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Well quick research, based upon the 'shields' in the above picture point to the '1933Girls' being from the movie:
Gold Diggers of 1933 is a pre-Code Warner Bros. musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy with songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin, staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley. It stars Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler, and Dick Powell, and features Guy Kibbee, Ned Sparks and Ginger Rogers.
Director:
Mervyn LeRoy, Busby Berkeley, (musical sequences)
Produced by:
Robert Lord, Jack L. Warner
Writer(s):
Screenplay, Erwin S. Gelsey, James Seymour, Dialogue, Ben Markson, David Boehm WikipediaIMDb
Your feel good story of the day!
[Daily Mail UK] - Tour de France fans took matters into their own hands yesterday as they angrily removed a gang of eco-protesters threatening to disrupt the historic bike race by sitting in the middle of the road to block oncoming riders.
Eight climate activists from French campaign group Dernière Rénovation (Last Renovation) sporting T-shirts emblazoned with the message 'we have 978 days left' to tackle environmental decline tried to stop the race during the 20th stage between Lacapelle-Marival and Rocamadouron on Saturday.
But their attempts to wreak havoc at the stage were thwarted by spectators, who stormed onto the road and dragged them out of the path of the oncoming bikes even before the police arrived on the scene to make arrests.
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I suspect that an examination of the protesters’ history would reveal membership in a number of Black Bloc organizations, each ostensibly grassroots responses to a variety of shockingly different issues.
...the radical, censorship-forward, founder of the “pro-net neutrality group” Public Knowledge, lawyer, Soros’ Open Society Foundations fellow...
Biden's choice to run the federal agency, potentially lacks necessary Senate votes
The White House may finally be looking to throw in the towel on Gigi Sohn.
Good.
The Biden administration’s controversial choice to fill an open seat on the Federal Communications Commission has been in Senate confirmation limbo for months, failing to garner enough support to allow Vice President Kamala Harris to cast the tie-breaking vote.
The confirmation hurdle Sohn faces isn’t just the GOP in a 50-50 Senate. Her far-left positions have spooked moderate Democrats running in tight races in this year’s midterms who continue to balk at casting a "yes" vote for Sohn, thus forcing the White House to keep her nomination on ice.
Gigi Sohn
In recent weeks, at the urging of progressive advocates of Sohn, the White House has been discussing possibly pushing the vote until after the midterms, which might give the wavering Dems cover to vote for her confirmation in a lame duck session, Fox Business has reported.
But amid that discussion, the White House is also reaching out to other candidates as part of an early-stage vetting process if the administration decides to pull the plug on Sohn, according to one person with direct knowledge of the matter.
It’s unclear if the White House will go through with pursuing another candidate, people with knowledge of the matter say. The FCC is deadlocked 2-2 between GOP and Democratic appointees.
If the White House doesn’t pick a candidate soon and the GOP takes the Senate, the deadlock could remain for the extent of President Biden’s term, thwarting telecommunication policy, including a reprise of net neutrality, which essentially treats internet providers as utilities.
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We are only a little more than 90 days from the end of Bidet's term, as far as appointments go. Summer recess and election recess leave next to no time for any more of this sort of trash to slip through the cracks.
Say what you want about Cocaine Mitch, but he knows how to work a calendar...
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[Breitbart] Friday on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) mocked New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) for complaining about busloads of border crossers and illegal aliens arriving in his city after previously supporting policies that promoted illegal immigration.
After outlining how Adams’ city was a “magnet” for illegal immigrants by making them eligible for assistance programs, Cammack told the mayor that if “you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes.”
“Well, maybe he’s upset about the midnight flights of aircraft dropping illegals at the behest of the federal government in New York, or maybe he’s upset of the fact that once these busses of illegals arrive in Washington, D.C., that they are free to go wherever they want because that is what the Biden administration has done,” Cammack said.
“But let us also not forget that New York City advertises openly that you do not have to be a U.S. citizen to take advantage of programs like their food stamp program, cash programs, housing programs and also health care programs,” she added. “They openly advertise that you are eligible if you are an illegal citizen. So, he has a magnet, and now he’s shocked and appalled when people are showing up in New York City expecting a handout? Seems kind of crazy to me. But as I’ve said before, you play stupid games. You win stupid prizes.”
[Breitbart] Police arrested several pro-transgender political activists for separate sex crimes involving children during June and July.
A transgender activist who appeared in the New York Times is one of the activists that has been charged with sex crimes involving children. Reduxx exclusively reported that Carlos Arturo Aparicio Hernandez had been arrested by police in Salt Lake County, Utah.
Hernandez was charged with a litany of crimes, including “aggravated sexual extortion and six counts of forcible sodomy as first-degree felonies, and three counts of forcible sexual abuse, enticing a minor, and five counts of sexual exploitation of a minor as second-degree felonies,” the outlet reported.
Hernandez blackmailed and sexually abused a 15-year-old boy after pretending to be a girl his own age online. He admitted to sexually abusing the boy to the police. Hernandez was the subject of a 2018 New York Times profile, which sought to document the struggles that LGBTQ migrants face.
Prior to being featured in the media outlet, he was on the board of directors of a pro-trans organization in his home country of El Salvador. Hernandez has also been a speaker at the University of Southern California. Despite being a man, Hernandez has been placed in the women’s section of the Salt Lake City Metro Jail, according to reporting from Reduxx.
Hernandez is just one of several trans activists who has recently been arrested for sex crimes involving children. Reduxx also found that self-proclaimed “trans supremacist” Caanan Jacob Kelley was arrested in June for possessing child sexual abuse material for the second time in a year. Members on a pro-pedophile site attempted to raise money for his bail for a previous charge. Kelley was arrested in Tarrant County, Texas, and is now being held on $20,000 bond.
Diana Elizabeth Guevara, a man who identifies as a woman and has promoted sex change operations in media, was arrested for sexual activity with minors in Florida. Guevara was arrested for a number of charges, including “Transmitting Harmful Material to Minors,” “Unlawful Sexual Activity with Certain Minors,” and four counts of “Lewd and Lascivious Battery.”
The National File reported that Eric Rohman, a public school employee in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, has been arrested alongside two other men in a police sting operation targeting pedophiles. Rohman called himself a “proud member of the LGBTQIA community” and has been a vocal advocate for the presence of pro-LGBT curriculum in schools.
In Arizona, school counselor Zoebella Brazil Vinik was arrested for having sex with a student who was only 15. Vinik was the educator support lead for Q Space, an LGBTQ+ club where students are encouraged to “explore their identities.” Vinik even helped organize a drag show at Tuscon High Magnet School, the Arizona Daily Independent reported.
More sordid details about the gentlemen in question at the link.
[Breitbart] The Texas capital city is suffering from a dramatic shortage of police officers resulting in increased response times to 911 calls — often more than 30 minutes. While the city is struggling to find enough officers to answer calls, the mayor’s security detail remains fully staffed and unaffected.
As a way to help have enough officers on the streets, Austin Police will be moving 465 detectives from various units as well as SWAT team members to patrol duties, the local TV station KVUE reported. Traffic enforcement units had previously been suspended and those officers are currently responding to 911 calls.
The staffing issue stems from decisions made by the Austin City Council which cut millions from the police budget and diverted other supplemental funds into other non-police programs as part of the Defund the Police movement, Fox News reported in 2021, This resulted in the city’s first shortages of officers. The police department is paying double overtime to officers in order to have enough personnel on the streets. However, due to the staffing shortage, the move has not been enough.
Ken Casaday, the president of the Austin Police Officers Association told KVUE that the blame for the critical shortage stems from the actions of the city council since they voted in 2020 to cancel three police academies.
The actions by local politicians have depleted the police force which is supposed to have more than 1,800 police officers. Austin PD is currently staffed with approximately 1,550 officers.
Despite the critical staffing shortage, the city’s Executive Protection Unit which provides security for Austin Mayor Steve Adler and the city manager. Adler, a Democrat, was a vocal opponent of a 2021 city proposition that would provide funding for the hiring of additional police officers.
According to KVUE, on July 15, the city had 868 calls to 911 with an average response time of 37 minutes and 37 seconds, while on July 18, the city had 831 calls to 911 with an average response time of 31 minutes and 53 seconds.
Additionally, according to a post on social media shared by the Austin Police Officers Association, the city is also seeing a shortage of 911 dispatchers.
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The Texas capital city is suffering from a dramatic shortage of police officers resulting in increased response times to 911 calls — often more than 30 minutes.
At a certain point you're better off ordering a security detail through Amazon, same-day delivery.
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Wonder if having an anti-police, pro-criminal Soros DA has anything to do with it?
Terrorists will be sent straight to special extremist wings in jails under new rules
Currently prisoners can only be moved to the units upon signs of radicalisation
The rule even applies to convicted terrorists who have history of preaching hate
Units for prisons’ most high-risk, radicalising terrorists were established in 2017 to stop extremists spreading their ideology to other inmates. Currently there are three such units in operation across the country, which held around ten terrorists earlier this year.
The Government is moving to expand the use of the units – known as separation centres – and has now changed the rules so that prisoners can be referred to the wings immediately after being sentenced in court.
Previously jail staff could apply to move extremists into the units as a last resort and only after spotting any tell-tale signs of radicalisation inside prison – even when a convicted terrorist has a long-documented history of preaching hate.
Among those who have been held in the units are a high-explosives bomb expert, an Islamic State fighter, and reportedly Hashem Abedi, who organised and directed the Manchester Arena bomb attack which killed 22 people in 2017.
Radical hate preacher Anjem Choudary, who was released in 2018, was one of the first prisoners to be held in the terror unit at HMP Frankland, near Durham.
A second unit at HMP Woodhill, Milton Keynes, is now fully operational, and a third specialist terror wing at HMP Full Sutton, near York, is on standby.
There are currently around 220 terrorist offenders in UK jails, with a similar number on an ‘at-risk’ radar over fears they could be radicalised, more than four-fifths of which are of Islamist ideology.
Speaking to Fox News' Laura Ingraham, Gov. Ron DeSantis - considered a potential 2024 presidential candidate - says it's a growing concern
'I don't think they should be able to do it. I think the problem is these companies have ties to the CCP,' he said
The governor's solution has been to begin banning what he calls 'undue influence from rogue states' like China's ruling party
The state has already banned what's known as a 'Confucius Institute,' public pro-China educational and cultural promotion programs
DeSantis added that there's likely more legislative action to come: 'We're also probably going to do legislation next legislative session about our pension investments, with things that may be linked to the CCP. We don't necessarily have a lot of it, but we want to make sure that we're cutting ties so that we're not funding our number-one adversary.'
This isn't the first time the Florida Republican has gone in on the CCP.
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'I don't think they should be able to do it. I think the problem is these companies have ties to the CCP,' he said
Aren't all the Chinese companies linked to the CCP?
I agree with DeSantis. Maybe there should be an escape clause in the deeds such that the Chinese property might be subject to confiscation. Better yet, just make it illegal to have ownership in American property by our enemies.
Before the Cuban revolution, their constitution stated that property could not be seized without compensation. After the revolution, the constitution was changed such that property could be seized without compensation. i.e. confiscation.
This seems to be a problem in many places. Canada too.
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Chinese investment policies are like open borders policies, that is "creeping invasions." We have too many politicians abetting these anti-American policies because of lucre.
Andrew Yang hardest hit
[ZeroHedge] For a few weeks, people who received the extra money spent more than the control group -- $182 a week for the people who received $500, and $574 a week for the ones given $2,000.
...The handout recipients reported the same rate of overdraft fees, late-payment charges and cash advances as did those who didn't receive the extra money. And it was all downhill from there. The handout recipients reported:
Less earned income
Less job satisfaction
Lower work performance
More financial stress
Less liquidity
Worse sleep
Worse physical health
More anxiety
More loneliness
very expensive experiment - 2k people getting up to $2k (not sure if it was more than a one time deal)--- UBI proponents will say, 'well I bet it would work if we did it for 10 years
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^ Very true.
pharmaceutical companies, who embraced this pop-psych explanation as a marketing assist, and with doctors who don't spend the time on a better explanation.
Speaking with Newsmax’s Greta Van Susteren, former AG Bill Barr, 72, said the Mexican government isn't 'serious enough' about disbanding the cartels, who are 'poisoning' Americans with fentanyl
'I think [the Mexicans] have to be forced and pushed into action with us,' he said. 'We have to approach the cartels more like ISIS and less like the mafia'
He also said the individualized prosecution against cartels is ineffective, as they are 'effectively' acting like 'terrorist organizations'
Barr said the cartels are bringing in methamphetamines and other drugs with fentanyl and 'poisoning' Americans, who 'don't even know what's in the drugs'
Barr claimed Biden 'abandoned the border,' where more than 207,000 migrants tried to cross in June
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it is 'mehicos' business not ours. we should detain and repatriate illegal border crossers. No drug should be illegal. if you want to take it do so.
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Per the discussion the other day of battery replacement costs in EVs: Should hard drug users have to buy a bond / insurance against their future cost to society? Should weed users have to pay a "productivity penalty" as part of their weed purchases?
I'd say, yes, yes they do...
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And they pay that by signing off organs. Like have an eye or a kidney harvested when they do aggravated assault or something. Both eyes on two counts. I'll wager they won't be causing no more aggravation thereafter.
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I smoke weed and already pay a cost of productivity cost. It's called the final price.
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As soon as we (openly) cross the border with troops to suppress the cartels Cuba and parties south will lend covert Russian aid. Already embedded cartelians be emboldened to unconstrained direct action.
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"Mexican drug cartels should be wiped off the face of the Earth"
Isn't that what Trump was doing on multiple levels.? Sealing the border, remain in Mexico, ICE and DEA actually being allowed to do their jobs, speedy deportations and or prison sentences.
The opposite of what is now being done under the Biden Puppet Admin.
lost her re-election bid after defense attorney Ivan Bates beat her in the Democratic primaries
Mosby was indicted earlier this year on two counts each of perjury and making a false statement on a loan application in purchasing a Florida home and condo
She was accused of falsely stating that the COVID-19 pandemic harmed her finances so she could get the loans, which amounted to $1.02 million
Defense attorney Ivan Bates is likely to become the city's next DA, vowing to curb rising crime rates as he prepares to face off against an unaffiliated candidate in November That’s defense attorney and former prosecutor Roya Hanna, who dropped out of the primary to run as an independent. Baltimore last elected a non-Democrat to that position over a century ago.
[Epoch Times] Japan’s nuclear regulators on Friday approved a plan to release treated water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea, giving Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) permission to construct discharge facilities.
TEPCO said it planned to release treated water to a coastal facility, where it will be diluted with seawater and then sent through an undersea tunnel with an outlet 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) away to minimize the impact on local fishing.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority has approved the plan, but TEPCO would still need local consent before proceeding.
Japan’s Foreign Ministry said it will work to dilute the tritium-containing treated water to "far below the regulatory standards for safety," and ensure the "reliability and transparency of its handling."
Scientists claimed that impacts of long-term, low-dose exposure to tritium for the environment and humans are still unknown, but added that tritium could affect humans more when it is consumed in fish. Tritium - like in night sights for firearms?
The contaminated water is being stored in about 1,000 tanks at the damaged plant. TEPCO aims to remove storage tanks and make room for facilities needed for the plant’s decommissioning.
[Epoch Times] Mike Dyson, 33, passed away suddenly on Christmas Day after several drinks, before he even had a chance to open his presents. No mention of the thousands each year who get involuntarily "passed away" due to drunken drivers.
Dyson went to his neighbor’s house to drink at 1:30 p.m. After drinking about four glasses of whiskey and some hot water, he lay down on a bed. Everyone thought he was sleeping. It wasn’t until around 7 p.m. that his family members and neighbors discovered to their horror that he was not breathing. So they called an ambulance and gave him CPR at the same time.
Each year, alcohol kills approximately 95,000 people (68,000 men and 27,000 women) in the United States. Alcohol is the third leading preventable cause of death in the United States (the first is tobacco, and the second is poor diet and lack of exercise).
From 2006 to 2014, alcohol-related emergency room visits increased by 47 percent. Of all emergency cases, 18.5 percent were alcohol-related. In 2019, there were 10,142 drunk driving deaths in the United States, accounting for 28 percent of all driving deaths.
