Our troop from the dear old West End
Went scouting for cookies again
In its neighborly way.
Once we'd drained the Back Bay,
We laid waste to the Common.
A funny old brahmin:
"You girls need a hobby."
In the Crawford House lobby
A slovenly solon
Sure hoped those weren't stolen!
"A nickel a box. Buck for ten."
And so forth.
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Oops... no wonder we're poor.
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[Construction Index] Construction of Egypt’s US30b El-Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant, has begun with a special ceremony attended by Alexey Likhachev, Rosatom’s director general, and Mohamed Shaker, Egypt’s Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy.
Built by Russia’s Rosatom, the El-Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant, the country’s first nuclear power plant, will consist of 4 units with a generating capacity equivalent to 1200MW per unit using generation III+ VVER-1200 reactors (pressurized water reactors).
Speaking at the ceremony, which included a ceremonial first concrete pour, Alexey Likhachev said: "The construction launch at the El-Dabaa NPP Unit 1 means Egypt has joined the nuclear club. Rosatom will build cutting-edge power units of VVER-1200 design in the Arab Republic of Egypt. We have gained experience constructing and operating NPPs with such reactors both in Russia and abroad.
"The construction of the nuclear power plant will allow Egypt to reach a new level of technology, industry and education development. The plant will be the largest project of the Russian-Egyptian cooperation since the Aswan High Dam. Having its own nuclear energy industry has been a dream for the Egyptian people for more than half a century, and it is a great honour for Rosatom to make this dream come true."
Mohamed Shaker added: "The ceremony commemorating the pouring of the first concrete for unit 1 is a great delight for us. The commencement of full-scale construction of unit 1 is a historic event for Egypt. The political leadership and the Egyptian-Russian cooperation contributed to the implementation of this ambitious project despite the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, which did not have a negative impact on the project."
The El-Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant will be constructed in the city of El-Dabaa, Matrouh Governorate, on the Mediterranean coast, roughly 300 km north-west of Cairo.
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Coming soon: Attack of the Mutant Hippopotamus.
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There’s so much jealousy and racism in that comment.
Instead I congratulate the Egyptian people and the Russians for such a historical project. You sir should use you acid personality writing letters to your representative and ask them to perform in serving you, not wasting your time in this obscure blog.
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There’s so much jealousy and racism in that comment.
Have you ever been to Egypt, Wodan 1785 USA? Working, I mean, not just visiting the pyramids and taking a cruise up the Nile to Thebes.
Mr. Wife spent a year mostly in Egypt, occasionally flying home. For the first six months of that year he twiddled his thumbs waiting to start the project as soon as the ordered chemicals arrived — six months into it, after telling him every few days that the stuff would arrive momentarily, it was reluctantly revealed that actually they hadn’t placed the order yet. He then spent the next six months cleaning the desert rat mummies out of the equipment that had been sitting there waiting to be started up for five years.
He took photos of one of the supplier factories — holes in the floor of the mezzanine covered with cardboard, leaking bags of caustic chemicals carried around workers’ heads... nothing less than telling the workers that the chemicals would cause impotence got them to wear safety shoes. They pointed with pride to a gentleman curled up asleep in a corner — he had to sleep at work because he had two wives at home, who wore him out. Inshallah — no care need be taken, because bad things happen only when Allah wills it, and only because Allah wills it.
The inshallah approach does not mesh well with the precision needed to run a nuclear power plant.
None of that is racism or bigotry, just typical experiences in a Third World country. Nor would an Egyptian accept the idea of racism — as far as they’re concerned, they are white as white Americans, and their idea of what Blacks are would more than meet your definition racism.
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Focusing on one factor, sunspots, and trying to tie every storm, heat wave, etc. to that is at least as stupid and doing the same with atmospheric CO2.
Look at the charts in the post. What would the correlation be between the sunspot chart and the UAH global temp chart? Fairly obviously they don't correlate.
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FOX 5: ATLANTA - Atlanta police are investigating a drive-by shooting at a gas station on Northside Drive that sent eight people to the hospital with injuries early Sunday morning.
Two people are in critical condition, while six others are expected to be ok, after a shooting just before 1 a.m. outside the Shell gas station next to the Diamond Night Club.
"An unknown individual drove up in a vehicle and starting shooting at them," APD’s Zone 2 Commander Major Ailen Mitchell said.
Atlanta Police said six of the victims, ages 16 to 21, were women and two others, ages 18 to 21, were men.
Investigators are unclear on why the gunman fired those shots at nearly a dozen people who were in the parking lot talking at the time.
Now, shattered glass windows and concern from residents are what’s left of the scene.
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Sounds like you could make some Uber cash in Atlanta if you drive an up-armored HUMVEE.
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Diamond Club Atlanta (@DiamondClubATL) | Twitter Diamond Club Atlanta @DiamondClubATL A gentlemen's club, where you'll find Atlanta's hottest women. The others are outside waiting for customers that strikeout.
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The Republican enclave of Fayette County eventually became Jonesboro. We fled to the mountains a couple of years ago. We're finally getting used to the locals and shopping at the Dollar Store.
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#14 Besoeker - Please tell me that is a "local" in/of your new area of residence, otherwise, Sir, "I am shocked, I tell you, SHOCKED, by the genetic experiments, being conducted, in the "open", in Georgia."
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/\ Whahahahha. Fictional George, intended as humor only.
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#25 Beavis I too used to go mushroom hunting with my father as a child; It was magic. Now that I have had a 1/2 a Century to reflect upon this experience, and other simple, magical wonders of his, I remember them fondly and have gained more respect for him in that time. Beavis, you have given you children a very big gift, not many people today have the "know how" of living off the land... Bravo to you! ... my fellow Rantburger. This, your mushrooming, will resonate in their memories long after we past from this earth... I know, I have wished I could have this time with my Dad again... so peaceful. so rewarding, simply magical.
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/\ A poignant reminder many of us share George. Thanks for your comments. Never be a stranger.
#5
Xi say Kongzi say Shaolin abbot
Say, "Chang'e is rabbit of habit
Dat jump east to west,
Never stopping to rest
Until sticky paw stretch out and grab it."
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[JP] Scientists at Tel Aviv University (TAU) warn that while the CRISPR genome-editing method is very effective, it is not always safe and that sometimes, rearranging pieces of DNA compromises genomic stability, possibly triggering cancer in the long run.
CRISPR – an acronym for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats” – allows genetic material to be added, removed or altered at particular locations in the genome. Several approaches to genome editing have been developed.
The best-known technology is called CRISPR-Cas9 gene scissors (CRISPR-associated protein 9), for which the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to the American scientist Jennifer A. Doudna and French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier in recognition of their discovery. Developed about a decade ago, it has already proved impressively effective in treating a range of diseases – cancer, liver diseases, genetic syndromes and more.
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If I knew enough about genetics I would have used CRISPR, the fire fly mod pack and the MIT genetic logic pack to modify conifers to flash one month either side of the Winter Solstice .. just to avoid decorating outdoor trees.
Independent truck drivers have been blocking road access to the Port of Oakland since last week, preventing ships from unloading at the major shipping hub
Truckers have been protesting California's Assembly Bill 5, a law requiring certain industries to classify contractors as regular benefitted employees
Photos of the port showed rows of stacked shipping containers with nowhere to go and an armada of fully loaded freighters queued up, unable to unload
Truckers threaten to make strike 'indefinite'
Hundreds of International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) members declined to cross blockade
#2
Is this beginning to feel like the strikes in the UK in the early 1970s that brought down the Edward Heath government and (dare we hope?) paved the way for? Margaret Thatcher
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Union Whore Lorena Gonzalez's AB5 is to blame.
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Based on the Baby Formula crisis, Buttigieg will be all over this in October.
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I remember the Perfect Storm movie and how devastating the consequences were. It feels like this is yet another component that is bringing aspects of a New Great Depression to the US with a far greater urban/unskilled population that is far more violent and armed that the 1930's.
The high cost/low net profit of inner-city retail will lead to large scale closures of many supermarkets if this continues, as will the insane energy starvation the Puppet Show zealots are driving in the most energy rich nation on earth.
IF food deserts form in the deeply feral-youth infested blue cities it will produce very nasty predation in our suburbs I fear, tragically but predictably visible as apparent racial conflict.
Exactly the kind of manufactured predicate to garner support from the woke left for tyrannical responses by the federal government.
This feels almost like a tabletop exercise held somewhere near Smoke Bomb Hill, but with real enactors, in real time. Why is that?
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Not a lot about the strike in the mainstream media. For example, searching CNN for "oakland truckers strike" returns zip. OK, not exactly zip, but the 2 results are Day 3 of the Republican National Convention in 2020 and an article on the Occupy movement from 2011.
As Frank said, this is all about AB5 that essentially bans independent contractors.
[ET] Even if you’re not yet familiar with the term ESG rating, it’s shaping your world. ESG, or environmental, social, and governance, is a three-prong set of criteria used by the investment community to score how devoted companies are to pursuing ESG goals.
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Money spent on ESG isn’t available to invest in profitability. Best use of ESG ratings is as an inverse measure of how well a firm will do financially and invest accordingly
#5
To the extent that I pay any attention to ESG ratings - which isn't much -- I see them as a measure of how likely it is that a Democratic administration will screw with this company's revenue stream. So a company with a "bad" environmental rating has a risk of the EPA's thumb in the pie that a company with a "good" environmental rating doesn't. One problem though, is that the ratings are inherently biased against companies that actually make stuff. Alcoa, for example, is never going to have an environmental rating as good as the spreadsheet psychopaths over at Blackrock.
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Follow twitter link to the end of the thread. The following is cut and paste from twitter
A huge hardware procurement planning by Poland.
Putin's Russia trying to avoid NATO on its border, but as aftermath he will have second army of NATO on its border.
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Ok, an update, because this is huge! Informations I will provide below, is from Armaments Agency spokesman Col. Krzysztof Płatek. Polish MoD plans:
MBT's:
- 116 M1A1SA to be upgraded to M1A2SEPv3.
- 250 new built M1A2SEPv3.
- 180 K2 to be upgraded to K2PL.
- 820 K2PL produced in RoK and Poland.
- K3PL a future MBT developed in cooperation between Poland and Republic of Korea.
- T-72's, PT-91's and Leopard 2's will be completely withdrawn from service.
IFV's:
- 1000-1400 Borsuk IFV.
- Heavy IFV based on AS21 Redback, total numbers to be procured unknown at this moment.
155mm SPH's:
- 144 AHS Krab.
- 48 K9A1 to be upgraded in future to K9PL.
- 642 K9PL based on K9A2.
- Codevelopment between Poland and Republic of Korea for next generation 155mm SPH
MLRS:
- Polish MoD is interested in K239 Chunmoo to supplement procurement of M142 HIMARS and WR-40 Langusta.
Multirole fighter jets:
- Procurement of 48 F/A-50/F/A-50PL to supplement:
- 32 F-35A.
- 48 F-16C/D Block 52+.
Polish MoD is also interested in KF-21 fighter jet.
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...Keep that armor in mind. The men in those tanks are the spiritual heirs of the men who charged Nazi machine guns while on horseback, carrying lances.
I sincerely doubt the Russians are smart enough to remember that.
Mike
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Equipment ETA isn’t going to be in the next six months
#4
memories of the unending agony and devastation of the German and Russian collars for much of the twentieth century are far fresher there. Like the Israeli's, this reflects a never again attitude and the increasing awareness of the decline of US power to defend Europe or defeat China I fear. The question is, did they wake up in time.
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Putin's Russia trying to avoid NATO on its border
Not exactly. The goal is a defensible position against NATO forces on its border. Ukraine is big and flat. From the Russian point of view, the defensible areas are along the Dnipro River in the east or the narrow portion of the Ukr/Polish border over in the west.
[Aljazeera] Drug addiction has long been a problem in Afghanistan, the world’s biggest producer of opium and heroin and now a chief source of methamphetamine.
Drug use has been driven by persistent poverty and decades of war that left few families unscarred.
It appears to be getting worse since the country’s economy collapsed following the seizure of power by the Taliban in August 2021 and the subsequent halt of international financing.
Families once able to get by found their sources of income cut off, leaving many barely able to afford food. Millions have joined the ranks of the impoverished.
Drug users can be found around the capital, Kabul, living in parks and sewage drains, under bridges and on open hillsides.
A 2015 survey by the United Nations estimated that up to 2.3 million people had used drugs that year, which would have amounted to about 5 percent of the population at the time.
Seven years later, the number is not known, but it is believed to have only increased, according to Dr Zalmel, the head of the Drug Demand Reduction Department, who like many Afghans, uses only one name.
The Taliban has launched an aggressive campaign to eradicate poppy cultivation. At the same time, they inherited the deposed, internationally-backed government’s policy of forcing drug users into camps.
