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Ida Lupino was an English-American actress, singer, director, writer, and producer. Throughout her 48-year career, she appeared in 59 films and directed eight, working primarily in the United States, where she became a citizen in 1948.
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[Western Journal] After fatally stabbing a man who attacked him behind the counter of the bodega deli, charges against Harlem bodega worker Jose Alba have been dropped.
The Manhattan district attorney asked the judge to dismiss murder charges against Alba who said he was acting in self defense, the Daily News reported.
According to surveillance footage, a man named Austin Simon went behind the counter inside the Blue Moon Bodega on July 1 and began to attack the 61-year-old Alba.
Alba then stabbed Simon.
The confrontation began after Alba pulled a snack out of Simon’s daughter’s hand because Simon’s girlfriend was unable to purchase it since her Electronic Benefit Transfer card was not working, Fox News reported.
The girlfriend then shouted expletives at the Alba and said her boyfriend would be back to "f** you up."
A few moments later, Simon came into the store, went behind the counter, shoved Alba against a wall of shelving and grabbed him by the collar to lift him out of a chair and force him out of the employees-only area, prosecutors said.
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Bragg will be looking for a scalp in any self-defense case that comes along now...
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Latina Harlem NYC bodega owners formed a cartel. MS13 could have been recruited as enforcers. Bragg coould see the new "graffeti" on the wall.
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So Bragg yields to pressure from another 'mob' - the 'good guys'. No such thing as enforcing the law or protecting the people - just whatever way the wind blows.
Scum.
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07/19/2022 18:23
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Fellow in white shirt and row-crop haircut no longer a threat to society.
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Something GOPe would not overturn even if there was a veto proof pub majority in both houses.
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07/19/2022 15:35
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It feels in the past few weeks like the Puppet Show and the real leadership behind it sense their time is almost over, and they are pulling out all the stops to get every dream idea they can before the collapse. Jojo is rapidly assuming risible, throw-away status as a front for their agenda.
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He's like Ammar Campa-Najjar (Mexican-Paleo) in San Diego: Lost to Duncan D. Hunter, Lost to Darrel Issa, now they run him for Mayor in Chula Vista (likely to lose again).
"We HAVE TO find a spot he can win!"
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07/19/2022 19:23
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my big worry is that o'Rourke loses by so much that we never see him again
my hope is a relatively small margin defeat, say 53-47 will lead to more O'Rourke campaigns and many more millions of $ donations by wealthy Dems
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Money wasted there isn't spent better elsewhere
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07/19/2022 21:00
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The outside area there contains oil-filled stepup transformers. They can explode and produce a LOT of smoke until the oil burns off.
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07/19/2022 15:19
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^ These would be the sort of large transformers I have read are not quickly replaceable off the shelf.
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07/19/2022 15:22
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^^You are correct. When I was there in the early 1990's on a 'deep tour' with an Electrical Group, these were still the old Westinghouse transformers from the 1930's that had been upgraded with cooling fans and to use the newer non-carcinogenic insulating oil.
Each of the 17 turbine generators produces roughly 16,500 Volts per phase. The 2,500 KVA larger single-phase transformers (there are 2 smaller ones for plant operations) step that up to 500,000 volts for transmission.
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^^^ Needles to say that these transformers are the size of a small house. The photos don't do them justice for their actual size.
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^^^^ 'Needles' = 'Needless'
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This one's not nearly as big as the kind Mullah Richard is describing, but it's still impressive...
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07/19/2022 17:02
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The whole southwest grid is overstressed. With Lake Mead low, the station generators and systems have to work harder as there's a lower water flow through the turbines. That heats everything up.
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The 100+ degree temperatures in the southwest don't play nicely with the wind or solar generation either.
Generators/Bushings/Bearings in the Wind Turbines and Solar Panel chemistry and structures.
I expect more system and/or grid failures soon.
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[CNBC] Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said Monday that inflation is deeply embedded in the global economy and it’s unclear whether the situation will improve later this year.
"We see inflation deeply entrenched in the economy, and what’s unusual about this particular period is that both demand and supply are being affected by exogenous events, namely the pandemic and the war on Ukraine," Solomon told analysts during a call to discuss second-quarter results.
Solomon, who leads one of Wall Street’s top advisors to corporations, then laid out one of the central debates occurring in markets right now: It is known that inflation is at multidecade highs; but how long will it persist?
"My dialogue with CEOs operating big global businesses, they tell me that they continue to see persistent inflation in their supply chains," Solomon said. "Our economists meanwhile say there are signs that inflation will move lower in the second half of the year. The answer is uncertain and we will all be watching it very closely."
As central banks around the world continue to tighten financial conditions to combat inflation, already volatile markets across asset classes will remain choppy, he said. Very high inflation, 8-12% I think will last until next year. Then just high inflation of 5-7% will be the new normal for several years. With supply lines still in flux, oil markets hit, food shortages, etc. inflation is just gonna be a fact of life for most of the decade.
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Blinding flash of the obvious... Global energy drives the world economy, slow production or restrict future product causes a giant economic impact across every commodity. We, the US, is one of the largest providers of energy, with it cut or restricted the markets respond. oil prices tie to every commodity and service. The rise in energy was such a spike it drove this recession. Getting out of it is easy, but he is right, it will take a year or two to recover.
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Persistent inflation in the global economy? Even if your government didn't blow trillions on 'pandemic relief' and 'building back better'?
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07/19/2022 10:42
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You can't ignore the laws of economics forever.
With central banks everywhere throwing money into their economies like it was going out of style, what did the think was going to happen (though "think" might be the wrong verb here)?
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07/19/2022 12:55
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I like the way they always blame covid and Putin, never taking any responsibility for their own sins.
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Gas prices up, Putin's fault. Gas prices down, feather in Joe's cap.
COVID up, it's not because the vaxx doesn't work. COVID down, it's because the vaxx works.
Got it?
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[Shafaq News] Security authorities in Saladin deployed reinforcements in the outskirts of the Toloul al-Baj sub-district to secure the Baghdad-djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... road, a local official reported on Monday.
The administrator of Toloul al-Baj, Hatem al-Shammari, told Shafaq News Agency that the new reinforcements at the first defense line in northern Saladin aim to curb ISIS movements near the sub-district.
"Everything is under control," he said, "all the security gaps have been plugged. A new security plan is pending execution to secure the sub-district and the vital Baghdad-Mosul road. The Tribal Mobilization is also involved along with the other formations."
Earlier this month, al-Shammari warned via Shafaq News that the security gaps in Toloul al-Baj might jeopardize the Baghdad-Mosul vital road.
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If ISIS re emerges in Iraq there won’t be a lot of sympathy for the govt.
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If ISIS re-re-emerges...
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[NPASyria] Ottoman Turkish forces targeted on Monday the village of al-Muhsinli, north of the city of Manbij in the northeastern countryside of Aleppo Governorate, northern Syria.
The media center of Manbij Military Council (MMC), affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), posted that the Ottoman Turkish forces randomly shelled the populated village of al-Muhsinli with nine mortar and artillery shells, resulting in material damage.
The Ottoman Turkish shelling coincides with military reinforcements of the Syrian government forces in Manbij.
The reinforcements come following an understanding between the SDF and the Syrian government forces to deploy Syrian soldiers on the border with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... to avoid any potential Ottoman Turkish invasion of northern Syria.
Turkey’s President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... has recently announced plans to carry out another major military cross-border incursion into northern Syria. Erdogan specified his targets in the two northern Syrian cities of Manbij and Tel Rifaat.
On July 1, Erdogan said that Ankara’s new military operation in northern Syria could begin at any moment.
The Russian forces also established a stationing post in al-Hussan village, northeast of Manbij, near the front lines in al-Hoshariya village.
The SDF liberated Manbij from ISIS rule in 2016, and the city is now under the control of the SDF-aligned Manbij Military Council (MMC).
[NPASyria] On Monday morning, a Turkish drone attacked the town of Tel Rifaat in the northern countryside of Aleppo Governorate, without reports on casualties.
The Turkish drone targeted the railway near a post of the Military Security Branch of the Syrian government forces, a military source told North Press.
The town of Tel Rifaat, which is 35 km to the north of the city of Aleppo, has been a shelter for Afrin displaced people since 2018 following the Turkish invasion of Afrin and its countryside which resulted in the displacement of about 300,000 of the original inhabitants.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has recently announced plans to carry out another major military cross-border incursion into northern Syria. Erdogan specified his targets in the two northern Syrian cities of Manbij and Tel Rifaat.
On July 1, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Ankara’s new military operation in northern Syria could begin at any moment.
“I always say that we can start [the incursion] at any moment at night. We should not worry and rush, especially since we are working in the area,” Erdogan told reporters after returning from the NATO summit in Madrid.
Earlier in July, a Turkish drone attacked a military post of the government forces in Tel Rifaat, causing the injury of two soldiers, as well as material damage.
Following the attack, a Russian patrol and officers of the government forces inspected the area targeted by the Turkish drone.
Eyewitnesses told North Press that the Russian patrol that inspected the targeted area consisted of armored vehicles and some soldiers.
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[NPASyria] On Monday, Russian Military Police (MP) and Ottoman Turkish forces conducted a joint military patrol in the eastern countryside of Kobani, a city north Syria.
This is the 106th patrol between the two forces in the region since the signing of the Russian-Ottoman Turkish ceasefire agreement.
In October 2019, following a Ottoman Turkish military operation in areas of northeast Syria which resulted in the occupation of Tel Abyad, north of Raqqa, and Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) north of Hasakah, the Ottoman Turkish president signed two ceasefire agreements, one with Russia and the other with the US.
The ceasefire agreements stipulating halt of all hostilities there and the withdrawal of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) 30 kilometers in depth away from the Ottoman Turkish border in addition to conducting joint patrols with Russia in order to monitor the implementation of the agreements.
The 106th joint patrol comes a day before the trilateral summit that will bring presidents of Russia, Iran ...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence... and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... together in Tehran.
During the summit, the three parties will touch on the Syrian issue.
The patrol, which consisted of eight Russian and Ottoman Turkish military vehicles, set off from the village of Ashma, 20 kilometers west of Kobani.
It roamed the villages of Charqli Fouqani, Jebnah, Bayadah reaching the village of Zor Maghar, which is situated on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River, the last village west of Kobani.
The patrol headed to the east passing by the following villages: Bayadah, Jebnah, Mishko, Binder, Qaraqoy Tahtani, Qola, and Susan, reaching to a checkpoint of Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asayish) near radio area west of Kobani.
The patrol then immediately returned to the starting point in the village of Ashma, passing through the villages of Seftek, Boban, Khorkhoy, Dikmadash, Qeran, Charqli Fouqani.
The Ottoman Turkish military vehicles returned to Turkey through the gate near Ashma, while the Russian military vehicles returned to their position near the town of Sirrin south of Kobani.
On July 4, the 105th Russian-Ottoman Turkish patrol in the region was conducted in the eastern countryside of Kobani.
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[NPASyria] Syrian Democratic forces (SDF) announced on Monday thwarting terrorist operations that were planned to target military forces and employees working for the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) in the northern countryside of Deir ez-Zor Governorate, eastern Syria.
The SDF said on its official website that counter-terrorism unites monitored the movements and contacts of a holy warrior of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Organization (ISIS) north of Deir ez-Zor, who was planning to target SDF fighters and AANES employees.
The AANES was first formed in 2014 in the Kurdish-majority regions of Afrin, Kobani and Jazira in northern Syria following the withdrawal of the government forces. Later, it was expanded to Manbij, Tabqa, Raqqa, Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor after the SDF defeated ISIS militarily.
The operation followed surveillance processes, as the SDF fighters raided the terrorist’s house, arrested him and confiscated his possessions including weapons and communication equipment, according to the SDF website.
The SDF counter-terrorism unites transmitted the ISIS agent to investigation based on video and audio evidences, to be fairly punished.
Recently, the countryside of Deir ez-Zor has witnessed an increase in cases of liquidation, targeting members of the SDF, employees of the AANES, tribal leaders and civilians, despite the intensive security operations launched by the SDF.
On July 14, the SDF announced the arrest of an ISIS holy warrior and the killing of another during a security operation with the support of the US-led Global Coalition east of Deir ez-Zor.
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There can be only one? Clearing their own gene pool.
[NPASyria] Four former Lions of Islam of Syrian opposition armed factions were rubbed out on Monday by a former leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS), in the western countryside of Daraa, southern Syria.
A Local source told North Press that "Ahmad al-Hayek, Khedr al-Hayek, Muhammad Hussein al-Rawashdah, and a fourth named Abu Muthanna were shot and killed by a former leader of the HTS, after he invited them to his house on the road between the towns of Tafas and al-Yadudah, west of Daraa."
"The leader who killed them is called Abu Obeida. He hails from the city of al-Sheikh Maskin in the countryside of Daraa, but he has lived for years near the town of al-Yadudah," the source added.
"The four young men hailed from the town of Tafas in the western countryside of Daraa and were former members of the opposition factions," the source said.
Since the government forces re-captured Daraa in 2018, the governorate has been living in a state of security chaos, as it witnesses murders and thefts on a daily basis, despite the government’s intensive presence in its towns and villages.
[NPASyria] The de-escalation zone in the countryside of Aleppo and Idlib, northwest Syria, continued to witness on Monday mutual shelling between the Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian opposition factions, known as the National Army (SNA), and the Syrian government forces on various axes.
According to what opposition sources told North Press, the government forces, using dozens of artillery shells and rockets, targeted opposition positions in the villages and towns of Fatterah, Kafr Oweid, Sfuhen, Kansafra, Benin, Ruweiha and Ma’rblit in Zawiya Mountain, south of Idlib.
The shelling also targeted positions in the villages and towns of Tuqad, Sheikh Suleiman, Kafr Taal, Kafr Amma and the outskirts of Kafr Nouran in Aleppo western countryside.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck reached for the green sauce... military sources of the National Front for Liberation told North Press that "al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room targeted with heavy artillery shells and rockets the positions of the government forces in the villages of Hayer Derkil and Urum al-Sughra, west of Aleppo."
The areas in the de-escalation zone in northwestern Syria continue to witness daily exchange of bombardment between the SNA factions and the government forces, despite being part of the ceasefire agreement signed between Russia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... in March 2020, which stipulates a halt of military action in Idlib.
The mutual shelling, that is escalated during the past few days, came after the announcement of the SNA to start a new military operation against the Syrian government forces in the countryside of Aleppo and Idlib after it has been stopped for two years.
Although the de-escalation zone in northwest Syria is subjected to a Russian-Turkish ceasefire agreement signed in March 2020, the area witnesses frequent mutual shelling despite the entry of the ceasefire into force.
In March 2020, Russia and Turkey reached an agreement in Moscow that stipulated a ceasefire, the establishment of a safe corridor, and the conduct of joint patrols on the M4/Aleppo-Latakia Highway.
Military sources in Syrian opposition said that the government forces targeted the villages of Tuqad, Sheikh Suleiman, Maklabis, al-Habata, Blanta, Tedil, Kafr Ta’al, Kafr Nouran, and the vicinity of Regiment 46, west of Aleppo, with about 100 missiles and artillery shells.
The shelling of the aforementioned areas coincided with continuous shelling that have started since Sunday’s morning on the villages and towns of Fatterah, Kafr Oweid, Sfuhen, Kansafra, al-Ruwaiha, Benin, and the outskirts of al-Bara in Zawiya Mountain, south of Idlib, in addition to the town of Ma’arat al-Naasan, east of Idlib, according to the sources.
Military sources of National Front for Liberation, operates under the umbrella of the SNA, said that al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room targeted posts of the government forces in the Regiment 46 and the towns of Urum al-Kubra, Miznaz, and the villages of Urum al-Sughra, Bala, and Basratun, west of Aleppo, with dozens of artillery shells.
The SNA, during less than 24 hours, thwarted a progress operation of the government forces in Maklabis area, west of Aleppo, according to the sources.
Although the Syrian government forces did not report any casualties during the unsuccessful progress operation, the sources of the National Front for Liberation claimed that several members of the Syrian government forces were killed and wounded.
[NPASyria] Fierce festivities erupted on Monday between two groups of Ottoman Turkish-backed Sultan Murad faction in the village of Hawar Kilis, adjacent to the Ottoman Turkish border, near the city of Azaz, north of Aleppo.
The Sultan Murad faction is one of the Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian armed opposition factions, also known as the Syrian National Army (SNA).
A local source told North Press that brutal festivities, using light weapons, took place between two groups affiliated with Sultan Murad following a quarrel.
"The cause of the festivities is yet to be known," the source said.
"The hostilities caused a state of fear and panic among the residents of the area as a result of indiscriminate shooting," he added.
The town of Hawar Kilis is considered a military zone because it contains headquarters of a number of Ottoman Turkish-backed factions, most notably Sultan Murad, the Hamza Division and Sultan Suleiman Shah, also known as al-Amshat.
The salaries of most of the SNA gunnies come through a military crossing located north of Hawar Kilis on the border with the Ottoman Turkish state of Kilis. The crossing is also used by the leaders of the SNA factions to move between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and Syria, according to the source.