In 2018, top international medical journal The Lancet gave alcohol drinkers a bitter pill to swallow. After a systematic review of alcohol consumption and health effects in 195 countries from 1990 to 2016, this study concluded that the safe intake of alcohol is zero.
The researchers stated that alcohol consumption might have some protective effects on ischaemic heart diseases and diabetes in women in some cases, but emphasized that more research showed that alcohol consumption had no or insignificant protective effects on all-cause mortality or cardiovascular health.
Many people believe that drinking red wine is good for their health. In fact, this is mainly due to the presence of resveratrol in red wine. You can also get resveratrol from purple or dark red grapes, blueberries, cranberries and peanuts without the intake of alcohol. You can also have a glass of rich grape juice instead, and benefit from the resveratrol content without the negative effects of alcohol. Looks like I picked a bad day to stop drinking.
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My cardiologist (Harvard Med School) keeps harping on me to cut back to one beer a day, and I keep looking at him like he's got a huge zit on his forehead.
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Genetics, genetics, genetics. My mother smoked2-to-3 packs of cigarettes a day. On the other hand my Dad and older sister were binge drinkers (Sister: "When I start drinking wine I don't stop until I's really drunk"). This One Size Fits All™ medical nostrums gets old.
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Remember it was these very 'experts' telling us to drink a glass of wine a day some years ago. Now, it's suddenly 'Mike Dyson has died... boo hoo hoo...!'
A year from now it's gonna be, 'Did you know whiskey can actually kick your ticker into performing better?'
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Food Pyramid says, "It's not my fault you are obese..."
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I guess I should be dead by now but I'm still posting weird comments on Rantburg. Doesn't say much for the Lancet's credibility. But then, weren't they the ones who said covid came from bat soup?
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After a systematic review of alcohol consumption and health effects in 195 countries from 1990 to 2016, this study concluded that the safe intake of alcohol is zero.
They ran numbers through a spreadsheet. It was likely designed to reach this conclusion.
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The Killjoy brigade strikes again.
I love the scare anecdote at the beginning. Four glasses of whiskey KILLED HIM! Uh yeah, that's not what whiskey does.
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Here, Here - I'll drink to that! Cheers! And a round for everyone in the house here at Rantburg!
Bottoms-up - And with this I invoke Irish Diplomacy
[Epoch Times] Monkeypox has been declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO), joining COVID-19, which the international agency continues to label as such nearly two and a half years after it was first declared.
"I have decided that the global monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a July 23 statement.
Ghebreyesus said that his decision was prompted by the global growth in monkeypox cases, which have now been reported in over 75 countries and territories, with over 16,000 infections and five deaths. Five deaths. Right up there with covid and smallpox. How can we 'flatten the curve'? From 10News:
WHO’s top monkeypox expert, Dr. Rosamund Lewis, said this week that 99% of all the monkeypox cases beyond Africa were in men and that of those, 98% involved men who have sex with men. Experts suspect the monkeypox outbreaks in Europe and North America were spread via sex at two raves in Belgium and Spain.
“Although I am declaring a public health emergency of international concern for the moment, this is an outbreak that is concentrated among men who have sex with men, especially those with multiple sexual partners," Tedros said. "That means that this is an outbreak that can be stopped with the right strategies in the right groups.
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Have not looked into the data deeply yet.
But isn't Monkey Pox's is still primarily widespread in the only in GAY / BI community after being brought in to the USA by LGBTX? participants from the Spain LGBTX? equivalent, of a International Burning Man type gathering some months ago?
The question now is if it's like AIDS. How long before their problem eventually becomes the other 98% of the populations' problem.
Will the next headline be: WH staffer gives JB the Pox.
Followed up by: JB gives Monkey Pox to kindergarten group he visited?
Either way, it is another GAY & Monkey combo health issue, just like aids was said to have started.
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I eat a fair amount of habanero flavored stuff. And other much hotter, like Carolina Reaper. In the novel Under the Volcano, the doomed protagonist drinks a lot of what is referred to as habanero. It can't be the same thing. So far, my research is fruitless. No pun intended as peppers are a kind of fruit. But not the Gheyrhesus kind...
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I'm not advocating locking up the gheys. It seems monogamous gheys aren't apparently getting/spreading (pun intended) the pox. It's the promiscuous narcissist self-destructive bathhouse types. Name and shame til that behavior ends. Now. Put that in the first para of every story before telling us it's OUR responsibility to "slow the spread"
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You can't shame the shameless...
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Three words. Sodomite Suppression Act.
There's an emergency on for fcuk's sake, WHO says so! Who says so? The WHO! That's who.
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Re #26: Frank,at one time that was largely how AIDS spread. We wouldn't be able "name and shame" them. That would be homophobic. In fact, I'm somewhat surprised that health officials have been allowed to say that 95% of the cases are among ghey men.
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One is a toddler in California while the other infant is not a US resident and was 'transiting through' Washington D.C., officials said
They are receiving the antiviral TPOXX, which can help stop an infection in its tracks
Both children are 'doing well' and likely were infected by 'household contacts'
Dr Rochelle Walensky said they had contact with gay or bisexual men
It was not clear when they caught the virus, or what symptoms they had
This is the first time the virus has been detected among children in the US
Children under the age of eight are at high risk of severe monkeypox
A boy under 10 years old has also tested positive for the virus in the Netherlands after a family holiday to Turkey. Within a week the virus in his body had dropped to non-detectable levels, and he made a full recovery. None of his close contacts tested positive for monkeypox.
He had traveled to Turkey three weeks before symptoms began to appear.
His parents said the boy had chickenpox when he was five years old.
It is not clear how he became infected, but testing has ruled out it being down to sexual abuse. The family-of-five said they had no close contact with other guests while on holiday and put their own towels on chairs and loungers.
His parents, one of his siblings and a friend — who were all considered high-risk — were vaccinated with the Jynneous jab, which is being used in America.
In a press release, the CDC said: 'Monkeypox spreads through close skin-to-skin contact, which — in the case of children — could include hugging, cuddling, feeding, as well as through shared items such as towels, bedding, cups and utensils.'
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#29 - I know. Monogamous gheys should be doing the shaming. The disease exposes all the myths: yeah, right, it'll be in the hetero pop....soon, right.
BS, same as the AIDS/HIV silence early in that "pandemic"
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yeah, right, it'll be in the hetero pop....soon, right.
It was Tiny Tony who spread (no pun intended) that rumor too.
I'm sure Red Cross is having a board meeting right now to declare they will not test blood donors for monkeypox.
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why y'all keep spelling it ghey?
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[Epoch Times] One of the former U.S. officials who led the COVID-19 response during the Trump administration said July 22 that COVID-19 vaccines were not expected to protect against infection.
"I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against infection. And I think we overplayed the vaccines. And it made people then worry that it’s not going to protect against severe disease and hospitalization," Deborah Birx, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator under former President Donald Trump, said during an appearance on Fox News.
The Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines were granted emergency use authorization in late 2020 to prevent symptomatic COVID-19, and were promoted by many health officials, including Birx.
"This is one of the most highly-effective vaccines we have in our infectious disease arsenal. And so that’s why I’m very enthusiastic about the vaccine," Birx said on an ABC podcast at the time.
She made no mention of concerns the vaccines might not protect against infection.
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The fundamental political instinct is always "Do something!"
It's no mistake that the Hippocratic Oath Begins "First, do no harm."
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When I have medical questions, I ask my doctor (who has taken excellent care of me for the last 22 years.) I do not ask politicians or people who read the news on TV. My doctor went to medical school, has an MD, has practiced medicine for 30+ years, keeps up with research, and has consistently steered me right for the last 22 years. Why would I listen to anyone else?
The moral: When you have health questions, find a professional who you can trust, who knows what he's doing, and who has your best interests at heart. And then follow their advice. You really don't need to listen to idiot politicians and news readers.
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I have several physicians as neighbors. Variety of specialists. They all seem to be very afraid of Covid to this day. My personal physicians staff are Covid wack jobs. Can’t even have a conversation about Covid with them.
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^ Even money is, what they are afraid of is what COVID hysteria is doing to their profession.
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Early on, doctors and nurses got hit harder than most--probably because they got higher doses from their patients than most of us get from everyday interactions.
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I met a 30-yr NIH official on while vacationing in Europe and he said that the CDC/NIH response to Covid was a hasty and effective to the pandemic, including that they learned nothing from the 2009 SARs outbreak. He believes that masks are a joke.
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We learned lots from the SARS outbreak.
A murderous gnome willfully threw all of that information out. Including the treatment-with-HCQ discovery.
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The demand for liability exemption by big pharma was the key to what followed. Do something to look like you have answers and quell rising panic gave us paper masks, risky vax, and pontificating politicians who discovered the power of health rish fear as a tool for massive political advantage.
But when early on, the CDC/NIH moved to block existing hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin treatments to push the massive overbuy of the vax, the Puppet Show government seemed to have moved into the big pharma corruption phase.
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^ They will never be able to use this trick again. They always burn down the latest scam they attempt on the first try.
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No no no.
The sales pitch was:
Immunity now, Immunity forever!11!
Until then, do your part and stay locked in your house. Moral officers will visit your blog shortly and check on your wellness. Orange man bad.
And scarf prop here wasn't the only one sneering that a civilized, educated person's place is under the desk, and that only a provincial superstitious rube would want to leave their home and menace society.
And don't forget those who were like, "Businesses don't need income so they don't need to be open until whenever, so businesses which close were run by morons."
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"So sorry madame. We must take your scarf before you mount the scaffold..."
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My personal physicians staff are Covid wack jobs.
My cardiologist (Mr. 'One Beer a Day' Guy) told me last month "You need to get boosted". A few seconds before that, I noticed he had Harvard cuff links on. I wasn't even going to try to argue with him, and I'll cite the ol' Howie Carr line - 'you can tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much'. I don't want to be on a bike ride and wind up like the hundreds of soccer players dropping on the pitch from 'unexpected' heart attacks.
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... has breached 105 kilometers deep into the Iraqi borders, setting up over a hundred military outposts and five bases, read an Iraqi defense ministry report to the parliament on Saturday.
The Iraqi parliamentary meeting on Saturday discussed the latest Ottoman Turkish artillery shelling of a Zakho resort that killed nine Iraqi tourists and maimed 23 more.
"In today’s parliamentary meeting, the defense ministry read a report about the Ottoman Turkish attacks and military proceedings into Iraqi land, and according to the report, the Ottoman Turkish military has set up over a hundred military outposts and five bases in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq," MP Sherwan Dubardani told Rudaw.
Dubardani added that the report indicated that the Ottoman Turkish military has entered 105 kilometers deep into Iraqi lands and has over 4,000 soldiers inside the country.
Turkey launched its latest operation dubbed Operation Claw-Clock on April 18 targeting Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) hideouts in the mountainous areas of Metina, Zap, Avashin, and Basyan in Duhok province. The operation is the fourth stage of Ankara’s Claw operations against the PKK in the Kurdistan Region, with the first stage starting in 2019.
The PKK is an gang fighting for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey and designated a terrorist organization by Ankara.
Despite Ankara's denial, the assaults have previously led to civilian casualties who are often caught in the crossfire in the Region.
The parliamentary meeting on Saturday comes after a shelling in Zakho, Duhok province killed nine Arab tourists and injured 22 others from Iraq’s central and southern provinces. Baghdad and Erbil have blamed the Ottoman Turkish army for the deadly attack while Ankara denied its involvement.
Iraqis have strongly condemned the Zakho attack through protests, attacks on Ottoman Turkish embassy in Baghdad and Ottoman Turkish visa application centres, calls to boycott Ottoman Turkish products and anti-Turkey hashtags on social media.
"According to the report, the shelling was carried out using 155mm artillery shells, which cannot be moved a lot in mountainous areas," Dubardani said, adding that according to the defense ministry, the direction of the shelling came from an area under the control of Ottoman Turkish military.
Iraqi protesters on Thursday called for the expulsion of Ottoman Turkish ambassador Ali Riza Guney from the country. The Iraqi foreign ministry said later in the day that it had summoned Guney and handed him a "strongly worded" protest letter.
The Iraqi government on Wednesday called on Turkey to withdraw all troops from the country. The government has also said it will take diplomatic measures against Ankara, including filing a complaint at the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Security Council.
The deadly attack has been locally and globally condemned but most countries have avoided explicitly blaming Turkey or the PKK.
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[Dawn] The Counter-Terrorism Department on Friday released a sketch of the purported criminal mastermind of the Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... University suicide kaboom that had claimed life of three Chinese teachers and their local driver.
CTD official Raja Umer Khattab said that they considered the suspect, Zaib Brohi alias Zoib, as the ’criminal mastermind’ of the deadly suicide kaboom carried out by a woman and whose responsibility was claimed by the banned Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Liberation Army.
He said with help of CCTV footage and held suspect Dad Bux,
...alternately spelt Daad Baksh, per Dron66046 in comments, below...
the Sherlocks had got prepared the sketch of Zaib by an artist.
"Zaib is an important character of the KU blast... in fact, he is the criminal mastermind,"he said.
Suspect Dad Bux, who facilitated the blast, was trained by Zaib in Afghanistan. "It was Zaib who has prepared the suicide jacket used in the blast," the official added.
In April, ajacket wallah'> exploding trollop female suicide bomber, Shari Baloch, detonated herself outside KU’s Confucius Institute killing three Chinese teachers and their local driver.
[Dawn] The police said motive behind the killing could not be immediately ascertained.
Only two days after the Khyber police chief ordered heightened security at checkposts in Bara, another policeman was martyred in an incident of assassination on Friday.
Sub-Inspector Andaz Gul came under attack when he was going to duty station in the morning, according to a statement.
It said Mr Gul succumbed to injuries in a hospital.
The police said motive behind the killing could not be immediately ascertained.
Funeral prayers of the martyred policeman were offered at the Shah Kas Police Training Centre in Jamrud.
Four coppers have so far died in assassination in Bara tehsil during last four months.
[Dawn] Decides to pursue matter in accordance with ’comprehensive security strategy’
A high-level military huddle on Friday discussed ’peace talks’ with the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain (TTP) and decided to pursue the matter in accordance with "comprehensive security strategy".
The national security meeting, chaired by Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Gen Nadeem Raza, was attended by all three services chiefs — Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Muhammad Amjad Khan Niazi and Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu —, ISI Director General Lt Gen Nadeem Anjum, Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... Corps Commander Lt Gen Faiz Hamid, and other bigwigs.
Though the meeting carried the impression of a Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee session, it wasn’t one. A JCSC meeting would normally include the director general of Strategic Plans Division, and secretaries of ministries of defence and defence production, but none of them were there.
It was the first of such meetings, involving all the armed services, since the army-led talks with the turbans in Afghanistan assumed a public profile with briefings for politicians and the Parliamentary Committee on National Security on the issue by the army top brass.
"The forum was given a detailed briefing on review of national security situation specific to Western Border, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... ," the ISPR said about the meeting. It added that "fast-paced developments in the realm of strategic and conventional policies, the importance of peace in Afghanistan for sustainable development in the region and the operational preparedness of the armed forces" were also discussed.
The participants, the ISPR said, resolved to respond to "entire spectrum of threats" in accordance with the "comprehensive security strategy".
It apparently means that the approach would go beyond the usual ’kinetic strategy’ — an apparent reference to the peace talks.
The military leadership had told the politicianship at the earlier briefings that it wanted to give peace a chance, but would respond with full force if the TTP did not abide by the agreement that may be eventually concluded.
The meeting noted its "complete satisfaction" and "full confidence" in the readiness of all the three services.
The participants, the ISPR said, while reaffirming the resolve of the armed forces to befittingly respond to the threats, "lauded the sacrifices of security agencies in the fight against terrorism".
[Dawn] Since April last year Iraq has hosted five rounds of talks between Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... and Iran.
Iran ...They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and Saudi Arabia are ready to move reconciliation talks to a higher level, more than a year after they began and six years after the two rivals severed relations, Iran’s foreign minister said on Thursday.
Since April last year Iraq has hosted five rounds of talks between Saudi Arabia and Iran, which support opposing sides in various conflicts around the region.
"Progress has been made in these negotiations," Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said in an interview with Iran’s state broadcaster.
He added that last week Iran had received a message from Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein who said "the Saudi side is ready to move the talks to the political and public level".
Iran’s top diplomat noted that previous rounds had mainly been at the level of security officials.
"We announced our readiness for the talks to enter the political stage," he said.