Earlier this summer, Taliban fighters stormed two areas frequented by drug users, one on the hillside and another under a bridge.
They collected about 1,500 people, officials said. They were taken to the Avicenna Medical Hospital for Drug Treatment, a former United States military base. It is the largest of several treatment camps around Kabul.
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fighters stormed two areas frequented by drug users, one on the hillside and another under a bridge.
We were once adrenaline junkies.
Man meat eating Mohammed monkeys.
But there's no fight anymore!
Even the 'occupiers' of yore
have left with all their flunkies.
And now we just police...
[gives kick in druggies ass]
this here land o' lunkeys!
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They thought it was OK with Allan if they grew opium for export to the infidels but somehow acquired a taste for it themselves. Kinda like the kid who gets burned playing with matches. Too bad.
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Living in Afghanistan at any time would be enough to turn too drugs.
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^ Exactly. You can almost taste the despair. And under a regime like talibaners, it is worse. Women sometimes kills their newborns out of mercy.
[Washington Examiner] Elon Musk denied a report on Sunday that he had an affair with Nicole Shanahan, the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brinn.
The billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX called the Wall Street Journel report "total bs," and he called on the newspaper to run stories that "actually matter." The report is the latest in a string of scandals that have plagued Musk since he announced his intention to purchase the social media platform Twitter, a deal he is in the process of backing out of.
"This is total bs. Sergey and I are friends and were at a party together last night! I’ve only seen Nicole twice in three years, both times with many other people around. Nothing romantic," Musk said in a tweet published on Sunday.
[IsraelTimes] Regime-affiliated outlet claims Mossad-directed network was busted hours before detonating the explosives; accusation comes as IRGC rocket scientist is reportedly ’martyred’
An alleged Israeli spy network was caught by Iranian authorities while laying explosives at a "very sensitive" site in the Isfahan Province, hours before planning to detonate them, an Iranian regime-affiliated outlet claimed Sunday.
The claim came a day after the Islamic Theocratic Republic claimed to have stopped the Israeli spy network, arresting agents who had tried to carry 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."
Nour News, a website linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, published new details Sunday, claiming that the cell entered Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... months ago from Iraqi Kurdistan, after being trained in Africa under the guidance of the Israeli Mossad spy agency.
According to the report, the members of the network were arrested as "high-kabooms were planted" at the targeted site, only a few hours before the "final stage of their terrorist operation."
The report said the location was a "very sensitive" site in Isfahan Province. Some Israeli outlets noted that the province is home to the Natanz nuclear plant, which has been targeted in attacks blamed by Tehran on Israel.
Nour News said more details about the network and the arrests would be published soon.
Tehran hasn’t said how many suspects were arrested or given their nationalities, nor has it identified the targets of the purported plots. Like Servpro: "Like it never happened" Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Standing Buffalo watched the circling Commanches and asked himself What would Geronimo do?... unconfirmed reports were circulating in Iranian social media of the death of a Revolutionary Guards rocket scientist, the latest in a string of mysterious deaths of officials taking part in Iran’s nuclear and missile programs.
According to Israeli media, posters in memory of Said Thamardar Mutlak were published primarily in pages affiliated with Iran’s opposition. Some reports called him a "martyr," and some said he had been assassinated, likely by "external elements."
Some reports even claimed Iranian authorities had threatened the scientist’s parents not to publicize his death.
[IsraelTimes] Soldier fires warning shot into air as suspect approaches him with knife at Tapuah Junction; no injuries reported
A Paleostinian man suspected of planning to stab Israelis at the Tapuah Junction in the West Bank was arrested Sunday night, the military said.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, the alleged assailant, armed with a knife, approached a soldier who was "conducting routine security activity" in the area.
The soldier fired warning shots into the air, and the suspect was arrested, the IDF said.
The Paleostinian man was taken for further questioning by the Shin Bet security agency.
Nobody was hurt in the incident.
The suspected attempted attack came as tensions remain high in the West Bank, after Israeli security forces stepped up operations following a deadly wave of terror attacks against Israelis earlier this year that left 19 people dead.
At least two Paleostinian button men were killed in an Israeli military raid early Sunday morning in the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Another four suspects were arrested elsewhere in the West Bank overnight, the IDF said.
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He was walking up to the soldier with the knife out while far enough away the soldier fired warning shots? This Palestinian didn't really want to kill anyone.
As for the suicide thing, there is some value in that, too. "Look how awful the Juice are, shooting an innocent un-armed with only a knife Palestinian!" You know it will make the evening news.
[Rudaw] An alleged Ottoman Turkish shelling in Hasaka province on Sunday killed a member of the Syrian government forces and injured several others, local media reported following renewed calls from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... to launch an offensive on northern Syria.
The suspected Ottoman Turkish bombardment targeted the center of Zirgan district in Hasaka, killing a Syrian army soldier and injuring four others, including two children aged five and seven, according to Hawar News Agency (ANHA).
The attack comes following renewed calls by 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... to launch an operation in northern Syria aimed at expelling Kurdish fighters of the People's Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara considers to be the Syrian offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Another suspected Ottoman Turkish bombardment in the Sherawa sub-district of Afrin on Sunday injured two Syrian army soldiers, ANHA reported.
On Friday, an alleged Ottoman Turkish drone killed three unidentified people near a residential area in Hasaka province, with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) noting that the drone attack was the fourth in the region in two days.
Ankara has carried out two major military operations against Kurdish forces in Syria since 2018, and Erdogan in recent months has threatened to carry out a new offensive in Manbij and Tal Rifaat in Syria's north. Kurdish forces said that they have taken the threats seriously and begun making preparations.
Turkey said on Thursday that its cross-border operations southward into Syria will continue.
A recent trilateral summit in Tehran did not give Erdogan the green light to carry out its offensive, with Iranian Lord High Potentate and Supreme Leader of All He Surveys Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... calling Ankara's planned offensive "detrimental" to both Syria and Turkey and saying it "will not achieve the expected political results from the Syrian government."
French President Emmanuel Macron also opposed a potential northern Syria offensive by Turkey and supported Iran's stance against the attack in a Saturday phone call with his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi, Iranian state media reported.
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[Rudaw] Five non-combatants were killed and three others maimed in an attack by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) murderous Moslems in Iraq's Diyala province on Thursday after being ambushed.
The victims were all from the same family and were ambushed by a group of six ISIS murderous Moslems after returning from a swim in Lake Hamrin, who stopped their vehicle just outside of Mansuriyah town and opened fire.
"This incident is a terrorist attack. Two of my brothers and our uncle along with their children, one of them was five years old and the other seven years old, were killed," Izzadin Ahmed, the brother of the dear departed told Rudaw's Hunar Hamid.
ISIS grabbed credit for the attack shortly after.
The jihadist group seized control of swathes of Iraqi land in 2014 but was declared territorially defeated in 2017. However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... the group continues to carry out bombings, hit-and-run attacks, and abductions across several provinces.
The recent incident after the Iraqi army and Peshmerga forces launched a new joint operation to eliminate ISIS sleeper cells in Makhmour's Mount Qarachogh, an area infamous for ISIS activity.
In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted three attacks in Iraq from July 14 to July 20, killing and injuring 13 people.
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[Rudaw] The general commander of the Kurdish led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said that they would avenge an SDF commander and two other fighters, who were killed in a dronezap outside Qamishli on Friday.
Media outlets affiliated with the SDF on Friday reported a drone attack on a vehicle near a residential area on Qamishli-Tirbespi (al-Qahtaniyah) road, saying that three people were killed in the attack without identifying them.
The SDF on Saturday confirmed the identities of the dear departed as the commander of the SDF’s counter terrorism unit Salwa Yusef, Joanna Hasso, and Ruha Bashar.
The SDF said that the three were killed by a Ottoman Turkishdronezap while they were on duty.
SDF General Commander Mazloum Abdi on Sunday offered his condolences to the families of the three, vowing Dire Revenge.
"The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... 's targeting [of] them undermines [the] war against ISIS [Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ]," Abdi said, calling on partners to make "greater efforts to stop violations."
"We will avenge," he added.
The US Central Command also offered its condolences on Sunday.
Turkey often targets the US-allied SDF and its backbone, the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria on the grounds that they have links with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and pose a threat to Ottoman Turkish bordering areas.
The Ottoman Turkish defense ministry said on Sunday that they had "neutralized" PKK/YPG members who were preparing for an attack on Aleppo.
The PKK is an gang fighting for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey. Ankara considers the group and its alleged offshoots in Syria as terrorist organizations.
Ankara has carried out two major military operations against Kurdish forces in Syria since 2018 and has in recent months renewed threats to carry out a new offensive against them in Syria's northern towns of Manbij and Tal Rifaat. Kurdish forces have said that they have taken the threats seriously and begun making preparations.
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[Rudaw] King Abdullah II protested in an interview published Sunday over attacks on Jordan's borders by "militias linked to Iran", following deadly festivities with drug smugglers on the frontier with Syria.
Jordan faces "regular attacks on its borders by militias linked to Iran", he told al-Rai newspaper.
Abdullah called for "a change of behaviour by Iran" and said that Jordan "does not want tensions in the region".
"Jordan, like the rest of the Arab countries, seeks good relations with Iran, with mutual respect, good neighbourliness, respect for the illusory sovereignty of other states and non-interference in their affairs," the king said.
Abdullah said that Jordan, like other Arab nations, was being targeted by smugglers of drugs and arms that he said were in transit to Europe.
"Jordan is coordinating with its brothers (Arab countries) to confront this and protect its borders," he said.
The Jordanian army conducts regular anti-smuggling operations on the border with Syria, where Iran-backed fighters support the Damascus regime in a civil war that erupted in 2011.
On January 27, Amman said its forces killed 27 narcos supported by gangs, seizing a large quantity of drugs. An officer and a border guard were killed in a similar clash earlier the same month.
According to organizations which monitor drug trafficking, the increasingly popular amphetamine-style stimulant captagon is produced in government-controlled areas of Syria and marketed almost exclusively in the Middle East.
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Seigniorage. I am referring to the costs to move all of those US Trade Deficit dollars out of the US and buy things elsewhere in other nation's currencies...
#7
So lets put the spy stuff aside. Farmland is a great Invesment. China is almost bankrupt, living on debt. Their economy is in the toilette. Buying US property is good for them, but short sighted. Japan did the same thing before their economic collapse. They bought high rise buildings, then had to sell them because they bought them with debt. China is making the same mistake, as they collapse their farmlad will get sold...
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^ We have a winner!
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/\ Corns, bean, rainfall, or lack thereof are the spit'n whittle club's topics. I'd rather talk about Chinese espionage, but that's just me.
[Garowe] Æthiopia's security and intelligence joint task force said it has apprehended 454 suspects who were allegedly plotting foiled terror attacks in recent days in Addis Ababa, the capital of Æthiopia.
The joint task force, in a statement released Saturday to Æthiopian state media outlets, said it was able to avert major security threats, including planned terrorist attacks in Addis Ababa as a result of coordinated operations that were carried out in recent days.
The joint security and intelligence task force brings together the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS), Æthiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF), the Federal Police Commission, and Information Network Security Administration (INSA).
The detained suspects were said to be affiliated with krazed killer groups of al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) as well as other local gangs that were designated as terrorist organizations by the Æthiopian House of People's Representatives.
Earlier in July, Æthiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed told members of the Æthiopian parliament that dozens of terror suspects had been arrested in recent weeks in the outskirts of Addis Ababa.
The joint task force, commending the public for its valuable role in apprehending the terror suspects, further called on the public to cooperate with security forces to safeguard the city's peace and security.
[AlAhram] Two people were killed and 12 injured Sunday by bombardment of a church as it was being inaugurated in Syria's central province of Hama, the official SANA news agency reported.
"A rocket fired by terrorist organizations targeted a religious gathering in the town of al-Suqaylabiyah near Hama, killing two people and wounding 12," it said.
SANA said the attack came during a ceremony to inaugurate the Ayia Sofia church.
Britannia-based war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a vast network of sources on the ground, confirmed the attack.
Giving a toll of one civilian killed and several maimed, the Observatory said shelling or a drone attack by nearby rebel groups could be to blame.
Sunday's attack came two days after bombardment killed seven people including four children in the rebel-held Idlib region. The Observatory said Friday's fatalities in the Jisr al-Shughur countryside of northern Syria were caused by Russian air strikes.
Around half of Idlib province as well as parts of Aleppo, Hama and Latakia provinces are controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... , the former franchise in Syria of al-Qaeda.
Other rebel groups in the last pocket of armed opposition to the Damascus regime also remain active, with varying degrees of Ottoman Turkish backing.
