the Texas Department of Public Safety to arrest immigrants who illegally cross the border between ports of entry and return them to Mexico.
“While President Biden refuses to do his job and enforce the immigration laws enacted by Congress, the State of Texas is once again stepping up and taking unprecedented action to protect Americans and secure our southern border,” Abbott said in a press release Thursday announcing the zero-tolerance policy.
Only the federal government is legally authorized to enforce immigration law. As legal justification, Abbott cites Article IV, § 4 of the US Constitution.
“‘[T]he United States … shall protect each [State in this Union] against Invasion,’ and thus has forced the State of Texas to build a border wall, deploy state military forces, and enter into agreements as described in Article I, § 10 of the U.S. Constitution to secure the State of Texas and repel the illegal immigration that funds the cartels.”
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National Guard.
JB controllers could just issue a WH order telling the "National" Guard to stand down.
Hence, why several States are exploring restarting and funding State controlled Guards.
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Biden and his socialist cadre will likely declare a Federal military zone (US Border FEMA Region) and prevent State law enforcement or National Guard from entering.
I suspect Abbott knows bad things are in store, possibly the reason he has not taken this action previously. The Federal government cannot stand by and let this happen. Could be some rough sledding ahead for America.
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"In addition, no state, without the approval of both houses of Congress, may collect taxes on imports or exports, raise an army or harbor warships in times of peace, nor otherwise declare or engage in war unless invaded or in imminent danger."
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GOPe want's open borders more than Joe does.
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The solution to America's border problems: Recognize other countries' problems and refuse to import them. Accept that we cannot solve their problems by making them our problems too.
People who cannot speak English and have a third-grade education are not the next Einstein or Elon Musk. Accept that.
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Texas has a State Guard that does not answer to the Feds. Has had that for quite some time, dating back to the militia days, officially existing as it is now since 1943. Tasked with border security and internal security and natural disaster assistance, as well as supporting the Army and Airforce national guard units. Has coastal and riverine Naval/Patrol elements, Air elements, logistics elements, and medical elements. Part of the Texas Military Department, Commanded by the Adjutant General of Texas, who reports to the Governor. 4 brigades and a HQ.
*sigh* Can it be followed by another meeting on neo-Communism in Russia? It would be just as accurate.
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[REGNUM] Russia initiated a meeting of the UN Security Council (SC) to highlight the problem of Nazism in Ukraine, Dmitry Polyansky , First Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations, said on July 7 in his Telegram channel.
According to him, during the meeting, a historical analysis of ideological trends in Ukraine, an analysis of the current situation with a demonstration of photo and video materials will be made.
"On Monday, July 11, at 15:00 New York / 22:00 Moscow time, we are holding another informal meeting of the UN Security Council on the Arria Formula, dedicated to Nazism and fascism in Ukraine. This is our answer to those Western colleagues who ... claim that we are exaggerating the scale of the problem," Polyansky wrote.
He also specified that the materials will be read out in Russian and English.
[NYPOST] Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... is renewing its focus on "journalism" — signaling he wants the scandal-scarred, left-leaning network to eventually deliver straight news that also appeals to conservatives.
The CEO, whose company owns CNN, Warner Bros., HBO, Animal Planet and TLC, told news hounds at Allen & Co.’s "summer camp for billionaires" in Sun Valley, Idaho, that CNN’s new approach will pay off in the long term, even as ratings sink to historic lows.
"Journalism first. America needs a news network where everybody can come and be heard; Republicans, Democrats," Zaslav said. "I think you’re seeing more of that at CNN. We’re not going to look at the ratings and, in the long run, it’s going to be worth more."
Zaslav, who took the helm of Discovery and WarnerMedia after it merged to form Warner Bros. Discovery in April, hired Chris Licht as head of CNN, following the ouster of Jeff Zucker earlier this year. His mandate for Licht, a former executive producer of CBS’s "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," was to get rid of the sensational, partisan, Trump-focused coverage made popular under Zucker.
Seriously? He took a small time exec producer of a small fake news show and gave him.... oh wait — it’s CNN, which is much the same..
Never mind.
"I think Chris is doing a great job pivoting CNN," Zaslav told Variety.
Under Licht, CNN has dialed back using the "breaking news" banner on its reports in order to shift away from opinion-based programming. But one well-placed source told The Post that the ratings have taken a hit due in part to removing such "sensational" and "delicious" details that have become commonplace in cable news.
"The problem is we are not a neutral country," the source said. "The ratings are getting worse because they are taking out all the bells and whistles. CNN’s ratings are as bad as local news ratings."
"New management is not freaking out but everyone else at CNN is," the source added. "They want to fix the shows first, but they don’t realize the shows and ratings are connected."
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Journalism doesn't need to make a profit. It is a loss leader for filthy powerful people to deliver their version of reality, full of whatever it benefits them for us to believe.
Leftists demand that the media lie to them. They love it. How many believed so hard in the "Ghost of Keev" lie? How many said it shouldn't have been exposed as a fraud?
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[LB] It is currently known about the deceased and two wounded, the information is being clarified.
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Russian occupiers are shelling Avdievka , in the Donetsk region , around the clock .
This was reported by the head of Donetsk OVA, Pavlo Kyrylenko .
According to him, starting from the evening of July 6, the invaders made more than a dozen blows.
"As usual, they hit the civilian infrastructure: the hospital, residential quarters, the bus depot, as well as the AKHZ. It is already known about 1 dead and 2 wounded , but the final figures have yet to be established, as well as the extent of the destruction," Kyrylenko said. .
The leader of Donetsk region called on the residents of the city to evacuate, as it is dangerous to stay in the settlement.
We will remind you that the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has now reported that the Russians are trying to enter the borders of the Donetsk region .
During the day, the Rashi shelled the area with artillery, "Uragan" MSG, and "Grad" MSG.
[LB] Final control over Luhansk Region has not been established.
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Russia is waging a war of attrition and has directed all efforts so far to establish final control over the Luhansk region. Also, the enemy is trying to reach the geographical borders of Donetsk region.
Deputy Minister of Defense Hanna Malyar stated this at the Ukraine Media Center .
"According to the Main Directorate of Intelligence, the security situation around Ukraine remains difficult. The Kremlin does not refuse to fulfill any of its strategic goals regarding our state. Given the scope, tasks and timing of the so-called "special operation", the Russian Federation is currently waging a war of attrition," she said.
Currently, the enemy's main efforts are focused on establishing final control over the Luhansk region, which the enemy has not yet established. Today, the most difficult situation has developed in the Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and Bakhmut directions. The enemy is trying to reach the geographical borders of Donetsk region.
In the Kharkiv and Balaklia directions, according to the information of the Ministry of Defense of the Ministry of Defense, the enemy will continue to restrain the defense forces from advancing towards the state border, and will also continue to keep under control the logistic connection on the Belgorod-Kupyansk route.
We will remind, according to the Main Directorate of Intelligence, the Russian occupying forces will try to carry out offensive actions in the direction of Zaporizhzhia and surround the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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"As usual, they hit the civilian infrastructure: the hospital, residential quarters, the bus depot, as well as the AKHZ.
Also the animal shelter, a soup kitchen and the recycling bins. AKHZ is the Avdiivka Coke and Chemical Plant, another big-ass factory complex. We've seen this movie.
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[ColonelCassad] The All-Russian ataman condemned the passivity of the Cossack commanders, who avoid fulfilling their main mission.
Could it be that they don’t want to die fighting against their Ukrainian cousins in an ill-advised war?
All-Russian Ataman Nikolai Doluda expressed doubts about the advisability of reviving the Cossacks in Russia during a teleconference between the leaders of Cossack communities.
At the meeting, the topic of regular military training was raised, at which combat skills should be improved. Doluda expressed indignation at the fact that the atamans could not bring a satisfactory number of Cossacks to the training grounds, as well as their unwillingness to fulfill the role of "defenders of the Russian land" assigned to them.
According to him, the avoidance of the mission that the Cossacks should initially adhere to casts doubt on the meaning of its revival, which began in the 90s of the 20th century.
“Today, when blood is shed for the independence of Donbass and the sovereignty of Russia, the place of the Cossack is on the battlefields, next to our Cossack brothers, volunteers, in the same ranks with the Cossacks of the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics, with the military personnel of the Russian Armed Forces! <...> The honor of every Cossack society is to have its own volunteer detachment on the battlefields of Donbass!” Doluda said.
What about the Cossacks in the rest of the Ukraine, heart of the historical Cossack range, as Kiev is the heart of the Rus?
After the start of the SVO on the territory of Ukraine, the Russian Cossacks significantly increased the number of measures removed from military affairs: for example, fire-fighting mounted patrols appeared on the highways, and there are also reports of record volumes of hemp destroyed.
The number of various festivals has also increased. So, soon after Doluda's condemning speech, the Volga Flash festival will open in the Ulyanovsk region with festivities, dance and singing performances and various competitions.
https://cont.ws/@artemon/2325098 - zinc
Commentary below by Russian military Journalist Boris Rozhin:
Wrote on this topic in the spring. Some fans of the Cossacks then stated that this was a shameless assault and the Cossacks were fighting. Yes, a certain part is fighting, but obviously not on the scale that was expected, given the government spending to support the Cossacks. Well, for those whom my then criticism did not triple, the Cossack ataman pronounces the same thing.
I repeat, to those who are at war, there have never been and never have been questions. There are really heroic men there, starting with the Platov regiment. But in various mummers and role players, for whom the state has allocated significant funds for a long time, there really are questions and they are already being asked by the Cossacks themselves.
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thanks, tw and badanov. One of those mental twitches and not being sure where the Don Cossacks (Slavic and Eastern Orthodox also allied with Moscow for centuries) stopped and the turkic Tartar horsemen started in the Caucasus region...
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) July 7, 2022
Ukraine’s foreign ministry said on Thursday a Russian ship carrying Ukrainian grain had been allowed to leave the Ottoman Turkish port of Karasu, calling it an "unacceptable situation" and summoning The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... ’s ambassador.
"We regret that Russia’s ship Zhibek Zholy, which was full of stolen Ukrainian grain, was allowed to leave Karasu port despite criminal evidence presented to the Ottoman Turkish authorities," foreign ministry spokesperson Oleg Nikolenko wrote on Twitter.
"Turkiye’s Ambassador in Kyiv will be invited to Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to clarify this unacceptable situation."
A marine traffic website showed on Thursday that the disputed Russian-flagged fat merchantman carrying grain Kyiv alleges was stolen from Ukraine has moved away from the Ottoman Turkish coast nearly a week after its arrival.
The Zhibek Zholy moved at least 20 kilometres (12 miles) away from Turkey’s Black Sea coast of Karasu before apparently switching off its transponder and disappearing from view, data on the marinetraffic.com website showed.
Two Turkish sources said the ship was heading to Russia's Port Kavkaz on the edge of a strait splitting the mainland from Ukraine's Kremlin-annexed peninsula of Crimea.
Kyiv alleges that the Russian-flagged vessel had set off from Ukraine's occupied port of Berdyansk after picking up confiscated wheat.
Ukraine has demanded that Turkey impound the vessel and return the allegedly stolen grain.
But Russia claims to have "nationalised" Ukrainian state assets and to be buying crops from local farmers.
NATO member Turkey has been trying to negotiate a solution that could preserve its good relations with both Moscow and Kyiv.
It was not immediately clear what had happened to the wheat.
An unnamed crew member of the Zhibek Zholy told Russia's TASS news agency that the ship intended to offload the grain to another vessel so as "not to lose money".
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[Vesti] In the waters of the Black and Azov Seas, the Russian military keeps six carriers of cruise missiles ready for use, and the total number of Kalibr-type sea-based missiles can be up to 40 units . This is stated in the operational summary of the General Staff as of 18.00 Thursday, July 7. Yesterday, we recall, the General Staff reported only two naval missile carriers .
No changes in the state, composition and nature of the actions of the military of Belarus were noted in the Volyn and Polesye directions x. The threat of rocket and bomb strikes from the territory of this country remains.
