[Spectator] The youth aren’t doing well — not in America, at least. Even before Covid, experts were ringing the alarm bells about a decade-or-so-long trend of American teens and tweens experiencing a steady uptick in anxiety, depression and self-harm symptoms.
Late last year, US surgeon general Dr. Vivek Murthy published an official advisory attempting to raise awareness of this issue. As the accompanying press release explained, "from 2009 to 2019, the share of high school students who reported persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness increased by 40 percent, to more than one in three students. Suicidal behaviors among high school students also increased during the decade preceding Covid, with 19 percent seriously considering attempting suicide, a 36 percent increase from 2009 to 2019, and about 16 percent having made a suicide plan in the prior year, a 44 percent increase from 2009 to 2019." Murthy described the situation as a "dual crisis" — the terrible impact of Covid layered atop an already dire youth-mental-health landscape.
The most viscerally upsetting presentation of the stats I’ve seen is a graphic representation of CDC data for emergency room visits for self-inflicted injuries among 10- to 19-year-olds. It shows a truly jarring and sudden uptick that started in 2009 — a terrifyingly steep line shooting up toward the heavens.
Both sexes are suffering, but the pain hasn’t been distributed equally between them. As the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, who has written at length about this phenomenon, put it in testimony he submitted to a congressional subcommittee, "the base rate for mood disorders is always higher for girls than boys, particularly after puberty, which means that a doubling of the rate produces far more additional sick girls than boys... [and] there are some disorders and age groups for which girls are up far more, especially for self-harm, which is a much more common way of manifesting anxiety in girls than in boys."
What’s going on, exactly? The short answer is that no one knows for sure. One possibility is that the 2008 financial crisis, a genuinely world-historical event, had some medium- and long-term effects. Think of the millions of kids raised in households hit with a sudden jolt of genuine, novel precarity — whether from a home foreclosure forcing a move, a parent losing a job or other factors — and then having to live with the aftermath. Researchers have believed for a long time that traumatic events suffered at a young age have a particularly brutal impact on young people’s wellbeing. It makes sound theoretical sense that the recession would leave an impact on the children hit hardest by it, and that the effects would linger for years. (Of course it left an impact on adults as well — by one 2013 estimate published in the British Medical Journal, the largest suicide rate increase in the Americas occurred among men aged 45-64, a group hard hit by layoffs and foreclosures.)
And not long after the recession, another world-historical development: the explosive rise of social media on mobile devices. Facebook accessed via a shared clunker of a desktop computer in the family room on dial-up is one thing; Facebook on a smartphone is quite another. Starting around 2010, teenagers were able to mainline information about their classmates, and to communicate with them 24/7, in a manner never before possible.
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maybe it's the parents coddling the shit out of them and trying to be their friends. I have 2 at this age, 1 pays all his own bills and works all the time. The other is starting UGA this year while working on getting a real estate license in the mean time. Pay attention to what your kids are doing instead of making fucking tik tok vids with them.
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Maybe the white ones are depressed because they are being told they are the cause of all of the worlds problems. The kids of color are depressed because they are being told everything is rigged against them.
[Dallas Morning News] After nearly passing through the busiest stretch of the summer travel season, airlines are pulling back schedules and international airports are adding passenger limits in hopes of avoiding a total meltdown heading into the rest of the busy summer travel season the fall.
In the last few weeks, Fort Worth-based American Airlines cut thousands of flights over the next three months after Chicago-based United Airlines said it is putting growth on hold into 2023. This week United cut another 3,900 flights from its October plans.
The airlines need to capitalize on high ticket prices to make up for more than $37 billion in losses over the last two and a half years, even with $50 billion in government aid. Even so, airline executives are deciding that restraint is now the only option, even with strong customer demand.
Several factors are contributing to those decisions. Carriers and airports face labor shortages, heightened by logjams in training. Outbreaks and new variants of COVID-19 are emerging. Supply chain issues and airplane delivery delays loom, which particularly affect the rebounding international travel market. Most of those factors have covid in common.
Some of Europe’s biggest airports in London, Frankfurt and Amsterdam are adding capacity caps that are straining the international travel system at some of its most critical connecting points.
Meanwhile, a pilot shortage that has loomed over airlines for more than a decade likely won’t resolve itself for two or three years. Labor unions say workers are fed up with long hours, forced overtime and rebooked flights even as they fight for higher pay to make up for historic inflation. Related to pilot reductions due to covid vaccine mandates. Sensing a theme? The biggest logjam in the airline industry right now is in training. American and Southwest have each hired more than 10,000 employees during the last year. But it takes weeks or months of training before those new hires are ready to work. And it takes months or years before they’re running at full speed, said Kenneth Quinn, a former counsel for the Federal Aviation Administration.
For airlines and airports, the staffing shortage has spread from restaurant workers and janitors to baggage handlers and ticket agents.
Isom said it could be two or three years before one labor shortage is worked out — the need for regional airline pilots. The training pipeline for pilots is long and expensive, leading airlines to fight for the limited number of pilots already certified.
For airline travelers, the mix of labor shortages, high fuel prices and strong demand mean ticket prices will remain stubbornly high and flights will continue to be scarce, Grant said. "That means maybe less production coming online." "It also means the consumer is going to have to be willing to pay more." Pay more for less - another measure of Joeflation.
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Fewer flights means more overbooking, more passengers bumped. If you get bumped from your flight, the entire point of flying to save time is mooted, unless you are traveling overseas, in which case you have no choice anyway.
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In my lifetime flying coach has gone from pleasant and comfortable, to an ordeal of physical discomfort coupled with massive inconvenience and expense both before and after. Now we have devolved to unreliable and downright insulting. Look at the massive unclaimed baggage displays at major airports, and remember, every single bag has the name, address and contact information of the owner. The airline simply ignored bothering to even send a simple notification, since most of the bags were sent as checked baggage to the wrong location, and notification would require additional handling and workload. Customer service is an alien concept to United, American and even Delta.
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Meanwhile, a pilot shortage that has loomed over airlines for more than a decade likely won’t resolve itself for two or three years. Labor unions say workers are fed up with long hours, forced overtime and rebooked flights even as they fight for higher pay to make up for historic inflation.
Yeah, that's a line of Bull-Shit. Admitting the obvious to cover the truth.
[Free Beacon] A United Nations official investigating alleged Israeli crimes said in an interview that social media platforms are controlled by an all-powerful "Jewish lobby."
Miloon Kothari, a member of a U.N. Commission of Inquiry that is leading what critics say is a biased investigation against Israel, made the comments during an interview this week with Mondoweiss, an anti-Zionist blog that has been dogged by accusations it amplifies anti-Semitic hatred of Israel and Jews.
"We are very disheartened by the social media that is controlled largely by whether it's the Jewish lobby or it's the specific [nonprofit groups]," Kothari said. "A lot of money is being thrown into trying to discredit us."
Pro-Israel organizations say the investigation into Israel is biased due to its broad mandate and open-ended nature and that Kothari's comments are another sign the investigation will be unfair to Israel. The commission is tasked with identifying the root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It already has concluded in one report that "Israel has no intention of ending the occupation"—language that critics of the probe say reveals the inquiry's implicit bias against the Jewish state.
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Just another phony, a hypocrite academic piggybacking on the easiest fcuking thing to piggyback on. Human rights. Opportunistic merc activist building a career as a global consultant based on useless moral policing.
[Guardian] The US’s biggest oil companies pumped out record profits over the last few months as Americans struggled to pay for gasoline, food and other basic necessities.
On Friday, ExxonMobil reported an unprecedented $17.85bn (£14.77bn) profit for the second quarter, nearly four times as much as the same period a year ago, and Chevron made a record $11.62bn (£9.61bn). The sky-high profits were announced one day after the UK’s Shell shattered its own profit record.
Soaring energy prices have rattled consumers and become a political flashpoint. "We’re going to make sure everybody knows Exxon’s profits," Joe Biden said in June. "Exxon made more money than God this year."
The record profits came after similarly outsized gains in the first quarter when the largest oil companies made close to $100bn in profits.
High energy prices are one of the leading factors driving inflation to a four-decade high in the US. Gas prices have fallen slightly in recent weeks but are now averaging $4.25 a gallon across the US, more than $1 a gallon higher than a year ago.
Consumers are facing high fuel prices not just at the pump. Soaring energy prices are being baked into delivery costs, which is driving up the cost of everything from apples to toilet paper.
One reason gasoline prices have been so high is that fewer refineries are operating in the US than before the pandemic, so there is a limit to how much gasoline can be produced.
Biden has called for the companies to increase production and refining capacities in an attempt to bring down prices. On Friday Exxon said it was expanding refinery and production in Texas and New Mexico.
Exxon, based in Irving, Texas, increased its oil and gas production as crude prices hovered above $100 a barrel. Revenue at Exxon soared to $115.68bn, up from $67.74bn during the same quarter last year.
Natural gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices are also elevated due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and ensuing sanctions against Russia, a large supplier of natural gas. Many European nations have been scrambling for alternatives to Russian natural gas, and have been competing for boatloads of LNG, driving up prices for natural gas globally and in the US.
In addition to oil company executives, shareholders also reaped the benefits of high energy prices during the quarter. Since the start of 2022, Exxon and Chevron shares have risen close to 46% and 26%, respectively.
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I figger they're talking about pre-tax profits, so the government gets half, amirite?
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Given, we are told we are using LESS Oil/Gas/Diesel at double the price. Are these earning figures Mathematically possible WITHOUT some slick industry manipulation ?
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The fastest way to lose money in the oil business is to drill a dry hole. With drilling shut down, the oil companies are turning to the aspects of their operations that they can operate, and those are making unusual profits in the current distorted market.
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Is 'the big guy' getting his 10% from "The Big Guy"?
How else would he know how much money God makes?
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Number two squarely nails it. There is probably nothing taxed more heavily than the oil and gas industry. Permit to well head, to refinery, to gas station, to consumer. Off-shore and gov't lands are even more lucrative for our D.C. masters.
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I question the veracity of the source, and the Grauniard.
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It is nearly word for word a Daily Mail article about a month and a half ago explaining why their energy producers are having record profits at consumer expense so taxes need to be raised to give consumers tax relief on energy prices.
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After 12 years in the oil industry I can tell you that the numbers on paper aren't reality. Because you need to explore and deal with delays, those profits vanish when a hurricane ends drilling for 3 weeks and the rigs have to flee or a drill string gets stuck down hole and costs you an extra 5-6 million to deal with. Operating costs in this industry are HIGH.
[Townhall] The trail of breadcrumbs that Hunter Biden left goes beyond that of Hansel and Gretel, but no one wants to look into this guy. The crack addict has been a public relations nightmare for his father, yet the liberal media's shield of protection prevents any accountability.
The shady government access deals have been widely known among some of us since Tony Bobulinski went on record to discuss the 2017 deal that fell through with CEFC China Energy. The Biden family was still compensated for their time, however. This deal involved Joe Biden, "the big guy," and showed the president lied about not knowing his son's allegedly corrupt foreign exploits. The Hunter Biden laptop has been a treasure trove of inquiry into potentially felonious activity, but no one wants to touch it for the most part. If Hunter were the son of a Republican, this would be the top story for months.
Mia has combed through that iCloud, a Pandora's Box of debauchery. While the crack cocaine, hookers, white claws, and M&M stories are fun, the tax evasion probe is real and ongoing. Yet, there's a serious snag. Delaware's US Attorney's Office isn't big enough to handle the investigation. They lack the resources to investigate all the angles of the case. Hunter Biden and corruption is an ever-growing amoeba, and this office is reportedly in dire need of reinforcements.
Margot Cleveland at The Federalist has more, including a recap of all the family's suspicious activities:
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It might be worth someone giving it The Hannity Test. If he is hyping it, nothing will happen. We will have to draw straws to see who has to watch that moron, though.
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[Oilprice.com] The Biden administration has earmarked $5 billion ready to be disbursed to states with EV charging infrastructure plans in place. States are on board with the shift to EVs and are indeed making plans for charging infrastructure. But the people at the end of the line, those who will host the chargers, are having misgivings. Utility Dive reported this week that convenience store owners have sounded the alarm about the EV infrastructure bill, saying the legislation behind it is discouraging private investment, which is going to be essential for the successful shift to EVs.
The report cited Doug Kantor, general counsel of the National Association of Convenience Stores, as saying that the sector was concerned about turning in a profit from EV chargers in the current political framework regarding these.
"There is no way to build out the infrastructure that’s needed to charge vehicles without private investment. To just do it with public money, that’s not going to happen," Doug Kantor said.
Retailers’ main worries have to do with demand charges and the option for regulated utilities to own EV chargers. According to the NACS, the charges need to be reduced or eliminated, and fair competition between regulated utilities and private businesses in EV charging needs to be ensured.
This is the latest chapter in the EV infrastructure story unfolding in the United States under the ambitious Biden administration’s plans to electrify transport. Per these plans, the country should have half a million chargers installed in the coming years, for which the administration allocated $5 billion.
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See also: Connecticut grounding its entire fleet of electric buses after one of them catches fire (and apparently lithium fires are just about impossible to put out.)
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Lithium-ion batteries burning are considered a 'Class B' fire (as the batteries contain liquid electrolytes that provide a conductive pathway), so a standard 'ABC' fire extinguisher should be used.
Since lithium-ion batteries aren’t made with metallic lithium, a Class D dry powder extinguisher would not be effective.
Even so, with the larger batteries, it takes a LOT of extinguishing chemicals to put them out. Your tiny kitchen extinguisher wouldn't do it.
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Son is a Metro-Atlanta area firefighter.
He has handled a dozen or so EV fires.
If I understood him correctly. The general process is to Surround, Contain, protect the surround area and watch it burn itself into a Hazmat Environment Mess.
YAA December 19, 2021 - Justin Fischer = "EV battery fires require A LOT more water to extinguish. ... Some fires have needed 30,000 gallons of water to extinguish. ... Once the fire appears fully extinguished, there’s a chance it could still flare up, even days later. Towing services and junkyards are advised to park damaged electric vehicles at least 50 feet from other vehicles in the yard. "
An EV with a typical 60 kWh battery pack, will take 60 hours 2.5 DAYS to fully recharge and still only have a 200 to 320 miles driving range.
The amount of energy used to produce, power and recharge an EV, is something like 3.5 times more than needed to make and use a gallon gas. Which refills in under 10 mins and drives 300+ miles per tank fill.
Plus, we have not discussed Environment issues of mining Rare Earths and production for the EV battery and disposal at end of the currently seen 5-6 year lifecycle.
[Breitbart] Colleges across America have held "white accountability groups" that urge white students to check their privilege and become "anti-racist" allies.
One such university is the University of North Texas, which held a white accountability group through its Division of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access.
The description explained that members of their white accountability group will police the behavior of other white people. It said "Members ... will hold fellow white employees accountable for oppressive behaviors and the systems in which those behaviors are tolerated."
The University of California San Diego’s Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion runs a "White Allyship, Action & Accountability" initiative. The initiative encourages students to "Understand and examine the role of white allies at UC San Diego in addressing systemic racism and anti-Blackness." The webpage for the initiative includes a number of different anti-racism resources, including a 44-part checklist for white allies.
Loyola University Maryland also hosted white accountability groups. The university’s Office of Equity and Inclusion tacitly argued that its white students were vessels for white supremacy when it stated that the purpose of such groups was to "keep ourselves and our campus accountable as we continue to work towards dismantling white supremacy in all the spaces that it lives, even (and especially) when that space is inside of us."
The University of St. Thomas is yet another university that hosts a "White Accountability Workshop." The program is intended to serve as a "space for students to explore how whiteness and racism show up in our daily lives and systems to affect our thoughts, feelings, relationships, health & wellbeing, community and much more." Students at the University of St. Thomas are encouraged to have an "anti-racist awakening."
Dominican University hosted white accountability groups earlier this year, which it referred to as "an opportunity for individuals who identify as white to participate in dialogue on recognizing their whiteness and white privilege." The group met for eight different sessions.
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Do we get to hold black employees to the same standards for rude, intimidating anti-white behaviors? This is just the new brown shirts working the race game for dominance and power.
[NPASyria] On Friday, Syrian government forces reinforced several military posts in the vicinity of the city of Jasim in the northern countryside of Daraa, a governorate south Syria, following threats to shell and storm the city.
Eyewitnesses told North Press, "The government forces set new military posts on the outskirts of Jasim in tandem with military reinforcements arrived in the region."
"The government forces started the process of setting a military post near a military checkpoint in the town of Saraya, another post in Kherbit Saraya, and a third one in a sulfur plant on the outskirts of Jasim," the eyewitnesses added.
These reinforcements came days after threats by leader of security committee of Syrian government forces, Major General Mofeed Hassan, to storm and shell the city.
The leader’s threats, during a meeting with dignitaries of the city, came in response to wanted individuals for government after they rejected to join settlement agreements.
Hassan requested the wanted individuals leave the city, accusing them of involvement in liquidations against government officials.
On Saturday, government military reinforcements arrived in Tel al-Mahes near Jasim.
Residents of the city fear the repetition of last year events when the city was shelled and civilian casualties were reported.
On Thursday, a meeting between tribal leaders and Central Committee on one hand and the security committee of the government forces on the other in Daraa concluded, agreeing to the withdrawal of the government forces from the outskirts of the city of Tafas in return for departing the wanted individuals for security apparatuses to their towns.
Since the government forces re-captured Daraa in 2018, the governorate has been living in a state of insecurity, with one or two daily liquidations targeting soldiers and officers of the government forces, not to mention the spread of thefts.
In 2021, Daraa Governorate went through an 80-day-seige. After that, a number of Daraa’s notables and government forces, with mediation of Russian officers, reached a ceasefire agreement on September 5, 2021, including handing over weapons and deploying governmental security posts in the towns of the governorate.
[NPASyria] In the last week of July, two civilians bit the dust and about 15 others were maimed in different areas in northeast Syria after Ottoman Turkish forces and their affiliated armed Syrian opposition factions escalated their shelling.
