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First of all, I would like to express my gratitude to Fred for choosing Mae West as the "cover girl" for todays "Good Morning" featured artist. I have admired 2 "old time" actresses in my life, virtually since childhood - Mae West & Gene Harlow < What? you say, yes, I was precocious child and adored Mae West for her "Grand Tetons", with dreams of exploring the magnificent mountains as any adventurous teen would, N'est-ce Pas?>
Mae West was an American stage and film actress, playwright, screenwriter, singer, and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned over seven decades. She was known for her breezy sexual independence, and her lighthearted bawdy double entendres, often delivered in a husky contralto voice.
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Mary Jane West, August 17, 1893, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
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November 22, 1980, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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Actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter WikipediaIMDb
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There's a bay near Marseilles, up in France,
Where the infidel gentlemen prance.
Sure it's not far from Cannes,
O Mohammedan man,
And each rack-shaking biche
Within reach is tres riche!
Tout le monde makes a hajj
To that welcoming plage
Where they dance by the seaside expanse!
[NY Post] San Francisco’s no-nonsense new district attorney is cleaning house — as she reportedly laid off 15 staffers inherited from her booted, woke predecessor.
Whoa!
The firings Friday by Brooke Jenkins come nearly two weeks after she was appointed district attorney by Mayor London Breed following the recall of her much-maligned predecessor Chesa Boudin, according to SFGATE.com.
The wise politicians tracks and responds to changes in the mood of the public. The technical term is keeping a finger on the pulse...
"Today, I made difficult, but important changes to my management team and staff that will help advance my vision to restore a sense of safety in San Francisco by holding serious and repeat offenders accountable and implementing smart criminal justice reforms," Jenkins said in a statement.
Jenkins dropped the firing ax on most the 25 staffers who worked for Boudin, days after holding a 20-minute introductory meeting with them that some attendees described as "uncomfortable" and "icy," SFGATE.com also reported.
The staffers fired include Arcelia Hurtado, who had worked as managing attorney and served as the DA Office’s representative on the city’s Innocence Commission, which investigates potential wrongful convictions.
Boudin established the commission in 2020. Jenkins told KQED Thursday she intends to continue it.
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She probably suffices as a conservative in San Francisco (aka "The City"). That said I really have no problem with reviewing convictions. There is no place in the justice system for wrongful convictions.
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"Today, I made difficult, but important changes to my management team..."
Why politicians and some businessmen always have to pretend certain decisions are 'difficult'? Just come out and say 'Fuckin' no-brainer, guys - you're all shitcanned!'
[Breitbart] That’s one way to meet President Biden’s demand that Saudi Arabia provide more oil to offset Russia sanctions. MBS clearly does not like him.
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Mixing with Saudi oil and it's all legal
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The insults are not even subtle. Peace is maintained by being powerful and credible. Worldwide, public opinion is that the US is rapidly declining in both areas, prompting more confrontational and provocative acts. This at a time when the Puppet Show is in panic mode and reactive on a far too emotional, simplistic level.
This is a very dangerous time...
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Apparently, Joe has now said MBS "lied" about Joe not bringing up Khashoggi. Well, that's certainly possible. I really don't see how accusing the head of state of an honor-based society can lead to the desired results.
Of course, Joe was not the adult in the room...
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accusing the head of state of an honor-based society of lying
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They should be required to paint a clown face on the front of Air Farce One. The Puppet Show insults a needed ally to help offset the Iranian menace, the Saudi's create a scheme to get more profit by mixing cheaper Russian Oil with theirs, hence circumventing the "sanctions" crushing our own economy, and we will have to buy this "increased production" gimmick caused by the moronic clowns that inhabit this administration.
Masterful stupidity, Jojo, even by Biden standards of the past.
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We will find out whose side GOP is on shortly. They will not be able to make Joe increase domestic oil production, but they can essentially gut Dept of Energy and Dept of Interior budgets until they come around.
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/\ My fear is the Pubs will do very little other than continue to permit the Dems to destroy their 2024 chances. We are drawing very near the midterm and none of the Pubs has articulated a plan or pasted a bullseye on any of the Dem programs.
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^ Given the lead time to get oil production up, the GOP needs to start squeezing the greenies immediately so that stuff happens fast after a Pub president is sworn in in 2024.
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What the GOP needs to do is start playing a long game, signaling that people like Buttgig, Haaland, Granholm and all the cross-dressers will never be confirmed to any political position ever again.
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This is the relevant bit:
Riyadh has recently indicated a reluctance to increase its oil production, an action unofficially sought by Western leaders including U.S. President Joe Biden to reduce record-high fuel prices in countries such as the U.S.
Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said on March 29 that attacks on Saudi oil facilities by Yemen’s Houthi terrorists in previous days had compromised Riyadh’s ability to provide the world with sufficient fuel supplies.
The Saudi energy minister referenced “attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels on Saudi oil facilities, including a wave of drone and missile strikes on Friday [March 25],” AFP reported at the time.
Bin Salman said the nefarious acts had “put into question our ability to supply the world with the necessary energy requirements.”
I've never understood the Western reluctance to help the Saudis crush the Houthis. Thanks to Dubya, Iraq is now a Iranian puppet state to the north of Saudi Arabia. The Houthis exist as a fighting force only because of the Iranians. Their victory means another Iranian puppet state to Saudi Arabia's south. Will the West only be happy if the Persian empire invades and incorporates all of the Gulf states? Is this part of the West's plan to phase out fossil fuels, by giving a greater Iran a 1/3 share of the world's oil supplies, thereby spiking oil prices to levels previously unimaginable?
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certainly true that Iran has some influence in Iraq and is trying to increase that influence
but much of the population in Iraq detests Iran and the more Iran pushes the more the detestation.
Followers of Muqtada al-Sadr had a big rally a few days ago. The theme was very anti Iran especially regarding the various militias inside Iraq that are supported by Iran.
Of course Muqtada can change his mind any day and then change it back again the next week but for at least the past few years he has been consistently anti Iran.
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^ Still pissed at their Dental Plan Coverage
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they sure got cocky in a hurry after Sloe Joe shut off "Our": The USA's, oil supply to the world
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certainly true that Iran has some influence in Iraq and is trying to increase that influence
but much of the population in Iraq detests Iran and the more Iran pushes the more the detestation.
Followers of Muqtada al-Sadr had a big rally a few days ago. The theme was very anti Iran especially regarding the various militias inside Iraq that are supported by Iran.
Of course Muqtada can change his mind any day and then change it back again the next week but for at least the past few years he has been consistently anti Iran.
Iranian-sponsored militias in Iraq are a state within a state. Apart from US fire support, they claim to be the key factor in turning back ISIS in Iraq. Note that the Iraqi army was *unable* to do so. A militia force that is able to do what the army cannot is equally able to subdue that army. Iranian militias in Iraq are pretty close to having the power that Hezbollah does in Lebanon. The one thing holding them back from hosting more Iranian missile strikes on Saudi Arabia is perhaps the fear that the Saudis will start financing ISIS remnants (on the principle that the enemy of my enemy ...) and perhaps even stage an incursion or two into Iraq.
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Overthrowing the current Saudi government as a Biden Administration Policy Goal probably didn't help much either.
Might have been explained away as campaign speech but for the calling for the same with Russia and the weight thrown behind that.
The Democrat policy is to punish friends (e.g. Saudis and Israelis) and reward enemies (e.g. Iran). Increasingly many countries are starting to see the US as a dangerous friend. Whatever happened to realism (i.e. he's a bastard, but he's our bastard)? As long as they don't annex neighboring countries, what the heck are we doing getting into their business? The Saudis are basically trying to prevent the Iranians from adding Yemen to their empire, same as their opposition in the 60's in North Yemen to the Egyptian-sponsored revolt.
[19Fortyfive] On day 143 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the fighting in the Donbas is starting to flare up again as the Russian military has increased its offensive operations in the area.
THE SITUATION IN THE DONBAS, UKRAINE
In its daily estimate of the war, the British Ministry of Defense focused on the fighting in the Donbas and how the current situation favors the Ukrainian military.
“Russian offensive operations remain reduced in scope and scale, with fighting west of Lysychansk focussed on Siversk and Bakhmut. This is despite Russian claims to have entered the outskirts of Siversk town earlier in the week,” the British Military Intelligence assessed.
“Russia has previously made premature and false claims of success. This is likely at least in part aimed at demonstrating success to domestic audiences and to reinforce the morale of the fighting forces,” the British Ministry of Defense added.
Something that we have covered before here at 19FortyFive is that despite the Russian advances of the past couple of weeks, the current situation actually favors the Ukrainian defenders before the frontlines have shrunk and straightened. Whereas before, during the battles for Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, the Russian forces were attacking from five and six directions, now they can only do so from three, thus making it easier for the Ukrainian forces to defend.
“Ukrainian defence has been successful in repulsing Russian attacks since Lysychansk was ceded and the Ukrainian defensive line was shortened and straightened. This has allowed for the concentration of force and fires against reduced Russian attacks and has been instrumental in reducing Russia’s momentum,” the British Military Intelligence assessed.
RUSSIAN CASUALTIES IN UKRAINE
The Russian military continues to suffer heavy casualties in Ukraine, and the Kremlin is hard to put to replace the men it has lost. Moscow is increasingly relying on ad hoc measures to bolster its combat forces on the frontlines. The Kremlin has been providing financial incentives in order to attract more volunteers to the military and has even gone as far as to declare civilians who have fought in the war as veterans, giving them prestige and benefits. Of course, no ordinary civilian would find himself in a warzone. So, this new legislation is aimed at mercenaries who are fighting with Russian private military companies.
[New York Post] As Josephine Baker moved through international checkpoints in Spain and Morocco, the dancer and singer teased the agents who asked to see her papers, saying they just wanted her "autograph."
Her official story was that she was on a "tour of Spain." She was really working as a spy for the resistance, with state secrets neatly hidden in her bra.
Baker took a gamble that no one would dare to strip-search her. She smiled her famous smile — she was at the time the most photographed woman in the world — as the documents stayed "snugly in place, secured by a safety pin."
Baker’s role as one of the true heroes of World War II, fighting against the Nazis at great risk to herself, is detailed in the new book "Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy" (PublicAffairs) by Damien Lewis. In 1961, she received a Legion D’Honneur, France’s highest decoration for military service, for her Spain and Morocco mission, and was commended for retrieving "precious information."
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I'm still pretty confused. I thought Ukraine needed all the weapons they could get their hands on to fight the Russians? Why are they sending anything at all out of the country? Not sarcasm or snark--I genuinely don't get this.
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Serbian goods being transported by a Ukrainian company (Meridian) to Bangla.
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No, Bangladesh did make an order of tracer mortars for training a year ago. They shopped around, Turkey, Brazil, Ukraine... before they selected a Serbian firm; the Bangladesh defence ministry have a standing contract with them to supply trainer equipment and explosives ordnance.
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I'm like Tom confused. I would think with the situation as it is, screw the contracts.
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Dron - Tracer Mortars? Hot visual rounds that let you know adjustments needed? Never heard of them and Wiki is stoopid on it
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^ Yupp. For training purposes. Round contains pyrophoric powders like iron sulphate mixed with magnesium. Brightly shining tracers to track performance and such, learn how to aim.
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Which is why when the rescue op landed in the area, they had to wait hours before the smoke cleared. There was magnesium fires burning, and all sorts of bright bangetty bangs. So I'm told.
[Red State] I think it’s safe to say that Joe Biden had a bad week.
Joe Biden hit historic low approval levels, going under 30 percent for the first time in a Civiqs poll, with even his Democratic numbers going south. On top of that, Democrats were in disarray over him, throwing him under the bus. Even the NY Times admits there are issues now, citing concerns from the White House staff from his shuffling gait to his cognitive abilities.
Meanwhile, the CPI went to 9.1 percent and the PPI indicated that inflation was likely to continue with an 11.3 percent number, the worst since 1981. White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain had predicted in 2021 that inflation would be at 2.1 in 2022. That didn’t age well, and showed how clueless the Biden team is. But they indicate that they just want to spend even more.
A reporter asked Biden about a poll showing two-thirds of Democrats don’t want him to run again, and Biden flipped out on the reporter, arguing that wasn’t true. Even CNN busted Biden on this lie.
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Be sympathetic. It's hard to operate the puppet when the strings are tangled up and The Supreme Hall Monitor keeps trying to grab the controls.
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The Newsome visit to Dr. Jill during the Puppet's absence is pregnant with possibilities and a great inspiration for conspiracy thinking. Remember that just because you are a suspicious paranoid, it doesn't mean it isn't true!
A rereading of the 25th Amendment reveals some interesting clues. Clearly, when the Presidency becomes vacant, whether by death or inability, the Vice President becomes President. What disastrous consequences an unchecked Harris Presidency might create is a different conversation. But regarding the Vice Presidential vacancy, the 25th is clear:
"In response to the second question, regarding vice-presidential vacancies, Section 2 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment requires the President to nominate a replacement Vice President when that office becomes vacant, subject to confirmation by a majority of both the House and Senate.".
Given the high probability of a Red Wave in November, the demokrats lose a lot of choice in creating a Vice President for the 2024 election, and Harris is an impossible choice to lead the ticket. But here is the secret fig leaf to dump her. The Constitution, as amended, states:
Article II states: “The electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves.”