In 2016, protesters attacked Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran after the kingdom executed Shia holy man Nimr al Nimr. Riyadh responded by cutting ties with Tehran.
Amir-Abdollahian said he hoped that the negotiations with Riyadh would lead to "normal diplomatic ties between Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran". Officials in Tehran have previously said that holding talks on a political level could yield better and faster results.
After the last round of negotiations in April, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Kadhemi said he believed that "reconciliation is near" between Riyadh and Tehran, a further reflection of shifting political alignments across the region.
Following the severance of ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi downgraded diplomatic relations with Tehran and Kuwait recalled its ambassador. Last week the United Arab Emirates said it was "considering" appointing an ambassador in Tehran.
[Dawn] Says all Death Eaters were affiliated with the Hafiz Gul Bahadur ...a member of the Madda Khel clan of the Uthmanzai Waziris. Educated in a Deobandi madrassa located in Multan, he is affiliated with the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) political party. Upon the formation of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in December 2007, he was announced as the group's overall naib amir under Baitullah Mehsud, who was based in South Wazoo, but has largely distanced himself from the TTP due to rivalries with the Mehsuds and disagreements about the TTP's attacks against the Pak state.. group.
Security forces killed three and apprehended four Death Eaters during two intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in North Wazoo district on Saturday, according to a statement issued by the military’s media wing.
The Inter-Services Public Relations statement said a high-value terrorist commander, along with three other Death Eaters, was captured in an injured condition in the first operation. It added that three bad boyz were potted in a second operation.
"Weapons, ammunition and IEDs (improvised bombs) were also recovered. All the Death Eaters (killed and apprehended) were affiliated with the Hafiz Gul Bahadur group.
"These Death Eaters remained actively involved in terrorist activities against security forces, extortion for ransom and killing of innocent citizens," the ISPR said.
On July 13, the ISPR said security forces killed six Death Eaters during an IBO in North Waziristan’s Dattakhel area. A soldier was also martyred.
Clashes between security forces and suspected Death Eaters in North Waziristan tribal district have become quite frequent in recent months.
Late last month, two soldiers were martyred and seven Death Eaters killed during an exchange of fire in North Waziristan’s Ghulam Khan Kalle area.
[Dawn] Ethnicity, religious sectarianism, and a battle for a lump of lucrative coal resources are at the heart of the fighting.
When fighting erupted between Taliban ...Arabic for students... and a breakaway group led by one of their former commanders in northern Afghanistan last month, Zahra and her family fled to the mountains.
For days they walked across the rocky terrain, unsure what lay ahead or when they might return to their home in Sar-e-Pol province’s Balkhab district, where the festivities erupted.
"We didn’t want to get trapped... we all might have been killed," said Zahra, 35, asking to use a pseudonym for security reasons.
Zahra’s family is among thousands that fled conflict between the Taliban and fighters loyal to Mahdi Mujahid, the group’s former intelligence chief for Bamiyan ...a place in Afghanistan that used to have some historically interesting statues of the Buddha carved into a mountainside. Then the holy men showed up and now all they have is some big holes... Ethnicity, religious sectarianism, and a battle for a lump of Balkhab’s lucrative coal resources are at the heart of the fighting.
"All these factors are working together in driving the conflict," Australia-based political analyst Nematullah Bizhan said.
Mujahid, a Shia Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... , joined the mostly Sunni and Pashtun Taliban in 2019, and was appointed to his post soon after the hardline group seized power in August last year.
Afghanistan’s Hazaras have faced persecution for decades, with the Taliban accused of abuses against the community when they first ruled from 1996 to 2001.
They are also the target of attacks by the holy warriorIslamic 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.... group, which considers them heretics.
Mujahid’s appointment was initially seen as supporting the Taliban’s claim of being more inclusive to non-Pashtuns, but he soon fell foul of the leadership.
The group routinely denies reports of infighting in its ranks, but last month media said Mujahid split with the Taliban leadership when Kabul sought greater control over the coal business.
HISTORY OF RESISTANCE
Balkhab is home to several coal mines and demand has soared in recent months with Pakistain stepping up imports to fuel power plants.
Local Taliban commanders were known to "tax" trucks on their way to Pakistain -- as officials in the previous government did before them -- but when Mujahid resisted Kabul’s efforts to rein in the practice, they sacked him.
"Balkhab has a long history of resisting the government," analyst Bizhan said, adding the region also fought strongly against the Taliban during their first reign.
While the June fighting lasted only a few days, the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... says it displaced at least 27,000 people -- almost all of them Hazara.
The result is a humanitarian crisis that aid agencies are now struggling to deal with.
"We used to sleep thirsty on empty stomachs and wake up in the morning and start walking again," said Zahra, whose family walked for nearly a fortnight before finding shelter in a village mosque in Bamiyan.
"EVERYONE WAS SICK."
The family of Barat Ali Subhani, another resident of Balkhab, has taken refuge in the same mosque.
"We didn’t have anything with us. We just left in clothes we were wearing," Subhani said.
His seven-member family walked for four days before a shepherd led them to the mosque.
"He saved us," Subhani said.
"We had nothing. We thought that we will probably die."
[IsraelTimes] Tim Gionet, who streamed live video from assault on Congress, faces a maximum sentence of six months imprisonment
American alt-right antisemitic activist muppet Anthime "Tim" Gionet, better known on social media as "Baked Alaska," pleaded guilt on Friday to joining the mob that stormed the US Capitol, where he streamed live video that incriminated him and other rioters, according to a court filing.
Gionet faces a maximum sentence of six months imprisonment after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count of parading, demonstrating or picketing inside a Capitol building.
US District Judge Emmet Sullivan is scheduled to sentence Gionet on January 12, 2023.
The judge had scheduled a March 2023 trial for Gionet after he balked at pleading guilty during an earlier hearing. Sullivan refused to accept a guilty plea by Anthime Gionet in May after he professed his innocence at the start of what was scheduled to be a plea agreement hearing.
At the start of Friday’s virtual hearing, defense attorney Zachary Thornley told the judge that a protester was outside Gionet’s Florida home and was recording the proceedings over the telephone, a violation of court rules.
"Protesting what?" the judge asked.
"I guess him as a person," Thornley replied.
The judge instructed court staff to shut off the telephone line, preventing the public from hearing Gionet enter his guilty plea.
Two of Gionet’s lawyers didn’t immediately respond to calls for comment after the hearing.
After entering the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Gionet streamed live video that showed himself inside the building and repeatedly encouraging other rioters to stay there.
"Come in. Let’s go. Come on in. Make yourself at home," Gionet told other rioters, according to a court filing accompanying his guilty plea. Gionet joined others in chanting, "Patriots are in control!" and "Whose house? Our house!" Before leaving, he profanely called a police officer an "oathbreaker," the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... said.
Federal authorities have used Gionet’s video to prosecute other rioters, including three men from New York City. Antonio Ferrigno, Francis Connor and Anton Lunyk pleaded guilty in April to riot-related charges. Gionet’s livestream showed them in Sen. Jeff Merkley’s office, according to court filings accompanying their plea agreements.
Gionet worked at BuzzFeed before he used social media to build an online following in far-right political circles. Defense attorney Zachary Thornley said Gionet "has long been a member of the press."
"His actions on the day many folks entered the Capitol were no less than he has always done. He filmed it. That is what he does," Thornley wrote in a court filing last year.
Prosecutors disputed Gionet’s contention that he is a member of the news media.
Gionet became known for posting videos in which he attempts to pull pranks or troll his targets. He also has a history of promoting far-right extremism. He was scheduled to speak at the white nationalist "Unite the Right" rally in 2017 before it erupted in violence on the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia.
Mainstream internet platforms, including Twitter, suspended Gionet’s accounts before January 6. At the Capitol, he was livestreaming video using a fringe service called DLive.
Other Capitol riot defendants have claimed that they were acting as journalists, not insurrectionists.
Infowars host Jonathan Owen Shroyer has asked a judge to throw out his riot charges. Shroyer’s lawyer argues the Justice Department is prosecuting him for his constitutionally protected "rights to protest, speak freely and report the news." Prosecutors counter that the First Amendment doesn’t protect Shroyer’s conduct at the Capitol.
Gionet, who grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, was arrested in Houston less than two weeks after the riot. He moved from Arizona to Florida after his arrest.
In January, Gionet was sentenced to 30 days in jail for misdemeanor convictions stemming from a December 2020 encounter in which authorities say he shot pepper spray at an employee at a bar in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Gionet’s plea agreement includes a provision allowing Sherlocks to review any of his social media accounts for posts around the time of the Capitol riot.
Gionet, known for promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories,
“It’s just edgy entertainment. Nobody takes that kind of thing seriously.”
is also suspected of defacing a Hanukkah menorah in Arizona in 2020. "No more ’Happy Hanukkah,’ only ’Merry Christmas.’ This is a disgrace, " Gionet said in footage that circulated online.
Gionet has been banned from a number of social media sites for posting antisemitic content, including tweeting the 14-word white-supremacist mantra “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children,” Gizmodo reported.
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Said it before. Last time I was in DC was for the dedication of the WW II Memorials. Two days of outstanding history and amazing people. Stood next to a MOH recipient who was wearing the same uniform he had on when he was 18 years old. Sat in a session with some of the last of the Navajo Code Talkers.
I'll go back when the current bunch is put up against a wall.
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[IsraelTimes] Sabah newspaper publishes new details of June plan to target three Israeli tourists staying at hotel near Taksim Square; video allegedly shows suspect scouting location
New details of an alleged Iranian attempt to kill Israelis in Istanbul last month were published by Ottoman Turkish media on Saturday.
According to the Sabah daily newspaper, which is close to Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... , Iranian agents were instructed to target three Israeli tourists staying at a hotel near Istanbul’s Taksim Square, in exchange for $35,000.
A video published by Sabah showed a man photographing areas inside the hotel.
According to the paper, the four members of the cell were arrested on June 17, at the "last minute."
Local media on Friday reported that Ottoman Turkish security forces foiled another attempt by Iranian agents, on July 14.
The reports come a month after Israeli officials issued an urgent appeal to all citizens to leave Istanbul immediately, and reconsider non-essential travel to other parts of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , warning that Iranian agents were ready to kidnap or kill Israelis there as Tehran seeks Dire Revenge for the killings of officers blamed on Israel.
[Breitbart] An FBI investigation into Chinese land purchases near critical infrastructure as well as the Huawei equipment found on many American cell towers has found the Chinese company’s telecom gear capable of capturing and even disrupting U.S. military communications, including that of the U.S. Strategic Command, which oversees America’s nuclear arsenal, according to a report by CNN.
[IsraelTimes] Tehran says agents who crossed into country from Kurdistan region were captured with state-of-the-art equipment
Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... claimed Saturday to have stopped an Israeli spy network, arresting agents who had entered the Islamic republic to carry out attacks against "sensitive" sites.
The Islamic Theocratic Republic’s official IRNA news agency said the agents, who were in contact with Israel’s Mossad spy agency, had entered the country from northern Iraq’s Kurdistan region for the purpose of carrying out sabotage and "terrorist operations" with the help of state-of-the-art technology.
"All of them were captured," it said, "and their weapons, explosives, technical and communications equipment were entirely discovered and confiscated."
The statement did not say how many suspects were arrested or give their nationalities, nor did it identify the targets of the purported plots.
Iran occasionally announces the detention of people it says are spying for foreign countries, including the United States and Israel, though it does not provide evidence to back up such claims.
Last month, The New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported that a senior general in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was secretly arrested for allegedly spying for Israel.
Citing officials with close ties to the IRGC speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , the report said the arrest of Brig.-Gen. Ali Nasiri marked a growing level of distrust among the country’s big shotship partly attributed to Israel’s alleged recent operations in the country.
Nasiri served as a senior commander in the IRGC Protection of Information Unit, The New York Times reported.
His arrest came about two months after a few dozen security officials involved in Iran’s missile program were arrested for allegedly leaking classified information to Israel, the newspaper said.
Reportedly arrested sometime in early June, Nasiri’s arrest came shortly before the replacement of the IRGC’s intelligence chief Hossein Taeb.
Taeb, who held the position for more than 12 years, had been tasked with exposing Israel’s spy network in Iran, an unnamed adviser to the Iranian government and an individual affiliated with the IRGC both told the Times.
Taeb’s downfall is seen by some as a prime example of the long-running campaign by Israel to expose failures by the IRGC by allegedly stepping up attacks against Iran’s nuclear facilities in recent months and targeting high-level officials inside Iranian territory — all meant to generate conflict between the political and defense establishments in Iran, Israeli officials told the newspaper.
The Times reported that Taeb had "seemed untouchable" before a number of recent high-profile killings blamed on Israel and before the apparently foiled Iranian plan to attack Israelis in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
Israeli intelligence officials who requested anonymity told the newspaper that the thwarting by Israeli and Ottoman Turkish security forces of the plot had proved the final straw for officials, who abruptly removed Taeb from his position.
Iran and Israel have been engaged in a years-long shadow war but tensions have ratcheted up following a string of high-profile incidents Tehran has blamed on Jerusalem.
A number of members of the IRGC and scientists have been killed in recent months, with Iran often pointing the finger at Israel.
Iran reportedly suspects Israel killed two Iranian scientists by poisoning their food. The details of the men’s work, the circumstances of their deaths and their ties to the government remain unclear.
[IsraelTimes] Army says security forces exchange fire with Paleostinian button men in West Bank city; terror commander said sought in arrest operation.
Nine Paleostinians were maimed, including one critically, in an exchange of fire with Israeli security forces during a military operation in the West Bank city of Nablus overnight Saturday-Sunday.
The Israeli military said troops operating in the city came under gunfire attack by armed Paleostinians and returned fire.
According to Paleostinian health authorities, nine Paleostinians were hurt in the exchange, including one who was at death's door, Ynet reported. There were no reported injuries among the Israeli forces.
Hebrew media reported that the Israeli troops were conducting an arrest operation of Paleostinian suspects in Nablus when they came under fire.
Channel 12 reported that one of the suspects is a commander with the Fatah-associated al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, designated a terror group by Israel, the US, the EU, and Canada, among other countries.
The report said the commander had barricaded himself in his home in the city and loud explosions were heard as the operation got underway.
Channel 12 also said that festivities between Israeli troops and Paleostinian button men were reported in the West Bank city of Jenin, according to Paleostinian media.
On Thursday, the Shin Bet said it had arrested a Nablus-based Paleostinian member of the mostly dormant Tanzim terror group who was allegedly responsible for a 2006 kaboom that killed an Israeli soldier
Also Thursday, Israeli security forces arrested 12 Paleostinian suspects throughout the West Bank, with violent mostly peaceful confrontations 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.
No Israeli or Paleostinian casualties were reported in the operation.
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.
Last 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 last Friday.
It was believed 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.
Israeli forces said the shooting took place in the city of Nablus and that at least two armed Palestinians were killed after an hours-long exchange of gunfire.
The Palestinian Red Crescent identified the deceased Palestinians as Aboud Sobh, 29, and Muhammad Al-Azizi, 22. Nineteen other Palestinians were wounded in the shooting.
Two of those who were injured are in critical condition, the local rescue service added.
The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades militant group claimed the two deceased members, Reuters reported.
[IsraelTimes] Ottoman Turkish media says men were found with a rifle, two pistols and silencers; incident comes a month after Israel warned its citizens to leave The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... amid concrete Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... plot.
Ottoman Turkish forces have foiled another attempt by Iranian agents to kill Israelis in Istanbul, arresting three men, local media reported Friday.
According to the reports, the men were detained with a rifle, two pistols, silencers and ammunition on July 14 and were brought before a court Thursday to have their remand extended.
The reports come a month after Israeli officials issued an urgent appeal to all its citizens to leave Istanbul immediately, and reconsider non-essential travel to other parts of Turkey, warning that Iranian agents were ready to kidnap or kill Israelis there as Tehran seeks Dire Revenge for the slayings of officers blamed on Israel.
The men reportedly tried to target Israeli tourists staying at a hotel near Istanbul’s Taksim Square.
Tensions between Israel and Iran have intensified in recent months, after the liquidation of an Iranian officer in Tehran, Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against Iran-linked targets in Syria, threatening rhetoric from Iranian leaders and Iran’s increasing violations of nuclear agreements.
