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Birac wants to replace US Dollar for other currency and US should Make US Dollar Pretend Standard in the World! Make Gold And Silver Coinsges As Official Currency And It'll be an an hit for Collectors And Investors And The American Public!
Not that the details matter. In the end, Hamas will accept nothing less than Israel’s conquest and destruction — it’s in their founding document. Anything they agree to in the meantime is merely a hudna to keep the world quiet and Israel bound until Hamas resumes the conflict with another 10/7.
[IsraelTimes] An unnamed Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... source reiterates that the Paleostinian terror group turned down the latest "bridging proposal" by the US because it contains ostensible new elements that the source says were added by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and are unacceptable to Hamas.
The sticking points in the latest proposal include the possibility of Israel objecting to the number and identities of Paleostinian security prisoners to be freed in exchange for hostages, and the deportation abroad of a large number of those prisoners, as well as the searching of displaced Gazooks as they return to their homes in the north of the Strip, the source tells the Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i-owned al-Araby al-Jadeed.
The source argues that Hamas has shown flexibility with regard to the timeline for the IDF withdrawal from the Strip, walking back its demand that it must take place in the first phase of the ceasefire, but Netanyahu has not done the same with regards to the IDF withdrawal from the Philadelphi and the Netzarim corridors, and has added new conditions.
Al-Araby al-Jadeed further quotes Hamas politburo member Suheil al-Hindi saying that Hamas will not budge from its July 2 response to an earlier Israeli proposal, and will not renegotiate the deal.
Al-Hindi accuses Netanyahu of interpreting Hamas’s "flexibility" as a sign of submission and surrender, and says that the terror group has conveyed its position to mediators Egypt and Qatar, urging them to pressure Israel to abide by what has been agreed upon.
In a statement on Sunday evening, Hamas claimed that the latest US-backed text — a "bridging proposal" that was conveyed to Israel and to Hamas at the end of the talks in Doha on Friday — was aligned with Israel’s demands, citing Israel’s position on the two corridors and issues related the release of Paleostinian security prisoners, without further specification.
On Sunday, a Saudi paper reported ostensible new details of the deal, including a reduced IDF presence on the Philadelphi Corridor on the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... -Egypt border, the possibility of Israel vetoing the names of at least 100 Paleostinian prisoners slated for release, and the deportation of many of them abroad.
Yes, that is of course exactly what genocidaires do — vaccinate enemy kiddies against dread diseases... at no charge to the families.
[IsraelTimes] The heads of Israeli medical societies urge the health and defense ministers to allow a humanitarian ceasefire to vaccinate the population 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... against polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain... In a joint letter sent yesterday to Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Health Minister Uriel Buso, the doctors voice their concern after Gaza recorded its first polio case in 25 years last week when tests in Jordan confirmed the disease in an unvaccinated 10-month-old baby from the central Gaza Strip.
According to the World Health Organization, about 90% of the population in Gaza was vaccinated against polio in the first quarter of 2024.
"All infants in Israel and Gaza who have not yet received the full vaccinations are at high risk," the doctors write. "Our soldiers in Gaza and those treating prisoners from Gaza are also at risk. Some of those infected may suffer paralysis for the rest of their lives or spread the virus to immunocompromised populations."
IDF International Spokesperson Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani says on X that "in the coming weeks, 43,250 vials of vaccine are expected to arrive in Israel and will enter the Gaza Strip, enough to vaccinate over 1 million children in 2 rounds."
He adds that according to the World Health Organization, about 90% of the population in Gaza was vaccinated against polio in the first quarter of 2024.
They did it without pausing the war then, too….
"Although the percentage of vaccinated residents of the Gaza Strip is high, babies likely born in Gaza after October 2023 and children who did not complete their polio vaccinations after the outbreak of war need additional doses," says Dr. Eyal Leshem, director of the Center for Travel Medicine and Tropical Diseases at Sheba Medical Center.
He says the vaccine to be given, nOPV2, is designed to provide immunity against type 2 poliovirus while reducing the risk of vaccine-derived poliovirus outbreaks.
"The vaccine is supplied in vials with 50 doses," Leshem says. "Therefore, it is likely that 2 doses can be given to each unvaccinated child, as well as booster doses to those already vaccinated."
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Has anyone ever asked the WHO to explain why it declared Polio globally eradicated in 2015?
The word "eradicated" is being misused here, but essentially they have. At least in civilized countries where the vaccination teams don't get murdered. Eradicated, in the public health sense, means there are no naturally occurring cases anywhere. So far, smallpox is the only disease to have been eradicated. Yay, humans! And 3 cheers for Western medicine.
From the WHO website: Wild poliovirus cases have decreased by over 99% since 1988, from an estimated 350,000 cases in more than 125 endemic countries to 6 reported cases in 2021. Of the 3 strains of wild poliovirus (type 1, type 2 and type 3), wild poliovirus type 2 was eradicated in 1999 and wild poliovirus type 3 was eradicated in 2020. As at 2022, endemic wild poliovirus type 1 remains in two countries: Pakistan and Afghanistan.
"Who done it?"
"The WHO."
"Yeah, that's what I'm asking. Who?"
"That's what I said. WHO"
"What?"
"No, WHO."
"ARGGHH!"
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[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian media outlets report that 33 detainees, including two women, were released by Israel back to the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip this morning.
Israel regularly returns Gazook detainees to the Strip, mostly after determining they are not suspected of terror activity. Some terror suspects who are considered low-risk have been released due to lack of space in Israeli jails.
Got their photos and biometrics to make identifying their bodies easier should it become necessary, graphed out all their family and work connections — no need to keep the actual people if they aren’t germane to the current conflict.
[IsraelTimes] Police say cops have located and seized weapons held illegally in central Israel, including an RPG launcher with two warheads suspected to have previously been in the possession of Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip.
The crackdown on illegal arms last night in the cities of Netanya and Taibe led to the discovery of the launcher in the parking lot of a building in central Netanya, with a police sapper successfully neutralizing it.
Police say officers also found various firearms and ammunition in Taibe.
The statement doesn’t elaborate on how the RPG might have gotten from Gaza to Netanya. UNRWA?
There have been several cases of soldiers unlawfully taking weapons from the Gaza Strip as "souvenirs" as well as some civilians doing similar acts following the October 7 onslaught.
[IsraelTimes] None hurt in barrages; firefighters battle blazes sparked by impacts; Gallant: Israel’s ‘center of gravity’ gradually moving from Gaza to the northern front
Hezbollah fired some 115 rockets and several drones from 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... at northern Israel on Tuesday in barrages throughout the day, according to the Israel Defense Forces, which said that some of the projectiles were intercepted.
Amid the repeated barrages, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned that the Israeli military was shifting its focus from 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... to the northern front, portending a major escalation with Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
There were no injuries reported in the attacks on the Upper Galilee, Western Galilee, and the Golan Heights.
The IDF said some of the rocket impacts sparked fires in open areas and that firefighters were working to extinguish them.
The army said it struck one of the launchers shortly after rocket fire in the morning hours.
Sirens sounded in multiple northern communities amid the attacks.
The Iran-backed terror group said the barrages targeted military bases.
Some of the attacks it said were in response to IDF strikes on Hezbollah arms depots deep inside Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley late Monday, and the killing of a prominent operative earlier in the day. Earlier Monday, an Israeli military NCO was killed in an explosive drone attack on northern Israel.
Israeli strikes deep inside Lebanon are relatively rare and generally come in response to deadly attacks. Nabi Chit, where one of the strikes in Baalbek reportedly took place, is some 70 kilometers (43 miles) from the Israeli border.
The IDF also carried out a dronezap on Monday night in southern Lebanon’s Deir Qanoun, near Tyre, killing a Hezbollah operative named as Hussein Suleiman. The IDF identified Suleiman as a prominent member of Hezbollah’s rocket and missile unit. Also Monday night, the IDF carried out strikes on a pair of Hezbollah rocket launchers in southern Lebanon’s Mansouri and Taybeh that were primed for "immediate" launch at Israel.
On Tuesday, the IDF said that it struck a building where several Hezbollah operatives were spotted in southern Lebanon’s Matmoura, along with another structure in the area.
A Lebanese media report on Monday claimed that Hezbollah’s threatened retaliatory attack for the killing of top commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut last month could be back on track after its ally Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... appeared to reject truce terms aimed at ending fighting in Gaza.
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... has also threatened a major assault on the Jewish state following the killing of Hamas 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 in an attack blamed on Israel. It too has indicated its next steps could depend on the results of the Gaza ceasefire talks.
Meanwhile on Tuesday, Gallant said Israel’s "center of gravity" was gradually moving away from the Gaza Strip to the northern front, as the country readied for a major escalation with Hezbollah.
"Our center of gravity is moving from south to north, we are in a gradual change, we have more tasks in the south, we have hostages, we need to bring them, we are negotiating on this and I believe we will succeed in reaching results, this is a very important thing," Gallant said during a visit to the 36th Division in northern Israel.
"We want to return the [displaced] residents to the north, we want to return them safely. If it is possible to do this in an agreement, we will do it in an agreement," he said, warning that Israel would otherwise act.
Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis since October 8, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war against the Hamas terror group there. So far, the skirmishes have resulted in 26 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 19 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Hezbollah has named 415 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 72 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed.
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces confirms fighter jets carried out overnight airstrikes on Hezbollah weapon storage sites in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, for the second straight night.
A military statement says secondary explosions were identified after the strikes and that it also targeted Hezbollah air defenses in the area “that posed a threat” to Israeli aircraft.
The IDF accuses Hezbollah of putting military assets within populated areas, in a “cynical exploitation of Lebanese citizens,” after the Lebanese health ministry said one person was killed and at least 20 wounded in the strikes.
The statement also says the IDF carried out additional strikes on Hezbollah targets yesterday, including a rocket launcher used in an attack on Moshav Ya’ara.
[IsraelTimes] Lebanon’s health ministry says early Wednesday that Israeli strikes in the country’s east killed one person, just over a day after similar strikes in the area.
“Israeli enemy strikes on the Bekaa” Valley killed one person “and wounded 19 others,” the health ministry says, noting the toll was provisional and without saying if they were civilians or fighters.
The strikes around midnight come little more than a day after similar raids in the Bekaa region that Israel said targeted “Hezbollah weapons storage facilities.”
[IsraelTimes] The Hezbollah terror group announces the deaths of four members killed “on the road to Jerusalem,” its term for operatives slain in Israeli strikes.
The announcement comes following an Israeli airstrike on a cell of Hezbollah operatives at a building in southern Lebanon’s Matmoura earlier today.
Their deaths bring the terror group’s toll since the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip to at least 419.
[NYPOST] Disgraced Sen. Bob Menendez's lengthy career in office came to an end Tuesday — a little more than a month after he was convicted of doling out political favors in exchange for gold bar bribes and cash.
The 70-year-old New Jersey Democrat was convicted of 16 felonies for taking payola in exchange for using his powerful seat to meddle in investigations of three businessmen and the governments of Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and Egypt.
The longtime pol — who faces over 200 years behind bars at his Oct. 29 sentencing — had previously announced his plan to step down on Aug. 20, which is payday for Senate staff and members.
[WND] 'Injections carry such a high risk of dangerous adverse events, it would be safer to catch the virus without being vaccinated than to take one of the shots'
Those mRNA COVID-19 shots, turned out in double time by an industry in the pay of the federal government at the time, are "far more" dangerous to those who took them, including those forced by government officials to take them, than getting COVID, a new report explains.
The report at Slay News said a study has shown that the "overall risks" of the shots "greatly outweigh theoretical benefits."
The study results appeared in the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research.
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Depends on the parameters of the study. What did the abstract say?
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Partial answer - It is therefore difficult to predict adverse event profiles on an individual basis, but considering that millions of adults across the world have reported severe and serious adverse events in the context of these modmRNA COVID-19 products, valid concerns are raised regarding injection of infants and younger age groups for whom COVID-19 poses only minimal risks.
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[ZeroHedge] A recent Wall Street Journal article titled: A Drunken Evening, a Rented Yacht: The Real Story of the Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage claims a rogue Ukrainian general, Valeriy Zaluzhniy, and a small team of commandos were responsible for the September 2022 destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines. However, this report offers little new information, mostly rehashing details that surfaced over a year ago. That article’s timing and content raise questions about its intent, particularly given the complexities involved in such a high-stakes operation.
Matt Riley argues below that the operation described by the WSJ is highly improbable. His main points summarized are:
The Nord Stream operation required capabilities far beyond those of the alleged perpetrators.
The WSJ story seems more like a strategic narrative designed to distract from the real culprits and manage geopolitical tensions, with potential darker motives behind its publication.
The suggestion that Zaluzhniy, now the Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK, could be targeted in a false flag operation to further escalate tensions with Russia is particularly concerning.
The whole narrative appears to be setting the stage for a possible escalation, leveraging public perceptions to justify further conflict.
This is a detailed explanation by Matt Riley, a former Naval Marine Engineer Diving Officer and Intelligence Interrogator.
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The Russians did it , They had multi year contracts with the Europeans at very low prices compared to market prices at the time.when the pipeline blew up the could declare Force De Majuer, that would allow them out of the low priced contracts to sell at the higher market price…..
[JustTheNews] If the CMS final rule takes effect Nov. 1, more than 200,000 DACA recipients would automatically become eligible for taxpayer-subsidized health plans nationwide.
A coalition of states led by Kansas has sued the Biden-Harris administration to block the federal government from providing free health care through the taxpayer-funded Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, to foreign nationals in the U.S. illegally.
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota Western Division and was joined by attorneys general from 14 states. The U.S. government and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are named as defendants.
At issue is a CMS final rule change called, “Clarifying the Eligibility of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Recipients and Certain Other NonCitizens for a Qualified Health Plan Through an Exchange, Advance Payments of the Premium Tax Credit, Cost-Sharing Reductions, a Basic Health Program.” In it, CMS redefines the legal term of “lawfully present” to include DACA recipients.
When Congress enacted the ACA, it limited eligibility only to “citizen[s] or national[s] of the United States [and] aliens lawfully present in the United States.” By changing the definition of “lawfully present” to include DACA recipients, CMS is enabling them to have access to taxpayer-funded ACA coverage. Doing so violates the Administrative Procedures Act, federal law that prohibits taxpayer-funded benefits from being given to illegal foreign nationals, and the Affordable Care Act, the complaint states.
Congress has already limited eligibility coverage, which excludes DACA recipients. Additionally, “DACA recipients are, by definition, unlawfully present in the United States,” the complaint states. “Indeed, eligibility for DACA requires unlawful presence in the United States.”
Former President Barack Obama created DACA through executive order in 2012. It shielded children from deportation who were brought into the country illegally by their parents and has been in litigation for 12 years. A federal judge has twice ruled DACA is illegal. The most recent ruling was in a multi-state lawsuit led by Texas to end DACA once and for all, The Center Square reported. The U.S. Supreme Court is ultimately expected to decide the case.