If Biden is removed from office prior to the installation of a new Congress in January 2025, a simple demokrat majority in both houses will allow a Newsome Vice Presidency, and the party can use the Article II prohibition to dump Kamala pro forma from the 2024 ticket. Additionalky, it sets up the perfect Newsome campaign meme. If she is impeached by a Republican Congress for cause (impossible to imagine she would not be given her performance to date), it creates the storyline that "Republican white supremacy" was the cause of her removal, playing the race care endlessly to drown out the disastrous performance of the Biden-Harris Administration.
What other explanation fits the timing of the visit to Dr. Jill, except the quid pro quo of the move to power and the Newsome promise of protection for the Puppet Show principals after their departure from power?
[Aljazeera] Sebastian Deisenberger leaned over the table in his garden, at his home on the edge of the Australian outback, his eyes glistening. He was explaining his obsession with rare black opals and why he uprooted his life in Germany to mine them.
Finding opals is "one of the best feelings you can get," he said. "It took a hundred million years to form and come to that stage and then you’re the first one who sees that."
Deisenberger is one of a few hundred full-time miners in Lightning Ridge, Australia, home to the black opal, one of the most sought-after gemstones in the world. They are only found in two places: this remote corner of the world and Ethiopia. And they can fetch a lot of money.
The most valuable one ever found, the Aurora Australis discovered in 1938, is worth about $1m today. But even less famous black opals have a spell-binding allure. Some stones contain just a few of the gem's potential colours - peacock blue, soft, feathery white, shards of green or deep blood-red. Others ripple with all the hues of the rainbow, and all against a jet-black base.
[WND] Two shocking and unprecedented megatrends are unfolding simultaneously in the United States of America right now.
The first is the explosion of what can only be described as openly predatory targeting of America’s children by legions of "gender activists" obsessed with seducing, grooming and recruiting kids into the phantasmagoric transgender world of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, surgical amputation of healthy body parts and astronomical suicide rates.
Incredibly, this wild celebration of transgenderism is being praised, promoted and funded by the ruling class at the highest levels, from the White House on down, while all who sound the alarm are demonized and canceled.
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Their efforts will be for nothing. Not builders but destroyers. This is all directed to reducing human populations. So backward they are. Simply Morlocks feeding on the farmed humans.
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Progressive Christianity is explained by The Law of Ultimate Syzygy. If toy put a drop of wine (Christianity) in a barrel of sewage (Progressivism) you get - sewage. If you put a drop of sewage (Progressivism) in a barrel of wine (Christianity) you get - sewage.
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if you put...
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True ever since the days of Nero, if not since the days of Annas and Caiaphas
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[ZERO] After two years of COVID-related restrictions and inhibitions, travelers are ready to hit the beaches in masses this summer - that is if they can still afford it...
[ZERO] Since Covid vaccines first became available more than a year and a half ago, women have been sounding alarms about the shots' adverse effect on their menstruation.
For example, in an August 2021 article at The Grayzone that criticized the U.S. medical establishment's failure to study the effects of the vaccines on women's reproductive systems, Marcie Smith Parenti recounted disturbing experiences from her own circle of friends:
Their symptoms have included hemorrhagic bleeding lasting more than a month; heavy intermittent bleeding for four months; passing golf-ball size clots of blood; and extreme cramping, serious enough to land one friend in the ER.
On social media, the The Grayzone was accused of "fearmongering," being "anti-vax," and peddling "dangerous disinformation." Meanwhile, the response of the FDA and CDC to women's pleas might be best characterized as a bureaucratic shrug.
Something else to add to the growing list of VAX documented issues. Issues that many of us were called crazy, paranoid, delusional, conspiracy theory nuts, & etc. for not trusting the DC Swamp's hastily produced Faux-Science data narrative to support their Political-Social Agenda. Data that we have since found out excluded adverse reaction data to get emergency FDA/CDC approval.
SUMMARY:
Despite the DC Elitists attempted clamp downs, ridicule, blackballing of researchers and actual aggressive Social Media censorship of real data. More and more studies, based on actual Science data, are finally seeing the light of day.
The VAX has major issues.
The study I still want to see . Is the one on whether, or not, the VAX and the 3-5 month boosters have long term repercussions on the next generation's gene pool, mental capabilities' and reproduction abilities.
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^^^^ The study I still want to see .
Is the one on whether, or not, the VAX and the 3-5 month boosters have long term repercussions on the next generation's gene pool, mental capabilities' and reproduction abilities Sorry Friend, the truth is there will not be a spawn from this generation of vaxxed as they are now sterile, reproductively impaired, and further unlikely to live very much longer.
[Washington Examiner] Donald Trump appears to be losing steam among Republican voters after his fundraising numbers have experienced a dip over the last few months — positioning himself behind Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has surpassed the former president in donations.
Trump raked in at least $36 million during the first six months of 2022, a decrease from the $56 million he made during the same time period the year before, according to his campaign finance filings. The new numbers mark the first time Trump has raised less than $50 million in any six-month period since leaving the White House, and they put him below DeSantis, who raised about $45 million in the first half of this year, records show.
Trump’s numbers may be slightly higher, as the tallies don’t include numbers raised from Trump’s Save America PAC that will be released later this month. The political action committee has raised at least $23,000 so far this quarter from WinRed, a Republican fundraising platform.
There are limitations to comparing the two, as DeSantis is up for reelection, whereas Trump is not actively campaigning. But some strategists say it might be an indication of fatigue among GOP voters toward the former president.
Trump’s fundraising has slowed in recent months, falling to an average of $200,000 a day in the last four months compared to about $300,000 a day in September, according to filings with WinRed. But this may be because donors are turning their attention to more urgent races as Republicans seek to gain control of Congress in November rather than to Trump, who has not yet announced any candidacy plans.
Despite the lull in fundraising, Trump remains the favored candidate among GOP voters in a hypothetical matchup between other potential Republican nominees. Nearly 50% said they would vote for Trump if the GOP presidential primary was held today, with 25% saying they would back DeSantis, according to a poll by the New York Times and Siena College.
Maybe Trump does not need more $$$$ than DeSantis?
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With Trump only allowed to hold office 1 more term.
DeSantis taking an initial VP slot on a Trump/DeSantis Admin can be seen as a win win. Since, VP's are already in a better position of running and winning over challengers. This would then allow 12 years of sanity and morality in the WH.
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^ Agreed. I just wish it didn't involve Florida giving up two more years of DeSantis as governor.
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A Trump/DeSantis arrangement would be nice if the former can then focus on the economy and the latter be let loose to gut Deep State. That would provide DeSantis better stability when he does take the office.
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My biggest problem with Trump redux is I have no expectation that he would do any better than last time in surrounding himself with backstabbers and saboteurs.
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/\ He's got to take the recruitment program on 'the road' and out of the beltway. The beltway is a 'backstabbers and saboteurs' incubator.
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^ There is that. In a second term, he would not be an "outsider" (though, still, ironically, he would remain the ultimate outsider) so he would not be under any pressure to recruit beltway creatures to give his administration "credibility."
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I really like Trump and voted for him twice.
But I am concerned about the sheer numbers of foaming-at-the-mouth Trump haters who give any opponent a fairly large base to work from.
Granted the Democrats will demonize anyone the Republicans nominate, but someone else will at least start behind a much smaller 8 ball.
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[American Thinker] There’s a Yiddish expression -- Hak mir nisht keyn tshaynik! It means "don’t bang on my teakettle." Apparently when you went to see someone and they were in the field, workshop or barn, you banged on their teakettle to summon them. So the expression means, don’t bother me.
Each day when I check my emails, there are at least 20 messages with the header "disturbing" or some like word designed to get me agitated enough to contribute something to the sender.
Honestly, I’m disturbed enough about the state of the world that I don’t need more things to get disturbed about. For starters, there’s rising inflation with no discernible end in sight. There’s a horrible war in Ukraine with enormous destruction and loss of life. People are starving in Sri Lanka as a result of idiotic "green" agriculture mandates which are undoing there and soon elsewhere the marvels of Borlaug’s Green Revolution where the use of manufactured fertilizers and crops bred to be disease-resistant were making national famines a thing of the past.
Perhaps because of the seven years he spent living in America during the late 1990s and early 2000s, Mr. Rajapaksa was in thrall to green nostrums. He campaigned for president in 2019 on a platform that promised a form of technocratic utopia, including the commitment to turn Sri Lankan agriculture completely organic in a decade. He was particularly attentive to Vandana Shiva, a rabid Indian opponent of modern scientific agriculture. She considers Borlaug the enemy.
Covid hit Sri Lanka particularly hard, wiping out tourism, its economic mainstay. Heedless of this calamity, and of the wider impoverishment caused by lockdowns, Mr. Rajapaksa took a step that poleaxed Sri Lanka. On April 27, 2021 -- with no warning, and with no attempt to teach farmers how to cope with the change -- he announced a ban on all synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. Henceforth, he decreed, Sri Lankan agriculture would be 100% organic. Agronomists and other scientists warned loudly of the catastrophe that would ensue, but they were ignored. This Sri Lankan Nero listened to no one. [snip]
Lost in all the ideological ululation was another likely explanation for Mr. Rajapaksa’s action: So debt-ridden was Sri Lanka -- to China, in particular -- that he may have decided to forgo imported fertilizer and pesticide as a money-saving measure.
What happened next? Rice production fell by 20% in the first 180 days of the ban on synthetic fertilizer. Tea, Sri Lanka’s main cash crop, has been hit hard, with exports at their lowest level in nearly a quarter-century. Whether from indignation over the new laws or an inability to go organic, farmers left a third of all farmland fallow. Food prices soared as a result of scarcity and Sri Lanka’s people, their pockets already hit by the pandemic, began to go hungry. To add to the stench of failure, a shipload of manure from China had to be turned back after samples revealed dangerous levels of bacteria. The farmers had no synthetic fertilizer, and hardly any of the organic kind.
The people of Sri Lanka learned a sad lesson -- mandated "organic farming" proved a horrible disaster. The people of Ghana also face starvation and national collapse as a result of green policies (and government corruption). Farmers in the Netherlands are striking in protest of equally unworkable green mandates on agriculture.
Just as absurd is the notion of zero carbon emissions. Germany is rationing conventional fuels and distributing wood and urging householders to burn it. I anticipate that will be insufficient to keep Germans warm this winter. I suppose the nitwits who shut down the country’s nuclear and coal plants will blame climate change for the deaths and misery, but I bet that won’t long work for them.
To prove the stupidity of this blinkered objective, China is fast constructing more coal plants, plants likely (given Communist countries’ penchant for production over environmental concerns) to be emitting not just carbon but the unhealthy emissions which had already been scrubbed from U.S. and western European coal plants.
Not disturbing enough for you? There’s a doddering head of state here and removing him would leave an equally feckless vice president in charge. A man who armed the Taliban in an ill-planned pullout of our troops in Afghanistan. A man who has ignored U.S. immigration law and common sense to leave our Southern border wide open, a man who opened the floodgates on our diminished treasury which only fired-up inflation. A man who selected as his Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, a dimwit who promises to spend our money fighting "racist" highways while doing nothing to ease the supply chain shortages. The President leaves in place the head of the FDA who with one stroke could lift the restrictions on baby formula from Canada and Europe to ease the shortage the agency itself foolishly caused by shutting down our major production facility for no good reason.
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If after nearly two years, my observations are correct, any "Doddering" or feckless leadership must be ascribed as a cover for the agendas of Rice and Klain. They are the shadow government, the ones who are actually in charge. The first black President has been closely followed by the first black female President. You can say it isn't so, but the cloaking of both Rice and Klain by the media provides a telling confirmation.
The helpless Biden and Harris are little more than Kabuki theater. Real power and authority clearly lies elsewhere.
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What's strange is don't these idiots realize that there's a reason people switched to synthetic fertilizer? Like maybe more output and less disease?
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Fareed Zakari's op-ed was titled 'Forget Pronouns: Democrats need to become the party of building things'
Zakari insisted tangible achievements were more important than extreme leftists' obsessions with social issues including pronouns for trans people
Predictably, a woke Twitter mob descended on Zakari, including Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg's husband Chasten
Chasten scolded that Zakari's writing was 'wildly inappropriate.' The Washington Post has since removed the mention of pronouns from the column headline
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Zakaria is a gerbil gummint dolt. So, I'm good with this, even though it does show that decadence in prosperous societies eventually descends into the gutter and even lower.
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Grow up.
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Even if they want to be known as the "party of building things" the work force will have to be 'diverse'. Personally I could care less if all the people on the job are Drag Queens. As long as the job gets done on time and on budget.
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^ Exactly. There was a trans-man nurse in my house this morning to check on a family member who has Covid. (He's fine BTW.) But the Democratic Party isn't the party of trans nurses... or auto-mechanics, bus drivers, delivery persons, waiters, or anything else useful.
It's the party of trans activists. And that's a profession of a different sort entirely.
Dr Deborah Birx said most viruses take months or years to become infectious
But the infectious diseases expert and former presidential Covid adviser said Covid ‘was already more infectious than flu when it first arrived’
She said that meant Covid was either an ‘abnormal thing of nature’ or that Chinese scientists were ‘working on coronavirus vaccines’ and became infected
She accused China of initially covering up how infectious Covid was
‘China was implying that they were containing it, but asymptomatic spread cannot be contained without testing,’ she said
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It surprises me that people still listen to Birx and Fauci and their ever evolving reality that directly refutes their previous reality.
