[ZH] "I got infected about two weeks ago, it was my third infection, and I have been vaccinated and boosted a total of six times," said Fauci.
Fauci, who back in 2021 said, "If you get vaccinated, you are protected," seemingly hasn’t been protected from catching the virus despite receiving half a dozen vaccines.
He also separately asserted during the same year, "When people get vaccinated, they can feel safe that they are not gonna get infected."
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Obviously he needs to up the booster shots to at least 12 a day. Then we'll see how he does.
#5
A few weeks ago, strangely, Communist China admitted to a large number of cases of the new Covid-XBB strain. Then Fauci announces he was infected....
Did they have "accident" or are they at it again for 2024 elections?
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Insti - “The term ‘long Covid’ should be dropped from use, because Covid has no more aftereffects than the flu or other mild respiratory illnesses, according to a major new study from Australia released yesterday. The study showed that only 3 percent of people who had Covid had ‘moderate-to-severe’ aftereffects a year later – numerically fewer than those infected with influenza or other mild respiratory diseases.” cite. look at me, look at me - whiny little b*.
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I gonna ask a stupid question. Do the vaccines affect the disease at all?
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The term ‘long Covid’ should be dropped from use, because Covid has no more aftereffects than the flu or other mild respiratory illnesses, according to a major new study from Australia released yesterday.
So just another pathway to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, a rare outcome of all sorts of health stressors including infection, severe and sustained stress, cancer chemo- and radiation therapies.
[Bee] MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Amid allegations of stolen valor and exaggeration of his military service, Minnesota governor and Vice-Presidential candidate Tim Walz has clarified that he's actually just redistributing valor, not stealing it.
Walz's justification for his appropriation of respect which he never earned in battle came in the middle of a press conference in which reporters were inquiring about whether Walz had abandoned his unit after hearing that they would be deployed to a dangerous war zone only to tell people that he had served in combat.
"Let me say categorically, I have never and will never steal anyone's valor," Walz stated, rubbing what looked like a homemade Purple Heart with his sleeve. "What I will do, however, is redistribute valor from over-privileged owners of valor, such as soldiers who have courageously risked their lives for their country in combat. I believe in an equitable distribution of valor, where I, who bravely and self-sacrificially allowed my beloved unit to go into battle without me so that I could make sure my political career didn't suffer, may receive just as many accolades as a war-wounded vet who actually served in the Middle East."
"Say it with me — tax the valor-rich!" Walz ended.
While Walz's former fellow soldiers have continued to vocally denounce Walz's "unscrupulous attempt to ride into power on other people's courage," several journalists and political commentators on the Middle East have praised Walz's commitment to fair and equitable redistribution of valor.
At publishing time, Walz had further defended his actions by explaining that he was "more actually just borrowing other people's valor" and that he would "give it right back" after the election.
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Please allow me to quote Steve Jobs’s original iPhone announcement in 2007: “This is a day I’ve been looking forward to for two-and-a-half years. Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.”
… mission for 2.5 years now. From mission proposal, planning, trajectory design, to crew selection, everything has been done by the customer. And now, here we are!
Until 2021, space missions were solely the privilege of governments. Private individuals were unable to charter a Space Shuttle like they would do for an airplane.
Then
@inspiration4x
came along and changed everything. It was a space tourist mission, but unlike any space tourists before it. For the first time in spaceflight history, a private individual could rent an entire spacecraft, planned, designed, and executed their own very personal mission with clear objectives. It should never be underrated.
Later, we saw the emergence of the Polaris Program, which is essentially a new Gemini for our time, but this time entirely driven by an individual rather than a government.
With Fram2, we aim to open this door even wider. This is the true allure of commercial spaceflight.
I’ve read many sci-fi stories about the first human missions to Mars, usually led by NASA or some fictional government. Rarely does anyone dare to imagine such a mission may be carried out privately. But now, I increasingly believe that someday we will reach Mars — and it may be a person, or a company, not a nation, who gets there.
A new chapter in space exploration is unfolding before our eyes. Stay tuned! https://f2.com
Taliban Ministry of Interior's spokesman Abdul Mateen Qani: Pakistani border forces opened fire on Taliban forces in Ghorki area of Torkham, killing a woman and 2 children. Taliban responded and destroyed 2 Pakistani posts. #Afghanistan#Pakistanhttps://t.co/wKXGNwduizpic.twitter.com/8U1tfBLks9
The European Commissioner is threatening @ElonMusk over his Donald Trump interview tonight.
The EU is interfering with U.S. elections and attacking free speech. This is a serious diplomatic breach and an unacceptable affront to Western values. pic.twitter.com/geWbVU8kaA
#6
Do any of these idiots realize how DUMB this makes them look? Makes you wonder why they are SO AFRAID of someone interviewing the former President. Perhaps they are afraid of their own people waking up?
[NINANEWS] A joint force from the National Security Service, in cooperation with the police of al-Musayyib district, north of Hillah, arrested a person practicing magic and sorcery inside his house located in al-Musayyib, the second teachers' neighborhood. "Stick 'em up!"
[PRANG!]
[ribbet! ribbet!]
A source in the force said, "The police, based on intelligence information, were able to arrest a person practicing magic and sorcery by raiding his house in al-Musayyib district, north of Hillah, on Monday evening. "Get the net over him, al-Murfi! Quick! Before he gets away! Or before he..."
[PRANG!]
[baaah!]
He added that the police transferred the accused to the competent authorities for investigation." But then he disappeared...
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"So beware, O Muslims, such self-styled seers and hoodoo men who walk among us speaking Arabic and pretending to believe and worship just as we do, when, inside, they're nothing but wicked practitioners of magical thinking, the kind of blasphemers who might steal bits and pieces of sacred scripture and stitch them into a sacrilegious parody of true religion, the better to mislead decent honest Arabs. Be not led astray! Okay, time to pray."
The US Treasury announced on Monday that the US government recorded a budget deficit of $244 billion in July, an increase of 10 percent over the same month of the previous year.
The Ministry added that the deficit last month rose by $23 billion from a deficit of $221 billion in July 2023.
A Treasury official said that interest on the debt rose 21 percent to $89 billion last month, and the average interest rate rose by about 49 basis points to 3.33 percent.
In the first ten months of fiscal year 2024, the deficit in the United States decreased by 6 percent to $1.517 trillion compared to $1.614 trillion in the same period of fiscal year 2023.
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Suggestion:
Quit giving out $100's of Billion of $$$$$ to other nations.
Quit forgiving student loans for people making 6$$$ & 7$$$ figure incomes in professional practices.
Quit over reaching and stick to what the US Constitutions limits the Federal Government to doing.
Quit funding 10+ Million Illegals at an estimated cost of $25k per year in various impacts to the US Economy Medical industry and direct support to states (Cal) giving them $$$$ per month.
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These numbers have gotten to the point where a lot of people are unable to wrap their heads around them. It's beyond comprehension. The only thing people understand is that there must be a lot of crooks in government.
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[Regnum] The price of October futures for Brent crude oil exceeded $82 for the first time since July 26. This is evidenced by data from the London ICE exchange from August 12.
As of 21:23 Moscow time, the price of Brent oil was $82.06 per barrel (+3.01%). Then the growth slowed down and the futures price reached $81.92 per barrel by 21:38 Moscow time.
WTI crude oil futures for September delivery also rose to $79.08 per barrel (+2.73%).
As reported by Regnum News Agency, global demand for oil will continue to grow, Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin noted on June 8 during his speech at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. He voiced the OPEC+ forecast, according to which primary demand for oil will grow by almost 20%, to 116 million barrels per day by 2045. Oil will continue to account for about 30% of the global energy balance, Sechin summed up.
On July 23, at a meeting with the Chairman of the Accounts Chamber, Boris Kovalchuk, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that the share of oil and gas revenues in the budget is growing.
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[Regnum] The radiation background in Energodar, a satellite town of the Zaporizhzhia NPP, is normal after the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attack on the station, Alexey Semin, deputy head of Interregional Directorate No. 145 of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency (FMBA) of Russia, told Regnum News Agency on August 12.
"At the moment, the radiation background in the city of Energodar is normal. A special device shows 0.03 μSv/h with the norm being 0.13 μSv/h. That is, this is a natural background," he informed.
Semin specified that measurements are being taken at 33 points in Energodar and near the Zaporizhzhya NPP. No excess radiation levels were recorded at any of these points.
Director of Zaporizhzhya NPP Yuriy Chernichuk also confirmed that the radiation background at the nuclear power plant is normal. According to him, Zaporizhzhya NPP specialists went to inspect the burning cooling tower to determine the impact of the fire on the building and supporting structures in order to determine the future fate of the facility.
As the correspondent of the Regnum news agency reports, there is no “evacuation” from Energodar, rumors about which Ukraine is spreading, the city is living its normal life: shops, pharmacies, and kindergartens are open.
As reported earlier, on the evening of August 11, Energodar was attacked by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. A fire broke out at the Zaporizhzhya NPP cooling systems facility. The station's communications director, Evgeniya Yashina, later clarified that the emergency had not affected the NPP's operations.
The next day, IAEA experts received information about a drone attack on one of the NPP cooling towers. In addition, the agency's employees witnessed the appearance of thick dark smoke, which came from the northern region of the Zaporizhzhya NPP after numerous explosions.
The mayor of Energodar Eduard Senovoz stated that the strikes by the Ukrainian military on the city — a satellite of the Zaporizhzhya NPP — have become systemic. Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier called Western countries' ignoring the strikes by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Zaporizhzhya NPP a big mistake.
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[Regnum] The Borey-class nuclear-powered strategic missile submarines (SSBNs) will remain in service for another 40 years, said Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Alexander Moiseyev.
“Speaking about the prospects associated with the Borei submarine, this is the next 30-40 years of service to our state,” he said on the Zvezda TV channel. as reefs?
Moiseyev called the service life of nuclear submarines “undoubted,” and noted that the specified period is a requirement for such weapons.
Earlier, Regnum News Agency reported that the nuclear-powered strategic missile submarine cruiser " Prince Pozharsky " is undergoing factory sea trials. This is the fifth nuclear submarine of Project 955A "Borey-A". The ship was built at the largest shipbuilding complex in Russia "Sevmash".
In total, the Russian Navy will receive 12 surface ships and four submarines in 2024. Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Viktor Yevtukhov said that the Russian Navy receives a new vessel almost every month, and the level of import substitution in their construction is currently 100%, so sanctions cannot interfere with their construction and delivery.
On July 29, the Vympel shipyard in Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Region, launched the high-speed missile boat Molniya. This boat will serve in the Navy, ensuring the security of Russian borders.
The nuclear-powered strategic missile submarine cruiser Knyaz Pozharsky is undergoing factory sea trials, said Mikhail Budnichenko, General Director of Sevmash.
"Work on the cruiser Knyaz Pozharsky is proceeding according to schedule. It is undergoing factory sea trials," he told journalists at the International Military-Technical Forum (IMTF) Army-2024.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on February 3, 2024, the Russian Navy received the nuclear-powered missile submarine "Prince Pozharsky". This is the fifth nuclear submarine of the 955A "Borey-A" project. The ship was built at the largest shipbuilding complex in Russia, "Sevmash".
Submarines of this project are armed with 16 Bulava intercontinental ballistic missiles and six torpedo tubes.
The Russian Navy will receive 12 surface ships and four submarines in 2024. This was announced at the end of January by Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Viktor Yevtukhov during the ceremony of raising the Russian Naval Flag on the submarine Kronshtadt. He noted that the fleet receives a new vessel almost every month, and the level of import substitution in their construction is currently 100%, so sanctions cannot interfere with their construction and delivery.
[JPost] A former Cornell University student who in April pleaded guilty to posting online threats, including of death and violence, against Jewish students on campus, was sentenced on Monday to 21 months in prison, the US Justice Department said.
Patrick Dai, 22, was charged late last year for making online threats against Jewish students at the Ivy League school in Ithaca, New York. His 21 months in prison will be followed by three years of supervised release, the Justice Department said in a statement.
US government officials and civil society advocates have warned about rising threats against American Jews, Muslims and Arabs since the eruption of the Israel-Gaza war in October last year.
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"The defendant's threats terrorized the Cornell campus community for days and shattered the community's sense of safety," US Attorney Carla Freedman for the Northern District of New York said in a statement.
"Mr. Dai's actions serve as a disturbing reminder of the terrifying hatred our Jewish communities encounter simply because of their beliefs," FBI official Craig Tremaroli added.
Cornell Jewish students threatened on university forum.
As part of his guilty plea, Dai had admitted that on Oct. 28 and Oct. 29, he threatened to bomb, stab and rape Jews on the Cornell section of an online discussion forum.