Numerous reports suggest between 700,000 and 800,000 DACA recipients live in the U.S. The Los Angeles Times reports there are 578,680 on record with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as of March 2023.
In June, President Joe Biden announced he was expanding deportation protections for DACA recipients and streamlining request waivers to make it easier for them to obtain temporary visas, The Center Square reported. DACA supporters argue recipients should be granted citizenship, claiming they contribute to the U.S. economy and are constructive members of society.
Others argue those with criminal records, at a minimum, should be deported. Within the first five years of the program, nearly 80,000 DACA recipients were released into the U.S. with arrest records, The Center Square reported.
"Illegal aliens shouldn't get a free pass into our country,” Kobach said. “They shouldn't receive taxpayer benefits when they arrive, and the Biden-Harris administration shouldn't get a free pass to violate federal law. That's why I am leading a multistate lawsuit to stop this illegal regulation from going into effect.”
If the CMS final rule takes effect Nov. 1, more than 200,000 DACA recipients would automatically become eligible for taxpayer-subsidized health plans nationwide.
The lawsuit cites data from the Migration Policy Institute, Pew Research Center and others to estimate how many illegal foreign nationals are estimated to receive public benefits and the associated costs to taxpayers in each of the plaintiff states.
The lawsuit asks the court to postpone the effective date of the rule, vacate it, enjoin the defendants from implementing it and award plaintiff attorneys the costs of their fees.
Joining Kobach are the attorneys general representing Alabama, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Wonder how many panels were tested.
[JustTheNews] At his first outdoor rally since the attempted assassination, Trump will try to counter the DNC and secure the key battleground state
The Secret Service has installed bulletproof glass at former President Donald Trump's Wednesday rally in North Carolina.
It’s better than nothing, at least. Transporting it will add an interesting twist to the agents’ daily routine.
This is his first outdoor rally since the one last month in which a sniper attempted to assassinate him.
A "special see-through protective barrier" will separate Trump, now the GOP presidential nominee, from rallygoers, according to The Washington Examiner.
The sniper at the July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, shot from a rooftop about 150 yards away from the stage and outside of the Secret Service's inner security ring that included magnetometers, which has prompted several investigations into agency lapses and promises for a review of and improvements to policies and practices.
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Next story: in a shocking lapse, shots that killed Trump went straight through defective bulletproof glass, report reveals. The improperly stored glass deteriorated over time and should never have been used, investigators said.
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Why not a full-size round? Like a NATO 7.62? I think I recall--69-71, there were AP rounds along with ball and tracer. Not sure about incendiary, although all had been available in mil 30.06.
Would bullet-proof glass stop a full-size round? Lots of hunting ammo in that ballpark, too.
So I guess the question is what kind of commonly-available ammo will the glass stop?
Going on about AR-15 family of weapons and ammo may restrict the thinking.
When I was in high school, just over sixty years ago, lots of guys, or their fathers, had the 03 Springfield for deer. Fired the mil 30.06. If you lived near Canada, likely to have an Enfield in .303,similar ballistic performance.
And those were the cheap ones. When the US switched to NATO, how many Garands got loose?
I hope somebody's thinking bigger than .223/5.56.
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#7 UAV? After all if Hezbollah can master the tech, why not some, technically competent though leftard otherwise, American kid?
Rather amazing this has not already happened given the wide availability of commercial off-the-shelf drones. I can think of a half-dozen ways to do it that would be really hard to defend against, especially if it was the first instance. Who's up for a nice drone swarm?
Perhaps the overlap between dangerous wokerati lunatics and STEM nerds is not that great.
[JustTheNews] 'Iran seeks to stoke discord and undermine confidence in our democratic institutions,' per the joint statement.
The U.S. intelligence community and FBI have issued a joint statement again warning Iran seeks to "stoke discord and undermine confidence in our democratic institutions" during this election season.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued the joint statement on Monday.
"Iran seeks to stoke discord and undermine confidence in our democratic institutions," the statement reads. "Iran has furthermore demonstrated a longstanding interest in exploiting societal tensions through various means," according to the statement.
The agencies accuse Iran of using "cyber operations to attempt to gain access to sensitive information related to U.S. elections."
"We have observed increasingly aggressive Iranian activity during this election cycle, specifically involving influence operations targeting the American public and cyber operations targeting presidential campaigns," the agencies stated.
Examples of election interference include the recently reported activities to compromise former President Trump's 2024 presidential campaign, which the intelligence community attributes to Iran.
The intelligence community "is confident that the Iranians have through social engineering and other efforts sought access to individuals with direct access to the presidential campaigns of both political parties."
The agencies pledged that they "will not tolerate foreign efforts to influence or interfere with our elections, including the targeting of American political campaigns."
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[Breitbart] Criminals being set free in a bid to reduce overcrowding at a prison are reoffending and being returned to custody, an inspection report released Wednesday reveals.
The early release scheme — known as the end of custody supervised licence (ECSL) — is designed to free up space to ease prison overcrowding.
The BBC reports a new study shows revealed a quarter of HMP Nottingham prisoners released under the scheme were homeless, leading to “inevitable recalls”, said chief inspector of prisons Charlie Taylor.
The report comes as the left-wing Labour government’s emergency Operation Early Dawn measure to clear UK prison space amid the sentencing of anti-migration rioters, protesters, and social media posters will reportedly see at least 5,500 criminals released early by the autumn, as Breitbart News reported.
Taylor conceded it was “uncertain how many had been recalled”, the number of inmates who were homeless when they were released early was “astonishing.”
He cautioned high-risk offenders are not being given enough attention, despite warnings about the danger they posed.
At HMP Nottingham, preparation for the early release of inmates under the scheme was “often chaotic and rushed”, despite staff “doing their best”, the HM Inspectorate of Prisons report as seen by the BBC said.
“A quarter of prisoners released on this scheme were homeless and although data was not clear, it resulted in inevitable recalls,”Taylor said. “Overall, Nottingham is a jail that is coping with the many challenges that it faces, but it remains a fragile institution that carries a lot of risk within its constantly churning population.”
Nothing surprises me anymore. I just assume that everything they do is for some evil purpose. And that means you know damn good and well what's happening to those children.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A former flight attendant who became a successful thriller author has revealed a terrifying security weakness that she fears could cause a nuclear apocalypse.
New York Times bestselling author T.J. Newman, 41, got the idea for her most recent book 'Worst Case Scenario' after asking pilots to share their scariest fears.
One pilot told her that he often worried that a plane could crash into a nuclear power plant, which 'planted the seed' for her third novel, Newman said.
She soon started to research his fear to see if there 'was any validity to his fears,' and soon figured out that even though reactors - the heart of nuclear power plants - are hardened, the material stored outside of them could cause a major disaster.
'The research terrified me, and it became very quickly apparent that what became the premise of the book is completely plausible,' she said.
[FoxNews] The FDA has approved TRAUMAGEL, designed to stop blood loss from gunshots, stabbings and other trauma
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a novel treatment that is designed to stop severe bleeding in a matter of seconds.
TRAUMAGEL — made by Cresilon Inc., a Brooklyn-based biotechnology company — is a plant-based hydrogel that comes in a pre-filled syringe, according to a press release.
First responders, paramedics and combat medics can use the gel to rapidly stop severe blood loss from wounds due to gunshots, stabbings or other traumatic events.
Joe Landolina, Cresilon’s CEO and co-founder, invented the gel in his dorm room when he was a 17-year-old chemical and bioengineering student at NYU.
There are currently many gauzes, powders and sponges used to stop bleeding, but they have limitations, according to Landolina.
"Compared to TRAUMAGEL, these products are difficult to apply into wounds, as they must be packed physically into a bullet wound by a first responder, which is painful and highly risky," he told Fox News Digital via email.
TRAUMAGEL, which is "the color and texture of hummus," works by instantly creating a mechanical barrier against bleeding at the site of the wound, Landolina said.
"That barrier then allows the patient to quickly produce their own natural clot that doesn’t become incorporated with TRAUMAGEL, allowing TRAUMAGEL to then be removed without disturbing the clot."
The gel is supposed to be removed within 24 hours.
Dr. Marc Siegel, senior medical analyst for Fox News and clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, confirmed that this is the first gel-based hemostatic agent to be cleared for use in the U.S. to stop bleeding.
The product appears to be a "major step forward" in managing acute bleeding in the field — "even including head trauma and military uses [in combat], as well as gunshot and knifing wounds outside of combat," Siegel told Fox News Digital.
"The advantages are that it is plant-based and works very rapidly without a lot of protocol or preparation," he said.
"Also, it can be squirted from a syringe to get it into ‘nooks and crannies,’ and doesn't require external pressure."
Severe blood loss in traumatic wounds can kill in a matter of minutes, and is responsible for more than 35% of all pre-hospital deaths, studies show.
Up to 60% of hemorrhage deaths occur within the first three hours of injury.
The product is slated to launch in the U.S. in late 2024, according to the company.
Cresilon will target the U.S. military, trauma hospitals, emergency medical services (EMS) agencies and medical professionals who treat traumatic wounds, the company states.
[FoxNews] All 45 Ukrainian drones over Moscow, Bryansk, Belgorod, Kaluga and Kursk [destroyed], Russian officials say.
Ukraine targeted Moscow on Wednesday in what Russian officials called one of largest drone strikes on the capital since the war began in 2022.
All 11 drones heading toward the capital in the Moscow region were destroyed, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said. In total, Russia said its air defenses downed 45 Ukrainian drones, including 23 over the Bryansk region, six over Belgorod, three over Kaluga and two over Kursk.
"This was one of the biggest attempts of all time to attack Moscow using drones," Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said on his Telegram channel, adding that strong air defenses around the capital prevented the drones from striking their intended targets.
Some Russian social media channels shared videos of drones apparently being destroyed by air defense systems, which then set off car alarms.
In Russia's Kursk region, one person was killed and two were wounded after a Ukrainian drone dropped an explosive device on their car, Acting Regional Governor Alexei Smirnov said on Telegram, according to Reuters.
Ukraine has been attacking Russia with drones, targeting oil refineries and airfields, in an attempt to weaken Russia's fighting potential and also has targeted the capital several times.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces continue to push into Russia’s western Kursk region while the Russians drive forward slowly in a land conflict in eastern Ukraine.
[FoxNews] Enrollment drops 50,000 students but Chicago teachers want $50B for schools.
Chicago schools will be almost completely empty this week. That is by design: This year, district leaders pushed the usual start of the school year back by a week to help the city "accommodate an estimated influx of 75,000 visitors" and "[allow] time for students to attend, volunteer, and participate in the civic process of hosting the Convention."
That’s right: 320,000 students are being kept out of school so they can watch a political party talk about the importance of education. Teachers are still expected to report to work for professional development days, and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is busing teachers to Soldier Field on Thursday night to watch Harris’ acceptance speech on the big screen.
This is far from the first time Chicago students have been kept out of school for political reasons. The city’s public schools did not completely reopen from COVID-19 until late August 2021, a full year after many other districts had successfully brought students back into classrooms. The CTU, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, called reopening efforts "rooted in sexism, racism, and misogyny" in a since-deleted tweet.
Even if schools were in session this week, one wouldn’t have to look far to see the failures of union-controlled schooling. A five-minute walk away from the United Center sits William H. Brown STEM Magnet School, where English Language Arts (ELA) and math proficiency rates are under 10%.
At Robert Nathaniel Dett Elementary School, less than half a mile from the convention site, fewer than 1% of students are proficient in ELA and more than 60% are chronically absent. Just one mile north of where Harris and Walz will speak, proficiency rates at Talcott Elementary are below 30% in both key subjects. These schools are not one-off examples; reading and math proficiency rates are under 30% district wide.
Even when schools are open, many of them are mostly empty. Enrollment has declined by more than 50,000 students between 2018 and 2023, and 181 district schools were operating at less than 50% capacity last school year. Douglass High School and Manley High School were 96% and 95% empty, respectively.
Local leaders could not close the emptiest schools even if they wanted to. A 2021 state law that was applauded by CTU precludes CPS from closing down any schools until early 2025. A bill has been proposed to extend the moratorium to 2027.
Don’t worry about these schools going underused. The CTU is demanding that vacant floors of school buildings be converted into shelters for unaccompanied migrants as part of its new contract, which it is currently negotiating with CPS. The union's $50-billion slate of demands would cost taxpayers, over time, more than triple the amount the mayor proposed for the entire city's budget for 2024.
The conversion of school facilities is only one part of a long list of wants, which includes across-the-board raises not tied to performance and lower standards for teacher evaluations.
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How do they even buy a 40 of Schlitz Malt Liquor without an ID? I'm way past 21 and I still have to show one to buy a bottle of red wine.
I have to show one, and a credit card, to check into a hotel. Should our elections be less secure than the Motel 6?
Our elections are un-auditable, and they are designed to be un-auditable.
[HotAir] This is yet another one of those headlines that snuck up and took me by surprise. Back in 2015, even before Donald Trump stood up the American Space Force, Russia unveiled its own branch of the military for similar purposes, known as the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS). So what is the VKS up to these days? Developing and launching hunter-killer satellites into orbit? Searching for extraterrestrials? Perhaps some of them are, but not all of them. In fact, a bunch of them have now been deployed to the Kursk Oblast to fight off Ukraine's surprisingly persistent incursion. Russia is claiming that the temporary transfer was required to deal with an unexpected manpower shortage in the region. Even some of the servicemen previously assigned to a Russian spaceport have been transferred to the front and put on infantry duty. I suppose all truly is fair in love and war. (Newsweek)
The deployment of temporary motorized rifle of Russia's Aerospace Forces to the Kursk region was first reported by independent investigative Russian outlet Important Stories.
The unit, created between May and June, consists of personnel from security and logistics companies, engineers, mechanics, some officers, and servicemen from a Russian spaceport. There are also personnel from special warehouses of the Aerospace Forces and radar stations in Russia's Voronezh region, who were previously in charge of manning Russia's nuclear deterrent, the publication reported, citing a source familiar with the matter.
I will confess that my initial read on this development was off-base significantly. When Ukraine moved into Kursk, it appeared to be a temporary distraction intended to pull Russian troops and armor away from the eastern front. I reasoned that when the actual Russian military arrived, they would be quickly chased back to their own borders and the status quo would resume. When I'm wrong, I admit it. That may still happen - it's probably the most likely outcome - but it's not happening quickly. Ukraine has blown up three bridges leading into the section of Kursk they control and they are allegedly trying to create a buffer zone.