Statistics monitored by North Press revealed that more than 400 Ottoman Turkish shells targeted inhabitant villages on contact lines near border in the northern countryside of Hasakah and Raqqa.
The Ottoman Turkish escalation followed trilateral summit in the Iranian capital Tehran that brought presidents of Iran, Russia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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[The Cipher Brief] BOOK REVIEW: Putin’s Trolls: On the Frontlines of Russia’s Information War Against the World
Finns like to say "Ei se pelaa, joka pelkää" ("No guts, no glory") about people like Finnish journalist Jessikka Aro, who have the courage to act during the most trying of times. In spite of having faced repeated death threats and slander, Aro bravely exposes the truth about the Kremlin’s propaganda machine in her book, Putin’s Trolls.
Putin’s Trolls delivers a comprehensive history of the Kremlin’s aggressive information warfare against Ukraine beginning in 2014, when Russian state media portrayed the Kiev government (and still does today), as "fascist" and full of Nazis. Aro reveals how Russia deployed Soviet era propaganda techniques designed to influence the local Russian speaking population in the Donbas.
One of the reasons the book works so well is because Aro has extensive experience as a journalist and is a substantive expert on Russia. She worked as a foreign affairs correspondent for Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat; as a journalist in Petrozavodsk, Karelia; attended Moscow State University; and currently works for Finland’s public service broadcaster YLE (Yleisradio). As part of her research, she visited and conducted interviews at the St Petersburg based Internet Research Agency aka Russian Troll Farm, that is infamous for creating fake online accounts used to influence U.S. public opinion during the 2016 presidential election.
Aro also describes in great detail the history of Bill Browder and the Magnitsky Act as well as Russian propaganda attacks on a senior Lithuanian diplomat, who supported the Belarus opposition, a Norwegian journalist, and a Serbian political analyst. Interestingly, Aro also highlights the white hat cyber warriors including Ukrainian Infonapalm and Bellingcat, which has distinguished itself via extraordinary reporting on the Russian downing of a Malaysian Airlines passenger aircraft in 2014. Just a personal opinion: Infonapalm is not very credible.
Aro details the extent to which U.S. networking and social media enabled Russian cyber operations including launching attacks against her and other journalists as well as disseminating the Kremlin’s propaganda. (In 2018, the Helsinki District Court found three Finns guilty of defamation against Aro.)
Aro makes a tremendous contribution to our understanding of Russian propaganda operations, all the more important given Finland’s trajectory towards full membership in NATO. One can only expect Russia to increase the intensity of its already full throttled cyber information warfare against Finland. Aro would do well to take on this issue and others in a follow up to Putin’s Trolls, which effectively concludes its narrative in 2019.
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[IsraelTimes] Matthew Belanger, from New York, procured weapons and other gear, discussed attacking synagogue and other targets with other white supremacists.
A former US Marine who belonged to a neo-Nazi ...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both.... group that counts willingness to murder Jewish children as a membership requirement has been arrested on charges stemming from a federal investigation into his plot to commit mass murder, including against Jews.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Militias of the Saudi-led coalition stormed on Thursday a big shot’s house in Mahrah province, eastern 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... .Local sources said that the militias stormed the house of the head of the anti-foreign occupation sit-in committee, Sheikh Ali al-Haraizi.
Activists from the sons of Mahrah confirmed on social media that members of the "military police"of the coalition, including Emirati and Saudi officers, stormed with by 12 military vehicles, the house of al-Haraizi, in al-Mahif area.
The sit-in committee in Mahrah considered the storming of Sheikh al-Haraizi’s house a blatant attack, describing it as a cowardly espionage act.
It vowed to respond to the violation of the house of the al-Haraizi leader in a timely manner, calling on the free people of Yemen and Mahrah to stand united against the foreign occupation.
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[OneClickPolitics] Tyrants in DC are pushing through a new federal "assault weapons" ban that is even more draconian than the original 1994 ban. HR 1808 - which would ban nearly all ARs, AKs, AR pistols (and even many handguns and shotguns) - was advanced by the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, July 20th. By gaining the approval of the Judiciary Committee in a 25-18 vote, H.R. 1808 now awaits a full vote in the House.
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The bill passed [the House] with a vote of 217–213, largely along party lines, with Republicans Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Chris Jacobs of New York voting for it. Democrats Henry Cuellar of Texas, Jared Golden of Maine, Ron Kind of Wisconsin, Kurt Schrader of Oregon, and Vicente Gonzalez of Texas voted against.
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I guess the trick here is gaslighting the general people into thinking that The House has the authority to do anything.
I am left to wonder...did The Mall Incident swing opinion? Seemed a locked thing 'to do something' until really just recently. Put that in contrast to dude playing Candy Crush while his wife puts up her life fight. Sorry; I would have had to be more zipped up than a Freddy Mercury wet dream.
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Anyone who thinks gridlock is not good, given our current crop of politicians, isn't paying attention or wants rule by fiat anyway. As long as the fiat ruler sees things their way.
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FFS gridlock is the feature of the founding. It was designed to be difficult. Its the whole fucking point, not to be ruled by king dictate.
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Hang them all
Don't say that. They'll ban rope.
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^ Just like guns, the problem with banning rope is all the rope already out there. And, hey, if the rope's a bit short, well, so it goes...
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I don't think this law would last too long with the current Supreme Court make-up. I would rather they waste money chasing this unicorn rather than spending money that we can't unspend.
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A 16-year-old Paleostinian boy has died after allegedly being shot by an Israeli settler in the village of al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah, the Paleostinian Ministry of Health announced.
The head of the al-Mughayyir village council told MEE that the boy, Amjad Nashaat Abu Alia, was rubbed out by settlers who were attacking a peaceful march that started from the village in opposition to escalating settler attacks.
Amin Abu Alia confirmed that he was a witness to the shooting. He added that he saw a number of armed settlers accompanied by Israeli occupation soldiers.
Dozens of residents of al-Mughayyir took part in the peaceful march alongside solidarity activist muppets, raising Paleostinian flags and chanting slogans.
"The Israeli soldiers began suppressing the march by firing gas bombs and bullets without any justification," Abu Ali told Middle East Eye.
He said about five young men were shot, three with rubber-coated metal bullets, and two with live ammunition.
GREAT SADNESS
Abu Alia said that Amjad's father had cancer and was in a difficult health condition, and had received the news of his son's death with great sadness.
The whole village was in a state of grief and mourning ahead of Amjad's funeral on Saturday, with the ceremony to start from the Paleostine Medical Complex in Ramallah.
Tthe coordinator of the Agricultural Committee in al-Mughayyir, Kazem al-Hajj Muhammad, told MEE that the village had witnessed a dangerous escalation in recent months following attacks from settlers protected by occupation soldiers.
He said settlers pursued farmers, preventing them from reaching their lands, and expelling them from them.
They also frequently detained farmers for hours and severely beat them.
He said the settlers who launched attacks on the village of al-Mughayyir recently had been living for a year-and-a-half inside a settlement outpost they set up inside an army camp built on parts of the village's lands.
"The settlers today were suppressing the march with stones and shooting, and the soldiers stood by and watched... It was about five armed settlers who shot up the demonstrators," he said.
The Israeli version of events — in full, for contrast of tone as well as details so you can judge for yourself, dear Reader:
[IsraelTimes] 16-year-old shot in chest near al-Mughayyir, PA health ministry says; army says troops responded to riot; Israeli drivers come under rock attack nearby
A 16-year-old Paleostinian was killed by live fire during festivities with Israeli soldiers near the West Bank town of al-Mughayyir, the Paleostinian Authority health ministry said Friday.
Paleostinian media reports identified the teen as Amjad Abu Alia.
According to the health ministry, Abu Alia was shot in the chest.
Several other Paleostinians were hurt amid the festivities, according to Paleostinian media.
The Israel Defense Forces said that soldiers and Border Police officers responded to a violent mostly peaceful protest near the town northeast of Ramallah with riot dispersal means and live fire in some cases.
The military said it was aware of reports regarding a Paleostinian killed.
According to the IDF, hundreds of Paleostinians set fire to tires and hurled stones at Israeli vehicles passing the area.
A dashcam video showed one driver having stones hurled at him by a group of Paleostinians. He was unharmed, according to Hebrew-language media reports.
Shortly after, new festivities erupted between a group of settlers and Paleostinians, which included both sides throwing stones at each other, the IDF said. Troops dispersed that gathering too.
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That's one permanent hostile, permanently down. Good.
[The Conversation] These are the words of double agent "M", who operated for the Dutch security service and the CIA against the East German Stasi for 22 years. In early 1985, it appeared that the Stasi may have uncovered his deception — and his true loyalty to the west. He was in East Berlin at the time and the men had rudely awoken M around 4am. Still in pyjamas, he was taken from the safe house where he was staying for debriefing sessions with his Stasi handlers to a van with darkened windows that transported him, under armed guard, to a prison.
They told him he was in the Untersuchungshaftanstalt (pre-trial detention center) Berlin-Hohenschönhausen, a notorious site during the cold war under the control of the Ministry of State Security (Stasi). M was forced to undergo a degrading and extremely painful cavity inspection, before being taken — still naked — to an interrogation room.
His captors intimidated him by pouring cold water over him from a bucket until the afternoon. They taunted him constantly, saying things like "You betrayed Marxism-Leninism" and "You are a CIA agent". Yet M said he felt strangely reassured because these accusations were not specific — they were meant to provoke him. In other words, his interrogators seemed to lack proof.
[DW] Researchers at Yale University say the Russian economy is suffering massive damage due to Western sanctions, despite Moscow downplaying the effect.
Sanctions on Russia are taking a heavy toll on the economy, despite Moscow's assertion that the country is not feeling the pinch, according to a new study from Yale University.
The authors claim their work casts doubt on Moscow's claims that the economy remains robust and that the West is suffering more through "a war of economic attrition."
WHAT DOES THE STUDY SAY?
Yale's team of experts used consumer data and figures from Russia's international trade and shipping partners to measure economic activity five months after Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine.
They found that Russia's position as a commodities exporter had been irreversibly eroded, having been forced to switch from its main markets in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... toward Asia.
The study said Russian imports have largely collapsed since the war began, and that the country is facing stark challenges securing crucial inputs, parts, and technology.
"Russian domestic production has come to a complete standstill with no capacity to replace lost businesses, products and talent," the team found.
"The hollowing out of Russia's domestic innovation and production base has led to soaring prices and consumer angst," the authors added.
With the exodus of some 1,000 global companies, Russia has lost companies that represent some 40% of gross domestic product, according to the study.
The report said Putin was resorting to patently unsustainable, dramatic fiscal and monetary intervention to smooth over structural economic weaknesses.
It added that the Russian government budget had gone into deficit for the first time, and the Kremlin's finances are "in much, much more dire straits than conventionally understood."
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes... the authors said Russian financial markets — with an eye on future outlook — were the worst performing in the world, limiting capacity to tap new investment to revitalize the economy.
'CHERRY-PICKED' STATISTICS
"Since the invasion, the Kremlin's economic releases have become increasingly cherry-picked, selectively tossing out unfavorable metrics while releasing only those that are more favorable," the study said.
"These Putin-selected statistics are then carelessly trumpeted across media and used by reams of well-meaning but careless experts in building out forecasts which are excessively, unrealistically favorable to the Kremlin."
New figures for Russian industrial production for June show that it was significantly depressed across a range of sectors compared with last year.
For cars, production was down by 89%, while for fiber optic cables it dropped by almost 80%.
WHAT'S NEXT FOR RUSSIAN ECONOMY?
The authors of the Yale study said that Russia had no path out of "economic oblivion," provided that Western allies stay unified on sanctions.
"Defeatist headlines arguing that Russia's economy has bounced back are simply not factual — the facts are that, by any metric and on any level, the Russian economy is reeling, and now is not the time to step on the brakes," it said.
A separate study by the German Institute for International and Security Affairs published in June also suggested that the Russian economy was in dire straits, despite having held up well initially in the face of sanctions.
"The sanctions' effects are only just beginning to unfold: Supply-chain problems are intensifying and demand is falling quickly."
"In the longer run, Russia's economy will become more primitive as it partially decouples from international trade," it said.
"To avoid social tensions, the government will intervene to support Russian businesses, leading to more protectionism and a larger state footprint in the economy."
[NYPOST] "We should avoid a semantic battle" said Janet Yellen yesterday. "A what?" In short it seems what the Treasury Secretary means is that we should not use the word "recession."
That is a shame, because people, including Yellen’s boss, used to like to use the word a lot. In October 2020, when he was running for office, Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body.... said "President Obama and I left Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... a booming economy — and he caused a recession. He squandered it just like he has everything else he’s inherited in his life." He said the same thing in September 2020, claiming that American was in a "recession created by Donald Trump’s negligence."
Fast forward a couple of years and The White House is now reframing the meaning of the word and warning us all not to use it. It is true that until yesterday it was generally agreed that two straight quarters of negative GDP growth was the common definition of a recession. But yesterday President Biden said, "That doesn’t sound like a recession to me." This fact should surprise no one.
Because re-naming things is one of the left’s favorite pastimes. If you cannot change the facts then you can at least change the language around the facts. By doing so you can massage the facts, make them less concerning and in the process wish reality away. For a time, at least.
Remember the redefinition of another word: the "T" word. "Transitory" was the word Biden used after the third stimulus package in an attempt to claim that inflation was a fleeting issue. Back then he was dismissing inflation as a nothing-burger — all to do with supply chains that were being fixed anyhow. But many months later and the inflation is still with us. It turns out that things that are "Transitory" can stay around a lot longer than we thought.
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So, the R word won't be in the Newspeak dictionary?
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Headline has me putting a dollar $2 in the jar.
[Star] Michelle Jenneke likes to shake it all about before taking on the world's best in the 100m hurdles - and the Australian has overcome injury to head to the 2022 Commonwealth Games
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Wow - Nice looking lady - I think Rantburg should post more human-interest stories like this one; Thank you, Mr. Besoeker. I hope she wins a place in the 2022 Commonwealth Games; I know she won a place in my heart. She resembles my daughter.
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Bot, being a "model" is the gold standard of "influencers" on "social media."
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This started 10 years ago
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Michelle Jenneke
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I find it unfortunate that under 30s are social tards.
That said, I also have an ongoing debate among the campfire: how much different is it from when we were?
I remember bus rides to meets - we had our walkman on, nose deep in the latest comics or whatnots, passing them around to laugh or talk about the good ones. Road trips, the adults giving us games and time wasters to, I know now, save their sanity. The winning question, "Given Road Bingo, or the entire Super Mario collection, which would you, as a kid, have wanted?"
Social Media is anti-social, that is a proven, especially after The Covid. We are trying to get at something deeper which creates such titles, and I am all open. I'll serve:
There is a fundamental disconnect between cause and effect. Communication technology amplifies that disconnect.
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"You ever felt a slide rule baby? It's in my pocket"
"A slide rule. So you can do the maths without a calculator...no, not your phone, either. Nevermind"
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#10 ;-) a little young for that era. That was my Dad's
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The heroism of the Russian fighters and, without exaggeration, by a miracle, victory was given in the defense of the Petropavlovsk port in 1854 during the Crimean War. After more than a century and a half, many of the names of the heroes of that battle became known. And not only their names, but also the names of those places from where the sailors of the Kamchatka naval crew were called to the service of the Fatherland, which became the core of the defense of the Petropavlovsk port.
Muriel Bowser requested National Guard help dealing with the some-4,000 migrants Texas and Arizona have left at Washington, D.C.'s doorstep
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said officials are considering the request but Republicans were 'wrong' to use migrants as a 'political pawn'
'So they're concerned about migrants coming to America illegally within their cities - have they ever been to the border?' McCarthy, R-Calif., said
'They were concerned about bringing the National Guard in after what was happening here during the summer,' he said referring to police protests in 2020
[IsraelTimes] Suspect accused of participating in a violent mostly peaceful attack against a Jewish man in the northern town during the May 2021 riots; victim sustained life-threatening injuries.
An Arab Israeli man has been indicted on terror charges for participating in a mob attack against a Jewish resident of Acre during the May 2021 riots that left the victim, Mor Ganashvili, with life-threatening injuries.
Rani Piran, 28, a resident of Acre, was charged on Thursday with committing a terrorist act causing serious injury with aggravated intent, racially motivated rioting, arson, and a series of other offenses over several days.
The riots in Acre were part of a series of violent mostly peaceful inter-communal disturbances, particularly in Israel’s mixed Jewish-Arab cities, that took place in the days following the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", 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 Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... on May 10 last year.
Piran is the fourth person to be indicted on terror offenses for the attack on Ganashvili, who was beaten with iron bars and other blunt instruments that rendered him unconscious and left him with two brain hemorrhages, internal bleeding, and numerous other injuries.
Ganashvili was rescued by another Arab Israeli resident of Acre, nurse Fadi Qassem, who gave him first aid treatment and helped save his life before security forces and emergency medical services took him to the hospital.
In total, 239 people have been indicted as of May 2022 for terror offenses during the May 2021 riots, of whom 15 percent are Jews and 85% are Arabs, according to figures from the State Attorney’s Office.
According to the indictment, Piran was one of dozens of masked rioters who were roaming the streets of Acre on the night of May 12, throwing stones and launching fireworks at coppers and destroying public property.
They set up a roadblock using furniture and other objects, which Ganashvili encountered while driving to visit his mother whom he was worried about due to the ongoing riots.
The rioters, including Piran according to the indictment, pelted Ganashvili’s car, which had Israeli flags on it, with stones and other objects, causing him to lose control and crash into a wall.
Ganashvili got out of the car and tried to escape but was stopped and severely beaten by the mob, until he was rescued by Qassem.
Piran has also been charged with the arson of the Uri Buri restaurant in the old city of Acre on the night of May 11.
The indictment alleges that all of the offenses he was charged with were motivated by a nationalistic ideology.