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you know what would straighten those glasses on his head? A Louisville Slugger
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Given, we are seeing any DOJ enforcement of anti-Semitic crimes. I am guessing they understand the O'Biden Regime appointment of Harris, is seriously in doubt, and they need to pretend to apply the law.
OBTW:
Cornell charges $68,380 per year for Master’s Degrees.
But the LSD's & Mindless Biden say You & I, as taxpayers.
Should forgive (pay) student loans for Racist 💩 like this.
#3
Hmmm, I was just wondering how many threats against white people there have been by a certain ethnic group that have gone unpunished (if not praised in some circles).
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[KavkazUzel] Residents of KaspiyskMuhammad Ramazanov and Gusein Abdullaev were supporters of a terrorist organization, they decided to fight against the "infidels" and the security forces. Together with Rashid Karibov, they planned to carry out an explosion in the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God or in a place where police were concentrated, but were detained, the investigation reported.
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", three local residents were detained in Kaspiysk on July 27. The investigation believes that they were preparing terrorist attacks, including in an Orthodox church. During interrogation, the detainees said that they were planning to blow up the Kazan Church in the city. On July 28, the court placed them under arrest for two months.
The investigation has reported details of the investigation into the case of three residents of Kaspiysk who were planning to commit a terrorist act. 19-year-old Mukhammad Ramazanov, 22-year-old Gusein Abdullaev and 34-year-old Rashid Karibov decided to follow the example of the militants who carried out terrorist attacks in Makhachkala and Derbent on June 23 and attack an Orthodox church and police officers, Kommersant wrote today, August 12, in the article "To the Church with a Molotov Cocktail."
According to the investigation, Abdullaev and Ramazanov worked as loaders at a warehouse of a transport company in Kaspiysk. Both were supporters of the recognized terrorist organization "Ahl al-Sunna wal-Jamaa", banned in Russia. After talking, they decided to fight against the "infidels" and "lawless" security forces and began looking for comrades. At the same time, Ramazanov recognized Abdullaev (Islamic name Abu Sumaya) as his amir and swore an oath to him.
They chose Rashid Karibov, who also worked for the aforementioned transport company, as their accomplice. During the investigation, it turned out that Karibov had served in the army, worked as a truck driver, and had been convicted of drugs and failure to report a crime. The latter case concerned an acquaintance of Karibov's who was planning to go to Syria and join a unit of the Islamic State (a terrorist organization banned in Russia ). He invited Karibov to go with him, but he refused. He admitted his guilt in failing to report a crime, for which he was fined 30,000 rubles.
The three young men began to communicate, they performed namaz in the prayer room of the transport company, avoiding visiting city mosques. In January, Karibov was fired for returning late from a flight, he got another job, but did not lose contact with his comrades.
At the end of June, all three went on a trip to Grozny, on the way Abdullaev and Ramazanov suggested Karibov go "on jihad". He agreed. On the way back, Abdullaev, who was recognized as the group's amir, bought three knives.
Initially, the young people planned to go to Somalia, but they did not have foreign passports. Then, according to the investigation, they decided to commit a terrorist attack in Kaspiysk. At Ramazanov's suggestion, they bought components for a bomb in hardware stores; Ramazanov's sister bought sulfuric acid at his request.
The investigation believes that they planned to blow up the Church of Our Lady of Kazan or to detonate an explosion in a place where police officers were gathered. The option of setting the church on fire was also considered. They studied the area around the church, the location of CCTV cameras, the location of the security forces guarding the church, their weapons and transport. They did not plan to surrender, deciding to die in battle.
The "Caucasian Knot" does not yet have any comments from the detainees or their official representatives regarding the investigation's version.
Let us recall that on June 23, on the Day of the Holy Trinity, which is one of the main Christian holidays, militants attacked synagogues and Orthodox churches in Derbent and Makhachkala. As a result, at least 22 people were killed and 46 were injured.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:17 During the day, the Russians repeatedly shelled Kherson, at the moment there are five known casualties, including a five-year-old child, OVA reported. In addition, two people were injured in the Belozersk community - the Russians attacked a civilian car moving along the highway from a drone. Also, two residents of Antonovka, who were injured as a result of yesterday's Russian strikes, sought medical assistance today.
21:22 US Senator Richard Blumenthal during his visit to Kiev called the breakthrough of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region "historic": "The breakthrough in Kursk on the front is historic. This is a large-scale breakthrough. Good news, big news that promises even more potential breakthroughs."
In turn, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said that the Ukrainian operation in the Kursk region is "bold, brilliant and simply beautiful." He said that he would "press Biden so that the United States gives Ukraine all the weapons to win a war that cannot be lost."
20:15 Zelensky said in an evening video address that Kursk will be the "final" of Putin's rule: "We see how Russia is actually moving forward under Putin: 24 years ago there was the Kursk disaster - the symbolic beginning of his rule. And now we can see what will be the finale for him. And Kursk too. The catastrophe of his war."
The President emphasized that the territory of the Kursk region, which is currently controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, "in particular, are the areas from which the Russian army launched attacks on our Sumy region, therefore our operations are purely a matter of security for Ukraine: liberation of the border area from Russian troops."
The head of state thanked "soldiers, sergeants and officers for their courage and effectiveness of their actions," and also separately thanked each unit that replenishes the exchange fund for Ukraine. "It is fundamental for us to return all our people from Russian captivity. And today, at Headquarters, the structures involved in exchanges - and this is the Main Intelligence Directorate, the Security Service of Ukraine and the Ministry of Internal Affairs - were instructed to communicate as actively as possible with the relatives of Ukrainian prisoners. Transparently explain to them how the exchange lists are formed, who can really be returned now. In general, it was instructed to present a clear strategy for the return of our people from Russian captivity. The next Headquarters should have a corresponding report."
He also said that he met today with a delegation from the U.S. Senate, including Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal, both of whom represent both parties. "We discussed what exactly it takes to end this war and end it fairly. I explained in detail our need for long-range capability," the president said.
19:48 Russians shelled Konstantinovka in Donetsk Oblast - one person was killed, one was wounded, OVA head Vadim Filashkin reported. Another person was killed as a result of the Russian strike on Toretsk.
19:19 The military operation in the Kursk region may develop into a new full-fledged front in a full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine, Western analysts and journalists believe. Read more about what is happening in this Russian region in the article The Kursk operation is gaining momentum .
19:11 Zelensky promised on the occasion of Ukrainian Youth Day that Ukraine "despite the harsh circumstances of the war, will not have a generation lost because of the war. We will end this war the way Ukraine needs and restore security to our state."
19:03 The Foreign Ministers of Italy and Switzerland, Antonio Tajani and Ignazio Cassis, signed a joint declaration calling for a second Global Peace Summit "with the involvement of all parties," including Russia.
18:24 Zelensky officially confirmed the offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region for the first time. According to the president, today he held a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's Headquarters, where the main report was given by Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky on "our defensive actions at the front and the operation in the Kursk region." Among other things, the Minister of Internal Affairs, other officials, and the SBU were instructed to prepare a humanitarian plan for the territory where the operation is taking place.
During the meeting, Syrsky spoke about the "continuation of the offensive operation in the Kursk region." According to him, Ukrainian troops currently control about 1,000 square kilometers of Russian territory. He also emphasized that the troop groups "are fulfilling their assigned tasks."
In addition, the Coordination Headquarters, the Main Intelligence Directorate, the Security Service of Ukraine and the Ministry of Internal Affairs were instructed to prepare a clear and transparent strategy for the return of Ukrainians from Russian captivity, and the Ministry of Defense and diplomats were instructed to submit a list of necessary actions to obtain permission from partners to use long-range weapons to protect Ukrainian territory.
17:48 IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi called for an end to the "reckless attacks" on the Zaporizhzhya NPP: "These reckless attacks threaten nuclear safety at the plant and increase the risk of a nuclear accident. They must stop now."
17:31 Energodar Mayor Dmitry Orlov said that the fire in the cooling tower at the Zaporizhzhya NPP was a provocation by the Russians: "Now, since all the units are cold, they are not working at all, there is nothing to burn there. Unless the occupiers put something there that could burn. There are only metal structures and reinforced concrete. Therefore, there was nothing physically to catch fire there." He added that the distance to the nearest power unit is about a kilometer, so there is no radiation hazard.
17:26 The SBU stated that it is recording attempts by Russian special services to use the situation in the Kursk region to baselessly accuse Ukrainian defenders of committing war crimes. To do this, the Russian side creates and disseminates various fakes and information leaks that have nothing to do with reality.
According to the SBU, in the near future, Russian special services "may resort to staging crimes, in particular against the civilian population of the Kursk region, in order to subsequently accuse the Ukrainian side of committing them. The SBU warns that such attempts are useless and will not influence either the offensive actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces or the opinion of our state's international partners."
17:19 According to calculations by the Ukrainian OSINT project DeepState, Ukraine controls approximately 44 settlements in the Kursk region, while another ten have the status of "unknown". Analysts added that "the estimate is extremely conservative", and now almost no one knows the real number. But there are villages near which there were photos of Ukrainian fighters, but the control was not by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. "That is why the estimate is conservative", the experts explained.
16:40 The Russian Investigative Committee has announced the "defendants" in the criminal case opened in connection with the breakthrough of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region. Moscow accuses the commanders of the 22nd separate and 80th separate airborne assault Ukrainian brigades, Vladimir Pipko and Emil Ishkulov, of "committing a terrorist act, murder and attempted murder."
16:34 After the start of the operation in the Kursk region, the number of KAB strikes on the Kharkiv region has sharply decreased, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. According to him, if earlier there were 30-60 such strikes per day, now there are no more than ten. At the same time, the head of the Sumy OVA Vladimir Artyukh said that Russia has increased the number of air strikes on the region to 50 per day.
16:01 Rheinmetall announced that it will transfer 14 Leopard 2 tanks and a Bergepanzer 3 Buffel armored vehicle for the needs of the Czech Armed Forces, which in turn will send military equipment to Ukraine. Representatives of the German concern noted that the delivery of equipment will be completed in early 2026.
15:53 Kursk Region Head Alexey Smirnov said that the situation in the region is "complicated", with 28 settlements under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. According to him, the regional authorities know nothing about the fate of about 2,000 people who are in these 28 settlements. Smirnov also said that about 121,000 residents have left the border areas of the Kursk Region to date. As a result of the attacks, 12 civilians were killed and 121 people were injured. There is no clear front line in the region, which complicates determining the location of Ukrainian troops, Smirnov added.
15:17 The worst situation in the Belgorod Region is in the Shebekinsky District, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov reported to Putin. According to him, 50-70% of residents have left Shebekino itself.
14:59 Putin said at a meeting on the situation in the Kursk region that "the Defense Ministry must drive the enemy out of the region's territory." According to the head of the Kremlin, Kiev is trying to improve its negotiating positions in the future with its actions in the Kursk region. That is why, Putin believes, Ukraine has rejected "peace proposals from Moscow and the mediators." Putin also said that Kiev's operation in the Kursk region allegedly pursues the military goal of stopping the advance of Russian troops.
14:09 The first FPV drones to be purchased from Lithuanian manufacturers may be transferred to Ukraine as early as the second half of September, said Lithuanian Defense Minister Laurynas Kaščiūnas. The total amount for which the drones will be purchased is 5 million euros. Another 3 million will be allocated for the needs of the Lithuanian Armed Forces.
13:23 Russians fired artillery at Ukrainsk in Donetsk Oblast - two people were killed, one was wounded, reported OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
13:16 The Ukrainian Armed Forces have planted the Ukrainian flag on the Kinburn Spit between the Dnieper-Bug Estuary and the Black Sea. The video was shown by the head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council, Andriy Kovalenko.
13:10 In the Dergachev and Lipetsk communities of the Kharkiv region, the curfew will be increased from today and will last from 17:00 to 9:00, the Kharkiv Regional State Administration reported.
12:41 In Ukraine, 479 athletes were killed as a result of Russian aggression, the Strategic Communications Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
12:32 The European Union is launching a humanitarian demining initiative in Ukraine worth 2 million euros, the EU Delegation to Ukraine reported. As part of the initiative, 16 Belgian Malinois shepherds will be sent to Ukraine along with eight Ukrainian trainers. All of them underwent intensive five-month training in Cambodia. These teams will demining liberated territories, including the Mykolaiv, Kherson and Kharkiv regions, which suffered greatly as a result of the war.
12:26 In Vovchansk, Russian troops have deployed assault groups to establish logistics and improve communications, the Kharkov group of troops reported. In the northwest of Tikhyi, the enemy is conducting aerial reconnaissance and strengthening its positions.
