President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree that officially increases the number of personnel in Russia’s armed forces to almost 2.4 million people, including 1.5 million servicemen, RT reported.
[NYPOST] Former Secretary of State Crooked Hillary Clinton ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do... said Monday that Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... is a ''danger to our country and the world'' — just one day after a gunman was foiled in his bid shoot the former president.
The 2016 Democratic presidential nominee made the remark during an interview with MSNBC primetime host Rachel Maddow.
''The late great journalist Harry Evans one time said that journalists should try to achieve objectivity,'' Clinton said.
''The object in this case is Donald Trump. His demagoguery. His danger to our country and the world,'' she added, claiming that the press was ''merciless'' in going after President Biden, but treated Trump with kid gloves.
[NYPOST] The Cornell University prof gained notoriety in the immediate aftermath of Oct. 7 by declaring that he found the terror attack ''exhilarating.''
He wasn't specific about what was more exciting to him — the slaughter of hundreds of people at a music festival, including maimed people at point-blank range, the mass hostage-taking, the burning of people alive or the horrific sexual violence.
For the committed anti-Zionist, there must be so many thrilling moments to choose from.
Afterward, Russell Rickford
…activist and associate professor specializing in the Black radical tradition…
apologized for his ''horrible choice of words.''
But his remarks at a pro-Paleostinian rally at the Ithaca Commons on Oct. 15 weren't a matter of mere vocabulary. He didn't say ''exhilarating'' when he meant to use a word that means the opposite, or something less positive.
[NYPost] Hundreds of Hezbollah terrorists were seriously wounded on Tuesday when the pagers they used to communicate exploded around their belts and pockets.
Hezbollah officials confirmed the wide-range attack on its operatives, including fighters and medics, with one member, speaking on the condition of anonymity, calling it the "biggest security breach" since it began its daily attacks on Israel on Oct. 8.
Videos uploaded to social media show several incidents where seemingly unaware men had devices in their pockets blow up, with the victims crying in pain as bystanders ran away.
Update at 2:05p.m. ET:
Thousands of Hezbollah terrorists were injured in southern Lebanon on Tuesday when their new pagers all simultaneously exploded — causing horrifying burns to their groins and hands as the devices detonated on their belts and in their pockets.
Lebanese officials said 2,800 people were injured and eight killed in what Hezbollah officials claimed was a hacking attack by Israel.
The devices that detonated were all the latest models acquired by Hezbollah in recent months and distributed to its members, with the devices suspected of being tampered with, three security sources told Reuters.
The terror groups’ leader, Hassan Nasrallah had previously warned his fighters not to carry cell phones, telling them they could be used to track their movements or carry out some kind of targeted strike.
The terror group had switched from cell phones to pagers to communicate with its militants because of fears that the cellular network had been compromised by Israeli agents.
The terror groups’ leader, Hassan Nasrallah had previously warned his fighters not to carry cell phones or pagers, telling them they could be used to track their movements and carry out precision strikes.
Residents said the explosions continued to occur even 30 minutes after the initial blast.
Although with the attack in Beirut, the Hezbollah official said pagers were also being detonated in south Lebanon.
The Lebanese Health Ministry confirmed the number of dead and injured before Tuesday afternoon.
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how did the israelis do that? did they supply pagers that were cheaper than dirt. if they did then how stupid is hezbolah?
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Post in CTH this morning from an Iraeli in Israel on what they are hearing locally, with a video link
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September 17, 2024 10:11 am
Israel Update:
Something major is going on and I was habitant to post it as it’s not known exactly.
Today Israeli Shabak (the Israeli FBI) published that they find explosives at Tel Aviv with an activation system that enables Hezbollah to activate it from Lebanon. It was directed at a retired senior figure from the Security Establishment (probably an ex-Chief of Staff). It was suppose to be a part of the revenge of the assasination of their Chief of Staff some months ago.
At the same time there are lengthy meetings of the War Cabinet with Mossad and other branches.
A senior person close to Netanyahu said : “We are mid a major event right now”.
There has been a lot of talk between Israel and the US in which Israel said that we can’t continue the situation with Hezbollah as it is.
Now, 9:15 US East time I am getting a wave of reports from Beirut Lebanon of the beeper communication systems of Hezbollah exploding and many Hezbollah people injured. Something very weird but images are coming of injured Hezbollah people all over Lebanon.
It may be a preliminary step to a major war with Hezbollah. Apparently their communication systems were breached and there are over a thousand injured maybe some killed too we are still receiving new updates and a major panic going in Lebanon. This is likely a Mossad operation. See videos.
https://youtu.be/s3H5aa4pFvs
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Security sources contacted by Clash Report confirm that Israel has planted explosives inside pagers supplied to Hezbollah.
At least 3 types of pagers were planted with bombs:
Motorola LX2
Teletrim
Gold Apollo Rugged Pager AR924
Mossad planted a quantity of highly explosive PETN material on the pagers’ battery and detonated it by raising the temperature of the battery enough to detonate it, Sky News Arabia confirms.
Mossad was able to access Hezbollah's pagers before they were handed over to them.
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Somewhere outside of Beruit there's a storage building missing a wall, where they stored the pagers to hand out.
(These can't have been made up onesie-twosie, there had to be a batch premade. The smoking hole is the storage facility.)
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HisBallahGone will use StickyNotes but it may be laced with George Castandza glue.
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Times of Israel says 20 gr of PETN placed along the lithium battery,and then 'pinged' them numerous times to heat them up.
Some survivors said the pagers started to get hot, so they set the pager down.
The pagers were handed out recently on order from Nasrallah, who was concerned the IDF could track cell phones.
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Oh, coincidentally, the Iranian ambassador was wounded by an exploding pager.
Totally unrelated, I'm sure.
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Will probably now have to use burn flip phones.
Losing all the aps.
Losing the wifi numbers and passwords.
the horror
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What if? Just what if?
Massive I-95 traffic backup South of Quantico, VA blamed on similtaneous 'self driving auto' AI shutdown. Escape from D.C. now virtually impossible.
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Mossad did for one big turban a while back by setting up a phone shop in Beirut with the best deals- and- service ever. When the target came in, they sold him a new out of the box phone, then faulted it. He brought it in for service, they planted a boom in it- then:
Mahmoud?
Yeah?
That you Mahmoud?
Yeah hey speak up … can’t hear you
Kaboom!
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3dc, ever since the lead-in to the 2nd Intafada has long said "Never commit a crime with anything electronic any way near you." That even goes to the smart dust you can't see or sense.
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[JPost] Those sneaky Juice are very patient, efficient, setting this up long ago
Dozens of members of Hezbollah were seriously wounded on Tuesday in Lebanon's south and the southern suburbs of Beirut when the pagers they use to communicate exploded, security sources told Reuters.
A Reuters journalist saw hundreds of Hezbollah members bleeding from wounds in the southern suburb of Beirut known as Dahiyeh.
According to reports, the pagers were called before the explosion for some period of seconds to increase the chance that whoever received the call would pick it up and be maximally wounded. Shortly before the explosions, there were reports of a special meeting between Mossad Director David Barnea and Netanyahu.
The news comes only hours after the Shin Bet revealed that Hezbollah recently attempted to assassinate a top former Israeli defense official in Tel Aviv.
The situation is far from clear and developing, but given the juxtaposition in the timing and the last few hysterical hours in Israel about a security situation with Lebanon, did Israel just carry out only its second attack on Hezbollah in Beirut of the nearly year-long war in retaliation for the Lebanese terror group's failed assassination attempt?
The last time Israel attacked Beirut was on July 30, when it assassinated Hezbollah military chief Fuad Shukr in retaliation for the terrorists' killing of around a dozen Israeli-Druze in Majdal Shams via rocket attacks in the North.
This almost led to a full-scale war between the sides on August 25. Still, the IDF managed a preemptive strike that substantially reduced Hezbollah's ability to fire more than a fraction of the rockets that it had wanted to use to attack Israel, including northern Tel Aviv.
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A Hezbollah official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the detonation of the pagers was the “biggest security breach” the group had been subjected to in nearly a year of war with Israel.