The SNA-held areas witness a state of insecurity, accompanied by explosions and continuous infighting, amid inability of the factions to hold it under control.
[NPASyria] One day before a trilateral summit that will bring presidents of Russia, Iran ...They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... together, the Syrian Army continues to reinforce its positions in Syrian north in tandem with sending intensive reinforcements by Ottoman Turkish forces and their affiliated armed Syrian opposition factions.
The trilateral summit, in the Iranian capital Tehran, will touch on the Syrian issue and the Ottoman Turkish potential military operation against Syria’s north in particular.
Turkey’s President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... has recently announced plans to carry out another major military cross-border incursion into northern Syria. Erdogan specified his targets in the two northern Syrian cities of Manbij and Tel Rifaat.
On July 1, Erdogan said that Ankara’s new military operation in northern Syria could begin at any moment.
"I always say that we can start [the incursion] at any moment at night. We should not worry and rush, especially since we are working in the area," Erdogan told news hounds after returning from the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... summit in Madrid.
On Saturday, the Syrian army sent military reinforcements to Manbij through al-Tayha crossing, southwest of the city.
An eyewitness from Abu Kahf village, 30 km north of Manbij, told North Press that eight vehicles loaded with two field artillery, rocket launchers, ammunition and personnel entered from al-Tayha crossing and headed towards the front lines in Manbij.
The reinforcements come within the framework of recent understandings between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Syrian government, with Russian guarantee, to deploy government forces along the front lines extending from al-Hoshariya village, northeast of Manbij, to al-Arima district, west of Manbij.
Hours later, the government forces brought in reinforcements to the border strip with Turkey in the countryside of Derbasiyah north of Hasakah, according to pro-government al-Watan Newspaper.
Media outlets close to the government see that these reinforcements can help halt the Ottoman Turkish escalation and threats since they are deployed along the border strip.
On July 15, the SDF Commander in Chief, Mazloum Abdi, said in a presser, that they "accepted that the Syrian Army fortifies its posts in Kobani, Manbij and border areas in order to carry out its task to protect Syrian border, and we will do what is needed to avoid war against our areas."
Following the Ottoman Turkish incursion (Peace Spring) in October 2019, Turkey signed two ceasefire agreements, one with Russia and the other with the US stipulating ceasing all hostilities and the withdrawal of the SDF 32 km away from the Ottoman Turkish border.
The SDF did withdrew from the border areas according to the agreement, but Turkey continues targeting the area.
The Syrian government has deployed soldiers in some areas in northeast Syria since 2019 following the agreements.
Turkey also sends more forces to the Syrian territory, especially to both the northern and eastern countryside of Aleppo, in preparation for the new invasion.
On July 8, North Press Agency monitored the entry of a Ottoman Turkish military convoy through al-Rai crossing in the northern countryside of Aleppo, heading towards the city of al-Bab east of Aleppo.
Two days earlier, Turkey sent reinforcements to Ottoman Turkish-backed Sultan Murad faction stationed in Hawar Kilis region on Syrian-Ottoman Turkish border north of Azaz.
Al-Watan Newspaper noted that both Russia and the Syrian government, through deploying forces in broader swaths on contact lines with Turkey, aim at defusing the Ottoman Turkish military escalation and also curbing the Ottoman Turkish president’s false pretenses to launch an aggression to bite new Syrian parts.
These moves come in light of preparations by Russian and Ottoman Turkish delegations to head to Iran, where a presidential summit will be held, bringing together the three countries to discuss the Syrian issue.
During the summit, the Russian president and his Ottoman Turkish counterpart will held a series of meetings.
Statements released by Iranian, Russian and Ottoman Turkish officials indicate that the three presidents will mainly focus on the Syrian issue, a step that was successively discussed in the past the last of which was in July 2020.
"Ottoman Turkish military operation in Syria will be the most important issue between Turkey and Iran in the summit." Ottoman Turkish daily newspaper Sabah said two days ago.
As Syrian north and northeast continue to witness intensive military presence by Syrian government and Turkey, Syrians place their hopes in Tehran’s summit, through which Turkey seeks to invade Tel Rifaat and Manbij.
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Putin tells US thieves to stop ‘looting’ Syria
Washington needs to stop “stealing” Syrian oil and lift its sanctions against Damascus
American troops must leave voluntarily the territory east of the Euphrates river and “stop robbing the Syrian state, the Syrian people, exporting oil illegally,” I repeat they must leave.
Putin told reporters on Tuesday evening, when asked if the USA military don’t voluntarily leave, his reply was: we will make them… He said this was a “common position” of Russia, Iran and Turkey.
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US troops, about 500 to 1000 are there to hunt ISIS and may also provide some protection to the Kurds.
Syria probaby doesn't have the forces to deal with the ISIS contingent in their country. Letting Iran and Turkish troops deal with ISIS doesn't seem like such a bad idea.
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Syria doesn’t have enough oil to be worth robbing, unlike Iraq, where we also did not help ourselves to the oil.
Perhaps President Putin means Turkey, which has been allowing its “Syrian National Army” run roughshod over Syrian citizens.
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Letting Iran and Turkish troops deal with ISIS doesn't seem like such a bad idea.
Iran would no doubt take the hint reasonably seriously if t hey saw no way of exploiting them for their own purposes, but Turkey has used and supported ISIS in Syria in the past against the Assad government. For that matter, some unknown part of the so-called Syrian National Army that Turkey employs along the border is made up of old ISIS turbans left homeless after the Caliphate fell, and Turkey knows it.
[NPASyria] Since the beginning of this year, the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Organization (ISIS) has transformed from launching individual attacks to mass ones, and is awaiting the Ottoman Turkish invasion of northern Syria, said Zana Omar, a Qamishli-based journalist, on Monday.
This was turned out during ISIS attack on al-Sina’a prison in the city of Hasakah early in January, and during planning several attacks in Hawl Camp, Omar added.
Since the beginning of 2022, the camp management has registered 29 murder cases for 12 Syrians, among them a paramedic for the Kurdish Red Islamic Thingy (KRC), 14 Iraqi refugees who constitute more than half of the camp’s population, 3 unidentified corps, and 15 failed attempt ...Curses! Foiled again!... ed murders.
Hawl Camp, 45 km east of the city of Hasakah, is a house for 55.829 individuals, including 28.725 Iraqis, 18.850 Syrians and 8.254 of foreign nationalities, according to the latest statistics obtained by North Press.
Omar believes that ISIS has made plans to release 11.000 members and families of the terrorist organization, including people called Jihad Sheikhs, who participated in critical operations in Europe, the Gulf States and the Arab countries during the years of the organization’s control.
If The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... launches its military operation, the SDF’s priorities in fighting ISIS will change, as it will shift to the stage of defending and repelling Ottoman Turkish attacks, Omar noted.
He described that ISIS is awaiting the Ottoman Turkish operation to escape the security pressure imposed by the SDF and to take advantage of the security gap in the deserts of Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa and Hasakah.
Last month, the Syrian Desert returned to the conflict forefront again between ISIS sleeper cells on one hand and the Syrian government forces along with Iranian-backed militias on the other.
In June, ISIS carried out about 11 operations in the Syrian Desert, during which 42 soldiers of the government forces were killed and 31 others were maimed to varying degrees, in addition to the death of a civilian and the injury of 14 others with varying injuries, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
Omar pointed out that Deir-ez-Zor desert poses the greatest danger, since it is open to al-Anbar desert in Iraq, where ISIS sleeper cells are present. This brings back the fears of 2014 scenario and the return of ISIS.
The journalist indicated that the second level of danger lies in the fact that any area "occupied" by Turkey is turned into a safe haven for ISIS members and leaders, through the support they get from the so-called Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA).
"Al-Baghdadi and Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi appeared in those areas, and finally Maher al-Aqal, and the list goes on," he added.
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More on this story from yesterday. It looks like a normal suicide by cop, long planned.
[IsraelTimes] Police say gunman spent hour in bathroom, possibly assembling rifle, before firing on shoppers, killing three; ’Good Samaritan’ praised for using lethal fire to take out shooter
A 20-year-old man likely assembled a rifle in the bathroom of a suburban Indianapolis shopping mall before shooting five people in the food court, killing three of them before an armed shopper fatally shot him, US authorities said Monday.
Jonathan Sapirman of Greenwood apparently was facing eviction before he shot up the Greenwood Park Mall shortly before it closed Sunday evening, the city’s police chief, James Ison, said at a news conference.
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It didn’t mention its no-weapons policy and its operator, the Simon Property Group, didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Cause it doesn't want to lose its pants in pending law suits that it help create the environment that permitted the shooting in the first place while failing to provide adequate protection or deterrent.
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No bets, DarthVader: From deeper in the article:
Sapirman had a juvenile record, including for a fight at school and an incident where he bravely ran away from home, but he had no criminal record as an adult, the chief said.
He said relatives told Sherlocks that Sapirman has been practicing shooting at a gun range, and that records obtained by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives confirmed he had frequented the range and bought ammunition there over the past two years.
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i would like to no more on the tracking of ammo purchases and tracking range time. Anybody know a range owner who they could ask if they have to report these issues?
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I have to show my DL if I go to the range in Daytona. So I'd imagine that sort of record keeping gets snarfed up by ATF. I can't say what ammo reporting is like, but if I pay cash, all they'd have is maybe a surveillance cam image, if that.
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Whatever happened to mall cops?
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Sapirman had a juvenile record, including for a fight at school and an incident where he bravely ran away from home, but he had no criminal record as an adult, the chief said.
So if he had a juvenile record and he was only 20 years old and 18 is when he's considered an adult then he wasn't an adult for very long. Might be a good idea to withhold gun privileges until he's 25 or so to see if he can stay out of trouble for a little longer than just two years.
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[IsraelTimes] Army says no soldiers hurt during attempt to arrest wanted man in Tubas; Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... claims responsibility for gunfire; operation comes after brief pause during Biden’s visit
Israeli troops clashed with Paleostinian button men during an early morning raid in the northern West Bank city of Tubas, after an apparent brief pause in military operations amid US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The nincompoop who dumped Afghanistan. The copier doesdn't exist that could reelect him.... ’s visit to the region.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, as soldiers were attempting to arrest a wanted Paleostinian, several suspects opened fire and others hurled stones and Molotov cocktails.
"IDF soldiers shot up the button men who fired at them, and at key rioters," the military said, adding that "hits were identified."
Paleostinian media, citing medical sources, said two people were hurt by the Israeli gunfire. Their conditions were not immediately clear.
The IDF said no soldiers were hurt in the incident. It was not clear if the target of the raid was arrested.
A local wing of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad terror group grabbed credit for the gunfire. A statement claimed members of the group managed to damage Israeli military vehicles as they entered the city.
A video circulating on social media showed an army jeep being hit by a Molotov cocktail.
Sunday’s raid came following a brief pause in arrest operations in the West Bank, amid Biden’s two-day trip that included meetings with Israeli leaders and a visit to East Jerusalem and the West Bank. The US president departed from the country on Friday.
It was thought the IDF wished to avoid any major confrontation during the visit.
The shooting in Tubas also followed an uptick in attacks in the northern West Bank in recent weeks.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
His interview questions are in bold typeface.
[ColonelCassad] Just now I answered questions during the NWO for the military commissar Kotenok's channel. About the course of the NWO
After Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu inspected the headquarters of the groupings, the RF Armed Forces intensified strikes against the Armed Forces of Ukraine and enemy infrastructure. Is the "operational pause" over or never happened?
- The operation, in fact, did not stop. The regrouping of troops or the withdrawal of individual formations for rest does not mean that offensive operations or missile strikes against enemy troops and infrastructure have ceased.
In the last week, we have seen how the focus of strikes has shifted to the destruction of concentrations of troops and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as the destruction of artillery missile systems, which can be interpreted as a "softening" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass before the upcoming offensive operations on the Seversk-Soledar line and in the Artemovsk region, as well as increasing efforts to move into the Slavic-Kramatorsk agglomeration.
- The pace of progress towards Slavyansk slowed down. What is it connected with?
- The main efforts are now concentrated on breaking through the Seversk-Soledar front in order to provide access to Artemovsk from the north and to Slavyansk from the east. The group advancing on Slavyansk from the northwest is obviously in the phase of replenishment and regrouping after the past battles in the area of the Valley, Bogorodichny and Svyatogorsk. The terrain and large forest areas to the north-west of the city, as well as the line of the Seversky Donets covering Slavyansk from the north, make the offensive difficult.
- The DPR announced the semi-encirclement of Avdievka. When can we expect the blockade of Donetsk to be lifted? What factors facilitate and, conversely, inhibit the process?
- Avdievka is well supplied through Orlovka, and the Avdievka-Konstantinovka highway could not be used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine before after they were kicked out of Novobakhmutovka and Novoselka-2.
The assault on Avdievka from Kamenka and the industrial zone at this stage does not promise quick results, so here and in the future we will observe a positional front and intensive work of artillery and MLRS from both sides. The main problem is that the entire Advievka and the adjacent territories have been turned into a solid fortification, a frontal assault on which, for military reasons, is inexpedient.
- The announced counter-offensive of Kyiv still does not begin. Where to wait for the activation of the enemy? What are the manpower reserves of the regime, taking into account the heavy losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass?
- The most probable directions of the enemy's offensive are Krivoy Rog, Nikopol and Zaporozhye (in the direction of Vasilyevka, Tokmak and Pologa).
The ongoing capture of random citizens on the streets, as well as mass cases of desertion from the front, indicate that the declared 1 million people in the Armed Forces of Ukraine is a purely propaganda figure. In fact, the total number of people under arms is significantly less.
Nevertheless, work is underway not only to plug holes in the front with poorly trained cannon fodder, but also to prepare more well-coordinated brigades that can be concentrated for an offensive in one of the indicated directions.
Potential forces that are desirable for the Armed Forces of Ukraine for some serious actions - from 5-7 armored personnel carriers to 80-100 guns, MLRS and heavy mortars + several aircraft and helicopters. In addition to the actual organization of such a grouping, an equally important problem for the Armed Forces of Ukraine is the problem of secretive concentration of these troops in order to avoid strikes by the RF Armed Forces even before advancing to the lines of attack.
The experience of failed offensives in the area of Gulyaipol and Davydov Brod has shown that the RF Armed Forces have the ability to stop enemy activity with concentrated artillery and air strikes.
- Following the "holy javelin" in Ukraine, the "holy haymars" has already been invented. Attacks on warehouses, headquarters and communications of the Allied Forces are not weakening. What does the tactics look like using the MLRS and OTRK supplied to Kyiv in targeting objects and overcoming air defense? Is there an antidote for the wunderwaffe?
- The United States operates within the framework of the concept of network-centric warfare, hoping to slow down the intensity of their fire impact on the Armed Forces of Ukraine and reduce their offensive potential by strikes against the command and logistics structure of the RF Armed Forces and the armies of the LDNR. The APU here is only performers and a screen. Target designation data is provided by American technical intelligence, as well as agents of the SBU on the ground.
Countermeasures - tracking down and destroying complexes (one has already been destroyed, so that with proper work they are destroyed in the same way as the S-300 complexes, Tochka-U OTRK and Uragan MLRS), as well as the active use of the dispersal of fuel and lubricant depots and ammunition to reduce the effectiveness of such strikes.
The same applies to the issue of protecting command infrastructure facilities. In general, it is necessary to adapt to this tactics of the enemy, since he, obviously, will adhere to it further.
- Are we ready to drag out the conflict in Ukraine and, in fact, does Russia have options other than victory?
- It is quite obvious that the Russian Federation has long been acting within the framework of the concept of a long-term conflict in the framework of the “Syrianization” of the war in Ukraine. The official position on achieving all the goals set by the NWO has not changed since February.
Specific terms, as before, are not indicated - the need for long-term work to achieve the stated goals has already been completely reconciled, and a number of processes to increase the grouping of troops in Ukraine and changes in the military-industrial complex also indicate preparations for a long confrontation with the United States and NATO in Ukraine.
Of course, Russia will strive only for victory, which will not only guarantee its sovereignty, but also provide advantageous positions in the formation of a new world order. In this case, the victory will write off all costs. The absence of a positive result in Ukraine will, in turn, have severe domestic political consequences for the country. This, in fact, is what the United States is betting on, dragging out the war in Ukraine in every possible way and raising the degree of escalation.
- How adequate are the statements that the collective West is running out of stocks of weapons and ammunition for deliveries to Ukraine?
- Supply problems are more of a logistical and production nature. In the long run, with the active production of the necessary range of weapons, they are quite solvable for the US and NATO.
This seems to be a less significant problem for the US than the economic and political costs of the sanctions war against Russia. In the first case, the consequences are exclusively military and Ukraine bears the costs. In the second case, the costs hit directly those establishment groups that unleashed the war.
- When will the Polish factor "shoot" in the Ukrainian theater of operations and how is this connected with the situation on the border with Belarus, Kaliningrad and the Baltic states?
- According to the data of the SVR, Poland has not abandoned its plans to occupy Western Ukraine and continues to actively build up its military capabilities by increasing the size of the army (the plans for increasing it increased to 400,000 people) and re-equipping with American weapons.