Piran was arrested on June 20 and has been in jug since then. The State Attorney’s Office has requested that he remain in prison until the end of his legal proceedings.
Not certain about the provenence of the commentary below, as it came from a Telegram account.
[ColonelCassad] North Macedonia handed over to Ukraine T-72 tanks, which Russia had once presented to Ukraine as fraternal aid against the Albanians.
Now that your attention has been drawn ( https://t.me/rbc_news/54878 ), let's talk about how fact-checking overcomes evil.
The Serbian portal RTS published a note on the morning of July 29, in which described how North Macedonia is handing over T-72 tanks to Ukraine. “The Macedonian army has 31 vehicles of this type in service. These tanks were supplied to the authorities of Skopje by Russia in 2000 during the uprising of Ali Ahmeti’s People’s Liberation Army,” write the Serbs. This note was brought to the attention of the Russian Interfax, honestly reprinting the information without double-checking.
Following Interfax, the information of the Serbian RTS is being reprinted by the Ukrainian media, which, despite all the events of the past five months, are still closely monitoring the Russian media in search of informational reasons. And now UNIAN writes about a Russian gift given to Ukrainians.
In reality, of course, everything was a little different: not a gift, but a sale, and not by Russia, but by Ukraine. In 1999, even before the start of the Albanian uprising, Ukraine and then just Macedonia signed a contract for the supply of military equipment from Soviet reserves, RBC notes. Deliveries, Kyiv, of course, delayed.
A batch of Soviet-made T-72A from 31 combat vehicles came to Skopje only in 2001. “This is the last batch of tanks to Macedonia, which was carried out in accordance with the agreement concluded between Ukraine and Macedonia in 1999. We, as a contracting party with Macedonia, assumed certain obligations, and as a predictable and reliable partner, we had to fulfill them," he said (dead link) in 2001, Anatoly Zlenko, then Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
In 2022, the circle closed and the T-72A drove back.
In connection with this story, I would like to draw attention to several points. Firstly, Ukrainian monitors continue to follow their Russian counterparts just as closely as before, when the Ukrainian media generally followed the lead of Russian media giants. The story of the transfer of the “Russian gift” to Ukraine was born not in the bowels of the CIPSO, but in the Russian information field.
Secondly, it is certainly interesting to observe the tonality of informational reasons wandering from the country - if for the Serbs the transfer of "Russian" tanks to Ukraine looks like an occasion to once again reproach their southern neighbor, who betrayed the Slavic brotherhood and left for NATO, then in the Ukrainian media and blogs this history turns into yet another reason to laugh at Russia.
By the way, where did the rumors about the transfer of Russian tanks to North Macedonia in 2000 really come from? It’s hard to imagine now, but their roots are in the once-existing “brotherhood” of Moscow and Kyiv. In 2000, the British Times published an article on the supply of arms to Macedonia by Michael Evans, which stated that both Russia and Ukraine were supplying weapons to this conflict zone. “The main supplier of weapons is Ukraine.
But, of course, Russian weapons are also coming in. There is no doubt that the government is behind this. By the way, these weapons are supplied on absolutely legal grounds, these operations cannot be called illegal, ”the author of the article said in an interview with the then foreign media agent Radio Liberty.
https://t.me/vatfor/7922 - zinc
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
In general, as in a joke - not in chess, but in preference, and did not win, but lost.
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[REGNUM] At the mouth of the Danube, a Ukrainian small geographic vessel "Shlyakhovich" was blown up on a sea mine, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Center for Defense Control of Russia, said at a briefing on July 29.
He clarified that the small geographical vessel "Shlyakhovich" of the State Hydrographic Service of Ukraine was blown up by a drifting mine torn from anchor.
"So, on July 28, 2022, when measuring the depths of the fairway at the mouth of the Danube River, a small geographic vessel Shlyakhovich was blown up on a Ukrainian drifting mine," Mizintsev said.
He also recalled that the sea minefields created by Ukrainian militants still do not allow dozens of foreign ships to leave Ukrainian ports.
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...If I understand this right, the Russians are announcing that a Ukranian ship struck a mine.
Hmm. Curious.
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This doesn't seem like something the Ukrainians would brag about AND there have been reports of drifting mines, from Turkey if memory serves.
De-mining Odessa is a sticking point in getting grain shipping restarted. Shippers want the mines cleared to reduce their risk. Ukraine wants to keep the mines to deter a Russian assault on Odessa.
[An Nahar] A The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... -based grains trading company denied Friday that barley and flour aboard a ship docked in the Port of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... in Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... had been stolen from Ukraine, saying the source of the flour is Russia.
An official at Loyal Agro Co LTD said that the firm had sought to sell 5,000 tons of the flour on the ship to private buyers in Lebanon and not to the Lebanese government.
The Ukrainian Embassy in Lebanon on Thursday told Rooters that a U.S.-sanctioned Syrian ship had docked in Tripoli "carrying 5,000 tons of barley and 5,000 tons of flour that we suspect was taken from Ukrainian stores."
The company official said that the cargo, some 8,000 tons of flour and 1,700 tons of barley in total, had initially been destined for Syria but the company decided to offload 5,000 tons of flour in Lebanon amid bread shortages tied to a three-year economic crisis. The official added that the flour could be sold for between $620 to $650 per ton in Lebanon, whereas a ton would fetch $600 in Syria.
Russian Embassy denies any knowledge of grain ship docked in Lebanon https://t.co/UvvkCEN2RU
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. After the tantrums of Denisova, who was raped with a spoon, the issues of the exchange of prisoners were taken over by the Main Intelligence Directorate (Ukrainian GRU) of the Ministry of Defense, which promised to make the process of negotiations and exchanges less public.
2. Ukrainian GRU was directly involved in ensuring the process of "extraction" (that is, capitulation) of the remnants of the AFU grouping at Azovstal.
Representatives of the Ukrainian GRU made statements that a "fine special operation to liberate" was underway, trying to explain by this the surrender of the remnants of the Mariupol group.
3. Also during the negotiations on the "extraction" it was the Ukrainian GRU that chose Yelenovka as the place of detention of prisoners from Azovstal, with which our negotiators agreed (the wounded were taken to Novoazovsk). Basurin confirmed this today. Basurin refers to Lt. Col Eduard Basurin, who is chief spokesman for the Donetsk People's Republic Ministry of Defense.
4. That is, the path of prisoners of war from Azovstal to the Yelenovka colony was laid by the Ukrainian GRU, which first agreed on the terms of surrender, and then on where the prisoners of war would be kept and what guarantees of detention the DPR gives.
5. The Ukrainian GRU also collects target designations for strikes and sabotage from the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other departments. The GRU openly declares that various objects on the territory of the DPR were hit on the basis of information received through the technical and intelligence channels of the Ukrainian GRU.
6. Further more interesting. Back on June 5, the Nezygar channel published a post https://t.me/russica2/46486 about possible strikes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine using Western weapons, where among the targets at number Two was the colony in Yelenovka. Text of that post is listed below
The second goal is a prisoner of war camp in the village of Yelenovka, where the Nazis from Azovstal and the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are located.
The British want to frame the MLRS strike as an attempt by the Russian Armed Forces to hide "execution and torture of prisoners, and then hype on Bucha's temnik" Nezygar referred to the Mi-6 proposals.
Mi-6 more than closely coordinates (and this is putting it mildly) the actions of the Ukrainian GRU and a number of other Ukrainian structures.
7. In June-July, deliveries of Western heavy MLRS to Ukraine began, after which they began to be used using NATO intelligence data, as well as data collected by the Ukrainian GRU. Blows were delivered, including on Yelenovka. The foregoing links to separate Russian language accounts of Ukrainian artillery attacks on Yelenovka and other areas in Donetsk and near Donetsk city:
June 7 https://ura.news/news/1052559619
June 10 https://regnum.ru/news/3616373.html
June 12https://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/14892965
July 2 https://ria.ru/20220702/elenovka-1799805417.html
July 16 https://iz.ru/1365865/2022-07-17/ukrainskie- boeviki-obstreliali-elenovku-v-dnr-iz-artillerii
July 23 https://ria.ru/20220723/dnr-1804567273.html
And so on. Shelling was carried out almost regularly throughout June and July. Cannon artillery with a caliber of 122mm and 152mm, MLRS "Grad" (BM-21)
and "Uragan" (BM-27) were used. If you go to Rantburg archives about the breakaway republics on those dates, you can read about the artillery attacks on Donetsk city, though not about Yelenovka, which are covered by other Russian language media.
8. On July 29 (the day after the publication of the testimony of one of the captured Ukrainian nationalists about the involvement of Zelensky's entourage in issuing criminal orders to kill civilians), rockets from the recently delivered Western MLRS arrive very accurately at the same Yelenovka, which the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been shelling for several months. The Ukrainian GRU knows where the Ukrainian prisoners of war are.
Ukrainian GRU provides target designation for strikes and terrorist attacks. The Ukrainian GRU is in close contact with the Mi-6, while according to Nezygar, the Mi-6 was considering the option of using high-precision Western weapons to destroy Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Zelensky colony in early June, while the shelling of Yelenovka continued.
9. The threats of the Ukrainian nationalist fighters from "Azov" to find and punish the perpetrators of the "murder of brothers" ordinary white noise - if they are too outraged, the Ukrainian GRU will bury them somewhere in the forest, and then say that these are "peaceful victims of the Russian aggressor."
Therefore, they will make some noise and pretend that this is a "cynical Russian provocation", although, of course, they know perfectly well who killed their brothers..
10. Whether Budanov and the Ukrainian GRU acted only as the perpetrator of this terrorist act, or whether he was entrusted with organizing the elimination of uncomfortable witnesses who began to talk too much, remains to be seen.
Text of the June 5th Telegram post:
Mi 6 is considering three possible options for using the MLRS supplied for Ukraine.The delivery itself will take place on the night from Sunday to Monday, the cargo has already arrived at Rzeszow Airport. All the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be executed under the full control of the officers of the British Ministry of Defense, as was the case with the attack on the cruiser Moscow.
The first target is the Crimean Bridge, but this is the most unlikely operation, since the Crimea is closed by echeloned S 400 systems and a number of new air defense products, and there is the newest S 500 division
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The British want to frame the MLRS strike as an attempt by the Russian Armed Forces to hide "the execution and torture of prisoners, and then hype Buchi's temnik." The third target is Sevastopol, the center of the city or the base of the Black Sea Fleet is being discussed, but there is a risk of falling into the air defense coverage area on Zmeiny Island, since the range of the MLRS set now will be enough only when launched from the Odessa region.
Kyiv is not yet considering a missile attack on Kursk or Belgorod, since the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has an understanding that the cost of this attack will be the destruction of the government quarter.
Ukrainian military fired at the Yelenovskaya colony, where the prisoners "Azov" were kept
At night, HIMARS MLRS covered barracks where Ukrainian prisoners of war were kept. Since these MLRS are high-precision weapons, it can be unequivocally stated that they were the target of the strike.
In the message of the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR, according to the latest data in Yelenovka, in a colony for Ukrainian prisoners of war, 53 people have already died and another 75 Ukrainian prisoners of war were injured, - says in Telegram. In total, there were 193 Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Yelenovka colony.
They aim where there is no air defense or has too little coverage. In this case, it hardly occurred to anyone to cover the colony with Ukrainian prisoners of war. Zelensky, it seems, according to the villainy of Adolf, multiplied by Stepan, decided to outdo it. Stepan refers to Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian nationalists who fought on the side of the Germans in WWII.
A total of 53 deaths from 193 people are already 27.5% of the average number. With the wounded - 2/3. Moreover, the data on the dead and injured in the colony of Ukrainian prisoners of war are not yet final. The hyena devours itself. What else can be said here?
The logic is simple: as soon as the captured Azov people started talking about the criminal orders of the country's top leadership, they flew there. The Kyiv regime and its masters, in this case, are "working for the future."
After all, the testimonies during the investigation WILL ALWAYS BE FOLLOWED BY THE TRIBUNAL, at which these TESTIMONIES, IN THE MASS - HUNDREDS, OF THE DEFENDANTS, will be announced already OPENLY and PUBLICLY. Under the lenses and microphones of the world media ...
AND EXACTLY THIS, the Kiev riffraff, with all their might, seeks to avoid ... Unlikely. No one gives a fuck about Russia and its beefs with Ukraine and the west.
It seems that we have long known about the moral qualities of the leadership of the Ukrainian government, it seems that you won’t be surprised by anything and it seems like they broke the bottom a long time ago, but no .. And this bottom also turns out to be another dried layer of excrement ... Tough of course, they didn’t kill at the front, so sent their own to the next world. All in the spirit of Svidomo Ukrainians.
We are waiting for the Ukrainian military to start telling relatives they will say that it was the DPR people who "fired on themselves." Hymars.
[An Nahar] Prime Minister-designate and caretaker PM Najib Mikati on Friday said that he is seeking to “halt the collapse” of the country.
“We need to address a lot of social issues and to organize the living matters and salaries so that we launch the rescue process and revive Lebanon,” Mikati said during his sponsorship of the launch of a touristic campaign in Tripoli.
“The problems that we are facing are the result of long accumulations and we have grabbed the burning cinder with our hand for the sake of salvation,” the PM added.
“We assumed responsibility while the country was in a state of total bankruptcy, and what we’re doing today is transforming the country from bankruptcy into insolvency,” Mikati went on to say.
“We understand the current crises and we know what the current inflation has done at all levels, in addition to the political conflicts that are blocking a lot of solutions,” he said.
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[Rusvesna] The Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to destroy the captured "Azov" by opening artillery fire on the barracks where they are kept.
This is reported by the correspondent of the VGTRK Andrey Rudenko.
"The Ukrainians fired on the Yelenovskaya penal colony: the target was the barracks where prisoners of war were kept. More than a hundred militants were wounded, many were killed," he writes in the author’s Telegram channel.
"Kyiv decided, apparently, to destroy the witnesses who began to speak," the correspondent concluded.
The JCCC of the DPR also confirms the information about the shelling, without giving figures on the wounded and dead yet.
First Deputy Minister of Information of the DPR Daniil Bezsonov reports the following figures: 40 dead, 130 wounded. According to him, now the rubble is being cleared and the numbers may increase.
Here is how the Russian military correspondent Alexander Kots commented on the shelling of the colony :
"It is interesting that the attack on the colony in Yelenovka, during which, according to preliminary data, 40 “prisoners of Azovstal” were killed, was carried out by Ukrainians against the backdrop of numerous interviews of captured “Azov” who appeared in different media in recent days."
The Azov militants talked a lot about their crimes against the civilian population, extrajudicial executions, torture ... And also about the fact that the country's top leadership was involved in terror against civilians.
Of course, the Hymars strike on their former “zahisniks” is both an attempt to shut their mouths forever and intimidate those who survived. Well, I don’t even doubt that the murder of captured militants will be hanged on Russia. Or have you already hung up? - the military correspondent writes in his Telegram channel. Zahisniks is a reference to nationalists involved in military operations in the Donbass. It is a further reference to a logging settlement in the online roleplaying game World Anvil
Yelenovskaya correctional colony No. 120 is located in the village of Yelenovka, 26 km from Donetsk, where captured Ukrainian neo-Nazis are kept.
[DONRF] The night, as always, passed in the shelling of Bili on the Southern Front, so our troops again inflicted fire damage on the enemy concentration in the Nikopol area, which, given the fact that the militants had chosen it as a stronghold and were turning it into a military base, it is better for civilians to leave the city.
Attacks were made on Kharkov and the Kirovograd region. The enemy fired on the outskirts of Chernigovka, struck at the border of the Bryansk region (oporniks) with at least ten shells, at the city of Ilovaisk in the DPR, and created:
At night, the Ukrainians allegedly hit the prison in Yelenovka with Hymers. Direct hit in the barrack with prisoners. The result as of now: 40 dead, 130 injured. While clearing debris. Numbers may increase
Quite a logical thing. Logical for Tamerlane, for Adolf, for Pol Pot, banned in the Russian Federation by ISIS and not yet banned by Ukraine .
Killing your own people is just not good for any state, but who said that the captured militants are their own for Kyiv? Let's remember the chronology. March 2014 2.5 million Crimeans became strangers. There were no attempts to work with consciousness, to introduce positive narratives, there were no programs of cooperation with the population. Aliens (hostile), period. April - 7 million Donetsk and Lugansk residents became strangers.
According to the same scheme. Part of the truth was recaptured and made conditionally our own, but they again turned into strangers in 2022. Every fifth inhabitant of pre-war Ukraine became an enemy based on the fact of their place of residence.
In 2022, the number of enemies began to grow. They were joined by all the inhabitants of the liberated territories. Automatic. Those who were beaten off (and not killed during the cleansing process) again became conditionally their own, having some kind of rights. Those who are not are separas. Against the background of dismembered millions, there are some hundred or two prisoners ... but how many benefits:
1. Others will not give up. Nationalist military will get you even in captivity. Yesterday, the fake about castrations did not go in, at night Himarsy. You won’t die in battle, vile Ukrainians, you will be killed by your own in captivity. See the story here posted yesterday, and a similar link in a comment by Chief Torturer Forkbeard the day before.
2. Judgment disrupted. More like slowed down. The most important in the Russian Federation, it is difficult to get them there ... if our elves do not exchange
3. The exchange fund has depreciated. They have few prisoners, we have many. Here he was leveled.
4. Wives got into the habit of going to them there, mothers give interviews, bark something, decompose the society of baboons from the inside, awakening the human in them. This is a mess. Now they won't bark. The Ukrainians has one right - to shut up and die for a nenka. Opens his mouth - he must be put to sleep. Everything is in Ukrainian, everything is like in any terrorist organization
5. They will blame the Russian Federation for everything. Don't go to a fortune teller. Yourself, period.
So ... I always said - we are at war with terrorists. The terrorists must be destroyed. That's why I scold the slow pace and gentleness. Leave at hand a neighbor who kills his own just so that they don’t open their mouths ... thank you.