A Reuters journalist saw ambulances rushing through the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut amid widespread panic. Residents said explosions were taking place even 30 minutes after the initial blasts.
Groups of people huddled at the entrance of buildings to check on people they knew who may have been wounded, the Reuters journalist said.
The security source added that devices were also exploding in the south of Lebanon.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, which has been exchanging fire with Hezbollah since last October in parallel with the Gaza war.
Can you hear me now?
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I keep saying Mossad are the scariest people on the planet.
🚨 Breaking: Tens of Hezbollah communication devices are exploding during the past hour. Initial reports state that over one hundred Hezbollah terrorists already injured.
🇱🇧🇮🇱Israel Prepares for Counterattack: Number of Victims of Massive Explosion of Pagers in Lebanon Already Nearly 3,000
▪Almost 5,000 pagers exploded almost simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria.
▪"The latest model of pagers introduced by Hezbollah in recent months exploded, security sources said," Reuters writes.
▪One version of the causes of the mass explosion is a hack, when the protection board on the battery is disconnected and it explodes.
➖The second version is the import of pre-mined devices to local markets by Israeli intelligence.
➖The third version is a hack of the built-in self-destruction system of devices, built into Hezbollah devices in case of loss.
▪One of the victims is Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Mojtaba Amani. He received a slight injury, there is no threat to his life.
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"It was unclear whether the ambassador was in the vicinity of someone carrying one of the tampered pagers or whether Amani was carrying one himself.
It was later reported by Al Jazeera, citing Arab media sources, that Amani's injuries were "superficial."
Translation: He had no balls anyway
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Now over 3600 wounded, JPost quoting Lebanese health officials. Victims also in Syria and Iraq.
[RT] US tech giant Meta has “discredited itself” by banning Russian media outlets, including RT, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. The move further complicates the prospects for “the normalization of relations” with the Facebook and Instagram owner, Peskov added.
The California-based corporation said in a written statement on Monday that it was deplatforming Rossiya Segodnya, RT, and other related entities from its apps due to “foreign interference activity.” The measures will be implemented globally over the next several days.
Commenting on the move, Kremlin spokesman Peskov said Meta “discredits itself with actions of this kind. Such selective actions against Russian media are unacceptable. We have an extremely negative attitude towards this.”
Last week, the US State Department announced fresh sanctions on Russian state-funded media outlets, accusing them of close ties with the Russian military. Secretary of State Antony Blinken claimed that RT was “functioning as a de facto arm of [Russian] intelligence.”
RT has mocked the sanctions and accused Washington of trying to prevent it from operating as a journalistic organization.
Commenting on the State Department’s move, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said it amounts to a declaration of war on free speech, also describing the sanctions as “repressions unprecedented in scale.”
Meta was branded an extremist organization in Russia shortly after the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022. Its social media apps were blocked in the country for allowing hate speech against Russian nationals and for distributing false content about Moscow’s military. WhatsApp was the only app that avoided restrictions due to its classification as solely a communication tool.
[Jpost] Police uncovered an underground cannabis lab in the Negev, seizing over 600 plants worth one million NIS, targeting crime families.
Police seized drugs with an estimated value of over one million NIS after uncovering an underground drug lab with an estimated value inside a tunnel near the Arad Bedouin towns in the Negev, the police reported on Tuesday morning.
The underground drug lab was uncovered over the weekend by officers from the Arad station, with the assistance of Border Police officers. According to the report, the tunnel containing the lab was built for the production and cultivation of cannabis, a drug considered dangerous in Israel, and requires medical permits to use.
Housing over 600 plants weighing approximately 140 kilograms, the lab was equipped with a large amount of equipment and was intended for public distribution, the police noted. The discovery of the one million-worth drug lab was part of ongoing efforts against violence and serious crime, targeting crime families, in a nationwide operation called “Emergency Halt,” the police explained.
The operation involves enhanced police action against criminals, targeting economic infrastructure and crime instigators, and is directed by Police Commissioner Dani Levi. Additionally, the operation aims to identify and arrest the crime instigators, prosecute them, and continuously reduce crime in the area while strengthening law-abiding citizen’s sense of security.
As such, the police stressed that additional investigative actions would be taken to locate and arrest the suspects involved in the growing and cultivation of the underground cannabis found in the Negev.
Previously the police reported that as part of the operation, Southern District police officers arrested a suspect in possession of an M16 rifle while scanning the streets of the city of Rahat following reports of gunshots in the area. During the initial investigation, it was discovered that the suspect was a resident of the city.
SUSPECTS ARRESTED AND GOLD BARS CONFISCATED IN OPERATION 'EMERGENCY HALT'
Also part of the nationwide operation “Emergency Halt,” police in Rahat found and confiscated gold bars and jewelry worth one million NIS which are believed to be linked to money laundering. Additionally, nearly 100 traffic tickets were handed to residents in Rahat, the police reported, explaining the objective was to ensure the safety of road farers and to increase their sense of security.
The police also announced that since the operation began on the first Tuesday of August, 268 dangerous combat equipment were confiscated, over 1,200 searches, and over 1,500 arrests were made, all of which were suspected, among other accusations, of violence, illegal arms possessions, and illegal drug possession.
Nearly 200 various firearms, including ten makeshift rifles, were seized, along with approximately 80 grenades, over 10.5 million NIS, and another half a million Dinar, which is used in several Muslim Middle Eastern countries.
Moreover, on Thursday the police also announced they had arrested a crime syndicate in the Beersheba area. According to the police, the crime syndicate was responsible for multiple break-ins into various businesses and the theft of multiple vehicles in Beersheba.
During the raid in Umm Batin in which the crime syndicate was arrested, police found multiple vehicles used by the syndicate members during break-ins and thefts and fake car licenses. Additionally, police forces identified and shut down two businesses associated with the crime syndicate, both of which operated without a license.
Expressing their commitment to combatting crime and ensuring crime instigators are found and prosecuted according to law, the police also announced that operation ‘Emergency Halt’ will continue, without setting a deadline, and that its main focus will be crime within the Arab sector.
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As I understand it: Because close to 200,000 Israelis have been living in hotels for the last year, and havent been able to their homes since Oct 7th. These displaced israelis are becoming increasing vocal about their situation.
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That sounds right to me, mossomo. I wonder if the original plan was just to clean out Gaza, but Hezbollah has become a serious problem — and President Biden’s administration appears powerless to effect events, since they insist they knew nothing about today’s excitements in Lebanon and beyond.
[ZeroHedge] 'Academics, think tankers, pundits, and policymakers no longer can hide the fact that they often either have no clue what they are doing or are all too willing to oversell their case—and will purposefully obfuscate or outright lie from time to time to get their way.'
#2
“Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things, but want no part of the blame. This used to be called the “backseat driver” syndrome.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
#3
I was once introduced at a client site as an "expert". The introducer then went on to define an expert as "X: an unknown quantity and spurt: a drip under pressure". The meeting went downhill from there....
[ZeroHedge] The situation in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... is getting so bad on so many different levels, the Brussels crowd had to bring in "Super" Mario Draghi to save the day — or at least write a report telling them what to do...
Draghi has spent time at Goldman Sachs, the European Central Bank (ECB) during the sovereign debt crisis, and as unelected prime minister of Italia during the early days of the Covid pandemic and runup to Project Ukraine. Depending on where you sit, he could be an odd choice to chart a path forward; while Draghi knows his way around a crisis control center, he’s also plenty experienced at creating them.
He was one of the chief architects of the EU’s disastrous economic war against Russia and he’s always been a grim reaper for working class citizens of his native country of Italia. No wonder that for months the neoliberal, war-loving spreadsheet crowd in Brussels has eagerly awaited the report as if it is manna from heaven that will help deliver them from the corner they have backed themselves into.
Curiously, his report was delayed by months, which only increased the anticipation, and it finally dropped last week, conveniently timed at another crisis point. Project Ukraine is quickly unraveling and pressure is coming from all directions for Berlin to give the go ahead for joint EU debt in order to make the EU "competitive" again and buy a bunch of weapons to do something (nobody is too sure of what exactly) about Russia. Indeed, Draghi’s report doesn’t say, nor does it ever consider making nice with Moscow.