The build-up of Poland's military capabilities creates additional challenges for the Russian grouping in Kaliningrad and complicates the configuration of any conflict around the "Polish Corridor" in the event of a cessation of transit to Kaliningrad.
Poland in the current realities is a long-term threat to Russia, in the same sense in which the “Remediation regime” in Poland was a threat to the USSR from 1922 to 1939. In those years, the Polish General Staff directly pointed out that "the dismemberment of Russia lies at the heart of Polish policy in the East." Now the goals of Poland are exactly the same. The revival of the Eastern European hyena in the same role is another consequence of the criminal actions of Gorbachev and Yeltsin, which we will have to deal with in the coming years and decades.
[EpochTimes] Washington’s mayor is criticizing two border states for busing illegal immigrants to the nation’s capital, which bills itself as a sanctuary city.
For months, Texas and Arizona authorities have been offering free rides to illegal aliens who have claimed asylum, citing a lack of resources in dealing with the immigrants and the hope that sending them to Washington will help convince President Joe Biden to increase immigration enforcement amid a record number of arrests at the border.
But Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser, who is a Democrat, isn’t on board.
“This is a very significant issue. We have, for sure, called on the federal government to work across state lines to prevent people from really being tricked into getting on buses. We think they’re largely asylum-seekers who are going to final destinations that are not Washington, D.C.,” she said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on July 17.
“I worked with the White House to make sure that FEMA provided a grant to a local organization that is providing services to folks. But I fear that they’re being tricked into nationwide bus trips when their final destinations are places all over the United States of America.”
Ranae Eze, press secretary for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, told The Epoch Times via email that “the only lie is the Biden Administration telling the American people that our border is closed.”
“With our nation’s capital now experiencing a fraction of the disaster created by President Biden’s reckless open border policies that our state faces every single day, maybe he’ll finally do his job and secure the border,” she wrote.
Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals aren't just for the Left. In this case, #4: Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, another Republican, wrote on Twitter: “Welcome to our world, @MayorBowser. Now work with your party, your Congress, and your President to do something about it.”
COMPLAINTS
Thousands of illegal aliens have been sent to Washington from the two states this year, beginning in April. Getting on the buses is a choice, according to officials in the states. But some of the immigrants complained to WUSA-TV that promises made by officials before getting on the buses weren’t fulfilled.
Ana Karina Arce Polano, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, told the broadcaster that she was told her family would be transported to Colorado via Washington, but that they didn’t end up being offered transportation to Colorado.
“We arrived here with faith to give them a better life, and it turns out that we do not even have a place to sleep and no way to get where we want to go,” Polano said.
Another illegal alien said she was told that her family would be given a ride to Chicago after arriving in Washington, but that hasn’t happened.
“If anyone is being misled, we certainly want to know about it,” Ducey spokesman CJ Karamargin told WUSA-TV.
Sister Sharlet Wagner, executive director of the Catholic Charities-run Newcomer Network, told NTD previously that most of the illegal immigrants were traveling to places beyond Washington.
“Most of them do have family or friends in the place where they really want to go. We’re happy to help them if they want to stay here. Most are choosing to move on,” she said.
Federal authorities have said that states aren’t “adequately coordinating” with them or local authorities. They also said that most immigrants who aren’t expelled via Title 42, a pandemic-era order, are released into the U.S. interior with notices to appear in court.
A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesman told The Epoch Times, “Through its Southwest Border Coordination Center, DHS is executing carefully designed plans to manage the processing and transport of noncitizens arriving at the border.”
So are any of the illegals sleeping on the Congressional House steps or panhandling LSD's for $$$$$ yet? Has there been an increase in certain problems that are normally associated with massive influx of Illegals to a given area?
Also noting "...provided a grant to a local organization that is providing services to folks..."
Anyone tracking the % of $$$ that it gets to the Illegals, vs. the % of $$$$ deemed an Admin fee, routed back to LSD pockets & campaign funds?
[Rudaw] Two Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed during intense fighting in the Kurdistan Region, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... ’s defense ministry confirmed on Sunday raising the corpse count among Ankara’s fighters to over 35 since the launch of its most recent military offensive in Duhok.
Ankara said the two soldiers were killed during festivities with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), identifying them as Selahattin Taskin and Omer Faruk Civelek.
Turkey launched its latest operation dubbed Operation Claw-Clock on April 18 targeting PKK hideouts in the mountainous areas of Metina, Zap, Avashin, and Basyan in Duhok province.
Ankara has lost at least 39 of its soldiers since the start of the operation, according to numbers published by the Ottoman Turkish defense ministry.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... the People's Defense Forces (HPG), the armed wing of the PKK, claimed on Friday that 1,582 Ottoman Turkish soldiers were "punished," and 217 others were maimed from April 14 to July 14.
Both sides often release exaggerated corpse counts of the other. The Ottoman Turkish defense ministry claims "neutralizing" PKK fighters daily on its Twitter account, a term it uses to imply surrenders, killings, or capturing.
The PKK often announces its casualties late. On Sunday it confirmed the death of two of its fighters killed in Zap during festivities with Turkey on June 14.
Operation Claw-Lock is the fourth stage of Ankara’s Claw operations against the PKK in the Kurdistan Region, with the first stage starting in 2019.
Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... has said that the anti-PKK operations will continue, claiming that soon there will be no place called Qandil, referring to the rugged mountain range which stretches across the Iran-Iraq border in the north of Sulaimani province has been the headquarters of the PKK since the early 1980s when the group established bases there.
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[KhaamaPress] Local sources in the northern Afghan province of Samangan say that Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... forces are still searching homes door to door in Aybak, the province’s capital. Additionally, 25 young people are said to have been arrested as a result of these searches, according to some domestic news sources.
On Sunday, July 17, the Taliban reportedly began house-to-house searches in various areas of Aybak city and carried them out until late at night, with 25 young individuals reportedly detained during these searches.
According to sources, a door-to-door search was resumed this morning in the Karte Sulha neighborhood, which is near the city of Aybak.
This is despite the fact that the Taliban had already searched people’s houses in Kabul calling it a "search and clear" operation, in the capital of Afghanistan.
Regarding the search of people’s houses in Samangan, the local Taliban authorities have not yet made any comment.
Afghans have been terrified by the house searches, which have brought up terrifying memories of previous house searches by previous governments.
The Afghan people have been forthright in posting images and videos of the chaos the Taliban forces have wrought on social media, criticizing what they call "violations of privacy," "intrusive behavior," and "suppressing dissent".
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Just in case you're wondering just wtf is being searched for, because the article won't say...
These are essentially police operations. Small time criminals, drug peddlers, thugs and loud mouths, rapists and 'naughty men'. As we all know, moslems are way more efficient at doing to moslems exactly what they deserve. And they shall. The talibs are trying to establish an administration that looks legit.
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Those are far out of their reach, at least the ones who are still active. The good ones who took sides with Massoud and Saleh before the two departed at a goodly pace have become the new resistance. Some of the NRF is still active in Panjshir, in Faryab, in Baghlan. Guerillas. Everyone else mostly made peace with the Taliban even before they'd won. Hell, that's probably the reason they won. Most ex-alliance, ANDSF, they all stand proudly saluting the turbans nowadays. And Taliban made good on promises to some who were influential enough. They're learning politics as they go.
Subversives and spies, yes, there may be many. Aybak though, is a city. Peaceful, what passes for a metropolis in this hellhole, some 80 klicks south east of Mazhar e Sharif. If there are NRF guys and gals here, or some kind of cells left by Massoud still hunkering down in residentials, they're stupid.
[ToloNews] A number of Afghans who were recently sent back from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... accused the Ottoman Turkish military of human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. violations and mistreatment.
The deportees complained about the role of Afghanistan’s embassy in Ankara, saying that the embassy is signing forms for deportation.
Turkey is reportedly deporting around 300 Afghans per day.
Eimal is one of the Afghan migrants colonists sent home by Ottoman Turkish police.
"When the police do their captures, they are doing body searches, they beat boys, even they take off the clothes of boys, then they deport them," said Eimal.
"Afghan migrations face bad treatment in camps, there is no good food nor facilities to treat patients," said Mujahid, a deportee.
The deportees, many of whom fled due to poverty, told TOLOnews that they illegally entered Turkey to seek employment.
"Afghans go to Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... and Turkey with big hopes, with a belief that these are Islamic countries, Afghans expect to face good treatment and cooperation," said Fazl Mohammad, a deportee.
Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Fat Tony demanded his rosco back. He didn't say please... officials at Kabul Airport said that two or even three chartered flights carrying Afghan migrations from Turkey land at the airport on a daily basis.
"Daily, two or three flights arrive from Turkey, each plane carrying 130 to 150 persons," said Sayed Kazem Hashimi, an official at Kabul Airport.
TOLOnews attempted to obtain a statement from the Afghan embassy in Ankara but the embassy refused to comment.
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Ha ha. Turks see pashtuns as little more than wild asses.
[IsraelTimes] 16 tons of explosives destroyed when jets dropped bunker-busting bombs on subterranean facility on Saturday in response to rocket fire; IDF: Drones also manufactured at site
[BenarNews] Bangladesh police said Monday they had arrested an ARSA rebel commander at a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar who was among the most wanted criminals — bringing to three the number of suspects captured in the area this month with Death Eater links.
Until lately Bangladesh government officials and authorities had long denied allegations about the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA)
...a.k.a. Harakah al-Yaqin. The main Rohingya krazed killer group operating in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state that borders Bangladesh's southeast, and also in the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazaar, though Bangladesh adamantly refuses to accept the idea that it’s there. It was ARSA’s attack on several police posts in Rakhine in 2017 that caused the Burmese Myanmar army to crack down, driving three quarters of a million Moslem Rohingya back to Bangladesh, from whence they had illegally migrated a century or two earlier...
rebel group, which is based in the neighboring state of Rakhine in Myanmar, having a presence in this southeastern district. Cox’s Bazar is home to camps and settlements near the Burmese border, where about 1 million Rohingya are sheltering.
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The Rohingya Salvation Army 🙀 is actually the Harkat ul Yaqin, a minor terrorist group that renamed itself this to appear like some righteous resistance against communal cleansing. They arose independent of the primary Rohingya terror group, the Arakan Army, the militant wing of the ULA (united league of Arakan). Forces of Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, plus armed buddist extremists have been absolutely kill kill killing the Arakan Army and have forced them to police their own people under threat of extermination. But a number of ULA people support and protect the Harkat or the ARSE or whatever. Also, some Sörōs sponsored enn gee ohs have been lobbying, whining in the media, buying influence and spreading bribes faster'n a sociology grad spreads the crabs, in the subcontinent to bail out and assist Rohingya in their survival.
I understand the judeochristian 'Gawd is is love' thingy, and also the modern humanist one, but Rohingya are one of those communities that need to be put Outta their misery, trust me. It's one of those things instances in ye oldè testament teach us.
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Try Harakkah al Yaqin. That'd be the Burmese way of saying it. Harkat or Harakkah would be 'action' or 'movement' while Yaqin means faith. That's the real name of these buggers.
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Yeah, they were insignificant. Once again, it's the paki ISI that trained and armed a bunch of dirt daubers with sticks and stones and built up their ranks with fraternal moslemnicious encouragement.
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You're welcome. Fun trivia: this Jununi fellow, the leader of ARSE? Jununi means 'mental' or 'psychotic' in Urdu. Anyway, he's actually just a bastard of a local Paki tougher and a rohingya woman, born in Karachi. His brother's still in a jail in Pakistain. Real name's just Ataullah.
[Dawn] THE government wants the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain to shun militancy and play their role in mainstream politics. On their part, the TTP demand that the government withdraw its troops from the now merged areas of erstwhile Fata, repeal the 25th Amendment of the Constitution to reverse Fata’s merger with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, and implement the Sharia in Malakand Division. That much we seem to know. Right? But have you ever wondered what the people of those districts want?
According to a poll survey in 2016 by the Fata Research Centre, 68 per cent of the respondents in the ex-Fata region demanded the full abolishment of the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) and the introduction of a new governance system. The study further highlighted that 74pc of the respondents endorsed the option of merging Fata with KP. The idea of restructuring Fata as a separate province was endorsed by 26pc of the respondents.
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[Dawn] Owing to the negligence of authorities concerned, Afghan refugees have taken over a children park in Islamabad and are living there after pitching tents.
F-6’s newly-renovated children park has become a makeshift campground for the Afghan refugees mostly belonging to the Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... community, who fled their country following the takeover of Kabul by Taliban
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From what I am reading in Russian socialist media, most of the casualties to civilians were caused by shrapnel from downed missiles.
The missile strike was on a target in the city center of Vinnitsa.
[ColonelCassad] At least three names of high-ranking Ukrainian Air Force officers liquidated during the attack on the House of Officers in Vinnitsa, where Ukrainian officers discussed with foreign curators the supply of weapons to Ukraine, have already become known.
Colonel Dmitry Burdiko, Acting Chief of Armaments of the Logistics Command of the Ukrainian Air Force.
Head of the Military Scientific Department of the Headquarters of the Ukrainian Air Force Command Lieutenant Colonel Konstantin Puzyrenko.
Head of the Armament and Logistics Service of the Ukrainian Air Force, Colonel Oleg Makarchuk.
Of undoubted interest are the personalities of the foreign military who were liquidated at the same meeting, along with high-ranking officers of the Ukrainian Air Force.
Well, of course, the list of those killed in Vinnitsa is clearly not exhausted by these three characters.
Hence, in fact, the scale of the hysteria around Vinnitsa with attempts to switch attention to accidental victims of a downed rocket, and the US warning to American citizens to leave the country, and the resignation of the head of the SBU. This blow really looks like a blow to the decision-making centers. Hence the howl about Vinnitsa and the indirect consequences.
Says Southfront.org:
On July 14th, the Russian Aerospace Forces struck objects in Vinnytsia and the region with high-precision long-range missiles. According to preliminary information, the targets of the attack were military facilities adjacent to the House of Officers of Vinnytsia, where the formation of Ukrainian Territorial Defense units was carried out. Another target was a military unit in the city of Gaisin in the Vinnytsia region, where Ukrainian forces were amassing and military equipment, including armored vehicles and artillery supplied from abroad, was stored.
At least 20 people were killed, including civilians. Three children were reportedly killed. 52 others were wounded.
According to the city police said a total of three missiles hit the downtown. Ukrainian air defenses shot down four other missiles over the city, according to Sergey Borzov, the head of the Vinnitsa Region administration. However, the city administration did not clarify where they fell.
On the first videos and photos a large number of people in military uniforms are clearly visible, including with weapons. This refutes the thesis of the Ukrainian side that the building of the House of Officers was used exclusively as a civilian object.
Judging by the footage from the region, civilians were injured and houses were damaged in different areas by the missiles that were intercepted by Ukrainian air defence systems.
RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan cited a Russian defense official as confirming the attack and saying that the House of Officers was the intended target. Ukraine used it as a temporary shelter for its “Nazi” fighters, the source claimed. In turn, Ukrainian media claimed that the weapons hit an office building in the city center. Reports said they also damaged nearby residential buildings and the building of the House of Military Officers, an institution operated by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, which normally serves as a concert hall.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky decried the incident as the latest atrocity allegedly committed by Russia, claiming on social media that that Russian troops targeted civilians on purpose. According to Zelensky and Ukrainian media, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation struck at the maternity hospital and medical center in Vinnitsa.
However, footage from the area confirms that the main target was the House of Officers used by the Ukrainian military. Under martial law in Ukraine, the building was turned into a temporary accommodation point for Ukrainian troops. According to the footage, Russian missiles hit two wings of the building. Most likely, they were used for military purposes. The central part of the building, where the entertainment hall is located, was also damaged.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS] At least a recruit of brigades loyal to the UAE was killed and four others injured in armed festivities in the port of city of Aden, southern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , on Sunday.
Local media reported that the commander of the so-called "Amaliqa Brigades" forces, Abu Zara’a al-Mahrami, instructed his button men to exercise restraint, following the bloody festivities.
Sources reported that an armed attack was carried out by members of al-Arish police, affiliated with the security belt of the Southern Transitional Council, towards a post, in which the recruits of the "First Amaliqa Brigade" are stationed in al-Arish neighborhood of Khormaksar district.
The sources explained that the attack resulted in the death of one of the Amaliqa recruits and the injury of 4 elements from al-Arish police.
[RT] The foreign and defense ministries in Beijing issued harsh statements on Monday condemning the Biden administration’s approval of a new US arms sale to Taiwan. The deal is worth an estimated $108 million and includes armored vehicle parts and technical assistance.
Beijing “demands” that the United States “immediately withdraw the above-mentioned arms sales plan to Taiwan,” as well as halt all other arms deals and cut military ties with the island, said Defense Ministry spokesman Colonel Tan Kefei. “Otherwise, the US side will be solely responsible for undermining the relationship between China and the US and the two militaries and the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait.”
“The Chinese People's Liberation Army will take all necessary measures to firmly defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and resolutely thwart any form of external interference and separatist attempts for ‘Taiwan independence’,” the colonel added.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin echoed this sentiment, saying that Washington’s arms supplies “gravely undermine China’s sovereignty and security interests, and severely harm China-US relations and peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.”