In March 2020, Russia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... brokered a truce in Idlib and neighbouring areas that still holds, despite sporadic attacks from both sides, including Russian air strikes.
If sporadic is defined as daily, that statement is true.
Syria's war began in 2011 and has killed nearly half a million people and forced around half of the country's pre-war population from their homes.
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[Korrespondent] 21:55 Zelensky announced an important week in an evening video message: "For the first time we will celebrate the Day of Ukrainian Statehood on July 28. During such a brutal war, in its sixth month. After eight years of war in the Donbas... This week there will be important visits from our partners, there will be important negotiations, and most importantly, there will be further advancement of Ukrainian positions, at the front, in diplomacy and in the economy."
21:16 Scholz admitted that Germany's previous policy towards the Russian Federation was erroneous: "We, the new German government, decided in advance to get rid of energy dependence on Russia as quickly as possible. Back in December last year, that is, in two months before the start of the war, we worked out the issue of energy supply for our country under the most unfavorable scenario of events. When Putin started his war in February, we were already capable of action."
According to the chancellor, Germany will not deviate from the path of completely abandoning Russian oil and gas. Already, gas consumption has been reduced from 50% to 30%, and by December 2022, the country will completely abandon Russian oil. Berlin also revised its attitude towards defense: the Bundeswehr has already been urgently allocated 100 billion euros. Germany will actively and directly use its troops to reinforce NATO's eastern flank.
20:32 Violators of the curfew are taken "on a pencil" - military commissars will first of all look at them if necessary, call them up to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, First Deputy Interior Minister Yevgeny Yenin said in an interview with Telegraph. According to him, a significant part of Ukrainians voluntarily went to the front on their own initiative, although they could have avoided this, since they were not in the first line of mobilization. And it is unfair that others allow themselves to party and relax on the beaches.
"We are actively helping the recruitment centers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to replenish the reserve. Therefore, we have established very close cooperation in many areas. We take curfew violators on a pencil. This does not mean that they will be drafted into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine tomorrow. But when the question arises about In this case, it is precisely this category of people that the military commissars will look at in the first place," Yenin explained.
19:29 The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled the attacks of the Russians in the Luhansk region - the invaders still cannot take Belogorovka and Verkhnekamenskoye. In the Bakhmut area, Russian troops are rebuffed, fighting continues. In the Kherson region, the enemy suffered losses in two directions and chaotically retreated, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the evening report .
19:14 In the occupied city of Bryanka, Luhansk region, several hundred Russian contract soldiers are kept in basements who refused to continue fighting with Ukraine, writes The Insider with reference to their relatives. They are kept in terrible conditions and beaten, forcing them to return to the front. The military command of the Russian Federation declares that it has nothing to do with the detention. Relatives are told that contract soldiers are being held by "Luhansk military", although, according to relatives, the Wagner PMC is guarding the refuseniks.
19:01 The turning point at the front in the Kherson region has already arrived, adviser to the head of the Kherson OVA Serhiy Khlan believes: "We can say that by September the Kherson region will definitely be liberated, and all the plans of the occupiers will fail." He added that the strikes on the Antonovsky and Darevsky bridges, as well as on warehouses, command posts, are the results of preparatory work, and now the question is more powerful and accurate artillery strikes on the front line and cleaning up the Russians in their positions.
18:32 Lavrov said that Russia would "help the Ukrainian people" get rid of the absolutely "anti-people and anti-historical regime": "We pity Ukrainian history, which is crumbling before our eyes, and we pity those who succumbed to the state propaganda of the Kiev regime." Lavrov stressed that the Russian and Ukrainian peoples "will continue to live together."
17:48 Rocket and artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed an enemy battery of the S-300 air defense system in the Zelenotropinsky district of the Kherson region, the Pivden operational command reported. Several transport infrastructure facilities in the temporarily occupied territory were taken under fire control, which significantly limits the maneuverability and logistics of the occupying troops.
16:59 In Poland, they raised money for Bayraktar for Ukraine. As part of the Buy Bayraktar campaign for Ukraine , more than 200,000 people collected PLN 22.7 million, that is, about $4.7 million. The fundraiser will continue for another four days, and the excess will also be sent to Ukraine.
15:56 Ukraine could export 60 million tons of grain over the next 8-9 months if the ports are not blocked, but Russia's strike on Odessa showed that it would not be so easy, Zelensky's economic adviser Oleg Ustenko said in an interview with Reuters. According to him, Ukraine can earn $10 billion by selling 20 million tons of grain in silos and 40 million tons of new crop.
The entire harvest is 60 million tons, of which 20 million are for domestic consumption. "But taking into account what Russia is doing in the Black Sea, and yesterday's shelling of the port of Odessa, it shows that this will definitely not work," Ustenko said.
15:09 Lavrov said that the Russian Federation "has no prejudice" against resuming negotiations with Ukraine on a wider range of issues, "but the choice is up to Kiev."
14:57 Poland wants to create the largest ground forces in the European Union, Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said in an interview with Sieci: "Among European NATO countries, we will have the strongest ground forces. We are on the front line, we have a border with Russia and in the north, and in fact, militarily, on the part of Belarus."
14:48 Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov urged city residents in connection with the increased shelling of civilian infrastructure to avoid morning trips by land transport: "Use the subway more often - today it is the safest way to travel."
14:07 The United States is seriously considering declaring Russia a state sponsor of terrorism, US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink said in an interview with Radio Liberty: "We are using all available means, including many of those that would be applied to a state sponsor. But we are also We are seriously considering such an announcement and we will continue to hold Russia accountable."
13:35 There are more than 50 thousand women in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, of which 38 thousand are directly female military personnel, plus civilians working there. About 5,000 are on the front lines, said Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar. According to her, there are tankers, gunners and even a deep-sea military diving instructor among them. Malyar stressed that Ukraine has one of the highest numbers of women in the armed forces among NATO countries.
13:22 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that "aircraft were hit by a high-precision weapon strike" at the Kanatov military airfield in the Kirovograd region. And in Nikolaev, "high-precision weapons" allegedly struck "military warehouses on the territory of a diesel locomotive repair plant."
13:14 The Administration of the Sea Ports of Ukraine announced the start of the formation of grain caravans in three Ukrainian ports: "In connection with the signing of the Initiative for the export of grain and related food products by sea on July 22, 2022, the ports of Odessa, Chornomorsk and Yuzhny are being prepared for the resumption of work. .. Entry and exit of vessels to the indicated seaports will be carried out by forming a caravan, which will be accompanied by a leading vessel."
12:39 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that in the seaport of Odessa, on the territory of a ship repair plant, "a Ukrainian warship that was in the dock was destroyed by sea-based high-precision long-range missiles." Also, allegedly, "a warehouse of Harpoon anti-ship missiles supplied by the United States was destroyed, and the production facilities of an enterprise for the repair of Ukrainian warships were disabled."
11:21 Residents of the Kherson region report that the Russians launched a missile attack on the Adzhigol lighthouse, writes an adviser to the head of the Kherson OVA Sergey Khlan. According to him, three rockets were launched into the lighthouse.
11:10 Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed the Russian attack on the port of Odessa. Zakharova said that "Kalibr missiles destroyed the military infrastructure of the Odessa port, sending a Ukrainian military boat to the address beloved by the Kyiv regime with a high-precision strike."
10:56 The "authorities" of the occupied Kherson region said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine again fired on the area of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, there is damage to the bridge, the power plant itself was not damaged. According to the invaders, the shelling was carried out from HIMARS.
10:41 Explosions were heard in Melitopol and near the city at night, smoke was visible at the Melitopol airfield, which the invaders are unsuccessfully trying to restore after the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the mayor of the city Ivan Fedorov said. Explosions were also heard in an easterly direction from the city - near the village of Konstantinovka. The railway infrastructure in the Melitopol region, which was used by the occupiers to transport military equipment and personnel in the directions of Vasilyevka and Tokmak, was damaged - this will significantly complicate the logistics of the enemy.
10:33 Over the Khmelnitsky region, air defense shot down three Caliber cruise missiles fired from the Black Sea, Zakhid air command reports.
10:28 In the morning Russians again fired at Nikolaev: according to preliminary information, there is a hit in a warehouse, data on victims are specified, the head of OVA Vitaly Kim reported.
As a result of the shelling of residential areas in the Ship district of Nikolaev on Saturday evening, five people were injured, including a teenager. Four cruise missiles of the Caliber type were fired at the city. An educational institution was completely destroyed, private and multi-storey buildings, outbuildings, cars, and a garage were damaged.
In the area the Nikolaev area was fired, in the village of Shevchenkovo two people were lost. In the Bashtansky district, six hits were recorded on the house of culture in the village of Shirokoye.
10:12 The head of the Nikopol RVA, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, is offering local residents a $100 reward for detaining suspicious individuals who "work for the occupiers." In order to get money, local residents are offered to conduct a civil detention of a suspicious person, call the police and hand over the detainee to her. Also, law enforcement officers need to transfer information about such persons (or write to Yevtushenko on Facebook).
09:46 The head of the Khmelnytsky OVA, Serhiy Gamaly, said that air defense had worked in the region.
09:31 British intelligence reports that in the Donbass, Russian offensive operations are still focused on the Bakhmut direction, but progress in them is minimal.
As for Lavrov's statement that the territorial goals of the "special operation" will be expanded due to the supply of longer-range weapons to Ukraine, according to London, there was no expansion, since further occupation was the original goal of the invasion. Now the occupying "authorities" are publicly discussing the holding of "referendums", and Lavrov, apparently, made a statement to pave the way for them to be held outside the "LDNR", analysts say.
09:12 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of July 24. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Kramatorsk direction.
personnel - about 39,520 (+280) people liquidated,
tanks - 1722 (+14),
armored combat vehicles - 3942 (+13),
artillery systems - 869 (+5),
MLRS - 255 (+2),
air defense systems - 113 (+0),
aircraft - 221 (+0),
helicopters - 188 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 714 (+0),
cruise missiles - 170 (+3),
ships/boats - 15 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2823 (+3),
special equipment - 73 (+1).
08:26 In the Lugansk region during the day on July 23, the occupiers launched four missile and one air strike, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. He also said that near Lisichansk, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the OMON from Sakhalin, and the barracks with the military were destroyed in Kadievka. At least 12 enemy special forces were destroyed, many were wounded. The Ukrainian Defense Forces inflict losses on the enemy in all directions where active hostilities are taking place.
08:19 In the controlled territory of Donetsk region as a result of Russian shelling over the past day, two people were killed - in Avdeevka and Toretsk. Two more people were injured, according to the OVA.
07:31 The Russians are trying to attack Bakhmut and seize the territory of the Uglegorsk thermal power plant, but they are not successful, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning summary. Rocket-artillery and aviation subunits in certain directions continue to hit enemy strongholds, concentration places and warehouses.
07:16 "Ministry of Internal Affairs" under the occupation authorities in Melitopol was headed by specialists from the Russian Federation, said a representative of the "administration" Vladimir Rogov. According to him, they "were sent for both the police and the traffic police."
Rogov also said that the permanent deployment of the Russian army in the Zaporozhye region "would become a guarantor of the region's security against attempts of external aggression."
06:43 Finnish customs sold 46.5 million euro worth of bitcoins confiscated during investigations of crimes related to drugs and doping. Customs representatives said that the proceeds from the sale of cryptocurrency will be transferred to Ukraine - this has already been approved in the country's parliament, writes Decrypt.
04:44 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) notes that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are likely to be preparing or launched a counteroffensive in the Kherson region as of July 23, but information on the course and pace of the counteroffensive in the public domain will be limited and will lag behind events. Experts note that the territory between the front line and Kherson is rural, there are small settlements that can pass under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine or the Russians without reports about it.
04:29 Blinken on Russia's attack on Odessa seaport: "The United States strongly condemns today's Russian attack on the port of Odessa. It undermines efforts to bring food to the hungry and credibility of Russia's commitments to yesterday's agreement allowing Ukrainian exports."
04:17 More than five powerful explosions have thundered in Nikolaev, the mayor Alexander Senkevich reported.
02:53 For every Russian strike, Britain will respond with increased assistance to Ukraine, Liz Truss said during the Second International Summit of First Ladies and Gentlemen: "We will provide assistance so that Ukraine becomes more powerful, more successful after this war, because it will rise as a symbol democracy."
00:41 Four Western generals will help the Ukrainian territorial defense. The World Congress of Ukrainians presented four retired generals who formed the Strategic Advisory Council, which is designed to help in the framework of the Unite With Ukraine project. The Council set a goal to provide 100,000 Troopers with first-priority means of protection. The Unite With Ukraine platform raises funds around the world to purchase equipment.
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A dirty little war remotely manipulated by the west. Recession, food crisis, energy crisis, next Taiwan bluff with China to be called. Someone has to try a little rationality.