That’s because the report, "EU Competitiveness: Looking Ahead" is a political document more than economic one intended to not only give cover to the bloc’s disastrous Russia policies, but continue to double down. And it is already being used as more ammunition for those in the Baltics, Poland, the media, US-funded think tanks in Europe, and more who are calling on Germany to support debt for an extended Cold War. Specifically, they wanted Super Mario to tell them how to get out of the predicament of their own making without changing course on Russia and a host of other issues, and Draghi delivered — as long as you don’t let reality get in the way. His answer? More money. Lots of it.
He calls for massive infusions of cash into multiple sectors: green, tech, energy, and of course defense. According to Draghi, the price tag is a minimum of 800 billion euros annually until 2030.
Asked if his message was "implement your report, or die?" he replied that "It’s ’Do this, or it’s a slow agony.’"
The EU certainly needs an economic plan, but Draghi’s report never questions whether ongoing belligerence toward Moscow (and loss of pipeline Russian gas) is in the bloc’s best interest and it never mentions Brussels’ obsession with austerity, which is once again being forced on member countries. From a purely economic standpoint, the report is trash economics that reads like something out of the late-stage USSR, according to economist Philip Pilkington.
But it does plug nicely into the political economy of today’s EU, which is being subsumed under Washington and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... . It is engaged in open economic war and an proxy war in Ukraine against Russia, both of which have hurt working class citizens across the bloc. The austerity-obsessed EU is once again forcing its member states to enact austerity budgets. Draghi’s report was requested by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who is working to amass more power to her mostly unaccountable throne, and is one of many voices calling for a defense union and militarization and the ability to borrow and potentially levy taxes to pay for those debts.
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EU is entrapped. The leadership operates on its own. They no longer represent the people. They will continue to steal from their people with no Ukrainian efforts to repay so chronic depletion of future living standards in EU.
Hoping to protect key personnel from Israeli retaliation? I suppose it might work…for a while.
[Breitbart] 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... is bolstering its influence in Iraq by moving in leaders of its proxy terrorist organizations Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... and the Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... movement, the left-wing New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported on Sunday — days after Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian concluded a visit to the neighboring country.
Pezeshkian, elected in a special election following the death of predecessor Ebrahim Raisi in a mysterious helicopter crash in May, made a tour of Iraq his first international visit while in office. Pezeshkian departed the country on Friday after visiting Baghdad, meeting with Kurdish leadership in Erbil, and concluding with a stop in Basra. He emphasized unity and cooperation among Moslem political entities during his conversations there and reportedly signed 14 memoranda of understanding with the Iraqi government in Baghdad.
The Iraqi government has not openly boasted of helping its proxies expand their influence in Baghdad. The New York Times noted that it only confirmed the official presence of Hamas and the Houthis in the Iraqi capital via unnamed officials and that both terrorist organizations are attempting to keep a low profile in the country. The Houthis, as a Shiite terrorist organization, has reportedly received an especially "warm" welcome from the Shiite terrorist coalition known as the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), which became an official arm of the Iraqi armed forces during the war against the Sunni Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... "caliphate."
"Iraqi government officials quietly allowed both Iranian-backed gangs [Hamas and the Houthis] to establish a more permanent presence in Baghdad early this summer," the Times reported, claiming that "Iraqi officials deny publicly" this has occurred.
The erosion of American influence in the country under currently President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The man who made Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter look competent, if only by comparison.... appears to have played a role in the hard boyz moving in, as the Times sources indicated Baghdad would rather not have Iran’s proxies grow roots there.
"Some Iraqi government officials, according to two of the people who spoke to The New York Times, say privately they are not thrilled about their new guests, but did not have the power to block them," the leftist newspaper asserted, "given the sway of the Iraqi political parties with ties to Iran."
The PMF are reportedly deeply involved in ensuring that Hamas and the Houthis can successfully operate in the country. According to the Times, Kata’ib Hezbollah, one of the most prominent Shiite terrorist groups in the PMF, has helped Hamas with security, while fellow PMF terror squad Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq have helped the Houthis.
While the Iraqi government has formally avoided loudly discussing the invasion of foreign terrorist organizations, radical Islamist politicians in Iraq have embraced it; the Times noted the Houthis found in Iraq an "especially warm" welcome.
"The presence of a representative of the Houthis in Iraq is welcomed by all political parties in Iraq," it quoted one Shiite politician, Saad al-Saadi, as saying.
Adding to the Times’ reporting, the news outlet Israel Hayom reported on Sunday that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) — a U.S.-designated terrorist organization and formal arm of the Iranian government — presided over an oversight "operations committee" in Iraq in March to help its terrorist proxies coordinate with each other. The committee reportedly brought together several PMF groups and the Houthis.
"Subsequently, in May, the Houthi leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, announced the beginning of coordination of military operations between his militia, Ansar Allah, and pro-Iranian Shiite militias in Iraq," Israel Hayom added.
The IRGC has for years been closely linked to Iraq’s PMF. The terrorist organization has long used its Quds Force, a wing of the IRGC dedicated to foreign terrorist attacks, to coordinate with PMF jihadists, particularly for anti-American operations. The pioneer of such coordination was former Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani , whom former President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... killed in a Baghdad Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in January 2020. Notably, Soleimani was killed alongside the founder of Kata’ib Hezbollah, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, with whom he was meeting to coordinate tactics in Iraq.
The reported growing presence of Iranian proxy terror groups has corresponded with Iraqi officials more frequently grumbling that they hope to see the complete elimination of the presence of American troops in the country as soon as possible. The United States currently has an estimated 2,500 troops stationed in the country as part of "Operation Inherent Resolve," the initiative to eradicate the Islamic State "caliphate."
On Thursday, the Washington Post reported that Baghdad was attempting to finalize an agreement with the Pentagon that would eliminate the U.S. presence in most of Iraq by 2025, leaving a small number of troops in the autonomous region of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) through 2026. Iraqi officials working to remove American troops is reportedly a response of pressure from PMF forces and the Iranian government to minimize American influence in the region. That pressure has fallen on both Baghdad and Erbil, the KRG capital.
[Breitbart] Saudi diplomat and former intelligence chief Turki al-Faisal recently lamented the weak response by the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden and the greater West to Yemen’s Houthi terrorists disrupting commercial shipping in the Red Sea, the Guardian reported on Sunday, dismissing “pinprick bombings” as insufficient.
The British Guardian newspaper was relaying comments that al-Faisal made during an appearance at London’s Chatham House to discuss the current turmoil in the Middle East. The Houthi terrorist movement, which relies heavily on support from Saudi Arabia’s longtime geopolitical rival Iran, has dramatically expanded its international profile in the aftermath of the October 7 Hamas massacre of hundreds of civilians in Israel.
Following the attack, the Houthis declared war on Israel and proclaimed they would attack all commercial ships transiting through the Red Sea that they deemed to be affiliated with Israel. The result has been dozens of attacks, including some deadly ones and two ship sinkings, on a seemingly random assortment of ships that has included some affiliated with Houthi allies such as China and Iran.
Global shipping companies have loudly complained that the international community should do more to protect global commerce as the Houthi campaign has caused shipping and insurance rates to skyrocket. The main response to that call has been “Operation Prosperity Guardian,” a Pentagon-led global operation allegedly intended to protect civilian ships attempting to transit through the Red Sea. Debuting in December, the operation had few named partners relevant to the Red Sea, and it is unclear if any meaningful defense work has been conducted under its banner, leaving shipping industry leaders feeling largely abandoned to the Houthi threat.
Outside of “Operation Prosperity Guardian,” Biden has greenlit some limited attacks on Houthi military targets — strikes that al-Faisal reportedly dismissed as making little difference in the security situation of the region.
“We have seen the deployment of European and US fleets along the Red Sea coast and more can be done there to interdict the supply of weaponry that comes to the Houthis from Iran,” the Guardian quoted al-Faisal as saying. “Putting pressure on Iran by the world community can have a positive impact on what the Houthis can do in launching these missiles and drones to hit international commerce.”
