[Republic Brief] Concerns in Grand Forks, North Dakota, over a Chinese Communist Party-linked agribusiness are mounting with their plans to build a corn mill that is feared to pose national security risks for the country because of the company’s planned proximity to a top military base in the state.
Fufeng USA, a global bio-fermentation company, plans to use the corn mill facility to extract ingredients that go into animal nutrition feed products sold in the North American market.
While some local politicals see jobs and money for the local population, a few US lawmakers are growing very uneasy about bigger problems, like the potential access China would get to America’s military secrets while in the location.
"It’s 370 acres near Grand Forks, North Dakota, which is in the heart of the Red River Valley. In other words, it’s very productive farmland. Also importantly, it’s about 12 miles from Grand Forks Air Force Base, which is a very sophisticated Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) base. They fly Global Hawks.
We just put in a new ground station for the first tranche of satellites by the Space Development Agency. So it’s a vital uplink downlink data center at the Grand Forks Air Force Base.
Proximity both to the important farmland and to an important airbase make this particularly problematic," US Senator for North Dakota Kevin Cramer said in a statement from his office.
"I’m more broadly concerned by the fact that China can come in and continually make investments and buy property, enter into our food supply chain right here in the United States. Remember, during the pandemic, it was discovered that China’s ownership of meat processing in the United States made our meat supply vulnerable.
[USSA News] It’s a slow building spectacle. The momentum is momentous as gravity gives it gravitas. The snowball is snowballing as it careens downhill to bury Whites. There are just the sounds of silence as we remain silent about our fate. White America stands on the cusp of oblivion, of annihilation in the plain literal sense. It’s not hyperbole to state that the White race is racing towards extinction — not just demographic conquest and dispossession; not just humiliation, discrimination. and civil rights abuses, but EXTINCTION with the likelihood of attendant violence. We’ve been oblivious to oblivion, but hopefully, the instinct of self-preservation will kick in, in time to turn the tide, to stop the careen into the abyss. We have to recognize this reality and not retreat from it. The starting point and time to end this mindless madness must be now because it is mere minutes to Midnight before the permanent night of extinction ensues. We have to work backwards up a difficult slope from where we presently are or we will slide further downhill as the West further devolves.
Once immigration began, a transformation of the basically White world of the US to the Third World in 1965 ensured. That meant the end of the so-called "melting pot" in which hitherto various European ethnicities could meld together rather seamlessly and assimilate into an altogether different White reality represented by the bounty and boundless boundary/frontier testing spirit of America. Instead, there could now be only an inevitable meltdown as the new totally foreign elements added an untenable type of diversity in which the ingredients cannot mesh together into an edible stew. This new recipe led to a cheesy imitation of the America designed by the founders that flounders along without the necessary moral compass of a common religious or cultural base to keep it on track. As the foreign elements increased as a percentage of the overall stew, the founding stock was increasingly charged as having egg on its face by the race hustlers as they unfairly "eggzaturated" and mischaracterized alleged past misdeeds of the native White stock. Every defect, deficiency, or even duplicity of the newcomers and the never-to-be-satisfied — and never acculturated Blacks — could be palmed off or blamed on non-existent "white privilege" or the nearly non-existent "white supremacism," a figment of the imagination of fervid and fevered minds. Once the foreigners achieved sufficient clout and cred, assimilation could be thrown under the bus by the leftists who were now in the driver’s seat in their drive for "diversity". Senseless equality of outcomes was the natural outcome of trying to satisfy all foreign comers and non-white up-and-comers regardless of their native capabilities and IQs.
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UK INTELLIGENCE OVERTHREW THE ELECTED GOV'T OF THE USA
First attempt was the UK aka Steele Russiagate Doc
Steele is an MI-6 Intelligence Officer
Second attempt was Smartmatic-Dominion on Election Night
UK INTELLIGENCE QUARTERBACKED THE OVERTHROW
MI-6 Created the Russia Gate Doc working closely with the FBI, DOJ, CIA & State Dept
Mitch McConnell working with Sen's McCain & Graham approved and provided cover for the operation
They guaranteed no resistance from Republicans and ZERO prosecutions for the overthrow implementers at the DOJ, FBI, CIA and State Dept.
Barr admitted he reported directly to McConnell, and investigated and prosecuted no one. While lying to Trump non stop. Durham and Barr have committed obstruction of Justice, insurrection and treason
Roberts controls the FISA Court and provided hundreds if not thousands of wire tap, surveillance and silent search warrants against every Trump relative, friend, key employee and business associate.
The Republican Senate wanted first Hilary then Biden for President
UK INTELLIGENCE CONTROLS THE DOMINION ELECTION FRAUD MACHINES
MI-6 controls the Smartmatic fraud software used to overthrow the elected US gov't in 2020
Smartmatic-Dominion put Biden over the top in 2020, to the cheers of 90 Senators, the Supreme Court and many corrupt State Govts.
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I've said "gouge out the Five Eyes" for some time now. Caca Joe is late to the game.
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^ One of the downsides to hiring non-native speakers to staff your troll farm is they tend to trip over idioms and colloquial language.
Murciélago was a Navarra fighting bull, who gained fame after Lamborghini chose to name a supercar after him, to continue the passion for bullfighting Ferruccio Lamborghini, the company's founder, was famous for. According to the PR-specialists, the bull survived 90 sword strokes in an October 5, 1879 fight against Rafael "El Lagartijo" Molina Sanchez, at the Coso de los califas bullring in Córdoba, Spain. Its name means bat in Spanish. It is said that Murciélago fought with such passion and spirit that the crowd called for his life to be spared, an honour which the torero bestowed. The bull, which came from the farm of Joaquin del Val de Navarra, was later presented as a gift to Don Antonio Miura. Together with his brother, Don Eduardo Miura, they brought Murciélago into the Miura line by siring him with 70 cows. Bulls from the Miura ranch, located near Seville, Spain, are known for being large and ferocious.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The Brits have a long history of sending their men abroad to sow their wild oats.
British sex offenders went to refugee-laden Poland in the early weeks of war
Ten convicted paedophiles travelled east in the first six weeks as 'volunteers'
As many as 5,000 unaccompanied children displaced in first weeks of conflict
All ten were interviewed by Polish authorities and removed from the country, said an NCA spokesman, adding: 'We have an international network that identifies these threats... we contact our partners and say you have a convicted sex offender on your patch.'
Now two thirds of Ukraine's children have been driven from their homes, according to UNICEF, with 200,000 forced into Russia where some are being put up for adoption.
[NYP] NYPD cops busted five men and seized 182 handguns in an illegal gun-trafficking ring that ran weapons from Tennessee to sell on the streets of Queens, officials said Thursday.
The men exploited the lax gun laws in Tennessee and used the infamous "gun show loophole" to funnel the weapons through the so-called Iron Pipeline into New York, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said at a news conference.
The members of the ring were hit with a 1,611-count indictment with charges including criminal sale of a weapon and criminal possession of a weapon in an investigation cops nicknamed "Operation Hot Cakes," Katz said.
"Illegal gun traffickers who flood our neighborhoods with dangerous firearms put every resident of our borough at grave risk," the DA said in a statement. "We have seen far too many instances of guns, purchased down South and trafficked into New York that are then recovered at devastating crime scenes, leaving bloodshed and tragedy on our streets."
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The have it backwards. Nobody in Tennessee is pushing guns to New York. What is happening is people who do not see a need to obey firearms laws in New York are creating a demand.
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The "gun show loophole" is irrelevant. The scam could have also been supplied by legal gun purchases at gun shops. The sales and purchases in NYC were illegal and most purchasers & sellers are being charged - minus the stoolies, Feds and well connected folks.
A person in NYC could get on a bus to anywhere and legally purchased a gun if they wanted. These purchasers paid 2 times the value of the guns because they were not legal purchasers or they wanted a gun with no paper trail so it could be used illicitly - likely both. The guns were sold in NYC because there are a lot of criminals there with many potential unarmed victims.
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[CNBC] CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday gave investors his top stock picks for three different recession outcomes.
"We’ve got mild, we’ve got moderate and we’ve got severe. ... . Can we avoid a recession altogether? There’s always the chance," but investors shouldn’t hold their breath, he said.
Investors have piled into tech stocks this week, betting on a market bottom and driving this week’s rally. All the major averages gained on Thursday.
The "Mad Money" host said that while he’s outlining three possible scenarios for the economy and his favorite stocks for each, investors shouldn’t build their portfolios by betting on just one outcome. "You need something for every possibility," he said.
Here are his top stock picks for a possible mild, moderate or severe recession.
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Screw Jim Cramer, I want Pelosi's picks. She is a stock genius.
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Disclosure: Cramer’s Charitable Trust owns shares of Amazon, Constellation Brands, Coterra, Johnson & Johnson and Pioneer Natural Resources.
Pump&Dump
Biden proclaimed at a July 16 press briefing: 'I don't think anyone should be in prison for the use of marijuana. We're working on the crime bill now'
Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Schumer first proposed a pot bill over a year ago but did not release text until Thursday
The bill expunges federal cannabis-related records and sets up funding for law enforcement to fight illegal cannabis production
It would require the DOT to research and develop a standard for marijuana-impaired driving and restrict marketing the drug to minors
The legislation, called the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act, has a slim chance of passing the Senate, but portions of the bill could find their way into other packages that have a shot at passing before the end of the year.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has set up a hearing titled: 'Decriminalizing Cannabis at the Federal Level: Necessary Steps to Address Past Harms' for next week.
The legislation includes priorities sought by Democrats and Republicans: it expunges federal cannabis-related records and sets up funding for law enforcement to fight illegal cannabis production.
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As CA has shown, tax it high enough and the black market returns. 'Legal' storefronts lose their customer base (who already have played in the off the table game).
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Every state that has gone decrim predicted a blizzard of tax revenue money. It hasn't worked out that way.
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Getting the license and coming up with the scratch for an initial investment to open and maintain a legal pot shop is a bit of a stretch for many of the folks who would be inclined to sell the stuff for a living. In California, the legislature actually passed a bill to allocate several million dollars to help these people with their paper work because the state wasn't seeing as much tax revenue as they expected. Maybe you could call that an investment but I don't how if there has yet been any return on it. But then, I'm sure Brandon would have no qualms about signing such a bill at the federal level.
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Bottom line for Democrats: anything goes.
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Why not tax weed? Every damn thing else is.
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Because the right is a social 1950 era conservative movement, no pot, no contraceptives( consider the recent GOP vote against legalizing contraceptives nationwide) no abortion even for rape victims, if they could they'd outlaw liquor again while they drank it themselves, black people would be segregated and at least one fairly prominent preacher says slavery was a blessing.
No wonder Omineling Forkbeard1962 is setting fire to straw men. That’s almost as misinforming as reading the New York Times.
Utter idiocy. There is no need for a law legalizing contraceptives nationwide when they are already legal nationally due to longstanding FDA approval. Now if you are talking about chemical abortifacients, that is a question to be decided by the various states; but those only are useful if the perfectly legal contraceptives and condoms failed to work or were not used. But I just read that on university campuses around the country girls are lining up to get IUDs so that they needn’t take the risk of being unprepared when the moment comes.
The Homeland Security Inspector General's office told the U.S. Secret Service's office that its probe into the missing text messages is now criminal
Also instructed the agency to halt all internal investigations
Two whistleblowers who worked under Trump-appointed Inspector General Joseph Cuffari claim watchdog didn't report February findings to Congress about the purge
The January 6 select committee subpoenaed the Secret Service for agents' texts from around the day of the Capitol riot
Agency claims the texts were deleted as part of a device-replacement program
“To ensure the integrity of our investigation, the USSS must not engage in any further investigative activities regarding the collection and preservation of the evidence referenced above,' DHS Deputy Inspector General Gladys Ayala wrote in a letter to Secret Service Director James Murray on Wednesday evening, according to the Wednesday report.
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The way I understood this is that the Secret Service got new phones for their gents and they reset all the old phones to their default factory settings, wiping all text, email, third party apss, etc..
In which case the original texts would be found on the new phones.
This is just kabuki creature on the part of the democrats.
[Bloomberg via Western Journal] The Ford Motor Co. is expected to slash 8,000 jobs in the coming weeks to help fund its push into the electric-vehicle market, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday.
Workers in the Ford Blue unit tasked with manufacturing internal combustion engine vehicles and employees working for the company’s other departments could lose their jobs under the to-be-finalized layoff plan, according to the report, which cited "people familiar with the plan."
If finalized, the layoffs are expected to occur in stages, starting this summer, Bloomberg reported. It said most of the job cuts are expected to occur among the company’s 31,000-strong U.S. workforce.
According to Bloomberg, the layoffs would help fund the company’s electronic vehicle expansion by cutting costs and increasing profitability.
The company has announced several significant steps toward that end in recent months.
QUICK QUESTION:
Where is all this extra required Electricity Coming from?
Maybe the shutdown Fossil Fuel (COAL) powered Power plants? Because Nukes take years just to get Earth Hugger approval, then 7 to 10 years to build. Solar Power Panels? Also think amount the rare earth materials needed and the massive amount of needed to extract, produce and install. All Energy not available.
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There is no excess capacity to be had. Solar will not supply the demand for EV. The bastards in power know this and it's all part of the plan to eliminate our ability to travel. Easier to control a population that can't escape.
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What if a MAGA candidate made eliminating the EV subsidy a plank in their campaign platform in Michigan? I think the result would be chaos in a good way.
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[Western Journal] Officials in the state of Missouri have publicly refused to obey the FBI’s demands that they hand over the personal information of the state’s concealed carry weapons permit holders, saying the agency is attempting "to illegally obtain" the information.
Scotland County Sheriff Bryan Whitney, for one, is adamant that the FBI is trying to assemble an illegal gun registry of Missouri citizens.
"As the sheriff of Scotland County, I want all my citizens to know that I will not allow, cooperate or release any CCW information to the FBI, ’even at the threat of a federal arrest," Whitney, a Republican, told his constituents in a letter released on Monday, Fox News reported.
"Point Blank, I will go down with the ship if need be," Whitney added in his letter.
Whitney told his constituents that the FBI had alerted Missouri’s 24 county sheriffs that it intended to launch an audit of Missouri CCW holders starting in August.
[American Military News] On Tuesday, President Joe Biden’s administration said climate change can "force" military invention after once again calling it a "national security issue."
John Kirby, Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council, said during a press conference that climate change is a "driver of actual missions" because it creates "instability" and "insecurity."
"It’s a driver of actual missions, because climate change creates instability, which creates insecurity in some places. And you can end up — the fighting in Syria started, really, as a result of a drought. And so, there’s — there’s a — it can actually drive military missions and force the military to become involved in places and at times where they wouldn’t have had to otherwise," Kirby said.
Kirby said climate change impacts the U.S. military’s readiness "because our — our troops, our sailors, our Marines, our airmen, our Coast Guardsmen are being called out for — to respond to natural disasters, which are getting worse because of climate change."
He also claimed that climate change can "affect our infrastructure," adding that military bases like Norfolk Naval Base have invested "millions of dollars to try to improve their infrastructure because of rising sea levels."
"So it has an impact on our infrastructure. It has an impact on our readiness, because you — and you’re seeing it now, even in the wildfires, where so many National Guardsmen are being called out," Kirby said. "And — and God love them for that, but they’re — those are important tasks and missions, but it takes away from other tasks and missions when it comes to defending the United States."
Kirby said President Biden believes climate change is a "very important issue for our own national security."
"And we’re going to — we’re going to treat it that way," he concluded.
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Could, if it were a real issue. But no worries, Mr. Kirby — there are enough of the usual problems being allowed to fester as usual that instability, etc. will continue to be rife.
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The "mission" will be to come blow you away if some drone sends back a thermal image showing your house is too warm, too cool, or too brightly lit. Or maybe you have an SUV in the driveway.
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Just setting up the expectations for the military complex money machine to start working on.
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The only reason The Founders didn't put term limits in the Constitution is that they couldn't even see the concept of politics as a lifetime job. Not that there weren't examples aplenty at the time.
They were just too decent.
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The climate change communists are on the march. They realize they have a very limited amount of time to try to do this. This is a misuse and abuse of the military. Meanwhile we have an invasion going on on the southern border.
[IsraelTimes] German officials had feared that the Nord Stream 1 pipeline — the country’s main source of Russian gas — might not reopen at all, amid growing tensions over Russia’s war in Ukraine.
[IsraelTimes] Alam al-Ra’i, 42, held for firing at Israelis near Nablus in April; during probe Shin Bet finds he was part of cell that set off 2006 bomb that killed Staff Sgt. Osher Damari
The Shin Bet security agency revealed Thursday that it had arrested a Paleostinian member of the mostly dormant Tanzim terror group who was allegedly responsible for a 2006 kaboom that killed an Israeli soldier.
Alam al-Ra’i, 42, a resident of Nablus, was arrested for at least two shooting attacks at Israelis near Joseph’s Tomb on the outskirts of the West Bank city and in other areas nearby in April, the Shin Bet said.
During his interrogation, the Shin Bet found al-Ra’i was part of a cell that set off a bomb during a raid in Nablus on July 17, 2006, killing Staff Sgt. Osher Damari, 20, and wounding several other soldiers.
The Shin Bet said al-Ra’i was responsible for several more attacks against Israeli soldiers between 2005 and 2007, while part of the same Tanzim cell, and in later years committed dozens more shootings and explosive attacks, some of which maimed troops.
The April shooting attacks near Nablus were directed by a terror operative in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, according to the Shin Bet. al-Ra’i received payment for working to recruit others and committing the attacks, the agency said.
An indictment against al-Ra’i, charging him with "numerous serious security offenses, with above all the murder of the soldier Osher Damari" was to be filed later Thursday, the Shin Bet said.
Tanzim, an armed militia founded in 1995 and loosely affiliated with the Paleostinian Authority’s ruling Fatah party, was a key player in violent mostly peaceful demonstrations at the start of the Second Intifada in 2000. Its leader then was Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five life terms in jail for orchestrating deadly terror attacks.
While the group has not been blamed for any major attacks in almost two decades, Israel said it arrested its leader in 2016.
[IsraelTimes] The Saudi-sponsored London-based TV channel 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... International claims Israel’s Mossad spy agency captured a senior member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Iranian territory, interrogated him and had him confess "to his role in sending weapons to other countries."