BMW owners have had a well earned rep for many years now.
What if the Congress applied its Gun Control logic to BMW owner's. Like requiring limits on horse power and Red Flag checks for Ownership or continued use?
[NPASYRIA] Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS, former al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front) leaders’ statements regarding forming military groups to deploy them on the front lines with Syrian government forces in northwest Syria come in tandem with their announcement of preparation to launch a military operation against the government forces.
The HTS controls most of Idlib and parts of Hama, Aleppo and Latakia countryside, after expelling other armed opposition factions three years ago.
Foe months, Syria’s northwest has been witnessing a military escalation and mutual shelling between the HTS and the government forces despite the fact that these areas are subject to the de-escalation zone agreement signed between Russia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... in March 2020.
In March 2020, Russia and Turkey reached an agreement in Moscow that stipulated a ceasefire, the establishment of a safe corridor, and the conduct of joint patrols on the M4/Aleppo-Latakia Highway.
Ottoman Turkish-backed armed opposition factions, also known as Syrian National Army (SNA), and Ottoman Turkish forces escalated their shelling on the military posts of the government forces in the countryside of Hama, Aleppo, Latakia, and Idlib.
The escalation came after Russian warplanes targeted the houses of residents on the outskirts of the villages of al-Jadida, north of the city of Jisr al-Shughur, which caused the killing of seven civilians, including children.
Media outlets quoted a leader in HTS, on Saturday, saying that the HTS is ready to receive people to form Inghimasis Brigade.
Abu Bakr al-Homsi, a leader of the HTS, said that this move "will include all military formations" adding that the new formation which was launched at the beginning of this year, is named Khalid Ibn al-Walid Brigade.
"The brigade will be deployed on most defense and attack posts in the front lines," he told al-Modon website.
Early in July, an SNA source uncovered its preparation to launch a military operation against the government forces in Idlib and Aleppo countryside.
A military source of the SNA told North Press that al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room, which consists of several armed factions on top of them is the HTS, Army of Glory, and the National Front for Liberation, are preparing their bully boyz to launch a new military operation against the government forces.
The operation is expected to start from the western countryside of Aleppo, from Miznaz town in the south to Sheikh Aqil Mountain in the north. This area is being deployed by the bully boyz of Iranian-backed militias. The operation will also include areas in the south and east of Idlib, according to the source.
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[AlAhram] 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... on Sunday criticized Greece for allegedly violating a settlement that has governed relations between the rivals for nearly a century.
In a statement released on the 99th anniversary of the Lausanne Treaty, Erdogan accused Athens of undermining the rights of the Moslem minority in Greece's Thrace region.
Moslems in Thrace make up about 32% of the province's population and consist of ethnic Turks, Roma and Bulgarian-speaking Pomaks.
``The conditions registered in the treaty, especially the rights of the Ottoman Turkish minority, have been ignored or deliberately eroded,'' the nationalist leader said. ``It is not possible for our country to accept this situation, which is incompatible with good neighborly relations and loyalty to the treaty.''
The 1923 treaty was signed by the new Republic of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... to settle disputes with the Allies, including Greece, following World War I and the Ottoman Turkish War of Independence.
It outlined the rights of the remaining Moslem minority in Greece and Christians in Turkey after a bitter conflict between the countries, which was followed by a population exchange. It also set out conditions for Greek rule of the Aegean islands that lie off Turkey's coast.
Ankara has recently complained that Greece has violated the treaty by militarizing the islands. Athens says it is acting according to international law and is defending its territory in the face of constant Ottoman Turkish hostility.
On Friday, the Ottoman Turkish Foreign Ministry condemned the closure of four Moslem minority schools in Thrace, saying it demonstrated ``discriminatory and oppressive policies'' by the Greek government.
The Greek Foreign Ministry rejected the ``unsubstantiated'' allegations, saying the schools were suspended because student numbers fell below minimum requirements.
NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... members Greece and Turkey have been at loggerheads for decades over a series of issues, including disputes over undersea exploration rights in the eastern Mediterranean and the illusory sovereignty of uninhabited Aegean islets. The two neighbors have come to the brink of war three times in the past half century.
Erdogan last month broke off high-level talks with Athens.
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[MIDDLEEASTEYE.NET] As Iranian film director Morteza Fatemi fled robbers last month, one of his assailants cried out a chilling warning: "Wherever you go, I will find you."
Fatemi was attacked by men with machetes near the Mellat cinema in an affluent part of northern Tehran. It is just one example of a crime wave sweeping a suffering Iran.
As the sanctions-hit country gets poorer, its people are becoming ever more desperate in their efforts to make ends meet.
Iranians have been placed under great stress caused by United States sanctions and internal mismanagement.
Rouzbeh Kordouni, the head of Iran's Social Security Research Institute, announced in May that 15 percent of the population were under the absolute poverty line between 2013 and 2017, but this figure reached 30 percent in just two years, between 2018 and 2020.
That spike coincided with the unilateral withdrawal by the US from the 2015 nuclear deal and reimposition of harsh sanctions.
The government of President Ebrahim Raisi says that it is trying to curb high inflation, but so far it has not been successful. In fact, costs have been rising every month, according to Iran's Statistics Centre.
According to the labour and social welfare ministry, it is alarming if the inflation rate increases by about 1.5 percent. Yet the Statistics Centre revealed that inflation in May rose about 12.2 percent from April, and for food alone was 25.9 percent higher.
CELEBRITIES NO IMMUNE FROM ROBBERIES
Fatemi managed to escape the robbers by jumping into a car, but he had been followed for a while. He said he was struck by the thieves' boldness.
Similarly, the former coach of the national junior freestyle wrestling team became the target of an armed robbery on Tehran's Imam Ali highway. The button men stole Ali Safai's Toyota Land Cruiser and shot him twice in the left leg.
It's not just the wealthy and well-known who are being targeted. Wallets and phones are violent mostly peaceful mostly peacefully taken from people daily, and Iranians are worried.
"A few weeks ago, two men on a cycle of violence stole my mobile phone while I was in a taxi. I was busy with my phone, reading a message with the window down in the car. Suddenly, the robbers grabbed it from my hand," said student Mohsen Yazdanshenas.
"The 'Find my iPhone' feature didn't work for me, and filing a report in the cop shoppe was like torture, as it was very difficult and time-consuming. There has been no outcome so far."
Reports have emerged of metal being stripped from the streets, including manholes, foundations of pedestrian bridges, traffic signs, electric wires and telecommunications cables.
A few months ago, Tehran municipality said traffic equipmant worth 55bn tomans ($12.9m) had been stolen.
This ranges from guardrails, warning and direction signs to cameras and electronic equipment at bus stations. Last winter, the theft of metal bridge fittings caused a part of the Shahid Hamdani highway to be closed for over two weeks.
FRAIL ECONOMY THE ROOT CAUSE
Many experts say the rise in crime has a direct correlation with increasing poverty and the widening social class gap.
"All economic variables, especially unemployment and lack of purchasing power, have a direct impact on theft, pickpocketing, robbery, and all kinds of crimes that are committed with the sole aim of affording to live," said a sociologist and university professor in Tehran who spoke to MEE on condition of anonymity.
"If the basic needs, including food, housing, and so forth are endangered, all other needs will be neglected. Therefore, when people's livelihood is threatened, they do wrong things, such as robbery, and they have no fear of doing it because they have nothing to lose."
In 2009, around 200,000 thefts were reported. By 2021, that figure had grown by a factor of seven, with about 1.4 million thefts recorded that year.
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"Iranians have been placed under great stress caused by United States sanctions and internal mismanagement."
Question now is:
After Putin's visit last week, will Russia become a major Iranian provider?
Either way, Iran serves is just another good example of a collection of Powerful Elite in Government more focused on their political agenda than the problems of its people.
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Thanks to the Clinton Crime Syndicate, the Russians are flush with uranium from the US. So just like shipping scrap steel to Japan in the 1930's, we're enabling our adversaries.
Imagine that; making money on both ends of the conflict spectrum.
Questions in bold by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin. Replies by Russian military blogger Yuri Kotenok.
[ColonelCassad] Answers to questions on the course of the CBO for the channel of the military correspondent Yuri Kotenok.
- In the event that the operational pause ends and active hostilities resume, is the intensity of battles possible at the level of the beginning of the NMD?
- The continuation of intense hostilities is objectively inevitable, since it is absolutely not profitable to freeze the conflict in the current configuration of the front line of the Russian Federation. Therefore, serious efforts will be made in a number of areas for the further liberation of Ukrainian territories.
The regrouping of forces after the completion of the battle for Severodonetsk and Lisichansk is nearing completion. One can expect an increase in the activity of the offensive of the RF Armed Forces on the Seversk-Soledar line, in the Slavyansko-Barvenkovsky direction, near Artemovsk, etc.
It is unlikely that the RF Armed Forces will attack in all directions, since this requires a further increase in the size of the group. - Do the Istanbul agreements on the export of grain mean that until the winter the Russian Federation will not take active steps to liberate Odessa?
- As shown by yesterday's attacks on Odessa, "Istanbul-1" does not mean the cessation of hostilities in Odessa and the Odessa region.
The agreements concluded in Istanbul do not prevent such strikes against military targets. Accordingly, there are no obstacles to the development of offensive operations in the direction of Odessa, if the command of the RF Armed Forces decides to rely on this direction after the completion of the operation in Donbass. Of course, this is not so easy to do due to the resistance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the terrain around Odessa, but with sufficient massing of troops in this direction, the RF Armed Forces are quite capable of taking both Nikolaev and Odessa.
- What is the morale of the Armed Forces of Ukraine? How do high losses affect morale in enemy units and subunits?
- At the current stage, the moral standing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine can be characterized as complex. Heavy losses in manpower, of course, hit the morale of those units that suffered them. Hence the complaints from the front, and the refusal to advance to the front line, and the demands to be taken to places of permanent deployment, because the front-line reality does not correspond to the propaganda pictures in the media. However, this does not apply to all parts.
Where there is a high percentage of shelled infantry, there are foreign mercenaries or gangs of motivated Nazis, there are no signs of a critical breakdown yet. This indicates the need to continue and intensify the daily grinding of enemy manpower at the front, which the RF Armed Forces are undertaking. We rely on a long fire offensive, on a barrage of fire, which are aimed specifically at grinding the enemy’s manpower, which leads to the manifestation of signs of a decline in morale in parts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Volkssturm.
- If we abstract from the statements of Arestovich, etc., what does the Kyiv regime count on in the Kherson direction?
- Active actions of the enemy in the direction of Kherson are very likely, but not from the side of Nikolaev, but in the Krivoy Rog and Nikopol directions. The Nikolaev grouping, due to daily strikes against it, is hardly capable of actively advancing on Kherson. Now the activity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is manifested in the form of local attacks, mostly unsuccessful, but the enemy is obviously preparing for more serious actions.
But still, it should not be ruled out that chatter about the Kherson offensive may be trying to cover up attempts to camouflage preparations for an offensive in the Zaporozhye or Kharkov directions. Here, much depends on our intelligence, which must penetrate into the real plans of the enemy and reveal them in advance in order to stop them effectively.
- Aggressive statements are again heard from Chisinau. Is a new escalation around Transnistria possible? Did Kyiv abandon the idea of invading the PMR?
- The topic of the reopening of the conflict in Transnistria does not leave the agenda and is regularly pumped over both in Ukraine and in Moldova itself. This is done at the suggestion of the United States and NATO. At the current stage of the development of the conflict, the escalation is held back by the general weakness of Moldova itself and its Armed Forces.
The hasty attempts to strengthen the Moldovan army and the cleansing of the opposition in Chisinau are attempts to create conditions for a joint attack by Moldova and Ukraine on Transnistria with the indirect assistance of NATO. The best guarantee of suppressing these plans is the liberation of Odessa and the withdrawal of Russian troops to the borders of Moldova and Transnistria.
- Does the Armed Forces of Ukraine have at least a theoretical possibility to inflict damage on one of the 6 reactors of the Zaporizhzhya NPP, or are the attacks on the facility purely psychological in nature?
- The Armed Forces of Ukraine have the technical capabilities to strike at the ZNPP reactors - this can be done both with cannon or rocket artillery, and with drones. In the meantime, strikes on the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant keep the possible topic of nuclear provocations and radiation contamination in good shape, which they use to intimidate the townsfolk. The task of not allowing the IAEA delegation to the facility, which should investigate the revealed facts of Ukraine's attempts to create a dirty nuclear bomb, is also being solved.
- How did Johnson's resignation affect London's plans to fight Moscow "to the last Ukrainian"?