11:33 The Ukrainian corps plans to remain in the Kursk region - more and more evidence of such plans is now appearing, writes Forbes. The publication notes that the Ukrainians are digging trenches, and the Russians are also digging in in anticipation of a positional war. At the same time, both sides have begun to use industrial excavators to build fortifications.
At the same time, the article says that this does not mean that the Ukrainians have finished their offensive. It also does not mean that the Russians cannot counterattack and push the Ukrainians back to the border, analysts point out. "But it does mean that stabilization of the front line and long-term Ukrainian occupation of part of the Kursk region are on the agenda," the publication writes.
10:54 The Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk region is going better than expected, and this is a reason to talk about increasing the number of German Leopard 2 tanks for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said the head of the Bundestag Defense Committee, Markus Faber.
10:25 The Chinese Foreign Ministry stated that Beijing is closely monitoring the situation in the Kursk region and calls on all parties to de-escalate the conflict: "The Chinese side calls on all parties to adhere to the three principles of de-escalation of the situation, namely: the combat zone should not expand, the escalation of the armed conflict should not be allowed, and provocations leading to increased fire by either side should not be allowed."
09:42 In the Kharkiv region, over the past day, one person was injured as a result of Russian shelling of the village of Aleksandrovka in the Bogodukhov district, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
09:31 Ten people were wounded in Donetsk region as a result of Russian shelling on August 11, reported OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
09:27 In the Kherson region, over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed and 11 others were injured, reported the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin.
09:13 Russia will not conduct mobilization due to the events in Kursk Oblast, said the head of the State Duma Defense Committee Andrei Kartapolov. According to him, "there is no need to conduct mobilization in Russia due to the situation in Kursk Oblast, there are enough fighters at the front."
08:42 Russian war correspondents write that a battle has been going on at the Kolotilovka border point in the Belgorod region since the morning. Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov announced the relocation of residents of the border Krasnoyarsk region to safer places "due to the activity of the Ukrainian Armed Forces."
08:24 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of August 12:
personnel - about 592,000 (+1080) people,
tanks - 8450 (+3),
combat armored vehicles - 16,368 (+5),
artillery systems - 16,728 (+65),
MLRS - 1146 (+3),
air defense systems - 919 (+1),
aircraft - 366 (+0),
helicopters - 328 (+0),
Operational-tactical level UAVs - 13,472 (+73),
cruise missiles - 2426 (+1),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 22,590 (+66),
special equipment - 2801 (+1).
07:35 The fire on the territory of the Zaporizhzhya NPP has ceased. The radiation level in the Nikopol district is normal, said the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA Serhiy Lysak.
07:27 The US Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has found that Ukraine is advancing in the Kursk region despite Russian claims that the situation has stabilized. Geolocated footage, as well as Russian and Ukrainian reports from August 10 and 11, indicate that Ukrainian forces have advanced west and northwest in the Kursk region, although Russian sources have generally claimed that the Russian military has stabilized the situation.
The BBC writes that Ukrainian troops have advanced at least 30 km into Russian territory - this has become the deepest and most significant advance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces since the counteroffensive in the fall of 2022. Thus, the Russian Defense Ministry stated that it had prevented attempts by Ukrainian forces to break through in the areas of the settlements of Tolpino and Obshchy Kolodez in the Kursk region, which are located approximately 25 and 30 km from the border.
Footage posted online and confirmed by the BBC also showed fighting near the village of Levshinka, about 25km from the border. And in Sumy, which borders the Kursk region, BBC correspondents witnessed a steady stream of armoured personnel carriers and tanks moving towards Russia. Aerial photographs have also emerged showing Ukrainian tanks being used in battles on Russian territory.
00:40 The IAEA said its experts witnessed "heavy dark smoke" in the northern part of the Zaporizhzhya NPP, which appeared after "numerous explosions." Meanwhile, the State Emergency Service reports that the radiation situation in Ukraine is stable, and no changes in the radiation state in the area of the Zaporizhzhya NPP have been detected. The posts of the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Center near the Zaporizhzhya NPP continue enhanced monitoring and promptly track the state of the radiation background, the agency noted.
Energoatom specified that the fire at the technical water supply facility of the Zaporizhzhya NPP broke out on August 11 at about 20:00. In particular, there was a fire at the cooling tower number one and damage to other process equipment. There are no violations of safe operating conditions, no exceedances of control levels for emissions and discharges of radioactive substances were recorded. The probable cause of the fire is the negligence of the occupiers or the deliberate arson of the cooling tower by Russians. In turn, the Russian authorities claim that the fire allegedly broke out as a result of Ukrainian shelling.
00:26 Ukrainian OSINT project DeepState reports that the Russian army has advanced near Panteleimonovka in the Pokrovsky district, in North New York and its environs.
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[Korrespomdent] 21:56 The analytical group Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) suggests that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be able to hold a bridgehead in the Kursk region for "several weeks or more," depending on what losses the Ukrainian command is prepared to accept and what forces the Russian army is prepared to throw into battle.
Military analysts estimate the number of Ukrainian forces involved in the fighting in Kursk Oblast at several thousand. According to them, the front is about 50 km long. CIT believes that the culmination of the offensive is already behind us, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces are consolidating their positions. At the same time, analysts confirm that in Donetsk Oblast, Russian troops are managing to advance towards Toretsk in the Pokrovsk direction, but they doubt that this is due to the transfer of Ukrainian forces to Kursk Oblast. No attempts by Russia to carry out a large-scale transfer of forces from Donetsk Oblast to Kursk Oblast have been recorded.
21:37 Soldiers from the Bravo group of the 130th separate reconnaissance battalion showed a video from the center of the Russian city of Sudzha in the Kursk region. Radio Liberty established that the video shows the very center of the city, Karl Marx Street. Another video from the center of Sudzha also does not show any Russian soldiers or civilians. Caution, the video is 18+
21:22 US Senator Richard Blumenthal during his visit to Kiev called the breakthrough of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region "historic": "The breakthrough in Kursk on the front is historic. This is a large-scale breakthrough. Good news, big news that promises even more potential breakthroughs."
In turn, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said that the Ukrainian operation in the Kursk region is "bold, brilliant and simply beautiful." He said that he would "press Biden so that the United States gives Ukraine all the weapons to win a war that cannot be lost."
20:15 Zelensky said in an evening video address that Kursk will be the "final" of Putin's rule: "We see how Russia is actually moving forward under Putin: 24 years ago there was the Kursk disaster - the symbolic beginning of his rule. And now we can see what will be the finale for him. And Kursk too. The catastrophe of his war."
The President emphasized that the territory of the Kursk region, which is currently controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, "in particular, are the areas from which the Russian army launched attacks on our Sumy region, therefore our operations are purely a matter of security for Ukraine: liberation of the border area from Russian military." The head of state thanked "soldiers, sergeants and officers for their courage and effectiveness of actions," and also separately thanked each unit that replenishes the exchange fund for Ukraine.
19:19 The military operation in the Kursk region may develop into a new full-fledged front in a full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine, Western analysts and journalists believe. Read more about what is happening in this Russian region in the article The Kursk operation is gaining momentum.
19:08 Russian troops on the border of the Kursk region were calmly drinking coffee in the forest when they were attacked by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Financial Times writes, citing Ukrainian soldiers who are participating in the operation. As one of them said, "we killed many of them on the first day because they were unarmed and did not expect us." Dozens more Russian soldiers surrendered. According to Ukrainian soldiers, they crossed the border at about 13:00 on Tuesday, August 6. The soldiers also said that they were transferred to the Kursk region from the Kharkiv region and from the hottest areas of Donetsk: Chasov Yar, New York and Toretsk.
18:55 Radio Liberty showed a detailed map of the advance of Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region:
Radio Liberty showed a map of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' advance in the Kursk region
18:24 Zelensky officially confirmed the offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region for the first time. According to the president, today he held a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's Headquarters, where the main report was given by Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky on "our defensive actions at the front and the operation in the Kursk region." Among other things, the Minister of Internal Affairs, other officials, and the SBU were instructed to prepare a humanitarian plan for the territory where the operation is taking place.
During the meeting, Syrsky spoke about the "continuation of the offensive operation in the Kursk region." According to him, Ukrainian troops currently control about 1,000 square kilometers of Russian territory. He also emphasized that the troop groups "are fulfilling their assigned tasks."
17:47 The Russian Defense Ministry announced that the delivery of "additional forces and resources to increase the troop group and form reserves" has been organized to the Kursk region.
17:26 The SBU stated that it is recording attempts by Russian special services to use the situation in the Kursk region to baselessly accuse Ukrainian defenders of committing war crimes. To do this, the Russian side creates and disseminates various fakes and information leaks that have nothing to do with reality.
According to the SBU, in the near future, Russian special services "may resort to staging crimes, in particular against the civilian population of the Kursk region, in order to subsequently accuse the Ukrainian side of committing them. The SBU warns that such attempts are useless and will not influence either the offensive actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces or the opinion of our state's international partners."
17:19 According to calculations by the Ukrainian OSINT project DeepState, Ukraine controls approximately 44 settlements in the Kursk region, while another ten have the status of "unknown". Analysts added that "the estimate is extremely conservative", and now almost no one knows the real number. But there are villages near which there were photos of Ukrainian fighters, but the control was not by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. "That is why the estimate is conservative", the experts explained.
16:40 The Russian Investigative Committee has announced the "defendants" in the criminal case opened in connection with the breakthrough of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region. Moscow accuses the commanders of the 22nd separate and 80th separate airborne assault Ukrainian brigades, Vladimir Pipko and Emil Ishkulov, of "committing a terrorist act, murder and attempted murder."
16:34 After the start of the operation in the Kursk region, the number of KAB strikes on the Kharkiv region has sharply decreased, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. According to him, if earlier there were 30-60 such strikes per day, now there are no more than ten. At the same time, the head of the Sumy OVA Vladimir Artyukh said that Russia has increased the number of air strikes on the region to 50 per day.
15:53 Kursk Region Head Alexey Smirnov said that the situation in the region is "complicated", with 28 settlements under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the frontline length is 12 km, and the width is 40 km. According to him, the regional authorities know nothing about the fate of about 2,000 people who are in these 28 settlements. Smirnov also said that about 121,000 residents have left the border areas of the Kursk Region to date. As a result of the attacks, 12 civilians were killed and 121 people were injured. There is no clear front line in the region, which complicates determining the location of Ukrainian troops, Smirnov added.
15:45 Radio Liberty has shown satellite images showing damage to the Sudzha gas metering station. According to an analysis of the photographs, some of the damage occurred between August 9 and 10, and some between August 10 and 11. The photo from August 11 shows that one of the station's administrative buildings, as well as one of the sites where the metering equipment is installed, is almost completely destroyed. At the same time, on the morning of Monday, August 12, Gazprom claimed that it was continuing to pump gas through the station to Europe in the usual volume.
14:59 Putin said at a meeting on the situation in the Kursk region that "the Defense Ministry must drive the enemy out of the region's territory." According to the head of the Kremlin, Kiev is trying to improve its negotiating positions in the future with its actions in the Kursk region. That is why, Putin believes, Ukraine has rejected "peace proposals from Moscow and the mediators." Putin also said that Kiev's operation in the Kursk region allegedly pursues the military goal of stopping the advance of Russian troops.
14:21 The Russian Defense Ministry stated that Russian military forces allegedly repelled seven attacks by Ukrainian assault groups in the Kursk region in one day.
14:14 Russia is transferring fewer of its forces to the Kursk region than Ukraine would like, The Economist writes, citing Ukrainian military personnel. Thus, the transfer is mainly from the Kharkiv region and much less from the Donetsk region. "Their commanders are not idiots. They are transferring forces, but not as quickly as we would like. They know that we cannot expand logistics by 80 or 100 km," a source in the General Staff told the publication.
The offensive itself, according to The Economist, had been planned for a long time, but some aspects of it indicate a certain rush in preparation. All three soldiers interviewed who took part in the operation learned about it the day before the assault - they were withdrawn from other areas in eastern Ukraine. The main achievement of this offensive, according to the publication, is the rise in morale of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
12:35 The Kursk Region operational headquarters has decided to evacuate residents from the Belovsky District, said the head of the region, Alexey Smirnov.
11:33 The Ukrainian corps plans to remain in the Kursk region - more and more evidence of such plans is now appearing, writes Forbes. The publication notes that the Ukrainians are digging trenches, and the Russians are also digging in in anticipation of a positional war. At the same time, both sides have begun to use industrial excavators to build fortifications.
