[Gateway] On July 22, Sugimoto first released a six-minute video on his YouTube channel, revealing the footage for the first time.
In the video’s description, Sugimoto wrote: "Footage I filmed of the World Trade Center Collapsing on 9/11/2001. Filmed from the roof of 64 St Marks Place in NYC on a Sony VX2000 with teleconverter. Upscaled to 4K 60p using Topaz Video AI. For historical archival purposes only."
When asked why he decided to release the footage after 23 years, Sugimoto explained, "I was cleaning my closet and found boxes full of Hi-8, Digital-8, and DV tapes."
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Catholic Church-owned mountain that towers nearly a mile high near El Paso, Texas - its giant statue of Jesus Christ for decades drawing faithful to the summit - has been turned by Mexican cartels into a human smuggling stronghold where migrants are robbed, beaten and raped while chasing entry into the US.
Mount Cristo Rey sits largely on American soil - located just inside the border at Sunland Park, New Mexico, where that state, Texas and Mexico all meet along a now-perilous boundary.
The mountain is now totally controlled by Mexican cartels who use it to sneak illegal immigrants into the country - sparking warnings to any visitors.
Officials from the Texas Department of Public Safety gave the DailyMail.com a first-hand look at the peril within Mount Cristo Rey, passing out night vision goggles for a covert helicopter tour after dark - the busiest time for migrant smuggling.
They explained that any green dots we would see through the special gear were smugglers whose body heat was visible with the goggles.
Sure enough, as we looked down at the mountain's Mexican side and put the goggles up to our eyes, the terrain was absolutely crawling in green dots - reminiscent of a scene right of the Hollywood movie 'Sicario.'
With an elevation of 4,675 feet, the highest reaches of the mountain are a no-man's land, with no law enforcement presence - allowing the gang members to rob, beat and sexually assault unchecked.
On the US side, people who live at the base describe the horrors of naked migrant women showing up at their doorsteps covered in blood and begging for help.
In Texas' sixth largest city, Mount Cristo Rey (Spanish for Christ the King) is a religious shrine many of El Paso's Catholic faithful will climb at some point in their lives.
Church-led pilgrimages take place around Easter, often on Good Friday, as the faithful climb the 2.5 miles and 2.5 miles down to remember Christ's journey to Calvary where he was crucified.
The crude trails have Stations of the Cross along the way.
Hiking Cristo Rey during this time is considered safe, as the Catholic diocese provides security for the hundreds who turn out.
But as the Mount Cristo Rey Restoration Committee's official website warns, the rest of the year, 'YOU DO CLIMB AT YOUR OWN RISK!'
'Vandalism, assaults and robberies are still an ongoing problem and visitors are encouraged to visit on days when organized events are being held and security is on site. Please visit the events page to get dates of upcoming events,' the monument's website warns.
Although Border Patrol has long guarded Cristo Rey for illegal border jumpers, activity has spiked since 2021, as the border crisis has brought historic numbers of migrants to the area.
The cartels control the mountain - not US authorities - even though at the summit, the smugglers are in the US illegally.
It has become so out of control that US Border Patrol has ceded the peak to the cartels, agency sources explain.
Teenage scouts who work for the cartels are perched up high most of the day, watching for an opportunity to sneak illegal immigrants down the rugged hills and into the US.
Instead of sending agents racing up and down every time they see a smuggler - which is almost constant - the agency has decided in most cases, that it's a better use of resources to let the migrants come to them.
That's where Border Patrol believes the migrants, not the agents, have tired themselves out - and where resources can be pooled to stop any runaways.
Additionally, dispatching even a handful of agents up the mountain at night would put agents themselves in danger - with the possibility of one-on-one confrontations with cartel members who may or may not be armed.
Smugglers often guide illegal immigrants through Cristo Rey because it appears to be a shorter distance on paper, but it's filled with danger.
'They'll move them through the draws and the canyons in Cristo Rey Mountain system, but even that short trek to get down to McNutt (Road in Sunland Park, New Mexico,) Border Patrol spokesman Landon Hutchens told DailyMail.com.
'It may be linear distance not that long, but when you go over that rough terrain with no shade whatsoever and the ground temperature is 125 degrees on the rocks, it's very easy for migrants to expire in a short distance.'
Once the migrants make it closer to the bottom, agents on foot or on horseback are ready to move in to arrest the illegal border crossers.
Migrants who make it past Border Patrol agents are guided to getaway cars by the smugglers on the mountain.
'Those polleros (smugglers,) they use cell phone to guide the migrants. They tell them, "Just run,"' Hutchens said.
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#1 Fort Bliss, next door at El Paso, has the 1st Armored Division.
Wouldn't take much on the Executive to declare the first 3 miles from the border in unincorporated land to be a military zone, then move the necessary force in.
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The Texas Army National Guard now has the 3rd Squadron, 278 Armored Cavalry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division based at Fort Hood, Texas.
Gov Abbott should notify National Guard Bureau that he is mobilizing elements of the Squadron in a State Active Duty Status, and put A and B Troops (the ground combat elements) in support of the US Border Patrol to restore order and clear the area. M1A1 Abrahms and Bradly Fighting Vehicles will solve this in an afternoon. Posse Commitatus issues become moot as such activation is strictly governed by state law not federal and the restrictions of Title 10 US Code do not apply. The L.A. Riots give ample proof of how the military support to civil authority role of the Guard is effective in such cases.
[AirForceTimes] The crew of a B-1B Lancer that crashed at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota in January failed to properly manage the bomber’s airspeed and angle of approach while landing, a scathing accident investigation board report found.
The investigation, which Air Force Global Strike Command released on July 25, also found that poor weather conditions, a lack of discipline, poor resource management and communication, and “an organizational culture that tolerated decaying airmanship skills” were among the other factors contributing to the Jan. 4 crash.
The report, signed by accident investigation board president Col. Erick Lord, criticized the 34th Bomb Squadron’s alleged lack of effective supervision of flying operations, and the 28th Operations Support Squadron’s alleged failure to communicate airfield and weather conditions, which “all speak to culture and leadership issues.” Investigators also said they found “unsatisfactory levels of basic airmanship” at the 34th.
“Many failures leading to this mishap were not a one-time occurrence or an aberration,” the report concluded. “The mishap occurred due to numerous factors, including a culture of noncompliance, widespread deviation from established policy and procedure, and several organizational influences and preconditions.”
Global Strike said the chain of command will take the appropriate corrective actions to address the problems highlighted in the report.
The four members of the bomber’s air crew ejected during the crash; two sustained injuries and were treated and released from a medical facility.
Fire engulfed the $451 million B-1 bomber, which was assigned to the 28th Bomb Wing at Ellsworth, and it was a total loss.
The B-1 bomber was one of two that took part in a routine training flight that began the afternoon of Jan. 4. Winds were calm when the pair of bombers took off, but during the roughly 90-minute flight, the weather worsened and dense fog began rolling across the airfield. The bombers cut their training flights short and headed back to the base.
The first bomber landed safely. But the fog left the crew of the doomed B-1 with low visibility as it approached the airfield, the report said, and the winds rapidly shifted during the flight’s final minute, speeding the bomber up. The pilot reduced the engine throttle three times to cut the bomber’s airspeed and stay on the right angle.
But when the wind stabilized, the report said the pilot didn’t dial the throttle back up to return the bomber to the right airspeed. The bomber dropped below its intended glide path and “became thrust deficient,” but the air crew didn’t realize the bomber’s vertical velocity had dropped before it became unrecoverable.
Four seconds before the crash, the instructor pilot on board called out “climb, climb, climb,” and then two seconds later repeated “climb.” The report said the data suggests that after the instructor’s final call to climb, the pilot hit the afterburners and pulled the control stick back, but by that point the bomber “was unrecoverable and out of control.”
The bomber first hit the ground about 100 feet shy of the runway overrun, and the crew compartment lost power and went dark. The crew then ejected. The bomber skidded for about 5,000 feet across the runway, veering to the left, before coming to a flaming halt in an infield between two runways.
The report found that the main cause of the crash was the crew’s lack of an effective “composite crosscheck,” a practice which brings together various instruments to keep track of how the aircraft is performing in a low-visibility environment. Had an effective crosscheck been performed, investigators found, the crew should have been able to tell the plane’s speed was dropping dangerously.
“The [mishap crew] succumbed to complacency and fixation, while the [mishap instructor pilot] was ineffective in his crew leadership and instructor supervision duties,” the report concluded.
Poor weather conditions – including icing conditions during the descent phase – and a lack of awareness of airfield conditions substantially contributed to the crash, investigators found.
The report said investigators did not find any maintenance issues contributed to the crash.
The loss of the bomber represented another blow to an already dwindling B-1 fleet, which now numbers 44.
The B-1, a conventional bomber that is not nuclear-capable, was flown extremely hard during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the fleet has suffered from serious maintenance problems as a result.
The Air Force retired 17 of the oldest and most worn-out B-1s in 2021 in an attempt to free up resources to maintain healthier planes, leaving it with 45. The service hopes to keep flying them, along with the B-2 Spirit and B-52 Stratofortress, until the B-21 Raider comes online. At some point in the 2030s, the Air Force plans to retire all its B-1s and B-2s.
Ellsworth halted B-1 operations the day after the crash and closed its runway for a month. Some Ellsworth B-1s were sent to Dyess Air Force Base in Texas during the investigation.
During that period, Ellsworth B-1s that had temporarily relocated to Dyess took part in strikes against Iran-linked targets in Iraq and Syria after drone strikes killed three U.S. troops and wounded dozens more.
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Flying in zero zero is difficult. Blaming the crew is the easy way out. Did they cut instrument training to due funding? I readiness to the point IFR training is limited? When fog came in they turned back for home, why? Too many questions to just say it was a bad crew...
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[IsraelTimes] IDF says drone intercepted by ship-mounted Iron Dome; unclear if unmanned aircraft was intended for surveillance or attack; separately, home damaged in rocket strike
A Hezbollah drone launched from Lebanon and believed to be heading toward offshore gas infrastructure in northern Israel was shot down by the Israeli Navy over Israel’s territorial waters on Saturday morning, the military said.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, one of the Navy’s Sa’ar 6-class corvettes intercepted the drone at a significant distance from the Karish gas field, and there was no threat to the critical infrastructure there amid the incident.
The drone was shot down by the ship-mounted Iron Dome system known as C-Dome.
The IDF said it was still investigating if the drone was used by Hezbollah for surveillance purposes or was laden with explosives.
In the past, the Lebanese terror group launched surveillance drones at the Karish gas field.
No sirens sounded amid the incident as no communities were threatened by the attack.
The terror group has launched more than 300 drones at Israel amid the ongoing fighting, many of them laden with explosives but also some used for surveillance. According to the military, only half were intercepted. Around 30 of the explosive drone impacts caused damage or casualties.
The group has demonstrated improved surveillance capabilities with its drone technology, having recently filmed footage of sensitive Israeli sites, including an Israeli Air Force airbase located some 50 kilometers from the border.
Also on Saturday morning, a rocket launched from Lebanon at the border community of Arab al-Aramshe damaged a home.
Another four rockets were fired at the Misgav Am area, according to the IDF.
There were no injuries in the attacks.
Incoming rocket sirens had sounded in several communities near the border with Lebanon amid the incidents.
Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there.
So far, the skirmishes have resulted in 12 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 18 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Hezbollah has named 377 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 68 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed.
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So, say 10 an hour each...WHO only needs say 10,000 vaccinators to use all million in a week. Wait, Gaza has no power so no refrigeration. Bye-bye vax.
[Jpost] Experts accused Russia of funding pro-Palestinian protests and using the pro-Palestinian cause to promote its own agenda.
Last week, the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Ukraine was targeted by a Russian missile attack. The children’s hospital, which is Ukraine’s largest, sustained significant damage, and two people were killed. The attack was just one element of a deadly Russian strike that killed at least 38 and injured more than 100.
Despite the devastating nature of the hospital attack, the international public reaction was relatively muted. Social media campaigns against Russian aggression in Ukraine, such as #StandWithUkraine and #StopRussianAggression, have seen widespread engagement, but no specific campaign was created to address the children’s hospital attack.
This muted response stands in stark contrast to online activism regarding the Israel-Hamas war. In May, an AI-generated image of tents arranged to spell “All Eyes on Rafah" went viral, with over 44 million shares on Instagram and nearly 28 million on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. The post was inspired by the Israeli military’s action in the southern Gazan city of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians were then sheltering.
Throughout the past 10 months of war between Israel and Gaza, 10.7 million posts have been made on Instagram with the hashtag #FreePalestine. In comparison, only 1.9 million posts were made with the hashtag #StandWithUkraine during the two years of war in Ukraine.
Ukrainian media expert and political analyst Alexey Kovzhun explained that contrast by noting that the public has gotten used to images of Ukrainian suffering.
“Ukraine is gradually being perceived by our allies similarly to Syria,” he told The Media Line. “People are getting used to it: ‘Ukraine was shelled by rockets. Another Russian atrocity, nothing special.’”
He said that the decreasing public outrage over Russian war crimes is a predictable phenomenon.
“It’s human nature. As we know, the death of one person is a tragedy, but the death of a million is a statistic,” he said.
RUSSIA'S ALLEGED CONNECTIONS TO HAMAS
Kovzhun also accused Russia of funding and training Hamas members and funding pro-Palestinian protests.
“When we see such a coordinated chorus, flags of the same size, and professionally printed posters, we understand that this is a simulation of an organic, natural protest. And I am deeply convinced that behind these European, American, and ostensibly pro-Palestinian demonstrations are Russian funds,” he said.
According to political scientist Leonid Goldenberg, the different narratives regarding Gaza and Ukraine can be traced back to the Cold War. Leftists understand Ukraine and Israel both to be “proxies of American hegemony,” he told The Media Line.
The Russian narrative paints the West as hypocritical for allowing Israel to bomb Gaza but sanctioning Russia for merely “saving its own people,” he said, noting that discourse of this sort “fits well into the left’s anticolonial agenda.”
“Dislike for Israel in this narrative has existed for many years,” Goldenberg continued. “The Western audience learned about Ukraine only recently, unlike the well-known Israeli-Palestinian conflict. When the war in Israel occurred, Russia, along with its allies—primarily China, Iran, and Qatar—began using already established anti-Israel narratives.”
Russian journalist and historian Maxim Kuzakhmetov also described a double standard between responses to the war in Ukraine and the war in Gaza. He condemned the international indifference toward the hostages still held in Gaza and criticized the structure of the UN, which allows Russia a permanent seat on the Security Council.