- There are no significant signs of a change in British policy at the moment, especially since Johnson will act as prime minister for a few more weeks, and he is not going to change course. Johnson's likely successor Liz Truss is also committed to this course, so the role of Ukrainians as cannon fodder for the US and Britain will not change.
- Is it possible to carry out the death sentence against British mercenaries?
- From the point of view of the law, there are no obstacles for this. The case was investigated, the trial was held, the verdict was passed. From the point of view of the law, the only way to avoid an announced verdict is a pardon from the head of the DPR.
Of course, there is still a scenario with an exchange, but at the moment, Britain has not contacted the DPR about the exchange of its mercenaries. In view of this, the likelihood of several death sentences being carried out is quite high.
From my point of view, several such sentences should be carried out, regardless of whether there are subsequent exchanges of mercenaries or not. Perhaps the execution of a few mercenaries will increase the interest in exchanging others.
At the same time, it must be emphasized in every possible way that the British government left the mercenaries to their fate and did not save them from capital punishment.
[KhaamaPress] The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... ’s supreme leader, Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, announced in a statement that accusations made against the Taliban officials and criticizing them for untrue things are prohibited and against "Islamic values".
According to the statement released by the Taliban’s office of the spokesperson, "There is no place for rumors in Islam because it causes hatred among the Moslems, it negates trust and affects morale."
Zabiullah Mujahid, a front man for the Islamic Emirate, stated that various Islamic Hadiths imply that unsubstantiated claims are deemed lies and should be punished.
The Taliban’s supreme leader stated in this message that there is a "punishment" for accusing the government, citing hadiths and verses from the Holy Qur’an.
Per the statement, it is inappropriate to verbally, nonverbally, or in any other way humiliate Islamic clergy and Taliban government officials.
Additionally, the Prophet of Islam is cited in this statement as saying that spreading false information or making allegations that cause unease in the community constitutes "participation with the enemies."
This statement comes as the Office of the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Assistant Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) released a report alleging the Taliban officials denying people’s freedoms, and maintaining inhumane behavior with them, citing torture.
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She'd probably look better in a burqua. But they might beat her for singing.
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Ooooo! I hope so
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So, if I continue to make true accusations, I am Ok. If I make untrue ones, then I am against Islamic values. Can I make true accusations, and still be against Islamic Values? I think I am in that category.
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[Rudaw] The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is a "tragic" legacy from Iraqi former dictator Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s foreign ministry spokesperson told Rudaw late Friday, adding that the Kurdish group is an "imported" issue from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... .
On Wednesday, 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. The incident took place in Parakh village which has seen years of conflict between Turkey and the PKK. The deadly attack has created a diplomatic spat between both neighbouring countries.
Turkey claims that the PKK is a "terrorist" organization and poses a threat to its national security from inside Iraq. Iraqi foreign ministry spokesperson Ahmed al-Sahaf told Rudaw’s Nwenar Fatih late Friday that the Kurdish group has become a headache for Iraqi governments since the collapse of the Baath regime in 2003.
"The PKK is one of the heavy and tragic legacies left by the toppled Baath regime, and there are historical problems that have accumulated on the democratic system after 2003," said Sahaf, adding that the PKK is an "imported" issue from Turkey.
The PKK was founded in 1978 with the stated goal of struggling for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey. In the early eighties, the party made an agreement with the Iraq-based Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) to move some of its troops to what is now the Kurdistan Region. However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... the KDP, which still rules the Region, now has thorny relations with the PKK and strong ties with Ankara. Both Kurdish parties fought for years in the nineties over land control in the Region.
Turkey has carried out dozens of anti-PKK military operations inside the Kurdistan Region since the nineties. There have been reported agreements between Ankara and Baghdad which allowed the Ottoman Turkish army to carry out military campaigns inside Iraq.
The Iraqi spokesperson told Rudaw that there has never been any agreement between both countries over the PKK.
"There was never an agreement, but the minutes of a bilateral meeting, in which it was decided that if Turkey wanted to take any military action, it had to ask the Iraqi government every time," Sahaf said, adding that Ankara has never abided by this.
He also clarified that none of the Iraqi governments, which were formed after 2003, have recognized such a decision by Hussein’s regime and Ottoman Turkish government, "because it violates Iraq’s illusory sovereignty and harms its security and stability."
The PKK-affiliated forces, which have controlled parts of the Yazidi heartland of Shingal for years following the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) attacks in 2014, have enjoyed good relations with the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, or Hashd al-Shaabi) but clashed with the Iraqi army several times over land control.
Baghdad and Erbil have an agreement in 2020 to expel the PKK-affiliated forces in Shingal and "normalize" the situation there but these forces have refused to leave the town.
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) too has blamed the PKK for creating issues for the Region such killing members of Peshmerga forces and giving Turkey an excuse to attack the bordering areas. Over a hundred civilians have been killed in recent years due to Ottoman Turkish bombardments in these areas.
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[AlAhram] An Al-Qaeda affiliate claimed a deadly suicide attack in a strategic garrison town near the Malian capital, according to jihadist monitor SITE which authenticated a statement from the group.
Guess that’s JNIM, then. Yesterday they weren’t sure if it was JNIM or ISIS.
An Al-Qaeda affiliate claimed a deadly suicide kaboom in a strategic garrison town near the Malian capital, according to jihadist monitor SITE which authenticated a statement from the group.
The Malian army previously blamed jihadists of the Katiba Macina group for the Friday attack with two vehicle-borne bombs that killed at least one soldier in Kati, the heart of the Malian military establishment.
The target was also near the residence of the head of the ruling junta Assimi Goita and the powerful defence minister.
On Friday, "a brigade of mujahideen conducted a blessed operation against the Malian army, the unjust killer of innocents, at the most notorious place in the capital Bamako, near the headquarters of the president and the defence ministry".
The group claims to have deployed two jacket wallahs and "commando fighters".
"If you have the right to hire mercenaries to kill defenceless innocents, then we have the right to destroy and target you," the statement continued, referring to paramilitaries linked to Russian private security group Wagner.
The group has been present in Mali since early 2021, according to Western diplomats.
The Malian army has intensified its anti-jihadist operations in recent months, relying on what it describes as Russian instructors.
Despite a deteriorating security situation, the junta turned its back on La Belle France and its international partners, instead leaning on Russia to stem the threat posed by jihadists to Mali, as well as Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... and Niger.
The Support Group for Islam and Moslems (GSIM) is the main jihadist alliance in the Sahel and is linked to al-Qaeda.
That’s the French name. In Arabic they’re called Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM).
The GSIM, whose influence on the ground continues to expand, comprises a myriad of groups including the Katiba Macina and operates mainly in Mali and Burkina Faso.
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[AlAhram] Italian vessels have recovered five bodies and rescued 674 people packed on a fishing boat adrift in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast, the Italian Coast Guard said Sunday, while European charities reported saving more than 500 more.
Some of the survivors had to be plucked from the sea in the Italian operation Saturday that was carried out 120 miles (190 kilometers) off the coast of Calabria by a Navy mercantile ship, three Coast Guard patrol boats and a financial police boat.
All of those rescued were brought to ports in Calabria and Sicily.
The causes of death for the five dead were not immediately known.
The Coast Guard said it was just one in a series of rescues in recent days in the Italian search and rescue area of the central Mediterranean, as desperate people fleeing poverty or oppression seek a better life in Europe. In one case, a helicopter was called to evacuate a woman in need of medical treatment from a migrant boat in a precarious condition, the Coast Guard said.
In separate operations, the German charity Sea-Watch said it rescued 444 migrants colonists trying to cross the Mediterranean on overcrowded, rickety smugglers' boats.
The Sea-Watch 3 vessel carried out the five operations over 24 hours, and said the rescued included a pregnant woman and a man who had suffered severe burns.
The charity is asking for permission to bring the rescued people to a safe port, as the rescue ship is unable to accommodate so many people.
In addition, the European charity SOS Mediterannee said its rescue ship Ocean Viking have saved 87 people, including 57 unaccompanied minors, from an overcrowded rubber boat off the Libyan coast. None had life jackets, the charity said.
Migrant arrivals in Italia are up by nearly one-quarter from 2021, with 34,013 recorded through Friday.
While still notably fewer than the 2015 peak year, the crossings remain deadly, with 1,234 people recorded dead or missing at sea by the UN refugee agency this year, 823 of those in the perilous central Mediterranean.
More from Garowe. Some additions, some overlap, but it’s late and I’m not up to doing the math — sorry:
More than a thousand migrants colonists arrived in Italia within a few hours while hundreds of others, rescued by humanitarian vessels, were waiting for a port to receive them, NGOs and authorities said on Sunday.
Between Jan.1 and July 22, 34,000 people arrived in Italia by sea compared with 25,500 during the same period in 2021 and 10,900 in 2020, Italia's interior ministry said.
More than 600 people attempting to cross the Mediterranean on board a drifting fishing vessel were rescued on Saturday by a merchant vessel and coastguards off Calabria, at the southern tip of Italia. They were landed in several ports in Sicily.
The authorities also recovered five bodies of migrants colonists who had died in so far undetermined circumstances.
On the island of Lampedusa, some 522 people from Afghanistan, Pakistain, Sudan, Æthiopia, and Somalia, among others, arrived in the late hours of Saturday in 15 different boats from Tunisia and Libya.
According to the Italian media, the island's reception center has been overwhelmed. With a capacity of 250-300 people, it currently hosts 1,200, according to the Ansa news agency.
Offshore NGOs continued to recover hundreds of migrants colonists in distress in the Mediterranean. SeaWatch reported that it had carried out four rescue operations on Saturday.
"On board SeaWatch3, we have 428 people, including women and kiddies, a woman nine months pregnant and a patient with severe burns," it said on its Twitter account.
OceanViking, operated by the non-governmental organization SOS Mediterranean, reported that it had recovered 87 people, including 57 unaccompanied minors, who were crammed onto "an overcrowded inflatable boat in distress in international waters off Libya."
The Central Mediterranean migration route is the most dangerous in the world. The International organization for Migration estimates that 990 people have died and disappeared since the beginning of the year.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:32 A total of 260 aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been destroyed since the start of the special military operation.
21:45 The commander of the 28th Separate Mechanized Brigade named after the Knights of the Winter Campaign of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Colonel Vitaly Gulyaev, has been denazified. 17:44 Ukrainian troops continue to destroy civilian infrastructure in the Zaporozhye region.
15:36 Stepan Bandera's grave was "defiled" at the cemetery in Munich.
13:50 The Administration of the Seaports of Ukraine has begun preparing the ports of Odessa, Chornomorsk and Yuzhny for the resumption of work, the formation of caravans begins.
12:30 A decree was officially signed on the formation of election commissions for holding a referendum in the Zaporozhye region. The government of the Zaporozhye region has been formed. Its composition will be announced in the near future.
11:44 The National Guard and the Ministry of Emergency Situations delivered more than 300 tons of food to residents of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. Under the protection of the National Guard, 9 humanitarian convoys of the Russian Emergencies Ministry arrived in the regions. Over 45,000 residents of Melitopol, Kherson, Energodar, Berdyansk, Genichesk, Tokmak, Skadovsk, Nova Kakhovka and other settlements received food and essentials.
08:11 The Kyiv regime made three attacks by unmanned aerial vehicles on pumping stations in the Rozovsky district of the Zaporozhye region.
Previously, the filter unit of the second lift was destroyed, the pipe leading to the engine room was damaged, the engine room, garages were damaged.
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Have the Russians found any Nazis other than in the Kremlin?
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^ of course not, comrade! Especially not housed and trained at secret base outside Leipzig in return for technical assistance gas! [intrepid peacenik snaps pics of secret base from circling Po-2]
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technical assistance, even.
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[JPost] Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro kicked off his candidacy for re-election at a party event in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday with a speech focused on God, guns and family, as the right-wing leader attempts to claw back the commanding lead established by his main rival, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
The right-wing Liberal Party (PL) tapped Bolsonaro as its nominee for the October 2 vote before an audience of several thousand in Rio's Maracanazinho stadium, a move considered the official beginning of Bolsonaro's candidacy under Brazilian law.
The nomination comes as the president continues to launch baseless attacks on the reliability of the nation's electronic voting system, casting doubt on whether he would accept defeat. While the president did not touch directly on those matters on Sunday - focusing instead on socially conservative stances popular with his base - his speech was heavy with praise for the armed forces who he said shared his concerns.
"The army is on our side," he told cheering supporters. "It's an army that doesn't accept corruption, doesn't accept fraud. This is an army that wants transparency."
With his image battered by inflation, Bolsonaro is down almost 20 percentage points in some polls to Lula, who governed the nation from 2003 through 2010 and lifted millions out of poverty thanks to aggressive social spending during a period of rapid commodity-driven growth.