P.S. Prisoners in Yelenovka are mostly from Mariupol. Those people who, believing that they are superior human beings , and the locals are Inferior human beings, destroyed a beautiful city.
But fascism is such a thing...today you, tomorrow you. They were punished by their own, saving money and time for the court to us. They were punished for being alive. So the Ukrainians - go to serve in the Ukrainian nationalist military.
Lying your carcass in the refrigerator for a month is guaranteed ... if they don’t immediately dig in quietly. And in captivity - you will be disposed of by your own. But they will give a penny and a uniform from the American shoulder. Well, they will be killed in captivity not by the "soviet" Hurricane, but by the American Himars. The refrigerator reference is about the refrigerators found in Azovstahl with dead bodies
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Yeah right. How many Russian guards were killed?
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The main thing is they're dead. Well, at least a few of them. There's no point in taking prisoners anymore anyway. Nobody's going to believe the Russian narrative.
mothers give interviews, bark something, decompose the society of baboons from the inside, awakening the human in them. This is a mess. Now they won't bark.
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"The Azov militants talked a lot about their crimes against the civilian population, extrajudicial executions, torture ... And also about the fact that the country's top leadership was involved in terror against civilians."
They were GENTLY encouraged to get it all off their chests.
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Nobody's going to believe the Russian narrative.
Yes there are. Just like we have zombies here who believe anything the Commies and their media puppets put out (regardless of reality looking them right in the face).
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Isn't this the ultimate he-said/she-said? Both sides have means, motive, and opportunity. Nation states are ruthless and as badanov said earlier in the conflict, neither party is on the side of the angels.
Both sides claim to have evidence. The Ukrainian state security service has recorded intercepts of the Russians plotting the crime - something you could fake in 5 minutes. The Russians have photographs of HIMARS parts amongst the wreckage - pix that could have been taken at a number of existing sites. (Hey, remember that HIMARS system the Rus allegedly bought?) Sadly, we live in an age when 'evidence' is no longer evidence.
One anomalous data point is that the US Pentagon said the Ukrainians did not mean to do it.
The Taliban certainly aren’t keeping Allah’s order, but it could be the Afghan version of yobs venting spleen instead of a proper jihadi group like ISIS.
[ToloNews] Kabul Police Command confirmed that a kaboom occurred in the Kabul International Cricket Stadium during the Shpagize competition on Friday.
Khaled Zadran, front man of Kabul Police Command, said the incident occurred when a grenade was thrown between viewers and many were maimed.
Officials of Afghanistan's cricket board said that at least four people were maimed in the incident.
Security officials have not revealed the exact number of the people affected in the incident.
[ET via ZERO] Former President Donald Trump has warned that America’s economy is on track for a bigger disaster than a recession, with his remarks coming shortly before government statistics showed GDP printing negative for the second consecutive quarter, which is a rule-of-thumb definition for a recession.
"Where we’re going now could be a very bad place," Trump said at a rally in Arizona last week.
"We got to get this act in order, we have to get this country going, or we’re going to have a serious problem."
The former president singled out the collapse in Americans’ real wages, a historically depressed labor force participation rate, and the Democrat push for the Green New Deal that he said would crush economic growth.
"Not recession. Recession’s a nice word. We’re going to have a much bigger problem than recession. We’ll have a depression," the former president said.
Trump’s remarks came several days before the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released data showing that real U.S. GDP fell by an annualized 0.9 percent in the second quarter after contracting 1.6 percent in the first quarter.
Two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth are a common rule-of-thumb definition for a recession, although recessions in the United States are officially declared by a committee of economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) using a broader definition than the two-quarter rule.
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^^^ I tend to agree with the above comment, except the timeline is short, try 6 to 8 years, at a depth, of -19% GDP from baseline 2018, which will make the Great Depression look like a 12-year Recession. Hence the "something worse" Mr. Trump is alluding toward in his comment.
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Probably not. As I read the financial press, most people expect the Fed to wimp out sometime late this year or early next year.
Which, of course, a la 1975, will just feed a yet more vicious round of inflation which will eventually require a repeat of the horrific 1979-82 recession to cure it.
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[DW] The migrants colonists come from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador and were turned over to authorities. The incident comes after more than 50 migrants colonists were found dead in a semi-trailer in Texas last month.
Almost 100 migrants colonists were left abandoned in a freight trailer on a highway in Mexico and had to break their way out to escape suffocation, Mexican authorities said Thursday.
The 94 undocumented foreigners, including several children, from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were turned over to immigration authorities, according to Mexican officials. Around 100 more were believed to have fled.
The migrants colonists were bound for the US border and were discovered on Wednesday night on a highway in the eastern state of Veracruz.
"They indicated that they were abandoned by the driver," a police report said.
LOCALS HELP BREAK OPEN CONTAINER
The abandoned migrants colonists had to break holes in the freight container to get out, according to Carlos Enrique Escalante, the head of the state migrant attention office.
Some of them sustained injuries when they had to jump off the roof of the trailer. The injuries were not considered life-threatening. About a dozen people were reportedly taken to hospital due to bruises and symptoms of asphyxiation.
Residents near the town of Acayucan helped break open the freight container, Escalante said.
Moslem colonists Migrants die or disappear en route to US
People smugglers in Mexico often use overcrowded trucks to illegally transport migrants colonists across the border.
In June, more than 50 migrants colonists, including 22 from Mexico, died after they were abandoned in the sweltering heat in a semi-trailer in San Antonio, Texas.
In a statement, the White House had called the immigrant deaths "absolutely horrific and heartbreaking."
Around 6,430 migrants colonists have died or disappeared on their way to the US since 2014, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
[NYPOST] Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) did not hide her feelings toward her Republican colleagues during Thursday night’s Congressional Baseball Game, giving the GOP dugout the middle finger after she was pulled for a pinch-runner.
The Republican team was leading 5-0 in the bottom of the sixth inning when Sanchez drew a leadoff walk. As she hustled back to the Democratic dugout on the third-base line at Nationals Park, the politician turned her head toward the GOP bench on the first-base side, then raised her left hand and made the offensive gesture without breaking stride.
It’s unclear if something was said to Sanchez that prompted her to flip Republicans the bird. Her office did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
FWIW, this happened several times while I was in - at two of my bases, I worked Inspection, which meant that when the word came down part of my job was to check every single cart. Depending on the situation, we looked for physical damage/defects, or certain lot/manufacturing/date of manufacture numbers.
This sort of thing is not unknown, and grounding an entire fleet is a prudent, if awkward and complicated response. The trouble is that you usually find out about a problem when something goes horribly wrong. For instance, in the early 80s Thunderbird Lead took off from Cleveland after an airshow, and ingested a seagull. He ejected, but the separation cart failed to fire and he ended up riding the seat back down.
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Must have been one helluva ride.
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Yikes. Hope the chute size was considered for such a thing.
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Likely not in the calculation. Egress training sort of simulates landing at 20mph with out an additional? 400# weight added on. If canopy doesn't rip apart, still landing on unpadded chunk of steel on your seat and whatever that apparatus does on landing. I recall there is a manual release of you have time. Mike might know more about that. I'll surely ask next training
[AmericanThinker] By all accounts - by every economic indicator, every political poll, every overseas interaction, every lie at the presidential podium -- Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass. Don't say he didn't warn us... is a miserable failure as president. Inflation brought on by government spending has now tipped the economy into recession and there is no end in sight. The border lies open, with the Border Patrol converted into a de facto valet and escort service for literally millions of unvetted illegal border crossers. Crime is out of control. America is a laughingstock abroad, with Biden's name on the most humiliating military pullout in U.S. history.
He's a man utterly unfit for the office, a man whose very placement in office demonstrates the horrific consequences of electoral fraud.
Even the New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... has come to much of this sorry conclusion, as has the Washington Post, and to an increasing extent, CNN ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for... and the other networks, as well as their deep-state allies. A slew of negative stories are now out on the failures and shocking corruption of Biden, as Democrats plot to remove the millstone-round-their-necks from office.
Victor Davis Hanson observed it best:
Now, that liability, that asset, Joe Biden, is a liability, and he's so low in the polls that they're going to blame him for their own progressive message, failing to attract voters. So all of a sudden out of this administrative state and the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... , the DOJ, maybe even the White House, people are starting to leak
But then there's that one lone holdout in the mainstream press, still reliving that glory moment of Joe's ascent to the presidency, still telling us there's a rainbow round the corner ... with leprachaun Joe standing at the pot of gold at the end of it.
That clown's outfit is Politico, a usually better than average source of news otherwise. It's the lone holdout, the dead-ender still resolutely insisting that Joe Biden in the White House will somehow usher in a worker's paradise and prosperity is around the corner. It's amazing how they cling to their man.
Their latest is here:
Somehow, someway, Joe Biden is back in the game.
After enduring a brutal year dominated by economic angst, legislative setbacks and sinking approval ratings, the president is suddenly on the verge of a turnaround that, the White House believes, could salvage his summer — and alter the trajectory of his presidency.
All he needs to do now is close.
Hear that? We are at the cusp, always the cusp, of a Joe Biden renaissance, just one more move to be had before unicorns and flowers will bloom.
As RedState noted, it's not even factual wishful thinking:
Besides, what evidence is there that Biden is "back in the game?" One look at the polling averages tells a far different story. The president currently enjoys a 38.2 percent approval rating in the aggregate according to RealClearPolitics. He’s only topped 40 percent in a single poll over the last week.
Don't think it's not a pattern with these guys -- it is a pattern. The same day, one of Politico's Biden fanboys, a big one, co-founder John F. Harris, put out this:
Wait, is Biden a better president than people thought? Many progressives have spent the Biden years in a mood of rising despair and even rage about the prospects for achieving the kind of fundamental change they believe the country and world urgently need. They wish Joe Manchin ...Dem senator-for-life from West Virginia. Manchin is one of the approximately one (okay, two) Dem senators who exhibits more integrity than Jello, often even representing his constituents... was a different kind of senator. They wish the Democrats were a different kind of party.
Above all, they wish Joe Biden was a different kind of president — or that a different leader altogether was in his job.
Suddenly, the mood is looking up. Manchin’s surprise decision to back $370 billion in tax credits to stimulate clean-energy technologies and other progressive environmental priorities came after many Democrats had concluded hope was pointless. Assuming the deal survives further legislative maneuvering in coming days — not a forgone conclusion — it invites a reappraisal of Biden’s leadership. Maybe that isn’t hopeless, either?
Following a pattern with long roots in his career, Biden is looking a little like the student who is failing his class for most of the semester, then pulls an all-nighter and slips the paper under the professor’s door at 6 a.m. It turns out the paper is actually pretty good.
Still shilling, still plugging for Ol' Plugs, despite the obvious failures, and despite the abandonment of the rest of the press of the idea of Joe Biden's genius.
All of that spells failure, no matter what the odd political victory that falls into his lap may signify. The huge new federal spending being touted by Politico, Biden and the Democrats is certain to stoke inflation, making it ever more hellish for Americans, and bringing the country closer to the 'you will own nothing and be happy' of the global resetters. Frighteningly enough, Joe doesn't know what causes inflation, which is government spending and a pliant monetary policy, remaining firmly convinced that he can print his way out of any problem.
That's what's pulling Biden's popularity down, along with the continuous failure of results. To confuse that with a slew of new spending his congressional allies manage to get through Congress is pinning the tail on the wrong donkey.
Politico, though, just can't quit him.
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[Breitbart] On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s "America Reports," House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) argued that as long as President Joe Biden is in office and China sees "the weakness projected" by Biden, "that is their timetable" for an invasion of Taiwan, "just like Putin invading Ukraine." McCaul also stated that while China would like to take Taiwan without military conflict, "plan B is a military invasion and it’s going to happen under President Biden’s watch." And that China has studied Russia’s invasion of Ukraine "very closely."
McCaul said, [relevant remarks begin around 3:55] "[I]f you look at the map, they are circling the island right now. They’re being very military provocative. I think as long as Biden is in office and they see the weakness projected, that that is their timetable to invade, just like Putin invading Ukraine. And they’re looking at Ukraine very closely. Would they prefer to do it like Hong Kong without a shot fired or the Solomon Islands? Of course, right. Or maybe...they want to do it by overthrowing an election or by disinformation. But plan B is a military invasion and it’s going to happen under President Biden’s watch."
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Biggest weakness is their transport capability. They can only drop 30,000 men with no armor or supplies at a time. With both of the above, maybe 2,500 with 500 tanks. Against a country with 2 million armed and called up reserves.
This will need to be a D-Day type of invasion. There is 100 miles of water to cover and unlike the Europe invasion there are only two good months to invade. May and October. Otherwise they typhoons, rough seas, monsoons, fog, etc. make a military crossing under fire difficult to say the least.
The Chinese need to drop a quarter of a million men with thousands of tanks, IFVs and supplies in 30 days to make it work with any major chance of success. Not a chance in hell with what they have now.
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And the Chinese have Sleepy Joe by the short hairs. Surely they have lots of juicy--if not salacious--information. Surely Joe, Hunter, et al., would not want any more info "leaked" (not that we need any more, but still).
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There will be no invasion. Biden, no... the US presidency and policy right now is such an unstable quantity, China's not doing anything except sitting and waiting.
Sorties and ships cruising around, posturing in the media, all that yes but no invasion. At least I don't think so.
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And any defence of Taiwan may not be up to just Biden. The entire world secretly wants to chomp on China's ass after it destroyed their economies, dramatics at the UN be damned. They know it too.
After the helplessness felt by the west at seeing Vlad rain fire in Ukraine unchecked, everyone will watch these dwarves make a fool of themselves trying to intimidate Taiwan. The moment their bluff is called and you know their worth, everyone will join in. Like a prison shanking.
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The Chicoms have a tremendous investment in the dems being permanently in power. How will they show their displeasure if the dems can't deliver on that?
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Agree with DV and Dron. The Chinese would be at great risk of being humiliated, losing face if you will, if they attempted an invasion because of the logistics and the determination of the Taiwanese to resist.
My theory, and I could be wrong, is the Chinese are rattling their saber to give The Big Guy a chance to look like a tough guy by making them back down. I feel like I'm getting a whiff of kabuki designed to make the weakest US president ever look presidential. But, if my theory is correct, Joe has already committed to giving the Chinese something big in return.
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^ If the PLAN (see what I did there?) is to make Joe look good, just wait til he screws it up.
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We fight them man to man almost every week. We know what the chinks are capable of and what plays they don't have the balls for. What's more, we know their dependence on simulations to predict outcomes. And while the results of a Taiwan simulation were mostly successful, those were carried out before Ukraine. That in itself is a difference they are overlooking. The Chinese believe the whole Ukraine thing exhibits a general flaccidity in the west's force projection. And that may encourage them to a folly their future generations will regret.
A shanking, I repeat. While the globalists can't do jack about Vlad, the Chinese are one target they won't blink before going to town on. Propaganda, sanctions, a Tajik Taliban presence in Xinjiang, liberating islamics, multiple navies harassing Chink vessels... who will they nuke? And when? No, they'd just get raped.
Pelosi can go to Taiwan, she can squat and pee in the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial. Let China huff and puff. As long as the bitch doesn't say something which acknowledges the sovereignty of the PRC...!
Oh... why'd we not think of that? Shit. Because that'd be true Democrat bull in China shop stuff, no pun.
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I think the bluff about shooting down Pelosi's plane was a Bridge Too Far. It provoked a more unified and aggressive posture than perhaps intended. Still, all the resources and military assets that will be pushed forward with a view to look aggressive have the inherent potential to spark something unintended. The upwards escalation cascade is always a risk in military kabuki play acting.
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As much as I admire the might of the Ronald Reagan, it will need backup. 3 Carrier battle Groups for starters, will be impressive enough to cause the Chicoms to 2nd guess themselves! Shore up Guam, loiter a few B2s and be prepared to meet the 100 fighters Beijing will try to swarm The Speaker's plane with. My gut tells me she will back down if a bipartisan representation of the Congress do not accompany her.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:17 Additional information was received through the operational lines of the DPR JCCC about civilian casualties as a result of shelling of cities of the Republic by AFU:
Donetsk:
Petrovsky district:
- injured: woman born in 1984 and a man born in 1987
Kuibyshevsky district:
- a woman born in 1965 died.
- a woman born in 1983 was wounded.
n.p. Makeevka, Chervonogvardeisky district:
- a man born in 1969 died.
n.p. Gorlovka, Golmovsky settlement:
- died: woman born in 1965. and a man born in 1959
Thus, the total number of civilian casualties from VFU attacks on July 29, 2022 is 20 people (six died, 14 injured).
Additional information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Kievsky district:
- st. Artema, 198 "in" - an apartment building.
Kuibyshevsky district:
- 12 "a" Kremlin avenue - Polyclinic of the City Hospital No. 21;
- st. Geochemical, 1 - a private residential building; 2 cars damaged;
- st. Timiryazeva, 6, 7 - private residential buildings;
- st. Kamskaya, 49 - a private residential building;
- st. Velichkina, 35 - a private residential building;
- as a result of shelling on the street. Pravda and st. Izotov scattered PFM-1 "Petal".
Kirovsky district:
- as a result of shelling on the street. Tokarev scattered PFM-1 "Petal". "Petal" being a brightly colored anti personnel mine the Soviets first used in Afghanistan
Today, as of 22:00, the enemy fired 626 ammunition of various types, including the BM-27 Uragan and BM-21 Grad MLRS, as well as artillery ammunition with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm.
21:19 Servicemen of the 2nd Army Corps of the LPRuseforeign weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine obtained in battle 20:27 The facade and glazing of the hospital building were damaged in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk as a result of shelling by Ukrainian troops, informedon Friday the mayor of Donetsk Aleksey Kulemzin.
"As a result of the shelling Kuibyshevsky district the facade and glazing of the building of hospital No. 21 (12a Kremlyovsky Ave.) were damaged. On st. Geokhimicheskaya, 1, 2 cars, glazing, fence, gates were damaged," Kulemzin wrote in his Telegram channel.