In context: After the fall of the Soviet Union, which had been actively involved in the UN’s establishment, Russia took over the Soviet Union’s role in the organization.
“It was an utterly insane decision to transfer all the powers of the Soviet Union to Russia,” Kuzakhmetov told The Media Line. “It’s absurd. All 15 former Soviet republics should have had to join the UN anew, but Russia became the successor state, and this legacy, this sad history, continues to this day.”
Because of Russia’s veto power, the UN has little influence, he explained.
“Russia is an obvious terrorist state that befriends Iran, Hamas, the Taliban, and North Korea,” Kuzakhmetov said. “In contrast, the helpless Western world is still trying to negotiate with someone while Ukrainians are paying the price.”
Kovzhun also criticized the UN for its decision to meet with the Taliban even after Taliban representatives demanded that no Afghan women be allowed to participate in the meeting.
Goldenberg said that some UN organizations have been implicated in financing terrorism and that the organization is often biased in its assessment of humanitarian crises.
He expressed concern about maintaining the UN’s legitimacy.
"When the majority of countries in the UN are neither democratic nor liberal but have the same voting rights as everyone else, how can we protect the integrity of democracy and liberalism?” he asked.
[JPost] Too late The source explained that the communications between the two sides at the security level have been ongoing since October 7.
The Biden administration was reportedly ready to sign a nuclear agreement with Iran, according to a Friday exclusive report by the Arabic-language Kuwaiti daily newspaper Al-Jarida.
The report claims that an informed source in the Iranian Supreme National Security Council confirmed that US officials a few days ago on Tuesday said the Biden administration is willing to negotiate a return to the nuclear agreement concluded in 2015 after introducing minor amendments to it.
The source explained to Al-Jarida that the communications between the two sides at the security level have been ongoing since October 7, and have recently become almost daily, and even several times during the same day to avoid a clash between them in the context of the Gaza war.
The two sides had decided to return to an unwritten agreement between them before Hamas attacked Israel, the report described, as a meeting at the political level between them was cut due to the death of President Ebrahim Raisi.
Iranian officials in the report say that Biden is ready to sign such an agreement before the end of his term in November, but he wants the Iranians to immediately return to implementing their commitments in the nuclear deal and come to agreements on a multitude of issues, such as what Tehran should do with the highly enriched uranium and the advanced centrifuges that were recently produced, in addition to Biden guaranteeing Iran regarding the possibility of Trump winning the presidency and not withdrawing from the agreement, as he did in 2018.
The source mentions an Iranian official insisting that the United States' return to the nuclear deal must have restrictions such as Washington not being able to benefit from the "trigger clause" that would enable the return of all international sanctions on the Islamic Republic, which is what Trump tried to do after withdrawing from the previous agreement concluded by former President Barack Obama.
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Iranians have insisted that all centrifuges and enriched uranium must remain in storage under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in addition to demanding the inclusion of a new clause that allows Tehran to extract these materials and return to its current steps in the event that any member withdraws from the treaty, or Washington delays in implementing its pledges to lift economic sanctions against Iran.
A source told Al-Jarida that the Iranians are demanding security guarantees from the White House that these sensitive warehouses will not be targeted if their location is revealed to the IAEA.
The US also demanded a secondary agreement that included pledges to stop attacks by Tehran's allies on Israel and American forces in the region to which they received a negative reaction.
The source told the report that Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, were informed of the American offer, expecting a response after Iran's president-elect takes the constitutional oath at the end of next week.
This came days after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that Iran was capable of producing material for a nuclear bomb "within a week or two," reiterating his country's commitment to preventing Tehran from doing so.
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[RT] Sixty percent of low-income countries have been economically punished by the US, an in-depth report by the outlet has claimed
A third of the world’s nations are under some form of US sanctions, and bureaucrats in Washington can no longer handle the workload of maintaining such a complex web of economic penalties, the Washington Post has reported.
When the US Treasury Department first started to use economic sanctions against Washington’s adversaries in the 1990s, its Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) worked from a single conference room, and according to a Washington Post feature published on Thursday, was primarily responsible for tasks like “blocking American sales of Cuban cigars.”
The use of sanctions exploded after the 9/11 attacks in 2001, however, and the US now imposes three times more sanctions than any other country or international organization. These penalties target “a third of all nations with some kind of financial penalty on people, properties or organizations,” the newspaper noted, including 60% of the world’s low-income countries.
In the US, this sanctions explosion has created chaos at OFAC’s offices, two anonymous sources told the newspaper. According to the sources, OFAC struggles to process “tens of thousands of requests from the private sector,” as companies seek to avoid criminal charges for sanctions violations, while the White House has reportedly outsourced decisions on what individuals and entities to sanction to nonprofits and think-tanks.
Meanwhile, demands by OFAC staffers to rein in the use of sanctions have been shot down by higher-ups at both the Treasury and State departments, the Post’s sources claimed.
“The abuse of this system is ridiculous, but it’s not Treasury or OFAC’s fault,” Caleb McCarry, a former State Department official, told the newspaper. “They want relief from this relentless, never-ending, you-must-sanction-everybody-and-their-sister, sometimes literally, system,” he continued, adding that “it is way, way overused, and it’s become out of control.”
US Sanctions often fail to achieve their intended goal. George W. Bush’s sanctions on North Korea failed to stop Pyongyang developing nuclear weapons; Barack Obama’s sanctions on Syria failed to remove Bashar Assad from power; Donald Trump’s sanctions on Venezuela failed to incite the overthrow of Nicolas Maduro; and Joe Biden’s sanctions on Russia – numbering more than 6,000 in two years – have failed to bring an end to Russia’s military operation in Ukraine.
While a major power like Russia has weathered these sanctions and continued to grow its economy, other nations have not been so fortunate. Starvation has been an ever-present threat in North Korea since the late 1990s, while Trump’s sanctions on Venezuela caused a major economic contraction and have been blamed for the deaths of up to 40,000 people between 2017 and 2019.
[RT] The agency has become openly partisan and serves political ends, whistleblowers have said.
J. Edgar Hoover was said to have files on everyone of importance in Washington, DC, and as many radicals as he could find. Nonetheless, I think he would have been appalled by what his successors choose to do.
Many US state and local law enforcement agencies are refusing to share vital information with the Federal Bureau of Investigation due to concerns that it has become partisan and politicized, according to a whistleblower report submitted to Congress.
The 230-page report was compiled by an alliance of retired and active-duty agents and analysts, who spoke to more than 30 “independent, highly credible” sources across the US.
“They are not only reluctant to work with the FBI but reportedly have decided to no longer share actionable, substantive information on criminal and other intelligence-related activity” with the Bureau, because they believe it “has been operating as a partisan federal agency motivated by a political agenda” in recent years, the report’s authors said.
The report’s existence was first reported on Wednesday in the New York Post. The document itself was sent to the House Judiciary and House Oversight committees and posted online.
The group described a “crisis of confidence” in FBI-led task forces and a “disturbing loss of trust” in the Bureau as a whole, even as Director Christopher Wray testified to Congress about a “complex threat environment” that is unprecedented in his career.
Most sources pointed to the FBI’s response to the January 6, 2021 riot at the US Capitol and the August 2022 raid on former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago.
One of the sources described the FBI’s behavior as “that of a Third World country” and argued it “should be dismantled and its personnel prosecuted and given long prison sentences.”
Pressure to assist with “J6” cases has led to a belief that the Bureau is driven by a “partisan, political agenda.” One source said they could not understand why the FBI was not going after any other groups with the same fervor. Another said that local officers feared they could be targeted “because of their love for the US” and perceived as “domestic terrorists” based on how they vote.
Newer FBI agents “do not bother to conceal their distaste” for traditional political or religious views and openly identify themselves as “woke or liberal,” the head of a multi-agency task force said. Hired on the basis of “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) guidelines, they are “completely worthless” and “the worst batch of people,” the whistleblowers said.
The FBI academy at Quantico, Virginia at which new agents are trained “promotes a cult of narcissism” and arrogant superiority, while being intolerably politicized, the report claimed. Meanwhile, the Bureau’s Security Division has been abusing the security clearance process to purge conservative-leaning agents from its ranks.
The whistleblowers urged Congress to force the resignation of Wray as “an extreme measure of last resort” and the only way to restore the Bureau’s reputation.
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Depends. When I worked for the bank law enforcement and the FBI worked hand in hand and very well to track down robbers, identify theft, elder abuse, etc.
When it comes to investigating normal citizens and possible ties to, for example, sovereign citizens (their uncle/cousin/brother is fucking nuts) they don't trust them at all as they have a tendency to seize property and guns first and then figure out shit later.
Normal grunt work, trust. Politically tinged work, not a fucking chance.
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The entire DOJ is suspect. Locals know if the feds show up they will take all the credit if it goes well and publicly blame the local LEOs publicly id it goes bad.
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My expectations of justice, competency and quality have been lowered for all levels of law enforcement.
[SDUT] "Students"
South Korean authorities are reportedly investigating three Chinese students they say used a drone in late June to take images of the San Diego-based aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt while it was anchored in Busan harbor.
The alleged filming occurred June 23 and June 25 in an area where the students also had a view of South Korea’s Naval Operations Command, according to the South China Morning Post.
It is unlawful to take photographs and video in and around military bases in South Korea, which has been a U.S. ally for 71 years.
The 1,092-foot Theodore Roosevelt stopped by Busan shortly before leaving on joint exercises with South Korean and Japanese warships.
In recent days, the "TR," as it’s widely known, has been operating in the Gulf of Aden, not far from the Rea Sea, according to the U.S. Naval Institute fleet tracker.
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...Having been there, I can assure you that the ROKs take their security very, very seriously. And unlike here, there were certainly consequences for the poor SOB on whose watch this happened.
[RT] The Pentagon reportedly created hundreds of fake social media profiles to convince Filipinos that the Sinovac shot was “fake”
The US military has admitted that it ran a clandestine campaign aimed at discrediting China’s Sinovac vaccine in the Philippines and across Asia and the Middle East, Reuters has reported.
I didn’t need anti-China propaganda to distrust the product of Chinese labs.
“It is true that the [Department of Defense] did message Philippines audiences questioning the safety and efficacy of Sinovac,” Pentagon officials wrote to their Filipino counterparts in a letter dated June 25 and reported by Reuters on Friday.
According to the document, the Pentagon admitted that it “made some missteps in our COVID related messaging” but assured Manilla that it halted the operation in late 2021 and has since “vastly improved oversight and accountability of information operations.”
The operation in question began in 2020, after China announced it would distribute Sinovac shots in the Philippines free of charge. In an effort to counter this public relations boon for Beijing, the Pentagon ordered its psychological operations center in Florida to create at least 300 fake social media profiles to disparage the Chinese vaccine, a Reuters investigation revealed last month.
“COVID came from China and the VACCINE also came from China, don’t trust China!” read a typical post created by the psyops team, while another stated: “From China – PPE, Face Mask, Vaccine: FAKE. But the Coronavirus is real.”
Military officials involved in the campaign knew that their goal was not to protect Filipinos from an unsafe vaccine, but to “drag China through the mud,” a senior officer told Reuters.
The propaganda campaign soon spread beyond the Philippines, according to the report. Muslim audiences across Central Asia and the Middle East were told that Sinovac contained pork gelatin, and was therefore “haram,” or forbidden under Islamic law. The campaign forced Sinovac to release a statement insisting that the shot was “manufactured free of porcine materials.”
The Pentagon has not publicly acknowledged the letter to the Filipino military, and the governments of the US and the Philippines refused to comment on the matter to Reuters.
Last month, however, a Pentagon spokesperson told the news agency that the US military “uses a variety of platforms, including social media, to counter those malign influence attacks aimed at the US, allies, and partners,” and claimed that Washington was only responding to a Chinese “disinformation campaign to falsely blame the US for the spread of Covid-19.”
The Chinese Foreign Ministry told Reuters that it has long maintained that the US spreads disinformation about China.
In the Philippines, Reuters’ report prompted an investigation by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In a hearing last month, Senator Imee Marcos, who leads the committee, called the Pentagon campaign “evil, wicked, dangerous, [and] unethical,” and suggested that Manilla investigate whether it can take legal action against Washington.
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Violating everything they said China was going to do.
Harming human health and science itself for a temporary political advantage. these people aren't just the enemies of America, they are the enemies of the entire human race.
[RT] Tehran is also planning terrorist attacks at the Games, the Israeli foreign minister has claimed
Iran orchestrated last week's attacks against France’s high-speed rail network, which paralyzed traffic ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on Friday.
“The sabotage of railway infrastructure across France ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympics was planned and executed under the influence of Iran’s axis of evil and radical Islam,” Katz wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
Katz added that he warned French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejournef that “based on information held by Israel, Iranians are planning terrorist attacks against the Israeli delegation and all Olympic participants.”
“Increased preventive measures must be taken to thwart their plot,” he wrote.
The French national railway operator, SNCF, said on Friday that arsonists set fire to signal boxes along the lines connecting Paris to several major cities, including Lille, Bordeaux, and Strasbourg. The “massive attack” disrupted traffic ahead of the Games and led to delays and cancelations, affecting 800,000 passengers over the weekend, the operator said.
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said on Friday that the “acts of sabotage on SNCF facilities were carried out in a planned and coordinated manner.” He wrote on X that intelligence agencies and police were mobilized to find the perpetrators.
Sejourne reiterated that Israeli athletes are “welcome in France,” despite the tensions surrounding the war in Gaza and pro-Palestinian protests. France 24 reported that the Israeli delegation was given 24-hour security with an enhanced police escort.
According to The Telegraph, Israel will dispatch armed Shin Bet agents to Paris to provide additional security for its athletes and Olympic officials.
High-speed train traffic in France was disrupted on Friday, just hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics following a series of “malicious acts” including arson and cable theft, according to the country’s state railway operator SNCF.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the company said at least three TGV lines had been damaged, including the Atlantic, Northern and Eastern routes. A group of saboteurs set fires and stole cables at the Courtalain, Pagny-sur-Moselle, and Croisilles junctions of the high-speed network. Another attack was foiled in Verginy on the South-Eastern line.
The operator said “a large number of trains are being diverted or canceled,” while the company’s CEO Jean-Pierre Farandou estimated that at least 800,000 travelers would be affected by the disruption. In a statement, SNCF asked all travelers who can postpone their trips to do so or use the classic (non-high-speed) lines until TGV traffic is restored. Repairs have already started, but are expected to continue until at least Monday.
“It’s big. There are hundreds of wires to reconnect one by one, which control safety devices. Then we have to test. It’s a goldsmith’s work,” Matthieu Chabanel, head of maintenance at the SNCF, told Le Figaro.