The channel’s report on Yadollah Khedmati cannot be verified and its sourcing is unclear.
Eventually we’ll be informed. Or not, as the case may be — but in the meantime, isn’t it fun to think it’s true!
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Skidmark’s Jerusalem Post link is full of juicy goodness from the same single source:
Video recorded from the interrogation and obtained by Iran International showed Khedmati confirming his role in the Logistics Wing of the IRGC and admitting that he had been in contact with Ali Asghar Nowrozi, an IRGC Quds Force official who has been identified by the IDF as responsible for transferring precision weapon components from Iran to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Khedmati expressed regret for his operations sending weapons to Iranian proxies and asked his colleagues not to conduct such operations, according to the report. Khedmati is Nowrozi's deputy in the Logistics Wing. The IRGC official was reportedly released and allowed to return home safely after the interrogation.
The Iranian Student News Network (SNN) reported in June that a number of Iranians who had kidnapped and interrogated an unnamed IRGC official had been arrested.
Sources for Iran International stated that during the interrogation of Khedmati, information was obtained about Norozi's relationship with Fars Air Qeshm for transporting weapons.
In June, a Venezuelan cargo plane that had been purchased from the Iranian Mahan Air was detained in Argentina after Iranian citizens were found on the aircraft, including Gholamreza Ghasemi who has been linked in the past with the Quds Force’s Unit 190 and has been identified by the FBI as the CEO of Fars Air Qeshm.
The recent complaint that Mossad is running freely around Iran seems to be supported by all this. A worse nightmare even than the spy squirrels that were previously keeping the Mullahs up at night.
[IsraelTimes] The Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... rules that the state can revoke the citizenship of those who carry out terror attacks and commit other actions that constitute breach of trust against the State of Israel.
The court rules that carrying out terror attacks, actions that constitute treason, severe espionage, or acquiring citizenship with the right for permanent residency in an enemy state would constitute this kind of breach of trust.
The ruling states that citizens who carry out such actions can have their citizenship revoked even if they have no other citizenship, but said that the interior minister would then be obligated to provide that person with a residency permit.
Right-wing politicians warmly welcome the ruling. Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman says that a situation in which citizens can "commit cruel acts of terrorism [and] hold Israeli citizenship is intolerable" and he praises the court for "ending this absurdity."
[IsraelTimes] No Israeli or Paleostinian casualties reported; IDF seizes vehicles used for ’domestic terrorism’; operation follows arrests of Jewish settlers trying to establish new outputs
Israeli security forces arrested 12 Paleostinian suspects throughout the West Bank overnight Thursday, with violent mostly peaceful confrontations reported in some areas.
As part of the arrest operation, Israeli troops entered the towns of Huwara, Salem, Bir Zayt, al-Yamun and Einabus among others to arrest individuals suspected of involvement in terrorist activity, the Israeli military said.
Paleostinian rioters confronted Israeli forces operating in Jenin and Ramallah, throwing Molotov cocktails and hurling rocks toward them.
Israeli forces responded by opening fire on the assailants.
In the village of al-Mughayyir in the northern West Bank Israeli troops seized illegal weapons. Two suspects who assaulted the troops during the operation were arrested.
In the nearby village of Deir Abu Mash’al, troops arrested two suspects and confiscated a vehicle "used for domestic terrorism," the military said.
No Israeli or Paleostinian casualties were reported in the operation.
Overall, 12 suspects were arrested and taken in for questioning.
Tensions in the West Bank have risen in recent days as thousands of right-wing Israeli activist muppets flocked Wednesday to various sites across the West Bank in an effort to establish six new illegal outposts in the territory.
Organized by the radical settler organization Nachala, the initiative is believed to have drawn some 10,000 individuals, although this figure could not be independently verified.
Five ultra-nationalist activist muppets were arrested late Wednesday and early Thursday.
On Sunday, Israeli troops clashed with Paleostinian button men during an early morning raid in the northern West Bank city of Tubas. It came following a brief pause in arrest operations in the West Bank, amid US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry... ’s two-day trip to the region. The US president departed from the country on Friday.
It was thought the IDF wished to avoid any major confrontation during the visit.
Tensions have remained high, as Israeli security forces stepped up operations in the West Bank following a deadly wave of terror attacks against Israelis that left 19 people dead earlier this year.
[American Greatness] As the federal investigation into Hunter Biden and his tax affairs wraps up, the fix appears to be in, according to former federal prosecutor Jim Trusty.
Yesterday, it was widely reported that the investigation had reached a "critical stage," and Justice Department officials were looking into whether to charge Hunter with various tax violations, possible foreign lobbying violations and more.
Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, a prosecutor appointed by former President Donald Trump, is conducting the investigation, which reportedly began in 2018.
Trusty—currently an attorney and Fox News legal analyst—told America’s Newsroom hosts Bill Hemmer and Sandra Smith that he was "skeptical" that anything other than a whitewash is in the works.
"It sounds like we’re trotting out a guilty plea, not an indictment," he said, going to explain that a plea deal would involve "very narrow facts" that "deflate" the case.
"It could deflate everything into a little silo for Hunter Biden, and a very sympathetic story about addiction," he said, adding that he had heard that there was "open fretting by prosecutors on the case" that "Hunter Biden’s drug addiction was somehow a defense to a bunch of white collar crimes."
Trusty told the Fox hosts why he thinks using Hunter’s drug addiction as a defense is not applicable.
"That can be a mitigator. It can be a defense when you have something involving spur-of-the-moment action, but for months and years of financial transactions, drug addiction is a non-starter," he explained. "If they’re floating it out there, it could mean we have a very sympathetic plea agreement coming in the near future," Trusty said.
The former prosecutor said it looks to him like the government is soft-peddling the corrupt foreign lobbying/influence peddling case, which implicates other members of the Biden family, including "the big guy," Joe Biden.
Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), along with Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), issued a detailed report in September of 2020 on the Biden family’s shady influence peddling operations.
Johnson and Grassley alleged in their report that the Obama administration knew Hunter’s work for Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings prevented "the efficient execution of policy with respect to Ukraine" during Joe Biden’s tenure as vice president.
The report also revealed that Hunter Biden had business associations with Chinese nationals linked to the Communist government and People’s Liberation Army resulting in millions of dollars in questionable cash transactions. The Senate investigation also found links between Hunter Biden and Eastern European human trafficking, the adult entertainment industry, and/or prostitution.
"What you’re not hearing at all out of Delaware is the word "conspiracy," Trusty pointed out, adding that 80 to 90 percent of white collar cases involve a conspiracy charge, which he noted, "by definition means you’re looking outside a single person’s actions."
The former prosecutor said he was only reading "the tea leaves," but what he’s seeing is not promising.
"It’s not sounding like that [a conspiracy case] from the rumor mill, so far," he said. "So again, I think it looks like a very contained and friendly agreement coming on the horizon."
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Biden Crime Family cannot go down without pulling Obama down with it. Coming soon, slap on the wrist for Hunter and Brandon stepping down due to medical reasons. Memory hole placed into warp speed setting.
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Meanwhile, the phony J6 committee and the court system with a stacked D.C. Dem jury are trying hard to send Steve Bannon to the slammer and ultimately remove Trump from the 2024 election.
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The January 6 committee had a hearing last night. Has anyone seen anything abbut it?
Mrs. Uluque had it on TV. All these sanctimonious and hypocritical little people blathering on and on and on about Orange Man Bad. I can only speculate that they're doing it in prime time because nobody has been watching it in the day time. I went upstairs to watch Tucker and read a book.
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They are speeding up charging him so that Biden can pardon his son before he is removed or off'd. The destruction of our country will then proceed under new management. If they install Kamala, the system will iterate once more.
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I do believe the steady drip drip drip of the Hunter miasma into public view is to speed up the pressure to charge him, even before the Mid-Terms, so that Biden can pardon him and Jimmy the Chin. Once that is done, some housekeeping and Jojo exits stage left, toughguy speech about if only I wasn't ill drivel to the end.
I too think Kamala is already measuring the drapes and Gavin was sent in to get a final look-over before the VP appointment sham gets set up. Remember, the House and Senate have to give a simple majority approval to the nominated VP under the 25th, and after the Installation of a Republican House in January of 2023, that gets problematic. So essentially there is a 6 month timeline for this to happen, and Jojo's delaying the departure really screws any such thing quite quickly. How obedient the Cackle-Jackal will be to the Puppet Masters is far from clear.
A very strange little story, indeed. Diplomacy is usually more ...diplomatic.
[IsraelTimes] Tehran’s representative in Baku says ’evil Zionist’ crossed ’red line’ by reading history book about Iranian city
Iran’s ambassador to Azerbaijan threatened Israel’s envoy to the country on Wednesday, telling the Israeli he would be "buried" for reading a book.
Israel’s ambassador in Baku, George Deek, had posted a picture of himself on Twitter reading a book called "Mysterious Tales of Tabriz."
Tabriz is a city in Iran, near its border with Azerbaijan, and is the capital of Iran’s East Azerbaijan Province. The majority of the residents are Azerbaijani and their language is predominant.
"I’m learning so much about Azerbaijani history and culture in Tabriz in this great book I was recently presented," Deek said. Deek, a Christian Israeli-Arab from Jaffa, is a longtime diplomat and spokesperson for Israel overseas.
Iran’s ambassador to Azerbaijan, Seyed Abbas Mousavi, responded by posting a screenshot of Deek reading the book and threatening the Israeli envoy.
"For the information of this adventurous boy: Our beloved [Tabriz] is known as the land of FIRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... TS in [Iran’s] proud history," Mousavi said.
"Apparently, the FIRST Evil Zionist is going to be buried by the zealous people of Tabriz, too. Never cross our red-line, ever!" he wrote. Mousavi is also a former foreign spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry.
Joshua Zarka, the Foreign Ministry’s deputy director-general, responded to Mousavi, saying on Twitter, "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... threatens to kidnap Swedish citizens because of a terrorist put in jail, Iran’s Ambassabor to Azerbaijan threatens our’s for reading a book."
"This regime is bringing its country and people, including in Tabriz, to its worst level ever and triggers conflicts with everyone," Zarka said.
Iran and Azerbaijan are neighbors with long ties, but have clashed over Israel and other issues.
A secular, Moslem-majority state, Azerbaijan has long had warm relations with Jerusalem. Baku has bought billions of dollars of weapons from Israel and provided the Jewish state with oil.
Last year, Iran claimed Israel maintained a military presence in Azerbaijan, vowed to take action and staged military drills near its border with Azerbaijan, which denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! The two countries later smoothed over the standoff through dialogue.
Azerbaijan and Iran have also been at odds over Tehran’s backing of Armenia in the decades-long Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Armenia has accused Azerbaijan of deploying Israeli-made kamikaze drones in that conflict.
Tehran has long been wary of separatist sentiment among its ethnic Azerbaijani minority, who make up around 10 million of Iran’s 83 million population.
The ties between Israel and Azerbaijan date back to the break-up of the USSR in the early 1990s.
The two countries forged diplomatic and trade relations, as Israel sought to build bridges with Moslem countries and Azerbaijan was working to build new relationships beyond its traditional ties with Moscow.
Azerbaijan is home to a small Jewish community numbering in the thousands.
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You're "permitted", if you read the trash before it's escorted off this site. If you don't like it? Find an anti-semitic anti-American site that hosts it?
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If you want to read people saying vile, uninformative things, Xyz, get there before a moderator sees it. We each poke our heads in at various times during the day, but nobody has time to babysit.
It’s not about you not being permitted to read it, it’s that we are not interested in wasting Fred’s server memory on such things, and letting it call out to others on the internet searching for more of the same.
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It's a civilization thing. It's not the pooping so much, but the fact that they insist pooping right here in the parlor while we're trying to have a conversation.
Appreciation for the people doing the housekeeping!
[IsraelTimes] Move to build trench across 20 kilometers in Judean Desert comes after several terror attacks committed by Paleostinians who slipped through fence earlier this year
The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday announced it had launched a major engineering operation to strengthen defenses along the security barrier with the West Bank, following several terror attacks earlier this year that were committed by Paleostinians who easily managed to cross the existing security fence.
The IDF said 60 engineering vehicles and three battalions, led by the commander of the military’s Combat Engineering Corps, Brig. Gen. Ido Mizrahi, were working to build a barrier in the Judean Desert area of the West Bank.
The plan included digging a deep trench over some 20 kilometers (12 miles) to prevent the passage of people and vehicles.
Five kilometers of the trench have already been dug and another seven-and-a-half kilometers have been prepared, in coordination with the Nature and Parks Authority and the Israel Antiquities Authority, the IDF said.
The military said in a statement that the work has already led to a "significant decrease in the number of illegal infiltrations into Israeli territory."
"Along with forces in the area, we are protecting an area that several months ago was totally open," said the engineering commander of the IDF’s Central Command, Col. Ido Journo. "I believe this plan will prevent the passage of [people for] terror attacks as well as criminal activity."
Last month, the Defense Ministry began to upgrade a section of the barrier in the northern West Bank, and in April, the IDF began to patch up holes in other areas of the fence.
The work began following a spate of deadly terror attacks between mid-March and the beginning of May, including several in which Lions of Islam from the northern West Bank entered Israel via large holes in the barrier.
On April 7, a Paleostinian gunman — who entered Israel through a gap in the barrier — rubbed out three people in Tel Aviv. A week earlier, a Paleostinian who also crossed through the barrier illegally — with a vehicle — shot and killed five people in Bnei Brak. And on May 5 in Elad, two Paleostinians who entered Israel illegally killed three people in an ax attack.
"The construction at the barrier is a clear example of the development of our capabilities. The project was established with the goal of reducing the number of illegal infiltrations into Israel. By working on the barrier, we thwart terrorist attacks," IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi said in remarks provided by the military.
"Our mission is that there will be zero terrorist attacks, and we will continue to operate as needed to stop this wave of terror and complete the mission," he said.
In recent years, thousands of Paleostinians had been entering Israel every day through the gaps in the fence for work.
But in recent months, the IDF has dispatched thousands of troops to the seam zone area — a swath of West Bank land on the Israeli side of the barrier — to prevent Paleostinians from crossing into Israel.
The West Bank security barrier was first proposed in the 1990s by then-prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, who saw it as a way to separate Israel from the Paleostinians. But the project never materialized due to internal opposition.
It was only during the Second Intifada, as Israel fought waves of suicide kabooms and other terrorist attacks emanating from the West Bank, that the idea was revived and kicked into high gear.
Many credit the barrier with helping end that uprising, which lasted from 2000 to 2005, though of its planned 708-kilometer (440-mile) route, only 62 percent has been completed.
The security barrier did not come without controversy, as the fence sparked local demonstrations and international condemnation over its route, snaking into the West Bank through seized Paleostinian fields and sometimes cutting off farmers from their land.
About 85% of the barrier runs within the West Bank, with the remaining 15% running along the Green Line — the pre-1967 ceasefire line that delineates Israel from the West Bank — and within Israeli territory. In total, the barrier is estimated to have cost the country some NIS 9 billion ($2.8 billion) according to the Knesset Research and Information Center.
For most of its route, the barrier consists of a chain-link fence equipped with surveillance cameras and other sensors, buffered by barbed wire and a 60-meter (200-foot) wide exclusion area. In more urban areas — including around Jerusalem and Bethlehem — the barrier is not a fence but an eight- to nine-meter (26- to 30-foot) high concrete wall.
I really hope the attacker turns out to be nuts instead of some sort of Democrat or leftist coldly attempting to ensure the election by taking out the Republican candidate for governor, like the gentleman who shot up the Republican Congressional baseball practice a few years ago..
[IsraelTimes] US House Representative Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for New York governor, was assaulted by a man who apparently tried to stab him at an upstate event Thursday.
The congressman, a rare Jewish Republican in Congress, escaped serious injury.
"I’m OK," Zeldin said in a statement. "Fortunately, I was able to grab his wrist and stop him for a few moments until others tackled him."
Zeldin’s campaign said the attacker was taken into custody and the congressman continued his speech.
The attacker climbed onto a low stage where the congressman spoke to a crowd of dozens outside Rochester, flanked by bales of hay and American flags. A video posted on Twitter shows the two falling to the ground as other people try to intervene.
Among those who helped to subdue the attacker was Zeldin’s running mate, former New York Police Department Deputy Inspector Alison Esposito, said state GOP Chair Nick Langworthy.
Langworthy told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that he didn’t have any details on the attacker or his weapon but exchanged text messages with Zeldin afterward while the congressman was speaking to police.
"He is fine. He’s not seriously injured. It’s just a chaotic scene there," Langworthy said. He said Zeldin had "just a little scrape" but it wasn’t what anyone would consider an injury.
Langworthy called on Hochul to issue a security detail for Zeldin to protect him on the campaign trail.
"This could have gone a lot worse. This could have really ended in a horrible way tonight and this is unacceptable," he said.
In a statement, Hochul condemned the attack and said she was "relieved to hear that Congressman Zeldin was not injured and that the suspect is in jug."
Zeldin, an Army Reserve lieutenant colonel who has represented eastern Long Island in Congress since 2015, is a staunch ally of former US president Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... and was among the Republicans in Congress who voted against certifying the 2020 election results.
He has focused his campaign on fighting crime but faces an uphill battle against Hochul. He’ll need to persuade independent voters — which outnumber Republicans in the state — as well as Democrats in order to win the general election.
Democrats are expected to focus on Zeldin’s vocal defense of Trump during both of his impeachments and objection to the election results.
The NY Post has lots more about events at the VFW post campaign stop, including photos of the weapon — which looks like this, apparently popular as a defense against rapists — and a side view the unnamed miscreant, said to be an Iraq War veteran. Update from CNBC at 2:30 a.m. EDT:
The attacker, identified by three senior law enforcement officials as David Jakubonis of Fairport, was subdued by members of the audience after he charged Zeldin, WHEC-TV reported.
That NBC affiliate reported that audience members disarmed the man, and put him in zip-ties that were pulled from campaign posters.
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Because we don't want either side to start assassinating the politicians on the other side. That's a very quick way to turn this into a kinetic civil war.