19:33 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the DPR on the situation as of 19.30 on 29.07.2022: over the current day, according to information from the JCCC of the DPR, the enemy fired more than 440 rounds from Grad multiple launch rocket systems, barreled artillery of caliber 155mm, 152mm and 122mm, 120mm mortars.
The fire was fired at the districts of eighteen settlements of the Republic. As a result of shelling, eleven civilians, including a child born in 2007, were injured, two died. Thirty-nine residential buildings and four civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.
We regret to inform you that in the performance of military duty in the struggle for independence, three defenders of the Donetsk People's Republic were killed and fourteen were injured. We express our sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims.
18:22 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Rozovka - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: fired 10 mines in 120mm caliber;
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): eight rounds were fired from the tank;
-- n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 10 rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.
17:55 Ukrainian prisoners from the colony in Yelenovka, who suffered as a result of the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, were taken to hospitals in Donetsk. All the wounded have already received timely medical assistance. Surgeon at one of the hospitalstoldRIAN on the condition of the victims.
17:54 Specialists of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth of the LPR are developing a project to create a Palace of Culture and a children's library in Severodonetsk. Roman Oleksin, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Youth of the LPR, announced this following the results of a regular trip to the liberated territory.
17:36 Almost 100,000 residents of the liberated areas have applied for a pension in the LPR - Ministry of Labor and Social Policy of the LPR.
17:02 Updated information was received through the operational lines of the DPR JCCC that a woman born in 1964, who was wounded as a result of the shelling of the AFU of the Kievsky district of Donetsk, unfortunately, died.
The operational lines of the DPR JCCC received additional information about the wounding of a civilian - a man born in 1994. as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the Chervonogvardeisky district of the settlement. Makeevka.
The operational lines of the DPR JCCC received additional information about the damage caused by the shelling of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:
Donetsk:
Kuibyshevsky district:
- st. Griboedova, 6 - a direct hit in a private residential building, completely destroyed;
- st. Griboedova, 10 - a private residential building;
- st. Timiryazeva, 9, 29, 31 - private residential buildings.
Kirovsky district:
- st. Chekalina, 18 - apartment building.
Petrovsky district:
- A total of 16 transformer substations were de-energized, without power supply to 1600 subscribers of the Trudovskaya mine village. Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
16:42 "At 16:20, as a result of another shelling of Donetsk, 16 transformer substations were de-energized, without power supply to 1,600 household subscribers in the Petrovsky district of the city. Emergency recovery work will be carried out as soon as the situation allows," the DPR Ministry of Coal and Energy reported.
16:25 The militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue the massive shelling of peaceful cities of the DPR. Under fire - Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk and Makeevka.
16:16 Deputies of the People's Council during the plenary session adopted a resolution on the appointment of two judges of the Supreme Court of the LPR on the proposal of the head of the Republic Leonid Pasechnik, the press service of the parliament reported. Minenko Olga Vladimirovna and Chebotarev Sergey Anatolyevich were appointed to the respective positions.
15:57 RIA Novosti correspondent transmits footage from the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka, where Ukrainian prisoners of war were kept and which was hit by HIMARS rockets at night.
15:30 To the courtyard of apartment buildings in the Leninsky district of Donetsk arrived launched by the Armed Forces of Ukraine cluster rocket MLRS Uragan.
15:23 Basurin: in Kyiv they knew for sure that in the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka, on which blow,there are Ukrainian prisoners, since the place of their detention was determined by Ukraine itself.
15:09 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Rozovka - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: fired six mines in 120mm caliber;
— n.p. Kleshcheevka - n.p. Dolomite: fired 10 rounds with a caliber of 155mm;
— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kyiv and Kuibyshevsky districts): 10 rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
15:07 Proof that the attack on Ukrainian prisoners was carried out by the Armed Forces of Ukraine - fragments of an American missile from the HIMARS MLRS. They were found by investigators in a destroyed barracks. Now they will be attached to the criminal case.
15:00 The Kyiv authorities insisted on the transfer of their prisoners to the detention center in Yelenovka - therefore, they had the exact coordinates of the barracks with the Ukrainian military, stated Commissioner for Human Rights in the DPR Daria Morozova. She also said that the staff of the pre-trial detention center were not injured - the wounded and killed were only among the prisoners.
14:19 RIA Novosti correspondent first shows footage from the advanced positions recaptured from the Ukrainian military in the Kharkov direction. The commander of the LPR with the call sign "Apostle" spoke about Ukrainian losses.
14:30 The government of the LPR has created the departments of the Pension Fund of the Republic in the Severodonetsk agglomeration. This was reported by the press service of the Government.
14:18 Pushilin is ready to visit the DPRK and meet with Kim Jong-un - the representative office of the DPR in the Russian Federation.
13:44 The head of the DPR Denis Pushilin commented on the shelling of the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
13:09 The artillery division of the People's Militia of the DPR successfully suppresses enemy firing points. The peaceful cities of the Republic are under constant fire from Ukrainian artillery, which is why the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR are actively counter-battery work on the firing positions of Ukrainian nationalists and fortified areas in the Avdievka area.
It is from Avdievka that Ukrainian militants most often strike at civilians in our Republic using Western-made artillery and multiple launch rocket systems.
12:58 Since the beginning of the year, investigators from the LPR prosecutor's office have opened 987 criminal cases on the facts of the use of prohibited means and methods of warfare by the Kyiv security forces. This was announced at a briefing in Lugansk Inform Center by the prosecutor of the department for interaction with the media of the LPR Prosecutor General's Office Elena Gusak.
12:26 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kyiv and Kuibyshevsky districts): 10 rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Nevelskoye - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): five rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kyiv district): eight rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Nikolaevka-2 - n.p. Gorlovka: four rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Kurdyumovka - n.p. Golmovsky: eight rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): five rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): 10 rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
11:53 Death toll due to Ukrainian attack on detention facility with Ukrainian prisoners of war in Yelenovka rises to 53, another 75 injured - statement
11:33 The number of dead Ukrainian prisoners in Yelenovka-47. The shelling of the detention center in Yelenovka in the DPR was deliberate and could have started because the militants began to testify, Denis Pushilin specified.
11:33 The settlements of Pokrovskoye and Klenovoye in the Artemovsk direction in the DPR came under the control of the Allied Forces.
11:29 Residents of the Russian Federation with the support of the NM LPRhanded overhumanitarian aid to Severodonetsk.
11:28 JCCC DPR recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Kleshcheevka - n.p. Dolomite: fired four rounds with a caliber of 155mm;
— n.p. Otradovka - n.p. Novoluganskoye: 10 rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Nikolaevka - n.p. Golmovsky: 40 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad;
- n.p. Otradovka - n.p. Novoluganskoye: eight rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Kurdyumovka - n.p. Golmovsky: fired five rounds with a caliber of 155mm;
-- N.P. Kleshcheevka - n.p. Novoluganskoye: eight rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Kleshcheevka - n.p. Dolomite: fired nine rounds with a caliber of 155mm;
— n.p. Vodyane - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): five rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
11:09 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
- The 30th mechanized brigade, which was preparing to be sent to the Donbass, was hit;
- Critical losses were suffered by the 57th Motorized Infantry Brigade, which was restoring combat capability in the Chernihiv region;
- During the day, the following were hit: 1 installation of the Tochka-U missile system, a depot of rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition of the 81st Airmobile Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
- A Su-34 aircraft destroyed a Ukrainian Buk-M1 launcher;
- Shot down six drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
- 12 rocket launchers and one Tochka-U ballistic missile were intercepted.
11:06 APU strike on Yelenovka detention center is a provocation committed to intimidate Ukrainian military - RF Ministry of Defense
10:47 Armed formations of Ukraine fired at Panteleymonovka with rounds, from which anti-personnel mines-petals scattered.
10:36 “In Mariupol, power supply has already been restored to 3239 residential buildings, including about 600 multi-apartment and 135 social facilities,” the DPR Ministry of Coal and Energy reported.
10:35 Statement by the official representative of the NM DPR on the situation as of 10.30 07.29.2022: the Ukrainian side continues to terrorize the civilian population of the Republic, inflicting massive artillery strikes on residential areas and civilian infrastructure, which, in turn, do not pose a danger to the enemy and are not military installations.
Over the past day, according to the DPR JCCC, the enemy fired more than 500 rounds from Grad multiple launch rocket systems, 155mm, 152mm and 122mm cannon artillery, as well as 120mm mortars.
The fire was fired at the areas of 16 settlements of the Republic. As a result of shelling, one civilian was killed and 23 were injured, including a girl born in 2016. Fifty-one residential buildings and 16 civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged.
Additional information about injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.
Joint actions of the military personnel of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the following enemy weapons and military equipment: three D-30 howitzers, one M-777 howitzer, two armored personnel carriers and up to forty personnel. Three enemy firing points were suppressed in the areas of the settlement. Sands and Experienced.
10:29 The city of Svatovo (LPR) was subjected to rocket fire.
On July 29, at 08:15, the LPR representation in the JCCC recorded the shelling of the city of Svatovo by the armed formations of Ukraine using the Tochka-U tactical missile system. According to preliminary information, as a result of the shelling, three civilians were injured, four houses were damaged or destroyed.
Several garages and cars of citizens were also damaged. Additional information on the consequences is being specified. Emergency services, representatives of the military commandant's office of the People's Militia of the LPR and law enforcement agencies are working at the site of the shelling. Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.
10:05 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the LPR, Captain Filiponenko I.M. according to the situation on 07/29/2022: over the past day, during the active offensive operations of the units of the People's Militia of the LPR, the enemy suffered heavy losses in manpower and military equipment. Destroyed:
-up to 50 personnel;
-five armored personnel carriers;
-three units of special automotive equipment;
-two long-term firing points.
Peaceful life is being restored in the territories of the Lugansk People's Republic liberated from Ukrainian nationalists: engineering and sapper units of the People's Militia of the LPR continue demining.
During July 28, they cleared more than 6 hectares of territory from explosive objects left by Ukrainian nationalists in the areas of the settlements of Metelkino and Sirotino.
The forces of the NM of the LPR, together with public organizations, are delivering humanitarian aid to the residents of these areas. Also, representatives of the public movement "People's Front" with the assistance of the NM of the LPR delivered humanitarian aid to the IDPs in the city of Shchastia.
09:53 The total area of ??burnt areas and mass clearings in forests in the liberated territories of the LPR (Novoaidar, Severodonetsk and Kremennaya) remaining after the departure of Ukrainian formations exceeds 50,000 hectares.
09:49 Headquarters of TerO DNR reports. The Armed Forces of Ukraine struck at Novoselovka II in the Yasinovatsky district, a civilian was wounded.
09:26 As a result of the shelling of the colony in Yelenovka in the DPR, 40 captured Ukrainian soldiers were killed, 130 were injured - Deputy Information Minister of the DPR Bezsonov
09:09 Urgent. The Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to destroy the prisoners of the Azov* battalion by opening artillery fire on the barracks where they were kept.
"The Nazis fired on the Yelenovskaya penal colony. The goal was the barracks where prisoners of war were kept. More than 100 militants were wounded, many were killed. Kyiv decided, apparently, to destroy the witnesses who began to speak," Reporter Rudenko reports.
08:35 RIA Novosti correspondent showed how the base of foreign mercenaries was equipped in the rest house near Lisichansk.
08:13 The situation in the Aveevsky direction. Artillery, supported by aviation, smash the fortified areas of the Ukrainians. The soldiers say that they have never been so close to Avdievka. In the near future, everything will be ready for the liberation of this territory. Reports the military commander Rudenko.
08:04 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): six rounds of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Vodyane - Donetsk (Kyiv region): seven rounds fired caliber 152mm;
— n.p. Vodyane - Donetsk (Kyiv region): six rounds fired 152mm caliber;
— n.p. Vodyane - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): five rounds of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleimonovka: eight each 152mm rounds were fired.
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts): three rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
07:58 From one o'clock in the morning, Ilovaisk was shelled, local residents counted about eight arrivals. Thank God there are no deaths yet. Inspection of damages by authorized services is carried out.
07:55 In the Avdievka direction, an “artillery offensive” is a dense fire from artillery and airborne forces to destroy all the fortifications and military equipment of the militants.
04:42 In Ilovaisk, on the territory of the DPR, explosions still do not subside.
02:13 APU attacked Ilovaisk in the Donetsk Republic. There was a fire in the city.
01:48 Night fighting: The Russian army strikes between Kramatorsk and Konstantinovka.
0:42 Representatives of the General Prosecutor's Office of the LPR, with the support of the leadership of the Republic of South Ossetia, delivered food and 10 tons of drinking water to the residents of the liberated Rubizhny and Severodonetsk. This was reported by the press service of the department.
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[REGNUM] Vladimir Khandorin. Admiral Kolchak: Drama of the Supreme Ruler. Moscow: AFK Sistema; Political Encyclopedia, 2022.
This publication is not a classic biography of Alexander Kolchak (1874–1920).
The author of the book, Moscow historian Vladimir Khandorin, focuses primarily on the period of the Civil War, "this book is both about a man and about the movement that he personified."
Therefore, the researcher only briefly touches on the studies of his hero, his activities as part of polar expeditions (for his work on the ice of the Kara and Siberian seas, the scientist was awarded the Konstantinovsky gold medal highly valued in academic circles and was elected a full member of the Russian Geographical Society), as well as participation in the Russian -Japanese and World War I (in April 1916 he was promoted to rear admiral, and three months later - to vice admiral and appointed commander of the Black Sea Fleet).
Reflecting on the role of Kolchak in the Civil War, Khandorin criticizes in detail the myths and false stereotypes that have been established since the Soviet era. For example, the researcher refutes the alleged absolute loyalty of the admiral to the governments of the Entente countries.
Among other things, he cites Kolchak's harsh response to the "proposal" of the allies to take the gold reserve under protection: "it is better for the Bolsheviks to get this gold than to be taken away from Russia." According to his contemporaries, the Supreme Ruler "in dealings with foreigners always followed the line of greatest resistance."
The monograph also devotes a lot of space to the admiral's everyday culture. The supreme ruler was quite unpretentious in everyday life and, moreover, did not consider it possible to spend public funds on himself.
Here is what he wrote to his wife Sophia: “I live in the same room and do not make any receptions, and you write about some social life and ask if you need to make receptions. Our homeland is ruined and impoverished, and I don't have much money." After all, the politician continued in another letter:
"I look at my position as a service position, as the same as commanding a ship, division or fleet. I serve my Motherland without pursuing any personal goals, and I will leave at the first opportunity, when I can transfer power to hands that can do a better job than I ... Having unlimited power, I have nothing ... and I do not consider it possible to take from the ruined and more poor country than is necessary for the simplest life."
The scientist supports his statements with references to various archival collections (the State Archives of the Russian Federation, the Center for the Storage of Documents of the Recent History of the Omsk Region, etc.), including documents from the Parisian family archive of S. F. Kolchak, which were purchased at the end of 2019 by the State Archives of the Russian Federation and the House of Russian Diaspora.
So conscientious critics of Khandorin's monograph, before objecting to the researcher or refuting him, will have to work hard in the archives. Will they just make it?
BACKGROUND
A branch of the economy that specializes in the preparation, publishing, and distribution of books. In Russia, the first printing house began work in 1553.
Books for children and adults, textbooks, reference books, scientific literature.
The largest publishing houses in Russia include: "Eksmo-Ast", "OLMA Media Group", "Azbuka-Atticus", "RIPOL-Classic", "Phoenix".
In 2018, Eksmo-Ast published the most books in Russia - 9,244 titles. The first place in terms of circulation of publications was taken by Enlightenment - 81.7 million. In general, over 10 years, the total circulation of books published in Russia has decreased by 1.5 times.
In 2018, there were about 1.5 thousand bookstores in Russia. The largest bookselling networks are Read City, Book Labyrinth, and Mirs.
not much of a surprise to any rantburg readers; what is amusing is that Amnesty Intl is able to, with a straight face, do a substantial piece without using the word "Islam" or "Sharia"
[NOWTHISNEWS] Amnesty said the Taliban have also decimated protections for those facing domestic violence, detained women and girls for minor violations and contributed to a surge in child marriages. The report also documented the torture and abuse of women arrested by the Taliban for protesting against restrictions.
"Taken together, these policies form a system of repression that discriminates against women and girls in almost every aspect of their lives," the report said. "This suffocating crackdown against Afghanistan’s female population is increasing day by day."
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So what can we do? Amnesty should have dialogue with the Taliban directly about it. Why does every bit of Amnesty's work have to conclude in drumming up a 'global response' to everything out there?
How is the civilized world responsible for what goes on in islamic societies?
#3
AI was just another useful idiot working to take down Trump rather than address their reason to exist. You'll never hear them say - we were wrong, very wrong.
#4
The best explanation I have ever heard was from Kevin McCarthy, presumptive next Speaker of the House. For math challenged fellow citizens its ideal:
Imagine what you would do if you were told that you had to give up a full month's salary.
Inflation is currently at 9.1 percent, and a month's salary is 8.33 percent of your annual income, so you are losing more than a months income in increased prices.
Even the victims of our woke educational system will understand.
#5
Shop around it pays.
We shop Alidis, Lidls, Wally World (WW) and others for the best prices. Eg Today... eggs at WW $4.85 for 18 at Lidls $2.38.
A tub of Butter at KJ's $8.95 at WW $5.95.
Banquent Turkey TV Dinners $1.95 at Food Lion 2 for $2.50 at KJ's.
Aldis sandwich bread $1 vs $2.85+++?
Folgers med. 42oz coffee Sams $12.95 .. at other stores the smaller 22oz size is selling for $11.95.
To hell with customet loyality.
[Garowe] A regional minister and his son were among several people killed in the latest al-Shabaab ...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... attack in southern Somalia, authorities confirmed, in yet another incident that badly exposes security flaws in the Horn of Africa nation which is struggling with instability.