Transport Minister Patrice Vergriete said the attacks were deliberate, as “everything was done at the same time” with the perpetrators’ “vans” found on sites. So far, however, nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack, and no arrests have been made.
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There was nothing Olympic in the play, except the size of that dude. And since they were all in in inclusion I saw they had a young boy up there, I guess France and the Olympic committee support man boy love these days!
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...seductively...
I do not think that word means what you think it means...
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Off the "no ALA people read Rantburg anyway" pile...
Librarian Xan had a plan
That was cryptic, elliptic, and ran,
In bland binding, [rude nudes]
"Expose kids to trans dudes."
After parents took years
To decode it, poor dears...
"It's a fookbook," they mooed! [To Perve Man]
[YNet] Protest sign 'We are all hostages' is a selfish expression of political motives, exploiting personal and national trauma, implying everyone is a victim of something—anything the protester opposes, in this case, the government. Our monkeys always imitate your. At least, the scum vermin, don't dare protest the fate of poor abused Gazooks, yet.
No, we are not all hostages. There are 115 men, women, children and elderly who were brutally kidnapped from their homes on October 7, and they are the true hostages. Neither the sign-holder nor any other Israeli citizen can understand what it is like to be in Gaza’s tunnels, in a Gazan family's home, fearing rape by a terrorist or living with the existential fear that today might be their last day on Earth Most of them are dead. Hamas' SOP is to store bodies for later exchange.
The argument so far has been that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's handling of the hostage deal is driven by political motives—a legitimate claim, with some logic, given that every public official has a political motive, and the question is whether it aligns with the national interest. That is for the public to decide.
Regarding the current deal, it does not serve the national interest optimally. First, the hostages: Israel does not know which hostages will be released. Will we get all the female soldiers? The elderly? What about the soldiers? Do you think we’re in a reality show like Big Brother versus The Amazing Race? Wait for Sinwar's reality show—who gets left behind.
And if we give up so much in Phase A, what will we give in Phases B and C? Here, too, the script is predictable: we will get hostages in Phase A, but logic and experience tell us we will not reach Phases B and C. Sinwar will drag out the time and the nerves as only he can.
From a security perspective, during the cease-fire, the terror organizations in the north and south will use the time to arm themselves and rebuild their forces. Hamas will regain strength in areas where it has lost it and return to regions from which Israel expelled the terrorists. This will make it harder to reach the remaining hostages—thus, the deal, as currently presented, does not meet the national interest in terms of hostage return or security. The only way to maximize the number of hostages we get back and the state's security interests is through increased military pressure and deterrence.
If Netanyahu were driven by political interests, as supporters of the deal claim, and not by national and security interests, he would accept the deal. After all, this is what the protesters, the street burners and the road blockers are demanding—now, now, now. No matter the outcome or which hostages remain behind. If Netanyahu wants peace from the streets, from Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and from the opposition, he should accept the deal and ignore security considerations and the hostages.
But Netanyahu also knows that the protests are not really about the deal or the hostages. This is just the same long-standing protest—first, the protests calling to indict Netanyahu, then to oust him, then the anti-judicial reform protests and are now the hostage protests. Very well funded protests and ads.
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Amazing how The Main Stream Media, now more like National Socialist-Democrat anti-Semitic mouthpieces. Have flipped the Hamas Terrorist genocidal attack, of murder, torture, rape and hostage taking. Into Israel being the bad person. Because, Israel had decided no more constant "tit-for-tat" attack efforts. But to eliminate a genocidal a well funded and supported terrorist group like Hamas and recover the civilian hostages, or at least their bodies.
QUESTION:What if a Terrorist group, say, seized the CNN, MS-NBC buildings, or say just The View?
Would the other Liberal Media outlets or the Democrat Party vilify CNN, MS-NBC or The View's Owners for rescuing their people and seeking out and eliminating the terrorists to free their people?
We must remember Gaza is not innocent.
* A 100+ miles of tunnels did not get dug overnight and go unreported for years.
* 1000's of Genocidal Terrorists did not get fed, armed, transported and housed out of the clear blue sky.
* 100's of Rocket launch locations were housed in public locations and private homes.
* Plus, HAMAS' well documented history of hiding in Public Hospitals, Refugee camps, attacking food & medical supplies convoys and other civilian locations. All of which also were seen by likely 1000's of Gazans. But never reported due to their support of the Terrorists.
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NN2N1, Gaza is not innocent, you are correct. Neither is the consolidated efforts of Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthi's, and the ring leader Iran. In my opinion, Netanyahu's responses were responsibly executed and continue to be measured. I do feel for the people that are suffering, but Hamas is a Cancer that they, the suffering, voted into power. They are getting what they voted for.
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QUESTION:What if a Terrorist group, say, seized the CNN, MS-NBC buildings, or say just The View?
The View and Joy Reid would be quickly thrown in the ocean.
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"And I made all that bread for those men,"
Clucked Joy Reid to a terrorist friend,
As outside in the street
All the peacock elite
Said, "No ransom for brittle Red Hen!"
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I have read what the hand sign is supposed to mean. I don’t know whether the characterization of its meaning is accurate as I don’t participate in those groups. Regardless, it is not a normal hand sign.
Short of finding out that Cardin has some palsy, I will assume that the hand jive was intentional and that Cardin was purposefully on camera. Cardin represents some type of evil. He will remain in a decision making position until his constituency or God removes him. I will suspect that anyone associated with him is working for evil as well.
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TW, I did click on the headline and saw the video.. I was referring to the twitter link as it seems to refer back to rantburg.
I now realize that both links go to the same video.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The Pentagon is alarmed by data on patrols of Russian and Chinese bombers over the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska. This was stated by US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
“These relations (between Moscow and Beijing – Ed.) are a constant concern for us,” Associated Press quotes him as saying.
He said the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) "detected, tracked and intercepted" two Russian Tu-95s and two Chinese H-6s.
According to Austin, the planes did not enter American airspace, but only approached to a distance of about 320 km from the coast, but were still within the air defense zone.
The article notes that this was the first recorded instance of Chinese bombers flying within the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone. It is also the first time that aircraft from the two countries took off from the same base in northeastern Russia.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on July 25, the Russian Aerospace Forces and the Chinese Air Force conducted a joint air patrol. As specified by the Defense Ministry, the air group included Tu-95MS strategic missile carriers of the Russian Aerospace Forces and Hong-6K strategic bombers of the PLA Air Force.
The aircraft carried out air patrols over the waters of the Chukchi and Bering Seas and the northern part of the Pacific Ocean. The ministry emphasized that the aircraft did not violate the airspace of foreign states during the patrol; the air group acted strictly in accordance with the provisions of international law. They were accompanied by Su-30SM and Su-35S fighters of the Russian Aerospace Forces.
The duration of the joint flight exceeded five hours. The event was held as part of the implementation of the military cooperation plan for 2024.
NORAD reported on July 24 that two Russian Aerospace Force bombers and two Chinese Air Force aircraft were spotted in international airspace off the coast of Alaska.
In June 2023, the Russian Aerospace Forces' Tu-95MS strategic missile carriers and the Chinese Air Force's Hong-6K strategic bombers conducted a joint air patrol in the Asia-Pacific region. The flight lasted about eight hours, with fighter cover provided by Russian Su-35S, Su-30SM and Chinese Jian-11B.
[GEO.TV] An Israeli military commander said Friday that troops in the country's north were preparing for "a decisive offensive" against Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... 's Hezbollah after months of deadly cross-border exchanges.
Israeli forces have traded near-daily fire with Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... ally Hezbollah since the ongoing war in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip.
Major General Ori Gordin, Israel's commanding officer in the north, told troops that "we have already eliminated more than 500 holy warriors in Lebanon, the great majority of them from Hezbollah", an army statement said.
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[ARABNEWS] Britannia’s former defense secretary Sir Gavin Williamson has urged Foreign Secretary David Lammy to listen to calls for the UK to recognize Somaliland ...Republic of Somaliland is an unrecognised sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, recognised internationally as a de jure part of Somalia. It is located in the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden with approximately 5.7 million residents as of 2021. The capital and largest city is Hargeisa. The government regards itself as the successor state to British Somaliland, which united from 1960 to 1991 with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic. Under the Siad Barre regime, Somaliadestroyed ninety percent of Hargeisa Per international law, once you're in, you gotta stay in, no matter how bad it smells.... as a sovereign nation, The Independent reported on Friday.
"This is an important symbolic step and I hope the foreign secretary listens to the growing cross-party voices on this matter and acts to move UK policy to recognize Somaliland, so recognizing the reality on the ground," he said.
Lammy is being pushed to review UK foreign policy toward a potential key ally in the Red Sea conflict with the Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s. The former British colony is not officially recognized by any international power despite functioning as an independent state since 1991 when it broke away from Somalia following a civil war.
Earlier this week, the Lord Mayor of Liverpool Richard Kemp said: "Liverpool council unanimously agreed a motion calling upon HMG (His Majesty’s Government) to recognize the former British Protectorate of Somaliland as an independent country free from Somalia. The Somaliland representative to the UK and local Somaliland residents were delighted."
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The US-British alliance launched on Friday a new aerial aggression on Hodeidah province, western Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... .
A security source in the province said that the US British aircraft conducted four Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on the Kamaran Island.
On Thursday, the aggression aircraft bombed Hodeidah International Airport with five airstrikes.
The US-UK aggressive airstrikes on Yemen continue in clear violation of Yemeni illusory sovereignty, as an attempt to deter Yemen from its decision to prevent Israeli ships from passing through the Red Sea in support of the Paleostinian people in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, who are facing a genocidal war by the savage Zionist entity.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, released on Thursday video footage showing their fighters targeting Zionist enemy vehicles on the axes of incursion in the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
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their fighters targeting Zionist enemy
And immediately becoming civilians (every dead Gazan is a civilian)
All 180,000 of whom were not killed by Israel, so they should be grateful instead of whining about it.
[GEO.TV] More than 180,000 Paleostinians have fled fierce fighting around the southern 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 Hamas with 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... city of Khan Yunis in four days, the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... said Friday.
Recent "intensified hostilities" in the Khan Yunis area, more than nine months into the Israel-Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... war, have fuelled "new waves of internal displacement across Gaza", said the UN humanitarian agency, OCHA.
It said "about 182,000 people" have been displaced from central and eastern Khan Yunis between Monday and Thursday, and hundreds are "stranded in eastern Khan Yunis".
The Israeli military on Monday ordered the evacuation of parts of the southern city, announcing its forces would "forcefully operate" there, including in an area previously declared a safe humanitarian zone.
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Globalists are the real enemy (of the Humankind) - Muslims/Illegals are just (that they imagine) their tools.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Jill Biden
…soon we won’t have to read about her ever again…
drowned her sorrows in a glass of champagne and a night of partying with Serena Williams, Charlize Theron, Mick Jagger, and Zendaya after husband Joe Biden exited the presidential race.
The first lady, who is leading the U.S. delegation for the opening ceremony of the Olympics Games, joined the A-list stars at the Prelude to the 2024 Olympic Games party on Thursday night.
She was spotted in a white pantsuit chatting with guests at the event. Biden is on the cover of the August edition of Vogue. Apparently the couch and drapery clothing is only for us plebes
Guests were surprised and delighted to bump into the first lady, Vogue noted in its write up and photos of the event.
Held at the Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris, Vogue editor Anna Wintour and Louis Vuitton men's creative director Pharrell William welcomed guests inside ahead of Friday's opening ceremony.
French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte were also in attendance along with LeBron James, Novak Djokovic, Ian Thorpe, Tyrese Haliburton, Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Soop Dogg, Tyla, Jeremy Allen White, Queen Latifah, and Alan Cumming.
The party was organized by Vogue in partnership with the luxury goods company LVMH, which is major sponsor of the games.
The gushing continues about expensive but uninteresting people doing boring things.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … as new detail emerges about FBI raid on her home.
Feds who raided Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao's home last month left with a phone belonging to her and her partner Andre Jones, it's been revealed.
The fact was first reported by The San Francisco Chronicle, after it was already revealed that agents left with the mayor's cellphone and her personal computer.
Within five days, a federal grand jury issued a subpoena to the Bay Area city that demanded all 'documents and communications related to Andre Jones' be turned over.
They also requested all 'calendar entries or records' of meetings that included either one of the two since June 2022 - five months before Thao, 39, was even elected.
More than a month later, feds have yet to say why they are interested in the pair, but the seizure of Jones' cellphone raise questions about the potential involvement of a man who played a small but significant role in the mayor's political career.
The spotlight on Jones had already widened in recent weeks, as Thao's former chief of staff, Renia Webb, publicly accused him of corruption.
Not offering any other detail, the ex-staffer said she had spoken to the FBI as part of their investigation as the subpoenas hinting at his involvement were sent.
A source with knowledge of the investigation, meanwhile, confided to the Chronicle Friday that investigators took Jones' phone.
A second insider insisted Jones - who lives at the home with Thao - stopped using his phone shortly after the raids June 20.
He instead switched to a new number, they said - asking to remain anonymous as feds' probe into the political power couple continues.
Jones reportedly would not comment when approached by the Chronicle - as was the case with his attorney.
Despite working in politics for decades - once as Oakland city Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan's chief of staff - Jones's life and political career are surprisingly shrouded in mystery, with little information available about him publicly.
Asked who is representing Jones, Thao's personal attorney, Jeff Tsai, deferred to attorney Walter Riley, who has not spoken on his client to the press.
Thao, meanwhile, declined to comment to the Chronicle as they reported on the records requests and the one for Jones's phone, as the mayor faces a recall attempt less than two years after taking office.
She has questioned the timing and legitimacy of the raids conducted by the FBI and US Postal Service as a result, as her attorney continues to exude confidence that she is not the target of their investigation.
Thao has also said Jones is not involved in her administration nor on the city payroll.
'He's hardly even been in my office,' she told KPIX this month.
A little more than a month ago, Webb, who served as Thao's chief of staff for 18 months, aired her belief that feds were looking into the longtime political staffer who fathered a now-11-year-old daughter with the Oakland mayor.
Webb - credited with running much of Thao's office and her campaign - accused Jones of classic pay-to-play corruption, including trying to lobby for jobs for Thao's donors and allies.
She said Jones' behavior bordered on ridiculous, with a stunt where he tried to involve his ex-wife in Thao's swearing in ceremony as mayor being the last straw before she quit.
That incident is said to have left Thao in tears, as she billed herself as a success story after surviving a bout of homelessness in the Bay Area as a single mom with her now-17-year-old son.
Her parents immigrated to the US from Laos during the Hmong genocide in the 80s, settling in Stockton as vegetable farmers.
