The President of Smartmatic was just indicted for bribery and fraud.
Smartmatic is a member of CISA's EISCC along with companies like Dominion voting systems and Runbeck Election Services, to name a few. Members of the EISCC are private sector companies who are the owners and... pic.twitter.com/sQyMb9zuCN
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Correct spelling of the country is "CANUCKISTAN". No "AU" anywhere in it. Canuck is a long time slang name along the lines of "Yankee".
Nothing in that video that a couple of people with the correct training and the correct equipment couldn't bring to a most final halt. Not time yet. Wait for the Allah's Raiders hockey team to take to the ice and then the body checking penalties will be isssued.
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"Tests revealed the man, in his 70s, had a number of concerning health problems. These included a Covid infection, a separate bacterial infection in his lungs, high blood pressure, and signs of alcoholism and severe kidney injury."
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^ He had also previously suffered colon cancer and was a smoker.
He suffered a cardiac arrest during his initial round of treatment though medics managed to resuscitate him.
But it was the Activia yogurt probiotics that done him in. Yewbetcha!
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The only prebiotic you need is kefir
The only probiotic is refrigerated active sauerkraut
Paywalled, so you may never know... OpenedJONATHAN TURLEY: It's very frustrating for many of us who have been writing for years, that we don't understand why there was not a charge under FARA for being an unregistered foreign agent. This record is replete with contracts, so it seemed to meet the standard used in earlier cases during the Trump administration. You couldn't have an official go to Epcot without getting a FARA charge from the Justice Department. It seemed to be one of the most ubiquitous charges coming out of that department. With Hunter Biden, they have consistently ignored overwhelming evidence that he was receiving millions to influence policy. So now, after all that time, Weiss files this thing with the courts saying, oh, well, yeah, we know that he was directing this stuff because he was getting money to influence U.S. policy from this Romanian. And it left everyone scratching their heads. It's like saying we can prove auto theft because we know he used it in the kidnapping. And the question is, well, why didn't you charge him on the kidnapping?
During an impeachment inquiry, House Republicans said there may be evidence he took money in exchange for U.S. policy influence. Prosecutors say Hunter took $3 million and worked for Romanian Oligarch Gabriel Popoviciu, who faces criminal investigation in Romania. House Oversight Committee Chair Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said "bank records don't lie."
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"A magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Tōhoku region of Japan’s Honshu island on March 11, 2011. The Great East Japan Earthquake — the name given to the event by the Japanese government — triggered a massive tsunami that flooded more than 200 square miles of coastal land. Waves were estimated to be as high as 38 meters, the height of a 12-story building.
An estimated 20,000 people were dead or missing and close to 500,000 people were forced to evacuate. In addition, a nuclear power plant meltdown triggered a nuclear emergency. The direct economic loss from the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster is estimated at $360 billion."
[PM] The Kamala Harris campaign, apparently trying to rehabilitate Democratic vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz’s spotty military record, claimed Thursday that Walz was the chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee. "Walz, who served in Congress as a Democratic representative from Minnesota, did sit on the Veterans Affairs Committee. He was even the ranking member. But he was never the chairman," Real Clear Politics reports.
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris was technically correct when she called her running mate "the top Democrat on the Veterans Committee," but he was not the head of that committee and her campaign took that description a notch higher. A statement from the campaign said "after 24 years of military service, Governor Walz retired in 2005 and ran for Congress, where he chaired Veterans Affairs and was a tireless advocate for our men and women in uniform — and as Vice President of the United States, he will continue to be a relentless champion for our veterans and military families."
The Harris campaign dimissed the error as "an innocent mistake" made by staffers, RCP noted. "Facts, schmacts!"
"Governor Walz was ranking member/top Democrat on the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs," a spokesman for the Harris campaign said, for the 115th Congress between 2017 and 2018.
A spokesman for Illinois Republican Rep. Mike Bost, current chairman of the committee, told RCP the same, saying that "Rep. Walz was only ever ranking member and he served in that role from 2017-2019."
Republican presidential candidate J.D. Vance, a real Iraq veteran, has eviscerated Walz’s military record, which the governor has actually used to campaign on. In a recent interview, Vance referred to reports that Walz "retired" from the Army National Guard just as his battalion was shipping out to Iraq. He withdrew from the military two years before the end of a six-year reenlistment contract.
Former United States Marine Corps (USMC) enlisted man Vance did deploy to Iraq. "I mean, your job as a senior enlisted guy in a unit is to keep your people safe. That's not a job you can switch out of on a moment's notice," Vance told the Daily Mail. "So if he abandoned his troops before they went to Iraq or wherever ... absolutely shameful," he added.
Speaking of Walz’s claims of combat experience, Vance further told a reporter Wednesday that the governor should "not pretend to be something that you’re not."
"What bothers me about Tim Walz is the stolen valor garbage," Vance said. "Do not pretend to be something that you’re not, and if he wants to criticize me for getting an Ivy League education, I’m proud of the fact that my mamaw supported me, that I was able to make something of myself."
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Just assume everything they or the media says about these two is a lie.
[JustTheNews] As Georgia prepares for the 2024 presidential election with implementing new rules and procedures, some unresolved 2020 election disputes remain, with the State Election Board opening an investigation into an issue it previously closed.
Heading into this year's presidential election cycle, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is implementing election security measures as the Georgia State Election Board is enacting new rules that could impact the November election and investigating 2020 presidential election issues.
On Wednesday, the SEB voted to request that state GOP Attorney General Chris Carr reopen an investigation into Fulton County's counting of the results of the 2020 election.
The request comes after the board closed the matter in May, but voted to install an independent election monitor for the 2024 election, after an independent investigation found that the county likely scanned thousands of ballots twice in a recount of the 2020 election.
The election board approved the new resolution in a 3-2 vote. The resolution states that if Carr does not conduct an investigation, the board will try to find an outside lawyer to conduct the inquiry.
“We take election integrity very seriously, and we will apply the constitution, the law and the facts as we have always done,” Carr's spokesperson, Kara Murray, told the Associated Press. “If supported by evidence, we will not hesitate to prosecute voter fraud.”
The new request is expected to be met with legal action by Fulton County after its election board said in May that its ruling was final and that it could not reopen any other cases related to the 2020 election. Carr has also reportedly warned that reopening the matter would be illegal.
The SEB also approved a new rule Tuesday that allows county election boards to make a “reasonable inquiry” before certifying election results.
The rule states that certification occurs “after reasonable inquiry that the tabulation and canvassing of the election are complete and accurate and that the results are a true and accurate accounting of all votes cast in that election.”
Michael Heekin, a member of the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, presented the proposed rule to the SEB on Tuesday, arguing the importance of election officials ensuring that results are not affected by irregularities before asserting their accuracy, the Georgia Recorder reported.
“You have to look at how the election was run," Heekin said. "Were there problems? Was it a carefree election, or was it a snake bit? ... You would quantify what you need to know in discussions with the professional staff that run the elections.”
In May, Heekin’s fellow board member Julie Adams filed a lawsuit against the county, board and election director, in which she claimed county Elections Director Nadine Williams prevented her from accessing information and performing her duties.
The lawsuit was filed before Adams abstained from certifying the May 21 primary election in the county on May 28.
Her lawsuit argues the Democratic Party of Georgia sent a letter to the election board members “asserting that certification is a ministerial duty, and the failure to vote in favor of certification is subject to potential legal action, including but not limited to possible criminal sanctions.”
Following the SEB meeting, Raffensperger, a Republican, posted on his X account Wednesday morning: “Georgia's Election Integrity Act requires counties to certify the election results by November 12th and we fully anticipate that counties will follow the law.”
Raffensperger told Just the News on Thursday, "As Secretary of State, I have taken unprecedented steps to continue to secure Georgia's elections. I am the first Secretary of State to have photo ID for all forms of voting and the first to conduct a citizenship check audit of its voter rolls. Georgia got it right when we passed the Georgia Election Integrity Act, known as SB 202, and it appears that this board seeks to undermine the General Assembly and its legislation."
Meanwhile, the Secretary of State’s Office has announced several election security measures over the last month.
[DM] Video shows the moment a Seattle-based social worker tried to push and stop a news reporter from filming a drug camp as they distributed 'aid supplies'.
Jonathan Choe was outside Dow Constantine's drug camp in King County when he recorded public workers conducting a 'harm reduction' operation - aimed at providing treatment and medication to those addicted to hard drugs.
In the video, the seasoned Discovery Institute journalist can be seen approaching a van filled with supplies that were being distributed by two people in the camp.
But Choe claims that instead of helping homeless addicts turn their life around, the duo were handing out 'meth pipes' and 'needles'.
'They were giving away needles and fentanyl kits like candy. Not a single person was offered treatment,' he captioned his X post.
He also went on to reveal that the bag of supplies he received from the workers shockingly contained huge bags of syringes, pipes, foil and what seemed to be black straws.
As Choe boldly continued to film the welfare workers' activities, he was repeatedly being told to switch his camera off and stop filming.
At one point, one of the aid providers could be seen trying to cover his camera and pushing him away from the van.
While many would expect the pushback from the workers to be worrying enough, Choe later revealed that he ended up being pepper sprayed as he was filming around the camp.
'After I got pepper sprayed outside Dow Constantine's drug camp on Wednesday, a Community Passageways worker saw the commotion and tried to victim blame me.
'He wouldn't give me his name, but he essentially said I brought the attack on myself for trying to interview homeless people,' he said in another X post.
But as he was being verbally berated by the BMW-driving non-profit employee , a neighbor who had witnessed the entire incident quickly arrived at the scene and began to help Choe out.
'Thankfully, a neighbor saw what was happening and backed me up. But then this social worker got out of his BMW, left it running in the middle of the street and started running his mouth,' the senior reporter explained.
In a surprising turn of events, as the social worker kept arguing with the Seattle-based reporter for trying to interview vagrants, a homeless woman who arrived on a scooter was seen slashing the philanthropist's tires.
'During this encounter, witnesses says a young homeless woman from the camp rode over on her scooter and slashed his tire. Apparently, she thought the vehicle belonged to me. Oh the irony.'
Choe later noted that he presumably overhead workers suggesting that the tire-slasher should not be 'held accountable' as it would 'complicate her situation'.
[DM] …campaign official and bizarre anti-Trump news
Microsoft revealed that hackers tied to the Iranian government have been trying to influence the US presidential election for months.
Researchers for the tech giant disclosed on Thursday they found multiple Iranian groups peddling polarizing messages and inflammatory posts about controversial politically-divisive issues.
According to Microsoft's newest threat intelligence report, cybercriminals have been using covert news sites that cater to voter groups on opposing ends of the political spectrum to further alienate both sides.
One of such site that is built for Democratic Party supporters called Nio Thinker insults former President Donald Trump by calling him an 'opioid-pilled elephant in the MAGA China shop' and a 'raving mad litigiosaur'.
The website, which began publishing in late October 2023, also releases numerous sarcastic and long-winded articles that berate Trump.
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calling Donald Trump an 'opioid-pilled elephant in the MAGA China shop' and a 'raving mad litigiosaur'.
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Interesting, people were floating the idea that biden needed a war to rally the people. But Kamala is still sorta pro-Hamas and a war against Iran now would be seen as Zoinist meddling or some crazy shit.
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Similar to Germany Arden attack of WW11. Ukraine major effort to show some positive results. Using up all reserves aware of realizing complete loss. Reckless gamble.
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Uke occupation force drone videos coming out showing effective HIMARS strikes on incoming columns of Russian reinforcements in the Kursk oblast Special Operation area.
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From Wikipedia - Kursk NPP is the key energy supplier of Central Chernozemye, a region that produces 48% of iron ore, 13.5% of steel, 19% of ferrous metals, 9.6% of meat, 19.5% of sugar in Russia.
So it's a pretty big deal if that plant goes offline.
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Just like Putin wanted, right? The Ukes have fallen into his ultra-clever trap!
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[ZeroHedge] Following late night explosions being reported in the central Syrian region of Homs, state media SANA has subsequently confirmed that an Israeli airstrike has wounded at least four soldiers and caused "material losses" at the Shayrat Airbase.
The Israeli attack came from the direction of northern Lebanon. It has become common for Israeli jets to use undefended Lebanese airspace from which to attack targets inside Syria. Images showing a series of large explosions have circulated on social media.
Shayrat Airbase has long been well-known also as a base of Russian troop operations over several years. It remains unknown if Russians were present at the base when it was struck late Thursday night. Some Israeli sources have said ammo storage depots were hit, or else 'Iranian assets' were targeted - as is the usual refrain after such operations.
The airfield is the same base bombed by then President Trump in April of 2017:
Elsewhere in Syria, pro-Damascus Arab tribes in the east are seeking to drive out American occupying forces in the vicinity of Syria's oil and gas sites.
Turkish media reported at least nine separate clashes between Syrian Arab militants and US-backed Kurdish groups. "A warplane belonging to the international coalition led by the US made a low flight above the Deir ez-Zor countryside," Anadolu Agency said. One regional report has said the Syrian national army is involved in the fighting:
Syrian army troops shelled positions of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Thursday, responding to attacks from the Kurdish militia on its territory in the countryside of the eastern governorate of Deir Ezzor.
The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) shelled SDF positions in Al-Busayrah city and the towns of Al-Sabha, Bariha, Jadid Bakara, and Al-Dahla in Deir Ezzor’s eastern countryside, Al Mayadeen reported on Thursday.
The SDF’s media center announced on August 8 that its militants targeted the Syrian army and allied forces in the Al-Zubari and Sa’lu villages of the Deir Ezzor countryside with artillery and mortar shells.
Beirut-based The Cradle additionally reports that "A coalition of Syrian Arab tribes, dubbed the Army of Tribes, seized several towns from the SDF in the countryside of eastern Syria’s Deir Ezzor governorate on 7 August."
In the evening hours of Thursday there have been unconfirmed reports of a fresh attack against American forces located at the Rumalyn Landing Zone in Northeastern Syria.
All of this is happening against the backdrop of continued fierce fighting between Hezbollah and Israel in southern Lebanon, a situation which threatens to escalate further...
Several Israeli Airstrikes just now on the Town of Hanaouay in the Tyre District of Southwestern Lebanon, with Fire and Smoke being seen from Miles by Residents. pic.twitter.com/zSpJusnKIy
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Iranians overtly, overtly enough that planefags tracked a military cargo plane that flew from Iran to Syria yesterday. It was speculated to have had weapons aboard. Those systems are thought to have been destroyed with this airstrike.
[ZeroHedge] Nevada has agreed to purge over 90,000 ineligible voters from its rolls following a legal battle with the Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign, according to a press statement from the Nevada GOP.
The purge will focus on Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, and will remove individuals no longer active under state law, the Wednesday statement alleged, "FINE. We'll do it. HAPPY?"
The party vowed to achieve similar victories across the state’s 16 counties ahead of the 2024 presidential election, where President Donald Trump is expected to face Kamala Harris, the embattled and unpopular vice president.
The push for clean voter rolls began in April 2024, shortly after former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel’s resignation. In June, U.S. District Court Judge Cristina Silva dismissed the lawsuit, claiming the state had insufficient time to address the issues raised.
According to Nevada-based News 4, Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, a Democrat, began the cleanup after sending postcards to over 150,000 voters whose mail was returned as “undeliverable” during the 2023 primaries.
The voters who did not respond by Aug. 6 were moved to inactive status and will not receive automatic ballots until they update their registration, the outlet reported.
It isn’t immediately clear whether Aguilar’s actions came after the GOP’s requests. Headline USA has reached out to the RNC for clarification.
Nevada is considered a pivotal state for both Trump and Harris in 2024. Trump narrowly lost the state in 2016 and 2020 to Democrats Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, respectively. Redfield & Wilton Strategies poll shows both candidates tied at 40%.
Plus some states, the police can demand ID or arrest you for failing to present.
Plus now we must have State Approved ID to Vote.
Shouldn't the State ID be FREE and updated (Picture/address) for free?
After all, we pay taxes to fund and operate the state government. So why the additional expense/Tax?
Shouldn't State ID's never expire, until you do?
State Driver Licenses, being the only exception regarding expiration, but should they also still be free. (Road/Gas Taxes should be covering it)
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400,000,000 inhabitants. 11 digit id. is less than 5 gigabytes. I have 120 gig on my $200 laptop. a national voter id is rational. say on 5 computers connected on land-lines to prevent duplicate ids. distributed ... how?
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Clark County (Las Vegas) is the largest population center in Nevada and any significant voter fraud would be centered there. SO, if genuine, a very good thing!
[JustTheNews] Asif Merchant was granted a ‘significant public benefit’ parole in April and overstayed his permission before being arrested.
The FBI allowed Asif Raza Merchant, the Pakistani man charged with plotting with Tehran to assassinate Donald Trump and others, to enter the U.S. in April with special permission known as “significant public benefit parole” even though he was flagged on a terrorism watchlist and recently traveled to Iran, according to government documents reviewed by Just the News.