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^ Well, there are people with Tony Fauxi coffee mugs and Scarf Woman plush dolls. They don't listen. They hang on every word. In the Venn diagram with "media" and "people who know they are charlatans," the media and "listen to Fauxi and Birx" circles are the same.
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Counter Russians with a PsyOp - Send this music, with Russian Subtitles, to any Russians protesting Putin's War in the Ukraine --- Could make soldiers very uneasy, given the losses of many in Russia's Army.
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The minute Putin is forced to draft ethnic Russians, this war ends and his life might end. Heretofore, this war has been driven by Russia's colonies. Very, very few ethnic Russians have died so far.
Like almost 0 deaths from St Petersburg, Moscow, etc.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:55 The shelling of Donetsk does not stop. Local residents report arrivals in the Petrovsky, Kirovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts. In the area of m-n Quiet and televyshki. 23:50 According to the DPR representative office in the JCCC, Ukrainian militants fired 5 shells with a caliber of 152 mm in the Kirovsky district of the city of Makeevka.
22:25 A missile strike from the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Alchevsk destroyed the trolleybus and bus depot and the dispensary, said the head of the city administration, Albert Apshev.
"Preliminarily, as a result of a missile attack, the depot where our trolleybus and bus fleet is located was destroyed. The dispensary building was also half destroyed. The incident happened at 21:04," the mayor said.
21:30 VFU launched a missile attack on Yasinovataya
Fighters from their positions in Avdiivka attacked the residential areas of Yasinovataya using MLRS BM-21 Grad missiles.
20:38 As a result of today's shelling of the AFU in the Donetsk People's Republic, two people were killed and one more civilian was injured.
20:21 The defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Seversk has been broken.
Assault detachments of the allied forces overcame the security zone of the Seversky garrison of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and completed the creation of conditions for the encirclement of the city. There is a strong artillery preparation in order to close the cauldron around the city.
18:32 Pushilin awarded the soldiers of the mobilization reserve with medals for the liberation of Mariupol. Servicemen of the 105th and 107th Rifle Regiments received 47 awards.
18:17 Avdievka is completely surrounded! All approaches to the city are blocked! Boiler shut down three hours ago. The forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city are doomed. TG channels report.
17:40 According to updated information, as a result of daytime shelling of the Kirovsky district, the following destruction was recorded:
- st. Lozovaya, 160: the glazing of the windows in the house was damaged, the gate and the car were cut;
- st. Zheleznodorozhnaya, 109: 3 plastic window blocks were destroyed, the roof was broken, the power line was damaged;
- st. Zheleznodorozhnaya, 86: window glazing was damaged, the roof was pierced, a gas pipe and power lines were damaged.
17:34 APU launched a missile attack on Stakhanov from M142 HIMARS.
17:28 As a result of shelling from the VFU in Yasinovataya, a man was wounded along Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya Street.
16:15 The Russian Humanitarian Mission, together with the NM of the LPR, delivered humanitarian aid to needy residents in Privolye and Rubezhnoye.
15:35 Personnel provision of humanitarian assistance by military personnel of the Central Military District to residents of the Lugansk People's Republic.
15:30 According to additional information, in the Kirovsky district, Ukrainian artillerymen committed the following atrocities:
- damaged the roof and destroyed the glazing in the house on the street. Railway, 109;
- damaged the outer wall of the house, destroyed the roof and outbuildings on the street. Lozova, 208;
- damaged glazing, doors, roofing of the house and outbuildings on the street. Lozova, 210.
15:20 BMPT "Terminator" sent to the front in the Seversk region.
15:15 Dispatcher of the bus station "Center" through tearstellsabout the constant shelling by the Nazis. In two days, two drivers and passengers were killed. People are tired of the constant terror from the Nazis.
15:00 VFU attacked the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, on the street. Lozovoi died a man.
14:27 The LPR and the Kharkiv region have signed an agreement on friendship and cooperation.
13:06 As a result of the morning shelling of the Kalininsky district of Gorlovka by Ukrainian neo-Nazis, a warehouse was destroyed and the building of Rezinpromsnab LLC was damaged along Gorlovskaya Division Street, 66a. Fortunately, no casualties.
11:35 Damage due to the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was received by the garage and one of the buildings of the state enterprise "Stirol", in the Kalininsky district of Gorlovka.
11:20 After the shelling of the VFU bus station "Center" in Donetsk to the Republican Trauma Center received three victims with mine-explosive wounds. Doctors assess the patient's condition as serious, but stable.
11:13 At night they again poured shells Nazis in the center of Donetsk. The bus station "Centre" was hit. A purely peaceful place, surrounded by residential buildings.
10:53 Allied troops occupied a section of the Konstantinovka-Avdeevka highway near the village of Kamenka in the DPR - Colonel of the LPR Ministry of Internal Affairs Vitaly Kiselev.
10:00 Situation in the morning in Donbass. Our units are conducting offensive operations against the Uglegorsk TPP. The task is not easy, you have to work with jewelry so as not to destroy the object. There is a fear that the Nazis may undermine the thermal power plant.
In the Donetsk direction, joint forces are conducting assault operations in the area of Disputed - Ivano-Daryevka. The capture of these villages will open a bridgehead to Artyomovsk and Soledar. From the other flank, our units enter Artemovsk from the direction of Dolomitnoye - Novoluganskoye, Dolomitnoye - Semigorye and Roty - Vershina. On Avdeevskiy, Kurakhovsky, Novopavlovsky and Zaporizhzhya, there is no active promotion here. Our artillery and the forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces are working to destroy enemy concentrations and firing points.
09:05 Kulemzin: Information continues to come in about casualties and destruction as a result of night shelling. At 00.30, the Center bus station in the Voroshilovsky district was again under fire. Recorded hit at st. Pervomaiskaya, 4. A cinder block fence was damaged behind the bus station building. At 6.00 in the Petrovsky district along Petrovsky Street at the Dobrovolsky bus stop, a woman born in 1970 was wounded. With shrapnel wounds of the abdominal cavity, she was hospitalized in city hospital No. 14.
09:03 More than 22,500 residents of the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics crossed the border of the Russian Federation in the Rostov region over the past day - the Border Department of the Federal Security Service of Russia in the region.
09:00 Kulemzin: Donetsk survived another sleepless night under enemy shelling. As a result of the aggression on the part of the VFU, there are dead and wounded, numerous damages to residential buildings and infrastructure have been recorded.
Kirovsky district
At 23.50, a woman born in 1958 was injured. The victim was hospitalized with a closed craniocerebral injury.
The market on the street also suffered from shelling.
Petrovsky 111. Containers No. 120,121 burned down completely, containers No. 119,122,123 were damaged by shrapnel.
On st. Lyashenko, 4 (a) in an apartment building damaged glazing.
On st. N. Ostrovsky, 33, 35 glazing is damaged.
Leninsky district
At 0.30 at st. 1st Aleksandrovka, 1, a residential building was damaged;
Kyiv district
At 02.28, a woman born in 1979 died as a result of a direct hit on the roof of a private house at 2 (d) Partizansky Ave. Death occurred before the arrival of doctors.
Victims:
- a girl born in 2011 - was hospitalized with contusion in the Republican Trauma Center;
- man born in 1980 with numerous shrapnel wounds was hospitalized in the Republican trauma center.
Petrovsky district
At 05.45 on Dobrovolsky street, 3/98, a woman born in 1985 died. Death occurred before the arrival of doctors.
Direct hits on residential buildings were also recorded at the following addresses:
- st. Dobrovolsky, 3, 5. At 6.00 as a result of shelling, in the area of the city hospital No. 14, a man born in 1974 was killed. - the driver of the bus route 42 (a), was at the exit without passengers. Death occurred before the arrival of doctors.
08:36 Over the past day, from 08:00 on July 15 to 08:00 on July 16, seven people were killed and another 19 civilians were injured as a result of the shelling of the VFU in the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic.
08:15 AFU forcibly evacuate people from the Kramatorsk and Slavyansk regions of the DPR under their control to Dnepropetrovsk - TASS source.
08:10 AFU fired at a residential area of Donetsk. As a result of the shelling, three people were killed, including a child. Two more were injured, according to the headquarters of the defense of the DPR.
08:07 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine shelling on N of the item is recorded. Skargovka with the use of MLRS HIMARS (1 rocket) - Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.
08:00 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Kurakhovo - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): six shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
n.p. Dry Balka - n.p. Golmovsky: six shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
n.p. Dry Balka - Gorlovka (Central - City District): 15 shells fired with a caliber of 152mm.
n.p. Dry Balka - n.p. Golmovsky: eight shells of 152mm caliber were fired;
n.p. Artemovsk - n.p. Dolomite: fired 17 shells with a caliber of 155mm;
n.p. Kurdyumovka - n.p. Golmovsky: 10 shells of 152mm caliber were fired;
THREAD. I take news of Iran’s drone export to Russia seriously. Several reasons for this:
First, Iran have always been obsessed with the idea that its defense products could compete internationally. Now, it has an incentive and space to do so, considering it a show of power./1 pic.twitter.com/Z6IWpgxSmS
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Meanwhile back on the farm; "Brazil also signaled this week that it would also embrace Russian flows, and its diesel will be used to support agriculture and drivers. In fact, Russia has quickly become one of the largest suppliers of oil to Latin America." 70 million dollar tanker delivery to Cuba currently.
Venezuela is having trouble just delivering to its domestic market.
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The styles of Volodymyr and Putin are very different. One begs for everything using medias while Putin scores successes in actual economic growth and support around the world. Malaysia, Africa, India, Vietnam, Latin America and the Arab world. His successes in this effort have been dramatic. Our leadership has been pathetic.
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Don't ask the man who's paid to say. Ask the man who pays to play.
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"Space relations between Russia and Western countries have deteriorated since the invasion, though new efforts appear to be underway to fix severed ones and keep a professional arrangement with the Americans to maintain the ISS".
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Well, lessee. Whacking the drones isn't all that hard. But whacking the carrier is even easier and has a bigger immediate payoff.
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Iran unveils first ships future submarines and submarines...
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China now have the most healthy staple crops in the world".
China might have raw numbers, but I would not trust anything edible produced by China. Their air, water, and soil are as horribly polluted as everything gets under Communist rule, and it isn’t long since the atmospheric dust resulting from desertification and coal plant particulates was reported darkening the sun in Beijing and affecting visibility in California.
What I actually said was "Hollywood can't see morals and ethics with their foreheads pressed to the Chinese belly" or something. I could be misremembering
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^ See the new Shang Chi movie trailer, Frank? The hero looks like Jinping had a bastard dwarf or something.
Any day you displease a member of The Squad is a good one...
[Garowe] Minnesota 5th District Representative Ilhan Omar ...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side... has criticized President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family, the guy who bungled Afghanistan... for his trip to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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[NYPOST] A teen who was twice charged with possessing loaded handguns got treated with kid gloves both times under the state’s controversial "Raise the Age" law — allowing him to allegedly use another weapon to accidentally shoot himself in his bedroom, The Post has learned.
But even the self-inflicted wound wasn’t enough to get reputed gang member Rodney Sanders of Brooklyn locked up, which only happened after his fourth gun arrest in less than nine months, according to law enforcement sources.
"What does it take for politicians to realize some people should not be treated as minors?" one Brooklyn cop fumed.
"Do they have to shoot someone besides themselves?"
Sanders, 17, is an alleged member of the Bloods-affiliated "Miller Made Crew" of about 30 teens who live in the area around his apartment on Miller Avenue in East New York, sources said.
"He likes carrying guns," said a Brooklyn cop familiar with Sanders’ case.
Sanders was first arrested on Oct. 17 while allegedly in possession of a loaded gun and again on March 1 after cops allegedly found two loaded guns while carrying out a court-authorized search of his bedroom, sources said.
Following both busts, Sanders his cases diverted to Family Court and was released from custody under the 2017 "Raise the Age" law thon the lamly ended criminal prosecutions of teens younger than 18 charged with misdemeanors and non-violent mostly peaceful felonies, sources said.
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] An infamous narco and convicted killer who occupied a spot on the FBI’s top 10 most wanted list was arrested by Mexican naval forces on Friday.
Rafael Caro-Quintero, who is considered a founder of the Guadalajara cartel, was captured by Mexican marines after a search dog found him hiding in the brush near the town of San Simon in the country’s northwestern state of Sinaloa, according to multiple reports.
The drug lord was a major player in cocaine, marijuana and heroin trafficking into the U.S. in the 1970s, and is notorious in U.S. law enforcement circles for orchestrating the kidnapping, torture and killing of DEA Special Agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena in 1985.
Camarena’s death came after a DEA raid destroyed millions of dollars worth of marijuana owned by the Guadalajara cartel in 1984.
Camarena’s murder was a low point in U.S.-Mexico relations, and caused the border between the two nations to be closed for several days. The Louisville Courier-Journal reported that the public pressure inside Mexico became so high that the cartel eventually returned Mr. Caramena’s body to U.S. authorities.
