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US assassinates ISIS leader in Syria Maher al-Agal - CENTCOM
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Has YOUR crime obsession gone too far? Psychologists reveal how flashbacks to personal trauma and anxiety over daily activities like driving could by caused by your TV binges
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/12/2022 14:34 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11128 views] Top|| File under:


Good Morning

Is the NYTimes Leading a Dump Biden Campaign
Tuesday July 12th, 2022

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Ghana Immigration Service Warns Against Infiltration Of Boko Haram Terrorists Freed From Nigeria's Kuje Prison
Terrorists Paid Over N700Million As Ransom To Free 7 Abducted Abuja-Kaduna Train Passengers
Gunmen Invade Church, Kidnap Wife Of Imo Zoo General Manager
Terrorists Invade Farms In Zamfara Community, Kill 13
Cholera outbreak kills 20 Children in southern Afghanistan
SNA Casualties Reported In Government Shelling Of Syria%u2019s Aleppo, More Syrian Gov%u2019t Forces to Deploy to SDF-held Areas on Turkey Border
Radio host for far-left Portland station
@KBOO allegedly kidnapped a child & raped her

Posted by: Fred || 07/12/2022 14:31 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11142 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A era when there wasn't confusion about what a woman was. You didn't need to be a biologist.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/12/2022 11:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Yeah.
All these guys wearing long flowing gowns is confusing.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/12/2022 13:36 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
How Tim Ryan Spends His Time in DC
[FreeBeacon] The last bill that Ryan sponsored that was signed into law was in January 2021. That law renamed a Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic. Before then, Ryan had not seen any of his bills signed into law since 2014.

Rep. Tim Ryan (D., Ohio) calls himself a "relentless advocate for Ohio’s working families," but his nearly two-decade stretch in Washington, D.C., has resulted in passing just four bills, according to a Washington Free Beacon review of his sponsored legislation.

Of those laws, three of them were to rename federal buildings, including a post office in Tallmadge, Ohio. The fourth bill transferred the ownership of a Ravenna, Ohio, building from the federal government to the Ohio government.

Ryan, who is running for Ohio’s open Senate seat in November, first entered Congress in 2003 after serving a half term in the Ohio Senate. He claims on his campaign website that he has spent his time in Washington, D.C., working on, among other things, bipartisan legislation to solve the opioid crisis, strengthen entitlements, and bring jobs back from overseas. "Tim has spent his career fighting for Ohio workers," Ryan’s campaign website reads.

But none of that rhetoric has translated into bills signed into law and raises questions about Ryan’s central campaign pitch: That he’s a bipartisan dealmaker looking to overcome partisan divides. Generally, incumbents try to sell voters on their record. In Ryan’s case, he speaks about what is possible if Democrats maintain control of the Senate—rather than what he has accomplished.

"So we have to invest into our people. Into child care. Into our families. Into our kids. Into shop class," Ryan said at a recent campaign stop. "Into building resiliency for our kids, so that they have the grit and the determination to go out in this world that's crazy as can be."
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 07/12/2022 12:31 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11131 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US assassinates ISIS leader in Syria Maher al-Agal - CENTCOM
[Jpost] The US assassinated the leader of ISIS in Syria, Maher al-Agal, in an airstrike on Tuesday, US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on Tuesday afternoon.

The strike targeted al-Agal, one of the top five leaders in ISIS, and a senior ISIS official nearby was seriously injured, according to CENTCOM.

Al-Agal was also responsible for "aggressively pursuing" the development of ISIS networks outside of Iraq and Syria.

"This strike reaffirms CENTCOM's steadfast commitment to the region and the enduring defeat of ISIS," said Col. Joe Buccino, a CENTCOM spokesperson. "The removal of these ISIS leaders will disrupt the terrorist organization's ability to further plot and carry out global attacks.

Earlier in the day, the White Helmets reported that one person was killed and another was injured when an unidentified drone targeted a motorcycle near Jindires in northwest Syria's Aleppo Governorate. The injured person has since died.

One of the people on the motorcycle was carrying an ID card with the name Khalid Subaih, according to Syrian media.

The reported assassination comes just a day before US President Joe Biden was set to begin his visit to Israel and Saudi Arabia.

In June, US forces captured senior ISIS leader Hani Ahmed al-Kurdi in Syria.

In February, ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi killed himself and his family during a raid by US Special Forces in northern Syria. Al-Quraishi had led the movement since the death of its founder, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was also killed when he detonated explosives during a US raid in 2019.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/12/2022 10:50 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11141 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  He's deader than disco. And soon to follow hiphop and rap.
Posted by: jpal || 07/12/2022 16:40 Comments || Top||


Europe
First Protest Spotted At The Tour de France
This happened about ten minutes ago; a couple of knuckleheads laying down in the road and set off some red smoke bombs. Race was temporarily stopped by race officials.

If you get USA Network, check it out now; I'll post links as they become available.

[CyclingNews] 'We must stop the mad dash to our annihilation' say Dernière Rénovation

Posted by: Raj || 07/12/2022 10:12 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11145 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Aren't there some pretty high cliff along the race path? Might be able to solve this issue permanently.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/12/2022 10:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Top Ten crashes at the Tour de France.
Posted by: Raj || 07/12/2022 11:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Darth - yes, quite a few cliffs in the Alps & Pyrenees mountains when they're coming down off of one; Fabio Casartelli went off one back in 1995 doing 50 MPH and was killed instantly.
Posted by: Raj || 07/12/2022 11:15 Comments || Top||

#4  I wonder if Dernière Rénovation is yet another branch of the Black Bloc movement, like Antifa, BLM, ELF, and so forth...
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/12/2022 11:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Doping or not, if you can complete the Tour de France, then "chapeau" to you.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/12/2022 11:31 Comments || Top||

#6  Years & years ago there was this Catalan separatist group (forget the name right now) that used to pull these stunts whenever they went through the Pyrenees mountain stages. Haven't seen those guys in ages now.
Posted by: Raj || 07/12/2022 11:32 Comments || Top||

#7  Today's race was stopped for 20 minutes by ten morons 'climate action protestors'.
Posted by: Raj || 07/12/2022 11:50 Comments || Top||

#8  So, not even bicycles are "green" enough?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/12/2022 11:56 Comments || Top||


#10  M. Murcek, no, because of all the extra CO2 the cyclists breathe out.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/12/2022 14:24 Comments || Top||

#11  They should have a car go before the cyclists. If anyone is in the road the car will either squish them or force them to reconsider their protests.
Posted by: ruprecht || 07/12/2022 16:11 Comments || Top||

#12  I thought bikes were all green and favored?
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/12/2022 16:17 Comments || Top||


#14  When the NBC crew was covering this live, I spotted a picture from the 1980's of Bernard Hinault ('The Badger', five time TdF winner) punching a protestor hard in the face with an overhand right when they pulled that shit back then. To me, that's the right response.
Posted by: Raj || 07/12/2022 19:16 Comments || Top||

#15  And here it is.
Posted by: Raj || 07/12/2022 20:49 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
We May Be About To See A Real Coup
RUMINT
[AndMagazine] We have already seen multiple political opponents of the Biden regime targeted by the White House and the Attorney General. Now the Gateway Pundit is predicting that the Democrats may intend to arrest former President Trump in October prior to the fall elections. Sources talking to AND Magazine have reported they are hearing the same thing from inside the January 6th committee and that thousands of other Americans who were in D.C. on January 6, 2021, will be arrested as well.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 07/12/2022 10:05 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11140 views] Top|| File under:

#1  BTW, that's how the Romans formally ended their republic. Prosecuting the former rulers and followers. Why do you think they told Caesar to not cross the Rubicon with his legions?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/12/2022 15:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Arresting Trump will be the spark they cannot possibly misunderstand. I think far too many of the progressive democrats now fear the looming anger of the American people. But do they have the gumption to provoke outright, massive, political violence? I have my doubts. They saw the Covid opportunity to jump=start the revolution a generation too soon I think.

The Marxist long-march through the institutions is well underway, but needs another decade or more to erase our embedded cultural/historic memories from the middle cohort of American society. This will fail, God willing, but ruthless, legal culling of the elites who brought this must follow.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/12/2022 16:52 Comments || Top||

#3 

If the LSD pull such a Political Coup, then they likely have failed to take into account the 55+ year old age group that has no problem acting as defenders of the US Republic.


QUESTIONS?

1. Will they even have the power after NOV. 2022 Mid-Terms?

2. Do they have enough RINO's to help pull it off another coup?

3. I wonder who will be the 1st to publish the LSD's Coup members list of home, safe house hiding addresses and/or Restaurant/dining out locations? All Just like they did to certain SCOTUS justices.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/12/2022 17:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Fuck legal culling. I don't know why all of you are still with the "kill with kindness" or let the "law " take care of it. Neither 1 of these practices have worked and the POS have turned all the letter agencies into weapons against the people they are supposed to protect and serve. Fuck everyone one of the sob's up there and I would not give a shit if I seen their asses hanging from poles.
Posted by: Chris || 07/12/2022 20:37 Comments || Top||

#5  The J6 Committee has a fatal flaw in that they actually devour believe their own bullshit propaganda.
Take that 'grab the steering wheel' testimony. They had to have some idea it was false - but they went with it anyway and so did the media - a provable lie. Yet they still swear it's true.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/12/2022 20:51 Comments || Top||

#6  I doubt Trump's driven any sort of vehicle in decades (or many other of the 'elite' politicians, for that matter); that's how I knew that particular lie was just that.
Posted by: Raj || 07/12/2022 21:11 Comments || Top||

#7  What is the LSD?
Posted by: Sgt.D.T. || 07/12/2022 23:43 Comments || Top||

#8  NN2N1 uses LSD as an abbreviation for Labor Socialist Democrats, Sergeant D.T.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/12/2022 23:47 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
First Laser Weapon For A Fighter Delivered To The US Air Force
[TheDrive] The Air Force now has all the major components for its pod-mounted defensive laser weapon, paving the way for first airborne tests.

The U.S. Air Force has received a high-energy laser weapon that can be carried by aircraft in podded form. The news came today when Lockheed Martin disclosed that at least one of the weapons, which it developed, has been delivered to the Air Force for test work. This effort falls within the wider framework of still-evolving plans to have laser-armed fighter jets that can engage enemy missiles, and possibly other targets too.

A report today from Breaking Defense confirmed that Lockheed Martin delivered its LANCE high-energy laser weapon to the Air Force in February this year. In this context, LANCE stands for “Laser Advancements for Next-generation Compact Environments.” The recipient for the new weapon is the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, which is charged with developing and integrating new technologies in the air, space, and cyberspace realms.

Tyler Griffin, a Lockheed executive, had previously told reporters that LANCE “is the smallest, lightest, high-energy laser of its power class that Lockheed Martin has built to date.”

Indeed, Griffin added that LANCE is “one-sixth the size” of a previous directed-energy weapon that Lockheed produced for the Army. That earlier laser was part of the Robust Electric Laser Initiative program and had an output in the 60-kilowatt class. We don’t yet know what kind of power LANCE can produce although there have been suggestions it will likely be below 100 kilowatts.

As well as being notably small and light, LANCE has reduced power requirements compared to other previous weapons, a key consideration for a fighter-based laser, especially one that can be mounted within the confines of a pod.

Posted by: DarthVader || 07/12/2022 09:48 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11130 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I can see replacing a spooky gunship's weapons with lasers so you could blast things silently with no evidence, but on a fighter it seems daft. You would need to keep the laser on target forever in fighter jet time.
Posted by: ruprecht || 07/12/2022 13:04 Comments || Top||

#2  and possibly other targets too

Autonomous gymbal steering won't work.
Laser on a jet is for slow arc LEO satellites.
Ground armor? Fire and forget smart missiles.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/12/2022 13:46 Comments || Top||

#3  You would need to keep the laser on target forever in fighter jet time.

Maybe. They already have autolock systems for targeting lasers and to take down missiles and mortar shells. How long would it take to drill through the aluminum skin and start cutting engine fan blades off? That is the interesting question.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/12/2022 15:31 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
ION Are We Looking At Another Civil War?
[Townhall] Consider the logic of the left and it’s no wonder that many people are considering the unspeakable — whether America will devolve into actual violent conflict. But I dare speak about it at length in my brand-new book We’ll Be Back: The Fall and Rise of America, which confronts this issue of systematic political violence head-on. The most important question related to the long decline of America at the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and terminally foolish ruling caste that controls our major institutions is whether we can pull out of this tailspin without bloodshed.

I sure hope so, but the risk is real and we need to confront it.

The logic of the left accepts political violence. A few years ago, one of its acolytes tried to wipe out the congressional Republican caucus on a softball field; last month, another member of the MSNBCNN target demo tried to off Justice Kavanaugh for somewhat limiting the ability of progressives to conveniently kill babies. Even the reaction to the recent molestation of the famously beer-ophilic jurist as he nibbled on a rib-eye at Morton’s in DC was indicative — this personal confrontation was celebrated by the left instead of decried. What’s the logical limit when you sign onto the idea that one can legitimately influence politics via the personal intimidation of officials placed in office by our agreed constitutional procedures? If you can get in his face, why can’t you slap it? Or put a bullet in it? If there is a boundary, the left is not setting it. Keep in mind that civil conflict is not unknown in America, Our revolution was also a civil war — one sparked by tyrants seeking to enforce gun control. The Civil War that followed four score and change years later was sparked by Democrats angry over the Republican demand that they stopped treating human beings inhumanly — a theme that continues to this day. Prior to the War Between the States was a war between the pro- and anti-slavery militias along the Missouri-Kansas borders.

In the late-sixties/early-seventies, there was an urban leftist insurgency by groups like the Weather Underground and the Black Panthers that resulted in hundreds of bombings and many killings. It was dealt with as a law enforcement matter, but in a distinctly militaristic way. The Los Angeles Police Department famously annihilated most of the Symbionese Liberation Army — whose battle cry was "DEATH TO THE FASCIST INSECT!" — in a blazing firefight in South Central that was broadcast on national TV.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/12/2022 07:38 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11129 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What if one side declared civil war and found they were a small fraction with no support and the other side was far better armed and trained?

I'm thinking it'll end up like the Weatherman and the pathetic commie terrorist groups in the 60s/70s.
Posted by: ruprecht || 07/12/2022 8:16 Comments || Top||

#2  99% of American have a delusional idea of Civil War and the aftermath. If they understood, the war would be for peace..
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/12/2022 8:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Ah'm a 1%er.

Andersonville Prison
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/12/2022 14:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Amen, 49 Pan. Civil wars look like Lebanon.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/12/2022 16:25 Comments || Top||


Britain
Meghan Markle Wears Pro-Abortion Necklace Benefiting Planned Parenthood
[Townhall] Shortly after Meghan Markle voiced her disapproval of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, reports broke that she promoted a "woman power" necklace that raises money for abortion giant Planned Parenthood.

Page Six reported Thursday that Markle, 40, donned the necklace from the company Awe Inspired for a VAX Live Event, an event that celebrates the COVID-19 vaccine. Reportedly, 100 percent of the proceeds from the necklace and the company’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg collection will be donated to Planned Parenthood.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/12/2022 07:31 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11132 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This should come as a surprise to no one. The pampered elite share similar views on such topics. Disposal of the deplorables is paramount.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/12/2022 7:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Funny thing is that even if the elites got rid of us deplorables, they don't seem to realize that their next step would be to turn on each other.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/12/2022 8:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Can we abort her?
Posted by: Chris || 07/12/2022 8:49 Comments || Top||

#4  If they get rid of the deplorables the next step is to starve.
Posted by: ruprecht || 07/12/2022 13:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Because of his deep connections to Nelson Mandela, Prince Harry to give keynote speech to the U.N. on Nelson Mandela Day!

Is there any more proof needed about how managed and corrupt these clueless, grasping twits are, and the disgusting people who use them.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/prince-harry-keynote-speech-un-general-assembly
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/12/2022 13:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Who?
Posted by: Tom || 07/12/2022 14:51 Comments || Top||

#7  Conservatives have lost on every battlefront: free speech, the military, the universities, marriage, nuclear family, child education, the media, the government, Boy Scouts, business, law and justice, Christianity, patriarchy, immigration, the welfare state, and capitalism. The right to bear arms in time will be win to it’s on the early stages right now
Abortion is and was practiced all through history all over the world different culture
But the idiots don’t understand, that is why will loose.
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/12/2022 16:00 Comments || Top||

#8  But the idiots don’t understand, that is why will loose.

Off pronouns Joe?
What will they lose?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/12/2022 18:10 Comments || Top||

#9  Because of his deep connections to Nelson Mandela, Prince Harry to give keynote speech to the U.N. on Nelson Mandela Day!

Originally, Jeffery Epstein was scheduled to give the keynote speech, but since he did not kill himself, Prince Harry had to stand in.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/12/2022 18:41 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Whilst you were distracted by Boris resigning, the UK Gov. quietly published a report confirming the Vaccinated account for 94% of all COVID-19 Deaths since April, 90% of which were Triple/Quadruple Jabbed
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/12/2022 07:07 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11127 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I hope these people that forced the shot live long suffering from their guilt.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/12/2022 9:33 Comments || Top||

#2  ^Bureaucrats are never held accountable. They are the chefs, society is the omelet, and we are the eggs.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/12/2022 9:37 Comments || Top||

#3  And most are probably atheists so the guilt gene is missing or weakened.
Posted by: ruprecht || 07/12/2022 13:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Sociopaths feel no guilt.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/12/2022 13:43 Comments || Top||


Economy
Costco CEO Warns 'A Lot Of Consumers Are In Recession Right Now'
[ZERO] One question macro-watchers have on their minds is the state of the US consumer amid increasing threats of recession. The White House and Federal Reserve offer their perspective of a healthy consumer, but that's in total aggregate. It fails to show the entire story of working-poor Americans suffering amid the worst inflation storm in forty years.

What better way to get a fresh glimpse of consumer health is via CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" interview with Craig Jelinek, CEO of Costco Wholesale Corporation, on Monday, who said overall "the consumer isn't doing bad," but also mentioned, "a lot of people, right now, they're in a recession because they're just trying to survive by just buying gas and making house and rent payments."

Sounds confusing, right? But it's not. With some clarification, Jelinek said wealthier households still have "discretionary income to buy goods," which means the lower tier of consumers is perhaps tapped out.