The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force interviewed Merchant, fingerprinted him and inspected the contents of his electronic devices when he arrived at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport, in Houston, but then let him leave with the special parole that expired on May 11, the memos state.
“Subject was polite and cooperative throughout encounter,” the FBI interview memo reads. “... Subject's notable travel outside of country of citizenship includes a recent trip to Iran.”
Merchant wasn't arrested until July 12, after a confidential human source ascertained he had tried to line up assassins and was planning to leave the United States, the FBI said.
The memos add a new twist to an assassination plot that was uncovered before Trump was shot by a 20-year-old American in Butler, Pa., but not announced until earlier this week. Authorities say they don't believe there is connection between the two assassinations plots.
The FBI declined to comment about the documents obtained by Just the News. But, the JTTF interview summary and immigration records give some rich detail about what the bureau knew before it allowed Merchant to enter the country and what conditions they placed on his entry.
The immigration records from his arrival in Houston on April 13 clearly stated in bright red that he was flagged by the Department of Homeland Security database with the identifier “WATCH LIST” and denoted as a "Lookout Qualified Person of Interest."
Despite direct travel to a country with known terrorist activity, the memo relays that Merchant was “released without incident” into the United States and was “free to travel to desired destination,” which was listed as a family member's home in Texas.
Law enforcement officials who alerted Just the News to the FBI's role in April compared the parole decision to an earlier law enforcement controversy known as the "Fast and Furious" scandal in which federal agents allowed U.S. guns to flow to Mexican cartels in hopes of tracking crimes.
The parole in Merchant's case, the officials said, would allow agents to try to flip Merchant as a cooperator or try to determine why he was coming to the United States and who he might be working with. But such tactics also carried a risk that agents might lose track of him, the officials said.
The records show that Merchant was allowed to stay in the country beyond the May 11 expiration date for his parole.
While there is no statutory or regulatory definition of a public benefit parole, according to the DHS, a variety of factors can be used to determine whether a subject qualifies, and the status is extended based on a benefit to the public, not the individual.
“Parole based on significant public benefit includes, but is not limited to, law enforcement and national security reasons or foreign or domestic policy considerations,” the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website says.
The Justice Department says Merchant tried to hire an individual for an assassination plot shortly after he entered the country in April and that individual become a confidential informant for law enforcement after reporting the contact.
Merchant reportedly asked the informant about various methods to carry out an assassination attempt.
He also told the confidential source that the planned assassination would occur after he left the United States and that he would communicate with the individual to relay instructions. However, law enforcement intercepted Merchant before he left the country.
After the charges against Merchant were announced earlier this week, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency issued a new warning Wednesday to its field offices that Iran or its proxy groups may try to transport “operatives, money or materials” across both the southern and northern U.S. borders to carry out attacks on the United States.
In the memo, which was obtained by Just the News, the CBP’s Office of Field Operations directed agency personnel to take a “heightened posture due to ongoing security threats,” including against possible attacks on the United States mirroring the recent Iran-backed Hezbollah rocket attack on an Israeli town in the Golan Heights.
The memo also warned that heightened tensions across the Middle East due to Israel’s retaliation for the Golan Heights strike – the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran’s capital – increased the risk of a terror attack in the United States.
The memo specifically urged CBP personnel to implement “hardening measures” at ports of entry such as the airport in Houston where Merchant arrived and was subsequently released into the country.
Merchant was ultimately arrested on July 12 as he attempted to make arrangements to leave the country.
Prosecutors unsealed a complaint against him earlier this week, charging him with organizing a “murder-for-hire” plot in a scheme to assassinate U.S. politicians or government officials. Justice Department and FBI officials said Merchant was working “on behalf of others overseas” and pointed the finger at Iran.
“This dangerous murder-for-hire plot exposed in today’s charges allegedly was orchestrated by a Pakistani national with close ties to Iran and is straight out of the Iranian playbook,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a statement. “A foreign-directed plot to kill a public official, or any U.S. citizen, is a threat to our national security and will be met with the full might and resources of the FBI.”
Though Trump, a former GOP president running for reelection in 2024, was not named in the complaint directly, sources confirmed to ABC News that he was one of the intended targets.
The revelation that Merchant was stopped at a port of entry but permitted to enter the United States, even with terror ties, follows a report from the House Judiciary Committee that found the Biden administration’s DHS released 99 individuals on the terrorist watch list into the country between fiscal years 2021 and 2023 and has 34 others in custody who have not yet been removed.
During those years, Border Patrol encountered individuals from 36 different countries with an active terrorist presence, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritania, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan and Yemen, the report says.
In June, eight men from Tajikistan were arrested in coordinated sting operations across the United States because their suspected ties to the Islamic State terror group. All eight of the suspects crossed the southern border, but their criminal background checks were clean when they crossed, NBC News reported.
Given, the constantly increasing number of mistakes _ _ _ agencies are making, a person could start to wonder if they need a serious review and flush of leadership.
Or is the problem higher up, and living in Matha's Vineyard?
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"“Parole based on significant public benefit includes, but is not limited to, law enforcement and national security reasons or foreign or domestic policy considerations,” the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website says."
So the reasoning seems to be, that the admission of a highly suspect individual with clear linkages to Iran, the major state sponsor of terrorism in the world, was a "significant public benefit" to law enforcement that they might flip him into an asset and CI?
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Confucius say, "Chinaman picky!
For laundry you gotta have tickee...
But if you need cash,
Just chuck tickee in trash
And turn trick. Not to worry, just quickie!"
[Breitbart] The Biden-Harris administration, fearing spiking Medicare Part D premiums, is using billions of dollars to bail out health insurers and placate seniors 100 days before presidential the election.
The Paragon Health Institute released a report noting that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) added a three-year “premium stabilization” demonstration for stand-alone prescription drug plans in Medicare Part D. The institute’s Jackson Hammond contended that the move represents a massive bailout after the Biden-Harris’s Inflation Reduction Act move to cap out-of-pocket costs for the Part D program.
Essentially, the IRA set a $2,000 per year cap for the Part D program, which “significantly” increases insurers’ financial liabilities:
What do insurers do when the costs of their plans go up? They raise premiums, of course. We don’t know yet what premiums will be in Part D but, we do know they will jump because the average bid submitted by plans for stand-alone PDPs has skyrocketed from $64.28 in 2024 to $179.45 in 2025 – and roughly 25 percent of the increase will be borne by beneficiaries and 75 percent borne by taxpayers.
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This could have been avoided with a higher out-of-pocket cap. The original bipartisan Part D redesign had a cost cap of $3,100, which would have limited both premium increases and taxpayers’ liability. It’s worth noting that former CBO director Doug Holtz-Eakin estimates that less than three percent of Medicare beneficiaries were facing out-of-pocket costs greater than $2,000. So instead under the partisan IRA, Part D premiums have been driven much higher.
“CMS has yet to release any cost estimates, but some back-of-the-envelope math puts the cost over three years well in excess of $10 billion for a demonstration,” Hammond wrote.
The Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote this week:
This was a back-door way for Democrats to ration access to costly drugs while shifting the political blame for doing so to insurers.
The gambit backfired as insurers are raising premiums. CMS’s intervention is another example of how the IRA will cost far more than Democrats claimed. Nobody knows how much more since CMS isn’t doing a normal rule-making that requires a cost analysis.
Joe Grogan, who served as a domestic policy adviser to Trump, wrote an op-ed for RealClearPolicy about how the Biden-Harris administration is trying to bail out its failed health policies right before the pivotal election season:
Announcing huge premium increases for seniors going into the Democratic Convention would have spoiled the party. The Premium Stabilization Demonstration means that bids will need to be recalculated, delaying publication of premiums until mid-September, when they will be more reasonable due to the demonstration’s taxpayer subsidy. As a political bonus, the delay in the premium announcement gives the Administration a week and a half to tout “savings” from the IRA’s drug price setting component, scheduled to be announced September 1st.
Grogan added, “After the election, policymakers will be left with unpalatable choices: if the demonstration expires, Part D will become too expensive for enough seniors to buy coverage and the program will die. Or taxpayers can be asked to stomach more spending. Either way, Part D’s success is destroyed.”
[FoxNews] Police in Pennsylvania released bodycam footage Thursday showing the chaotic moments after Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinate former President Trump.
Police bodycam footage obtained by Fox News Digital on Thursday through a records request shows two officers attempting to intercept Thomas Matthew Crooks on a roof seconds before he allegedly tried to assassinate former President Trump at a campaign rally last month.
The footage is taken from two officers from the Butler Township Police Department who made a desperate attempt to stop Crooks moments before he fired his DPMS AR-15 rifle, striking Trump in the ear, killing Corey Comparatore and injuring two others.
"F---ing this close, bro. Dude, he turned around on me," the officer who was hoisted can be heard saying later on in bodycam video released Thursday.
One officer can be seen hoisting another officer onto the roof where Crooks was stationed, which is about 12 feet above the ground.
Crooks pointed his weapon at the officer who scaled the building, before the officer ultimately ducks his head and loses his grip on the roof’s edge and falls about 8 feet to the ground, spraining his ankle, Butler Township Manager Thomas Knights previously told Fox News Digital.
The footage captures Crooks toward the end as officers surround his body after countersnipers fatally shot him.
"I'm f---ing p---ed. We couldn't find him," another officer can be heard saying in the bodycam footage.
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The shootings had to be one of the most filmed / recorded events in history. Some of the photos showed about 1/2 of onlookers actively filming at the time. Still no videos of the right side of Trump's head when he was shot.
[GEO.TV] Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus has taken charge of Bangladesh's caretaker government, with hopes of healing the country convulsed by weeks of violence that forced ex-prime minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and now exiled former Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She was President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia showed such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums. That is probably because Khaleda's late husband was the Pak tool who had Mujib assassinated... to resign and flee to neighbouring India.
Known as the "banker to the poor", Yunus is the pioneer of the global microcredit movement. The Grameen Bank he founded won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for helping lift millions from poverty by providing tiny loans to the rural poor who are too impoverished to gain attention from traditional banks.
As chief adviser of the caretaker government, he is, however, tasked with bringing stability back to the country which witnessed some of its worst violence in decades and then hold fresh parliamentary elections.
"The country has the possibility of becoming a very beautiful nation," Yunus earlier told news hounds when he arrived in Dhaka following medical treatment in Gay Paree, after protesters backed him for the role in a caretaker set up.
The student protesters had saved the country, he said, adding: "Whatever path our students show us, we will move ahead with that."
A harsh critic of Hasina, Yunus became emotional and seemed to hold his tears back as he referred to a student he said had been shot during the protests and that sacrifice could not be forgotten.
"Now again we have to rise up. To the government officials here and defence chiefs — we are a family, we should move ahead together," he said.
Hasina's flight from the country she ruled for 20 of the last 30 years after winning a fourth term in January triggered jubilation and violence as crowds stormed and ransacked her official residence.
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It seems to me I recall an article, somewhere, can't remember where or exactly when but it was many years or even decades ago, about penny banks in Bangladesh. But IIRC it was an old woman who started the practice and she loaned primarily to other women so they could buy material for weaving and sewing. So now we have a Nobel laureate taking credit for it. Funny, though, ever since Baraq got a Nobel prize I haven't had much respect for it.
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^ No respect for the prize, even less for the Kenyan recipient.
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The flower of youth ["Yo, um, wow..."]
Is our fountain of truth! [OOF! BAM! POW!]
No, we Chinese aren't wrong
As we chant, billion strong,
Dear the children who teach Chairman Mao!"
Wisdom of the Beast, or, "Silly Mummy, Trix are for commies."
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21:43 Yermak said in an interview with European Pravda that Ukraine wants to hold a second Peace Summit no earlier than the completion of the preparation of a general plan for the implementation of each point of Zelensky's peace formula, and the possible participation of a Russian representative does not mean that this will be the beginning of negotiations with Moscow.
The head of the President's Office also believes that Trump's potential victory in the US elections will not pose a threat to further support for Ukraine. According to him, the recent telephone conversation between Trump and Zelensky was "very warm" and confirmed Trump's "good relations" and respect for Ukraine and the Ukrainian president. And Zelensky's meeting with Orban, according to Yermak, was "very frank."
21:28 The French Ministry of Defense announced a "successful offensive by the Ukrainian Armed Forces" in the Kursk region. "The offensive by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region, based on the element of surprise, appears to have had some initial success," the French ministry said in a statement. The French ministry believes that this offensive could force the Russian Federation to redeploy troops from other sectors, easing local pressure on those sections of the front where the Ukrainian Armed Forces had previously experienced difficulties.
21:17 Bloomberg writes that Russia knew about the preparation of an attack on the Kursk region two weeks in advance, but ignored the intelligence data. At the same time, the publication notes that the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov is unlikely to be removed from his post in the near future, since this is a "delicate issue."
21:00 Russians dropped a glider bomb on Selidovo in Donetsk Oblast - two people were killed and seven were wounded, OVA chief Vadim Filashkin reported. Two multi-story buildings and an administrative building were damaged.
20:24 The Russian Ministry of Health stated that from August 6 to 8, 66 people were injured as a result of shelling in the Kursk region; 38 people remain in medical institutions.
19:51 Russians attacked settlements in the Kherson region during the day: one person was wounded in Kherson, two in Antonovka, and another in Berislav, OVA reported.
19:16 Zelensky reported that today he had already heard three reports from Syrsky: "The reports are productive. Exactly the kind that our state needs now. Ukrainians know how to achieve their goals. And it was not we who chose to achieve goals in war. Russia brought war to our land and should feel what it has done. We strive to achieve our goals as quickly as possible in peacetime - under conditions of a just peace. And this will happen."
In addition, the president heard a report from Umerov on the supply of weapons and equipment to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as from Malyuk - "on our operations and the delicate work of the SBU, which protects Ukrainians from Russian sabotage and assassination attempts within our country."
18:54 The Washington Post writes that Ukraine controls the Sudzha gas metering station, located about 8 km deep into Russian territory. The publication suggests that Kiev may aim to stop Russian gas supplies to Europe.
17:27 The head of the German Parliament's Defense Committee, Markus Faber, does not see a problem with Ukraine using German tanks on Russian territory, because the territory of the Russian Federation is also a combat zone: "When weapons are transferred to Ukraine, they become Ukrainian weapons. This applies to all materials, including Leopard-2. In connection with Russia's attack on Ukraine, the territory of both countries is a combat zone. The use of weapons falls under the provisions of international law."
Faber also believes that the offensive in the Kursk region could persuade the Kremlin to end the war against Ukraine: "We can only wish the Ukrainian defenders success, particularly near Kursk. The more successful they are, the sooner the Kremlin will understand that it has no chance in Ukraine."
16:58 The Foreign Ministry rejected Niger's accusations of "supporting terrorist groups" and called the country's decision to sever diplomatic relations with Kiev "a gesture of solidarity with those who chose the path of rapprochement with the terrorist state Russia." The ministry also emphasized that the Niger authorities did not investigate the incident in Mali and did not provide any evidence of the reasons for such a step. "Ukraine resolutely rejects any accusations against it of allegedly supporting international terrorism, violating the UN Charter and international law," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
16:19 Today, from 17:00 to 22:00, restrictions on electricity consumption will be applied for industry and business, Ukrenergo reported. One stage of the power limitation schedule will be activated. Consumption of the population, critical infrastructure and defense industry facilities will not be limited. The reason is the power deficit in the system caused by Russian attacks, as well as the high level of electricity consumption due to the increase in air temperature in the south and east of the country. Ukrainians are asked to consume electricity rationally from 16:00 to 23:00.
16:02 The combat zone in the Kursk region has expanded to 430 square kilometers, Russian Telegram channels write. Russian publics also emphasize that the Ukrainian Armed Forces broke through defensive fortifications in the Kursk region in one day, on which 15 billion rubles were spent. Bloomberg notes that this is the first time since World War II that another country's army has invaded Russia.
15:38 Scouts from the 53rd Separate Mechanized Brigade named after Prince Vladimir Monomakh reported that they returned the Ukrainian flag to a school in New York, Donetsk Oblast, and destroyed the Russian flag that the occupiers had installed on the roof of boarding school No. 38.
15:20 Kuleba reported that he discussed the expansion of the F-16 coalition with Norwegian Foreign Minister Bart Eide.
15:11 Wagner PMC mercenaries are being transferred to the Kursk region to resist the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Russian war correspondents report.
14:40 Zelensky announced the official launch of the Army+ application for Ukrainian military personnel. According to him, the application will start with basic functions (including online reports) and will be filled with new ones.