On the flip side of the coin, Ukraine's expectation that the Kursk incursion would force Putin to move troops away from the eastern Oblasts was barely met with any success. Russia has been moving troops from elsewhere while continuing the pressure on the east. One analyst said this week that Ukraine may be on the verge of losing Donbas because they no longer have the backup forces and armor to stave off the Russian advance. Is that really a good tradeoff? You temporarily take some farmland well to the south of Moscow from Russia (which they will obviously retake sooner or later), but you completely lose Donbas in the process? That's one more chunk of Ukraine that Putin won't even have to bargain over if there are ever any serious negotiated peace talks organized.
To give credit where due to Ukraine, assuming that the estimates being released from both sides of the conflict are anywhere near accurate (never a sure thing) one analyst surmised that Ukraine is now reported to have seized more territory in the Kursk region in days than Russia has captured in Ukraine since the beginning of the year. That may indeed turn out to be accurate. But the ground that the Russians have gained has been hard-fought every step of the way. The Ukrainians took over a largely rural farming area with no military significance in a border region that Putin didn't even bother reinforcing. You can look at this as Putin's error or simply a moment of opportunity for Zelensky. (Or both.) It is thus far more of a PR victory for Ukraine, but one which could potentially undermine Putin's support on the home front if it appears that he's losing control of the situation.
None of this changes my overall estimation from being a pessimist to an optimist in terms of Ukraine's chances of actually "defeating Russia." Wars tend to move in an ebb-and-flow fashion. Historical examples are available throughout all of recorded history. As long as Ukraine is fighting on its own - even with plentiful military aid being supplied by the West - this remains a David versus Goliath battle. Goliath has simply had a bad couple of weeks.
[Bee] CHICAGO, IL — According to reports, black people trying to attend the DNC were turned away in droves as Democrats required photo IDs to enter the convention.
Despite knowing that black people are not capable of obtaining photo IDs, Democrats inexplicably chose to require everyone in attendance to show identification, leaving thousands of black people unable to enter.
"I wanted to come, but everyone knows I can't get an ID," said one black man who was refused entry to the DNC. "You'd think the Democrats would be aware of this fact. This must be some type of big plan to suppress our ability to attend the convention. It's a shame. I was looking forward to being here, but acquiring an official government-issued photo ID isn't something people like me can do. At least that's what I've heard."
DNC officials offered conflicting comments on the controversy. "We would never want to discriminate," said DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison, who is also black. "We're here to stand up against the efforts of Republicans to keep the black population from voting by requiring them to show a photo ID, which is why we're gathering here in Chicago and requiring everyone who enters to show a photo ID."
At publishing time, Harrison also clarified that the DNC had built a wall around the convention area to keep out anyone it didn't want present as its leaders gave speeches about how walls are not effective in keeping out unwanted people.
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Nothing yet on the arrival of the Mitzvah Tank.
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How do they even buy a 40 of Schlitz Malt Liquor without an ID? I'm way past 21 and I still have to show one to buy a bottle of red wine.
I have to show one, and a credit card, to check into a hotel. Should our elections be less secure than the Motel 6?
Our elections are un-auditable, and they are designed to be un-auditable.
Rep. Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore took the stage at the Democratic National Convention a little after 9:30 p.m. Monday, smack dab in the middle of primetime.
That's the name of Vice President Kamala Harris What can be, unburdened by what has been ' 30-second campaign spot that's been running in Arizona and Nevada for almost two weeks now, touting the Democratic candidate's ''tough'' record on border issues.
''As a border-state prosecutor, she took on narco mobs and placed in durance vile Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! gang members for smuggling weapons and drugs across the border,'' the ad proclaims about her time as Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s attorney general.
''As vice president, she backed the toughest border-control bill in decades,'' the spot continues, referring to the twice-failed Biden border bill that promised to spend $20 billion on border security without taking any significant border-enforcement measures.
And the ad promises that as president, Harris will ''crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking.''
The spot doesn't mention her nearly three-and-a-half-year role as ''border czar'' of the administration, likely because under her tenure Customs and Border Protection has recorded more than 10 million illegal-immigrant encounters nationwide, with about 80% at the southern border.
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MercuryNews] With a drop in temperatures and a chance of showers expected Friday and Saturday, snow could fall as low as 8,000 feet elevation from the Tahoe area south to Mammoth Lakes.
Yosemite's Tioga Pass, at 9,943 feet, has a 43% chance of 0.1 inch of snow and Tuolumne Meadows a 34% chance, the agency's Hanford office said.
Also high enough for a trace of snow are Mount Rose summit, Carson Pass near Kirkwood, and Monitor and Sonora passes. The chance of precip is around 40% Friday and Saturday.
I assume this is noteworthy because it is unusually early in the season for snow, even that high up.
And drops the fire danger unless there's dry lightning
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GLOBAL : ___________ ICE AGE
WARMING
FLOODING
OZONE DEPLETION
SOLAR FLARES
ASTEROID STRIKE
9.0 EARTHQUAKES
EPIDEMICS
PANDEMICS
OVER POPULATION
MASS STARVATION
GREEN HOUSE GASES
CLIMATE CHANGE
COW FARTS
We're still here...but a lot of Political Doomsayers are a lot richer, and we have been taxed more and more. Plus, each failed $$$$$ prediction has allowed them more and more control of our lives, how we live them and what we are allowed to eat.
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Temperature this morning in east Tennessee was 46F.
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Lake Tahoe forecast from NWS:
"Friday-A 20 percent chance of showers after 11am. Snow level 7900 feet. Mostly sunny, with a high near 49. Breezy, with a southwest wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Friday Night - A 40 percent chance of showers. Snow level 7900 feet. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 38. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Saturday-A 40 percent chance of showers. Snow level 7600 feet rising to 8800 feet in the afternoon. Partly sunny, with a high near 49."
[GEOTV] Weeks after a fake news sparked anti-immigrant riots in the United Kingdom, a Pak man allegedly involved in spreading the false information was taken into custody in Lahore, DIG Operations Faisal Kamran confirmed on Tuesday.
During the last few weeks, Britannia witnessed widespread riots after misinformation spread about the identity of the alleged perpetrator of the knife attack that left three minor girls dead on July 29 this year.
The recent riots saw numerous mosques, asylum centres and immigrant homes being attacked in several regions of Britannia.
UK police authorities said that they had arrested over 1,000 people in connection with the weeks-long riots in England.
Sharing an update on X, formerly Twitter on August 14, the UK police authorities said that they had arrested over 1,000 people in connection with the weeks-long riots in England.
The UK police further said that at least 575 people have been charged, as courts continue to deal with those involved in the disorder, which occurred across dozens of towns and cities in England and Northern Ireland.
The Lahore police official said that the suspect identified as Farhan Asif was arrested last night in the quiet provincial capital's DHA area and was handed over to the Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) Cybercrime wing for interrogation.
Farhan Asif works for a news platform based in Pakistain, DIG Kamran said, adding that the individual has been charged with spreading "fake news'' regarding the identity of the killer of three children who were stabbed to death.
The police official added that fake news caused violent mostly peaceful riots and protests in Britannia, adding that the accused was probed and was found involved in disseminating fake news.
The FIA sources told Geo News that the investigating agency's Additional Director Cybercrime Chaudhry Sarfaraz is leading the investigation.
Update from Skidmark’s BBC link, below: the idiot is named as Farhan Asif, and he claims he just copied something he’d seen on social media.
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A crash on the autobahn. 'Stashes
Reduced to a few grams of ashes. Der Lovebug verbrennt?
"Sure, 'tis only a dent!
A quick Vaush and I'm back smashing fascists!"
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Taylor Swift: 'Having our Vienna shows cancelled was devastating. The reason for the cancellations filled me with a new sense of fear, and a tremendous amount of guilt because so many people had planned on coming to those shows.'
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Gevorg Mirzayan
[REGNUM] Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on providing humanitarian aid to people who share traditional Russian spiritual and moral values. Now citizens of countries that impose "destructive neoliberal ideological attitudes" on them will have the opportunity to come to Russia and receive a residence permit without any quotas and without documents confirming knowledge of the Russian language. Clever. Continued on Page 49
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"Tourists should see clean, well-kept Russian cities..."
Paging Mr Potemkin...
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Say what you will about him. I won't argue. But he realizes that Western Europe is in a state of moral and spiritual decline, as is America. You doubt it? Walk into a church on Sunday morning and check out all the empty pews. What new faith has replaced Christianity?
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"Tourists should see clean, well-kept Russian cities..."
No LGBTQ+ lecturing school kids? No Muslims blocking streets for their prayers?
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However, in the aftermath the machinations of the Congress of Vienna sort of soured Alexander about the 'saving' part. I can certainly understand that.
[POSTMILLENNIAL] An undocumented Democrat from Mexico has been charged with the rape of a 10-year-old boy in Mississippi, law enforcement revealed on Tuesday. The crime comes amid the ongoing border crisis under the Biden-Harris administration and soft-border security policies.
In a blurb, the Pontotoc County Sheriff's Department stated, "The Criminal Investigation Division (CID) of the Pontotoc County Sheriff's Department, Mississippi reports Filiberto Gonzalez a 34-year-old Hispanic male, an illegal alien, from Mexico, was arrested on Monday afternoon August 12, 2024."
Following an investigation, Gonzalez was charged with two counts of rape of a 10-year-old boy. "After obtaining arrest warrants and a search warrant the perpetrator was arrested at his residence, at Laura Lane. The perpetrator is being held at the adult Detention Center of the Pontotoc County Sheriff's Department waiting for a hearing before a Justice Court Judge," the sheriff's office said.
In addition to the high-profile rape case from Mississippi, there have been other rape cases connected to illegal immigrants colonists that have come into the US. One case that has consistently made headlines in media is rape case involving Corey Alvarez, a Haitian national who came to the US under the Biden-Harris parole program and was charged with the rape of a disabled girl at a Rockland, Massachusetts hotel.
Additionally, there have been mass number of illegal immigrants colonists connected to murderous Moslems have also been entering the country. A report from June indicated that ISIS funneled around 400 illegal immigrants colonists into the US.
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Maybe the family of the ten year old (as well as the families of other victims) should sue the democrats for allowing the perpetrators to enter the country in the first place?
Bring back Public Punishment.
A good public punish display for such vicious crimes has always been a reasonably effective deterrent. Plus, it brings with it a certain level of satisfaction and justice to the victim or the victims' family.
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I agree, NN2N1. A public hanging, with the body left for others to view for a couple of weeks, would be a better "deterrent" than all the prison time the criminals could amass. It's also cheaper.
We should start with crooked politicians. . . (cough, cough, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, etc. cough, cough)
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Last public execution in Illinois, Charlie Birger (Jewish bootlegger), 19 April 1928. Benton, IL.
Failed to stop bootlegging or gangland murders, but reinforced Chicago and Northern Illinois sales district discipline.
[NYPOST] Former House Speaker 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... defended herself against speculation that President Biden is frustrated over her role in the mutiny against him.
Declining to confirm whether or not she has spoken with Biden, 81, since he dropped out last month, Pelosi (D-Calif.), 81, contended that she did what was necessary.
"Sometimes you have to take a punch for the children," she told CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... Monday. "I did what I had to do."
"My concern was not about the president, it was about his campaign," she added, before implying that Vice President Kamala Harris It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day ushered in "exuberance" and "excitement."
She then grew uncomfortable with the line of questioning, blurting out, "Why are we even talking about it?"
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[KavkazUzel] The militants who carried out the terrorist attack in Beslan ...One of Shamil Basaeyev's most Islamic atrocities, a massacre of schoolchildren in the town of the same name, in 2004... received support from abroad, the Russian president said at a meeting with the "Mothers of Beslan". 20 years after the terrorist attack, its investigation has not been completed, the mothers of the victims and the dead reminded.
… Yesterday, August 19th, Iranians in Qazvin clashed with law enforcement officers who were trying to detain women for not wearing hijabs. They stopped them and chanted "Death to the dictator."
This courageous act of defiance underscores the growing discontent and simmering anger of the Iranian people.
The flame of revolution burns brightly, ready to ignite and consume this oppressive regime.
has renewed his call for an agreement for a 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... truce and the release of captives in the enclave, Al Jazeera reported.
"Enough with the briefings, enough with the tweets, enough with the rhymes in front of cameras," he wrote on X.
"All of Netanyahu's attempts to sabotage the negotiations should stop. Deal now, before they all die," Lapid added.
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[KavkazUzel] A resident of the Astrakhan region posted several messages on Telegram, in which the investigation saw justification for the activities of a terrorist organization banned in Russia, the FSB reported.
According to investigators, a resident of the Astrakhan region, born in 1989, who is a follower of radical Islam, posted several publications on Telegram that justified the activities of a pro-Ukrainian terrorist organization banned in Russia. His posts were discovered by FSB officers.
Radical Islam and pro-Ukraine? An interesting combination.
A criminal case has been opened against a resident of the Astrakhan region under Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ( “Public justification of terrorism,” which provides for up to seven years of imprisonment, – note from the “ Caucasian Knot ” ), TASS reported on August 19, citing the FSB Directorate for the Astrakhan region.
There were no comments from the suspect's representatives.
"Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on August 7 it became known about the detention of a resident of the Astrakhan region, who is suspected of posting calls for terrorist activity on a social network.
[IsraelTimes] Army cancels exemptions due to manpower shortage caused by hostilities 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... and the north.
The reservists set to be recalled to duty are those who were released from service due to the army closing units or reducing manpower in certain units, and who are younger than the exemption age, which is 40 for most soldiers, 45 for officers, and 49 for specialists.
[IsraelTimes] With specific, but limited intel, IDF quickly took control of a Khan Younis neighborhood; then found a loose panel in a false tunnel wall, leading to the spot where the bodies were
Hamas had attempted to hide the remains of the hostages, placing them in an underground passage that was hidden behind a false wall inside the tunnel system.
Nearly 10 months after they were kidnapped by Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... terrorists, and months after they are believed to have died in captivity, the Israel Defense Forces early on Tuesday recovered the bodies of six Israeli hostages in a swiftly organized operation in the southern Gazoo
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Text taken from a V Kontakte page of Reports from the Novorossiya militia.
[VK] You know, I remember one round table on the results of the war on 08.08.08. And there the bureau chief of the German “Focus” Boris Reischuster complained that they couldn’t send a reporter to Tskhinvali from the Russian side. No one provided us with work there.
I objected, saying that a self-respecting reporter simply buys a ticket to Vladikavkaz, finds a taxi to the border at night, and there transfers to a convoy to Java. There, to a militia jeep. And then enters the city with the military. That’s what I did.
Reischuster looked at me as if I were crazy and said, “The Tbilisi Foreign Ministry would never approve such a trip.” The German journalist, who was in Russia, needed Georgia’s permission to enter South Ossetia from our side. And he then worked in Moscow for many more years.