Last month the Mossad spy agency and its local counterparts managed to thwart three Iranian attacks targeting Israeli civilians in Istanbul, a security bigshot briefing Hebrew media said at the time. The account came a day after Ottoman Turkish media reported that 10 people had been arrested as part of an Iranian plot targeting Israelis in Turkey. The security official said Mossad intelligence had led Ottoman Turkish authorities to 10 members of an Iranian cell who were allegedly planning to kidnap and murder a former Israeli ambassador to Turkey and his wife.
The Mossad chartered a private aircraft to immediately bring the pair and others in Istanbul back to the country, Hebrew reports said. The name of the diplomat was not released.
According to the official, the Mossad also managed to thwart two other plots against Israelis in Istanbul, with the tourists escaping the country at the "last possible second."
He said the raids were carried out in coordination with Ottoman Turkish authorities, thanking them for their efforts in thwarting Iranian attacks to date.
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh has said that Israeli claims that Tehran is targeting Israelis in Turkey are "baseless" and part of a "pre-designed scenario to destroy relations between the two Moslem countries."
[IsraelTimes] Officials say 33-year-old East Jerusalem man followed worshipers with knife, arrested by Border Police forces.
A Paleostinian man armed with a knife was detained by coppers in Jerusalem’s Old City early Friday morning. Police suspect the man was planning a stabbing attack
According to police, the 33-year-old from East Jerusalem was spotted by officers who were monitoring security cameras after he "suspiciously followed worshipers" in the Old City.
Border Police officers detained the man and he dropped the knife he had in his pocket, police said.
Citing a preliminary investigation, police said the man apparently planned to carry out a stabbing attack.
He was taken for further questioning and would be later taken to a court to have his detention extended.
The alleged attempted attack came after a Paleostinian man stabbed and maimed an Israeli man on a bus in Jerusalem’s Ramot neighborhood on Tuesday.
Police say there have been several attempted stabbing attacks in Jerusalem’s Old City in recent weeks.
[IsraelTimes] Their newly opened airspace has nothing to do with Israel, they say, and normalization can’t happen until there’s a Paleostinian state. But actually, obviously, it’s all about Iran.
As of this writing, Israeli planes are not yet routinely overflying Saudi airspace to and from India, China and other destinations. This year, at least, Israeli Moslems were not able to take Israeli charter flights direct from Ben Gurion Airport to Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... for the hajj.
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normalization can’t happen until there’s a Paleostinian state
I don't think Israel's worried about its moslems not being able to hajj. At least they shouldn't be. And neither are saudis. The Saudis can't do anything by themselves. They just need friends, to stay afloat in the churn that is the moslem world. How much anti-establishment Sunni wahhabi nonsense is stopped daily because of Israeli surveillance software and friendly inputs? I think the paleostine routine is just for the bearded, crazy eyed moslem tool who would challenge the establishment otherwise.
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I don't think Israel's worried about its moslems not being able to hajj.
If I understand correctly, they can — they just need to fly in from Jordan or Egypt with the contingents from those countries.
Lots of things have been happening without fanfare for the past decade at least. But Israel is getting awfully tired of being snuck in through the servants entrance, when countries like Morocco celebrate reestablished formal contact.
With regards to Rudyard Kipling and the later British Empire:
"And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."
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Everybody talks about Sun Tzu (or Sun Pin) but the Chinese Mandarins were writing scrolls on "managing barbarians" thousands of years ago and passing theses insights on... Besides with a large fractious population the Chinese had plenty of practice on each other.
[Aljazeera] Ukraine’s defence ministry has urged citizens in a key area seized by Russia to reveal where Moscow’s troops were living and who among the local population was collaborating with the occupying authorities.
The statement on Saturday by the ministry’s defence intelligence directorate was aimed at people in and around the southern city of Enerhodar, which is home to a major nuclear power station.
"Please let us know as a matter of urgency the exact location of the occupying troops’ bases and their residential addresses ... and the places of residence of the commanding staff," it said, adding that exact coordinates were desirable.
It also asked for details "of local collaborators who went over to the side of the enemy", including where they lived and worked, as well as information about "people who ’sympathise’ with the occupiers".
Russia captured Enerhodar in early March and in May, the Russian-appointed head of the city was injured in an explosion. The Kremlin termed it a "terrorist attack".
In June, a pro-Russian official in the southern Kherson region was killed in a blast, the RIA news agency said. Earlier that month, the head of the region’s penal service was taken to hospital after a bomb exploded near his car.
The intelligence directorate’s appeal — published on Telegram — also asked for the routes that Russian military equipment was using in Enerhodar.
"Together, let’s kick the occupants out of our homeland!" it said, adding people could either call in details or provide them via the WhatsApp or Signal instant messaging apps.
Enerhodar had a pre-war population of more than 50,000. Many residents work at the two power plants near the town, one of which is the Zaporizhzhia facility, the largest nuclear power station in Europe.
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Not that the Russians seem to need encouragement to shoot civilians, but this puts Ukrainian nationals into the position as a 'spy' and subject to treatment as such.
[WashingtonExaminer] Two Americans believed to have been fighting on behalf of Ukrainians recently died in the Donbas region of the war-torn nation, according to the State Department.
"We can confirm the recent deaths of two U.S. citizens in the Donbas region of Ukraine," a State Department spokesperson said, ABC reported. "We are in touch with the families and providing all possible consular assistance."
SHOCK VIDEO SHOWS RUSSIAN MISSILE STRIKE PORT JUST HOURS AFTER SAYING IT WOULDN'T
Officials declined to elaborate on specifics of how the two Americans died, but stressed they are in contact with their families.
[Washington Examiner] Former President Donald Trump vowed to never abandon his beliefs — including that the 2020 election was stolen — while delivering the keynote address at Turning Point USA's Student Action Summit Saturday evening.
The 45th president pulled no punches during his 90 minute speech, which began more than an hour late, bashing everything from Democrats' policy agenda and President Joe Biden's job performance to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband over his controversial stock purchases. Trump delivered the remarks at the conservative youth conference's annual gathering, which took place this year in Tampa, Fla.
"Everything this corrupt establishment is doing to me is all about preserving their power and control over the American people. They're sick. They want to damage me in any form so I can no longer represent you," Trump told the high school and college-aged crowd. "Obviously they want me not to be the candidate, because they never talk about anybody else. And you know, everything's disinformation."
[Breitbart] Former President Donald Trump, at Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit, will speak about his schedule F executive order, which would allow him to “drain the swamp” by firing the swamp, according to Trump’s prepared remarks provided in advance of his speech to Breitbart News.
“To drain the swamp, we need to fire the swamp. With schedule F, I took executive action to make it possible to fire federal employees who are bypassing our democracy to advance wokeism and corruption,” Trump plans to say.
“We now need Congress to institute historic reforms to permanently empower the President to root out the Deep State, and ensure that any bureaucrat who is corrupt, incompetent, or unnecessary can be told, ‘You’re fired,’” the former President will assert.
Trump’s remarks will come one day after an Axios report claimed Trump is planning to use the executive order to fire close to 50,000 government bureaucrats if he gets reelected in 2024.
As Breitbart News detailed:
If reelected in 2024, Trump is planning to cut about 50,000 administrative state employees to rein in unelected technocrats in federal government agencies that have great influence over policies impacting American workers, according to the outlet.
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The term administrative state specifically describes the phenomenon of unaccountable and unelected administrative agencies exercising power to create and enforce their own rules.
The administrative state uses its rule-making ability to essentially usurp the separation of powers between the three branches of government by creating a so-called fourth branch of government not created by the Constitution. Nearly 2 million federal government employees in federal agencies make up the administrative state. Trump has referred to the administrative state as the “swamp.”
Trump signed the schedule F executive order before leaving office in 2021, but President Joe Biden cancelled the executive order when he took office in January 2021.
Trump also plans to call out the “climate crisis hoax” at his Turning Point speech on Saturday evening:
First: we have to defeat the Climate Crisis Hoax once and for all. For decades, the left has made it a religious crusade to bully and scare young people into believing the world is ending because of climate change—or in the case of AOC, that the planet is doomed in just 12 years. This is a total lie.
The former President will single out Biden for his threats to declare a national emergency over the alleged climate crisis.
“This very week, the White House has even threatened to declare a NATIONAL EMERGENCY. But we don’t have a CLIMATE Emergency, we have an ENERGY emergency—caused by their climate fanaticism,” Trump will say.
“As we are now vividly seeing, the real threat to future generations is NOT Global Warming, it is the Green New Deal. Without abundant, reliable, and affordable energy, there is no civilization,” Trump will add.
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TPUSA is a grift, just like CPAC. I don't think Dron has a problem with young conservatives in the USA, he does rightly recognize that these bright shiny objects are just a distraction.
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like Dron doesn’t like young conservatives in the US
Not true, Xyz. I'm just for more Kylie Rittenhouses than 'Benji' Backers.
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A lot of past TPUSA are now concealed carriers and are very good at completely eliminating trash entitlement types who try to rob them I have noticed lately.
This week SouthFront published the appeals and stories of US mercenaries Alexander Drueke and Andy Huynh, who were captured in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine in June 2022.
At the same time, the US media began to raise the question of what are the options of returning US citizens to their homeland. Apparently, given all the circumstances of Alexander Drueke’s and Andy Huynh’s detention, this is only possible through an exchange procedure.
US officials say they are in constant contact with their Ukrainian counterparts and are making every effort to include the mercenaries on the exchange list. Previously, the warring sides had already exchanged prisoners of war on several occasions.
However, from the point of view of Russia and the DPR, these individuals do not have the status of prisoners of war because they are citizens of a third country who took part in the conflict for fees. In other words, they are considered criminals who are accused of committing a number of crimes against citizens of Russia and the DPR.
In particular, they have been charged under Article 430 of the DPR Criminal Code. This article is identical to Article 359 of the Russian Criminal Code.
Under Article 430 of the Criminal Code of the DPR and Article 359 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, a mercenary is a person acting for the purpose of material reward who is not a citizen of a state participating in an armed conflict or hostilities, does not reside permanently in its territory, and has not been sent to perform official duties.
An important fact is that legal actions against detainees are carried out by DPR law enforcement agencies, not Russians. Apparently, this is due to the fact that in July 2022, the DPR authorities lifted the ban on the death penalty as a capital punishment. Previously, the other 3 foreign mercenaries (Shaun Pinner, Aidan Aslin, and Saadoun Brahim) had already been sentenced to death and are awaiting execution. The only chance for these convicts to stay alive was the act of pardon by the head of the DPR, Denis Pushylin.
It is likely that a similar sentence will be passed on Alexander Drueke and Andy Huynh.
An exchange of mercenaries for DPR or Russian military personnel seems hardly probable due to their legal status. Does this mean that the Americans’ fate is sealed? Definitely not. There are procedures of political exchange of convicts, which have happened many times before between the USA and the Russian Federation (USSR). The last case took place on April 27, 2022, when US citizen Trevor Raudi Reed, who had been previously convicted in the Russian Federation, was exchanged for Russian citizen Konstantin Yaroshenko, who had been convicted in the US. Legally, the procedure was formalised through acts of pardon.
Thus, it is possible for US citizens to avoid the death penalty and return home. There are about 400 Russian nationals in US prisons, a significant part of whom are convicted on political grounds. Perhaps the most striking example is Viktor Bout, who has already served half of his sentence in a US prison.
Read the rest at the link, which includes videographed statements by the two US detainees.
...one of a group of NeverTrump Republicans who won’t be running for re-election in November, so he’s been spewing bile in all directions...
said Friday on CNN ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for... ’s "Newsroom" that the children of Republicans who supported former President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... will be ashamed.
Kinzinger said, "I’ve had a lot of anecdotal people call and say like a good friend said my dad was a super MAGA, he hated Adam and loved Donald Trump. He’s all in against Donald Trump because he believes he’s been lied to. But look, yeah, there may be a certain set of voters that will never pay attention. Their kids will."
He added, "I’m going to tell you, I truly believe in my heart in five years, maybe not five but definitely ten, you’re not going to be able to find a single person that admits to supporting or voting for Donald Trump in this country because they’re going to be embarrassed because their kids are going to say, ’You actually supported Donald Trump? Are you kidding me?’ And they’re going to be like, no, no, we didn’t — like trying to find a Nixon supporter a couple of years after he resigned. I got to tell you, your kids, to my fellow Republican congressmen, stand up and speak out, or your kids will be ashamed of having that last name. I’m not saying that to be mean. That’s just a fact."
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Have to have 2 married adult daughters with kids that ceased all contact with us and their brother. Because, we openly support Moral Conservative values, and proper social decorum.
Why? Because it was causing them embarrassment with their social media friends.
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain
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Adam's looking for some role with Madame Speaker after the J6 committee finishes up - maybe Christmas?
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Adam and Liz are auditioning for the liberal networks. It's good money. Since their principal belief appears to be in personal gain, what's the downside?
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Ref #3 above.
My liberal daughter, an Army Gulf War vet and a fine human being, has been a captive of the Deep State intel world her entire adult career. Makes great money, married another vet of that exact same environment, and has produced two fine girls, both of whom are now immersed in the same business.
I learned two years ago she taught her girls a list of topics to avoid with grandpa in family gatherings, and to disengage from when they come up for any substantive discussion around me. It seems I am to be dismissed as a beloved, but misguided despite all my achievements, as a radical Archie Bunker style pater familias. All the topics are avoidance of conservative, traditional American values and our actual history, not the snapchat/instagram versions.
To my utter shock, both girls have noted they identify as socialists, an outcome I suspect of James Madison University communications majors and neural implant-like connections to their iphones etc.. .
Given the mind-bending power of social media and our bent university system of late, Kinzinger may actually have a point.
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I didn't vote for Trump. I voted strongly against Hillary. I was happy enough with what Trump did as president, though it was clear he mismanaged the transition and generally hired poorly. At the end, he should have recognized an impossible situation, backed off, acted presidential, and not damaged his brand.
What I wish he'd do now is talk, in detail, about exactly what the Republican party is doing in the swing states to assure fair future elections. Replaying 2022 and Jan 6 is a loser. If we win Congress in the fall, let them pick up those cudgels and wield them until 2024. We want Trump to lead us back to prosperity, not "win" on the past issues.
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I'm with KBK on this. I didn't so much vote for Trump, as against Hillary. Likewise Biden. Similarly, I voted for Bushes only when forced to. DeSantis? Don't know enough about him yet. I wish him luck with the shark pack.
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both girls have noted they identify as socialists,
Betcha if pushed they would be completely unable to define what that means, NoMoreBS.
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[REGNUM] The Syrian military did not let the convoy of the US military in the northeast of the SAR pass. This was reported on July 23 by SANA.
"The military at a checkpoint in the village of Tell-Zahab in Qamishli province drove away a convoy of American armed forces from five armored personnel carriers that tried to enter the village," the report says.
Similar incidents have become more frequent this summer, in some cases the initiative comes from villagers.
The US Armed Forces illegally control territories in the north and northeast of Syria in the provinces of Deir ez-Zor, Al-Hasek and Raqqa, where the largest oil and gas fields in Syria are located. Official Damascus has repeatedly called the presence of the US military on its territory an occupation.
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That’s in support of the Kurds and to be the anvil against which ISIS crashes. Tiny Jeater6933. But I suspect you’ve no interest in facts when you’ve got your teeth in a juicy propaganda point.
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The amount of oil involved is pathetic. If we were still extracting and refining our own, it would be less than inconsequential.
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I would appreciate the US Military more if they ever actually did seize something. Whatever happened to kill kill killing the other tribe and taking everything, planting your flag in asses turned skyward and howling? We've all devolved into a buncha lily livered pansies!
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... may lose its legitimacy if it strays too far from public sentiment, according to Justice Elena Kagan. Oh, an elected position? That would imply term limits. I say we start with her. Bye
Kagan, a liberal judge appointed to the court in 2010 by former President Barack Obama I inhaled. That was the point... , tied the standing of the court to its "connection to the public," noting it could be dangerous if people continue to view Supreme Court justices as increasingly partisan, likely an allusion to the recent contentious court term that saw the overturning of Roe v. Wade and an expansion of gun rights.
"I’m not talking about any particular decision or even any particular series of decisions, but if over time the court loses all connection with the public and with public sentiment, that’s a dangerous thing for a democracy," Kagan said at a judicial conference in Montana.