[IsraelTimes] Israel freezes a move that would expand the quota of work permits for Gazook Paleostinians to 15,500, after murderous Moslems in the coastal enclave launched four rockets toward southern Israel overnight.
Israel’s military liaison to the Paleostinians, widely known by its acronym COGAT, announced Tuesday that an additional 1,500 permits would be added to the quota.
But following the rocket attacks, Defense Minister Benny Gantz has decided to freeze the move, COGAT says.
"The Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror group bears responsibility for everything that is done in and emanates from the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip towards the State of Israel, and it will bear the consequences," the statement says.
The Indian authorities taking the excuse to deal with not only actual miscreants, but those who show themselves interested in misbehaving before they move to actual violence — the Indian version of Broken Window Theory.
[OneIndia] An NIA court on Saturday sent three of the accused in Udaipur tailor Kanhaiya Lal's murder case to Ajmer jail.
The court had earlier sent three of them--Riaz Akhtari, Ghouse Mohammad and Farhad Mohammad Sheikh--to police custody till July 16. The four others, identified as Mohmamad Mohsin, Wasim Ali, Asif and Mohsin were sent to judicial custody till August 1.
Kanhaiya Lal was killed by cleaver-wielding Riaz Akhtari and Ghouse Mohammad at his shop on June 28 in the Udaipur's Dhan Mandi cop shoppe area over a controversial post on social media. The accused had posted a grisly video of the crime online.
Two days later, Mohsin and Asif were arrested. They were allegedly involved in the conspiracy of the killing and had conducted a recce of Kanhaiya's shop.
NIA searches multiple locations in Udaipur murder caseNIA searches multiple locations in Udaipur murder case
The NIA later arrested Mohammad Mohsin, Wasim Ali and Farhad Mohammad Sheikh on different dates.
NIA had said it suspects the role of a "terror gang and not a terror outfit". The anti-terror agency, however, made it clear that there is a role of a bigger gang behind the brutal killing and that it was not just an act done by only two persons, who were arrested by state police after the incident.
[CBSNEWS] An elderly woman was killed by two alligators in a pond near her home, officials in Sarasota County, Florida, said late Friday night. Officials said the alligators grabbed her after she fell into the water.
At approximately 7:47 p.m., the woman was seen falling into a pond along the course at the Boca Royale Golf and Country Club in Englewood, according to a statement from the Sarasota County Sheriff's office. The woman "struggled to stay afloat" before two nearby alligators grabbed her, authorities said.
The woman, who has not been identified, was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities have since captured the alligators and have removed them from the pond.
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Dead I hope. The gators that is. For her sake I hope it was quick.
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[Vesti] At the moment, fierce battles are going on in the Luhansk region in two settlements. On Saturday evening, July 16, the military head of the Lugansk regional administration, Leonid Gaidai, spoke about this. Thus, he partially refuted the words of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Shoigu about complete control over the Lugansk region.
"I can say - yes, they control most of the region, but fierce battles are going on in two settlements , they cannot get through there, they are losing both personnel and a huge amount of equipment. The assaults are constant, but so far nothing has come of them," - said Gaidai on Ukrainian television.
According to Gaidai, the Russian army wants to regroup and continue to storm Bakhmut from different sides, but today these attempts have been unsuccessful. The head of the region confirmed that now the enemy is delivering resources (equipment, ammunition, etc.) immediately to the front line, they have no "short shoulder" because of the executions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, enemy warehouses.
And it did us good, because the number of attacks decreased. At the same time, the enemy’s DRGs were weakened or liquidated, the head of the Luhansk region noted and emphasized that the enemy forcibly mobilizes all men in the occupied territories and is experiencing problems with working personnel. Even the miners are given rides at night.
There are no opportunities for evacuation from the settlements of the region controlled by the Ukrainian authorities yet - the density of shelling does not allow, Gaidai specified.
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[Vesti] Aleksey Arestovich , adviser to the head of the President's Office, believes that all Putin's latest assurances are part of psychological pressure to enter Minsk-3. The situation on the fronts is not one in which the Russian leader can dictate any ultimatums, he notes. " If you can make us a mess, why negotiate with us?" - figuratively explained the adviser.
Arestovich recalled that in 2014 the Russian Federation brilliantly carried out an information-psychological operation, fixing successfully for itself everything that it could demand by political means, just at the moment when the possibilities for a further offensive were exhausted. This is how "Minsk-1" appeared, and the Kremlin is now striving for the same development of events. " If they could advance further, they would have captured more ... That's where they were stopped, they signed. History is repeating itself now, like a carbon copy. They understand that they have reached a plateau, they may have tactical successes, but the strategic perspective ," the source said. Moreover, as Western weapons arrive in Ukraine, the situation will turn not in their favor, Arestovich specifies.
He also expressed the opinion that now the media activity of the Russian Minister of War Shoigu and other statements indicate that the war in Ukraine is "slipping" for the Russian leadership, but no one knows the reaction of Russian society to the defeat of the Russian Federation.
At the same time, Arestovich emphasized that he separates the leadership and people of the Russian Federation. Again, rather figuratively, the adviser claims that "we have a plan, we are following the plan," and the leadership of the Russian Federation "we will throw off together, and we will agree with the peoples of the Russian Federation."
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[RIA Novosti] Serious contradictions have arisen between the President of Ukraine and the leadership of the General Staff, local media report. There were rumors of a military coup in Kyiv back in March, but then Volodymyr Zelensky kept the situation under control. However, as the UAF retreated, the internal conflict intensified.
The popularity of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny skyrocketed after Russia withdrew its troops from the Kyiv region. They saw in him a model of the defender of the motherland and almost the first handsome man of the country.
Since spring, analysts have been saying that Zaluzhny could seriously compete with Zelensky in the presidential election. The head of state is jealous of fellow citizens for the commander-in-chief, media say.
According to one version, this is why representatives of the Zelensky team since the beginning of June, one after another, talk about the catastrophic losses of the Ukrainian army: 500 killed and wounded per day, now - a thousand.
In addition, the president publicly attacked Zaluzhny with criticism of the supply of troops. Allegedly, the journalists told him that the soldiers did not have enough personal protective equipment, and the command did not see any problems.
Zaluzhny’s “support group” indicated that the equipment should be handled by the Ministry of Defense, the department of Alexei Reznikov, Zelensky’s ally. In response, there were voices in the President's Office that the general's entourage was manipulating him in their own selfish interests.
Differences in strategy
The Ukrainian media periodically discuss disagreements between the military and political leadership over the hostilities. For example, the commander-in-chief allegedly demanded the withdrawal of troops from Lisichansk and Severodonetsk, while the head of state, on the contrary, wanted to hold the city to the end.
A similar situation was with Azovstal in Mariupol and other important sectors of the front. The Ukrainian military recorded video messages complaining about poor supplies, low training of officers, and obviously impossible orders. Aleksey Arestovich, an adviser to the head of the President's Office, said that there are "many complaints" against the military command.
Volunteers accused Arestovich of "political dice", an attempt to shift the responsibility for the defeat to the army. The head of the Come Back Alive Foundation, Taras Chmut, recalled how Zelensky assured three months before the start of the special operation that there would be no hostilities with Russia. Vitaly Shabunin, head of the anti-corruption center, said that if Arestovich was not fired, his criticism of the Armed Forces of Ukraine would be regarded as an order from the President's Office. Well-known Ukrainian journalist Yuriy Butusov suggests that Zelensky's team is attacking the General Staff more than once in order to evade responsibility.
Everything for the front
In early July, the General Staff forbade men fit for service to leave their place of residence. "Your country needs you!" - announced the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, despite the fact that the Ukrainian media regularly report about overcrowded military registration and enlistment offices and an unprecedented rise in patriotism, people responded to the call with a wave of discontent.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky during a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis in Kyiv
In the Zaporozhye region, women, protecting their husbands and sons, did not let the military commissars into the village. Volunteers and businessmen who need to constantly move around the country were outraged. They talked about the return of serfdom.
Zelensky intervened, promised to look into everything and publicly asked the General Staff not to make such decisions on their own anymore. Arestovich added that "war is too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military."
A couple of days later, Zaluzhny canceled the order and sent it back for revision. At the same time, he complained that various forces were manipulating his idea to discredit the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The security forces are not going to refuse to toughen the mobilization. On the contrary, as Sergei Bratchuk, spokesman for the operational headquarters of the Odessa Regional Military Administration, said, if the fighting drags on, most of the men and a significant part of the women will join the ranks.
But the political leadership fears a revolt. Ukrainians who are far from the front line are trying to live as if nothing had happened. The order of the General Staff could change everything.
Military dictatorship
There are certain difficulties between Zelensky and Zaluzhny, but so far they are far from critical, says political analyst Rostislav Ishchenko. Otherwise, the president would raise the question of the resignation of the commander-in-chief. Nevertheless, it is clear that Zelensky is ready to blame the military for Ukraine's plight.
“When the General Staff forbade men to leave their place of residence, he acted in accordance with the law, which says that permission from the military registration and enlistment office is required to move. But people took it sharply, so Zelensky once again demonstrated his love for the people,” the expert notes.
"More and more dissatisfied." Is Ukraine facing another coup?
The president solves political problems, and for this he sometimes has to act against the wishes of the military command, recalls Vladimir Zharikhin, deputy head of the Institute of CIS Countries. The difference between desires and possibilities is especially intensified when the army is defeated.
"In the military environment, they increasingly understand that Zelensky focuses primarily on the United States, and not the interests of the country. However, it is not at all a fact that this discontent can result in something. American advisers tightly control the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they are able to quickly expose any conspiracy," he is sure.
In his opinion, the US can make Zaluzhny the favorite only as a last resort. No matter how bad a president Zelensky is, he is a legitimately elected one. The military junta that removed him will be illegitimate. In the end, this will lead to the final collapse of Ukraine.
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[BenarNews] A Malaysian-led international peace monitoring group has departed from the southern Philippines after the administration of Rodrigo Duterte, who left office late last month, decided their presence was no longer needed, officials said Friday.
The peacekeeping force, known as the International Monitoring Team (IMT) and tasked with safeguarding a ceasefire agreement between the Philippine government and former Moro Islamic Liberation Front guerrillas, departed the country from Cotabato City to little fanfare last month. The monitors had operated in the southern Mindanao region for nearly two decades.
Naguib Sinarimbo, a front man for the former MILF rebels, confirmed the withdrawal to BenarNews and said the IMT wanted to alter some of the terms of their agreement. He did not elaborate.
"While it has not yet been resolved, they have decided to pull out their contingent. Their authority to stay has also expired," Sinarimbo said. He said IMT could operate again in the Philippines subject to a government review.
The IMT, commanded by Maj. Gen. Hamdan Ismail, officially pulled out at the end of June.
In a message before his departure, which was made available to the press on Friday, Ismail said the bond between the Philippines and Malaysia had grown stronger since IMT’s stay in Mindanao.
"I wish that your dreams and my dreams of achieving lasting peace in this part of the region can be realized in the near future," Ismail added.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front signed a peace agreement with the central government in 2014, ending its long-running separatist insurgency in Mindanao. Malaysia had brokered the peace negotiations, and its participation evolved to include the monitoring of the interim ceasefire pact forged by both sides about two decades ago.
Representatives from Libya, Brunei, and Japan were included in the Malaysian-led mission, which also monitored the humanitarian, rehabilitation and development aspects of the grinding of the peace processor. The peacekeeping contingent also ensured the protection of civilians in areas where the rebels operated.
Brig. Gen. Antonio Nafarrete, who headed the government’s ceasefire team, expressed the administration’s gratitude for the IMT’s peacekeeping efforts in Mindanao.
"Thank you very much. We recognized the IMT’s invaluable contribution in sustaining the gains of the Bangsamoro grinding of the peace processor as the team nears the end of its tour of duty," he said.
WHAT WILL MARCOS DO?
It remains unclear whether Duterte’s successor, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., will extend IMT’s peacekeeping tenure.
Critics say his father and namesake, the Philippines’ longtime dictator, led massive military drives in the south and many people either died or disappeared during his time in office from 1965 to 1986.
The former rebels, for one, campaigned against Marcos Jr. Its leader, Murad Ebrahim (whose real name is Ahod Balawag Ebrahim), had blamed Marcos’ father and the military under the late dictator of ransacking Moslem areas and massacring entire communities. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front was formed, in part, to fight these alleged atrocities, while also seeking independence.
The IMT’s strength at one time stood at 60, but it gradually decreased as tension and fighting reduced and peace began to take hold. In March, the government informed the IMT it would no longer extend the mission.
The front’s ceasefire chief, Butch Malang, said the organization remains committed as ever in strengthening the joint peace mechanisms.
"We also take this opportunity to strengthen further our common commitment, teamwork, and dedication to work together with all our partners for a stronger proactive ceasefire accord during the post-agreement period of the grinding of the peace processor between the government and the MILF," said Malang.
"The MILF’s adherence to the ceasefire has been a gradual success but was collectively realized due to the strong cooperation and partnership of security forces, local governments, and communities on the ground," he added.
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"The MILF’s adherence to the ceasefire has been a gradual success but was collectively realized due to the strong cooperation and partnership of security forces, local governments, and communities on the ground," he added.
tl:dr; We had to shoot a bunch of them, but after a while, they began to catch on.