“China will continue to take resolute and strong measures to firmly defend its sovereignty and security interests,” Wang added.
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^^^ The previous poster used not enough words; Me.
I'll say "Go F--k Yourselves" - We used {The Bomb Twice} Biden does even know how to tie his shoes, but I bet he is just itching, to play with the "Football".... Hey Joe, open up the case, and lets light up a place known as "China", soon to be known as "Glazed China".
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Iran first please, THEN China.
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In the world of military expenditures, $108M is peanuts.
I'd rather it be $108B. That might have an impact.
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The weekly Three Gorges Dam target folder update will be held at 1400 this afternoon. Our USAF ARWO geek, LTC Fleisterman will provide a special Air Recce Weather impacts report.
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A much easier solution would be to ban their cargo ships from all US ports...which they never should have been allowed to enter in the first place. Oh, and stop issuing visas for their people to enter the United States and revoke all outstanding visas for Chinese nationals. Fuck 'em.
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They're already at war with us. Fentanyl is a chemical weapon and covid is a bio-weapon. Both were and are being deployed maliciously and deliberately. Fuck the Chinese.
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Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 22:47 Despite the obstacles created by the Kyiv regime, over the past day, without the participation of the Ukrainian authorities, 24,623 people, including 4,496 children, have been evacuated to the territory of the Russian Federation from dangerous regions of Ukraine and the Donbass republics, and in total since the beginning of the special military operation - 2,668,072 people, of which 422,722 are children. 22:11 In Pavlograd, Dnepropetrovsk region, at school No. 6 on (street of Heroes of Ukraine), a stronghold of nationalists has been equipped, ammunition depots have been placed in the basement.
21:45 The main thing from the statement of the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mizintsev:
▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine equipped ammunition depots in the residential buildings of the Dobropillia DPR, placed MLRS and armored vehicles in the yards;
▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine and militants, using helicopters and artillery, set fire to grain fields in the Zaporozhye, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv and Kherson regions;
▪️More than 24,000 people were evacuated per day from the territories of the DPR, LPR and Ukraine to the Russian Federation;
▪️Russian sappers have neutralized more than 66,000 explosive objects in the Donbass.
20:54 The government of the Zaporozhye region was headed by Anton Koltsov, who previously held the post of first vice-governor of the Vologda region. This was reported to RIA Novosti by a member of the administration of the Rogov region.
19:49 During the Ukrainian shelling in the area of the Novaya Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, the gas pipeline is damaged, emergency services are working, a source in the city administration told RIA Novosti. The damage from the shelling did not affect the important elements of the facility, the power supply was not suspended, he specified.
18:35 Several in the Kherson region report about strikes in the area of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station.
17:28 Explosions were heard in Nikolaev. Several arrivals in the city are reported.
16:49 Destroyed commander of the reconnaissance platoon of the 93rd Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It became known about the destruction of the commander of the reconnaissance platoon of the 93rd Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the call sign "Fan". It is noteworthy that the destroyed Ukrainian military was part of the so-called "ultras" of the Luhansk football club "Zarya" and since 2014 fought against his fellow countrymen.
15:22 A pension fund has been opened in the city of Holaya Pristan, Kherson region, where they began to issue Russian pensions for June - the head of the organization, Vyacheslav Vasiliev.
15:19 The Operational Command "South" confirmed today's missile attack on the Odessa region. It is reported that four air-launched missiles were fired from the Black Sea by three Su-35 aircraft. Two missiles hit a military infrastructure facility, a fire broke out. Another one hit the bridge across the Dniester estuary. One missile was shot down by air defense forces over the sea. It is stated that there are no victims or injured.
14:47 Having superiority in artillery, the Russian army is advancing kilometer by kilometer. This is a war of attrition, and the question is how long Ukraine can hold out - Lieutenant General of the Bundeswehr Alfons Mays in an interview with Handelsblatt.
13:48 An unidentified object was struck in the Odessa region
12:46 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
▪️The RF Armed Forces hit the place of unloading trains with military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the Udachnoye station in the DPR, more than 10 Grad MLRS installations were destroyed;
▪️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed two batteries of the Uragan MLRS, three platoons of the Grad MLRS and 14 artillery platoons of the Giacint-B howitzers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
▪️During the day, Russian air defense systems shot down six Ukrainian UAVs, intercepted two shells of the Uragan MLRS of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the LPR;
▪️High-precision missiles of the Russian Federation hit the point of temporary deployment of mercenaries of the "Foreign Legion" in the DPR, up to 250 foreign fighters were destroyed;
▪️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed two Mi-8 helicopters with an artillery attack on the field airfield of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR;
▪️Up to 60 nationalists were killed by a high-precision weapon strike at the location of the battalion of the 118th brigade of the territorial defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Cherkasy region;
▪️Russian aviation destroyed the Buk-M1 installation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kramatorsk region, three warehouses with weapons and a fuel depot in the Zaporozhye region.
11:47 In Kherson formed administration. Local and visiting competent specialists have become employees of the administration, who will help to establish work. At the same time, on a number of issues, including the formation of organizations, tax and financial services, ministries and departments of the Russian Federation provide significant assistance.
However, there are still serious personnel problems in Kherson. The Ukrainian authorities continue to intimidate and threaten local residents, demanding that they not contact the new authorities and impede their activities.
11:47 The distribution of humanitarian aid continues in the Melitopol region. In each of the 15 territorial communities, people receive everything they need: food kits, personal hygiene products, clothes.
11:47 The resignation of the Ukrainian kvnschik from the post of head of the SBU is an attempt to shift responsibility and find someone to blame. In fact, the SBU has long been supervised and controlled not from Kyiv at all.
So all these layoffs and the search for shpiguns surrounded by debility Bakanov are nothing more than a picture to divert attention from the really very successful strikes of Russian missilemen on Vinnitsa, Nikolaev and Kharkov.
11:45 Zelensky dismissed Irina Venediktova from the post of Prosecutor General of Ukraine. He also removed the head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Ivan Bakanov, from his duties.
10:51 Russian Ministry of Defenseshowedfootage of the combat work of the Iskander complexes in delivering strikes on the objects of the Ukrainian troops in the special operation zone
10:50 Peskov, before Putin's visit to Iran, made several statements on Ukraine and sanctions:
🔺The special operation, no doubt, will end - when all its goals are achieved
🔺There are no clear time frames for the CBO, the main thing is efficiency
🔺The Russian military has orders from Putin to avoid harming civilians and are working carefully
🔺The nationalist battalions of Ukraine do not disdain anything
🔺Sanctions against Russia began to be introduced long before the special operation, now they are measured in hundreds and thousands
10:49 Arrival at the Ukrainian military facility in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
09:49 The first Polish self-propelled howitzer "Crab" was destroyed in Ukraine, the onet.pl Internet portal reported, citing Ukrainian sources.
Recall that in May, the Polish authorities announced their intention to supply the Armed Forces of Ukraine with 18 self-propelled guns of this type, 10 vehicles from this batch were delivered to Ukraine by July.
09:20 An Azov member from the 14th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in an interview with the Ukrainian media that he has already lost more than half of his comrades
08:13 Special operation, July 17. Highlights from the past day:
- the launcher used by the Ukrainian military and the HIMARS MLRS transport-loading vehicle in the Krasnoarmeysk region, as well as about 65 nationalists, were destroyed;
- VKS with high-precision weapons destroyed four Ukrainian command posts, six ammunition depots, manpower in 19 districts, including foreign mercenaries;
- in the course of a counterbattery fight, Russian troops destroyed a Ukrainian MLRS platoon, nine platoons of Giacint-B howitzers and D-30 guns in the DPR;
- Russian air defense intercepted Tochka-U missiles in the Kherson and Kharkov regions and 8 Uragan and HIMARS MLRS shells in the LPR, Kharkov and Zaporozhye regions;
- in Chuguev, Kharkiv region, 200 military personnel of Ukraine were destroyed by air strikes of the Russian Federation;
- Russian combat pilots shot down a Ukrainian Mi-17 helicopter near Slavyansk in the DPR;
- Russian aviation destroyed in Odessa a warehouse of Harpoon anti-ship missiles transferred from NATO;
- Slutsky said that the Crimean bridge was reliably protected, and in the event of a strike by Kyiv, a tough response would follow;
- the head of the Zaporozhye region, Rogov, said that Western curators had given Zelensky an ultimatum not to hand over the city of Slavyansk to the DPR, otherwise military funding would be stopped;
- Medvedev said that the West's endless attempts to continue the military campaign "to the last Ukrainian" will lead to the collapse of the existing Kyiv regime.
06:38 A blow along Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson region, by Ukrainian militants this morning.
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Before the afternoon shift starts, let me be the first to denounce badanov as a whatever the Fashionable Term of the Day is. And to say thanks for turning the machine translations into something resembling words.
[NYPOST] The price of oil surged to more than $100 a barrel on Monday after President Biden left Soddy 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. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... over the weekend without winning a commitment from the kingdom to boost output.
Brent crude, the international benchmark, rose by nearly 2.5% to around $103.50 early Monday while West Texas Intermediate, the US benchmark, also spiked nearly 2% to more than $99 a barrel.
The prices shot up on Monday following comments by Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, who said the topic of OPEC+ boosting oil supply wasn’t even raised during a summit meeting between Biden and other Arab leaders.
"Traders got one clear message from Biden’s recent visit to Saudi Arabia, during which President Biden spoke to a number of Arab leaders," market analyst Naeem Aslam told the Guardian.
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When we drilled here, pumped it out here, refined it here, used it here, oil prices typically were lower, and we had a better handle on our environment concerns.
BUT!
It is something Liberals, Socialists, and Democrats do not understand about running an Economy. It's called "Supply and Demand". Which has always affected price and the surrounding environment.
So the LSD Coup that stole the election not only has failed America, it has failed the world.
By playing environmentalist for votes, it directly adversely affected the world price of crude oil. With which negatively impacted billions of others and actually did greater harm to the environment.
How?
When 2nd & 3rd world nation ramp up uncontrolled drilling, pumping and shipping of oil, it is usually done for the quick $$$$ and with far less environmental concerns.
So if I may remind the LSD's
DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW actually works and is safer for the environment and the economy.
Results
As we have seen, when the economy is stable, the environment is better taken care of.
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...Well, that didn't take long. Best part is the Administration spokesthings insisting yesterday that we hail Joe because gas went down .50/gal over the last month or so.
#5
When they jump in claiming credit for the temp decline, honest media would have to assign responsibility to the Puppet Show for the looming increases. Not holding my breath...
[Breitbart] A Florida family recently discovered that replacing the battery for their electric vehicle costs more than what they paid for the car.
Avery Siwinski, 17, of St. Petersburg, received a used 2014 Ford Focus Electric from her parents that cost $11,000 and had 60,000 miles on it, WTSP reported.
After six months of driving, the vehicle started having some mechanical issues before it stopped running altogether.
Siwinski’s grandfather, Ray, sought to help her with the car problems, as her father had passed away in June from Stage 4 cancer.
Ray Siwinski realized it was a common problem for this type of vehicle to need its battery replaced.
But when he received a quote from the Ford dealership, he was told it would cost a whopping $14,000 to replace the battery — $3,000 more than what the family paid for the used electric vehicle.
He also noted that the quote did not include "installation and labor costs," WTSP reported.
After more research, Ray discovered that Ford was no longer producing batteries for that type of electric vehicle.
He issued a warning to anyone who was thinking about buying an electric vehicle.
"If you’re buying a new one, you have to realize there is no second-hand market right now because the manufacturers are not supporting the cars," he told WTSP.
Despite the reliability and financial problems electric vehicles may pose for owners, such as what the Siwinksi family faced, the Biden administration is heavily pushing American families to ditch their gas-powered cars for electric ones.
"People from rural to suburban to urban communities can all benefit from the gas savings of driving an EV," Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in March, amid record-high gas prices.
A Wall Street Journal reporter recently rented an electric vehicle for a four-day road trip and noticed she was spending more time charging the car than sleeping. The reporter then noted that "[f]umes never smelled so sweet" when filling up her gas-powered vehicle after the conclusion of her trip.
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I seems to recall that there was a federal law requiring automotive manufacturers to support their products for some 10 to 25 years from date of manufacture? (Exact length of time varies depending on the web sites I checked in a quick research.)
yes I actually tried to do my homework! (Sometime.)
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Since this financial dilemma is the now obvious, I would suggest all parties holding "E-Vehicle" stock shares consider selling them now; EV's do not pay in anyway, recycling, environmentally, nor in plain financial viability; new or used.
Get out while the going is good.
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Atttn Seeking Cure For Ignorance
I am not sure in the US, but in Australia, if they have a battery for $14,000 and will replace it then that is considered supporting.
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In northern areas with salted roads life of the EV electronics is severely compromised. Also as with any computer systems planned obsolescence is ever present flaw. So you go in for service and you are told sorry your system needs to be replaced with new system. Windows 7,8,9,10,11 to infinity and beyond. That's why mechanics in my area actively look for prior 2000 models. One fellow with 50 year old truck keeps getting people wanting for him to sell his truck (10 times he was approached in one week).
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I'd say lots of support for lefty stuff is more "go along get along with the kewel kids" than heartfelt conviction.
So, eliminate the need to be "with it" (looking at all social media "influencers' and the culture of celebrity that sustains them) and the support dwindles rapidly.
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[AMERICANGREATNESS] My new book, A Few Bad Men, details the mendacity and mad dishonesty of retired Marine General James "Mad Dog" Mattis. The fact that it was written by a Marine once under his command, whom he betrayed for the sake of politics and getting to slap on another star, says volumes about this once-lionized figure.
It all goes back to an incident in Afghanistan in 2007, and the Court of Inquiry trial of innocent Marines that followed, which Mattis himself instigated.
Lt. Colonel Steve Morgan, USMC (retired) and jury member of the 2008 Marine Special Operations Command’s Court of Inquiry says in the foreword to A Few Bad Men, "This is a case of a perfect storm of toxic leadership."
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Just as you can bet soon after the media calls someone a "rising democrat star," they will have a scandal, you can bet soon after the media calls some military officer "the adult in the room," they will turn out to be a back-stabbing buffoon.
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Sounds like Mattis was a great combat leader who was promoted into political levels of the Corps and found lacking.
#4
^^^^ Increased Birth Rate in New England ... 🤔 Hmmm... might be the cold ❄ Winters' ... need to snuggle up 👆 ... and with that nature takes its course...😁🥰😉😂
#5
Baby outgrows mom's ability to produce, mom is unavailable (asleep, sick, out of town, so forth), babysitters/day care, and of course there are the ones who are just inconvenienced by the whole experience (hurts, whatever).
Then there are those who are so biologically toxic with their habits, its probably the safer choice. They may be so intoxicated, they may not even be producing.
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[Korrespondent] 23:30 The executive director of the Turkish company Baykar Makina, Haluk Bayraktar, said that he would never allow the sale of Bayraktar drones to Russia and supported Ukraine in its struggle for sovereignty and independence.
23:28 Zelensky decided on the most high-profile personnel decisions from the very beginning of the war. The heads of key law enforcement agencies - the head of the SBU Ivan Bakanov and Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova - have been removed from their posts. Tomorrow, July 19, the Rada may vote for the dismissal of Bakanov. According to Venediktova, there is no such clarity yet. More details - in the material Loud personnel audit .
23:09 Washington is "monitoring the situation" in the Ukrainian government after the removal of the head of the SBU and the prosecutor general due to cases of treason, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said. He said the State Department "looks forward to the information" it shares with Ukrainian partners to "help them gather evidence to bring to justice those who may have committed war crimes and other atrocities."
23:04 Today, 1028 settlements have been liberated from the invaders, another 2621 are still under the control of the invaders, Zelensky said in an evening video message. He called on everyone who has contacts and opportunities to bring real information to the occupied territory, to support Ukrainians, to spread the truth there: "All over our land from Kherson to Gorlovka, from Genichesk to the occupied regions of Kharkiv region, in Melitopol and Berdyansk, in Energodar, in the Lugansk and Donetsk regions, in the Crimea, our people should hear about Ukraine from the Ukrainians."
23:00 The Russians are afraid of new deliveries of Western weapons, so they are in a hurry to hold a "referendum" despite the fact that neither Luhansk nor Donetsk regions are completely under their control, said the head of the Lugansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai.
22:56 The Armed Forces of Ukraine hit the industrial zone in Berislav, Kherson region - they hit the administrative building and the hangar with Russian fuel trucks, said the adviser to the head of the Kherson Regional Military District, deputy of the regional council Sergey Khlan. According to him, more than 100 Russians were killed, and many were injured.
22:38 The mayor of Energodar, Dmitry Orlov, said that today "an event occurred" on the territory of the occupied Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, as a result of which Russians "fell a little physically." In particular, it is known that in the afternoon, nine Russian servicemen were urgently delivered to the city hospital with injuries of varying severity. Some are treated on an outpatient basis, some are hospitalized, one of them is in serious condition. There are also dead, but their exact number is still unknown.