Hassan Ibrahim Lugbur, the Justice minister in Southwest killed by a kaboom that took place in Baidoa town, the interim administrative capital of the regional state, which is about 245 kilometers West of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia.
Somali PM Hamza Abdi Barre slammed the attack and sent condolences to Southwest State and its people on the loss of the minister. At least 11 others, including a second son of the minister were maimed in the attack.
According to reports, the minister was targeted by a bomber just moments after he left a mosque where he performed Friday prayers. The al-Shabaab Death Eaters have already taken responsibility for the attack, which comes a few hours after twin explosions in Marka and Afgoye towns.
The two explosions left at least 20 people dead, including Marka mayor Abdullahi Wafow with the US and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... pledging to support the country in the fight against the krazed killers. The al-Shabaab usually targets senior government officials, security forces, and innocent civilians.
It was not immediately clear why the Death Eaters targeted the minister but usually, they attack government officials who are perceived to be against the krazed killers. The group is dominant in rural central and southern Somalia and has been fighting to topple the UN-backed fragile government.
On Friday, the al-Shabaab Death Eaters attacked also Aato town near the border of Æthiopia and Somalia. Both sides claim to inflict heavy losses on the other. al-Shabaab holy man Fuad Shongole was in the area this week but it's unclear if he participated in the attack.
[IsraelTimes] In rare event, 12 year old with PTSD from conflict permitted to visit with dad, meet Israelis; ’Unfortunately there are children 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 Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... who think monsters live in Israel,’ he says
Facing repeated wars and neverending military conflict, a 12-year-old Gaza Strip resident developed post-traumatic stress disorder, her parents say. The girl’s condition worsened to the point where she feared day-to-day activities and always sought to remain physically close to her parents.
Recently the girl, whose name remains withheld and who is identified here only by the first letter of her name in Hebrew, "Gimel," received rare permission to visit Israel with her father in what has been dubbed a "resilience visit."
Gimel was granted permission to enter by the Coordination and Liaison Headquarters at the Erez Crossing between Gaza and Israel in a process facilitated by the Ynet and Yedioth Ahronoth media outlets (Hebrew link).
"Her fears ruled her," Gimel’s father, who regularly crosses into Israel to work, told Ynet.
"Every time I go into Israel she fears something will happen to me," he said. "I tell her again and again there’s nothing to worry about, that I go to Israel to earn a living for us."
He hoped that seeing Israel and meeting Israelis might help to quell her fears.
"Unfortunately, there are children in Gaza who think that there are monsters living in Israel who only want to kill Arabs," he added.
Once out of Gaza, the report said, Gimel hardly put down her phone’s camera. "What a beautiful view," she told her father. "I like the green fields."
Gimel visited several towns across Israel, including Jerusalem, Jaffa, Ashkelon and Tel Aviv. She met with other children from Kibbutz Nir Am, an Israeli community near the Strip where she and her father stayed throughout their four-day visit.
Despite the language barrier, Gimel and Shoham, a 12-year-old resident of the kibbutz, managed to communicate using translation apps on their phones and spoke about topics ranging from social media and music to school and summer break.
Shoham noted that she was surprised, and concerned, to hear that Gimel did not have a bomb shelter in her home the way she did.
The two exchanged Instagram accounts at the end of their meeting. Shoham, who had sprained her leg before the meeting, had a difficult time walking out.
"Lean on me, I’ll take you," Gimel told her and they hopped outside.
"I wish you’d come again and we have more time together," Shoham said.
Gimel and her father also held a larger meeting with children from Nir Am.
"I live in Gaza, who’s afraid of me?" Gimel’s father asked at the start, a question to which all of the children in attendance raised their hands. After a question-and-answer session, Gimel’s father again asked the children if they were afraid of him. This time, none of them said yes.
Gimel also visited a petting zoo run by the Hossen ("Resilience") Center in the Gaza-adjacent town of Sderot. Over the years Sderot has been one of the towns most affected by rocket attacks from Lions of Islam in the Strip. The treatment center uses various means, including animal care, to help people deal with psychological trauma.
Gimel was accompanied there by Ibrahim al-Etauna, director of the Bedouin Resilience Center in the Negev.
"I got the impression that now she understands that reality is not black and white, but the thought of war still scares her. In any case, she said that now she will be less worried when her father goes to work in Israel," he told Ynet of a private conversation he and Gimel had after the visit.
At the end of the visit, Gimel noted that she wished she could stay longer.
"We want to live like good neighbors, with love and cooperation," Gimel’s father said at the end of the visit. "I hope that one day everything will be over and the children of Gaza and Israel will be able to live as good neighbors. If it was up to [the children], there would already be peace and everything would be fine. I hope my daughter can visit Israel again."
As for Gimel, her fears amid conflict certainly won’t evaporate, but her views have unquestionably changed.
"I thought that in Israel everyone wore military uniforms and held guns, but the Jews were really nice," she said.
Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level. 21:55 The tanks that North Macedonia handed over to Ukraine turned out to be Ukrainian. North Macedonia transferred T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which were delivered to Ukraine in 2001 from Ukraine. This follows from a message published by the Ukrainian media almost 21 years ago. Then the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Anatoly Zlenko said that "31 tanks were sent to Macedonia, according to the contract." This is the number of T-72 tanks since then that the army of North Macedonia has had. 21:55 Today, at about 15:00, after artillery preparation by up to 40 infantry with the support of three infantry fighting vehicles, the enemy tried to attack the positions of the RF Armed Forces units southeast of NOVOPOL, Donetsk region. After inflicting a fire defeat, the enemy entrenched himself in the so-called. "grey zone". Enemy losses: one BMP, up to 15 people. one (irrevocable). The fight continues.
20:55 The trenches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the center of Kramatorsk. The Ukrainian military personnel use another settlement and its inhabitants as a human shield.
19:55 The Ukrainian Air Force is preparing a bloody provocation. Planes and helicopters of the Ukrainian Air Force at the Vasilkov air base near Kyiv were repainted to match the standard painting of the Aerospace Forces. This was done, of course, with provocative goals. Most likely, these planes will portray a "strike by Russian aviation" on civilian targets with a large number of victims. A sort of "Bucha from the air." Thus, Kyiv will try to regain the interest of the West, unfreeze financial injections and increase the supply of weapons.
18:50 The main thing from the statement of the First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Dmitry Polyansky:
▪️Russia managed to make significant progress in fulfilling the tasks of a special military operation, the complete liberation of the DPR and LPR is only a matter of time;
▪️The shelling of the UAF pre-trial detention center will only spur the Ukrainian military to surrender;
17:56 The commander of the grouping of the Russian Guard awarded the distinguished fighters in the Kharkiv region
Commander of the National Guard group arrived to the front line in the Kharkiv region to reward distinguished fighters and commanders. They were awarded the Order of Courage, the medal "For Courage", the Suvorov medal.
16:44 Nova Kakhovka was subjected to a series of missile strikes from the Armed Forces of Ukraine - the head of the regional military administration.
15:54 A total of 40,000 electric stoves will be purchased for residents of the Zaporozhye region
"We are talking about 40,000 electric stoves that are being purchased: at the moment, some of the stoves have already been delivered, distribution of these stoves to the most needy families is starting according to preliminary applications, some of the stoves are on the way. These are families with many children, families with children, the elderly and other preferential categories of citizens," said Volodymyr Rogov, a member of the main council of the Zaporizhzhia Regional State Administration.
According to him, they plan to give out one electric stove for each family. We remind you that the Zaporozhye region was cut off from gas supply by the Kyiv regime on July 9.
14:47 Personnel special operations to detain Ukrainian terrorists in Lipetsk. A group of right-wing militants was led by a repeatedly convicted pedophile, they planned to detonate the bomb in a crowded place in the city.
13:44 President of Ukraine Zelenskyvisitedthe port of Chornomorsk to get acquainted with the preparations for the shipment of grain - the office of the President of Ukraine.
12:43 Anti-Ukrainian sentiments are gaining momentum in Poland. Here is an example of leaflets distributed throughout Poland
“Do you still support Ukrainians?
Maybe for starters, you can clarify whether any of your relatives or relatives were killed by OUN-UPA or SS Galicia bandits during the Warsaw Uprising.
Today's Kyiv authorities raised the hero Stepan Bandera to the pedestal - the bandit responsible for the "Volyn massacre" in 1943, during which 250,000 Poles were brutally tortured and killed in Kresy. The claims of Ukrainians to our eastern lands of Subcarpathia continue. Do not succumb to the manipulation of the media, which talk about the friendship and affection of the Polish-Ukrainian. The Ukrainian has never been and never will be your brother!”
11:54 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
▪️Kyiv struck a HIMARS MLRS at the detention center in Yelenovka, where prisoners of war of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including “Azov” prisoners, are kept;
▪️As a result of the Ukrainian attack on Yelenovka, 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed and 75 wounded;
▪️On July 28, the RF Armed Forces delivered a strike with precision-guided weapons against enemy reserves in the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions;
▪️The Su-34 aircraft destroyed the Ukrainian self-propelled firing system of the Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system in the DPR;
▪️The Su-35S aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed the launcher of the Tor-M1 anti-aircraft missile system of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region;
▪️Russian aviation, artillerymen and rocket launchers hit the Tochka-U rocket launcher and the warehouse of the 81st Airmobile Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR;
▪️The 30th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost its combat effectiveness as a result of strikes by the RF Armed Forces;
▪️The 57th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered critical losses as a result of strikes by the RF Armed Forces;
▪️During the day, Russian air defense systems shot down six UAVs of Ukraine, intercepted 12 MLRS shells and one Tochka-U missile.
10:56 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are shelling the territory of the Bryansk region. Ukrainian artillery shells the Bryansk region. The village of Klimovo, the city of Klintsy and the village of Kurkovichi in the Starodubsky district were hit. Information about the victims was not received.
10:55 Rocket strike inflicted about Kramatorsk. A massive explosion and subsequent fire are reported. Previously, as a result of the strike, the enemy's ammunition depot was hit.
06:33 In the morning in the Kirovograd region, the next objects of Ukraine were hit.
04:36 In the early morning, the RF Armed Forces delivered at least eight strikes on Ukrainian army facilities in the Kharkiv region. Local residents heard explosions in the north of Kharkov, in the vicinity of Chuguev and the Bogodukhovsky district.
0:44 A Russian rocket flew right into a military unit in the village of Lyutizh, Kyiv region.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [REGNUM] The Ethiopian armed forces have killed at least 150 militants of the radical Islamist group Al-Shabaab, who were trying to invade the country from Somalia, the ENA news agency reported on July 29.
It is specified that the militants launched an attack on the border region of Ethiopia, but the attack was repelled by the military.
Recall that the radical Islamist group Al-Shabab (Movement of Young Mujahideen) is based in Somalia and is closely connected with the international terrorist network Al-Qaeda (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation).
[Rudaw] A Ottoman Turkish soldier fighting a Kurdish gang in the Kurdistan Region was killed, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... ’s defense ministry said on Thursday amid its ongoing military operation in the Region’s mountains.
The soldier was killed in Turkey’s Claw-Lock operation in Duhok province where fighting between members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Ottoman Turkish forces continues, announced the ministry. Turkey has set up dozens of outposts inside Iraqi territory.
People's Defense Forces (HPG), the armed wing of the PKK, claimed on Thursday that 17 of Ankara’s soldiers were "punished," and four others were maimed.
Operation Claw-Lock was launched on April 18 aimed at targeting PKK hideouts in the mountains areas of Metina, Zap, Avashin, and Basyan in Duhok province.
The number of Ottoman Turkish soldiers killed in Ankara’s latest operation has risen to 40, according to numbers published by the defense ministry.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... the HPG earlier this month alleged that 1,582 Ottoman Turkish soldiers were "punished," and 217 others were maimed from April 14 to July 14.
Turkey’s defense ministry on Saturday claimed that it has "neutralized" 289 PKK fighters in its ongoing military operation. It uses the term to imply surrenders, killings or captives.
Both sides often release exaggerated corpse counts of the other.
The PKK often announces its casualties late. Earlier this month it confirmed the death of two of its fighters killed in Zap during festivities with Turkey on June 14.
Operation Claw-Lock is the fourth stage of Ankara’s Claw operations against the PKK in the Kurdistan Region, with the first stage starting in 2019.
One Ottoman Turkish soldier and four Kurdish guards affiliated with Turkey were killed in Ankara’s Operation Claw-Thunderbolt on Monday. Turkey launched the operation against the PKK in areas bordering the Kurdistan Region in April of last year.
Another soldier was killed in another stage of the the Claw operations in the Kurdistan Region on Wednesday.
The PKK, gang fighting for increased rights of Kurds in Turkey, is designated a terrorist organization by Turkey which often targets the group at home and in the Region.
The Iraqi defense ministry on Saturday said Turkey has breached 105 kilometers deep into the Iraqi borders, setting up over a hundred military outposts and five bases in Iraq and the Region.
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[Vesti] In the Volyn and Polesye directions , the situation has not changed significantly. " Signs of the creation of offensive groups by the armed forces of the Russian Federation and Belarus have not been found ," the General Staff report says as of 18:00 on Friday, July 29.
In the Seversky direction, the enemy continued to strike at infrastructure facilities using cannon and rocket artillery in the border areas of the Chernihiv and Sumy regions. The enemy also conducted aerial reconnaissance of the UAV near the village of Gremyach, Chernihiv region.
In the Kharkov direction, the enemy carried out shelling from cannon and rocket artillery in the areas of the settlements of Kharkov, Rubizhnoye, Udy, Dementievka, Slatino, Bazalievka, Peremoga, Mayak, Zamulovka, Lesnoye, Sosnovka, Svetlichnoye, Ivanovka, Korobochkino and others. Inflicted an airstrike by army aviation near Stary Saltov.
In the Slavic direction , the enemy used cannon, rocket artillery and tanks near the Valley, Bogorodichny, Kurulka, Grushuvakha, Vernopolye, Suligovka and other settlements. Enemy army aviation operated near Gusarovka. In the Shchurovka area, our soldiers discovered and neutralized a reconnaissance group of Russians.
In the Kramatorsk direction , the enemy shelled, in particular, the areas of Seversk, Ivano-Daryevka, Krivoy Luka, Serebryanka, Grigorievka, Zvonovka, Spirne and Vyemka. Air strikes were recorded near Serebryanka and Spirne. Not far from Verkhnekamenskoye , a reconnaissance group of Russian military invaders was discovered, they were inflicted a fiery defeat, the group retreated. The enemy also conducted aerial reconnaissance of the UAV.
In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy shelled military and civilian infrastructure from artillery and tanks in the areas of the settlements of Shumy, Kodema, Soledar, Bakhmut, Veselaia Dolina, Mayskoye, Zaitsevo, Vershina, etc. Inflicted air strikes near Pokrovsky, Novoluganskoye, Soledar and Vesela Dolina. The invaders again tried to storm the areas of Soledar, Vershina and Semigorye. And again unsuccessfully - they suffered losses and retreated.
In the Avdeevka direction, the enemy fired at the areas of the settlements of Pavlovka, Avdeevka, Veseloe, Ugledar, Vodyanoye, Bolshaya Novoselka, Peski, Novokalinovo, Krasnogorovka, Shevchenko and others. All offensive and assault actions of the Russians in the areas of Avdeevka, Kamenka, Krasnogorovka and Peskov were resolutely suppressed by our soldiers .
In the Novopavlovsky and Zaporozhye directions , the enemy did not conduct active offensive operations, continued systematic shelling of civilian infrastructure near Vremovka, Olhovsky, Novopol and many other settlements.
In the Yuzhnobuzhsk direction , the enemy's main efforts are concentrated on preventing the advance of our troops deep into the territories previously occupied by the Russians. "The enemy is afraid and maintains a high intensity of UAV reconnaissance.
It fired at civilian and military infrastructure in the areas of Ivanovka, Tokarev, Karerny, Osokorovka, Blagodatny, Kobzarsev and more than thirty other settlements ," the General Staff noted.
July 29 - 156th day of the war between Russia and Ukraine . In the Kharkiv direction, the Russians fired at 16 settlements. In the Bakhmut direction, the assault actions of the RF Armed Forces in the direction of Vershina and Semigorye of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were successfully repulsed. Briefly about the main thing that happened in the country on that day, about the situation in the regions, the exchange of prisoners, as well as all the relevant information from key departments - online Vesti.ua .
[Vesti] Over the past 24 hours, 34 civilians have been killed in Ukraine as a result of 53 attacks by the Russian military. This was announced on Ukrainian television on Friday evening, July 29, by Deputy Interior Minister Yevgeny Enin. According to him, the number of missiles for shelling Ukraine in the Russian Federation is becoming "significantly less."
"We have information about a significant decrease in the number of missiles that the Russian Federation now owns. Nevertheless, they continue to fire, and it is peaceful objects that become the targets of shelling," Yenin emphasized.
According to him, most shelling occurs in the Lugansk and Donetsk regions, as well as in Zaporozhye and Nikolaev.
As you know, on the morning of July 29, the Russians fired cluster shells at a stop in Nikolaev - it is known that five civilians were killed.
[Vesti] The United Nations is concerned about the shelling of the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka, where Ukrainian prisoners of war were kept. Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesman for the UN Secretary General, stated this.
"As a general rule, we are concerned about the mistreatment of prisoners of war," the official said.
According to him, the UN does not have "first-hand information" about what happened, but, "of course, they are concerned about this attack."
Also, the intelligence of the United States does not have sufficient data on the shelling of the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka.
"We can't confirm this, we don't have enough intelligence," said John Kirby, National Security Council strategic communications coordinator at the White House.
In turn, representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross filed a request for access to the shelled colony in Yelenovka, where Ukrainian prisoners of war died.
ICRC representative Alexander Vlasenko noted that relatives of prisoners of war who were in the colony would be able to contact the hotline set up in Geneva to find out the fate of a particular person.