I wonder if the 'peace monitors' are departing because new Prez Ferdi Jr. told them to take a hike?
[Mirror] Iran is plotting to kill or capture Donald Trump and his former secretary of state Mike Pompeo, according to a leaked US government intelligence report.
The Middle East nation is seeking to avenge the United States for the death of Major General Qassim Soleimani, a powerful Iranian commander, at the hands of a US drone strike two years ago.
The astonishing claim came from the latest National Counterterrorism Centre report that said the Iranian regime is "waging a multi-pronged campaign against select US officials".
It said this includes threats of lethal action, international legal manoeuvring, and the issuance of Iranian arrest warrants and sanctions.
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It's the LSDs. I knew it. They're going to jFK him. Or try and scare him off. The MICs, the afro-marxist wakandans, the BDSing hijabi bastitches, the grifter bureau bums with Sörøs' fistful of dollars up their ass... they're all in on it.
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The astonishing claim came from the latest National Counterterrorism Centre report that said the Iranian regime is "waging a multi-pronged campaign against select US officials".
Iran has their trusted agents on the ground. Their wages were palletized and paid ahead.
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If the dems lose bigly in the midterms, it will be proof they don't have a lock on controlling elections. If it looks like Trump would beat Bidet or some unnamed dem in 2024, Orange Man's life will become... interesting...
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Let's hope and pray DeSantis' security is top notch
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Given, the DC Elite have used other nations to cover their tracks in the past. The underlying question is, will the LSD'demand or claim IRAN provided equal time 😎 to solve their Biden problem, or just assist them with Trump via lax Secret Service agent assignments?
[IsraelTimes] A senior Iranian naval officer has died as a "martyr" while "performing his mission," according to Iranian media reports.
Admiral Beitaleh Devsalar’s funeral will be held Sunday in front of the Nowshahr Admiralty on the country’s northern coast, the semi-official Fars news agency says.
It is not clear exactly how the officer was killed, but the term "martyr" is usually given to those killed while on important assignments.
The death of the man comes as tensions remain high over Iran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers, and its uranium enrichment program that is now the closest it has ever been to weapons-grade levels.
The latest incident is one of several mysterious deaths of high-level Iranian military figures in recent months. Last month, two members of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard’s aerospace division died as "deaders" in Iran ...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence... in separate incidents.
[IsraelTimes] Israel’s security establishment assesses there will not be an escalation with the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip after four rockets were fired at Israel over the weekend, and following retaliatory strikes in Gaza by the IDF, according to Hebrew media reports.
Channel 12 reports that Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", has conveyed it is not interested in an escalation.
In response to the rockets, the Israeli military said it struck "one of the largest and most important sites in the Strip for the production of base materials for rockets."
The unsourced Channel 12 report says the target was a significant one, and that Israel decided to hit it even at the price of escalation, as it saw the rocket attack as an opportunity to hit a key Hamas site.
It is not clear who fired the rockets. Ynet reports, without citing a source, that Israeli officials believe the culprits were rogue elements frustrated at Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing... ’s visit to Israel and the apparent warming of relations between Jerusalem and Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
[REDSTATE] At 1:10 p.m. on Friday, a joint task force made up of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the Santa Ana Police Department, the Fullerton Police Department, the Brea Police Department, and Sherlocks from the Orange County District Attorney Bureau of Investigations apprehended 20-year-old Malike Patt, and 44-year-old Jason Payne in connection with the July 11, 7-Eleven serial robberies and murders in Ontario, Upland, Riverside, Santa Ana, Brea, and La Habra.
The fact that these suspects were apprehended within FIVE days of the commission of the crimes is highly unusual, if not unprecedented. The coordination of agencies across the counties, and community involvement, including a $100,000 bounty for information leading to the killers, was pivotal in the apprehension and arrests.
From CBS News:
Two suspects have been arrested in connection with a violent mostly peaceful robbery spree earlier this week at several 7-Eleven stores in Southern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, in which two people were killed and three others maimed.
The Orange County District Attorney’s Office announced one arrest Friday afternoon, according to CBS Los Angeles. The Brea Police Department later announced a second arrest.
In a news briefing Friday evening, Santa Ana Police Chief David Valentin identified the two suspects as 20-year-old Malike Patt and 44-year-old Jason Payne, both of Los Angeles. Patt is believed to be the primary suspect responsible for the robberies, Valentin said. Payne’s role in the crimes is unclear.
The two were arrested together in L.A. at about 1:10 p.m. on Friday, Valentin said. One of the suspects was injured during the arrest and taken to a hospital for treatment.
All of the agencies involved in taking down the 7-11 Spree Killers held a presser on 5:00 p.m. on Friday in Santa Ana, California.
Santa Ana Police Chief David Valentin laid out the facts of the spree, and talked about the suspects who were apprehended. Twenty-year-old Patt seemed to be the primary subject behind the murder-robberies, while the forty-four year old Payne’s involvement was stated to be unclear at this point.
Valentin outlined the timeline from July 11:
12:11 a.m. armed robbery at the 7-Eleven in Ontario
1:35 a.m. armed robbery at the 7-Eleven in Upland
1:50 a.m. armed robbery and attempted murder shooting at the 7-Eleven in Riverside
3:03 a.m. armed robbery at Yum Yum Donuts in Santa Ana
3:25 a.m. a murder/shooting at the 7-Eleven in Santa Ana
4:18 a.m. at the 7-Eleven in Brea
4:55 a.m. armed robbery and murder at the 7-Eleven in La Habra
According to ATF Special Agent in Charge Monique Villegas, the investigation covered extensive work from various agencies, and she stated that the Orange County Violent Crime Task Force was formed five years ago for just this purpose: to pursue and solve violent mostly peaceful serial robberies across the Southland.
Santa Ana Mayor Vicente Sarmiento expressed his sympathies and condolences to those who have bit the dust.
"This crime spree received national attention, regional attention because of the depravity and the randomness of the act. It chilled, really our communities."
Sarmiento praised Chief Valentin, his staff, and his officers.
"[they] know how important it is for many of us, and especially the families to have closure, to have justice, and to have some solace. And we know that this can’t undo the crimes that have been enacted against our communities, but what is does is it gives a sense of at least finality. And so, I am certainly grateful for all the work that has been done up here from all the agencies."
This is a stark contrast to Los Angeles County and their District Attorney George Gascòn, whose soft-on-crime directives, and coddling of criminals in the name of reform has him under threat of recall. Gascòn’s most recent action is disbanding the Lifer Unit, which informs and aids victims and their families when a convict has a parole hearing or may receive early release. Gascòn’s special directives have stripped crime victims of any closure, and only serve to re-victimize and traumatize those families that only seek finality and justice.
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JUSTICE, SOUTHERN STYLE.
Some years ago, a certain GA. County had a string of 7-11 and Mom-Pop convenience store armed robberies.
The sheriff, during that summer, placed some armed deputies in several stores coolers aligned with the customer/robbers side of the register.
RESULTS: After a few dead robbers, and the robberies quickly dissipated.
[Khaama] The title would suggest they have an influence. Beyond funding Islam-Atrocities I think the female school attendance isn't what both have in mind
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No, they talked about the lefts of Afghan women too. But both agreed they liked the rears better. And Biden just the hair. And then they saw some nice belly dancing.
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No, Classer, the quote from the "Blues Brothers" is How much for the little girl?
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“- 'Joliet' Jake Blues: [fakes accent] How much for the little girl? How much for the women?
- Father: What?
- 'Joliet' Jake Blues: Your women. I want to buy your women. The little girl, your daughters... sell them to me. Sell me your children!”
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[Express] AS THE world celebrated the historic moment when Neil Armstrong first stepped foot on the Moon, a NASA scientist told Express.co.uk that the space agency was thrown into chaos after they realised they had no idea where the astronauts were. We're the Fugawi!
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Bu twhen Armstrong looked outside, he saw that the computer's landing target was heading for a huge crater and so he was forced to take over control.
The former test pilot cleared the crater and found a patch of level ground with just seconds of fuel remaining,
None of which was in the minds of the 'scientists' even though the engineers had given the astronauts the means to do so which had they not, would have ended the mission early where the 'scientists' had decided.
The Japanese had two options to start full scale war in the Pacific: East and South, against the US, UK, the Dutch, France, and Australia, and North against the Russians.
There was a fair amount of argument as to which path to take, but there was likely never any real chance the Japanese would have gone north. The resources they needed could only have been found to the south, and they were perfectly willing to believe that the German invasion of the USSR - at that point only a few weeks old - was going to end in a Soviet defeat. To them, it would have made no sense to start a war against the Russians when by all appearances said Russians would collapse in short order. Once that was done, they could send in forces at their leisure to secure whatever they wanted, and those forces would have full fuel tanks thanks to the South-East strategy. To attack the USSR without that fuel would have been a gamble not even the Japanese could have accepted.
My thinking on this is that the Russians - as usual - are indulging in a little projection here.
Mike
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The Japanese used their insights into US thinking that they gained from our diplomats. I'd imagine the Russian diplomats were a bit more inscrutable. That would have played a role.
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Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939 by Alvin D. Coox is a great book covering the multiple battles culminating in Zhukov's double envelopment. Also very interesting is the author's side comments on the Kwangtung Army and the final Soviet attack in 1945.
One anecdote was about a junior Japanese officer in the intelligence branch that honestly told his superiors that that the Soviets could simply throw 130% more at them over the Trans-Siberian Railroad than the Japanese could respond with --- he was told to "sit down, shut up and show the proper samurai spirit." As Mike Kozlowski noted that Japanese had bigger strategic goals (oil, rubber ant et,) and the defeat had made them hesitant at unnecessarily provoking the Soviet bear.
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The Japanese used their insights into US thinking that they gained from our diplomats
Which was their mistake. The American public were not interested in war over Europe's Asian colonies. Their own, the Philippines, were already scheduled for independence in 1946. They didn't have to attack to protect the line of supply from Japan to the Dutch East Indies oil fields. As it turned out, a fatal miscalculation.
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In a fight between samurai spirit and massive industrial capability, bet on massive industrial capability every time.
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See: "Last Samurai"
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George MacDonald Fraser (the author of the Flashman papers and a veteran of the CBI theater) wrote that judged by western standards every single Japanese soldier would have qualified for the Victoria Cross or the Medal of Honor. On the other hand, John Basilone had samurai spirit and a machine gun.
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I think everyone should read Shogun and see Rising Sun.
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Last samurai... Shogun... rising Sun.
Well it's all Tamagotchi and Nintendo now. Superb movies though, and Clavell's work is most is illuminating about the region and the period.
Some of Takeshi Kitano's films show the real corruption and zaibatsu-mob-politician nexus in modern times. Also the existentialist treatment to the matter-of-fact violence sprees is rather telling.
[DW] Northern Benin is at the center of a security crisis which has moved south from the Sahel. Poverty and climate change have provided fertile ground for criminals and bad boys.
In Benin's
...Francophone West African country formerly known as Dahomey, it lies between Nigeria and Togo on the so-called Slave Coast, with Niger to the north and Burkina Faso to the northwest. Over half the population is Christian, a quarter are Moslem, and the remainder are divided between traditionalists or “None of your business, bub.” The main economic activity is subsistence farming, with cotton grown for export, which doesn’t provide much margin for fighting jihadis...
mountainous Atakora Department in the country's northwest, the towns of Tanguieta and Porga are divided by three checkpoints. Today, this 60-kilometer (37 miles) stretch of road is frequently patrolled by armored vehicles: Between December 2021 and July 2022, Beninese security forces were attacked here four times by bad boys.
[Khaama] a Reverse Elopement?
A boy and an engaged girl from Kunduz province’s fifth district, in northern Afghanistan, have reportedly been arrested on charges of running away from home, according to the security officials of the Taliban government in Kunduz province.
The spokesman for the Kunduz police department said that Shabana, who was engaged to another person, and Parwiz, a resident of Mullah-Ghafoor street in Kunduz’s fourth district, fled their home four days ago for Balkh province before returning and being arrested in Kunduz province.
According to Obaidullah Abedi, the spokesman for the Kunduz police department, Parwiz who fled with engaged Shabana, have been arrested on Saturday, 16th July, and will be handed over to the judicial bodies.
According to the security officials in Kunduz province, the two arrested have confessed and will be dealt with under Islamic Sharia, after investigations are concluded.
Afghan women have been subject to forced marriages, and domestic violence, and according to a report by the Human Rights Watch, up to 70% of cases of "running away" from home are associated with fleeing forced marriage or domestic violence.
Following the reinstatement of the Taliban in Afghanistan, several stringent edicts are put in place, strictly restricting women’s rights, including the freedom of movement, as travel bans apply to them without a Mahram.
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[KavkazUzel] A resident of Kaspiysk, who sold her newborn son for 120,000 rubles, was arrested and charged, the investigation reported.
The " Caucasian Knot " has reported that on July 6 it became known that security forces had detained a resident of Kaspiysk, who had sold her child for 120 thousand rubles, she needed money for life and plastic surgery.
In the story of the sale of a child by a resident of Kaspiysk, all parties to the transaction, including the notary, face criminal penalties. Sentences in such cases are usually severe, and the child, according to the law, must be transferred to relatives or to an orphanage, lawyers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" noted.