According to Orlov, the Russians "were so frightened that they ran around the station in a panic, blocked for a long time at the enterprise two shifts of operational personnel at once, which were supposed to replace each other, but in the end the people were released."
22:33 Zelensky said in an evening video message that the SBU is undergoing a personnel audit, the issue of dismissing 28 officials is being decided: "Different levels, different directions. But the grounds are similar - unsatisfactory results of work."
22:17 The position of chief rabbi appeared in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which became Hillel Cohen, - he himself said in an interview with the Israeli website Ynet: "The task of the rabbi is to raise morale and help soldiers in difficult situations, he cooperates with the chief military chaplain and ... distributes warriors need equipment in battle. In recent months, Cohen traveled from one Jewish soldier to another on the fronts of Ukraine as a volunteer, and over the weekend his mission became official - Cohen was appointed Chief Rabbi of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
22:14 Shells of Soviet calibers in Europe "are almost running out, if not to say that they have run out," Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexei Danilov said on the air of the telethon. According to him, due to the supply of weapons in sufficient quantities, "we can say that we have reached parity in some positions." But this is still not enough to win, so at the Ramstein-4 meeting an increase in arms supplies will be discussed: "There are high hopes for pleasant surprises for our country from partners."
21:22 Slovak President Zuzana Chaputova granted permission to four citizens of the country to fight against Russia on the side of Ukraine, her speaker Martin Strizhynets said in an interview with dpa. According to him, in these four cases, the president adhered to the recommendations of three ministries - interior, defense and foreign affairs.
21:06 Russian media report that the first deputy head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, Sergei Kiriyenko, was in Nova Kakhovka during the strike of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to them, the strike was struck after Kiriyenko visited the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station and held a meeting with the "leadership" of the Kherson region appointed by the Russians, none of the participants in the event was injured.
20:56 The "government" of the occupied part of the Zaporozhye region was headed by Anton Koltsov, who previously held the post of the first vice-governor of the Vologda region, said a member of the "administration" of the region Vladimir Rogov.
20:54 Zaluzhny, in a telephone conversation with the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, said that Ukraine managed to stabilize the situation: “It is complex, tense, but completely controllable. An important factor contributing to our holding defense lines and positions is the timely arrival of M142 HIMARS, inflicting targeted strikes on enemy command posts, ammunition and fuel depots."
20:52 After the start of the war in Ukraine, 2.7 million tons of Ukrainian grain were exported through the territory of Romania, said Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu. According to him, this is about half of the total volume of grain exported by Ukraine.
20:29 Putin ordered Russian troops to capture Kharkiv and the rest of the unoccupied Kharkiv region, analysts at the American Institute for the Study of War suggest. The Ukrainian military agrees with them. However, both Ukrainian and foreign experts say these plans have a low probability of success. For more details - in the material Putin ordered to take Kharkov - what is the probability .
20:34 European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders proposes to keep Russian assets frozen until the Russian Federation agrees to pay for the restoration of Ukraine after the end of the war.
19:57 The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks in the Slavic direction and in the area of the Uglegorsk TPP, the General Staff said in an evening report .
19:53 The invaders seized part of the united energy system of Ukraine, said the mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov. According to him, in the occupied territories, the enemy took away all the capacities of Oblenergo and takes money from residents for electricity, which he himself is not able to generate. "It is significant that most of the employees of Oblenergo did not agree to work for the rashists. They left the captured enterprise," Fedorov said.
19:35 Adviser to the head of the Kherson OVA, Sergei Khlan, confirmed the strike on Novaya Kakhovka: "The arrival of Russians was recorded in the area of the asphalt plant, which is on the district."
19:29 The EU has found an alternative to Russian gas in Azerbaijan. Baku must ensure the supply of at least 20 billion cubic meters of gas to the EU annually until 2027. More details - in the material Baku will help the EU .
18:58 The head of the Nikolaev OVA, Vitaly Kim, promises to pay $100 for each handed over fire spotter. According to him, the Russians offer the Ukrainians a criminal income - to provide them with the data necessary for more accurate shelling. Kim assured that the spotters are still calculated and detained, and every resident of the region can help hunt them. At the same time the governor emphasized that the action extends only to the Nikolaev area.
18:51 In the Dnieper, rescuers removed from the rubble the body of another person who died after a missile attack on the Southern Machine-Building Plant on July 15. Search and rescue operations at the enterprise have been completed, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko. In total, as a result of an enemy attack, four people were killed, 16 were injured, seven of them are now in the hospital.
18:45 Ukrainian troops launched a missile strike "in the area of the hydroelectric power station in Novaya Kakhovka, the degree of damage is being specified," Russian media reported, citing the "head of administration" of the city.
18:33 The Russian Foreign Ministry said that Microsoft is "fulfilling the order of the Pentagon and special services" to "take full control" of the entire information infrastructure of Ukraine.
18:17 Turkey will freeze Finland's and Sweden's applications for NATO membership if they do not fulfill their promises to "fight terrorism," Erdogan said. In his opinion, Sweden has not yet demonstrated a desire to meet Ankara's conditions.
18:12 Diplomats from 17 EU countries, as well as Israel, arrived in Vinnitsa today, the mayor of the city Sergey Morgunov said. Diplomats came to express their condolences to the relatives and families of those who died as a result of a Russian missile attack on the city center on July 14.
Diplomats from 17 EU countries and Israel arrived in Vinnitsa to express their condolences to the relatives and families of those who died as a result of the Russian missile strike
18:04 Zelensky said that he had spoken by phone with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro: "I informed about the situation at the front. We discussed the importance of resuming the export of Ukrainian grain to prevent the global food crisis provoked by Russia. I call on all partners to join the sanctions against the aggressor."
17:53 German Agriculture Minister Cem Ozdemir was skeptical about a possible agreement between Ukraine and Russia on a grain corridor: "If you still believe Putin's word, you might as well believe in Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny. Approximately the same level of seriousness and credibility."
17:30 The main tool in the liberation of Crimea will be diplomatic dialogue, but the military will still be the first to enter its territory, Tamila Tasheva, permanent representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, said in an interview with Ukrinform. Therefore, according to her, military elements will definitely be used during the de-occupation of Crimea.
17:12 Gazprom announced force majeure on gas supplies to Europe to at least one large consumer, writes Reuters. The gas monopolist's letter says that from July 14 it will not be able to fulfill its obligations on deliveries due to "extraordinary" circumstances beyond its control. The letter concerned deliveries to Germany via the Nord Stream pipeline.
16:49 Based on the materials of the SBU, Belarusian locomotives were arrested, with which the Russian Federation transferred military groups to the borders of Ukraine. The approximate value of the blocked property is over UAH 70 million. According to the investigation, the locomotives were used to transport personnel, weapons, military equipment and logistic support of the invaders to the northern borders of Ukraine.
16:31 Foreign Ministers of the EU countries have agreed on a new package of sanctions against the Russian Federation, which does not contain additional bans on energy supplies , Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said. Also, according to him, the new package does not contain restrictions against Gazprombank. At the same time, the sanctions will include a ban on trading in gold and dual-use goods. In addition, the package includes 48 individuals, including one of the vice-premiers and regional politicians, as well as nine organizations.
16:28 Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russia has launched about 3,000 missiles of various types in Ukraine: air-to-surface aircraft, missiles of operational-tactical systems (Tochka-U, Iskander), as well as Onyx missiles of the Bastion coastal complex. The command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine clarified that the Russian Federation is increasingly using old Soviet Kh-59, Kh-22, Kh-31 missiles. In recent weeks, the Russian army has begun to hit ground targets with anti-aircraft missiles from the S-300 complex, the main purpose of which is to destroy air targets.
16:21 Putin and Erdogan will discuss the export of Ukrainian grain at a meeting in Tehran on Tuesday, July 19, writes Reuters. Also on Tuesday, Putin and Erdogan will be joined by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi to discuss the crisis in Syria.
16:17 Scholz advocates the abolition of the right of veto, which allows one state to block the decision of the entire EU. The war in Ukraine reinforces the need to end the "selfish blocking" of European decisions by individual member states, the chancellor said: "We simply can no longer afford national veto power, for example, in foreign policy, if we want to continue to be heard in a world of competing greats." powers."
16:15 Putin's assistant Yuri Ushakov said that the Ukrainian negotiating delegation does not maintain any contacts with Russia after the Istanbul agreements are reached, and if the negotiations resume, the conditions for them will be "completely different."
16:12 On the eve of the heating season in Ukraine, a new wave of internal displacement of people from east to west of the country is predicted, Vereshchuk said on the air of the telethon. According to her, part of the Zaporozhye region is actually cut off from gas supply, and there is no way to resume it yet. This means that there will most likely be no heating season in those places, and local residents will be forced to leave and seek refuge in western Ukraine.
Vereshchuk added that only 4.5 million internally displaced persons are registered in Ukraine, but in reality we are talking about almost 7 million people.
16:07 The EU is counting on reaching an agreement between Ukraine and Russia on unblocking grain exports as early as this week, Borrell said before a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels: "We are doing everything possible to export grain along the line of solidarity through the Black Sea, through Bulgaria and Romania, but this is not enough, so I hope this week for an agreement to unblock Odessa and other Ukrainian ports."
15:56 The "Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR" stated that, according to the results of the "investigation", 14 people became "victims of self-detonation of explosives" by the Ukrainian military in the drama theater of Mariupol.
15:41 Norway has started raising funds for Bayraktar for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to the Turkish edition of AA, the organizers of the action said that each citizen can donate at least 10 crowns to Bayraktar TB2. As part of the campaign, it is planned to collect 55 million crowns (about $5.5 million) and transfer them to the aid fund at the Ukrainian Embassy.
15:22 The Turkish Ministry of Defense stated that the plan on the grain issue was agreed upon on general principles, it needs to be specified. A meeting of delegations from Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and the UN on the issue of unblocking grain supplies will take place this week.
15:08 Irina Vereshchuk said that the initiative of the Ministry of Reintegration to ban the eviction of internally displaced persons from educational institutions was supported: “I visited two educational institutions in Zaporozhye, through which we received signals to the hotline of the Ministry of Reintegration. We were contacted by about 250 people and reported that they were in "They want to be evicted soon. We contacted the local authorities. The issue is resolved. People will not be evicted, all their rights are preserved. The same is true for other institutions."
The Minister urged IDPs to contact the hotline of the Ministry of Reintegration 1548 in case of problems.
14:57 The New York City Council has approved a bill to rename Brighton Beach Avenue and Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn to Ukrainian Way - Ukrainian Way, said Ukraine's representative to the UN Serhiy Kislitsa. Now the document must be signed by the mayor of the city.
14:55 Ukraine has completed the ratification of the Istanbul Convention. The relevant documents were handed over to the Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Bjorn Berge, CE Secretary General Maria Pejcinovic-Buric said. Ukraine became the 36th country - a party to this agreement.
14:53 During a special operation in the village of Dementievka, Dergachevsky district, Kharkiv region, a large unit of Russians was found, located in destroyed buildings. As a result of the fire damage, 36 invaders were destroyed, many were injured of varying severity, according to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
As a result of the operation, numerous trophies were obtained and a wounded platoon commander of an enemy DRG was captured. It turned out to be Stanislav Trutnev, a native of the Zaporozhye region, a soldier of the 140th special forces detachment to combat underwater sabotage forces and means of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy.
14:47 The EU will increase gas supplies from Azerbaijan in the next few years, said Ursula von Der Leyen, who is in Baku on a visit to sign the relevant agreement.
14:40 Kuleba said in an interview with Forbes Ukraine that now Ukraine does not intend to negotiate peace with the Russian Federation. According to him, negotiations are possible only after the defeat of Russia: "Everyone understands that negotiations are directly tied to the situation at the front. I tell all partners a simple thing: Russia must sit down at the negotiating table after the defeat on the battlefield. Otherwise, it will again be the language of ultimatums" .
14:26 Russian commanders invaded Ukraine, guided by the topographic maps of 1969. According to the SBU, these cards were found in the possession of Russians in the occupied districts of the Kharkiv region. Saltovka in Kharkov, Travyanskoe and Murom reservoirs are completely absent on the maps. And the invaders drew the border between Ukraine and Russia with a pen, since it was not on the maps at all.
14:03 Negotiations on unblocking Ukrainian ports are in the final stage, Kuleba said in an interview with Forbes: “We understand the political framework. It remains to resolve issues related to logistics and security. Yesterday, delegations and negotiating teams largely removed these issues. Now all this is necessary put on paper."
At the same time, the head of the Foreign Ministry stressed that Ukraine would not agree to any decision that would leave any gap for the possibility of a frontal attack on Ukrainian ports from the sea by the Russian Federation.
Kuleba also said that he sees only one argument why Putin will agree to unblock the ports: “This is his desire to show countries that are neutral or more inclined towards the Russian position on the war (in Africa, Asia) that he saved them from starvation, from rising food prices. Other than that, I don't see why he would need it. By agreeing to unblock Ukrainian ports, he is undermining his own efforts to strangle the Ukrainian economy."
14:01 Kuleba announced an increase in the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine : "The supply of weapons is a very delicate process. I will simply say: HIMARS, other MLRS from other countries, howitzers, tanks - everything is coming and there will be even more. It is only a matter of time. Our task is accelerate processes: from making political decisions to solving logistical problems".
According to him, deliveries from different countries through different channels are quite stable, but quantitatively unsatisfactory. Kuleba also noted that the main problem with the supply is the schedule: "If we had received more 155-caliber artillery, more multiple launch rocket systems in time, then Lisichansk and Severodonetsk would have remained under the control of Ukraine. But everything takes time - this is how the system unfolds" .
13:59 The EU allocates another 500 million euros for armaments for Ukraine , said EU Council President Charles Michel after consultations with EU foreign ministers in Brussels. Thus, the total amount of EU funds for military assistance to Ukraine will increase to 2.5 billion euros.
13:57 Russia has intensified the shelling of the border areas, but the creation of strike groups in the Russian Federation and Belarus, which could make a second invasion, is not observed now, the representative of the State Border Service Andrei Demchenko said on the air of the telethon: "Everything necessary is being done to strengthen both the border line and and border areas in case the enemy, or those who want to join him, try to attack our country."
13:55 Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis called on the West to increase arms supplies to Ukraine. He said this on the eve of the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the EU: "Since Brussels is going on vacation, this is a good opportunity to remind that the Russian military does not plan to take days off from a further attack on Ukraine."
13:46 The Armed Forces of Ukraine explained why most men are mobilized in the western regions of Ukraine. According to Roman Gorbach, head of the personnel service of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, more citizens currently live in the western regions, including refugees and migrants. In addition, if the necessary specialists are not available in a certain region, the military command can attract them from other places, the colonel added.
13:41 The operational command of Pivden reported that the Russian army had attacked the Odessa region with four Su-35 missiles from the Black Sea. One missile was shot down over the sea, two hit a military infrastructure facility where firefighting continues, and another hit a bridge across the Dniester Estuary.
13:28 The National Bank put into circulation a commemorative coin Oh, there is a red viburnum at the puddle . The coin in denominations of 5 and 10 hryvnias is decorated with images of bunches and leaves of viburnum with lines from the couplet: "And my red viburnum is drunk. And our glorious Ukraine, gay, gay, cheer!"
12:46 The Russians fired at the Sinelnikovsky district of the Depropetrovsk region, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko. According to him, the rocket hit the elevator, warehouses with more than 5,000 tons of grain were destroyed. Another blow hit the school yard, the facade and roof of the local lyceum were damaged, more than 50 windows were broken. There is also a hit in a private house. Previously, there were no casualties.
12:27 SBU exposed an agent of the Russian special services, who collected the coordinates of objects for missile strikes on Kiev. According to preliminary information, the enemy planned to use this data for launching missile strikes, as well as for possible sabotage in the capital.
12:17 Zelensky, by his decree, appointed interim acting. head of the SBU, the first deputy head of the special services, Vasily Malyuk.
11:56 In the occupied Snegirevka of the Nikolaev area Russians for creation of "picture" fired at the yard of the high-rise building on city outskirts. As a result, four people were killed, Dmitry Pletenchuk, press officer of the military commandant's office of Nikolaev, said.
11:53 Since the beginning of the war, the State Bureau of Investigation has opened 675 cases for treason and collaborationism, 198 suspects have been reported, 111 have been put on the wanted list. Another 1,234 people are being checked for involvement in treason and collaboration activities. 14 proceedings were sent to the court under these articles. The largest number of production facilities is open in Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
11:50 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine monitors around the clock the places of storage of enemy ammunition, military equipment, areas of accumulation of weapons and supply routes for advanced units of the Russian Federation, Vadim Skibitsky, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, said on Apostroph TV: "We understand how much Russia's military resources exceed Ukrainian ones in in all respects. Those stocks that have been since the days of the Soviet Union remained on the territory of Russia. And in order to slow down the offensive pace of the Russian Federation, their resource must be destroyed right on the battlefield."
According to Skibitsky, the enemy really appreciated this threat and began to move their warehouses to further distances from the front line.