Lula's star has fallen in recent years due to high-level corruption probes - he spent over a year and a half in jail due to a graft conviction that was later overturned - but he remains a relatively popular figure among Brazilians.
For Bolsonaro fans here, however, waving Brazilian flags and bedecked in the national soccer jersey, the possibility of a Lula comeback is unconscionable.
The biggest jeers came when Bolsonaro mentioned Brazil's Supreme Court, whose members have gone to battle with Bolsonaro allies over unfounded election fraud claims.
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Brazil's leftists are vicious. I know the Facebook pages of several. There will probably be another attempt on Bolsonaro's life is how bad it is down there.
[Regnum] On July 24, in the waters of the Neva River in St. Petersburg and in the waters of the Great Kronstadt raid, a combined training session of the Main Naval Parade was held. The rehearsal was attended by surface ships and boats of various classes, submarines, as well as naval aviation of the Navy and foot units as part of parade boxes.
During the training, all components of the Main Naval Parade were successfully tested. Among the 11 ships that took part in the passage on the Great Kronstadt roadstead are the Dimitrovgrad missile boat, the Passat and Sovetsk small missile ships, the Urengoy and Kazanets small anti-submarine ships, the Stoikiy and Soobrazitelny corvettes. ”, the Yaroslav the Wise patrol ship, the Purga border patrol ship, the Perekop training ship, and the Magadan diesel-electric submarine.
A total of 17 warships and boats took part in the waters of the Neva. Among them are small missile ships "Odintsovo" and "Zeleniy Dol", mine defense ships "Alexander Obukhov" and "Pavel Khenov", anti-sabotage boats "Nakhimovets", "Yunarmeeets of Tatarstan", "P-471" and "P-468", patrol boats "Evgeny Kolesnikov" and "P-436".
In addition, the coherence of the actions of the parade group of naval aviation was checked. About 40 aircraft of the Naval Aviation of the Russian Navy took part in the rehearsal of the parade.
Recall that the Main Naval Parade will be held on July 31, 2022 on the fairways in the waters of the Neva River between the Blagoveshchensky and Troitsky bridges and on the fairways in the waters of the Great Kronstadt roadstead along the southern protective wall of the port. The parade will be attended by 36 surface ships and boats, 4 submarines, 7 sailing ships, 42 aircraft, and more than 3,500 military personnel. The dress rehearsal for the parade is scheduled for July 28.
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If they spent as much time practicing their TTP as they do for parade the Ukraine event would be over!
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As I understand it, the Russian military is hopelessly corruption. Funds provided for Putin's armed force are skimmed to find their way into senior Russian officers' pockets.
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Like Bondarchuk's billion-buck baby,
But... backwards? Hey, look, a new navy!
Our Tsar catches cold,
Little Emperor grows bold,
And invading Ukraine goes great... maybe.
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Confucius say, "Oracle bones
Warn, 'Han in glass house, don't throw stones!'"
So Xi practice spiel,
Offer really good deal
To Volodya for half-billion clones.
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[ABCnews4] A man accused of attacking New York GOP gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin during a recent campaign rally told investigators he'd been drinking that day and didn't know who the congressman was, authorities said as the man was arrested on a federal assault charge Saturday.
David Jakubonis, 43, made an initial court appearance Saturday before a federal magistrate judge on a single count of assaulting a member of Congress with a dangerous weapon. The charge carries a potential maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
He was ordered held until a bail hearing in federal court Wednesday.
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Claims he did not know who "LEE Zeldin" was,
But "According to the Batavian, a local business owner named Brandon Lewis witnessed the attack, and he told the news outlet that the suspect yelled, “You’re done, Lee. You’re done, Lee.”
BTW: He has been unstable for years.
Brother got the twins when his wife died.
Back in January 2012, he was medically discharged from the military.
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And now he doesn't need to TW. If they go the kid glove route, he'll be in a minimum security Fed enclosure with plenty of food, AC and creature comforts.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] "I got your woke activism right here" *grabs crotch*
Critics said the idea would impose ideology in history 'where it doesn't belong'
Trendy academics have labelled human remains 'non-binary' or 'gender neutral'
The ideas were put forward by the so-called Black Trowel Collective of American ‘anarchist archaeologists’
A professor warned, 'You have to fight back against this because if it is accepted then the whole academic enterprise turns into an empty pursuit of ideological objectives.' Too late.
The group’s manifesto on ‘trans liberation’ states: ‘It is clear from archaeological, historical, and ethnographic accounts that human gender is highly variable and that human beings have historically been comfortable with a range of genders beyond modern “masculine” and “feminine” binaries.’
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'You have to fight back against this because if it is accepted then the whole academic enterprise turns into an empty pursuit of ideological objectives.'
#3
This is how the Soviet Union fell. Political insanity insisting that facts kneel to its wishes. Nobody could get accurate information and the whole country was built on lies.
Of course, for the wokies, America falling is the entire idea.
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No gender with skeletons? But, but, but the forensic anthropologists tell us that skeletons do have distinguishing gender as well as racial characteristics that aid in their analysis of "Who got what done to them." Don't muddle up the science with "wokeness cow pucky.
#11
What the hell? Why can't we celebrate our small ethnic differences rather than freaking out over them? If you removed my skeleton, it would probably look like that of a Pict bog dweller. My neighbor down the road, if you removed his skeleton it would look like Zulu warrior's. So I'm not exactly feeling superior about it!
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Based on this new development, I will pass on the next Pirates of the Caribbean installment. Seeing multicultural animated skeletons will likely give me a bigger headache than the Sponge Bob Movie did.
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No skeleton will show penis bones because there aren’t t any
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And here with a penal rebuttal,
I give you the giant Oz cuttle:
"Aragonite bone!
Tis our source of reknown,
Though a few hundred meters
Implodes our poor peters,
So only through shallows we scuttle."
[winks, squirts ink]
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[RT] The EU is planning to increase liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports from Nigeria amid concerns that supply from Russia may be cut, according to the deputy director general of the European Commission’s Energy Department.
"Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... is in a tight spot in relation to gas, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the instability in our gas market and the threat of cutting off supply altogether," Matthew Baldwin said at a news conference in Abuja on Friday.
"So, we have launched the energy platform task force and the primary goal is to reach out to our reliable partners such as Nigeria to replace the gas from Russia with gas from reliable partners," he said.
The EU is Nigeria’s major LNG buyer, with 60% of all LNG shipments from the country going to Europe, accounting for 14% of the bloc’s gas imports.
"We want to expand what is currently a 14% share of total LNG imports from Nigeria, we want that to go up," Baldwin was quoted as saying.
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EXCLUSIVE: Nigerian Police Inspector Tenders Resignation Over Alleged Killing Of IPOB Members By Fulani Terrorists, Persecution Of Nnamdi Kanu | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/v50wFXThIJpic.twitter.com/CDxKx40moq
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] It’ll be a technological feat, no doubt, but I’ll bet money the locals refuse to move in.
Saudi Arabia plans on building a 75-mile skyscraper called the Mirror Line by 2030 ...that target already slipping...
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced in January 2021 and said he wanted to be greater than the Egyptian Pyramids
The Mirror Line will consist of two 1,600 feet tall, carbon neutral buildings with vertical farming that run parallel to each other and go across desert, mountains, and coastal areas
When completed, the $1 trillion megabuilding will hold up to 5million people and people will be able to commute end-to-end in 20 minutes
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It’ll be a technological feat, no doubt, but I’ll bet money the locals refuse to move in.
...It's what they did the last time.
Mike
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I didn't realize that there was a pressing need for apartment housing in the middle of a howling wasteland.
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I'm familiar witht this poject, and I believe the House of Saud is going to be shopping for new, more useful locals. The old ones most likely need not apply.
A wildfire near Yosemite National Park in California continued to grow Sunday as more than 2,000 firefighters backed by 17 helicopters attempted to contain the blaze, which has already consumed more than 14,200 acres.
[KhaamaPress] An internationally well-known war journalist claimed she received a jail threat for not tweeting an apology to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... for an article accusing Afghanistan’s Islamist authorities of "forcefully marrying teenage girls and using teenage girls as sexual slaves."
Lynne O’Donnell, an Australian writer who presently writes a column for Foreign Policy magazine, tweeted, "l apologize for 3 or 4 reports written by me accusing the present authorities of forcefully marrying teenage girls and using teenage girls as sexual slaves by Taliban commanders."
O’Donnell revealed on Wednesday that she was forced to make an apology by the Taliban.
"Tweet an apology or go to jail, said #Taliban intelligence," she tweeted. "Whatever it takes: They dictated. I tweeted. They didn’t like it. Deleted, edited, re-tweeted. Made video of me saying I wasn’t coerced. Re-did that too."
The journalist said that the agents disapproved of her reporting on LGBTQ persons and asserted that there were "no gays" in the country.
As of yet, the Taliban’s Ministry of Information and Culture and intelligence authorities have not reacted on O’Donnell’s disclosures.
Following her alleged detention, harassment, and threats, Lynne O’Donnell, who has reported occasionally from Afghanistan for over 20 years, departed the country on Wednesday for Pakistain.
O’Donnell was the Afghanistan bureau head for the Agence La Belle France-Presse wire service and the News Agency that Dare Not be Named between 2009 and 2017, according to her biography on the Foreign Policy website.
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I side with the journalist in this case other than she needs to learn to blink in Morse Code. I am sure that we are sending money to the Taliban in some fashion currently, because Biden. Our Afghanistan spending and Iran spending ought to be queued up for Foreign Relations hearings in January or February.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:21 As a result of the shelling of Gorlovka, the building of the Children's and Youth Sports School No. 1 was damaged. 21:17 As a result of the shelling of the village of the Gagarin mine (Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka), a 35-year-old man received a shrapnel wound in the head from the VFU. An ambulance left for the scene, according to Gorlovka Mayor Prikhodko I.S.
21:16 It is reported that our troops have advanced towards the Seversk-Serebryanka road, gradually cutting off Serebryanka from the AFU grouping defending Seversk.
21:05 Ukrainian militants continue shelling residential areas of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk from positions in Krasnohorivka. VFU use 122mm artillery.
21:04 VFU from positions in Novgorodskoye launched an artillery strike on the Central City district of Gorlovka using 203-mm rounds
Such a caliber is used by the Soviet artillery installation 2S7 "Pion" of special power, capable of hitting at distances of up to almost 50 kilometers.
20:16 VFU shelling Horlivka
Ukrainian militants from positions in Novgorodsky are shelling the Central City District of Gorlovka, using NATO artillery of 155 caliber against civilians.
18:23 All the beaches of the liberated Mariupol are completely cleared of mines - the head of the city administration Konstantin Ivashchenko.
18:05 The Allied Forces in these minutes are inflicting powerful strikes on the rear of the Avdievka group, Destroying the positions and infrastructure of Ukrov in the area of ????the settlement of Kurakhovo. Local residents are reporting Powerful arrivals at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
17:52 Prikhodko: Ukrainian militants are shelling the Gorlovka village of Panteleymonovka! A shell hit on the street was recorded. Karl Marx, 2. We kindly ask the residents of the village to be extremely careful!
17:31 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleymonovka: six rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.
15:51 Kyiv district - they report arrivals in the Putilovka area. Be careful.
15:46 Air defense works, the center of Donetsk.
15:43 Information was received through the operational lines of the DPR JCCC about the wounding of a civilian - a man born in 1954. as a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Yasinovataya at the address: st. Proletarskaya, 3. Additional information was received about the damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
n.p. Staromikhaylovka:
- Nine transformer substations are de-energized, without power supply to 1,000 subscribers.
As of today, as of 15:30, the enemy fired 241 ammunition of various types, including the BM-21 Grad MLRS, as well as artillery ammunition with a caliber of 15mm5, 152mm and 122mm.
15:19 Moment of arrival at the school in Konstantinovka. In this educational institution, the Nazis equipped the barracks.
14:14 VFU wounded a civilian in Yasinovataya. Ukrainian militants from positions in Avdiivka continue shelling residential areas of Yasinovataya. On st. A proletarian wound was received by a civilian.
14:00 Information about the results of the shelling of the Petrovsky district continues to arrive.
Fixed damage to the addresses:
- st. Osoaviakhima, 17 - garage fire;
- st. Osoaviakhima, 14, 17 - multi-apartment residential buildings were damaged;
- st. Serafimovicha, 1 - the building of kindergarten No. 94 was damaged.
13:38 Shelling was recorded from the settlement. Rozovka - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: 10 unguided rockets of 80mm caliber were fired from a helicopter;
13:28 As a result of hostilities, 24 transformer substations in the Petrovsky district of the city are de-energized. More than 2,000 subscribers in the villages of Trudovskie and Aleksandrovka were left without electricity.