The investigation charged a 33-year-old resident of the city of Kaspiysk with selling a child, she had previously been arrested, the department of the Investigative Committee for Dagestan reported.
According to investigators, on April 25, a woman gave birth to a male child in the Caspian City Central Hospital. On April 30, she was discharged from the hospital, where, having met with a local resident, she agreed to transfer her newborn son to him for a reward of 200,000 rubles.
Having notarized the renunciation of the rights to the child, the accused received from the man part of the money in the amount of 20,000 rubles, thereby making a transaction for the sale of the child. On May 26, 2022, she received another part of the money in the amount of 100,000 rubles, according to a message on the department’s website.
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Textual commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
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[ColonelCassad] Historian Yegor Yakovlev about the myth of "raped Germany".
How such fakes are created in the West, we recently could see on the example of the story of mass rape from Denisova. Refers to the debunked mass rapes libel spread by Ukrainian government official Lyudmyla Denisova, which were alleged to have taken place in Bucha near Kiev in the early part of the war.
By the way, we noticed how the topic of rape of Ukrainian women by the Russian military practically disappeared from the media. The clumsy performance has practically burned out this topic and they simply prefer not to remember about it.
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RE-EXPOSED: A horrific story of Israeli rape and murder in 1949
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You're warned on your antisemetic crap
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...There is an extraordinary book called The Bunker by James O'Donnell, about the last days of WWII in Berlin. O'Donnell touches on this subject briefly but powerfully.
Short version: It happened, and the postwar West German leadership did not discuss it.
For fear of pi$$ing off the Russians.
Mike
PS - I cannot recommend this book strongly enough. Superbly researched and reading like a novel. Probably the last word on the final days in the bunker.
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Mankind's known this lesson since they learnt to hit each other over the head. Don't want your people getting raped, don't lose.
I know it sounds insensitive an' all that in light of our great... civilization. But that is just a construct of convenience, like the social contract. Man is an animal, he lives for this shit. Give him a chance and off he'll go.
Which is why people need religion, a moral grounding, some baseline, some substratum of ethics. I suspect communism, other mechanistic or hate filled paradigms strip man of that capability?
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Pretty ballsy of Russian troops to commit rape, defying a Jan 1945 Order by Stalin that mentioned rape and the likely consequences for those actions by Soviet soldiers.
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We had this inter-agency op, badanov, summer of 2001. Kashmir. Just cleaning up leftover paki insurgents who had hidden within India after the Kargil. Paramilitary, local police, special forces all working under the army operations directorate, to flush them out, hunt them down. Because the Moslems liked to hide them in their homes, lie about them being family, the police boys tended to get a little... creative sometimes. It was only threats and a bit of hassling their girlies mind you. But tolerate that sort of thing once, let it pass and soon you have others taking worse liberties. I'll admit it was bad leadership on the part of the army commanders. The religious and cultural animosity being what it is, there soon occurred some incidents of molestation and one of rape.
In just under a day, the enemy, fuelled with rhetoric from Islamabad to London, had painted the entire Indian army as psycho rapists bashing in doors with their sausages and raping everything that moved. For years, that narrative built up, salted and peppered with masala by Kashmiri Ahed Tamimi types claiming they were all violated by unnamed armymen who 'came in the night' and rappity rape raped them.
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Don't want your people getting raped, don't lose.
Also beaten up, pillaged, and plundered. Might not happen, but bullying is contagious, especially when far from normal circumstances among the home folks.
On the other hand, the horror stories about what UN troops do to the communities they are there to help — being staffed as they are primarily by rented units from Third World countries, have been discussed here regularly over the years. So being conquered is clearly not the prime requisite for the risk of such treatment.
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Many people never find out they are the type to kick a dog while it's down until they actually do it.
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Given what the Whermacht much less the SS did in the Soviet Union payback is a bitch. I'm pretty sure Zuckov let it be known the troops would be let off the leash.
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The rules of war in the east went out the window the moment the German Army was ordered to kill political instructors on sight, starting in July, 1941.
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I am in a shooting war, my mates are dying. Before I go I would just like one more POA.
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It's worth noting that the actual Nazis hated communists. A lot.
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#10 Given what the Whermacht much less the SS did in the Soviet Union payback is a bitch. I'm pretty sure Zuckov let it be known the troops would be let off the leash.
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...Indeed. Zukhov's orders were that anyone seen violating that regulation would be punished.
'Seen'.
Even the simplest Ivan understood that you don't do that in from of the old man. Berlin was worst of all, in that the officers were too busy trying to stay alive themselves (it is telling that to this day, the Russians still have not released accurate figures on their losses there) and in a major city, larger than anything 99.9% of the Russians had ever seen, where there were simply so many places to do it and get away with it. O'Donnell mentions one large park in central Berlin that women were taken to en masse, and things were so grim there that even the SMERSH enforcer units didn't dare go in there.
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(it is telling that to this day, the Russians still have not released accurate figures on their losses there)
More telling is the locations of which units during the war came from German sources. Germann sources in some cases have Russian units thousands of miles from where the Russians say they were. This may be due to sheer mendacity, or even worse, sheer stupidity, on the Russian part.
O'Donnell mentions one large park in central Berlin that women were taken to en masse, and things were so grim there that even the SMERSH enforcer units didn't dare go in there.
You'll never convince me of that. SMERSH units were the most feared since NKVD catchment units of 1941-1942. They reported directly to front headquarters, the last coms node before the Russian general staff.
If you read Russian treatment of this time, they admit there were rapes committed by Soviet solders, but they rather convincingly add that the sources of the stories of mass rapes began with Goebbels. They also added that rapes were not committed by front line troops, the shooters, but by rear echelon troops, probably because they has resources to aid civilian German populations. Whether this was forcible rape or drop to your knees in exchange for bread is a subject of speculation.
Even Harrison Salisbury wrote that the troops which were dodging bullets and those which followed on were different in deportment and behavior, which lends credence to the Russian protestations that mass rapes were a myth.
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Next morning: "Well, really, Ward Cleaver!
I know you're a fervent believer,
And think he's alright,
But that Russian last night
Was a little bit rough on the Beevor!"
[DAILYCALLER] House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... ’s husband Paul bought up to $5 million in stock of a computer chip company ahead of a vote on a bill next week that would hand billions in subsidies to boost chip manufacturing, a financial disclosure shows.
Paul Pelosi purchased 20,000 shares of Nvidia, one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies, on June 17, according to the speaker’s disclosure report released Thursday. Now, senators will convene as early as Tuesday to vote on a bipartisan competition bill, which allocates $52 billion to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing and gives tax credits for production, Rooters reported Thursday.
"It certainly raises the specter that Paul Pelosi could have access to some insider legislative information," Craig Holman, a government affairs lobbyist for the left-wing think tank Public Citizen, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. "This is the reason why there is a stock trading app that exclusively monitors Paul’s trading activity and then its followers do likewise."
Nvidia is a multinational corporation that designs and manufactures graphics processors and other technology, and is heavily reliant on semiconductors. The House passed a bill in February that included $52 billion in domestic subsidies for the semiconductor industry, and chip companies, including Nvidia, demanded Congress in June move forward on finalizing semiconductor subsidies for domestic manufacturing.
"The conference is stuck. And so it seems to me there are a couple of ways out of this, potentially," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Tuesday, noting that the bill would have a better likelihood of passing without the $52 billion funding for semiconductor manufacturing.
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3 months ago Nvidia was worth almost $300 a share. Then it crashed hard to the $150's. What's going on here with Nancy proping them up with the US Treasury's noney?
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I think this one will put the lie to the myth that all insider trades make money. The price of nVidia's (and competitor AMD's) product is crashing and both are giving forward guidance of reduced production in the quarters ahead.
I predict they lose money or tread water if they are lucky on this one.
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We need some domestic chip and electronics manufacturing capacity in the US. I just hope that Congress puts clearly defined rules on just how the money gets used. But I'm not gonna hold my breath.
Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 20:11 Kharkov, Saltovka district.
Foreign reporters so badly wanted to show the consequences of the "strikes of the RF Armed Forces on civilian objects in Kharkov", but treacherouslywormed his wayUkrainian T-64.
19:41 Melitopol Youth Sports School N3 continues its work in the summer. 17:30 "WE ARE ONE PEOPLE" - such posters appear in all settlements of the Zaporozhye region.
17:05 A total of 114 facts of aggression against the Russian Federation by Ukraine have been recorded since the beginning of the NWO. For the last 70 days there are 44 facts of aggression. Most of them were in the Belgorod region.
The general statistics since the beginning of the NMD are as follows:
▪️65 shelling of settlements
▪️14 attacks using UAVs
▪️13 attacks on border checkpoints
▪️12 facts of air defense activations without confirmation of shelling
▪️5 facts of open clashes
▪️4 blowing up bridges
▪️1 arson of an oil depot
17:00 Air raid alert sounds throughout Ukraine.
15:45 Above the building of the administration of the liberated territories of the Kharkiv region in Kupyanskraisednew flag.
13:30 Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine (07/16/2022). The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue a special military operation in Ukraine.
As a result of high-precision strikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces, the 115th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which operated in the Seversk direction, was actually destroyed. Over the past two days alone, the loss of personnel in this unit amounted to more than 600 people. Residents of Seversk, Nikolaevka and other nearby settlements under the control of the Ukrainian army are urgently mobilized to complete the brigade.
As a result of a strike with high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces at the temporary deployment point of the 123rd Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city of Nikolaev, up to 200 nationalists and foreign mercenaries, as well as 13 units of armored and automotive equipment, were destroyed.
Against the backdrop of the successful actions of the Russian Armed Forces and significant losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ukrainian nationalists refuse to take further part in the hostilities in the Donbass. In particular, 45 nationalists of the 204th battalion of the 241st Territorial Defense Brigade left their combat positions in the Artemovsk region and demanded that they be rotated to the west of Ukraine.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to strike at military facilities on the territory of Ukraine.
High-precision long-range air-launched weapons in the city of Dnepropetrovsk destroyed the workshops for the production of components and the repair of ballistic missiles "Tochka-U" and rockets of multiple rocket launchers at the defense enterprise "Southern Machine-Building Plant."
In addition, the high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed in a day: four command posts, including the 80th Airborne Assault Brigade in the Serebryanka area of the Donetsk People's Republic and the 3rd Tank Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Novopokrovka area of the Kharkov region, an ammunition depot in the Konstantinovka area of Donetsk People's Republic, manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 25 districts.
As part of the counterbattery fight, two platoons of multiple launch rocket systems, 15 units of Giatsint-B howitzers and D-30 artillery pieces were hit at firing positions in the areas of the settlements of Verkhnekamenskoye, Serebryanka, Seversk, Artemovsk, Avdeevka and Georgievka of the Donetsk People's Republic, as well as artillery units at firing positions in 73 districts.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery hit in a day: 21 command posts, five ammunition depots, manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 189 districts.
Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces in an air battle destroyed three aircraft of the Ukrainian air forces: two MiG-29s in the areas of the settlements of Novopavlovka in the Nikolaev region, Vladimirovka in the Dnepropetrovsk region and one Su-25 in the Seversk region.
Also, two Ukrainian helicopters were shot down in the air: Mi-8 in the area of Velyka Novoselka and Mi-24 in the area of Seversk of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Russian air defense systems destroyed 14 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Dolgenkoye, Izyum, Malaya Kamyshevakha of the Kharkiv region, Kamyshany of the Kherson region, Reshetilovskoe of the Zaporozhye region, Alchevsk of the Luhansk People's Republic, Serebryanka, Grigorovka, Spartak, Krasny Oktyabr and Krinichnaya of the Donetsk People's Republic.
In addition, a Tochka-U ballistic missile was intercepted in the area of the settlement of Novozvanovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, and two shells of the Uragan multiple launch rocket system were intercepted in the Izyum area of the Kharkiv region.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 256 aircraft, 139 helicopters, 1,557 unmanned aerial vehicles, 355 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,073 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 746 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 3,149 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 4,253 units of special military vehicles.
13:24 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced an air strike on the positions of the Ukrainian army in Nikolaev, up to 200 military and foreign mercenaries were destroyed.
13:15 In Dnepropetrovsk, workshops for the production of components and the repair of Tochka-U and MLRS at a defense enterprise - the Russian Ministry of Defense were destroyed.
13:00 Our officers asked to publish. Last time ukry install radio beacons on their abandoned equipment before the retreat. After connecting the terminals to the battery, after a short time, an enemy artillery strike is applied to this place. They began to inspect more or less living units of captured equipment, a radio beacon was installed on six of the eight. We ask our fighters to be extremely vigilant and take this fact into account.
12:25 VFU attacked Kherson again. Arrival was from Nikolaev. Information about the victims is being specified.
11:40 Russian security forces showed the arsenal of weapons, ammunition and explosive devices that the Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group operating in Kherson had at its disposal. Material - TASS.
11:27 Fighters of the group "Victory" in the shortest possible time terms restore traffic in the settlements of the Kharkiv region. The bridge destroyed by Ukrainian militants disrupted the supply of food to civilians. Thanks to the clear and well-coordinated work of our guys, the bridge was restored and is now under the reliable protection of the fighters of the Russian Federation.
09:56 Shoigu gave instructions to increase the actions of groups in all operational areas in Ukraine in order to exclude the possibility of the Kyiv regime to launch massive rocket and artillery strikes on civilian infrastructure and residents of Donbass and other regions.