It was only after this that Thao was born. She left home 17 years later after growing up with nine brothers and sisters.
In her 20s, she found herself in an abusive relationship, forcing her to flee to the streets while six months pregnant with her son.
For several years, she raised him while staying at a friend's home.
Later, Thao met Jones while serving as an intern under Kaplan who was elected to the City Council in 2008, and had hired Jones as chief of staff for her office.
Jones would leave this post in 2016, before being appointed a year later as assistant chief of external and intergovernmental affairs at the California Bureau of Cannabis Control.
Thao, meanwhile, took his place as chief of staff, before winning a council seat in 2018.
Jones went on to leave his state job in 2021, the same year he ran for a seat on the Democratic Party’s coordinating committee in District 18, which includes Oakland and Alameda, as part of the Progressive & Labor Unity Slate.
He won - though the role is unpaid. He made contributions to Thao in 2018 and Kaplan in 2020.
It’s unclear what Jones has done professionally since.
Earlier this month, he grabbed a reporter’s business card from the front door before shutting it behind him, the Chronicle reported - after feds also stormed multiple properties belonging members of a politically connected family who run the city’s contracted recycling company.
Still, the nature of the investigation remains unknown, as the recall effort continues.
Back in March, the In-N-Out Burger in Oakland became the chain's first-ever location to close because of rampant crime in the area, as a Subway and a Denny's did as well.
The recall comes as residents continue to complain over rising rates of crime and homelessness - phenomena the mayor had promised to address.
Jones, meanwhile, has also tried his hand at acting, with three credits for low-budget movies released in 2003 and 2004.
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So what we got here is 'Chinatown' meets Black Lives Matter, in Cali.
Of course they're crooks.
I notice that a lot of the federal law agencies seem to very interested in going back to 'normal' law enforcement these days.
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I notice that a lot of the federal law agencies seem to very interested in going back to 'normal' law enforcement these days.
[GEO.TV] Security forces killed a terrorist during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's North Wazoo district carried out on the reported presence of murderous Moslems, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement on Friday.
"On 26 July 24, the security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation in North Waziristan District on the reported presence of terrorists," said the army's media wing.
During the conduct of the operation, "Khawarji terrorist Razzaq was sent to hell" after an intense exchange of gunfire, according to the statement.
The terrorist was a "close associate of Khawarji Gul Bahadur" and was actively involved in numerous terrorist activities in the area, including the target-killing of Malik Sher Muhammad, grandson of Faqir of Ippi on January 6, 2023 as well as the facilitation of a suicide kaboom attack in North Waziristan on March 16, 2024 which resulted in shahadat of seven brave soldiers, the statement added.
The ISPR further said that sanitisation operation was launched to eliminate any other terrorist found in the area as the security forces of Pakistain remain determined to eradicate the menace of terrorism from the country.
A day earlier, forces killed a terrorist in yet another IBO conducted in Balochistan's Hoshab district where they engaged in a shootout with the terrorists, the ISPR had said.
Earlier this week, security forces killed three terrorists, thwarting their attempt to infiltrate Pakistain via the Afghanistan border in district Dir of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP), as per the ISPR.
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[LEADERSHIP.NG] No fewer than 125 Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Death Eaters and financiers have been convicted in the resumed mass trial held over two days in Kainji town, Niger State.
They were convicted of charges bordering on terrorism, terrorism financing, rendering material support, and cases relating to International Criminal Court (ICC) criminality.
The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), is superintending over the trial in conjunction with the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA).
The trials, held under Giwa Project Kanji Phase Five, between Tuesday and Wednesday, were before five Federal High Court judges led by Justice Binta Nyako.
Others were Justices Joyce Abdulmalik, Emeka Nwite, Obiora Egwuatu, and Mobolaji Olajuwon.
The prosecution team was led by the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) of the Federation, Mohammed Babadoko Abubakar, while the defence team was led by Mr Abdulfatai Bakre from the Legal Aids Council.
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I wonder whether the space station had a kit with some emergency tooth brushes and low quality razors onboard. Definitely, will be tossing that underwear unless the bids are high enough on EBay.
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Hold o-n, people! Not their fault! Point fingers at the Boeing DEI "engineers".
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Bear in mind, there's not a problem with the Boeing ship, all is OK. And NASA just contracted with SpaceX to crash the whole thing.
The middle part of this story is missing.
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I really liked Mystery Science Theater
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[GEO.TV] Former US president Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... on Friday hit back against suggestions his wound from an liquidation attempt was caused by "shrapnel," posting a letter from his former doctor saying it was almost certainly due to a bullet.
"There is absolutely no evidence that it was anything other than a bullet," wrote Ronny Jackson, now a Republican congressman from Texas, on Trump's social media platform Truth Social. Trump reposted the message.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) chief Christopher Wray told US politicians on Wednesday that there was some doubt "whether or not it's a bullet or shrapnel that, you know, that hit his ear."
Trump was maimed on his right ear at a campaign rally on July 13 in Pennsylvania, surviving what the FBI has termed an liquidation attempt when a gunman fired eight bullets at him during a speech.
There has been no confirmation of the nature of Trump's wound from either medical, law enforcement or government authorities, and Wray's comments were the first on-the-record details from a bigwig on the matter.
Two rally attendees were seriously maimed in the attack, and a 50-year-old Pennsylvania firefighter was rubbed out, according to officials. The gunman was killed by a US Secret Service sniper.
Look at that — mockery across the internet gets results.
[DAILYCALLER] The FBI clarified Friday that a bullet struck former President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election... during an attempt against his life in a rally on July 13.
An attempted assassin present near a Trump rally in Pennsylvania on July 13 opened fire and injured the former president before he was neutralized by the Secret Service. FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress on Thursday that there were still "some questions" as to what exactly had struck Trump during the liquidation attempt, whether it was a "bullet or shrapnel," though did not directly mention whether glass fragments could be responsible, a theory that has been used by some in the media.
The FBI confirmed in a statement on Friday that it was indeed a bullet that hit Trump.
"What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the dear departed subject’s rifle," the FBI told the Daily Caller News Foundation in a statement.
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Given the level of corrupincompetence in the govt it's hard to know where to start. I'd suggest starting with USSS if you want to see Trump make it to January. So where to start with the USSS?
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The iconic picture of bloody Trump rolled up Joe Biden in the polls like a steamroller. The shrapnel idea is a lie intended to mitigate the damage caused by that image. Wray proposed the lie in official fashion and then it was rescinded. This passed the lie baton to The View to perpetuate as if Wray never took it back. The View will mobilize the army of stupid people by periodically repeating the lie which will project the tendrils of propaganda into social media via their army of stupid minions.
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[Breitbart] KnowBe4, a prominent cybersecurity firm, recently uncovered a sophisticated infiltration attempt by a North Korean “threat actor” who posed as a remote software engineer on their internal IT team. The North Korean spy, after being hired, immediately began uploading malware to the company’s systems.
CyberScoop reports that KnowBe4, a leading cybersecurity firm, has exposed an intricate scheme by a North Korean threat actor who successfully infiltrated the company by posing as a remote software engineer. The incident, detailed in a blog post by KnowBe4’s founder and CEO Stu Sjouwerman, highlights the evolving sophistication of cyber threats and the pressing need for enhanced security measures in hiring processes.
The threat actor managed to bypass KnowBe4’s seemingly thorough interview process, which included background checks, verified references, and four video conference-based interviews. The deception was executed using a valid identity stolen from a U.S.-based individual, further enhanced by the use of a stock image augmented by artificial intelligence.
The ruse began to unravel when KnowBe4’s InfoSec Security Operations Center team detected suspicious activities from the new hire. On July 15, the company flagged malware loaded onto an Apple laptop sent to the remote worker. Simultaneously, the AI-filtered photo used by the imposter was identified by the company’s Endpoint Detection and Response software.
Quick action by the SOC team led to the containment of the fake worker’s systems after they ceased responding to outreach. During a brief 25-minute window, the attacker engaged in various malicious activities, including manipulating session history files, transferring potentially harmful files, and executing unauthorized software. Sjouwerman noted that the attacker utilized a single-board computer Raspberry Pi to download the malware.
Following the incident, KnowBe4 shared its findings with the FBI and Mandiant, a Google-owned cyber firm. Their collaborative investigation concluded that the worker was a fictional persona operating from North Korea.
The sophisticated scam involved connecting the fake employee’s workstation to an “IT mule laptop farm” and using a VPN to work night shifts, creating the illusion of being logged on during normal U.S. business hours. This setup allowed the threat actor to perform actual work while funneling a significant portion of the earnings to North Korea to fund illegal programs.
Despite the intrusion’s complexity, Sjouwerman assured that no illegal access was gained, and no data was compromised or exfiltrated from KnowBe4’s systems. He attributed the incident to a highly sophisticated threat actor who exploited weaknesses in the hiring and background check processes.
[FoxNews] 'Our officer staffing crisis is at the root of our agency's mission readiness,' union chief says
Following the protests at Union Station by anti-Israel agitators defacing federal property in protest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress, a Park Police union is pushing back against criticism that only a few arrests were made.
Thousands of Hamas-sympathizing agitators descended on Washington, D.C., Tuesday, at one point defacing federal monuments with phrases in support of the terrorist group responsible for the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, saying, "Hamas is coming."
Twenty-three people were arrested at the protests, but some have suggested that number should have been higher.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., posted on X, "How many more times are they going to allow leftist degenerates who support terrorism and hate America to vandalize property and attack police? There should have been hundreds of arrests today in D.C. not just 23."
But the U.S. Park Police Labor Committee is pushing back.
"Our officers on the ground did everything they could to protect life and property. In fact, despite having only 29 officers available to mitigate damage — 29! — with no additional help from the Department of the Interior, we processed several arrests for charges ranging from assault on a police officer to destruction of government property," Kenneth Spencer, chairman of the United States Park Police Fraternal Order of Police, said in a statement.
What about that contingent from the NYPD that came specifically to help during this protest? Were they left in headquarters to take care of the extra paperwork?
"That's why it's so disheartening to hear some members of Congress and members of the media, many of whom describe themselves as ‘champions’ of law enforcement, suggesting that officers gave protesters a ‘pass’ or that insufficient arrests were made.
"Nothing could be further from the truth. Anyone who truly cares to understand the problem would see that our officer staffing crisis is at the root of our agency's mission readiness.
Whose bright idea was it that the DC police staffing crisis should be allowed to continue unresolved?
A small unit of 29 officers arrested 10 individuals while being assaulted by a mob of thousands. We simply did not have the staffing or resources to accomplish a mass arrest operation."
At least one demonstrator, whose face was covered, was spotted by Fox News carrying what appeared to be the flag of the terrorist group Hamas while others were heard shouting "Allahu Akbar."
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A perfect example of the Democrat-run Washington cesspool. 29 effectives!
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The US Capitol Police, whose headquarters is two blocks away, has over 2,000 sworn, and patrols the entire areas immediately proximate to Union Station.
I cannot fathom why mutual aid wasn't requested. The USPP and ISCP work together all the time.
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I found myself thinking "I'm glad the US isn't hosting the Olympics in this current climate--there would be almost ZERO effort in making it anything other than a security nightmare."
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … abuse - before the monster flees inside and does the unthinkable.
A suspected pedophile killed himself moments after admitting to watching heinous child porn to a predator hunter who confronted him at his home.
Donald Letcher, 60, was seen on camera describing his viewing habits in graphic detail to Predator Poachers' Alex Rosen.
Rosen coaxed him into admitting his crimes after appearing at his home in Canova, South Dakota.
He then called the cops, but before Letcher could be detained, he went back into his house and shot himself in the head.
'The cop turns his back on him, Letcher goes in the home and we hear a pop,' Rosen explained to talk show host Breanna Morello.
The pedophile hunter said he first connected with Letcher via messaging app Telegram, where the suspect was 'acting pretty sexual' and requesting nude photos of what he believed was a 12-year-old girl.
Rosen explained he got Letcher to admit to viewing child pornography involving children as young as infant age in a bid to secure a conviction, as the state's law was hazy around solicitation of porn from a fictional child.
He was unaware that Letcher had previously been convicted of two counts of sexually molesting his girlfriend’s nine-year-old daughter in Bridgewater in 1995.
However, the charges were overturned due to a technicality and Letcher was exonerated a year later.
It was not his only brush with the law however and in 2022, Letcher was convicted of the hit-and-run of a six-year-old girl.
Letcher was given just 25 days in jail for the offense which occurred while he was drunk behind the wheel.
Rosen posted his interaction with the creep on X, where the video has been viewed more than 18 million times.
He added that although he was talking to a decoy, Letcher was still 'being a predator' by soliciting explicit photos from what he thought was a minor.
'If he's getting off on infants being tortured then screw him,' Rosen said.
Rosen's group is just one of many who engage in anti-pedophile activism and stings such as the one against Letcher.
Although such vigilantism is not illegal, activists can be charged if they break the law in the course of their actions.
In 2021, Illinois pedophile hunter Kyle Swanson was indicted on felony charges of unlawful restraint and obstructing justice over his stings.
The charges were ultimately dropped, but the case highlights the potential legal issues such activists can run into.
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Cell phone cameras and the internet have proliferated this great evil. I don’t think we can estimate the size of the population of active creeps of this flavor and come up with a strategy to jail all of them until January. I suspect that the extent of it will horrify us.
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[REUTERS] At least seven Nigerian soldiers were killed after a mine exploded on a highway in Borno state, the hotbed of a Boko Haram militant insurgency, two vigilante officers said on Friday.
Nigeria faces a raft of security challenges including a long-running Islamist insurgency in the northeast, separatist violence in the southeast, rampant oil theft in the Niger Delta and kidnapping for ransom by criminal gangs.
Shaibu Musa, a local vigilante officer helping to combat the insurgents, said a military vehicle was travelling along the road linking the villages of Monguno and Baga on Thursday when the vehicle detonated an improvised explosive device.
The military did not immediately respond to request for comment on the incident.
Another security official, Isa Bukar, said the explosion occurred on Thursday morning after soldiers on patrol triggered the mine, which killed seven of them.
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[FoxNews] In the world of prosthetics, a groundbreaking advancement is changing the game for individuals with lower-limb amputations.
Researchers at MIT, in collaboration with Brigham and Women's Hospital, have developed a neuroprosthetic system that allows users to control their prosthetic legs using their own nervous systems.
This innovative approach could bring us closer to a future of fully integrated, naturally controlled artificial limbs.
[FoxNews] U.S. forces in the Middle East have destroyed Houthi drones in Yemen in the past 24 hours, the military said Friday.