At the same time, the article says that this does not mean that the Ukrainians have finished their offensive. It also does not mean that the Russians cannot counterattack and push the Ukrainians back to the border, analysts point out. "But it does mean that stabilization of the front line and long-term Ukrainian occupation of part of the Kursk region are on the agenda," the publication writes.
10:54 The Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk region is going better than expected, and this is a reason to talk about increasing the number of German Leopard 2 tanks for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said the head of the Bundestag Defense Committee, Markus Faber.
10:49 Russian media write that in one day the area of military operations in the Kursk region has increased by 70 square kilometers and now amounts to about 720 square kilometers.
The area of military operations in the Kursk region is expanding
10:25 The Chinese Foreign Ministry stated that Beijing is closely monitoring the situation in the Kursk region and calls on all parties to de-escalate the conflict: "The Chinese side calls on all parties to adhere to the three principles of de-escalation of the situation, namely: the combat zone should not expand, the escalation of the armed conflict should not be allowed, and provocations leading to increased fire by either side should not be allowed."
09:13 Russia will not conduct mobilization due to the events in Kursk Oblast, said the head of the State Duma Defense Committee Andrei Kartapolov. According to him, "there is no need to conduct mobilization in Russia due to the situation in Kursk Oblast, there are enough fighters at the front."
08:42 Russian war correspondents write that a battle has been going on at the Kolotilovka border point in the Belgorod region since the morning. Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov announced the relocation of residents of the border Krasnoyarsk region to safer places "due to the activity of the Ukrainian Armed Forces."
07:26 The US Institute for the Study of War (ISW) notes that Ukraine is advancing in the Kursk region, despite Russia’s claims that the situation has stabilized. Geolocated footage, as well as Russian and Ukrainian reports from August 10 and 11, indicate that Ukrainian forces have advanced west and northwest in the Kursk region, although Russian sources have largely claimed that the Russian military has stabilized the situation. Analysts predict that the Ukrainian operation in the Kursk region and subsequent possible Ukrainian incursions will force the Kremlin to reallocate resources to defend the state border, sacrificing the effectiveness of military operations in Ukraine.
The BBC writes that Ukrainian troops have advanced at least 30 km into Russian territory - this has become the deepest and most significant advance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces since the counteroffensive in the fall of 2022. Thus, the Russian Defense Ministry stated that it had prevented attempts by Ukrainian forces to break through in the areas of the settlements of Tolpino and Obshchy Kolodez in the Kursk region, which are located approximately 25 and 30 km from the border.
Footage posted online and confirmed by the BBC also showed fighting near the village of Levshinka, about 25km from the border. And in Sumy, which borders the Kursk region, BBC correspondents witnessed a steady stream of armoured personnel carriers and tanks moving towards Russia. Aerial photographs have also emerged showing Ukrainian tanks being used in battles on Russian territory.
[DHAKATRIBUNE] The BNP is giving the interim government time to create a conducive environment for holding elections, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said on Monday after a discussion with interim government Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus.
Mirza Fakhrul also said that the BNP delegation did not discuss the election during their meeting with the Chief Adviser.
"It will take some time to organize the election, and we have allowed that time," he added.
Top BNP leaders, led by Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, exchanged views with Chief Adviser Dr Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna on Monday afternoon. The meeting lasted about an hour.
Speaking to news hounds, Mirza Fakhrul said: ''As I mentioned earlier, it will take some time to create a suitable environment for the elections. We are supporting them in all matters.''
After the meeting, which concluded around 5pm, he said: "The Chief Adviser invited us, and we discussed various issues. Essentially, the fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... government that has been suppressing democracy, oppressing the people for 15-16 years, and depriving them of their democratic rights has established a fascist rule."
Mirza Fakhrul also emphasized: "We made it clear that people should not be misled by attempts to create instability, chaos, or communal arson in the country. We urge the public to support the government in maintaining religious harmony and ensuring the safety of the people. We fully support these efforts."
The BNP leaders noted that this was the first time the interim government had met with BNP leaders after the fall of the dictatorial government through the students' movement and taking charge in a free environment. They shared their views on the current situation, and the government also expressed its opinions.
Referring to the Awami League, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul said: "Unfortunately, despite so many murders and tortures, that party continues to make various statements."
He believes the government needs to take action in this regard and engage in dialogue with all parties, but not with those responsible for killings.
[NYPOST] Shocking photos captured smoke billowing out of a Russia-controlled nuclear power plant in Ukraine — a ''reckless'' attack that risked a major ''nuclear accident,'' according to the head of the international nuclear watchdog.
Thick, black smoke was seen Sunday exiting the top of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant that Russia captured shortly after launching its full-scale attack on Ukraine in 2022.
The massive fire followed multiple explosions hitting the vast, six-reactor facility, according to the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nuclear watchdog, which has staff there.
''These reckless attacks endanger nuclear safety at the plant and increase the risk of a nuclear accident,'' IAEA chief Rafael Grossi warned in a statement.
A non-functioning cooling tower was damaged in the fire, Ukraine's nuclear power company Energoatom said in a statement.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said initial tests showed that ''the radiation indicators are normal.
''But as long as Russian gunnies maintain control over the nuclear plant, the situation is not and cannot be normal,'' he wrote on Facebook.
I think we all know what is the first thing to get defenestrated in war. But if the Russians were smart they would have shut that plant down right after they captured it.
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The photos at the link betray the truth. Someone lit and stoked a fire underneath a tertiary loop cooling tower. It's completely outside the reactor containment building.
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*Snicker* It’s always fun (and educational) watching the Rantburg crowd figure it out.
[NYPOST] Three and a half years into an unprecedented border crisis impacting Texans in border communities and the state's largest cities, high-profile Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... are openly endorsing a Republican candidate for Senate who they never endorsed before: U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz;
...US Senator from Texas. Republican contender for president in 2016, his stiff and abrasive manner earned him the title most hated man in the Senate. After a close win over Beto O'Rourke, who tried to out-Lastino him, he grew a beard and let his biting wit shine through. Cruz's comments have been known to leave life-threatening wounds at better than forty feet... Cruz, a Houston Republican, is running for reelection for his third term. He's being challenged by U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, a Dallas Democrat, who is trailing in the polls.
While Cruz has been characterized as polarizing or far right by those on the left, those on the right argue he's a conservative stalwart championing their causes: pro-life, supporting traditional marriage, women's rights, the Second Amendment, and school choice, among other issues. Differing on these views doesn't matter. Texas Democrats supporting Cruz argue that border security and combating crime are their top concerns.
Under the Biden-Harris administration, the greatest number of illegal border crossers have entered the U.S., with the bulk illegally entering in Texas, and increasing number of violent mostly peaceful crimes being committed against Americans, The Center Square has reported.
Texans who have traditionally been Democrats or apolitical say they aren't anymore after their loved one or friend was killed by an illegal foreign national solely in the country because of Biden-Harris policies or by a violent mostly peaceful repeat offender released into their community by who they describe as activist Democratic judges.
Democrat Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg has repeatedly stood up to a progressive Democratic-controlled Harris County judge and commissioner's court after they attempted to defund law enforcement, prompting the state to get involved. As crime and public corruption reportedly increased under the former Democratic mayor and current Harris County judge, Ogg began working with Houston's new mayor, John Whitmire, and the Republican attorney general's office to combat both.
Crime is a top concern among voters in largely Democratic-controlled cities and small border communities in Texas.
While Allred and some Democratic politicians appear to have distanced themselves from Biden-Harris border policies, more Democrats are switching to vote Republican, running for office as Republicans, or endorsing a Republican, The Center Square reported.
This week at a law enforcement rally in Houston, Ogg made history by endorsing Cruz. ''We are seeing a problem at our border,'' she said.
''My constituents hate crime and expect the government to keep them safe from criminals. They deserve protection, but our country's laws and policies don't always work to that end. No case has spotlighted our crime problem and shaken our city more poignantly than the brutal murder of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, who was tragically murdered by two undocumented Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... n nationals who were captured crossing the border illegally but were released from federal custody. Had Senator Cruz's Justice for Jocelyn Act been the law today, Jocelyn would be alive.
''I am endorsing Senator Ted Cruz because he has taken action at a time when Americans want solutions, not excuses, about why Democrats and Republicans won't work together. I appreciate the Senator for reaching out to me, the top law enforcement official in Harris County and Democratic office holder, to work together to protect our nation's children from predators who shouldn't be roaming our streets. Crime is bigger than partisanship.''
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When the Donks got control of Congress for the first time after the Civil War, they refused to fund the Army. The situation changed when the Apaches raided southern Texas from Mexico and the Texas delegation voted with the Trunks for funding. All politics sometimes boils down to 'local'.
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An Allred ad runs every night during Wheel of Fortune. I commented to my wife, who supports Allred, that he seems to have plenty of money, but I never see Cruz ads.
She says it's because Cruz has statewide recognition and Allred does not. Oh, OK.
But the ads we are seeing are in Allred's Dallas district....
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Voted for Cruz in the '16 primary. Trump wasn't the NY RINO I thought he would be. I'd still like to see Cruz as either AG or SC chief.
… The day shift nurse didn't tell the doctor and just told the night shift nurse that she had been asleep all day. Sherry will not respond to painful stimuli. I spoke to her doctor and this is irreversible and now we must go forward with pain management and end of life care. She was instrumental in past fundraisers for Rantburg. I loved reading her Facebook posts about her cat Tina, and about her life in Bauxite, AR..
Sherry took her final breath yesterday. Professionally, Sherry had been a hotshot trainer for schools — running seminars all over the country. Personally, she loved being the wife of a Marine. Somehow she ended up finding Rantburg, and then, like everything else she touched, Sherry left Rantburg more efficient and more comfortable than she found us. And, as badanov points out, more solvent. I followed her subsequent adventures, including her return to Bauxite, with interest, enjoying her enjoyment as well as her ever-evocative turns of phrase, which added a depth of appreciation to even the most apparently mundane activities. Sherry had a gift for love and happiness. Even though we never met in person, her death leaves a hole in my world.
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Very sad to hear. It's depressing sometimes how many Rantburgers have gone dark over the years. I'll pray for her and her family. Never easy to lose anyone.
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[REGNUM] While the world waits impatiently for Iran's response to the assassination of Hamas politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, tensions are rising elsewhere in the Middle East. In Syria, fighting has broken out between Arab tribal militias and the predominantly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
The "hot phase" of the confrontation between Arab tribes and the Kurds has been going on for a year now. However, the current fighting is the largest since August-September 2023. The fighting is taking place in the rural areas of Deir ez-Zor province.
The region itself is effectively divided into two parts by the Euphrates River. The western part, including the administrative center of the same name, is controlled by the government in Damascus. The eastern part is controlled by the self-proclaimed Kurdish-Arab Autonomous Administration of Northern and Eastern Syria (AANS).
The current fighting began with an offensive by Arab tribal militias on August 7, during which they managed to establish control over the small towns of Abu Hamam, Abu Hardub and Dhiban.
It is noteworthy that this time the clashes took place near American bases, one of which is located at the Al-Omar oil field.
The tribal offensive was led by Ibrahim al-Hefel, the leader of the large Okeydat tribe. He also issued a statement promising to continue the resistance until the moment of “liberation of the land from the terrorist militias of Qandil (referring to the SDF. — Ed.)”.
Importantly, the current tribal offensive was supported by the Syrian army, as well as the pro-government militia National Defense Forces (NDF).
Meanwhile, the SDF issued a statement saying the attacks on their positions began on the orders of Hossam Louka, director of the General Directorate of Security, one of Syria's key intelligence agencies.
This circumstance indicates that the official government has moved to direct action in the Euphrates region.
Earlier, Damascus began working on interaction with the Arab tribes living in the territory of the AASVS. The same al-Hefel was seen in February of this year at negotiations in the Syrian capital for the first time since 2011.
The official government, realizing that it is impossible to gain control over the AASVS as long as American bases are there, decided to rely on internal contradictions in the Autonomous Administration. And it is the Arab tribes that are acting as an instrument that can destabilize the situation.
In addition, the tribal formation "Lions of Okeydat", led by Hashim al-Sattam, also took part in the offensive along with al-Hefel's units. The formation was created in 2021 as a local militia. The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) took direct part in its creation.
This tribal militia is based in the government-controlled city of al-Mayadeen, which is also considered one of the key centers of Iranian presence in Syria. It is through this city that the Tehran-Beirut land corridor passes, providing Iran with access to the Mediterranean Sea, as well as providing opportunities for supplying various pro-Iranian groups.