The Saudi diplomat lamented that “pinprick bombings” by American and British forces have had a minimal effect on the situation in the Red Sea. He also condemned Iran, however, for doing nothing to stop the Houthis from disrupting global trade. The Houthis, known formally as Ansarallah, could find their operations severely limited if resources from Tehran dried up.
“The Houthis now hold the world as hostage in the Bab al-Mandab entrance to the Red Sea, and yet Iran is not showing that it can do something there if it wanted to,” al-Faisal said, “and the kingdom [Saudi Arabia] would have expected Iran to be more forthcoming in showing not just to us but to others that it can be a positive factor in securing stability and removing differences not just with Saudi Arabia but the rest of us.”
Saudi Arabia conducted a military operation against the Houthis in Yemen for years, following the Houthi conquest of the Yemeni capital Sana’a in 2014 that led to the ongoing civil war. Riyadh supports the legitimate government of Yemen against the Ansarallah, which now claims to be the government of the country. That operation resulted in the Houthis orchestrating significant terrorist assaults within Saudi territory, including bombing key oil facilities.
While the Saudi government counted on firm support from the United States under former President Donald Trump, that support dried up under successor Joe Biden. Biden outraged the Saudi government with several measures including removing the Houthis from the State Department’s list of designated foreign terrorist organizations and halting the sale of offensive weapons to the Saudi military in response to alleged Saudi human rights abuses in Yemen. Following the launch of the Houthi campaign against commercial shipping in Saudi Arabia, Biden told reporters that delisting the Houthis — allowing them significantly amplified opportunities for global funding — was “irrelevant.”
As the Iranian regime supported the Houthis through their war with Saudi Arabia, the situation placed the two countries in a proxy war situation that severely jeopardized the already volatile situation in the Middle East. The Chinese communist regime, looking for ways to expand its influence in the Middle East, ultimately brokered a tenuous deal between Tehran and Riyadh to restore diplomatic relations in March 2023 that led to a ceasefire agreement between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis in September of that year.
In his remarks on Friday, al-Faisal suggested that, by allowing the Houthi campaign against global commerce to persist, the Iranian government had brokered the provisions of the China normalization deal.
The sentiment appears to have been heard in Iran, as President Masoud Pezeshkian addressed relations with Saudi Arabia during a press conference on Monday. Pezeshkian, a so-called “moderate,” was inaugurated into the presidency on July 31 after a special election following the death of former Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a mysterious helicopter crash in May. His inauguration was largely overshadowed by the assassination of Hamas “political” chief Ismail Haniyeh while in Iran to attend the event.
“We are brothers, so there is no place for hostility,” Pezeshkian reportedly said of the Saudis during his press conference on Monday. “I welcome any move that can solve the differences between Muslims.”
The Iranian president also denied that his country was arming the Houthis with missiles used to target Israel. Houthi terrorists fired a surface-to-surface missile hitting Israel on Sunday, an unprecedented attack that wounded five Israelis.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Florida middle school student's incredible cache of weapons has been revealed after the 11 year old allegedly bragged about his kill list and threatened to shoot up two schools.
Carlo 'Kingston' Dorelli, of Port Orange, has been charged with making a written threat of a mass shooting - a felony - after he threatened to shoot up either his school, Creekside Middle School, or nearby Silver Sands Middle School, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office announced Monday.
Authorities said they received a tip from other students that Dorelli showed off his collection of weapons in a FaceTime call, along with a list of targets.
Some said they could not tell if the weapons were real or fake, WESH reports.
'He had written a list of names and targets,' Sheriff Mike Chitwood wrote on Facebook. 'He says it was all a joke.'
Dorelli's arrest came just days after Sheriff Chitwood vowed to hold any child accountable who makes prank threats amid a flood of bogus tips following the deadly shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia.
During an ensuing search of the boy's room, authorities found a large amount of airsoft rifles, fake ammunition, swords, knives and throwing stars - which the sheriff's office splayed out on a table like a drug bust.
A photo of the lad’s collection can be seen at the link.
Officials also found a paper in his room with several names that appeared to have stab marks next to them.
The child later admitted to showing his friends his collection of airsoft rifles and some of his knives, but could not remember if he told them that 'the airsoft rifles were not real, functioning firearms,' according to an affidavit obtained by Spectrum News 13.
He said the other students 'began to discuss how [he] was going to complete a shooting,' but said he had 'no intention of causing any of the listed individuals harm,' according to WSVN.
Dorelli was then taken into custody, as deputies filmed him being handcuffed and perp walked into the Volusia Family Resource Center for processing before he would be transported to the Department of Juvenile Justice.
Volusia County School District officials later told WESH that 'safety is our top priority, and this situation exemplifies how the security measures in place at our schools, as well as our partnership with law enforcement, ensures the safety of our students and staff.
'Thank you to the students who spoke up and submitted a tip when they heard something suspicious,' school officials said.
'We take all reports extremely seriously and work with law enforcement to ensure they are thoroughly investigated,' they added.
'We continue to encourage our students that if they see or hear something, they should inform an adult immediately or submit a tip to Fortify Florida.'
Dorelli's arrest came just days after Chitwood vowed to hold any child accountable who makes prank threats amid a flood of bogus tips following the deadly shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia.
Florida authorities had received 54 phony tips of an impending school shooting in a single night following the tragedy, costing the department about $20,000 in taxpayer money, Chitwood said.
'Every time we make an arrest, your kid’s photo is going to be put out there, and if I can do it, I'm going to perp walk your kid so that everyone can see what your kid's up to,' Chitwood vowed.
'For the little bastards out there who think this is funny, ha ha ha, you want to get on social media: You ain't that smart... You're getting caught,' he added.
Yahoo News, of all places, carried an article yesterday of a Snopes take down of the notion that Routh had been in a BlackRock commercial in 2022(?). The Yahoo article had a 3-4 paragraph comment from Brenden Dilley[@WarlordDilley on X], that discussed Routh being in the commercial, and it made a lot of sense and was echoed elsewhere. However, in the two hours or so that I've been going back and forth trying to figure out what is now missing, during this time the longer comment of Brenden Dilley has now been scrubbed across all web platforms.
Yahoo, to be safe, has even "pulled" its July article of Crooks being in a BlackRock commercial (go to the bottom of the Yahoo News article just above the 'View comments'). Snopes has done the same:
Even @WarlordDilley on X doesn't discuss the Routh commercial.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Hundreds swarm barbed wire fence after throwing rocks at Moroccan guards following social media call to force their way into Spanish enclave.
Hundreds of migrants scaled barbed wire fences in a desperate attempt to storm into a Spanish enclave in Morocco before being pushed back by riot cops.
The swarm of people, including Moroccans and minors, were seen throwing rocks at security forces as they tried to break into Spain's African enclave of Ceuta, near Fnideq in northern Morocco, on Sunday.
Local media reported another mass crossing attempt was also made earlier on Sunday, but was similarly intercepted by Moroccan police.
Sunday was a day of high tension in the area after hundreds of people gathered at the border following reported calls on social media for a collective breach attempt.
The young migrants were mostly Moroccans, but some were from other areas of Africa, the Spanish news agency EFE reported at the time.
The Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla are the only land borders between Africa and the European Union and both have witnessed mass influxes of migrants attempting to try to cross the border to reach the EU.
'The security authorities deported 2,400 people who were likely to try to migrate illegally ''within three days'',' reported Hespress on Sunday, citing an unnamed official source.
'They were arrested while heading towards Fnideq in preparation for emigrating to Ceuta.'
Since Friday, Moroccan security forces have been deployed heavily in Fnideq.
'This is the heaviest security deployment ever in Fnideq with authorities acting pre-emptively by setting up multiple checkpoints on roads to northern Morocco,' Mohammed Ben Aissa, a local human rights activist said.
A police source told the AFP that 60 people had been arrested between Monday and Wednesday for 'fabricating and disseminating false information on social media' to encourage a collective illegal border crossing.
September 15, or, 'The Promised Day' saw widespread social media calls for mass migration from Morocco to Ceuta.