What's important is the CEO of the second-largest retailer in the world said, "consumers are getting more cautious." It's not necessarily a sign that all consumption is about to roll over, but cracks appear in lower-tier spenders.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/12/2022 05:18 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11134 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Considering their flood of daily email 'bargain' listings is composed of a lot of non-essential higher end appliances, electronics, furniture and assorted materials, his company doesn't seem as focused on what he's talking about other than the usual bulk food, healthcare items, and common consumables.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/12/2022 7:34 Comments || Top||

#2  As he points out, the Costco customer is in a higher income bracket, and thus in far less distress. But the sudden, new daily ads campaign suggests that those customers, too, are being considerably more careful what they spend on and how much, and must be actively seduced into considering spending beyond essentials.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/12/2022 9:55 Comments || Top||

#3  I used to go to Sam's Club about 1.5 times a month. Now it's a bit less than once a month.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/12/2022 10:01 Comments || Top||

#4  A CEO who gets it and knows the messaging coming from the WH about the "best economy ever" is just gaslighting marlarky--They piss down our legs and tell us it's raining.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/12/2022 11:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Sam’s is a 2 hour drive each way - only go when in the town for doctors visits.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/12/2022 16:28 Comments || Top||

#6  Which works out to every month or two...
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/12/2022 16:29 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
While Biden Blunders, CFPB Director Rohit Chopra Is Working to Massively Expand the Regulatory State
[Red State] It’s no secret that the Biden administration has made a mess of things — and it’s not just Joe. Kamala can’t get a coherent sentence out of her mouth and has done precisely nothing about the border crisis. Pete Buttigieg is apparently unbothered by continuing supply chain issues, and it seems that no one at the FDA is worried about babies being able to eat since it’s still difficult to find baby formula on store shelves (I know; I checked last night). In the midst of this chaos, while all of us have been focused on just getting by, Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Rohit Chopra has been busy installing allies in various regulatory agencies and working to massively expand the size and reach of the federal government — and his own power base — essentially in the shadows.

He’s being driven out of the shadows now, partly thanks to the US Chamber of Commerce, which "launched an extensive campaign to expose and defeat Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Rohit Chopra’s ideologically driven agenda to radically change the nature of America’s financial services industry" on June 28. In a press release, the Chamber alleges that "If [Chopra is] allowed to proceed, his agenda would harm consumer choice and innovation."

Elizabeth Warren and her lefty colleagues have been working on radically changing the nature of our financial services industry for years, and while the Chamber and business groups have repeatedly sounded the alarm, this campaign is definitely taking it to the next level. What makes Chopra and his actions any different from what we’ve already seen? According to the Chamber:
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/12/2022 05:05 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11133 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Soviet Central Planning

[it'll work this time]

btw US Chamber of Commerce supporters of open borders and unlimited 1HB visas.
It's a pity they both can't lose.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/12/2022 7:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Mr. Chopra was appointed to his previous position by President Trump — he didn’t bat 100% on his personnel choices, we see once again. It must be quite a shock for the administration to find themselves attacked because of him now.

Glad to see the Chamber of Commerce stepping up — the letter they sent out is a doozy.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/12/2022 10:07 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
British Army officer teaches Ukrainian soldiers rifle handling and marksmanship after first of 10,000 Kyiv troops arrive for training
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • New Ministry of Defence video shows British Army training Ukrainian soldiers

  • Kyiv forces taught 'basic soldiering', weapons and marksmanship

  • Their 3rd Battalion The Rifles trainer said: 'They seem motivated and keen'

  • Some 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers will be trained in the UK to help fight Russia
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/12/2022 00:18 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11133 views] Top|| File under:


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Biden gets date of Parkland massacre wrong by 100 YEARS and claims it was in 1918 moments after having victim's father kicked out of his gun law celebration
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/12/2022 00:08 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11133 views] Top|| File under:


#2  The real lesson of the outburst is that nothing is ever enough for the gun grabber crowd. Every step is just one more step down the road to total disarmament of the civilian population. There is no "compromising" with them. It's time for Republicans to figure that out.

I'm not holding my breath.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/12/2022 6:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Biddden (as my wife calls him ) can't stand criticism or interruptions because he's the biggest brain in the room.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 07/12/2022 10:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Considering the people around him he may just be the biggest brain the room.
Posted by: Chris || 07/12/2022 10:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Does he even know what year this is?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/12/2022 13:13 Comments || Top||

#6  You mean the Parkland massacre wasn't carried out by the Kaiser's army after all?
Posted by: Tom || 07/12/2022 14:57 Comments || Top||


Europe
Europe fears energy crisis as Russia shuts off key gas pipeline
[NYPOST] Europe is fearful that the Kremlin will indefinitely extend this week’s planned shutdown of a key Russian natural gas pipeline in a bid to ratchet up pressure on Western nations during the war in Ukraine, according to multiple reports.

Operator Nord Stream AG confirmed Monday that its Nord Stream 1 pipeline — a key artery for natural gas shipments from Russia to Europe — had shut down for routine maintenance. The annual shutdown typically lasts for about 10 days and is expected to conclude on July 21.

But rising tensions between Russia and Western allies have added to concerns that Russian President Vladimir Putin will cut off the flow of natural gas for a much longer period in response to crippling economic sanctions — a move that could push Europe into a full-blown energy crisis.

“The last few months have shown one thing: Putin knows no taboos. A complete halt to gas supplies through the Nord Stream pipeline cannot therefore be ruled out,” Timm Kehler, managing director of German industry association Zukunft Gas, told Reuters.

Germany and other European nations remain heavily reliant on Russia oil and gas — a reality that has undercut a movement backed by Ukraine’s government and some members of the European Union to end purchases from Russian sources in response to the invasion.
Posted by: Fred || 07/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11139 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Why wouldn’t they start it back up - now. The EU is effectively funding the Russian SMO by purchasing gas. Now later - when it’s 20 degrees colder - there might be “unscheduled maintenance”…
Posted by: Cloluck Bourbon1058 || 07/12/2022 9:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Oil prices react by going down 5% today.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 07/12/2022 9:26 Comments || Top||

#3  The war is the biggest facepalm since the Iraq fuckup. A bigger fiasco than Vietnam and Iraq combined.

Current Thing chaos: Biden sanctions collapse, as Ukraine piles up losses & hemorrhages cash
The war in Ukraine may come to an end sooner than expected.
Posted by: Ulaimp Spart8577 || 07/12/2022 9:27 Comments || Top||

#4  In addition to its continuing battlefield supremacy, Russia now has time on its side, thanks to the booming commodity market and Russia’s many willing energy buyers.

@MktsInsider:
Russia snagged $24 billion in just three months from its energy sales to India and China, report says
Russia has reaped bumper revenues from its oil, gas and coal sales to Asian buyers like India and China that have pounced on cheap prices.

Ukraine is in the polar opposite situation. Kiev is becoming a massive financial liability for the West. Even as Western powers have already allocated over 100 billion dollars in weapons and aid to Ukraine, the Zelensky-led government continues to demand incredible sums to sustain the war effort.


The Dossier
Margin Call: Zelensky demands another $750 billion


The West’s “long Ukraine” leveraged bet is facing another margin call and demanding additional collateral. On top of tens of billions already spent on protecting the position, hundreds of billions more will need to be injected into the Ukrainian government in perpetuity in order to avoid total liquidation, which would present itself through the loss of western control over Kiev. With over one hundred billion dollars already allocated to the country, the Ukrainian government is again in dire economic straits, while piling up major losses on the battlefield…
Posted by: Ulaimp Spart8577 || 07/12/2022 9:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Germany is being forced to fire up eleven COAL (!) PLANTS it was going to decommission -- just to keep its population from freezing in the dark this winter.

Germany is blocking more aid to the Ukraine grifters' cesspool:

#Germany is blocking the allocation of €9 billion in aid to #Ukraine from EU, writes Corriere della Sera. According to them, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner opposes financing this aid from the common European debt, as it was during the pandemic.
Posted by: Ulaimp Spart8577 || 07/12/2022 9:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Not just hindsight. Most people who are not in on the Ukraine grift saw that sanctions were the most idiotic policy of the most incompetent set of leaders we've ever seen.

Jordan Schachtel writes at dossier.substack.com:

In hindsight, it should be clear by now that the sanctions never had a chance of achieving the stated objective of bankrupting the Russian economy and slowing its military. China, India, and dozens of other countries remained neutral and continued to trade openly with Moscow. Despite U.S. pressure, they did not even consider joining the sanctions effort.

As U.S. sanctions against Russia continue to collapse, the Biden Admin may find itself being able to count the remaining parties to the coalition on one hand.

With all of these continuing crises, coupled with a historic failure on the part of the Biden Administration, don’t be shocked if the war in Ukraine comes to an end sooner rather than later.
Posted by: Ulaimp Spart8577 || 07/12/2022 9:43 Comments || Top||

#7  I see no Russian advantage to ending the SMO before the end of the year. By rotating their troops through the theater they will become the most experienced modern army in conventional modern warfare. EU/US forces participating vicariously don’t have skin in the game and won’t take away lessons viscerally - just academically. That’ll provide an advantage in next year’s operations (where ever they may be).
Posted by: Cloluck Bourbon1058 || 07/12/2022 10:07 Comments || Top||

#8  How's the weather in St. Petersburg?
Posted by: Nero || 07/12/2022 10:30 Comments || Top||

#9  Jordan Schachtel is an independent investigative journalist.

"Nero" is an anonymous coward and a troll
Posted by: Betty || 07/12/2022 10:34 Comments || Top||

#10  Germany is being forced to fire up eleven COAL (!) PLANTS it was going to decommission -- just to keep its population from freezing in the dark this winter.

Oh thank goodness, they’re being sensible on the subject for the first time in years. Shutting down the coal plants, then depending on France and Russia for substitute energy, was suicidally stupid. As is currently being demonstrated.

"Nero" is an anonymous coward and a troll

Not one word of that claim is true. Except for the verb. Nero is — without the scare quotes — is true, though not terribly useful information.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/12/2022 11:00 Comments || Top||

#11  He's right. The public has realized, much faster than they did wrt to the other big train wrecks in Iraq and Afghanistan, that Ukraine is a fiasco and the sanctions are blowing up in Biden's face.

There's no support for continuing this disaster. The allies have already lost interest and ditchtched first Macron's party and now Johnson.

It's already over. What a long, strange, total shitshow it's been
Posted by: Squinty Glomoper5597 || 07/12/2022 11:07 Comments || Top||

#12  "“There was an explosion in Kherson. They used HIMARS. There’s nothing that can be done about it? And there’s only 8 HIMARS and they’ve already f--ked us up. What’ll happen next?
Posted by: Matt || 07/12/2022 11:28 Comments || Top||

#13  Igor Girkin: While Kremlin continues leisurely chewing snot, the respected Ukrainian partners continue busily destroying everything they can reach with HIMARS, 777 and Ceasars which our Ministry of Defence (represented by General-chatter Konashenkov and his Radiant Boss – the Plywood Marshall) continues cracking like nuts.
Ukrs are strictly consistent in their primary interests. Their priority is ammunition depots and air defence positions. Just tonight they “put in the air” another ammunitions cache in Nova Kakhovka. The partners have already carefully posted the video online.
Posted by: Matt || 07/12/2022 11:33 Comments || Top||

#14  Igor Strelkov here: "The Russian air defence system … turned out to be ineffective against massive strikes by Himar missiles," he said on his Telegram channel, which has 400,000 followers.

"There have been big losses in personnel and equipment"
Posted by: Matt || 07/12/2022 11:50 Comments || Top||

#15  "Andrei, you've lost another general?
Posted by: Matt || 07/12/2022 11:54 Comments || Top||

#16  ^ The Russian army will at least be very up to date on "taking cover" and "retreat" field experience.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/12/2022 11:54 Comments || Top||

#17  Another Russian, here" sees a broader problem:


"Another thing regarding the effectiveness of Ukrainian rocket strikes. Many write about how to minimise losses from them. Aside from strengthening air defence it is suggested to disperse ammunition storages, avoid bringing armoured vehicles to one base, avoid lining up helicopters in one line, and decentralise everything in general. But you see what the problem is – you can decentralise, but this will be a completely different army, not the Russian-Soviet army. Decentralisation is contrary to the structure of not just the army itself but the whole state structure in general. Indeed, along with distribution of ammunitions to different stockpiles, along with moving vehicles to various forests, also the powers must be transferred down – to these forests and stockpiles. But these powers for hundreds of years have been carefully focused in one location. And that is how the authority preserved itself. But here – decentralisation. This is worse than military losses."
Posted by: Matt || 07/12/2022 12:18 Comments || Top||

#18  As imagery and other battlefield sensors improve and weapons get smarter, dispersal will be a minimal improvement anyway.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/12/2022 12:21 Comments || Top||

#19  And of course a picture is worth a thousand words.
Posted by: Matt || 07/12/2022 12:25 Comments || Top||

#20  And from the American side, here's Jim Mattis, whatever you think of his politics:

Mattis, a former Marine four-star general who led the Pentagon during the first two years of the Trump administration, condemned "the immoral, the tactically incompetent, operationally stupid and strategically foolish effort" of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

When asked during the forum what military lessons could be learned from Russia's more than four-month-long war with Ukraine, Mattis replied, "One is don't have incompetent generals in charge of your operations".
Posted by: Matt || 07/12/2022 13:35 Comments || Top||

#21  And separately there's the matter of the Russian air force being downright bashful. What was all that money actually spent on? Putin's Palace, maybe?
Posted by: Matt || 07/12/2022 13:42 Comments || Top||

#22  And the absence of the air force would explain the reluctance of "thousands" of ground pounders to go into battle:

“A couple of weeks ago one of my followers wrote to me that her son and some of his fellow soldiers at the front handed in their notices,” said Rinchino, who is head of the legal department at the Free Buryatia Foundation, an anti-war organization founded by members of Russia’s indigenous Buryat community.

“A hundred people all [resigned] at the same time,” he told The Moscow Times.

Since the start of Russia’s bloody invasion of Ukraine in February, thousands of Russian contract soldiers and National Guard employees have refused to be sent into battle.

Helping these conscientious objectors are a handful of Russian human rights organizations, NGOs and individuals with legal training. But, as the Kremlin looks to shore up support for the war and crush dissent, Russian lawyers have faced an unprecedented wave of pressure.
Posted by: Matt || 07/12/2022 13:50 Comments || Top||

#23  Not one word of that claim is true.

TW, ever gracious.
You must have quality BP meds.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/12/2022 13:51 Comments || Top||

#24  avoid lining up helicopters in one line

Wasn't that a WWII strafing lesson?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/12/2022 13:53 Comments || Top||

#25  The war in Ukraine may come to an end sooner than expected.

When Russian trolls keep repeating that, for months now, and yet the war continues, you lose credibility. You will not win this war with propaganda because you are up against BBC, CNN, CBS and others who are much better at it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/12/2022 14:07 Comments || Top||

#26  ^ The war ends when Putin runs out of Buryats and other ethnic minorities to send to the slaughterhouse. When Muscovites start seeing their kids coming home in closed coffins, the political calculus -- by which I mean Putin's life expectancy-- changes.
Posted by: Matt || 07/12/2022 14:54 Comments || Top||

#27  Which is not to say that the families of the ethnic minority troops are happy about losing their children, as explained here. They just don't have the same political stroke as Muscovites.

"My brother was sent for 333 exercises," said a woman from the south Siberian region of Buryatia about her relative serving in the Russian military in Ukraine. "He didn't sign up for a war in another country. It was basically a deception. Only on the eve of the invasion were they informed they would cross the border."

The woman, who asked not to be identified for fear of repercussions for her anti-war activities, is one of a growing number of mothers, sisters, and partners of Russian soldiers from poor regions like Buryatia and Tyva who are coming together to press officials to let their loved ones return home."
Posted by: Matt || 07/12/2022 15:03 Comments || Top||

#28  Hey MATT all the bs the you are linking it’s British sourced malarkey and fakery…
Each and every one.
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/12/2022 16:05 Comments || Top||

#29  "Lies! All lies!" Isn't that what a middle east dictator's press secretary supposed to say?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/12/2022 16:21 Comments || Top||

#30  #28 Let's focus on an example. My No. 14 quotes a Russian, Igor Strelkhov, as saying that Russian air defenses are ineffective against HIMARS attacks, So: (1) Is there an Igor Strelkhov? (2) Did he say that? And (3) Are Russian air defenses ineffective against HIMARS strikes?

Show your sources. And try to answer without reference to Ann Frank or her father.
Posted by: Matt || 07/12/2022 16:55 Comments || Top||

#31  Per Tom Cooper, an Austrian military analyst over at Medium dot com the Russians can stop a Himars attack. But given a salvo of 6-12 at a time leakers will get through. Accurate description for literally any defensive system at some point. And Tom is a very pro Ukrainian analyst (in my opinion)
Posted by: Slenter Panda4300 || 07/12/2022 18:37 Comments || Top||

#32  ^ Thanks for that civil response. I will take a look.
Posted by: Matt || 07/12/2022 18:45 Comments || Top||

#33  ^ Slenter, that's a good-looking source, and I follow his point. I appreciate the reference.
Posted by: Matt || 07/12/2022 19:01 Comments || Top||

#34  Smells like teen spirit desperation.

Face it: Ukraine's lost nearly all its valuable territory, fir good. Zelensky's demanding $60 billion in loot for himself and his corruptocrats, plus another $700 billion to Build Back Better. And he's now losing about 1,100 soldiers every day.

Delusion reigns here but not in Europe. Latest evidence of returning sanity: 59% of Europeans say it's not worth defending Ukraine if food prices go up.
Posted by: Palmerston || 07/12/2022 19:08 Comments || Top||

#35  ^ Hey, you forgot the part where we -- WE, we say! -- are starving bazillions of third world people to death!
Posted by: Knuckles McCoy8357 || 07/12/2022 19:17 Comments || Top||

#36  How can you say that when there's a Polish armored column headed toward St. Petersburg?
Posted by: Matt || 07/12/2022 19:21 Comments || Top||

#37  #36 How can you say that when there's a Polish armored column headed toward St. Petersburg?

Another example of disinformation! It's St. Leninburg!
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/12/2022 19:46 Comments || Top||

#38  You are correct, Comrade Thing. It's timed to coincide with the Lithuanian assault on Kalininwhatever.
Posted by: Matt || 07/12/2022 19:58 Comments || Top||

#39  Latest evidence of returning sanity: 59% of Europeans say it's not worth defending Ukraine if food prices go up.

I’m sure, if asked, a similar percent would have said the same about Czechoslovakia or Poland before the official start of World War II. And then they didn’t, with the result written in our history books: in the end they suffered the dubious pleasures of being conquered by the conquerer of Poland and Czechoslovakia — half the continent being conquered twice when the Soviets came through.

To be fair, the other half of the continent was reconquered by the Allies with all the destruction that entailed, but unlike the Soviets they gave it back to the original owners.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/12/2022 21:19 Comments || Top||

#40  ^ Godwin!
Another BS Hitler analogy.

Please just stop. The Ukraine shitshow is bringing down western governments and destroying the West's economies.

For fucks sake, the Germans are actually going to ration hot water, reduce street lighting, curb electricity usage.

Because of your idiotic war. Yo, because Putin's like Hitler, dude!

Start thinking. This is a complete disaster for the West. It's become absolutely ridiculous and rational people across Europe are refusing to stand for any more of this neocon bullshit.
Posted by: Palmerston || 07/12/2022 22:47 Comments || Top||

#41  the Germans are actually going to ration hot water, reduce street lighting, curb electricity usage.