According to information published in Syrian opposition media, tribal forces have been training for several months in IRGC camps located in the Deir ez-Zor and al-Mayadeen areas.
The current interaction with the tribes is one of the pillars of Iranian policy in the Euphrates region. It is aimed at two main tasks - maintaining a presence in eastern Syria by creating safe conditions for the functioning of the land corridor and putting pressure on the United States.
For more than five years, pro-Iranian forces have been constantly shelling American military bases in the region, including in Syria. And relatively recently, Tehran began to involve Arab tribal militias in attacks. In addition, by interacting with the tribes, Iran sees an opportunity to increase discord within the Autonomous Administration, which increases the costs for the United States.
THE SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM
However, external involvement is not the main source of the current armed clashes between Arab and Kurdish forces. The main reason lies in internal contradictions that have their roots in the creation of the Autonomous Administration.
Initially, the AASVS was conceived by the American side as an alternative political project to the Syrian government, built on the unity of Arabs and Kurds. Despite some efforts made by the United States, the idea of coexistence of different ethnic groups was never achieved.
On the contrary, today the ethnic factor is one of the key problems. The Arabs consider most of the territories of the AASVS as their ancestral lands, and the Kurds themselves as strangers who were imposed by Washington to govern the region.
Given that the Americans have virtually withdrawn from work related to the functioning of local government, these tasks have been transferred to Kurdish representatives, who today serve as political commissars.
Most of them are members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), some of whom are not Syrians at all and do not even speak Arabic. In addition, Arab tribes are practically not represented in the local councils of the Autonomous Administration.
Another important reason for internal contradictions is economic. The richest oil fields (except for Rumelan) are located in the territories inhabited by Arab tribes. Deir ez-Zor province alone provides more than 50% of all AASVS revenues.
But the region accounts for only 16% of the autonomy's total budget, leaving the Arab population feeling deprived.
TIMING CHOICE
The timing of the current confrontation is also understandable. The leading Kurdish political party, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), is planning to hold municipal elections in the region to consolidate its power.
The election campaign was originally scheduled for June, but was postponed. Therefore, the escalation in the run-up to the elections reflects the Arab population's disagreement with the PYD's policies and its unwillingness to participate in the event on unequal terms.
Moreover, the clashes are taking place against the backdrop of discussions on the possibility of Syrian-Turkish normalization.
The participation of the government side in the military actions is a signal to Ankara that Damascus has various instruments of pressure on the SDF. It is important that it is on the Kurdish issue that Syria and Turkey can most easily find common ground, which could become the basis for improving relations.
For Iran in its current situation, it is also advantageous to create divisions within the SDF and damage the American presence.
The use of tribes as “proxy forces” is aimed at increasing the security threat near American bases and is consistent with the general political course of permanent pressure on Washington’s positions in the region.
Thus, several parties had similar interests at once, which ultimately led to the start of armed clashes.
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[REGNUM] Iran's new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, had barely taken office when his entourage had already seen its first high-profile resignation. Mohammad Javad Zarif suddenly announced his resignation from the post of vice president for strategic affairs. He had not worked in his new position for even two weeks.
Previously, it was Zarif (in his capacity as the head of the Iranian Foreign Ministry) who led the negotiations on the “Nuclear Deal” and was its main ideologist. He also unofficially led a group of “old negotiators” — high-ranking Iranian diplomats who participated in the development of this agreement. In a farewell letter published on social networks, Zarif complained that he “was not satisfied with his work” in selecting candidates for the government, which gave rise to rumors of disagreements between him and other influential figures in Iranian politics. "Please don't kill me"
Of course, this is not the first time Zarif has left with a bang. For example, at the height of Hassan Rouhani’s second presidential term, he already demonstratively resigned from his post as head of the Foreign Ministry due to disagreements with the “power bloc,” which allegedly prevented him from negotiating with Western countries.
However, with his departure, the group of “old negotiators,” on which Pezeshkian had partly placed his bets, risks falling apart—which is facilitated, among other things, by the previously announced “Iranian retaliation” against Israel.
PERSONNEL DECIDES EVERYTHING
Vice President Zarif's resignation comes at an inopportune moment, as Pezeshkian is busy forming a new management team and awaiting parliament's recall of key ministers.
Among the candidates proposed by the Iranian president is Abbas Araghchi, one of the architects of the Nuclear Deal, an agreement that allowed Tehran to achieve the lifting of economic sanctions in exchange for abandoning its research into military nuclear weapons.
Araghchi's inclusion in the ministerial list was not unexpected - the diplomat has served as ambassador to Turkey and Japan, and supervised (as deputy minister) the development of Tehran's relations with countries of the Asia-Pacific region. In all of these posts, he demonstrated outstanding analytical skills and the ability to demonstrate tactical flexibility, which is an important quality criterion for the Iranian diplomatic corps.
However, Araghchi’s activities on the “nuclear” track are much more important: for eight years, he was continuously involved in the negotiation process within the framework of the “Nuclear Deal.” First, in the preparation of the agreement itself, and after 2018 — when US President Donald Trump torpedoed the previous agreements and reinstated the sanctions lifted from Iran — in attempts to revive it.
Perhaps it is this period of his career that should be considered decisive.
Moreover, the new Iranian president built his election program specifically around plans to renew the “Nuclear Deal” and now is in dire need of proven (“old”) negotiators, to which Araghchi belongs. Considering that he is Zarif’s creature, the vice president can try to unobtrusively “press” the parliament to approve the necessary candidate by his own resignation. Including bragging about the fact that if Araghchi’s candidacy fails, official Tehran will be left without any “old negotiators” at all and will have to establish a dialogue from scratch.
On the other hand, such behind-the-scenes games do not benefit Zarif’s own reputation: after the failure of the “Nuclear Deal,” the career of the former Foreign Minister was effectively undermined. He was able to return to high offices only after the victory of the reformists. Moreover, some conservatives still accuse Zarif of “giving up his position” in the international arena and are suspicious of any appointee he proposes.
PLAYING TO THE CROWD
The fact that the reshuffle in the Iranian government is taking place in conditions of regional tension also leaves its mark on the situation: after the Israelis liquidated the head of the Hamas politburo, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran, Iran, which promised Israel an “unprecedented response,” has yet to take action, although it has raised the bar of expectations to unprecedented heights.
All parties to the conflict, including the US and European countries, have adopted a wait-and-see attitude and demonstrated their readiness to take radical measures. In this context, excessive haste in “building bridges” in dialogue with the West may be misunderstood not only by conservative circles within Iran, but also by their allies and proxies from the “Axis of Resistance,” which threatens Tehran with additional image costs.
However, even under such conditions, the group of “old negotiators” should not be buried overnight.
Thus, the opinion that Zarif's emotional game is aimed at an external viewer has gained great popularity. Allegedly, it is for this reason that his resignation statement was posted on his personal page in X (formerly Twitter), which is read mainly by a foreign audience.
It is assumed that the urgent resignation of the vice president is needed to remove key negotiators who will subsequently work on reviving the “Nuclear Deal” from under the blow to their image.
This plan is not without logic, since it removes responsibility for the Iranian counteraction not only from Zarif (who, apparently, will take on the main work of reconfiguring the previous ties), but also from most of his Western counterparts - both Washington and representatives of the "European three" (Germany, France, Britain - Ed.) will be able to parry any dissatisfaction of Israel with the fact that Iranian diplomats were outside the decision-making system and could not influence the situation in any way.
However, to meet such conditions, it is necessary that Araghchi's candidacy be under consideration for as long as possible and be accompanied by public debate between the conservative and reformist camps.
Otherwise, the “trump card” of Zarif’s demonstrative resignation (assuming that such a scheme actually took place) risks being used in vain.
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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 36th Naval Infantry Brigade and 92nd Assault Brigade near Volchanskiye Khutora and Liptsy (Kharkov region) in Volchansk and Liptsy directions. Two counter-attacks launched by AFU assault detachments were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 60 Ukrainian troops, one armoured personnel carrier, four motor vehicles, and one U.S.-made AN/TPQ-49 counter-battery warfare station.
One AFU ammunition depot was destroyed.
Units of the Zapad Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and inflicted losses on formations of the AFU 67th, 115th, 116th Mechanised brigades, and 3rd Assault Brigade near Kopanki, Sinkovka (Kharkov region), Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic), and Novosadovoye (Donetsk People's Republic). One counter-attack launched by an enemy assault detachment was repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to more than 540 Ukrainian troops, one tank, one Kozak armoured fighting vehicle, eight motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzer, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, and two U.S.-made 105mm M119 howitzers. Two Anklav-N electronic warfare stations were destroyed.
Units of the Yug Group of Forces improved the tactical situation along the front lines and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 28th Mechanised Brigade and 81st Airmobile Brigade near Dyleyevka and Serebryanka (Donetsk People's Republic). Two counter-attacks launched by the AFU units were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to more than 570 Ukrainian troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, including one U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, and 13 motor vehicles.
In the course of counter-battery warfare, two U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzers, one U.S.-made 155mm M198 howitzer, one 152mm D-20 howitzer, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, and two UK-made 105mm L-119 howitzers were destroyed.
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on formations of the AFU 32nd Mechanised Brigade, 14th, and 15th National Guard Brigades near Toretsk, Grodovka, and Mirolyubovka (Donetsk People's Republic). Two counter-attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 23rd and 31st Mechanised brigades were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to more than 390 Ukrainian troops, one U.S.-made M1A1 Abrams tank, two U.S.-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, three armoured fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155mm M-777 howitzer, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, three 122mm D-30 howitzers, and one U.S.-made 105mm M119 howitzer.
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 58th Motorised Infantry Brigade and 120th Territorial Defence Brigade near Prechistovka and Vodyanoye (Donetsk People's Republic). Two counterattacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 58th and 72nd motorised infantry brigades were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 100 Ukrainian troops, three motor vehicles, two Polish-made 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery systems, one UK-made 155mm FH-70 howitzer, and one U.S.-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery warfare station.
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 65th and 118th Mechanised brigades near Nesteriyanka, Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka, and Pyatikhatki (Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 75 Ukrainian troops, 10 motor vehicles, one 152mm D-20 howitzer, and two Anklav-N electronic warfare stations.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces engaged AFU manpower and hardware clusters in 127 areas during the day.
Air defence units shot down two French-made Hammer guided aviation bombs, six U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, 40 unmanned aerial vehicles, 22 of them outside the special military operation zone.
In total, 637 airplanes and 278 helicopters, 29,771 unmanned aerial vehicles, 566 air defence missile systems, 17,042 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,400 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 13,135 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 24,668 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Hamas health ministry in Gaza said on Monday that the Israeli occupation army committed three massacres in different areas of the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, killing at least 142 civilians and injuring over 150 others, while a large number of victims are still under the rubble of bombed buildings or lying on roads.
In a statement, the health ministry said that at least 107 of those killed during the past hours were transported to hospitals.
The health ministry added that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli bombardments and shooting attacks, which started on October 7, climbed to 39,897 martyrs and the number of the wounded surged to 92,152 people.
The Gaza Strip has been under brutal bombardment since a cross-border operation was launched by Hamas’s armed wing, al-Qassam Brigades, on October 7.
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Would that the corpse counts were real.
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a cross-border operation
That sounds so innocent, like packing up the wife and kids and going for a picnic in the next county over. How could such a harmless activity generate forty thousand deaths? The Juice must be crazy.
Yeah, a "cross-border operation" is much nicer than a violent rampage of murder, rape and kidnapping that left a 1,000+ people dead.
[Naharnet] Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Monday said that ''diplomatic contacts are active in several directions to halt the Israeli threats against Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... and reach a ceasefire in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... .''
''The Lebanese government's paper declared in the weekend, which highlights the basis for achieving sustainable stability in south Lebanon, specifies the clear foundations of the solution, topped by deescalation, in order to avoid a destructive cycle of violence,'' Mikati added.
''The international community must play a decisive and instant role in calming the tensions and reining in the continued Israeli aggression against Lebanon,'' he went on to say.
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"sustainable stability in south Lebanon" will only come when Israel occupies land south of the Litani River and pounds to rubble the so-called refugee camps (now more than 70 years old).
[SUDANTRIBUNE] Rapid Support Forces (RSF) leader Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, also known as Hemetti, on Monday reiterated his commitment to attending peace talks in Geneva and accused 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... 's army of undermining negotiations under the influence of Islamists.
Hemetti reaffirmed his acceptance of the U.S.-backed invitation for talks aimed at ceasing hostilities, scheduled to begin on August 14th.
''This is our firm and unwavering commitment to the Sudanese people,'' Hemetti said in a statement. ''We will go to the upcoming negotiations with a genuine will to stop the war immediately and without delay.''