14:29 Russians have launched a KAB strike on the settlement of Mogritsa in the Yunakivska community of the Sumy region - two people were killed, including a six-year-old child, said the head of the OVA, Vladimir Artyukh. In addition, two residents of other settlements in the Sumy region are currently known to be wounded. Artyukh noted that there have never been so many KAB strikes in the region in one day: the Russians dropped 56 guided aerial bombs on uninhabited areas in the Shostka, Konotop, Sumy and Akhtyrka districts.
13:56 Russians struck the territory of a hospital in Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region, with artillery, one person was killed, reported the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak.
13:51 Internet resources of the Kursk region were subjected to a massive DDoS attack, many services were out of order and temporarily unavailable, the regional authorities reported.
12:48 Zelensky reported that he met in Kiev with a bipartisan delegation from the US House of Representatives - they discussed, in particular, air defense.
12:09 The Russian Defense Ministry stated that in the Kursk region, fighting continues in the Sudzhensky and Korenevsky districts, the advancement of the Ukrainian Armed Forces over the past 24 hours has been "not allowed", "attempts by individual units to break through deep into the territory in the Kursk direction are being stopped".
11:47 Russians fired artillery at a private sector in Konstantinovka, Donetsk region, this morning, killing two people, reported OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
10:56 In Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region, this morning, Russians carried out a targeted UAV strike on the territory of a State Emergency Service unit. As a result of the strike, the windows of a fire station were broken and rescue equipment was damaged, the personnel of the fire and rescue unit were not injured, the State Emergency Service reported.
10:50 Special Representative of the PRC Government for Eurasian Affairs Li Hui believes that Russia and Ukraine are becoming increasingly ready for negotiations. He once again stressed that "the international community should create conditions and provide assistance for the resumption of direct dialogue and negotiations between the parties."
10:44 An oilseed processing plant of one of Ukraine's largest agroholdings, Kernel, in western Ukraine was damaged in an attack by a Russian drone, the company said in a statement on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. "The facility's operations have been stopped, and the fire that broke out as a result of the attack has been extinguished. No one was hurt in the attack," the company said.
10:29 The US did not know about the operation in the Kursk region in advance and will contact Ukraine to find out the details, White House spokesperson Karin Jean-Pierre said. "We must remember that there are Russian troops in this region. They are there, attacking Ukraine from this region. We must not forget about this," she added.
10:08 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that Ukrainian forces have regained some of their lost positions in the area of the city of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk Oblast. In particular, the Ukrainian Armed Forces advanced through the Seversky Donets-Donbass drainage canal and recaptured positions in the Stupki Golubovskie-2 botanical reserve. Fighting continues in the eastern microdistricts of Novy and Oktiabrsky in the city of Chasiv Yar.
09:57 Ukraine calls on Mexico to arrest Putin if he attends the inauguration of the new president of the country. The corresponding statement was published by the Ukrainian Embassy in Mexico. Mexico recognizes the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, which issued an arrest warrant for Putin. The head of the Kremlin has already been invited to the inauguration.
09:25 On the night of August 8, Russia attacked the Kharkiv region with two Iskander-M ballistic missiles, two Kh-59 guided air missiles and four Shahed-type attack UAVs, the Air Force reported. Two Kh-59 guided air missiles and four drones were shot down in the Odessa, Kherson and Kirovohrad regions.
08:47 In Donetsk Oblast, two people were killed as a result of Russian shelling on August 7 - in Mykhailivka. Another four people in the oblast were injured in the past 24 hours, reported OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
08:32 In the Kherson region, eight people were injured as a result of Russian shelling over the past day, reported the head of the OVA Oleksandr Prokudin. A critical infrastructure facility, an educational institution, administrative buildings, nine multi-story buildings and 11 private houses were damaged.
08:13 Ukroboronprom has entered the list of the world's 50 best defense companies for the first time according to the Defense News portal. The concern took 49th place.
07:49 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of August 8:
personnel - about 587,510 (+1,140) people,
tanks - 8431 (+2),
combat armored vehicles - 16,332 (+9),
artillery systems - 16,487 (+36),
MLRS - 1142 (+4),
air defense systems - 914 (+4),
aircraft - 366 (+1),
helicopters - 327 (+1),
Operational-tactical level UAVs - 13,293 (+81),
cruise missiles - 2424 (+3),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 22,285 (+59),
special equipment - 2767 (+8).
07:36 In the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, a 12-year-old child was injured as a result of Russian shelling, reported the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak.
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England, you are working yourself up into having another Cromwell moment. I'm quite sure King Charles would like to avoid a repeat of that little 'incident'.
[Rudaw] Shamima Begum, the woman who was stripped of her British citizenship after joining the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria as a teenager, lost a bid on Wednesday to take her case to the United Kingdom’s top court.
Begum, who is now 24 years old, left her London home in 2015 to travel to Syria where she married an ISIS fighter. In 2019, she had her UK citizenship revoked on national security grounds after she was found at an ISIS camp in northeast Syria (Rojava), following the territorial collapse of the terror group.
The UK’s Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected Begum’s bid to appeal the revocation of her citizenship. She argued that the decision was unlawful and that officials did not properly consider whether she could have been a victim of trafficking. Supreme Court justices rejected her appeal on the grounds that it did “not raise an arguable point of law.”
Begum’s appeals were rejected twice, first by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) in February 2023 and by the UK’s court of appeal in February. Wednesday’s ruling said that she cannot appeal again.
Begum’s lawyers told the BBC that they will take the case to the European Court of Human Rights.
Between 2014 and 2019, thousands of militants from around the world joined ISIS in Syria and Iraq. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) captured more than 10,000 ISIS militants and their families in the war to defeat the group that ended with a final battle in Baghouz, eastern Syria. The fighters are kept in detention centers while the families, including children, are kept in camps. Begum is living in one of these camps.
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Paleostine Action, a U.K.-based activist group founded to shut down arms dealers in Britannia, applauded the crime on social media, though it is unknown if members of the group were involved.
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Marshall Wittmann, an AIPAC front man, told the Insider that the group 'will not be deterred by the illegal actions of fringe, anti-Israel gunnies in our efforts to strengthen the U.S.-Israel relationship.'
[JPost] Bluff called. Pulling her kicking and screaming from her basement cocoon or proving she's a coward as well as incompetent
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Thursday that he had agreed to three presidential debates in September and was awaiting a response from Democrat Kamala Harris' campaign.
"We've agreed with Fox on a date of September 4th, we've agreed with NBC ... on September 10th, and we've agreed with ABC on September 25th," Trump told a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
"I hope she agrees," Trump added.
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There will likely be no second or third debate. I suspect he will have her coming unglued within the first 15 minutes. I cannot see this ending well.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad] A significant portion of the information about enemy breakthroughs deep into our territory is based on the actions of small mobile groups, whose task is to break through further from the border, sow panic, disorganize the rear, and interfere with the establishment of coordination of the actions of units on the spot with the approaching reserves. Hence the various contradictory reports about the observation of enemy forces deep in our territory, where they mobile groups both feign presence and create conditions for blocking roads.
At the same time, where the enemy's mobile groups reveal the absence of our forces and operational emptiness, they try to push through additional armored vehicles with motorized infantry in order to consolidate control of the territory. As soon as a continuous front line is formed (this will not happen immediately), the effectiveness of such groups will begin to decline.
At the moment.
Our forces have fought back near Korenevo.
Goncharovka and part of Sudzha are under the enemy.
The enemy is trying to break through to Lgov and Kurchatov.
The operational crisis has not been overcome at the moment. It is necessary to avoid both panic in the style of all is lost (panic-mongers shouting all is lost, we must run, etc. must be punished according to the laws of wartime), and embellishment of a truly difficult operational situation, where our command faces non-trivial tasks of stabilization, so that all this does not turn into a remake of Balakleya with serious military and political consequences.
The task of the Russian Armed Forces at the moment is to tie down the enemy's advanced groups with battles, slow down their spread across the southern part of the region, so that after stabilizing the situation, begin attacks with the aim of squeezing them out of the territory of the region. I hope the General Staff will be able to organize all this.
The broadcast of military operations in Ukraine, including the developing events in the Kursk region, as usual, is on Telegram
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics
The reasons and goals of the terrorist operation of the Ukrainian Nazis in the Kursk region have already been reflected in detail and objectively in the analytics. This includes the desire to profitably show off the remnants of their dwindling forces to their masters in order to receive a new portion of money and weapons, and an attempt to thin out our battle formations on the main line of confrontation, drawing off part of the forces to Kursk and Belgorod, and a temporary informational transformation of betrayal into victory.
It is necessary to learn a serious lesson from what happened and fulfill what Chief of the General Staff V. Gerasimov promised the Supreme Commander-in-Chief - to mercilessly defeat and destroy the enemy.
There is another important political and legal consequence of what happened. From this moment on, the SVO must acquire an openly extraterritorial character. This is no longer just an operation to return our official territories and punish the Nazis. It is possible and necessary to go to the lands of the still existing Ukraine.
To Odessa, to Kharkov, to Dnepropetrovsk, to Nikolaev. To Kiev and beyond. There should be no restrictions in the sense of some recognized borders of the Ukrainian Reich. And now we can and should talk about this openly, without embarrassment and diplomatic curtseys. The terrorist operation of the Banderites should remove any taboos from this topic. Let everyone realize this, including the English bastards: we will stop only when we consider it acceptable and beneficial for ourselves.
Blessed memory to the dead: military and civilians, all who came under heavy fire from neo-Nazis. The best memory of them is a carefully thought-out retribution. Recovery to all the wounded.
The situation in the Kursk region remains difficult as of this morning. The enemy attacks in Korenevo have been repelled, but part of Sudzha is under enemy control. Fighting is underway for the city.
"There are 38 people in medical institutions in the Kursk region, including five children. Outpatient care was provided to 19 victims, including two children," he added.
The Federal Center for Disaster Medicine is coordinating assistance to the victims. Medical organizations have been provided with all necessary medications, blood and its components, the minister emphasized.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on August 6, Ukrainian units began trying to break through the Russian border in the Kursk region. The next day, the Ministry of Defense announced that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had failed to penetrate deep into Russian territory. On August 8, the military department reported that the enemy had lost 660 militants and 82 units of equipment since the beginning of the provocation. Russian fighters continue to attack enemy forces in the region.
On August 8, Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the situation in the Kursk region with Acting Governor Alexey Smirnov. The head of state noted that the situation in the region requires solving extraordinary problems, which requires courage and composure.
“As a result, many services have failed and are temporarily unavailable,” the Kursk region administration reported on its Telegram channel.
It is noted that specialists from the regional Ministry of Digital Development and Communications are promptly restoring the functionality of the resources of the Kursk Region administration.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, a state of emergency was declared in Kursk Oblast on August 7 to eliminate the consequences of the Ukrainian Armed Forces entering the region. Acting head of the region Alexey Smirnov said that he would personally coordinate the work of the forces of the unified state system for the prevention and elimination of emergencies. The Russian National Guard has strengthened security measures at the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant.
Many regions have offered assistance to Kursk Oblast in eliminating the consequences of the attack on the region.
On August 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with the government on the situation in the region, as well as with the heads of security agencies. The head of state called the Kiev regime's attack on the region another large-scale provocation.
More from the V Kontakte page of Donetsk DPR News SVO Donbass Russia Novorossiya The situation near Sudzha
The road to the combat zone is full of contrasts. Military helicopters fly in the sky, and grannies are swarming in their vegetable gardens. Lowboys with tanks drive through villages along the road, along which buckets of potatoes, apples and mushrooms stand imperturbably. But the closer to the front line, which runs along the south of Kursk,area, the closer the fighting becomes. Columns of black smoke grow on the horizon - enemy equipment is burning there under the border. Large-caliber cannonade is heard from there.
Along the side of the road, we begin to see burned-out or drone-attacked civilian vehicles. The enemy is firing indiscriminately, killing civilians. We stop at a battered ambulance, in which two medics were killed by a drone strike. Bandages and a couple of bulletproof vests are scattered. Perhaps they were taking away the wounded. A little further away is a still-smoking Ural. Nearby is a small crater. Most likely from a drone.
The closer to the combat zone, the fewer and fewer cars there are on the road, until they disappear altogether. Occasionally, jeeps and pickup trucks with EW washers (electronic warfare systems) on the roof rush by. But judging by the same ones on some of the wrecks of burnt cars, they don’t always help…
…On the way to the city, 500 meters before the place where the car of war correspondent Yevgeny Poddubny was attacked the day before, a bus was burning in the bushes. I decide to slow down to see if there are any casualties. And suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, against the background of a light cloud, I clearly catch a familiar silhouette flying towards us from the side.
- Drone! - I shout to a familiar photojournalist, Tolya Zhdanov, sitting next to me, abruptly rocking the car into a U-turn and pressing the gas pedal.
In the rearview mirror, the “nine” disappeared around the corner. There was an explosion characteristic of a kamikaze drone. A few seconds later, a second one. So there were two drones. One didn’t catch up with us, the other, we hope, missed the men.
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Does UKR have the capacity to sustain a supply line into Russia and the manpower to keep the territory? I dont think so. This incursion will fail spectacularly once the surprise factor wears off. Two weeks, a month tops.
Buried in the article is a blurb on how russian strategy could change:
From this moment on, the SVO must acquire an openly extraterritorial character. This is no longer just an operation to return our official territories and punish the Nazis. It is possible and necessary to go to the lands of the still existing Ukraine...
To Odessa, to Kharkov, to Dnepropetrovsk, to Nikolaev. To Kiev and beyond. There should be no restrictions in the sense of some recognized borders of the Ukrainian Reich. And now we can and should talk about this openly, without embarrassment and diplomatic curtseys.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
Units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 22nd, 25th Mechanised brigades, 36th Naval Infantry Brigade, 88th, 103rd, 123rd Territorial Defence brigades near Zhuravka, Belovody, Yunakovka (Sumy region), Volchansk (Kharkov region), and Daryino (Kursk region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 415 Ukrainian troops, four tanks, two infantry fighting vehicles, 14 armoured personnel carriers, 12 pickup trucks, three 152mm D-20 howitzers, two 122mm D-30 howitzers, and two Bukovel-AD electronic warfare stations.
Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on formations of the AFU 14th, 44th, 67th, 116th Mechanised brigades, 3rd Assault Brigade, 110th, 241st Territorial Defence brigades, and 1st National Guard Brigade near Sinkovka, Petropavlovka, Novoyegorovka, Tabayevka (Kharkov region), Stelmakhovka (Lugansk People's Republic), and Novosadovoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
One counterattack launched by an assault detachment of the AFU 116th Mechanised Brigade was repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to more than 460 Ukrainian troops, one infantry fighting vehicle, one Kozak armoured fighting vehicle, one U.S.-made MaxxPro armoured fighting vehicle, 13 motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzer, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, three 122mm D-30 howitzers, two Czech-made Vampire MLRS combat vehicles, and one Bukovel-AD electronic warfare station. Two AFU ammunition depots were destroyed.
Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of the AFU 23rd, 24th, 67th Mechanised brigades, 5th, 10th Assault brigades, and 10th Mountain Assault Brigade near Chasov Yar, Grigorovka, Ostroye, Ivano-Daryevka, and Vyemka (Donetsk People's Republic). Two counter-attacks launched by formations of the AFU 5th Assault Brigade were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 660 Ukrainian troops, two armoured personnel carriers, including one U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, nine motor vehicles, two U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzers, one Polish-made 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery system, one UK-made 155mm AS-90 self-propelled artillery system, one UK-made 155mm FH-70 howitzer, one 152mm D-20 howitzer, two 122mm D-30 howitzers, one UK-made 105mm L-119 howitzer, and two Anklav-N electronic warfare stations.
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces continued to take active actions and inflicted losses on formations of the AFU 1st Tank Brigade, 31st, 32nd, 117th Mechanised brigades, 95th Air Assault Brigade, 109th, and 111th Territorial Defence brigades near Nikolayevka, Tarasovka, Toretsk, Grodovka, and Panteleymonovka (Donetsk People's Republic). Two counter-attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 25th Airborne Brigade and 142nd Infantry Brigade were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 360 Ukrainian troops, one UK-made Spartan armoured personnel carrier, three armoured fighting vehicles, eight motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzer, one 152mm Giatsint-B howitzer, and one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system.
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces improved the tactical situation along the front lines and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 72nd Mechanised Brigade and 58th Motorised Infantry Brigade near Vodyanoye and Ugledar (Donetsk People's Republic). One counter-attack launched by an enemy assault detachment was repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 105 Ukrainian troops, two infantry fighting vehicles, 10 motor vehicles, one UK-made 155mm FH-70 towed howitzer, one Polish-made 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery system, one U.S.-made 155mm Paladin self-propelled artillery system, one U.S.-made 155mm M198 howitzer, and one U.S.-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery warfare station. Two AFU ammunition depots were destroyed.