Public approval ratings of the Supreme Court have plummeted in recent months, with only 38% of the country saying it approved of its performance, according to a Marquette Law School poll. The latest numbers are a dramatic drop from last summer when a similar poll showed a 60% approval rating, compared to 39% who disapproved.
People now view the court as more conservative than it did a year ago, with 67% describing it as very or somewhat conservative compared to just 56% who said the same in May, according to the poll. To maintain its legitimacy, the court must ensure its decisions are impartial, Kagan said.
"Overall, the way the court retains its legitimacy and fosters public confidence is by acting like a court, is by doing the kinds of things that do not seem to people political or partisan," she said.
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When I hear people say public sentiment my response is “as it relates to late term abortions?, open borders?, high taxes?, not arresting rioters?…..”. Leftists only want to discuss public sentiment when it favors their view of the issue but not the constitution.
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OBAMA appointed her as a Supreme Court Justice with ZERO Judgeship role exp.
The closes she came to this was in 2009, when Kagan was confirmed as the United States' as the 45th Solicitor General. She held a position that only argued cases for the Federal Gov. in front of the Supreme Court.
It is clear she never should have been appointed, since she does not understand the role of the Supreme Court Justice or any Judge is to rule based on LAW and NOT public lynching whims.
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As someone else has pointed out, does this mean she is now in favor of reversing Obergefell, since gay marriage failed at the ballot box everywhere it was tried (including, believe it or not, Hawaii and California (twice!))
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I've said for a long time now that if everything was put up to a plebiscite in this country, the leftists would all stroke out.
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Public sentiment really helped 20th Century Germany.
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A Lynch Mob is an expression of 'public sentiment', right 'Judge'.
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but if over time the court loses all connection with the public and with public sentiment, that’s a dangerous thing for a democracy,"
Good thing we live in a Republic. Ancient Greece showed the fallacy of "democracy".
Failed history and civics, Elana?
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Just what I was going to say, Bobby. Amazing how eager leftists are to subject minority rights to majority sentiment.
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And how does Kagan figure out what "public sentiment" is? I'm glad to see Kagan was at a conference in Montana, because as far as I can tell that's the only time she's been outside of the Acela Corridor. This is Pauline Kael Syndrome Updated: She doesn't know a single person who voted for Trump.
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Obviously she doesn’t know that the majority of Americans are against abortion and the EPA and for the second amendment
She doesn’t understand that a majority of Hispanics in the Southwest are opposed to open borders and illegal immigration
Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 18:00 The decree on the establishment of an election commission for holding a referendum was signed in the Zaporozhye region - the head of the CAA. 17:40 A Ukrainian intelligence agent was detained, who provided the Armed Forces of Ukraine with data on the movement of Russian troops in the Kherson region from CCTV cameras, a source said.
17:11 Russia said it had nothing to do with the attack on the port of Odessa - Turkish Defense Ministry.
17:00 The result of all attempts at terrorist attacks in the liberated territories by the Zelensky regime is only one thing - people are convinced of the correctness of their choice. The fact that security and a normal life can only be together with Russia, - Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the administration of the Zaporozhye region.
15:04 As a result of a pinpoint strike by Russian artillery, the area of N. p. Lepetikha, during the period of work at the stronghold, the deputy brigade commander of the 63rd Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed, who ordered the shelling of the civilian population in the village. Rakovka, Kherson region, where Ukrainian militants destroyed a school, a club, a store, and two residential buildings.
13:48 Following the DPR and LPR, sanctions against the Google search engine were introduced in the liberated territories of the Zaporozhye region. So far, Google’s work has simply been slowed down, but if misinformation of the population of the region continues, the authorities will block access to the search engine, as they have already done in the DPR and LPR
13:21 The Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh) on July 25 will open registration for students of the Zaporozhye, Kherson and Kharkov regions in the All-Russian student project "Your Move". The project is part of the presidential platform "Russia - the Land of Opportunities".
13:00 Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine on July 23:
In the village of Apostolovo, Dnepropetrovsk region, up to 200 personnel, nine artillery pieces and military equipment were destroyed as a result of a strike by a high-precision weapon of the Russian Aerospace Forces at the temporary deployment point of the 406th artillery brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery continue to strike at military facilities on the territory of Ukraine.
During the day, Russian air defense systems destroyed 11 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Topolskoye, Dmitrovka, Novaya Gnilitsa, Malaya Kamyshevakha, Bolshiye Prohody of the Kharkiv region, Ternovye Pody, Kalinovka of the Nikolaev region, Tsyurupinsk of the Kherson region.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 260 aircraft, 144 helicopters, 1,600 unmanned aerial vehicles, 357 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,146 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 763 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 3,185 field artillery guns and a mortar, as well as 4,453 units of special military vehicles.
12:50 Google, YouTube and Viber were blocked in the Kherson region.
11:36 Сolonelcassad: As a result of morning attacks on the Kirovograd region, several objects were damaged, as well as the Kanatovo airfield. Ukraine acknowledges several dead and "some damage." The strikes were delivered by Caliber missiles (which ran out) and X-22 missiles.
11:33 Local sources report that in the port of Odessa, on which the Russian Armed Forces struck, there was an air defense position area.
11:04 As a result of a morning missile attack on the Kirovograd region, three people were killed. Among them is a soldier and two employees of departmental security. This was announced by the head of the Kirovograd OVA Andrei Raykovich, reports "Suspilna". Another nine soldiers were injured.
09:24 Crimea has overcome the last of the "blockades" of the peninsula arranged by Kyiv - the energy blockade, adviser to the head of the republic Kryuchkov told RIA Novosti. Yesterday, two damaged power lines were restored in Crimea, which made it possible to connect the power systems of the Russian Federation, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.
09:15 Washington does not plan to supply Kyiv with ATACMS missiles with a range of 300 km for the HIMARS MLRS. Jake Sullivan, National Security Adviser to the President of the United States
09:01 Ukrainian troops attacked the bridge near the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. According to the deputy head of administration, there are no critical damages, the power plant was not damaged.
08:39 Russian Defense Ministry publishes frames work of the Su-25 during a special operation in Ukraine. Assault aircraft strike at the positions and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
08:34 A missile attack was launched on Nikolaev at 4:30 in the morning. At the moment, the infliction of fire damage is repeated, missiles are again flying at military facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
08:20 About 180,000 people now live in Kherson. This is approximately 65 percent of the level that was in the city before the start of the special operation. This was reported to TASS by Kirill Stremousov, Deputy Head of the Regional State Administration.
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Elvira Nabiullina is rather impressive. I wish we had such a talent here. In the coming months the Russian efforts will dramatically increase. Being very self sufficient sanctions have had little effect.Inflation decreasing.Big cuts in interest rates.As we are burdened here recession
next year and interest rate hikes Russia will enjoy a much stronger economy. Decline of the dollar will have long term effects throughout the world. Dollar based on debt whereas the ruble based on minerals rare earths , gold things of value. Sorry a bit of a ramble.
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[REGNUM] The United States made a serious mistake in its attempt to make Russia a “world outcast”, and therefore such a plan of the American authorities completely failed after the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Tehran for the summit of the three guarantor countries in the Astana format on a settlement in Syria. The American magazine Foreign Policy writes about this on July 23.
According to the authors of the publication, the Russian president remains a skilled player in the Middle East and has common goals with almost all US partners in the region. Given that Washington's intentions to push the Middle Eastern countries into the background do not arouse enthusiasm among the leading states of the region.
It is also indicated that the results of the Middle East tour of US President Joe Biden , according to the authors of the article, indicate that the Middle East and, first of all, the countries of the Persian Gulf, are not going to give up ties with Russia and China.
At the same time, it is noted that there are many common interests of the US partners in the Middle East with the Russian Federation - from high prices for energy resources to the formation of a multipolar world.
"From the point of view of the Saudis, Egyptians, Emirates, Turks, Israelis and others, Russia is a completely legitimate player there. And no blitz visits by American presidents in the near future will change this point of view," consists in the publication.
Counterstrike. This looks like a fun project for a programming type with some spare time...
[AmThinker] The soul of phantom voter fraud is the occasional, non-committed voter. They show up at the last minute, delivering winning margins.
Actually, nobody shows up. Nor does anyone return an absentee ballot.
That magic comes from a wonderful customer service innovation, the Phantom Voter Concierge, who casts the non-committed voters' votes for them.
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one category of voting fraud is people who are legal voters who are illegally coached
typically this is done in one or two ways
1. people go into long term care as visitors and 'assist' voters first to register, then to vote
2. during election day, real voters are 'grabbed and dragged' (e.g., 'souls to the polls' campaigns) to voting centers by people who then tell them who to vote for on the way to the poll or, in some cases, get permission to 'assist' in the voting booth
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[THELIBERTYDAILY] A man tried to stab Congressman and gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin in the neck with a sharp metal object yesterday after New York Governor Kathy Hochul sent out locations of her opponent’s rallies, encouraging supporters to "RSVP" where "far-right murderous Moslems" will be gathering. It was a crystal clear dog whistle intended to stoke disruptions, but one supporter took it to the next level.
I discussed this in detail on today’s episode of America First Report. Kathy Hochul is not alone. Prominent Democrats like The Ageless and Downright Brilliant Comrade Maxine Impeach 45! Waters ...U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 30.64366 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the twelve black women currently serving in the United States Congress, and a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 45.64160 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was a little brighter she'd be a Communist... , Rashida Tlaib, and Eric I farted on national television Swalwell ... U.S. Representative-for-Life from Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s 15th congressional district since 2013. Naturally he's a Dem. His district covers most of eastern Alameda County and part of central Contra Costa County. He was rapidly eliminated from the 2020 Dem nomination pool. He looks a lot like Greg Marmelard, and has the distinction of being one of the few politicians to ever fart on national teevee... have used similar language as Hochul in prompting their supporters to get "aggressive" with MAGA supporters. It has resulted in multiple incidents over the past six years where America First patriots have been assaulted for something as harmless as wearing a red hat.
Hochul’s dog whistles were particularly egregious. According to Breitbart:
While Zeldin spoke at a campaign event in Fairport, New York, a man reportedly rushed the stage with a weapon in an apparent attempt to stab him on Thursday evening. Fortunately, Zeldin grabbed the attacker’s wrist long enough for other event attendees to step in and subdue the attacker.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... as people like GOP strategist Arthur Schwartz and New York GOP Chairman Nick Langworthy pointed out, Hochul’s campaign sent out a blurb just hours before the failed attack on Zeldin that blasted out the time and location of several of Zeldin campaign’s upcoming stops.
Hochul claimed that Zeldin and his team would spread "dangerous lies, misinformation, and his far-right agenda at these campaign events."
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Remember when people got all upset about Sarah Palin posting target symbols over Congress critters districts and then Gabby Gifford got shot? She obviously wasn't inviting people to assassinate anyone.
One idiot (former) friend of mine thundered "Why isn't Sarah Palin in jail???!!"
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They are so far to the Left that traditional independents are considered 'far-right'.
During the night and morning of July 23, the Russian military attacked the transport infrastructure facility in Kostyantynivka, shelled Avdievka and Toretsk with artillery, where a local resident died.
Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of the Donetsk OVA, reported this in Telegram.
"The Russians do not stop shelling the populated areas of Donetsk region. At night and early in the morning, they shelled Avdieivka from artillery. In the morning, they struck a transport infrastructure facility in Kostyantynivka. At around 6 a.m., they covered Toretsk with artillery fire - they damaged at least five private houses and killed a local resident," he wrote.
The situation remains tense throughout the region. The enemy is waging a war of destruction - people and infrastructure.
"So my appeals to the civilian population about the need to evacuate remain relevant," urged the head of the OVA.
It will be recalled that the occupiers conducted massive shelling of ten regions of Ukraine during the day . In the Donetsk region, the Russian army used artillery, mortars, SAM "S-300", anti-aircraft missile system "Grad", shelled Avdiivka, Soledar, Bakhmut, Sloviansk, Kurdyumivka, Otradne, Lastochkina, Severnye. Nine people were injured during the day. In the morning, the enemy shelled the railway infrastructure in the Kramatorsk district.
[LB] The enemy continues to fire missiles at military and civilian objects on the territory of Ukraine.
by Iryna Gamalii
The Armed Forces successfully repelled the enemy's assault in the direction of Verkhnokamyansk and Siversk
Ukrainian attack and army aviation and missile and artillery units successfully strike enemy strongholds, warehouses and concentrations of occupier forces in specified directions.
This was announced on Facebook by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the beginning of the 150th day of the resistance of Ukrainians to the Russian military invasion.
The situation has not undergone significant changes in the Volyn, Polis, and Siver directions. On the last one, the enemy shelled the village of Mykolaivka, Chernihiv region.
In the Slobozhansk direction, the occupiers are concentrating their main efforts on preventing the advance of our troops towards the State Border of Ukraine in the north and northeast of the Kharkiv region.
In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy did not conduct active operations, but carried out fire damage from tanks, barrel and rocket artillery in the areas of the settlements of Kharkiv, Zolochiv, Pitomnyk, Borshcheva, Lisne, Rusky and Cherkasy Tyshki, and Mospanov.
Also, active actions by the enemy are not noted in the Slavic direction . The enemy shelled the districts of Hrushuvakhya, Dolyna, Krasnopill, Dibrovny, Mazanivka, Protopopivka, Chepil, Velikay Komyshuvakha, Nortsivka, Bogorodichny, Virnopilly and Karnaukhivka.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy fired from tanks, barrel and rocket artillery near Verkhnyokamyanskyi, Starodubivka, Piskunivka, Siversk, Bilogorivka, Hryhorivka, Spirny and Vyimka. Ukrainian defenders successfully repulsed the assaults in the direction of Verkhnyokamyanskyi and Siversk.
In the direction of Bakhmut, the occupiers shelled the districts of Yakovlivka, Soledar, Bakhmut, Pokrovsky, Bakhmutsky and Novoluhansky with artillery. Airstrikes were also carried out near the latter. The enemy again carried out assaults in the direction of Pokrovsky and the territory of the Vuglegirsk TPP and again suffered losses and retreated.
On the Avdiiv, Novopavliv, and Zaporizhzhya directions , shelling was recorded in the areas of Novobakhmutivka, Pisky, Vugledar, Opytne, Vodyane, Prechistivka, Mala Tokmachka, Novoyakovlivka, Uspenivka, Orihiv, Pavlivka, Novopil, Shcherbaki, Novoandriivka, and Mali Shcherbaki. The enemy also carried out airstrikes near Krasnohorivka and Kamianka.
In the South Buz direction , the enemy continues to defend the previously occupied positions, concentrates its efforts on restraining the counteroffensive actions of the Defense Forces of Ukraine. Conducted shelling from barrel and rocket artillery and tanks along the contact line.
Outside the base points, there are two enemy carriers of sea-based cruise missiles of the Kalibr type.
We will remind you that wounded Ukrainian soldiers will be brought to Poland for treatment. The first group of soldiers arrived on July 18. 31 soldiers were distributed among the hospitals of Lublin, Mazowiecki and Lodz Voivodeships of Poland.
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[Korrespondent] 23:25 Zelensky said that the Summit of First Ladies and Gentlemen, held today in Kiev, was very successful: "In the modern world, it is impossible to get along with the usual classical diplomacy. You need soft power, you need a sincere desire of different societies to help a state that is fighting for its independence.. "In two years, the initiative of the first lady of Ukraine has actually become a traditional format - unique for the world diplomatic practice. Everyone recognizes the potential of soft power. But only Ukraine managed to channel its invincibility, its potential into specific diplomatic practice."
23:20 Zelensky, in an evening video message, spoke about the missile attack on the port in Odessa: "Today's Russian missile attack on Odessa, on the seaport - cynical, calculated - turned out to be a blow also to the political positions of Russia itself. If someone in the world had could say that we need some kind of dialogue with it, some kind of ceasefire agreement without the de-occupation of our territory, today's Russian Caliber destroyed the very possibility for such statements. And we see the absolute unanimity of the world reaction to this Russian strike. There is no one for the invaders don't cheat."
22:26 Tonight Russians fired at residential quarters in the Ship area of Nikolaev, the mayor Alexander Senkevich reported. High-rise buildings, private houses and cars were damaged. All local fires were quickly extinguished by rescuers of the State Emergency Service. It is preliminary known about two wounded, including a teenager.