He criticized the army for its alleged lack of commitment to peace, pointing to its withdrawal from previous negotiations in Jeddah and its failure to attend a proposed meeting in Kampala earlier this year.
Hemetti also accused the army of stalling in the lead-up to the Geneva talks, claiming they have not offered any concrete commitments on humanitarian aid delivery or civilian protection, unlike the RSF.
The RSF leader further asserted that Sudan currently lacks a legitimate government, describing the authorities in Port Sudan as a ''gang'' interested only in looting the country's wealth.
The Sudanese government has set conditions for its participation in the Geneva talks, including being represented as the government, not just the military, and demanding the implementation of the May 2023 Jeddah Agreement before any new negotiations.
The Geneva talks are seen as a crucial step towards ending the conflict in Sudan, which has caused a humanitarian crisis and widespread displacement since it erupted in April.
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Hemetti reaffirmed his acceptance of the U.S.-backed invitation for talks aimed at ceasing hostilities, scheduled to begin on August 14th.
This will not end well.
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[Regnum] The enemy that attacked Russia will receive a worthy response. Moscow will achieve all its goals, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on August 12 at a meeting on the situation in the border regions.
“ The leaders of the Kiev regime are not only committing crimes against the Russian people, but, in essence, have embarked on the path of exterminating the Ukrainians themselves, the Ukrainian people, whom, apparently, they no longer consider their own,” Putin said.
The Russian leader added that the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are increasing dramatically for them, including among the most combat-ready units and divisions that Kyiv is transferring to the Russian border.
“The enemy will certainly receive a worthy response, and all the goals facing us will, without a doubt, be achieved,” the president emphasized.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the Ukrainian army forces have been attacking the Kursk region since August 6. The Russian Armed Forces units stopped them in the border areas, not allowing them to go deep into the territory. The enemy's losses in this direction by August 12 amounted to 1,610 people.
A Ukrainian military man detained by border guards in the Kursk region said that Ukrainian soldiers were given orders to shoot residents of the region on the spot for resisting, the FSB reported earlier. Ukrainian army militants intended to reach Kursk and Belgorod, the detainee also said.
The Times wrote that the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attack on the Kursk region was the riskiest step taken by the head of the Kyiv regime, Volodymyr Zelensky. The journalists explained that the riskiness is due to the fact that this decision will not help the politician avoid defeat.
✔Over the course of 24 hours, active actions by units of the North group of forces and approaching reserves, strikes by army aviation and unmanned aerial vehicles, and artillery fire have thwarted attempts by enemy mobile groups to break through on armored vehicles deep into Russian territory in the areas of the populated areas of Obshchy Kolodez, Snagost, Kauchuk, and Alekseevsky. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense.
✔An attack by units of the 82nd Airborne Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction of Martynovka has been repelled. Up to fifteen Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, and two automobiles have been destroyed.
✔Air strikes and artillery fire have damaged the manpower and equipment of the 22nd, 61st, 115th Mechanized, and 80th Airborne Assault Brigades of the enemy in the areas of Mikhaylovka, Korenevo, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Oleshnya, Sudzha, and Nikolayevka.
✔During the clearing of the settlement of Ozerki, up to 15 Ukrainian servicemen and four Stryker armored personnel carriers were destroyed, six militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were captured.
✔Aviation and missile forces struck the reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Myropolye, Mohrytsia and Petrushevka in the Sumy region.
✔Over the past day, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to 420 servicemen, 55 armored vehicles, including three tanks, eight armored personnel carriers, an infantry fighting vehicle, 43 armored combat vehicles, 31 automobiles, a multiple launch rocket system launcher, and an artillery piece.
✔In total, during the fighting in the Kursk direction, the enemy lost up to 2,030 servicemen, 35 tanks, 31 armored personnel carriers, 18 infantry fighting vehicles, 179 other armored combat vehicles, 78 automobiles, four anti-aircraft missile systems, two multiple launch rocket system launchers, and 14 field artillery pieces.
[NINANEWS] The Ottoman Turkish Defense Ministry announced the killing of 17 PKK bandidossnuffies in Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s carried out by Ottoman Turkish warplanes in northern Iraq.
The Ottoman Turkish Defense Ministry stated in a statement today, Monday, that Ottoman Turkish army units stationed in the regions of / Gara and Hakurk / within the areas of / Claw Lock / operations in northern Iraq monitored gatherings of PKK bandidossnuffies in rugged mountainous areas, which required the use of warplanes, whose raids on the two regions resulted in the killing of 17 of them and the withdrawal of the others
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[DM] Men who want to lower their risk of a common cancer should masturbate and have sex more, according to research.
A new review of existing studies dating back 30 years found the more often men ejaculate, the less likely they are to develop prostate cancer.
Researchers recommended climaxing 21 times per month because the literature suggested it lowered the risk of disease by one-third.
Though the exact mechanism isn't well understood, the experts believe increased blood flow to the prostate could help flush carcinogens out of semen and other fluids.
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[NewsFront] 23:59 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 12.08.2024 to 00:00 13.08.2024
A total of 33 cases of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
Information was received about the injuries of three civilians, including a child born in 2011.
DAMAGED:
Four residential buildings,
Two civil infrastructure facilities.
A total of 16 artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction,
A total of 17 artillery attacks in the Horlivka direction.
A total of 98 units of various ammunition were fired.
23:25 Enemy reports regarding the activity of our ballistics, an air raid alert has been declared in a number of regions.
21:00 Belovsky district of Kursk region is under the control of Russian troops, the regional government stated.
19:49 Soldiers of the 47th Motorized Rifle Division of the 1st Tank Army of the West Group of Forces are actively are advancing in the direction of the villages of Peschanoye and Peschanoye-Yuzhnoye in the Khar'kov region.
The UAV group commander with the call sign Kontora said that his guys accounted for three enemy pickup trucks, three American M-113 armored personnel carriers, four infantry fighting vehicles, eight Baba Yaga hexacopters and more than 200 Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters.
“Over the past two months, our division has liberated such settlements as Ivanovka, Kislovka, and Kotlyarovka on this section of the front,” Kontora emphasized.
The enemy in the area actively uses FPV drones, but the division's servicemen are constantly improving their approaches to electronic warfare and successfully cope with them.
19:44 An attempt by the Ukrainian armored vehicle "MaxPro" to break through the Russian border in the Belgorod region –video.
19:07 The Russian Armed Forces liberated the settlement of Lisichnoye in the DPR and increased the pace of the offensive in the Donetsk direction - Defense Ministry.
Control over city blocks in Krasnogorovka has been established. The cleansing of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and nationalists in the settlements of Ivanovka, Sergeyevka, Makeyevka, Kirovo, Artemovo and Zhelannoye is being completed.
Over the past week, the settlements of Timofeevka and Veseloe have been liberated in the Donetsk direction.
In total, in July, the Russian troop groups “Center” and “Southern” liberated 19 settlements in the DPR.
18:45 Two explosions were heard in Khar'kov in eastern Ukraine, the publication "Obshchestvennoye" reported.
18:17 Operators of reconnaissance and FPV drones of the "Center" group of forces support assault units in the Avdeevka direction.
"We try to help the attack aircraft to move forward. The reconnaissance aircraft shows where the targets are. After that, we hit the targets to move forward," said the FPV drone operator with the call sign "Boar."
17:44 122mm D-30 howitzer crews destroyed camouflaged self-propelled guns, positions and manpower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The shooting was carried out with high-explosive fragmentation rounds at a range of up to 15 km. The servicemen of the unmanned aerial vehicle crews carried out reconnaissance of the enemy positions and adjusted the firing at the detected targets.
17:42 Execution Ukrainian BTR-4E from a 30mm cannon of a Russian armored personnel carrier on the road in the village of Giri in the Belovsky district of the Kursk region.
17:35 Destruction of Ukrainian servicemen from the 36th Separate Brigade in Volchansk –video.
17:24 Russian Armed Forces have advanced near Toretsk, plus movement is being recorded in the direction of Panteleimonovka. Russian troops have also advanced to the west and north of Tabayevka.
16:52 Destroyed Personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: objective control of night work in the forest belt.
15:52 American-made Stryker armored fighting vehicle destroyed in a strike by a Lancet in the border area of the Kursk region, the Ministry of Defense reported.
15:34 Soldiers of the 22nd Separate Special Forces Brigade destroyed the Ukrainian Armed Forces radar in the Zaporizhzhya direction –video.
14:54 Fighters of the Sever group captured another Ukrainian armored personnel carrier in the Sudzhansky district –video.
14:50 Footage of destruction of a Ukrainian Armed Forces radar station in the border region of Kursk.
The enemy radar was detected by aerial reconnaissance on the outskirts of one of the forest areas. The Lancet loitering munition was used to destroy it.
13:50 The Ukrainian army in the DPR is in deep crisis:
- the pocket between Artemovo and New York has been taken under stable control by the Russian army;
– the entire northeastern part of New York came under the control of the Russian Armed Forces (although the Ukrainians still consider it a gray zone);
- serious advance of the Russian Armed Forces at the line of settlements Panteleimonovka-Alexandropol. The heights are completely behind the Russian army, and the gray zone has already spread to Panteleimonovka;
– the Russian Armed Forces’ assault aircraft, moving along the Sladkoe-Vodyanoe road, reached the Konstantinovka-Ugledar highway;
– The Ukrainian Armed Forces were driven out of the area of ??the Severnaya mine waste heap near Toretsk;
The Ukrainian Armed Forces no longer control half of the multi-story buildings in Toretsk (Dzerzhinsk).
13:30 An Abrams tank was destroyed in the area of responsibility of the Center group of forces; the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 390 servicemen, the Ministry of Defense reported.
Units of the "North" group of forces defeated two brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The enemy lost up to 60 servicemen, an ammunition depot was destroyed;
The Zapad group defeated three brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces; the enemy lost more than 540 soldiers, a tank, and two Anklav-N electronic warfare stations;
Units of the "Southern" group of forces defeated two brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the enemy lost more than 570 servicemen;
Units of the Center group of forces improved their tactical position and repelled two counterattacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces; the enemy lost more than 390 soldiers;
Air defense systems shot down two Hammer guided bombs, six HIMARS rockets and 40 drones, 22 of which were outside the SVO zone.
13:14 A captured Ukrainian BTR-4 somewhere in the Kursk region –video.
12:54 Airborne artillerymen struck and destroyed a self-propelled howitzer of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the right bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region.
12:27 Ukrainian Telegram channels reported explosions in occupied Kherson
12:19 Footage of training crews of the North troop group to carry out combat missions.
Tank crews, after taking up firing positions in tank-hazardous directions, continue to destroy mobile armored groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border area of the Kursk region.
The tank crews camouflaged their combat vehicles and took up firing positions. Each such point allows the crews to quickly move out to destroy mobile armored groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The successful completion of tasks is facilitated by comprehensive timely provision of ammunition, fuel and lubricants, and equipment.
11:56 Enemy reports:
"In the Toretsk direction, fighting continues on the outskirts of Toretsk and in New York.
The Russian Armed Forces have occupied the territory between New York and the village of Yuzhnoye, which had previously been semi-encircled.
The village of Nelipovka remained to be taken before complete encirclement. Until now, this was the only place on the front where the line of contact remained unchanged since February 24, 2022.
The Russian Armed Forces advanced towards Toretsk from Druzhba and to the southwest of New York – towards Panteleimonovka and Alexandropol.
In the Pokrovsky direction, the Russian Armed Forces are also advancing in the forest belts in the vicinity of the Volchya River."
10:52 Advance of RF Armed Forces in front sectors:
Russian troops advanced south of Konstantinovka and reached the Ukrainian Armed Forces fortified area on the way to Vodyanoye.
There is also the advance of Russian Armed Forces fighters in Kirov, Artemovo and New York.
10:40 On frames: Soldiers of the 9th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 1st Army Corps of the Russian Armed Forces destroy the enemy in the area of the village of New York.
The loss of territory between New York and the village of Yuzhnoye, which was previously semi-encircled, is acknowledged by the Ukrainian resource Deep State.
10:20 Explosions are heard in Mirgorod, Poltava region.
10:07 The crew of the "Tosochka" "burns out" the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Urozhayne.
In the SVO zone there are strongholds of the Ukrainian Armed Forcesdestroyheavy flamethrower systems, including the newest TOS-2 "Tosochka". It can hit at 18 kilometers - this is twice as much as "Solntsepek".
10:00 FPV drone crews of the Center group of forces supported attack aircraft in the Avdiivka direction –video.