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Okay let's process this a bit? And mods, please 'smoky the bear' me whenever you deem fit. Don't wanna give Fred any trouble.
Your primary worry is that the republicans wouldn't win such an engagement, at this time, right? I understand that totally. But the reluctance to get dirty in conservatives is very counterproductive. I for one think as soon as the Right is back in, they should start dishing out the kinetic. Kashoggis and Epsteins left and right. None of this 'ye oldè constitution wilt save us eventually, it was written perfect' philosophy will help sustain the Republic in the long run. Your enemies are killers, inhuman, sadistic, worse than Nazis, insane Satan spawn. That is evident.
A Pakistani guy once told me an Urdu couplet about conflict. It said something like 'when the thug and the lawyer fight it out, only the thug will win'.
My worldview may be hopelessly flawed, but I think every society needs to take out the trash once in a while. It accumulates, see? And if you don't do it, the trash takes you out. Do unto others as soon as they can't do it back to you and all that.
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I'm not worried about the conservatives winning such a conflict, I am just hopefully that we haven't reached the cartridge box stage yet. And yes, they are evil. But I would much rather, given the signs of parents realizing how evil these twit are, take the culture back from them, such as we are with the schools, etc. If we can pull out of it without it going kinetic, good.
If not, war to the knife and we leave our enemies impaled from sea to shining sea along I-40 as a message of what happens to such evil. So if we can avoid it good, if not, I'd rather see it happen now than when my kids wind up having to fight this. I would much rather they deal with the aftermath of "All the lefties are dead" vs having to be the ones to do it.
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I share Dron66046 viewpoint, have for decades. The Trash has been allowed to accumulate to the point that kinetic response is unavoidable. Better to do it sooner rather than later.
1. Jakubonis Is an Iraq War Veteran & the Man Who Subdued Him Wants to help Him, Reports Say
According to Rochester First, the suspect is “reportedly an Iraq War veteran under the influence of alcohol.” Authorities have not confirmed the information.
He was zip-tied on the scene, the site reported. AMVETS national Director Joe Chenelly stopped him, and Jakubonis was taken into custody, reported Mytwintiers.com.
“When he said he served in Iraq, I got down hands on my knees and said, ‘You know, we’re going to get through whatever you’ve done here tonight,’ and told him, ‘You’re going to get better and focus on that,’ and said, ‘You can contact me after this thing is done,” Chenelly told Rochester First. “I was told not the engage with him right now. I think it’s very important we obviously have a mental health crisis nationwide— not just with our veterans but we especially have it with our veterans.”
2. Jakubonis Was at Fort Bragg in 2008 & Wrote On LinkedIn, ‘Hire me’
In 2008, Fort Bragg posted a photo of Jakubonis. The caption read, “(Another service member), right, 432nd Blood Supply Detachment, checks the blood type as Pfc. David Jakubonis reads off the list of blood needed by the simulated clinic in the field during their week-long training Oct. 14 through 18.”
He has an Instagram page, but it only has a single photo on it.
On a LinkedIn page, he wrote, “hire me. Actively seeking employment.” He wrote that he was a medical laboratory technician in the U.S. Army from 2007 to 2012, but other positions were “candidate for various agencies” and prospective asset.” He also wrote that he was “chief of Morale” for the RIT Veterans club.
The page also says he received a bachelor’s degree from RIT. “Bachelor’s Degree, summa cum laude, Criminal Justice, concentration in Psychology,” it reads, listing his GPA as 3.87. Under “activities and societies,” he listed, “President, Criminal Justice Student Association, 2013-2014.”
He also wrote that he received an associate of science degree in Clinical Laboratory Sciences from George Washington University in 2008. The page lists “5 years of work experience in all departments within the laboratory of Army medical hospitals and clinics. Laboratory Technician duties also included blood donation work in all sections of the process.”
His wife’s Facebook page indicates she is deceased.
I would prefer the Democrats and their militant wing not take the irrevocable step while they also control most of the levers of government power. The election in November should see more state and local governments in total or stronger Republican hands, which leads on one hand to things like shipping President Biden’s illegals to New York City and Washington, DC, and on the other hand to overruling or replacing Soros district attorneys and enforcing tighter voting laws.
Yes, I do strongly hope the culture war does not go more kinetic than it already has. But if it must, I would prefer the battlefield to be better shaped than it is at present.
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The Golden Rule says libs are fine with us doing this to them.
Just sayin'...
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Ref #3, Not flawed at all, just uncomfortable to face for many. Good times have created soft men, and a LOT of trash unfortunately.It may be entropy, but it can be checked.
Entropy is simply a measure of disorder and affects all aspects of our daily lives. In fact, you can think of it as nature's tax. Left unchecked disorder increases over time. Energy disperses, and systems dissolve into chaos. The more disordered something is, the more entropic we consider it.
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Another rule would be that he is not a Trump supporter or this would be a bigger story.
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Very true, NMBS. This is my observation as well. And my theory stems from it. The universe is a cauldron of violent forces. Everything including man was born from a volatile churn of entropy and controlled force by... Someone. The greater the entropy the greater force is required to contain it. If He won't, we must.
Controlled violence, in this case. The fear of death deters timid men. And the plodding, conspiratorial bastitches who abuse our constitutions into working for them, they can all be put in their place. Just a bit of culling is necessary and they learn, I know. The men we appoint today unfortunately to wield violence are screened to be the kind wired to worry more about their pensions than doing what must be done. So sooner or later, it'll be up to citizens.
Of course there's a Biblical purpose to all this, whatever it is. The fall of the kingdoms of man and all that. The uniting of them under some monumental fucker who then gets trampled by Gawd on a white horse and such. But until then we stand here, with our fingers plugging holes in a dam that is going to burst one day. And people suffer. Those who naively believe in nonsense like laws and conventions. Shit.
You are not a bastard, Dron, and I will not allow you to say such things about yourself. Go ask Mrs. Dron to make you some chamomile tea or a mango lassi — something soothing that does not involve alcohol if you are still on painkillers — and sit with you until you are quite calm again.
[Red State] You’ve probably heard by now (especially if you visit RedState several times a day), but President Joe Biden, who is quadruple vaxxed and double masked, has contracted COVID-19.
Contrary to his past claims that we are in a "pandemic of the unvaccinated" and that those who have the vaccine won’t get infected, the president has now joined the great unwashed masses. Biden also broke CDC guidelines during a photo-op after finding out he’s been infected, which was just a "chef’s kiss" moment.
The real fireworks happened during Thursday’s press briefing, though. As RedState reported (see here and here), the White House comms team was none too happy about having to answer basic questions on the president’s illness. When reporters pressed for an explanation of where Biden was infected, Karine Jean-Pierre snapped, asserting "I don’t think that matters." That response came after a year-and- a-half of the administration pretending to care about contact tracing.
At another point, in a clip RedState hadn’t previously reported on, Karine-Jean Pierre got visibly upset with a reporter for accusing the White House of not being transparent.
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This has to seriously VAX effectiveness questions. us. Because here we have a President that signed Executive order after Executive order or had the CDC/NIB put out new C-19/22 regs and orders. All telling us to get the VAX and Booster or else.
OR
Is this and pre-planned exit strategy to move him out of the WH. and Harris and a Cheney type puppet master in?
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So maybe Covid was way overhyped and is not so serious as advertised?
I'm not saying it's nothing. No virus is nothing. But it does appear not to be the second coming of the Black Death...which the media can finally admit now that Joe has it?
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I'mnot saying it's nothing.
Be that as it may, everyone who "has suffered," directly or indirectly. feels your life should be worse to make them feel better about their situation.
Which is bullshit.
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While he is sick, maybe Joe can do a daily podcast and take some questions from kids leg hair.
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So, when he croaks, instead of saying "Rosebud," Joe will say "Mmmmmm, hairrrrr" in a Homer Simpson voice.
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[Gateway] Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who was named the "most powerful man in Europe" just months ago, was officially relieved of his post on Thursday after failing to garner enough support from his ruling party ahead of yesterday’s no-confidence vote in Parliament.
"After yesterday’s debate I have drawn my conclusions," Draghi explained briefly before his meeting with the President.
The Italian Parliament also announced that it would dissolve following Draghi’s announcement.
After rejecting his request last week, Italian President Sergio Mattarella accepted Draghi’s resignation, making the PM the FIFTH international leader to have stepped down from their position in recent weeks (not to even mention dozens of lower-level elected officials that have been ousted). The former PM will, however, continue to remain in charge of "current affairs" until a replacement is named. The move puts the country on course to hold snap elections by as early as mid-September or early October, according to several news sources.
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See? It's not even about representation anymore. It's just no-confidence motions and poaching members and crossing aisles, the political class and elites rotating mandates among themselves. Democracy, the biggest con of our civilization, finally its facade is crumbling. And everywhere.
#2
^ A big theme of the Z Blog writer is that democracy is not a stable or desirable system. It's amusing that the same idiots who say the US Constitution (which does not describe a democracy) is "outdated," while they screech about the need for a much more vague system that is downright ancient.
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Dron, before you start the chicken little routine, be aware, the Italian have seen their government collapse 67 times since the end of WW2. It's not meaningful.
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#3 Dron, before you start the chicken little routine, be aware, the Italian have seen their government collapse 67 times since the end of WW2. It's not meaningful.
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As I said yesterday, Five Year Plans never seemed to work out. The Gerbalists at the WEF and Davos are in for a sad ending.
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As a Cleveland Brown's fan, I am deeply offended that this entire Great Reset appears to be entirely cribbed from Sashi Brown's short tenure as Brown's GM. No one could tank a franchise like Sashi. I am surprised that Biden was never considered for a Brown's HC job during Sashi's reset.
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#6 Unfortunately, it will be a shared experience.
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[Washington Examiner] Top Western companies continue to abandon operations in China and Russia, highlighting the obstacles to profitability in the powerful Eurasian countries.
On July 18, fast-fashion retailer H&M announced that it would be "winding down" its operations in Russia due to "current operational challenges and an unpredictable future," becoming the latest business to depart Russia as a result of its attack on neighboring Ukraine. The invasion has killed thousands of civilians and demolished cities, prompting global outcry and sanctions.
"After careful consideration, we see it as impossible given the current situation to continue our business in Russia," Helena Helmersson, CEO of H&M Group, said in a statement.
That same day, automotive manufacturer Stellantis revealed that it was ending a joint venture with Guangzhou Automobile Group, or GAC, to build Jeep vehicles in China and would instead focus on importing the SUVs. Stellantis cited "a lack of progress in the previously announced plan for Stellantis to take a majority share of the GAC-Stellantis joint venture" as the reason for the exit.
"Stellantis intends to cooperate with GAC Group in an orderly termination of the joint venture formed in March 2010, which has been loss-making in recent years, and will recognize a non-cash impairment charge of approximately €297 million in its first half 2022 results," the company said.
[DW] Mali's military junta has asked the front man of the UN peacekeeping mission, MINUSMA, to leave the country after he tweeted about the 49 Ivorian soldiers who were arrested in Mali.
Malian authorities on Wednesday ordered Olivier Salgado, the front man of the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... peacekeeping mission, MINUSMA, to leave the country within 72 hours.
The move comes after Mali's military government ordered the temporary suspension of troop rotations by MINUSMA.
Mali has been at odds with its neighbors since the military seized power in August 2020. The recent arrest of the Ivorian soldiers further increased tensions between Mali and its neighbor, Ivory Coast.
Mali claimed that the 49 Ivorian soldiers were "mercenaries" who sought to topple the country's junta. They were arrested after arriving at Bamako airport aboard a special flight.
In turn, Salgado said the soldiers were working for a German company contracted by MINUSMA.
A statement by the Malian Foreign Ministry said the expulsion was due to social media posts.
"This measure follows the series of contentious and unacceptable publications by the person assigned to social networks declaring, without any proof, that Malian authorities were informed ahead of time of the arrival of 49 Ivorian military soldiers,'' the ministry said.
The UN, meanwhile, said it "deeply regrets" the requested departure of Salgado, MINUSMA's deputy director of communications.
"It is important to note that the doctrine of persona non grata does not apply to United Nations personnel," deputy UN front man Farhan Haq told news hounds in New York.
WHAT IS MINUSMA?
MINUSMA, or the United Nations' Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali, was created in 2013 to help the West African nation cope with a bloody jihadi campaign.
Mali has been battling an Islamist insurgency that emerged after an uprising in 2012 and has since spread to neighboring countries, killing thousands and displacing millions across West Africa's Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... MINUSMA is one of the UN's biggest peacekeeping operations. According to the mission's website, it had 17,609 soldiers, police, civilians and volunteers deployed as of April this year.
But it's also one of the most dangerous operations, with dozens of casualties of MINUSMA personnel reported each year.
Egypt, MINUSMA's biggest single troop contributor, said last week it would "temporarily suspend" its participation in operations after seven of its soldiers were killed this year.
La Belle France and Germany have been involved in MINUSMA. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... Gay Paree announced earlier this year that it would withdraw its troops.
Berlin, on the other hand, is set to increase German participation in MINUSMA.
The EU is also involved in two training missions in Mali — the EUTM and the EUCAP — alongside MINUSMA, but the bloc is reducing its operations due to continued cooperation between Russian mercenaries and Mali's junta.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:50 The DPR reports that 624 artillery shots has already been fired at the DPR today 21:19 Lukashenko said that Belarus is cooperating with Crimea, the LPR and the DPR, de facto recognized their status, if necessary, recognizes it by presidential decree, media reports
20:46 Ukrainian troops fired ten shells with a caliber of 155mm in the direction of Gorlovka, three shells with a caliber of 152mm were fired at Donetsk, reported representation of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire regime.
"Shells were recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine in the following directions: 1930 hrs (coincides with Moscow time) - the settlement of Dyleevka - the settlement of Gorlovka: 10 shells of 155mm caliber were fired,” the message says in the Telegram channel of the representative office.
20:46 Ukrainian troops fired on Dolomitnoe and Panteleymonovka in the Donetsk People's Republic with NATO-caliber shells, informs representation of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC).
19:30 Statement by the official representative of the NM DPR: over the current day, according to information from the DPR JCCC, the enemy fired more than 470 shells from Grad multiple launch rocket systems, barreled artillery of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm, 120 and 82 mm caliber mortars, and also used unguided aircraft rockets with a caliber of 80mm (without the use of aviation).
The fire was fired at areas of 15 settlements of the Republic. As a result of the shelling, five civilians were injured. Twenty-five residential buildings and four civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about the injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.
We regret to inform you that in the performance of military duty in the struggle for independence, three defenders of the Donetsk People's Republic were killed and eleven were injured. We express our sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims.
19:21 Unfortunately, the guy V.V.V., who was wounded in the village of the mine named after. N. A. Izotova, died before the ambulance arrived on his birthday. He was only 19 years old.
19:10 The Kurensky family from the village of Novosvetlovka, whose house was destroyed as a result of hostilities in 2014, received a new house in Krasnodon as part of the implementation of the state target program "Maintaining housing and social facilities in the Luhansk People's Republic in proper condition for 2022-2024 years." This was reported by the press service of the administration of Krasnodon and the Krasnodon region.
18:37 As a result of the shelling of the village of the mine. N. A. Izotova (Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka) on the street. Ordzhonikidze was wounded by a civilian. Alas, today in Gorlovka there are already four civilians who suffered from Ukrainian aggression.
18:36 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Ozaryanovka - n.p. Gorlovka (Izotov mine): six rounds of 122mm caliber were fired;
- n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Mineral: fired three mines with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Leninskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement sh-you named after Gagarin): 11 mines were fired with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (Kondratievka): four rounds fired 122mm;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - Donetsk (Leninsky district): four rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
18:23 Khartsyzsk, Makeevka - air defense is working.
17:57 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleimonovka: eight each 122 mm rounds were fired;
-n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of sh-you named after Gagarin): six rounds of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of sh-you named after Gagarin): seven rounds of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Codema - n.p. Gorlovka (Kondratievka): four rounds of 122mm caliber were fired.
17:53 The first deputy chairman of the all-Russian public organization of veterans "Combat Brotherhood" awarded medals to the head of the LPR Leonid Pasechnik and life support workers.
17:46 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
- n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Red Partizan: fired five rounds of 122mm caliber;
— n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): seven missiles were fired from the BM-21 "Grad";
— n.p. Kurdyumovka - n.p. Gorlovka (Kalinin district): six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
17:36 Consequences of today shelling at 6 Ivana Franko St. in Yasinovatoi
17:27 eyewitness testimony: how Ukrainian "defenders" destroyed Severodonetsk
"They pretended to defend the city. They destroyed the city, destroyed shops. Who did they fight? They hid behind people. They said: "We will die, and you will be with us." Well, what kind of protection is that? Is that how they protect their people?
Local resident Mikhail tells how VFU "liberated" the city of Severodonetsk: how they robbed pharmacies in search of drugs, and then, while intoxicated, destroyed shops, fired at queues for humanitarian aid and hid behind the backs of civilians...
17:11 According to preliminary information, as a result of the shelling by the armed formations of Ukraine of the village of the mine named after. Kalinin at the address: st. Krasnoselskaya, 34, a civilian was wounded.
In the village of the Gagarin mine, damage to residential buildings was recorded at the following addresses: st. Stozhka, 138, st. Yaroshenko, 33, 37, 41, 43, 16, near the street. Stozhka, 125, 127 the gas pipeline was broken.
17:05 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Leninskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement sh-you named after Gagarin): 10 mines were fired with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Ceramic - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: five rounds of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleymonovka: six rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.
16:28 Destruction of anti-personnel mines "petal" that were scattered along the residential streets of the city of Yasinovataya with the help of a rocket launcher MLRS Uragan.
16:28 Ukrainian militants are shelling the village of the Gagarin mine. The village is empty.
15:51 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleymonovka: eight each 155mm rounds were fired;
- n.p. Leninskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement sh-you named after Gagarin): 15 mines were fired with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Artemovsk - n.p. Golmovsky: seven missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad;
— n.p. Marinka - n.p. Aleksandrovka: five rounds fired from the tank;
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk: five mines fired in 120mm caliber.