21:19 At the checkpoint in Vasilyevka, Zaporozhye region, where Russian troops are blocking the passage of cars with Ukrainians, four people died, Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov said. According to him, a queue of 1,200 cars has formed - these are Ukrainians who want to evacuate. Many have been sleeping on the roadside for five days already - in the heat without proper food and medical care.
In response to the request of the central and local authorities to the occupiers to open a green corridor for people, they replied that allegedly "there is no need for a corridor" and "none of the Melitopol residents want to leave."
20:51 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine asks residents of Energodar and adjacent territories to provide information about the occupiers - the location of deployment points and addresses of residence, the location and routes of movement of military equipment, data from local collaborators and "sympathizers" with the occupiers. Contact number: +380963101126
20:27 The "authorities" of the occupied Zaporozhye and Kherson regions have announced the creation of "election commissions" that will prepare for the "referenda", Russian media write.
19:57 The Russians fired missiles at one of the sleeping areas of Nikolaev, where it is always crowded. According to preliminary information, there is a hit in a residential building, people are under the rubble, said the chairman of the regional council, Anna Zamazeeva. It is already known about one victim - a 16-year-old child received a shrapnel wound.
19:23 Orban's statements that "sanctions have not shaken Russia" are a classic example of Russian propaganda, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said. He recalled that the Hungarian prime minister resumed rhetoric about the ineffectiveness of sanctions the day after the visit of the Hungarian foreign minister to Moscow, where he asked for an increase in Russian gas supplies.
"Sanctions are effective, they have significantly reduced the ability of the Russian military machine to wage war against Ukraine... Europe is in an economic crisis not because of sanctions, but because of Russia's hybrid war. gas prices. These are all elements of one Russian plan, the purpose of which is to undermine peace and prosperity in European countries," Nikolenko wrote.
18:58 In the Slavyansk direction, the Russian troops made an unsuccessful attempt at reconnaissance in force in the area of Bogorodichny. In the Bakhmut direction, attempts are continuing to establish control over the Uglegorsk TPP, there was an attempt to storm, but unsuccessful. An attempt by the Russians to advance in the Verkhnekamensky area was also repulsed. Enemy reconnaissance groups tried to find weaknesses in the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the directions of Soledar and Pokrovsky, but were neutralized, the General Staff said in an evening report .
18:54 The number of people injured as a result of an enemy missile attack on the Kirovograd region has grown to 19 people, nothing threatens their lives, everyone has received qualified medical care, said the head of the OVA Andrei Raikovich.
18:08 Russia claims that it has nothing to do with the missile attack on the Odessa port, and "is studying this issue in detail," Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said in an interview with CNN TÜRK. According to him, Turkey has also been in contact with the Ukrainian side and continues to work on the implementation of the Istanbul Agreement.
Akar also said that representatives of Turkey, the UN, Ukraine and Russia began work at the food coordinating center in Istanbul.
18:05 The export of grain across the Black Sea will begin in the coming days, Erdogan said: "In the coming days, maritime cargo transportation will resume in the Black Sea, which will have a positive impact on the food security of many countries." He also stressed that Turkey will continue to make diplomatic efforts to resolve the Ukrainian crisis.
17:59 Zelensky, at a meeting with US congressmen, commented on the missile attack on the port in Odessa: "This indicates only one thing: no matter what Russia says and promises, it will find ways not to fulfill it. Geopolitically, with weapons, blood or not , but she has multiple vectors, which is how she always acts."
17:56 The Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the Daryevsky bridge across the Ingulets River in the Kherson region, said Serhiy Khlan, adviser to the head of the OVA. "This is a continuation of the operation to cut off supplies to the Kherson group of Russians," he wrote.
17:53 Johnson visited the Ukrainian military, who are now being trained in North Yorkshire. "The UK is committed to doing everything possible to help Ukraine continue to fight back against Russian aggression," Johnson wrote.
17:38 Ukraine continues technical preparations for the launch of the export of agricultural products from its ports, even in conditions when Russia is not going to fulfill its obligations, Minister of Infrastructure Alexander Kubrakov said: "We do not trust Russia, but we trust our partners and allies, which is why the Initiative for safe transportation of grain and food from Ukrainian ports was signed with the UN and Turkey, and not with the Russian Federation.
17:24 Zelensky held a meeting in Kiev with a delegation of the US House of Representatives headed by Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith. The meeting was also attended by US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink. Yermak stressed that this visit is an important signal of bipartisan support for Ukraine.
17:09 Orban said the EU needs a new strategy for the war in Ukraine, since sanctions against Moscow did not work: "We need a new strategy that should focus on peace negotiations and making a good peace proposal ... instead of winning the war."
16:45 Russian missiles did not hit the grain storage in the Odessa port, said Natalya Gumenyuk, head of the press center of the Southern Defense Forces. According to her, there were no wounded and significant damage as a result of the shelling of the port, rockets hit the pumping station, and a minor fire broke out.
16:17 Ukrainian refugees in Poland plan to issue an electronic document Diia.pl, the Polish government said. It will allow you to confirm your legal stay on the territory of Poland and travel within the EU, as well as cross its external borders. This is the first fully digital residence permit in the EU.
15:55 Podolyak said that since the signing of agreements on grain, Russia has already committed two provocations against Ukraine - this is a strike on the port of Odessa, as well as a statement by the Russian Defense Ministry that Ukrainian ports are dangerous for shipping.
15:39 Russia continues to use food as a weapon, said US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink, commenting on the missile attack on the Odessa port. She stressed that Russia must be held accountable.
In turn, Ukrainian Ambassador to Turkey Vasily Bodnar said that the agreement with the Russian Federation is not worth the paper on which it was signed, and called Russia a terrorist state.
15:18 The number of people injured as a result of a missile attack on the Kirovograd region has increased to 16, three have already died , said Andrey Raikovich, head of the OVA.
14:43 UN Secretary General António Guterres also condemned the attack on the port of Odessa. According to him, the full implementation by the Russian Federation, Ukraine and Turkey of the agreements signed the day before is mandatory.
14:27 Borrell condemned the attack on the port of Odessa: "A strike on a key target for grain exports a day after the signing of the Istanbul agreements deserves separate condemnation and again demonstrates Russia's disdain for international law and agreements."
13:59 The EU has adjusted sanctions against Russia, allowing Rosneft and Gazprom to supply oil to third countries, the Council of the European Union said. "In order to avoid any possible negative consequences for food and energy security around the world, the EU has decided to extend the exemption from the ban on transactions with certain government entities in relation to transactions in agricultural products and the transportation of oil to third countries," the message says.
13:46 The Russians plan to form 16 new battalions and another army corps in the Nizhny Novgorod region by the end of July, Vadim Skibitsky, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, said on the air of the telethon: "We clearly know that eight battalions have already been formed to date. It is planned to form before the end of the month eight more battalions, it will be 16 battalions. According to our estimates, there will be about 4,000 people in each region, including in the Crimea there will be such a battalion."
13:18 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev: "Thanked for the principled support of the territorial integrity of Ukraine, the non-recognition of the so-called" LPR "," DPR ". Discussed specific projects of interaction in the economy, energy, digitalization We exchanged congratulations on the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations."
12:47 Yermak commented on the missile attack on the port of Odessa: "The Russians fired missiles at Odessa. Yesterday it was agreed to export grain by sea, and today the Russians are hitting the port of Odessa. This is the Russian diplomatic dichotomy."
12:39 The morning missile attack of the Russians on the port in Odessa casts doubt on the agreements on the export of Ukrainian grain, Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said: "It took the Russian Federation less than 24 hours to cast doubt on the agreements and promises given by the missile attack on the territory of the port of Odessa "The Russian missile is Vladimir Putin's spit in the face of UN Secretary General António Guterres and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who have made great efforts to reach an agreement and for whom Ukraine is grateful."
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs calls on the UN and Turkey to ensure Russia's compliance with its obligations within the framework of the safe functioning of the grain corridor : "In case of failure to comply with the agreements reached, Russia will bear full responsibility for the deepening of the global food crisis."
12:26 Human Rights Watch published a report on torture and kidnappings in the territories of Kherson and Zaporozhye regions occupied by Russia. Interlocutors of human rights activists in Russian-controlled cities described 42 specific cases of abduction of civilians by Russian security forces. Many of these people were tortured and some died as a result. Several people spoke of severe beatings in detention, including with baseball bats and metal bars, and the use of electric shocks. All this, according to human rights activists, can be recognized as war crimes.
12:23 The European Union condemns the decision of the Russian Federation to add Greece, Denmark, Croatia, Slovakia and Slovenia to the list of so-called "unfriendly countries", Borrell said. According to him, this further complicates relations and could lead to escalation. In addition, the list of "unfriendly countries" of the Russian Federation contradicts the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961.
12:19 Russian forces are trying to "adapt" to the HIMARS strikes, writes CNN, citing a senior US military official. The US is seeing "signs" that Russian forces are "trying to adjust to the pressure HIMARS have on them" on the battlefield, he said. The official also noted that the information about the installations destroyed by the Russians is false.
12:14 The Russians attacked the Odessa Sea Commercial Port with Caliber-type cruise missiles , OK Pivden reported. Two missiles were shot down by air defense forces, two hit the infrastructure of the port.
The day before, an agreement was reached in Istanbul on the export of Ukrainian grain from three ports - Odessa, Chernomorsk, Yuzhny.
12:05 Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan expressed concern about Zelensky's personal safety. "This is the leader of a country at war who has to deal with an opponent of unusually cruel, ruthless and capable of almost anything," Sullivan was quoted as saying by Voice of America journalist Jeff Seldin.
11:36 Lithuania, at the request of the EU, resumed the rail transit of goods to Kaliningrad. LTG Cargo representative Mantas Dubauskas said that Lithuanian Railways resumed transit to the Kaliningrad region from July 22.
11:13 In the morning, the enemy fired at the Sumy region from artillery, mortars and grenade launchers, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky. In particular, Yunakovskaya, Miropolskaya, Belopolskaya, Khotynskaya communities suffered. There was also an explosion in Shostka, there are wounded.
11:05 The head of the Zaporizhzhya OVA Alexander Starukh announced a missile attack on the territory of the demarcation line and near the regional center. There were no casualties. Starukh stressed that the Russians continue to hit civilian infrastructure.
11:03 As a result of a missile attack on the Kropyvnytskyi district, three people were killed , including a serviceman and two employees of departmental security. Nine more soldiers were injured, said Andrey Raikovich, head of the Kirovograd OVA.
10:44 Lithuanian First Lady Diana Nauseda has arrived in Kiev, President Gitanas Nauseda has announced. Today, as part of the initiative of First Lady Olena Zelenska, the second summit of first ladies and gentlemen will be held. The main theme is the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine.
10:00 British intelligence reports that the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue their offensive in the Kherson region, where serious battles have been going on for two days. Analysts note that the Russian Federation may be trying to slow down the Ukrainian attack by using artillery fire along the Ingulets River. At the same time, supply lines for Russian troops west of the Dnieper are increasingly in danger, although the Russian Federation has carried out repairs on the Antonovsky Bridge.
Experts also point out that any attempt by the Russian Federation to build an alternative crossing over the Dnieper would be extremely risky. If the crossing of the Dnieper is closed, and Russian troops in occupied Kherson are cut off, this will be a serious military and political setback for the Russian Federation, intelligence notes.
09:57 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of July 23. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Kramatorsk, Krivoy Rog and Bakhmut directions.
personnel - about 39,240 (+240) people liquidated,
tanks - 1708 (+4),
armored combat vehicles - 3929 (+9),
artillery systems - 864 (+1),
MLRS - 253 (+2),
air defense systems - 113 (+0),
aircraft - 221 (+0),
helicopters - 188 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 714 (+1),
cruise missiles - 167 (+0),
ships/boats - 15 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2820 (+17),
special equipment - 72 (+0).
09:32 In the controlled territory of the Donetsk region on July 22, nine civilians were injured from Russian shelling - three in Bakhmut, two each in Slavyansk and Lastochkino, one each in Novomikhailovka and Seversk.
09:26 The Russians fired 13 missiles in the Kirovograd region today - eight sea-based Caliber missiles and five Kh-22 missiles from a Tu-22M3 aircraft, head of the OVA Andrey Raikovich said. The missiles hit infrastructure facilities outside the regional center. In particular, to the military airfield Kanatovo and one of the facilities of Ukrzaliznytsia. There are dead and wounded. In Kropyvnytskyi, a part of one of the microdistricts remains without electricity.
09:22 Estonia, Lithuania and Poland will receive an additional 125 million euros through the REACT-EU Emergency Fund to support people fleeing Russian aggression, the European Commission announced.
09:18 The Armed Forces of Ukraine hit the bridge across the Ingulets River in the Kherson region, "again using the American HIMARS MLRS," Russian media reported, citing the "deputy head of administration."
09:16 The Armed Forces of Ukraine have destroyed an enemy ammunition depot in the Slavyanoserb region, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the Ukrainian defenders repelled two Russian offensives. From Lysychansk, the enemy in turn, and sometimes simultaneously, attacks different sections of the administrative border between the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
09:10 The head of the Kharkiv OVA, Oleg Sinegubov, specified that in the morning the enemy hit the Osnovyansky district of the regional center. One person was injured and is in a minor condition. According to preliminary data, the invaders fired from multiple launch rocket systems. Damaged residential building, office space.
Throughout the region, Russians have been attacking Kharkiv, Bogodukhovsky, Chuguevsky, Izyumsky districts for 24 hours. In the Zmiev community, the invaders destroyed 30 hectares of wheat, farmers and locals extinguished the fire with their own hands. In the Bogodukhovsky district, private houses and outbuildings were hit, several fires broke out during the day. One person died in the Zolochiv community, four were injured.
09:04 The Biden administration has $6 billion left for military assistance to Ukraine, Foreign Policy journalist Jack Detsch said, citing White House officials.
Earlier, the White House said that the United States is currently focused on providing Ukraine with gratuitous military assistance - it is necessary to use the $40 billion allocated by Congress, after which the lend-lease will come into force. The Biden administration must spend the $40 billion package before the end of the fiscal year, which comes in late September.
08:58 Fitch downgraded Ukraine's rating to pre-default. The decision is related to Ukraine's plans to negotiate with creditors to defer payments on public debt for two years. The long-term issuer default rating of Ukraine has been downgraded from CCC to C (pre-default). The agency does not rule out a downgrade to RD (limited default).
08:42 In the morning, around 4:20, the enemy attacked Nikolaev with six S-300 missiles, the head of the IVA, Vitaly Kim, said. As a result of the shelling, a fire broke out in the territory of the warehouse and dry grass in the open area. The remaining hits were in the outskirts of the city. Previously without victims and victims. Also, enemy shelling was recorded on the settlements of the Nikolaevsky and Bashtansky districts.
08:00 The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled all attempts of the Russians to attack, including the Uglegorskaya TPP, in the direction of Verkhnekamensky and Seversk, the General Staff reports in the morning report .
07:47 Russians hit the Nikopol district of the Dnepropetrovsk region from the MLRS tonight, about 20 shots fell on the border areas of the Krasnogrigoryevsk community, said the head of the regional council Nikolai Lukashuk. The enemy also hit the Krivoy Rog region, Shirokovskaya and Zelenodolsk communities. The shelling in several villages damaged power lines and gas networks, and hit agricultural machinery. In both cases, there were no casualties.
07:03 Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov reported several strong explosions near the city center. One victim is known.
05:40 The head of the Kirovograd OVA Andrey Raykovich reported explosions in the region.
05:36 In Nikolaev powerful explosions have thundered about 4:30, all mainly in one area of the city, the mayor of the city Alexander Senkevich reported. According to preliminary information, there are no victims.
04:15 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that the Russians can prepare for a counterattack by Ukrainian troops in the Snegirevka-Zelenodolsk region in southern Ukraine. This is evidenced by the fact that Russian forces are mining the banks of the Ingulets in the neighboring areas of Snegirevka and Zelenodolsk.
Over the past 24 hours, the Russians launched local ground strikes near the border between Kherson and Mykolaiv regions, as well as ground strikes east of Seversk, east and south of Bakhmut, and unsuccessfully tried to advance northwest of Donetsk. At the same time, Ukrainian forces were engaged in limited positional fighting north of Kharkov.