As Vesti.ua reported, the authorities of the self-proclaimed "DPR" this morning announced the shelling of a colony in the uncontrolled Yelenovka, Donetsk region , where Ukrainian prisoners are kept. 53 people died.
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the explosions in Yelenovka, which resulted in the death of Ukrainian defenders, are a deliberate provocation and an unconditional act of terrorism on the part of the Russian invaders. As noted in the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, it was carried out by mercenaries from the Wagner private military company (now the Liga PMC).
Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the head of the OP, said that the massacre of Ukrainian prisoners of war in Yelenovka took place with the help of Grads from the Russian side.
According to him, the organizers of this massacre tried to hide the evidence of torture and murders in the colony, while at the same time directing the anger of relatives and sympathizers of Azov against the Ukrainian authorities.
Later it became known that the founder of the Azov regiment and the leader of the National Corps party, Andriy Biletsky, announced a hunt for all Ukrainian prisoners of war involved in the massacre . Biletsky was one of the founders of Red Sector
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[Korrespondent] 23:40 Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, EU countries have halved their purchases of Russian gas, Borrell said: "If before the start of the war the share of Russian energy in the EU was 40%, now it has dropped to 20%." At the same time, he noted that it is impossible to demand from the European economy to stop buying gas "overnight."
23:37 Zelensky supported the joint statement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine, the Main Intelligence Directorate and the Commissioner for Human Rights regarding the murder of Azovstal defenders in Yelenovka and said that now the guarantors - the UN and the ICRC - must respond, must protect the lives of hundreds of Ukrainian prisoners of war. "And I'll add on my own: there should be a clear legal recognition of Russia as a terrorist state. I especially appeal to the United States of America - a decision is needed, it is needed now," the president said in an evening video message.
23:25 The United States "very soon" will announce a new package of military assistance to Ukraine, said John Kirby, coordinator of the National Security Council for strategic communications. However, he did not specify what will be included in the new package. It is known that it will be about the allocation of weapons from the stocks of the US army by presidential decree: "In general, you can expect to see the same things as in the military aid that you have already seen."
23:22 The US administration is considering the option of including Russia in the list of countries sponsoring terrorism, along with the possibility of applying a number of other additional sanctions against Moscow, said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
23:08 Lavrov told Blinken that the goals and objectives of the "special operation" in Ukraine will be fully implemented, and the RF Armed Forces "strictly observe the norms of international law." The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry also said that the supply of weapons by the West to Ukraine "only prolongs the conflict, prolonging the agony of the Kyiv regime and multiplying the victims."
23:04 U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said that before the war, Washington offered Russia compromises, but Putin was not interested: "He wanted war, and now Putin has made it clear that he is not interested in returning to the negotiating table to actually come to a diplomatic solution."
21:49 Zelensky said that he held a meeting with the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny, head of the Main Directorate of the MOU Kirill Budanov, acting. Head of the SBU Vasily Malyuk and Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmitry Lubinets: “We discussed in detail the terrorist attack organized by Russian monsters in Yelenovka, as a result of which more than 50 captured Ukrainian defenders were cynically killed. There is plenty of evidence that this was a planned crime. And this is yet another confirmation that Russia is a terrorist state. The UN and the ICRC, which were supposed to guarantee the preservation of the life and health of our prisoners of war, must respond immediately."
20:47 Representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross Alexander Vlasenko said that the organization will try to get to the shelled colony in Yelenovka: "Of course, we are aware of this situation and asked for access to this place as soon as possible in order to make sure and see with our own eyes what happened and whether any of the people there need our help."
He also said that a hotline of the central agency of the Red Cross will operate in Geneva, where relatives of prisoners of war can apply. ICRC hotline: 0 800 300 155.
20:38 Blinken said he spoke with Lavrov, the conversation was "open and straightforward." According to Blinken, he discussed a prisoner exchange proposal with Lavrov. In turn, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that the parties discussed, among other things, the situation in Ukraine.
20:11 The Security Service of Ukraine, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense and the Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights published a joint statement regarding the massacre of Ukrainian prisoners of war in Yelenovka. The law enforcement agencies and the Ombudsman remind that the key condition for the exit of the Ukrainian military from Azovstal was the obligation of the Russian side to international organizations to save the life and health of Ukrainian defenders. This guarantee has been cynically violated.
The agencies demand that the UN and the ICRC, acting as guarantors of the life and health of Ukrainian prisoners of war, immediately respond to the terrorist act committed by the Russian Federation and urgently send their representatives, as well as the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada and representatives of the Joint Center for Search and Release of Prisoners to the territory of the colony in the town of Yelenovka for the purposes of the inspection mission.
19:45 The Ukrainian military neutralized the reconnaissance group of Russians in the Shchurovka area in the Slavyansk direction, and also forced the reconnaissance group of the invaders to withdraw in the Kramatorsk direction, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in the evening report .
18:47 All that is known at the moment about the tragedy in Yelenovka is in the material Explosion from within .
18:32 The head of the Nikopol RVA, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, said that a Russian warehouse was on fire on the opposite bank of the Dnieper. Telegram channels report a massive fire in the Russian-controlled Kamenka-Dniprovska Zaporozhye region.
18:07 Russia is pulling military equipment towards Kherson and Crimea, Mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov said: "For the fourth day we have been observing military equipment that passes through Melitopol. This is 3-4 columns daily. Russians go both through the city center and in the neighborhood, in each column - from 20 to 30 pieces of equipment. These are various types of weapons: from tanks to airborne combat vehicles, infantry fighting vehicles. Also, just armored weapons and infantry troops are moving." According to Fedorov, all equipment and manpower are sent towards Kherson and Crimea from Donbass, Mariupol and Berdyansk.
17:55 The Russians are moving captured foreigners who fought for Ukraine from all territories to the Donbass for subsequent execution, said the speaker of the International Legion Damien Magru in an interview with Channel 24: "There is a theory that they are doing this so that they could be given the death penalty. And this is very worrying - that the military is being transported against their will to another region. But this is a war crime. We see that Russia does not treat our foreign prisoners of war well, and this was reported at the beginning of the war. But this position of Russia in relation to foreign fighters is illegal."
Magru noted that in this regard, there are now problems with establishing the whereabouts of captured foreign soldiers.
17:42 Explosions in Yelenovka took place on the territory of the industrial zone in a new room, which was supposed to be specially equipped for keeping prisoners taken out of Azovstal. The equipment of the building was completed two days ago, after which some of the detained Ukrainian defenders were transferred to it, according to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. Ukrainian military intelligence emphasizes that the explosions in Yelenovka are a deliberate provocation and an unconditional act of terrorism. According to available information, it was carried out by the hands of mercenaries from the PMC Wagner on the personal command of its nominal owner Yevgeny Prigozhin. The organization and commission of the terrorist act were not coordinated with the leadership of the RF Ministry of Defense.
According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the main purpose of the terrorist attack was to conceal the facts of the total embezzlement of funds allocated for the maintenance of Ukrainian prisoners of war. It is known that on August 1, a commission from Moscow was supposed to arrive at the "object" to check the expenditures of the allocated funds and the conditions of detention of prisoners. Another goal of the provocation is to increase social tension in Ukraine due to the great public interest in the fate of the heroes of Azovstal.
17:18 The goal of the "Elenovsky terrorist attack" of the Russians has several components, Yermak said: "The first is an attempt to cast a shadow on the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the use of Western weapons by our army ... The second is that Russia is trying to hide evidence of the scale of war crimes. Terror is an attempt by us break, intimidate... The crime in Yelenovka is another proof that Russia should be recognized as a state sponsor of terrorism. Their lies will be quickly revealed and understood by everyone."
17:09 The SBU intercepted telephone conversations in which the invaders confirm that it is the Russian troops who are to blame for the tragedy in Yelenovka. Moreover, there are several such audio intercepts at the disposal of the SBU. Moreover, judging by the videos available on the network, windows in some rooms of the colony have completely survived. This indicates that the epicenter of the explosion was inside the destroyed building , and its walls "extinguished" the blast waves and "saved" the neighboring premises. Also, a preliminary analysis of the video shows that such traces of the explosion on the walls, most likely, could have been left precisely because of the "internal source" of the explosion, the SBU said.
16:32 Germany decided to transfer 16 tanks to Ukraine for building Biber bridges, the German Defense Ministry said. Tanks can be used to overcome water and other obstacles on the battlefield.
16:29 The wheat harvest in Ukraine is expected at the level of 18-20 million tons, which is five times more than domestic demand, said First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Taras Vysotsky. He also stressed that much more buckwheat was sown this year than in previous years: "So we can fully satisfy the domestic market - the price will even out. The situation is similar with rye, oats and other crops."
16:25 The patronage service of the Azov regiment confirmed that after the shelling of the colony in Yelenovka, Donetsk region, Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed. The names of the injured and dead are currently being established. Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross arrived at the scene.
15:51 Moldova will turn to Romania for help if the hostilities of Russia and Ukraine touch the territory of the country, President Maia Sandu said: "We are concerned. We are considering the most pessimistic scenarios. Accordingly, we are preparing for all scenarios. And in a situation where Russia tries attack the Republic of Moldova, we will obviously ask for help."
In turn, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said that Romania will remain close to Moldova "regardless of the scenario in which we all find ourselves as a result of this unfortunate war."
15:34 Hidden mobilization is underway in the educational institutions of Crimea. As Tamila Tasheva, permanent representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, said, the main mechanism for attracting residents of the peninsula is military recruiting at the occupation universities, where active military propaganda is conducted among young people throughout all the years of study in order to further involve them in signing contracts with the Russian army. In addition, according to her, as part of the illegal conscription campaign, even students who have a deferment from conscription are attracted to military service.
15:18 Kuleba called on all partners of Ukraine to respond to the shelling of the colony in Yelenovka: "The Russians committed another terrible war crime by shelling a correctional facility in the occupied Yelenovka, where they kept Ukrainian prisoners of war. I call on all partners to strongly condemn this gross violation of international humanitarian law and recognize RF as a terrorist state.
14:51 Commissioner for Human Rights Dmitry Lubinets said that he had appealed to the Prosecutor General's Office about the published video of torture by the Russian military of a serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He asks the prosecutor's office to check the video and record a war crime that violates the norms of the Geneva Convention. Also, according to Lubinets, appeals are being prepared to the UN, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
14:46 As a result of the morning shelling of a public transport stop in Nikolaev, five people were killed and 12 were injured. All the victims were hospitalized, seven are in serious condition, Mayor Alexander Senkevich said.
14:23 The de-occupation of the right bank of the Kherson region by the end of September is a real task for the Ukrainian military, analysts say. More details - in the material Experts on the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Kherson .
14:20 North Macedonia handed over T-72 tanks to Ukraine, the Serbian TV channel RTS reported, citing a statement by the country's Ministry of Defense. We are talking about tanks of the "third generation" from the battalion, which is planned to be disbanded soon. The number of transferred tanks is not reported, but it is known that there are 31 tanks of this type in the arsenal of the army of North Macedonia.
14:17 The first ships with Ukrainian grain are being loaded in the ports of the Odessa region today, which have been blocked since the beginning of the war. According to the Office of the President, 17 vessels with almost 600,000 tons of cargo are currently in ports. Of these, 16 ships with Ukrainian grain with a total tonnage of about 580 thousand tons, which will soon leave for ports of destination.
14:03 As a result of a morning enemy strike on a residential area of Kramatorsk, one person was killed, five were injured, said the head of the Donetsk Regional Military District Pavel Kirilenko. Two private houses were destroyed to the ground, 21 were damaged.
13:40 The Kiev Court of Appeal changed the sentence to the Russian military Vadim Shishimarin from life imprisonment to 15 years. On May 23, the Solomensky Court of Kyiv found Shishimarin guilty of violating the laws and customs of war, connected with the premeditated murder of a 62-year-old resident of the village of Chupakhivka, Sumy region.
13:33 Podolyak said that a carefully planned attack on the colony by Russian troops took place in Yelenovka: "The scale and speed of the information campaign by Russian propagandists indicate that it was precisely a planned and organized action. We know that some of the prisoners the defenders were transferred to the barracks where they were hit a few days before the crime.The purpose of the "Yelenovsky crime" is to cover up growing evidence of the extent of Russian war crimes and torture, frustrate exchange agreements, discredit the Ukrainian Armed Forces and specific models of foreign rocket weapons that terrifies the Russian occupiers."
Podolyak stressed that the accuracy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been proven by numerous burning Russian warehouses, logistics points, command centers and bridges of Kherson. In addition, everything that Ukraine destroys is automatically confirmed by various fixing tools.
"Obviously, as tactical defeats approach, Russia will resort to new cannibalistic provocations to promote them to global markets. We also demand an immediate and tough response from the UN and other international organizations - Russia must be excluded from any international institutions," the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office emphasized .
13:26 The founder of the Azov Regiment and leader of the National Corps party Andrei Biletsky announced a hunt for all those involved in the massacre of prisoners in Yelenovka: "I, on behalf of the Azov units, declare a hunt for everyone involved in the massacre. Every ordinary perpetrator and every organizer will be held accountable regardless of position and place of residence. Wherever you hide, you will be found and exterminated."
Biletsky said that that night the Russians killed some of the captured Azov soldiers - before that, the soldiers of the regiment were transferred to a separate building. Propaganda work was carried out - a "cannibalistic film" about Azovstal was shot. "We are collecting information about the victims and specific perpetrators of this war crime. It is already obvious that this was a pre-planned act of a country that does not know the concept of officer honor, and even more so the observance of the Geneva Conventions, rules, laws and customs of war. Russia was unable to defeat Azov in a fair fight, therefore, he is trying to destroy us by treachery," Biletsky wrote.
13:15 Zelensky said that he had arrived in Odessa: "We are ready to export grain. We are waiting for signals from our partners about the start of transportation."
13:08 The Russians launched a missile attack on Kramatorsk, Mayor Alexander Goncharenko said. According to him, there is a serious destruction of houses in the private sector of the village of Belenkoe. Three people are known to have been injured.
13:01 The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out targeted deliberate artillery shelling of a correctional institution in the village of Yelenovka, Donetsk region, where Ukrainian prisoners were kept, among other things, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said. The statement says that the Russian invaders pursued their criminal goals in this way - to accuse Ukraine of committing "war crimes", as well as to hide the torture of prisoners and executions carried out there on the orders of the occupation administration and the command of the RF Armed Forces. The consequences of the attacks are being specified.
"According to the information of the Commander of the Rocket Forces and Artillery of the Command of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, no rocket and artillery strikes were carried out by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement of Yelenovka. Thanks to the high-precision weapons received from partner countries, the Rocket Forces and Artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine deliver exceptionally accurate strikes against Russian military targets" , - emphasized in the statement of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
12:52 British Defense Minister Ben Wallace believes that Russian troops in Ukraine are failing in many areas, and this may force the Russian military leadership to move to a new plan: "At the moment, the Russians are failing in many places on the front... Putin's plans A , B and C have failed, and he can turn his attention to plan D."
According to him, the Russian Federation is in a position where it has not achieved its main goals, but has provoked huge losses and casualties. At the same time, Wallace is sure that the Russian Federation is not able to occupy Ukraine: “They can continue to kill indiscriminately and destroy everything on the go, but this is not a victory ... Putin has not changed his desire to occupy all of Ukraine, take Kyiv and Odessa ... but his army virtually paralyzed by huge losses. More than 25,000 dead. Perhaps twice as many wounded."
12:29 The Rada appealed to the UN, the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Council of Europe, the OSCE and the states of the world and other partners with an appeal not to recognize the organization and holding of pseudo-referendums by the occupation administrations of the Russian Federation in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
12:17 Russia is forming another strike force near Ukraine. According to the representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Vadim Skibitsky, by mid-July, the Russian Federation had formed eight battalions, which is not enough for the enemy. Therefore, Russia decided to form a third separate army corps in the Western Military District. The Russian Federation plans to form this corps by mid-August.
12:04 The "DPR" stated that the death toll due to the strike on the detention center with Ukrainian prisoners of war in Yelenovka has increased to 53, another 75 were injured.
11:43 The leader of the "DPR" Pushilin said that the death toll from the strike on the detention center in Yelenovka had risen to 47. He also added that the shelling of the detention center was allegedly deliberate and could have started due to the fact that Ukrainian prisoners of war began to testify.
11:40 Nominal salaries of Ukrainians in 2022 will be reduced by 12%, and in real terms, taking into account inflation - by 27%, according to the inflation report of the National Bank for July.
11:36 In Nikolaev at the moment it is already known about five dead and seven wounded , Vitaly Kim reported.
11:28 Yesterday, a video appeared on the network, where the Russian military castrated a Ukrainian prisoner of war. Paul Massaro, senior adviser to the US Congress, reacted to the video. He called on the West to provide Ukraine with ATACMS long-range missiles and modern tanks to "put an end to this crime against humanity." "Russian war crimes in Ukraine are an insult to all mankind," Massaro said.
Podolyak also reacted to the video: "All the world needs to understand is that Russia is a country of cannibals who enjoy torture and murder. But the fog of war will not help Russian executioners escape punishment. We will identify everyone. We will get everyone."
11:25 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that yesterday a missile attack was carried out on the reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kiev and Chernihiv regions.
11:22 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that tonight the Armed Forces of Ukraine allegedly hit HIMARS missiles at the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka in the Donbass, where Ukrainian military prisoners of war, including those from Azov, are kept. 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed and 75 wounded, eight employees of the detention center were also wounded, the Defense Ministry said:
"Currently, a large number of Ukrainian servicemen voluntarily lay down their arms, knowing about the humane attitude towards prisoners of war on the Russian side. This egregious provocation was committed to intimidate Ukrainian servicemen and prevent them from being taken prisoner."