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of the AFU 128th Mountain Assault Brigade, 35th Naval Infantry Brigade, and 124th Territorial Defence Brigade near Stepnogorsk (Zaporozhye region), Novotyaginka and Antonovka (Kherson region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 110 Ukrainian troops, two infantry fighting vehicles, seven motor vehicles, one 152mm Giatsint-B howitzer, three 152mm D-20 howitzers, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, one UK-made 105mm L-119 howitzer, and two Bukovel-AD electronic warfare stations.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces delivered strikes at UAV assembly workshops, as well as engaged AFU manpower and hardware clusters in 164 areas during the day.
Air defence units shot down one MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force, 12 U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, and 80 unmanned aerial vehicles, including 21 outside the special military operation zone.
In total, 636 airplanes and 278 helicopters, 29,402 unmanned aerial vehicles, 563 air defence missile systems, 16,937 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,398 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 12,976 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 24,528 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFront] 23:59 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 08.08.2024 to 00:00 09.08.2024.
A total of 42 cases of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
There were reports of two civilians being injured.
DAMAGED:
Four residential buildings
One car
A total of 21 artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction,
A total of 20 artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction,
One artillery attack in the Yasinovataya direction.
A total of 116 units of various ammunition were fired.
23:30 Reported explosions in the Khar'kov and Zaporizhia regions. Presumably the work of "Geraniums".
21:02 Crews of Su-34 fighter-bombers destroyed temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of responsibility of the "West" group of forces. The strike was carried out by unguided FAB-500 aerial bombs with a universal planning and correction module.
19:48 FPV drone operators of the 14th Guards Special Forces Brigade destroy enemy manpower in the South Donetsk direction.
18:54 Footage of destruction of Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower in the border area of Kursk Oblast
The operator of a combat unmanned aerial vehicle destroyed a group of Ukrainian Armed Forces militants hiding in a forest belt by dropping ammunition.
18:40 Artillerymen of the Arctic Brigade of the Dnepr Forces Group destroyed a temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kherson direction –video.
18:30 Footage of neutralization of a heavy UAV of the copter type "Baba Yaga" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the border area of the Kursk region.
17:54 Mortar crews of the "West" group of forces destroyed platoon strongholds of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
According to intelligence data, a build-up of Ukrainian forces was detected in one of the areas. 120mm mortar crews destroyed the targets with barrage fire. UAV crews monitored the destruction.
17:10 Explosions occurred in the city of Kherson, controlled by Kyiv. This was reported by the Ukrainian publication "Public. News".
16:34 152mm Msta-B howitzer crews of the North troop group perform fire missions which destroyed platoon strongholds, UAV crews and Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower in the area of the special military operation.
16:14 Joint combat Job of UAV operators of the 3rd battalion of the 247th Airborne Regiment with artillery at enemy Armed Forces strongholds in the direction of Verbovoye-Rabotino.
15:57 Situation on the front from Archangel Spetsnaz:
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are in the worst situation in the Pokrovsk direction. The Russian army has liberated Ivanovka and Lisichnoye, and battles are underway for Zhelannoye and Grodovka. The advance along the railway to Pokrovsk, the last major coking coal deposit controlled by Ukraine, continues.
The front is being leveled in the Toretsk area. The Ukrainian Armed Forces have a choice: to remain in the fire pocket between New York and the urban development or to abandon their positions. The probability of the second scenario is somewhat higher. The units that formed the walls of the "cauldron" can be transferred to other areas.
In the Ugledar direction, the Ugledar-Konstantinovka logistics hub is being cut. Russian units are cutting off the road and testing the strength of the Konstantinovka garrison.
Tula paratroopers are approaching Seversk from two directions: Pereezdnoye, as well as Ivanovo-Daryevka and Vymki.
15:35 Destruction of an enemy vehicle and a motorboat by our UAV operators in the Kherson direction –video.
15:15 Ukrainian Telegram channels reported the sound of an explosion in Kharkov.
15:10 Footage of destruction of field ammunition of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border area of the Kursk region.
During reconnaissance activities in the border area of the Kursk region, Russian servicemen discovered camouflaged ammunition of an enemy unit.
After analyzing the received intelligence data, a decision was made to conduct pinpoint fire impact on the Ukrainian Armed Forces' ammunition.
As a result of the precise strike carried out by the crew of the 122mm D-30 howitzer, the ammunition was completely destroyed. Objective control footage obtained in real time made it possible to verify the destruction of the target.
14:56 FPV Drone Operators destroyed a Bradley IFV and disrupted the enemy's rotation in the Donetsk direction.
During combat operations, a crew of attack drones in "free hunt" mode detected an enemy "Bradley" armored vehicle and immobilized it with a precise hit. The artillerymen dealt fire damage to it, disrupting another attempt by the enemy to rotate.
14:37 Russian fighters from the Sever group have liberated the settlements of Lukashovka in Sumy Oblast and Sotnitsky Kazachok in Khar'kov Oblast, Severny Veter reported.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have been driven out of populated areas by artillery strikes and FPV drones. At the moment, the Severyans are inflicting fire damage on the enemy in the settlement of Ivashki.
13:50 The main points from the new briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense:
The units of the Western group improved their tactical position, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 460 soldiers;
Russian air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 aircraft and 12 HIMARS missiles;
Russian air defense systems shot down 21 Ukrainian drones outside the special operation zone in one day;
The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of ??responsibility of the “Center” group in one day amounted to 360 soldiers;
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 105 soldiers and 2 infantry fighting vehicles as a result of the actions of the Russian Vostok group;
Units of the Southern Group destroyed the manpower and equipment of six brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces; the enemy lost up to 660 soldiers.
13:37 Destruction of M113 Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village of Malaya Tokmachka, Zaporizhia region.
12:54 Footage of the destruction of two unmanned aerial vehicles "Baba Yaga" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by Russian servicemen-operators of FPV drones in the air in the border area of ??the Kursk region.
12:17 Ukrainian Armed Forces Forced to Retreat Near Toretsk to Avoid Encirclement — Julian Röpke
“To avoid being caught in a cauldron, Ukrainian forces retreated from their fortified positions southeast of the city,” the German journalist reported.
According to him, Russian troops have bypassed the center of New York, which was held by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and are advancing toward its northwestern part.
12:11 Situation in the SVO zone from Boris Rozhin:
On the Seversky Salient, on the eastern side, Russian forces advanced in the Belogorovka area. On the southern section of the Seversky Salient, Russian forces advanced slightly north of Razdolovka toward Pereyezdnoye.
In the Pokrovsk direction, the Russian army occupied most of Zhelannoye and continues to move along the railway towards Novozhelannoye. In addition, Russian troops liberated Sergeyevka and took up positions to the north of it. Positions were also taken to the northeast of Ivanovka and to the west of Timofeyevka.
To the southwest of Donetsk, the Russian army continues its offensive in the direction of the T-05-24 highway, taking up positions in the direction of Vodyane.
12:05 Destruction of Armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border area of the Kursk region.
The objective control footage shows the destruction of a Lancet loitering munition by a serviceman-operator of a Cossack combat armored vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in an area where enemy combat equipment is concentrated.
11:50 The enemy has not been allowed to advance in the Kursk region; concentrations of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel and equipment are being attacked with fire, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost up to 400 personnel and 32 armored vehicles in the Kursk region. Since the start of hostilities, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost 660 servicemen and 82 armored vehicles, including eight tanks;
Units of the North military group, together with the FSB, continue to destroy the enemy in the Sudzhensky and Korenevsky districts of the Kursk region, directly adjacent to the Russian-Ukrainian border;
Attempts by individual units to break through deep into the territory in the Kursk direction are being suppressed;
Airstrikes are being carried out on the advancing reserves of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Sumy region;
The operation to destroy the Ukrainian Armed Forces formations continues.
11:32 The Russian Armed Forces are pushing back the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Pokrovsk direction, the situation was reported by the channel "Whisper of the Front":
“Our troops completely liberated the settlements of Ivanovka and Lisichnoye and continued to advance towards the village of Sviridonovka.
In addition, our troops occupied many forest plantations and fortifications of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as the ruins of farms west of the village of Ivanovka. The approximate total area of ??the liberated territory was about 4.8 km².
The greater part of the village of Zhelannoye has been liberated: the Ukrainian Armed Forces are retreating to the village of Novozhelannoye. The approximate depth of advance was up to 350 m, and the width up to 1.2 km. The approximate area of the liberated territory is more than 0.4 km².
The Russian Armed Forces entered the outskirts of the urban settlement of Grodovka, occupying the ruins of a brick factory. The approximate depth of advance was almost 1.5 km, and the width was up to 750 m. The approximate area of the liberated territory is 0.6 km²."
11:21 The Hawks continue to advance on Toretsk. video The fighters destroyed the position of an enemy machine gunner with the help of a drone.
10:47 Airborne Forces fighters committed a daring raid near Chasovy Yar.
Kostroma paratroopers destroyed a group of Ukrainian nationalists. Then the assault aircraft moved towards the stronghold. They completed the destruction of the enemy, took the point, cleared it of Ukrainian infantry and handed it over to the reinforcement units.
10:35 TOS of the Sever group "covered" a concentration of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the settlement of Tykhoye in the Khar'kov region. Two salvos of the Solntsepek destroyed up to 20 militants -video.
10:29 Explosions in Sumy Oblast. Earlier there were reports of missiles in that direction. The destruction of Ukrainian Armed Forces reserves is underway.
10:05 Frontline summary as of Thursday morning, August 8:
In the Pokrovsk direction, fighting for Zhelannoye continues. Here, the Russian Armed Forces managed to cling to the eastern outskirts. In the village itself, the enemy has organized a powerful defense, which the Russian army is trying to outflank.
There are also reports of progress in Lisichnoye, Ivanovka, and the liberation of most of Sergeyevka. Further along the course is Grodovka, a fairly large settlement in the vicinity of Mirnograd.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy is retreating in the New York (Novgorodsky) area, and the Russian Armed Forces are clearing the northeastern part of the city.
In Kirovo, Russian fighters managed to reach Severnaya - here the Ukrainian Armed Forces had a powerful fortified area. Fighting continues in the suburbs of Toretsk.
On the Seversky section of the front, Russian forces managed to reach the southern outskirts of Pereyezdnoye.
In the area of Verkhnekamenskoye and Belaya Gora, aviation and artillery activity on enemy positions intensified.
In the Kurakhovsky direction, battles are underway in the suburbs of Krasnogorovka. The Russian Armed Forces managed to drive the enemy to the Zhukovsky Reservoir, moving in the area of the Lozovaya River.
The Russian army also advanced between Krasnogorovka and Maryinka.
In the Zaporizhia direction, Russian forces have driven the enemy out of a large stronghold along the road between Rabotino and Verbovo. In this area, the activity of FPV drones and artillery on both sides has increased significantly.
In the Kupyansk direction, the Russian army expanded its zone of control northwest of Peschanoye. In this area, it was possible to.
09:55 Crew of the reconnaissance UAV "Zala" of the Russian paratroopers discovered howitzer of the Ukrainian Armed Forces M-777 on the right bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region and corrected its destruction with Lancets.
09:10 Destruction of Armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border area of the Kursk region.
The objective control footage shows the destruction by servicemen operating the Lancet loitering munitions of a US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, a Cossack combat armored vehicle, an armored personnel carrier, and an infantry fighting vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at identified firing positions.
08:17 Enemy reports:
"The Russian Armed Forces liberated Sergeyevka and advanced near Pereyezdnoye, Vodyanoye, Novoselovka Pervaya, Timofeyevka, Lisichny, Grodovka, Novozhelannoye, in Zhelannoye and Ivanovka"
08:15 TOS-1A 83rd Separate Airborne Brigade strike on Ukrainian positions –video.
08:11 Battle for Chasov Yar: Application of fire damage to enemy positions on the Seversky Donetsk-Donbass channel.
Southwest of the Kanal microdistrict, near the pipes of the Seversky Donetsk-Donbass canal, the enemy has set up a network of fortified points, which are being attacked in the video. In particular, strong points and machine gunners' positions were located here.
08:09 Calculation of FPV drones of the "Center" group of forces destroyed armored vehicles and personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Avdeevka direction.
08:05 Artillerymen of the "North" group of forces are leveling with the ground" fortifications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Drones help artillerymen identify targets. No more than two or three minutes pass from the moment coordinates are received until the shot is fired.
08:00 FPV drone operators of the Southern Group of Forces destroyed In the Donetsk direction, a Bradley IFV is in the rear of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, eight kilometers from the line of combat contact.
Elon wins that one. Expect another attack, probably by next week, certainly before the election.
[BusinessInsider] The advertising trade group The World Federation of Advertisers told its members on Thursday that it was "discontinuing" activities for its Global Alliance for Responsible Media initiative following an antitrust lawsuit filed by Elon Musk's X against the company earlier this week.
Stephan Loerke, the CEO of the WFA, wrote in an email to members, seen by Business Insider, that the decision was "not made lightly" but that GARM is a not-for-profit organization with limited resources.
Loerke said that the WFA and GARM intended to contest the allegations in X's suit in court and were confident the outcome of the case would "demonstrate our full adherence to competition rules in all our activities." "But discovery is such a bitch"
The news came just two days after X filed an antitrust suit in a Texas court, which alleged that GARM's members illegally colluded to "collectively withhold billions of dollars in advertising revenue" from Twitter, now known as X. GARM members Unilever, Mars, CVS, and Xrsted are also named defendants.
Representatives for the WFA and GARM didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.
X CEO Linda Yaccarino posted to X shortly after this article was published: "No small group should be able to monopolize what gets monetized. This is an important acknowledgement and a necessary step in the right direction. I am hopeful that it means ecosystem-wide reform is coming."
[Ynet] Medical opinion submitted to military court finds no evidence of external forces leading to detainee's injury, supporting appeal of 5 soldiers arrested for alleged abuse.
Medical report suggests injury to terrorist detained at Sde Teiman self-inflicted
Medical opinion submitted to military court finds no evidence of external forces leading to detainee's injury, supporting appeal of 5 soldiers arrested for alleged abuse
A medical report presented Thursday suggests that the injury to a Palestinian terrorist detained at the Sde Teiman detention facility was self-inflicted rather than caused by external forces.
The opinion, authored by Prof. Alon Pikarsky, head of the Department of General Surgery at Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem, was submitted to the military court in Beit Lid. The court is hearing the appeal of five Israeli soldiers accused of aggravated assault and sexual offenses against the detainee.
The terrorist was hospitalized last month with a rectal tear, raising suspicions of abuse by guards at Sde Teiman. In response, masked military police were dispatched to apprehend the guards, who are reserve soldiers, on suspicion of inflicting the injuries.
Videos showing the bewildered reservists resisting arrest quickly went viral on social media, igniting widespread outrage. Large crowds stormed both the Sde Teiman facility and the Beit Lid complex, where the reservists were taken by military police.
The incident has sparked nationwide controversy and drawn global attention to the treatment of Palestinian prisoners, particularly terrorists who took part in the October 7 massacre, in Israeli detention facilities, raising concerns about human rights violations.
Prof. Pikarsky's report, based on the terrorist's medical records, says that there was no evidence of trauma to his anus upon arrival at the hospital. He noted that a CT scan, during which contrast agent was introduced via the anus, revealed no unusual difficulties or problems.
After the rectal tear was discovered, the terrorist underwent surgery that included a manual examination of the anus, which again found no signs of trauma. "And then they put an eel! And a lime!..."
Prof. Pikarsky expressed skepticism about the external insertion of a foreign object, concluding that such an insertion, especially of a large object like a baton or broomstick, would have required trauma to the anus, leaving clear signs of injury. He suggested that self-insertion by the detainee could cause a rectal tear without affecting the anus, as the person inserting the object could do so gently to avoid trauma.
Ultimately, Prof. Pikarsky concluded that the medical evidence, which showed no anal trauma, supports the idea of self-insertion rather than external insertion.
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masked military police were dispatched to apprehend the guards
IMO, these brave MPs are wasted in the rear - they should be sent to Gaza.
[GEO.TV] Israel vowed to eliminate new Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... chief Yahya Sinwar with regional tensions threatening to boil over as the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... war entered its 11th month on Wednesday.
The naming of Sinwar to lead the Paleostinian group came as Israel braced for potential Iranian retaliation over the killing of his predecessor Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... last week in Tehran.
Speaking at a military base on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was "determined" to defend itself.
"We are prepared both defensively and offensively," he told new recruits.
Army chief Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi vowed to "find him (Sinwar), attack him" and force Hamas to find another leader.
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[Asia Times] US had a geopolitical interest in Hasina’s removal and was tellingly quick to welcome her military-installed interim replacement There has been a putsch in Dhaka. We barely noticed because of everything else going on. Indian intelligence agencies, rarely the epitome of self-assured success, have rarely been caught as flat-footed as they were over the weekend when Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hurriedly evacuated her palatial residences for a rather modest government guest house on the outskirts of Delhi.