02:12 The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said that the agreement reached in Istanbul on the export of grain by sea fully takes into account the interests of Kiev in terms of security. In a statement, the agency clarifies that the agreement was made possible thanks to the active role of the UN Secretary General and the mediation efforts of the Turkish side: "The initiative fully takes into account the security interests of the southern regions of Ukraine and guarantees the strong position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Black Sea - control over all activities in Ukrainian territorial waters will be carried out only Ukraine".
01:43 The "authorities" of the occupied Kherson region blocked Google after their "colleagues" from the "LDNR". "Deputy head of the military-civilian administration" of the Kherson region Kirill Stremousov said that the search engine is allegedly used as "an element of information terrorism."
00:17 Podolyak said in an interview with DW that now there are no grounds for resuming negotiations with Russia. He also stressed that Russians live "in a different world": "This is the illusory world of a great country. In fact, Russia is not a big, but a small, insignificant country with a small intellectual level. It has only nuclear weapons, a huge amount of conventional weapons and energy carriers... It is very difficult to negotiate with an enemy who has two convolutions for four or five representatives of the political elite... They can only speak the language of ultimatums."
Podolyak noted that the resumption of negotiations is possible with powerful tactical victories of the Ukrainian army in the southern and eastern directions.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS] The official spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, Brigadier General Abdul-Khaleq Al-Ajri, confirmed on Thursday that the security services arrested terrorist elements in the village of Khubza in the Qaifah area of Bayda province.
Those terrorist elements affiliated with the so-called “Al-Qaeda” had carried out criminal operations targeting security points belonging to the Ministry of Interior, Al-Ajri added.
According to the spokesman, al-Qaeda elements sought to exploit an armed conflict that erupted between two parties from the village of Khubza due to a land dispute and a previous revenge to attack the security sites.
On Tuesday, 12-20-1443 AH, a group of “takfiri” elements located in the Khubza area attacked at 3:00 pm the security post and point near the entrance to the Khubza area, killing a security man and injuring five others.
Brigadier General Al-Ajri affirmed that the videos and clips circulated by the supporters of the Takfiris, which they said were for the security men, are fabricated and pre-prepared, with the aim of distorting the security forces.
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[Vesti] In the Volyn, Polessky and Seversk directions, the situation has not changed significantly. The enemy shelled the village of Starikove, Sumy region. Aerial reconnaissance of the border section in the Chernihiv and Sumy regions is underway with unmanned aerial vehicles. This is stated in the operational summary of the General Staff as of 18.00 Saturday, July 23.
In the Slobozhansky direction , enemy units continue to restrain units of the defense forces from advancing deep into the temporarily occupied territory by all available means.
In the Kharkiv direction, the Russians carried out shelling from cannon and rocket artillery in the areas of the settlements of Kharkiv, Russkiye Tishki, Cherkasskiye Tishki, Bazalievka, Gusarovka, Russian Lozovaya, Udy, Malinovka and a number of others. Launched an airstrike near Verkhniy Saltov.
In the Slavic direction , the enemy fired artillery at the areas of Dibrovnoye, Bolshaya Kamyshevakhi, Novaya Dmitrovka and others. At Bogorodichny, by the forces of the reconnaissance group , he tried to find weaknesses in the defense of our troops. The enemy is disabled.
In the Donetsk direction, the RF Armed Forces continue to concentrate their main efforts on the Kramatorsk and Bakhmut directions, attempts are continuing to establish control over the territory of the Uglegorsk TPP. So, in the Kramatorsk direction , the enemy carried out shelling, in particular, in the areas of the settlements of Verkhnekamennoye, Reznikovka, Zakotnoye, Grigorovka, Vyemka and Zvanovka. Inflicted an airstrike near Spirne. By assault actions in different directions, he tried to improve the tactical situation in the Verkhnekamensky area. Ukrainian soldiers met the enemy with dagger fire and inflicted significant losses, the invaders retreated in a panic.
In the Bakhmut direction , the enemy is trying to create favorable conditions for the continuation of the offensive on Bakhmut. He fired at our troops from tanks, cannon and rocket artillery in the areas of Maisky, Semigorye, Razdolevka, Yakovlevka, Soledar, Belogorovka and other settlements. Inflicted air strikes on Pokrovsky and Novolugansky. The invaders again, already in different directions, tried to storm the territory of the Uglegorsk TPP. Again unsuccessfully and with losses. Also , enemy reconnaissance groups tried to find weaknesses in the defense of our troops in the directions of Soledar and Pokrovsky, but were discovered and neutralized.
On the Avdeevsk, Novopavlovsk and Zaporozhye directions, the RF Armed Forces systematically shelled civilian and military infrastructure in the areas of the settlements of Novobakhmutovka, Peski, Oprosna, Vodyanoye, Shevchenko, Malaya Tokmachka, Novoselka, Zelenoye Pole, Belogorye and many others. Inflicted air strikes near Krasnogorovka and Kamenka.
In the Yuzhnobugsky direction, the main efforts of the enemy are concentrated on preventing the advance of our troops. Supports high intensity reconnaissance with unmanned aerial vehicles. Mutual shelling from cannon, rocket artillery and tanks continues along the entire line of collision.
"Cases of desertion and open disobedience to command are increasingly being recorded in the units of the Russian occupation forces," the General Staff added.
[Vesti] Kharkiv direction is one of the most "hot" for today. However, according to Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the head of the OP, the Russians, although they are active there, have absolutely no success. The adviser says "it's a permanent situation" there.
"In the Kharkiv direction (the Russians) are staggering, trying to attack, somehow heroically attacking. It is clear that we are hanging on them.
"The same in the Izyum direction. A constant situation. They are constantly attacking and not moving anywhere," he said in broadcast Feigin Live.
Arestovich also commented on the situation in the Vysokopole region in the Kherson direction. Earlier, according to information that has not yet been confirmed, it was reported about a huge "cauldron" for Russians. The EA actually confirmed this message.
“There, in fact, is a repetition of Ilovaisk for Russian troops. Not two thousand, but more than a thousand for sure. They are in tactical encirclement. Yesterday there was an attempt to break through, but was suppressed by our fire,” Arestovich said. Later we will talk about the situation in more detail.
In general, "the Russian command is demoralized by what is happening in the Kherson region," Arestovich said.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Seversk.
Fighting continues in the area of Serebryanka, Verkhnekamensky and Ivano-Daryevka. The RF Armed Forces are engaged in grinding enemy positions on the heights adjacent to the city. The enemy suffers significant losses, including prisoners. The Seversk-Soledar road is regularly shelled by Russian artillery.
2. Soledar.
Fighting continues on the eastern outskirts of the city, the RF Armed Forces are advancing from Stryapovka. Fighting continues near Yakovlevka and Belogorovka. The enemy is intensively bombarding Berestovoe in order to prevent our troops from establishing full control over the village.
3. Artemovsk.
Our troops advanced in Pokrovsky. The enemy has been pushed into the northern part of the village. The capture of Pokrovsky will mean that the Klinovoye-Pokrovskoye line has been broken and Artemovsk itself is already moving on, to which 2-3 kilometers are left. Fighting also continued at the Veselaia Dolina, as well as at the Uglegorsk TPP and Semigorye. The enemy from the Artemovsk region continues to shell the territory of the LPR, including the recently liberated Lisichansk agglomeration.
4. Slavyansk.
No significant changes. Fighting continued near Sidorovo, Dolina, Bogorodichny and in the forests to the north-west of the city. The objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration are subjected to daily missile strikes, which in the event of strikes against the dispositions of enemy units leads to large one-time losses in manpower. In the Izyum direction, there are also no changes so far. The enemy is trying to probe the defense of the RF Armed Forces in the Balakleya area.
5. Kharkov.
Fighting positions continue in the area of the settlement. Udy, Tsupovka, Dementievka, Great Passages, Nursery, Upper Saltov. There are no serious advances on the front. The RF Armed Forces continue to strike at the targets of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Kharkov, Chuguev and Zolochev. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are shelling the border villages, as well as Cossack Lopan.
6. Avdievka.
No significant changes. Positional battles along the Konstantinovka-Avdeevka highway, as well as in the Avdievka industrial area. Active work of artillery on both sides + ongoing shelling of Donetsk, Yasinovataya and other settlements. The situation is identical in the region of Gorlovka and Dzerzhinsk. Static front + artillery shelling.
7. Ugledar.
Positional battles continue in the area of Pavlovka, Novomikhailovka and in Maryinka. The enemy tried to attack in the direction of Glorious. Our troops are crushing the enemy south of Velikaya Novoselovka. In general, the front here is positional in nature.
8. Zaporozhye.
On the Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole-Velikaya Novoselovka line, medium-intensity positional battles continued, as well as artillery shelling. The enemy continues to probe the possibilities of advance in the direction of Pologi and Vasilievka.
9. Nikolaev.
The enemy tried to carry out an attack in the area of Potemkino and Vysokopolye with the forces of two battalions, suffered heavy losses in killed and wounded and was forced to withdraw. Nevertheless, it is quite obvious that political circumstances will push the Armed Forces of Ukraine to be active in the Krivoy Rog and Nikopol directions, which we have been observing in recent weeks.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation stop this threat with regular strikes in the Krivoy Rog direction. Attacks on Nikolaev are also continuing, which inflict serious losses on the enemy and prevent serious activity from being launched in the direction of Kherson. It is also worth noting the creation in the Kherson region of the "Odessa brigade", which will be used to attack Nikolaev and Odessa.
10. Odessa.
In Istanbul, an agreement was reached on the export of Ukrainian grain. They will be exported through Turkey under the control of passing ships by Turkey, Russia and the UN.
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Nations now understand that It is time to stop these US puppets serving the US insanity from taking over governments. These puppets are American deep state funded terrorist, taking over national assets, defenses and public funds, allocating all of it and more towards the US agenda and against the security of the state they are seated.
[NotTheBee] ...When the deputies showed up to investigate, two of the drunken men began to yell at them and flip them the bird—the finger not the pelican.
At some point, the pelican was released, and then one of the men reportedly reached for one of the deputies' vests and was taken down and handcuffed.
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And where does one find a pelican in Idaho at that time of day?
I've seen them (the Gulf kind) in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota so it's not really a stretch for a Pacific variety making its way to Idaho by following the Columbia River.
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I'm unfamiliar with this.
I have heard of choking a chicken.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:46 Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled Donetsk with illuminating rounds, “chandeliers hang” over the city. 22:35 Ukrainian armed formations within 15 minutes attacked two districts of Donetsk and the village of Yelenovka, on July 23, the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) reports.
"Fishes (Ryby)
were fired from the side of the VFU in the following directions:
the settlement of Nevelskoye - the city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky and Kirov districts): 10 rounds of 122mm caliber were fired;
- n. p. Novomikhailovka - n. Elenovka settlement: six rounds of 122mm caliber were fired,” the report says.
22:15 The DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) stated that Ukrainian troops fired again at Yasinovataya from Gradov.
"Fire was recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine in the direction:
- the settlement of Avdievka - the settlement of Yasinovataya: 10 rockets were fired from the BM-21 Grad,” the representative office said in a statement. Telegram.
21:16 According to the operational lines of the JCCC DPR, information was received about the wounding of a civilian - a man born in 1962. as a result of shelling by VFU n.p. Spartak on the street. October.
Received additional information on damages as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
n.p. Gorlovka:
- st. Kuznetsova-Zubarev - City polyclinic;
- st. Kuznetsova-Zubarev, 16 - apartment building;
- st. Kurchenko, 4, 6 - apartment buildings;
- st. Zenitnaya, 15 - apartment building;
- he is. Vrubova, 22 — Evening School No. 1;
- Lenin Ave., 5 - Automotive College;
- st. Fizkulturnaya, 2, 4 - gas pipelines are damaged;
- st. Gorlovskaya Division - an underground high-pressure gas pipeline ø225 was damaged;
- damaged boiler rooms No. 44, No. 116;
- the palace of culture "Kochegarka" was damaged;
- the building of the Fire Station No. 21 was damaged.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
For today, as of 21:00, the enemy fired 275 rounds of various types, including MLRSBM-21 "Grad", as well as artillery ammunition with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm.
20:39 VFU attacked Horlivka
As a result of the shelling from the positions of Ukrainian militants, a number of housing constructions were damaged on Fizkulturnaya, Kurchenko, Lenin Ave (technical school), st. Gorlovskaya division (wholesale market - high-pressure gas pipeline). The blow fell on residential buildings, office buildings, educational institutions.
19:20 VFU attacked the Central City District of Horlivka.
As a result of the shelling of the city, housing construction on the square was damaged. Kirov, damage was received at home on the street. Kurchenko and st. Anti-aircraft.
19:05 Water supply has been resumed in all districts of Mariupol.
16:38 The LPR reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired four missiles from the HIMARS MLRS in a day.
During the shelling of Stakhanov, a kindergarten and an educational building were damaged.
15:28 APU by American HIMARS destroyed before the founding of the Stakhanov Polytechnic College.
15:13 Medicines and toys for children with leukemia were brought to Donetsk from the Moscow region. As part of the Good Deed campaign, 15 tons of humanitarian aid were delivered to the children's oncohematology department of the Gusak Institute of Emergency Surgery.
13:18 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement.
--Codema - n.p. Golmovsky: fired five rounds with a caliber of 122mm.
13:05 Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine on July 23:
More than 60 militants were liquidated as a result of fire damage by Russian artillery to the combat positions of the nationalist formation "Donbass" in the settlement of Verkhnekamenskoye.
More than half of the personnel of the 2nd battalion of the 14th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed by the operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the settlement of Belogorovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
During the day, 12 command posts, four warehouses with rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition in the areas of the settlements of Nikanorovka of the Donetsk People's Republic and the city of Nikolaev, as well as manpower and military equipment in 226 districts, were hit.
As part of the counterbattery fight, three platoons of Grad multiple launch rocket systems were suppressed in the areas of Adamovka, Slavyansk and Seversk, three artillery platoons of Msta-S self-propelled artillery mounts, 10 artillery platoons of Msta-B guns, 24 artillery platoons of D-howitzers 20 and 15 artillery platoons of Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mounts at firing positions in the areas of the settlements of Zvanovka, Paraskovievka, Experienced, Veseloe, Razdolovka, Bakhmutskoye, Vodyanoye, Georgievka, Chasov Yar, Serebryanka and Kamyshevakh of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Russian air defense systems destroyed 11 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Khartsyzsk and Gorlovka of the Donetsk People's Republic per day.
12:48 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage as a result of shelling of the VFU of the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk:
Kirovsky district:
- st. Slepneva, 57 - the gas pipeline is damaged;
- st. Slepneva, 62 - damaged car.
Petrovsky district:
- st. Academician Pavlova, 1 - a private residential building.
12:16 Losses among the security forces of the DPR over the past week have become the lowest since the beginning of the liberation operation.
12:15 According to the information of the DPR JCCC, the VFU from the positions in Krasnogorovka opened fire from the BM-21 Grad MLRS on residential areas of the Kirovsky district of the city.
11:25 Ukrainian artillery fired 10 rockets from the "Grad" in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk - the DPR representative office in the JCCC.
11:20 Restoration of the memorial at Saur-Mogila is in full swing. The main facilities are scheduled to be commissioned by August 31, 2022.
11:10 AFU continues to fire at the Kirovsky district of Donetsk
11:05 Artillerymen of the 1st Slavic Brigade of the People's Militia of the DPR continue to strike at the concentrations of enemy manpower and equipment identified by intelligence using 152mm Hyacinth guns.
09:45 Commissioner for Children's Rights under the President of Russia Maria Belova-Lvova and Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin agreed to create a republican database of orphans who can be adopted by Russian families.
09:31 As a result of the night shelling of the Petrovsky district, a farm building caught fire in the private sector on the street. Petrovsky, 186a.
08:56 Over the past day, from 08:00 on July 22 to 08:00 on July 23, seven civilians were injured as a result of shelling of the VFU on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic.
08:10 APU fired at Stakhanov from the HIMARS MLRS, firing one rocket at the city, the LPR representative office in the JCCC reports.
08:06 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirov and Petrovsky districts): eight rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirov district): five rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS] A total of 50 Yemeni fishermen arrived on Thursday in Al-Khoba port of Hodeidah province, after they were released from prisons of the Eritrean authorities.
Returning fishermen reported that they were kidnapped in Yemeni territorial waters by the boats of the Eritrean authorities and forcibly taken to the prisons of the State of Eritrea and detained for a period ranging from 25 to 50 days.