11:13 The FSB announced that it had detained three citizens of Ukraine who were allegedly preparing a "terror attack in a crowded place in Lipetsk." According to the FSB, the man and two women were allegedly "saboteurs of the Right Sector" and acted under the patronage of the SBU, and explosives were found in their hiding place.
10:46 As a result of shelling of Nikolaev four people were lost and seven are wounded , Vitaly Kim reported.
10:42 As a result of the morning strike on Nikolaev, at least 12 people were injured , the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim said. According to him, the impact was near a public transport stop.
10:39 G7 ambassadors to Ukraine arrived in Odesa, British Ambassador Melinda Simmons said: "My fellow G7 ambassadors and I are in Odesa with Turkey to reiterate the importance of the UN-brokered deal allowing food to be taken out of Ukraine. Russia should respect the deal."
10:36 Kuleba said on the air of the telethon that there are no signals of readiness for negotiations from the Russian Federation: "There are no signals. Russia really wants to fight, but really, under the pretext of wanting to alleviate the situation on the eve of the winter season, some partners start again itch on the topic of negotiations with the Russian Federation". The head of the Foreign Ministry noted that the authorities very calmly and clearly explain to their partners why their hopes for a constructive position of Russia do not correspond to reality.
10:31 AFU destroyed the ammunition depot of Russian troops in Ilovaisk, Donetsk region. According to the Office of Strategic Communications, the "overwhelming majority" of Russians died, and the BC warehouse was completely burned down.
10:28 British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, who claims to be prime minister, said she would become Ukraine's "greatest friend" if she won the election as the leader of the Conservatives.
10:13 One of districts of Nikolaev is fired by cluster shells, there are victims, the mayor of the city Alexander Senkevich reported. Residents are asked to stay in shelters.
09:55 The "DPR" stated that as a result of rocket fire from the supposedly Armed Forces of Ukraine of the colony in Yelenovka, where Ukrainian prisoners of war are kept, at least 40 people were killed, another 130 were injured.
09:52 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of July 29. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Krivoy Rog direction.
personnel - about 40,500 (+270) people liquidated,
tanks - 1749 (+7),
armored combat vehicles - 3987 (+8),
artillery systems - 900 (+6),
MLRS - 258 (+0),
air defense systems - 117 (+0),
aircraft - 222 (+0),
helicopters - 190 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 731 (+2),
cruise missiles - 174 (+0),
ships/boats - 15 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2870 (+16),
special equipment - 77 (+2).
09:47 At night, the Russians launched an airstrike on Bakhmut, which had been fired on from Hurricanes the day before. In total, four people were killed in the city over the past day, five were injured, said Pavel Kirilenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military District. In Pokrovsk, where shells hit the area of the railway station, five people were injured. There are also victims in Slavyansk, their number is being established.
09:39 In the Kirovograd region this morning, an enemy rocket was shot down over the village of Mironovka, Svetlovodsk community, the wreckage scattered around the village, said the head of the OVA Andrey Raikovich. He also said that out of 25 hospitalized yesterday as a result of Russian shelling, one person remains in a very serious condition, nine in serious condition, and the rest in moderate severity.
09:35 In the evening on July 28 the enemy fired at Nikolaev - hits were in the yard of private houses, the point of issue of the humanitarian aid is also damaged. Previously, three people were injured, said the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim.
09:31 British intelligence reports that the Wagner PMC has been operating in eastern Ukraine since March in coordination with the Russian military. This private company is likely to be assigned responsibility for certain sections of the front line, just like regular army units. Analysts note that this is a significant change from the group's previous use. Since 2015, she has not flown missions related to open large-scale regular Russian military activity.
This new level of integration further undermines the longstanding policy of the Russian authorities to deny ties between PMCs and the Russian state. According to British experts, the role of Wagner has probably changed because the Russian Defense Ministry is experiencing a severe shortage of combat infantry, but it is unlikely that Wagner's forces will be enough to significantly change the trajectory of the war.
09:07 The head of the Lugansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai, said that over the past day, the Russians had fired four missiles, used barreled, rocket artillery and mortars 13 times: were to withdraw with losses."
09:04 The head of the Poltava OVA, Dmitry Lunin, warned that on July 29 on the territory of the Lubensky community they would conduct training firing.
09:01 The Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed several enemy targets in the Kherson region tonight, said the first deputy head of the Kherson Regional Council Yuriy Sobolevsky. According to him, two targets were destroyed in the Novaya Kakhovka area, as well as one target each - in Chernobaevka, Oleshki and Brilovka. “It turned out especially cool in Brilovka. There were no casualties among civilians, we are clarifying the information,” he added.
08:56 Russians fired at Slovyansk of Donetsk region this morning. Damaged multi-storey buildings in the city center, as well as houses in the private sector of the Severny microdistrict. One person was injured, the city is partially de-energized, Mayor Vadim Lyakh said.
08:54 An evacuation train was canceled today from Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, due to track damage after shelling, Mayor Ruslan Trebushkin said. According to him, the missile strike was carried out the day before at about 22:00, as a result, five people were injured, the canvas and the station building were damaged. The power line above the tracks was also interrupted.
08:47 In the Donetsk region, eight civilians per day were killed by Russian shelling: three in Bakhmut, two in Toretsk, one each in Orlovka, Gornyak and Soledar. Another 19 people were injured, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
08:09 The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled the assault and offensive actions of the invaders in the direction of Vershina and Semigorye. Also, the Russians tried to advance in the directions of Avdeevka, Krasnogorovka and Velikaya Novoselka, but suffered losses and retreated. The enemy is trying to conduct offensive operations in the areas of Novolugansk and Soledar, the fighting continues. Enemy reconnaissance in combat in the directions of Vodyany and Peskov ended in losses and retreat, the General Staff reported in the morning report .
07:35 At night, the enemy hit the Nikopol and Krivoy Rog districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region. The Russian army attacked Nikopol from Gradov, deliberately shooting at a residential area. Private houses were damaged, a power line was hit, several thousand residents of the private sector were left without electricity. In the Krivoy Rog region, the enemy fired on the Zelenodolsk community from barrel artillery. Previously, people were not injured, said the head of the OVA Valentin Reznichenko.
05:27 Russians at about 4:00 fired twice at the central part of Kharkov, Mayor Igor Terekhov said. In one case, there was a hit in a two-story house where rescuers are now working, in another case, the blow fell on the building of one of the higher educational institutions. So far, there are no reports of casualties or deaths.
05:12 Kuleba said on the air of the telethon that he was preparing visits to African countries as part of the intensification of Ukraine's relations with this continent: "There will be four to five countries. I am preparing very carefully. These will be exclusively the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa, that is, not the countries of North Africa , Arab, and we will go to Central Africa". According to the Foreign Minister, Ukraine's foreign policy pays most of its attention to European and Euro-Atlantic issues, but in fact Ukraine's interests "are located all over the world - in Asia, Africa, and Latin America."
At the same time, Kuleba noted that as soon as information about the preparation of his tour began to leak out, "how Mr. Lavrov, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, immediately went to this region, trying to seize the moment to strengthen Russia's position in this region." "They understand that we will be effective in this area. They have already begun to oppose our efforts. But this does not hold us back. We will definitely achieve our goals," Kuleba said.
04:44 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that the Russians can reduce their attempts to take Seversk and focus on Bakhmut, but it is unlikely that they will be able to take Bakhmut.
During the day, Russian forces conducted limited ground attacks northwest of Slovyansk and northeast and southwest of Bakhmut. At the same time, experts note that the Russians can intensify offensive operations around Avdiivka and create conditions for the resumption of offensive operations in the direction of Kharkov.
Russian forces also attempted a limited ground offensive on the southern axis, but likely suffered territorial losses in the Kherson region. They are trying to maintain their land routes through the Dnieper, connecting Kherson with the rear areas in the eastern part of the Kherson region.
02:31 A ship flying the Syrian flag arrived at the port of the Lebanese city of Tripoli, loaded with Ukrainian barley, probably taken out of the occupied territory, the Ukrainian Embassy in Lebanon said. The head of the Ukrainian diplomatic mission in Lebanon, Igor Ostash, met with Lebanese President Michel Aoun and asked him to clarify the circumstances of the ship's stay in Lebanese territorial waters.
02:04 A well-known Ukrainian poet, military blogger, co-founder of the Brothers in Arms NGO Gleb Babich died in the war with the Russian occupiers. Petro Poroshenko announced his death, then Sergey Bratchuk, the head of the Odessa OVA, confirmed it. In 2014-2019, Gleb "Lazy" Babich participated in the ATO and JFO. He went to the front line during the third wave of mobilization. Babich is the author of the texts of many well-known songs, in particular, the song Give the zbroyu of the Kozak System group.
01:56 In Kherson, the Russians hijacked a passenger ship and with its help they are crossing the Dnieper in the area of the damaged Antonovsky bridge, the regional police reports. The ship was moored on Quarantine Island.
[Insider] Hunter Biden struggled to pay his taxes and bills in 2018 and 2019, emails reviewed by CNN revealed as federal prosecutors investigate President Joe Biden's son for possible tax violations and other crimes.
The CNN report references a 2018 email from Hunter Biden's assistant, asking what to do about paying health insurance, a Porsche payment, and her own salary.
"Pay the health care. Pay the Porsche," Biden responded, and he told her she should pay herself half of the salary she said she was owed, according to CNN.
An automated Wells Fargo "insufficient funds" email from December 2018 stated that one of his accounts lacked $1,700 for his Porsche payment.
In March 2019, his assistant pleaded with him to let her know if there was a new plan for paying about $370,000 in taxes and $120,000 in other bank debt, CNN reported.
The emails include several from his accountant, telling Biden that his tax payments were late.
Biden's lawyer told CNN that he has fully paid his IRS tax debts and that Biden struggled during that period with alcohol and drug addiction — something Biden wrote about extensively in his memoir, "Beautiful Things."
With all the corrupt money Hunter has gotten (Burisma, China, etc., etc.), he really cannot pay his bills? Where on earth did all the money go (and I'm beting we haven't seen the half of it yet)? Just how much can you spend on hookers and cocaine?
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See this is why Donks can never be let near the public treasury. They treat the treasury like they treat their own income stream. No matter how much they take in, its never enough to cover their 'life style'.
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Tom there have been alot of rich people who went broke smoking crack.
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Yes and no. There is a list of people who have unlimited credit because of their connections. The Banks know, one way or another, the tab will be paid. They also know if they rattle too much, they get "investigated". Its a win-win for those involved.
[Epoch Times] About a dozen workers at the NorthShore University HealthSystem in Illinois [north suburbs of Chicago] lodged the suit in October 2021, arguing that the facility was illegally not granting religious exemptions to the mandate. Workers who sued are slated to receive $10 million, according to a settlement agreement filed on July 29.
After eight months of negotiations, the workers and NorthShore "have agreed to settle this case," according to a memorandum filed in federal court. Wonder what the legal fee were, and who pays? Answers at the link - 20% of the settlement, for the plaintiffs.
Under the settlement’s terms, NorthShore will pay $10,337,500 into a settlement fund for workers affected by its mandate—specifically, workers who between July 1, 2021, and Jan. 1, 2022, asked for a religious accommodation and were denied and either received a vaccine to avoid termination or were fired or resigned. About 473 workers fit under that category.
NorthShore will also adjust its vaccine mandate "to enhance its accommodation procedures for individuals with approved exemptions for sincerely held religious belief." But they are keeping the mandate for the rest - a vaccine for a disease that's been obsolete for two years.
U.S. District Judge John Kness, the Trump appointee overseeing the case, was asked to approve the proposed settlement.
Liberty Counsel, the legal group representing the platiniffs, described the settlement as a first-of-its-kind for an action against a private employer who denied hundreds of requests for religious exemptions to a COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
"The drastic policy change and substantial monetary relief required by the settlement will bring a strong measure of justice to NorthShore’s employees who were callously forced to choose between their conscience and their jobs," Horatio Mihet, vice president of legal affairs at the group, said in a statement.
"This settlement should also serve as a strong warning to employers across the nation that they cannot refuse to accommodate those with sincere religious objections to forced vaccination mandates," he added.
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[LB] Russian terrorist attack in Yelenovka, repulsed enemy assaults, shelling of Mykolaiv, moratorium on tariff increases. How will the 156th day of the full-scale war be remembered.
Today brought a lot of news, but one of them once again shook all of Ukraine. As a result of a Russian attack on the territory of correctional colony No. 120 in the temporarily captured village of Yelenovka, Volnova district, Donetsk region, about forty people were killed, and about 130 were injured.
Prosecutors of the General Prosecutor's Office have started a pre-trial investigation on the fact of violation of the laws and customs of war (Part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
According to the investigation, on July 29, 2022, Russia struck the territory of correctional colony No. 120 in the temporarily captured village of Yelenovka. The OGP clarified that about 40 people died and 130 were injured as a result.
The law enforcement officers established that in this colony the invaders organized a place of detention, where civilians and prisoners of war of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are illegally detained. A pre-trial investigation is ongoing.
The Security Service of Ukraine, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and the Human Rights Commissioner demand that the UN and the Red Cross respond to the terrorist attack by the Russians in Yelenovka.
As a result of the terrorist attack, dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed, according to the joint statement.
The signatories of the statement emphasize that the explosion is a cynical terrorist act of the Russian Federation, a military provocation and a classic false flag operation, the purpose of which is to cover up war crimes, discredit the Armed Forces of Ukraine, disrupt the supply of Western weapons and increase social tension in Ukrainian society.
Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled the assaults of the occupiers in the Avdievka, Kamianka, Krasnohorivka, and Peski districts.
The Russians advanced in the areas of Soledar, Vershyn and Semihirya, but suffered losses and retreated.
The enemy shelled civilian and military infrastructure in the areas of Ivanivka, Tokarevo, Karierny, Osokorivka, Blagodatny, Kobzartsi and more than thirty other settlements.
Russia hit Nikolaev with cluster shells. Five people died.
The attack took place near a public transport stop.
We will remind, on the evening of July 28, the mayor of Mykolaiv, Oleksandr Sienkovych, announced that the Russian invaders had hit the private sector of the city. The point of delivery of humanitarian aid was also hit. In the morning , the Russian army shelled the school, kindergartens and residential buildings of the regional center. The rocket also hit the water station of the Shipbuilding University.
In the Kherson region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed one of the important logistical nodes of the occupier - the railway station in Brylivka.
"One of the important logistical hubs of the occupier was destroyed in the region - the railway station in Brylivka. The Russians just brought equipment and ammunition there - everything burned down. They didn't even have time to unload some," Serhiy Khlan, deputy of the Kherson Regional Council, reported on Facebook.
The Council prohibited raising tariffs for the population during the period of martial law and post-war reconstruction.
It is forbidden to raise tariffs for all categories of consumers for: natural gas distribution services, thermal energy (its production, transportation and supply), thermal energy supply services and hot water supply.
The moratorium on price increases was established at the expense of attracting 125 billion hryvnias from international partners. It will operate during the martial law in Ukraine and six months after it.
The parliament passed a law according to which the construction of all new buildings is now possible only with bomb shelters .
The existing civil protection system is not able to fully protect people. Therefore, the question arose about the urgent deployment in Ukraine of a network of protective structures of civil defense capable of ensuring or at least significantly increasing the level of safety of citizens from war crimes, which are committed almost every day by the armed forces of Russian terrorist forces, the document says.
According to the forecasts of people's deputies, the adoption of the Law will ensure the creation of additional measures in the field of construction activities related to the protection of the population from explosions, blast waves, damage by dangerous chemical, radioactive and biologically dangerous substances.
[LB] It will be problematic for the Russians to put out the fire.
by Oleksandr Kravchenko
Fields are burning under the temporarily occupied Mariupol. In this way, the Ukrainian resistance prevents the Russians from stealing Ukrainian grain.
This was reported by Petro Andryushchenko , adviser to the mayor of Mariupol .
"The Nemizida resistance group conveys another warm greeting to the occupiers," Andryushchenko wrote.
He added that the fields are burning in the direction of Novoazovsk-Donetsk. Novoazovsk is the location of a hospital where wounded Azov fighters POWs are receiving treatment.
Nearby are fortifications, warehouses of BC equipment and minefields, so it is difficult to extinguish the fire.
"We hope that the fire will spread to the frost base and there will be ???," Andryushchenko concluded.
We will remind you that in the Primorye district of Mariupol, the Russian occupiers are building "prefab concrete chicken coops" under the guise of high-rise buildings.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The airlines need to capitalize on high ticket prices to make up for more than $37 billion in losses over the last two and a half years, even with $50 billion in government aid. Even so, airline executives are deciding that restraint is now the only option, even with strong customer demand.
The biggest logjam in the airline industry right now is in training. American and Southwest have each hired more than 10,000 employees during the last year. But it takes weeks or months of training before those new hires are ready to work. And it takes months or years before they’re running at full speed, said Kenneth Quinn, a former counsel for the Federal Aviation Administration.
[IsraelTimes] Matthew Belanger, from New York, procured weapons and other gear, discussed attacking synagogue and other targets with other white supremacists.
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....
[IsraelTimes] Suspect accused of participating in a 
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
[An Nahar] Prime Minister-designate and caretaker PM Najib Mikati on Friday said that he is seeking to “halt the collapse” of the country.
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
[Garowe] A regional minister and his son were among several people killed in the latest a
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
[REGNUM] The Ethiopian armed forces have killed at least 150 militants of the radical Islamist group Al-Shabaab, who were trying to invade the country from Somalia, the ENA news agency reported on July 29.
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
[Insider] Hunter Biden struggled to pay his taxes and bills in 2018 and 2019, emails reviewed by CNN revealed as federal prosecutors investigate President Joe Biden's son for possible tax violations and other crimes.
[Epoch Times] About a dozen workers at the NorthShore University HealthSystem in Illinois [north suburbs of Chicago] lodged the suit in October 2021, arguing that the facility was illegally not granting religious exemptions to the mandate. Workers who sued are slated to receive $10 million, according to a settlement agreement filed on July 29.