15:30 The People's Front, with the support of the NM of the LPR, delivered food packages for needy residents in the village. Cretaceous
15:06 Denis Pushilin and Vitaly Ganchev signed a joint communiqué between the Head of the Donetsk People's Republic and the head of the military-civilian administration of the Kharkiv region.
15:04 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Nikolaevka-2 - n.p. Dolomite: fired 15 rounds of 122mm caliber;
— n.p. Artemovsk - n.p. Dolomite: fired 13 rounds with a caliber of 155mm.
14:55 The Russians are replacing the emergency section of the Aidar conduit with a length of more than 1 km. The Aidar main water conduit from the Aidarskaya VNS-2 to the city of Lugansk with a diameter of 900 mm and a length of more than 15 km was laid in 1977. Currently, specialists from the Russian Federation, together with employees of the State Unitary Enterprise of the LPR "Luganskvoda", are replacing the emergency section of the pipeline with a length of 1.155 km using a new high-quality plastic pipe. Works are carried out by the method of sanitation.
14:36 Minister of Agriculture and Food Yuriy Pronko about the pig-breeding complex being built near the urban-type settlement of Georgievka, Lutuginsky district: "A unique enterprise, there was no such enterprise during the years of independent Ukraine, and even during the years of the Soviet Union."
14:31 During the morning hours, VFU fired about 150 large-caliber shells (rocket and barrel artillery) in the city of Yasinovataya and the Yasinovatsky district. In the city and the district, houses of the private sector received multiple destructions. All fires in the city have been extinguished. The city's power supply has been restored.
14:31 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Vodyane - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky districts): five missiles were fired from the BM-21 "Grad";
- n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: five missiles fired from BM-21 Grad;
- n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yakovlevka: three missiles fired from BM-21 Grad.
13:53 The head of the administration of Donetsk, Aleksey Kulemzin, spoke in detail about the consequences of the shelling: “as a result of the shelling of the Kirovsky district, private houses were destroyed:
- st. Priozernaya, 72 - a direct hit, the house is completely destroyed;
- st. Priozernaya, 74 - the roof is damaged;
- st. Krasnaya Zarya, 61 - the glazing is damaged.
13:24 APU released 10 rounds shells of 152mm caliber in the Kirovsky district of the city of Donetsk. Everything flies through residential buildings.
13:15 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: four rounds of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleimonovka: six rounds of 122mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): five rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirov district): five rounds fired caliber 152mm;
12:41 Accurate blows by Aerospace Forces of Russia on the objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass.
12:40 Personnel objective control of the development of positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine between the village of Lisichansky and the village of Spornoye by the forces of the 6th detachment of B.A.R.S.
12:30 DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Codema - n.p. Dolomite: fired nine mines with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: four mines of 120mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Artemovsk - n.p. Dolomite: fired 14 rounds with a caliber of 155mm;
— n.p. Ozaryanovka - n.p. Gorlovka: 10 missiles fired from BM-21 Grad;
— n.p. Dzerzhinsk - n.p. Gorlovka: 12 rounds of 152mm caliber were fired;
- n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: four rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
- n.p. Dzerzhinsk - n.p. Gorlovka: six rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
12:11 As a result of the shelling, a field near the street caught fire. Vodnaya, the village of Korolenko.
12:10 Against the backdrop of significant losses in the east of Ukraine, residents of the western regions mobilized into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine refuse to go to Donbass. Thus, the military personnel of the 100th Territorial Defense Brigade in the city of Lutsk, Volyn region, in full force refused to participate in hostilities. The brigade was disarmed by the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the instigators were arrested, and a decision was made to reorganize this unit.
Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the Kramatorsk region of the Donetsk People's Republic shot down a Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force.
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11:52 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
- n.p. Dzerzhinsk (Yuzhnaya mine) - n.p. Gorlovka (village named after Gagarin): released in six mines with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Codema - n.p. Golmovsky: three rounds of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: 20 missiles fired from BM-21 Grad;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Ozeryanovka: 10 rounds of 122mm caliber were fired.
11:49 The head of the LPR, Pasechnik, accused Google of conducting "targeted propaganda of terrorism and extremism," and said that the republic could cope without Google.
"We don’t need such information arrivals either from Ukraine or from the West. We can do it without Google. If they fix it, they start respecting people, we’ll think about returning," Pasechnik wrote on Telegram.
11:33 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Marinka - n.p. Aleksandrovka: 10 each 122mm rounds were fired;
— n.p. Ceramic - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: nine rounds of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Rozovka - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: fired six mines in 120mm caliber;
— n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: four rounds of 122mm caliber were fired.
11:31 N.A. Pokrovskoye (a suburb of Artyomovsk) came under the control of the Allied Forces.
11:17 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Dacha - n.p. Zaitsevo: fired seven mines in 82mm caliber;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleimonovka: six rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Codema - n.p. Golmovsky: eight rounds of 122mm caliber were fired.
11:14 AFU conduct aimed fire at the village of Golmovsky, in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka
11:03 At least two HIMARS operate in the southern direction, including in the Kherson region, the rest - in the Donbass, a RIAN source in the Russian law enforcement agencies said.
According to him, the HIMARS crews are staffed by NATO military personnel who have been withdrawn from the state, and are guarding installations associated with the PMC Pentagon.
Targeting takes place through American military satellites, while NATO does not trust the Ukrainians - only the launch time and coordinates of targets fall into their possession.!
10:42 In Volnovakha, they started pouring the foundations of new five-story houses.
10:06 JCCC DPR Recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Nelepovka - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement sh-you named after Gagarin): seven mines were fired with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Ceramic - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: 12 shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleimonovka: six shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
10:00 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the LPR, Captain Filiponenko I.M. according to the situation as of July 21, 2022: during the clashes with units of the defense department, over the past day, the enemy suffered losses in manpower and military equipment, namely:
-31 personnel;
-six armored personnel carriers;
-three units of automotive equipment;
-two long-term firing points;
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 LNR cleared more than nine hectares of territory from explosive objects left by Ukrainian nationalists in the areas of the settlements of Belaya Gora and Podlesnoe.
The people's militia of the LPR seeks to save the lives of Ukrainian soldiers and calls to lay down their arms, so the artillery units of the defense department continue to cover the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with propaganda leaflets.
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. So, yesterday, with the assistance of the People's Militia of the LPR, representatives of the "People's Front" delivered the first humanitarian cargo to needy residents in Novodruzhesk, which included food, hygiene products and baby food.
09:55 LPR farmers threshed more than 330,000 tons of early cereals and legumes. This was reported in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the LPR.
09:21 Shelling in Yasinovataya. Fires in private houses have been reported.
09:11 Cars of the next, 171st, convoy of the Russian Emergencies Ministry delivered 50 tons of food to Lugansk. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the LPR.
08:53 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Share: five rounds fired caliber 152mm;
— n.p. Artemovsk - n.p. Dolomite: fired five rounds with a caliber of 155mm;
— n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: five missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
08:41 Konstantinovka (temporarily controlled by the Ukrainians) the base of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed.
08:35 In the period from 02/17/2022 to 07/21/2022, the Representative Office of the LPR in the JCCC recorded:
-1,034 shots on the territory of the Republic by the armed formations of Ukraine with the use of heavy weapons.
-In total, the enemy used 10,400 rounds of various calibers, including missiles of the Tochka-U tactical missile system (33 missiles) and the American M142 HIMARS MLRS (32 missiles), MLRS (BM-21 Grad, BM-27 Uragan, BM -30 "Smerch") - 2,164 shells.
- 295 civilians became victims of the AFU aggression during the above period, of which 74 people died and 221 were injured. As a result of the shelling, three children were killed and 19 children were injured.
- Destroyed and damaged 1,904 houses in 31 settlements. 173 civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged. Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.
07:30 Personnel clearance of Mariupol airport by the Russian military.
07:15 After 06:00, the DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the VFU in the direction:
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[REGNUM] Ukraine will not be able to win back all the territories occupied by Russian troops. This was stated by the head of Estonian foreign intelligence Mikka Marran, speaking at a security forum held in Aspen.
According to the news portal of the Estonian state television and radio broadcasting ERR, while Marran continues to believe in the victory of Ukraine in the confrontation with Russia: "It will not be easy, it will take time, and Ukraine probably will not be able to return all its territories."
He added that in the strategic plan, Russia "will fail to achieve its goal of conquering Kyiv and most of Ukraine."
According to Marran, a quick end to the military conflict is not expected: "It will take time until Ukraine is ready to go on the counteroffensive and win back at least part of the territories."
He also noted that dozens of Russian officials, diplomats and big businessmen privately admit that they oppose the CVO in Ukraine.
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I said that 4 months ago! I also said that 2023 will be a year of civil unrest and assassinations in Europe and USA
That is why the Russophobic immigrants resident posters have anxiety and mental health issues at the regard.
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[FoxNews] Washington men Jose Zendejas and Benito Madrigal classified 'low risk,' released despite $750,000 fentanyl seizure during traffic stop.
Two accused drug traffickers busted with 150,000 fentanyl pills during a California traffic stop last month failed to show in court Thursday after being released on cashless bail.
Defendants Jose Zendejas, 25, and Benito Madrigal, 19 — released on their own recognizance less than 24 hours after their arrest with the large stash of illicit drugs — were scheduled to appear for their arraignments at the Tulare County Courthouse in central California on Thursday morning, but failed both men failed to show.
The judge called for Zendejas and Madrigal — both from Washington state — who were not in court, and the warrant for their arrest continues.
The judge withdrew the prior $2 million bond and directed each be held without bond if they pop up.
Before Thursday, Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said he did not expect the defendants to show up. He placed blame on the state’s soft-on-crime attitude and so-called criminal justice reform for a policy that allowed the two alleged drug traffickers to go free with nothing but a promise to come to court.
"I didn't learn about the order until it was far too late," Boudreaux previously told Fox News. "I couldn't believe we had 150,00 fentanyl pills — one of the most dangerous epidemics facing our nation today — with people in custody that we may potentially be able to impact the future of this type of drug trafficking organization… and we let them go."
"Although there is a need for a pre-trial release program, to do it covertly in the middle of the night in a very nontransparent matter is extremely dangerous," Tulare County District Attorney Tim Ward told Fox News on Thursday outside the courthouse, referring to the court’s initial decision to release the defendants. "What we discovered here was that it was occurring based on a decision without any foundation of the facts of the case. And I think going forward, I think everyone is realizing that’s a mistake and should not continue."
"The problem is once again the legislature and the state of California are trying to go down some social experiment born on the back of law-abiding citizens," Ward said. "I go out on a limb and say that had these defendants been subject to the million bail that was in place when they were arrested, and they made bail based on that amount, they would have some skin in the game, some financial obligation and motivation to return to court."
California Highway Patrol officers pulled over the suspects’ vehicle on June 24 at approximately 7:30 p.m. near Highway 99 and Tulare Avenue and requested assistance from the Tulare County High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Unit (HIDTA), which found 150 packages, each package containing 1,000 fentanyl pills, inside.
Neither the district attorney nor the sheriff said they were consulted on the release.
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They'll show up eventually. Likely with their head in a ziploc bag. Cartels don't like careless traffickers who have incentive to talk
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Somebody may have figured that out, Frank. Perhaps one of the Cartel 'insiders' within the law enforcement community transmitted the where and when for the releases (but then I do go to the dark side in some of my thoughts).
Will save the state a bit of cash for incarceration, court costs, etc.
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So a judge released Jose Zendejas, and Benito Madrigal based on their word as "honest citizens" that they would appear? But when they failed to show, then somehow the judge "withdrew a prior $2 million bond".
Was it a Virtual $2 Million bond ????
I guess someone in California needs to explain that one to me?
But given it is California, will Tulare County hold a abandoned property sale and sell the 150,000 fentanyl pills to the highest "Honest citizen"?
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Frank is probably right, they lost alot of money.
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They lost inventory not money. If 10 percent or less is found, the massive wave of the stuff that Biden has promoted cannot be actually be being consumed or every town in America would look like SF - the final goal. The soldiers are probably worth more to the drug lords than the raw materials. That said - if they try to run they are dead.
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As we used to say in the rag business, That truckload was worth 2 bucks wholesale. The people planning to profit huge on it are in LA.
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Think what you want, those drug smugglers are a dime a dozen. mistakes aren't tolerated in the drug game at any level. You have your knowledge of things and so do I.
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fwiw, this is a very Republican county
3 Republican Congressman split parts of this county (districts run into other counties)
Trump carried county by about 8% over Biden.
Judge is apparently just executing State 'low bail/no bail' law.
Also, the release of the Fentanyl mules was three weeks ago.
Wonder what is taking place behind the scene.
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In northern countryside of #Aleppo, Turkish-backed Malik Shah armed faction announced leaving the formation of the Third Legion in the Turkish-backed #SNA and joining Hayat Thaeroon for Liberation. #Syria#Turkeyhttps://t.co/Xk1Euw9dhg
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Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 22:52 British Defense Minister Ben Wallace said that the following will be transferred to Kiev in the near future:
- 20 self-propelled guns M109;
- 36 towed howitzers L119;
- counter-battery radar;
- 1,600 anti-tank weapons;
- a large number of UAVs, including loitering ammunition;
- over 50,000 artillery shells of Soviet caliber.
Armaments were mainly purchased by London for Ukraine in third countries.
21:49 In Poland, they are assembling their own territorial defense capable of waging street battles. Now in the Polish defense forces there are 15 brigades with a total number of 32,000 fighters. New brigades will be deployed - one in Warsaw, two more - near the Ukrainian border. The recruits will be trained not only by Polish officers, but also by instructors from the US and the UK. Official Warsaw declares that "all militarization measures are exclusively defensive in nature and are aimed at protecting against external threats." 21:44 The National Security and Defense Council and the Ministry of Defense have launched a system for tracking the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine. This was announced by the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexei Danilov. True, access to it, according to Danilov, will have a very limited circle of people:
"The system is absolutely closed. Only the military-political leadership of our state has access to it. However, thanks to her, we know that not a single bullet from the supply has disappeared anywhere."
21:43 The main thing from the statement of the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mizintsev:
▪️In total, since the beginning of the special operation, Russian sappers have checked more than 4,700 hectares of the territory of Donbass, defused 102,695 explosive objects;
▪️Ukrainian soldiers in Russian uniforms demonstratively engaged in robbery in Slavyansk, while filming;
▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine equipped firing and sniper positions in the houses of the city of Kramatorsk in the DPR, and placed MLRS in the yards.
20:28 Map from Reuters, showing the places of the most intense fighting in Ukraine from July 6 to 12, created on the basis of satellite images and data on the fires. Each red dot is usually a shelling point - the more there are in one place, the more intense the shelling or clash was.
19:44 Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu handed over stars of "Heroes of Russia" to the participants of the special military operation in Ukraine:
- Deputy commander of the fighter aviation regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Ilya Sizov;
- commander of a tank regiment, Colonel Ivan Shits;
- Flamethrower platoon commander Senior Lieutenant Andrey Solovyov.
18:35 As previously reported yesterday and as a result of a strike by Ukrainian kamikaze drones on the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, 11 plant specialists were injured, four of them are still in a stable serious condition.
Physicians provide all necessary medical care. According to doctors, there is no threat to life. We keep in touch with the families of the victims, they will be provided with all the necessary assistance. The nuclear power plant is operating normally, the radiation background is normal.
18:35 On enemy targets in Mykolaiv region applied impacts: pillars of smoke are visible from the arrivals
17:01 UK put to Ukraine a new batch of weapons. The UK will supply Ukraine with a batch of 105mm L-119 artillery pieces (36 units) and 20 155mm M-109 self-propelled guns. Together with them, 50 thousand shells will be delivered. In addition, Kyiv will receive more than a hundred drones and radars from the British for counter-battery combat.
16:05 Soldiers of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine complain that the officers of the brigade beat their brother to death. The Ukrainian 36th Separate Naval Infantry Brigade had been on the front line in southern Donetsk since 2015, and was the main Ukrainian military unit defending Mariupol 15:28 All tasks of the SVO will be completed so that it is "calm, peaceful and comfortable" in Donbass - Medvedev at a meeting with refugees
14:07 Russian special services in Kherson revealed a group of wounded Ukrainian servicemen hiding in the region. All of them were provided with comprehensive medical care in one of the hospitals in the Kherson region.
The Ukrainian servicemen made a request to include them in the exchange lists. However, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in a manner characteristic of the junta, wrote off the guys who, without proper equipment, were thrown to the front line like cannon fodder.
14:06 The UK will send 50,000 artillery shells and hundreds of anti-tank weapons to Ukraine in the coming weeks. This was stated by Minister of Defense Ben Wallace.
12:31 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
▪️More than 600 militants were killed on July 16 by a strike by the Russian Armed Forces on a point of temporary deployment of nationalists in a recreation center in the Odessa region;
▪️Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the Kramatorsk region shot down a Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force;
▪️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed a battery of MLRS "Uragan" and a battery of self-propelled artillery howitzers "Acacia" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region;
▪️More than 320 nationalists were destroyed by the strike of the RF Armed Forces on July 17 at the point of temporary deployment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Nikolaev;
▪️Russian air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter in the Mykolaiv region, as well as five UAVs in the Kharkiv region and the DPR;
▪️Mobilized residents of the western regions of Ukraine refuse to go to Donbass due to significant losses in the east of the country;
▪️Servicemen of the 100th Terodefense Brigade in Lutsk refused to take part in the hostilities;
▪️The RF Armed Forces intercepted eight Ukrainian shells of the Urgan MLRS in the Kherson and Kharkov regions.
11:32 The result of the night blows according to the Ukrainian warehouse in Nikolaev
10:58 The air defense system over Kherson, where the Armed Forces are shelling the bridge, is being strengthened, new forces are on alert, the authorities of the region said.
09:55 The RF Armed Forces attacked the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kharkiv. According to Country V, the strikes were carried out last night on Ukrainian units in Kharkiv and military depots.
"A series of arrivals in Kharkov. Warehouses and locations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine," the source said. According to him, again, strikes were inflicted on Chuguev in the Kharkiv region.
08:55 The CAA of the Kherson region reports a new attempt by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to attack the Antonovsky bridge in Kherson. 12 HIMARS missiles were fired - all were shot down.