The viral messages, spread primarily through platforms like TikTok and Instagram, urged Moroccan youths to gather in the border town of Fnideq and then attempt to illegally cross en masse into Ceuta via the El Tarajal border.
According to Morocco World News, the posts encouraged followers to swim or walk across the border into Ceuta on Sunday, using emojis including Moroccan and Spanish flags.
These 'publicly announced invitations' triggered questions of how such secretive operations would be advertised so openly, inducing thousands of Moroccan youths to flock to Fnideq in preparation for what was locally dubbed the 'Great Escape'.
In response to the 'Great Escape' planned by Moroccan youths, Spain has been forced to mobilise additional military reinforcements to the coast of Ceuta.
And across the border, members of the Spanish Civil Guard and National Police have increased their deployment along the border strip, using helicopters to monitor the border fence.
The Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla are the only land borders between Africa and the European Union and both have witnessed mass influxes of migrants attempting to try to cross the border to reach the EU.
Local reports stated that hundreds of young Moroccans had managed to get as far as Fnideq, the town nearest to Ceuta, before police apprehended them in the night and sent them back to their homes.
The Moroccan interior ministry said that in August, authorities blocked more than 11,300 attempts to cross into Ceuta and 3,300 to Melilla.
But the most popular route from Morocco for migrants hoping to reach Spain is by sea.
More than 22,300 migrant arrivals were registered this year by August 15 in the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, marking a 126-percent increase from 2023.
Some attempted to breach a border fence that has long been a flashpoint for sporadic migration tensions, but none successfully made it into Spain, the Spanish Interior Ministry confirmed Monday.
It said Spanish and Moroccan security efforts over recent days 'allowed the situation to be brought under control.'
Morocco and Spain have worked to strengthen cooperation on addressing illegal migration since repairing a diplomatic rift in 2022 over Rabat's plans for autonomy for Western Sahara.
Morocco's interior ministry says that in the first eight months this year, authorities stopped more than 45,000 people from illegally entering European territory.
Last month, hundreds of migrants used thick mist as cover to swim to Ceuta, Spanish police said.
In June 2022, human rights organisations in Spain and Morocco called on both countries to investigate after 23 migrants were killed when around 2,000 people tried to breach the border.
Tighter surveillance of Morocco's northern borders has now prompted an increasing number of migrants to try the riskier and longer Atlantic route to the Canary Islands.
Local reports stated that hundreds of young Moroccans had managed to get as far as Fnideq, the town nearest to Ceuta, before police apprehended them in the night and sent them back to their homes.
The Moroccan interior ministry said that in August, authorities blocked more than 11,300 attempts to cross into Ceuta and 3,300 to Melilla.
But the most popular route from Morocco for migrants hoping to reach Spain is by sea.
More than 22,300 migrant arrivals were registered this year by August 15 in the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, marking a 126-percent increase from 2023.
Some attempted to breach a border fence that has long been a flashpoint for sporadic migration tensions, but none successfully made it into Spain, the Spanish Interior Ministry confirmed Monday.
It said Spanish and Moroccan security efforts over recent days 'allowed the situation to be brought under control.'
Morocco and Spain have worked to strengthen cooperation on addressing illegal migration since repairing a diplomatic rift in 2022 over Rabat's plans for autonomy for Western Sahara.
Morocco's interior ministry says that in the first eight months this year, authorities stopped more than 45,000 people from illegally entering European territory.
Last month, hundreds of migrants used thick mist as cover to swim to Ceuta, Spanish police said.
In June 2022, human rights organisations in Spain and Morocco called on both countries to investigate after 23 migrants were killed when around 2,000 people tried to breach the border.
Tighter surveillance of Morocco's northern borders has now prompted an increasing number of migrants to try the riskier and longer Atlantic route to the Canary Islands.
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Declare Morocco a safe country (it is) and kick them back.
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Declare Morocco a safe country
The problem with the Spanish enclaves is that, like Turkey at the Greek border, Morocco has for years weaponized the border crossers, corralling them until Morocco wants to punish/annoy Spain, then letting them loose all at once to overwhelm the border fence.
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At this time, we are unable to confirm if the Deep State maintains a stable of nut jobs. We can confirm with some level of confidence, that the FBI appears to be monitoring each one of them.
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Hey, if they can have a coup to remove the sitting President from running, why would you think anyone's lives or rights are going to get in the way?
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Yes.
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[NationalReview]\ Recently, Greta "Pippi" Thunberg ...an autistic sixteen year old Swedish expert on climate change, though I guess she's older now... was arrested at a protest outside the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. This was not Thunberg's first run-in with the law; the first time she was detained was during a protest against the expansion of a coal mine in Germany. Ironically, Germany would hardly need to expand the use of coal were it not for the country's rejection of nuclear power, something Greta herself belatedly admitted.
Yet her latest arrest was very different: Greta was arrested not for protesting environmental destruction but for blocking the entry to a university that had refused to cut ties with Israel.
[AlArabiya] US officials say the joint US-Iraq raid was one of largest in recent years
Four top ISIS leaders were killed in Iraq during last month’s raid, the US military said on Friday, in what was a rare public acknowledgment by the Pentagon of such a large-scale operation.
An initial statement by the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) said that the Aug. 29 raid resulted in the death of 15 ISIS operatives. On Friday, CENTCOM said that an ongoing post-raid assessment showed four senior ISIS leaders were killed, including the head of manufacturing for ISIS in Iraq.
There had been a $5 million reward for information on Abu Ali al-Tunisi’s whereabouts from the US because of his work with ISIS. He is also accused of providing advanced training on weapons development and manufacturing chemical weapons. Read the rest at the link
In a time of war and civil unrest why would otherwise marginally tolerated criminal enterprises not be declared terrorist organizations?
This is like fighting within the Mafia. These are Arab-on-Arab attacks within Arab criminal gangs, mostly in Arab-Israeli communities. Occasionally attacks within/between Jewish or illegal migrant criminal gangs. There is no connection to the Jewish state, nor any desire for the Israeli authorities to notice.
[ToI] Victim suffers light to moderate injuries on Route 22, in third such blast linked to feuding gangs within a week.
A vehicle exploded on a highway north of Haifa on Sunday, injuring a man in an incident the Israel Police suspect was related to organized crime.
It was the latest in a series of violent attacks tied to the criminal underworld over the past few days that have seen cars blown up as well as shootings, as criminal gangs fight out a war on the country’s streets.
The Magen David Adom rescue service said it took a man to Rambam Hospital in Haifa with light to moderate injuries. Hebrew media reports said he was about 35.
The explosion occurred on Route 22 near Bialik interchange. Drivers were asked to avoid the area.
On Friday a car exploded in the Old City of Acre, seriously injuring a man in his 30s. Police said the incident was likely related to a criminal dispute. The Walla news site reported that the man’s 4-year-old son was lightly injured in the blast in the northern city, as were a 41-year-old man and 21-year-old woman, while a 15-year-old girl sustained light to moderate injuries.
The explosion in Acre came hours after a man in his 40s was shot dead in the central city of Tira, and a day after a car blast and subsequent fire in the central city of Ramle killed four people and injured nine others, including a two-month-old baby.
All of the attacks were apparently also related to criminal disputes, according to police.
A 17-year-old was arrested Friday on suspicion of involvement in the Ramle blast. The arrest came as some 500 police officers carried out raids in the cities of Ramle and Lod as well as in the unrecognized Arab village of Dahmash in connection to the deadly car blast.
A preliminary investigation into that explosion, which sparked a fire that spread to two nearby stores, indicated that it was caused by a grenade stolen from the Israel Defense Forces and possessed by someone already known to police, Channel 12 reported.
The Ramle attack was thought by police to have been tied to an ongoing dispute between the Jarushi and Abu Zaid crime families, with the car and nearby stores believed to be connected to the Jarushis, according to reports in Hebrew media.