11:47 Slavyansk was subjected to a missile strike, as a result of which several microdistricts were left without electricity, including the villages of Mirnoye and Bylbasovka, Tselinnaya Street, partly Slavyansk and Severny, Mayor Vadim Lyakh said. According to him, the repair is hampered by constant shelling. The mayor said that last week, during the departure of the repair team, the car was damaged, the driver was injured.
11:45 British intelligence reports that Russia used the Wagner PMC to strengthen forward forces and reduce the shortage of personnel and losses. The PMC probably played a central role in the battles for the capture of Popasna and Lysichansk. In these battles, the group suffered heavy losses. Wagner, according to intelligence, lowers hiring standards by hiring convicted and previously blacklisted individuals. This is likely to affect the group's future combat effectiveness and reduce its value as a backbone for regular Russian forces, analysts say.
11:42 For the first time, a unified female military uniform will appear in the Ukrainian army - two groups of volunteers are involved in its development with the support of the Office of the President and deputies of the Kyiv City Council, reports the BBC. At the first stage, they plan to engage in individual tailoring, a test batch of clothes will be sent to the military to test convenience and functionality.
The idea came about after numerous requests from women who are now fighting on the front lines. Men's sizes and styles of clothing do not correspond to women's, because of this, the defenders have to alter the uniform or adapt it with pins and a tactical belt in the field, which is very inconvenient and non-functional.
11:18 In Toretsk, Donetsk region, as a result of the morning shelling, six people were killed, the State Emergency Service reported. The shell hit a two-story building in which there were people. The bodies of five dead, as well as three injured, one of whom died in the hospital, were pulled out from under the rubble.
10:57 Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Andrei Smirnov said on the air of the telethon that the dismissal of Bakanov and Venediktova does not mean their dismissal. He connects the dismissal of officials with the fact that Zelensky has been waiting for a long time for more concrete and, possibly, radical results to clear the state traitors who are in the departments. In the near future, checks will be held, and the president will decide whether to dismiss Venediktova and Bakanov completely.
10:55 The Russian army shelled the Sumy region in the morning, according to the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky. Mortar attacks fell on the Glukhov, Shalygin, Khotyn and Nikolaev rural communities, there were no casualties.
10:46 Adviser to the head of the Kherson OVA, Serhiy Khlan, confirmed that explosions are heard in the Novokakhovka community - it is the enemy's ammunition that is burning and detonating.
10:44 Germany plans to completely eliminate dependence on Russian gas by the summer of 2024, said the head of the Federal Network Agency Klaus Müller.
10:40 One of the Polish Krab self-propelled howitzers has been destroyed in Ukraine, the Polish edition of Onet writes, citing a video with a broken howitzer posted online. Ten out of a batch of 18 Krab vehicles were delivered to Ukraine by July.
10:14 Peskov said that the Russian military "have an order from Putin to avoid harm among civilians and work carefully." Also, on the eve of Putin's visit to Tehran, he said that "restrictions are the price that Russia and Iran pay for sovereignty."
10:11 Peskov said that the Russian "special operation" will end when all its goals are achieved, "there is no clear time frame, the main thing is efficiency."
10:07 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that Rustam Muradov is in command of the Russian troops in Donbas. Earlier, they stated that the southern group of Russian troops, which was fighting in Zolote and Gorsky, was commanded by Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces Sergey Surovikin, and the Center group, which was advancing on the Luhansk region, was commanded by Colonel General Alexander Lapin.
10:01 In Moscow on Wednesday, July 20, they will conduct a scheduled check of the readiness of warning systems - sirens will sound and the message Attention everyone! , the mayor's office said.
09:58 Kadyrov announced the need to deploy an air defense base in Chechnya: "Under the current conditions, Russia needs new strategic military solutions. First of all, I believe that air defense systems are in demand more than ever in the mountains of the Chechen Republic, on the southern borders of Russia."
09:56 Ukrainian troops launched rocket attacks on Novaya Kakhovka. Local publics write that the BC warehouse is on fire, and the Russian media, citing the "authorities", reported that "the air defense system worked, but there are hits."
09:50 The delegation of the European Commission went to Azerbaijan for negotiations on gas supplies to the EU. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson will visit Baku on Monday to discuss gas supplies to Europe with the Azerbaijani authorities.
09:19 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of July 18. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Bakhmut direction.
personnel - about 38,450 (+150) people liquidated,
tanks - 1687 (+3),
armored combat vehicles - 3886 (+7),
artillery systems - 849 (+3),
MLRS - 248 (+0),
air defense systems - 113 (+3),
aircraft - 220 (+0),
helicopters - 188 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 690 (+2),
cruise missiles - 166 (+0),
ships/boats - 15 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2753 (+7),
special equipment - 70 (+2).
09:14 In Kharkiv, at night, the enemy launched artillery strikes on the Kievsky district of the city, only civilian infrastructure was damaged, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. Also in the region at night, a blow was struck at the Bogodukhovsky and Chuguevsky districts, and during the day the Izyumsky district was subjected to shelling: landfills and winter wheat on a 250-hectare field were on fire. In the region, two people died as a result of Russian aggression per day - in the village. Kalinovo and Pechenegs.
09:12 There are two ships with 16 Caliber cruise missiles in the Black Sea, OK Pivden reports. In connection with a two-day storm, the command warns of an increased mine danger - mines can drift, including towards the shore.
09:10 In Nikolaev as a result of massive rocket attack it is known about hit in a car dealership and salon on sales of agricultural machinery. Other hits were on the outskirts of the city, previously without casualties, said the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim.
08:57 Shoigu inspected the Russian group Vostok, which is performing the tasks of a "special military operation" in Ukraine, and instructed the commander "to prioritize the destruction of enemy long-range missiles and artillery with high-precision weapons, from which Donbass settlements are being fired and wheat fields are deliberately set on fire , as well as grain storage facilities.
08:36 In the controlled territory of Donetsk region as a result of Russian shelling over the past day, two civilians were killed - in Avdiivka and New Donbass. Ten more people were injured, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
08:33 Russian troops are "mobilizing" men in the occupied territories in the Lugansk region, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Gaidai. According to him, 10-15% of the population remained in the captured cities, and the remaining men are "mobilized" into the army, while some go to fight voluntarily, believing in the promises of high salaries.
Gaidai also said that Lisichansk-Bakhmut remained the main direction for the occupying forces. Yesterday the enemy tried to advance towards Verkhnekamenka, but withdrew with losses. Also, the Armed Forces of Ukraine repulsed the attack on Belogorovka.
08:30 The Russians inflicted four strikes on Kramatorsk in the morning, presumably from the MLRS, Mayor Alexander Goncharenko said. All hits fell on the industrial zone.
08:28 Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that Beijing will not "sit idly" in the event of an escalation of the conflict in Ukraine: "Our country does not belong to the states involved in the crisis in Ukraine, but we do not intend to sit back and parties to passively observe what is happening."
At the same time, the Chinese minister made it clear that these would not be military measures: Beijing is not going to "add fuel to the fire" and will "stubbornly promote peace talks." In his opinion, it is necessary through the coordinated efforts of the world community to create "an effective and stable mechanism for ensuring security in Europe."
08:24 Iran is preparing to provide Russia with up to 300 drones and this month will begin to train Russians to use them, writes The New York Times, citing sources. These UAVs will fill the "critical gap" of Russian forces in Ukraine, the newspaper notes. The urgency for Moscow also lies in the fact that drones help fight against American MLRS.
The publication also indicates that problems with UAVs have begun in Ukraine: according to analysts, Russian electronic warfare systems have nullified the success of American and Turkish drones. According to British experts, Russia destroys any Ukrainian reconnaissance UAV in a maximum of a week.
07:40 APU repelled the assaults of the Russians in the areas of Verkhnekamensky, Disputed and Serebryanka in the Donetsk direction, near Novolugansky, Semigorye and Uglegorsk TPP, as well as near Kamenka, Novomikhailovka and Vugledar, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in the morning report .
07:36 The head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA, Valentin Reznichenko, said that at night Russian troops hit Nikopol several times from the MLRS, firing more than 60 shells at residential areas and urban infrastructure. One person was previously wounded, about ten private houses were destroyed, a water supply and a gas pipeline were damaged on one of the streets. The hospital, industrial and energy enterprises, the port were hit.
04:45 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that the Russian army, having no new territorial achievements, is dragging out the war in Ukraine to restore and replenish its forces. The Russian troops on July 17 continued their expected return from the operational pause and did not have any confirmed territorial gains. Analysts predict that the end of the operational pause will be characterized by hesitation and a stepwise resumption of ground offensives.
The Russians continued limited ground offensives around Seversk, Bakhmut and Donetsk, and shelled civilian and military infrastructure throughout the Donbass. Also, Russian troops concentrated on the defense north of Kharkov and along the southern direction. In addition, Russian troops continued to create conditions for the resumption of the offensive against Slavyansk.
03:20 In Nikolaev at least ten powerful explosions have thundered, mayor Alexander Senkevich reported.
01:34 In the Kherson region, Ukrainian aviation twice inflicted a fire defeat on a strong point and an accumulation of manpower, weapons and equipment of the enemy in the area of Blagodatny and Davydov Brod, OK Pivden reported. According to the command, the enemy continues to equip defense lines, is limited in the conduct of hostilities due to the demoralization of personnel, problems with logistics and the precise work of Ukrainian rocket and artillery units.
Twice the Russians tried to launch an air strike on the liberated territories in the north of Kherson, but, having attacked the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they immediately retreated under the onslaught of retaliatory fire damage.
00:16 Nikopol, Dnepropetrovsk region, was again shelled, the head of the RVA Yevgeny Yevtushenko said.
[AlArabiya] Israel's military said on Monday it had intercepted a small drone that crossed into the country from Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , adding that it had likely been sent by the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah.
The drone had been tracked by Israel throughout its flight, the military said.
"The Israel Defense Forces will continue to operate in order to prevent any attempt to violate Israeli illusory sovereignty," it said.
Hezbollah has occasionally sent drones into Israeli airspace before, calling them reconnaissance missions.
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[REGNUM] Thousands of Shiite Hazaras, including women, children and the elderly, fled the fighting area during fighting in Balhab district of Saripul province in northern Afghanistan, the Shafakna news agency reported .
It is noted that a number of refugees arrived in Mazar-i-Sharif to avoid revenge from the Taliban (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation), but the Taliban forces (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) in this city pursue and arrest residents of Balhab .
According to local sources, the Taliban special services broke into a hotel in the center of Mazar-i-Sharif last night, arrested a number of residents of Balhab and took them away in an unknown direction. The motive for these arrests is unknown, but it seems that intelligence is looking for people wounded in the Balkhab war. One of those arrested was wounded in the arm.
It is reported that in one of the hotels in the Mandawi district of the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, Taliban militants (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) demanded to extradite the wounded residents of Balhab, but left it after a physical search, not finding the wounded.
A few days ago, a photo of Maulavi Mehdi Mujahid, a Hazara commander of the Taliban now fighting against them, was published, showing that he and some of his people had made a halt in the mountains.
Local sources report that after the publication of this photo, the Taliban (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) increased their harassment of the residents of Balhab, and also set up several roadblocks on the roads leading to Balhab, and no one is allowed to leave or enter the area.
According to the publication, on July 16, a meeting was held at the Bazarak mosque in this district with the participation of some residents of Balkhab and representatives of the Taliban (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation).
The meeting discussed the return of Balkhab refugees to their homes, and the Taliban put forward several preconditions. In particular, representatives of the local population must ensure that no action will be taken against the Taliban (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation), and local residents will also not have to travel without permission to other provinces.
It is also reported that the Taliban (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) demanded that the Balkhabis confirm the UN data on 27,000 temporarily displaced persons, but, according to open sources, their real number may be more than 50,000 people. All of them currently live in the mountains and gorges and are in a catastrophic situation.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:17 Demining units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the Russian Emergencies Ministry continue to carry out tasks to clear the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics of explosive objects.
Total verified: 4,099.08 hectares of territory; 41 buildings (of which 13 are socially significant objects); four bridges and 9.64 km of roads. 66,936 explosive objects were found and neutralized.
22:07 In Kalinovka, Bakhmut district of the Donetsk People's Republic, on the territory of the granary, neo-Nazis placed artillery and MLRS, from which they systematically fire at the positions of the Russian Armed Forces, provoking them to return fire.
21:20 Additional information about the injured civilian, a man born in 1974, was received through the operational lines of the DPR JCCC. as a result of a VFU mine explosion in N. p. Lugansk (Artemovsky district).
Additional information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
n.p. Gorlovka, microdistrict "Komarova":
- st. Shashurina - boiler room No. 121 was damaged.
💣Today, as of 21:00, the enemy fired 334 ammunition of various types, including the BM-27 Uragan and BM-21 Grad MLRS, as well as artillery ammunition with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
20:32 Ukrainian troops at 19.10 fired a rocket from the Hurricane at the village of Bayrak in the DPR,reportedrepresentation of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC).
"Fire was recorded from the armed formations of Ukraine in the direction: 19.10 (coincides with Moscow time - ed.) - the settlement of Nelepovka - the settlement of Bayrak: one rocket was fired from the BM-27 Uragan MLRS," the representative office reports in its Telegram channel.
19:30 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the DPR: for the current day, according to information from the JCCC of the DPR, the enemy fired more than 260 shells from Grad multiple launch rocket systems, cannon artillery with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm, 120mm mortars.
The fire was fired at the areas of twelve settlements of the Republic. As a result of shelling, two civilians were injured. Fifteen residential buildings and three civil infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about the injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.
We regret to inform you that while performing military duty in the struggle for independence, two defenders of the Donetsk People's Republic were killed and four were injured. We express our sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims.
19:15 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 10 mines fired with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Novoselovka: fired five mines in 120mm caliber.
19:11 The Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation intends to initiate the creation of a football league with the participation of the clubs of the Crimea, the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic - Deputy Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation Odes Baysultanov.
19:00 Today APU destroyed another school in Donetsk. Petrovsky district, the area of the so-called Zhilploshchadka, is shelled regularly. School No. 103 gets it for the second time.
18:30 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
- n.p. Ocheretino - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: six shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
18:27 Consequences of the Ukrainian strikes school in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk.
18:23 The headquarters of the DPR TeroO reports: the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at Verkhnetoretskoe, on the street. Kalinin, a man died.
18:19 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Krasnogorovka (Yasinovatsky district) - n.p. Verkhnetoretskoye: seven each 152mm shells were fired;
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yakovlevka: fired six shells of 152mm caliber;
— n.p. Avdieivka - Donetsk (Kyiv region): six shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
17:19 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Artemivsk (ukr. Bakhmut) - n.p. Dolomite: fired 8 shells with a caliber of 155mm;
— n.p. Ceramic - n.p. Verkhnetoretskoye:six shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
17:18 Effects of today's shelling by Ukrainian militants of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk.
17:15 Endwater blockade of Donbass. Russian military builders launched a water pipeline connecting the Khanzhenkovskoye reservoir with the Severny Donets-Donbass canal. The water pipeline can pump up to 72,000 cubic meters per day.
17:15 Seversk came under the operational control of the allied forces, liberation battles for the city are being waged in its vicinity, said Vitaly Kiselev, Assistant Minister of the Interior of the LPR.
17:02 Representatives of the "People's Front" with the support of the NM LPR delivered humanitarian aid in the city of Kirovsk for temporary accommodation for refugees.
16:31 In the south of the DPR, a "certain springboard" is being prepared for the liberation of the entire territory of the republic, declared Eduard Basurin, press secretary of the NM DNR.
"The same thing is happening in Avdievka and in the Gorlovka region," he added /TK Zvezda/. Avdievka has been a shit show for the separatists since 2014. 16:28 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Otradovka - n.p. Dolomite: fired 12 shells with a caliber of 155mm;
— n.p. Semigorye - n.p. Dolomite: fired five minutes with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Verkhnetoretskoye: 10 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
15:33 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of the mine named after Gagarin): eight mines were fired with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Kalinovo - n.p. Panteleimonovka: eight shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
15:30 In the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, a woman was injured and the building of hospital No. 19 on the street was damaged. Tumanyan.
15:18 Effects of today's shelling by Ukrainian militants of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, as a result of which a fire broke out in school No. 103.
15:18 Consequences of shelling in Gornyak village in Donetsk today.
15:03 On a photo- a house destroyed as a result of a direct hit by a Ukrainian shell at the address: st. Oktyabrskaya, 18, which is in the Gorlovka village of Panteleymonovka.
14:53 LPR sappers with explosions clearing blockages at the site of bridges blown up by Ukrainian soldiers during the retreat from Lisichansk.
14:45 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
14:20 AFU fired at the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, firing six shells of 152mm caliber.