08:01 The roof of the elevator in the city of Pologi in the Zaporozhye region collapsed due to fire, caused by shelling from the APU. Now it is not possible to extinguish the elevator, since the plant is constantly under fire from the Ukrainian troops.
07:06 The US Air Force Chief of Staff said that Western countries could soon supply fighter jets to Ukraine.
01:13 Information about explosions in Kherson is spreading. Air defense works over the city.
01:03 Night battles: The Russian army hit the enemy positions in Chuguev near Kharkov, in Nikopol and Marganets in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
0:36 Crimea will give Zaporozhye and Kherson regions 70 grain harvesters. The first batch of six harvesters will be sent to the Zaporozhye region on July 21, the Crimean Ministry of Information reported.
0:28 Fire defeat of the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by a kamikaze drone in the Kherson direction. During the fighting in the Kherson direction, separate units of the airborne troops of the RF Armed Forces used the Russian kamikaze drone Kub-BLA against the positions of Ukrainian formations.
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Yes, Frank, it is news when a large nation invades a smaller neighbor because it can't stand to sit back and watch it develop into a democratic nation on it's border.
Maybe not to soul less people like you are, but, it is to normal humans.
Here, Frank, maybe you or one of your relatives is next for this kind of treatment since you think so little of it happening to others.
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News.
It's happened for thousands of years, and I don't approve of it now. Your point? Nobody wants it. You seem to be intimately aware of it and have the capacity to do something about it, right? Why are you here posting symp tweets, and not doing kinetic resistance?
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Yes, Frank, it is news when a large nation invades a smaller neighbor because it can't stand to sit back and watch it develop into a democratic nation on it's border.
Rantburg has been tracking all that since 9/11/2001, Omineling Forkbeard1962. Quite a few of us have privately or professionally been tracking it all for decades before that.
The proper response from you, Omineling Forkbeard1962, is an apology to Frank G. for your rudeness and — after you have read it — florid thanks to badanov for all his hard work in learning both Russian and Ukrainian so he can give us both perspectives.
Strong explosions being reported. Qudssaya neighbourhood in the cities northwest and Damascus International Airport being reported as possible impact areas https://t.co/XffsQfFbM0
[IsraelTimes] Damage reported in suburb of Sayyidah Zaynab, near Syrian capital
Israeli fighter jets launched a series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on areas near the Syrian capital Damascus shortly after midnight on Friday, killing three soldiers and wounding seven others, Syria’s official state media reported.
Heavy explosions were heard over both the Syrian capital and northern Israel, according to local reports.
The state-run broadcaster SANA, citing a military source, said most of the missiles launched from over the Golan Heights were intercepted.
Most. That’s like close, which only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, or so I’ve been told.
The Syrian military claims to shoot down incoming missiles after nearly every alleged Israeli strike, an assertion Israeli military officials and civilian defense analysts largely dismiss as empty boasts.
The military source also said damage was caused to the sites that were hit, without elaborating on the extent or the nature of the targets.
A site in the southern Damascus suburb of Sayyidah Zaynab was damaged, according to local media reports and images circulated on social media.
SANA reported the casualties in the airstrikes without specifying the ranks and identities of the killed and maimed.
There was no comment from the Israel Defense Forces, which does not comment on individual strikes, except for those in retaliation to specific attacks against Israel.
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most of the missiles launched from over the Golan Heights were intercepted... by the ground, near or on top of the targets because of this thing called gravity, 100% chance of interception gravity has shown, you see.
[NSSF] NSSF®, the firearm industry trade association, updated the industry estimate of Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs) in circulation in the United States to 24,446,000 since 1990. That is an increase of over 4.5 million rifles since the last estimate was released in 2020.
The estimate is derived from NSSF research, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Annual Firearms Manufacturing and Exportation Report (AFMER) and U.S. International Trade Commission (U.S. ITC) data, in cooperation with manufacturers, importers and exporters of MSRs, or AR-15 and AK-style rifles. This most recent estimate includes production figures current through 2020, when the industry estimates over 2,798,000 of these rifles were produced or imported. This estimate does not include MSRs that were produced and exported or imported and later exported.
The MSR remains the most-popular selling centerfire semiautomatic rifle in the United States today. There are more MSRs in circulation today than there are Ford F-Series trucks on the road.
"This is a truly significant figure that demonstrates — again — the popularity of this commonly-owned style of rifle," said NSSF President and CEO Joe Bartozzi. "The firearm industry responds to market demand and this shows that during the elevated period of firearm sales that began in 2020, this particular style of rifle is the top choice for law-abiding citizens for hunting, recreational shooting and self-defense."
The MSR’s popularity for lawful ownership is attributable to several factors, including accuracy, reliability, modularity and low recoil.
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The MSR’s popularity for lawful ownership is attributable to several factors, including accuracy, reliability, modularity and low recoil.
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MSR = Modern Sporting Rifle. Because it's not an "assault weapon." It's not a "machine gun," It's not even selective fire.
As for the "physicians" and politicians weighing in on how devastating a 5.56 round is, note that most deer hunting states consider 5.56 / .223 too small and weak to make a humane kill on a deer, and don't allow it's use for that purpose.
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More than a nine, which I have on good authority will rip your lungs out.
Two members of the Self-Defense Forces in the #AANES were injured in an assault conducted by gunmen believed to be #ISIS cells east of Shaddadi town, south of #Syria’s #Hasakah.https://t.co/NtJXCZnx2p
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Pakistain on Thursday strongly condemned India for implicating Jammu Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Yasin Malik ...chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region... in two more "three decades old fictitious cases in a clear attempt to politically victimise him and forcing him to observe hunger strike unto death".
In a statement, the Foreign Office said Malik was already serving a life sentence awarded to him after a "sham trial" by an Indian court on May 25, 2022.
"Yasin Malik is also being denied the right of personal appearance in the ongoing trial, in complete contravention of legal and democratic norms," the FO regretted.
The statement said India had employed judiciary as a tool to damage the morale of Kashmiris by subjecting their leadership to "flagrant prejudice".
The FO pointed out that Malik, having been left with no legal recourse, eventually took the "desperate decision of going on a hunger strike unto death from July 22, 2022."
The inhuman incarceration of Malik, his sham trials under fabricated cases, his fallacious conviction and the malfeasant attempts at defiling the legitimate struggle of the Kashmiris for their right to self-determination as "terrorism" is nothing but further corroboration of India’s known credentials of being a serial violator of human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. , the FO said.
"The Kashmiris’ struggle for the right of self-determination is indigenous and cannot be dampened by the draconian strong-arm tactics of the Indian government."
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[NPASYRIA] The Department of Foreign Relations of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) handed over on Thursday 11 Russian children of 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.... (ISIS) to an official delegation from Russia.
The delegation was headed by Elena Alexandrov, assistant to the office of Maria Lvova Belova, Russia’s Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights.
During the handover, Alexandrov said that the Russian government would continue its efforts to "bring back all the [Russian] children in the camps, during the coming period."
Recently, the AANES has handed over 16 women and 35 children from ISIS families to a French delegation.
In the first half of 2022, the AANES handed over 116 ISIS children and 41 women from the mothers of these children to foreign delegations, according to statistics by the Department of Foreign Relations of the AANES in Qamishli.
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[DONRF] "Sit down at the negotiating table and agree that they will never threaten Russia and will not have weapons on the territory of Ukraine that will threaten Russian territory. This is the main thing. And denazification there and so on is a philosophy . Believe me, this is a philosophy, the main thing is the security of Russia," Lukashenko said, and I will not condemn him, because:
"In order to create these conditions (for negotiations), our troops withdrew from the center of Ukraine, from Kiev. The Kyiv authorities refused to implement these agreements, although they were practically achieved. So the end result depends, of course, not on the intermediaries, but on the desire of the contracting parties fulfill the agreements reached. We see today that the Kiev authorities do not have such a desire." -- V.V.Putin
or like this :
Opportunities for dialogue between Russia and Ukraine remain. This was stated by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov in an interview with RIA Novosti.
It's just that Alexander Grigoryevich Lukachenko
articulates the words of Vladimir Vladimirovich and his vizier. Why condemn it? But, But, father himself, the current situation did not rest, his goal is to hold out a right economy to the receiver, and leave him right. It is desirable that kerosene be brought from the city for that, and they pay for milk and potatoes in gold. War interferes. What will return as before - good.
But the position of Moscow ... but it has not changed either. All these deals, they are for the people, so the goal is different, it was voiced. That's all.
And therefore SVO. Blow - offer, blow - offer. The rest is the cost, and in the form of cotton in the DLNR and the Russian Federation, and in the form of strange patriots who want it. Whether this is good or bad, I can't judge.
War is worse than peace, and if there is a real chance of an agreement, then of course it’s good. But there is no chance, and if there is an agreement, it will not be fulfilled. I am personally sure of this. You know experience. And complete confidence that the Ukraine that our leaders see does not exist. She died and was buried on Independence Square eight years ago.
Therefore, all these calls are a cry to nowhere and a conversation with emptiness. The void will not answer. And the contract with it (war)
is completely meaningless. But this is my opinion, at the top it is like this, to torment me to the contract and return it as it was for 2013. And this is a fact from which there is nowhere to go. And which no one hides, it's just that many hearts believe in miracles. The truth suits partners as it is, so Wishlist - they are like this.
Be advised Southfront.org is a banned website by the US State Department
US citizen Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh was born in California on February 17, 1995. He is ethnic Vietnamese. In 2014, he graduated from college in California with a degree in management.
From 2014 to 2018, Andy did active military service under contract with the 1345th US Marine Corps. According to Andy’s claims, he served as a heavy equipment operator, worked on a military pay loader. During his service, he was promoted to US Army corporal; his salary allegedly amounted to $ 1,500. Andy claims that in the last years of service he did not use firearms. However, he also said that he had passed 3-month training courses to use the M24 sniper rifle and M240 machine gun. For a long time, Andy Huynh served at the US Navy base on the island of Okinawa in Japan, where he suffered a barotrauma of his right ear. He also mastered his hand-to-hand combat skills. In 2018, he decided to retire from military service because he was no longer satisfied with the internal service schedule in his unit. After his discharge, Andy lived off his pension and worked as a courier driver.
Since 2014, Andy has been interested in the situation in Ukraine. He said that he saw a lot of pathetic American news about the events on the Maidan. In February-March 2022, being allegedly influenced by the US media, which reported on the criminal actions of Russian soldiers against civilians in Ukraine, he decided to take part in the military conflict on the side of Kiev. Read the rest at the link
The gentleman does like to get attention by making bold, underly nuanced statements. One assumes hopes that the statements only incompletely reflect his thinking — otherwise Stanford is not getting its money’s worth for his teaching.
[DW] Although Russia may be bluffing with its new offensive, it's crucial for Western cohesion that Ukraine retake its south — particularly if Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... were to make a comeback, says political scientist Francis Fukuyama.
Francis Fukuyama is best known for his book "The End of History and the Last Man," where he argues that liberal democracy and free-market capitalism are the final point of society's evolution.
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If the NATO countries thought there was a problem, they would be acting on it.
They'll be fine without the USA. They're the world's richest democracies, bound together in an alliance. They just added Sweden and Finland to their strength, plus a long border with Russia. They can easily deal with any problems that come along. They are the adults in the room, not like the stupid Americans who can't even ban guns in their own country.
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^ someone is living in a fantasy land. British exit and eastern states threatening to do the same as Brussels dictates they commit cultural suicide for foreign invaders. They were never able to get their act together before 1939 and only had a semblance of 'peace' while America and the Soviets state sat on them for 50 years giving them the longest stretch of peace since Rome. Brussels solution appears to be follow the Moscow governing model but with better suits. America should have left when the Wall came down, so Europe could finally 'half life' its existence out of history. It's been a waste of time, lives, and resources keeping the place together like Justinian trying to resurrect the old Roman Empire at the expense of Byzantium's resources.
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No, Fukuyama, 'liberal democracy' is an unstable state that occurs before Oligarchy. As a video I remember cogently argued that there were two end states 'Republics' (Rule by 'one law for all') and Oligarchy (rule by a few privileged)...
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited Kp.ru special correspondent Dmitry Steshin suggested that Ukraine attacked the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in order to hide nuclear developments from the IAEA
According to official information, there were three kamikaze drones that attacked the Zaporozhye NPP on July 20, 2022 from Ukraine. Judging by the surviving, rather large fragments of drones, the attack was stopped by air defense covering the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
It is difficult to understand where the drones were aiming. Judging by the shooting from street cameras, the drones fell near the cooling ponds. According to Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the military-civilian administration of Zaporozhye, the attack did not damage the nuclear reactors. The nuclear power plant is operating normally.
Question: Why then did Ukraine decide to attack a nuclear facility?
Handmade blackout?
Oddly enough, the electricity generated by the station is supplied to the entire south-east of Ukraine, and if the nuclear power plant is shut down, an energy collapse will begin throughout the region. It is unlikely that Ukraine planned to de-energize Odessa, Nikolaev or Dnepropetrovsk. And the liberated territories would get out.
As the head of Zaporozhye Evgeny Balitsky noted: "We will get food, but they will have problems." Agree, it’s a shame to watch from the darkness how the light is on behind the front line, in the liberated territories ... Seditious thoughts may arise: are the commanders of the Square doing everything right?
The version of a man-made blackout disappears - Ukraine will have to do worse in this case. Moreover, close to Zaporozhye is the energy-surplus Donbass.
"Second Chernobyl"
Three drones and ten kilograms of explosives can't really catastrophically damage nuclear reactors. Their protection was originally designed to withstand the fall of an aircraft weighing 20 tons at a speed of 720 km/h.
In recent history, there have been attempts to undermine nuclear power plants from the inside. In the summer of 1979, Basque militants planted a bomb right in the turbine hall of the Spanish Lemonis nuclear power plant. The turbine was slightly damaged, five tons of oil caught fire. Two years later, five anti-tank missiles hit the reactor building of the French Saint-Alban nuclear power plant. Of the damage - destroyed 80 meters of the concrete containment of the reactor.
It is difficult to imagine that Kyiv was going to arrange a "Second Chernobyl" in Zaporozhye. There, of course, they are capable of everything. But Europe would not like the explosion of the largest nuclear power plant on the continent. Kyiv understands this.
Dirty Ukrainian bomb
Post-Maidan Ukraine has never hidden that it dreams of nuclear weapons. Back in 2014, the Bandera people from the Rada introduced a draft law on the denunciation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and even calculated on their knees that Ukraine needed $3.4 billion and 2 years to return to the "club of nuclear powers." However, Ukraine did not leave this club - in terms of the number of operating nuclear reactors, it is in fifth place in Europe.
In February 2020, just before the start of the special operation, Vladimir Zelensky threatened that Ukraine could create an atomic bomb.
And when the Zaporizhzhya NPP was liberated and it was possible to inspect it, amazing and ominous discoveries awaited Russian specialists. According to the Director General of the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency. - Auth.) Rafael Grossi, provided to the Wall Street Journal, 30 tons of plutonium and 40 tons of enriched uranium were found at the station. These are only those finds that have leaked into the public space. About other surprises, our authorities speak in a streamlined way.
I quote Vladimir Rogov: "There was a large amount of nuclear materials at the nuclear power plant that are not needed for the operation of the station and could not appear here just like that."
Ending with a host of other interesting moments. What are these moments - the IAEA commission, which has been meeting with an inspection at the Zaporizhzhya NPP, should have seen it since spring. But, the IAEA likes to emphasize that it is out of politics, therefore, it will not work in a war zone. And the IAEA does not want to believe the conclusions of Russian nuclear experts that Ukraine was seriously preparing to make an atomic bomb on its knee. After all, this proves that Russia is right in launching a special operation.
Therefore, Ukraine has chosen the cheapest, albeit risky, way to cancel the inspection of nuclear workers - to arrange a "war" at nuclear power plants. Just think about these words - SEND DRONES WITH EXPLOSIVES TO THE LARGEST NUCLEAR PLANT IN EUROPE!
For that, the truth will not be revealed. And Western support will continue as usual.
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So the idiot Russian use a nuclear power plant as a ammunition dump, then blame the country they invaded for trying to destroy the ammunition?
Do Russians actually fall for this BS?
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I don't think the Zaporozhe nuclear plant was used as an ammunition dump. The author ultimately doesn't offer an explanation for the attack, other than it was a nuclear plant.
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I believe the RU folks were using areas of that facility to launch their artillery/rocket attacks across the river as normal counter-battery by the UA would be a bad idea (so not a bad tactical strategy on the RU part).
The kamikaze drone attacks would be more precise and less likely to hit something critical.
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Other reports had the Russians storing ammunition there, because of the Ukrainian strikes against other ammunition dumps.
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Simply put, infinity is every single possible outcome of every single physical change moment existing simultaneously, parallel in time, and that it is the observation of the change moment(s) that creates the particular, singular outcome that is the present for the observer. Consider the trees in the forest falling creating sound only is there is a listening observer question, that observation is in fact a component of the event, not merely witness to it. Regardless, it remains that Schrodinger's cat is always dead for all practical purposes! lol
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In one sense, an intellectual abstraction is a form of reality, because it exists, if only in the mind.
In another sense, it's all-night backgammon bong-hit bullshit.
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I've lately been wondering how Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle might apply to the observations of the JWST.
Does looking at something that happened billions of years ago affect what is being observed? I suspect Heisenberg and Einstein would smile, laugh, drink a shot and say "I haff a headache."
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I sometimes think the observer effect, the whole Copenhagen thingy, may also have to do with what Jesus said. In a way.
If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this tree, be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea, and it should obey you.
He didn't say 'if thou art pure of heart' or 'lest thou hast pleased the bishop with 'nuff tithes' etc. Think about it. Just believe it's gonna do something as ridiculous as uproot itself, like a cartoon tree and go and ploop! In the sea.
What if what we're 'observing' is all mutable, malleable, subject to something that only comes from whatever faith is. I don't have it. I have met people who did, but they didn't uproot any trees for my benefit now. They just had enough to get 'em by in this place. Maybe it's given in verrry careful measures to folks doubly triply tested, all QCs passed by Him? Because if someone like me could do the tree thing, why a third of this planet would be dead.
Goddamit how'd I get to here from computing? It's the painkillers.