All these "truth-tellers" needed permission from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry for ten years to visit Lugansk, Donetsk, Melitopol, Genichesk... Otherwise, how can one explain the fact that major Western media outlets have never covered the Ukrainian conflict from this side. And going without permission is a violation of journalistic ethics. By analogy, they should not have gone to occupied Sudzha either - without the approval of the Russian Foreign Ministry. But that's different. Here's all the ethics for you, in case anyone had any illusions. And yes, I myself have repeatedly ended up in different countries illegally - in Libya, Iraq, and, naturally, in Ukraine - since 2014. But the hohols opened a criminal case against me. And I am a reporter for a country at war. Unlike... Or do they still consider themselves a party to the conflict? How are the ethics there? Doesn't it itch?"
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[REGNUM] The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, with 265 votes in favor, adopted in the second reading the law No. 8371 "On the protection of the constitutional order in the sphere of activity of religious organizations", which provides for the liquidation of religious organizations and communities associated with "religious centers in the aggressor country". Although the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is not directly mentioned in the document, it is obvious that it is aimed specifically at its liquidation. The decision of the Ukrainian parliament did not come as a surprise, since the day before, the man who considers himself the president of Ukraine announced “the spiritual liberation of Ukraine in the near future.”
[BBC] Robert F Kennedy Jr's running mate says the independent presidential candidate is considering joining forces with Donald Trump's campaign or staying in and forming a third party.
On a podcast, Nicole Shanahan said they were considering the two options to avoid the "risk" of a Kamala Harris presidency.
She also accused the Democrats of "sabotage", including planting insiders in their campaign.
Mr Kennedy has faced a number of hurdles in his longshot third-party campaign, from legal challenges over getting his name on state ballots to funding his run.
"There’s two options that we’re looking at and one is staying in, forming that new party, but we run the risk of a Kamala Harris and [Tim] Walz presidency because we draw votes from Trump, or we draw somehow more votes from Trump," Ms Shanahan, 38, said on the Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu podcast released on Tuesday.
"Or we walk away right now and join forces with Donald Trump and you know, we walk away from that and we explain to our base why we’re making this decision."
She said it was "not an easy decision".
BBC News has reached out to the Kennedy campaign for clarity on Ms Shanahan's comments. They will be available soon. Consultations with various family members, personnal security firms, and life insurance agencies must come first.
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday, Mr Kennedy said: "As always, I am willing to talk with leaders of any political party to further the goals I have served for 40 years in my career and in this campaign."
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Obama 4.0 and the new Gus Hall Duo are flush with cash, and whenever a Kennedy "stands on principle" I look to see if they then end up "standing on principal"!
[NYPOST] "Comrade Kamala Harris What can be, unburdened by what has been has just informed us that she will NOT do the FoxNews Debate on September 4th," the Republican nominee for president wrote on Truth Social.
The vice president’s apparent decision to turn down the debate didn’t shock Trump.
"I am not surprised by this development because I feel that she knows it is very difficult, at best, for her to defend her record setting Flip-Flopping on absolutely everything she once believed in, including her statements that THERE WILL BE NO FRACKING IN PENNSYLVANIA and her HORRIBLE Performance on the Border, our "Border Czar," where millions of criminals and people from mental institutions and terrorists, have been allowed to pour into our Country, totally unchecked and unvetted," the former president wrote.
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She also refused an invitation from Elon Musk to do an interview with the same format as Trump's. There is one leftist organization wanting the FEC to investigate Elon's Trump interview as an illegal campaign contribution.
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Now, when I load up my streaming main page, her brat holder is all over the place in the guise of 'what is today's headline news?', even for Trump pieces.
Text taken from the V Kontakte page of Tatyana Vasilyeva.
[VK] What is known at the moment:
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have become more active in several directions, conducting active offensive actions in an attempt to break through the defense of the Russian Army.
▪In the Korenevsky direction, an enemy column of armored vehicles managed to drive to the eastern outskirts of the district center, but the assault was stopped by Russian aviation. It is not entirely clear what and how the enemy equipment was destroyed, but we are leaning towards helicopters and the Vikhr ATGM;
▪In the Glushkovsky district, the Russian Armed Forces continue to build pontoon crossings across the Seim River. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Armed Forces claim that they managed to destroy one of them. They also use FPV drones for attacks. As a result of the enemy's actions, not only the logistical situation for the Russian Army in the district is complicated, but also the evacuation of civilians;
❗In the Sudzhansky district, battles took place in the area of the settlement of Malaya Loknya. Thus, a video of the shelling of houses using the Marder 1A3 infantry fighting vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was published. Also at night, Ukrainian militants got lost in the village of Russkaya Konopelka, eventually coming under fire from a 30-mm BTR-82A autocannon of the Russian army;
▪In the south of the Kursk region, in the Belovsky district, in the settlement of Spalnoye, fighters of the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade defeated and captured a large number of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers. Also in this area, Russian marines attacked enemy equipment with ammunition;
Soldiers of the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade are hitting the enemy very hard in the Kursk region. Footage of prisoners, as well as dead Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers, appears on the Internet every now and then;
▪In the area of the settlement of Russkoye Porechnoye, Russian aviation struck an enemy concentration in the forests using a FAB-3000;
In general, today a lot of footage of prisoners and killed enemies in the region has appeared on the Internet.
Russian aviation continues to drop tens of tons of ammunition on the heads of the occupiers, disrupting their supply, destroying columns and hitting personnel with equipment. Bombers also struck the enemy's rear in the Sumy region, hitting the command staff of the 47th brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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This sounds like the old military councils from WWII, where local civilian and military leaders would gather to assess materiel available to conduct the defense of a common area. Usually used by military districts, which eventually were transformed into the operational-strategic front formations.
“The Belgorod, Kursk and Bryansk troop groups have been created in the Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk regions,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
At the meeting, which was held under the leadership of the head of the Russian Ministry of Defense Andrei Belousov, the deputy head of the National Defense Management Center, Lieutenant General Yuri Korsachev, reported on the resolution of issues received from the operational headquarters of the Belgorod, Kursk and Bryansk regions.
According to Korsachev, the requested quadcopters, gasoline generators, quad bikes, night vision devices and sights, and thermal imagers have already been sent to the Belgorod Region. The required number of quadcopters, anti-drone guns and drone detectors, portable electronic warfare systems, small power plants, quad bikes, and thermal insulation capes have been transferred to the Kursk Region.
As for the Bryansk region, the dispatch of radio stations, radio jamming systems and drone countermeasures there is under control; the funds will arrive in the region on August 21, the lieutenant general specified.
“All incoming problematic issues are promptly communicated to the responsible central military command bodies, and their implementation is subject to round-the-clock support and coordination,” noted Korsachev.
The meeting also defined areas of responsibility in the Coordination Council:
- Deputy Minister of Defense Andrey Bulyga - issues of logistics, transportation and assistance to civil authorities during the evacuation of the population;
– Deputy Minister Alexey Krivoruchko – issues of military-technical support;
– Deputy Minister Pavel Fradkov – engineering development and construction;
– Deputy Minister Oleg Savelyev – interdepartmental interaction and coordination;
- Head of the Main Military Medical Directorate Dmitry Trishkin - medical support;
- the representative of the General Staff and the commanders of the Belgorod, Kursk and Bryansk groups are responsible for protecting civilians and territories from drone attacks and other means of attack.
Colonel General Yunus-Bek Yevkurov has been appointed deputy head of the council.
Recall that on the morning of August 6, Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers attempted to cross the border and enter the territory of the Kursk region. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that about 300 Ukrainian soldiers attacked the positions of Russian troops near the settlements of Oleshnya and Nikolayevo-Daryino. Only during the period from August 19 to 20, the Ukrainian army lost up to 350 servicemen and 25 armored vehicles.
In total, during the fighting, the enemy lost more than 4,130 military personnel, 58 tanks, 27 infantry fighting vehicles, 50 armored personnel carriers, 299 armored combat vehicles, 131 vehicles, 27 artillery pieces, five anti-aircraft missile systems, seven multiple launch rocket system launchers, including three HIMARS and one MLRS, six electronic warfare stations, four units of engineering equipment, including two engineering vehicles and one UR-77 mine clearing unit.
More from the V Kontakte page of Alexander Kots Why do we need the Kursk, Belgorod and Bryansk troop groups?
In general, they were needed from the very beginning of the SVO. Firstly, these regions border Ukraine. They are a priori in the risk zone. They come under fire, they are attacked, heavy attack drones fly through them to Russia.
Now, through the military coordination council, all emergency services are being transferred under military control.
There is an understanding that it may not end with the "Kursk blitzkrieg". The enemy is transferring forces with an eye on the Belgorod region - Krasnoyarsk and Graivoronsky districts. It can strike Tetkino from the south and Rylsk through Glukhov. Or it can try to transfer military operations to the Bryansk region.
In the end, maybe the appearance of these groups will help legally settle the issue of payments, benefits and the status of those who fight outside the SVO zone. From conscripts to border guards.
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Yes, "Kursk blitzkrieg". Proper word choice. WW11 Germany did the same thing in Kursk area at the end. Offensive, offensive last of all resources. The Russian trap as used on Germany. Complete and total surrender. Minus Z of course. Escape routes planed. Live another day in exile. Book deals, public speaking tours most likely in the states. The Z View talk show. A star is born.
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IDK Grom - I used to think that. But from what I an reading, UKR is committing a lot special forces and other assets to keep Kursk. It doesnt look like UKR cares if DPR falls so long as they hold Kursk. Time will tell.
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^Lets look at the history, mossomo.
(a) How many times has Russia been invaded in the last 500 years?
(b) Whereas, IMO, Ukraine is not even a country. Look at what happened since they've got independence 30 years ago.
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lots of reports that Russia is sending sub standard troops to Kurst, e.g., recruits with almost no training, troops from the Space Command logistics units
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#5lots of reports that Russia is sending sub standard troops to Kurst, e.g., recruits with almost no training, troops from the Space Command logistics units
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Democrats kickoff Day 2 of their convention and have no clue what the lyrics to the national anthem of the United States are. pic.twitter.com/EkpIgd2Ms4
They’re being openly racist at the DNC and calling for “darker” people to completely replace white people and everyone cheers for it. Cool. pic.twitter.com/oYss29Jcy2
[BREITBART] Establishment media outlets are signaling that Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris who got her start in politix between former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's' knees ’s honeymoon phase is over after the first day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC (If you're white you ain't right!) ...Democrat National Committee, where all those off-the-wall talking points originate... ) saw major issues with logistics and operations.
Several media figures from across the spectrum began publicly criticizing and even openly mocking 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... for their mistakes at the DNC, particularly with regard to press operations and workspace but also with regard to the flow of convention programming that went far too long on Monday evening. The derailed convention programming, which was far behind schedule, led to President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. This Is A Man That Does Not Seem Demented... —the sitting president of the United States—being pushed until nearly 11:30 p.m. eastern time before he finally took the stage late Monday evening. Democrats even canceled planned speeches from Reps. Grace Meng (D-NY) and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz ...Congresswoman from Florida, the abrasive chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. She has been a politician since 1992, and prior to that was in training as a political science major. Her primary accomplishment seems to be that she's Jewish... (D-FL) and a planned performance from award-winning musician James Taylor.
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[BBC] Panama on Tuesday started repatriating undocumented migrants on flights financed by the United States.
The move comes less than two months after José Raúl Mulino was sworn in as Panama's president.
Mr Mulino campaigned on a promise to "close" the Darién Gap, the dangerous stretch of jungle which more than half a million migrants crossed last year on their way north from South America.
The Biden administration said it had agreed to pay for the flights as part of its efforts to deter irregular migration.
A group of 29 Colombians with criminal records were the first to be returned on Tuesday.
Under an agreement jointly signed by the Panamanian foreign minister and US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the US has committed to helping Panama with $6m (£4.6m) for equipment, transportation and logistics to "remove foreign nationals who do not have a legal basis to remain in Panama".
Immigration is a hot topic ahead of November's presidential election in the US and the stream of migrants arriving at its border with Mexico is being closely monitored.
The agreement with Panama aims to drive down the number of people making it to the US border by stopping them further south.
The Darién Gap, an expanse of jungle which straddles Colombia and Panama, is a natural bottleneck for those heading from South to North America.
In 2023, an estimated 520,000 people made the perilous journey on foot, many of whom had to pay gangs who prey on those embarking on the crossing.
President Mulino, who has promised to reduce the number of migrants transiting through Panama, described their situation as "sad".
"Most of them are from Venezuela," he explained. "They're human beings... there are families torn apart, children of five or six years of age whose parents have died during the crossing. We don't even know who they are or what their names are."
The president had earlier said that the flights would in the first instance take migrants to Colombia, the country from which they entered Panama.
It is not yet clear if flights will be organised from Colombia to repatriate them to their homelands.
According to Panamanian government figures, Venezuelans form the largest share of migrants trekking through the Darién Gap, followed by Colombians, Ecuadoreans and Haitians.
There is widespread concern in the region that the flow of those fleeing Venezuela could increase in the months to come if the political crisis triggered by the announcement of disputed election results is not solved.
Ahead of the election, polls had suggested that large numbers of Venezuelans were planning on migrating should President Nicolás Maduro win.
Tension has been high since he was declared the winner by the government-dominated National Electoral Council, with the result being rejected as fraudulent by the opposition and questioned by the US, the EU and many Latin American countries.
Panamanian President Mulino earlier this month offered Mr Maduro "safe passage" so that the Venezuelan leader could leave to a third country, but his offer was rejected by Mr Maduro, who warned his Panamanian counterpart not to "mess" with Venezuela.
"The Safe Mobility Offices are being built by Biden’s pro-migration border chief Alejandro Mayorkas through South America and Africa. They are “one-stop shops” for would-be refugees and migrants"
[POSTMILLENIAL] On the second day of the Democratic National Convention in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... , at least four hotels in the city's Near West Side, where the convention is taking place, were reportedly hit with bomb threats that included anti-semitic statements. This comes as pro-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... agitators have been protesting the proceedings inside the convention.
According to Fox 32, officers and police K9s began searching the Nobu Hotel just before noon. The threat, emailed to the outlet, stated that pipe bombs had been placed in multiple hotels, including the Hyatt House Chicago, Hotel Chicago, and Nobu Hotel.
The threat noted that the DNC (If you're white you ain't right!) ...Democrat National Committee, where all those off-the-wall talking points originate... is taking place this week in the area, and also included anti-semitic statements.
The Chicago Police Department told the New York Post, "The US Secret Service is aware of threats made to various locations in the Downtown area. Law enforcement personnel are screening the affected areas and examining the credibility of the threat."
On Monday evening, agitators outside the United Center, where the DNC is taking place, breached security barricades put in place for the event. They were seen removing sections of fencing and attempting to breach the second barricade.
According to the Chicago Tribune, 13 people were arrested during Monday's protest. Sources told the outlet that police found nothing after the bomb threats and "the threat was declared not bona fide."