Separately, forces with the U.S. Central Command destroyed three uncrewed Houthi surface vessels operating of the Yemeni coast, CENTCOM said.
"It was determined these weapons presented an imminent threat to U.S., coalition forces, and merchant vessels in the region," a Centcom statement said. "These actions were taken to protect freedom of navigation and make international waters safer and more secure."
Matt Driscoll, a 43-year-old columnist and opinion editor for The News Tribune (TNT), died unexpectedly at his Tacoma home this Sunday.
Driscoll’s death was announced by his news network.
Driscoll reportedly suffered an apparent medical emergency from which he could not be revived. The official cause of death is yet to be determined, according to TNT.
It was reported that he had received a COVID-19 vaccination.
Driscoll had been vocal about NFL star Aaron Rodgers’ controversial views on COVID-19 vaccines. He accused Rodgers of engaging in "performance art" after the latter warned people about potential side effects of mRNA vaccines.
Rogers "repeated popular conspiracy theories about Covid vaccines, cited a number of discredited sources and claimed he was being ’cancelled’ and ’censored’ for ’doing his own research.’"
According to popular X account, ’Died Suddenly’, "Driscoll also cheered the work of pro-vaxx troll Craig Egan in 2017, while he harassed and bullied the Vaxxed movie tour, which compellingly presented the story of parents whose children developed autism after receiving routine shots after birth."
Journalist Matt Driscoll (43) has died suddenly after proudly getting vaccinated and promoting the shot through his reporting in Washington State.
Driscoll accused Aaron Rogers of "performance art" after the NFL star was cancelled for warning people of the dangerous side effects... pic.twitter.com/RXeVJVyC4z
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From The Repository of COVID-19 to 24 facts in regard to virus origins, failed public policies, medical ethics, and vaccine injuries.
Authors Note:
"Lastly, please take note that much of the pro-jab jargon used in these studies is required to survive peer review. Journals are beholden to (funded and captured by) the pharmaceutical industry. Researchers have stated outright that they cannot get published on this topic without the inclusion of pro-vaccine rhetoric in their studies."
Only four of the initial 71 staffers hired by Harris during her first year in office still remain in a job. The rest either quit or were fired, according to analysis by non-partisan watchdog Open The Books.
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Based on their home refinances the Bidens are more committed to equity than Kamala is.
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I saw what you did there SH...
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Basically: From those according to their ability to those according to their need. Communism in a nutshell.
Who is John Galt?
John Galt (Atlas Shrugged) worked for a motor company. Worked hard and produced a lot for that company but was paid very, very, little because he had small needs while other workers slacked off, did little but produce kids and needs, and were paid very, very well because their needs were high.
The entire book was basically about how that didn't work out.
[ARABNEWS] The White House will offer deportation relief and work permits to an estimated 11,500 Lebanese nationals already in the US, due to conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, US President Joe Biden said in a memo on Friday.
The measure, under an authority known as Deferred Enforced Departure, will allow Lebanese nationals to remain in the US for 18 months and could be renewed.
The announcement comes after Vice President Kamala Harris pressured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday to help reach a Gaza ceasefire deal that would ease the suffering of Palestinian civilians, striking a tougher tone than Biden. Harris has emerged as the likely Democratic presidential nominee after Biden ended his campaign on Sunday.
Israel and Hezbollah have been trading fire since Hezbollah announced a “support front” with Palestinians shortly after its ally Hamas attacked southern Israeli border communities on Oct. 7, triggering Israel’s military assault in Gaza.
Hezbollah is an Iran-backed militant group and the most powerful military and political force in Lebanon.
US Representative Debbie Dingell, a Democrat from Michigan, which is home to Lebanese Americans in Detroit and elsewhere, applauded the move and estimated it would cover 11,500 people.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] In Kiev, Ukrainian comedian Sergey Chirkov was forcibly removed from the stage of the Atlas Weekend festival in Kiev for reading the election promises of the country's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, voiced by him during the debates in 2019. This was reported by the publication Politika Strany.
In particular, the election promises spoke of the end of the era of poverty, the end of nepotism and a quick end to the war.
Eyewitnesses said that Chirkov read out quotes without giving them an assessment or joking. The microphone was taken away from the stand-up comedian by a security guard, who removed him from the stage.
The festival's page called the incident an "unfortunate misunderstanding" between Chirkov and one of the team's employees, "who exceeded his official authority and behaved in an unacceptable manner due to a false interpretation of what was happening on stage."
"For our part, on behalf of the organizers, we publicly apologize to Sergey and his manager Daria for their unprofessional and unethical behavior and violation of physical boundaries," the organizers write.
Read it out unenthusiastically. They should take it to the TCC, not apologize.
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[Regnum] Data on more than 3.2 thousand foreign mercenaries participating in the conflict in Ukraine on the side of the Kiev regime has appeared online. They were published on July 26 by the hacker group RaHDit (“Evil Russian Hackers”).
Among them is the assistant commander in the personnel unit of the first battalion of the international legion of territorial defense of Ukraine Evelin Ashenbrenner, born in 1981, who lives in the United States. Also on the list is a participant in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi Maurins Kristaps, who lives in Latvia. Then he took 21st place in the luge competition.
Hackers also published information about Pablo Garrido Mancedo from Spain, who fought for Kurdish militants in Syria, Juris Alberts Ulmanis, a Latvian author of the book When War Becomes Personal, and Pierce Tanner Reed, a former Oakland police officer born in 1993. In July 2023, Reed was arrested in Indiana for child molestation and assisting in the commission of crimes with minors.
“On the opening day of the Olympics in France, we want to remind the world community that their compatriots are involved in the crimes of the [head of the Kiev] regime [Volodymyr] Zelensky,” the hackers said in a message on the Telegram channel.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on June 18, hackers from RaHDit published information about more than 1,200 Ukrainian drone operators, including the entire staff of the 383rd separate regiment of remotely controlled aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Among them were those previously convicted of violence against minors.
According to the Investigative Committee of Russia, it was the 383rd separate regiment that was involved in the attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Shaikovka airfield in the Kaluga region, Dyagilevo in the Ryazan region, and Engels in the Saratov region.
On May 9, hackers broke into Ukrainian TV channels and showed the Victory Parade in Moscow. Russian hackers also broke into a hundred Ukrainian websites, mainly universities, lyceums, schools and other educational institutions, posting Victory Day greetings and a quote from Russian President Vladimir Putin about the brotherhood of the two nations.
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[Regnum] A Chinese resident suffered from coughing fits for two years due to a piece of hot chili pepper in his lung. Doctors determined the real cause of the discomfort only during an operation, which they decided to perform due to suspicion of cancer, the South China Morning Post reported.
A 54-year-old man from Zhejiang Province had been trying to cure his cough on his own for two years, but there was no improvement. Then he sought medical help. An examination revealed a 1 cm tumor in his lung.
Doctors were inclined to believe that the patient's severe cough could be caused by pneumonia or a malignant tumor. And after a second check, fears about possible cancer only increased.
Doctors scheduled the operation for July 3. According to the publication, doctors initially planned to take samples of lung tissue and determine the nature of the formation. However, during the operation, the surgeon discovered a foreign object in the lung, which turned out to be a piece of chili pepper. It was behind the tissue, so the piece was not noticed during the examination.
The article states that the man himself recalled how two years ago he began to choke and cough heavily while eating. It was probably then that a piece of chili got into his lung.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in June the Ministry of Health announced the timing of the first results of cancer vaccine trials.
According to the head of the department, Mikhail Murashko, they could be presented as early as the end of 2024. He noted that the vaccine is being developed by several scientific teams. Financing is provided by the state within the framework of state assignments.
Previously, scientists proposed a method for combating cancer using the nervous system. They explained that malignant tumors are considered independent complex functioning organs capable of subordinating tissues, vessels, and even the nervous system. Therefore, when nerve fibers, for example, penetrate prostate cancer, forming a connection with healthy cells, the tumor grows. If such a connection can be interrupted, the growth will stop, the researchers concluded.
[GEO.TV] Pakistain has rebuffed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "belligerent remarks," dubbing them as "totally counter-productive" to resolving disputes between the two countries and reminding India of its own terrorism campaign.
Speaking at an event earlier today, Modi alleged that Pakistain was trying to stay relevant through "terrorism" and "proxy war" and added that such a strategy would never succeed.
Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch in a statement on Friday said that the Indian prime minister cannot divert the world's attention from the brutalities being committed by Indian forces in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... (IIOJK).
Dismissing the Modi's remarks, the FO said: "Bravado and jingoism undermine regional peace, and are totally counter-productive for resolution of long-standing disputes between Pakistain and India, especially the core dispute of Jammu and Kashmir."
"The Indian leaders’ rhetorical statements cannot deflect international attention from India’s heavy-handed approach to suppress the Kashmiri people’s just struggle for realisation of their fundamental rights and freedoms, particularly their inalienable right to self-determination," the statement said.
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From your mouth to the ear of G*d, Ahmad. Superior force applied with casual brutality is the only thing you mutants understand.
[ARABNEWS] A Tunisian appeals court commuted the prison sentence of a TV broadcaster from one year to eight months on Friday, his lawyer told AFP.
Borhen Bssais was initially handed a 12-month sentence under a decree punishing "spreading false information" and "defaming others or damaging their reputation."
"The Court of Appeal in the capital Tunis decided to reduce Bssais’s sentence from 12 months to eight," his lawyer, Nizar Ayed, said.
Bssais was arrested on May 11 and charged with "attacking President Kais Saied through radio broadcasts and statements between 2019 and 2022."
Tunisia’s Decree 54, the law under which Bssais was convicted, was enacted by Saied in 2022 to combat "false news."
But critics have said it has been used to stifle political dissent as the country prepares for a presidential election set for October 6.
Over the past 18 months, more than 60 critical voices have been prosecuted under the decree, according to the National Union of Tunisian Journalists.
Amnesty International Secretary General Agnes Callamard said on Friday she found it "alarming and distressing to witness the drastic rollback of the human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... progress that Tunisia had made since the 2011 revolution."
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What odds they’re human shields for yet another Hamas tunnel entrance, dear Reader?
[GEO.TV] After weeks of Israeli bombardment left them with nowhere else to go, hundreds of Paleostinians have ended up in a former 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 Hamas with 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... prison built to hold murderers and thieves.
Yasmeen al-Dardasi said she and her family passed maimed people they were unable to help as they evacuated from a district in the southern city of Khan Younis towards its Central Correction and Rehabilitation Facility.
They spent a day under a tree before moving on to the former prison, where they now live in a prayer room. It offers protection from the blistering sun, but not much else.
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So the Gazooks have gone from living in the "virtual prison of Gaza" to living in a prison in Gaza. How delightfully ironic! I'm telling ya, the Universe is made of irony. All those protons and things are just a distraction.
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For decades Khan Yunis has known to be the location for the craziest of Gaza's crazy. Why it has taken Israel so long to level the place is mysterious. Perhaps all hostages are held there.
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Is Hamas still polling 65%+ now with the Gazans?
[Daily Mail, where America gets it news] … shouted 'Allahu Akbar' in Washington during Netanyahu's speech.
Anti-Israel protestors and Hamas sympathizers who desecrated Washington, D.C.'s Union Station have learned their fates.
A minimum of eight people who participated in the anti-Israel protest during Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech Wednesday are now facing federal criminal charges after defacing federal property and fighting police.
Some protestors, however, have had their charges dropped by more lenient Washington, D.C. prosecutors.
Frederick Coates, Crow Momamome and Antonio Somerville have all been charged with attempting to carry a dangerous weapon, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C.
Nathaniel Lawrence, Sonia Krishan
…the outwardly lovely 2022 Miss Maryland Teen USA, now apparently a psych major at NYU…
and Roger Miller have been charged with attempted theft.
Zachary Kam has been charged with two counts of assaulting a police officer.
And Essa Ejelat has been charged with making threats.
Authorities also maintain that the protest, which began near the National Mall close to the U.S. Capitol before heading to the train terminal, is still an open investigation and updates could come.
In addition to those charged there are numerous protestors who were arrested that will not face charges, Fox News reports.
The D.C. attorney general's office got at least 11 cases 'no-papered,' which means that the charges were dropped.
Among those three were charges for crossing police lines, five were for disorderly conduct and inducing violence and three were for disorderly conduct causing unreasonable fear.
All of the charges are misdemeanors.
Further, the report reveals an additional five pending cases for crowding and obstructing, though prosecutors have yet to decide whether to press charges.
[WashingtonExaminer] One day before anti-Israel protesters caused mayhem in Washington, D.C., burning an effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after he spoke to Congress, scrawling graffiti across federal property, and burning American flags, the National Park Service granted the organizing group a public gathering permit. The Washington Examiner obtained a copy of that permit in full from a Biden administration source — providing a key window into the planning of the rally and the ways in which demonstrators skirted federal rules.
The permit, a redacted version of which can be read at this link, was given to the ANSWER Coalition,
…they used to call themselves International ANSWER, back when they were protesting the possibility of an American response to 9/11…
a group that coordinated with other pro-Paleostinian activist hubs on the planning and execution of the protest. Dozens of protesters were arrested following festivities with police, though at least 11 of them had their misdemeanor charges dropped by Thursday evening, the Washington Examiner reported.
But even before the protest began, the Interior Department’s National Park Service was aware of problems with ANSWER’s level of disclosure about its activities, documents reveal.
The NPS said in the permit documents that ANSWER "refused to provide specific locations for onsite contacts." ANSWER is a project of a charity in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... called Progress Unity Fund, according to tax records.
In the permit, the ANSWER Coalition described how it would be protesting in various areas in the nation’s capital, including John Marshall Park and Columbus Plaza. At 3:37 p.m. on Wednesday, after many hours of protests in the streets, the NPS said the permit for Columbus Plaza had been revoked.
Minutes later, a man wearing a red shirt was captured on social media graffitiing the phrase "Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... is coming" on a historic fountain in the plaza honoring Christopher Columbus.
The Wednesday protest, according to the permit, was slated for between 5 a.m. and 4 p.m. that day. Activists continued to demonstrate after 4 p.m. in the district as part of the rally, which ANSWER said on the permit application was to "stop the genocide in 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 Hamas with 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... ." The protest was called "Arrest Netanyahu! Surround Congress July 24 with the People’s Red Line for Paleostine," according to ANSWER’s website.
"These events were utterly predictable, as similar recent protests had also resulted in vandalism of federal property and assaults on Park Police, and the organization seeking the permit apparently did not even comply with its requirements before it was issued," said Michael Chamberlain, director of Protect the Public’s Trust, a watchdog group investigating the Biden administration.