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You have The Word. You know more than you know.
Hey! That's exactly what my mamma used to say, MM. She would say it is a filter, a lamp to walk by even in a world darkened by stupid people who think themselves smart.
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We are all sinners. The Lord will not look away from a Believer.
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"Two time symmetries" is not the same as two time dimensions. I don't think the reporter understood.
Two time dimensions would be pretty cool, though. Several people, myself included, have played with the idea. I think macroscopic extra time dimensions are ruled out on astrophysical grounds, though.
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday carried out searches at multiple places in the recovery of arms in Chanpora area of city in the month of May."Today (20.07.2022), NIA conducted searches at nine locations in Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... (4 in Srinagar District and 5 in Pulwama District) in the case related to the conspiracy of carrying out terror activities in and around Srinagar, in which four accused persons were arrested and 15 Pistols, 30 Magazines, 300 rounds and one Scorpio vehicle were seized," NIA said here. "The case was registered initially in PS- Chanapora, Srinagar as FIR no 31/2022 and was re-registered by NIA on 18.06.2022."
The searches, probe agency said were conducted today at the premises of accused and suspects in the case have led to the recovery and seizure of digital devices and other incriminating materials.
Further investigations in the case are in progress, it added.
Notably, 15 pistols, apparently amassed for assassinations, were recovered from a terrorist module in area of Srinagar in last week of May.
"Two local hybrid bully boyz of the Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... ’s (LeT) The Resistance® Front (TRF) were arrested (in Srinagar). Incriminating materials, arms and ammunition have been recovered. An investigation is going on. It is a big success for the police," Inspector General of Police Vijay Kumar had said soon after the recovery of pistols.
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Thank Gawd for a bunch of Mahmuds. The weasel, remember? Some sell out to us, some are actually just afraid their wards are too incompetent to get away with it.
There was this old lady who called up to inquire once, what the punishment would be for helping some fools cross over with bombs and stuff. Because her son was involved in something like it.
The station officer, a bright chap, said, "Why, nothing! We'll just slap this silliness out of him an' send 'im home, lady."
She gave them the details of their plan and they caught a truck full of grenades, ammo, walkies, cells, IED making stuff...
And they did send the stupid bastard home, but with the fright of his life.
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Mahmoud the Weasel has a large family in need of braces, piano lessons, and dowries (or bride prices). Once he reached the age to dandle grandkiddies in his knee, he passed the trade on to his sons, sons-in-law, and nephews, all of whom were notable for their large ears and sensitive hearing.
I’m very glad to know he and they are not a figment of my imagination.
That loving mother is precious. May there be many more like her in the years to come.
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[KavkazUzel] The authorities are looking for more than 22,000 military personnel through the state portal "Jobs of Russia"; more than 3,600 vacancies fall on the regions of the south and the North Caucasus. The Rostov Region is the leader in terms of the number of such vacancies, Important Stories reported.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that information regularly appears about sending volunteers to Ukraine. Thus, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, often reports about the dispatch of volunteer detachments from Chechnya to participate in a special operation, including residents of other regions of the country. In addition, on May 18, he announced that about 3,000 Chechen fighters had been sent to Ukraine since the beginning of the military special operation. On July 10, Ramzan Kadyrov called rumors about the forced Chechen residents to fight in Ukraine.
In the state database of vacancies "Work of Russia" created by the Federal Service for Labor and Employment, vacancies for admission to contract service are published. 2,075 vacancies - more than in other regions of the country, are open for contract service in the Rostov region. In mid-June, the authorities searched for more than 22,200 thousand military personnel through the state portal "Work of Russia", the publication "Important stories" reported today in its Telegram channel.
In general, in the regions of the South and North Caucasus, more than 3,600 contract workers are looking for through the labor exchange: 690 vacancies are open in the Krasnodar Territory, 588 in the Volgograd Region, 124 in the Stavropol Territory, 103 in Chechnya, 60 in North Ossetia and 12 in Kalmykia, the publication says. site of the publication "Important stories." The authorities do not announce mobilization, but continue to massively recruit contract soldiers and immediately send them to Ukraine to compensate for the lack of people, the publication believes.
"Employment services are just an auxiliary channel for recruitment. Contract soldiers have always been recruited mainly from conscripts: they are regularly offered to conclude a contract during their service," the publication quoted military expert Pavel Luzin as saying.
Contractors are not required to go to Ukraine, but if there is an order, it is difficult to refuse to comply with it, Pavel Luzin explained. “You can refuse to carry out an order only through a report, and such a report is a black mark for a serviceman, this will turn the service into hell before the contract expires. opinion In fact, the army is a collective organism, and you are either with the team or against it, but then the team is against you," the expert explained.
According to the state portal "Work of Russia", in the Rostov region, private and sergeant personnel are offered from 80,000 to 200 thousand rubles when serving under a contract, in Chechnya, military personnel in junior command positions are offered from 25 to 100 thousand rubles, in the Krasnodar Territory - from 15 to 45 thousand rubles. Servicemen in the Astrakhan region are offered from 20 thousand rubles, in the Stavropol Territory - from 22 to 41 thousand rubles.
Recall that on June 3, a military court in Chechnya appointed ten days of arrest for Ali Musaev, an employee of the military commandant's office, because of his refusal to go on a business trip "to the area where special tasks are being carried out."
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[Korrespondent] 23:39 Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said at the Aspen Security Forum that his country supports Ukraine, but it does not need a conflict with Russia: "Israel is definitely on the western side. Israel is definitely on the Ukrainian side. We support it with all diplomatic measures. We support her with humanitarian aid… We have opened a field hospital.”
However, when asked why not do more for Ukraine, Gantz replied: “We have our own operational considerations. We have a common air border with Russia over Syria ... So we have other calculations that we must take into account. Russia does not threatens us directly. But we have to make sure we have a dialogue with the Russians. We have to reduce the conflict with them."
“Also, we’re in the middle of several wars over here, and can’t afford to send off all our weapons and ammunition while we still need them,” he added.
23:28 The EU has published the seventh package of sanctions against the Russian Federation. It provides, in particular, a ban on "direct and indirect" imports of Russian gold, freezing the assets of Sberbank; in addition, First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, artists Vladimir Mashkov and Sergei Bezrukov, and the president of the Night Wolves motorcycle club, Alexander Zaldastanov (Surgeon), fell under the sanctions.
22:56 Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko does not rule out that following tomorrow's meeting in Turkey, a document may be signed containing the obligations of the parties for the safe operation of export routes in the Black Sea: "The Ukrainian delegation will support only those decisions that will guarantee the security of the southern regions of Ukraine , the strong position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Black Sea and the safe export of Ukrainian agricultural products to world markets."
22:53 After the strike of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Antonovsky bridge, the occupiers stopped throwing military equipment across it, said the adviser to the head of the Kherson Regional Military District Serhiy Khlan.
22:49 Iran is ready to export military equipment and weapons to friendly countries, said the commander of the country's Land Forces Kiomars Heydari, reports Tasnim News Agency. According to him, the Iranian army has been able to develop the most advanced UAVs, which are used in long-range and cross-border reconnaissance, as well as in combat operations. At the same time, efforts are being made to expand the range and improve the accuracy of weapons.
22:46 Zelensky said that he had held talks with the president of Costa Rica today - for the first time in the history of relations between states: "I thanked him for supporting Ukraine - you can feel it, for opposing Russian propaganda and imposing sanctions." The head of state also noted that tomorrow he expects news from Turkey about the unblocking of Ukrainian ports.
22:40 Zelensky said in an evening video message that he held a regular meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief today: “We discussed the current situation on the front line, around Ukraine. We identified tasks in some tactical areas to strengthen our positions. And we worked out the issue of supplying the latest weapons to the troops in a very substantive manner "We still need to increase the intensity of strikes against the enemy. The participants in the Stavka meeting agreed that there is a significant potential for advancing our forces at the front and for inflicting new tangible losses on the invaders."
22:17 Zelensky said in an evening video message about the "first real result" of the first lady's visit to the United States: "The senators submitted a draft resolution recognizing Russia's actions in Ukraine as genocide. The resolution notes that Russia's actions in Ukraine, including forced deportation to the Russian Federation and purposeful the killing of Ukrainian civilians during mass atrocities constitutes genocide against the people of Ukraine."
21:34 In the occupied part of the Kharkiv region, they began to pay pensions in rubles, Vitaly Ganchev, the head of the CAA, said: "The first tranche has been received and distributed among the districts of the Kharkiv region ... It's already July, we pay for June, soon people will receive for July."
21:29 Lukashenka said in an interview with AFP that he was ready to recognize the status of Crimea and the "LDPR": "If we have to, we will admit it. We cooperate with them and do not hide it. That is, we de facto recognized that there is Crimea, Lugansk and Donetsk. And this is all chatter: why Lukashenka was recognized there, not recognized. It is necessary - we recognize it by presidential decree."
21:18 The European Union has imposed sanctions against six Syrian citizens and the private security company Al-Sayyad Company for recruiting mercenaries for the war in Ukraine on the side of Russia, the official EU magazine reports. The Al-Sayyad Company itself, known as the ISIS Hunters, has been sanctioned for setting up a recruiting network. She works with PMC Wagner in Syria and is engaged in protecting the interests of the Russian Federation (protection of oil facilities).
20:52 The document on the "grain issue" will be signed in Istanbul on Friday, July 22, at 16:30. Erdogan and Guterres will attend the ceremony, the Turkish presidential administration said.
20:45 The tactics of Russian shelling of Kharkov has changed - if earlier the attacks were at night, then for the third day in a row the city has been shelled in the early morning, Mayor Igor Terekhov said on the air of the telethon. He also urged Kharkiv residents not to be at public transport stops during periods when shelling is most common.
20:08 UK intelligence chief Richard Moore believes that the Russian military will again pause the operational pause in the next few weeks, which will give Ukraine the opportunity to strike back: "I think they are about to run out of potential. Our assessment is that the Russians it will become increasingly difficult to supply manpower over the next few weeks... They will have to pause for a while, and this will give the Ukrainians an opportunity to strike back."
19:43 Lavrov admitted that the Kremlin is waging an aggressive war in Ukraine. He stated that the "geographical tasks" of the Russian war are expanding. Following Putin's "hawk" Medvedev said that the Russian army intends to "push Ukrainian troops not only from Donetsk, but also wider." Details about what this means - in the material Russia "expands the geography" of the war .
19:27 The National Security and Defense Council together with the Ministry of Defense launched a new module of the SOTA information and analytical system for the supply of weapons from partner countries, Alexey Danilov said at the presentation. He assured that all weapons from Western partners that enter Ukraine "are under close control, which can be seen."
19:08 UN Secretary General António Guterres will travel to Istanbul tonight as part of efforts to reach agreements on grain exports from Ukraine and Russia, the office of the Secretary General said.
18:52 A single information hub will be created in Ukraine, which will facilitate the work of military journalists, correspondents of Ukrainian and foreign media. This will allow the world community to be informed as quickly as possible about the situation at the front and about the use of equipment and weapons received by the Ukrainian army from partners, Yermak said following joint talks with Zaluzhny with Biden's national security adviser Jacob Sullivan and head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley.
18:04 In the Kharkiv region, from tomorrow alcohol will be sold in stores from 8:00 to 20:00, and in cafes, bars and restaurants from 8:00 to 22:00. The corresponding order was signed by the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
17:51 A new Prosecutor General of Ukraine will be appointed in the next ten days, Arakhamia said. His first and main task should be the appointment of the head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office.
17:24 Russia has canceled the military parade in Sevastopol, which was traditionally held on the Day of the Russian Navy on July 31, Russian media write. In addition, there will be no solemn meeting of sailors in the House of Officers, a festive reception for the commander, as well as a traditional military sports festival for residents of the city in the waters of the Sevastopol Bay. The reasons for the cancellation of events are not reported.
16:51 Lavrov, after talks in Moscow with Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, said that Budapest wants to purchase additional volumes of gas from the Russian Federation.
16:27 Tomorrow's meeting in Turkey, which was supposed to finalize the agreements on grain, was canceled by the Russians. Meetings will continue online, people's deputy Oleksiy Goncharenko said. At the same time, the Russian Foreign Ministry today confirmed that the discussions are taking place online, and stated that "the parties have a constructive approach to the negotiations."
15:55 Lavrov's statement about the "expansion of the geography" of the war against Ukraine testifies to the preparation of the ground for the "attachment" of the occupied territories in the south, Vadim Skibitsky, deputy head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, said. According to him, at first the picture in the information field of the Russian Federation was based on the hostilities in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, but now the Kremlin is "creating the ground for resolving the status of the temporarily occupied territories in the south." This can happen through a pseudo-referendum or direct annexation of the occupied territories of Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
15:41 The NBU estimates the fall of the Ukrainian economy in the second quarter of this year at 40%, and in general, by the end of 2022, it expects it to fall by a third. At the same time, the regulator notes that when the Black Sea ports are unblocked, the economy will return to growth in 2023-2024.
15:33 The UK will soon transfer more than 20 M109 self-propelled guns, 36 L119 105-mm howitzers and 50,000 artillery shells to Ukraine , Defense Minister Ben Wallace said. Also, Ukraine will be supplied with counter-battery radars, hundreds of drones and 1,600 anti-tank shells.
15:28 The Russian troops have never managed to destroy the HIMARS MLRS, and the Ukrainian military personnel are very effective in using American systems, destroying enemy warehouses, said the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley: "To date, these systems have not been destroyed by the Russians, I'm knocking on wood every time I say something like that."
15:02 In the Diya application, a survey on what to do with the coat of arms of the USSR on the Motherland monument in Kiev has ended. Almost 800 thousand people took part in the voting, which lasted two weeks. As a result, 85% of respondents voted to replace the coat of arms of the USSR with the coat of arms of Ukraine. Another 9% supported the idea of leaving the shield empty, simply removing the Soviet coat of arms, and only 6% would like everything to remain as it is.
14:46 Zelensky announced the creation of an English-language digital media @U24_gov_ua. Today starts the first show on YouTube called Fight for Freedom about the power of Ukrainian defenders. The pilot episode focuses on the role of military drones in this war.
14:29 Lavrov will hold talks in Moscow today with Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó, Russian media report.
14:25 Russia has used 55-60% of its stocks of high-precision weapons, Vadim Skibitsky, a spokesman for the MOU's Main Intelligence Directorate, said. He clarified that we are talking about the Iskander, Kalibr systems, air-launched cruise missiles. At the same time, ballistic missiles were most used for the Iskander complex, although their use has not been recorded for a long time. According to Skibitsky, this is due to sanctions against Russia, since many of the components of this missile were foreign-made.
At the same time, he added that there are large stocks of old Soviet weapons - these are Kh-22 cruise missiles, which have already been used twice from the territory of Belarus, as well as other cruise missiles, a set of Smerch, Uragan rockets, aerial bombs. "It is very difficult to calculate what they have left there," Skibitsky admitted.
14:13 The Russian military dragged at least 14 units of heavy equipment with ammunition, weapons and explosives into the engine room of the first power unit of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, Energoatom reports. The equipment of the Russians is located very close to the equipment responsible for the operation of the turbogenerator. In particular, in close proximity to the main oil tank, where flammable oil is stored. Also there is explosive hydrogen.
Energoatom notes that if, for example, an ammunition load accidentally detonates, the scale of the fire can be the same as during the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
13:32 The Russian occupiers not only demand from Mariupol farmers to collect and give the entire crop to the "DPR" property, but also force them to sign legal "papers" on the transfer of ownership of land plots and property to certain people free of charge. According to the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, after that, farmers are forbidden to evacuate in any direction, and they are obliged to work for hire practically for free.
13:11 Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi appealed to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken with a proposal to recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism - otherwise Congress will do it, writes Politico.
12:46 EU countries agreed on a new package of sanctions against Russia , which included a ban on gold imports, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said: "Member states have agreed to our strengthened and extended EU sanctions against the Kremlin. I welcome this. This sends a strong a signal to Moscow: we will maintain high pressure for as long as it takes."
12:27 The number of victims of the attack on Kharkov has increased to 21 people, two people remain dead, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
11:50 "LPR" leader Leonid Pasechnik accused Google of promoting terrorism and extremism and said that the "LPR" would do without it: "We can manage without Google. If they improve, they start respecting people, we'll think about returning." According to Pasechnik, Google "is deliberately promoting terrorism and extremism, which means that it simply does not value its users from the Luhansk People's Republic."
11:33 As a result of the shelling of one of the districts of Kharkiv by Russian Hurricanes, there are already 19 wounded, among them one child. Four of the wounded are in critical condition. We also know of two deaths. As Oleg Sinegubov, the head of the OVA, said, the enemy hits only the streets of the city, shopping pavilions, and housing infrastructure. There is a hit in a residential building where a private dental office was located, there were no people inside the premises.
11:29 British intelligence reports that the Russian Federation and separatist forces continue to attempt small-scale attacks along the front line in Donbas. Russian forces are likely to be approaching Ukraine's second largest power plant, Uglegorska, 50km northeast of Donetsk. The Russians prioritize capturing critical national infrastructure such as power plants. But, probably, the Russian Federation is also trying to break through to Uglegorsk, trying to restore the pace of its advance towards Kramatorsk and Slavyansk.
11:23 SBU detained the spotter of missile strikes at the airport of Krivoy Rog - he turned out to be "an official of one of the most powerful industrial giants in the region." Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, the man has been collecting intelligence on the deployment and movement of the Ukrainian Defense Forces, recording the geolocation of critical infrastructure facilities and transmitting them to the occupiers through closed communication channels. Among other facts, the involvement of the detainee in adjusting the missile attack on the Krivoy Rog airport on March 10 is being checked.
11:19 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of July 21. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Slavic direction.
personnel - about 38,850 (+100) people liquidated,
tanks - 1704 (+4),
armored combat vehicles - 3912 (+7),
artillery systems - 859 (+3),
MLRS - 251 (+1),
air defense systems - 113 (+0),
aircraft - 221 (+0),
helicopters - 188 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 710 (+7),
cruise missiles - 167 (+0),
ships/boats - 15 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2781 (+6),
special equipment - 72 (+2).