In the Seversky direction , the enemy, in order to demonstrate his presence, fired artillery at the Volkovka, Kondratovka and Miropolye regions of the Sumy region. In addition, he carried out airstrikes near Esmani and Miropolye.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the enemy continues to focus on holding positions and preventing the advance of units of the Ukrainian defense forces deep into the temporarily occupied territory. During the day, he used tanks, cannon and rocket artillery to shell settlements in the Kharkov region along the entire line of collision. But our soldiers nullified all enemy forces to advance in the direction of Sosnovka. The assault was repelled , and the invaders retreated to their previously occupied positions.
In the east of the country, the enemy is still trying to establish full control over the territory of the Lugansk region. So, in the Slavic direction , the Russians again unsuccessfully stormed Bogorodichnoe , trying to completely capture it. Our warriors severely suppressed another attempt. The enemy fires cannon and rocket artillery at the areas of the settlements of Suligovka, Krasnoe, Nikopol, Novopavlovka, Karnaukhovka, Adamovka, Krasnopolye, Bogorodichnoye, Mazanovka, Dibrovno and Dolyna.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy made unsuccessful attempts at assault operations in the directions of Grigorovka and Verkhnekamensky . Also, from barrel and rocket artillery, the Russians fired at the areas of the settlements of Mayaki, Seversk, Serebryanka, Grigorovka, Verkhnekamenskoye, Zolotarovka and Zvanovka. An enemy air strike was recorded in the Serebryanka area.
In the Bakhmut direction, Ukrainian soldiers inflicted losses on the enemy when he tried to improve his tactical position near Vershina and Berestovoye . The enemy retreated in panic. At the same time, he fired from cannon artillery and multiple launch rocket systems at the areas of the settlements of Vyimka, Ivanodaryevka, Spirne, Berestovo, Belogorovka, Pokrovskoye, Yakovlevka, Soledar, Bakhmutskoye, Klinovoye, Vershina, Kodema, Mayorsk, New York. Now the Russians are entrenched in the vicinity of the village of Spirne.
Cannon and rocket artillery shelling continues along the collision line in the Avdeevka, Kurakhovsky, Novopavlovsky and Zaporozhye directions . Attack planes attacked the enemy near Kamenskoye.
In the Yuzhnobuzhsk direction, the situation has not undergone significant changes. Enemy subunits continue to hold their occupied positions and fire at the positions of subunits of our troops with means of destruction.
The statements of the Russian Ministry of Defense about the alleged death of Ukrainian soldiers who carried out a cleansing operation and planted Ukrainian flags on Zmeiny Island do not correspond to reality.
The enemy continues to suffer significant losses of personnel, weapons and military equipment on the territory of Ukraine. Thus, according to available information, the command of the Central Military District of the RF Armed Forces is forced to withdraw units from the 35th separate motorized rifle brigade. At the same time, he is trying to attract unmotivated units of the 74th separate motorized rifle brigade. Also, measures are being taken to force the mobilization of personnel in the temporarily occupied territory of the Luhansk region. The mobilized have poor training and unsatisfactory equipment of protective equipment. Currently, the current shortage of units of the 2nd Army Corps of the 8th Combined Arms Army of the RF Armed Forces is about 8 thousand people.
[Vesti] Since the morning of July 7, Donetsk has been shelled again. According to social networks, Petrovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of the city were under shelling.
A large fire broke out after shelling in the Tihiy microdistrict of the Petrovsky district. Social media users are posting a video showing a large plume of black smoke. What exactly is on fire is still unknown. The fire cannot be eliminated now, since the area is constantly being shelled.
As Vesti.ua reported:
There has been a pause in the fighting in the Donbass. Russian troops are re-forming after last week's offensive.
Ukrainian defenders dealt a precise blow to the arsenal of Russian troops in Makiivka in the Donbass.
Neil Melvin, an expert at the Royal Joint Institute for the Armed Forces of Great Britain, told where the decisive battle for Ukraine could take place .
[NYPOST] Lorella Palmer, a 22-year-old influencer and style blogger from London, England said she doesn’t want kids for a variety of reasons and she’s tired of people trying to change her mind or call her decision "selfish." It is, but don't call her that.
"Kids are just annoying, they annoy me, in every sense of the word. Influencers are just annoying. They annoy me in every sense of the word.
They have no common sense, they can’t drink, they have to go to bed early, they scream, they cry, they annoy me, Palmer told The Mirror this week. If Lady Influencer was a grown up, she'd realize children have to be given a good example so they have common sense. The rest all follows logically.
"Every time I see a child, they’ve just got crust round their nose and round their mouth, there’s drool, they’ve got food everywhere and they’ve got sticky fingers." Every time I see an influencer, she's a would-be Kardashian doing the same supposedly suggestive dance in a state of partial or full undress.
Palmer also had some choice words about children’s television. So do I. Too much hollering.
"I hate kids’ TV too. Your kid is one, My kid is one? My youngest is pushing forty.
they don’t need to watch cartoons — pop on Vampire Diaries please, or Gossip Girl, or Friends," she lamented. I've never watched any of them. They sounded too juvenile. I prefer Bugs Bunny.
Palmer, who recently graduated from the University of Portsmouth with a law degree, said she’d rather focus on growing her business as an agent for social media influencers than birthing a baby which she fears would change her body and empty her bank account.
I agree. Better she keep her figure, such as it is, and her career. Leave babies to those who won’t traumatize the poor things, turning them into suicides and spree killers.
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LOL. Sure, horrible people like this shouldn't have children. They shouldn't have a vote in the future of the human race.
But record this. Boy, when she hits 35 or so, she's going to be feeling bigtime regret. No mercy. Show this to her and hurt her. She's inspiring other young women to pursue a path that will bring them nothing but unhappiness. Seen too many regret columns by over-the-hill women who spent their 20s partying when they should have been raising children.
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The whole assumption is that the socialist support system will not collapse for being the big Ponzi scheme that it is. When it does, it goes back to thousands of years of family for support in your old age.
See also here — the judge lowered his bail, and he’s out, for the moment.
The rabbis ruled about self-defense — even on the sabbath! — during the Maccabean revolt, if I recall correctly, allowing the Judeans to turn away from getting wiped out by the Syrians every Saturday and go on to winning the thing. Wouldn’t the same be wonderful for New York City!
Responding to this from yesterday.
[NYPOST] Thanks to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, New York is a city turned upside down.
Get caught with an illegal gun, get released without bail. Shove an elderly person to the ground, attack someone because they are Asian, a slap on the wrist. Shoplift again . . . and again . . . and again . . . nothing.
But defend yourself and your place of business from a man who attacks you, and Bragg sends you to Rikers.
Jose Alba, 51, was working at a bodega on Broadway near West 139th Street late last Friday night. A woman came in wanting chips and couldn’t pay; Alba wouldn’t give them to her for free.
Furious, the woman’s boyfriend, Austin Simon, 35, went behind the counter and confronted Alba. Video of the incident clearly shows Simon is the aggressor. He yells at Alba, gets in his personal space, then shoves him into the wall.
While Simon continues to rant, Alba gets up and tries to leave. Simon grabs him by the back of the neck.
It’s at this point that Alba takes a knife off a nearby shelf and stabs Simon. The two continue to fight, falling off camera, until Alba comes back into frame — his arm wounded, bleeding, perhaps because he was stabbed by Simon’s girlfriend. A bloody knife in his hands.
“He was cornered in,” Alba’s daughter, Yulissa, tells The Post. “As you can see in the video, he was cornered in, and when he saw himself getting taken outside, he thought his life was being threatened and he defended himself.”
And not just threatened. Simon assaulted him.
But in Bragg’s world, Alba is being way overcharged with murder in the second degree, and locked up on $250,000 bail.
What Alvin Bragg is practicing isn’t justice. It’s madness. Police are villains, criminals are heroes and victims are told to accept their fate.
Jose Alba needs to be free. Alvin Bragg needs to be out of office.
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...And if a jury is defiant enough to free him, Mister DA will hound him for the rest of his days.
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What's even worse is he refuses to prosecute the girl friend who stabbed Jose.
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The girlfriend should be facing felony murder. She apparently stabbed Alba first, then called her thug to join in. Thug dies an accomplice to her attempted homicide -- she should be facing prison.
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But she's a BIPOC. Instead, she will probably get a stipend for life courtesy of the NY taxpayer. They voted for it, they deserve it...
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Law Student has been clown make-up for Career Politician for a long time. Its just the facade of professionalism is no longer acquired.
Everyone should be outraged by this obvious path of the future. The problem is a bit deeper than NYP wants to swim into.
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In NY, the governor can remove the DA tomorrow. There is no recall. Bragg probably got top marks in law school. The criteria for grades changed when the law schools went 100% liberal. Look at Yale.
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The real question is, can the Grand Jury decided to indict the DA? A bit beyond jury nullification but that would be HILARIOUS.
Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 22:31 In Kherson, a terrorist attack against the Russian military and the heads of the Supreme State Administration of the Kherson region was prevented. Ukrainian terrorists planned terrorist attacks against the Russian military, the head of the administration of the Kherson region and his deputy. 20:37 Mironov proposed extending Putin's decree on the simplified granting of Russian citizenship to residents of the Kharkiv region.
18:00 Several strikes were made on Kharkov.
14:17 The head of the Zaporizhzhya Regional State Administration, Evgeny Balitsky, unveiled a monument to the legendary intelligence officer, a native of Melitopol, Pavel Sudoplatov. Lieutenant-General Sudoplatov eliminated the ideologist of Ukrainian nationalism and a follower of the founder of the OUN (organization of Ukrainian nationalists).
13:23 Yesterday, a rally was held in Vladimir in support of our military participating in the NVO in Ukraine:
“Now Mariupol and other cities of the DPR and LPR have been liberated from the Nazis. And for this we say a huge thank you to our military. Unfortunately, the fighting does not go without loss. I know firsthand the pain of loss: a month ago, our fellow countryman, my uncle Lieutenant General Kutuzov Roman Vladimirovich, died in battles in the Donbass. Blessed memory to him and all the soldiers who did not return from the front.
Our warriors are heroes, and we must help them in everything. They should help both the military and the residents of Donbass. On my own behalf and on behalf of the youth of Vladimir, I promise that I will help as long as our help is needed. And only together we are a single country. And only together we are strong.” Pavel Kutuzov, head of the Vladimir MGER, addressed the rally participants.
13:22 Media: At the training ground southwest of Zhytomyr, constant firing from both light and heavy weapons is heard. The 190th training center of the Zhytomyr Military Institute is located in the urban-type settlement of Guyva. We found out that at the moment the objects of the educational and material base are involved in the training of military personnel of the newly assembled 95th separate air assault brigade.
In the period from July 5 to 8, control and verification exercises are held with the personnel of the unit under the guidance of foreign instructors on landing and the use of weapons of various types, including anti-tank systems and MANPADS. After completing the courses, the military personnel of the 95th Brigade will be sent to the combat zone.
12:49 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: Russian Su-35S fighters shot down: one MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force near Nikolaev and one Su-25 near the village of Adamovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
12:02 Russian servicemen and employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations handed over humanitarian aid to one of the hospitals in the north of the Kharkiv region.
Bottled water and several tons of food products were delivered to patients. Earlier, the Russian army and public organizations provided the necessary medicines, which were handed over to the hospital management.
11:53 Servicemen of the 80th Ukrainian Airborne Assault Brigade refuse to participate in hostilities and desert en masse to rear areas - Russian Defense Ministry
11:50 A monument to the legendary Pavel Sudoplatov was unveiled in Melitopol.
11:48 Russian air defense systems shot down 17 Ukrainian UAVs in a day, intercepted six Ukrainian Tochka-U ballistic missiles in the Kherson region - Russian Defense Ministry
11:47 An acute shortage of first-echelon personnel forced Kyiv to send national battalions to the front line, performing the tasks of detachments - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
11:45 Kyiv made an attempt to plant the Ukrainian flag on Zmeiny Island, a Russian Aerospace Forces plane struck the island, part of the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed - Russian Defense Ministry
11:32 The Russian military prevented a series of terrorist attacks in Kherson - a source of RIA Novosti in the Russian power structures.