The permit said ANSWER, per federal rules, was prohibited from climbing, removing, or injuring "any statue seat, wall, fountain, light poles, elevator towers, or other erection or architectural feature, or any tree, shrub, or landscaping feature" in protest areas.
The document also cited 36 CFR Section 7.96, a regulation holding that "the alteration, damage, or removal of park resources or facilities is prohibited." On Thursday, NPS staffers began to power-wash the Christopher Columbus statue and fountain that were vandalized outside Union Station.
The permit listed ANSWER’s point of contact as Brian Becker, ANSWER’s director and "a central organizer for the Party for Socialism and Liberation," according to Liberation News.
PSL are boringly unapologetic Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries who split off from the equally Marxist-Leninist revolutionary Workers World Party in 2004. ANSWER is one of their projects.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … as inferno triggers terrifying fire tornado
A California sex offender has been arrested for allegedly starting a 160,000 acre wildfire - the state's largest this year.
Ronnie Stout II, 42, was caught pushing his burning car into a gulley in upper Bidwell Park near the city of Chico on Wednesday, the Butte County District Attorney's Office announced.
The vehicle then tumbled 60 feet down an embankment, sparking a fire tornado that engulfed more than 71,000 acres of northern California overnight and prompted mass evacuations.
Stout was reportedly seen leaving the scene by blending in with parkgoers as the fire quickly spread.
Authorities ultimately identified the suspect early Thursday morning, and took him into custody.
s then booked into the Butte County Jail, where he is being held without bail, according to the District Attorney's Office.
Stout was sentenced to 20 years in prison after being convicted of sex crimes against a child under 14 years old in 2001 and of robbery with great bodily injured.
Given that he has two prior convictions, Stout could be sent to jail for life if found guilty under California's Three Strikes and You’re Out law.
The Park Fire burned more than 195 square miles near the city of Chico.
More than 4,000 people were evacuated in Butte County and the city of Chico, said Megan McMann, a spokesperson for the Butte County Sheriff's Office.
As of Friday morning the fire had burned through more than 164,000 acres.
At least 134 structures have been destroyed but there are no reported injuries.
Cal Fire-Butte County had said as many as 4,200 structures were threatened.
Friday's windy conditions is making it harder for firefighters to battle flames.
Meanwhile forecasters are warning wind gusts could reach up to 30mph and push the blaze north.
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^ Sex Offender against a child? Arsonist? I'm good with that
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Butte County is one unlucky place, remembering the Paradise fire that killed over 80 and wiped out an entire town, including (brother-in-law's hone), and the catastrophic Oroville Dam failure.
[France24] Scientists have discovered that metallic nodules on the seafloor produce their own oxygen in the dark depths of the Pacific Ocean. These polymetallic nodules, generating electricity like AA batteries, challenge the belief that only photosynthetic organisms create oxygen, potentially altering our understanding of how life began on Earth.
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create oxygen??
Eh, not really. It takes 1.5 volts to separate hydrogen from oxygen which is a AA battery. A group of these provide more than enough current. Basically they are batteries separating hydrogen and oxygen and the extra O2 in the water is allowing for greater than expected biodiversity.
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[ColonelCassad] The personnel results of the plenum turned out to be completely different from what was expected. Even in the first days, I had a thought that something loud would be thrown into the information space in order to distract the public from the controversial results of the plenum.
(It's like after the congress, everyone discussed not the fundamentally important decisions in the area of reform of party and state bodies, but the rather formal re-election of Xi Jinping for a third term as Chairman of the PRC.)
So. On the one hand, nothing of the sort happened. On the other hand, the final documents of the plenum recorded something much more important.
Namely: for the first time, Xi Jinping himself named an "inner circle" of only three people with whom he shared responsibility for the final decisions.
Previously, another trend was observed: the glorification of the "party core" (Xi Jinping) by obscuring all those close to him. It is no coincidence that Xi Jinping is the first leader in the history of the PRC who has never had a "successor" figure around him (even Mao Zedong always had one).
And then suddenly, “In November 2023, the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee decided to form a working group to prepare documents for the 3rd Plenum of the 20th CPC Central Committee, which I headed. Comrades Wang Huning, Cai Qi and Ding Xuexiang acted as deputy heads of the group…”
The composition of this peculiar “small council” (greetings to J. Martin!) is logical in its own way:
Wang Huning (formally the number 4 person in the party hierarchy) is the chief intellectual and ideologist of the CPC, the “mentor of the three emperors”, we wrote a lot about him before the congress, so we will not repeat ourselves. This is the person who is responsible for the meanings in the current Communist Party.
Cai Qi (formally person No. 5) is a unique leader in the history of the CPC, being both the first on the list of secretaries of the Secretariat and the head of the Office of the Central Committee of the CPC. In other words, the "gray cardinal" who has taken charge of the issues of coordinating work within the Central Committee.
Ding Xuexiang (formally person No. 6) is the youngest member of the Politburo Standing Committee, and therefore the only one who can be considered, with a stretch, the "successor" of Xi Jinping. By primary position: First Vice Premier of the State Council of the PRC.
And here's what's interesting. There is a Vice Premier in this "inner circle" who was engaged in determining socio-economic policy for the coming years. But there is no Premier himself.
Although it was about this Premier (Li Qiang) that they said that his main advantage was the complete personal trust in him on the part of Xi Jinping.
Perhaps Li Qiang, unlike the triumvirate of Wang-Cai-Ding, is not as skilled in writing conceptual documents. Or he managed to disappoint his boss. But the very fact that the number 2 person in the party hierarchy, as well as two other high-ranking party members, Xi Jinping did not name among his co-authors, can say a lot.
First of all, it means that at the top of the CPC there are now no "feudal fiefdoms" in which their curator would have full powers. Xi Jinping himself took on the most important area of work, but was forced to share responsibility with his closest associates. (This is an argument in favor of the same thesis about the difficulties that Xi faced).
Secondly, it is among the "chosen ones" that we need to look for those who play a particularly significant role in Chinese politics.
In terms of age, only Ding Xuexiang (born in 1962) has prospects. Wang Huning and Cai Qi are the same age, born in 1955 — almost the same age as Xi Jinping. In the old days, according to the rule "67 — yes, 68 — no", they would have been sent into retirement at the next congress (already in 2027).
Now the old conventions have been discarded, so Cai Qi can continue to run the secretariat and the chancery (although he can also rise a couple of lines in the conditional party hierarchy, heading the NPC Standing Committee). But Ding Xuexiang's current position, it turns out, clearly does not correspond to his true weight. Therefore, we should expect his promotion following the results of the next congress.
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More bad news for China? Gosh, it's like there is such a great market for this stuff that it just gets created, like mushrooms after rain. Serpentza much?
How's that Three Gorges Dam doing? Remember when it was due to collapse Any Day Now? Like, 2-3 years ago?
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] The detained former Deputy Minister of Defense Bulgakov lobbied for the interests of JSC Gryazinsky Food Plant, using his official position.
A case has been opened against the management of this JSC under the article on misappropriation of property, the agency's interlocutor said.
A system was created for supplying low-quality food to the troops at inflated prices, even in the conditions of the Second Military District. Check the expiration dates on frozen foods from your local BX/PX.
The former deputy minister received kickbacks from commercial entities whose interests he lobbied for when concluding contracts with the Defense Ministry, the agency's interlocutor noted.
According to the latest open declaration of 2018, the former Deputy Minister of Defense Dmitry Bulgakov, detained in a corruption case, earned 15.2 million rubles in a year.
During Bulgakov's service as deputy minister, his wife acquired a land plot of 23 acres and a house with an area of more than 620 square meters.
A premium Lexus RX350 crossover was also registered in the name of the general's wife. At the same time, her income in 2018 was only 226,000, similar amounts were in previous years, with the exception of 2010, when she sold the house and earned about 10 million.
P.S. Surely among the readers of the channel there are people who have tried the products of the Gryazinsky Food Plant, for interest, write how you thought this product was of high quality/low quality, was it noticeable that they were messing with the composition? The contents of the Russian MRE looks good to me. Beats soup, black bread and tea, the most common food served to Russian/Soviet troops back in the day.
[Regnum] Former Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia Dmitry Bulgakov was detained on suspicion of corruption, the FSB reported on July 26.
The official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Svetlana Petrenko, stated that the court chose a preventive measure for Bulgakov in the form of detention.
Now the security forces are conducting the necessary investigative actions with him. The criminal case is being investigated by the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.
Bulgakov held the post of Deputy Minister of Defense from 2008 to 2022. In September 2022, he was relieved of his post due to a transfer to another job.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, at the end of April and in May it became known that four high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Defense had been detained.
Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia Timur Ivanov was detained on April 23. He was accused of accepting a bribe on an especially large scale and taken into custody.
On May 14, Petrenko reported the arrest of the head of the Defense Ministry's personnel department, Yuri Kuznetsov. He was accused of accepting a bribe on an especially large scale. He is in pretrial detention by a court decision.
Former commander of the 58th Army Ivan Popov was accused of fraud in the construction of defensive fortifications and theft of 1,700 tons of metal structures, the value of which is estimated at 130 million rubles. He is under house arrest.
The head of the Main Communications Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Vadim Shamarin, was accused of accepting a bribe on an especially large scale; the court arrested him until October 21. The general was removed from his post. Shamarin partially admitted his guilt.
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[Regnum] More than 628 thousand people in the eastern Chinese province of Fujian found themselves in the disaster area due to Typhoon Gaemi. This was reported on July 26 by China Central Television.
Typhoon Gaemi reached the coast of Fujian Province on the evening of July 25, after which it weakened to a tropical storm and is moving inland in a northwesterly direction. The speed of the elements is 20 km/h. The wind speed at the epicenter of the typhoon reaches 28 m/sec.
The authorities evacuated 150,000 residents from the disaster area in advance. Several dozen ferry routes were suspended and about 100 flights were cancelled due to the natural disaster. Train service was suspended in all directions on July 25.
The provincial Marine Affairs Department has deployed three additional rescue helicopters and three rescue vessels, as well as 49 patrol boats and over 100 tugboats to the coast to ensure a timely response to any potential emergency.
Earlier, Regnum News Agency reported that Moscow and several other regions of the European part of Russia were hit by bad weather. Wind gusts in the capital reached 25 meters per second, which corresponds to a 10-point storm on the Beaufort scale. In some areas, almost 50% of the monthly precipitation norm fell.
Emergency services reported that two people were injured when trees fell on them during a thunderstorm with strong winds and hail in Moscow. A total of 24 trees fell in the capital.
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[Regnum] In the last few days, Polish and Ukrainian politicians have once again argued about the Volyn massacre of 1943, which is a stumbling block in relations between Warsaw and Kiev.
Thus, the head of the Polish Ministry of Defense, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, stated on July 26 on the air of the radio station TOK. FM that the Ukrainian authorities, due to political obstacles and security issues, refuse to allow the Polish side to exhume the remains of the victims of the Volyn massacre. He also called this only a pretext and called on Kiev to agree to the exhumation as a gesture of goodwill.
At the same time, on July 23, Kosinyak-Kamysh threatened Kiev on the air of the Polsat TV channel that Ukraine would not be accepted into the European Union until the issue of the Volyn massacre was resolved. According to him, in relations between Warsaw and Kiev "not everything is ideal" due to unresolved historical issues.
In turn, the Minister-Coordinator of the Polish special services, Tomasz Siemoniak, noted on July 26 on the air of the radio station Polskie Radio that the Polish authorities expect Kiev to take a clearer and more decisive position on this issue.
In response to this, on July 24, in a conversation with the Ukrainian publication Telegraf, member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy Mykola Knyazhytsky called the issue of the Volyn tragedy “fiction” and “verbal PR.”
Another member of the Verkhovna Rada, Volodymyr Vyatrovych, who previously headed the Institute of National Remembrance of Ukraine, wrote on social networks that there are still people in Warsaw who are trying to link the current relations between the two countries to assessments of the past, actualizing only the topic of the conflict.
Polish judge Tomasz Szmidt, who was forced to flee Poland to Belarus and seek protection because of his political position, noted in an interview with the editor-in-chief of the Regnum news agency Marina Akhmedova on July 24 that the Kiev regime does not give permission for the reburial of the victims of the Volyn massacre because it is not beneficial for Ukraine. He added that if the remains were to be moved, the whole world would see what Ukrainian nationalists did to the civilian population during World War II.
Schmidt clarified that Warsaw believes that this should be forgotten and Kiev should be helped, since it hates Russia more, but ordinary Polish citizens have no illusions about this.
"A monument to the victims of the Volyn massacre was recently officially erected, it was erected with people's money, not with state money. Moreover, this monument could not be erected since 2014, it was a problem. But the Poles got their way," he said.
In February 1943, Ukrainian nationalists began an operation to exterminate the Polish population of Volyn in Western Ukraine, culminating in the events of July 11, 1943, when units of the OUN and UPA attacked about 100 Polish settlements. These events were called the Volyn massacre, the victims of which were 100,000 civilians. Warsaw considers these events to be genocide of the Polish population.
In which every single cliché on the subject is unwrapped and thrown at the reader, like a game of 52 pick-up.
[Regnum] The refusal of the dark-skinned French track and field athlete Sounkamba Sylla, who professes Islam, to participate in the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics is a consequence of the “sick, arrogant ideology” of European countries, the head of the Spiritual Assembly of Muslims of Russia, Mufti of Moscow Albir Krganov, said on July 26.
"This step is yet another example of the disdainful attitude towards Islam and Muslims in Europe," he said.
Krganov is confident that such behavior by the organizers will not go unanswered. In the case of Sylla, France probably decided to remember its colonial origins, he added, noting that the country's actions only perpetuate the historical mistakes of the past in modern society.
The modern Olympic Games increasingly do not unite nations, but become a tool for political and ideological manipulation, TASS reported his words.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on July 25, French runner Silla said that she was not allowed to participate in the opening ceremony because she was wearing a hijab. On July 26, the Russian Foreign Ministry called this decision an act of segregation. The official representative of the department, Maria Zakharova, recalled that the organizers explained their decision by the fact that wearing a traditional element of clothing during sporting events is allegedly prohibited. She emphasized that the Olympics have ceased to follow their goals, declared more than a hundred years ago, and now completely contradict the Olympic spirit.
According to Zakharova, Russian and Belarusian athletes were previously subjected to segregation and were banned from participating in the Games. Now discrimination has affected French athletes as well, she added.