[IsraelTimes] Police handcuff at least four people and lead them away from a pro-Palestinian demonstration after protesters charge a line of officers on the second night of the Democratic National Convention.
A small crowd of a few dozen protesters chanted “Let them go!” outside a Chicago skyscraper that houses the Israeli consulate while police penned demonstrators in on the street, preventing them from marching. Officers with wood clubs pushed protesters back, shouting “move.”
Some demonstrators set an American flag on fire in the street as the celebratory roll call for Vice President Kamala Harris took place 2 miles away. Others carried Palestinian flags, while many others wore black and covered their faces.
BREAKING: Heavy clashes, mass arrests as Protesters against DNC push against Chicago Police line outside Israeli Consulate pic.twitter.com/pixV0eKYTp
A man in Chicago Bulls hat, his face covered by a balaclava, called on protesters to “shut down the DNC.” The group, which is not the same coalition of over 200 groups that organized Monday’s protests, advertised the demonstration Tuesday under the slogan of “Make it great like ’68,” invoking the anti-Vietnam War protests that seized the city during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Dozens of Chicago police officers are posted outside the building, where law enforcement had closed down most of the entrances, allowing commuters to come in only one entrance where armed officers were also posted. Many of the building’s shops were closed. Martha Hill, a spokeswoman for the Metra commuter rail service, says train service is running as normal.
More than a dozen pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested Tuesday during a protest that began outside the Israeli consulate and spilled out onto the surrounding streets on the second night of the Democratic National Convention.
The intense confrontations with officers began minutes into the demonstration, after some protesters – many dressed in black, their faces covered – charged at a line of police that had blocked the group from marching. They eventually moved past the officers, but were penned in several times throughout the night by police in riot gear who did not allow protesters to disperse. Officers called the demonstrations “an unlawful assembly.”
As protesters regrouped and approached a line of police in riot gear in front of a Chicago skyscraper that houses the Israeli consulate, an officer said into a megaphone, “You are ordered to immediately disburse.” A woman in the front of the march shouted back with her own megaphone: “We’re not scared of you.”
Police arrested 13 people and added additional security fences at a reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown park where pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel protesters clashed with officers near the site of the Democratic National Convention ahead of a second day of planned protests Tuesday, including one outside the Israeli consulate.
The park, located a block from the convention arena, served as a destination point for a march of thousands calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... war. Several dozen activists broke off from the main group, breached the fencing, and were pushed back by police.
The 13 people arrested during Monday’s protest were detained on charges, ranging from criminal trespass and resisting and obstructing an arrest to aggravated battery of coppers, Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling said at a news conference Tuesday.
At least 10 of them were arrested in connection with the fence, he said.
Snelling said he did not connect the "brief breach" of security fencing "within sight and sound of the United Center" with the entirety of the march. He said the vast majority of participants were peaceful, and he praised his officers’ conduct in the moment.
"Our officers showed great restraint," he said. "We’re not going to tolerate vandalism and violence in our city. ... We’re going to continue to protect the city."
Snelling said some protesters used pepper spray against officers at the site where they broke through the fence. He said officers did not use any chemical sprays.
The Chicago chapter of the National Lawyers Guild said two of the people arrested were hospitalized. Snelling said they were taken to the hospital to ensure they would receive the medication they were taking.
Two people were also arrested on misdemeanor property damage and resisting arrest charges during a protest march Sunday night.
Authorities said the inner security perimeter surrounding United Center was not breached and there was no threat to those attending the convention.
On Tuesday morning, an extra line of fencing was installed at the park, and the tall metal barriers were reinforced to prevent protesters from lifting and removing the panels in the future. No coppers or protesters were present at the park early Tuesday.
Organizers had hoped at least 20,000 people would take part in Monday’s rally and march, but Snelling said about 3,500 people participated.
Snelling said more protests are expected as the week goes on, and his department is prepared to de-escalate situations whenever possible.
"Again, we’re up to the challenge," he said. "The city is up to the challenge."
Closer to downtown Chicago, security was tighter than usual — including law enforcement officers with weapons slung across their bodies — outside the office building that houses the Israeli Consulate and a major city transportation hub. Metal barricades were set up, and an officer said they were preparing for a 7 p.m. demonstration.
The consulate, located about two miles from United Center, has been the site of numerous demonstrations since the war in Gazoo began in October. It is in a building connected to the Ogilvie Transportation Center, a major commuter rail station.
Most of the largest demonstrations have been organized by the Coalition to March on the DNC (If you're white you ain't right!), which has focused on calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. But smaller protests have popped up around the city, including disruptions at the convention’s welcome party at Navy Pier.
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Probably Hamas supporters setting their alarm clocks.
REPORTER: "How are you preparing for a debate with Tim Walz?"
JD Vance: "Well I found a good friend from back home who embellishes and lies a lot... and I'm having him stand in for Tim Walz." pic.twitter.com/SkcTggpy60
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Like you wouldn't believe Darth. Just watched Hillbilly Elegy. Mrs. Warthog has read the book which goes into much more detail. This guy is a fighter like you wouldn't believe. Pres. Trump made a great pic.
[POSTMILLENNIAL] Kamala Harris' running mate Tim Walz ...Kamala's smarmy-looking running mate, governor of Minnesota. One man's socialism is another man's neighborliness.... has repeatedly said that he and his wife Gwen used in vitro fertilization (IVF) to conceive their children. Now, CNN reveals, in Gwen's own words, that this isn't true. Walz used his own family's story of struggling with infertility as a political talking point to back his views on the reproduction industry, including abortion access.
Gwen Walz said that the couple used intrauterine insemination, a process colloquially called the turkey baster method, and not IVF, which involves the external fertilization of an egg which is then implanted into a woman's uterus. Intrauterine insemination involves placing sperm either near the cervix or into the uterus during a woman's ovulation.
"Like so many who have experienced these challenges, we kept it largely to ourselves at the time — not even sharing the details with our wonderful and close family. The only person who knew in detail what we were going through was our next door neighbor," Gwen Walz told CNN.
"She was a nurse and helped me with the shots I needed as part of the IUI process. I'd rush home from school and she would give me the shots to ensure we stayed on track."
That difference hasn't stopped Walz from spreading the message that he and Gwen benefited from IVF. "This one's personal for me about IVF and reproductive care," Walz said during a campaign stop in Arizona. "When we wanted to have children, we went through years of fertility treatment." On MSNBC in July, he made similar comments, going further to say "Thank God for IVF, my wife and I have two beautiful children."
Walz has repeatedly invoked his own experiences when discussing IVF and restrictions against abortion in the US. Being pro-abortion is one of the only policies that the Harris ticket has advocated for resolutely. Abortion access is something Harris wants to legalize at the federal level so that no state can restrict it by age of the woman or gestation period—at least that's what her record indicates.
Tom Elliott put together an epic thread of all the times Walz has made the false claim.
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Given, the Harris / Walz's campaign flip-flop constancy on issues.
Have they considered simplifying the correction cycle and just have Harris take one side and have Walz say and take the other?
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intrauterine insemination, a process colloquially called the turkey baster method
Also known as the "Webb Hubbell/Hillary" method
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Of all the stupid, easily disproven lies - what did it gain him to come up with this whopper? Maybe he should have claimed to be trans... that, at least, there's evidence for.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] The Biden-Harris Department of Justice altered the headline of a blurb, concealing the identity of a Jordanian national who has been charged with four counts of threatening to use explosives as well as one count of destruction of an energy facility.
According to the Department of Justice, Hashem Younis Hashem Hnaihen, 43, who is a Jordanian national residing in the state of Florida, was indicted on the aforementioned charges. Hnaihen "attacked a power facility and threatened local businesses, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages," FBI Director Christopher Wray said of the crime. Court documents state that he targeted businesses in the Orlando area for their perceived support of Israel.
On Thursday, a blurb from the US Attorney's Office in the Middle District of Florida was set out with the title, "Jordanian National Indicted For Explosives Threats and Attack on Energy Facility," as seen in a link to the blurb on Google search from Thursday.
The title of the blurb was changed to "Man Arrested for Explosives Threats and Attack on Energy Facility" and is in step with the blurb from the Office of Public Affairs for the whole DOJ, which also bears the title, "Man Arrested for Explosives Threats and Attack on Energy Facility." The URL the blurb is found under still has the ending "jordanian-national-indicted-explosives-threats-and-attack-energy-facility," however the words "Jordanian" or "Jordan" do not appear on the page of the blurb from the Florida DOJ office as of Friday. News coverage of the incident blew up after the DOJ made the announcement.
[GEOTV] At least 35 Paleostinians were killed in Israeli air strikes across the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip on Monday, medical sources tell Al Jazeera.
At least nine of them were killed in an air attack targeting a group of Paleostinians in the UN-run Shati refugee camp in western Gaza City.
Troops with the 162nd Division killed some 40 gunmen in the Tel Sultan neighborhood of southern Gaza’s Rafah over the past day, in clashes and by directing airstrikes, the IDF says.
In one incident in Tel Sultan, the military says troops with the Nahal Brigade spotted a cell of RPG-wielding operatives at a building and directed a drone to strike the site.
Further north, in Khan Younis, the IDF says troops with the 98th Division killed several more terror operatives and destroyed sites belonging to terror groups, including rocket launchers used in recent attacks.
In central Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor, reservists with the 252nd Division killed several terror operatives by directing airstrikes, according to the military.
In an incident in the central Gaza area, reservists of the Jerusalem Brigade killed two gunmen who emerged from a tunnel and attempted to plant a bomb near the troops, the IDF adds.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it carried out an airstrike against Hamas operatives at a command room embedded within a school in Gaza City.
According to the military, Hamas was using the command room at the Mustafa Hafez School to plan and carry out attacks against troops in Gaza and against Israel.
The IDF says it carried out “many steps” to mitigate harm to civilians in the strike, including using precision munitions, aerial surveillance and other intelligence.
“The Hamas terror organization systematically violates international law, brutally exploiting civilian institutions and the population as a human shield for terror activity,” the military adds.
In recent months, dozens of airstrikes have been carried out against Hamas sites embedded within schools and other sites used as shelters for civilians, according to the IDF.
A spokesperson for the civil defense agency in Hamas-run Gaza says at least seven people were killed in the strike, including five men and two children.
[GEOTV] An Israeli strike on Monday evening targeted a Hezbollah arms depot in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... 's eastern Bekaa Valley, the Israeli military said.
The strike did not result in any fatalities, two security sources told Rooters. Lebanon's health ministry said of the eight injured six were Lebanese citizens and two Syrian children.
The Israeli military said its air force struck a number of Hezbollah weapons storage facilities in the area of Beqaa in Lebanon.
"Following the strikes, secondary explosions were identified, indicating the presence of large amounts of weapons in the facilities struck," the military said in a statement.
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[GEOTV] An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Rawalpindi on Tuesday discharged former prime minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality disorders... 's wife Bushra Bibi in 12 cases related to May 9, 2023 riots.
The hearing was conducted by ATC Judge Malik Ejaz Asif at a makeshift court in Rawalpindi's Adiala Jail. The hearing was also attended by investigation officers of the May 9 cases.
At the outset of the hearing, defence counsels gave arguments regarding Bushra's physical remand, whereas, the wife of the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) founder was represented by her counsel Salman Safdar and Advocate Malik Faisal.
However,
ars longa, vita brevis... the ATC judge rejected the Rawalpindi Police's plea seeking phycial remand of the former first lady in the May 9 cases.
After hearing arguments from both sides, the court decided to discharge Bushra in the cases.
Speaking to media outside the Central Jail Rawalpindi, Bushra's lawyer Safdar claimed that the court acquitted her in all cases in which she was nominated in light of different statements.
He added that the court also rejected the prosecution's evidence during today's hearing and rejected the credibility of any statement from a co-accused.
The lawyer said that the PTI founder was given a clean chit in the cipher case, however, a detailed verdict has not been issued yet.
Commenting on the ATC's verdict, he said that four prosecutors from the state appeared in today's hearing. Safdar said that the government reserved right to challenge the ATC verdict in any court.
Bushra has been behind bars for months in different cases since her arrest in the iddat case — also known as the un-Islamic nikah case — in February 2024, however, she and her husband were acquitted in the said case by a local court which overturned their sentences last month.
[POSTMILLENNIAL] The Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Senate Appropriations Committee has moved full speed ahead to allow illegal immigrants colonists the opportunity to make use of the state's zero-money-down, no-payment, "loan" program for buying a home. The move from the state chamber comes amidst the ongoing illegal immigration crisis at the southern border.
According to The Center Square, bill author Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula, D-Fresno wrote of the bill, ''The social and economic benefits of homeownership should be available to everyone. As such, the California Dream for All Program should be available to all."
''When undocumented individuals are excluded from such programs, they miss out on a crucial method of securing financial security and personal stability for themselves and their families," it added.
Bill AB1840 has already passed the state Assembly and will now move onto the floor of the Senate for a vote. The program allows for applicants to get "loans" for up to 20 percent of their home's price, with zero down payment on the loan and no payments on the loan.
The "loan" can then possibly be repaid back when the home is refinanced, sold, or transferred with the borrower paying back the loan amount in addition to 20 percent of any increased value on the real estate. However,
there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... it is not clear what happens if a family decides to keep the property long term as no provision sets a limit on how long the loan can be used.
The California Appropriations Committee analysis stated that there would be "unknown significant cost pressures, potentially in the millions annually, to provide additional funding for the Home Purchase Assistance Program to accommodate the expanded eligibility population.''
18,000 people have applied for the "loan" program costing $255 million through lottery, with 1,700 winners getting $150,000 each to go towards down payments as well as closing.
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The social and economic benefits of homeownership should be available to everyone. As such, the California Dream for All Program should be available to all.
Everyone in the whole, wide world, right? The people who run this state want to provide housing for everyone in the whole, wide world. Nevermind the impact that will have on the people who already live here. When the Democrats are done with this state nobody will want to live here.
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Paradise Free and Clear, or, Phil's Pheelz
A compassionate smile. "To be freed
From your hellscape of envy, er, need,
Of late-Marxist preening,
Self-hatred, and greening,
Grasshopper, means owning your greed.
And of course mine and everyone else's."
"Like, in common?"
Milton wept.
Or was all that posturing just setting up Friedman's spike? Off to watch the whole thing...
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] …that led to Japan A-bombs.
A small Michigan town has erupted with fury after a nearby landfill revealed it will process radioactive waste from the Manhattan Project.
The Wayne Disposal facility in Van Buren Township will be processing low-radiation atomic bomb byproducts from the 1940s Manhattan Project, which developed the bombs used in WWII and whose lead scientist inspired the Christopher Nolan blockbuster Oppenheimer.
The same facility also processed some of the waste from the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment, which released toxic chemicals into the air during the fire.