11:31 Retired US Army Colonel Douglas McGregor: 80% of the Ukrainian military that existed at the beginning of this war is now destroyed. Washington has a plan to keep this conflict going indefinitely until the Russians are defeated or we run out of money. But you understand that the longer this goes on, the more people will needlessly be killed, the more damage will be done to Ukraine. This is actually a failed state, which can be completely erased from the map. At the moment, all the cards are again with the Russians. Most of the sanctions we tried to impose have affected our lives and hurt ourselves. The Russians, in fact, have not suffered, they sell energy to China and India, and other countries want to buy it. The only ones.
09:38 A bi-currency system has been formed in the liberated territories of the Kharkiv region. This was stated by the head of the regional CAA Vitaly Ganchev. Since June 25, the rate of 1.5 rubles per hryvnia has been applied in the region when converting currencies.
08:14 In Transcarpathia, women were not given to the employees of the military registration and enlistment officetaketheir husbands to the front.
08:10 Melitopol State University, created in the liberated territory as a result of the merger, is becoming the most promising educational institution in the territory of the former Ukraine.
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I'm not going to say anything bad about badanov. I'm not going to say anything good about people who believe this proxy war will work in the USA's favor.
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I'm not going to say anything bad about badanov.
Not to worry. Been flamed many times myself at rantburg and elsewhere.
Vice President Kamala Harris just spoke at the scene of the Highland Park mass shooting.
“We have to take this stuff seriously, as seriously as you are because you have been forced to take this seriously,” she said. pic.twitter.com/vpLSydpJM0
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[LB] The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that the enemy continues its efforts to establish full control over Luhansk region.
In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy is concentrating its efforts on holding occupied lines, and is trying to conduct assaults on separate sections of the contact line.
The enemy tried to conduct assaults in the Slavic direction as well. The areas of Dolyna, Kurulka, Mazanivka, Bogorodichne, Adamivka, and Chepil settlements were shelled with barrel artillery and multiple rocket systems.
The General Staff also informs that since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian occupying forces have lost 36,650 soldiers.
The Russians suffered the greatest losses in the Avdiiv and Bakhmut directions.
Other losses of the invaders are in the news.
In the city of Toretsk, Donetsk region, the occupiers killed a family - a daughter, mother and grandmother .
"The rocket hit the residential sector again," Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk regional military administration, said in a video message.
"The Russians are going everywhere they can get. They came to our land to kill us purposefully - and they won't stop until we stop them. I'm asking everyone: evacuate! Don't make yourself a target for the Russians!" Kyrilenko added.
Russian invaders continue to attack Odesa . Last night and today at dawn, the enemy launched rocket attacks on the territory of the region.
"The enemy attacked Odeshchyna twice. The impact of 2 rockets at night hit 2 agricultural hangars, which were destroyed. About 35 tons of grain were stored in one of them," the statement of the operational command "South" says.
"And at dawn, during the aerial overflight and reconnaissance of Zmiiny, the island was attacked by 2 air-based missiles. The pier was significantly damaged," - added in OK "Pivden".
Rescuers of the Kharkiv Garrison of the State Service for Emergency Situations made 30 operational trips last day , 18 of which were to extinguish fires, including 7 fires caused by shelling.
"On the territory of Kharkiv Oblast, there were 7 fires caused by enemy shelling, of which 3 were in Bogodukhivsk, 2 in Chuguivsk, 1 in Izyumsk and 1 more in Kharkiv district of the region. A commercial building and gas stations at a gas station, a production building, farm buildings, a hayloft, a garage were on fire , coniferous litter, dry grass and wheat," the press service of the State Emergency Service reported.
At night, the enemy shelled a boarding school in Kharkiv , the windows were blown out with explosions. There are no victims or injured, according to the morning summary from the regional military administrations.
During the day, Donetsk region was subjected to shelling from artillery, S-300 air defense systems, "Uragan" surface-to-air missiles, and "Grad" surface-to-air missiles on many settlements and cities of the region. 35 objects were damaged, seven civilians were killed, including a child, and two people were injured.
The night was relatively calm in Volyn, Zakarpattia, Rivne Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Chernivtsi, Vinnytsia, Zaporizhzhya, Khmelnytskyi, Ternopil, Kirovohrad Oblasts, Cherkasy Oblast, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Odesa Oblast, Poltava Oblast, Chernihiv Oblast, Zhytomyr Oblast and Kyiv Oblast.
Sumy Region has received a mobile mobile hospital , Dmytro Zhivytskyi, the head of the Sumy Region, reported.
The mobile hospital, provided free of charge by Medical Bridges in partnership with United Help Ukraine, was created by students of the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas (USA). The mobile hospital is equipped with two surgical tables, a water supply system, a generator, and is equipped with medicines, dressings, and medical clothing. It will be used as a mobile operating theater to help the wounded.
In the city of Pereyaslav in the Kyiv region, a monument was dismantled in honor of the 300th anniversary of the reunification of Ukraine with Russia, which was celebrated in 1954.
"Bucha, Irpin, Borodyanka, Gostomel, Moschun and other settlements of Ukraine, where the Russian army committed atrocities against humanity, once again proved that there is no question of "reunification" or "friendship" with the Rashists," he wrote in Telegram. Oleksiy Kuleba, the head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration, told the channel.
A two-day meeting of foreign ministers of the "Group of 20" will start today on the Indonesian island of Bali . At this event, for the first time during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergey Lavrov, will cross paths with colleagues who criticize Russia for the war it unleashed.
Lavrov has already arrived in Bali and, according to a release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is planning a series of meetings. However, some of the ministers said that they are not going to meet with him.
It will be recalled that the "group of twenty" consists of both those countries that accused Moscow of war crimes and those that react to the war against Ukrainians more restrained (in particular, China, India, South Africa).
The most complete picture of today will definitely be on our website.
In the 2020 election, 81,286,365 people voted for Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing... , 74,225,845 for President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... If you’re not a math whiz, that 51.26% of the vote for now-President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass. Don't say he didn't warn us...... , 46.80 for former President Trump.
So that makes a new poll all the more ominous for Biden, who has seen his approval rating plummet in nearly every poll as he struggles to handle domestic and international crises.
A Gallup poll released on Tuesday finds Americans’ confidence in "the presidency" as an institution has dropped to 23% from 38% in 2021 — a record low since the survey began in 1973.
But it wasn’t just the presidency that took a hit. The survey found that an average of just 27% of those polled had either "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in 14 major institutions that Gallup has measured for decades: the church/organized religion, the military, the Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... , banks, public schools, newspapers, Congress, organized labor, big business, television news, the presidency, the police, the medical system, and the criminal justice system.
The new confidence level in the 14 sectors is down from 32% in 2021 and even plunged below the previous low of 30% in 2014.
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Faith in politicians is a sign of weak-mindedness...
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....which is a hallmark, ie great leader, of Marxism.
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He has lost the pro-Choice crowd by being ineffective in the face of Roe. If he was selected to do a controlled demolition of our country, he is right on schedule. Obviously, that will not be popular with We The People, but popularity is meaningless if our intended future state is to be controlled by an unelected EU-like bureaucracy installed to “save” us from the crisis they created.
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A British Royal Navy vessel has seized a sophisticated shipment of Iranian #missiles in the Gulf of Oman, officials say, pointing to the interdiction as proof of Tehran’s support for #Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis in the country.#Iranhttps://t.co/9lkSCRzHdu
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) July 7, 2022
A British Royal Navy vessel seized a sophisticated shipment of Iranian missiles in the Gulf of Oman earlier this year, officials said Thursday, pointing to the interdiction as proof of Tehran’s support for Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s Iran-backed 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 the country.
The British government statement was striking in that it provided some of the strongest findings to date that Tehran is arming the Houthis against the Arab Coalition with advanced weapons smuggled through the Arabian Gulf.
The UK Embassy in the United Arab Emirates described the seizure of surface-to-air-missiles and engines for land attack cruise missiles as "the first time a British naval warship has interdicted a vessel carrying such sophisticated weapons from Iran."
"The UK will continue to work in support of an enduring peace in Yemen and is committed to international maritime security so that commercial shipping can transit safely without threat of disruption," said James Heappey, Minister for the Armed Forces.
Iran’s mission to the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... did not respond to a request for comment.
The announcement signals an escalation as Western officials have in the past shied away from public statements that definitively blame Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... for arming Yemen’s Houthis with military contraband. The route of the smuggled shipments through the Arabian Sea or Gulf of Aden, however, has strongly suggested their destination.
Despite a United Nations Security Council arms embargo on Yemen, Iran has long been suspected of transferring rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, missiles and other weaponry to the Houthis since the disastrous war began in 2015.
Iran denies arming the Houthis, but independent experts, Western nations and UN experts have traced components back to Iran.
Citing a forensic analysis last month, the British navy linked the batch of rocket engines seized earlier this year to an Iranian-made cruise missile with a 1,000-kilometer range that it said the Houthis have used against Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... The Houthis also used the cruise missile to attack an oil facility in Abu Dhabi in January of this year, the British navy said, an assault that killed three people. The US military launched interceptor missiles during the attack, signaling a widening of Yemen’s war.
The HMS Montrose’s helicopter had been scanning for illicit goods in the Gulf of Oman on January 28 and February 25 when it spotted small vessels speeding away from the Iranian coast with "suspicious cargo on deck."
A team of Royal Marines then halted and searched the boats, confiscating the weapons in international waters south of Iran.
A US Navy guided-missile destroyer supported the British warship’s February operation. Fifth Fleet Vice Adm. Brad Cooper said the seizure reflected the Navy’s "strong commitment to regional security and stability."
The Houthis seized Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, in September 2014 and forced the internationally recognized government into exile. The Arab Coalition has since strived to bring peace in Yemen and restore the internationally recognized government.
Years of fighting have ground into a bloody stalemate and pushed the Arab world’s poorest nation to the brink of famine. A tenuous truce that began around the holy Moslem month of Ramadan appears to be holding, although both sides have accused each other of violations.
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[REGNUM] Permitting free gun ownership in Ukraine would turn it into Somalia. This was announced on July 7 by Vadim Trukhachev , Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Faculty of International Relations, Political Science and Foreign Regional Studies of the RSUH .
“If they go for it, Ukraine will finally turn into a European “Somalia”. With all the negative phenomena inherent in the poorest African country, ”the expert said.
Paradoxically, this issue will have to be resolved by the joint efforts of Russia, Germany and Poland with the participation of Hungary and Romania, Trukhachev believes.
Recall that earlier the adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Viktor Andrusiv , said that a law could soon be adopted allowing citizens to freely carry short-barreled weapons.
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Once Ukraine literally turns into Somalia, they can all move to Minneapolis. The Ukrainians should be better adapted to Minnesota than the Somali Somalis.
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We somehow did Just. Fucking. Fine. While the Iron Curtain existed. It sucked for the people behind it, and we postured that we wanted them to "be free." So, all the people from East Chermany got Mutti. Such a deal.
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We have the sieve border on the US-Mexico line. Want to tell me it's better?
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[Investors] Twitter stock fell in after-hours trading Thursday after a report surfaced that the $44 billion dollar acquisition offer by Elon Musk was in doubt.
"Musk's deal to buy Twitter (TWTR) is in serious jeopardy," the Washington Post said. It said Musk's camp concluded that Twitter's figures on spam accounts are not verifiable.
And there it is. But if Mr. Musk waived due diligence up front, won’t he get in trouble with the SEC for backing out afterward?
Twitter stock dropped 4.4% to 37.10 during late trading on the stock market today.
Twitter stock has been on a roller-coaster ride ever since Musk, in April, made a highly speculative bid to acquire the social media company for $54.20 a share.
The board of directors ultimately agreed to the deal. But action in Twitter stock showed there is plenty of uncertainty as to whether it will go through or not. Read the rest at the link
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I doubt he ever intended to buy it. The price was absurd.
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It will be bought by some entity that will maintain its leftward bent and rabid censorship.
Now that "three years of social media" will be required to get a gun license in NY state (until that gets thrown out too) it will be hard to argue an employer has no right to consider an applicant having a shittah account to be a net negative.
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If Musk doesn't buy them because there are too many fake accounts, Twitter will die absent someone willing to lose money on them. Advertisers won't fund them anymore.
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One must wonder if Musk's efforts were simply intended to reveal the crooked SOB's for what they are.