In December 2023, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that Russian and Belarusian athletes would only be allowed to participate in the Olympics in a "neutral status " if a number of criteria were met. Among other things, athletes are prohibited from displaying symbols of their countries. Also, those who have publicly declared their support for Russia's special operation or have a contract with security forces in the Russian Federation will not be allowed to participate in the Games.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called the IOC's treatment of Russian athletes ethnic discrimination. He noted that the Russian Federation would continue to develop sports and follow the original principles of the Olympic movement.
Just from where do the US and Euro thieves expect the Russians to recover their stolen funds?
[Regnum] The United States of America expects that the G7 countries will be able to agree by October to provide Ukraine with a $50 billion loan using frozen Russian sovereign assets. This was stated by US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. A loan? Where will Ukraine get the income to pay it back? A "loan"
"We had constructive talks. We are working closely to try to move this forward (the $50 billion loan to Ukraine from frozen Russian assets. - Ed.). I think we can complete this by October," she said in a conversation with Reuters on the sidelines of a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Brazil.
According to her, the negotiations included discussions of demands from the US to provide guarantees that the assets would remain frozen for a longer period.
Earlier, Bloomberg reported on the United States' concerns about the long-term ability to provide Ukraine with financial resources at the expense of profits received from Russian assets, since the extension of the sanctions regime requires a unanimous decision by all 27 EU member states every six months. In this regard, the European Union proposed two options: an indefinite freeze on assets and an extension of anti-Russian sanctions on assets every 18, 24 or 36 months.
On July 26, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced the allocation of the first tranche of €1.5 billion in revenues from frozen Russian assets for weapons purchases for Kiev. It was noted that the funds would be sent to the so-called European Peace Fund to compensate Western countries that provide weapons to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that Moscow will not leave the transfer of income from frozen sovereign assets of the Russian Federation for the purchase of weapons for Ukraine unanswered. According to him, the actions of the Russian side will be thought out.
The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova also warned of a harsh response, stating that decisions will be made within the framework of the national interests of the Russian Federation.
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[Regnum] The frigate Admiral Gorshkov of the Russian Northern Fleet, accompanied by the medium sea tanker Akademik Pashin, arrived at the port of Oran in Algeria, the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry reported on July 26.
“The visit of the Russian sailors will last several days,” the department stated.
It was noted there that the Russian Navy ships are carrying out missions in the distant sea zone.
During the visit, the sailors will take part in protocol events. They will also have a rest on the shore after the transatlantic crossing, get acquainted with local sights and play a friendly football game with sailors of the Algerian Navy, the department added.
The Admiral Gorshkov's long-distance voyage began on May 17. During this time, the frigate has already covered more than 13,000 nautical miles and visited ports in Cuba and Venezuela. The Defense Ministry emphasized that the mission's objective is to demonstrate the flag and ensure presence in operationally important areas of the distant ocean.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, it was previously announced that ships of the Baltic Fleet would arrive at the port of Cuban Havana on July 27. The training ship Smolny, the patrol frigate Neustrashimy and the tanker Yelnya are awaiting them there. The working visit will last until July 30.
On June 12, the frigate Admiral Gorshkov, the nuclear submarine Kazan, the tanker Akademik Pashin and the rescue tug Nikolai Chiker of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy entered the port of Havana. According to the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Admiral Alexander Moiseyev, the visit took place within the framework of international cooperation.
According to CBS News, the US, for its part, sent its naval ships to spy on the Russian ships' visit to Cuba. British defence expert Ian Ballantyne called the Russian submarine in Cuba a "threatening" signal to the West . The expert noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to use his fleet as a powerful global political and military instrument.
The press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, noted that such visits, like Russian exercises in different regions of the world, are normal practice, and therefore there is no reason for concern.
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[NewsFront] 23:05 The Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled the village of Bochkovka in the Belgorod Region. A woman was wounded in the attack, the region's governor Vyacheslav Gladkov reported. 21:12 Arrival of FAB-1500 aerial bombs with UMPK on buildings housing the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the village of Malye Prokhody in the Khar'kov region.
21:09 Hit on a forest plantation in the area of the village of Verkhnekamenskoye in the east of Seversk, where the Ukrainian Armed Forces are located.
20:22 Crews of the 152mm 2S3 self-propelled howitzer "Akatsiya" of the "North" group of forces performing fire missions destroyed strongholds, ammunition depots and Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower in the area where the special military operation is being conducted.
19:31 Employees of the military-civil administration (MCA) of the Khar'kov region and volunteers came under mortar fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the village of Stantsiya Topoli, the head of the Russian administration of the region, Vitaly Ganchev, told journalists.
18:17 Crews of Mi-28NM helicopters are destroying strongholds and manpower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of responsibility of the North group of forces.
17:04 Artillery attack from the Ukrainian Armed Forces was recorded in the direction of Ilyinka – Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three 155mm rounds.
17:03 The crew of the Ka-52M VKS helicopter successfully struck units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the SVO.
16:22 RF Armed Forces struck a Ukrainian T-64 tank near the village of Konstantinovka in the South Donetsk direction.
16:21 The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 13,825 servicemen in all areas of the special operation over the past week.
16:17 The main points from the new briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense:
– Russian air defense forces shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter and 623 drones in a week.
– In a week, the Southern Group liberated Ivano-Daryevka in the DPR and improved the situation along the front line.
– The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 800 soldiers in a week as a result of the actions of the Dnepr group of forces.
– Over the course of a week, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 4,640 servicemen in the area of responsibility of the Southern Group of Forces.
– Over the course of a week, the “North” group defeated nine enemy units, repelled 21 counterattacks, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 1,385 soldiers.
– Units of the “Center” group improved their tactical position over the course of a week and defeated the “Lyut” assault brigade.
– The “East” group took more advantageous positions in a week, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 835 soldiers and 2 tanks.
– A total of 63 Ukrainian soldiers surrendered within a week, 27 of them in the area of responsibility of the Dnepr group.
– Over the course of a week, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 2,525 soldiers and five tanks, including 2 Abrams, in the area of responsibility of the Center group.
– The “West” group of the Russian Armed Forces liberated the settlements of Rozovka in the LPR and Peschanoye Nizhneye in the Khar'kov region and occupied more advantageous positions.
– The Russian Armed Forces destroyed two HIMARS MLRS launchers, seven Grad MLRS, two Patriot SAM systems, and two S-300 SAM launchers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in one week.
– The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 3,640 servicemen and 4 tanks, including Leopards, in the area of responsibility of the Russian group “West” in a week.
15:20 Around 12:00 Moscow time, an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using an aircraft-type UAV against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation was thwarted.
Two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed over the territory of the Belgorod region by air defense systems on duty.
15:19 Over the past week, the Russian Armed Forces have carried out 33 strikes with high-precision weapons and UAVs on Ukrainian military-industrial complex enterprises and the energy facilities that supply them.
14:15 Explosions were heard in Zaporozhye.
14:14 Msta-B howitzer crews of the West troop group perform fire missions destroyed a concentration of manpower and a machine gun nest of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of a special military operation.
13:11 More than 2,500 people in the Kursk region were left without electricity due to damage to power lines by Ukrainian drones, acting governor of the region Alexey Smirnov reported inTelegram channel.
"Today, explosive devices were dropped from Ukrainian copters in Belovsky District, and power lines were damaged. Several settlements with a total of over 2,500 residents were left without power," Smirnov wrote.
12:31 Crews of Su-34 fighter-bombers inflicted an attack on a temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of responsibility of the West group of forces.
11:46 Artillery attack from the Ukrainian Armed Forces was recorded in the direction of: 11:40 – Ilyinka settlement – Donetsk city (Petrovsky district): three 155mm rounds.
10:39 By the Iskander-M OTRK crew of the Russian Armed Forces struck a missile and artillery weapons depot of the 56th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the hidden storage site of artillery weapons and armored vehicles in the industrial zone of the settlement of Kramatorsk
As a result of the missile strike, a Khimars MLRS launcher, five 122mm BM-27 Grad multiple launch rocket systems, five tanks and up to 10 armored combat vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed.
09:55 A Ukrainian UAV struck an inactive enterprise in the Gorshechensky district of the Kursk region. The explosion damaged fences and knocked out windows in several households, but there were no casualties, acting governor Alexey Smirnov said.
09:43 Over the past 24 hours, military investigators from the Russian Investigative Committee recorded crimes committed by armed formations of Ukraine against the civilian population of the DPR.
As a result of artillery attack using 155mm caliber barrel artillery in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, five people were injured; in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, one person was killed and another was injured; in addition, as a result of the detonation of an explosive device in the settlement of Mariupol, a teenager born in 2016 was injured.
At the same time, the armed formations of Ukraine carried out artillery attack of the Central City, Nikitovsky and Kalininsky districts of Gorlovka and the Petrovsky and Kirovsky districts of Donetsk over the course of 24 hours, using 155mm artillery.
In total, five residential buildings and 4 civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged by DPR shelling.
09:40 The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to shell civilian targets in Donbass.videothe moment of “arrival” at the “Sofia” store in Gorlovka (DPR).
09:34 The criminal Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of the settlements of the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Armed Forces of Ukraine released:
– Three rounds to the settlement of Dnepryany;
– Six rounds in the village of Kakhovka;
– Five rounds to the settlement of Staraya Zburyevka;
– seven rounds to the settlement of Aleshki;
- n.p. Korsunka four rounds;
– Four rounds in the village of Kazachiy Lagerya.
As a result of the attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces UAV on the settlement of Novaya Kakhovka, unused warehouses and a recyclable materials warehouse of one of the enterprises were damaged.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the villages of Peschanivka, Golaya Pristan, Kardashinka, and Maslovka, firing a total of 14 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being clarified.
08:18 The Russian Armed Forces struck a warehouse in the Ukrainian-controlled Kramatorsk, where long-range missiles were stored, said Sergei Lebedev, coordinator of the Mykolaiv underground. The underground also reported a strike on a Ukrainian Armed Forces deployment point in the city of Nizhyn in the Chernihiv region, with about a dozen foreign mercenaries among the casualties.
08:07 Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen shot a family returning home from Kyiv-controlled Donetsk New York, said Yuriy Mukhin, who was evacuated from the village of Novgorodskoye in the suburbs of Toretsk –video.
08:00 Over the night, air defense systems destroyed and intercepted four Ukrainian UAVs over the Rostov region and two over the Kursk region, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
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[EngMilRu] From 20 to 26 July, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have carried out 33 group strikes with precision-guided weapons and strike drones, as a result of which the following have been hit: facilities of the Ukrainian military industrial enterprises for the manufacture of gunpowder, the production and repair of armoured vehicles, and the energy infrastructure that supplied them.
In addition, UAV assembly facilities, ammunition and missile artillery weapon depots, military echelons with AFU hardware and military personnel as well as temporary deployment areas for foreign mercenaries have been hit.
Over the past week, the units of the Sever Group of Forces have improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of two AFU mechanised, motorised, and assault brigades, two marine brigades, three territorial defence brigades, and formations of the Ukrainian National Guard.
In addition, 21 enemy counter-attacks have been repelled.
The AFU losses were up to 1,385 Ukrainian troops, five U.S.-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, and 24 motor vehicles.
In addition, two Croatian-made RAK-SA-12 MLRS launchers, 23 field artillery guns, including five U.S.-made M777 howitzers as well as three field ammunition depots have been eliminated.
As a result of successful actions, the units of the Zapad Group of Forces have liberated Rozovka (Lugansk People's Republic), Peschanoye (Lugansk People's Republic), and Nizhneye (Kharkov region), and have taken more advantageous lines and positions.
Russian troops have defeated units of six brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as three territorial defence formations.
Nine counter-attacks of enemy assault detachments have been repelled.
The AFU losses were up to 3,640 Ukrainian troops, four tanks, including one German-made Leopard tank, 10 armoured fighting vehicles, including four U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, and 68 motor vehicles.
In the course of counterbattery warfare, 36 field artillery guns, including nine Western-made self-propelled artillery systems, and 155mm howitzers have been hit.
Eight electronic and counter-battery warfare stations and 21 field ammunition depots have been eliminated.
As a result of active operations, the units of the Yug Group of Forces have liberated Ivano-Daryevka (Donetsk People's Republic) and improved positions along the front line.
Russian troops have launched strikes on manpower and hardware of five mechanised, two airmobile, and four assault brigades of the AFU.
Six enemy counter-attacks have been repelled.
The AFU losses were up to 4,640 Ukrainian troops, six tanks, 23 armoured fighting vehicles, including two U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, and 44 motor vehicles.
In the course of counterbattery warfare, 64 field artillery pieces have been hit, 37 of them were Western-made, 12 electronic and counter-battery warfare stations as well as 13 field ammunition depots.
The units of the Tsentr Group of Forces have improved its tactical position.
Russian troops have launched strikes on eight formations of the AFU, two territorial defence brigades, and two Lut assault brigades of the National Police of Ukraine.
Forty-two counter-attacks of AFU assault detachments have been repelled.
Over the past week, the enemy losses were up to 2,525 troops, five tanks, including two U.S.-made Abrams tanks, 10 armoured fighting vehicles, 24 motor vehicles, 30 field artillery guns, and nine field ammunition depots.
The units of the Vostok Group of Forces have taken more advantageous lines and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of two AFU brigades, two territorial defence formations, and two Ukrainian National Guard brigades.
The AFU losses were up to 835 Ukrainian troops, two tanks, 30 motor vehicles, 23 field artillery guns, including 12 howitzers and 155mm self-propelled artillery systems manufactured in NATO countries as well as six electronic warfare stations.
The units of the Dnepr Group of Forces have inflicted fire damage on mechanised, infantry, mountain assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one naval infantry brigade, three territorial defence brigades and National Guard brigades.
The AFU losses were up to 100 Ukrainian troops, one tank, three armoured fighting vehicles, and four motor vehicles.
In addition, during counter-battery warfare, 18 field artillery guns, including five U.S.-made M777 howitzers, six electronic warfare stations, and six field ammunition depots have been hit.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have eliminated two U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS launchers, seven 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS launchers, two launchers with the AN/MPQ-65 radar station of the U.S.-made Patriot SAM system, two S-300 SAM system launchers, and two ST-68 and P-18 mobile radar stations for detecting and tracking air targets.
Air defence facilities have shot down one Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force, ten U.S.-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles, two Tochka-U tactical missiles, nine French-made Hammer aerial bombs, 36 U.S.-made HIMARS projectiles, and 623 unmanned aerial vehicles.
Over the past week, 63 Ukrainian servicemen have surrendered on the line of contact, 27 of them in the area of responsibility of the Dnepr Group of Forces.