They added that their boats and equipment were confiscated before their arrest.
The fishermen appealed to all human rights organizations and activists to intervene urgently to stop the Eritrean authorities from attacking the Yemeni fishermen and their boats.
[FoxBusiness] The Biden administration is trying to get ahead of another potentially brutal economic report that comes out next week, which is expected to show the U.S. economy shrank again in the spring; potentially signaling a recession.
The Commerce Department is set to release the highly
anticipated second-quarter gross domestic product reading Thursday morning, which is expected to show that growth fell 1.6% in the period. Tuesday the consumer confidence report comes out; likely to be bad. Tuesday or Wednesday the Fed announces their interest rate move; likely to be 75 basis points. Thursday the 1st official GDP estimate for Q2 comes out; likely to be negative. Of course Biden's team will try to spin this as all the work of evil Republican demons but they've done this several times and its getting old
Fed policymakers approved a 75-basis point interest rate hike in June; the first since 1994h; pushing the federal funds target range to 1.5%-1.75%. Another hike of that magnitude is on the table in July amid signs of stubbornly high inflation, Chairman Jerome Powell told reporters after the meeting, prompting investors to reassess the economic outlook.
Mortgage rates are already approaching 6%, the highest since 2008, while some credit card issuers have ratcheted up their rates to 20%. March to May.
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Choke the energy market underlying your economy and you can expect 'bad luck' to continue. Self inflicted wound. That they fail to understand that or that they do and continue to pursue those policies are basis in a true representative republic for the government to be removed in any legitimate election.
#3
Biden Handlers figured out how to steal the election. At the least they could have done, would have been to people with half a brain in key positions.
Or was it their part of their overall agenda plan to hose the USA economy to begin with?
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"Consumer confidence numbers (which currently stink) hit on Tuesday. A Federal Reserve meeting and decision on interest rates, coupled with a press conference from Fed Chair Jerome Powell, follows up on Wednesday.
The first reading on second quarter economic growth drops on Thursday. And the latest numbers on our vexing run of historically high consumer price inflation close out the monster run of data on Friday. In a note to clients today, analysts at Deutsche Bank suggested the flood of information will “leave you breathless.” "
Since people can see their bank accounts on line and look at grocery and gasoline bills in real time, this spinning isn't so effective as Yellen thinks.
Btw, what a disgrace she has turned out to be. A respectable academic and scholar, now an unprincipled hack.
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[JPost] Sheikha Mai bint Mohammed Al Khalifa was dismissed by the Bahraini king after reportedly refusing to shake the hand of Israel's ambassador to Manama.
A top Bahraini official and member of the ruling family was dismissed from her position by the Bahraini king after she refused to shake hands with the Israeli ambassador to the Gulf state, Arab media outlet Rai al-Youm reported on Friday.
Sheikha Mai bint Mohammed Al Khalifa, Bahrain's Authority for Culture and Antiquities chief, reportedly refused to shake the hand of Eitan Na'eh, Israel's ambassador in Manama, during a funeral service for the father of US Ambassador Steven C. Bondy held last month.
Furthermore, Sheikha Mai left the funeral service when she was informed of Na'eh's presence and asked the US embassy to not publish any pictures of her attending the American ambassador's late father's funeral, according to the report.
The Bahraini royal family member, who has carried out official duties for more than 20 years, is a "controversial figure" in Bahrain, the report noted. She has previously served as the Bahraini information minister, the first woman to hold the office.
She also served as Bahrain's culture minister and was named the sixth most powerful Arab woman of 2014 in a list compiled by Forbes Middle East.
[IranNewsUpdate.com] On July 17, an ex-Iranian official threatened the international community with a potential nuclear bomb. In an interview with the Young Journalist Club (YJC) news agency, Mohammad Javad Larijani, a former judiciary official and a close ally to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, said, “No one can prevent us from producing a nuclear weapon if Iran concludes to produce it.”
Speculating why the U.S. had abandoned a military approach against the regime, Larijani stated, “The United States’ policies are archaic, just like Biden’s age. They are incapable against us. Europe and the U.S. back Saudi Arabia with an unlimited amount of weapons; however, they are outmoded weapons that stuck Saudi Arabia in Yemen.”
Reacting to U.S. President Joe Biden’s trip to the Middle East, Larijani said that the U.S. and Israel signed an agreement and pledged together that “We will not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons.”
Larijani claimed, “Naturally, we have been prohibited from acquiring weapons of mass destruction, including atomic ones, based on the Supreme Leader’s fatwa. However, no one can stop us if we ever decide to do so.”
Larijani’s statement comes just as another former official explicitly revealed that the regime started nuclear activities to produce atomic weapons. On April 24, Ali Motahari, the former deputy speaker of the Iranian parliament [Majlis], said, “When we started nuclear activities, our goal was to make a bomb.”
ack in February 2021, former Minister of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) Mahmoud Alavi also threatened the West with producing nuclear weapons. In an interview with the state-run TV Channel Two, he said, “In his Fatwa, the Supreme Leader announced that the production of nuclear weapons is Haram [forbidden] and contrary to Sharia, and the Islamic Republic would not pursue them.”
Alavi laid the blame for producing nuclear weapons on the West, saying, “However, if [foreigners] caught a cat in an awkward corner, it may behave unlikely to a free cat. If they pushed Iran to that path, then it is not Iran’s fault.”
On the same day, former Foreign Affairs Minister and current chief of the Supreme Council of Foreign Relations Kamal Kharrazi reiterated similar threats. His remarks came following the U.S. President’s pledge about Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. He said, “The United States is committed to ensuring that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon.”
In an interview with Aljazeera, Kharrazi stated, “We have the technical capabilities to produce a nuclear bomb; however, we have yet to have such a decision. Iran would not negotiate about its missile programs and regional policies because it is equivalent to surrender.”
In a threat to the international community, he added, “We enriched uranium from 20 percent fissile purity to 60 percent only within a few days. We can easily reach it to 90 percent alike.”
In an interview with Al-Jazeera on June 7, Mohammad Eslami, the regime’s Atomic Energy Organization (IAEO) chief, did not reject the possibility of Iran enriching uranium at a 90 percent—weapons-grade level, highlighting that, “The decision to enrich at 90 percent depends on the relevant officials.”
In a nutshell, all evidence shows that the Iranian regime began and continued the nuclear projects to acquire at least an atomic bomb. The 2015 Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), failed to stop Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. Larijani stated, “The JCPOA slowed our nuclear abilities, but it would be rebuilt soon.”
Remarkably, former IAEO chief Ali Akbar Salehi had already revealed that Tehran never obeyed by JCPOA clauses. He said, “When UN watchdog spectators told us to pour cement into the calendrias… we said: ‘Fine. We will pour.’ But we did not tell them that we had other tubes. Otherwise, they would have told us to pour cement into those tubes as well. Now we have the same tubes.”
The international community should no longer compromise on the Iranian regime’s nuclear extortion. The mullahs have deceived the world, particularly the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), for a long while. Iranian dissidents have routinely emphasized, “The Iran regime only understands the language of power and firmness.”
As the regime continues to blackmail regional and global peace and security, world powers should, once and for all, hold the regime accountable for its constant attempts to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and refrain from encouraging its aggression with further concessions.
Moderna's executives and staff are hoovering up premium real estate close to the company's headquarters in Boston and beyond
This comes on the back of the company's rapid growth during the Covid-19 pandemic which saw Moderna's employee count go from a few hundred to over 3,000 in two years
One scientist spent over $11 million on property less than 12 months after joining the company
Shares of the company are up from $28 in early 2020 to $166 at the time of writing. The stock peaked at nearly $500 in August 2021
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I'm fine with this shit - thanks for supporting my home value!
On a more serious note - I went into work in the Financial District on Wednesday (and Friday). Overall activity businesswise seems to be almost back to normal (parking garage availability & traffic levels). Unlike other cities that had mass rioting a few years ago, we only got hit with two nights of that bullshit, light damage compared to Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis and some others. It looks to me like the rebound occurred one year earlier than I expected it to. There's still a problem with empty / unrented commercial office space in a number of areas, so maybe I can't see everything just by watching.
Aren't the Democrats, Social Media, ANTI-FA & BLM by its actions, which range from, political censorship, voter fraud, fake evidence for Russia Gate, political Impeachment, staged violent riots, looting, failure to prosecute, blackmail, murder and false imprisonment,
in violation of 18 U.S. Code § 241?
....If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States......fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both...
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....Sadly, I expect that the answer will be, "It's not treason when WE do it...."
Mike
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"You thought it wasn't treason when you did it, sunshine. Times have changed.
USA 2029
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Skid, scary isn't it. And Biden was Obama's impeachment insurance.
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Obama could have never been impeached no matter what he did. You know, raycissm
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If word got out about the origins of Arab Spring especially ISIS raping their way across the Yazidis there could have been real questions. They barely got their Egypt Coup agents out and there was plenty to look bad for the cameras like the on-air rape of journalists. Libya, if Libya had actually been looked into; I think if the last 10 minutes of Sodaffy's life were broadcast I'd wager the majority of people would still be glad he is dead but have to rectify the means and responsibilities.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] Regarding strikes on the Odessa port. If you carefully study the published documents of the agreement on the export of grain, it is easy to see that:
1. There are no obligations of Russia not to strike at Odessa. There are only obligations not to attack the infrastructure necessary for the export of grain.
2. The destroyed boats in the port have nothing to do with the export of grain. These are military targets that can and should be destroyed as part of achieving the goals of the NMD, which have not disappeared anywhere.
3. This strike simply shows that the export of grain according to Istanbul-1 does not mean the cessation of hostilities and attacks on Odessa will continue.
4. How does it work? Take Hodeida in Yemen. In 2018, from June to November, as part of Operation Golden Victory, the Saudi coalition, with the support of Israel and the United States, fought intense battles against the Houthis, with missile and air strikes, with thousands of dead and hundreds of pieces of destroyed equipment (Saudi and co. raked).
All this did not interfere with the process of implementing the agreements (although they were also thwarted) on the entry of ships with food for the starving population of Yemen into the port of Hodeidah. agreements under the auspices of the UN.
So, the war is separate, the grain is separate.
The tantrums about the strikes are to try to provide cover for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Odessa with grain export agreements. The worst thing that the Russian Federation could do is to stop strikes on the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Odessa and the Odessa region because of the tantrums of Kyiv and its sponsors.
I hope the strikes continue. The best way to stop attacks on the port of Odessa is to withdraw the entire military infrastructure from there, while the city is not yet liberated.
[ColonelCassad] The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed yesterday's strike on the port of Odessa, pointing to the destruction of a Ukrainian boat with precision weapons. As yesterday I wrote https://t.me/boris_rozhin/58119, the Russian Federation has no restrictions on strikes against military facilities in Odessa and the Odessa region.
All obligations of Russia relate only and exclusively to ships and that part of the port infrastructure that is involved in the export of grain. Yesterday the United States and the UN began to understand this, so against the backdrop of ritual condemnations, publications about "Russia's technical ability to strike" began to appear. At the same time, the actual preparation for the implementation of Istanbul-1 does not stop, which was confirmed by Turkey, the UN, and Ukraine. So we can continue.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, following the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, confirmed (see briefing for July 24 https://t.me/boris_rozhin/58173 ) yesterday's strike on Odessa.
In the seaport of the city of ODESSA, on the territory of a shipyard, sea-based high-precision long-range missiles destroyed a Ukrainian warship in the dock and a warehouse of Harpoon anti-ship missiles supplied by the United States to the Kyiv regime. Also, the production facilities of the enterprise for the repair and modernization of the ship structure of the naval forces of Ukraine were put out of action.
So it is possible and necessary to hit the military facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Odessa.
...who expected that with the conclusion of Istanbul-1, Odessa would stop flying, hello.
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An exclusive report in the Financial Times on Tuesday quoted multiple sources as saying Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, will visit Taiwan in August amid her trip to Japan, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia.
If Pelosi, a fellow Democrat with US President Joe Biden, visits Taiwan, no one will believe it is because Biden "cannot control her". People are more likely to believe that her visit is part of Washington's tactic of "good cop/bad cop."
As the Speaker of the House, Pelosi is second in the US presidential line of succession according to the US Constitution. Her visit to Taiwan is not only an escalation of US support for "Taiwan independence," but a major incident. It was reported in April that Pelosi would make the visit, but the planned trip to Asia was canceled because she tested positive for COVID-19 then.
It has been proven that the US will not be reasonable on the Taiwan question, and the only way for China to respond to Washington's provocation is to use resolute countermeasures to make it clear the cost of playing the Taiwan card, which is the only language the US understands.
Although then-Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich visited Taiwan in 1997, the travel was seen more as an outward manifestation of the US domestic political bad blood, since Gingrich was a Republican, opposite of then-president Bill Clinton. Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, if takes place, however, would be a blatant challenge to China by the US as a whole.
I believe that China's countermeasures will be overwhelming, and we will not accept this crude advance of US support for "Taiwan independence," but will clearly tell the US that they are making a subversive mistake.
As a media personality who has long been watching the situation in the Taiwan Straits, I suggest that China take firm action this time to make sure that Pelosi's visit to Taiwan is scuttled, either she abandons the planned visit out of fear or that her visit becomes a risky trip, leaving both her and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authority in Taiwan, who will host her, in a state of panic and with a keen sense of loss.
When it was reported in April that Pelosi was going to visit Taiwan, I wrote an article advocating that the Chinese mainland should establish a no-fly zone over Taiwan, or the People's Liberation Army (PLA) warplanes should fly over the island. Today, I would like to reiterate the above advocacy.
I would further suggest that PLA warplanes could "escort" Pelosi's plane at an appropriate distance, enter the island at the same time as she does, skim over her landing site, and then fly over the island and return to the Chinese mainland. There would be low probability of causing a direct military confrontation by doing so, and once PLA warplanes fly in and cross the island, it would be an even more landmark precedent than Pelosi's visit to Taiwan. In that case, we would probably have to thank Pelosi instead for creating the opportunity for PLA warplanes to fly over the island, opening up a whole new space for PLA warplanes to exercise sovereignty over the Taiwan island.
The Chinese mainland must be brave enough to take this step of flying warplanes over the island, which, unlike warplanes flight around Taiwan, can truly reflect China's sovereignty over the territory, and is more substantial than any visit to Taiwan by senior foreign officials. Using Pelosi's visit to Taiwan to complete this leap is most likely to make it a peaceful transition.
Of course, in order for PLA warplanes to fly over the island of Taiwan, we must be fully prepared for military confrontation, and I believe such preparations by the PLA have been ongoing. We have no intention of seeing a war break out in the Taiwan Straits now, but we are undoubtedly the party that is least afraid of a war in the Straits breaking out right now. PLA warplanes will sooner or later fly over the island. If the Taiwan military dare to fire at PLA warplanes, the response will be a resolute action of shooting down the Taiwanese warplanes or striking its military bases. If the US and the island of Taiwan want an all-out war, then the time will come to liberate Taiwan. I advise both the US and the island not to have any illusions.
Let Pelosi and the Biden administration as well as the Taiwan authorities make their choice.
The author is a commentator with the Global Times. opinion@globaltimes.com.cn
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Taiwan has an election coming up next spring and they say anybody overseas from Taiwan that wants to vote has to be in Taiwan without any exit for six months before the election.
Lots of people from Taiwan who live in California might put voting in Taiwan's critical election over voting in California Elections this November.
One wonders if the reason Pelosi wants to go to Taiwan is to convince them to let the people from Taiwan in CA vote in the November elections before going to Taiwan for a half year.
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Do Taiwanese-Americans in California traditionally vote Democrat, 3dc? Is the Democratic Party’s hold on California so tenuous that this particular group will tilt the election?
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Visit Taiwan escorted by two fully loaded Raptors. Tell the pilots, if a PLA plane even so much as shows up on radar, lock on it briefly. Later, you can call it a reflex reaction of the pilot, 'he's been reprimanded' an' all that.
Meet the leaders, wave and smile. Come back and win your election. Two problems solved for the next four years at least.
But that advice is not fit for a Pelosi, only someone like DJT could pull it off.
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With Biden, it's more likely the plane would immediately surrender and the chinese would steal it and parade it around. Pelosi would be given back immediately cause nobody stand to be near it for more than 5 seconds.
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