The four victims killed in the explosion were identified by Hebrew media as Daa Abu Halawa, 50, and her two children Sila, 14, and Muhammad, 10, as well as Leen Mugrabi, age 24, all members of the Arab Israeli community.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who is responsible for the police, has faced criticism that he is not doing enough to curb burgeoning gang violence. Ben Gvir entered office as security minister in late 2022 vowing to crack down on crime in the Arab community, but homicides have continued to spiral, with 169 members of the Arab community killed in violent crimes since the start of this year, according to the Abraham Initiatives nonprofit.
Ben Gvir, for his part, has laid the blame on Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara. Speaking at the scene of the attack in Ramle on Thursday, the minister said Baharav-Miara had refused his request to use administrative detention against criminal suspects. Ramle residents accused Ben Gvir of evading responsibility.
Administrative detention — which is used to hold Palestinian and Jewish terror suspects without trial for extended periods of time — is highly controversial, and the notion of using it to fight crime has been met with pushback from security officials.
Many Arab Israeli community leaders have accused police of failing to crack down on powerful criminal organizations and largely ignoring the violence, which includes family feuds, mafia turf wars and violence against women.
A Turkish-backed #SNA faction lays siege to a village in the countryside of #Afrin, northwestern #Syria after assaulting a women's protest. https://t.co/SzfcHpGwq8
[FoxNews] Apache Stronghold argues that the federal government is violating its religious freedom.
The Apache tribe in Arizona is taking a fight with the federal government and copper producers to the Supreme Court, which they hope will protect what they say is their religious rights to sacred ground.
Apache Stronghold, a nonprofit group representing the tribe's interests, is fighting to preserve Oak Flat — what the Apaches say is their "direct corridor to the Creator and the locus of sacred ceremonies that cannot take place elsewhere."
According to the petition filed at the high court, the government "has long protected Apache rituals there."
"But because copper was discovered beneath Oak Flat, the government decided to transfer the site to Respondent Resolution Copper for a mine that will undisputedly destroy Oak Flat — swallowing it in a massive crater and ending sacred Apache rituals forever."
Apache Stronghold argues that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and the Free Exercise Clause forbids the government to do so and are asking it to reverse a lower court decision.
"In a fractured en banc ruling cobbled together from two separate 6-5 majorities, the Ninth Circuit rejected both claims. Although the court acknowledged that destroying Oak Flat would 'literally prevent' the Apaches from engaging in religious exercise, it nevertheless concluded that doing so would not ‘substantially burden’ their religious exercise under RFRA, relying on this Court’s pre-RFRA decision in Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association," the petition states.
"And while the majority acknowledged that singling out Oak Flat for destruction is "plainly not ‘generally applicable,’ it rejected the free-exercise claim ‘for the same reasons’ — no substantial burden," it continues.
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This is a mess for so many reasons. They are digging 7,000 foot shafts. Then they will lower the equipment and start blasting and removing material remotely. The giant rooms, they plan on removing 4,000 vertical feet of material, IE from 7,000 down to 3,000 down. Building up the floor with the slag. At first blush it sounds cool and they have done this before in Brazile. The problem is the ground above will become unstable from the blasting and will settle. Mostly minor earthquakes and slow dropping in elevation. The land will become uninhabitable at any level for about a 20 mile radius. Indian land was the only place they could get permits, as the USG wont allow it on fed land.
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From whom did they get permits on Indian land? The Indians' who they changed their mind? Or the Feds, who thought it better to despoil Apache land?
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Apache Stronghold, a nonprofit group representing the tribe's interests
But does it represent the sovereign Apache government's interest? Or is this another self appointed organization?
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Liptsy and Volchansk directions, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of the 36th Naval Onfantry Brigade, 125th and 127th Territorial Defence brigades near Liptsy, Izbitskoye, and Volchanskye Khutora (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 70 troops and two motor vehicles.
Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the 43rd, 44th, 67th Mechanised brigades of the AFU, 103rd, 110th, 117th Territorial Defence brigades, and Azov Special Operations Brigade near Staroverovka, Petropavlovka, Kucherovka, Novoosinovo, Kruglyakovka, Vishnyovoye (Kharkov region), Rozovka, Makeyevka, Nevskoye (Lugansk People's Republic), Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic), and Serebryansky forestry.
Eight counter-attacks launched by assault detachments of the 14th, 63rd, 116th Mechanised brigades, 3rd Assault Brigade of the AFU, and 1st National Guard Brigade were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 600 troops, one Kozak armoured fighting vehicle, 10 pickup trucks as well as UK-made 155mm Braveheart self-propelled artillery system, a 155mm FH-70 howitzer, and a 105mm L-119 howitzer. Three electronic warfare stations and four field ammunition depots were destroyed.
Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and inflicted losses on formations of the 54th, 93rd Mechanised brigades, 143rd, 144th Infantry brigades, 5th Assault Brigade, 10th Mountain Assault Brigade, 77th Airmobile Brigade, 95th Air Assault Brigade of the AFU, 114th, 119th, 124th, and 125th Territorial Defence brigades near Seversk, Verkhnekamenskoye, Zvanovka, Pervomaysky, Nikolayevka, Predtechino, and Kurakhovo (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 550 troops, four motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155mm M-777 howitzer, one UK-made 155mm FH-70 howitzer, two 152mm Msta-B howitzers, and three 152mm D-20 howitzers. One electronic warfare station and two field ammunition depots were destroyed.
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces continued advancing to the depth of the enemy's defences and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the 23rd, 24th, 47th, 63rd Mechanised brigades, 152nd Infantry Brigade, 68th Jaeger Brigade of the AFU, 122nd Territorial Defence Brigade, and 15th National Guard Brigade near Petrovka, Shcherbinovka, Dzerzhinsk, Nelepovka, Dimitrov, Krasnoarmeysk, Grodovka, Gnatovka, Selidovo, Lesovka, and Ukrainsk (Donetsk People's Republic).
Nine counterattacks launched by assault detachments of the 30th, 32nd, 100th, 151st Mechanised brigades, 25th Airborne Brigade of the AFU, 3rd and 12th National Guard brigades, and Lyut Brigade of the National Police of Ukraine were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to more than 530 troops, three armoured personnel carriers, including one U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carrier, three pickup trucks, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, and one 122mm D-30 howitzer.
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces improved the tactical situation along the front line and inflicted losses on formations of the 61st, 72nd Mechanised brigades, 58th Motorised Infantry Brigade, and 118th Territorial Defence Brigade near Dobrovolye, Zolotaya Niva, and Uglesborochnaya railway station (Donetsk People's Republic).
One counterattack launched by an assault detachment of the 116th Territorial Defence Brigade was repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 115 troops, one tank, one armoured fighting vehicle, four motor vehicles, and one electronic warfare station.
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower and hardware clusters of the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade of the AFU, 37th Naval Infantry Brigade, 121st, and 123rd Territorial Defence brigades near Novoaleksandrovka, Gavrilovka, Kamyshany, Pridneprovskoye, Veletenskoye (Kherson region), and Pyatikhatki (Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 50 troops, two motor vehicles, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, one U.S.-made 105mm M-119 gun, and one field ammunition depot.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces delivered strikes at infrastructure of one military airfield, one UAV production workshop, four UAV depots, as well as engaged AFU manpower and hardware clusters in 144 areas.
The Russian Aerospace Forces shot down one MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force.
Air defence units shot down one French-made Hammer guided aerial bomb, 20 Czech-made Vampire MLRS projectiles, and 13 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, 646 airplanes, 283 helicopters, 31,622 unmanned aerial vehicles, 579 anti-aircraft missile systems, 18,150 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,454 MLRS combat vehicles, 14,658 field artillery guns and mortars, and 26,127 units of support motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are repelling an attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine against the territory of the Russian Federation.
In the course of offensive operations, units of the Sever Group of Forces liberated Uspenovka and Borki.
Losses were inflicted on formations of the 22nd, 41st, 115th Mechanised brigades, 17th Tank Brigade, 82nd Air Assault Brigade of the AFU, 1st National Guard Brigade, 112th and 129th Territorial Defence brigades near Lyubimovka, Novoivanovka, Daryino, Nikolo-Daryino, Tolsty Lug, Plekhovo, and Pokrovsky.