13:53 Attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Nelepovka - n.p. Verkhnetoretskoye: 22 shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirov district): six shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
13:46 Minus another "three axes" (M-777) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
13:06 The liberation of the Donbass territories will be completed this year, Basurin, a representative of the NM DPR, said
12:45 The formation of administrations in all cities and regions of the LPR is completed - the head of the republic
12:43 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
- The RF Armed Forces hit the place of unloading of echelons with military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the Udachnoye station in the DPR, more than 10 Grad MLRS installations were destroyed;
- The RF Armed Forces destroyed two batteries of the Uragan MLRS, three platoons of the Grad MLRS and 14 artillery platoons of the Giacint-B howitzers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
- Russian air defense systems shot down six Ukrainian UAVs in a day, intercepted two shells of the Uragan MLRS of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the LPR;
- High-precision missiles of the Russian Federation hit the point of temporary deployment of mercenaries of the "Foreign Legion" in the DPR, up to 250 foreign fighters were destroyed;
- The Russian Armed Forces destroyed two Mi-8 helicopters with an artillery attack on the field airfield of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR;
— Up to 60 nationalists were killed by a strike of high-precision weapons at the location of the battalion of the 118th brigade of the territorial defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Cherkasy region;
- Russian aviation destroyed the Buk-M1 installation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kramatorsk region, three warehouses with weapons and a fuel depot in the Zaporozhye region.
12:42 The DPR JCCC reports shelling of the territory of the DPR:
— n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Artemivsk (ukr. Bakhmut) - n.p. Dolomite: fired three shells with a caliber of 155mm.
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three shells fired - caliber 152mm.
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: fired six mines in 120mm caliber;
- n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 10 mines fired with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): three shells of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): eight shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
12:23 In the Rostov region, a resident of the LPR recruited by the SBU was identified, who arrived to collect information about the movement of Russian military equipment, the FSB reported.
12:15 From Donetsk, it is reported that the allied forces began to suppress the firing points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Maryinka, southwest of the capital of the DPR. It was from Maryinka that the Petrovsky district of Donetsk was regularly shelled. Now we know about the defeat of four positions of Ukrainian formations.
12:08 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Maryinka (western) - n.p. Aleksandrovka: fired 10 mines in 120mm caliber;
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Mineral: fired six shells with a caliber of 122mm.
12:00 The head of the administration of the city of Donetsk, Aleksey Kulemzin, reports: Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts are under fire. Eyewitnesses report arrivals in the microdistrict Azotny. Also, the fall of the Ukrainian projectile provoked a fire in school No. 103, located on the street. Dunayevsky.
11:58 DPR troops completely blocked the road from Avdievka to Konstantinovka in two places. Thus, Avdievka is taken into a semicircle - the official representative of the NM DNR Eduard Basurin.
11:13 Pushilin appointed Petrikin Alexander Mikhailovich as Head of Administration of Krasny Liman
11:07 Kramatorsk, series arrivals in shop 16 of NKMZ
11:04 The joy of local residents from the meeting with the Russian army. A few warm words from the residents of the liberated Lisichansk about the fighters of the Brave group
11:03 Another destroyed location of the APU. This time in Dzerzhinsk. Officially declared 6,200x. Unofficially they say from 30-40.
11:01 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the LPR, Captain Filiponenko I.M. according to the situation as of 07/18/2022: during the clashes with units of the defense department, over the past day, the enemy suffered losses in manpower and military equipment, namely:
The enemy continues to terrorize the civilian population of the Republic, shelling the civilian infrastructure of the settlements of the LPR, which do not pose a danger to the enemy and are not military facilities.
Over the past day, the armed formations of Ukraine fired at the settlement. Stakhanov using American MLRS M142 HIMARS, firing two missiles.
Engineering and sapper units of the People's Militia of the LPR continue demining the territory of the Republic. So, yesterday, sappers of the NM LPR cleared more than 8 hectares of territory from explosive objects left by Ukrainian nationalists in the areas of the settlements of Sirotino and Metelkino.
The forces of the NM of the LPR, together with public organizations, continue to deliver humanitarian aid to residents of the liberated territories of the Republic.
10:57 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky and Kirovsky districts): eight shells of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: three shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
10:56 Last night, the air defense crew of the allied forces destroyed targets in the sky over Alchevsk (LPR). The nature of the target is not clear. The burning ball fell to the ground for more than a minute.
10:36 Air raid alert in Luhansk
10:30 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the DPR: over the past 24 hours, according to the DPR JCCC, the enemy fired more than 660 shells from Grad multiple rocket launchers, barreled artillery of 155mm and 122mm caliber, 120mm mortars.
The fire was fired at the areas of twelve settlements of the Republic. As a result of shelling, two civilians were injured. Nineteen residential buildings and three civil infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about the injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.
Over the current day, the joint actions of the military personnel of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the following enemy weapons and military equipment: two BM-21 Grad MLRS, two off-road vehicles. Four enemy firing points were suppressed in the area of the settlement. Marinka.
10:25 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: three shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
10:19 The headquarters of the Tero DPR reports: Ukrainian militants fired at Verkhnetoretskoe using 122mm artillery from positions in Nelepovka.
09:39 The authorities of the Donetsk People's Republic, during the investigation of the explosion in the drama theater of Mariupol, received reliable information that it was the fault of the military of Ukraine. This was reported by TASS with reference to a source close to the investigation.
"The DPR authorities have reliable data, established during the investigation, which indicate that the explosion in the Mariupol Drama Theater was the fault of the Ukrainian military," the agency’s source said.
09:29 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Nelepovka - n.p. Verkhnetoretskoye: 12 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
09:06 Denis Pushilin presented the Order of the Republic, medals "For Courage", insignia "For Merit to the Donetsk People's Republic" III degree with swords, "For Merit to the Donetsk People's Republic" III degree, "St. George's Cross" I, II, III , IV degrees to 82 fighters of the operational-combat tactical formation of the Donetsk People's Republic "Cascade".
08:25 From 6 am to 8 am, Ukrainian militants fired about 40 shells at the settlements of the DPR: Panteleymonovka, Verkhnetoretskoye, Mikhailovka.
07:00 Summary of the Luhansk People's Republic Representation in the JCCC for the past 24 hours, July 17. From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, shelling was recorded on the settlement. Stakhanov using MLRS HIMARS (two missiles). Information about the victims and damage is being specified. Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] Alexander Druke, born in 1982, native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He has a higher education in management.
As a US Army reservist, Druke served in the Iraqi campaign with the 942nd Transport Company. He served several years directly in the war zone in Iraq. During the campaign, he held the rank of Sergeant in the US Army. In addition, he moved up the military ladder. During his service in Iraq, Drucke received several US awards and received a special lifetime pension.
Then, until 2022, he allegedly worked as a salesman for various companies in the United States. In February 2022, under the influence of US anti-Russian propaganda, he decided to take part in military operations in Ukraine on the side of Kyiv. Having sufficient financial resources, he bought military equipment at his own expense, including a helmet, body armor, tactical boots, etc.
On April 15, 2022, he arrived on the territory of Ukraine. He crossed the border without hindrance, telling the border guards that he was entering Ukraine with the “purpose of helping the Ukrainian people.”
Then Oleksandr Druke contacted representatives of the so-called Ukrainian Foreign Legion via the Internet. He was told that he was to arrive at the Yavoriv railway station in the Lviv region, where there is a notorious military training ground used to form and combat coordination of foreign mercenaries.
Arriving in Yavoriv, Druke signed a contract with the Ukrainian Foreign Legion to serve in its ranks on a paid basis. He was assigned to a unit that included only foreigners. Most of his colleagues did not have any military experience, which subsequently led to a lack of proper military discipline in the unit. The training of the unit was entrusted to the fighters themselves. At the training camp, Alexander Druke befriended three other US mercenaries.
A week later, he and his friends became disillusioned with the unit's training system and their command. They believed that the Ukrainian Foreign Legion was a large and professional unit, but their aspirations were radically at odds with reality. As a result, they terminated their contracts and left the Foreign Legion at the end of April 2022.
Through their personal contacts in Ukraine, they found another unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, located in the city of Rivne. They signed new contracts with this division. They were given personal weapons (AK-74, caliber 5.45x39), which Alexander learned to use from YouTube videos.
Service in the second unit allegedly also did not suit Alexander and his two friends. A group of mercenaries tried to find another professional unit where their combat skills could be applied to the fullest. They did it in a month. At the beginning of June 2022, the mercenaries were invited to the sabotage and reconnaissance group of foreigners, which operated in the Kharkiv direction.
They arrived in Kharkiv on June 8, 2022, where they were met by German and French citizens who were members of the Baguette tactical group.
The Baguette Group consisted of approximately 12 military personnel, of which about half were French citizens, former or current members of the French Foreign Legion or other units of the French Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces. In addition to Alexander Druke and two of his friends, there were 3 more US citizens in the group.
Upon arrival at the group's location, each of them was given a CZ807 assault rifle, 7 magazines of 30 rounds and a hand grenade. Alexander's partner was also given an RPG-7 with one grenade for a grenade launcher, and Alexander was given two more grenades for an RPG-7. Earlier, during their short service in the Ukrainian Foreign Legion, they were trained in the use of these weapons.
On the evening of June 8, 2022, a briefing was held. They were told that the next day they were to move to a combat position for reconnaissance and mining.
On June 9, 2022, a group of 8 foreign soldiers, accompanied by soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, went on a mission. On the spot, Ukrainian servicemen mined the area, and foreigners were instructed to conduct reconnaissance using drones. In the event that enemy forces were detected, they were to ambush them in order to destroy their military equipment.
During the operation, Druke's partner discovered a Russian tank, which he opened fire on with his RPG-7.
In response, the Russian military opened fire with small arms on the positions of foreign mercenaries. Alexander and his colleague retreated to the forest area, where they hid for a couple of hours until the fighting subsided. After that, they decided to dig out their RPG-7 and the two remaining grenades. Being armed, they moved to the side where the cars in which they arrived were parked.
However, only one of the three cars remained, and that one had already been inspected by Russian servicemen. Alexander and his partner tried to leave the battlefield on their own and left in the direction of the location of their group. Having no maps and not knowing the area, they wandered for 6 hours. As a result, they came to the settlement, which was under the control of the Russian military, where they were captured.
All his appeals to Western governments asking for help or exchange were ignored.
[Dawn] A powerful boom-mobile killed at least five people on Sunday outside a popular hotel in central Somalia, police and witnesses said, in an attack claimed by bully boyz aligned with Al Qaeda.
The blast injured 14 others and destroyed not just the hotel but adjacent buildings in Jowhar about 90 kilometres (56 miles) north of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu.
Police said the attackers rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into the outer wall of the Nur-doob hotel, popular with state politicians and other local officials.
"They have killed five civilians, among them women working in the hotel and security guards," said Mohammed Ali, a police officer in Jowhar, said.
"Fourteen other people were maimed, some of them inside buildings not even close to the hotel." Al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... , a Somalia-based group tied to Al Qaeda, grabbed credit for the attack in a statement posted on a pro-militant website.
Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre, who was endorsed by Somalia’s parliament in June after a recent change of government, sent condolences to the victims and offered to assist those injured.
Ali, the police officer, said the blast "was the biggest ever seen in Jowhar" and caused significant damage to buildings in the city.
Mahad Ibrahim, a Jowhar resident, said the earth-shattering kaboom sent shrapnel flying and clouds of smoke and dust into the air. The force of the shockwave ripped the roof of his house, he added.
"I have never seen such devastation. I saw some dead bodies recovered from under the debris of the part of the hotel that collapsed." Another witness, Abdirahman Shabelow, said bystanders were maimed by blast debris.
"I saw two civilians struck by shrapnel some distance from the hotel... the blast sent a powerful shockwave felt in every house across town." Al-Shabaab have been waging a deadly insurgency in Somalia for over a decade and remain capable of executing major attacks despite a long-running African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... operation to degrade the bad boys.
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[LB] On Monday, July 18, the Russian military shelled the city of Toretsk, Donetsk region. As a result of a shell hit, a two-story building in which there were people was destroyed, 6 people died, two were saved. This is reported by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.
" This morning, the city of Toretsk was shelled, as a result of a shell hit, a two-story building in which people were located was destroyed. of whom died in the hospital ," the statement said.
The Wagner-linked RSOTM channel posted about HIMARS, which they said are successfully striking "very important" targets. They say that Russian claims that HIMARS have been stolen or destroyed are fiction and that there would be greater evidence if true.https://t.co/kt3DGDWvqFpic.twitter.com/yr6fL1uQBZ
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Police fired tear gas in Sudan’s capital Khartoum on Sunday against hundreds of anti-coup protesters who also called attention to increasingly deadly tribal clashes in the country’s south.https://t.co/LkpLoxBaew
Watch: #Morocco mobilizes more firefighters and soldiers to tackle forest blazes burning for four days in the remote wooded regions in the north of the kingdom, local officials say.https://t.co/p7h8t1sUNFpic.twitter.com/XQFjPlhh1C
[NYPOST] What comes after the end of public schools?
Anyone who cares about the education of children should be asking that question. So of course it’s one that the teachers unions don’t want us to discuss.
New York City schools are in trouble. As The Post reported Friday, "the city Department of Education expects to enroll roughly 28,100 fewer students this fall." Enrollment at the city’s regular public schools already fell during the pandemic, and this new projection suggests it’s not improving any time soon.
And New York leads a large pack: Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Illinois, Oregon, Mississippi and Michigan have all seen serious losses of students departing their public-school systems.
Why? A Gallup poll last week showed only 28% of Americans have "a great deal or a lot" of "confidence in U.S. public schools."
Much of this is tied to long closures during the pandemic. Teachers unions, with people like American Federation of Teachers chief Randi Weingarten leading the charge, pushed hard to keep schools closed for far too long. The shutdowns (and the travesty of remote learning) smashed public trust and it simply isn’t that easy to rebuild. Researchers at the American Enterprise Institute found that the longer a school district stayed remote, the larger its enrollment drop.
But parents tell me they have many reasons for saying "enough."
New York City’s crushing of merit-based admissions under Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him... pushed people out, as did general woke nonsense replacing academics. Other parents pulled their kids when toddlers stayed masked after the rest of the city had stopped.
Mayor Eric Adams isn’t mincing words: "We have a massive hemorrhaging of students — massive hemorrhaging. We’re in a very dangerous place in the number of students that we are dropping." But the City Council (clearly lobbied by the teachers union) is pushing for schools to retain funding at the old enrollment numbers. That’s crazy: These schools aren’t meeting families’ needs; they shouldn’t be rewarded for this failure with cash.
Especially because money is so often set on fire in the New York City system. Schools Chancellor David Banks and over 50 other staffers attended a conference last week "at a swanky hotel near Universal Studios in Orlando," The Post reports. Kids had to zoom to get an education for over a year, but the grownups need to meet up near theme parks to discuss their education plan? Ridiculous.
Public schools are in a serious downward spiral. The options are fixing them, which hasn’t worked for decades, or letting parents get their kids out.
Public charter schools are, understandably, booming despite getting far less funding. Former Mayor Michael Nanny Mike Bloomberg ...former Republican mayor of New York. He tried to take the credit for Rudy Giuliani's actions in the wake of the 9-11 attacks. He was known as Nanny Bloomberg for his war on 32-ounce Slurpees. Nanny was a candidate for the Dem presidential nomination in 2020. He was born on Valentine's day, 1942, which makes him 80.34636 years old, which is pretty ripe. Mike has lots of money, some of which he spends on grass roots organizations pushing for common sense gun laws along the same lines as his common sense Slurpee regulations.... recently pointed out, "Charter schools educate 7% of all public-school students, yet they receive less than 1% of total federal spending on K-12 education."
On average, charters have higher math and reading scores than traditional public schools; Bloomberg notes, "Research has found that the benefits are especially pronounced for Black, Latino and low-income students."
But the teachers unions hate charters. They hate when parents have choices for their kids.
They also hate outspoken parents fighting for their kids. Weingarten called parents showing up to school board meetings "racists" and has argued that school vouchers, which would give parents a way to get their kids out of failing schools, are "the end of public education as we know it." To which we all should say: good.
Public education shouldn’t exist to serve Weingarten. It’s our money paying for our children to get an education.
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[NYPOST] Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today 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. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... can make nuclear bombs but has not yet chosen whether to build one, a bigwig bragged.
Kamal Kharrazi, a senior adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... , gave the warning Sunday, a day after President Biden ended his Middle East trip in which he vowed to stop Iran from "acquiring a nuclear weapon."
He told Al Jazeera TV that "Iran is on the nuclear threshold and this is not something secret," according to the Tehran Times.
"Iran has the technical means to produce a nuclear bomb but there has been no decision by Iran to build one," Kharrazi insisted.
Kharrazi said Iran has already been easily "able to enrich uranium up to 60%" — far above a cap of 3.67% under Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
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Kharrazi said Iran has already been easily "able to enrich uranium up to 60%" — far above a cap of 3.67% under Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
Thanks a hellva lot Obama and fellow travelers (sarc).
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Frightened cats yowl and lash out with their claws, hoping to discourage that which they’re afraid of. Secure cats wait calmly to see if they need do anything about the situation. (I assume it’s similar with dogs, but I haven’t lived with one since my age was a small prime number, so can’t say from observation.)
Given the level of penetration Israel has demonstrated over the decades of Iran’s nuclear program — and the fact that Mossad made off with Iran’s entire research archive a few years ago, it strikes me that Israel probably knows better than Iran the status of Iran’s nuclear bomb program, and where all the parts are located.