In a matter of a few hours, the former "Iron Lady" of Dhaka found her position, and perhaps prospects for her life itself, quite unviable, when the head of the armed forces (who happened to be her niece’s husband) communicated the troops’ refusal to fire at "student" protestors who were gathering in force across the country.
Adding salt to the injury, various democracies such as the United States and the United Kingdom refused or revoked her visa after the events that brought former Grameen Bank chief and Nobel prize winner Muhammad Yunus to power as interim prime minister.
Such epochal events in a country of nearly 175 million have hardly raised much more than a shrug even amidst a relatively slow (political) news cycle in August across the Western world.
Perhaps the media are more focused on the summer Olympics but clearly the events in Dhaka would assume much greater importance if violence, already targeting the country’s minority Hindus, were to spiral out of control into a full-blown civil war.
In particular, the hand of the US government is discernible in the rapid unraveling of events since the middle of June when student protests around a new job quota system of descendants of the country’s freedom struggle soon erupted into broader protests by a population that had grown increasingly sick of high inflation and high unemployment of educated young people.
In line with the toolkit used in the "Spring Revolution" countries ranging from Tunisia to Egypt, mass simultaneous protests erupted around Bangladesh with acts of violence targeting only minorities (considered closer politically to Hasina’s Awami League party).
The police and the army were called to help but proved utterly ineffective against the humongous mobs gathered. Despite various incidents of tear gassing and even shoot-at-sight orders (which were hardly carried out in practice as police preferred to fire in the air rather than at protestors directly), emboldened mobs had threatened to march on the capital this week, prompting Hasina’s ignominious exit.
WHY WOULD THE US BOTHER?
Given the country’s relatively small geographical presence that belies its population and its lack of substantial resources, the primary question for any reader would be why the US would even bother to trigger a coup in the country.
The answer lies in the country’s location, in the strategic eastern part of India with significant proximity to China. That is not all — being essentially a riparian state serviced by two of the world’s biggest rivers, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra, which together form one of the world’s most fertile deltas (explaining the population density) — the country’s ports have long attracted naval powers ranging from the British, Japanese and Russians, to more recently the Chinese and Americans at different points in time.
At the moment, the primary US interest in the country is to establish a service port for mid-size US naval vessels that could help America manage naval operation risks caused by China’s access to ports in neighboring Myanmar and offer logistic services to friendly powers in the region without needing any approval or participation from India.
To be sure, over the longer term, there is a significant strategic geopolitical advantage to be garnered from taming and managing the riparian economy of Bangladesh, with the northern parts of the country offering perfect topography for aerial incursions into the soft underbelly of China to the southeast of the Tibetan-Sichuan region, an area that China has ruled to the point of being entirely complacent about potential military risks.
An inkling of those political and military risks has come from India since the failed Doklam incursions of 2017, that has in turn triggered significant geopolitical activity around Bhutan and Nepal by the Chinese as they continued to intensify pressure on India before effectively achieving unparalleled superiority by the beginning of 2022.
With India on the back foot, the US clearly feels the need to step in — and if Delhi-based observers are to be believed, step up the ante.
SO WHAT MAKES IT A COLOR REVOLUTION?
Events in Bangladesh do roughly fall in line with the examples of various color revolutions in Europe and the "Spring" movements in that:
Mass protests triggered by a specific issue that the host government would normally have considered a minor, niche item
Active participation of multiple social groups, usually led by younger people but soon spreading across society to hitherto unpolitical groups
Significant use of technology, in particular secure communication apps (which may or may not have been assisted by a foreign state actor to ensure encryption upgrades beyond the host country’s ability to monitor or disrupt)
Generous and unexplained funding, usually emanating from new bank accounts of recently established charities and NGOs
Random news designed to incite more participants and in particular the use of graphic images of rape involving young women and images or videos of authority figures causing grievous bodily harm or even dismembering human bodies.
From what this writer has reviewed as raw data over the past 72 hours, a number of these conditions have been met, although it has thus far proved impossible to corroborate or prove much of the information to the typical standards of evidence-based documentation.
WHAT’S THE BACKGROUND?
At just over 52-years-old, the Bangladesh that entered 2024 was a sprightly young adult in the league of nations, boasting rapid economic growth, GDP per capita that had gone past South Asian peers including India (having left fellow Muslim carve-out Pakistan in the dust many years ago), with reasonable infrastructure, public payments systems and a marked competitive edge in labor-intensive mass industries such as textiles ranging from budget garments to higher-end fashion items.
In addition, many social indicators including the participation of women in the formal economy and health metrics of average school-going children all were the envy of the region.
Anyone familiar with the country’s bloody history since the 1960s would generally be appreciative of the giant strides of the past 15 years. An attempt at democracy that led the elites of (western) Pakistan fearing rule by the "Bengalis" led to an attempted genocide that was only stopped by the timely intervention of the Indian army that helped armed local guerillas take down Pakistan armed forces in a matter of a few days in December 1971.
Since then, the echoes of political assassinations and military coups, so familiar to Pakistan watchers, have rung regularly in the parliamentary halls of Dhaka.
Ruling since 2009, Hasina had indeed become much more dictatorial and had taken extreme action against the Bangladesh National Party of her bete noire and former political partner Khaleda Zia (the two had ganged up to bring down President Ershad in 1990), along with her ongoing crackdown on fringe terrorist movements that operated under the general umbrella of the Jamaat-e-Islami (Jamaat).
WHO ARE THE PLAYERS?
The formerly indifferent relationship between India and Bangladesh took a sudden turn for the better since 2014, when incoming Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited heads of other South Asian governments to his inauguration in a first for an Indian prime minister.
While his efforts to establish a more positive tone in relations with Pakistan came a cropper, Modi and Hasina did get along rather well.
After the horrifying terrorist attacks in Dhaka in July 2016 that left at least one Indian dead (a young woman who had been a tourist), India provided significant and recurring assistance on the intelligence and arms fronts to Hasina as she cracked down on the banned Jamaat networks that sometimes poured across the border into India, particularly into the welcome embrace of the opposition-led Bengal state.
Over the years, despite many provocations, the two leaders have maintained a cordial relationship that contributed to stability for the region, cooperation on anti-terrorist activities as well as a crackdown on people smuggling that had an ironic side-effect, namely to shift the activities away from India towards the "mother lode" of Europe and the United States.
It does appear, and it certainly has been actively discussed in Delhi all week, that Indian intelligence agencies simply failed to grasp the momentum behind the student protests. There is much discussion of the tens of millions of dollars that were funneled to the accounts of the protestors by foreign powers, often using bank accounts in neighboring India (in particular the bank accounts of Jamaat loyalists living "illegally but comfortably" in Bengal).
A second topic of furtive discussions in Delhi this week is the action of the US, and to a lesser extent, the UK. One well-informed observer based in Delhi said that accusations around the UK were "unfounded and speculative" because he believes the role of the junior Treasury Minister Tulip Siddiq (the daughter of Hasina’s sister) to be far too important to have allowed the new Labour government to have played any part in the proceedings.
However, other sources have pointed out that coups don’t get planned in days, and it is more likely that players in the former Conservative-led government were keen to play along with the supposed US plan to depose Hasina, if for nothing else because most of them feared losing their seats in the July UK elections and were seeking sinecures with US agencies and companies after their inevitable defenestration.
US actions have in particular been very telling. From decrying the Bangladesh elections earlier this year as "not free and fair" to an official statement "welcoming the interim Dhaka government" in a matter of hours after Hasina fled the country, there’s an American fingerprint discernible in every direction.
It is no secret that a number of pro-Palestine members of the US government had common cause with the Jamaat, and certainly benefited from funding and lobbying support among the small but influential Bangladeshi-American community, particularly on the East and West coasts of America.
There were also regular meetings between US officials and Tariq Rahman, son of Khaleda Zia and de-facto head of the BNP, over the past few months. It is believed that a number of UK Labour politicians who depend on the Bangladeshi vote lobbied the Biden government regularly on behalf of the BNP.
HOW WAS THE COUP ACTIVATED?
Indian sources did not communicate any earth-shaking revelations on exactly how the US funded the "student" protests, and arranged for the swift installation of Nobel laureate Yunus as interim prime minister.
In any event, Yunus featured as far back as 2015 when he communicated a desire to support (or even lead) a "benevolent dictatorship" that would replace the democratically elected government Hasina.
Of course, this was after the 2013 crackdown by her government, following some politically tinged speeches that proved overly discomfiting for the government, and personally embarrassing for Hasina.
From whatever I have pieced together, it appears that adequate funding has been provided to the Jamaat-linked individuals operating in Bengal since at least last year and there had been some speculation that the US had funded a number of Islamist politicians who stood (and mostly won) during the Indian elections, opposing the candidates of India’s ruling BJP.
That may have been the case, and incidents where entire villages failed to cast a single vote for the BJP that may highlight the munificence of the Jamaat in Bengal did indeed occur, but largely it seems to me that the money was sent into Bangladesh.
As a side note, while Bangladesh has its own currency, it is generally believed that the Indian rupee operates like legal tender in many parts of the economy, much like the US dollar does globally. Therefore, funding of Jamaat accounts in India would provide a frictionless transmission of funds to activists in Bangladesh.
The surprise court rejection of the jobs quota for descendants of freedom fighters, a founding myth of the Awami League, is now itself being considered through conspiratorial lenses, with some "well-informed sources" suggesting that the judges who helped to pass the order all have significant US nexus including children living or studying in the country. In the box for Organization, one of the choices is Jamaat-e-Islami and, since they are listed as one of the players in this piece, I chose them. Might wanna add US government to the list of choices. But, hey, it's only Bangladesh, right?
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Stated in article: "It is no secret that a number of pro-Palestine members of the US government had common cause with the Jamaat, and certainly benefited from funding and lobbying support among the small but influential Bangladeshi-American community, particularly on the East and West coasts of America."
An interesting comment especially since at various times the Jammat has been outlawed in Bangladesh and is itself, historically, a member of the radical Islamist movement chartered at Lahore in 1990. It has not shed its Islamist cloak.
There was in that year what is generally considered a genocide by the Pakistan Army and its allies against Bengali Hindus. About 1 M were killed and about 300k were raped.
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Iraqi security forces have arrested five individuals in connection with an attack on the Ain al-Asad airbase in western Iraq, which resulted in the injury of five American soldiers and two American contractors, according to the Iraqi Security Media Cell. pic.twitter.com/doK48oZ7l2
[American Greatness] Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard may be on the watchlist of a secret domestic surveillance program designed to sniff out potential terrorists. And it may be related, in part, to her willingness to speak out about Vice President Kamala Harris's shortcomings as a leader.
Undercover DC is reporting that several Federal Air Marshal whistleblowers have come forward with information showing that Gabbard is enrolled in the TSA's Quiet Skies program which has its own compartmentalized watchlist of suspected terrorists.
Labosco said that the whistleblowers indicated that, since being placed on the watchlist, Gabbard has had two explosive detection canine teams, a transportation security explosives specialist, a plainclothes TSA supervisor, and three Federal Air Marshals on every flight she boards. For a former U.S. Representative, presidential candidate, U.S. military veteran and active member of the U.S. Army Reserve, that seems a bit much.
The whistleblowers shared the information with Sonya Labosco who is Executive Director of the Air Marshal National Council (AMNC) after Air Marshals were assigned to Gabbard on July 23, following critical remarks she made in an interview about Harris, Presiden Biden and the National Security State.
Labosco said that the whistleblowers indicated that, since being placed on the watchlist, Gabbard has had two explosive detection canine teams, a transportation security explosives specialist, a plainclothes TSA supervisor, and three Federal Air Marshals on every flight she boards. For a former U.S. Representative, presidential candidate, U.S. military veteran and active member of the U.S. Army Reserve, that seems a bit much.
Unless, of course, Gabbard's admission to the Quiet Skies program is simply a matter of political payback.
Gabbard, who became an independent in 2022, has been openly critical of Kamala Harris over the years and she has pulled no punches in her comments on exactly who Harris will be serving should she become president.
[JPost] That's today. tomorrow is another question. Also, known for lying, is this a fact or her flip-flopping again? Chicago DNC is gonna be LIT!
The Harris campaign said in a statement that Harris reaffirmed "that her campaign will continue to engage with those communities," an aide said.
In an effort at damage control, Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign reaffirmed her support for Israel Thursday after initial reports of her meeting with pro-Palestinian leaders before a rally in Detroit suggested that she expressed an openness to an arms embargo for Israel.
A campaign source told The Jerusalem Post that Harris "did not express openness to an arms embargo."
In a post on X, Harris’s National Security Adviser Phil Gordon said Harris has been clear and will always ensure Israel can defend itself against Iran and Iran-backed terrorist groups.
"She does not support an arms embargo on Israel," Gordon wrote. "She will continue to work to protect civilians in Gaza and to uphold international humanitarian law."
According to a statement from a campaign spokesperson, Harris has "prioritized engaging with Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian community members and others regarding the war in Gaza" since October 7.
'KAMALA OPEN TO AN EMBARGO'
The spokesperson said in Wednesday night’s meeting with Uncommitted National Movement’s leaders Laya Elabed and Abbas Alawieh, Harris "reaffirmed that her campaign will continue to engage with those communities."
"The vice president is focused on securing the ceasefire and hostage deal currently on the table," according to the campaign spokesperson. "As she has said, it is time for this war to end in a way where: Israel is secure, hostages are released, the suffering of Palestinian civilians ends, and the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, freedom, and self-determination."
The Uncommitted National Movement had said late on Wednesday that Harris, the 2024 Democratic presidential candidate, "shared her sympathies and expressed an openness to a meeting with Uncommitted leaders to discuss an arms embargo" during the interaction while campaigning in Detroit, according to a campaign aid.
Alawieh said on Thursday that both he and Elabed specifically asked for a meeting to discuss the demand for an arms embargo on Israel, "and in both cases, Vice President Harris expressed an openness to following up."
He said he was very encouraged by his engagements with Harris’ office and "we’re hopeful that continued discussions will continue to be fruitful."
The Uncommitted Movement amassed sizable vote totals in presidential nominating contests in Michigan, Minnesota, and Hawaii, and has won at least 25 delegates. Leaders have said they want to use their influence at this month’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
In a reminder of how divisive the issue has been for Democrats, a group of pro-Palestinian protesters briefly interrupted Harris’ speech in Detroit on Wednesday, chanting, "Kamala, Kamala, you can’t hide, we won’t vote for genocide."
She paused for a moment, saying she believed in democracy and the importance of every voice, and then added, "But I am speaking now." When the chants continued, she repeated, "You know what? If you want Donald Trump to win, then say that. Otherwise, I’m speaking."
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Are we hearing the truth because the M.I.C. wants to make $$$ Billions selling weapons and if they do, then campaign donations $$$$$$ will flow?
Or is this a typical, carefully worded, misleading statement by politicians. Where her handlers plan to severely restrict the weapons, the amounts and items shipped?
[Commentary] Yahya Sinwar has been named the new head of Hamas's political division, and congratulations are in order--mostly for Israel, which can see in Sinwar's promotion the continuing fruits of its methodical dismantlement of Hamas.
There are three reasons for the West to find encouragement in this latest turn of events.
First, Hamas's leadership bench is depleted, and Israel's careful decapitation of its branches has been effective.
Second, Sinwar's consolidation of power, combined with his geographic isolation, turns Hamas from an organization into a literal death cult.
Third, it collapses a comforting lie that the West tells itself about these terror groups, enabling a more honest conversation about how to defeat them.
Sinwar succeeds Ismail Haniyeh, the politburo head who was assassinated in Tehran last week. Haniyeh took the helm of Hamas just as it was about to take over the Gaza Strip from Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority, and led it through its Talibanization of Gaza and its consolidation of every form of authority in the strip. Haniyeh became the group's political director in 2017, handing the operational reins to Sinwar and decamping to Qatar to act as Hamas's gatekeeper and chief diplomat--essential functions, since Hamas is a proxy of Iran and thus cannot exist in isolation or without benefactors abroad.
Haniyeh's second-in-command, Saleh al-Arouri, was eliminated in an Israeli strike in Lebanon in January. That post was still vacant when Haniyeh was killed, so there was no automatic succession. As I wrote last week: One option to replace Haniyeh is former politburo head Khaled Meshaal, but he is on the outs with Iran and regional analysts seem to doubt Sinwar would support him.
And indeed, Meshaal was proposed as Haniyeh's successor, but Sinwar wouldn't have it. The Hamas ranks have been culled across the board these past few months. In July, Israel took out Mohammed Deif, Sinwar's deputy. Deif's deputy, Marwan Issa, was killed in March.
Which is to say, the elevation of Sinwar isn't itself unusual, but it wasn't the plan and it puts all the hats on one man's head.