Predicted as soon as Germany decided to mothball her own power plants and use Russia as a primary supplier. If it weren’t this war, it would have been something else — turning off the tap is just too deliciously easy to use, and Germany does like to posture, ignoring how annoying that is to countries that can do something about it.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/12/2022 23:27 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Speeding Florida pol Beverly Perkins under fire after telling cop to 'find something better to f—king do'
[NYPost] A Florida vice mayor is facing calls to apologize after she snapped at local cops who pulled her over at a traffic stop to "find something better to f—king do."

Pompano Beach Vice Mayor Beverly Perkins was seen in footage posted to YouTube last week being pulled over in a white Audi in April.

An unidentified officer tells her that she was driving 15 to 20 miles over the speed limit in two separate zones before he pulled her over. After running her license, the officer opts not to ticket the official and approaches her vehicle.

"Ms. Perkins, you need to slow down, okay?" he said before giving her a warning.

Visibly annoyed, Perkins does not respond to the officer’s admonition.

"Did you hear what I said?" he asks several times before Perkins nods and begins to put on her seatbelt.

As the cop begins to depart, she asks for his name and then states her vice mayoral position.

"Y’all need to find something better to f—king to do," Perkins says as she drives off.

After the footage surfaced, Scott Mosely, the president of the Fort Lauderdale Fraternal Order of Police, issued a statement on the incident Friday.

"We suggest you apologize and then sign up for some ride alongs to see what [officers] do every day to protect the citizens of our great city," he wrote. "As an elected official, you too are held to a higher standard and should know better. We suggest you obey the speed limit and seek anger management."

Local 10 reported that Perkins was not available for comment on the exchange.

Posted by: Fred || 07/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11130 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Pompano Beach Vice Mayor Beverly Perkins

Ever look up what the word 'vice' means in the dictionary?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/12/2022 7:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Wow. What an entitled bitch.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 07/12/2022 8:20 Comments || Top||

#3  She's a reflection of the electorate there.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/12/2022 8:21 Comments || Top||

#4  And no ramifications. Big f**king deal. Practically fake news in the truest sense.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/12/2022 8:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Penalties for any politician caught breaking the law, no matter how minor should be at a minimum x10 or x100. And a minimum of 5 lashes in the public square with a cane or cat' their choice.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/12/2022 13:06 Comments || Top||

#6  You are rac3est… However, I have thought that about cops…
Posted by: Boss Hupeang3294 || 07/12/2022 19:20 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Biden punishes (innocent) border-patrol agents — but does nothing about illegal migrants
[NYPOST] Only in America, it seems, can border-patrol agents be cleared of breaking any laws but still be punished, while those entering the country illegally mostly escape punishment.

President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. S I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass....
, then-press secretary Jen Psaki
...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama...
and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas all rushed to judgment when they saw a video of Texas Border Patrol agents last September herding Haitians attempting to enter the country without authorization. Biden had threatened the agents, saying they would "pay" for their actions.

They have paid in lost time on the job, the smearing of their character and probably an end to their careers. It is the administration that should pay. One hopes the agents will find a lawyer who sues them for slander.

In a 511-page report (only the government requires so many words to explain the obvious), Customs and Border Protection said the agents did not whip the migrants colonists but added they are still guilty of "unprofessional conduct," including using "unnecessary force on Haitians."

Apparently, some of the agents used bad language while trying to turn the people back. Shocking, I know. Were they supposed to say: "Would you pretty please turn around and go back to your country?"

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has joined other Republicans in calling on Biden and others to apologize to the four agents they falsely accused. Good luck with that. Being a high government official means never having to say you’re sorry. Paxton said instead of being punished, the agents "should be rewarded."
Posted by: Fred || 07/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11138 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants



#3  Deploy Claymores and send the patrols home.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/12/2022 16:50 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Jill Biden Tells Texas Hispanics They Are as ‘Unique as the Breakfast Tacos' During Speech in San Antonio
Tin ear.
[Mediaite] First Lady Jill Biden told a group of progressive Texas Hispanic voters they were as "unique" as "breakfast tacos" during a speech Monday in San Antonio.

Biden addressed a crowd assembled for the UnidosUS Annual Conference, which began on Saturday.

According to video of her remarks obtained by Jorge Bonilla of the the conservative Media Research Center, she compared attendees to breakfast tacos.

She also mispronounced the word "bodega" when she said "bogeda."

"[Raul Yzaguirre] helped build this organization with the understanding that the diversity of this community, as distinct as the bogedas of The Bronx, as beautiful as the blossoms of Miami, and as unique as the breakfast tacos here in San Antonio, is your strength," Biden said.



KENS reported the annual conference was titled "Siempre Adelante: Our Quest for Equity." The outlet noted:

The event is the largest gathering of Latino advocates, community members and businesses. They talk about the issues that are affecting the more than 62 million Latinos across the country.

During the conference today, UnidosUS will release a report called Latino student success: advancing U.S. educational progress for all. It explores the progress of Latino students over several decades and the impact the pandemic had on education.

"Each year the UnidosUS Annual Conference is the premier event devoted to the diverse Hispanic community that is moving our country forward," the conference notes on its website.
Posted by: Beavis || 07/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11135 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "We are not tacos," NAHJ firmly stated.
Posted by: Black Charlie Slairt1430 || 07/12/2022 1:30 Comments || Top||

#2  It appears to be contagious.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/12/2022 4:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Are Joe, Jill, Kamala et al really that dumb that they just read whatever is put in front of them? Of course, the speech writers can't be blamed for an ad-libbing that goes on.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/12/2022 6:56 Comments || Top||

#4  More evidence that this administration is little more than a collection of 'B Movie' actors performing on a very expensive Pinewood Studios set. Actual decision making and the running of the country is conducted elsewhere.

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/12/2022 7:08 Comments || Top||

#5  "Dr." Jill at her very best.

As if Hispanics need another reason to flee the Democrats.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/12/2022 7:10 Comments || Top||

#6  What a racist, elitist bitch.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/12/2022 8:13 Comments || Top||

#7  Breakfast burritos are awesome.
Breakfast taco's? I'm sure they exist but I've never seen them on a menu.
Posted by: ruprecht || 07/12/2022 8:17 Comments || Top||

#8  Ich bin ein Quesadilla!

The vote is unanimous: Snark o’the Day goes to SteveS.

Snark O'The Day

— tw at 3:20 p.m. EDT
Posted by: SteveS || 07/12/2022 8:45 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ *snort!*
Posted by: Frank G || 07/12/2022 9:03 Comments || Top||

#10  But should be "Soy un quesedilla, ese..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/12/2022 9:04 Comments || Top||

#11 
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/12/2022 9:07 Comments || Top||

#12  ^ #7 - Just think of a breakfast burrito on a smaller tortilla, that you fold instead of roll.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/12/2022 10:08 Comments || Top||

#13  She was wishing for a breakfast tuna taco for the Sniffer in Chief (or his pervy spawn)

Aka El Conio Entitulito:

Hunter Biden called his step-mom Jill Biden a “vindictive moron” and “entitled c–t” in text messages after she urged him to go to rehab to kick his drug habit, according to a new report.
Posted by: Crerert Noodleman4356 || 07/12/2022 10:15 Comments || Top||

#14  I think the Edith Wilson analogies have reached their sell-by date...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/12/2022 10:20 Comments || Top||

#15  Nominate #8 for Snark O' Day.
Posted by: magpie || 07/12/2022 11:02 Comments || Top||

#16  Dr. Jill is bad as her clueless hubby.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/12/2022 11:12 Comments || Top||

#17  So insensitive, out of touch and clueless it makes me wonder if she's on the spectrum.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/12/2022 12:45 Comments || Top||

#18  So, did the "powers behind the throne" pick these buffoons by accident, or to rub our faces in the fact that they can?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/12/2022 12:49 Comments || Top||

#19  She's on the spectrum of being a demonrat. It's incurable.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/12/2022 13:07 Comments || Top||

#20  Remember, today is Taco Tuesday!
Posted by: Frank G || 07/12/2022 13:10 Comments || Top||

#21  #8 is a classic keyboard-destroyer.
Posted by: Matt || 07/12/2022 13:25 Comments || Top||

#22  She didn't.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/12/2022 14:21 Comments || Top||

#23  Second the nomination of #8 as SOTD.
Posted by: Nero || 07/12/2022 14:31 Comments || Top||

#24  Aye #8.

Well, you know, for only speaking three languages.

Jill Biden eats breakfast tacos with a spork.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/12/2022 14:41 Comments || Top||

#25  All right, people — it’s official. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/12/2022 15:25 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Ukrainian Armed Forces repel enemy attacks in the East in three directions, - Kyrylenko
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[LB] Shelling continues along the entire front line.

Iryna Gamalii


In the East, the occupiers are trying to advance in the Bakhmut, Lyman and Donetsk directions, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine are holding their positions.

Pavlo Kyrylenko , the head of the Donetsk OVA, announced this on the air of the UArazom telethon .

"The shelling continues along the entire front line. Indeed, during the past day, the enemy used all measures of defeat in order to advance in the Bakhmut and Lyman directions, but had no success. Similarly, in the Donetsk direction, these are Maryinka, Krasnohorivka and Avdiivka. The armed forces of Ukraine are holding their positions, and the enemy has no opportunity to advance," Kyrylenko said.

According to him, the invaders occasionally carry out offensive actions in small groups in Donetsk region, but the Ukrainian defense is ready to repel the enemy.

"But, understanding how many enemy armored personnel carriers are concentrated in the Bakhmut and Lyman directions, in the direction of the cities of Bakhmut, Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, we understand that there will be attempts and further aggressive actions of the enemy," he said.

Kyrylenko added that the Donetsk OVA, together with the military command, "are building a defense that will make it possible to stop the enemy."

"And then we can already talk about de-occupation, the General Staff will additionally inform about it," Kyrilenko concluded.

We will remind, today the Russian occupiers fired rockets at Toretsk, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Raihorodok in the Donetsk region. There are victims among the civilian population.

Main thing for the day. Monday, July 10

[LB] On July 11, rescuers continued to search for the dead and injured in the rubble of the five-story building, according to the message of the Emergency Department of Donetsk Oblast.

As of 5:47 p.m., according to the information of the deputy head of the Office of the President Kyril Tymoshenko, rescuers retrieved 9 wounded and 30 dead from the rubble. "Employees of the State Emergency Service dismantled 65% of the debris. They removed 170 tons of destroyed elements of the building. The work is ongoing," Tymoshenko added.

As of 8:00 p.m., rescuers reported that they had pulled out the bodies of 31 dead people from under the rubble.

The General Staff informed that the Armed Forces inflict losses on the enemy in all directions where hostilities are ongoing.

The enemy is concentrating its main efforts on establishing final control over the Luhansk region.

In the Slobozhansk direction, the enemy is trying to hold the occupied lines and prevent our troops from advancing to the state border.

About the situation in other directions - in our news.

According to preliminary data, three people were killed as a result of the shelling by the Russians of a shopping center and houses in Kharkiv with multiple rocket launchers.

More than 30 people were injured.

In the evening of July 11, the Russians launched another missile attack on Odesa.

According to the head of OVA Maksym Marchenko, there were no casualties.

Serhii Bratchuk, the spokesman of the Odesa Regional Military Administration, added that the Russian Federation had fired two missiles over the region.

Ukrainian forces are confidently advancing in the south of the country . Over the past two days, it was possible to destroy about a dozen of the enemy's barrel artillery and rocket salvo systems.

The destruction of command posts and logistics centers with ammunition and fuel and lubricants, as well as the occupiers' manpower, continues, Natalya Humenyuk, head of the United Coordination Press Center of the Defense Forces of Southern Ukraine, said at the briefing.

"The situation in the southern region remains steadily tense. The advance of our troops is taking place, but it is slow. But it is sure. The announcement of our successes will be made when the consolidation takes place," she said.

According to the Commissioner Oleh Kotenko, more than 7,000 military personnel are considered missing in Ukraine.

"If we are talking about the military, let's understand who the military are. There is the Armed Forces, there is the National Guard, there are border guards, there are the SBU, and these are different institutions. They are not included in the figure given by the Armed Forces. The Armed Forces provides data on 2,000 missing military. Our call center has approximately 7,200 people," Kotenko said.

He added that most of the missing soldiers are in captivity.

Due to the law on oligarchs, Akhmetivska SCM is leaving the media business.

Media Group Ukraine will give up all broadcast and satellite television licenses and print media licenses in Ukraine in favor of the state.

The Akhmetiv media holding includes 10 broadcast and satellite television channels, including "Ukraine", "Ukraine24", "Football1/2/3", as well as the multimedia platform "Today" and other resources and print media. According to Akhmetov, the total amount of investments invested in this media holding exceeded $1.5 billion.

The consequences of this decision for the domestic media market can be very serious.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
With Biden, Palestinians seeking freedom get permits instead
[AnNahar] For more than two years, the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft
...the gang of subgeniuses trying to pass themselves off as the adults in charge of the series of calamities characteristic of the administration of a mentally challenged geriatric case...
has said that Paleostinians are entitled to the same measure of "freedom, security and prosperity" enjoyed by Israelis. Instead, they've gotten U.S. aid and permits to work inside Israel and its Jewish settlements.

The inconsistency is likely to come up when President Joe The Big Guy Biden
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11139 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So, Biden gave them something to wipe with.

Israel, US to declare ‘strategic partnership’ during Biden visit
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/12/2022 13:39 Comments || Top||

#2  They can be entitled to the same civilization as the Israelis when they are civilized.
Posted by: Chris || 07/12/2022 14:27 Comments || Top||

#3  "It seems like success is beyond us...
Pellagra and pica and jaundice!
It's hard to be poor,"
Wail the Pals, "all the more
When your kin are in sandy Wakandas!"
Posted by: Knuckles McCoy8357 || 07/12/2022 14:59 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ The Shorecrappers, or, "I'll go back to the Jordan..."
Posted by: Knuckles McCoy8357 || 07/12/2022 15:02 Comments || Top||

#5  LOL They can be entitled to the same civilization as the Israelis when they are civilized.
The entire world view the Israeli as racist and uncivilized criminal bastards . Did you know the many countries don’t even allow this peoples to visit their countries
A little anecdote:
Many years ago Los Angeles top neighborhoods Bell Hair Wiltshire Beverly Hills. Encino Woodland Hills malibu Calabasas where majority Jews populated
All gone disappeared……
all this cities are now mostly Iranians Beverly Hills is called little Tehran, Malibu majority commercial real eastate is Iranian American owned . Little bit by bit their grips on real estate is goin away nobody like Israeli owned business no one do business with them . this is the reality.
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/12/2022 16:19 Comments || Top||

#6  If I was Jew I would look on everyone with suspicion. Not like they don't have a reason too.
Posted by: Chris || 07/12/2022 20:38 Comments || Top||

#7  Every minority has the same legitimate fears as the Jews. The problem is that Jews thinks that have a monopoly and the world is getting tired of that shit.
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/12/2022 21:39 Comments || Top||

#8  If I was Jew I would look on everyone with suspicion.

Some do, Chris. I never bothered. The vicious idiots reveal themselves soon enough — as we see here at Rantburg — and the rest are just people. When we moved back to the States we were pioneering integrators to our historically white, Christian (about half and half Protestant and Catholic) suburb. In most of their classes the trailing daughters were one of the two Jewish kids. As it turned out, the teachers were excited to have me come in to talk about Hanukkah as a subject matter expert, the kids came up to me years later to tell me how they enjoyed telling their friends what they’d learnt, the librarian appreciated the books and teaching kits I donated, and mothers would call me to politely ask about this or that question about Jewish beliefs or history that they’d long wondered about. Nobody was ever even slightly rude to me, and when my mother was honoured at the Memorial Day parade one year by the the local VFW chapter as a Holocaust survivor, people came running up to her afterward just to shake her hand.

Yes, Jew hate is fashionable again, which is why Aca Joe is so smug about it, but those with insight and understanding don’t fall for such nonsense.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/12/2022 22:07 Comments || Top||


Economy
Letter To The Editor: Is Gasoline Really Expensive?
[Newton County Appeal] So, you think a gallon of gasoline is expensive?

This is what it costs to buy a gallon of....

Diet Snapple, 16 oz. for $1.29 = $10.32 per gallon. Lipton Iced Tea, 16 oz. for $1.19 = $9.52 per gallon. Gatorade, 20 oz. for $1.59 = $10.17 per gallon. Ocean Spray, 16 oz. for $1.25 = $10.00 per gallon.

Pint of milk, 16 oz. for $1.59 = $12.72 per gallon. STP Brake Fluid, 12 oz. for $3.15 = $33.60 per gallon. Vick’s NyQuil, 6 oz. for $8.35 = $178.13 per gallon. Pepto Bismol, 4 oz. for $3.85 = $123.20 per gallon.

Whiteout, 7 oz. for $1.39 = $25.42 per gallon. Scope, 1.5 oz. for $0.99 = $84.48 per gallon.

And this is the REAL KICKER...

Evian water, 9 oz. for $1.49 = $21.19 per gallon!

$21.19 FOR WATER!!!

You get the idea?? So next time you are at the gas pump, be glad your car doesn’t run on NyQuil, or Scope or Whiteout or even water.

Charles Hendrix is a Reservoir resident.

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11138 views] Top|| File under:

#1  People do not inculcate the true value of a gallon of gasoline. Think of the $5.50 per gallon you pay for it this way. A gallon of this liquid will move your car at least (reasonably speaking) 20 miles along the road for that $5.50. Now imagine being asked to physically push your car 20 miles farther down the road. You bet your life you'd be demanding far more than $5.50 to do that work. Pushing your car 20 miles is a hell-of-a-lot of effort. Far more than 90% of humans would be even capable of doing. In fact for most humans it would take multiple days in order to push that car 20 miles. The BTUs encapsulated into that liquid is totally under appreciated. Gasoline will still be "valuable" even when its up around $100 per gallon. For those unfamiliar with oil, its NOT proven reserves, NOR is it production rates that really determines its market value, its the hidden "depletion" rate of "currently known" reserves that is kept undisclosed from the public eye that determines where future price trajectories lie. I recommend everyone becoming more familiar with the 2nd law of Thermodynamics. Entropy is highly under-appreciated. Its what underlies our understanding of what we often describe as "civilization."
Posted by: OspasDhahran || 07/12/2022 3:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Gasoline in 1965 = .21 cents per gallon.

New Ford 6 cylinder, standard transmission pickup in 1965 = $1700.

You decide.

* Gov't and trade union discussions anyone ?