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A total of 15 soldiers of the Mexican Army managed to curb 60 Sicarians, Saturday afternoon in the municipality of Altar, Sonora, achieving the detention of 4 members of the group 'Gente Nueva Cazadores', armed arm of the Sinaloa Cartel, including Francisco Torres Carranza alias 'The Duranguillo', one of the capos more wanted from Mexico.
It was described as a "heroic act" and members of the Mexican armed force will receive a 'cross of malta' medal commemorating their bravery and courage when deciding to continue with their operative despite being outnumbered and in air caliber but even tried to bribe them with 10 MILLION weights, but the 'pixeled' refused.
They will also be recognized by the Prosecutor General of the Republic, as members of the 'Campaign Against Drug Trafficking' that is being deployed throughout the country, the medal to be given to them is second class, which is given when Do the military stand out for their honesty.
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[ColonelCassad] The second echelon of the Polish occupation group of troops in Ukraine
In one of our previous articles https://www.belvpo.com/129780.html/ we considered the probable nature of the actions and the composition of the occupying group of Polish troops when they enter the territory of Ukraine. Today we will briefly consider who, what role is assigned to this Polish-Ukrainian military campaign.
As we noted earlier, the 11th armored cavalry division is deployed in the western part of Poland and it is most logical to assume that the military units of this division will perform tasks in the second echelon of the operational formation of Polish troops. Most likely, with the advancement of the 18th mechanized division towards the Ukrainian border, military units and subunits of the 11th brigade will begin moving to the point of permanent deployment (PPD) of the 18th MD to the already prepared park and barracks funds. By the way, during the Defender Europe - 2022 exercises, military units and subunits were already marching from the western to the eastern borders of Poland.
Thus, it is quite likely that the 1st Tank Brigade 18 MD (Vesola settlement) will remain at the disposal of two armored cavalry brigades of the 11th Brigade, as well as a park fund equipped for maintenance and current repair of tanks, in including the Leopard-2, which is in service with one of the brigades.
The 17th Mechanized Brigade will occupy the permanent deployment point of the 19th MBR of the 18th MD.
Thus, the 11th brigade will be deployed at the deployment points already prepared in all one-offices, with the possibility of continuing understaffing and conducting operational and combat training activities at the Novaya Demba training ground (n. Rzeszow) under the guidance of American instructors.
This course of action seems the most logical, if we recall the statements of the Minister of Defense of Poland Blashak about the beginning of the formation of two new divisions. Of course, this is best done on the already deployed barracks and park funds in the PPD of the 11th division in western Poland. This will allow the Polish military leadership to form new military units as soon as possible, equip them with personnel, weapons and military equipment, and after they are formed and equipped with everything necessary, begin operational and combat training activities.
The task of the military units and subunits of the 11th brigade in this development of events will probably be to continue improving their professional skills and building up their combat potential, as well as, if necessary, to advance in the second echelon of the operational formation of troops in order to strengthen and support military units 18 -th MD in the event of a threat of a collision with Russian troops, the offensive of which is most likely from the Zhytomyr and Khmelnytsky regions.
Most likely, Polish troops will not go to the south-west of Ukrainian territory (Ivano-Frankivsk direction), since it is believed that today there is the most loyal population to Poland and no one expects Russian tanks there.
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^^ ... no matter how truthy they appear or how truthy they become.
Personally, I'm waiting for the Bee to wish the Brandon Administration into the cornfield.
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[Korrespondent] 23:27 Speaker of the Odesa OVA Serhiy Bratchuk said that today the occupiers have lost three ammunition depots and one tank farm. In particular, BC warehouses in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, in Ilovaisk and Chernobaevka, as well as an oil depot in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk were destroyed.
23:21 In an evening video message, Zelensky announced a busy tomorrow: "Tomorrow I will continue a series of appeals to European parliaments - Slovenia is next in line. Tomorrow there will also be a lot of domestic news - a very meaningful day lies ahead."
22:04 Russians do not travel to Ukraine legally, Kuleba said on the air of the telethon. According to him, during the week of the visa regime with the Russian Federation, not a single Russian has applied for a Ukrainian visa, and the calls to the Foreign Ministry, which were more than a hundred, have not gone further: “This demonstrates the level to which Putin’s aggression has brought relations not between not by our states, but by our peoples, and, in fact, the attitude of Russians towards us."
21:52 The head of the Zaporozhye region Oleg Buryak announced the release of his 16-year-old son from captivity.
21:43 The mayor of the occupied Oleshek in the Kherson region, Yevgeny Ryshchuk, called on the locals living near the facilities where Russian soldiers live, as well as next to Russian military equipment and other military facilities, "to go away from there," because "the Armed Forces of Ukraine are coming."
21:26 Today, during a meeting with Zelensky and the OP team, US Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal submitted a resolution Calling on the US Secretary of State to recognize the Russian Federation as a state sponsor of terrorism. The document has already been approved by the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee. Now, for its final adoption, it is necessary to complete all domestic procedures provided for by American law, Yermak said.
21:05 As at the very beginning of the war, the main priority for Ukraine is to close the sky. Zelensky says he is counting on the arrival of powerful air defense systems. Among the latest messages is the Pentagon's promise to supply Ukraine with new NASAMS anti-aircraft missile systems, which the US has developed jointly with Norway. More details - in the air defense material for Ukraine .
20:57 Russian troops detained the mayor of Kupyansk, collaborator Gennady Matsegora, the head of the Kharkiv OVA Oleg Sinegubov said on the air of the telethon. Matsegora went over to the side of the Russian Federation in the first days of the war and assisted the Russian troops in Kupyansk in every possible way. In particular, he provided them with transport, housing, fuel and food. But now, obviously, they no longer need it, Sinegubov added. What exactly Matsegora was detained for is unknown.
20:53 President of Latvia Egils Levits supported the idea of creating a special tribunal for Russia: "There is an International Court of Justice in The Hague. However, in a procedural sense, the consideration of the issue of genocide is not in its jurisdiction. Perhaps, at the initiative of Ukraine, a new court will be created that will consider this issue ".
20:50 Zelensky called on the world's largest independent oil trader - the Dutch company Vitol - to stop deliveries of Russian oil and thus stop financing the massacre of Ukrainians. A corresponding letter on behalf of the head of the Ukrainian state was sent to the company by Oleg Ustenko, presidential adviser on economics.
20:32 Putin said that Russia "hadn't started anything seriously yet" in Ukraine: "Today we hear that they want to defeat us on the battlefield. Well, what can I say, let them try. We haven't really started anything yet." He also believes that "the war in Donbass was unleashed by the collective West, not Russia." And Moscow, according to him, does not refuse peace talks on the Ukrainian issue, "but the later they start, the more difficult it will be to negotiate."
20:19 Avdiivka is under round-the-clock shelling, since yesterday evening the Russians have shelled the city more than ten times, said the head of the Donetsk Regional Military District Pavel Kirilenko. According to him, the enemy, as always, hit the civilian infrastructure - the hospital, residential areas, the motor depot, as well as the AKHZ. So far, one dead and two wounded are known.
20:11 The Russians fired on the Nemyshlyansky district of Kharkov, as a result of which three civilians were killed, five were injured, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
19:57 SSO told the exclusive details of the special operation on Zmeiny. So, on the night of July 7, combat swimmers of the 73rd Marine Center of the SPP them. ataman Antin Golovaty, who examined the coastal zone, and then signaled that the operation could be continued. Engineers were the first to come ashore - they cleared the passage from mines and traps. After that, the group went to the plateau of the island and set up Ukrainian flags in different parts of the Serpentine.
When the military carried out the task, Russian ships began to maneuver in the direction of the island. The group completed the task and left the Snake. The Russians then fired missiles at the island and hit the pier. A group of Ukrainian military in full strength returned to the base unharmed.
19:46 Johnson is stepping down as British Prime Minister. True, not right now, but somewhere in September-October, when the country's ruling Conservative Party will choose a new leader. About what Ukraine is losing with the resignation of its main friend in the West, Johnson left in the material, but so far has remained .
19:40 The Ukrainian military repulsed several enemy attacks and forced the invaders to flee near Bakhmut, the General Staff reports in the evening report . Also, the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not allow the enemy to advance in the direction of Sosnovka and repulsed the assault on Bogorodichny.
19:29 In the Chernihiv region, two Russian tanks were pulled out of the river, which sank along with the crew, the Pivnich Operational Command reports. According to eyewitnesses, one of the Russian T-72 tanks sank at the end of February, the bodies of two crew members were found in it, and the driver's seat was empty. Another T-72 tank was taken out on July 6 - inside were the bodies of all three crew members.
19:00 The Cabinet of Ministers froze any increase in tariffs for which the government is responsible, including electricity, Shmyhal said: "Record electricity prices in European countries allow Ukrainian generating companies to earn significant funds, which we propose to partially direct to ensure that tariffs for Ukrainians remain stable ".
18:38 Johnson, after announcing his resignation, spoke with Zelensky, reaffirmed the unwavering support of Ukraine from the UK and stressed that London "will continue to provide vital military assistance for as long as necessary." He also promised to work on unblocking grain exports from Ukraine and thanked Zelensky for everything he "does for freedom, for the friendship and kindness of the Ukrainian people."
In turn, the President of Ukraine thanked Johnson for his decisive actions against Ukraine and noted that the Ukrainian people are grateful for the efforts of the UK.
18:04 The threat of rocket attacks on Ukraine from Belarus remains for at least another three months, since the restriction zone for flights of all types of civil aircraft was extended from July 8 to October 7, 2022, reports Belaruski Gayun. It is from the south of Belarus that rockets are launched on the territory of Ukraine. Since the beginning of the war, at least 689 warheads have been launched from the territory of the Republic of Belarus to Ukrainian cities.
18:01 The European Commission invited Ukraine to join the so-called customs visa-free regime, the Finance Ministry said. After joining, Ukrainian business will be able to enjoy a number of advantages and simplifications in the export and transit of goods to European countries.
17:55 Because of the war, Ukraine will not be able to accept Jewish pilgrims to celebrate Rosh Hashanah - the Jewish New Year, the Ukrainian Embassy in Israel has reported. Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Yevhen Korniychuk said that Ukraine cannot guarantee the safety of the pilgrims and urged Orthodox Jews to pray for the war to end before Rosh Hashanah.
17:52 Since February 24, law enforcement agencies of the Kherson region have recorded the facts of the abduction or disappearance of 457 people, Venediktova said. Among the kidnapped and missing are the mayors of Kakhovka, Tavriysk, Skadovsk, Hola Pristan, Berislav, the village heads of the Novoaleksandrovskaya, Bekhterskaya and Milovskaya UTCs, the chairman of the Chernobaevsky village council and his deputy, the elders of the villages of Staraya Zburevka, Zmievka and Osokorovka, the secretary of the Novokakhovka city council, 43 law enforcement officers and two priests.
17:48 Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Belarus, Major General Ruslan Kosygin threatened with strikes on Poland: "In the event of a conflict, the territory of Poland with its military infrastructure becomes the primary target of strike, namely decision-making centers, elements of the control system, points of permanent deployment of the national armed forces , arsenals and bases, as well as critical facilities of their economy and transport infrastructure.<...> As the head of state has said more than once, the answer will be instant. strength."
17:36 The head of the British Armed Forces, Tony Radakin, said that he had met with Zaluzhny: "My 48-hour visit allowed me to better understand the operational perspective and discuss how the UK can continue to support Ukraine and how we can help other international partners and allies support the Armed Forces Ukraine in the coming weeks and months."
17:13 The Armed Forces of Ukraine struck at the accumulation of enemy equipment in Chernobaevka, Arestovich said, indicating that this was already the 25th anniversary.
16:52 Russia has more than 2,000 old missiles, which will be enough for several months of bombing Ukrainian territory, writes Forbes. In total, in the Russian Federation at the beginning of the war there were almost 7,000 medium and short-range missiles (up to 5,500 km). Since Moscow did not count on a long war, it actively used precision missiles, and, most likely, it does not have many such stocks. Therefore, now the Russian Federation is using old weapons, and the low accuracy of which leads to horrifying consequences.