In total, 630 airplanes and 278 helicopters, 28,464 unmanned aerial vehicles, 556 air defence missile systems, 16,684 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,390 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 12,416 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 24,086 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:59 Romania cannot shoot down Russian drones over Ukraine because this would require opening fire on Ukrainian territory, said Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu: "In order to shoot them down, we would have to open fire on Ukrainian territory, and I believe that this is not yet allowed. I have not heard of a single decision on this issue." Ciolacu also said that after previous incidents involving the fall of Russian drones, security measures were taken and patrols of Romanian airspace were increased.
22:47 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Ukraine at the end of August, local TV channel Wion reports. Several sources in Delhi's diplomatic circles confirmed that the visit will most likely take place on August 23.
20:56 Zelensky said in an evening video address that the Pokrovsk direction "was and remains the main direction of Russian attacks." The president said that today he held a meeting with the Minister of Defense regarding new defense packages for Ukraine, as well as with the military command, including Syrsky. "Everything must be done and will be done to strengthen our positions, our Ukrainian ability to inflict tangible losses on the occupier," Zelensky emphasized.
18:29 Ukrenergo CEO Volodymyr Kudritsky said that the most difficult period of the summer is behind us: "We have gone through a very difficult couple of weeks, and now the situation has really improved. This is primarily due to the fact that the abnormal, record-breaking heat has finally subsided, and therefore electricity consumption has decreased. And also, of course, this is due to the fact that certain power-generating capacities have been repaired. Therefore, instead of the difficult mode of 3-4 stages, we have 1-2, which are used depending on the time. And if there are no new large-scale damage to power plants, then the situation will tend to improve. At least in the next few weeks."
Kudritsky also said that the construction of protective structures at power transmission facilities has already demonstrated its effectiveness: at substations where protection has been built, recovery from Russian attacks is much faster.
16:43 Russia is to blame for the death of more than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war as a result of an explosion in Elenovka in July 2022, the Associated Press agency claims in its investigation, citing an unpublished UN report and eyewitness accounts of prisoners who returned to Ukraine. One of the main versions is the explosion of a planted device. At the same time, shots were fired from Grad rockets to muffle the explosions.
According to surviving prisoners, on the morning of July 27, 2022, a group of Azov soldiers was transferred to a separate room, which was located at a distance from other barracks. They were told that the transfer was due to repairs to their old barracks. Although other prisoners remained there, who later said that there had been no repairs. That same day, the guards dug trenches for themselves.
On July 28, the colony's management ordered the guard posts to be moved away from the new barracks, and the guards put on bulletproof vests and helmets, which they had never done before. In the evening, loud shots were heard from Grad, but this had happened before. And already at night, powerful explosions were heard, as a result of which the prisoners were killed. Then the survivors were placed in a separate room, which, according to UN experts, was done to prevent them from telling about what happened.
Some prisoners described how, after this, men dressed in military uniforms arrived at the scene, bringing boxes of HIMARS missile fragments with them and placing them near the barracks.
15:39 The IAEA reported that it had recorded explosions and gunfire near the Zaporizhia NPP over the past week. The sounds were heard at different distances from the plant. Observers checked scheduled work in the reactor hall and auxiliary building of power unit No. 6. At the same time, the IAEA emphasizes that during the visit to the turbine hall of power unit No. 6, observers did not have access to its western part.
14:57 Five people were injured in Kherson as a result of a Russian drone attack, OVA reported. The enemy dropped explosives from a drone on local residents who were near a store.
14:25 The G7 will conclude a framework agreement on a $50 billion loan for Ukraine by October this year, said European Commissioner for the Economy Paolo Gentiloni. According to him, G7 ministers held a meeting on the issue and managed to achieve significant progress on the technical and legal aspects of the loan. According to Reuters, the $50 billion loan will be serviced by proceeds from about $300 billion in Russian Central Bank assets frozen in the West.
13:38 Peskov said that the "illegal decision of the EU" to transfer 1.5 billion euros from the income from Russian assets to Kiev is "a reason for deliberate actions on the part of Moscow." According to him, such steps "will not go unanswered."
13:20 The General Staff confirmed that tonight, units of the missile forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in cooperation with other components of the Defense Forces, carried out a strike on the Saki airfield in Crimea. This is one of the operational airfields that Russia uses to control airspace, in particular the Black Sea, and to carry out air strikes on Ukrainian territory. Information about the consequences of the strike is being clarified.
13:07 The European Commission announced the allocation of the first tranche of 1.5 billion euros of income from Russian assets, which will be used to purchase weapons for Ukraine , said EC President Ursula von der Leyen. The money will go to the peace fund to compensate EU countries for weapons transferred to Ukraine.
12:19 Hungary faces fuel shortages if Ukraine does not resume transit of Russian oil by September, Orban's administration said.
11:28 In Nizhyn, Chernihiv Oblast, the number of people injured in a night attack has risen to 15, Mayor Oleksandr Kodola reported. A dormitory in the city was seriously damaged as a result of the attack - 24 apartments were occupied by pensioners.
11:03 As a result of night strikes on the Saki airfield in Crimea, a radar was destroyed and two soldiers were wounded, the Russian opposition publication Astra reports, citing sources in emergency services. The ammunition was also hit, and a fire occurred. An ATACMS missile hit a Russian air defense deployment site 5 km from the village of Shelkovichnoye in the Saki district. In total, according to sources, the Ukrainian Armed Forces struck Crimea with four ATACMS missiles, two of which were shot down.
10:41 The Romanian Foreign Ministry summoned the Chargé d'Affaires of the Russian Embassy, Elena Kopnina, and expressed "strong protest" to her over the wreckage of the "shahids" found on the country's territory. The Romanian department stated that "the irresponsible nature of the military strikes" by Russia is a threat to Romania's national security.
09:58 There is currently no urgent need to lower the mobilization age, Defense Ministry spokesman Dmitry Lazutkin said in an interview with NV. According to him, the number of those who have updated their military registration data currently significantly exceeds the needs of the troops. "But the situation in the war depends on many factors, and this can change. So far, we do not see such a need," Lazutkin added.
09:29 On the evening of July 25, Russians shelled the village of Kirillovka in the Chuguevsky district of the Kharkiv region, one person was wounded, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. Another person was injured as a result of shelling in the village of Volokhovskoye in the Chuguevsky district and one in the village of Kurilovka in the Kupyansky district. In total, eight people were wounded in the region over the past 24 hours.
08:24 In Donetsk Oblast, two people were killed as a result of Russian shelling on July 25 - in Toretsk and Ilyinka. Another four people in the oblast were injured in the past 24 hours, reported OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
08:16 In the Kherson region, over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed and seven were injured, reported the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin.
07:59 Explosions were heard in Crimea at night, the Crimean Wind Telegram channel writes about strikes on the Saki airfield in Novofedorovka. According to sources, an ammunition depot was hit, and ambulances were also on their way to the airfield. One of the Russian military publics wrote that "the morning is not good" and added: "Eternal memory..."
07:46 At night, Russian UAVs struck Ukrenergo energy facilities in the Zhytomyr and Chernihiv regions, the company reported. Household and industrial consumers in certain areas of the Zhytomyr region were de-energized. As of this morning, power supply to most consumers has been restored.
07:38 Air defense destroyed 20 of 22 Shahed-type attack UAVs at night, the Air Force reported. The drones were shot down in the Kherson, Sumy, Zhytomyr and Chernihiv regions. In addition, the Russians struck the Donetsk region with an Iskander-M ballistic missile.
07:27 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of July 26:
personnel - about 572,300 (+950) people,
tanks - 8320 (+7),
combat armored vehicles - 16,050 (+11),
artillery systems - 15,840 (+36),
MLRS - 1125 (+0),
air defense systems - 904 (+0),
aircraft - 363 (+0),
helicopters - 326 (+0),
Operational-tactical level UAVs - 12,683 (+73),
cruise missiles - 2402 (+0),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 21,414 (+56),
special equipment - 2668 (+7).
05:48 The US Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that the Ukrainian Defense Forces repelled one of the largest Russian mechanized attacks since October 2023 in the western Donetsk region on July 24. According to analysts, the Ukrainian Armed Forces stopped a battalion-sized Russian mechanized attack near Kostyantynivka after Russian troops advanced to the southeastern outskirts of the town.
The last time Russian forces carried out a battalion-sized mechanized attack in the Donetsk region was in March 2024. The Russians have not carried out a larger mechanized offensive since the first days of the four-month operation to capture Avdiivka in October 2023, ISW recalls. Experts suggest that the Russian army intends to advance further into Konstantinovka as part of its efforts to capture the town and cut the T-0524 Vuhledar-Konstantinovka highway.
04:53 The US government has published a report reporting errors in calculating the cost of weapons sent to Ukraine. This will allow the Pentagon to provide Kiev with additional aid in the amount of $2 billion, Reuters writes. As the government explained, such errors arise because the law adopted by Congress on providing aid to Ukraine in the amount of $61 billion does not contain clear instructions on how to evaluate the transferred weapons. It is also not always clear how to count the equipment received by Kiev under the US president's program, which allows it to use stockpiles from warehouses. The Pentagon wants to ask legislators to regulate this issue in the documents.
04:05 Russians attacked Nizhyn in the Chernihiv region with attack drones - an infrastructure facility and a dormitory were hit, one person was injured, reported the head of the OVA Vyacheslav Chaus.
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activists who threw tomato soup over a priceless Van Gogh painting have been found guilty of criminal damage. Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer, both 22, flung two tins of Heinz soup at the Dutch artist's 1888 masterpiece while it was on display at the National Gallery on October 14, 2022. The pair then proceeded to glue themselves to the wall following the attack on the painting. Although the oil-canvas worth up to £72.5m was protected by a glass cover and went unharmed, its 17th century Italian frame was damaged.
Both Plummer and Holland refused to say who they took instructions from before they carried out the publicity stunt.
[GEO.TV] Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , the largest urban metropolis of Pakistain, has been ranked world’s second riskiest city in a list compiled by Forbes Advisor.
The port city is ranked only after Caracas, Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... in a list based on a study comparing 60 international cities across seven key metrics. The metrics or risk factors include crime, personal safety, health, infrastructure, natural disasters, and digital security.
According to Forbes Advisor, Karachi has the highest personal security risk. This reflects risk from crime, violence, terrorist threats, natural disasters as well as economic vulnerabilities.
Moreover, the State Department has rated it second in accordance with the worst travel safety. The port city also has the fourth highest infrastructure security risk.
"Terrorism and ongoing violence by Death Eater elements have led to indiscriminate attacks on civilian, as well as local military and police, targets," the US State Department stipulated in a travel advisory published in June 2023. They also gave Pakistain a "Level 3″ advisory, cautioning visitors to reconsider travel," reported CNBC.
Parallel to this, Caracas in Venezuela tops the list of world’s riskiest cities. It has the highest health security risk, reflecting the low level and quality of healthcare services and infrastructure as well as the highest crime risk.
Additionally, Yangon in Myanmar holds the third place in the list. The city has the highest digital security risk, third highest personal security risk, reflecting risk from crime, violence, terrorist threats, natural disasters as well as economic
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[GEO.TV] In a shocking incident in Sindh's Nausharoferoz district, both legs of a woman named Sobia Batool Shah were savagely hacked by her bloodthirsty father and uncles in the name of patriarchal "honour" for filing for divorce to end an abusive marriage.
The deeply disturbing act of violence occurred in Gul Town of the district, leaving the victim in severe physical as well as mental trauma, which may result in a lifelong handicap — with the possibility that she may never be able to walk again.
Reportedly, Syed Mustafa Shah, Sobia’s father, and her uncles Syed Qurban Shah, Ehsan Shah, Shah Nawaz, and Mushtaq Shah, who were armed with axes, injured Sobia, and fled the spot leaving her screaming for help in a pool of blood.
As soon as police reached the scene of the crime, Sobia was rushed to a Nawab Shah hospital. Sobia revealed to the police the savageries her patriarchs inflicted upon her for seeking a divorce from her abusive and deadbeat husband, who never took responsibility for his family.
The poor woman further told police that her husband would regularly abuse her and failed to provide for her and their two children, leaving her to suffer on her own in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... .
According to Sobia, she repeatedly alerted her parents about the plight she was in, but her family turned a deaf ear to her grievances and dismissed her, calling her a disgrace.
In a desperate attempt to escape her abusive marriage, Sobia filed for divorce, which incited her father and uncles to confront her.
According to the police, Sobia’s enraged patriarchs accused her of bringing dishonour to the family by taking legal action against her husband. When she refused to withdraw her case, they attacked her with axes, they added.
Taking immediate notice of the incident, the senior superintendent of police (SSP) of Nausharoferoz, ordered the local station house officer (SHO) to bring all the accused to justice and ensure the victim's security.
Responding to the directions, the police have so far managed to arrest one suspect, Mushtaq Shah, and are conducting further raids in search of the remaining culprits.
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[GEO.TV] Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur has said that his government will not allow military operation in the province, attracting prompt censure from Federal Information Minister Attaullah Tarar who termed the CM's stance as being his "compulsion".
"As a chief minister, I announce that we will not allow any operation in this province," CM Gandapur said while addressing a gathering of the Aman Jirga in Bannu on Friday.
"We will not shy away from shedding our blood for our country but will make our decisions on our own," he added.
The development came a day after CM Gandapur chaired a meeting of the apex committee, seeking to reassure the representatives of the Bannu Aman Jirga who sought increased role of police in the province among other demands.
The meeting of the province's top security body discussed the issues related to terrorism and the Bannu incident wherein at least four people were killed and several others sustained injuries after a protest staged on traders' call against deteriorating law and order situation escalated and turned unpleasant.
The incident caused widespread outrage in Bannu, after which CM Gandapur visited the area and tried to calm the people.
In his address today, the PTI-backed CM noted that wrong decisions were imposed on the country by the "slaves of the US", adding that the people of the province suffered huge losses due to wrong decisions made in the past.
CM Gandapur reiterated his resolve against terrorism, saying the provincial authorities would not tolerate any gang in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. He stressed that police would launch action wherever they suspected the presence of miscreants.
"Any highhandedness, if committed in the province, will be perceived as being against me," he remarked.
Responding to Gandapur's statement, Federal Information Minister Tarar said the chief minister had to give such statements as he was answerable "to a man [Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... ] imprisoned in the Adiala Jail".
He stated this while addressing a presser flanked by Federal Minister for Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... Affairs and Gilgit Baltistan Engineer Amir Maqam today.
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[GEO.TV] In a shocking incident in Sindh's Nausharoferoz district, both legs of a woman named Sobia Batool Shah were savagely hacked by her bloodthirsty father and uncles in the name of patriarchal "honour" for filing for divorce to end an abusive marriage.
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