11:12 The head of the Nikolaev OVA Vitaly Kim said that tonight the Russians hit two missiles at one of the humanitarian headquarters, as a result of which thousands of tons of products were completely burned.
11:05 As a result of the shelling of Kharkov, it is already known about one dead, Mayor Igor Terekhov said. According to him, for the second day in a row, at about the same time, the occupier hits public transport stops. 17 people were injured today, of which one is in critical condition.
10:49 The death toll as a result of a rocket attack on Vinnitsa has grown to 26 people: a 20-year-old girl who had 98% of burns died in the hospital, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Borzov.
10:28 As a result of the shelling of one of the residential areas of Kharkiv, according to preliminary data, 17 people were injured , the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov said.
10:24 For the first time since the beginning of a full-scale war, the National Bank lowered the official hryvnia exchange rate. The hryvnia has fallen in price by 25%, and now the rate is 36.5 hryvnia per dollar. The rate will remain fixed.
10:02 Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov said that right now one of the most densely populated areas of the city is being shelled, there are wounded. There is a hit in one of the medical facilities.
09:55 T.S. The "military-civilian administration" of the Zaporozhye region stated that in the Russian-occupied city of Pologi, a fire broke out at an elevator due to shelling, as a result of which the roof collapsed. Due to the ongoing shelling, it is now impossible to extinguish the roof.
Also, the Russian media, citing Kirill Stremousov, the "deputy head of the VGA" of the Kherson region, report that they again tried to hit HIMARS on the Antonovsky bridge, but all 12 missiles were allegedly shot down by air defense.
09:43 CDU Bundestag member Roderich Kiesewetter shared details of German military aid deliveries to Ukraine: "The German" offer "after three months of deliberation: 20 Leopard 2 tanks. Delivery from April 2023, one per month, from October 2023 - three pieces per month. Let me remind you: Poland handed over almost 300 T-72 tanks to Ukraine in the first two months."
09:39 Settlements of the Lugansk region on July 20 were subjected to two powerful missile strikes, four long-term artillery attacks, five shelling from mortars, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the occupiers are trying to develop an offensive on Bakhmut, but in every settlement they are given worthy resistance: "The Russians organized several attempts to storm from different sides from the Lisichansk region and the surrounding villages. Damage was added in Verkhnekamenskoye. Belogorovka was once again shelled from the air" .
09:33 The UK will impose new sanctions on the import of coal and oil from Russia, according to the government's amendments to existing sanctions. The ban on coal imports will come into force on August 10, oil - from December 31. Also, London introduces a ban on the import of gold, it takes effect from today.
09:29 At night Russians have let out seven rockets across Nikolaev, the head of OVA Vitaly Kim reported. According to preliminary information, it is known that it hit an infrastructure facility, a gas station, a gas pipeline and a warehouse. Rescue services eliminated all fires that arose as a result of shelling. Currently, one victim is known.
09:15 In the Kharkiv region, Russians attacked the Chuguevsky district tonight. From the destroyed part of the building of the utility company, there were no preliminary victims, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. During the day, the enemy also conducted a massive shelling of the settlements of Chuguevsky, Bogodukhovsky, Izyumsky districts and Kharkov. Residential houses, outbuildings were damaged, fires broke out.
09:03 In the Donetsk region, the invaders destroyed two schools today - in Kramatorsk and Konstantinovka, said the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko. In addition, the industrial part of Kramatorsk - the enterprises of SKMZ and NKMZ - was shelled that night. The Russians also fired at Ivanovka of the Cherkasy community with cluster munitions and damaged a private house. On July 20, one civilian was killed by Russian shelling - in Konstantinovka. Another five people were injured.
08:58 Yermak again stated that now "it is important not to let the Russians drag us out of the war into the winter," and announced "many surprises": "The President is serious and ready to do everything so that we liberate our territories as soon as possible. Ready talk to world leaders, convey Ukraine's position to them. A lot depends on the training of our soldiers. We will turn the tide of this war. Soon there will be many surprises."
08:24 A number of US senators called on the Pentagon to provide Ukraine with modern fighters. This is stated in a letter from politicians to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, which is published by Fox News.
In turn, the US Air Force Chief of Staff Charles Brown supported the training of Ukrainian pilots to fly NATO aircraft and admitted the possibility of transferring military aircraft to Ukraine, but did not specify which ones.
08:11 Peskov said that neither Putin nor Lavrov "never said that the issue of negotiations between Moscow and Kiev is closed."
07:58 A Russian tank opened fire on Ukrainian combine operators who drove into the field, said Alexander Vilkul, head of the military administration of Krivoy Rog. According to him, the incident took place on July 20 near the village of Koshevoye in the Dnipropetrovsk region: "Two of our harvesters were gathering grain near the village of Koshevoye, an enemy tank drove out and began to aim at these combines. Thank God, the guys managed to escape. There were only small shrapnel hits on the equipment."
Vilkul also said that tonight the invaders again fired at the Nikopol district from Gradov - more than 20 rockets were fired at the Krasnogrigoryevsk community. There were no casualties.
07:46 Gas began to flow to Germany again via Nord Stream after technical work, DPA reports with reference to Nord Stream AG.
07:35 The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled the assault on the Uglegorsk TPP, fighting continues in the Novolugansky area in the Bakhmut direction and near Ivano-Daryevka in the Kramatorsk direction, the General Staff reports in the morning report .
07:11 Polish scientists have named a new species of sea lily discovered in Africa, about 150 million years old, in honor of Zelensky. The find was named Ausichicrinites zelenskyyi "in honor of the sixth and current President of Ukraine, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zelensky, for his courage and bravery in defending a free Ukraine," according to an article in the scientific journal Royal Society Open Science. Fossils found in Ethiopia. This is the first representative of the echinoderms of the Jurassic period, which was found on the African continent.
06:28 Invaders massively fired at Nikolaev at night, the mayor of the city Alexander Senkevich reported.
05:33 The United States estimates the losses of the Russian Federation in Ukraine "in the region of 15 thousand killed and somewhere three times more wounded," said CIA director William Burns. At the same time, he noted that the Ukrainians also suffered considerable losses: "And the Ukrainians also suffered - probably a little less, but still, you know, these are significant losses."
05:05 The German state railway company Deutsche Bahn plans to transport grain by freight trains from Ukraine to German ports, Reuters reports. Deutsche Bahn said that they are already working on the formation of a transport network designed to transport humanitarian aid, deliver grain from Ukraine to the German ports of Rostock, Hamburg and Brake. The railway operator plans to run several trains a week, most of the grain will be transported through Romania and Poland.
04:36 In Melitopol, the Russian invaders intend to take away apartments from those residents of the city who bought them before February 19 this year, the mayor of the city Ivan Fedorov said on the air of the telethon. He said that the occupiers make a total tour of all residential buildings and apartments and conduct a population census: “They look at who lives in the apartment, and they look especially carefully at when the ownership right or the sale and purchase agreement is formalized. Everything that is formalized before February 19 ", the enemy does not recognize. He says that he will take these apartments and settle in them some of his residents from distant regions of Russia."
Fedorov also said that the occupiers demand that the entrepreneurs who remained in the occupied territories re-register with their "tax office".
04:01 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) suggests that the current Russian offensive in the Donetsk region may end with the capture of Slavyansk or Bakhmut. Analysts predict that the current Russian offensive in Donbas will result in minor territorial gains northeast of the E40 highway and culminate somewhere along the E40 in the coming weeks. In doing so, Russian forces will encounter terrain that will be much more favorable to the Ukrainian defenders as they advance towards the E40 around Sloviansk and Bakhmut.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops have resumed limited ground attacks northwest of Slavyansk and in the Donetsk-Avdiivka area. The invaders continued local ground advances east of Seversk and achieved minor successes northeast of Bakhmut.
Experts also suggest that the Russian occupation authorities are using the latest Ukrainian precision strikes and partisan activities to create conditions for the mass deportation of Ukrainian citizens to the territory of the Russian Federation.
02:14 Ukrainian defenders in the south inflicted ten air strikes on the enemy - by helicopters, bombers and attack aircraft, the Pivden Operational Command reported. The destruction of a command and command and observation post, six more ammunition depots in the Kherson, Berislav and Kakhov regions was confirmed.
00:39 France will allocate 85 million euros to replenish stocks of the Caesar self-propelled guns, which she transferred to Ukraine, said the Minister for the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu: "The package of 85 million euros will allow us to carry out this replenishment, the point is not to cause harm training and training plans of our shooters".
00:52 Russia's war against Ukraine is likely to escalate into a protracted military conflict, General Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said: "Today is the 147th day since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, illegal and unprovoked, large-scale, strong against weak. This struggle is likely to remain a protracted conflict."
Milli also said that weapons are delivered to Ukraine from the United States within 48 hours after Biden's decision, and to the front line after two weeks of training.
00:24 Every day , Russia spends about $400 million on military operations in Ukraine , Forbes calculated. One of the smallest items of expenditure in the war is the salaries of military personnel.
[NPASYRIA] Russia and 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... marginalized, during Tehran’s summit on July 19, Ottoman Turkish potential military operation against north Syria, and thus The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... failed to obtain a green light to launch the military operation, political analyst and legal counsel, Ra’ouf al-Ali, from Aleppo Governorate, said Thursday.
The final statement of the Russian-Iranian-Ottoman Turkish tripartite summit in Tehran summarized the three countries’ determination to continue cooperation to eliminate terrorism and preserve Syrian territorial integrity.
The Tehran’s trilateral summit brought president of Iran Turkey and Russia together with the Syrian issue on the top of its agenda.
"Ottoman Turkish forces has not made any move until they obtain a go-ahead from its region’s allies, Russia and Iran, which have not granted Turkey, in turn, a sign of yes to move inside Syrian territory," al-Ali told North Press.
This indicates, according to the political analyst, "The Russian-Iranian marginalization of the military operation comes at a time when Turkey is seeking to implement its plans and move without any interference or support from any international party."
He believes that Turkey had knew the results of Tehran summit in advance, through recent changes that took place on the ground, and the agreement between the Syrian government and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to defend and protect Syrian territorial integrity.
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Gunmen suspected to be bandidos have killed four mobile coppers and three civilians at Gatikawa community, Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State.
SaharaReporters gathered that the incident occurred on Wednesday evening.
The coppers stationed at a checkpoint in the community were on special duty from Kano State Command.
Katsina, despite being the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari, has witnessed sporadic attacks by bandidos and kidnappers that have claimed the lives of many.
Over 2000 people have been reportedly killed by the button men in Jibia, Kankara, Dutsinma, Musawa, Danmusa and Safana local government areas of the state in the last one year.
The latest incident is coming a few weeks after murderous Moslems killed the Area Commander of the Dutsin Ma Police Area command in the state, Aminu Umar.
Umar, an Assistant Police Commissioner, was killed alongside one other officer.
[OneIndia] There has been a substantial decline in terrorist attacks from 2018 to 2021, Union Minister Nityanand Rai informed the Rajya Sabha ...After the Libyan Civil War, Sabha grew in importance as a slave auctioning town. However, an investigation by the National Commission for Human Rights in Libya (NCHRL) revealed that while there was illegal slavery, reports were exaggerated, as slave auctions were rare and not made public. This was a great comfort to everyone but the slaves peddled in secret. The city was later seized by forces loyal to the Libyan National Army (LNA) and its leader Khalifa Haftar in January 2019, probably for its collection of MiG-25 aircraft.... on Wednesday.
In a written reply to Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, Rai said the Central government has a "policy of zero tolerance against terrorism and the security situation has improved significantly in Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... The incidents of terrorist attacks also decreased significantly since 2018 in Jammu and Kashmir. A total of 229 terrorist attacks were reported in 2021; 244 in 2020; 255 in 2019; and 417 in 2018, the Minister of State for Home Affairs said.
In these attacks in the Union Territory, Rai said a total of 42 security force personnel were killed in 2021. Before that, 62 security personnel were killed in 2020, 80 in 2019 and 91 in 2018.
A total of 41 non-combatants were killed in 2021, following 37 in 2020 and 39 each in 2019 as well as 2018, he noted.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact... the incidents of Naxal
..they're the Maoists...
violence reduced by 77 per cent from all-time high of 2,258 in 2009 to 509 in 2021, Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai told the Rajya Sabha.
While giving a written reply to the query of Congress MP Akhilesh Prasad Singh, Rai said "The steadfast implementation of the 'national policy and action plan to address Left Wing Extremism (LWE) 2015 has resulted in a consistent decline in LWE violence".
"The incidents of LWE violence have reduced by 77 per cent from all-time high of 2,258 in 2009 to 509 in 2021. Similarly, the resultant deaths (civilians and security forces) have reduced by 85 per cent from all-time high of 1,005 in 2010 to 147 in 2021," the Minister said.
"the virus may have originated in a location outside of the U.S."
Thank you, President Biden.
[FoxNews] The New York Department of Health on Thursday reported a case of polio in a resident of the state's Rockland County.
This case marks the first in the U.S. in nearly a decade.
The department said it was identified through sequencing at the Wadsworth Center — its public health laboratory — and confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The sequencing showed revertant polio Sabin type 2 virus.
"This is indicative of a transmission chain from an individual who received the oral polio vaccine (OPV), which is no longer authorized or administered in the U.S., where only the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) has been given since 2000," the department wrote. "This suggests that the virus may have originated in a location outside of the U.S. where OPV is administered, since revertant strains cannot emerge from inactivated vaccines."
Polio is endemic in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
A viral disease that can affect the nervous system and cause muscle weakness, the polio virus typically enters through the mouth.
While it is usually transmitted by hands contaminated with the fecal matter of an infected person, respiratory and oral-to-oral transmission through saliva may also occur.
Polio is very contagious, and a person can spread the virus even if they aren't sick. The majority of people infected with polio have no symptoms.
Symptoms can be mild and flu-like and can take up to 30 days to present, during which time the infected individual can spread the virus to others.
Although rare, some cases can result in paralysis or death.
Due to the success of the polio vaccine, introduced in 1955, cases were cut dramatically in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The last naturally occurring cases of polio in the U.S. were reported in 1979, and the last known case in the country was recorded by the CDC in 2013.
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It was, but Pak and Afghan inbreds love killing Polio-vax teams, because they think it's Jooo juice, makes their doinkers fall of, or just Islamic stupidity.
Perhaps we need to screen? Dya think?
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[Bee] Only one day after Biden's miraculous recovery from cancer, White House sources have confirmed the President now has COVID. Doctors say that the twice-boosted president only has mild symptoms, but has tragically lost his keen sense of smell. The White House will continue to provide updates and notify the country if his condition worsens.
Vice President Harris has responded by preparing an inauguration speech and changing the curtains in the oval office.
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[cybernews.com]While Boston Dynamics show off their robot’s dance moves, others turn similar-looking devices into dystopian killing machines.
Much like their flesh-made cousins, robot dogs do not lack attention on the internet. Many have seen the footage of Spot, a high-tech quadruped developed by the US-based company Boston Dynamics, flaunting its dance moves.
However, the latest addition to the robot dog content stream looks like something out of a science fiction movie. Twitter user Sean Chiplock shared a video of someone in Russia firing a gun from a quadruped robot.
Even though the post’s author discusses robots Boston Dynamics make, the one seen in the video is not made by the American company. As Sean Gallagher, a Senior Threat Researcher at Sophos points out, the robot dog is of Chinese origin.
The design of the robot looks a lot like Go1 robot dog Unitree Robotics makes. For example, the back side of the device in the video exhibits a distinct pattern on a plastic covering between its hind legs. A similar design is visible on devices in Unitree’s promotional material.
The Hangzhou-based company is selling the Go1 model of the robot for $2,700 on its website, a fraction of over $75k that American-made Spot would cost its owner.
While the robot doesn’t seem to handle recoil very well with the gun on ’burst fire’ mode, switching to a ’semi-automatic’ setting allows the robot to hit targets without moving around too much.
The robot in the video has patches on its surfaces with insignia associated with the Russian military: a Russian flag on one side and what seems to be a Wolf, which Russian special forces use.
The original video was posted on Youtube by Moscow-resident Alexander Atamanov.ecently reports came out that the US Army had agreed to send one of its two Boston Dynamic-made robot dogs to Ukraine, where it will carry out demining operations around the capital Kyiv.
The robot dog will help an American non-profit HALO Trust remove unexploded ordnance, including cluster munitions, and drag them to be safely exploded in batches far from civilians.
Although Boston Dynamics prohibits using the Spot platform as a weapon, its possible application for military and law-enforcement purposes is evident.
The robot dog trained alongside French troops in a reconnaissance exercise earlier this spring. However, its employment in the NYPD ended quickly last year after the public deemed it too creepy.
Fears that robot dogs will be used against humans have been vocal for several years. Most notably, a cult anthology TV series Black Mirror dedicated a whole episode, Metalhead, to the device in 2017.
The plot follows a group of humans hunted by a robot dog. Series creator Charlies Brooker said the inspiration for the episode came after he saw one of Boston Dynamics’ promotional videos.
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Instead of putting all the batteries and motors in the cars, why not make cars like soap box derby racers (longest, fastest coast wins) and put EMALS in the roadway every so far? (Yes, I am being facetious)
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After going to the grocery store yesterday with the missus, it feels like we are already living the dystopian future in the present. The only thing missing was Cujo, the robot dog with a machine gun.
Victoria Spartz (R-northern Indianapolis) moved to America after getting an MBA in Kiev, so she knows her former homeland. In the years since she earnt her CPA and real estate broker license, became an adjunct business school professor, was a founding member of the local TEA Party group. After serving in the Indiana legislature for three years, she was elected to the U.S. House in 2020 for Indianapolis and its wealthy northern suburbs as one of the anti-socialism Freedom Force Republicans — not what is being claimed about how such people vote, but it’s been a Republican safe seat since 1993...
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Well, clowns are so clowns - no Pennywise can compare. Why Pennywise - even Zelensky smokes in silence.
[REGNUM] Imagine the plot. A cult (yes, yes, that's right, don't argue!) writer lives in the US state of Maine. Author of dozens of books that are published in millions of copies around the world. The writer survived family trauma, drug addiction, an accident - survived; tough guy.
But one dark, dark night, a barely noticeable pale pink fog began to curl in his room. He crept up to the sleeping writer, and ominous voices in Ukrainian language whispered ancient spells, interrupted by exclamations of “Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!"