Over the past 24 hours, units of the Sever Group of Forces repelled five enemy counter-attacks in the direction of Byakhovo, Bolshaya Obukhovka, Viktorovka, Lyubimovka, and Malaya Loknya.
As a result, the AFU losses amounted to up to 40 troops killed and wounded; four armoured fighting vehicles were destroyed.
Over the past 24 hours, with the support of Army Aviation and artillery fire, three attempts of the enemy to break through the border of the Russian Federation in the direction of Krasnooktyabrsky, Vesyoloye, and Medvezhye were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 50 troops killed and wounded; one tank and three armoured fighting vehicles were destroyed.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue reconnaissance and search operations in forestry areas to locate and eliminate enemy sabotage groups attempting to get to the depth of the Russian territory.
Air strikes, artillery fire, and actions of the troops inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware clusters of the 22nd, 42nd, 61st, 115th Mechanised brigades, 80th, 82nd, 95th Air Assault brigades, 112th and 129th Territorial Defence brigades near Bogdanovka, Guyevo, Daryino, Zeleny Shlyakh, Kruglenkoye, Malaya Loknya, Martynovka, Nikolo-Daryino, Novaya Sorochina, Novoivanovka, Pravda, Russkoye Porechnoye, and Yuzhny.
Operational-Tactical Aviation and Missile Troops delivered strikes at concentration areas and reserves in Sumy region of the 22nd, 41st, 115th Mechanised brigades, 82nd Air Assault Brigade, 92nd Assault Brigade of the AFU, 1st National Guard Brigade, 1004th Security and Service Brigade, 101st and 103rd Territorial Defence brigades near Bondaryovshchina, Belovody, Iskriskovshchina, Mazevka, Novaya Sloboda, Obody, Rechki, Rudnevo, Ryzhovka, Pavlovka, Khoten, Esman, and Yunakovka.
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to more than 350 troops and 13 units of armoured hardware, including two tanks and 11 armoured fighting vehicles, as well as two artillery guns, three mortars, two MLRS launchers, including one U.S.-made M270 MLRS launcher, and eight motor vehicles.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost more than 13,800 troops, 115 tanks, 44 infantry fighting vehicles, 91 armoured personnel carriers, 729 armoured fighting vehicles, 439 motor vehicles, 98 artillery guns, 28 MLRS launchers, including seven of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, eight SAM launchers, two transport-loading vehicles, 26 electronic warfare stations and seven counter-battery radars, two air defence radars, 13 engineering vehicles, including seven counterobstacle vehicles and one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
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[Korrespondent] 20:47 Zelensky said in an evening video address that he discussed the Kursk operation with Syrsky and also signed several decrees on awarding participants in the Kursk operation with state awards.
15:41 In the Kursk region, a decision has been made on the mandatory evacuation of settlements in the Rylsky and Khomutovsky districts, which are located in the 15-kilometer zone near the border, reported Governor Alexey Smirnov.
11:03 The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has asked the UN and the ICRC to take part in humanitarian response measures in the Kursk region. At the same time, the department emphasized that during operations in the Kursk region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces comply with all norms of international humanitarian law, and pay special attention to the protection of the civilian population, providing humanitarian aid and the possibility of evacuation from combat zones.
Text taken from the V Kontakte page of Russian military correspondent Alexander Kots.
[VK] For some reason, radical American pro-Ukrainians see Trump as a threat to ending the war. The author of the previous assassination attempt, Matthew Crooks, was a homeopathic supporter of the independent state. Avatars, yellow and blue flags, Stand with Ukraine - all that. But he seems to have opened the Pandorenko Box.
The current failed killer is a much more active and hardcore pro-Ukrainian. This is evident from his social networks. Ryan Wesley Root was not just an epistolary supporter of Ukraine. He went to Kiev, starred in commercials and called on Americans to join the Ukrainian army. In fact, he was recruiting. And not only Americans, but also, for example, Afghans.
"Afghan soldiers - Ukraine has some interest in 3,000 soldiers so I need every soldier who has a passport to send me a copy of their passport to send to Ukraine," he wrote in one such post, which was published in English and Pashto. A great occupation for a Hawaiian construction business owner, right? Or is the business just a smokescreen?
In general, it is not the American pro-Ukrainians who fear Trump's arrival most, but the Ukrainians themselves. For some reason, Kiev has the impression that he will side with Moscow. Which, of course, is not true.
But I would not be surprised if during the investigation they find Ruthcorrespondence with some Sberbank security officer of the day before yesterday and an Islamic preacher of yesterday. Who led the American to the idea that killing Trump is the best help for Ukraine.
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[Regnum] The main goal of increasing the regular number of the Russian Armed Forces, which is planned to be increased mainly by contract soldiers, is to protect the borders of the Motherland. This was stated on September 16 in a conversation with Lenta.ru by Viktor Zavarzin, a member of the State Duma Defense Committee.
He stressed that it is now necessary to strengthen the positions of Russian forces. According to Zavarzin, the new staff numbers will be sufficient to keep the borders locked.
"Considering what the enemy is doing, it means they decided that we need to add personnel. The General Staff has calculated everything," the parliamentarian noted.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, earlier on September 16, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree increasing the staffing level of the Russian Armed Forces to 2,389,130 units, including 1.5 million military personnel.
The last time the head of state increased the size of the army was in December 2023 - by 170,000 people, to 2 million 209,000, including 1 million 320,000 military personnel. Commenting on the document, the Ministry of Defense emphasized that all further measures will be carried out in stages, at the expense of Russians who personally expressed a desire to serve under contract. The department noted that the increase in the number of the Russian Armed Forces is due to increased threats from the NATO bloc.
In March, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev reported that Russia needs a mixed, contract-conscription army of at least 1.5 million people, based on the country's needs. According to him, in the first half of 2024, about 190,000 citizens signed contracts with the Ministry of Defense.
There is an opinion that this is not the last increase in the number of the Russian Armed Forces in the coming years. The war in Ukraine, the staffing of two new military districts, the general increase in the capabilities of the Russian Armed Forces in various areas, all this requires an increase in the size of the army.
At the same time, we see in practice what the fantasies of the 2000s and part of the 2010s about a "small compact technological army" actually cost, which in modern realities would not meet the challenges of the time at all.
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[REGNUM] From the late 1930s onwards, the Third Reich authorities, through diplomatic channels, urged Japan to attack the USSR and at the same time tried to convince Moscow that Germany had no aggressive plans.
At the same time, Japan itself made plans to invade Eastern Siberia in 1939. This refutes the modern Russophobic narrative: supposedly, in August 1945, the USSR treacherously attacked the Japanese Empire, which so believed in the Molotov-Matsuoka Pact (the 1940 non-aggression treaty).
These conclusions follow from archival materials that were released by the Central Archive of the FSB of Russia on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the end of the fighting at Khalkhin Gol.
BAG WITH A SECRET
At the very beginning of the Soviet-Japanese conflict (and the first battle of the “samurai” with the border troops of the USSR’s ally, Mongolia, took place on May 8, 1939), a certain Friedrich Schildknecht appeared in Tokyo.
To be precise, he left Berlin on May 9, the day after the first shootout "on the distant borderland." Schildknecht arrived by train via Moscow, along the trans-European and then trans-Siberian route.
According to the documents, the German guest was listed as a courier for the Foreign Ministry of the Third Reich, accompanying diplomatic mail.
In fact, he was an officer in the "Foreign Armies - East" department of the OKH (High Command of the German Ground Forces), specializing in the Red Army. On the way to the Far East, he recorded the condition of the Siberian railway and what was moving along it.
“Throughout the entire journey, Schildknecht made notes on sheets of paper, which, as they were filled, he hid through a hole in the sealed courier bag with diplomatic mail,” the FSB publication says.
But the main task awaited the spy in Tokyo.
Our counterintelligence learned about the real background and details of Schildknecht’s mission thanks to the fact that this German officer was captured in Stalingrad – with the rank of colonel of the General Staff of the German army.
Now the valuable prisoner's handwritten testimony has been made public.