Heavy is the head that wears a single crown, but Sinwar's headdress at the moment must make it especially difficult to skitter through those tunnels while trying not to sneeze too loud.
More important, however, is that his communications network--Hamas deputies abroad, Hezbollah officials, Iranian government officials, Haniyeh in Qatar--has already been badly disrupted. His isolation means he is even more powerful within Hamas, but that is because now he is Hamas. And it also means that Sinwar is nothing more than an Iranian satrap.
[Daily Mail, where America gets news] A respected think tank study has underscored America's massive demographic shift since the start of the pandemic, with millions more Spanish-speaking residents as the white population tumbled.
The Hispanic population grew by 3.2 million from April 2020 to July 2023, as the number of white people fell by 2.1 million — the result of immigration and birth and death rates, says a Brookings Institution study.
That means Hispanics accounted for 91 percent of US population growth in those three years.
At the same time, the black, Asian, and mixed-race populations grew by hundreds of thousands of people each, while the number of Native Americans expanded by a smaller 23,000.
William Frey, the demographer who wrote the report, says a 'diversity explosion' is reshaping the nation.
Frey urged policymakers to ensure schools, colleges and businesses were ready for these shifts.
While he welcomed the changes, they are a concern for some white and other Americans, who worry that the country is losing its character and becoming too diverse.
In social media responses to the study, critics said the US was 'quietly becoming a third-world country' and that the changes were due to 'mass illegal immigration' across the loose southern border.
Some, including tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, say Democrats want people flows from South America to outnumber whites and secure election victories over the coming decades.
But the administration seeks to expand the number of people who can apply for citizenship and is frequently accused of failing to secure the border with Mexico.
While America's demographic shift towards non-Hispanic white people becoming a minority has been projected for decades, the new Brookings research shows how the population has been reshaped in just a few years.
Overall, the US population grew by 3.4 million over the period, says Frey's analysis of US Census Bureau data.
At the same time, the white population dropped by 2.1 million, and the shrinking group of white youth drove a 1.6 million drop in the number of Americans under the age of 18.
The falling white population is mostly the result of more deaths than births.
Thanks to an aging population, there are proportionately fewer white women of childbearing age and fertility rates are lower than in other groups.
The fast-growing number of Hispanics and other minorities is down to natural increase — measured as births minus deaths — and immigration, the study found.
Looking ahead, Hispanic and other nonwhite groups are projected to make up 44 percent of the population in 2030, with Hispanic residents comprising one fifth of the total.
By 2050, one-quarter of the population will be Hispanic residents and more than half will be nonwhite groups.
Frey said the data reinforce his 'view that the nation's diversity explosion' represents an important part of its future.'
'The nation's labor force productivity and economic well-being will rely heavily on the success and integration of today's and tomorrow's increasingly multiracial younger population,' he said.
Overall, 15 states saw a decline in population, led by California and New York, which lost a combined 1.2 million residents over the three-year period.
Most states saw their youth population decline. In California there are close to 500,000 fewer children than pre-pandemic, and New York has 272,000 fewer.
Meanwhile, Florida and Texas each gained about 100,000 young people.
The population shrank in six of the 15 largest metro areas. The New York City metro area had the biggest overall drop, with fewer White, Black and Hispanic people, while the population of Asians and people of two or more races increased.
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[Regnum] Russia does not intend to create a naval base in Ochamchira Bay in Abkhazia, Abkhazia's Foreign Minister Sergei Shamba told reporters.
“As for the Ochamchira port, there is no talk of opening a naval base there,” Gazeta.Ru quoted him as saying.
Shamba recalled that the 7th military base of the Russian Armed Forces is deployed in Abkhazia. In addition, Russian border guards play a very important role in the security of the republic, the head of the MFA added.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, Abkhazian President Aslan Bzhania announced in October 2023 that Russia would build a permanent base for naval ships in Ochamchira Bay. Moscow and Sukhum signed a corresponding agreement.
In January 2024, Shamba, as Secretary of the Security Council of Abkhazia, did not rule out that the Russian Navy base in Ochamchira Bay could begin operating this year. He also emphasized that after the Russian Federation assumed responsibility for the republic's security, there had not been a single case of ship seizures in the Black Sea off the Abkhaz coast.
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[REGNUM] Authorities in Benghazi, Libya, have halted work at the Al-Sharara oil field, which is a blow to the Spanish economy, reports one of the most informed publications in the Iberian kingdom, El Confidencial.
The correspondent Ignacio Sembrero, who narrates this, considers the actions of one of the two Libyan governments to be “tyranny,” a violation of international law, and is perplexed, in full accordance with the well-known phrase “And what about us?”
AFRICAN IN A FUR HAT
Work at the Al-Sharara field (347,000 bpd, 28% of the country's total daily oil production) is being carried out by an international oil consortium, which includes Spain's Repsol, France's Total, Australia's OMV, Norway's Statoil and Libya's own NOC.
According to Iberian sources, in this "group of comrades" Repsol bears the main burden, and therefore should receive more profit than anyone else. Accordingly, any stoppage of the field's activities will bring the greatest losses to the Spaniards.
Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC), a state-owned enterprise headquartered in Tripoli and the country's main oil company, plays the role of not only "one of the participants" in the consortium, but also, in fact, "overseer" of the foreign companies. And Libya itself is a member of OPEC+.
After the West overthrew Muammar Gaddafi, a civil war broke out in the country, as a result of which two influential groups are trying to take over (or, more precisely, to take over) the government.
One of them is called the Government of National Unity (GNU) with headquarters in Tripoli, acting in the interests of the West. And (therefore) recognized by the UN as the legitimate executive authority.
The second is the so-called Eastern Government, controlled and supported by the forces of the Libyan People's Army of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar.
This military leader was once an associate of Gaddafi, for whom he was "like a son", and studied in the USSR at the "Vystrel" courses and at the Frunze Academy. These circumstances allow the Western press to present Khalifa Haftar as a "conductor of the Kremlin's interests" and periodically publish his photo in a Russian ushanka hat.
The Government of National Accord of Libya (the predecessor of the Government of National Accord) has declared Khalifa Haftar a war criminal.
NOTICE OF ARREST WITHOUT ARREST
On August 2, according to Spanish and Italian press reports, Libyan General Saddam Haftar was detained at Naples' Capodichino Airport. The detention lasted only an hour - representatives of Italian law enforcement agencies informed Khalifa Haftar's 33-year-old son that "Madrid suspects him and accuses him of involvement in arms smuggling and demands his arrest if he is found on the territory of any of the states in the Schengen area."
The Italian security forces “asked Saddam several questions on the merits, explained that the order had been made public by Madrid several months earlier,” but did not risk arresting the Libyan military man and allowed him to board his personal plane, which was heading beyond the Apennine Peninsula.
In the recent past, the Spanish press reports, attempts were registered on the territory of the Iberian state to supply anti-drone systems for airports from the UAE to Libya (to the forces of Haftar Sr.), as well as drones equipped with thermal imaging cameras.
With Libya under an international arms embargo, the shipment of drones and counter-drone systems sent to Benghazi via multiple intermediaries was deemed “illegal acquisition subject to seizure.” And those involved in the deal were outlawed.
The number of such people is not reported, but it is known that between January and May, law enforcement officers in the Iberian kingdom detained five people (four Spaniards and one Libyan) connected with this topic and “shuttled” between Madrid and Valencia.
HUMILIATED AND INSULTED
The first thing the general discovered upon returning from Italy to Libya was a sit-in strike by residents of the Fezzan region, where the Al-Sharara deposit is located (also called Ash-Sharara in the Russian media).
The situation is not new: in early January of this year, a similar strike was already held by the population, dissatisfied with the environmental situation and the "lack of noticeable benefits from the exploitation of the field for those living in the area and the country as a whole." In the second half of January, according to the Libya al-Ahrar TV channel, the head of the NOC, Farhat Bengdar, promised the people that "the problems will be considered and resolved."
Judging by the new strike, the solution either did not take place or did not satisfy the population of Fezzan.
The general, having assessed the situation, ordered that all work being carried out at the field be stopped.
The Spaniards believe that Haftar Jr.'s actions are dictated by his personal motives and are based not on economics, but on politics, with the help of which they are hitting the economy.
Most Libyan media (backed by Tripoli), such as the English-language Libya Observer, Libyan Today 24, and Al-Ahrar TV, claim that Saddam used the "telephone law" to order a halt to all oil production behind closed doors.
"This is only the first step in pressuring Madrid to cancel the arrest warrant for General Haftar. He felt humiliated and insulted. And now there are ongoing attempts to pressure Spain to cancel this statement as soon as possible," writes the Libya Observer.
"Saddam gave immediate instructions by telephone to close the facility without resorting to military force. This was the general's response to the attempt to arrest him last Friday in Italy on the basis of an order issued against him in Spain," Italpress quoted Bashir al-Sheikh, the leader of Ira del Fezzan, an armed group operating in the region.
A Spanish diplomat with experience in Libya (who was unnamed but agreed to comment for ElConfidencial) expressed concern that "the blackmail of Repsol is only the first step."
"If Saddam Haftar is not satisfied with Madrid's actions, this could affect other Spanish companies present in Cyrenaica," he warned.
DEAR FIELD MARSHAL
The head of the Libyan Presidential Council (the highest executive body of the country's government recognized by the UN) Mohammed Yunus Al-Menfi claims that "the Spanish Interior Ministry's warrant is a clear mistake." But not in the part that proposes arresting Saddam Haftar. But in the part that states that the recipient of the drones in the materials of the Spanish security forces was Tripoli, where the internationally recognized government sits, and not Benghazi, where the elder Haftar rules. The warrant in the version in which it exists casts a shadow on the Government of National Accord, Al-Menfi believes.
That is, in Tripoli, in general, they are not against Saddam Haftar being arrested somewhere in Europe, but the document must necessarily emphasize his connection with his rebel father and his complete lack of involvement with the Libyan GNA.
"Although Khalifa Haftar is a rebel, Italian Prime Minister Giorgio Meloni and other European leaders respect him, and not only because of the energy resources under his control," the author of the publication in the Spanish media outlet notes with disappointment. "Meloni received him last year in Rome as a true head of state, and in May of this year she went to visit him in Tobruk with a double goal. The first was to agree on measures to stop the flow of illegal immigrants heading to Italy from the coast of Libya. The second was to expel the Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group from the country, or at least reduce their area of influence. Meloni and other European leaders respect Field Marshal Haftar."
According to Ignacio Sembrero, the Italian prime minister's attempts to " get along with the Libyan rebel leader may explain the relative leniency of the Italian police " who did not want to arrest Haftar Jr. And the Apennine operatives had plenty of opportunities - the general had been attending football matches in Italy for several days involving the Libyan club Al-Nasr, which he owns.
“Being listed in the Schengen Information System as a person for whom there is an arrest warrant means that documentation presented at the border is subject to stricter checks and constant monitoring of their movements around the country, something that was not done with Saddam Haftar, who travelled freely around Italy,” La Repubblica reports.
"If such frivolous behaviour by the police is confirmed, it could become a problem, since it is a violation of the rules of international cooperation or represents a legally illegal favourable attitude towards a relative of the Libyan field marshal," adds the newspaper Il Messaggero.
It is easy for the Italian press to talk about "violations of the rules of international cooperation" when the situation does not directly concern Rome's economic interests. But what decision will Madrid come to when analyzing the current situation at the Al-Sharara field?
The West has already taught the rest of the world that concluded treaties and international law mean exactly that they mean nothing. And Saddam Haftar's game fits perfectly into the framework of a "rules-based world" that, as it turns out, can be established by more than one side.
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Regnum with its usual bullroar. What is interesting here is that the UAE (Emirates) is in bed with (1) Eastern Libya; (2) the rebels attempting the overthrow of the military and Islamist Sudan; and (3) Yemeni elements seeking to overthrow the Houthi regime. And in every case the hidden hand of the CIA is at work in what would seem to be just a little country of little geopolitical significance.
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[REGNUM] This may be considered mysticism, but exactly 100 years after laying claim to the western regions of today's Kursk region, Ukraine is again seeking to take control of Russian Sudzha and Rylsk.
In the summer of 1924, a special commission of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR began to examine the project of the party and state leadership of Ukraine on the transfer of a significant part of the Kursk and Voronezh provinces and border volosts of Bryansk region to the authority of Kharkov (then the capital of the Ukrainian SSR).
Citing the large number of Ukrainians in the Sudzhansky and Rylsky districts, Kharkov officials laid claim to this part of the Kursk province, as well as Belgorod, Grayvoron and Putivl, which were then part of it.
According to the first all-Russian population census of 1897, the Little Russian language was native to almost 48% of the residents of Sudzha and 31% of the population of the Rylsk district. The Kursk Little Russians were descendants of the "Cherkasy" - immigrants from the Dnieper region, whose mass migration to the southern outskirts of the Russian state occurred in the 17th century.
Here they received large tax breaks and participated in the development of the Belgorod defensive line, which protected Russia from Crimean raids. The territory of the Kursk province, formed in the 18th century, housed the settlements of the Sumy and Akhtyrsky regiments of the Sloboda Cossacks.
However, migration here came not only from Little Russia, but also from the Great Russian provinces. In connection with this, a mixed population was formed in the west and south of the Kursk province, and as the patriarchal foundations were destroyed, the process of Russification of the local Little Russians gained momentum.
“The residents of the suburban settlements of the city of Sudzha are Little Russians, but, being in frequent contact with Russians, they changed their language; only the old people retained the direct forms of the Little Russian dialect, while the young people have a mixture of Little Russian and Great Russian,” local historians noted back in the 19th century.
"Ethnographic striping" was one of the main arguments of the Kursk authorities in 1924, who opposed the transfer of almost half of the province to Ukraine. After all, the Ukrainian settlements did not form a continuous massif, but were interspersed with Russian ones. In addition, they drew attention to the fact that the local Ukrainians had significant linguistic differences from the titular ethnic group of the Ukrainian SSR.
“The language of the population in a significant part of the Kursk province bordering the Ukrainian SSR is intermediate, transitional from Ukrainian to Great Russian,” stated the conclusion of the provincial planning department on the Ukrainian project for changing the borders.
At the same time, Kursk officials considered economic rather than ethnic criteria for drawing the inter-republic border as a priority. They rejected the seizure of "Ukrainian" districts on the grounds that these areas constituted the raw material base of the province's sugar industry.
Meanwhile, according to the State Planning Committee’s project for economic zoning, sugar production was to become the economic basis for the entire Central Black Earth Region of the RSFSR.
An argument was also put forward that the boundary of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly “coincides approximately with the current southern administrative boundary.” The division of the mineral deposit region between the two republics, from the point of view of Kursk businessmen, could have a negative impact on its development.
The final chord of Kursk's steps in territorial demarcation with Ukraine was a counter-proposal to transfer Novgorod-Seversky district from the Ukrainian SSR to Kursk province, as well as parts of Grukhov and Krolevetsky districts to Chernigov province.
Having received such detailed justifications from the Russian side, the commission of the Presidium of the Union Central Executive Committee requested from Kharkov a more substantiated argumentation on the proposed demarcation.
In response, the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee decided to support its position with the opinion of two major Ukrainian historians, academicians Mykhailo Hrushevsky and Dmytro Bagaley. Both of them insisted that, in cultural and historical terms, the southwest of the Kursk province was part of Sloboda Ukraine, the center of which was Kharkov. This meant that this part of Sloboda Ukraine should be annexed to the Ukrainian SSR.
Hrushevsky even considered the region as “the Ukrainian ‘New World’, where the Ukrainian peasant looked for a place for his work, free from the exploitation of the Polish lords. ”
To which Voronezh historian Sergei Vvedensky promptly responded, reminding his Ukrainian colleague that the disputed territories had been settled by the population of Russian guard towns by the time Ukrainian settlers arrived here in the 17th century. Therefore, it is impossible to consider them the "New World" as a region that belonged to no one in the 17th century.
In early 1925, the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee's commission for border regulation made its final decision. According to it, the territory of the Kursk province (as well as the Voronezh province) underwent minimal changes. The most significant concession to Ukraine was the transfer of the Putivl district. At the same time, the RSFSR was obliged to create Ukrainian districts in two border provinces to implement the policy of Ukrainization.
But two years later, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine again raised the issue of transferring the "Ukrainian" regions of the Kursk and Voronezh provinces (and, in addition, the Shakhty and Taganrog districts) to the Ukrainian SSR. The argument was based on the need to intensify the Ukrainization of these regions.
A new attempt to shift the inter-republic border to the east was undertaken in April 1928, when the Central Black Earth Region was formed (and the Kursk and Voronezh provinces were abolished). The Central Committee of the Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Ukraine sent a corresponding appeal to the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks). A draft of a personal message from the leader of the Ukrainian Bolsheviks, Lazar Kaganovich, to Joseph Stalin with a request to hear the opinion of Ukrainian party leaders “on the national question” has also been preserved.