In the morning, the author woke up already captivated by the evil spirit, which was once known in the human world as Stepan Bandera - either a man or a demon, responsible for the brutal murders of thousands of people.
Well, if Stephen King again decided to write about himself, and he loves this business (how many times in his texts did a car hit the hero?), then he would probably like this plot. There is a cool villain, and a spectacular victim, and the voices of the past, and the current context - in general, sometimes they return, as the King of Horrors himself once titled his story.
But, probably, still Mr. King will not write about the captivity of the famous writer by the spirit of Stepan Bandera. Largely because he will be busy, firstly, searching for money for Ukraine, and secondly, creating a fake scenario about Russian “crimes” in Donbass. Perhaps even an entire book.
Actually, in King's sensational revelations to pranksters Lexus and Vovan, the most disgusting thing is precisely this - the willingness with which a serious author, a respected author, agreed to write a frank "jeans", a political order about how some allegedly torture others. He agreed to act as a stupid propagandist, working on one side of the conflict without doubts and as they say, a twinge of conscience, without a desire, in principle, to understand what is happening. An ordinary liar - that's what Mr. King showed himself to be.
He basically said a lot of abominations and nonsense. For some reason, they decided to spin a picture in telegrams about how King supposedly thinks that Bandera, in general, did not commit any special crimes. No, the King of Horrors did not say this - he only agreed with the pranksters, whom he mistook for President Zelensky. He generally behaved very obsequiously.
Although where is he, and where is Zelensky, in fact? However, perhaps this is just the banal politeness of a well-mannered person who grew up in a culture where it is important to “smile, just smile”, asking “how are you are?” when meeting, although, in fact, you don’t care how someone really is.
He was embarrassed, choking on his drink, in a conversation with pranksters, Stephen King only once, when Zelensky announced that his favorite hero was Pennywise (aka It from the book of the same name - brilliant, it should be noted, first of all, with his sociality). The rest of the time, Stephen King agreed, stating, for example, that Bandera is a great man, and comparing him with George Washington.
Well, we have a new King. Someone has already rushed to call him a bastard, a villain, and further down the fire-breathing list, like a dragon. In fact, we have seen that the cult author from Maine writes great books (I can easily prove why), but he is not wise. That's right - not wise.
The ancient Greeks had such a thing as amathia. It is quite difficult to translate it into Russian. This, simplifying, is the opposite of wisdom, which allows you to reason and act sensibly, for the good, decently. So, Stephen King showed us amathia. "Amathia, then, can best be thought of as lack of wisdom, i.e. the opposite of sophia." Link
By the way, he once again showed that we overestimate famous people too much. Here recently, for example, Axl Rose from Guns'n'Roses (once a great rock band) confessed his love for Ukraine, food in the voice of Mickey Mouse about the war. Well? How many have been and will be? Paul McCartney generally lights up in Ukrainian. People live according to the agenda they are given. We are all, one way or another, part of the Matrix, and it is sometimes more difficult for stars (celebrity) to break out of it than for others. And will their un-wisdom cancel out the greatness of the Appetite for Destruction album and the greatness of McCartney 's songs ?
It's the same with Stephen King. His best books (and, to be honest, they have already been written a long time ago) we both loved and will continue to love, not intending to confiscate and burn from open access. Otherwise, how are we different from the idiots who suddenly decided to abolish Russian culture? Well, clowns are so clowns - no Pennywise can compare. Why Pennywise, even Zelensky smokes in silence.
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Amathia. A word our headmaster and many teachers would often use whilst teaching us Indian and bi-racial kiddies. They were all Irish or English Jesuits, you see, a French or Italian nun here and there in the mix. They resented our bringing the typically south asian 'primitiveness' inside the school gates. 😁
Amathia and agnoia. Their usage of the terms implied that a continued allegiance to useless hubris would make the education of none effect. We would try to learn but remain idiots. And we would actually protect our agnoia, our ignorance with more amathia, creating jumbled, albeit glorious sounding paradigms that led back to our ignorance. And you know what? That's exactly what happened with India.
Of course, the world is divided so sharply today, there are aggressively protected paradigms now and their agents who'll push the amathia, encourage it, shove it down your children's throat if you're not careful. It's everywhere now, and no one is immune to it. Very few people, like Rantburgers, can just laugh at the ridiculousness of the world, collaborate on expanding each other's trivia, and just... chill.
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And of course, King has always been a good entertainer. He's very excitable and eager to share his views, if you meet him. Maybe someone just cornered him on his views on twitter in a bad day? Fiction writers can be totally normal outside and legion inside y'know? You never know when they may drop one worldview and adopt another, just for a few days.
Also, does the editor of regnum just let these guys go at the word processor and never check in? 🙃
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Was it a word salad in the original Russian, too? All I gathered from it is a Russki is pissed someone objects to the invasion and threatened genocide of the Ukraine.
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King was pranked into saying historical figure and participant in pogroms in the east -- Stephan Bandera -- was a great man.
The author of the article tried to cast a mood, similar to how King used to write his horror stories, to describe the story of the prank.
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See? Writers, especially fiction writers, are involuntarily empathic folks, can assume worldviews at the drop of a hat. And the successful, commercial ones, their views are even a bit... compromised at times. No one should pay them any attention. They're just entertainers.
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I used to read every SK book published, including the early Bachman ones. Couldn’t wait for next installment of The Dark Tower series. But all that changed after his car crash (who buys the car that hit you?) and he made his ‘military are stupid’ statement. All books trashed. Yes he is entitled to his opinion, as am I.
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King can churn out the words. He's not Dostoyévskiy or Faulkner. And his avid readers can't be mistaken for lovers of good literature either.
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Got me interested in reading, and he had some winners making the book-to-film leap multiple times, and The Stand was king of the hill in pop literature for a long time.
At no point do I think anyone thought they were reading Umberto Eco.
As USN, ret notes: He would have done well for himself to have remained behind the curtain.
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You need to suspend your disbelief to appreciate Stephen King novels. That's because, instead of doing the hard work of inventing a realistic plot, he always relies on supernatural plot devices. But it isn't science fiction because that would take serious work and research too. It's just garbage.
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I read Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill, and loved it. Joe Hill is actually SK's son's pen name
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The folks in Donetsk who compile information on the near constant shelling by Ukrainian artillery units probably have better things to do than to concerned themselves with reporting styles.
They use the word shell as a verb, a gerund and a noun. But the way it gets translated sounds stupid.
This applies only to the Breakaway reporting which uses it constantly. From this moment forward, the word shell and shells will be replaced with round or rounds.
Examples:
"So and so was shelled this morning using 122mm rounds."
"So and so location experienced shelling by 122mm rounds."
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I think you are going a nice job. I always smile at the MTL of Chinese webnovels where "thermal weapons" replaces firearms and hand weapons become "cold weapons".... *Brrr* break out the oven mitts before engaging in combat!
Lavrov gives the biggest official signal yet that Russia is planning to annex southern Ukraine.
"Now the geography has changed. It's not just Donetsk and Luhansk, it's Kherson, Zaporizhia, and several other territories. And this is an ongoing process, consistent and insistent." pic.twitter.com/xN6IMmAr5R
[Axios] The U.S. has intelligence indicating the Kremlin is "reviewing detailed plans" to annex multiple Russian-controlled regions of Ukraine, White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said Tuesday.
Why it matters: The four regions — Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk — are contiguous and together would connect Russia with the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow occupied and annexed in 2014.
Annexing them would mean claiming large swaths of Ukraine's territory and fundamentally shifting the outlook for any peaceful resolution to the war.
The big picture: Ukrainian officials have been warning for months that Russia's shadow government in Kherson was issuing Russian passports, mandating the use of the Russian ruble, and potentially planning a "referendum" on joining Russia. The plan Kirby laid out, which echoes U.S. intelligence warnings made in May, would be even more drastic.
Russia has previously denied any intention to annex additional parts of Ukraine. The Kremlin decided against annexing Donetsk and Luhansk in 2014, opting instead to arm and support separatist "republics" there.
Russia took control of most of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in southern Ukraine in the early days of the war. In its current offensive in eastern Ukraine, Russia has cemented its control of Luhansk and is now focusing on Donetsk. Read the rest at the link
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^ For once, I agree with you. At least I hope so. But this shit is going to go on well past that. The conflict long brewing between the globalist bastards and sovereign nations has just had its first flashpoint. The huffing and puffing will not stop. And there're so many Zelenskys in the world... everybody wants to be a prince, with the sceptre of Brussels on his shoulder. They've already started a micro 'revolution' to oust Vlad himself.
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The purported basis of the border realignment is the domestic population being culturally and historically Russian. To some that seems an acceptable form of reasoning for the invasion and occupation.
Now consider the possible long-term dissection of the United States through the cultural realignment of the past thirty years of illegal immigration. Even ten years ago I would have scoffed at such an absurd idea, But, with an estimated 8-10 MILLION illegals added by Biden to the 30+ already settled in over since the Clinton flood began, not as ridiculous as it once sounded. One world power would benefit the most from our decline and fracturing, and they seem behind so much of what has happened in the past decade, up to an including the present, the CCP.
The Reconquista ("reconquest") is a term to describe an irredentist vision by different individuals, groups, and/or nations that the Southwestern United States should be politically or culturally returned to Mexico
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The more territory they lose, the lower the bill for us to rebuild the place after it is all over. In actuality, it probably won't matter as all the money is getting stolen regardless.
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Now consider the possible long-term dissection of the United States through the cultural realignment of the past thirty years of illegal immigration. Even ten years ago I would have scoffed at such an absurd idea,
This idea is not the least bit absurd. It has been a cause for great concern for many more than 10 years for many of us in southern California. And when Brandon has replaced all the straight, white males in the military with LGBTQ+ POC, who will be left to resist?
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^ Said the same thing to Mrs. Warthog yesterday. Double benefits is to use the narrative of a fallen President due to COVID as a new ploy to push the vax.
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I know it takes at least a minimum level of intelligence to see the humor in situations. I believe the more intelligence you possess the more humor you will see and be able to appreciate. I wish I could invent snark the way many Rantburgers do. But, if I was a Democrat, I'd be going around with a sour expression on my face all day every day.
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Jessica Tarlov on The Five today said with a straight face that Biden is in better physical shape than Trump. When Gutfeld told her Trump plays a lot of golf she said she's watched golf and it doesn't look that strenuous.
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In related news, there are many Democrats who are wondering if prayer worked.
[Townhall] Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) explained to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday how President Biden’s "impractical electric car policies" will hurt middle America.
Massie began by explaining that he has driven an electric vehicle for 10 years and even has solar panels on his home, but that the administration’s push for a rapid transformation of our energy sector is unrealistic given the U.S.’s current infrastructure.
Massie, an MIT graduate, ran through some numbers. "The average household uses 1,870 kWh/year for air conditioning," Massie said.
"It would take four times as much electricity to charge the average household's cars as the average household uses on air conditioning. So, if we reach the goal by 2030 that Biden has of of 50 percent adoption, that means the average household would use twice as much electricity charging one of their cars as they would use for all of the air conditioning that they use for the entire year." Math b hard!
Massie pressed Buttigieg to answer how that would impact the grid.
The former South Bend mayor acknowledged the current grid would not be able to handle it but said work is being done to "map out some of the needs." Nice plan ya got there, Mr. Transportation Secretary. How much will it cost to upgrade the grid, who will pay for it, and will the greenies allow its construction?
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I listened to Dave Smith break this down on the Part Of The Problem podcast. Massie wasn't actually rude to Buttigieg. But it's obvious that this is a politically motivated, non-serious pose by the Biden Administration. I'm guessing if they were serious we'd need to be breaking ground on 100 nuclear power stations right now.
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As I said in a previous post, the bastards in power know that the grid will not support all the EVs planned. It's by design to keep us from being able to travel. Much easier to control a population that can't travel
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[Massie said] President Biden’s "impractical electric car policies" will hurt middle America.
That's the aim of these Greenie Weenies. They [EV proponents] should be required to get everywhere via bicycles, EVs or on foot. Moreover they need to give up their planes and foot the bill themselves for their greenie transportation.
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Peter Buttgig is a miserable twerp who took 8 weeks of unauthorized maternity leave and would have taken more had he not been called by the office. There is no gag in the movie Office Space even close.
Assuming Massie doesn't mean general HVAC, Air Conditioning is really only used in earnest 1/3 to 1/4 of an entire year, depending upon location, all the more damning.
"And a charging station in every corn field."
Imagine, you have just a few days of the right weather for harvest, and your grain train travels from the shed to the field and you are already at half power. Look up the migration routes of custom cutters, and imagine them stopping every 100 miles for 2 hours. Then imagine those 2 hours count against the number of allowable driving hours per day, plus whatever the waiting time for an open charging station.
All those heavy electrical wires and nodes just sitting out there in tornado alley, collecting ice in the winter, sparking when the wind blows.
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Maternity leave. Told his husband that he was just heading over to Europe to talk about trains and pick up some baby formula when there just happened to be a monkeypox rave going on. South Bend indeed.
The type of brother fucker who would interrupt with with a wellahksually and smirk about it, even being deliberately wrong just to see who would contradick him.
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Can't have "maternity" leave with no mom in the house...
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^#6 Air Conditioning is really only used in earnest 1/3 to 1/4 of an entire year,
Massie is a MIT grad. I assume he considered that in "average".
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His audience though is well below. I'll tell ya, I'm losing my ass on AC bills this time of year, lines are stressed, and nobody is trying to charge up their Case or Massy.
I agree about the Maternity Leave - when two guys buy a child, children in this case, it should be called something else.
[CitizenFreePress/NYPost] Video shows a Georgia woman plowing her SUV into cops and police cars while a small child sits in the backseat — then claiming “I didn’t do it!” once she’s finally caught.
Sierra Hibbert took police on a short but bizarre chase after they pulled her over on reports she was driving erratically and veering into oncoming traffic on Highway 42, Byron Police Department said in a news release Monday.
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What a bunch of inept cops.
Why after that initial behavior they just not put a police car just in front and another just on the rear to block any movement?
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Saw this video yesterday, she almost ran down around 6-10 people. Why was she not ventilated?
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That Infinity obviously has some torque. As for the woman, WTF? And who was the pissed off skinny woman? A plainclothes cop? A passenger from the Infinity?
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"Battle tanks"? Stupid journalists, I swear. These people do not understand what they are talking about. Battle tanks is like writing a story about agriculture and talking about fuzzy duckies and bunnies. It's the same level of lack of understanding.
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday conducted searches at 22 locations in Tamil Nadu in connection with operations of narco mafia of Sri Lanka operating in collusion with Pakistain-based drug and gun runner Haji Salim for the revival of LTTE, the agency said in a statement.
NIA conducted searches at the premises of the accused and suspects in Chennai, Thiruppur, Chengalpatty and Thuruchirapally districts. Sri Lankan drug mafia is being operated by C Bunashekharan alias Guna and Pushparajah alias Pookutti Kanna in association with Haji Salim, drug and arms supplier based in Pakistain, the NIA said.
These drugs and arms traffickers have been working for the revival of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and to further its violent mostly peaceful activities, the NIA added.
It had started the paperwork but haven't done much else on July 8 on the basis of intelligence gathered by it. "The searches conducted today have led to recovery and seizure of digital devices and various incriminating documents," the agency said.
Further investigations in the case are in progress.
The queer thing is that, as far as I can tell, these cults started out as university fraternities, several generations ago, but then turned vicious. The old boys clubs still work though — reportedly many leading Nigerians are secretly members of one or another of these so-called cults.
Police authorities in Anambra State have arrested suspected cult members who killed a member of a rival group and used his head to play football.
The incident happened on premises suspected to be the residence of some students of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University in Igbariam in September 2021.
The video which trended on social media shows how a young man with dreadlocks was dragged out of his car and shot at close range.
His head was later brought to a square, where the assailants used it to play football.
In another trending video, two arrested suspected young cult members, Chisom Okafor and Ikechukwu Chinweze, admit to being members of Ayes cult and participating in killings.
Twenty-three-year-old Okafor is seen in the video confessing, "I’m also known as Stamina. I’m from Igboukwu, but my mum is from Awka. I am 23 years old. I belong to Ayes cult group, and have killed only three people before."
How many need one kill before the number is not only?
He identified two persons out of the three he said he had killed as Edu Obara and Savage. Both are suspected cultists who were murdered in 2021 and beheaded in a like manner. While Edu Obara was killed in Igbariam, Savage was killed and beheaded in Oko in the Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State, while his trunk was taken to Awka.
"I was among the cultists who went to Obj’s place (just nickname) and killed some coppers. We were seven in number that went for the operation. I dropped out of school, but I’m a tiler, and I do tiling very well."
Another cultist, who was also interviewed in the video said, "I’m Ikechukwu Chinweze, I’m 19 years old, from Umuzocha in Awka. I’m a school leaver. I was learning phone repairs before I met Chisom here in Ifite."
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk.
Jack! Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things?
Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles.
No, he said. Do you?... some residents of Anambra State have stated that the man named Savage, who was killed last year, was the same person, whose head was used to play soccer, suggesting that the now arrested cultists were responsible for the act.
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.
[USSA News] It’s a slow building spectacle. The momentum is momentous as gravity gives it gravitas. The snowball is snowballing as it careens downhill to bury Whites. There are just the sounds of silence as we remain silent about our fate. White America stands on the cusp of oblivion, of annihilation in the plain literal sense. It’s not hyperbole to state that the White race is racing towards extinction — not just demographic conquest and dispossession; not just humiliation, discrimination. and civil rights abuses, but EXTINCTION with the likelihood of attendant violence. We’ve been oblivious to oblivion, but hopefully, the instinct of self-preservation will kick in, in time to turn the tide, to stop the careen into the abyss. We have to recognize this reality and not retreat from it. The starting point and time to end this mindless madness must be now because it is mere minutes to Midnight before the permanent night of extinction ensues. We have to work backwards up a difficult slope from where we presently are or we will slide further downhill as the West further devolves.
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...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
...46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry...
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
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...chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region...
...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 
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
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...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...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 
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Perhaps you've noticed, she's not laughing much lately. 
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