16:47 US senators - Republican Lindsey Graham and Democrat Richard Blumenthal - visited Kiev, Bucha, Borodianka and were deeply shocked by Russia's atrocities. They said that "Ukraine is the hope of democracy, and Putin is a terrorist, and Russia should be recognized as a state sponsor of terrorism." Senators have promised that they will seek the adoption of the relevant law.
16:45 The mass grave in Stary Krym near Mariupol has at least doubled in two months, including due to exhumation and an increase in mortality, Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Maruipol, said, commenting on satellite images published by Radio Liberty. According to him, mortality from natural causes has increased four times compared to the pre-war period - an average of 25 people die daily, or about 1,800 people in May-June alone. And the upward trend continues.
Previously, based on an analysis of four mass graves, the city authorities indicated that at least 20,000 people had already been buried in mass graves.
16:39 Zelensky, in a commentary to CNN, expressed his conviction that the UK's policy towards Ukraine will not change after Johnson's resignation. The president called Johnson a "true friend of Ukraine" and said he was looking forward to a personal conversation with him.
16:37 The European Parliament voted to recognize the driver's license of Ukrainian refugees in the EU. Now the new draft rules must be adopted by the European Commission and approved by the Council of the EU. It will enter into force five days after its publication in the Official Journal of the EU. If the document is accepted, then refugees from Ukraine will not need to issue new driver's licenses and qualification certificates, but will be able to use their Ukrainian ones.
16:35 Zelensky met in Kiev with US Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal: "Bicameral and bipartisan support is very important for us. We feel and appreciate this unity. Now the top priority is to ensure that women with children can return home by September 1, and children and students - to go to schools and universities. We are counting on the support of Congress in the supply of modern air defense systems. We must ensure such a level of sky security that people are not afraid to live in Ukraine."
16:08 The head of the Rivne OVA Vitaliy Koval said that the decision of the Regional Defense Council prohibits the sale and launch of fireworks, salutes and other pyrotechnics. The movement of vehicles in which there is no muffler is also prohibited. Previously, such bans were introduced in the Kyiv and Odessa regions.
15:56 The European Parliament supported the proposal of the European Commission to provide Ukraine with an additional loan of 1 billion euros on favorable terms, in addition to 1.2 billion euros, which were transferred in March and May. This amount is the first tranche of an exceptional macro-financial assistance package totaling €9 billion.
15:47 Military Commissar of Crimea Yuri Lymar was detained by the FSB on charges of releasing conscripts from conscription for military service for bribes. According to the FSB, the military commissariats of several Crimean cities are also under investigation on similar charges.
15:28 As a result of a missile attack on the center of Kramatorsk, one person was killed, six more were injured, the number of victims may increase, said the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko. Six buildings were damaged, including a hotel and a residential high-rise building.
15:02 At the Belarusian airfield Zyablovka in the Gomel region, Russian troops are equipping their military base. The Iskander-M division and the S-400 division are already there, said Aleksey Gromov, deputy head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He also said that since the beginning of the war, the Russian Federation has launched 626 cruise missiles on the territory of Ukraine, and since February 24, the Russians have made 6443 air sorties.
14:49 The main efforts of the Russian army are now focused on the complete capture of the Lugansk region, which has not yet been completely captured, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said at a briefing. Also, according to her, Ukrainian intelligence does not exclude that Russia will try to advance towards Zaporozhye.
14:37 Johnson officially announced his resignation from the posts of British Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party. He will continue to act as head of the party and government until a new one is elected. The process of electing a new head of the party should begin now. Johnson promised that the British government would support Ukraine after his resignation "for as long as it takes."
14:01 The United States and allies have already transferred nine HIMARS MLRS and similar missile systems to Ukraine, Danilov said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. According to him, the Russians are defenseless against these weapons and are very worried. At the same time, the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council emphasized that for the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, at least dozens of HIMARS will be required, but for now, Ukrainian troops must wage a defensive war.
13:59 In the Kremennaya Luhansk region, terror has reached such a level that people are being shot right on the street. Local collaborators help in this, who hand over the population with a pro-Ukrainian position and indicate the exact addresses, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
13:52 Kazakhstan is diversifying oil supplies through the Trans-Caspian route, bypassing the Russian Federation, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said. He instructed to work out the best option for the implementation of the Trans-Caspian route and increase the capacity of two oil pipelines. Tokayev issued the statement a day after a Russian court ordered the Caspian Pipeline Consortium's offshore terminal to be suspended for 30 days. This may for the third time in 2022 stop the access of Kazakh oil to the world market through Russia.
13:47 The mayor of Kramatorsk announced a missile attack on the city center, there are casualties.
13:44 In the Lviv region, the SBU exposed a criminal group that imported 40 thousand cars, earning on preferential customs clearance. The group includes officials from the Lviv customs, three brokers and citizens of the European Union. They imported cars through the "green corridor" and forged documents to register them without removing them from foreign registration.
13:42 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced a pause in the fighting, the units are taking measures "to replenish their combat capabilities," a source in the department told TASS: "The servicemen are given the opportunity to rest, receive letters and parcels from home."
13:33 Finland strengthens security on the border with Russia - the relevant law was adopted by the country's parliament, Reuters reports. The document provides for the possibility of building barriers on a 1,300-kilometer section to prevent the flow of refugees.
13:22 Slavyansk today was subjected to another hostile shelling from the MLRS, the mayor of the city Vadim Lyakh said. Lesnoy-Artem and Slavkurort micro-districts suffered again, there are wounded.
13:15 The Russians fired two X-31 missiles from the Su-30 fighter jet in the Odessa region today, the Operational Command Pivden reports. One missile hit the tanker Millennial Spirit (Moldovan flag), drifting in the territorial sea without a crew, with the remains of diesel fuel on board. The second missile, according to OK, self-destructed.
12:52 The Turkish authorities released the Russian dry cargo ship Zhibek Zholy, which arrived with a cargo of grain from the occupied Berdyansk, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said: "Thanks to the prompt intervention of the relevant authorities of Ukraine, this ship was unable to unload the stolen goods and was detained. A request was sent to the Turkish side to arrest the ship and cargo. At the same time, ignoring the request of the Ukrainian side, the ship was released on the evening of July 6."
The Foreign Ministry noted that in connection with the current unacceptable situation, the Turkish ambassador in Kyiv was invited to the department. The Ukrainian side asks to investigate the situation and provide an exhaustive response to requests.
12:34 In Kherson, the invaders are burning bodies to hide the losses. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, places with a large number of burnt remains were repeatedly seen in the vicinity of the city. The bodies are brought by trucks from the local pre-trial detention center. And in order to hide the facts of the deliberate burning of bodies, representatives of the occupying army are trying to pass it off as the result of artillery shelling and subsequent fires. At the scene, a powerful explosion was first heard, after which a fire broke out. Access of employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations to eliminate the fire is prohibited.
Also, Ukrainian military intelligence reported that the well-known Kherson collaborator Evgeny Sobolev, head of correctional colony No. 90, is in the city hospital named after. Luchansky on the 4th floor in the department of orthopedics. After the explosion of his car, Ilizarov devices were installed on both legs.
Also in Kherson, the re-registration of medical institutions and the search for health workers continues. Due to the fact that a large number of doctors did not agree to work for the enemy and left the occupied territories, the situation becomes critical. In particular, there is an acute shortage of anesthesiologists.
12:17 A new survey from the Ministry of Culture is available in Dії: what to do with the coat of arms of the USSR on the shield of the highest monument in Europe, the Motherland? Users are offered three response options: leave everything as it is; remove the Soviet coat of arms and leave the shield clean - "after the victory we will choose what to place there"; replace it with Trizub - the state emblem of Ukraine. The survey will run from 7 to 21 July, the results will be made public in two weeks.
11:46 For the third time since the beginning of the military invasion of Ukraine, Russia is blocking the export of Kazakh oil to the European Union through the terminal in Novorossiysk. Is this the Kremlin's reaction to President Tokayev's course? Read more in the article How Russia blocks oil from Kazakhstan to the EU .
11:33 Special forces units completed the task of cleaning up Zmeiny Island , OK Pivden reported. The destruction of about 30 units of enemy equipment was confirmed, "abandoned ammunition and solid ruins were found as a familiar trace of the Russian world." As a symbol of Victory and rebirth from these ruins, the Ukrainian military installed and secured the flag of Ukraine, which was delivered to the island earlier, the command said.
11:29 Lithuania will not agree to the establishment of "green corridors" for the transit of goods to the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation through its territory, presidential adviser Asta Skyisgirite said: "Transit countries should not be limited to Lithuania. From the main part of Russia to the Kaliningrad region, goods can also get through territory of Latvia or Poland, and we must remember that if there is any agreement on how she should travel, it should be valid for everyone."
11:27 The heads of MI5 and the FBI in a joint statement warned of the growing "long-term threat of China" to the interests of the UK and the US, writes Reuters. In particular, FBI Director Christopher Wray said that China "poses the biggest long-term threat" to the economic and national security of the UK, the US and allies.
11:25 In the Nikolaev region over the past day as a result of shelling, 18 people were injured, the head of the regional council Anna Zamazeeva reported. The settlements of the Bashtansky and Nikolaevsky districts fell under the blows, shelling was recorded in the Ochakovskaya, Shirokovskaya, Bereznegovatskaya, Pervomaiskaya, Kutsurubskaya and Galitsinovskaya communities.
11:23 Sky News, citing sources, reports that Downing Street is preparing a statement on Johnson's resignation. In turn, the BBC reports that Johnson nevertheless agreed to resign, but wants to remain prime minister until the fall, when a new leader is elected.
11:02 In Mariupol, people have been recruited to clear rubble on the territory of the MMK. Ilyich. Over the past week, eight civilians have been blown up during such work, said Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor. According to him, the invaders do not pay wages for such work: they promise to hire them after the plant is launched, supporting the fake spreading in the city that "the Chinese bought the plant."
10:37 In Pereyaslav, Kiev region, a monument dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the reunification of Ukraine with Russia was dismantled.
10:04 Ukrainian fighters planted a flag on Zmeiny Island, said serviceman Harut Papoyan.
09:58 In the Kharkiv region over the past day, as a result of shelling, two people were killed, one was wounded, the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov said. In Kharkiv, two rockets hit near a boarding school for visually impaired children in the Nemyshlyansky district. There are no previous casualties.
09:56 German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock said on the eve of the G20 foreign ministers' talks that Russia cannot be allowed to use the G20 for its own purposes: "We will not stand aside, allowing Russia to use the meeting as a tribune." Burbock also called on her colleagues for a common response to Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine.
09:28 Lithuania sent Bayraktar to Ukraine, the money for which was collected by the country's residents, said the country's Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas: "The first one flies out of Lithuania - the Lithuanian army took over all the logistics, and the Ministry of National Defense took care of the acquisition contracts, organized all legal formalities in accordance with the requirements of the law, so that the drone can reach Ukraine."
09:26 British intelligence reports that heavy shelling continued in the Donbas on the previous day with minor advances by the Russian side. The report also refers to new economic measures adopted by the State Duma of the Russian Federation. The law will give the authorities special powers in the field of labor relations, will release funds from state reserves and resume mobilization without its official announcement. It also allows the Russian Federation to avoid admitting that it is involved in the war, or its inability to defeat the smaller and more heavily armed Ukrainian army, analysts say.
09:21 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of July 7. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Avdeevsky and Bakhmut directions.
personnel - about 36,650 (+150) people liquidated,
tanks - 1602 (+2),
armored combat vehicles - 3797 (+8),
artillery systems - 815 (+3),
MLRS - 247 (+0),
air defense systems - 107 (+0),
aircraft - 217 (+0),
helicopters - 187 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 667 (+3),
cruise missiles - 155 (+2),
ships/boats - 15 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2665 (+17),
special equipment - 66 (+1).
08:40 Mayor of Nikolaev Alexander Senkevich reported about attacks of the village Limany of the Nikolaev area. The kindergarten, the community administration building were damaged, the fire truck of the local territorial community was destroyed, no one was injured. Also, according to him, yesterday at noon, the Russians hit the Shirokovskaya community. About 15 panels of the solar power plant were damaged, and one civilian was injured.