However, all these attempts were in vain. The reason for this outcome is explained by Stalin's own statement at a meeting with Ukrainian writers in February 1929: "Every time such a question is raised, we start growling: how millions of Russians in Ukraine are oppressed, how education in their native language is not allowed to develop, how they want to forcibly Ukrainize, etc. "
Thus, in the 1920s, Russian communists still had enough strength to parry the territorial claims of their like-minded people from the "brotherly" union republics. But in the early 1950s, when Nikita Khrushchev, a native of Kursk province, decided to give Crimea to Ukraine, public opinion in Russia could no longer stop him.
In the 1920s, Ukrainian national communists were not satisfied with the annexation of the lands of Novorossiya and Kharkov to their republic, but actively tried to push the borders of Ukraine to the east. And this is not surprising, because territorial expansion was a constant concern of the Ukrainian elites. In some places it was successful, as, for example, in the cases of Transcarpathia or Crimea, and in others it was forced to stop, as in Moldova, Polesia or the Kursk region.
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[REGNUM] Official representatives of the Hamas movement announced the appointment of a new head of the Politburo in place of Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed earlier in Tehran. The post was taken by Yahya Sinwar, known among Israelis by the telling nickname the Butcher of Khan Yunis.
Sinwar's appointment came as a surprise to many (including the US and Israel) - until recently, the "pragmatist" Khaled Meshal was tipped to head the movement's Politburo. Apparently, this was based on the expectation that his diplomatic and political experience would allow the situation in Gaza to be brought to a "draw" and the line of gradual settlement laid down by Haniyeh to be continued.
However, it was Sinwar who opposed Mashal's candidacy and took his place in the movement's imaginary management structure, which came as a surprise to many.
A LIVING SYMBOL OF RESISTANCE
Sinwar's political biography is replete with high-profile events, and his public image is almost entirely built on the idea of opposing Israel.
In addition to being at the origins of the "military wing" of Hamas, Sinwar's brainchild is the Majd intelligence service, which is designed to identify Israeli agents and informants in the ranks of the resistance. Sinwar played an important role in developing Operation Al-Aqsa Flood (which began the current confrontation in the Gaza Strip). It is not surprising that "super terrorist" and "7/10 ideologist" were later added to his already existing nickname, the Butcher of Khan Yunis.
Official Hamas sources emphasize that Sinwar was elected head of the Politburo unanimously, although until recently it was believed that the movement’s leadership had split into factions and did not support any of Haniyeh’s potential replacements (with the possible exception of Meshal, who is “relatively equidistant” from all camps).
What makes the situation interesting is that the political wing of the movement has de facto completely subordinated itself to the military, where from the first days the readiness to “fight to victory” and not make concessions to the Israelis prevailed.
The reshuffle in the Hamas politburo, given some of Sinwar's personal characteristics, casts doubt on the likelihood of continuing the course towards a peaceful settlement.
Quite the opposite: with the strengthening of the “military” camp, forceful methods of solving problems come to the forefront.
THE SHADOW OF THE "SHALIT DEAL"
Israel reacted to the news of Sinwar's appointment as head of the Politburo in a completely expected manner, promising to "catch and punish" him in the near future.
Although this is more of a routine reminder – threats against the new head of the Politburo were voiced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the first days of the crisis, thus preceding Israel’s Operation Iron Swords.
Sinwar's assassination does indeed have significant symbolic significance for the Israeli leadership.
Of course, the new head of the Politburo is one of the "architects" of the current crisis, and his death will raise the cabinet's ratings to incredible heights. But Netanyahu also faces the unspoken task of nullifying the negative effect of the "Shalit deal" of 2011, under which Israel exchanged a large number of Palestinian prisoners, including Sinwar.
It is especially important for the Israeli Prime Minister to put an end to the story of the “deal” of the last decade – its legacy prevents him from objectively assessing the progress of the negotiations on the exchange of prisoners. Moreover, the Israelis still hold many important figures for the Palestinian movement in custody – among them the former head of Fatah, Marwan Barghouti, whose release could strengthen the position of the Palestinian Authority, which is disadvantageous for Tel Aviv. Netanyahu does not want to repeat the previous mistakes.
On the other hand, the elimination of Sinwar, which the Israeli “hawks” are insisting on, is guaranteed to put an end to the negotiation process and will finally undermine trust in Israel not only on the part of Hamas, but also other Palestinian factions, including the quite negotiable Fatah.
WASHINGTON'S POSITION
The US is warning Israel against trying to inadvertently "push" Hamas into withdrawing from the Gaza deal discussions. And it's not even about the image losses the White House could suffer from the failure of the "peace plan" proposed by the Democrats.
Washington estimates that of the 24 Hamas battalions operating in the Gaza Strip at the start of Operation Iron Swords, only three had suffered irreparable losses. The rest remained relatively combat-ready, with at least eight units suffering virtually no losses.
These data differ significantly from the victorious reports of the Israeli General Staff, which claims that 22 Hamas battalions have been “irrevocably defeated.”
In addition, the movement can quickly increase its striking power by recruiting relatives of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on the enclave. At the same time, there is a danger of Hamas's networks of influence "spreading" to the West Bank, where anti-Israeli sentiment has also increased, including amid reports of a possible Barghouti swap.
The White House also has good reason to fear that if diplomatic settlement fails, Hamas will focus all available resources on driving the Israelis out of the enclave. This, coupled with the growing activity of Lebanese Hezbollah, creates the risk of constant pressure on Israel's defense system, which Iran will not fail to take advantage of.
However, there are also those who remain optimistic about what is happening.
Thus, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken believes that the election of Sinwar as head of the Politburo will change little in the negotiation process, and the finalization of the Gaza deal (in one form or another) is a matter of time.
Blinken argues his position by the fact that Sinwar, being one of the most influential figures in the Hamas structure, could not help but influence the course of the negotiations on Gaza while the head of the Politburo was still alive. This is indirectly confirmed by Palestinian negotiators, who noted that not a single step of the Hamas delegation took place without Sinwar's approval.
DELAYED FINAL
It is possible that Israel will take Washington's position into account and will not take any drastic steps in the near future, especially since it is receiving quite tempting offers from Iran through third countries: renunciation of revenge for Haniyeh in exchange for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Such a scenario would hypothetically suit everyone, including Sinwar. However, the latter could clearly demand more, including a complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from the enclave.
In this context, Netanyahu will most likely allow the new head of the Politburo to act as freely as possible and even put the issue point-blank, dictating to Tel Aviv the terms of ending the conflict. With the sole purpose of Hamas being the first to leave the Gaza deal and thereby absolving the Israelis of responsibility for its collapse.
And only after this can one recall the previous promises to eliminate the Butcher from Khan Yunis.
[NY Post] Three Columbia University deans who exchanged “very troubling” texts that “disturbingly touched on ancient antisemitic tropes” are resigning from the elite school, officials said Thursday.
Susan Chang-Kim, Matthew Patashnick and Cristen Kromm — who were permanently removed from their administrative roles last month — will no longer serve at the Ivy League university, a Columbia spokesperson confirmed to The Post.
When the trio submitted their resignations is unclear. Columbia University would not provide additional details surrounding the sudden news, which was first reported by The New York Times.
The trio was put on indefinite leave in June after it was revealed they were embroiled in a disparaging and sarcastic text chain that unfolded during a panel discussion the month prior about antisemitism on campus stoked by Israel’s war against Hamas.
The thread — which included vomit emojis and accused Jewish students of asserting “privilege” — came to light when pictures an attendee snapped of one of the deans’ phones were circulated by The Washington Free Beacon.
“This incident revealed behavior and sentiments that were not only unprofessional, but also, disturbingly touched on ancient antisemitic tropes,” Columbia President Minouche Shafik said in a statement last month.
“Whether intended as such or not, these sentiments are unacceptable and deeply upsetting, conveying a lack of seriousness about the concerns and the experiences of members of our Jewish community that is antithetical to our university’s values and the standards we must uphold in our community.”
Another dean, Josef Sorett, was also involved in the exchange but was allowed to remain in his post after issuing a public apology.
His profile was still listed on the university’s staff directory Thursday, while Chang-Kim, Patashnick and Kromm’s were deleted.
Before their public suspensions, Chang-Kim served as the college’s vice dean and chief administrative officer; Patashnick as the associate dean for student and family support and Kromm as the dean of undergraduate student life.
None were considered faculty members and did not have tenured protections, The Times reported.
Shortly before the trio was permanently removed from their administrative roles last month, more than 2,000 students, alumni and parents signed a petition calling on the school to remove the involved deans.
“This incident exposes a profound issue at Columbia that cannot be dismissed. Failure to address this quickly can only be interpreted as a lack of seriousness and urgency in dealing with campus antisemitism within Columbia’s administration,” the petition stated.
The resignations come as Columbia continues to grapple with protests tied to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
Early Thursday, pro-Palestine vandals drew hateful inverted triangle symbols, splattered red paint — and unleashed live crickets and mealworms — across a top Columbia University executive’s Brooklyn apartment building.
No suspects were immediately identified in the incident.
[GEO.TV] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a recent interview with American magazine Time has said that the purpose of the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... war is to destroy Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... 's military capabilities and make sure that it doesn't run Gaza.
I don't know if we can achieve a democratic regime in Gaza, but we have to make sure that this Hamas and their ilk do not run Gaza, and that's the only thing that will create hope for a new generation of Paleostinians, as long as they believe that Gaza is going to be run by Hamas, you're not going to get a new generation of people that can live in peace with Israel, he said.
When asked if destroying Hamas was more important than the release of the hostages, the PM said: I think they're actually complementary goals. They're not mutually exclusive. The more military pressure we apply, the more we get closer to achieving both goals. One, releasing hostages. It's pure--it's totally a function of the pressure we put on Hamas, and secondly, it advances our goal to destroy Hamas."
He also commented on the involvement of Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... with Hamas and further added: We're facing the broader Iran terror axis that includes Hamas, the Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s, Hezbollah, the militias in uh, the Shiite militias in uh, Syria and Iraq and also the efforts that they're trying to do to create another front in uh, the West Bank, in Judea and Samaria. So we're facing a full-fledged Iranian axis, and we understand that we have to uh, to organize ourselves for a broader defense, which affects not only us but every country in the region, including our Arab uh, partners.
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The office of Netanyahu has announced their agreement with the joint statement released today by the U.S., Egypt, and Qatar. An Israeli delegation is being prepared for the negotiations on August 15th, and they are now awaiting confirmation of the time and location. https://t.co/rZCzWjjJRIpic.twitter.com/HYAROMOgGW
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it started with obama and continues with democrats. i recall seeing hst wave at me from the caboose platform while i rode my dads shoulders. my family were democrats then.
[GEO.TV] Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Thursday described the recent political change in Bangladesh as a welcome development after Nobel peace prize winning economist Muhammad Yunus was sworn in as the head of the country's caretaker government earlier today.
Former Bangladeshi PM the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and now exiled former Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She was President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia showed such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums. That is probably because Khaleda's late husband was the Pak tool who had Mujib assassinated... resigned on August 5 and fled the country, following a month of protests that saw over 300 deaths in the worst violence since the birth of the South Asian nation more than five decades ago.
Army chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman announced Hasina's resignation in a televised address to the nation.
The defence minister termed the change in Bangladesh an opportunity to start a new era of goodwill between the two nations. He also underscored the importance of working towards mending past tensions and fostering a positive relationship with Bangladesh.
Speaking to a private news channel today, the PML-N leader noted that India’s influence was significant in Bangladesh during the 15-year tenure of Sheikh Hasina, stating that her ouster marked the end of an "Indian-backed government" in Bangladesh.
Answering a question regarding the current crisis in Pakistain, the minister affirmed that there is complete harmony between state institutions in addressing the challenges facing the country.
He stressed that economic difficulties would be overcome soon, with the nation progressing in an upward direction. Then his lips fell off
Asif also spoke on the May 9 events and described them as a "deliberate coup" attempt against Pakistain. He said that national assets were destroyed and the deaders' monuments were dishonoured on this dark day.
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[RUDAW.NET] More than 250 families who were displaced to the Kurdistan Region during the war with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) are set to return to their homes in Nineveh province, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) interior ministry announced on Wednesday.
The return, following a directive from Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani, is "voluntary," according to the ministry.
The families are returning to their homes east of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... .
Of the 266 families, 159 reside outside camps and 107 families currently live inside camps located around 30 kilometers east of Mosul near the Erbil-Mosul road.
Since their opening, residents of Hassan Sham and Khazir camps have endured severe weather conditions, the spread of coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... , and limited access to essential services, including electricity, cooling systems, and clean water.
The Iraqi government wants to close all the camps across the country and see all displaced families return to their homes. In January, Baghdad set July 30 as the date for the Kurdistan Region to close IDP camps and aid provision to cease, though that deadline has been indefinitely extended. An Erbil-Baghdad joint committee was formed to discuss their closure. The KRG has said it would not force people to return home.
Around 26,500 families (157,000 individuals) remain in the Kurdistan Region’s IDP camps, according to official figures.
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[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s defense ministry announced that one of its soldiers was killed in an operation targeting the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Kurdistan Region on Wednesday, while the PKK claimed it hit Ottoman Turkish forces in Duhok province.
One soldier was killed, according to the ministry, during a "search and screening" operation.
Ankara said in the statement that the PKK fired at Ottoman Turkish army soldiers in Duhok province, without providing further details on the location or other casualties.
For its part, the PKK said in a statement that they "ambushed" Ottoman Turkish soldiers on Mount Zab in Kurdistan Region, killing 14.
A large number of Ottoman Turkish troops have been deployed in Duhok since mid June, causing an escalation in the decades-long war between Turkey and the PKK. Locals have told Rudaw of Turkey establishing checkpoints and conducting patrols in the mountainous border area.
The Iraqi government has condemned the Ottoman Turkish incursion into the Kurdistan Region. On July 12, Iraq’s National Security Council met to reject the "violations by Ottoman Turkish forces in the shared border areas" and reiterated their opposition to Ankara’s military incursions in the Kurdistan Region in a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... i.
The operations have caused the displacement of families and the evacuation of several villages in the border areas.
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Israeli occupation forces destroy the house of late Palestinian resistance fighter Momen Masalma in the town of Dura, south of the occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/axEImaLJBM
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[Korrespondent] Fierce battles are taking place in the Pokrovsky direction in the areas of Kalinovoye, Vozdvizhenka, Novoaleksandrovka, Zhelannoye and Karlovka.
As of 16:00 on August 8, 56 combat clashes have occurred on the Ukrainian fronts. Russian troops are actively using aviation in the border areas of Sumy Oblast. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
It is noted that the hottest areas are currently in the Limansky and Pokrovsky directions. Ukrainian defenders are taking all necessary measures to prevent a breakthrough of the defense.
It is also reported that the Russians have stepped up the use of aviation in the border areas of the Sumy region. Currently, 16 air strikes are known with the use of 23 guided aerial bombs. In particular, the enemy's strikes hit areas of populated areas such as Privilya, Pavlovka, Basovka, Novenkoye, Yunakovka, Kiyanitsa, Yablonovka, Pushkarevka, Kondratovka and Mogritsa.
The occupiers used artillery to shell the settlements of Pokrovka, Khleborob, Bachevsk, Yunakovka, Kruzhok, Bunyakino and Bruski.
In the Kharkov direction, four armed clashes have occurred near Vovchansk since the beginning of the day, two of which are currently ongoing.
In the Kupyansk direction, Russian troops once unsuccessfully attempted to storm Ukrainian positions near Sinkovka.
In the Liman direction, the enemy attacked in the areas of Makeyevka, Nevsky, Terny and Serebryansky forest. In total, since the beginning of the day, there have already been 15 combat clashes in this direction, four are still ongoing. The situation is under control.
The enemy does not abandon its attempts to break through the defense of the Ukrainian troops in the Seversky direction, but receives a worthy rebuff from the Ukrainian defenders. Thus, near Verkhnekamenskoye, Ivano-Daryevka, Spornoye and Vyemka, the invaders tried to push back the Ukrainian units eight times.
In the Kramatorsk direction, since the beginning of the day, Russian troops have tried six times to dislodge Ukrainian units from their positions. Ukrainian soldiers have repelled four assaults near Chasovy Yar, Kalinovka and Ivanovskoye. Two more attacks are ongoing.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy, with the support of attack and bomber aircraft, attacked the positions of Ukrainian troops seven times. Currently, two combat clashes are ongoing near New York.
Fierce battles are underway in the Pokrovsk direction in the areas of Kalinovoye, Vozdvizhenka, Novoaleksandrovka, Zhelannoye and Karlovka. The enemy has made ten attempts to storm Ukrainian positions. Fighting continues in five locations.