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It will be fun watching Haley and Pence pull down single digit support in the "cattle call" portion of the nominee race.
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The Saudi foreign minister poured cold water over any imminent normalization with Israel, saying this was not a precursor to further steps. He said Riyadh was not part of any discussions on a Gulf-Israeli defense alliance to counter Iran.
Iran will benefit from the new multi-polar world. It has been seeking to ally itself with the Russia and China block with added relations to a neutral India.
All GCC are talking with Iran to normalize their relations.
Based on the statements Iranian nuke test will be conducted very soon.
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[NYPOST] Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said Democratic mayors and city councils have "abdicated their responsibility" in fighting crime and addressing mental illness, which has forced his company to shutter stores due to fears over employee safety.
Schultz made the comments in leaked video that was posted to Twitter over the weekend by Ari Hoffman of KVI-AM talk radio based in Seattle.
Last week, Starbucks announced it was closing 16 restaurants in various cities across the country due to what the company said was employee complaints of drug use and violent mostly peaceful crime on the premises.
Schultz said he believes the Seattle-based coffee chain will have to close "many more" locations.
"This is just the beginning," said the interim chief executive, who came back to run the company earlier this year following the retirement of his predecessor, Kevin Johnson.
"There are gonna be many more [store closures]."
The leaked video of Schultz shows him addressing Starbucks employees. He told them that the company was "beginning to close stores that are not unprofitable."
Schultz said he was "shocked" to hear from employees that "one of the primary concerns that our retail partners [baristas] have is their own personal safety."
"And then we heard about the stories that go along with it about what happens in our bathrooms," Schultz said.
In 2018, Starbucks implemented an "open bathrooms" policy after a store manager had two black men arrested for not ordering coffee while sitting down in a Philadelphia location.
Video of the arrest went viral, and Starbucks apologized following intense backlash.
Now the company is giving store managers discretion to alter the policy due to complaints that Starbucks bathrooms are a magnet for drug abusers and homeless people.
In the video leaked over the weekend, Schultz cited the "issues of mental illness, homelessness, and crime."
"Starbucks is a window into America," Schultz said. "We are facing things in which the stores were not built for."
Schultz then took Democrat-run cities to task for not providing solutions.
"In my view, at the local, state, and federal level, these governments across the country and leaders — mayors, governors, and city councils — have abdicated their responsibility in fighting crime and addressing mental illness," he said.
Schultz added: "We are going to have to refine and transform and modernize many of the things we do to meet the needs of our customers in a very changing operating environment in which customer behavior is changing."
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You not only voted for them, Howard, you contributed cash to their election.
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^ Which points up the crux of the matter. Leftists do not think through their actions or desires. They begin with the premise they are correct and when negative results ensue, they are unwilling to reflect on how their initial premise was wrong.
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^ State capitals always have lots of homeless and leftist NGO grifters. My theory is it's about being as close as possible to the source of the welfare money gummint teat.
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Harvard "educated" for sure.
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From powerlineblog.com, the go to source for all things Minneapolis, much more information about the Minneapolis standoff and police shooting of Tekle Sundberg and Twitter videos from the shooter's adoptive parents. (Sorry. I haven't yet figured out how to copy and paste Twitter posts but they are at the link.)
John (Hindraker)
covered our current local cause célèbre last night in "The victim speaks." You know Minneapolis is suffering another meltdown if attorney Ben Crump is on the scene. While all the facts behind the hours-long standoff that preceded Tekle Sundberg’s death are not yet clear, Crump wants to agitate the mob.
Also, video from Fox 9 in Minneapolis:
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[NaturalNews] European researchers put together a study revealing that government-run Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) information websites are a privacy-invading nightmare — let the public beware!
Entitled "Measuring Web Cookies in Governmental Websites," the paper, which was funded by the European Research Council (ERC), the European Union (EU), and the Spanish government, explains that government websites are basically being used as "a single point of monitoring and tracking for the entire population of a country" using web cookies. More at the link.
Is this unusual? I was under the impression that many private websites do this as well, unless precautions are taken.
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Hence, why many of use an app called MadMac's, a cookie monster, along with an open source VPN and TOR
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Heard on ABC News (I listen so that I know what the low-info folks are being fed) yesterday that there's a 'grassroots' push to nationalize the US fossil fuel industry.
Then there's this little jewel floating around now too, as an alternate to the 'I did that' stickers.
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^ In such an environment, each "stakeholder" should have to drill their own wells and refine their own fuel.
Oh, and look how well nationalization has worked out for Venezuela. (Really well if you were one of the commie plunderers. Not so much for the average Venezuelan.)
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I just put a wide tip Impact marker in my car to deface any of those commie stickers if I see any.
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Heard on ABC News (I listen so that I know what the low-info folks are being fed)...
I admire you for being able to do that. I get so agitated that I have to leave the room.
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The only way this makes sense is if the Big Guy gets his 10 percent. But then, if he doesn't know when his handlers might pull the plug on him, he might as well make it pay while he can.
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...pre-attack diagnoses of autism, anxiety, depression and significant psychological problems, described as a troubled kid obsessed with guns — the police came to the family home frequently to deal with him. Mr. Cruz was adopted at birth, then his adoptive father died when he was young, followed into the grave by his adoptive mother a few months before he ran amok. So really he was a classic school shooter. Interestingly, his biological sister Danielle Woodard, a decade older, is classified as a habitual violent offender...
the admitted gunman in the 2018 school massacre in Parkland, Fla., kicks off Monday — and jurors will decide whether he’ll be given the death penalty or rot in prison instead.
The 12-person jury in Fort Lauderdale will not weigh whether Cruz is guilty in the case, since the mass shooter in October copped to killing 17 people at his former school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, on Feb. 14, 2018.
Instead, the jury — which took nearly three months to select — will deliberate on whether Cruz should be sentenced to capital punishment or life in prison without parole. Only one juror needs to oppose the death penalty for Cruz to receive the lesser sentence of life behind bars.
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If the armed officer on scene had done his job, the taxpayers and the victim families would not be providing room and board like #1 by Dron66046 suggests will likely happen.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Seversk.
Fights for the dominant heights in the city area. Statements about the occupation of Seversk are still ahead of events. It is not the city itself that is of key importance, but the heights around it. The enemy seeks to hold on to them, despite the blows of the RF Armed Forces.
Fights in Serebryanka and Verkhnekamensky, Ivano-Daryevka. The enemy is transferring reserves here from the Slavic-Kramatorsk agglomeration.
2. Soledar.
Fighting at Yakovlevka, Belogorovka and Berestovoye, so far without significant progress towards Soledar itself.
Fighting in the area between Stryapovka and Soledar and on the western outskirts of Novaya Kamenka. The Soledar-Seversk road is under attack by the RF Armed Forces, but is still accessible for the movement of enemy troops.
3. Artemovsk.
Battles near Pokrovsky and Vesela Dolina. Artemovsk is under attack. Strikes - on Krasnaya Gora, Kurdyumovka, Chasov Yar. In the area of Uglegorskaya TPP - no changes.
Kodem and Semigorye are still held by the enemy. From the Artemovsk area, the OTRK of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the western MLRS deliver pinpoint strikes deep into the territory of the LPR (Stakhanov, Alchevsk, Lugansk were attacked). The main targets are fuel depots, ammunition depots, command posts.
The RF Armed Forces are focusing on concentrations of manpower and equipment, artillery and missile systems.
"Friendly fire" shot down our plane (presumably Su-34), the pilots survived.
4. Slavyansk.
Positional battles in the area of the Valley, Sidorov, Prishib. Attacks on the Slavic-Kramatorsk agglomeration. In Konstantinovka, up to 250 foreign mercenaries and a large number of equipment were destroyed.
Western media: after the loss of Seversk and Soledar, the battles for the Slavic-Kramatorsk agglomeration and Artemovsk will be decisive for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The RF Armed Forces are completing their regrouping and are preparing for the start of a major offensive. Shoigu's visit with an inspection to the front is linked precisely with the upcoming big events.
5. Kharkov.
Positional battles in the area of Uda, Upper Passages, Tsupovka, Dementievka, Upper Saltov. In response to attacks on Kazachya Lopan and Kupyansk, the RF Armed Forces attacked Kharkov, Chuguev and the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the northern outskirts of Kharkov.
The RF Armed Forces are intensifying operations in the border areas of the Sumy region, from where the border forces of the Belgorod and Kursk regions were shelled. Attacks on the Sumy region are gradually intensifying.
6. Izyum.
Positional battles in the area of Bolshaya Kamyshevakha and Kurulka are complemented by attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to be active near Balakleya. The enemy is not taking large-scale actions against the flank of the Izyum grouping of the RF Armed Forces due to the impossibility of ensuring stable crossings across the Seversky Donets. Pontoon and makeshift bridges across the river are being destroyed, and DRG activity on the other side is of limited value.
7. Avdievka.
Positional battles near Kamenka, Novoselka-2, Novobakhmutovka and New York. The Avdiivka-Konstantinovka highway was cut in several places, but the enemy could not use it before. The Orlovka-Avdeevka road is under the control of the enemy, so there is no need to talk about the encirclement of Avdeevka. There is no serious progress in the Krasnogorovka area.
Active work continues on enemy artillery systems operating in Donetsk, Makeevka, Gorlovka, Yasinovataya. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, success was achieved in the destruction of cannon artillery and MLRS.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces, in addition to the terrorist shelling of Donetsk, continue to inflict pinpoint strikes with OTRK and heavy MLRS on the command and logistics infrastructure of the RF Armed Forces and the DPR army.
8. Ugledar.
Positional battles continued in the area of Ugledar, Velikaya Noveselovka, Novomikhailovka and in Maryinka. The enemy, after an unsuccessful offensive attempt in the Ugledar region, again went over to the defensive.
9. Zaporozhye.
On the line Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole-Velikaya Novoseloveka without significant changes. Positional battles for the settlements between Gulyaipole and Velikaya Novoselovka continue. The enemy continues to slowly accumulate troops in the area of Zaporozhye, Orekhov and Gulyaipol, trying to create the prerequisites for offensive operations.
Shelling of Novaya Kakhovka and drone raids on Energodar also continue. The RF Armed Forces fire at the enemy in the Zaporozhye region. The State Administration of Zaporozhye calls on residents of the capital of the region to leave the city in order to avoid the role of another "human shield".
10. Nikolaev.
The enemy continues to put pressure on the Krivoy Rog and Nikopol directions in the area of Potemkino and Ivanovka. As before, this direction is the most likely for a potential offensive by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in accordance with the requirements of the United States and NATO to organize an offensive with operational-tactical goals before the beginning of autumn.
The RF Armed Forces are engaged in strengthening defensive positions and systematic strikes against the Armed Forces of Ukraine in potentially threatening areas. On the Nikolaevsky direction without significant changes. Nikolaev is hit almost daily with missile strikes, the losses from which hamper the activity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson direction.
Avdievka, along with Opytnye are one of three critical objectives -- Aretemovsk and Slavyansk -- for the Russians.
[RIA Novosti] Troops of the Donetsk People's Republic blocked the road connecting Avdievka and Konstantinovka in two districts, said Eduard Basurin, deputy head of the People's Militia Department of the DPR.
"We have completely blocked the road connecting Avdievka and Konstantinovka in two districts . Avdievka is now covered in a semicircle," he said on Channel One.
Now Avdievka is occupied by Ukrainian security forces, their fortified area is located there.
In addition, for almost eight years, the line of contact between the positions of the Ukrainian army and the forces of the DPR has been near the city . From Avdievka , the Armed Forces of Ukraine are shelling the territory of the republic, namely Yasinovataya and a suburb of Donetsk.
[NYPOST] Sri Lanka’s acting president on Monday declared a state of emergency giving him broad authority amid growing protests demanding his resignation two days before the country’s lawmakers are set to elect a new president.
Ranil Wickremesinghe became acting president on Friday after his predecessor, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, fled abroad on Wednesday and resigned after months-long mass protests over the country’s economic collapse.
Wickremesinghe’s move to impose a state of emergency comes as protests demanding his resignation too have continued in most parts of the country, with some protesters burning his effigy.
Lawmakers who met on Saturday began the process of electing a new leader to serve the rest of the term abandoned by Rajapaksa.
[AlArabiya] Australian teenager Yusuf Zahab is feared dead in a Syrian jail, after he was imprisoned without charges in 2019, the BBC reported on Monday.
The 17-year-old Australian was taken to Syria by his relatives in 2015 and his Sydney-based family has since been "heartbroken and angry," because he had been begging for help for years.
Although it is still unclear how Zahab is suspected to have died, rights groups said in January that he was injured in an ISIS attack on a prison in Syria’s Kurdish-controlled northeast in an attempt to free its imprisoned fighters.
With the support of the US, Kurdish fighters fought the ISIS hard boyz for a week, killing over 180 people in the process.
In voice recordings which Zahab sent to his family at the time, he reportedly said that he "might die at any time," as the fighting continued to intensify. Scared, he told them he had "lost a lot of blood" and that there were no doctors to help him.
According to United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... ’ children’s charity agency UNICEF, Zahab was one of almost 850 children who were detained in 2019 — after the fall of ISIS — in case they posed a security risk.
The teen’s family described him as a happy and compassionate child.
An Australian teenager, who was detained in northeast Syria for contacts with Islamic State Organization (ISIS), died on Monday.
The 17-year-old Yusuf Zahab had caught tuberculosis in the prison, where Syrian and foreign ISIS suspects were held in.
Zahab, who was born in southwest Sydney, Australia, was 11 when he travelled to Syria to live in the newly declared so-called ISIS caliphate in northeast Syria with his parents and siblings.
In 2019, Zahab was arrested by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and he was detained in al-Sina’a prison in Guweiran neighborhood in the city of Hasakah alongside suspected members of the ISIS for three years.
In January 2022, during fighting between the SDF, supported by the US-led Global Coalition, and ISIS, Zahab was wounded in the head and arm. He sent audio recording, begging for help during an ISIS siege of al-Sina’a prison to Human Rights Watch (HRW). Clashes started on January 20 after militants of ISIS assaulted a prison that holds thousands of ISIS inmates. The assault coincided with three explosions in an attempt to break out the ISIS detainees out of the prison.
Between 69 and 80 Australian nationals, including 19 women and 39 children, are held in northeast Syria as ISIS suspects and their family members, according to Kamalle Dabboussy, the representative for the Zahab’s and other detainees’ families.
“The big obstacle that hinders the advance of the SDF is that ISIS used terrorist children who are ‘Cubs of the Caliphate’ and amounts 700 minors in the prison, as human shields,” the SDF said in a statement. It's VERY Islamic
The previous Australian government repatriated only eight citizens, all unaccompanied children, Dabboussy stressed.
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[REGNUM] In the Afghan province of Zabul, unknown people killed Hedayatullah, who served as the commander of the first security zone of the administrative center of the province - the city of Kalata under the previous government. This was reported on July 18 by the newspaper "8 Sobh".
Local sources told the publication that unknown people took him away from home at night and then killed him. Hedayatullah's body was found in Kalata Central Park.
It is noted that representatives of the Taliban movement (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) have not yet commented on this information.
The publication recalls that earlier in Zabul, many of the former security officials were arrested, tortured, disappeared or were killed.
[Dawn] At least 19 people drowned on Monday while several others were missing after a boat capsized in the River Indus near Machka, approximately 65km from Rahim Yar Khan.
The boat, carrying a wedding party of over 100 people, was returning from Rajanpur to Machka when the incident occurred, Rahim Yar Khan Deputy Commissioner Syed Musa Raza said.
The passengers, he said, belonged to the Solangi clan, adding that the boat capsized due to "overloading and high flow of water".
The DC said that immediately after the incident was reported, 30 rescuers, five ambulances, and a water rescue van arrived at the spot.
"Nineteen bodies, all women, have been pulled from the water while a search operation is underway for the remaining passengers," he added.
After the news was reported, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif took to Twitter and expressed grief over the loss of life, praying for the dear departed souls and their families.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed his guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... Foreign Minister Bilawal Baby Bhutto Zardari ...Pak dynastic politician, son of Benazir Bhutto and grandon of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. As far as is known, Bilawal has no particular talents other than being pretty and being able to memorize political slogans, but he had the good luck to be born into the right family and he hasn't been assassinated yet... instructed authorities to use all the possible resources in the rescue operation and prevent any such incidents in the future.
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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.
Throughout her 48-year career, she appeared in 59 films and directed eight, working primarily in the United States, where she became a citizen in 1948.
[CNBC] Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said Monday that inflation is deeply embedded in the global economy and it’s unclear whether the situation will improve later this year.
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
...The nation is noted for 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...They hate 
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...46th president of the U.S. The nincompoop who dumped Afghanistan. The copier doesdn't exist that could reelect him....
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...Arabic for 
...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets...
The price of oil surged to more than $100 a barrel on Monday after President Biden left 
[Breitbart] A Florida family recently discovered that replacing the battery for their electric vehicle costs more than what they paid for the car.
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
...former 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