08:26 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that Ukrainian forces continue to create conditions for a counterattack on Kherson. Thus, geolocation satellite images show that the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked Russian positions in the area of Kherson City International Airport near Chernobaevka.
08:24 At dawn, the Russians attacked one of the districts of the Odessa region with two missiles, said the speaker of the OVA, Sergei Bratchuk. We hit two agricultural sheds, 35 tons of grain were destroyed. The attack of two missiles significantly damaged the pier of Zmeiny Island.
08:22 Russian troops are moving units in the Lugansk region in order to establish full control there, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in the morning report . On the Kharkov and Slavyansk directions, the enemy is trying to conduct assault operations.
08:20 For the third month now, Russians have not been able to capture the auto message from Lisichansk to Bakhmut, the head of the Luhansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai, reports. According to him, they control only those areas from which the Ukrainian forces retreated to new defensive positions. He also said that the Russians are accumulating forces among the locals - in Lisichansk and Severodonetsk.
08:18 APU hit the warehouses of the invaders in the Nikolaev and Kherson regions, OK Pivden reported. Three ammunition depots, a depot of fuel and lubricants and part of the personnel were liquidated.
08:16 The "DPR" reported that the "LPR" would be involved in the "international tribunal" over Ukrainian prisoners, and preliminary consent was also received from Syria.
08:14 In the controlled territory of the Donetsk region, seven civilians were killed by Russian shelling on July 6: three in Toretsk, two in Avdiivka, one each in Kodem and Seversk. Two more people were injured, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
08:11 In the Dnepropetrovsk region, the enemy continues to strike at the Krivoy Rog region. Under shelling again Zelenodolsk community. In Maryansky, a power line was damaged, the village was partially without electricity, but people were not injured, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko.
08:01 Austria takes the Haidach underground storage from Gazprom, Reuters writes. Energy Minister Leonora Gevssler said that "if customers do not store gas, then these capacities must be transferred to others. This is a critical infrastructure, we need it now in such a crisis."
07:58 The Russian army no longer has the strength to attack in more than one direction of the front, Danilov told the WSJ. According to him, four months after the start of the invasion, there were signs of depletion of the Russian arsenal. However, the WSJ writes that after the first mistakes, Russia has found a tactic that works. Currently, Russian troops are advancing step by step under the cover of artillery.
Danilov noted that Russia is accumulating a very large amount of artillery and armored vehicles for every square kilometer that the Ukrainian military is unable to cope with, and this gives the Russians an advantage. According to Danilov, for now, Ukraine should wage a defensive war.
07:37 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that the occupiers took an "operational pause", although they carried out unsuccessful ground attacks in all directions. This is evidenced by the fact that the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for the first time in 133 days of the war did not declare territorial "achievements." Russian forces are likely to limit themselves to relatively small offensive operations in an attempt to create conditions for larger offensive operations and restore the necessary combat power. Experts also note that the Kremlin is preparing the economy for a protracted war.
05:07 Russia has increased its naval grouping in the Black Sea to five missile ships and two submarines, OK Pivden reported. Together they carry 48 Calibers, along with one large landing craft.
00:24 The BBC has published a map of APU attacks on Russian warehouses in Ukraine over the past nine days.
00:13 Russia decided to convene an informal meeting of the UN Security Council on July 11 called Neo-Nazism and Radical Nationalism: A Study of the Root Causes of the Crisis in Ukraine , Ukrainian Permanent Representative Serhiy Kislitsa said: "A summer aggravation of aggressive mimicry is when the mission of a fascist country, in terms of the scale of destruction of Ukrainian cities, surpassed the Nazis and fascists, organizes another frenzy about “neo-Nazis” in New York. In particular, the invaders once again want to discuss the historical figures of Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych.
[NYPOST] A Manhattan judge on Thursday lowered the sky-high bail on a bodega worker who was charged with murder after fending off a violent mostly peaceful ex-con inside his store.
Jose Alba, 62, was being held on Rikers Island on $250,000 bail in the Friday night caught-on-video attack. The amount was reduced to $50,000, with Alba’s family and his boss coming up with the $5,000 needed to spring him on a bond.
Alba’s attorney, Danielle Jackson of Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, assured the judge that her client was going nowhere.
"He has every intention to return to court and defend this case," Jackson said.
Prosecutors with District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office had initially requested that Alba be held on $500,000 bail at his arraignment Saturday, citing a planned trip to the Dominican Republic next week as proof that he was a flight risk.
But prosecutors changed their tune at Thursday’s hearing.
"We believe the surrender of his passport, as well as the electronic monitoring and the restriction that he may not leave the five boroughs, will ensure the fact that defendant will not go to the DR as he planned to," said Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sigall.
Alba, 51, was manning the counter at Hamilton Heights Grocery on Broadway when Austin Simon, a 35-year-old career criminal and ex-con, stormed behind the counter and shoved him into a wall, the video shows. Austin Simon, aspiring rapper?
Simon then grabs Alba as the frightened clerk tries to get past him. Alba then grabs a knife and plunges it into Simon at least five times.
Simon’s girlfriend then pulls a knife from her purse and stabs Alba three times in the shoulder.
Alba, bloodied and still holding the knife, is seen waiting for police to arrive — only to have them arrest him and take him into custody.
In court, Manhattan prosecutors charged Alba with second-degree murder, but refused to file charges against Simon’s girlfriend for stabbing the bodega worker.
More than 20 relatives and supporters packed the courtroom for the video-feed court hearing in support of the beleaguered bodega worker.
At his arraignment Saturday, the DA’s office asked for $500,000 bail, but Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Eric Schumacher set bail at $250,000 cash or a $500,000 bond.
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Along the lines of "customers", "white supremicist Hispanics", "privileged classes" and so forth, I have been laughing about the campaign to free the tranny-not a tranny WNBA player. They are trying to come up with something catchy and can't seem to without stepping on a rake.
It just occurred to me something missing from this Carter re-dux is a daring special forces rescue mission.
[Breitbart] Senate Democrats want to pass a $500 billion package that would include major reforms to health care, climate change, and taxes, according to a report. What the hell? We can afford it. We're rollin’ in money. $1.2 trillion in circulation + $1.9 trillion in "stimulus" + $.5 trillion fresh pork = 300% inflation. Check with your local gas station to check my figures. Double check at the meat counter. We had 8% inflation on a good day. And I think I forgot another trillion and a half pork "infrastructure."
NBC News reported that Sen. Joe Manchin ...Dem senator-for-life from West Virginia. Manchin is one of the approximately one (okay, two) Dem senators who exhibits more integrity than Jello, often even representing his constituents... (D-WV), who was primarily responsible for tanking the Build Back Better Act, continues to hold talks with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer ...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 46.58601 years, or 326.10207 years in dog years. Senate minority leader as of 2017... (D-NY) on a reconciliation package that would spend $500 billion and raise $1 trillion in revenue.
The package would primarily focus on health care, energy, and taxes. One source told NBC News that the "ceiling" for climate change funding would be capped at $300 billion, making it a significant fixture of the package. Another provision that would allow Medicare to negotiate the price of prescription drugs would be expected to save money.
This would allow for Senate Democrats to potentially include extending enhanced Obamacare ...aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read... subsidies in the bill, which would cost $220 billion if the subsidies were extended permanently, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
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#Finland's parliament passes legislation to build stronger fences on its border with Russia, as the country seeks to join #NATO following Moscow’s invasion of #Ukraine.https://t.co/w7rsnrPPOO
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) July 7, 2022
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Oh, my, stronger fences. What's next, a Maginot Line of some sort?
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Unfortunate but that is our world today. Johnson undermined and stabbed in the back from all sides and he could not overcome the myriad of attacks. Here at home Trump preceded him and even after leaving office he is attacked from all sides but on his own Trump will return(like Netanyahu). The only man in my opinion who could orchestrate an America reborn. Why continue? he is the truest sense of the word a patriot. DeSantis no way. The media will tear him apart. An attorney yes but that is a controlled environment. Hostile crowds and hostile media are what he must constantly respond to and overcome. What I have seen so far is tame. He would fold as Jonson did. Assad has staying power because of his support plain and simple. Assassinate or depose would be our elites way. Call him a puppet but Putin is loyal it seems. A friend of Russia is a friend of Putin.
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Putin supports Assad because Syria was always a useful tool for the Soviets. If Assad ever told Putin "no", he'd be declared a "Nazi" and Wagner would be tasked with his assassination.
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As I understand strategies Defense is much harder that offense and that is the magic of Trump to prevail.
[WND] State officials are being called on to fight Joe Biden's scheme to take over the nation's elections.
It is Mollie Hemingway, the editor-in-chief at The Federalist, a senior journalism fellow at Hillsdale College and a Fox News contributor, who reported on the move being initiated by several government watchdogs.
She explained, "Governors and other state officials don’t have to stand idly by as the Biden administration plots a federal takeover of elections. That’s the message being sent by the heads of two good government groups in a new memo to state officials."
She cites Russ Vought of the Center for Renewing America and Tarren Bragdon of the Foundation for Government Accountability who issued a statement: "The Biden administration wants to use federal government resources for political, get-out-the-vote purposes, and it’s up to strong leaders in state and local government to stop them. We strongly urge those in positions of power to stop President Biden’s power grab and act soon."
[Investors] As Facebook turns 18 years old this year, the longtime whiz kid of social media is embarking on a new life under the name Meta Platforms (META). But the company is struggling with its newfound maturity, and Wall Street is fretting over the metaverse stock like a worried parent.
Meta stock has lost more than half its value since last September, as Facebook and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg have tethered the company's future to the metaverse, an entirely new method of communicating.
The risky bet comes as troubles mount at the company. User growth is stalling, and advertising revenue is under pressure due to competition and the slowing economy. The company faces increasing scrutiny from Congress, while upstarts are challenging its social media dominance. And while Facebook sees massive potential in the metaverse, there's no guarantee its gamble will pay off. Read the rest at the link
[NYPOST] A Texas man was instantly killed by a firework he placed on top of his head on July Fourth, according to local reports.
Pablo Ruiz, a 43-year-old San Antonio man, had been drinking with friends during a July Fourth celebration when he decided to light a mortar-style firework on top of his head, reported the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
The firework went kaboom! from the bottom and pierced the top of his skull, resulting in his near-instant death, police told the paper.
San Antonio coppers arrived in the residential area shortly after midnight. Ruiz was suffering from severe head trauma with brain matter exposed from his skull. brain matter he had not been previously using, apparently
The man died shortly after and was later identified by the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office.
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[BIZPACREVIEW] Jeh Johnson, a lawyer who was the Homeland Security secretary in the B.O. regime, has expressed doubts about the way the partisan January 6 committee presented the "vivid" testimony of ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson.
To much corporate media fanfare, Hutchinson luridly claimed that President Trump had attempted to grab the steering wheel from the driver as Secret Service escorted him from the January 6, 2021, rally back to the White House, and that he lunged at an agent.
During the standard anti-Trump roundtable on NBC’s "Meet the Press," Johnson — who is otherwise a big fan of the investigation into what he described as an event that met the definition of "insurrection" — implied that the committee itself may have metaphorically lunged.
"I’m concerned as the former federal prosecutor in me — that gets you a lot of cred these days on television — I’m concerned that the committee may have overreached on the incident in the vehicle," he said in the video clip embedded above.
"It was colorful; it was vivid, it was collateral to the central charge, and it was second-hand hearsay," he added, in that Hutchinson did not personally witness the things she told the committee.
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Trump! Trump! Trump!
In the prison cell I sit, thinking Mother, dear, of you,
And our bright and happy home so far away,
And the tears, they fill my eyes 'spite of all that I can do,
Tho' I try to cheer my comrades and be gay.
Trump, Trump,Trump, the boys are marching,
Cheer up, comrades, they will come,
And beneath the starry flag we shall breathe the air again
Of the free land in our own beloved home.
In the battle front we stood, when their fiercest charge they made,
And they swept us off a hundred men or more,
But before we reached their lines, they were beaten back dismayed,
And we heard the cry of vict'ry o'er and o'er.
Trump, Trump,Trump, the boys are marching,
Cheer up, comrades, they will come,
And beneath the starry flag we shall breathe the air again
Of the free land in our own beloved home.