In the Kurakhovsky direction, since the beginning of the day, Russian troops attacked Ukrainian units once. They tried to advance near Krasnogorovka.
In the Vremevsky direction, two enemy assaults towards Vodyanoye and Ugledar have been repelled, and another battle continues.
In the area of Malaya Tokmachka in the Orekhov direction, the occupiers once tried to advance forward, but were met with a tough rebuff. The enemy also used aviation against Gulyaipole.
It was previously reported that over the past 24 hours, a total of 96 military clashes were recorded on the front.
Let us recall that from February 24, 2022 to August 8, 2024, the total combat losses of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine amounted to approximately 587,510 people (+1,140 per day).
[Bee] DETROIT, MI — Coming under heavy criticism over allegedly false claims about his military service, Minnesota governor and current vice presidential candidate Tim Walz clarified that he's never been to Iraq, but he has been to downtown Minneapolis, which is basically the same thing.
After Walz faced accusations of "stolen valor" after repeatedly claiming to have seen combat in Iraq, he admitted that while he had never actually been there, he had spent a lot of time in and around the hellish, war-torn landscape of downtown Minneapolis, meaning he had likely experienced the same type of horror.
"Believe me, it's just as nasty out there," Walz said. "During my time as governor, the level of decay and danger that permeated Minneapolis isn't anything to shake a stick at. So, while I must admit I never actually set foot in Iraq, per se, I would have to argue that my extensive time spent in downtown Minneapolis has given me experience that is just as — if not more — sobering and life-changing than anyone who served in Iraq."
As part of his explanation, Walz recounted the terrible threats and harrowing events he witnessed in Minneapolis while he was in charge. "You name it, I've seen it," he said. "Insurgents, acts of terrorism, mobs of people screaming ’Allahu akbar,' improvised explosive devices... they're all commonplace in Minneapolis these days. It's a scary place."
At publishing time, Walz expressed heartache over an incident when multiple members of his staff were injured by an RPG fired at the governor's motorcade while they stopped for some fried walleye cheeks.
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BTW: didn't Minneapolis became a serious Islamic Radical problem due to his and O'Bidens Far Left admin support and funding?
Mark Dayton deserves plenty of credit here, also. He greatly accelerated the import of Somali refugees. And it isn't just Mpls. St.Cloud and of all places - Willmar - have large Somali populations now.
[GEO.TV] [GEO.TV] The Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... has announced "deferring" its nearly 14 days-long protest sit-in after successful negotiations with the government over demands including slashing high power tariff and reviewing agreements with independent power producers (IPPs).
The announcement came late Thursday after the conclusion of the fifth round of talks with the government's negotiation team at Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi.
"We are deferring and not ending the sit-in," announced JI Emir Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman, adding that he would formally announce the decision to defer the protest demonstration today at a rally.
The JI chief warned that his party would stage a sit-in again if the government failed to implement on the party's demands.
Rehman said the JI would hold a rally on Islamabad highway today (Friday) where he said future course of action would be announced.
The agreements with the IPPs are under the spotlight as people are paying hefty bills blamed on capacity payments being made to independent power producers. The JI had staged its sit-in against inflation and agreements with the IPPs, which was also held in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
since Saturday.
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[Rudaw] The United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... team investigating crimes committed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) in Iraq is preparing to share with Iraqi authorities the 40 terabytes of evidence compiled in its six-year investigation as it wraps up its mission next month.
"We are now in the process of providing our results to the competent Iraqi authorities," UNITAD's public information office said Tuesday in an email reply to Rudaw. "This includes a consolidated, digital version of these evidence holdings... as well as investigative reports assessing that acts committed by ISIS/Da'esh in Iraq may amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide."
"A copy of this original evidence will be kept by the United Nations as part of its records and archives, together with other materials originally collected by the Team, in line with United Nations policies and best practices and relevant international law," it added.
UNITAD (United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da'esh/ISIS) was established in 2017 by the UN Security Council at the request of the Iraqi government to ensure that ISIS turbans would be held accountable for their crimes. The team's work included collecting witness testimony, leading the exhumation of mass graves, and training Iraq's judiciary.
The investigative team, however, had a difficult relationship with the Iraqi government, reportedly due to UNITAD's reluctance to share information with Iraqi authorities over concerns about the use of the death penalty . Iraq requested UNITAD end its mission and its mandate will expire on September 17.
"Steps have been taken over the past months, in cooperation with the Government of Iraq, to ensure an orderly drawdown and liquidation of the mission in advance of this date," UNITAD's public information office stated.
The UNITAD team has "been working diligently to ensure the Iraqi authorities are in the best position possible to advance domestic accountability efforts prior to the conclusion of the mandate, while at the same time respecting the end date of the mission," it added.
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[KavkazUzel] Sixteen years after the Five-Day War, the pain of loss has not subsided, relatives of the deceased journalists Alexander Klimchuk and Gigi Chikhladze said. Social media users have published an image of a bell and the motto: "I always remember" in memory of the events of 2008.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, former President Saakashvili is responsible for the start of the Georgian-Russian war of 2008, the Georgian Prime Minister said and announced a "public trial" in the case of the "United National Movement" after the parliamentary elections. Russia must withdraw its troops from Georgian territory and stop violating the rights of people living there, the Georgian Foreign Ministry and Ombudsman indicated on the 16th anniversary of the Five-Day War. Mourning events were held in South Ossetia on the occasion of the 16th anniversary of the start of the Five-Day War.
The Russian military operation "to force peace", which went down in history as the "Five-Day War", was carried out from August 8 to 12, 2008, on the territory of Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. After the Five-Day War, Russia and some other countries recognized the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Georgia has since considered these territories occupied by Russia and has terminated diplomatic relations with Russia, according to the "Caucasian Knot" report on the Five-Day War of 2008.
"I always remember" - this motto, together with the image of a bell, filled Georgian social networks. Yesterday and today, Georgia remembers the August war of 2008, a correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" reported.
Among those killed in the Five-Day War were photographer Sasha Klimchuk and journalist Giga Chikhladze. On August 8, 2008, they left from the United States to cover the fighting in Tskhinvali. The journalists were fired upon by an Ossetian armed group. Giga and Sasha died on the spot. The information about their deaths was not confirmed for a long time, and only on August 17 did the Russian side deliver the bodies of the dead to Gori. 30-year-old Giga Chikhladze worked for Russian Newsweek, Radio France and wrote articles for a number of foreign publications, 27-year-old Sasha Klimchuk was a photojournalist for ITAR-TASS and one of the founders of the Caucasus Images photo agency. Giga is survived by his wife and two small children, and Alexander has elderly parents.
16 years later, the feeling is the same, and it still hurts as much as it did then. As time goes by, I remember those August days more and more.
Gigi Chikhladze's widow, journalist Nata Mumladze, told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that their children constantly remember their father. "The girl is already 20, and the son is 19. They are both students and study in the United States," she said.
Aleksandr Klimchuk's mother, Yulia Klimchuk, told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that she was left alone. She was not offered a survivor's pension. "My mother died the day she found out that Sasha had died. My husband also died very soon. I live alone now and I never forget about Sasha for a minute. Sixteen years later, the feelings are the same, and it still hurts as much as it did then. Over time, I remember those August days more and more," she said.
In 2022, the Tbilisi Sakrebulo (City Council) decided to name streets in honor of Klimchuk and Chikhladze.
Teona Pankvelashvili, who lives in Gori, recalled how events unfolded in the region in August 2008. "Since August 5, the sounds of military action have been heard in Gori. On August 7, I clearly saw the fighting because the sky was red from the bombs. On August 8, at 10:20 in the morning, a bomb fell in Gori. At that time, my mother and I were on the street in front of the theater, people were confused, crying, chaos reigned. The city was empty. They called us at night and asked us to leave the city. My father took me and my mother to the Ateni Valley, to the village of Bnavisi. On August 9, at 10:20, a bomber flew over us and bombed the mountains and forests of the Ateni Valley. My friend and I were standing on the balcony in the village of Bnavisi. My friend called Gori. His colleague, ambulance doctor Tamuna, told him that bombs were exploding, and at that time we heard screams and the sound of bombing on the phone. Tamuna was wounded. We went to Tbilisi. My friend's father stayed in Gori and until the end helped the remaining population with humanitarian aid," she said.
On August 12, it was reported that the Russian army was approaching Tbilisi, Teona recalls. "I cried and asked my mother if April 9 had happened in vain. Fortunately, with the help of the governor, President Saakashvili, America and the European Union, Russia retreated, although it occupied additional territories... Today, the war continues again in the form of a creeping occupation," she told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
According to a report by the human rights organization Human Rights Watch, published on the "Caucasian Knot", Russian cluster munition strikes were carried out on targets in the Gori and Kareli districts, as a result of which at least 12 civilians were killed and at least 46 were wounded at the moment of the strikes. All these strikes can be classified as indiscriminate, the document emphasizes. The "Caucasian Knot" published a photo report " Five-day war: pain and tragedy of ordinary families ".
Director of the NGO "Center for Social Solidarity" Tamta Mikeladze believes that the war is not over. "It is one thing when the authorities talk about war and peace, and another when you hear real stories of people who have suffered from war and conflict. We have everything except peace! We live in a state of constant war!" she wrote today on her Facebook page*.
The fighting brought suffering to many residents of both South Ossetia and Georgia, journalists and human rights activists who witnessed those events wrote earlier. Women and children "shuddered in basements for two days while the capital of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, was pounded with Grad rockets, while artillery pounded the city," said Tatyana Lokshina, Human Rights Watch's program director for Russia.
In a number of settlements in South Ossetia, mourning events were held to mark the 16th anniversary of the start of the Five-Day War.
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", in South Ossetia, mourning events are held annually on August 8 in memory of the victims of the "Five-Day War" of 2008. In 2023, a number of mourning events and flower-laying ceremonies were held in Tskhinvali.
On the 16th anniversary of the start of the "Five-Day War" in South Ossetia, a number of mourning events took place. Flowers were laid in Tskhinvali, including at the destroyed barracks of the Russian peacekeeping battalion. The event was attended by the President of the Republic Alan Gagloev . Flowers were also laid at the monuments to the Heroes of Ossetia Oleg Galavanov, Denis Vetchinov, at the "Symbol of Sorrow" monument in the "Museum of Burnt Souls" in the village of Tbet near Tskhinvali, the IA "Res" reported today on its Telegram channel.
Members of the "Mothers of Beslan" organization also took part in the mourning events. They laid flowers at the site of the death of six OMON officers who died during the "Five-Day War." Memorial events were also held at the foreign missions of the South Ossetian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the agency noted in another publication.
Let us recall that from August 8 to 12, 2008, a Russian military operation "to force peace" was carried out on the territory of Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia; it went down in history as the "Five-Day War". After the "Five-Day War", Russia and some other countries recognized the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Since then, Georgia considers Abkhazia and South Ossetia to be territories occupied by Russia and has terminated diplomatic relations with Russia, as stated in the "Caucasian Knot" report on the "Five-Day War" of 2008.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on January 21, 2021, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) recognized that the Russian authorities were involved in human rights violations in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, but were not responsible for the hostilities in August 2008.
The ECHR decision will not affect the status of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, noted South Ossetian political scientists previously interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".
[GEO.TV] Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... 's civil defence agency said Israeli strikes hit two schools in Gaza City Thursday, killing more than 18 people, while the Israeli military said it struck Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... command centres.
"The Israeli occupation killed more than 18 citizens in strikes on two schools," senior agency official Mohammad al-Mughayyir told AFP, referring to al-Zahra and Abdel Fattah Hamoud schools in Gaza City.
Mughayyir said 60 people were also maimed and more than 40 still missing.
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[Rudaw] At least 10 people were killed and 13 others were maimed when a truck rigged with an explosive blew up in Azaz, northern Syria, a war monitor reported on Wednesday. Syria has seen a surge of violence over the past 24 hours.
The truck went kaboom! at a military check-point in Azaz, north of Aleppo near the border with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... , the UK-based war monitor Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported.
The blast killed 10 people, including four members of the Syrian National Army (SNA), a rebel group backed by Ankara.
The perpetrator of the attack is not immediately clear.
This is the latest violent mostly peaceful incident in a nation-wide escalation over the past 24 hours.
In the eastern province of Deir ez-Zor, pro-regime National Defense Forces launched an overnight attack killing two civilians and injuring five others, according to a statement from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which controls much of northeastern Syria (Rojava) and areas along the Euphrates, including the area where the attack occurred.
The Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), the SDF’s political wing, blamed Damascus and called for a cross-party condemnation.
"The Council calls on all political and national forces to condemn the criminal actions of the Damascus authority and its agencies," read the SDC statement, adding that the attack "undermines the efforts to combat terrorism" and aids the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS), which is making a resurgence.
[JPost] Noura Erakat admitted to posting fake news about Israeli public opinion on rape, which was shared by Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib.
US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib reposted on Wednesday a doctored poll claiming that 47% of Israelis believe IDF soldiers have a right to rape Palestinians. It was tweeted by Noura Erakat, who later admitted on X that it was fake.
Erakat posted a doctored image of an N12 poll on Wednesday, stating, "When you tell a society they have a right to commit genocide, surely they believe they have a right to rape," suggesting that 47% of Israelis believe that it is justified to rape a handcuffed terrorist.
In her post, which has since been deleted, Erakat shared an image with the poll’s title completely changed. Originally, N12’s poll illustrated the Israeli public’s stance regarding the claims that the Israeli government relies on terrorism supporters.
However, the doctored image which Erakat shared on X claims that 47% of the Israeli public "agree that a soldier is allowed to rape a Palestinian."
Michigan congresswoman Rashida Tlaib shared Erakat’s post, contributing to the spread of anti-Israel propaganda.
However, shortly after Tlaib shared the post, American journalist Yasher (Alex) Ali posted on X, stating, "Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has retweeted the tweet on the left which contains a digitally altered image."
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has retweeted the tweet on the left which contains a digitally altered image.
That is NOT what the poll question was.
The poll question was do you think the government has surrendered to terrorist supporters?
#3
The Druze community announced on Friday that one of its members is one of the arrested soldiers who is suspected of abusing a Nukhba terrorist at the Sde Teiman detention facility and that the community will join the fight for the soldiers.
I foresee an interesting times for the piece of shit staunch defender of human rights who authorised the arrest without checking if the accusations are true. MedicalReports Prove That Allegations Are False
[RUDAW.NET] Pro-Syrian regime forces launched an overnight attack in the eastern province of Deir ez-Zor, resulting in the death of two civilians with at least five others injured, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Wednesday.
"In the late hours of yesterday evening and continuing into this morning, Syrian regime- backed mercenaries and groups of the so-called National Defense Forces launched a ground attack against areas on the eastern banks of the Euphrates River, east of Deir Ezzor," said the SDF in a statement, using a different spelling for the province.
Two non-combatants were killed and at least five others were maimed, added the statement by the SDF, which controls much of northeastern Syria (Rojava) and areas along the Euphrates, including the area where this attack occurred.
"In response to this aggression, our forces exercised their legitimate right to defend our area and our people," the statement added. "They successfully repelled the attack and are currently conducting clearance operations to eliminate any remaining threats posed by the attacking groups," stated the multi-ethnic force.
The SDF is a diverse force of Kurds, Arabs, Turkmens, and Assyrian Christians. Supported by the US-led global coalition, the group primarily has fought over the past decade against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) to retake control of many cities and areas across northeastern Syria.
Control of Deir ez-Zor province, which borders Iraq, is now split between the SDF and the Iran-backed Syrian regime. It is also home to many of the country’s key oilfields, such as Omar and Conoco, which the global coalition helps the SDF to control.
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[Breitbart] Vice President Kamala Harris is using the same speech over and over again on the campaign trail, adding fuel to criticism that she is unable to speak without a script prepared by her handlers.
Politicians frequently have refrains that they use as part of their “stump speeches.” Former President Donald Trump closes his speeches with similar conclusions every time, leading up to the “make America great again” refrain.
The difference is that most of Trump’s speeches are ad libbed, and Kamala Harris will not stray from the script — nor will she hold press conferences, or sit down for interviews. She gives the impression of being entirely scripted.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Federalist, HT HotAir]
Yes, I smell it as well. 
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..always the voice of sweet reason...
Indian intelligence agencies, rarely the epitome of self-assured success, have rarely been caught as flat-footed as they were over the weekend when 
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[Commentary] 
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
[Bee] DETROIT, MI — Coming under heavy criticism over allegedly false claims about his military service, Minnesota governor and current vice presidential candidate Tim Walz clarified that he's never been to Iraq, but he has been to downtown Minneapolis, which is basically the same thing.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
[Rudaw] At least 10 people were killed and 13 others 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
[JPost] Noura Erakat admitted to posting fake news about Israeli public opinion on rape, which was shared by Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