09:49 Russian Armed Forces advanced near Panteleimonovka, in North, New York and its environs.
09:27 Armed Forces of Ukraine re-equipped pickups in MLRS and fired at civilians. The militants fired indiscriminately at peaceful settlements in the border area of Kursk Oblast.
After analyzing the intelligence data received, a decision was made to strike with a Lancet loitering munition. The equipment was destroyed by a direct hit.
09:11 A Russian soldier shot down a Ukrainian Armed Forces FPV drone from the back of a truck while it was moving, using one shot from a machine gun. He saved his comrades from being dropped by the UAV –video.
08:37 Airborne artillerymen of the Dnepr group of troops destroyed a mortar crew of the Ukrainian army on the right bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region, the Ministry of Defense reported.
08:18 Army aviation crews on Ka-52 helicopters inflicted air strikes against concentrations of manpower, armored and automobile military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border area of Kursk Oblast.
The strike was carried out using unguided aircraft missiles and guided aircraft missiles "Vikhr" against reconnaissance targets.
08:14 The strike was carried out at night on the Martynovsky airfield in the Nikolaev region, a warehouse with long-range missiles was destroyed, the pro-Russian resistance stated
08:09 Slovak SPG Zuzana 2 of the enemy after meeting with our counter-battery fire in the Kursk direction –video.
08:07 Job of tank crews of the "North" military group in the border area of the Kursk region.
08:04 Shepot Fronta reported on the advancement of the Russian Armed Forces in the Novgorodskoye (New York) area in the DPR:
“By the evening of 11.08.2024, it became known that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had fled from the last semi-cauldron in New York... A huge territory was abandoned... The Russian army continues to press”
08:00 Units of the West Force Grouptook possession of 39 strongholds of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said the head of the group’s press center, Ivan Bigma.
[GatewayPundit] Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... held his first interview today since being pushed out of the 2024 presidential race.
Biden spoke to CBS' Robert Costa in an interview taped for Sunday morning and stated that he left the race despite claiming he was in a dead heat with Trump in the polls (he wasn't). But Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... were concerned that his struggles would hurt them in down-ballot races.
He also seemingly confirmed one critical part of the coup: Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... pressured him to drop out behind the scenes due to her concerns over him losing and dragging Congress down with him.
Joe Biden also issued another veiled threat against President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... . This comes less than one month after he was almost killed on a stage in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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Stochastic terrorism is political violence that has been instigated by hostile public rhetoric which is directed at a group or an individual. Unlike incitement to terrorism, stochastic terrorism is accomplished by using indirect, vague, or coded language that allows the instigator to plausibly disclaim responsibility for the resulting violence.[1] A key element is the use of social media and other distributed forms of communications where the person who carries out the violence has no direct connection to the users of violent rhetoric
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Does anyone think Biden actual thought and said something on his own, without it being whispered in his ear?
Nobody with any powers of observation. Mrs. Uluque still watches CBS in spite of all my protests so I happened to see a small portion of said interview. Costa was treading lightly to put it mildly, tossing softballs and letting Joe ramble on and on about Beau. But, apart from that, I observed Joe holding note cards. Dunno who provided him with the cards but it's a good guess the answers to all of Costa's questions were on those cards.
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[An Nahar] Hezbollah launched overnight into Monday salvos of rockets "in response" to Israeli attacks on south Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , targeting troops stationed in northern Israel.
"Approximately 30 projectiles were identified crossing from Lebanon toward the area of Kabri," the Israeli military said Monday, reporting no casualties and announcing retaliatory strikes.
The Israeli military on Sunday said its forces had "struck a Hezbollah terrorist cell in the area of Taybeh" as well as "a military structure in the area of Derdghaiya".
"Following the strike, secondary explosions were identified, indicating the presence of weapons inside the structure" in Derdghaiya, it added.
An Israeli air strike on Sunday killed two Hezbollah fighters in Taybeh, with the health ministry reporting another death from an attack days ago.
The Israeli military said it had "struck throughout the day several Hezbollah military structures in the area of Adaisseh", which is next to Taybeh.
According to the health ministry, at least one Lebanese and 11 Syrians were maimed, two seriously, in an Israeli strike on Maaroub, near Derdghaiya.
Hezbollah fired Katyusha rockets at an Israeli military base in Ga'aton, near Nahariya, "in response to attacks on civilian homes, especially in Maaroub."
The group later targeted surveillance equipment in Metula and a post in the occupied Kfarshouba Hills.
Separately, the health ministry specified that a Lebanese man who had succumbed to injuries sustained in an Israeli strike "several days ago" on the southern village of Beit Leef was a Hezbollah fighter, not a civilian as earlier reported.
Hezbollah claimed several attacks against military positions in northern Israel on Sunday, including at least two using drones.
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The stealing class has figured out that it's a working-class election.
You can tell by what they pilfer.
By ''stealing class,'' I mean the Harris-Walz campaign in particular, and the party of big government in general.
They exist, and flourish, not by creating new wealth and ideas, but by stealing the produce of others.
In Harris' case, that means shamelessly stealing Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... 's ''no taxes on tips'' proposal and floating it as if it were her idea, something made less plausible by Kamala's lifelong history of not having original ideas.
But it's meant to show that she cares about the working class.
In Walz's case, what he stole was valor, posing as a combat soldier when he never was, and claiming he retired as a Command Sergeant Major when he didn't actually do so.
Instead he abandoned his unit, taking early retirement rather than deploy, an act that caused even his old unit's chaplain to call him ''cowardly.''
That's a working-class issue because most of our combat soldiers share a working-class background, and Walz was pretending a solidarity with them that he never actually earned.
Well, hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue, and by pretending to care about working-class people, the Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... are telling us that they think it's a working-class election.
The press — which decades ago was filled with working-class news hounds but is now stocked with elite journalists — is focused on issues like trans rights, child sacrifice abortion, gun control and the like.
And those issues do matter to the college-educated Karens who are the biggest consumers of news media today — but the working class is busy working, or trying to, and has been doing much worse ever since 2020.
Trump's four years in the White House were the first time the working class made gains since the early 2000s, and while the press and its audience may not care, you can bet that working-class people do.
The working class has also been most affected by various foreign wars and disasters, like Biden's humiliating skedaddle from Afghanistan. It's been most affected by the urban riots and crime waves spread by Democrats' woke policies.
By suddenly starting to take account of working-class issues, even if they have to steal to do so, the Harris-Walz campaign is telling us that they know that.
And they're not the only ones.
As Ruy Teixeira wrote in these pages not long ago, ''Working-class (non-college) voters will likely determine the outcome of the 2024 election.''
Teixeira estimated they will comprise about two-thirds of eligible voters in November, and even higher in all the key swing states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Worse yet for the Dems, many of the minority voters they expected would produce their ''new Democratic majority'' — a term coined by Teixeira in the 1990s before reality set in — are not only unmoved, but are positively repelled, by woke issues like trans rights, child sacrifice abortion, defunding the police and more.
But hey, if Harris takes your kid away from you because you won't let him or her be surgically mutilated, at least she won't make you pay taxes on your tips.
The problem for the Democrats is that they haven't been the party of the working class for a long while.
They're now the party of billionaires, well-off college-educated whites, especially unmarried white women, and their poor client groups — though even those clients are getting a bit restive.
It's the Republicans who are now a multiracial party of the working class. Which is especially a problem for Dems in a working-class election.
It's not all bad news for the Democrats: They retain the political equivalent of air superiority via their control of the legacy media, which since Kamala was selected has reached new levels of obsequiousness, and of most social-media platforms.
It'll be fun to watch places like Mother Jones and Rolling Stone, which mocked Trump's no-tax-on-tips proposal as a ''lame political stunt'' and the like, spin on a dime and praise Kamala's genius in helping out America's oppressed waitresses.
I don't have a great track record on political predictions, and this election — complete with an liquidation attempt the press has done its best to erase from memory — defies all experience.
But the press hype is all about atmospherics and vibes, and while Democrats are hoping for a ''vibe'' election, there's a certain vibe when the utility bill arrives, too.
That may stick more with voters than the natterings of pundits.
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One of former President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons... 's Virginia campaign offices was burglarized over the weekend and police are looking for the suspect, authorities said Monday.
The break-in took place on Sunday about 9 p.m. at Trump's campaign office in Ashburn, prompting deputies to respond to the scene, the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.
Video surveillance footage captured the burglary suspect — a white adult male, wearing dark clothing, a dark baseball cap and a backpack — as he entered the office.
''It is rare to have the office of any political campaign or party broken into,'' Loudoun County Sheriff Mike Chapman said.
Look for the FBI raid for what was planted.
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No one hold their breath waiting for an arrest. That guy looks like one of those Patriot Front ‘actors’.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The "Arab Defense" website reported that a squadron of US Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter aircraft had landed in Jordan, coming from the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71).
The fighters were seen carrying four AIM-120 AMRAAM advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles and four AIM-9X Sidewinder short-range air-to-air missiles. All portable missiles are live missiles.
The media reported that the deployment of these fighter jets in Jordan was part of the United States’ steps to increase its military power in the Middle East in the wake of the possibility 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... and the axis of resistance launching a large-scale attack against the Zionist entity following the liquidation of Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... political leader 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... in Tehran.
TWZ magazine wrote that stationing "Super Hornets" aircraft at Jordanian bases before any attack on the entity by Iran makes sense for America.
"Muwafaq Salti" Air Base is very centrally located in the region and has long been a major location for US air operations in the Middle East.
Previously, a squadron of US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles deployed in Jordan played a major role in Israel’s defense against the Iranian counterattack in April.
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probably there are standing orders issued under authority of DOD regarding what to do when ballistic missiles are on screen
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ref #1. Imperial sloth on display by the puppet who has served his purpose and finds it no longer necessary to even pretend to perform the job of President for fake news. The Obama propaganda dicta is now to focus all MSM eyes on Kameleon Kamala and Tampon Tim!
[NINANEWS] The supreme religious authority, Sayyed ...Arabic term meaning your/his lordship. Groveling in His Exalted Presence is encouraged... Ali al-Sistani, renewed the forbidding of all types of drugs, the forbidding of dealing with them, and the forbidding of the money obtained through them, calling for the resignation of officials who are negligent in combating drugs and purging the security services concerned with combating drugs from their corrupt elements.
This came in a legal response to a question received by his office from the Cultural Knowledge Foundation.
The office of the religious authority, al-Sistani, called in its legal responses to boycott dealing with anyone who smuggles or trades drugs, and there is no difference in the forbidding of drug trade and transportation.
The office of the religious authority, al-Sistani, stressed that "those officials who are negligent in combating drugs in performing their duties are committing a double sin and must resign," adding, "The higher authorities that hold the reins of affairs have a major responsibility in purging the security and judicial services from the corrupt."
He called on cultural and religious centers and institutions, each in his position, to educate people to remove the danger of drugs from society, noting that ''the repentance of anyone who used to use drugs and repented and continued treatment until the final stages and never returned to drugs is accepted.''
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Biden: "Mark my words. If [Trump] wins this election, watch what happens. It's a danger—He's a genuine danger to American security." pic.twitter.com/n9yjJJmbzu
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As a sometime imbiber of American history I cannot recall another moment when a sitting President declared his political opponent "a genuine danger to American security." Biden has by now certainly secured his place as the most dastardly of all American Presidents.
But watch this clip and see that Joe is holding note cards. It's a good bet that all the answers to Costa's questions were on those cards. No doubt CBS edited the interview to cut the parts where Joe was reading those cards.
Then see the smug look on Costa's face. He's a sociopath and a shill for the Democrats. But he thinks it's funny that people who watch CBS are gullible enough to believe that he is a real journalist.
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If he is a danger, it is miniscule next to the current demoncrats in power currently. They are truly a clear and present danger to our freedoms and security.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The new House task force probing the Trump assassination attempt made its first moves on Monday, requesting documents and briefings with agencies involved in investigating the shooting. Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas and Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe received one letter from committee heads Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and Jason Crowe, D-Colo. Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray.
Former President Donald Trump was shot at at a Butler, Pennsylvania, rally on July 13, 2024. One attendee, Corey Comperatore, was killed and two others were critically injured. A bullet just grazed Trump's ear, drawing blood but causing no real damage.
The task force notified the agency heads that its own request should 'supersede' any other member of Congress after a flurry of information was demanded by House and Senate lawmakers after the momentous tragedy. It requested briefings from each agency and all documents and evidence that has already been produced to Congress to be rounded up and handed to the task force.
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[JPost] IDF says it lacks the necessary intelligence to confirm or deny Hamas's claims at this time.