So within the prison cell we are waiting for the day
That shall come to open wide the iron door,
And the hollow eye grows bright, and the poor heart almost gay,
As we think of seeing home and friends once more.
Trump, Trump,Trump, the boys are marching,
Cheer up, comrades, they will come,
And beneath the starry flag we shall breathe the air again
Of the free land in our own beloved home.
Composed in 1863, at a point in the War when many men from both armies had exchanged the dangers of life in the field for the rigors of life in the prison camps, this song is possibly the most famous prison song ever written. It quickly caught on with the public and with the soldiers as well, who found that its catchy tune made it an ideal marching song.
And now song of the framed victims of 1/6.
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[NYPOST] The Biden administration has quietly given the green light to completing a border barrier separating Southern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, from Mexico — a project that was initially planned by the Trump White House.
In late May, the Department of Homeland Security announced it would replace a "deteriorated barrier" located near the cross-border Friendship Park in Imperial Beach, just south of San Diego.
In the announcement, the department said the barrier "has not been treated to withstand corrosion from nearby ocean waters and currently poses safety risks to Border Patrol agents, community members, and migrants colonists."
Funding for the project, DHS added, would be drawn from funds allocated to pay for President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... ’s infamous border wall.
Late last month, immigration advocates said they were told construction would soon begin on two 30-foot barriers that would extend the existing wall all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
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Hispanics trending Republican finally beginning to have an impact?
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They want to channel the flow to AZ and TX. CA impact is overwhelming the state's ability to pay out all the benefits offered to illegals.
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The Gringo side has been closed for a while, much to the screeching of the American Friends Service Committee Legal Alien Transportation Enthusiasts
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It’s posturing, but it’s good posturing, reminding the Speaker that soon enough she’ll have to answer these questions for real.
[GatewayPundit] In February 2021 Republican Representatives Jim Jordan (R-OH), Devin Nunes (R-CA), Rodney Davis (R-IL) and James Comer (R-KY) sent a letter to Speaker Pelosi on her failure to protect the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The four ranking members asked Speaker Pelosi to explain her decision to:
** Deny national guard support on January 4th
** What conversations did she or her staff give Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving specifit to January 6th?
** What response did you give security officials on January 6th when National Guard support was initially requested?
** Why are House Officers refusing to turn over documents relevant to that day?
The Republican politicians claim the hour-long delay in National Guard approval was because the sergeant-at-arms "had to run the request up the chain of command," including to Pelosi.
Republicans also note in their letter that Pelosi refused National Guard protection because the "optics" would be bad.
Pelosi delayed the request for the National Guard for an hour. Why was this?
Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser also refused National Guard protection before January 6th.
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You got optics and then you got optics. Some people see things a little differently.
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Only dummies don’t know why. It is the same as Russiagate or Clinton Corruption. Everybody knows about it, but can you get someone in a spot where the pony up documents and evidence against the will of all the corrupt Fauci filled federal government institutions.
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A little late for this year’s primaries, I suppose.
[EpochTimes] Conservative leaders in Georgia and Ohio are spearheading calls for Republicans to close their state primaries and allow only voters registered with their parties to participate in inter-party preliminary elections.
Good idea.
Atlanta Tea Party co-founder and President Debbie Dooley and Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Renacci both told The Epoch Times that Democrats are "weaponizing" crossover voting to skew outcomes in key GOP primaries across the country either to ensure the election of moderates or to nominate candidates unlikely to be successful in a general election.
Dooley, Renacci, and other conservatives are calling on Republican politicians in their states to close primaries to only those registered with parties.
They join the leaders of conservative groups and GOP politicians in at least seven other states—including Alabama, Montana, Missouri, Tennessee, New Hampshire, Wyoming, and Texas—who are lobbying for more restrictive primary elections before the 2024 election cycle.
TIDE OF ’CROSSOVERS’ "Democrats did mischief" in Georgia, Dooley said, citing analyses from The News Agency that Dare Not be Named and Landmark Communications that estimate anywhere from 67,000 to 85,000 voters who cast ballots in the state’s 2020 Democratic primaries voted in Republican primaries on May 24, 2022.
The analyses confirmed conservatives’ contention that a Democrat-orchestrated tide of "crossover" votes proved decisive as Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger garnered the required 50 percent in the GOP primary to avoid a runoff against Trump-backed challenger Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.).
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Open primaries, jungle primaries, whatever. It's all just another opportunity for mischief, shenanigans and outright cheating which, of course, is why the Democrats like it.
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I believe open primaries are bad. The greatest leverage point against them will be in 2024. We can all threaten to install Buttigieg as Trump’s opponent. They can’t install Cheney in Wyoming; there aren’t enough Democrats. After a couple of more years of Biden Harris Obama, we will have commanding majorities in rational states.
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[Breitbart] President Joe Biden’s administration sold 950,000 barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to a Chinese state-owned gas company that has financial ties to a private equity firm cofounded by Hunter Biden, according to a Washington Free Beacon report.
In April, Biden’s Department of Energy announced the nearly one million barrel sale to Unipec, which is the trading arm of Sinopec. Sinopec is wholly owned and operated by the Chinese Communist Party.
Unipec reportedly purchases oil across the globe and then apparently sells it through its Sinopec Marketing subsidiary.
According to Unipec’s LinkedIn page:
UNIPEC America, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of China International United Petroleum and Chemical Co. Ltd., better known as UNIPEC. UNIPEC is the trading arm of SINOPEC, currently No.2 largest company on the Global Fortune 500 list in 2019.
Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, reportedly has financial ties to the CCP-owned Sinopec. A private equity firm Hunter Biden cofounded reportedly purchased a nearly $2 billion stake in Sinopec Marketing in 2015.
As the Free Beacon reported:
Biden is connected to Sinopec through BHR Partners, a private equity firm he cofounded in 2013. BHR bought a $1.7 billion stake in Sinopec Marketing in 2015. Biden at one point owned a 10 percent stake in BHR Partners through his wholly owned firm, Skaneateles, LLC.
It is unclear whether the younger Biden still has a financial stake in BHR Partners. Biden’s White House has repeatedly claimed throughout 2019 and 2020 that Hunter Biden was out of the equity firm, but Chinese corporate records show he still has a stake in the company.
Biden’s White House has dodged questions about Hunter Biden’s stake in BHR, directing the press to Hunter Biden’s representatives for more information.
"On the first, the president’s son is not an employee of the federal government, so I’d point you to his representatives," former White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in December. "I think I answered your question. You can go to the representative of the person who is not an employee of the federal government."
Biden’s administration said the sale would "address the pain Americans are feeling at the pump" and fight back against "Putin’s price hike," as the administration calls it.
However, Unipec has continued to fuel the Russian economy by purchasing oil from the country, despite promises that it would purchase "no more Russian oil going forward."
As recent as May, Unipec "significantly increased the number of hired tankers to ship a key crude from eastern Russia," according to Bloomberg.
Daniel Turner, founder of Power the Future, blasted Biden’s move and told the Washington Free Beacon that it highlights the Biden family’s "relationship with China."
"We were assured Biden was releasing this oil to America so it could be refined for gasoline to drive down prices at the pump. So right off the bat, they’re just lying to the American people," Turner said. "What they’re saying they did and what they did are not remotely related."
[NYPOST] A Florida kidnapping suspect was shot in the head by a deputy trying to free a therapist taken hostage and repeatedly raped during a harrowing, 15-hour ordeal, authorities said.
Tzvi Allswang, 20, suffered a serious injury, but survived and was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail on Wednesday, the sheriff’s office said.
Deputies responded to Allswang’s home in Boca Raton around 6:30 p.m. Saturday after getting a call from the victim’s partner, asking them to perform a welfare check.
A probable cause affidavit that was obtained by The Post stated that the caller told cops her partner had failed to return home from her client’s house after their therapy session.
When deputies approached the residence, they heard a woman screaming for help and forced their way inside.
Upon reaching the master bedroom, the deputies found Allswang standing inside a closet and holding a knife to a woman’s throat, authorities said.
After Allswang refused repeated commands to drop the knife, Sgt. William Nogueras shot him once in the head, allowing the hostage to break free.
The woman was transported to a hospital in a stable condition and was treated for injuries to her head and body from allegedly being beaten and raped by Allswang.
During an emotional interview with Sherlocks, the woman said that she had gone to Allswang’s home to conduct a therapy session last Friday evening.
She said she was aware that Allswang had a sexual battery charge as a juvenile.
At the end of their meeting, the victim said, Allswang grabbed her around the chest in a "bear hug" and told her she could not leave. He then took away the woman’s phone and bound her hands behind her back with duct tape, according to the affidavit.
"During the course of the night she pleaded numerous times for him to let her go and he said that he was not going to let her go," the court document stated.
Allswang allegedly pummeled the therapist all over her body with his hands and knees, bit her nipple and raped her "multiple times," including with a vibrating massager, which the victim said "really hurt her."
The woman told detectives that on several occasions during her captivity, she thought Allswang was going to kill her.
When deputies finally responded to the house, the woman said, Allswang placed a large kitchen knife against her throat and warned her to be quiet "or he would cut her throat," according to the filing.
Allswang faces a half-dozen felony charges, including attempted murder with a weapon, four counts of sexual battery with force, and kidnapping.
His graphic booking photo shows him with severe swelling to his bandaged head and bruising on his right eye.
Allswang made his initial court appearance on Thursday and was ordered held without bond. He is expected to be back before a judge on Aug. 8.
Nogueras, a 14-year veteran who is currently assigned to the K-9 unit, has been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation.
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Dug a little deeper as what type therapist travels to her clients homes to provide services?
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Is that accurate, Skidmark? I was under the impression that the ideal position was a little higher — between the eyebrows rather than the bridge of the nose between the eyes.
[ZH] A late night ICBM missile test in California ended in disaster, as it exploded just seconds after lift-off on Wednesday.
Officials with the Vandenberg Space Force Base in Lompoc, California confirmed that "The Minotaur II space launch vehicle exploded approximately 11 seconds after launching off the test pad at 11:01 p.m. local time, Vandenberg," which was announced Thursday morning. Well, no rocket scientists involved in the writing of this story, but some stuff to unwrap.
The incident resulted in a fire on base, though officials noted that debris from the blast didn't stray outside of the "immediate vicinity" of the launch bad. The local Vandenberg Fire Department responded and was able to put out the fire before it threatened other areas of the base. No injuries were reported.
A cause of the failed test was not immediately clear, and it's under investigation. Local reports, citing military press releases, say the test was originally slated for Thursday morning but was moved up to late Wednesday night for unknown reasons.
"The military base was testing the U.S. Air Force’s new missile rocket, which is expected to be used with the future LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile," one area report details.
"Both are being developed by the Air Force’s Nuclear Weapons Center to will replace the aging Minuteman missiles that have previously been tested at the Central Coast base, located near Lompoc," the reported added. Minotaur II is a Peacekeeper, nee MX missile booster first deployed in 1985. While it was quickly withdrawn as part of an arms control treaty, Minotaur boosters have been used for orbital missions since de-commissioning.
According to a defense journal the launch was intended to demonstrate the vehicle's "preliminary design concepts and relevant payload technologies in operationally realistic environments," based on an Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center statement. Is the upcoming GBSD replacement for the Minuteman III going to be based on 35+ year old technology? Unlikely. But, since Peacekeeper was fielded, the number of American arms makers participating in the competition for the GBSD has shrunk.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] See also here.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, 67, was shot in the chest on FridayHe was in the city of Nara in Western Japan giving a campaign speech when he was shot
Abe collapsed around 11:30 a.m. as witnesses reported hearing a gunshot
He is reportedly in heart failure and showing no vital signs
A man, 42, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of attempted murder
Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, of Nara City, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, police said, according to NHK. A gun confiscated from the scene appeared to be homemade, police said.
Updated by the Daily Mail at 1:06 a.m. EDT to add:
Local media including national broadcaster NHK and the Kyodo news agency said the former prime minister appeared to be in 'cardiorespiratory arrest,' a term often used in Japan before a feared death can be officially confirmed by a coroner.
As of 4:00 a.m EDT:
Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, a military veteran, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of attempted murder.