Residents are unhappy with the new developments, saying it's 'scary' and they worry about the health and safety of their families and neighbors, they told WXYZ.
'I don't like it,' Bonnie Coughlin, who has lived in the township for 70 years, told the outlet. 'I got my kids living next door, grandkids, and our neighbors. It's always been scary with that dump there.'
The waste will be coming from the Niagara Falls Storage Site - located in Lewiston, New York - which became the primary location for uranium ore byproducts related to the Manhattan Project.
The transportation plan says 25 vessels of waste will be dropped off each week in lined trucks between July and January. Each truck will have to be decontaminated before it can leave the facility, according to US Army Corps of Engineers.
Roughly 6,000 cubic yards of soil and concrete and 4,000 gallons of groundwater with elevated radiation levels will be disposed at the facility.
Republic Services said in a statement to WXYZ that the 'material will be accepted' from the site as it 'falls within the permit guidelines and will be managed safely, responsibly, and in compliance with all local, state, and federal regulations.'
It also insisted the facility is 'highly engineered with multiple safety measures in place and frequent inspections and systems tests to ensure everything is operating as it should.'
In 2018, the US Army Corps of Engineers dumped 124,000 tons of radioactive soil and materials from Luckey, Ohio at the Michigan facility.
Then last year, more than 218,000 gallons of toxic liquid waste was delivered to the site.
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[Regnum] The decision of the Kiev regime to ban the activities of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) in Ukraine contradicts the country's constitution, said the head of the information and educational department of the UOC, Metropolitan Clement. This was reported on August 20 by the Ukrainian publication "Strana.ua". He recalled that the Verkhovna Rada's legal department had previously established that the bill banning the church was inconsistent with several fundamental articles of the Ukrainian Basic Law, ratified by Kiev in international treaties.
“If millions of believing Ukrainian citizens knew that the current parliament would ban churches, then, obviously, a completely different composition would have been formed in the elections,” the priest added.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the Verkhovna Rada adopted the bill on banning the UOC in its final reading. 265 deputies voted for it. The law will come into force 30 days after its publication.
The head of the Synodal Department of the Russian Orthodox Church for Relations with Society and the Media, Vladimir Legoida, said that the ban on the UOC in Ukraine would lead to mass violence in the country. He also called this decision a gross violation of the ideas of freedom of conscience and human rights in relation to millions of believers.
The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, commenting on the decision of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations to support the bill banning the UOC, called those who support this initiative Satanists.
More from regnum.ru Russian Orthodox Church commented on the law banning the UOC
The law on the de facto ban of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) tramples on internationally recognized norms in the field of protecting religious freedom. This was stated on August 20 by Archpriest Nikolai Balashov, adviser to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill.
“The law adopted by the Rada tramples on internationally recognized norms in the area of protecting religious freedom and provides the opportunity for further, broader expansion of anti-church persecution by the Kiev regime,” he said.
The Patriarch’s advisor added that the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church will assess “this act of persecution of canonical Orthodoxy in Ukraine.”
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on August 20, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted in the final reading a bill banning the canonical UOC. The law was supported by 265 deputies with 226 votes required, it will come into force 30 days after its publication.
The Administrator of the Chancery of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, Archpriest Seraphim Gan, stated that the ROCOR deeply sympathizes with the Ukrainian believers in connection with the adoption of this law. He wished them to be strong "in standing for the truth."
On August 17, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called those who supported the ban on the UOC in Ukraine Satanists.
Regnum IA observer Vladislav Sovin noted that only a victory by Russia can save Orthodoxy in Ukraine in the current situation. In his opinion, the globalist machine is interested in destroying the UOC, striving to sever all ties, including spiritual ones, between Russia and Ukraine.
Even more from regnum.ru Human Rights Council called on spiritual leaders and human rights activists not to allow the ban of the UOC
The HRC Standing Committee on International Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights addressed the spiritual leaders of the world, representatives of traditional religious confessions, international human rights organizations and called on them not to allow the ban of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC). This was reported on August 20 by Marina Akhmedova, a member of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation and editor-in-chief of Regnum News Agency.
“We called on them to raise their voices to prevent the destruction of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which, of course, is not a Muscovite church, but a self-governing church with rights of broad autonomy within the Russian Orthodox Church,” Akhmedova wrote on her Telegram channel.
According to her, Ukraine has been preparing the ground for the ban on the UOC for so long that now it surprises no one and is happening as an ordinary event - quietly and unnoticed. However, this is all very serious and should not be surrounded by silence, the editor-in-chief of the news agency emphasized.
Akhmedova also pointed to the silence of religious and human rights international organizations. The member of the Human Rights Council recalled that people in Ukraine were thrown out of the bosom of their church and lost the right to freedom of religion.
The statement of the Human Rights Council was supported by the presidential adviser and Chairman of the Human Rights Council, Valery Fadeev.
“We hope that spiritual leaders will not ignore our appeal and will do everything possible to ensure that the right of UOC parishioners to freedom of religion in their churches and with their spiritual pastors remains inviolable,” follows from a statement published on the HRC Telegram channel.
It also notes that members of the commission on international cooperation in the field of human rights have repeatedly drawn the attention of international human rights activists to the repressions to which the UOC is subjected. The commission also recalled that we are talking about the ban on the largest religious organization in Ukraine and the deprivation of millions of its parishioners of the opportunity to be in the bosom of their canonical church.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on August 20, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted in the final reading a bill banning the canonical UOC. It was supported by 265 deputies with 226 votes required. The law will come into force 30 days after its publication.
The Russian Foreign Ministry stated that the adoption in Ukraine of a law banning the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church is evidence of Kiev’s deliberate destruction of Christianity in violation of the country’s constitution.
Advisor to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill, Archpriest Nikolai Balashov, stated that the law adopted in Ukraine tramples on internationally recognized norms in the area of protecting religious freedom.
Political scientist and HSE professor Marat Bashirov, in a conversation with the Regnum news agency, called the actions of Ukrainian politicians a political mess.
[FoxBusinessNews] The labor could be weaker than Americans realize, according to one Fed governor.
Home Depot’s former CEO is calling for the government to tell the truth, as Federal Reserve governors are warning about U.S. jobs data being inflated.
During an appearance on "The Evening Edit," Monday, Bob Nardelli suggested that the country’s jobs data is "woefully overstated," arguing that it's "about time" the government "got honest."
"You and I watch this very closely every month," Nardelli told host Elizabeth MacDonald in response to Federal Reserve Governors Michelle Bowman and Lisa Cook warning that job gains are overstated, and the labor market could be weaker than we realize.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is expected to release a sizable downward revision Wednesday, potentially lowering payroll growth by at least 600,000 jobs in the year through March.
What’s more, the Atlanta Fed cut its forecast for the third-quarter U.S. GDP to just 2%.
"There’s a lot of fanfare. They announce a number, and then they quietly adjust it a few months or weeks later," Nardelli stressed. "Now, even Goldman Sachs is talking about an adjustment between 600,000 to 1 million jobs."
According to Nardelli, the nation's largest employers last year including health care, government, hospitality and travel, will see numbers adjusted.
"Stellantis, the car manufacturer, just announced 2,500 jobs would be laid off. Manufacturing in the list I looked at was ranked 11th as far as job creation under this administration," he pointed out, "so yes, I think it's woefully overstated. And it's about time they got honest."
In response to the July jobs report showing U.S. job growth slowed to 114,000, while unemployment unexpectedly rose to the highest level in nearly three years, President Biden touted job creation under his administration.
"Since Vice President Harris and I took office, our economy has created nearly 16 million jobs, average unemployment has been lower than during any administration in 50 years, and incomes have risen faster than prices," the statement read.
Nardelli explained that "a lot of that was a bounce-back from COVID," warning that the job market is "tight," and that we will see that reflected in unemployment.
"We saw it last month. We’re going to see it go up again, Liz," he warned.
The next jobs report showing data for August will be released on September 6.
fwiw, there was a big adjustment down in 2018 and a big adjustment up in 2022
the adjusted figures are based on reconciling BLS employer data with IRS data from employers; the IRS requires employers to file this and it includes unemployment insurance data
the total number 'employed' is a problem because of judgement on how to count people who only work a few hours a month, people who are temporarily laid off, people who are on strike, people who are on maternity leave, etc.
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[NewsFront] 23:59 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 20.08.2024 to 00:00 21.08.2024.
A total of 24 cases of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
There were reports of 10 civilians being injured.
DAMAGED:
One car,
A total of 14 residential buildings,
Three civil infrastructure facilities.
A total of 15 artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction.
Nine artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction.
A total of 63 units of various ammunition were fired.
23:21 Reported defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces airfield in Mirgorod with a strike from the Iskander OTRK.
21:00 Two Ukrainian missiles and two UAVs were shot down over the Kursk region, the acting governor said.
19:52 Footage of destruction of the M-777 howitzer by the Lancet loitering munition in the Volchansk direction.
Servicemen of the North group of forces in the Vovchansk direction, using a loitering munition, destroyed an American-made M-777 howitzer supplied to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The camouflaged firing position was exposed with the help of Zala UAV operators, after which the howitzer and its crew were destroyed with a precise strike.
Artillery crews of 152mm self-propelled howitzers "Msta-S" of the 20th Guards Combined Arms Army of the "West" group of forces, during counter-battery combat, destroyed camouflaged enemy positions identified by the operator of an unmanned aerial vehicle and the crew together with the 122mm D-30 gun.
The artillery fire adjustment and target destruction recording were carried out using unmanned aerial vehicle systems. The artillerymen note that there is an abundance of ammunition, provisions, equipment and water at each position, which cannot be said about the enemy.
18:56 Vladimir Zelensky, speaking about the front near Krasnoarmeysk and Dzerzhinsk (Ukrainian: Pokrovsk and Toretsk), called the situation there difficult. In turn, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Syrsky stated that the situation was difficult along the entire front line, noting the superiority of the Russian Armed Forces in the air, missiles and artillery ammunition.
18:42 Senior officers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are leaving Kupyansk, the command post of one of the mechanized brigades has moved further from the front line, the Napravilets channel reported.
17:48 Russian troops tonight struck an enemy object in the village of Annovka (occupied part of the DPR)
The building of the local House of Culture was used to accommodate rotational personnel, Donbasskiy Partizan reports. Ukrainian Armed Forces facilities near Kramatorsk and Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) were also hit.
17:29 Calculations of engineering systems for remote mining "Agriculture" conducted mining of areas in the areas of concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces reserves in the Sumy region to close passages to the border areas of the Kursk region.
16:41 Defeat of enemy manpower in the Zaporizhzhya direction –video.
16:34 Servicemen of the North group of forces using the Lancet loitering munitiondestroyedthe Ukrainian Armed Forces' "Kozak" combat armored vehicle in the Kursk region, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
16:15 The Ukrainian Armed Forces are fleeing from the village of Ptichye in the Pokrovsky direction, Shepot Fronta reported.
15:56 The attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Kursk region did not create a threat to the front line in the LPR, the situation there is stable and there are no prerequisites for it to change. This was reported by the head of the region Leonid Pasechnik.
15:40 Crews of the Su-30SM and Su-35S multi-role super-maneuverable fighters with controlled thrust vector of the Aerospace Forces launched a night-time strike on a concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel and military equipment in the border area of the Kursk region.
The strike was carried out on reconnoitered targets using aviation bombs with a universal planning and correction module. Having received confirmation from reconnaissance about the destruction of the targets, the crews safely returned to the departure airfield.
14:49 Explosions thunder in Nikolaev region
14:42 Footage of defeat of a column of Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment in the border area of ??Kursk Oblast.
The operator of the reconnaissance UAV detected an enemy column in a forest. After escorting it to the parking place and confirming the concentration of enemy manpower in this area, the coordinates were transmitted to the Tornado-S MLRS crew, which inflicted fire damage. As a result, three units of Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment and up to 20 personnel were destroyed.
14:10 Attack aircraft of the Russian Armed Forces hit a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Avdeevka direction.
The servicemen of the assault group of the Ural motorized rifle unit of the Center group of forces, under the skillful leadership of the battalion commander, drove the enemy from their firing positions and captured the stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The attack aircraft are supported by reconnaissance drones, whose operators constantly transmit video to the command post and monitor the situation in the area where the combat mission is being carried out.
13:49 As part of the support for offensive operations in the Ugledar direction, UAV operators from Transbaikalia destroyed manpower, communications equipment and “destroyed” enemy positions in Ugledar itself and its environs.
13:40 The village of Kirovo (Ukrainian name – Pivnichnoye) has been completely liberated by the Russian Armed Forces, reports Donetsk Stringer.
13:17 New briefing by the Russian Ministry of Defense on the situation in the SVO zone. Main points:
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 105 soldiers, a tank, and a 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS combat vehicle in the Khar'kov region in one day as a result of the actions of the Sever group;
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 680 soldiers and four ammunition depots in one day as a result of the actions of the “South” group;
The eastern group took more advantageous positions and defeated the formations of two brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces;
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 450 servicemen in the area of ??responsibility of the Zapad group;
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 110 soldiers in the area of ??responsibility of the Eastern Group of the Russian Armed Forces;
The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of responsibility of the Center group amounted to more than 585 servicemen;
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ manpower and equipment in 133 districts;
Over the course of 24 hours, Russian air defense systems shot down a Hammer bomb, 10 HIMARS rounds, and 31 Ukrainian drones.
13:15 The Russian army "defeated" a large group of Ukrainian Armed Forces troops and liberated the settlement of Novgorodskoye (New York) in the DPR, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
12:57 Toretskoye direction: Russian Armed Forces have “finished clearing” the northwestern outskirts of the village of Kirovo (Pivnichnoye).
12:35 Artillerymen of the "winged infantry" destroyed enemy on the right bank of the Dnieper.
Crews of 152mm howitzers 2A36 "Giatsint-B" of the Ulyanovsk Guards Airborne Forces unit from the "Dnepr" group of forces inflict fire damage on fortified areas, temporary deployment points of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel, strongholds and enemy equipment.
As a result of the joint combat work of UAV crews and airborne artillerymen, a temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with personnel was hit and a large number of Ukrainian militants were destroyed.
11:54 Footage of destruction of the command post and warehouse with weapons and ammunition of the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
10:58 "Solntsepyok" "burned out" enemy positions, ensuring the advancement of assault groups in the South Donetsk direction.frames– combat work of the crews of the TOS-1A Solntsepek heavy flamethrower systems of the Vostok troop group.
10:54 In the Svatovsko-Kremensky area, our troops have improved their position in a number of areas, reported military expert, retired LPR People's Militia Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Marochko.
"Over the past few days, the Russian Armed Forces have managed to advance and improve their tactical position in Peschanoye, Stelmakhovka, Nevsky, Makeyevka (LPR) and Terny.