09:22 Head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov announced the arrival of the first American MLRS M270 MLRS in the country. Their difference from HIMARS is in the tracked platform and the number of missiles in the package - 12 versus 6 for HIMARS.
09:07 Curfew in Melitopol is now in effect from 22:00 to 05:00 (previously it was from 21:00 to 05:00).
09:06 More than 20 arrivals were recorded today during the morning mortar shelling of the village of Tetkino - governor.
08:13 In the morning, the RF Armed Forces struck one of warehouses of Armed Forces of Ukraine in the western regions of Odessa.
08:12 Yuzhmash plant in Dnepropetrovsklooksnow so. This plant produced components for rocket and space technology.
08:09 Work of Russian paratroopers on armored units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region.
#1
Look at all this manly man denazification Russia is doing!
Badanov and all the lemmings he and Tucker have led into worship of Putin and Russia's illiberal culture of hatred ought to be real proud this beautiful Sunday morning:
https://twitter.com/AKurkov/status/1548647659015118848/photo/1
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^ As I said before, that is all on Zelensky and the globalists backing his bid to become a NATO coddled EU choir boy taking Ukr into slavery with him.
I personally think Vlad really dragged this out, just to minimize unnecessary collateral. And only later realised he didn't have the time and resources for a long drawn out conflict. Let's hope he can wrap it up quick.
I don't think so. They've certainly had some pretty evil characters (Stalin, Rasputin) but they have given the world a lot of good stuff too. Tarring the entire culture with your sad Ukrainian brush ain't cutting it, Forkbeard.
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Badanov might have been raped by his superiors in the Russian Army, but, he doesn't have to want to be like his torturers, some people want to be better.
Get the help you desperately need.
Here, Frank. Look at this dead little girl. Do you have kids or grandkids? Is it OK if Russia murders them? It isn't OK anywhere on earth,Frank.
I first saw the photo in 2014, during the part of the war where the Ukrainian military used artillery against civilians.
The little girl is but one of a long line of victims in this war due to attacks on civilians 2014-2022, which are still ongoing, and which adds casualties almost daily.
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I think there was this book about a guy who went insane over his obsession with something he hated. Something about a whale, I think...
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#10, yes, M. Unwise to write off an entire people. They can be clumsy, boorish, violent and sometimes actually evil. But every now and then they do something wonderful.
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[Korrespondent] 23:03 Zelensky, in an evening video message, urged Ukrainians to be very careful and prudent in the information field: "How many people were scared today by a fake about a massive Russian missile attack on Ukraine?.. How many nerves are spoiled daily by the circulation of horror stories from Russian propagandists and officials... How many problems Ukrainians create for themselves, trusting any anonymous source... This sometimes takes on simply unhealthy forms when deliberate stuffing from Russia spreads through social networks and websites, the purpose of which is to supplement rocket and artillery terror against our state with informational terror."
21:59 The SBU and the SBI detained the former head of the Crimean SBU Oleg Kulinich. He headed the department of the ARC until March 2022. Zelensky removed him from office after a full-scale Russian invasion.
21:21 The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to advance in the Kherson direction, the head of the press center of the security and defense forces of the Pivden operational command, Natalia Gumenyuk, said on Espresso air: “We are moving, maybe not as fast as those who feed positive news would like, but, Believe me, these steps are very confident."
21:15 Ukrainian defenders repelled the attempts of the Russians to cut the Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway. The occupiers wanted to seize the "road of life" so that after the regrouping they could begin to storm Bakhmut, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
20:38 From the territory of the Svyatogorsk Lavra, a group of civilians was evacuated - this is a family that was hiding in the walls of the Lavra from constant artillery shelling by the Russians: a father, mother and three children. At the same time, the youngest child was born on the territory of the Lavra a few days ago. A couple of elderly people, a man and a woman, were also able to leave, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported. Up to 600 civilians remain on the territory of the Lavra, of which more than 50 are children, including four babies.
On June 1, the territory of the Svyatogorsk Lavra came under artillery fire from Russian troops, as a result of which Archimandrite Galaktion, the monk Aristokliy and the nun Varvara were killed, and several priests were seriously injured.
20:33 The International Court of Justice in The Hague may start considering the case of accusing Russia of the genocide of Ukrainians in the fall, said Ukraine's agent at the International Court of Justice, Ambassador-at-Large of the Foreign Ministry Anton Korynevych. According to him, Kyiv can bring to justice not only the Russian Federation as a state, but also specific individuals guilty of the genocide.
20:22 The Russians attacked Pokrovsk with an Iskander missile. The shelling hit the private sector, 27 houses were damaged, there are dead and wounded, the National Police said.
20:01 The head of the Vinnitsa OVA, Sergei Borzov, said that there are no more missing Russians after the strike in the center of Vinnitsa, the death toll is 24 people. 68 victims are still in hospitals, 14 of them are in serious condition, four are in critical condition.
19:30 In the Slavic and Bakhmut directions, the Russians tried to improve the tactical situation and establish control over the Uglegorsk thermal power plant, but the Ukrainian military forced the enemy to withdraw, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in an evening report .
19:04 The command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that today at about 15:20 Russian strategic Tu-95MS bombers launched a missile attack on Ukraine from the Caspian Sea region. Six X-101 (X-555) type missiles were fired, four of them were destroyed over the territory of Zaporozhye and Dnepropetrovsk regions around 16:30. Two more missiles hit an agricultural enterprise in the Cherkasy region.
18:26 The head of the Cherkassy OVA, Igor Taburets, announced two explosions in one of the villages of the Chigirin territorial community. The blow fell on the agricultural enterprise. According to preliminary information, there are no victims. Agricultural machinery was destroyed and a few livestock were damaged.
17:51 The mayor of Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, Ruslan Trebushkin, announced explosions in the city - residential buildings were damaged, there are casualties among the civilian population.
17:47 Ukraine can use HIMARS against Russian facilities in Crimea, Vadim Skibitsky, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, said on the air of the telethon. According to him, the Crimean peninsula has become a hub for the movement of all equipment and weapons that come from the Russian Federation to the southern regions of Ukraine.
In addition, Skibitsky recalled the ships in the Black Sea, from which Ukrainian territory is being shelled: "This is also one of the targets that must be hit in order to ensure the safety of citizens, our facilities and Ukraine in general."
Skibitsky also named two factors, under which a turning point in the war with Russia is possible: the ability of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to stop the enemy’s offensive pace and the help of Western partners. Skibitsky himself expressed confidence that a turning point in the war would definitely happen.
17:29 The Netherlands will join the training of Ukrainian soldiers in the UK, the country's Ministry of Defense reported. Soldiers from various units of the Royal Netherlands Army and the Marine Corps will be involved in the exercises. Classes will start at the end of August.
17:13 "The head of the administration" of the occupied Zaporozhye region, Yevhen Balitsky, said that 100,000 tons of grain are planned to be exported from Ukraine through the port of Berdyansk. According to him, four large ships are already in the Berdyansk roadstead and are ready for loading. Balitsky added that the export of grain is also carried out by rail - more than 100 wagons have already been sent, a "contract" has been concluded for another 150,000 tons.
17:06 Bulgaria, contrary to Moscow's demands, will continue the repair of Ukrainian military equipment. In response to this, the Russian Federation is going to revoke the licenses of Bulgarian enterprises for the repair of Russian helicopters, AP writes. According to Bulgarian Defense Minister Dragomir Zakov, this decision will not seriously affect Bulgaria and will not interfere with the repair of Ukrainian equipment: "What happened with gas has now happened with helicopter licenses."
17:04 In Odessa, four people were detained who were photographing a warehouse after a missile strike. Pictures of infrastructure facilities and checkpoints were also found on their phones, said Serhiy Bratchuk, spokesman for the UVA. According to the police, one of the detainees behaved inappropriately and did not respond to the lawful demands of the patrolmen. Evidence of active communication with Russian subscribers was found in his phone.
16:56 Yesterday, in Nova Kakhovka, rocket and artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit two command posts of enemy troops and a landing site. Also, over the past 24 hours, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed warehouses with ammunition in the Chernobaevka and Chaplinsky districts, the Kherson Regional Police Department reported.
16:51 In the Lugansk region, which continues to hold the line, the number of attacks by the Russian army has significantly decreased. According to the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai, due to the destruction of enemy ammunition depots in the rear by Ukrainian artillerymen, the Russians are now working "on wheels" - that is, they no longer store ammunition in warehouses, but are immediately transported to the front by cars. At the same time, they have difficulties with logistics.
“If earlier the invaders had a significant advantage in firepower, now thanks to Western weapons we have caught up and become stronger. High-precision hits on warehouses confirm this,” Gaidai said.
16:42 In a joint statement following the meeting between Biden and King Abdullah II of Jordan, UN General Assembly resolutions are mentioned calling on the Russian Federation to withdraw troops from the territory of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders. The parties also reaffirmed their commitment to the sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and unity of Ukraine, condemned "violations of international humanitarian law and violations of human rights in conflict zones, calling for respect for international humanitarian law."
16:28 The White House released a joint statement by the United States and Saudi Arabia following an official visit to Biden's kingdom. In the communiqué, a separate paragraph is dedicated to Ukraine: "The leaders reaffirmed their commitment to providing critical assistance to the Ukrainian people, as well as ensuring the unhindered export of grain and grain products to mitigate the global food crisis, which threatens a sharp blow to a number of Middle Eastern and African states."
15:53 The Chinese are supplying Russia with dual-use goods. Based on data from Chinese customs, The Wall Street Journal found that local companies have increased the supply of microchips, aluminum oxide and other goods that can be used for military purposes to the Russian Federation. For example, the export of aluminum oxide increased 400 times. As the newspaper notes, these deliveries neutralize the efforts of the West to counter Russia's military aggression.
15:37 As a result of yesterday's attack on Kramatorsk, seven residential buildings and two infrastructure facilities were damaged, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the Donetsk OVA, said. According to him, the blow was delivered by a Tornado-S missile with a high-explosive fragmentation charge.
15:30 In Vinnytsia, work has been completed on the removal of rubble after a missile attack. According to the State Emergency Service, as a result of shelling of the Russian Federation, 55 multi-apartment and private residential buildings, 40 cars and two trams were damaged and destroyed.
15:18 Germany to reduce the shortage of energy resources resumes the work of coal and oil-fired power plants, but this measure will be temporary, said Scholz. According to him, the German government remains committed to combating the climate crisis and will not extend the life of the three remaining nuclear power plants in Germany.
15:02 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that "shops for the production of components and the repair of Tochka-U ballistic missiles and multiple rocket launchers at the defense enterprise Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant" were destroyed in Dnipro.
14:47 The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine confirmed the lifting of the ban for those liable for military service to leave the region without the decision of the military registration and enlistment office. According to the decision of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, this procedure is being finalized "taking into account changes to legislative acts," the department said in response to a request from People's Deputy Alexander Fedienko.
14:13 Ukraine will receive two batteries of the Norwegian NASAMS anti-aircraft missile system, and not two installations, as mentioned earlier, Yuri Ignat, a representative of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said. The battery includes three fire platoons armed with 54 missiles. All 54 missiles can be fired within 12 seconds.
13:52 Against the backdrop of ongoing mobilization and the issuance of subpoenas to men in public places , the Armed Forces of Ukraine once again explained the procedure for mobilization . According to the head of the Personnel Department of the Headquarters of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Roman Gorbach, handing a summons to a citizen of Ukraine in any place not prohibited by law does not mean an instant draft into the army. It is necessary first of all in order for a person to register with the military.
13:31 Assistant to the Russian-appointed "deputy head of administration" of the Kherson region, Kirill Stremousov, was sentenced to five years in prison, SBU spokesman Artem Dekhtyarenko said. According to him, SBU officers detained her in Ivano-Frankivsk. During the searches, she was found to have a passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation and computer equipment with evidence of illegal activity. In particular, she promoted slogans in support of Russia via the Internet and spread calls for the restoration of the USSR. For maximum coverage, she started anonymous accounts on several social networks, using different pseudonyms.
13:04 Residents of Sumy and Belopolye are advised to leave the cities for the weekend due to the high threat of Russian shelling. Such advice is given by the mayors of the cities Alexander Lysenko and Yuri Zarko.
12:37 Special services of the Russian Federation have stepped up their activities in the countries of Eastern Europe. As Ukrainian military intelligence found out, Russian agents were ordered to intensify the recruitment of police officers and citizens involved in the transportation of weapons to Ukraine. In the regions bordering Ukraine, Russian special services are trying to use representatives of local communities and pro-Russian activists. However, the Europeans, having received proposals for cooperation from the Russians, immediately turn to the police and security agencies.
12:32 Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said in an interview with Politico that the resignation of Prime Minister Mario Draghi threatens to deprive Ukraine of Italy's military support: "The Russians are right now celebrating the fall of another Western government. Now I doubt that we can send weapons. This is one of many serious problems. He recalled that Draghi was one of the most active Western leaders who opposed Putin.