Update at 9:55 a.m. EDT:
The 67-year-old, who served for a total of nine years over two terms, was gunned down in the city of Nara around 11.30am as he rallied support for the local candidate ahead of parliamentary elections on Sunday. His death was reported by public broadcaster NHK around six hours later, shortly after wife Akie arrived at his bedside.
Tetsuya Yamagami, 41 and a navy veteran, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of attempted murder while wielding what appeared to be a home-made shotgun. Police say he has since confessed, telling them he wanted to kill Abe because he was 'dissatisfied' with him.
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There are now good photos at the link of the murderer with the home made gun hanging at his side from a one-point sling (I think that’s the technical term) and a close-up of the gun: two pieces of pipe thoroughly duct-taped to a 1x4” length of wood.
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Guns do not need to be complicated things. Some of the most complicated, like the C96 Mauser, M249 SAW and Colt Model 1877, have been historically important. Now, this simple assemblage of hardware store items is too.
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Ah, a "ghost" gun. Time to close hardware stores! (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
[AmThinker] For decades, conservatives ceded the cultural battlefield to the likes of John Maverick McCain ... late Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution. As an ordinary citizen he greased the infamous hookers peeing on the Obamabed in Moscow dossier in an attempt to smear President Trump... , Willard Mitt Romney, aka Pierre Delecto ...former governor of Massachussetts, the Publican nominee for president in 2012, now Senator from Utah. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. He is currently a trans Republican and a member in good standing of the Never Trump Party, attempting to assume the mantle of the late John McCain... , Paul Ryan ...Former Speaker of the House, U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, serving since 1999. He is a member of the Republican Party. He proposed an alternative to President Obama's 2011 budget and made himself the target of both Democrat and Republican verbal pies... , and John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner ... the occasionally weepy former establishmentarian leader of House Republicans... . We were told, that if we wanted to win, to shut up on social issues such as child sacrifice abortion, religious freedom, immigration, gay marriage, gun rights, etc. — because to argue for life (and against child sacrifice abortion), for heterosexual marriage, for public prayer, for school choice, for secure borders, or for any other rights was far too contentious. Doing so would anger half the electorate.
Instead, our faux leaders said we must focus only on taxes, balanced budgets, and other fiscal issues. In the process, a few battles were won but the war was being lost. America, as our forefathers and the Greatest Generation knew it, was being destroyed one progressive victory at a time — cultural death by a 1,000 cuts. If you were disgusted with misogynist rap lyrics on the radio, killing of babies in the womb, sexual grooming of young children, and racism openly taught in schools, tough; get used to it because that’s the new norm. You must accept the most abhorrent behavior or be called racist, homophobe, misogynist, and on and on. Learn to love it because more’s coming. And it did.
Having been neglected by neocons, denigrated by Obama for "clinging to our guns and Bibles", and punked by way too many Republicans for far too long; conservative voters were disgusted with the GOP and looked for someone/anyone who talked straight and talked to them. Then, MAGA Man descended the escalator, and everything changed. Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... spoke to the people because he talked about issues that concerned the people. He was unabashedly "America First", unashamed about his wealth (unlike Romney), and talked directly to us "deplorable" Americans. Candidate Trump blasted fake conservatives such as Jeb "low energy" Bush, and "little Marco" Rubio. Everyone knew exactly who Trump was and what we were getting — an unfiltered politician who promised to "make America great again" starting with overturning Roe v. Wade.
A week after the November 2016 election, President-elect Trump did a 60-Minutes interview with Leslie Stahl. She asked him about potential Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... (SC) nominees. Trump responded, "I’m pro-life, and the judges will be pro-life, and they’re going to be very pro 2nd Amendment." Being very prescient, he continued, "Having to do with child sacrifice abortion, if it ever were overturned, it’s going to go back to the states." Trump predicted what would happen. During his 4-year presidency, President Trump nominated (and confirmed) three SC justices — Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. All three are pro-life, pro-Second Amendment but more importantly, pro-Constitution as it’s written. Last week was the culmination of Trump’s presidency. How so? Roe was overturned, child sacrifice abortion was sent back to the states, the federal bureaucracy was reeled in, Rights guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment were strengthened, and the SC confirmed that religious freedoms cannot be denied.
Bravo to President Trump who continues winning. To be fair, give credit where credit is due. Others helped him with his SC nominations and confirmations. Most credit goes to Trump, to the pro-life movement and a few Reps. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... he had outstanding support from Dems, libs, progressives, leftists, and other snuffies who are pro-child sacrifice abortion, anti-2nd Amendment, anti-religion, and who hate him. How, you ask? I’ll explain beginning with:
1. Senators Harry Reid ... the charismatic now retired senator-for-life from Nevada, formerly majority leader, who was beaten to within an inch of his life by a treadmill ... , Senate Majority Leader and Mitch McConnell ...Senate minority leader from Kentucky. A politician's politician, Mitch is smarter than he's given credit for, not as smart as he thinks he is. He is married to former education secretary Elaine Chao, whose father has extensive shipping interests, including a company in China, which makes sense since he's Chinese. He is sometimes maligned as Cocaine Mitch because a few million bucks' worth of the drug was once found on one of his father-in-law's ships in Colombia, which is kind of a tenuous assertion, to say the least... , Minority Leader. It was Reid who, in 2013, ended the filibuster rules for federal court nominations. He did so because Obama was having trouble getting several federal justices confirmed, as Republicans threatened to filibuster those nominees. Reid killed the filibuster which, had it still been in place during President Trump’s presidency, would likely have prevented Trump’s SC nominees from being confirmed. Thank you, Harry. Then, in 2016, McConnell refused to allow Merrick Garland ...Attorney General of the U.S., who classifies indignant parents as domestic terrorists. The is the respected legal scholar Obama nominated for the Supreme Court... ’s nomination to be voted on by the Senate, saying the next president should be allowed to nominate a candidate. Fortunately, Trump won, and he nominated Gorsuch. Additionally, when Trump nominated Kavanaugh (in 2018), McConnell refused to allow the Dems to destroy Kavanaugh’s character. Thank you, Mitch.
2. Dr. Kermit Gosnell and Planned Parenthood ...has received federal funding since 1970, when President Richard Nixon signed into law the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act. It is sometimes described as the gynecololgical wing of the Democratic party... (PP) who showed us the evil and depravity of the child sacrifice abortion industry by killing thousands (Gosnell) and millions (PP) of babies. Gosnell’s child sacrifice abortion clinic was described as a "house of horrors." When authorities searched his clinic, they found bags and bottles of fetuses scattered throughout. The grand jury that heard testimony of Gosnell’s horrors discovered that he used scissors to severe the spines of hundreds of born-alive babies. And PP sold aborted baby body parts. Yes, this is as disgusting as it sounds but that’s exactly what PP did. Undercover video proves that PP officials sold aborted baby parts. They used child sacrifice abortion techniques to preserve fresh, intact organs from late-term child sacrifice abortions, and sold them. Such repulsive behavior turned people against child sacrifice abortions.
3. Our "woke" Dems and leftists -- for decades, lied about child sacrifice abortion. Ever since Roe legalized child sacrifice abortions, they sold us that child sacrifice abortions should be "safe, legal, and rare." Perhaps at one time that was their goal, but no longer. If Dems had maintained their safe, legal, and rare position - meaning child sacrifice abortions in cases of rape, incest, or the mother’s life at risk, the pro-life uproars might have died down. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... Dems abandoned "safe and rare" and have turned child sacrifice abortions into a sacrament that are bragged about by women who had one (here, here, here, and here), and longed for by those who haven’t. Abortion activist muppet Amelia Bonow boasted, "I had an child sacrifice abortion at Planned
Parenthood and it was a great experience." Then, Lena Dunham admitted, "I still haven’t had an child sacrifice abortion, but I wish I had."
Democrats, such as Stacey Abrams ...the pudgy, sour grapes lo-o-o-o-o-ser (Loser! Loser! Loser!) of the 2018 Georgia governor's race. Stacey nominated herself to be Joe Biden's vice president nominee, to widespread national apathy. She has a very keen eye for Racism in any form, to include the imaginary... , embrace a revolting love, hate, and death culture. They are narcissists and so absorbed in their own irrelevant existence that they hate the "inconvenience" of children and love that they can extinguish such inconveniences by killing the baby in their womb. Others, like Barack Obama If you like your coverage you can keep it... , support child sacrifice abortions so women aren’t "punished with a child." Many other Dems helped Trump overturn Roe, including Ralph Coonman Northam Governor of Virginia, another Dem Great White Hope. He has a fondness for wearing blackface. He won election by calling his Publican opponent Ed Gillespie a racist, but then, don't they all? (former VA governor who discussed killing babies born alive), Kathy Tran (current VA Delegate who introduced a bill that allowed killing babies while being delivered), and almost every Hollywood A-list actor.
4. Finally, special thanks must go to Dr. Fauci, who proved the hypocrisy and the dishonesty of the "right to privacy" argument when he insisted you don’t have a right to body privacy and must get Covid jabbed but women have a right to privacy to kill her baby.
Humanity loves babies, and most would die to protect theirs. Not Dems; they claim children are punishment (and must be aborted), are an inconvenience (and should be aborted), or babies simply don’t fit their lifestyle (and can be aborted). Wrong; and because of that, Trump continues to win.
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The precedent for all the garbage that needs to now be cleaned up is elimination of prayer. Society stopped praying 50 years ago and the harvest is infanticide and drag queens gunning down folks at a Fourth of July parade.
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[RIA Novosti] Ukrainian troops fired again at an oil depot in Donetsk, the Ministry of Information of the Donetsk People's Republic wrote on its Telegram channel.
"VFU (Armed formations of Ukraine - Ed.) attacked an oil depot in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk," the message says.
More than a hundred residents of Donetsk have died in the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine since the end of February.
As the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination previously stated , Ukrainian militants fired five shells of 152 mm caliber at the capital of the republic.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine also fired at Gorlovka and Dolomitnoye, firing ten shells of 122 and 152 mm caliber, the department added.
A ten-year-old girl became a victim of shelling of the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian troops on Tuesday, July 5. The Investigative Committee of Russia will establish the identity of the Ukrainian security forces involved in the incident.
The day before, the mayor of the city, Aleksey Kulemzin, reported that ammunition had entered the territory of the oil depot, as a result of which a fire started, it was managed to be eliminated.
[RIA Novosti] Ukrainian nationalists are planning to blow up an orphanage in Sloviansk along with its staff to accuse the Russian army of indiscriminate shelling, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center, said.
According to him, "it has been reliably established that in Slavyansk, Donetsk People's Republic, Ukrainian nationalists are preparing another cynical provocation with the death of civilians to accuse the Russian armed forces of inflicting indiscriminate strikes on civilian objects."
"For this purpose, neo-Nazis forcibly hold the staff of the institution in the building of the Topolek orphanage (Bulvarnaya Street). At the same time, the building is mined, and militants of the nationalist units plan to blow it up with the start of Russian troops' artillery strikes on military targets," Colonel General said.
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
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...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
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... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too...
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Russian occupiers are shelling Avdievka , in the Donetsk region , around the clock .
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[NYPOST] Lorella Palmer, a 22-year-old influencer and style blogger from London, England said she doesn’t want kids for a variety of reasons and she’s tired of people trying to change her mind or call her decision "selfish."
[NYPOST] Thanks to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, New York is a city turned upside down.
/\How many of this type would have made it thru law school without affirmative action, AKA the soft bigotry of low expectations?
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
There are no Polish troops in Ukraine dude, this is the latest Russian big lie Badanov served you up.
A Manhattan judge on Thursday lowered the sky-high bail on a bodega worker who was charged with murder after fending off a 
[Breitbart] Senate Democrats want to pass a $500 billion package that would include major reforms to health care, climate change, and taxes, according to a report.
[NYPOST] A Texas man was instantly killed by a firework he placed on top of his head on July Fourth, according to local reports.
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
The legal system has been derailed. Everybody knows about it, nobody does anything. 
A Florida kidnapping suspect was shot in the head by a deputy trying to free a therapist taken hostage and repeatedly raped during a harrowing, 15-hour ordeal, authorities said.
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Harry Reid