Posted by: Besoeker || 07/12/2022 4:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Price in 1964 was approx 0.25$/gal. Melt value of a pre '65 quarter (90% silver) is approx $3.44 @ $19.00/oz silver presently. Silver is running a bit below the recent averages. If you go with $24/oz that quarter would be worth about $4.34.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 07/12/2022 5:01 Comments || Top||

#4  ..to which I say its not inflation but debasing the currency. It's not so much things cost more but that your money is worth less. That's what happens when the treasury prints/creates money without backing.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/12/2022 7:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Mr. Hendrix is like a lot of the left, a 'JoePoligist©'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/12/2022 7:50 Comments || Top||

#6 
I must be older than a few of y'all.

My gas cost 16.9 cents (GA) in 1969-70.
I used to walk the ditches picking up soda bottles all after school for the 2 cents return deposit. For my well used and bondo'ed to hell and back Ford Falcon 1963 6cly with a large big seat ☺

Which was used for Friday night date night, driving/parking and $1 for 2 hamburgers and a Large Coke.☺

Using a popular website inflation calculator.
What was 16.9 (17 cents) then for gas, today, should only be paying $1.26 a gallon

What was 12 cent for a tall Coke in 1970 should only be $0.89

AARP has some 1980 to 2020 price comparisons.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/12/2022 8:44 Comments || Top||

#7 

Overall, I walk away having read the Hendrix article thinking the LSD's know Gas prices are killing them in the Voter Polls. So deflect the facts with unrelated facts.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/12/2022 8:46 Comments || Top||

#8  More like, "Be glad your local muni authority does not charge Evian prices for a gallon of water."

This whole thing is an old argument which Mr. Hendrix got from somewhere else. He didn't come up with it himself.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/12/2022 8:49 Comments || Top||

#9  #6 except back then you used silver quarters, dimes, and half dollars. That's the point of #3.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/12/2022 9:04 Comments || Top||

#10  Because no one has ever debased actual metal coinage!!!
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/12/2022 12:36 Comments || Top||

#11  ..which we carry with us today in the form of alloys rather than the original. They can't keep up in the smallest denomination.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/12/2022 13:05 Comments || Top||

#12  You mean "rednecks complaining about high prices".
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/12/2022 14:46 Comments || Top||

#13  Used to get 1-5 cents for coke bottles I picked up, now get several dollars a month on my garbage bill to get rid of them...
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/12/2022 16:37 Comments || Top||

#14  I don’t drink 25 gallons of Evian every 3-4 days. And I certainly don’t drink 200 gallons on a work trip on the road.
Posted by: Lowspark || 07/12/2022 21:35 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Yet another ammo depot struck tonight in Ukraine, this time in Nova Kakhova in Kherson
Posted by: Fred || 07/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11132 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Russian ammo depot struck by US made HIMARS.
Posted by: Black Charlie Slairt1430 || 07/12/2022 1:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Even before Putin's sentimental journey to the Ukraine, Russian ammo dumps had a tendency to go 'boom'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/12/2022 7:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Makes for a great fireworks display. Just stay far enough away to avoid the flying fun bits.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/12/2022 8:12 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/12/2022 15:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Awww... I wanted to see Joe's incoherent ramblings!
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/12/2022 15:31 Comments || Top||

#6  Sorry, DarthVader. He’d wandered too deep into racism. I realize that as an elderly Mexican his boundaries are different, but as a claimed sophisticate he should be able to master when in Rome.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/12/2022 15:52 Comments || Top||

#7  Fake news
Junk articles like this were called disinformation in the era of WW2.
The so call ammunition depot hit
Was a potassium sulfate manufacturer factory.
You bastards disinformation prostitutes.
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/12/2022 15:53 Comments || Top||

#8  AJ seems rather sensitive today.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 07/12/2022 15:57 Comments || Top||

#9  His boyfriend used the KY with the sand in it. He is a bit butthurt
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/12/2022 16:04 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Natural Immunity 97% Effective Against Severe COVID-19 After 14 Months: Study
[ZeroHedge] The protection against severe illness from so-called natural immunity remains superior to the protection bestowed by COVID-19 vaccines, according to a new study.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 07/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11131 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The fallout from all of this is going to be a disturbing note in human history. We as a race need to understand the ramifications of our actions and over reactions. We raced a vaccine to market around all the safeguards we had in place. Now we are living with myocarditis, sudden teen deaths, sudden adult death, micro clots, child seizures, adult immune disorders, and the psychological problems associated with kids being locked down, let alone the economic impacts of these bad decisions. Now the truth is finally out there that all these measures were an overreaction and driven by greed and opportunism.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/12/2022 9:45 Comments || Top||

#2  And the next time the boy cries wolf, there might actually be one. But no one will listen because of COVID theater.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/12/2022 9:51 Comments || Top||

#3  COVID theater was followed by Ukraine theater. Two Big Lies, one right after the other, each ending in a complete debacle that will end up costing the West many trillions.

And the total destruction of public trust and belief in the competence of the creeentialed elites who pushed us over the cliff.
Posted by: Ulavise Ghibelline5166 || 07/12/2022 9:57 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ PT Barnum says, "not to worry, wait one minute."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/12/2022 9:59 Comments || Top||

#5  #1 49 Pan makes excellent suggestions.

But just try to have any of that heard among the screeching din of the activists.
Posted by: Tom || 07/12/2022 14:56 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
In Mideast, Biden struggling to shift policy after Trump
What a happy headline!
[AnNahar] Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry...
took office looking to reshape U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, putting a premium on promoting democracy and human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
. In reality, he has struggled on several fronts to meaningfully separate his approach from former President Donald Trump
Continued on Page 49
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Home Front: Politix
Who has a better chance of getting crushed in the next two months ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11134 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wrath of Khan: "From hell's heart, I stab at thee. For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee."
I don't understand what is driving Liz Cheney to this extent... Did Trump shoot he poodle or something?
Posted by: magpie || 07/12/2022 10:48 Comments || Top||

#2  /\..."her poodle" Sticky keyboard.
Posted by: magpie || 07/12/2022 10:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Not her puppy but her pappy. Orange Man dared to heap scorn on Dick Cheney's colossally stupid fuckup in Iraq
Posted by: Squinty Glomoper5597 || 07/12/2022 11:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Trump is not a globalist. He does not kowtow to China. His philosophy is America First and that gets in the way of her sponsors making billions of dollars. That's why they all hate him. Mix that with daddy issues, kinda like Meghan McCain, and you have an especially virulent hatred.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/12/2022 13:28 Comments || Top||

#5  In Liz's case, because the hatred keeps her from thinking logically and pragmatically about her own career, it is self-destructive and she has done much more harm to herself than to Trump.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/12/2022 13:34 Comments || Top||

#6  First Contact: And he piled upon the whale's white hump, the sum of all the rage and hate felt by his whole race. If his chest had been a cannon, he would have shot his heart upon it.
Posted by: Lowspark || 07/12/2022 22:02 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
World's population will hit EIGHT BILLION on November 15, India set to surpass China as most populated nation next year
India rising, China falling — the future belongs to those who show up.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • 2030, the world's population will reach 8.5 billion and by 2100, 10.4 billion
    ...or somewhat less, given how many countries have been overcounting their populations...
  • Population growth was growing at its slowest pace since 1950, estimates show

  • India's population was 1.21 billion in 2011 and will now surpass China at 1.4 billion

  • In 2021, the average fertility of the world's population stood at 2.3 births per woman over a lifetime, having fallen from about 5 births in 1950

  • Global fertility is projected to decline further to 2.1 births per woman by 2050


Researcher questions China's population data, says it may be lower
Dec 3, 2021
[Reuters] China may be downplaying how fast its population is shrinking, and a recent policy to promote three-child families has poor chances to improve birth rates, a fertility expert told the Rooters Next conference on Friday.Fuxian Yi, senior scientist in the obstetrics and gynecology department at the University of Wisconsin, said he estimated that China’s 2020 population was 1.28 billion rather than the 1.41 billion census number reported and that fertility rates were lower than reported.

Yi estimates that China's population has been shrinking since 2018.

China’s government did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The country's rapidly shrinking birth rate has raised concerns of slower economic growth and the potential challenges created by fewer workers supporting an older population.

Beijing scrapped its decades-old one-child policy in 2016, replacing it with a two-child limit to try to stave off those risks. In May a three-child policy was announced as the birth rates continued to drop given the high cost of raising children in Chinese cities.

China had a fertility rate of just 1.3 children per woman in 2020, recent state data showed, on par with aging societies like Japan and Italia and far short of the roughly 2.1 needed for replacement level.

Yi estimates that the real fertility rate is much lower based on a drop in fertility rates over the years by China’s ethnic minority groups which were not restricted by the one-child policy, and he calculated the population based on his own lower estimate rates.

Yi said local governments overstate their population to obtain more subsidies, including education fees they collect from the central government. He said that with over 20 social benefits linked to a birth registration, some families were using the black market to buy a second birth certificate online.

"The population numbers have been inflated mainly for financial benefits," Yi said.



Posted by: Skidmark || 07/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11130 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

With the Covid-19/22 having about 0.079 of 1% in globally reported deaths. It did not even make a good dent in the overall global population.

It just cleared the world mainly of Older and medically compromised persons.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/12/2022 8:08 Comments || Top||

#2  From the demographic data from multiple sources I've seen, the birthrates are so terrible in most countries the world population will peak around 9 billion mid-century, then slowly drop back to 7 billion in a century after that. There simple aren't enough people to keep the population up.

If global famine and war take hold in the next few years, expect that number to drop even faster.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/12/2022 9:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Only 8 billion? I seems to recall back in the late 70s early 80s that we had already reached over nine billion people on Earth!

was the count off then?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 07/12/2022 9:15 Comments || Top||

#4  was the count off then?

Is anything counted for political purposes ever counted accurately?

/rhet
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/12/2022 9:18 Comments || Top||


#6  VICTOR HANSON: The Disappearing American: America is depopulating

It's true that there are more potential parents than ever before. And the American population has soared to over 330 million.

But our population is radically leveling off.

In just 14 years the fertility rate has crashed from 2.12 to 1.64 – meaning that both citizens and resident aliens in America are not replacing themselves.

While past demographic momentum has led to an all-time population high, the United States has already peaked demographically. And it will soon shrink and further age.

Thirty years ago, America had 80 million fewer people, but a quarter-million more annual births.

What explains the disappearing American?
Posted by: Gonzesse || 07/12/2022 10:05 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm surprised that with the arrival of "men who can get pregnant" hasn't already sustained more population increase.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 07/12/2022 10:23 Comments || Top||

#8  Fake people in the "metaverse," spending imaginary money on non-existent stuff will solve it all...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/12/2022 10:25 Comments || Top||

#9  Some of it is just people putting things on hold during the uncertainty of the lockdown and the Biden nonsense. There’s a divide in the key age group — one portion avoiding kids altogether while the other portion has three or more.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/12/2022 11:08 Comments || Top||

#10  Is anything counted for political purposes ever counted accurately?

I seriously hope they're not counting the folks who supposedly voted in districts where the vote totals exceeded the population of eligible voters.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/12/2022 12:11 Comments || Top||

#11  I see that the populaion of Pakistan is increasing despite Dron's best efforts to reduce it.
Posted by: Matt || 07/12/2022 12:58 Comments || Top||

#12  End the ridiculous American practice of prolonged adolescence. Replace high schools with trade schools and let those kids grow up normally and naturally. End government sponsored college loans so kids have to grow up and go to work instead of living on the taxpayers' dime. Get inflation under control so moms can stay home. Repeal minimum wage laws so American workers can compete with their counterparts in other countries. Do these things before the lights go out.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/12/2022 13:51 Comments || Top||

#13  Repeal minimum wage laws so American workers can compete with their counterparts in other countries

Why? They're just letting those counterparts in through the border. Simple supply and demand. Excess labor reduces the demand and wages. Those with technical skills, heck no problem, loads of 1HB visas.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/12/2022 15:21 Comments || Top||

#14  "Global fertility is projected to decline... "

Kinda Think ?
Finding significant amounts of Birth Control and other pregnancy inhabiting Medications in 1st and 2nd World water supplies might have something to do with it?

While in still developing 3rd world nations, it is a rarity.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/12/2022 17:31 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Shinzo Abe: Unification Church distances itself from assassination
[DW] Fingers were pointed to the church as the alleged shooter of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had said the church drove his mother into bankruptcy.

The Japanese branch of the South Korean Unification Church acknowledged on Monday that the mother of the man arrested for the shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was indeed a member, but said that neither the suspect himself nor Abe had been.

Abe was shot on Friday during a campaign speech in western Japan by who the police identified as a 41-year-old unemployed man who had previously been part of the country's navy.

The alleged shooter told police that he had targeted Abe because he believed the former prime minister had promoted a religious group to which his mother had made a large donation, driving her into bankruptcy.

"Trying to understand how such hatred may have possibly led to the killing is totally perplexing," the head of the church, Tomihiro Tanaka, told news hounds in Tokyo.

While denying that Abe was a member, however, he said that the former prime minister had supported the church in promoting peace.

WHAT IS THE UNIFICATION CHURCH?
Japanese media had pointed to the church, known fully as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification

The church was founded in 1954. Its founder, the self-declared messiah and ardent anti-communist from South Korea, Sun Myung Moon also ran a business empire.

Critics have long called the church a cult and questioned where its financing comes from.

Abe, the longest-serving prime minister in Japan's history, attended an event held by an organization with connections to the church last September where he gave a speech praising that organization's work in promoting peace in South Korea.

DONATIONS SCANDALS
Church head Tanaka confirmed that some people make generous donations, but on a voluntary basis.

"The amount of donations is up to each individual,'' he said. "We are grateful to those who give large donations, but nothing is required."

He acknowledged several scandals related to donations in the past but said there had not been any problems since measures were set up in 2009.

A spokesperson for the church said that it has around 300,000 followers in Japan and up to 200,000 in South Korea. Its appeal in Japan has attracted celebrities as well as the attention of politicians who seek to court its influence.
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#2 

Jesus wept!
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/12/2022 9:52 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ That's supposed to be the second coming.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/12/2022 9:53 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Muslims in Kyiv pray for peace, end of war ​
For information.
[Rudaw] Moslems in the Ukrainian capital came together to perform Eid prayer on Saturday morning, praying for a lasting triumph for their country that continues to be locked in a war with Russia for five months now.

A large number of Moslems living in Kyiv are those who abandoned homes in Crimea in 2015 and sought shelter in the Ukrainian capital following the Russian takeover of the southern region.

"I hope this war will end as soon as possible. I have six sons and the eldest among them is a Ukrainian army soldier. All we wish is for this war to end," Anas Abu Warda, a Paleostinian man who moved to Ukraine 30 years ago, told Rudaw on Saturday.

Around 1.5 million Moslems live in Ukraine, 500,000 of which are from Crimea... 300,000 from Azerbaijan and the rest are from the Arab countries, Iran, Uzbekistan, Pakistain and the African countries.
"Around 1.5 million Moslems live in Ukraine, 500,000 of which are from Crimea... 300,000 from Azerbaijan and the rest are from the Arab countries, Iran, Uzbekistan, Pakistain and the African countries," Emad Abu Alrub, member of Cabinet of Ministers Council for religion, national minorities, and education said.

Hamza Issa, 48, moved to Ukraine from Paleostine in 1992 to pursue higher education in the eastern European country. He is now a surgeon. The father of eight moved to Kyiv from Donbas in 2014 following escalations.

Moslems in Kyiv slaughtered 250 sheep and 55 calves to be given to 5,000 destitute and needy families in Kyiv oblast, according to Issa.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began on February 24. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on June 7 said over 4 thousand non-combatants were killed and more than 5 thousand others were maimed as a result of the conflict across Ukraine.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11143 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Muslims in Kiev…….
For some reasons when I think about this poor Muslims I associated them to the Warsaw Jews in w2
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/12/2022 17:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Credibility = Zero, tool. Resume under a new nym/legend. I suggest Tecate Tony?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/12/2022 20:12 Comments || Top||

#3  It’s the internet you fool.
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/12/2022 20:59 Comments || Top||

#4  For some reasons when I think about this poor Muslims I associated them to the Warsaw Jews in w2

Thus demonstrating you understand neither Muslims nor Jews.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/12/2022 21:03 Comments || Top||

#5  It’s the impressed vision …..left on me and the pervasive continuous Malefic or Benefic Jewish institutions and foundations propaganda year after year. So any time I see a race of people in an hostile territory I think of that.
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/12/2022 21:22 Comments || Top||

#6  It’s important always to pull back and look at the bigger picture, my dear. After your career you should have experience looking beyond superficial similarities.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/12/2022 21:27 Comments || Top||

#7  Aca Joe islam is not a race you maroon.
Posted by: Woodrow || 07/12/2022 23:19 Comments || Top||

#8  That’s part of the bigger picture, Woodrow.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/12/2022 23:22 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Terrorists Paid Over N700Million As Ransom To Free 7 Abducted Abuja-Kaduna Train Passengers


One of the family members of the seven kidnapped passengers of the Abuja-Kaduna train recently released, says over N100 million was paid to faceless myrmidons for each before they were released.

The faceless myrmidons on Saturday released the victims after spending over 100 days in captivity.

On March 28, a train on its way from Abuja to Kaduna was attacked by terrorists. Several persons were killed, dozens injured, while others were kidnapped.

Eleven of the kidnapped passengers had earlier been released in June.

The newly-freed passengers are Muhammad Paki, Bosede Olurotimi, Abubakar Zubairu, Alhassan Sule, Sadiq Ango Abdullahi, Aliyu Usman and Muhammad Abuzar Afzal, a Pak.

"It’s so sad, each family paid over N100m each, they were not just released. Now they demanding N100m for others.

"We had no option but to pay after they (kidnapped passengers) were abandoned by the government," the source told SaharaReporters.

There are 43 more victims of the train incident being held captive by terrorists.
Posted by: Fred || 07/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11145 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)

#1  Guess there were no GIs on the train.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/12/2022 13:37 Comments || Top||


Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka to get new president next week amid political and economic meltdown
[NYPOST] Sri Lanka’s parliament will elect a new president on July 20, its speaker said on Monday, after protesters stormed the residences of the current president and prime minister, who have both offered to quit amid an economic meltdown.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who had overseen a ruthless crushing of the Tamil Tigers snuffies as defense secretary, is set to resign on Wednesday. His brothers and nephew earlier quit as ministers as Sri Lanka began running out of fuel, food and other essentials in the worst crisis since independence from Britannia in 1948.

Parliament will reconvene on Friday and will vote to elect a new president five days later, Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena said in a statement.

"During the party leaders’ meeting held today it was agreed that this was essential to ensure a new all-party government is in place in accordance with the Constitution," the statement added.

"The ruling party has said the prime minister and the Cabinet are ready to resign to appoint an all-party government."

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, whose private home was set alight by protesters, has said he will step down. His office said Rajapaksa had confirmed his resignation plans to the prime minister, adding that the cabinet would resign once a deal was reached to form an all-party government.
Posted by: Fred || 07/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11134 views] Top|| File under:


#2  ^ Can't happen here.
Or can it?
Please?
Posted by: Plano Palomino || 07/12/2022 10:10 Comments || Top||

#3  We do not advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. We'll throw the rascals out with so many votes they won't be able to cheat enough.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/12/2022 12:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Post want to approach the subject of why it is worse now than the worst of the Tamil Tiger years?