12:06 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) suggests that Ukrainian strikes from HIMARS likely killed or wounded four deputy commanders of the Russian 106th airborne division. Russian news agencies reported the deaths of the deputy commanders of the 106th division, Colonel Sergei Kuzminov, Colonel Andrei Vasilyev, and Colonel Maxim Kudrin. This, ISW suggests, corroborates earlier Ukrainian claims that HIMARS strikes on Shakhtyorsk on July 9 killed or wounded several senior Russian military officials.
11:21 A Russian missile was shot down yesterday over Kremenchug, head of the Poltava OVA Dmitry Lunin said. The wreckage of the rocket was found, there were no casualties and no damage.
10:39 The movement of Russian military equipment continues past Mariupol. So, yesterday a large convoy of military equipment in the amount of up to 100 units passed through the city towards the Zaporozhye region. BMD-4s, as well as a large number of armored personnel carriers, were seen in the convoy on tractors, Piotr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said.
In addition, according to him, a large number of Russian soldiers brought by KamAZ trucks settled in the villages of Nikolsky and Mangushsky districts bordering the Zaporozhye region. They settle mainly in the premises of schools. Locals report that the vast majority of the occupiers are young men, some mention in conversations that they are serving on conscription.
10:36 From under the rubble of a house in Nikopol, after the Russian shelling, rescuers got the bodies of two dead, said the head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA Valentin Reznichenko. Another wounded remains in the hospital in a moderate condition. The Russians fired 53 rockets into residential areas of the city.
10:31 The Pentagon has no information that Ukraine is reselling weapons received from the United States to anyone, a high-ranking representative of the department said at a special briefing. He noted that the US Department of Defense "does not monitor" the fate of the weapons delivered to Ukraine, but also sees "no signs that these weapons were transferred to anyone other than the Armed Forces of Ukraine." "Not tracking and not knowing where these weapons are going, I think they are two different things," he said.
10:29 A missile attack was carried out on Odessa using Tu-95 strategic aircraft from the direction of Stavropol, OK Pivden reported. As a result of a missile hit, previously X-101, a fire broke out in the warehouse of a production and trading company on an area of about 1000 square meters. m. Rescuers are working on the spot, there is no information about the victims.
10:27 The death toll from a rocket attack on Vinnitsa has risen to 24 , said the head of the OVA, Sergei Borzov. According to him, another woman died in the hospital with 85% burns. Four people are wanted as missing.
10:25 The Armed Forces of Ukraine stopped another attempt by the enemy to seize the road between Lisichansk and Bakhmut, said the head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the attempts of the Russian Federation to seize a section of the road have been going on for more than two months, but the Ukrainian army does not allow them to do so. During July 15, four rocket attacks, three artillery attacks and five more prolonged mortar attacks were carried out by the enemy on the settlements of the Lugansk region and around them.
10:23 On the morning of July 16, Nikolaev was subjected to shelling, information about the victims is being specified, the head of the OVA, Vitaly Kim, said. The day before, there were also shelling in the region, residential buildings, critical infrastructure and agricultural facilities were damaged, one of the villages was left without gas and electricity. There are wounded in the Shirokovskaya community.
10:21 Sumy region was subjected to massive shelling last night and this morning, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky. The Novoslobodskaya, Znob-Novgorodskaya, Belopolsk and Esmanskaya communities were hit. There is damage in the Esman community, more details will come later.
10:18 British military intelligence notes that offensive operations of Russian troops west of Lysichansk remain limited in scope and scale, while they are concentrated on Seversk and Bakhmut. The Russians claim they have reached the outskirts of Seversk, but this has not yet been the case, analysts say.
According to British intelligence, after the retreat from Lysichansk, Ukrainian troops improved their defensive capabilities by shortening and straightening the front line. Such tactics, according to experts, proved to be effective and helped to weaken the Russian offensive.
10:14 Ukraine sent letters to the largest American and European banks demanding not to serve companies trading in Russian oil. Oleg Ustenko, Zelensky's economic adviser, told the Financial Times. In particular, the message was sent to American banks JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, British HSBC and French Credit Agricole.
Ustenko accused the banks of dragging out the hostilities and criticized JPMorgan's forecast that the price of oil would rise to $380 per barrel when a ceiling was set on Russian energy prices: "From my point of view, they are committing war crimes because they are helping Putin's regime."
10:11 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of July 16. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Bakhmut direction.
personnel - about 38,140 (+140) people liquidated,
tanks - 1677 (+5),
armored combat vehicles - 3874 (+8),
artillery systems - 846 (+4),
MLRS - 247 (+0),
air defense systems - 109 (+0),
aircraft - 220 (+0),
helicopters - 188 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 687 (+6),
cruise missiles - 162 (+7),
ships/boats - 15 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2735 (+4),
special equipment - 68 (+1).
09:56 Shoigu inspected the Russian groupings of troops South and Center, performing the tasks of a "special military operation" in Ukraine and gave instructions "to increase the actions of the Armed Forces in all directions to prevent Kiev from inflicting massive strikes on civilian infrastructure, residents of Donbass and other regions."
09:08 The head of the Kharkiv OVA, Oleg Sinegubov, specified that as a result of rocket attacks on Chuguev, three people were killed, three more were hospitalized. An apartment building was destroyed, a school, a building materials store were damaged. During the day, the invaders also fired at the Kharkov and Izyum regions.
08:44 At night, Russian troops fired on Chuguev, Kharkiv region, a two-story residential building was partially destroyed, two people were injured, and the bodies of two more people were removed from under the rubble. The search for victims continues, the State Emergency Service said.
08:41 The American Institute for the Study of War notes that the operational pause in the fighting in the Donbass is ending, it lasted about ten days. Over the past 24 hours, the Russians carried out several ground attacks northwest of Slovyansk, southeast of Seversk, along the Bakhmut-Lysichansk highway, southeast of Bakhmut and southwest of Donetsk. And although the offensive is not yet of a large-scale nature, they may expand in the next 72 hours, analysts say.
08:29 Russian invaders hit residential areas of Nikopol from Gradov, head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA Valentin Reznichenko said. According to him, as a result of the morning shelling, 12 five-story houses, a school and a vocational school building were damaged. One person was wounded, two more, preliminary, are under rubble.
The enemy also struck civilian infrastructure in the Zelenodolsk, Apostolovsky and Shirokovskaya communities, no one was injured.
08:25 In Konstantinovka this morning, Russians destroyed houses in the private sector with missiles, attacked industrial facilities, said the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko. In just one day, seven civilians were killed by Russian shelling in the controlled part of the region: two in Krasnohorivka, one each in Slavyansk, Avdeevka, Zakotny, Gornyak and Ostrovsky. Another 14 people were injured.
08:11 In Odessa, at about 5:00 am, an enemy missile hit a warehouse. The guards were not injured, because they went to the shelter on the air raid signal, said the speaker of the Odesa OVA Serhiy Bratchuk.
07:26 After the regrouping, the enemy resumed the attack on the Uglegorsk TPP, the fighting continues. The Ukrainian defenders repulsed the assault in the direction of Disputed - Ivano-Daryevka in the Donetsk direction, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in the morning report .
In order to export the seized property by sea, the occupiers are trying to resume the activities of ports on the coast of the Sea of Azov. In readiness for missile strikes, three carriers of high-precision weapons are kept.
05:49 The Russian delegation visited the Kashan airfield in Iran at least twice over the past month to study the Shahed-191 and Shahed-129 combat drones, which can carry precision-guided missiles, Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan said. A US official told CNN that the growing partnership between Iran and Russia is an example of why the US needs to maintain its presence and influence in the Middle East.
04:13 The US State Department approved the sale of HIMARS missile systems to Estonia for $500 million. The package will include up to six HIMARS installations, ammunition, support equipment and spare parts. The State Department also approved a possible sale of up to $950 million worth of medium-range air-to-air missiles to Norway and $130 million worth of MK 54 torpedoes to South Korea.
03:37 OSCE confirms that Russians raped and killed children in Ukraine. The second report of the OSCE Moscow Mechanism confirmed mass killings of civilians and cases of sexual violence committed by the Russian military in Ukraine, including against children. The report also documents that Russian troops in Bucha were engaged in systematic robbery, and the loot was sold, for example, in Belarus. The mission participants claim that the events of the period of Russian occupation of Bucha and Irpen are "illustrative examples of violations of international humanitarian law" and "constitute war crimes."
00:55 Canadian Cyber Security Center warns Russia is planning cyber strikes on NATO and EU: "Russia is almost certainly in the process of developing cyber capabilities against targets in the European Union and NATO, including the US and Canada." In addition, according to Canadian experts, Russian-sponsored entities almost certainly stepped up cyber espionage in NATO countries in response to the alliance's support for Ukraine.
00:24 The Air Force Command reports that X-101 missiles from Tu-95 Ms aircraft were fired across the Dnieper today. The launches were carried out over the northern part of the Caspian Sea. Four missiles were shot down by the forces and means of air defense of the Air Command Skhid.
00:12 Representatives of the EU member states on July 18 will discuss the seventh package of sanctions against the Russian Federation, proposed by the European Commission. The adoption of the package is expected on Wednesday, July 20, according to the EC: "Today's package introduces a new ban on the import of Russian gold, while strengthening our control over the export of dual-use and advanced technologies. In doing so, this will strengthen the alignment of EU sanctions with those of our G7 partners. This will also increase reporting requirements to tighten the EU asset freeze."
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At least eight people were killed and 30 more were wounded in two traffic accidents in Baghlan province, health officials said Saturday.
In one of the incidents, a truck and a bus, carrying passengers from Kabul to Balkh, collided in an area near the city of Pul-e-Khumri in Baghlan at around 2am on Saturday, said Malawi Mustafa Hashemi, head of the information and culture directorate in Baghlan.
Mohammad Nabi, a resident of Herat, who was also slightly injured in the incident, said he was traveling to Samangan from Kabul and that his son and his brother were also wounded.
"I was sleeping when the accident happened," he said.
"During the trip, I was falling asleep and the incident happened," said Ali Mohammad, a passenger.
The wounded were taken to two hospitals in Baghlan and Samangan provinces, officials said.
"We admitted 15 injured, including a child and a woman. Some of the wounded were discharged," said Mohammad Anwar Wardak, head of Baghlan Hospital.
Officials said that all the casualties were from the first incident in Baghlan while in another incident, at least four people were wounded when a vehicle lost its control in Doshi district in Baghlan on Friday evening.
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PJ O'Rouke, in Third World Driving Tips and Hints from Holidays in Hell: "What, in most parts of the world would be considered a hazard in the road, in the third world, is the road."
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What does MUTCD mean? I assume it is not Massive Underground Terminal — Cannot Destroy.
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Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) - FHWA
The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, or MUTCD defines the standards used by road managers nationwide to install and maintain traffic control devices on all public streets, highways, bikeways, and private roads open to public travel. The MUTCD is published by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) under 23 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 655, Subpart F.
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Thank you, guys. I assumed there was an occasional traffic cop in the middle of the street, being ignored while he attempted to direct things. I wouldn’t have trusted the electricity to be consistent enough for stop lights and things.
Govts in Muslim world are genuinely afraid of Iran after what they saw in Iraq and Yemen.
In Pakistan, govt & security officials don't even name Iran when they're talking about Iran-based militants carrying out attacks in Pakistan. Most recent example: https://t.co/RTt8BMmSCg
[Institute for the Study of War (ISW)] Ukraine's destruction of Russian ammunition depots using HIMARS is likely one of several factors that reduced the quantity of observed heat anomalies in Donbas between July 10-15. The reduced number of observed heat anomalies also corresponds in part to the assessed Russian operational pause from July 6 to July 15. The number of observed heat anomalies began increasing on July 15; the day ISW assessed that Russian forces began emerging from their operational pause.The intensity of Russian artillery attacks along the Slovyansk-Bakhmut axis in the coming days may clarify the degree to which the reduction in intensity was due to the operational pause or the result of Ukrainian attacks.
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...I understand that one new nickname for HIMARS is 'the eighty-kilometer sniper rifle."
The Russians aren't helping; their idea of an ammo dump is to dump everything in one place and call it a day. The pictures I've seen of their ammo handling and storage are, to put it gently, horrifying to anyone who worked with ordnance. US/NATO/Pacific Allied practices ensure minimum damage and loss if you take a hit, whereas Russian standards seem to be designed to guarantee the exact opposite. They lose massive quantities of ammo every time a HIMARS hits an ammo dump, and that has got to be having an effect on their traditional reliance on artillery.
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Russia since WWI has placed ammo dumps near railroad depots. They don't even use forklifts, they use Russian soldier's backs.
Sooner those people die off the better for earth and for the non siloviki who are still essentially slaves.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[FreeBeacon] 
[NY Post] San Francisco’s no-nonsense new district attorney is cleaning house — as she reportedly laid off 15 staffers inherited from her booted, woke predecessor. 
[New York Post] As Josephine Baker moved through international checkpoints in Spain and Morocco, the dancer and singer teased the agents who asked to see her papers, saying they just wanted her "autograph."
[WND] Two shocking and unprecedented megatrends are unfolding simultaneously in the United States of America right now.
If after nearly two years, my observations are correct, any "Doddering" or feckless leadership must be ascribed as a cover for the agendas of Rice and Klain. They are the shadow government, the ones who are actually in charge. The first black President has been closely followed by the first black female President. You can say it isn't so, but the cloaking of both Rice and Klain by the media provides a telling confirmation. 
...The nation is noted for 
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
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Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
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