The width of the front in this area, where active liberation actions are currently underway, is more than 40 km. The Russian Armed Forces also managed to dislodge the enemy from three well-fortified areas, and in two areas, Ukrainian militants arbitrarily abandoned their positions and fled lightly towards the Oskol Reservoir," Marochko wrote on his Telegram channel.
10:35 The Russian Armed Forces have completed the mop up of the final plant in New York, and all that remains is to “finish cleaning” the northern outskirts.
At the same time, the assault on Nelepovka continues without pause (the fighting is already on the territory of the village) and in Dzerzhinsk itself.
10:10 In Chasova Yara, fighters of the 98th Airborne Division of the Russian Armed Forces expanded the control zone in the Oktyabrsky microdistrict. Russian paratrooper guards were able to advance in the block of Lesnaya and Tsvetochnaya streets to Chkalov.
09:54 RF Armed Forces captured a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Avdeevka direction, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
It is noted that the battle is controlled around the clock from a carefully camouflaged, buried battalion command post.
09:52 Assault on enemy positions in the Ugledar direction — frames first person
09:49 In Ternopol, after the Russian Armed Forces' night strike on a fuel depot, a fire has been extinguished for several hours. So far, emergency services have not been able to put out the fire, Ukrainian media reported.
The warehouse fire is being extinguished by more than 20 units of equipment and more than 90 rescuers, as well as fire trains from Lviv.
09:40 Intense clashes are taking place in the Khar'kov region, said military expert, retired LPR People's Militia Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Marochko.
"In the Khar'kov direction, in the area of Liptsy and Vovchansk, active fighting has not decreased for a week. The enemy's attacks continue, and their intensity, despite the large losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, remains at a high level. Ukrainian militants mainly operate in small maneuverable groups, with the support of artillery and armored vehicles. In some areas, the militants have increased their use of ground and air drones," he wrote on the Telegram channel.
09:24 In the Polozhsky direction, UAV operators of the 35th Army of the Vostok group are “clearing” forest belts of the presence of Ukrainian formations - Starlink terminals and transport -video.
09:15 RF Armed Forces destroyed an important bridge for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kupyansk direction in the Kamenka area of the Khar'kov region.
09:06 UAV operators of the Arctic motorized rifle unit destroyed enemy sabotage and reconnaissance group on the Dnieper River in the Kherson region.
Unmanned aerial vehicle units of the Arctic motorized rifle unit from the Dnepr group of forces are constantly conducting combat operations to reconnoiter and destroy the enemy attempting to cross to the left bank of the river, controlled by our units.
UAV operators were conducting aerial reconnaissance of the right bank of the Dnieper at night. A vehicle was spotted, which drove up to the bank and dropped off two people, who went into the water and began to swim quickly towards the right bank.
Having launched the FPV drone, the crew skillfully approached the target and recorded the destruction of two Ukrainian Armed Forces saboteurs.
08:19 Army aviation crews on the Mi-28NM helicopter struck a concentration of manpower and armored military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units in the border area of the Kursk region.
The strike was carried out with guided anti-tank missiles. According to intelligence reports, the personnel and armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed.
08:14 Assault aircraft of the Ural motorized rifle battalion of the Center group of forces initiated a fight against a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to the southwest of the settlement of Ocheretino in the Avdeevka direction
08:12 Artillery crew of the 152mm howitzer 2A36 "Giatsint-B" of the Ulyanovsk paratroopers destroyed temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the right bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region.
08:06 Military personnel of the 810th Separate Guards Naval Infantry Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet stopped the advance of a column of Ukrainian armed forces in the Kursk region, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
During the clash, the servicemen captured several Ukrainian soldiers, destroyed nine units of enemy equipment, and captured two Stryker armored personnel carriers.
08:04 Russian military groups "West" with high-precision projectiles set on fire German Leopard tank. This was reported by the commander of the self-propelled howitzer artillery battery with the call sign Argun.
08:04 Servicemen of the North group of troops in the Volchansk direction destroyed American M-777 howitzer with the Lancet loitering munition.
08:01 Enemy reports:
"The Russian Armed Forces have advanced in the area of Kupyansk and Svatovo."
08:00 Air defense assets of the Russian group of forces "Southern" over the past days hot down a Hammer guided aerial bomb and 49 Ukrainian Armed Forces drones.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Volchansk and Liptsy directions, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of the AFU 22nd Mechanised Brigade, 82nd Airborne Assault Brigade, and 17th Tank Brigade near Zolochev (Kharkov region), Mogritsa and Lugovka (Sumy region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 105 troops, one tank, six motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzer, one 152mm D-20 gun, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, and one Grad MLRS combat vehicle.
The Zapad Group of Forces captured more advantageous lines and inflicted losses on the 115th, 116th Mechanised brigades, and 3rd Assault Brigade of the AFU near Kopanki (Kharkov region), Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic) and Novosadovoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU suffered losses as follows: more than 450 troops, 11 motor vehicles, two U.S.-made 155mm M198 and 155mm M-777 howitzers, one UK-made 155mm FH-70 howitzer, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, and one U.S.-made 105mm M119 gun.
The units of the Yug Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line, defeated manpower and hardware of the 23rd Mechanised Brigade, 79th Air Assault Brigade, and 81st Airmobile Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Katerinovka, Konstantinovka, and Serebryanka (Donetsk People's Republic). Two AFU counter-attacks were repelled.
The AFU lost in total more than 680 troops, four motor vehicles, two U.S.-manufactured 155mm M777 and 155mm M198 howitzers, one 152mm Msta-B gun, one 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, two 152mm D-20 howitzers, one 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS combat vehicle, one Croatian-made 2S1-12 RAK-SA rocket launch vehicle, and one U.S.-made 105mm M119 howitzer. Four ammunition depots were eliminated.
As a result of active operations by the Tsentr Group of Forces units, a large group of the enemy troops was defeated and one of the largest settlements of the Toretsk agglomeration and a strategically important logistics centre of Novgorodskoye (Donetsk People's Republic) were liberated.
The 25th Air Assault Brigade, the 100th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU and the 120th Territorial Defence Brigade have been hit near Toretsk and Kalinovo (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to more than 585 troops, three tanks, two motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzer, two 152mm D-20 howitzers, and three 122mm D-30 howitzers.
The Vostok Group of Forces' units captured more favourable lines and inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of the AFU 58th Mechanised Brigade and 104th Territorial Defence Brigade near Prechistovka and Shakhtyorskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses included up to 110 troops, one tank, three motor vehicles, one Polish-made 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery system, and one French-made 155mm Caesar howitzer.
The Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of the AFU 31st and 118th Mechanised brigades close to Novodanilovka and Pyatikhatki (Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 75 troops and one 152mm D-20 howitzer.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged AFU manpower and hardware clusters in 133 areas during the day.
Air defence systems have downed: one French-made Hammer guided aerial bomb, ten U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, 31 unmanned aerial vehicles, five of them beyond the special military operation zone.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 639 aircraft, 282 helicopters, 30,192 unmanned aerial vehicles, 575 anti-aircraft missile systems, 17,345 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,415 MLRS combat vehicles, 13,444 field artillery guns and mortars, and 24,945 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to repel the AFU attempt to invade the territory of the Russian Federation.
Units of the Sever Group of Forces supported by Army Aviation and artillery thwarted the attempts of the enemy's assault detachments to launch attacks near Borki, Korenevo, Kremyanoye, and Russkaya Kanapelka.
The AFU losses amounted to more than 60 troops killed and wounded, two tanks, eight armoured fighting vehicles, and six motor vehicles.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue reconnaissance and search operations to locate and eliminate the enemy's small sabotage and reconnaissance groups in forest belts attempting to get to the depth of the Russian territory.
Army Aviation and artillery strikes and actions of defending troops inflicted losses on manpower and hardware clusters of the AFU 22nd, 115th Mechanised brigades, 80th, and 82nd Air Assault brigades near Apanasovka, Borki, Viktorovka, Kositsa, Lyubimovka, Plekhovo, Tolsty Lug, and west of Bogdanovka.
Operational-Tactical Aviation delivered strikes at manpower and hardware concentration areas of reserves of the AFU 61st Mechanised Brigade, 101st, 103rd, 106th, and 129th Territorial Defence brigades near Aleksandriya, Belopolye, Volnaya Sloboda, Vorozhba, Loknya, Mogritsa, and Khoten.
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses have amounted to up to 350 troops and 25 units of hardware, including four tanks, one infantry fighting vehicle, two armoured personnel carriers, 18 armoured fighting vehicles, as well as eight motor vehicles, two mortars, and one electronic warfare station.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses have amounted to more than 4,130 troops, 58 tanks, 27 infantry fighting vehicles, 50 armoured personnel carriers, 299 armoured fighting vehicles, 131 motor vehicles, 27 artillery guns, five SAM launchers, seven MLRS launchers, including three of HIMARS system and one of MLRS system, six electronic warfare stations, four units of engineering vehicles, including two counterobstacle vehicles and one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
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[Korrespondent] 21:33 American political consultant and journalist Jason Jay Smart visited Kursk Oblast and told Voice of America about his impressions. The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the US Chargé d'Affaires and lodged a protest with her "in connection with the actions of American journalists who illegally entered Kursk Oblast."
21:25 The Kursk operation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces did not lead to changes in military cooperation between Ukraine and the United States, said Deputy Pentagon Spokesperson Sabrina Singh.
21:16 Syrsky showed a map of the operation in the Kursk region. According to the map, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are 12 km from the village of Glushkovo. They also control Martynovka, located on the road from Sudzha to Kursk.
Syrsky showed a map of the operation in the Kursk region
19:00 Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova reported that Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets visited Russian prisoners from Kursk Oblast and sent her a video. "We agreed that we would visit simultaneously: I would visit Ukrainian prisoners, and he would visit our prisoners of war," she added.
18:52 The Ukrainian Armed Forces already control 93 settlements in the Kursk region, have advanced into the enemy’s defense depth from 28 to 35 km, and have established control over 1,263 sq. km of territory, Syrsky reported.
17:21 Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov held a meeting of the Coordination Council on military security of border territories, where areas of responsibility were defined. Thus, a representative of the General Staff and the commanders of the Belgorod, Kursk and Bryansk groups are now responsible for protecting citizens and territories "from drone attacks and other means of attack."
17:13 Zelensky called the priority of the operation in the Kursk region "replenishment of the exchange fund for Ukraine." According to him, "we are achieving the set goals" in the Kursk direction.
17:00 The operation in Kursk Oblast is one of the most complex military operations that has already gone down in history, said Defense Minister Rustem Umerov. "The guys should feel our support every day in everything, including material support. Now they will receive the same payments and benefits as the soldiers on the front lines. This also applies to their families," the minister noted, commenting on the adoption of the new bill.
14:44 The Rada adopted a bill guaranteeing Ukrainian military personnel fighting on Russian territory, particularly in the Kursk region, the same payments and preferences as those on the front lines.
14:39 Putin ordered his military to push Ukrainian troops out of the Kursk region by October 1, but not to withdraw forces from key areas in the Donetsk region - from the Pokrovsky and Toretsky directions, RBC-Ukraine reports, citing a source in the military-political leadership.
11:12 Ukrainian troops are close to encircling Russian units on the Seim River in the Kursk region. Up to 3,000 Russians may be taken prisoner, writes Bild. The publication recalls that since August 16, Ukrainian troops have begun blowing up bridges across the Seim in the north of the Glushkovsky district. This could cut off the Russian Armed Forces group, since the area is surrounded by Ukrainian territory from the west and south. "In response, Russia is organizing pontoon crossings and an air bridge, and is also defending the remaining passage in the east. The day before, the Ukrainian Armed Forces captured the villages of Snagost and Apanasovka there. They are 5 km away from the Seim River and the closure of the cauldron," the newspaper writes.
Bild open data analysis expert Julian Repke notes that the state border between Russia and Ukraine in the south and west of the cauldron is prepared for defense. But it will be difficult for the Russians to defend themselves if the Ukrainian Armed Forces attack from the east. In addition, in the west, the Ukrainians have already crossed the border and taken control of a small section of Russian territory of 15 square kilometers up to the Seim River. The Otruba farm is located there. "The Russians now have a simple choice: fight and defend this territory or retreat. Obviously, both options are fatal for them. But it must be said frankly that this battle is not decisive. Because we do not know how much strength Ukraine has left," Repke added.
10:57 A Ukrainian fighter jet hit a Russian underground command post in the Kursk direction with an AASM Hammer guided bomb, Air Force Commander Nikolai Oleshchuk reported and showed a video:
08:45 The Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region are trying to isolate more than 480 square kilometers between the Ukrainian border and the Seim River, Forbes writes. The publication notes that, according to satellite images, "the three permanent bridges that the Ukrainians attacked between Friday and Monday were the only major permanent bridges in the area," so now the Russians are relying entirely on pontoon bridges, which are much easier to destroy.
"If the Ukrainians have concentrated enough reconnaissance and strike assets to destroy three permanent bridges in four days, there is probably no reason why they cannot also destroy any temporary bridges that appear in the same area," the journalists state.
00:30 A fire broke out on one of the Russian pontoon crossings in the Kursk region, OSINT investigator Oliver Alexander reported, citing satellite images. In particular, the fire broke out on the Russian troops’ crossing over the Seim River to the east of the village of Zvannoye. It was probably caused by strikes by Ukrainian forces. Later, information emerged that one of the pontoon crossings that the Russians built on the Seim River had disappeared.
[News With Views] I love talking about the Kennedy assassination. The reason I do is because I’m fascinated by it. I’m fascinated that our government could lie to us so blatantly, so obviously for so long, and we do absolutely nothing about it. —Bill Hicks — Comedian who died at 32 of pancreatic cancer.
The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet. —Eric Ambler — English author of thrillers.
It’s been 61 years and we still don’t have the documents on the JFK murder. CIA Director, Mike Pompeo convinced President Trump to once again withhold the information from the American public. Why?
Martin Armstrong of Armstrong Economics wrote about the secret service (SS) and how bodyguards have a history of assassinating heads of state. President Nixon refused SS agents. He had threatened the CIA by telling them he knew who killed Kennedy. Deep State intel set Nixon up for the fall and got rid of him, just like the FBI got rid of General Mike Flynn with the help of Pence and Priebus.
In Leo Hohmann’s recent Substack article, he exposed the truth regarding targets of assassins. "The three-letter agencies will not hesitate to use assassination at home or abroad against anti-war politicians who buck the system, which was designed to empower the military industrial complex."
Mike Pompeo wanted to poison Julian Assange. What did he do to deserve 12 years in prison? He had the nerve to defy, by publishing an enormous amount of "classified" — that is to say hidden — data, in Wikileaks, given to him by government-employed whistleblowers.