Everyone bored? Somebody roll a 1 on a d20? Moon phasing?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/12/2022 14:50 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Cholera outbreak kills 20 Children in southern Afghanistan
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Twenty children died in a cholera outbreak in the southern Afghan province of Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
over the weekend, local media reported on Monday.

Pajhwok news agency cited Information Department Assistant Director Mawlavi Mohammad Qasim Riyaz saying that more than 120 children from the Baghran district had been infected.

Cholera is a dangerous infectious disease that can kill within hours if left untreated. It is caused by consumption of food or water contaminated with Vibrio cholera bacteria. Patients develop acute diarrhea and severe dehydration.
Posted by: Fred || 07/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11140 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


Africa Subsaharan
Ghana Immigration Service Warns Against Infiltration Of Boko Haram Terrorists Freed From Nigeria’s Kuje Prison


Posted by: Fred || 07/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11142 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Europe
Turnabout or Just Divine Retribution?
[CFP] A Bill Gates Foundation supermarket in the Netherlands that focuses on new-age foods like plant protein meat has spontaneously caught fire in the middle of the night.
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11133 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sheep hearders were seen tossing gasoline soaked clumps of wool into the establishment followed lit matches...
Posted by: Black Charlie Slairt1430 || 07/12/2022 1:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Goodness, gracious, GREAT BALLS OF FIRE!
Posted by: EMSArtifact || 07/12/2022 11:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Congratulations Rantburg! another fake!

While a distribution center operated by a Dutch online grocery service was destroyed in a fire in the eastern Netherlands, the facility was not a factory that produced meat alternatives, nor was it owned or operated by Gates. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust invested in the e-grocer in 2021, but the trust is not a controlling shareholder, the gates foundation is a very minor investor,
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/12/2022 17:22 Comments || Top||


Legenda Military Archaeology / Latvia: Tomorrow we are going to a very interesting place.
[Facebook] Tomorrow we are going to a very interesting place.

A family inherited a farm in Kurland, by the family legend, after the battles, when family returned in 1945, yard was all full of big unexploded ordnance and the only way for the farmer to get rid of that was to dump it all in a huge bomb crater and cover with ground. On top of that was planted an apple tree, so no one will dig there.

The family which inherited the place want to develop the yard, apple tree was cut down and they contacted the police on the matter of unexploded ordnance under that tree. Police replayed that they can not help on the matter, as the ordnance is not yet found. After a moment police gave a call and told to contact Legenda Military Archaeology/Latvia, told that these are the only guys who can help on the matter. Therefore we are hearing out tomorrow to see what's there.

In that place should be another crater full of steel and might be buried around a dozen soldiers. Such craters in the yards of farms were found by us before, photos below show one crater like this from two years ago, human remains, horse, parts of T-34, unexploded ordnance and other war rubbish.

Hopefully tomorrow there will be good enough cell coverage and we would be able to do a LIVE stream in less than 24 hours.

Posted by: badanov || 07/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11130 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...I'm a member of several eastern Europe/Baltic military archaeology pages on Social Media(TM) - it is stunning to see how many finds are still popping up on a regular basis. The fighting and devastation were almost uniformly so bad that when it was over there was sometimes little or no organized effort to ID the lost or clear things up - piles were often shoved into holes or ravines, and that was that.

Without exception (on the pages I see, anyways) these groups are very respectful in identifying and handling any remains, no matter what side they were on.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 07/12/2022 6:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Holy cow! Who pays for such work?
Posted by: Bobby || 07/12/2022 17:31 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Secret Service sez, 'yea, we're aware of the Hunter Biden hacking'
[National Review] The Secret Service confirmed Monday that it is aware of reports that the contents of Hunter Biden’s iCloud account were hacked over the weekend, exposing alleged texts, pictures, and videos of the president’s son doing drugs and engaging in other salacious and likely illegal activities.

4chan users claimed they hacked Biden’s phone late Saturday night, posting pictures to the website’s main political forum, according to the Washington Examiner. Many of the posts were taken down by the website.

The Secret Service said they are "aware" of the "social media posts and claims" about Biden, but are not in position to "make public comments on potential investigative actions," in a statement to National Review.

One video purports to show Biden measuring the amount of crack he had while in conversation with a prostitute.

Another alleged video shows Biden going down a water slide naked, and texts allegedly revealed show Biden claiming that President Joe Biden was in possession of five guns in 2019, despite campaigning on gun control.

Many of the files posted by 4chan were already found on Biden’s abandoned laptop via an iPhone XS backup, according to the Washington Examiner.

Former Secret Service agent and cyber forensics expert Konstantinos "Gus" Dimitrelos previously told the outlet that the contents of the iPhone are authentic.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11133 views] Top|| File under:


#2  "Secret Service is aware of the Hunter Biden hacking"

Darn you'd hope they would know, given all the Dark/Gray world news & posts in the last 48+ hrs.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/12/2022 6:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Suddenly, leaks on 'their' side. Guess the coup is on.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/12/2022 7:37 Comments || Top||

#4  They are about to discover how hard it is to get all the dog sh*t off the shoe once it's been stepped in.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/12/2022 7:40 Comments || Top||

#5  It's all part of the plan.
Biden, the patsy, does all the dirty work, takes the blame. Michele O to the rescue in 24 (or sooner).
The Democrats never intended for Biden to finish his 1st term.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 07/12/2022 9:29 Comments || Top||


#7  Hmmm .... 4chan hack comes at the same time as news reports that Democrats are preparing to dump Biden. Coincidence? I think not
Posted by: Coriolanus || 07/12/2022 9:50 Comments || Top||

#8  When you can buy a one trillion byte solid state hard drive for about $100, why would anybody trust their data to iCloud?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/12/2022 13:39 Comments || Top||

#9  Michele O to the rescue in 24 (or sooner).

Gag me with a spoon. I fear you might be right.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/12/2022 13:41 Comments || Top||

#10  I don't think Big Mike wants to make that much effort, but being the Most Powerful Black Woman in the history of the world does have a certain appeal, and it will make the white people go nuts. So if they sell her on the idea of the campaign and election being delivered on a silver platter....
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/12/2022 15:51 Comments || Top||

#11  What is with criminals filming their crimes? I mean I"m happy they do, must make prosecutions easier (when prosecutors actually do their jobs) but still it's bizarre.
Posted by: ruprecht || 07/12/2022 16:12 Comments || Top||

#12  The poor Hunter Biden and his family are one American family groomed and used and abused by the criminal American federal civil servants illegal associations
This family of poor bastards are been blackmailed and forced to act, I’m sure they are very aware on how their ends will be. …they are just prolonging their existence and taking their lives day by day. Especially now that this "mysterious British handlers behind Biden pet project Ukraine has miserably failed.
The poor Hunter is just keeping notes so he can use them when needed
it’s called planning you idiots! So that the criminal American CS can’t accuse him of the wrong facts..
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/12/2022 16:48 Comments || Top||


Economy
Gas guzzler! Shameless Mercedes driver is caught SWAPPING nozzles at California pump so unsuspecting driver parked opposite ends up paying for HIS fuel
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Surveillance footage from an AMPM gas station in Roseville caught the moment

  • The amount that the unsuspected driver ended up paying for remains unclear

  • The suspect, who was wearing a black windbreaker, remains unidentified

  • He switched out nozzles and walked in between pumps with no other cars around him before the unsuspected driver's arrival

  • He then goes back to his black Mercedes and observes the other driver filling up his car with the wrong nozzle, while pretending to be filling up his own car

  • Similar tacks to steal gas across the country have been reported due to a spike in prices

  • The average price of gas is staying above $4 in all 50 states - and in California, the price exceeds $6 a gallon, while in New York, the price is almost $5
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11139 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In addition to whatever punishment the court issue, the Mercedes driver should also be made to pay for the hapless driver gas for the next year or so.

Crime should not pay!

Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 07/12/2022 0:56 Comments || Top||

#2 
But always thought any person having this happen to them had to be pretty unattentive of their surroundings.


Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/12/2022 7:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Considering a guy got killed in Gwinnett the other day while getting AIR for his tired I would suggest people start paying attention. I watch every person around when I go to the store across the street.
Posted by: Chris || 07/12/2022 8:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Gwinnett County man filling his tires with air killed in carjacking attempt, police say.

No description of the assailants, the assailants car, or surveillance video.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/12/2022 8:13 Comments || Top||

#5  We all know damn well Quik Trips cameras are good.
Posted by: Chris || 07/12/2022 11:48 Comments || Top||

#6  And we also damn well know why there's no perp descriptions, fotos, or video.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/12/2022 12:34 Comments || Top||

#7  And we also damn well know why there's no perp descriptions, fotos, or video.
There’s so much veiled racism in that disgusting comment
Why in the world you want the melanins levels? what’s your scope?
It’s was an American! the race is irrelevant,you racist!
Posted by: Thor Grundy4358 || 07/12/2022 18:18 Comments || Top||

#8  With the open borders and California, you sure? Shall we reference the Bodega story for you?

Any rate, its the dry season, be extra careful at watering holes. Getting slicked like this is unacceptable.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/12/2022 18:27 Comments || Top||

#9  Re: #7 by Thor Grundy4358: "It's was an American". IT'S WAS AN AMERICAN????????? HOW GRAMMATICIST OF YOU!!!! How dare you attack the language like that!!! There's so much velied Grammaticism in that disgusting comment!!! You can't even write the King's Engish properly, can you? The race is to the fastest you blithering grammaticist and apostrophe injurer!!!

Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 07/12/2022 19:35 Comments || Top||

#10  Oh my, Canuckistan sniper. that’s glorious.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/12/2022 21:23 Comments || Top||

#11  Roseville police arrested a man in 2019 for pulling off the same scheme at least a dozen times.
Posted by: Woodrow || 07/12/2022 23:24 Comments || Top||

#12  In 2019? Why then, when gas prices were at a low point?
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/12/2022 23:28 Comments || Top||

#13  There’s so much veiled racism in that disgusting comment

I got $20 on Besoeker being right about some, shall we say, 'urban yoot' being behind it. Wanna put your $ where your mouth is?
Posted by: Raj || 07/12/2022 23:36 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Texas father shoots pair of teens who attempted to rob car with infants inside
[FoxNews] A Texas father shot two attempted robbery suspects who approached his SUV with his wife and two infant children inside, police announced Monday.

The husband and wife were arriving to their home just after midnight Sunday evening when the two teenage suspects approached the vehicle. The Harris County Sheriff's Office said that the suspects attempted to open the vehicle's rear door, where the two children were seated.

"The adult male feared for the safety of his family and fired shots and struck both suspects," Sheriff Ed Gonzalez wrote in a statement. "The wife was driving and drove away after the shooting to get away from the suspects."

"A car pulled up after the shooting driven by an [unknown] male believed to be with the suspects. Both wounded suspects were taken to hospitals by private vehicles. Both suspects are teens, 16 yrs old. Both are said to be stable & in fair condition," Gonzalez added.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11130 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The father need more range time!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 07/12/2022 0:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Representated by Sheila Jackson Lee.
Posted by: Black Charlie Slairt1430 || 07/12/2022 1:14 Comments || Top||

#3  The father neutralizes attackers, disengages, departs the danger area while reloading and calling 911.

A happy ending.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/12/2022 4:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Long time past to bring back curfew laws.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/12/2022 7:36 Comments || Top||

#5  They can't enforece the laws on the books now, how they gonna enforce curfew laws? Hell, the ones they would be for are the ones doing all the killing, I think they will not give a shit.
Posted by: Chris || 07/12/2022 8:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Referring to children and teen curfews. Back in civilization, those were required to be off the streets by 10pm. Nothing much good happens after that with those age groups.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/12/2022 8:23 Comments || Top||

#7  I understand that, you do realize who most of the gang members are right? They tend to not care by such trivial things as the law.
Posted by: Chris || 07/12/2022 8:51 Comments || Top||

#8 
I have said it before...
We a "GO-AMMO-ME" website, that replenishes Citizens who spent AMMO, while defending themselves and family.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/12/2022 8:52 Comments || Top||

#9  #7 actually its their sperm and egg donors who don't care. Like I wrote, back in civilization..
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/12/2022 9:00 Comments || Top||

#10  FAFO.
Posted by: EMSArtifact || 07/12/2022 11:01 Comments || Top||

#11  Even through High School I had to be home by 8 on weekdays and 10 on weekends. I lost priveleges if I wasn't.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/12/2022 11:53 Comments || Top||

#12  I had no privileges in high school.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/12/2022 13:58 Comments || Top||

#13  Y'all had PARENTS
Posted by: Chris || 07/12/2022 14:33 Comments || Top||

#14  Well, catching two on foot after approach with starting position in passenger seat is damn good.

Both suspects are teens. Uh huh. Just trying to make Kiwanis on time eh?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/12/2022 18:31 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia in 1919: Denikin's retreat. Poland, Ukraine, Baltic States
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] After the loss of Tsaritsyn, Denikin turned to Pilsudski with a letter in which he spoke of the need to start a new period in the history of Russian-Polish relations:

“Having once met with a feeling of complete satisfaction the turn of Russian policy towards the recognition of the national rights of the Polish people, I believed that this turn marks the oblivion of past historical mistakes and the union of two kindred peoples. But I was wrong. On this difficult day for Russia, you Poles are repeating our mistakes to an even greater extent. I mean the desire to occupy purely Russian lands, not justified by the strategic situation; the introduction in them of a government that denies Russian statehood and has the character of Polonization; finally, the plight of the Russian Orthodox Church both in Poland and in the Russian lands you have occupied. It is perfectly clear to me that it is precisely now that the foundations are being laid on which international relations will be built for many years to come. And our current mistakes will be paid for in the future with abundant blood and people's impoverishment to the delight of the enemies of the Slavs. There is no need for me to prove to you that the policy of the Polish government, incomprehensible to Russian society, can give very serious support to the Germanophile trend, which previously had no basis in our country. I have no doubt that if such a trend ever prevailed, it would be fatal for the Polish Republic. This cannot be allowed. Meanwhile, the eastern Polish army, successfully advancing against the Bolsheviks and Petliurists, in the days most difficult for the Russian troops, for about 3 months, stopped the offensive, allowing the Bolsheviks to transfer up to 43 thousand bayonets and sabers to my front. that the policy of the Polish government, incomprehensible to Russian society, can give a very serious support to the Germanophile trend, which previously had no basis in our country. I have no doubt that if such a trend ever prevailed, it would be fatal for the Polish Republic. This cannot be allowed. Meanwhile, the eastern Polish army, successfully advancing against the Bolsheviks and Petliurists, in the days most difficult for the Russian troops, for about 3 months, stopped the offensive, allowing the Bolsheviks to transfer up to 43 thousand bayonets and sabers to my front. that the policy of the Polish government, incomprehensible to Russian society, can give a very serious support to the Germanophile trend, which previously had no basis in our country. I have no doubt that if such a trend ever prevailed, it would be fatal for the Polish Republic. This cannot be allowed. Meanwhile, the eastern Polish army, successfully advancing against the Bolsheviks and Petliurists, in the days most difficult for the Russian troops, for about 3 months, stopped the offensive, allowing the Bolsheviks to transfer up to 43 thousand bayonets and sabers to my front. This cannot be allowed. Meanwhile, the eastern Polish army, successfully advancing against the Bolsheviks and Petliurists, in the days most difficult for the Russian troops, for about 3 months, stopped the offensive, allowing the Bolsheviks to transfer up to 43 thousand bayonets and sabers to my front. This cannot be allowed. Meanwhile, the eastern Polish army, successfully advancing against the Bolsheviks and Petliurists, in the days most difficult for the Russian troops, for about 3 months, stopped the offensive, allowing the Bolsheviks to transfer up to 43 thousand bayonets and sabers to my front.

Continued on Page 49
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Armed Forces of Ukraine do not allow Russian troops to reach the border of Luhansk region - Gaidai
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Vesti] Russian troops are already experiencing problems with the supply of ammunition

Russian troops are trying unsuccessfully to "squeeze" the Lugansk region, but they are daily held back by Ukrainian defenders. This was announced by the head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai.

According to him, enemy warehouses in the deep rear continue to burn. Some detonate for several days, and the invaders are already experiencing problems with the supply of ammunition. The logistics of the Russians are broken.

"The Luhansk region is holding back the Russians from attacking the cities of the Donetsk region. The so-called "operational pause" of the Russians is their helplessness, as a result of "pops" in the warehouses," Gaidai noted.

The head of the Luhansk OVA added that people in the occupied territories want to leave en masse, but there are no ways to do it safely, and not everyone decides to travel through several countries.

Shelling of a house in Chasovoy Yar: the number of victims increased to 33 people

[Vesti] The body of a dead child was found under the rubble of the house
Russian troops shelled a residential building in the town of Chasov Yar, Donetsk region: the death toll rose to 33 people. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

"As of 23:30, during rescue operations in a five-story residential building in the town of Chasovoy Yar, the body of 1 dead child (born approximately 2013) was found. In total, since the start of work, the bodies of 33 dead people have been found at the scene, 1 of them is a child (approximately born in 2013), 9 people were rescued from the rubble. Work continues ," the statement said.

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Africa Subsaharan
Terrorists Invade Farms In Zamfara Community, Kill 13


Gunmen suspected to be bandidos turbans have killed 16 persons in the Dangulbi community, Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State.

Dangulbi is about 100km away from Gusau, the Zamfara state capital.

The dear departed persons were killed by the button men said to be loyal to a notorious bandit kingpin, Damina while working on their farms.

The bandidos turbans came to the village on Sunday afternoon and began to shoot at people.

Some farmers whose number could not be ascertained at the time of filing this report were also kidnapped.

Deadly attacks have raged across Zamfara state where banditry has thrived.

Agrarian communities in the state have long been terrorised by gangs who raid villages, steal cattle and kidnap residents for ransom.

In 2019, the state government signed a peace agreement with the button men.

About 15 brand new Hilux vehicles and cash gifts were also given to leaders of different 'repentant' gangs of bandidos by the governor in 2020.

But despite all these, communities in the state are still being attacked and residents kidnapped and/or killed.
Posted by: Fred || 07/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11151 views] Top|| File under: Banditti


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
SNA Casualties Reported In Government Shelling Of Syria’s Aleppo, More Syrian Gov’t Forces to Deploy to SDF-held Areas on Turkey Border
[NPASyria] The de-escalation zone in northwest Syria continued to witness on Monday mutual shelling and military escalation between the government forces and Ottoman Turkish-backed armed Syrian opposition factions.

A member of the Ottoman Turkish-backed factions, also known as Syrian National Army (SNA), was killed and three others were maimed in shelling by the Syrian government forces on the opposition posts in the western countryside of Aleppo.