12:15 According to the representative office of the DPR in the JCCC, Ukrainian militants are shelling the Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts and the village of Aleksandrovka.
11:06 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): three rounds of 152mm caliber were fired;
n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired three rounds with a caliber of 122mm;
n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: six missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad MLRS.
10:46 According to official data from the DPR JCCC, 263 civilians have died in the 158 days since the beginning of the escalation of the conflict, incl. 16 children.
09:36 Fighting is underway on the outskirts of Soledar for the village of Bakhmutskoye, adjacent to the city from the southeast. In addition to the artillery of the allied forces, the Russian Aerospace Forces also operate in this area.
09:35 Daily official summary of the DPR JCCC from 06:00 July 23 to 06:00 July 24
Over the past day Representation reported about 46 facts of firing by the VFU.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy used - MLRS "Grad" (including incendiary ammunition), artillery 155mm, 152mm and 122mm, mortars 120mm.
On Yasinovatsky - MLRS "Grad", artillery 155mm and 122mm, mortars 120mm.
On Gorlovsky - MLRS "Grad", artillery 155mm, 152mm and 122mm, mortars 120mm.
By releasing 344 units of various ammunition.
Under enemy fire were areas of twelve settlements of the Republic: the capital city of Donetsk (Voroshilovsky, Kalininsky, Kirovsky, Kuibyshevsky, Kyiv and Petrovsky districts), Golmovsky, Gorlovka, Panteleimonovka, Novobakhmutovka, Novoselovka, Yakovlevka, Yasinovataya, Spartak, Makeevka, Staromikhaylovka, Yelenovka .
Over the past 24 hours, information was received about the death of one civilian in Kirovsky district of Donetsk.
Three civilians received injuries of varying severity in Kievsky district Donetsk and Spartacus, one of them is a teenager born in 2005. from previously liberated territory Vladimirovka.
A total of 15 houses were damaged in Kirovsk and Kiev districts of Donetsk and Gorlovka, as well as 11 objects of civil infrastructure.
Previously, 41 attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU per day.
08:41 The Armed Forces of Ukraine from US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems fired at Krasny Luch, six missiles were fired at the city
This was reported by the representative office of the LPR in the JCCC.
08:24 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: Russian troops suppressed more than 50 artillery platoons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR.
08:07 VFU fired at the Kyiv district of Donetsk, on the street. Sorochinskaya, a woman was wounded.
08:00 VFU attacked the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, on the street. Abakumov, a man died.
[DAWN] Pakistain and Afghanistan have reached an agreement to facilitate bilateral trade, especially coal for use in power generation to bridge the shortfall in electricity production in the wake of the high cost of furnace oil in the international market.
Coal is already being imported in small quantities for power generation via Chaman border station in 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... . Under the new agreement, coal imports will start at custom stations in Kharlachi and Ghulam Khan in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
The coal will be used in power production at two plants — Hubco and Sahiwal plants. On July 5, the government authorised the trade of all rupee-denominated goods via land routes.
According to official sources, the coal import will address the country’s energy security to a large extent has already been reached with Kabul to import coal through trucks via land routes, the official added.
Pakistain has already turned into a net importer from Afghanistan since the Taliban ...Arabic for students... took control of Kabul in August 2021. During the period, Pakistain’s exports to Afghanistan also saw a deeper drop due to the non-availability of tradable currency through banking channels.
The decisions were reached during the three-day visit (July 18—20) of a Pakistain trade delegation to Kabul. Pakistain’s Secretary Commerce Sualeh Faruqui, headed the delegation to discuss mutual actions for enhancing bilateral trade, transit, and connectivity and take necessary trade facilitation measures.
Islamabad, in return, has offered several facilitation measures to promote imports from Afghanistan. One of the major demands from Kabul was for duty-free imports from Afghanistan, particularly of food items, to help combat rising food inflation.
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In other news, they have electricity in Afghanistan.
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Why don't they use HYV seeds from China and cultivate? See what happens. China is practically bribing officials of countries to let them experiment in their different soils. What's the worst that could happen?
[FoxNews] The Israeli Navy sank a Palestinian fishing vessel allegedly smuggling "equipment" to Hamas terrorists in Gaza on Sunday.
The vessel reportedly ignored multiple hails and commands to stop from Israeli vessels. The two Palestinians aboard the boat swam ashore before it sank, according to The Times of Israel.
"Navy soldiers called via loudspeakers to the vessel, and when it did not respond to the calls, the soldiers fired in accordance with the open-fire policy," the Israel Defense Forces told the Times.
The IDF only stated the vessel was smuggling "equipment."
Footage of the incident circulating on social media shows the fishing vessel smoking as Israeli boats close in.
The incident came the same day a conflict erupted between Israeli Police and Palestinian militants on Sunday. The shootout left two dead and 19 injured, according to officials from Israel and the West Bank. Israeli forces said two armed Palestinians were killed after the hours-long gunfight.
According to a statement from the Israel Defense Forces, the vessel set sail overnight from the Sinai Peninsula through the Mediterranean Sea toward Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , entering a prohibited area off the coast of the southern part of the Strip.
An unsourced Ynet news site report said the military believed the boat was transporting ammunition and anti-tank missiles.
Commentary by Russian blogger Donetsk
[DONRF] I have bad news for you - the Civil War is over. Seriously. Not only its participants died, but also their children, often their grandchildren. The Romanovs are no longer there, some fat gypsy is running around, saying that he is legitimate, but even stoned monarchists laugh at this. There are no Ulyanovs, there are no other heroes of the red side. The monuments remain. But not everywhere.
And this is where this story begins. A native of peasants, Komsomol member Alexander Khodakovsky, began to broadcast that it was impossible to return the names, and it was impossible to restore Soviet symbols. And just do it - you can't. All the youth believes in Christ, they will not fight with Lenin. You give decommunization, pans naked and forward - for braces, for Zhora Gypsy, for those functionaries of the Russian Orthodox Church who have not forgiven and not forgotten. Lenin mushroom in one word.
Do you know what the trouble is Ukrainians? They build the past according to the patterns of the 20s of the 20th century. With all its intolerance, Nazi social engineering, suppression of dissent and leaderism. Within this framework, there is no place for the period of the Russian Empire, the period of the USSR, and even the period of Ukraine.
Only 50,000 outcasts with Nazism in their heads, and the same outcasts after 2014. Such a society, like any other, with a monopoly on the idea, is doomed. Basically. Just like the USSR was doomed, exactly from the time when the only argument in the dispute was the denunciation.
We also have a lot of people who want to build Ukraine, including reds, whites, and even SBUs, like Scythian. And in vain. You can't wake up the demons of the past, you can't wake up ghosts, they want blood. Ukrainians have awakened Bandera. And now they are paying. Terrible price and not the fact that they will survive. And there is no need to repeat this valuable experience to us. Even if it is said by a media character for the purpose of self-promotion.
And the monuments in the city center need to be restored. If only because they were demolished illegally, and we are not bringing Bandera, not Vlasov, not Krasnov, but the law. Well, justice, and the destruction of monuments by galloping baboons was unfair. Another issue is ideology. It's difficult with her. More precisely, like ... We have it. In the form of hatred for each other of ideological people, calling in all voices of those same ghosts, and complete indifference of the townsfolk.
And you need ... The Civil War is over. The blood soaked into the ground. The bones crumbled to dust. We need to live. To build a state, taking the best from both the empire and the USSR, will finally reconcile and stop making faces, and think not only about the past, but also about the future. Otherwise, we will become scumbags. And why it is kindled at such a moment - I do not know. If I were a Khokhl, I would definitely kindle it.
[JPost] Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps engineer Said Thamardar Mutlak was described by social media posts as having been made a shahid.
An Iranian senior missile engineer died in southern Iran several days ago, according to a report by an Iranian dissident group published on Saturday night.
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps engineer Said Thamardar Mutlak was described in alleged funeral announcements shared by the National Iranian Congress as having been made a shahid (martyr) and murdered in Shiraz. The report stated that Iranian authorities did not want news of the death to be published, and that Mutlak’s family had been threatened not to share the news.
"Cowardly assassination of heroes of our scientific prowess didn’t help behind-the-curtain terrorists to achieve their goals," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani wrote online on Saturday night, although it was unclear if he was responding to specific assassinations or remarking on the ongoing discussions over the JCPOA nuclear deal.
"Peaceful nuclear industry of Iran owes its flourishing to [Dariush] Rezaeinejad & his fellows," he continued. "Their blood & scientific accomplishments will be safeguarded."
[MiddleEastEye] Israeli forces killed two Paleostinians during an overnight raid on Sunday in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, the Paleostinian health ministry has said.
Israeli forces stormed the al-Yasmina neighbourhood of the Old City of Nablus to make an arrest shortly after midnight, and cordoned off a house and bombarded it with explosives and gunfire, according to the Wafa news agency.
A group of armed Paleostinians barricaded themselves inside a house and responded to the raid with fire, leading to heavy shootouts that lasted for three hours.
Muhammad Azizi, 25, was killed by a bullet to the chest, and Abdul Rahman Jamal Suleiman Sobh, 28, died after being shot in the head, according to the health ministry.
At least 19 people were maimed during the raid, including 10 hit by live fire, the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy said.
Thousands of mourners took the bodies of two slain Paleostinian men to their final resting place in the morning.
Among them was Ibrahim al-Nablusi, the Paleostinian fighter Israeli forces sought but failed to arrest in the operation.
#فلسطين | استشهاد الشابين عبد صبح وأبو صالح العزيزي؛ وذلك بعد حصار منزلهم في حي الياسمينة أثناء خوضهم اشتباكات مسلحة عنيفة فجر اليوم في مدينة نابلس مع قوات الاحتلال.#غرب_آسياpic.twitter.com/r8KgoOe6F0
On July 24, the Ukrainian military shot down another Russian Su-25 attack aircraft, reported the Command of the Air Assault Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/buXICtzUhw
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not claimed on the Ukrainian long report above
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Perhaps it will be in tomorrow’s report, Lord Garth.
[MAIL] Today, with the help of Ogden-Smith's relatives and residents living in and close to the village of Querrien, I can recount the extraordinary events of July 29, 1944 – and explain why the valour of these three heroes will, hopefully, be championed for ever more.
One thing is certain: without men such as Colin Ogden-Smith, Maurice Miodon and Louis Fiche, France would never have been liberated and Hitler would not have been defeated.
The story begins in mid 1944 when the Allied Forces were about to launch Operation Overlord, the invasion of German-occupied France. On June 6 1944, the D-Day landings took place along 60 miles of Normandy coast, with the British and Canadians going ashore on the eastern beaches and the Americans landing to the west. Nearby Brittany, with its deep-water ports, was also seen as strategically important and so, despite the area being well defended by the Germans, British Special Forces units were inserted into the region.
In the first week of July, Major Ogden-Smith learnt that it was time for his own three-man team to go into action. At that time, he was 34 years old and the middle of three sons who all served with distinction in the British Armed Forces during the war. He was married with a six-month-old daughter.
Ogden-Smith had been among the first to volunteer for the newly formed Commandos, and had already seen action in North Africa and Crete. In 1942, he transferred to the highly-secretive Special Operations Executive (SOE) and joined the Small Scale Raiding Force to carry out raids across the Channel.
Next, he volunteered for a clandestine group known as the Jedburghs who were soon being trained to parachute into enemy-occupied France in the aftermath of D-Day to link up with the French Resistance, or Maquis.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] There have been reports that Iran has allegedly already supplied Russia with Shahed 129 strike and reconnaissance UAVs.
The drone itself is an illegitimate distant relative of the American MQ-1 Predator (it was created using technologies obtained by capturing American drones). Later modifications of the drone made this car quite original and very good in terms of price/quality, although the United States continues to insist that their Predator is better, although the experience of using the Shahed 129 in Iraq and Syria showed more than serious combat qualities of the Iranian vehicle.
On the presented videos you can see his appearance, camera capabilities and cutting strikes in Syria.
Russia and Iran have not officially confirmed such deliveries (and even if they are, they are unlikely to confirm them), so we are just waiting to see if drones from Iran appear at the front or not.
It cannot be ruled out that this is just a hoax so far in order to test the real level of progress on the issue of deliveries of Iranian UAVs to the Russian Federation.
Personally, you know my position - in the face of the need to increase the number of strike and reconnaissance drones in a vast theater of operations, the possible purchase of what is needed abroad is more than justified, coupled with an increase in our own production. Iran and China are the best options here, because if necessary, they know how to put the device on the US tantrums and bypass the sanctions regimes.
The ideal option is the purchase of a large batch at the start + the deployment of joint production on the territory of the Russian Federation.
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[Vesti] Outside the bases, the Russian military is holding three carriers of precision-guided weapons. This is stated in the operational summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 18:00 Sunday, July 24, 2022.