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed, they must rely exclusively on force. —George Orwell
In 1975 a Senate committee headed by Frank Church found that the [Central Intelligence] Agency had planned a number of assassination operations, using everything from poison to machine guns and sometimes mob hit men. —Jim Garrison
Jim Garrison was absolutely right. When Mike Pompeo was the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, he planned to kidnap and poison Julian Assange, a totally illegal and unconstitutional act by the CIA.
Assange had been given information that Samsung TVs were able to listen in to private conversations in homes when the TV was allegedly off. CIA agents then listened to recordings. Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed was published by Wikileaks on March 7, 2017. Not a good thing for the CIA. Years back, a gal at our church whose son worked for Samsung told her this was true.
Julian was already the target of investigations by the CIA, the FBI, and the departments of Defense, Justice, and State over his publication in 2010 of the government’s own communications proving its culpability in war crimes. Wikileaks’ unedited gun-camera video released on July 12, 2007, shows two Reuters journalists and numerous Iraqis killed by fire from an American chopper. It was a video called "Collateral Murder."
Yahoo! News investigation reporter, Mike Isikoff, told Democracy Now that Mike Pompeo was in a frenzy over the Vault 7 leak. Code-named "Vault 7" by WikiLeaks, it is the largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency. This happened on Pompeo’s watch and his campaign against Assange went into overdrive.
Pompeo defined Wikileaks as a hostile intelligence service rather than what it was...a publisher. The CIA planned to work with the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to prepare a kidnapping and possible poisoning of Assange. Fortunately, Pompeo failed and Assange is home in Australia after being released from London’s Belmarsh prison where he spent nearly five years in solitary confinement.
So, why wouldn’t the CIA plot and carry out other assassinations? Robert Kennedy Jr. is convinced his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, was murdered by the CIA.
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We will never know the real story unless the FBI &/or the USSS has insider(s) like Assange copying documents & evidence currently being withheld / manipulated / altered who then goes public.
Still not disclosed: autopsy report, exact make & model of Crooks' weapon, exact make & model of LEO arms used against him, interviews & body cam footage of all LEOs involved, the list goes on...
* Rick Rescorla, WTC Director of Security was certain another attempt would be made on the WTC. Rick was right. He died there attempting to save others on 9/11.
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Bill Hicks also told all the teetotalers to throw their art and music away, because the people made that art and music --- to quote, "Were really high on drugs." Ha. Smart man. Maybe a lil before his time, but maybe right on time. *shrugs*
Regards to the Trump Assassination Attempt, We will never know. But that is premised on the belief in plausible deniability. *grins*
I know BBC and CNN were on prem and rolling live, someone tipped them off, as they have not been back to cover any of Trumps other events. But we will never know, unless someone from govt, an insider goes public, tells us.
[IsraelTimes] Leaders of Tzav 9, which has attacked humanitarian supply convoys headed to Strip, say their focus shifted from ‘field activity’ to political efforts to influence war policy
For months after the Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... attacks of October 7, right-wing activists made headlines for blocking aid convoys on their way to the Gazoo
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[GEOTV] There could be a long wait for Iranian retaliation against Israel, Iran's Revolutionary Guards spokesperson Alimohammad Naini said on Tuesday.
The Middle East has been bracing for Iran's avowed retaliation over the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied that it was behind the killing.
"Time is in our favour and the waiting period for this response could be long," Naini said, referring to potential retaliation against Israel.
He said "the enemy" should wait for a calculated and accurate response.
Iranian leaders were weighing the circumstances and the Islamic Republic's response might not be a repeat of previous operations, he added, according to Iranian state media.
Iran and Hamas have accused Israel of carrying out the strike that killed Haniyeh hours after he attended the inauguration of Iran's new president Masoud Pezeshkian.
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"All of our operators are busy. Please stay on the line. Your destruction is important to us."
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21:37 Another tanker exploded on the third day of the fire at the oil depot in Proletarsk, Rostov Region. Two fire trains, three Il-76 Emergencies Ministry aircraft, and 600 firefighters are trying to put out the fire, Russian media write.
20:45 In Malokaterinovka, Zaporizhia Oblast, a 14-year-old teenager has died after being wounded in today's attack on a children's cafe, said OVA chief Ivan Fedorov. In addition to him, the number of wounded children has grown to four.
19:59 If there are no force majeure events, it will probably be possible to avoid power outages as early as next week, said Ukrenergo head Vladimir Kudritsky.
19:20 Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova reported that Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets visited Russian prisoners from Kursk Oblast and sent her a video. "We agreed that we would visit simultaneously: I would visit Ukrainian prisoners, and he would visit our prisoners of war," she added.
19:14 Ukraine has urgently requested heavy construction, engineering and medical equipment from NATO, the Euro-Atlantic Coordination Centre reported. In particular, Ukraine is asking for 17 tracked and ten wheeled heavy excavators, 30 tractors with lowboys for transporting cargo weighing up to 100 tons, 25 armoured ambulances, and 27 fire trucks.
19:08 The Cabinet of Ministers has adopted a resolution on the establishment of a military escort service in Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense reported. The document defines the procedure for the work and activities of escort services in the interests of social support for defenders and their family members. "Escort services will operate in all military units and will only deal with this area. They will deal not only with active military personnel, but also with family members of the dead, missing, and captured," said Deputy Defense Minister Natalia Kalmykova.
18:56 Russians attacked a children's cafe in Malokaterinovka, Zaporizhia Oblast: three children were injured, one of them in serious condition, said OVA head Ivan Fedorov.
18:52 The Ukrainian Armed Forces already control 93 settlements in the Kursk region, have advanced into the enemy’s defense depth from 28 to 35 km, and have established control over 1,263 sq. km of territory, Syrsky reported.
18:07 Russians shelled Konstantinovka in Donetsk region: one person was killed, one was wounded, reported the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin.
17:58 The next, 24th meeting in the Ramstein format will take place on September 6 at the Ramstein airbase in Germany, and will be chaired by US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the US Air Forces in Europe reported.
17:16 On Wednesday, August 21, electricity consumption restriction schedules will be in effect, Ukrenergo reported. From 16:00 to 18:00 and from 22:00 to 24:00, one turn-off sequence will be applied, from 18:00 to 22:00 - two sequences simultaneously.
17:09 Zelensky announced in his evening video address the strengthening of air defense - the corresponding issue was discussed today with partners. He also said that today he is on a working visit to Kropyvnytskyi.
In addition, the president said that he had heard Syrsky's report: "Front. Defense in the Pokrovsky and Toretsky directions. A difficult situation, but the guys are doing everything to destroy the occupier. The commander-in-chief also reported on the updates in the Kursk direction. We are achieving our goals. And the priority, as before, is replenishing the exchange fund for Ukraine."
16:12 Russian troops attacked a suburb of Kherson using drones: one person was wounded in Kindeyka and Sadovoye, OVA reported.
15:37 Ukrainian state project I Want to Live told the story of a serviceman of the Russian Armed Forces with the call sign Silver, who signed a contract with the army with the aim of crossing the front line to the Ukrainian side and joining the ranks of the Freedom of Russia Legion. While collaborating with the Legion, he transmitted valuable information about the enemy in one of the sections of the front and about his plans, and was also able to eliminate the battalion commander and sabotage the unit, after which he was safely evacuated to the Ukrainian side.
15:29 The Verkhovna Rada adopted in the second reading the bill #9538, which should improve the procedure for obtaining, declaring and handling firearms. According to it, Ukrainians must take all captured weapons to the police and register them. At the same time, civilians will be able to use captured declared weapons to repel and deter Russian aggression until the end of martial law.
15:18 Parliament has decriminalized desertion and unauthorized absence from the unit (UAU), if it occurs for the first time. Law No. 11322 stipulates that military personnel will be exempted from criminal liability if they return to their place of service on their own.
15:15 In the Ternopil region, due to the burning of flammable and lubricating materials as a result of the Russian attack at night, the chlorine content in the air has exceeded 4-10 times, the OVA reported. Residents are urged to limit their time outdoors, close windows and ventilation openings in their homes. The State Emergency Service reported that the fire has already been extinguished.
15:01 Six more families with six children aged three to 12 years were evacuated from the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region, reported the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin.
14:52 The Parliament supported the government bill on granting Ukrainian citizenship to defenders from other countries and their family members. According to the document, the opportunity for foreigners and stateless persons defending Ukraine from Russian aggression to obtain a temporary residence permit, immigration permit or obtain Ukrainian citizenship is enshrined at the legislative level. Their family members will also receive the same right.
14:44 The Rada adopted a bill guaranteeing Ukrainian military personnel fighting on Russian territory, particularly in the Kursk region, the same payments and preferences as those on the front lines.
13:36 The Verkhovna Rada adopted in the first reading a bill on depriving traitors of Ukraine of state awards, MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak reported. For this purpose, a new additional punishment is envisaged in the Criminal Code - deprivation of state awards, and the crimes for which such punishment is provided are defined. A sanction in the form of deprivation of state awards by decision of the National Security and Defense Council is also introduced.
13:25 The Czech Republic will buy ammunition for Ukraine using revenues from frozen Russian assets, the country's Defense Minister Jana Černochová said. She specified that this is a decision of the European Union, thanks to which the Czech Republic will be able to purchase hundreds of thousands more large-caliber shells for the needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
13:14 The Cabinet of Ministers approved a bill that legally establishes the existence of the Unmanned Systems Forces in Ukraine, Shmyhal reported. The government also allocated UAH 24 billion today for the purchase of drones for the Defense Forces. According to the Prime Minister, the state has already contracted 1 million drones, and 500 Ukrainian companies are producing UAVs.
13:07 Since the beginning of 2024, the Defense Procurement Agency of the Ministry of Defense has purchased more than 350 thousand drones for 30 billion hryvnia, the agency reported. They specified that these are both the most popular FPV and "mavics" by the military, as well as expensive reconnaissance and attack drones of the aircraft type, which can operate deep behind enemy lines. At the same time, 95% of the purchased drones are of Ukrainian production.
12:43 The Verkhovna Rada has adopted a bill banning the activities of religious organizations associated with Russia in Ukraine. The law will come into force 30 days after its publication. According to the law, UOC MP communities will have nine months to sever ties with the ROC.
11:16 In Proletarsk, Rostov Region, a fire at an oil depot has been going on for three days. It broke out after a drone attack on the night of August 18. The fire currently covers an area of 10,000 square meters. More than 500 firefighters are trying to extinguish the fire, and four aircraft are being prepared to put it out, Russian media reports.
09:50 In Ternopil at night there was a hit on an industrial facility, the fire is still being extinguished, said the head of the Main Department of the State Emergency Service in Ternopil Oblast Viktor Masley. He specified that the hit was on one of the tanks where fuels and lubricants were stored. A fire broke out, there were no casualties.
Ternopil Mayor Serhiy Nadal added that more than 90 rescuers and more than 20 units of equipment, as well as two fire trains, were involved in extinguishing the fire. According to him, as of now, no excess of harmful substances in the air and water has been detected, but city residents are asked to limit their time outdoors and, if possible, close windows in their premises while the fire is being extinguished.
09:38 Late in the evening of August 19, Russians shelled Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region, one person was wounded, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. Two more people were injured as a result of enemy shelling in the village of Kazachya Lopan in the Kharkiv region and one in the village of Novoosinovo in the Kupyansk region.
09:21 In the Kherson region, over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, four people were injured, including one child, reported the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin.
09:04 Five people were killed in Donetsk Oblast as a result of Russian shelling on August 19: three in Zarechnoye, one each in Toretsk and Seversk. Another seven people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours, said OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
08:49 At night, the enemy launched a missile attack on energy facilities in the Glukhiv community of the Sumy region, 72 settlements and more than 18.5 thousand subscribers were left without power supply, the OVA reported. Emergency recovery operations are currently underway, power supply to some critical infrastructure facilities and the residential sector has been restored. In the Shalygin community, one person was wounded as a result of enemy shelling by FPV drones. Two more people were injured the day before as a result of Russian attacks on the Esman community.
08:26 Air defense destroyed 25 out of 26 Shahed attack UAVs, one of two Iskander-K cruise missiles and two Kh-59 guided air missiles at night, the Air Force reported. In addition, the enemy attacked with two Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles at night. Air targets were shot down within the Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi, Kirovohrad, Sumy and Chernihiv regions.
08:03 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of August 20:
personnel - about 601,800 (+1,330) people,
tanks - 8518 (+5),
combat armored vehicles - 16,521 (+26),
artillery systems - 17,156 (+52),
MLRS - 1166 (+1),
air defense systems - 926 (+1),
aircraft - 367 (+0),
helicopters - 328 (+0),
Operational-tactical level UAVs - 13,864 (+55),
cruise missiles - 2438 (+1),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 23,142 (+95),
special equipment - 2885 (+22).
07:52 A major fire broke out in Ternopil Oblast as a result of a Russian attack overnight. OVA calls on local residents to close their windows and stay indoors. Air quality measurements are being taken in Ternopil Oblast.
07:40 In the evening and at night, Russians shelled Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region, as well as the Mirovskaya and Marganets communities, one person was injured, reported the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak.
07:09 At night, the Russians attacked Kiev with attack UAVs, and in the morning - with cruise missiles, said the head of the KGVA Sergey Popko. All air targets were destroyed on the approaches to the city. According to information at this minute - in Kiev there are no damages and casualties.
06:34 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports, citing geolocation footage, that Russian troops have advanced southwest of Novoselovskoye (southeast of Kupyansk) and southwest of Andreyevka (west of Svatovo). Also, according to analysts, the Russians have captured Zavetnoye to the southeast of Pokrovsk and another settlement slightly to the north - Novozhelannoye. In addition, Russian troops have advanced in the northwestern part of Pavlovka (southwest of Ugledar).
The Ukrainian OSINT project DeepState, in turn, reports that the Russian army has occupied Mezhevo in the Pokrovsky district of the Donetsk region, Skuchnoye and Zhuravka, and has also advanced near Grodovka and Zavetnoye. Heavy fighting is underway for New York.
[DHAKATRIBUNE] A little known website called Global Defense Corp has alleged that former Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and now exiled former Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She was President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia showed such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums. That is probably because Khaleda's late husband was the Pak tool who had Mujib assassinated... , her son Sajib Wazed Joy, and niece Tulip Siddiq have reportedly embezzled over $5 billion in collusion with Russian officials by artificially inflating the cost of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP).
This website should not be confused with the US based Global Defense Corp, which according to Bloomberg is a company specializing in monitoring and maintaining security system devices such as burglar and fire alarms. The website, global defense corp, has previously posted stories that appear more like blogs than news reports, that need evidence and corroboration. Such as the story on S Alam where journalists found copies of donations to Cyprus in exchange for a passport and the shell companies he used to buy apartments in Singapore.
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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[Breitbart] Criminals being set free in a bid to reduce overcrowding at a prison are reoffending and being returned to custody, an inspection report released Wednesday reveals.
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