The government forces targeted the opposition’s fortifications in Kafr Amma area in Aleppo western countryside, military sources told North Press.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pond, the enormous newt was trying to decide if Gloria was edible...
al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations’ Room targeted the government forces’ posts in the eastern countryside of Idlib.

The government forces also bombed the opposition’s posts in the towns of Benin and Felifel in al-Zawiya Mountain in the southern countryside of Idlib.

Areas in the de-escalation zone in the northwestern Syria continue to witness daily bombardment between the Ottoman Turkish-backed SNA factions and the government forces.

Although the de-escalation zone in northwest Syria is subjected to a Russian-Ottoman Turkish ceasefire agreement signed in March 2020, the area witnesses frequent mutual bombardment despite the entry of the ceasefire into force.

Syrian Government Forces To Deploy In SDF-Held Areas On Border With Turkey

[NPASyria] Syrian government forces are getting ready to heavily deploy in Kobani, Manbij and Tel Rifaat countryside in north and northeast of Aleppo Governorate to confront Ottoman Turkish potential invasion, a military source told North Press on Sunday.

The government forces is scheduled to intensively deploy in Aleppo countryside, on the border with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
, which is held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), North Press correspondent in Damascus said.

The military source added thon the lam numbers of heavy machineries is going to be brought in under the auspices of prominent officers of the government forces.

Turkey’s President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
has recently announced plans to carry out another major military cross-border incursion into northern Syria. Erdogan specified his targets in the two northern Syrian cities of Manbij and Tel Rifaat.

On July 1, Erdogan said that Ankara’s new military operation in northern Syria could begin at any moment.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11140 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


Africa Subsaharan
Gunmen Invade Church, Kidnap Wife Of Imo Zoo General Manager


Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have invaded First Baptist Church, Nekede in Imo State and kidnapped Mrs. Bola Abioye, the wife of the General Manager of Imo State Zoological Garden and Wildlife Park, Mrs. Bola Abioye.

SaharaReporters gathered that the hoodlums who were in police uniform drove a grey-coloured Toyota Sienna minivan to the church.

The incident happened on Sunday, around 1:30 pm when the church was about to dismiss service.

The assailants were said to have shot indiscriminately to scare people.

Narrating the incident to Daily Post, a congregant who identified herself as Dr Blessing, said the church had just concluded thanksgiving and congregants were members were heading to the car park to drive out to the venue prepared for merriment when the button men struck.

He said, "The church had just dismissed so everyone was heading to the car park with the intention to go to the home of the member, only for an ash-coloured Sienna vehicle to drive in shooting sporadically.

"The abductors who wore police vests were shooting right there at the car park. They first dragged a woman but after some seconds, one of them shouted it’s not this one.

"Before they went to drag Mrs Abioye shooting directly to scare people away. Though she tried to resist, there was so much commotion. And within minutes, they drove off still shooting."

Efforts made by SaharaReporters to get the reaction of the Imo State Police Command were unsuccessful as the mobile line of the front man, Michael Abattam, failed to connect.

He also did not reply to a text message sent to him.

Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had been cornered by the banditti...
he told to some journalists earlier, saying the command was yet to get information on the incident.
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#1  "Honey, I've been kidnapped by armed guerillas! The really hairy kind!"
Posted by: Black Charlie Slairt1430 || 07/12/2022 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Were the gunmen Nekede too?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/12/2022 3:01 Comments || Top||

#3  They first dragged a woman but after some seconds, one of them shouted it’s not this one.

"How do I know, they all look alike!"

Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/12/2022 4:01 Comments || Top||

#4  "Motherf... What?!"
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/12/2022 4:03 Comments || Top||

#5  "They've kidnapped the zookeeper's wife!"
"How much will he pay for her life?"
But his red hotsy-totsy
Had turned the Pole Nazi:
"I'll have to make do with my Pfeife.
Sigh... I suppose I could sell off the Steiff."
Posted by: Knuckles McCoy8357 || 07/12/2022 13:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Emo Zoo would have been a great late 90s progressive rock band name.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/12/2022 14:23 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Perspective from the Breakaway Republics: Invasion of Ukraine: July 11th, 2022
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:11 According to the radio interception of the special forces of the Armed Forces of the DPR, information was received about the threat of a missile attack on the city of Donetsk. Be careful - the mayor of Donetsk.

20:36 Deputy Minister of Information of the DPR Bezsonov: “Our fighters have noticed a new tactic of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which sometimes brings results. First, the enemy makes two volleys of the Uragan MLRS at the selected target in order to defuse our air defense, and then makes a volley of more expensive and accurate Himars MLRS missiles.

16:29 The division of the People's Militia received help from the Spas-TV channel.

16:00 In Lisichansk, a Soviet monument, the iconic T-34 tank, will be returned to its place. According to local residents, the Ukrainian military pulled him off the pedestal and dragged him over several blocks. The first thing our guys asked when they liberated the city was to return the monument back.

15:05 The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired twice at Gorlovka, firing a total of ten mines with a caliber of 120mm - the DPR representative office in the JCCC.

13:40 Artillery of the DPR army continues to destroy the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Avdievka area. The fire is corrected by the Mavic-3 quadrocopter.

13:26 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC, additional information was received about civilian casualties as a result of shelling using the M142 HIMARS MLRS of the VFU of the Amvrosievsky district. Killed:

- men born in 2003, 1992 and 2003

39 people received injuries of varying severity:

13:20 AFU launched an artillery strike on the Petrovsky district of Donetsk

Fighters from positions in the village. Pobeda in the direction of residential areas of the Petrovsky district of the city used NATO artillery with a caliber of 155mm.

13:05 As a result of yesterday's shelling of the Kyiv region on the street. Soviet Army, 64 damaged glazing and roof of a private house.

13:03 The stele at the entrance to the liberated Severodonetsk was repainted in the colors of the Russian flag.

13:00 The head of the DPR Denis Pushilin signed a decree on the establishment of a day of remembrance for children - victims of the war in Donbass on July 27.

12:08 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: A Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down by a Su-35S fighter of the Russian Aerospace Forces near the village of Bogatyr in the Donetsk People's Republic.

11:38 Grigorovka passed under the control of the DPR. In total, 242 settlements were liberated on the territory of the DPR.

11:00 As a result of the ongoing shelling of Donetsk, the 35 kV overhead line was disconnected, a number of substations were de-energized, 127 transformer substations, 18,700 household subscribers of the Petrovsky Western and Petrovsky Eastern Distribution Zones remained without voltage.

10:55 One of the downed Ukrainian Tochka-U missiles fired at Luhansk was supposed to hit an elevator with grain from a new crop - Andrey Marochko, an officer of the People's Militia of the LPR.

10:54 Mariupol will not be fully restored until September, given the scale of destruction in the city, the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said on the Rossiya-24 TV channel.

"Given the degree of destruction in Mariupol, it will not be possible to do everything before September. Nevertheless, the work has already been carried out very seriously," he said.

10:23 After the liberation of Lisichansk and Severodonetsk from the Ukrainian Nazis, a new path for the offensive opened up - the road to Ugledar. This should not take long, since the Russian Army is actively using a large amount of artillery and heavy equipment in this direction.

09:41 During the day, one person died on the territory of the DPR, four more were injured - Terodefense Headquarters.

09:39 The day before, a serious stock of ammunition for M-777 howitzers was destroyed in Slavyansk, from which the cities of the Republic are being shelled - Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin on the air of Rossiya 24.

09:37 Kyiv militants are knocked out from the Blue Lakes. The famous Blue Lakes resort in Donbass has been cleared of national battalions. Having fled to Slavyansk, they take revenge by destroying the infrastructure of the resort.

09:30 The leadership of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Zaporozhye region plans to train its personnel at the universities of the DPR and LPR.

09:20 Allied forces liberated the village of Bogorodichnoye in the DPR, a powerful bridgehead is being organized for an attack on Slavyansk, a TASS source said.

08:13 The forces of the DPR, LPR and Russia took control of Vladimirovka and Trypillya in the Donetsk People's Republic, the People's Militia of the LPR reported.

08:02 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement.

--Marinka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

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Home Front: Politix
Is the NYTimes Leading a Dump Biden Campaign
[Breitbart] Here’s the Times’ brutal framing:

Just a year and a half into his first term, Mr. Biden is already more than a year older than Ronald Reagan was at the end of two terms. If he mounts another campaign in 2024, Mr. Biden would be asking the country to elect a leader who would be 86 at the end of his tenure, testing the outer boundaries of age and the presidency. Polls show many Americans consider Mr. Biden too old, and some Democratic strategists do not think he should run again.

...

He often shuffles when he walks, and aides worry he will trip on a wire. He stumbles over words during public events, and they hold their breath to see if he makes it to the end without a gaffe....

The Times wants Biden out of office. They want him gone. Period. His age, dementia, failures, jaw-dropping incompetence, and growing unpopularity...

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#1  NYT is just the communication arm of the folks running the country in to the ground. The people who leaked Hunters hacked phone and laptop data might be part of the campaign to oust Biden as well. Interesting timing of events.
Posted by: Airandee || 07/12/2022 5:02 Comments || Top||

#2  It's gonna take a tour bus out to Ft. Marcy Park or a Ron Brown Memorial Plane Ride™ to quiet enough people to make "dump Biden" a frictionless process.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/12/2022 7:00 Comments || Top||

#3  As I just commented in another post; this is simply more evidence that the White House and Biden administration is a collection of 'B Movie' actors performing on a very expensive Pinewood Studios set. The actual decision making and the running of the country is conducted elsewhere.

It's a very bad cover story, getting terrible reviews and approval ratings. Whomever is in charge is well aware that it must soon be replaced.

And yes, as Airandee has indicated, the NYT is indeed a 'communication arm' of the deep state.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/12/2022 7:15 Comments || Top||

#4  At least before they took down Nixon they got Agnew first. You need to remove Ms. Kneepads first guys. Then show us your hand on who's your front guy.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/12/2022 7:39 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Pelosi would be next. As I said, it won't be neat or easy.

And it shouldn't be.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/12/2022 7:41 Comments || Top||

#6  Biden was only elected because he could beat Trump. His usefulness has ended. I don't know who the Democrats in charge want. Kamalamadingdong would be worse than Biden. Pelosi is way too old and unstable as well.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/12/2022 8:16 Comments || Top||

#7  Obumble really screwed the demoncrat party when he was president. He didn't want anyone that could take away his limelight and didn't allow the young up and commers to come up. As a result, there is zero depth on the demoncrats bench. Who do that have that lights the fires of the party? Buttboy? Fatty-Adams? More like fat chance.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/12/2022 9:11 Comments || Top||

#8  ^#8

Actually Deac, a ham sandwich could beat Trump as long as Dominion was doing the counting.

Posted by: Warthog || 07/12/2022 10:00 Comments || Top||

#9  True, Warthog, but the did it so they could have someone they could control and discard when his usefulness was over.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/12/2022 19:54 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Radio host for far-left Portland station @KBOO allegedly kidnapped a child & raped her
Seriously ick. Try him fair and hang him high — twice.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Following the disappearance of a Canadian child last month, a 40-year-old Portland
...a formerly lovely city in Oregon, governed by an unholy alliance of communists, anarchists, and incompetents. In 2017 the city was named as the fifth most business-friendly in the nation. It took only three years for the city to degenerate to the point where it became a national embarrassment, with antifa and Black Lives Matter bullying taxpayers and occasionally shooting one as an example to the others...
-area man and radio host on the left-wing station, KBOO, has been arrested for child trafficking and child rape.

Noah Whitefield Madrano, of Gladstone, Ore., allegedly kidnapped a 13-year-old girl from Edmonton, Alberta. She was reported missing by her family on June 24 after never showing up for school and was finally discovered in an Oregon City hotel room more than a week later by local police and agents with the FBI
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
. Oregon City is about 12 miles south of Portland.

Madrano is currently being held on a $500,000 bond in Clackamas County, Ore. on felony charges of first-degree sexual abuse, second-degree rape and second-degree kidnapping.

Madrano used male, female and nonbinary pronouns and the monikers, "Bud Jackson," "NoMad" and "Noah Zark."

At a bail hearing last week, Clackamas County prosecutors said the girl was targeted and groomed "over the course of a year" before being kidnapped. They also accuse Madrano of making "threats to kill her and have sex with her dead corpse."

Until the publicity around Madrano’s arrest, he was a producer and co-host of the "Sub-Human Intellect Theater" (S.H.I.T.) monthly show at far-left self-described Antifa
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
Portland radio station, KBOO-FM. The show’s other host is Karen Green, who has deleted all her social media accounts after the arrest of her co-host.

KBOO broadcasts far-left political content and one of its main membership programs is called the "Fight Fascism Power Pack" which gives donors a flash drive with access to content from violent mostly peaceful group Rose City Antifa and Portland Antifa members, Alexander Reid Ross and Shane Burley. (Rose City Antifa members were involved in assaulting TPM journalist Andy Ngo in 2019 and he is suing the group.)

After the child was found, she was taken to a local children’s hospital for evaluation, and has since returned home with her parents to Edmonton.

Madrano is also expected to face charges in Canada. He has a no contact order with the child and his Oregon indictment is scheduled for July 12.
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#1  "Madrano used male, female and nonbinary pronouns..."
Posted by: Black Charlie Slairt1430 || 07/12/2022 0:46 Comments || Top||

#2  *Ugh* Simply, *ugh*. The first thought is advocating things that are discouraged on the 'Burg for this 'oxygen thief'.
Posted by: magpie || 07/12/2022 1:38 Comments || Top||

#3  How does a radio station openly aligned with domestic terrorists keep its license?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/12/2022 8:17 Comments || Top||

#4  The FCC is another weaponized governemnt agency. ^^^^
Posted by: Chris || 07/12/2022 8:50 Comments || Top||

#5  The death penalty needs to come back for crimes like this. And any DA who doesn't go full bore on these or offers a plea deal should also be charged as an accessory and receive the death penalty.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/12/2022 12:41 Comments || Top||

#6  I would build some gallows but I don't thik I could afford the wood these days.
Posted by: Chris || 07/12/2022 14:29 Comments || Top||

#7  My wife used to say the way to handle a child molester was to train a very large gorilla to like taking them from behind and put them in a cage to find out what it's like from the little kid's perspective.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/12/2022 14:36 Comments || Top||

#8  Re #7. Reminds me of a joke's punchline "Death by Boomfa", where Boomfa is a gorilla.
Posted by: Chuckles Hupaimble6612 || 07/12/2022 19:19 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Two terrorists gunned down in Awantipora
[OneIndia] Two forces of Evil have been killed in an encounter with the security forces at the Wandakpora area of Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
's Awantipora on Monday.

The Jammu and Kashmir police said that the terrorist Kaiser Koka was killed in the encounter. The identity of the second terrorist was being identified at the time of filing this report.

The security forces also recovered arms and ammunition, incriminating material, including a US made rifle- M-4 Carbine. The encounter broke out days after the police and the Army arrested a hybrid terrorist
...an Indianism that means those not officially registered with any jihadi or jihadi-linked organization (madrassa, terrorist group, or ISI recruiter) but radicalised enough to carry out a terror strike and then slip back into routine life. Similar to Sudden Jihad Syndrome...
of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba. The terrorist identified as Mohammad Iqbal Bhat is a resident of Tilgam Payeen and was arrested at a checkpoint in the Kerri area of Baramulla. The police said that the terrorist was involved in providing logistic support and was in touch with Pakistain based forces of Evil Saifullah and Abu Zarar.
ADGP Kashmir, Vijay Kumar said, "Notorious terrorist of JeM terror outfit namely Kaiser Koka active since 2018 trapped in encounter".

The encounter is believed to have started after security forces cordoned the area following a tip off.
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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russian Perspective: Operation to Denazify Ukraine: Operational Brief July 11th (updated)
Direct Translation via Google Translate.

Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.

[NewsFrontInfo] 22:52 A very powerful explosion thundered in Novaya Kakhovka. It is reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the Russian ammunition depot in Nova Kakhovka, Kherson region.

21:43 Source in OP told that Akhmetov will be followed by Pinchuk, who can no longer support his media group. Business has become unprofitable and cannot influence the political processes in the country, and it is very expensive to maintain such an asset. The Office of the President continues to form a new information reality, which will be a replica of the Russian media market.

19:17 In the village. Chaplinka, Kherson region, opened a point for receiving documents for registration of Russian citizenship

This was told by the head of the State Administration of the Chaplinsky district Alexander Khlyustov.

Employees of the Russian Guard ensure the safety of the operation of the point. Servicemen protect public order, carry out access control. The National Guard also helps people with limited mobility get to the places of paperwork.

16:18 "The commuter train between Mariupol and Volnovakha started its first flight today." - This was announced today by the mayor of Mariupol Konstantin Ivashchenko.

15:45 Third attack. This one is unfortunately successful. The head of the administration of Veliky Burluk (Kharkiv region), who went over to the side of Russia, died as a result of a car explosion.

15:43 Zelensky ordered the Armed Forces of Ukraine to "recapture the southern coastal territories", which are now under the control of the Russian army.

15:09 Putin signed a decree allowing all citizens of Ukraine to apply for Russian citizenship in a simplified manner. Previously, this right was given only to Ukrainian citizens who live in the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.

14:49 An assassination attempt on the head of the VGA Saldo was prevented in Kherson - RIA Novosti.

14:18 More than 7,000 Ukrainian soldiers are considered missing.

This was told by the Ukrainian Commissioner for Missing Persons under Special Circumstances Oleg Kotenko.

13:08 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:

▪️243 aircraft,
▪️137 helicopters,
▪️1,506 unmanned aerial vehicles,
▪️354 anti-aircraft missile systems,
▪️4,020 tanks and other armored combat vehicles,
▪️741 multiple rocket launcher combat vehicles,
▪️3,132 field artillery pieces and mortars,
▪️4,149 units of special military vehicles.

13:07 The leadership of the group, which commits assassination attempts and terrorist attacks in Zaporozhye, is located on the territory controlled by Kyiv - the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Zaporozhye.

13:06 Destruction storages with ammunition for the American MLRS "HIMARS". M777 howitzers and 2S7 Pion self-propelled guns were also destroyed in the Radushnoye area in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

11:50 In Melitopol, a Ukrainian terrorist was eliminated, who attempted to assassinate the head of the district in the Zaporozhye region, Andriy Siguta. Local authorities confirm that the assailant resisted the arrest and was shot dead. Siguta himself was not injured.

11:40 According to Vladimir Rogov, a member of the CAA of the liberated part of the Zaporozhye region, law enforcement agencies stopped an assassination attempt on the head of the Melitopol district, Andrei Siguta.

11:39 Rocket and artillery strikes are carried out on Kharkov and Odessa

11:16 Local sources reported explosions in the Odessa region. An air raid alarm sounds.

08:23 Today, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are at least 50-70,000 killed, learned members of the Russian hacker group RaHDIt.

08:17 US intelligence supplies Ukraine with radar data and satellite images, including Russian cities. This was stated to RIA Novosti by a member of the Russian hacker group RaHDIt.