One hostage held by Hamas in Gaza has been killed by the Hamas terrorist assigned to guard him, and another two female hostages have been seriously injured, the spokesperson of the Hamas armed wing, Abu Obeida, announced on Telegram on Monday. "Look what you made me do"
The terrorist group stated that a committee was formed to investigate the incident and will announce the details later.
The IDF has reported that it does not have the intelligence support to confirm or deny the Hamas claims and will continue to inspect the reliability of the messages and uncover more information.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant stated in a confidential review before the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that "the number of hostages who are still alive within the humanitarian category is between 20 - 35, depending on the interpretation," KAN news reported on Monday evening.
Hostage talks
Hamas said on Sunday it had asked mediators to present a plan based upon past talks instead of engaging in new negotiations for a Gaza ceasefire deal and declined to attend the scheduled hostage ceasefire talks on Thursday.
Mediators have said that they are still working to hold the summit
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You know, Israel holds thousands of Hamas members.
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Of the more than 100 hostages: Defense Minister Yoav Gallant stated in a confidential review before the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that "the number of hostages who are still alive within the humanitarian category is between 20 - 35, depending on the interpretation,"
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[Regnum] Scientists recorded a strong disturbance in the Earth's magnetic field on August 12, according to data published on the website of the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of IKI and ISTP.
“There is currently a magnetic storm (strong, level G3) occurring in the Earth’s magnetosphere,” the publication says.
At the G3 level, problems with energy systems may arise on Earth, interruptions in satellite and low-frequency radio navigation, and disruptions in high-frequency radio communications are also possible. In addition, polar lights may be observed in mid-latitudes.
As reported by IA Regnum, the previous magnetic storm, which began on Earth on August 4, ended the next day. It almost reached the G3 level (strong) from 15:00 Moscow time to 21:00 on August 4, after which it began to weaken.
The following day, two powerful flares of the highest class occurred on the Sun. They were preceded by a series of medium explosions.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Local sources revealed an environmental disaster threatening residents of two districts east of Ataq, the center of Shabwah governorate, which is under the control of Saudi-led coalition factions.
Dr. Nasser Habtoor stated in a Facebook post that the major oil spill from the crude oil pipeline extending from the Jardan fields to several areas in the al-Rawdah and Habban districts is a health and environmental disaster, threatening citizens, their agricultural lands, and groundwater sources.
He explained that the crude oil leakage has mixed with water in the al-Matar area of al-Rawdah, which residents rely on for drinking, daily life, livestock, and irrigation. This issue could turn into a real tragedy.
Habtoor stressed the importance of halting the pipeline’s operation and conducting repairs, highlighting that the local authorities’ failure to address and maintain the pipeline constitutes a disaster on its own.
He urged residents to take all necessary precautions to protect themselves, their children, and their farms from the dangerous pollution.
Habtoor questioned, "How can crude oil continue to be pumped through the pipeline while the government claims to have ceased exports?"
The crude oil leakage in the al-Matar area of al-Rawdah has been ongoing since May, with local authorities loyal to the UAE showing no concern for the citizens’ lives.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The al-Mansoura area in the city of Aden, which is under the control of the Saudi-led coalition, witnessed last night violent mostly peacefulfestivities among African migrants colonists groups until the early hours of Sunday.
Media sources reported that festivities broke out on Saturday, between African Oromo immigrants colonists with hands, stones, and the use of sticks and iron until late hours of the night without intervention by the factions affiliated with the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC).
The STC factions were content to watch the festivities between the Oromo immigrants colonists, who became blocs, and the confrontations between them extended to al-Mansoura Palace Square, according to the sources.
Tensions still exist between the Oromoa, which reflects the state of security chaos that Aden has reached under the control of factions loyal to the UAE.
The sources stated that the festivities erupted when three Oromo immigrants colonists attacked an immigrant who was sleeping by throwing stones at him and hitting his head with the remains of cement blocks, and he sought the help of others in response to the attack before the fight developed to include dozens of them in central al-Mansoura.
In September last year, Aden witnessed a clash between two Æthiopian ethnic groups, the Oromoa and Amhara, which spread to restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement province, leaving two dead and dozens maimed.
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[Naharnet] Hezbollah is ''calculating its steps very well'' as to its anticipated response to the Israeli airstrike on Dahieh that killed its military chief Fouad Shukur and six other people, an influential figure close to Hezbollah said.
''Hezbollah is wary of falling into the trap of giving the Israelis an alibi to attack Lebanese civilian areas, and it fears that its precision missiles -- which it has yet to use on the battlefield -- might get deviated from the specified targets due to jamming and deflection by Israel,'' the source told Kuwait's al-Anbaa newspaper.
''The Israelis are strongly trying to expand the war, but they are being faced with the Americans' deterrence,'' the source added, noting that ''Hezbollah is being patient to avoid plunging the entire country into an all-out war, for several considerations.''
The influential figure, however, asserted that Hezbollah will retaliate through striking ''an Israeli military target, without hitting civilians.''
''Hezbollah has readiness for a lengthy fight against Israel and there is no problem in it protracting for 10 years,'' the source added.
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United Nations / CBS had a blurb the other day:
The Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations told CBS News in an exclusive on Friday that the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah would begin deliberately targeting Israeli civilians - claiming that it had not done so until now.
[RedState] As Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and his police chief were frantically calling Governor Tim Walz in the summer of 2020 to save a besieged police precinct, Governor Tim Walz refused to send National Guard soldiers to help the beleaguered police officers. Later, in rationalizing and justifying his conscious decision to let riots metastasize, Walz said the Guard wasn't up to the task.
I don’t think the mayor knew what he was asking for. He wanted the National Guard, and what does that mean? I think the mayor said, 'I request the National Guard, whew, this is great. We’re going to have massively trained troops.' No, you’re going to have 19-year-olds who are cooks, in some cases.
He went on to say, "Putting a young troop with limited experience in the military with a loaded automatic weapon in the middle of a system with no one giving him direction -- they don’t have zip ties. They don’t have legal authority,"
That was on Wednesday, by the time Walz finally authorized the deployment of "19-year-old" cooks, the Minneapolis Third Precinct had been sacked, and the riots were widespread.
As a former National Guardsman, Walz's answers and responses sound blatantly dishonest. He should have trained in crowd control at some point in his career and would have known that you don't put troops on the streets with automatic weapons until things have gone pear-shaped in a major way. From personal experience, I was deployed as part of an Operation GARDEN PLOT exercise to secure a real nuclear weapons storage facility against a sizeable force of role-players. Even under those circumstances, I had a strict progression in the use of force to follow. You didn't load weapons until you were in extremis. I find it hard to believe that an organization that has managing civil disturbances as a primary mission would not have rules on the use of force.
According to a disgustingly servile "fact check" by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that is supposed to prove that Walz did all he could to stop the riots, the Minneapolis mayor asked for troops at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday; the police chief contacted Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington shortly after 8 p.m., asking for the Guard and providing “mission plan” details. The first Guardsmen arrived at around 3:45 a.m. on Friday. What happened? Did the 19-year-old cooks get replaced?
[NINANEWS] The Spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Major General Yahya Rasool, announced today, Monday, the return of two Yazidi women kidnapped by ISIS faceless myrmidons from the Syrian side.
Rasool said in a statement, "According to the directives of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, the security services and intelligence departments continue to search for the kidnapped Yazidis intensively."
He explained that "by collecting information and continuous follow-up of this important file, the heroes of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service, after obtaining the necessary approvals from the Joint Operations Command and coordinating with the Border Forces Command, were able to return two Yazidi women kidnapped by the evil ISIS terrorist gangs during their rape of the lands of Nineveh Governorate, as they were returned from the Syrian side and handed over to their families, one of them a girl about 10 years old."
He stressed that "the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces is personally following up on the file of returning the kidnapped Yazidi women and stresses, in more than one security meeting and occasion, the need to return all the kidnapped women to their families and to make every effort and harness the capabilities for this purpose."
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Former President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... is preparing to launch a $100 million lawsuit accusing Attorney General G Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray of running a 'malicious prosecution' against him.
It comes two years after the 2022 of Trump's Mar-a-Lago home that yielded a trove of 300 documents marked 'classified'.
Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon subsequently dismissed a case brought by special counsel Jack Smith against the former president.
The new lawsuit, prepared by Trump lawyer Daniel Epstein, claims a 'clear intent to engage in political persecution' against Trump.
It says the search, which occurred while Trump was away, came from actions 'rooted in intrusion upon seclusion, malicious prosecution, and abuse of process.'
The actions of the DOJ and FBI are 'inconsistent with protocols requiring the consent of an investigative target, disclosure to that individual’s attorneys, and the use of the local U.S. Attorney’s Office,' Epstein writes in the document obtained by Fox News.
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So he will drop out during the convention. Mike Obama will step in to save the party. The dem wave, associate with the cheat, will rule the day... Back off of this guy, wait until its official...
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/\ Frightening, but certainly NOT out of the realm of possibility.
[NINANEWS] The leader of the Sadrist movement, Moqtada Tater al-Sadr ...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival al-Khoei assassinated shortly after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry when the check cleared... , called on Arab and Islamic governments to pressure the Security Council to stop the Zionist violations.
A document signed by al-Sadr stated: "I call on the Arab and Islamic governments, and the moderate and peace-loving countries, to pressure the members of the Security Council, which will convene in the coming days at the request of Algeria, and to demand that they issue binding and immediate resolutions to stop human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... violations and the killing of innocents in beloved 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... , and to demand that the Zionist enemy immediately cease fire without any conditions. All of this represents the conscience of free nations and peoples."
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[FoxNews] Paragliders were used in the Oct 7 massacre against Israel
The Hamas terrorist movement’s use of paragliders as part of its mass murder of nearly 1,200 people, including over 30 Americans, in southern Israel on Oct. 7 was laid out in a methodical plan that Fox News Digital can disclose for the first time.
A Hamas military plan obtained by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the Gaza Strip reveals the great lengths the Iranian regime-backed terrorist organization Hamas went to deceive the world about its use of the aerial sports device.
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I'm posting this at 23:45 Israel time. By tomorrow morning (for me) we'll know if there was an attack tonight.
Today is the ancient holiday of Tisha b’Av, the 9th of the month of Av, when Jews mourn the destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem by Babylon in 423 BCE; the Second Temple, rebuilt on the same site, was destroyed on the same date in 69 CE. It would be just like the Mad Mullahs to think it clever to try again on the same date.
[Ynet] The World Bank on Monday warned that a war against Israel would be catastrophic for Iran's economy, in a new report.
Not a typo. Apparently The Start-Up Nation is handling the situation just fine.
According to the report, war will result in high youth unemployment, a lack of investment, a struggling automotive industry, rapid currency devaluation, a distorted exchange rate regime, skyrocketing inflation, and a deteriorating productive sector.
The World Bank report notes that that the real income per capita and standard of living in Iran in 2024 are lower than in 2014, with the gap between Iran and other developing nations widening. Even a relatively brief military conflict with Israel, the report suggests, would come at a high cost to Iranian citizens.
"Iranian entanglement in the Gaza war," the report states, "could result in a loss of GDP and income exceeding 10%, disrupt ongoing economic activities, significantly lower living standards, and further diminish productive investments."
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Has the World Bank failed to take into account Tehran’s support for terrorism is not limited to the Middle East? They and WE are funding the spread of radical Islam worldwide. Because, how many plane loads of CA$H did the DC Swamp already send them to help with their genocidal efforts?
My Simple Question.
Which is more important to the Iranian leadership?
Death to all infidels, or a few bumps to their 3rd world overpopulated economy?
Peeking behind the curtain.
Could Iran & others just be playing a political PR blink game for more $$$$$, and UN concessions?
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.
[Bee] MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Amid allegations of stolen valor and exaggeration of his military service, Minnesota governor and Vice-Presidential candidate Tim Walz has clarified that he's actually just redistributing valor, not stealing it.
A joint force from the National Security Service, in cooperation with the police of al-Musayyib district, north of Hillah, arrested a person practicing magic and sorcery inside his house located in al-Musayyib, the second teachers' neighborhood.
[JPost] A former 
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
...every time you hear the phrase 
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...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...
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...every time you hear the phrase 
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
...Arabic term meaning 
The task force notified the agency heads that its own request should 'supersede' any other member of Congress after a flurry of information was demanded by House and Senate lawmakers after the momentous tragedy. It requested briefings from each agency and all documents and evidence that has already been produced to Congress to be rounded up and handed to the task force.
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...Oh, noze! Not him!...
...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival al-Khoei assassinated shortly after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry when the check cleared...
The Hamas terrorist movement’s use of 