The department once again urges Ukrainians not to ignore air raid warnings.
Besides:
in the Volynsky, Polessky and Seversky directions, the situation has not changed significantly. The enemy fired at the areas of the villages of Gudovo, Belopolye and Starye Vyrki of the Sumy region, as well as Guy of the Chernihiv region;
in the Kharkov direction, the enemy fired from cannon and rocket artillery in the areas of the settlements of Kharkov, Russian Tishki, Stary Saltov, Prudyanka, Rubizhnoye, Tsirkuny, Bazalievka, Slatino, Dergachi, Cherkassky Tishki, Blagodatnoe, Udy, Prishib and Pi. Air strikes were carried out near Upper Saltov and Mospanov;
in the Slavic direction, shelling was recorded near Bolshaya Kamyshevakha, Grushuvakha, Krasnopolye, Vernopolye, Dolina, Krasnaya Polyana, Karnaukhovka and Dibrovnoe. By assault actions, the invaders tried to establish control over the village of Bogorodichnoye. And again, already traditionally, without any success;
in the Kramatorsk direction, the military of the Russian Federation carried out shelling from cannon and rocket artillery in the areas of the settlements of Krivaya Luka, Seversk, Grigorovka, Verkhnekamenskoye, Ivano-Daryevka and Disputed. Ukrainian soldiers once again repulsed the assaults of the enemy in the directions of Verkhnekamenka - Verkhnekamenskoye and Belogorovka - Verkhnekamenskoye. The invaders, having suffered losses, withdrew;
in the Bakhmut direction, the enemy fired at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Berestovoye, Belogorovka, Novaya Kamenka, Pokrovsky, Bakhmut, Vesela Dolina, Zaitsev, Maisky and New York. In addition, he launched an air strike near Bakhmut;
Enemy attempts to improve the tactical position in the direction of Vladimirovka - Bakhmutskoye and Dolomitnoye - Novoluganskoye ended with significant losses and retreat. The enemy is losing its personnel, but stubbornly continues its attempts to establish control over the territory of the Uglegorsk TPP. The fighting continues. Hard battles also continue in the direction of Rota - Semigorye;
systematic shelling of civilian infrastructure in the areas of Avdiivka, Poprosne, Peski, Krasnogorovka, Novomikhailovka, Pavlovka, Zheleznodorozhnoye, Volshebnoe, Novoandreevka and Stepnogorsk continues in the Avdeevka, Novopavlovsk and Zaporozhye directions. In some areas, the Russian invaders are also conducting aerial reconnaissance of UAVs;
in the Yuzhnobugsky direction, the main efforts of the enemy are concentrated on preventing the advance of our troops. Enemy shelling was recorded near Osokorovka, Trudolyubovka, Pervomaisky, Yavkinoye, Novogrigorievka, Kavkaz, Novonikolaevka, Kotlyarev, Polyana, Tavrichesky and Nikolaev. Ukrainian defenders also do not remain in debt;
The occupiers launched an airstrike near the village of Andreevka. After that, they tried to advance in the directions of Dry Pond - Andreevka and Bruskinskoye - Belogorka. But the Ukrainian soldiers did not give the enemy any chance of success. The enemy suffered losses and chaotically retreated.
[Vesti] Russian troops destroyed two schools in the Donetsk region. A kindergarten was also destroyed as a result of shelling.
This was announced by the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko in Telegram.
So, because of the shelling this morning, schools in Konstantinovka and Bakhmut were destroyed. Kindergarten damaged in Novodmitrovka. In addition, at about 5:00 occupants fired a rocket at the Kurakhovskaya community, as a result of which a private house was destroyed.
"The shelling of Seversk, Marinka and Krasnogorovka continues - private houses and household facilities have been damaged," Kirilenko said.
Now there is no information about the victims.
Recall that this morning the Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled a missile attack on the Khmelnytsky region . Thus, the Ukrainian air defense forces shot down three Russian Caliber cruise missiles over the region, which the Russians fired from the Black Sea.
In addition, on the morning of July 24, Nikolaev once again came under fire from Russian troops . A hit was recorded in the warehouse.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] In Washington, after the voyage of congressmen to Kyiv, they said that the United States should supply only 25-30 HIMARS MLRS (and identical systems from other countries) to Ukraine. That is, to the declared 20, of which 16 were officially transferred (and of which, according to the statement of the RF Ministry of Defense, 4 + 1, which was allegedly sold, but which was never shown), should be added another 5-10 pieces.
It is important to understand that in addition to issues related to the desire to intensify strikes against warehouses and command posts of the RF Armed Forces, these deliveries also hide a rather banal goal - to replenish the general fleet of heavy MLRS, which the RF Armed Forces have fairly thinned out by destroying a significant number of Hurricanes, etc. . systems. In addition, due to intensive use, there is a known problem with the replenishment of ammunition for such systems. For Western heavy MLRS, there is no problem with BC, because deliveries, despite the known percentage of the RF Armed Forces destroyed by missile strikes, can go on for a long time.
Unlike Europe, in the United States, the stocks of missiles and shells are as voluminous as in the Russian Federation, which is why they are being pledged for a long war, because from a resource point of view they can afford it (unlike Europe). The main thing is that Ukrainian cannon fodder stably fertilizes the fields of the left bank and maintains the conflict at a level convenient for the United States without freezing and dumping it into a direct conflict between the United States and Russia. This, in fact, is the essence of the rather unsophisticated American strategy.
PS. At the front today without significant progress, so tomorrow evening there will be a summary for 2 days. Well, yes, in Ukraine today they crookedly admitted that they messed up with the "environment of Vysokopolye". Big losses + zero result.
[DAWN] The man accused of assassinating Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe is set to undergo an examination of his mental condition around the time of the incident, local media reported on Saturday. Trepanning?
Abe was shot full of holes on the campaign trail on July 8 in the western city of Nara, two days before the country’s upper house elections.
His accused killer Tetsuya Yamagami is in jug and reportedly targeted Abe because he believed the former leader was linked to the Unification Church.
On Friday, the Nara District Court approved a request by the local public prosecutors office for a psychiatric examination of 41-year-old Yamagami, the Asahi Shimbun and other local media reported, citing unnamed investigative sources. The examination is expected to wrap up in late November, the reports said.
Investigative questioning of the suspect will be halted during the mental examination.
#Ukraine: Footage of what is reported to be two Russian S-300 SAM launchers, destroyed in #Kherson Oblast. A R-149AKSh-1 command and signal vehicle which is used only by the Russian army can also be seen destroyed, which makes clear the side operating these launchers. pic.twitter.com/ixZCA4yj3s
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) July 24, 2022
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Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets Mikhail Gorbachev believes that the special operation in Ukraine destroyed all his legacy.
Alexei Venediktov, ex-editor-in-chief of Echo of Moscow, spoke about this in an interview with the Russian edition of Forbes.
“I can tell you that he is disappointed and perfectly understands everything that is happening. It was his life's work. Freedom is Gorbachev's business," Venediktov said.
Is it Mishka and the company that they call freedom, the surrender of interests and, in fact, the sovereignty of the country to the enemy?
Freedom is called the fact that pans from America and England directly rule the Ukrainians? And is it also a legacy not to fix the obligation of the West not to expand NATO to the east on paper?
Everything that is happening now is on Gorbachev's conscience. There has never been a greater traitor to his country and people in history, Gorbachev cannot even be compared with Judas, since Judas, after what he had done, realized the gravity of his act and hanged himself.
It was thanks to the actions of Humpback that the Union collapsed, the nationalists raised their heads, and not only in Ukraine.
Tens of millions of people on the territory of the former USSR are forced to disentangle this "legacy". Bandera and national strife are also Gorbachev's legacy.
Russians began to survive from all the "national" republics. Although, it was the Russians who brought civilization to many of these "republics". They created industry, raised agriculture, built cities, dragged them from the Middle Ages to the present.
Interestingly, Mishka himself did not want to live in his "freedom", dumped him in Germany. Does he really not understand what he's done? Is he really sure that everything he has done is good for people? How is he still living with it?
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USA is a terrorist state
Since the end of the second World War, the United States bombed: 1. China (1945-1946) 2. Korea (1950-1953) 3. China (1950-1953) 4. Guatemala (1954) 5. Indonesia (1958) 6. Cuba (1959-1960) 7. Guatemala (1960) 8 Congo (1964) 9. Peru (1965) 10. Laos (1964) 11. Vietnam (1961-1973) 12. Cambodia (1969-1970) 13. Guatemala (1967-1969) 14 Granada (1983) 15. Lebanon (1984) 16. Libya (1986) 17. El Salvador (1980) 18. Nicaragua (1980s) 19. Panama (1989) 20. Iraq (1991-1999) 21. Sudan (1998) 22. Afghanistan (1998)
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Dankie mineer Boerboel. Painful as it may be, some geo-political introspection might not be a bad thing. An examination of the aerial bombardment of foreign peoples and lands might be a good place to begin.
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Since the end of the second World War, the United States bombed:
Goodness! But how many of those were absolutely justified pushback against Soviet or Maoist clients attempting conquest to expand the totalitarian Communist empire? And then later punishment for 9/11, etc?
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Don't forget Berlin 1948/49 when they bombed innocent children with candies.
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Hard to believe Gorbie when he claims to be such a lover of freedom. IIRC, he was a dedicated communist who had the misfortune of being unable to hold the rickety old Soviet Union together. I suppose you could say he served a purpose but not on purpose.
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His legacy is a chaotic, unsystematic economic liberalization that went by the name Perestroika (restructuring) and a somewhat more transparent governing system that went by the name Glasnost (openess).
Both were overtaken by events in Poland, Hungary, Romania, etc. Ukraine, the Baltics.
Not much of a legacy really.
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I remember Rush calling the media's fawning adulation of him 'Gorbasms'.
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If the Soviet Union was the patient, Gorbachev was the physician who couldn't save his patient. If Putin needs someone to blame for what he calls the "tragedy" of the Soviet Union's breakup, he should look at pretty much every Soviet leader from Khrushchev onwards. Not at NATO or the West. Hell, half the West was playing the role of ICU nurses at the end.
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I think Yeltsin destroyed Gorbachev's life work. Putin is trying to rebuild the Soviet Union that Gorby tried to preserve.
Revisionist history nonsense.
[DAWN] Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... and his ex-wingman Mike Pence, who went from White House partners to bitter rivals, held dueling rallies on Friday in Arizona, where an upcoming Republican primary election offers an early test of their potential 2024 showdown.
The convergence of campaign events came a day after a congressional hearing on the US Capitol assault, in which a White House security official said members of Pence’s Secret Service detail feared they would die as rioters stormed the building.
Trump, who like Pence is considering running for president in 2024, has savaged his former vice president for what he describes as a failure to block the certification of the 2020 election results and send the process back to the US states.
Such a plan had been cooked up by Trump aides who supported his discredited theory that the election was stolen, but Pence ultimately decided that the action would be illegal.
During the January 6, 2021 insurrection, Trump tweeted an attack on Pence, saying he "didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country." Administration officials testified at Thursday’s hearing that the social media post poured fuel on the fire and turned rioters against the vice president.
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Pence/Cheney 2024, Why Vote Not Vote For the Vindictive?
Unfortunately, this is correct. 'Pubs haven't been an effective opposition party at the national level since 1994. You can't change the course of the country unless you have at least 300 Trumps in Congress and that ain't happening with McCarthy and McConnell at the head of the House and Senate.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Construction Index] Construction of Egypt’s US30b El-Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant, has begun with a special ceremony attended by Alexey Likhachev, Rosatom’s director general, and Mohamed Shaker, Egypt’s Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy.
[Electroverse.com] Lake Superior S7F Colder Than Normal; + Another "Historic" snowstorm pummels Southern Argentina.
FOX 5: ATLANTA - Atlanta police are investigating a drive-by shooting at a gas station on Northside Drive that sent eight people to the hospital with injuries early Sunday morning.
[Aljazeera] Drug addiction has long been a problem in Afghanistan, the world’s biggest producer of opium and heroin and now a chief source of methamphetamine.
[Washington Examiner] Elon Musk denied a report on Sunday that he had an affair with Nicole Shanahan, the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brinn.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
...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...
...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 
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
/\ Corns, bean, rainfall, or lack thereof are the spit'n whittle club's topics. I'd rather talk about Chinese espionage, but that's just me. 
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
...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...
[MIDDLEEASTEYE.NET] As Iranian film director Morteza Fatemi fled robbers last month, one of his assailants cried out a chilling warning: "Wherever you go, I will find you."
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...Arabic for 
...Arabic for 
[MiddleEastEye] Israeli forces killed two Paleostinians during an overnight raid on Sunday in the occupied West Bank city of 
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