According to him, this information is used for subsequent rocket and artillery attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
US leaks of Israeli covert ops against Iran eroding trust, security ahead of Biden visit to region
[Just the News] Many observers believe leaking this information is tied to the Biden administration's efforts to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

As President Biden prepares to visit Israel and Saudi Arabia next week, experts and former officials are warning that an often-overlooked issue risks undermining efforts to increase cooperation among U.S. allies in the Middle East.

That issue is anonymous U.S. officials consistently leaking information to the media about alleged covert Israeli operations against Iran, from targeted killings to explosions at nuclear sites.

"It's a sign of extraordinary incompetence and unprofessionalism from Biden and his foreign policy team," said Fred Fleitz, a former CIA analyst who also served as a senior staffer on both the House Intelligence Committee and the National Security Council. "It's outrageous they would leak this kind of information."

Unnamed officials recently told CNN that Israel has ramped up its covert attacks in Iran and is largely keeping the U.S. in the dark.

A month earlier, an American intelligence official leaked to the New York Times that Israel told Washington it was behind the assassination of top officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), an Iranian military force and a U.S.-designated terrorist organization.

The leak infuriated Israeli officials, who often share intelligence with American counterparts.

"It mainly harms trust," Ram Ben Barak, who heads the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee of Israel's parliament, said at the time.

"We have very many close relationships and a lot of cooperation between us, which all depend on trust, and when it is violated in some way then it damages future cooperation," he added. "I hope the Americans investigate the leak and figure out where it came from and why it occurred."

Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer explained on the podcast "Diplomatically Incorrect" that the Biden administration seems to be trying to distance itself from Israel by putting the blame on Jerusalem and keeping Washington out of it.

"That's very disturbing because that would only encourage attacks against Israelis," he said. "The fear of potential American action against Iran or other actors, that actually deters aggression. For the United States to think they're going to stabilize the situation by distancing themselves from Israel not only endangers Israeli citizens and officials but it actually also makes the chance of an attack much higher."

Interpreting these leaks as a "message to Israel that the U.S. disagrees with the action that was taken," Derner said, "And essentially what that means is they are trying to curtail Israel's freedom of operation" to combat Iranian aggression.

Such leaks have been occurring for years, indicating the problem is entrenched within America's national security bureaucracy, not just among political appointees. During the Obama administration, anonymous U.S. officials told media outlets about Israeli military plans to strike Iran's nuclear facilities. During the Trump administration, officials confirmed Israel bombed Iranian targets in Iraq.

However, the leaks have been occurring with striking frequency since Biden entered office. Last year, for example, unnamed U.S. officials told the Wall Street Journal that Israel had been attacking several Iranian ships.

"This decreases trust," said Jason Brodsky, policy director of United Against Nuclear Iran. "I think it's irresponsible for any U.S. official to seek to implicate Israel in an attack in Iran using anonymous quotes in the media. Unfortunately, all too often, we have seen this tactic employed in the past, likely to express disapproval and send a message that Washington was not part of the operation."

These leaks, added Brodsky, risk "provoking Iran to retaliate against a U.S. ally in the region."
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#1  Many need to understand that everything is already planned in advance, and some things are already in motion including the possibility that Israel cease to exist as a country as we know today. “Peoples” or what is left can be repositioned, by sugar or by fire.
The way things are changing in the world.. make me think that I’m very lucky to have visited Israel few times, and it’s been scratched from my notes….
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/12/2022 17:35 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Japan's Kishida gets mandate, will work to reinforce nat’l security and amend post-war pacifist constitution
[AnNahar] Boosted by a new mandate in weekend elections, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met Monday with the U.S.'s top diplomat, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who delivered condolences over the death of influential former leader Shinzo Abe and reassurances of a strong bilateral alliance.

Kishida's governing Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner Komeito secured a solid majority in elections for parliament's upper, less powerful, chamber in a vote Sunday that was imbued with meaning after Abe was assassinated while campaigning Friday.

Abe's death imbued new meaning in Sunday's vote, with all of Japan's politicians emphasizing the importance of free speech and defending democracy against acts of violence. It also may have generated sympathy votes, with turnout around 52%, up about 3 points from the previous 48.8% in 2019.

The vote gave the LDP-led coalition 146 seats in the 248-seat chamber — far beyond the majority — and means Kishida stands to rule without interruption until a scheduled election in 2025. That would allow him to work on long-term policies such as national security, his signature but still vague "new capitalism" economic policy, and his party's long-cherished goal to amend the U.S.-drafted postwar pacifist constitution.

Advancement on changing the charter is now a realistic possibility. With the help of two opposition parties supportive of a charter change, the governing bloc now has two-thirds majority in the chamber needed to propose an amendment. The governing bloc already has secured support in the lower house.

Kishida welcomed the victory but also acknowledged that unifying the party will be a hard task without Abe, who even after resigning as prime minister in 2020 had led a powerful party faction. In media interviews late Sunday, Kishida repeated: "Party unity is more important than anything else."

He said responses to COVID-19, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and rising prices will be his priorities. He said he will also steadily push for reinforcing Japan's national security as well the constitutional amendment.

Kishida and senior party politicians observed a moment of silence for Abe at the party election headquarters before placing on the whiteboard victory ribbons next to the names of candidates who secured their seats.

On the final day of campaigning Saturday, party leaders avoided fist-bumps and other friendly gestures in close contact with the public — a sign of tightened security after Abe was shot on a city street by a man carrying a homemade weapon.

On Sunday, the suspect accused of his murder was transferred to a local prosecutors' office for further investigation, and a top regional police official acknowledged possible security lapses allowed the gunman to get close to Abe.

The suspect, Tetsuya Yamagami, told Sherlocks he acted because of Abe's rumored connection to an organization that he resented, police said. Some Japanese media identified the group as the Unification Church.
Oh? Interesting.
Abe stepped down two years ago, citing health reasons. He said he regretted leave many of his goals unfinished, including revising Japan's war-renouncing constitution that some ultra-conservatives consider a humiliation.

He was the grandson of another prime minister and became Japan's youngest prime minister in 2006, at age 52. The overly nationalistic stint in office abruptly ended a year later, also because of his health, prompting six years of annual leadership change.

He returned to the premiership in 2012, vowing to revitalize the nation and get its economy out of its deflationary doldrums with his "Abenomics" formula, which combines fiscal stimulus, monetary easing and structural reforms. He won six national elections and built a rock-solid grip on power.
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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
In Ukraine, the ex-leader of the national battalion Tornado was released ahead of schedule
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

In 2015, nationalist battalion Tornado was formed from a collection of released violent convicts, so bad that the Ukrainian Army was preparing to engage in combat with them, until they surrendered.

[RIA Novosti] Former commander of the national battalion "Tornado" Ruslan Onishchenko was released after serving seven years out of eleven, ex-deputy Igor Mosiychuk said.

"Ex-battalion commander "Tornado" Ruslan Onishchenko was released from prison. He spent almost seven years behind bars. <...> He was accused of torturing separatists and prisoners," the Strana.ua online edition quotes the text of his message.

The consideration of the case, in which there were 80 volumes, 111 witnesses and 13 victims, lasted almost two years, and on April 7, 2017, the Obolonsky District Court of Kiev sentenced the former fighters of the National Battalion: the Tornadists received 74 years in prison for all.

According to the prosecutor's office, Tornado militants are involved in serious crimes - "satisfaction of sexual passion in an unnatural way under the threat of violence", kidnapping and illegal detention, torture, incitement to suicide, extortion, robbery, robbery.

The unit was created by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in September 2014, and its ranks included militants from the Shakhtersk battalion disbanded for looting and crimes against local residents. At the same time, speaking about its dissolution, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said that they "fought beautifully near Ilovaisk."

Onishchenko himself, before joining the ranks of the Tornado, had already served time twice.

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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: July 11th, 2022
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[Korrespondent] 23:38 Russian media reports, citing the "authorities" of the occupied Kherson region, that warehouses with saltpeter allegedly exploded in Nova Kakhovka after the attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the explosions continue. According to them, there are victims, the hospital and houses were damaged.

23:35 The occupiers are unsuccessfully trying to "squeeze" the Luhansk region, the transfer of equipment does not help them, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the enemy's warehouses in the rear continue to burn, because of this, the invaders are already experiencing problems with the delivery of ammunition, their logistics have been disrupted. Gaidai stressed that the so-called "operational pause" of the Russians is "their helplessness due to" pops "in warehouses."

23:31 Adviser to the head of the Kherson OVA Serhiy Khlan confirmed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine got into the ammunition depot, which the invaders placed in Nova Kakhovka: "People's windows are flying out, but they are still happy ... because it means that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are close."

23:29 Zelensky said in an evening video message that he spoke with Erdogan today: "The key issue is the resumption of our export routes through the Black Sea. We are working to make this possible. The sooner this happens, the fewer people in the world will feel the impact of the food crisis , which was so diligently prepared by Russia".

23:04 Ukrainian troops attacked Nova Kakhovka, Russian media report. Ukrainian telegram channels report that the other day, the Russians unloaded ammunition there for three days, which are now exploding.

22:39 In the evening, the Russians again attacked the Odessa region with two rockets, there were no damages or casualties, said the head of the OVA, Maxim Marchenko.

22:37 Zelensky, in an evening video message, called on Canada to cancel the decision to supply a turbine for Nord Stream: “Now there is no doubt that Russia will try not only to limit as much as possible, but completely stop gas supplies to Europe at the most critical moment. prepare, this is what is being provoked now, because every concession under such conditions is perceived by the Russian leadership as an incentive for further, stronger pressure. won't play now if he doesn't see the strength."

22:06 The Stratcom of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced the elimination of three representatives of the command of the Russian troops. In particular, in Ukraine, the deputy commander of the 20th Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the RF Armed Forces, Colonel Sergei Kens, the deputy commander of the 106th Division, Colonel Sergei Kuzminov, and the chief of staff - deputy commander of the detachment of the 16th separate special forces brigade, Major Dmitry Semenov, were liquidated.

21:47 In the two days after the liberation of Zmeiny Island, eight ships passed through the Bystry channel, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Yuriy Vaskov said on the air of the telethon. According to him, with the capacity of the Romanian Sulina Canal from the Danube to the Black Sea, Ukrainian ports can now receive not four, but 12 ships.

At the same time, the Ukrainian side is negotiating with the European Commission to increase the capacity of the Sulina Canal, which will quickly eliminate the accumulation of 80 ships in the roadstead, many of which have been idle for more than a month. In total, according to Vaskov's estimates, the volume of grain for export can reach 40 million tons, there are no capacities for storing such volumes in Ukraine, and the situation may become critical within a month. Without unblocking Ukrainian seaports, it will be impossible to export such volumes of grain, Vaskov stressed.

21:16 The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry strongly condemned Putin's decree on a simplified procedure for granting Russian citizenship to all citizens of Ukraine: "This decision is another infringement on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, incompatible with the norms and principles of international law. <...> Russia uses a simplified procedure issuance of passports to tighten the noose around the necks of the residents of the temporarily occupied territories of our state, forcing them to participate in the criminal activities of the occupation administrations and the Russian army of conquest."

21:07 The appointed "general director" of the Kupyanskaya railway, Oleg Glebov, said that the Russian Federation would provide rolling stock to "help" organize the export of grain left over from the 2021 harvest in the occupied territories of the Kharkiv region.

21:00 On Pivden, they clarified that in the Odessa region, seven missiles attacked the coastal strip, the production and critical infrastructure of the region. Three more Kh-31 missiles hit the agricultural land of the region. There were no casualties.

20:58 In the evening, a missile attack was delivered to Odessa - the second one in the city today, said the head of the OVA Maxim Marchenko. Both times there were no casualties. Marchenko also said that the SBU detained a spotter who himself got in touch with the Russian special services and passed them information about military facilities in the region.

20:45 Today, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the likely positions of the Russian S-300 air defense systems in the Aleshkovsky Sands area. And at night, Ukrainian troops attacked the command post of enemy troops in Tavriysk. The final losses of the enemy are being reconnoitered and specified, the OK Pivden reported.

20:28 The Netherlands will help with the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine, Shmyhal said after a meeting with his Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte. The parties discussed strengthening sanctions, Russia's responsibility for war crimes, as well as assistance with the restoration of regions.

20:03 From September, the new academic year in Kharkiv will begin online, the mayor of the city Igor Terekhov said on the air of the telethon: "With such cruelty with which our schools are bombarded and shelled, I now understand that we no longer have to talk about teaching children in the offline. We are preparing for online training from September 1, because the shelling does not stop."

20:00 In the coming days, Ukraine may be attacked with missiles from the territory of Belarus, the founder of the monitoring group Belarus Gayun Anton Motolko told Channel 24. According to him, in recent days, Russian cargo planes have been actively flying to Belarus, which are likely to bring new missiles, and now the occupiers are actively discussing the targets of strikes on the territory of Ukraine. "We shouldn't expect good news until at least July 14," Motolko said.

19:47 The permanent representative of the Verkhovna Rada in the Constitutional Court Olga Sovgirya published the details of the presidential bill on a special status for Polish citizens. The document, in particular, provides for the possibility of employment without a separate permit, registration of taxpayers, social protection, economic activity on the same conditions as for Ukrainians, education on a par with Ukrainian citizens, social benefits, medical care, etc.

19:28 Podolyak reacted to Rinat Akhmetov's decision to abandon the media business : "A key feature of mature states is the obligation to comply with laws. The law on deoligarchization is the beginning of a new page in relations between the state and business. Relations based on transparency and the rejection of backstage. Today there is a worthy an example from the SCM group - the law is one for all."

19:25 The OP confirmed that Zelensky had submitted to the Rada a draft law on the establishment of legal and social guarantees for citizens of the Republic of Poland located on the territory of Ukraine . In addition, the President signed Decree No. 484/2022 on awarding the Polish city of Przemysl with an honorary insignia of the Savior City .

19:19 The Ukrainian military repulsed an attempt by the Russian invaders to attack Maryinka, and also continue to hold back the aggressor's troops in other directions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the evening report .

19:01 Russian troops are suffering from a shortage of shells after the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a series of attacks on ammunition depots and Russian bases in the occupied territories, writes The Telegraph.

18:58 G7 ambassadors in Kyiv emphasize the critical importance of the timely appointment of the head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office: "As we discussed with Vice Prime Minister Olga Stefanyshina on July 7, G7 ambassadors reiterate that the timely appointment of the head of the SAPO is critical to strengthening Ukraine's anti-corruption institutions ".

18:33 The number of those killed as a result of the strike on Chasovoy Yar has increased to 31 people , Tatiana Ignatchenko, press secretary of the Donetsk OVA, said on the air of the telethon.

18:26 The operational command of Pivden published a video of the liberation of the APU of Zmeiny Island. In particular, footage of the death of the cruiser Moskva and the strike on the floating drilling rig Tavrida are shown for the first time.

18:13 Zelensky said at a briefing that he had not read Reznikov's interview, in which he announced the order of the head of state to recapture the south of Ukraine. According to the President, the task of de-occupation of territories is before all the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but he will not share specific plans.

18:10 The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry summoned the charge d'affaires ad interim of Canada and called for a reconsideration of the decision to return the Nord Stream turbine to Germany, the ministry said in a statement.

18:08 The Netherlands will provide Ukraine with modern heavy weapons, shells and self-propelled howitzers, Prime Minister Mark Rutte said at a joint briefing with Zelensky in Kiev: "I call on all my colleagues in Europe and in other parts of the world to help Ukraine with heavy weapons. Our country will provide heavy weapons, shells and self-propelled howitzers. I want to encourage our allies to do the same."

Rutte stressed that the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine may last longer than everyone hoped, but this does not mean that the world can stand back and passively watch what is happening.

17:57 Former people's deputy Evgeny Balitsky, whom the Russians have appointed as the "head" of the occupied part of the Zaporozhye region, oversees the theft of Ukrainian grain. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, the Russians created a "state unitary company" for this purpose. They seized the port elevator of the Novaya Khortitsa enterprise in Berdyansk, the Asket Shipping loading complex in the port of Berdyansk, as well as the grain elevators of Kernel, Optimus and other grain traders.

The first ship for loading was supposed to arrive on July 10, and on July 17, the ship Zhibek Zholy, which was already taking out the stolen grain from Berdyansk (it was released by Turkey), should arrive. The occupying company has set very low prices for agricultural products, which do not suit agricultural producers. Therefore, they try not to sell the harvest, but to keep it in storage.

17:52 Ukraine does not record the formation of enemy strike groups on the borders with Belarus, as well as in the Bryansk and Kursk regions of the Russian Federation, Andrei Demchenko, the speaker of the State Border Guard Service, said at a briefing. At the same time, according to him, paramilitary units are in the border areas to demonstrate their presence in order to prevent the Armed Forces of Ukraine from transferring troops to other directions.

Demchenko also said that the Russian Federation is actively using electronic warfare and continues to shell the cities of Ukraine. Thus, about 130 attacks on border areas were recorded during the week.

17:45 In Mariupol, after several Russian sappers were blown up while demining MMK them. Ilyich and Azovstal, a command has been received to involve only Mariupol residents in clearing the factories, said Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor. To do this, they are told gossip that the factories were allegedly bought by the Chinese, now they need to work for free, and after that there will be a high salary. The mayor's office urges residents of the city not to agree to work in factories and emphasizes that all these promises are false.

Andryushchenko also said that the administration of collaborators in Mariupol received an order on a plan for mobilization into the "DPR" army. The start of open mobilization is scheduled for mid-September, after the "referendum" on joining Russia. Therefore, Mariupol residents, especially men, are advised to urgently leave the city, to avoid official registrations and dubious "employment" at all costs.

17:13 The occupant, in a conversation with a friend who intercepted the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the "most important command" in Kherson, as a result of which 12 Russians were killed.

17:08 Zelensky said that he had held constructive talks with Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte. In particular, the president thanked him for his decision to provide Ukraine with additional heavy weapons and for supporting Ukrainian candidacy for EU membership.

"Ukraine and the Netherlands equally see the need to protect the rights and freedoms of people. And while Russia is trying to destroy all this, we must work to strengthen sanctions against Russian terrorism," Zelensky said following the talks.

16:51 For two weeks - from the end of June to the beginning of July - Ukraine delivered at least 14 accurate strikes on ammunition depots and military bases of Russian troops in the occupied Ukrainian territories. About what this can lead to - in the material New Tactics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine .

16:47 The Kremlin announced that a "Russian-Turkish summit meeting" is planned in the near future, on the eve of it, Putin and Erdogan discussed the current agenda.

16:44 Erdogan had a telephone conversation with Putin. The parties discussed the war in Ukraine and the creation of a grain corridor, the Turkish presidential administration said.

16:42 As a result of the shelling of Kharkov from the MLRS, six people have already died, 31 people have been injured, the prosecutor's office reported. The blow fell on the building of the shopping center, as well as residential buildings and cars.

16:40 Adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Viktor Andrusiv said that he had left the OP and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

16:34 The US supports Canada's decision to return to Germany a refurbished turbine that is needed for the Nord Stream gas pipeline, State Department spokesman Ned Price said: "In the short term, the turbine will allow Germany and other European countries to replenish their gas reserves, increasing energy security and sustainability, and countering Russia's efforts to weaponize energy."

16:21 The death toll in Chasovoy Yar has increased by 26 people , rescue work continues, the State Emergency Service reports.

16:07 The EU will create a hub in Moldova to prevent the illegal sale of weapons used in the war in Ukraine to criminal groups in Europe, said European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson. It will be a one-stop shop that will allow Europol to share information and the EU border agency Frontex to support border management and detect illegal arms circulation. The center will also counter human trafficking.

Swedish Migration Minister Anders Igeman, in turn, added that most of the weapons supplied to Ukraine remain in the hands of the Ukrainian military, and "only a limited amount can be used by organized crime later." But, he said, "we must have measures to control the flow of weapons after the war in Ukraine."

15:52 Zelensky submitted to the Rada a bill on granting Poles a special status in Ukraine, said Polish President Andrzej Duda.

15:49 The "administration" of the occupied Kharkiv region confirmed that the car of the Gauleiter, the "head of administration" of the Great Burluk Yevgeny Yunakov was blown up, the official died.

15:33 Putin signed a decree allowing all citizens of Ukraine to apply for Russian citizenship in a simplified manner. Previously, this right was given only to Ukrainian citizens living in the "DPR", "LPR", Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.

15:18 The "authorities" of the occupied Kherson region said that in Kherson they prevented an attempt on the "head" of the region Vladimir Saldo, the bomb on the route of his car was detected and defused in time.

15:02 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Chasov Yar, Donetsk region, "the point of temporary deployment of the 118th brigade of territorial defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine" was destroyed by "high-precision weapons" of ground-based deployment. And in the Osnovyansky and Slobodsky districts of Kharkov, according to Moscow, the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out "precise strikes" on the points of deployment of "nationalist battalions and foreign mercenaries."

14:37 About 7,200 Ukrainian servicemen are listed as missing, Oleg Kotenko, Commissioner for Missing Persons under Special Circumstances, said. According to him, these are military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, soldiers of the National Guard, employees of the SBU and others, most of them are in captivity.

Kotenko specified that Azovstal's defenders, who are currently being held in the occupied territories or in Russia, are on the list of missing persons. There is no connection with them, so the prisoners are included in this list.

14:26 In the city of Chasov Yar, as of 13:55, the bodies of 24 dead were found , nine people were rescued from the rubble, the State Emergency Service said.

14:11 Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte visited the Kiev region, said the head of the Kiev OVA Oleksiy Kuleba. Rutte visited Borodyanka, Bucha and Irpen, expressed his support and stressed that countries should unite in helping Ukraine.

13:58 Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov said that the quantitative advantages of the Russian army are offset by Ukrainian missile and artillery accuracy: "Western weapons for the Armed Forces of Ukraine are already changing the course of the war. And we haven't started it yet!"

13:50 On Pivden, they clarified that the enemy launched two missile attacks on the Odessa region using aviation. Four Kh-31 missiles were fired from the Su-30. One rocket hit a private one-story house in one of the coastal villages, three more rockets were directed at the agricultural land of the region. There was no fire, no casualties.

13:24 A complete ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages has been introduced in the Donetsk region since July 11, the OVA reported. The sale of alcoholic beverages and alcohol-based substances (with the exception of medicines) is prohibited for the period of martial law. Patrols will be introduced for the purpose of control.

13:09 The Russians were hitting the Odessa region with X-31 missiles from SU-30 aircraft. There is a hit on a residential building in one of the coastal villages, several more houses are damaged by the shock wave, rescuers are working on the spot, Natalya Gumenyuk said.

13:07 The Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed about ten enemy MLRS installations over the weekend, Natalya Gumenyuk, head of the joint coordination center for the defense forces of southern Ukraine, said at a briefing.

13:05 Adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, called on the residents of the city to evacuate while the occupiers opened a canal to Zaporozhye. According to him, in this way they cover their own military maneuvers - columns of equipment that moves through the city. "As long as there is a way, use it. There can be no second opportunity," he stressed.

Andryushchenko explained the need for evacuation by saying that it was impossible to restore the city’s infrastructure before winter, the medical system would not work, criminals were gaining strength, and besides, the occupiers planned to begin official mobilization in the fall. Also, the mayor's adviser is convinced that soon the Armed Forces of Ukraine will launch a counteroffensive.

12:59 There is no consensus among the EU countries on providing Ukraine with a 9 billion euro assistance package, Finance Minister Sergei Marchenko said in an interview with Corriere della Sera: "Of course, we receive weapons and military assistance, but this is not enough. This is a clear sign that The European Union and the world around Ukraine are a little tired. I can understand that they are suffering from oil and gas prices." Earlier, the newspaper wrote that Germany had been blocking the aid package for 9 billion for a month.

12:57 The situation with the influx of Ukrainian refugees into the EU has stabilized - an approximately equal number of Ukrainians enter the EU and leave it, said European Commissioner for Internal Affairs Ylva Johansson. She predicts that the situation may change by the beginning of the school year: "I foresee that many Ukrainians in the EU will make a decision before they start school whether to send their children to school - in an EU country or return to Ukraine."

Johansson said that the Czech Republic is the country with the highest number of Ukrainian refugees per capita, followed by Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Latvia.

12:54 The Kremlin said that Putin and Lukashenko, in the context of the restriction of Kaliningrad transit by Lithuania, discussed "some possible joint steps."

12:51 Zelensky responded to the petition, the author of which asked to introduce a mandatory exam for obtaining Ukrainian citizenship: "I turned to Prime Minister D. Shmygal with a request to comprehensively work out the issue raised in the electronic petition." The President specified that the issue would require a legislative settlement.

12:44 In Melitopol, the invaders blocked the passage to the Novy Melitopol district, the mayor of the city Ivan Fedorov said: "Tens of thousands of residents of the sleeping microdistrict were cut off from the city, arguing their actions with explosives found. We are clarifying the circumstances of the incident."

12:42 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that Moscow is trying to stop unofficial coverage of the war in order to cover up its blunders. Russian bloggers and military correspondents are increasingly critical of Russian strategy and military leadership. The dissatisfaction became especially evident after a failed attempt to cross the river at Belogorovka in mid-May and led to Putin being forced to meet with two military correspondents during SPIEF. This closed-door meeting was supposed to defuse the conflict, but led to its further escalation.

ISW analysts note that Putin received a more objective view of what is happening on the front lines than what he received from the military command. After that, war correspondents turned from a "poorly controlled problem" into a "threat" for the RF Ministry of Defense.

12:36 The death toll from the strike on the high-rise building in Chasovoy Yar has risen to 20 people , eight more are injured, the rubble is being cleared, said the head of the Donetsk Regional Military District Pavel Kirilenko.

12:34 According to preliminary information, the Armed Forces of Ukraine inflicted a powerful blow on the Russians at night in Tavriysk, Kherson region. The invaders' command post, military equipment, radars and antennas, air defense are on fire, manpower has also been destroyed, said Sergei Khlan, adviser to the head of the Kherson Regional Military District.

12:31 The number of victims of the morning shelling of Kharkov has increased to 31, all of them were hospitalized in medical institutions. Of these, one child is four years old and a teenager is 16 years old. There are still three dead, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA.

12:29 A plane with 150 servicemen landed in Buryatia, who terminated the contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense because of their unwillingness to fight further in Ukraine, said Alexander Garmazhapova, head of the Free Buryatia Foundation.

12:05 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that Russian Caliber missiles destroyed near Radushnoye in the Dnipropetrovsk region "storages with ammunition for HIMARS systems, M777 howitzers and 2S7 Pion self-propelled guns supplied from the United States." Earlier, the head of the city military administration, Oleksandr Vilkul, reported that an industrial enterprise was completely destroyed as a result of three Kalibr missiles hitting the village of Radushnoye in the Krivoy Rog region.

11:44 The Russians launched a missile attack on the Odessa region, one of the four missiles hit an infrastructure facility, said OVA speaker Sergei Bratchuk.

11:29 According to the updated information of the Regional Center for Emergency Medical Assistance, by this minute , as a result of the shelling of Kharkiv, three people were killed, 28 people were injured , among them a teenager of 16 years old, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.

11:23 Shelling of the border areas of Sumy and Chernihiv regions continues from the territory of Russia. The fire was fired from the side of Russian villages from cannon artillery and mortars of 120 mm caliber. In total, almost 80 explosions were recorded, the State Border Service said.

11:20 As a result of the shelling of Kharkov, there are already three dead and 16 wounded , the information is being updated, rescue and emergency services are working on the spot, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.

11:18 According to Nikolaev, Russians fired six rockets, according to preliminary data, there are no victims, one person was injured, the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim said.

11:12 The head of the Nikolaev OVA, Vitaliy Kim, also said about Zelensky’s team to liberate the south of Ukraine: “The situation is such that the president’s command was to liberate the south, which cannot but rejoice. The further, the more BC warehouses and enemy command posts will burn in Kherson ".

11:05 The body of another deceased was pulled out from under the rubble in Chasovoy Yar, the total number of victims has grown to 19 , the State Emergency Service reports. The number of rescued has grown to eight people.

11:03 Ukrainian entrepreneurs will be able to use corporate mail, cloud storage and other Google Workspace services for free until the end of the war, Mikhail Fedorov, head of the Ministry of Digital Development, said.

10:54 Russians in Kherson are preparing for street fighting, adviser to the head of the Kherson OVA Sergey Khlan said on the air of the telethon: "The last few days I have been hearing these alarming signals about the strengthening of points for street fighting. And this is a great danger for civilians. I hope that the Russians will be able to knock out from Kherson without a fight, and they will go to the left bank of the Dnieper. But you have to be ready for anything."

10:50 Lithuania has expanded restrictions on the transit of goods to Kaliningrad through its territory, writes Reuters. It is forbidden to carry cement, alcohol and a number of other Russian-made products.

10:34 Explosions are heard again in Kharkiv, the Russian occupiers struck, previously, with multiple launch rocket systems, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.

10:06 This morning, the Russians launched 20 missile strikes from the MLRS on the Shalygin community of the Sumy region, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky. According to preliminary information, there are no victims.

09:35 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of July 11. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Avdeevsky direction.

  • personnel - about 37,400 (+100) people liquidated,

  • tanks - 1645 (+4),

  • armored combat vehicles - 3828 (+5),

  • artillery systems - 838 (+4),

  • MLRS - 247 (+0),

  • air defense systems - 109 (+1),

  • aircraft - 217 (+0),

  • helicopters - 188 (+0),

  • UAV operational-tactical level - 676 ​​(+0),

  • cruise missiles - 155 (+0),

  • ships/boats - 15 (+0),

  • automotive equipment and tankers - 2696 (+2),

  • special equipment - 66 (+0).

09:31 The "Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR" said that they had liberated the village of Bogorodichnoye in the "DPR", "the organization of a powerful springboard for an attack on Slavyansk" is underway.

09:29 The "Ministry of Internal Affairs" of the occupied Zaporozhye region stated that "Kyiv made an assassination attempt" on the head of the "administration" of the Melitopol district Andriy Siguta, he was not injured.

09:23 There are already 18 dead in Chasovoy Yar , the State Emergency Service reports data as of 8:45. Six people were rescued from the rubble, about 137 tons of destroyed elements of the house were cleared and dismantled, and speech contact was established with two people under the rubble.

09:21 British intelligence reports that on July 10, Russian shelling continued in the northern sector of Donbass, however, probably without major territorial gains. Ukrainian forces continued to exert local pressure on Russian defensive lines in the northeast of the Kherson region, also, probably without territorial gain.

Analysts note that one of the most devastating problems of the Russian Federation is the lack of planned breaks in intense hostilities. Thus, intelligence mentions a video in which the wives of soldiers of the 36th Combined Arms Army of the Eastern Military District turn to a local politician with a request to return their husbands home from service in Ukraine. One of the women says that the personnel of the 5th Separate Guards Tank Brigade are "mentally and physically exhausted" because they have been on combat duty since February 24th.

09:06 In Ukraine, schools, shopping and entertainment centers, sports and concert halls are being checked for compliance with safety rules during air raids, Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky said.

08:52 AFU liberated Ivanovka in the Kherson region , the 60th separate infantry brigade reported.

08:50 Russia today stopped gas supplies to Europe via Nord Stream. The reason is "annual scheduled maintenance".

08:48 The mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, said on the air of the telethon that explosions were heard in the north of the city at night: "The information about the explosions is now being clarified, there were several of them. Something fascist that is on our territory was definitely destroyed."

08:46 The number of victims of the shelling of a high-rise building in Chasovoy Yar, Donetsk region, has grown to 17 - two more bodies were pulled out from under the rubble at night, the State Emergency Service reports.

08:44 Borrell, following the G20 meeting, expressed disappointment that most of the participants refused to "name the aggressor" in the situation around Ukraine: "The main conclusion is that in abstract terms everyone agrees on the need to protect such principles as territorial sovereignty and the non-use of force However, it often looks different when the specifics kick in. <...> The hard truth is that national interests often outweigh a shared commitment to higher ideals."

08:39 Russian Minister of Education Sergei Kravtsov has arrived in occupied Melitopol. He stated that the main language of instruction from September 1 will be Russian. At the same time, according to him, "no one will ban the Ukrainian language in the occupied territories," children will continue to study it in schools "at a sufficient level."

08:35 In the Nikolaev region, Russians over the past day fired at the Shirokovskaya community in the Bashtansky district - they hit the already destroyed building of the TsNAP, a school, residential buildings and open areas of households, there were no casualties, the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim said. Not far from with. Novonikolaevka of the May Day community, as well as in the village. The estuaries of the Galitsyn community, as a result of shelling, fields with crops and forest belts caught fire, no one was injured. Explosions were also heard in Nikolaev itself, the information is being specified.

08:31 The occupiers use aircraft, but stand still, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. On the night of July 11, the Russians launched five rocket attacks and four massive artillery attacks on settlements on the border of the Luhansk region and Donbass. They use aircraft, cannon and rocket artillery, trying to break through from Lisichanskoye and other directions to Seversk and Slavyansk, but for more than a week these attempts have been unsuccessful, they are trying to move from Popasnaya. According to Gaidai, there are daily reports of the loss of ammunition depots by the invaders, the last one was from Luhansk.

08:28 In the controlled territory of the Donetsk region, on July 10, the Russians delivered the biggest blow to Chasovoy Yar, where 15 people died under the rubble of a high-rise building. Another person died in Zaitsevo, two civilians were injured in the region, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.

08:26 At night, Russian troops fired several times at the Krivoy Rog district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, hit two communities from the MLRS - Apostolovsky and Zelenodolsk, said the head of the OVA Valentin Reznichenko. They hit the villages of Novosemenovtsy and Maryanskoe, previously people were not injured. In the villages there is destruction of housing, livestock suffered.

08:15 The Russians launched three missile strikes on Kharkiv tonight. According to the State Emergency Service, one rocket hit a six-story residential building in the Osnovyansky district. As a result of the explosion, one of the entrances was completely destroyed, one person was rescued from the rubble, there were no other victims or victims.

Two more enemy rockets hit the courtyard of a warehouse in the Osnovyansky district and a school building in the Slobodsky district of Kharkov. In total, over the past day, 11 fires occurred in the region due to enemy shelling - in Chuguevsky, Izyumsky and Bogodukhovsky districts. A residential building, outbuildings, industrial buildings, a car, a landfill and grass in an open area were on fire.

08:00 AFU successfully repelled an enemy assault in the direction of Krasnopolye and another attempt to attack in the direction of Maryinka, Donetsk region, the General Staff reports in the morning report .

06:02 The UN has already recorded 124 cases of sexual violence during the war in Ukraine. At the same time, the organization admits that these data are only the tip of the iceberg, which does not reflect the full scale of sexual violence.

05:41 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) notes that the Russians, although they have taken an "operational pause", are participating in operations to prepare the conditions for future offensives. In particular, Russian troops conducted a limited and unsuccessful ground attack north of Donetsk and limited reconnaissance operations northwest of Sloviansk. The Russians are allegedly intensifying artillery and rocket attacks west of Bakhmut to isolate the city from lines of communication.

ISW also writes that the Russian military leadership continues to form special volunteer units and combat organizations of PMCs, partly consisting of elderly men and criminals.

03:25 OK Pivden clarified that the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region hit the command and observation post of the Russian artillery brigade and the control and command post of the National Guard. The blow was delivered by a pair of stormtroopers.

00:43 Biden a few weeks ago allocated $ 500 million to stimulate an increase in the production of fertilizers in the United States, which can be shipped to other countries, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said.

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SJC of MA Makes Mail-In Voting Permanent
[Via Universal Hub] - Here's the summary of events - mail-in voting was made permanent in Mass. on June 22, 2022, with RINO Gov. Charlie Baker signing the bill. The MA Republican Party sued the next day and today the Supreme Judicial Court told them to get bent. A 'full opinion' on this case will be released at a later date. Current court decision is at the link.
Posted by: Raj || 07/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11132 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As soon as I posted this one, I heard that Mass. GOP head Jim Lyons will take this to SCOTUS.
Posted by: Raj || 07/12/2022 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Interesting times, Raj. Here’s hoping they’ll hear the case.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/12/2022 1:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Probably not. The key to the Trump appeals is that the Constitution is explicit that the legislative branch determines the method of voting not the governors, attorney generals, or judiciary. In this case, it is the legislative branch.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/12/2022 7:25 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Attacks by unknown gunmen against SDF fighters and their military posts continue in Deir ez Zor countryside


On Monday, two fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) bit the dust in an armed attack by unidentified button men in the town of Az-Zir, 35 km east of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria.

"Unknown button men targeted the water plant on the Euphrates bank in the town of Az-Zir, where the SDF are stationing in, with machine guns," a military source from the town said.

The source told North Press that the targeting was resulted in the killing of two SDF fighters, while the attackers managed to flee.

Unknown Gunmen Attack SDF Vehicle Sunday In Syria’s Deir Ez-Zor, Casualties Reported

[NPASyria] On Sunday, a fighter of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) lost his life and another was maimed in an attack by unknown button men in a town in Deir ez-Zor western countryside, eastern Syria.

A military source from the town of al-Kasra, 20 km west of Deir ez-Zor, said that unknown button men targeted a military vehicle of the SDF with machine guns on the highway of the village of Himar al-Ali.

The attack resulted in the killing of an SDF fighter and the injury of another who was hospitalized in al-Kasra, the source added.

He pointed out that the injured fighter was in critical situation.

Following the attack, the SDF cordoned off the town to pursue the attackers, according to the source.
Posted by: Fred || 07/12/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11135 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State



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