"I NOTICED 7-8 TRAINS EN ROUTE"
Arriving in Tokyo on May 23, Schildknecht — by his own admission, with surprise — met his boss, the head of the Foreign Armies East department, Colonel Eberhard Kinzel. He had arrived more urgently, by plane. Kinzel informed his subordinate that he had arrived to participate in negotiations on Japan’s readiness to attack the USSR.
Schildknecht reported to his superior, as well as to the Reich ambassador in Tokyo, General Eugen Ott, and to the staff of the Japanese General Staff, about his “Trans-Siberian” impressions.
The conclusion of the fake diplomatic courier: the USSR is not transferring equipment and soldiers from the Far East to the European part of the country. On the contrary, “I noticed at the Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Baikal stations, and on the way 7-8 military trains that were heading east,” Schildknecht told Soviet counterintelligence officers.
At a meeting in Tokyo, Axis colleagues compared maps. The Japanese explained to the Western allies that the "Soviets" were holding not 17 divisions at the Manchurian border, as the Germans believed (and even in Berlin this figure was questioned), but 22 divisions.
On the other hand, a German spy shared the data: “ The information provided by Schildknecht about the training of the Red Army officer corps, the list of military educational institutions and information about airborne units was significantly more complete than the Japanese.”
TO VLADIVOSTOK OR TO BAIKAL?
During interrogation, Schildknecht recalled that he had asked Major Etsuo Kootani (an employee of the “Russian department” of the General Staff of the Japanese army, and in the recent past an assistant military attaché in Moscow) whether he considered it possible for Japan to attack the USSR.
Kootani explained that he could not speak officially, but made it clear that there were two groups in the General Staff making plans for attack. One was advocating for a "narrow resolution of the issue" - the capture of Vladivostok and a small part of the coast. But the larger group of General Staff officers believed that the Japanese army should strike from Manchukuo and Mongolia in the direction of Lake Baikal and break through to the eastern part of Siberia.
Kinzel informed his subordinates a little later that the Japanese General Staff was “basically ready” for war with the USSR and could deploy 20 to 25 divisions in it. But on one condition: if Germany attacked the USSR already then, in the spring-summer of 1939, and, consequently, if the Red Army was tied down by fighting in the West.
"I remember General Ott said something like this: 'The Japanese certainly have a great appetite for the Far East, but they are afraid to pull chestnuts out of the fire alone. They want Germany to attack the Soviet Union at the same time as us, that would suit them,'" Schildknecht confessed during interrogation on May 15, 1945.
And even more frankly he added:
“Germany was not interested in starting a war against the USSR at that time, since it wanted to pump more bread and oil out of Russia.”
According to Schildknecht, the Germans believed that the Japanese would be the first to attack our country, which would distract the Red Army's forces to the Far East. And after the Polish campaign, which was then underway, the Reich could strike at the USSR.
It should be recalled that at that time Moscow and Berlin were formally in peaceful relations, which by the end of the summer were sealed by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
On June 2, Schildknecht left Tokyo.
At this time, in the Manchurian steppes near the shallow Khalkhin Gol River, battles were just beginning to unfold between the Soviet-Mongolian group of troops and the “battering ram” of the Kwantung Army – units of the Japanese 6th Army under the command of General Michitarō Kamatsubara.
The battle, as Schildknecht recounted, was closely watched by three officers of the German General Staff.
The outcome of the months-long battles (which in Japan were then called and are still dismissively called the “Nomonhan Incident” - after the name of one of the border heights) mixed up all the cards of the Japanese General Staff.
And it was precisely the fruit of General Kamatsubara’s defeat that resulted in the neutrality treaty of April 13, 1940 – the very same Molotov-Matsuoka Pact.
But first things first.
"IT'S HARD TO SAY WHICH HOTBED IS MORE THREATENING"
Even before the clash with the Japanese army at Lake Khasan (1938) and at Khalkhin Gol, the Soviet leadership clearly understood the intentions of the Japanese leadership in the matter of expanding the zone of Japanese influence in East Asia (including at the expense of the USSR).
After Japan captured Manchuria in 1931–1932 and created the puppet state of Manchukuo there, a springboard for further advances into the continent emerged, and the Japanese General Staff began to be dominated by the idea of the USSR as “enemy number one.”
The Japanese army was preparing for war, the secret services were recruiting saboteurs and agents among the White Guard emigration. The Manchukuo troops, reinforced by career officers of the Imperial Army, became a bargaining chip in a series of provocations on the Soviet border.
From 1936 to 1938, 231 incidents were registered on the border with the USSR, including 35 major armed clashes with dozens of people killed. In 1938, the number of incidents increased to 1,247.
In light of this, the Soviet leadership did not remain idle. In order to slow down the advance of Japanese forces on the continent, Soviet military specialists actively participated in combat operations against the Japanese invaders on the side of China.
Moscow provided preferential loans to the Chinese government and supplied military equipment, ammunition and ammunition. In the newspaper Pravda on March 5, 1936, Joseph Stalin, answering a question from the American journalist Roy Howard about where the next war would most likely break out, explained:
"There are, in my opinion, two hotbeds of military danger. The first hotbed is in the Far East, in the Japanese zone. I mean the repeated statements of the Japanese military with threats against other countries. The second hotbed is in the German zone. It is difficult to say which hotbed is the most threatening, but both of them exist and are active."
The future war in the East was not questioned by either side, as confirmed by Schildknecht’s testimony.
And if the clashes of 1938 on the Soviet-Korean border were considered by the Japanese General Staff as an unfortunate failure, then the events at the Khalkhin Gol River were supposed to become a prologue to a full-scale aggression against the USSR.
The "land" faction in the Japanese General Staff, together with Germany, advocated this plan - a narrow or large-scale invasion (Schildknecht reproduced these opinions in his testimony). The admirals held a different position, insisting on the primary occupation of China and a move to the South: to Indochina, Indonesia and the Pacific islands.
The outcome of the “Nomonhan incident” was supposed to be a visible argument in favor of one point of view or another.
WHAT UPSET THE JAPANESE PLANS
Initially, everything went "as it should". After a series of border incidents on May 11, Japanese forces broke through the cordon and penetrated 15 kilometers into the territory of the Mongolian People's Republic. Units of the 57th Corps of the Red Army stationed in the MPR came to the aid of Marshal Choibalsan's troops.
On May 22, Soviet units pushed the Japanese back to the border. But they did not achieve decisive superiority over the invading forces - the Kwantung Army managed to retain the initiative. By mid-summer, the Japanese held bridgeheads on Mongolian territory, on the eastern bank of Khalkhin Gol.
On May 29, 42-year-old division commander Georgy Zhukov (previously the deputy commander of the Belarusian District for cavalry) flew to Mongolia to check the combat readiness of the 57th Corps. Based on Zhukov's reports to Moscow, on June 11, the leadership decided to remove the then "corps commander-57" Nikolai Feklenko and appoint Zhukov in his place, who focused on accelerated training of personnel.
The 57th Special Corps became the main striking force of the Front Group under the overall leadership of Army Commander Grigory Stern, which also included the 1st and 2nd Red Banner Armies and the Transbaikal Military District.
The rotation was carried out in time - on July 2, General Kamatsubara's troops began a large-scale offensive in two directions. The first was a diversionary one, which involved a direct attack on the Soviet-Mongol bridgehead, while the second involved forcing Khalkhin Gol and going into our rear.
But Zhukov decided to launch a quick tank counterattack, which was carried out on the night of July 2-3.
It was then, from July 1939, that the “incident” began to go wrong according to the Japanese plan.
On July 3–5, a decisive battle took place at the height of Bain-Tsagan, occupied by the Japanese. A Soviet tank attack forced General Kamatsubaru to give the order to withdraw Japanese forces to “his” bank of Khalkhin Gol.
The tactical victory at Bain-Tsagan allowed the Soviet-Mongolian forces under the command of Stern, Zhukov, the “chief of aviation” corps commander Yakov Smushkevich and Marshal Choibalsan to prepare for an offensive by mid-August.
Before it began, as of August 19, the advantage was on our side: 35 infantry battalions, 20 cavalry squadrons, 216 field and 286 anti-tank guns, 40 mortars, 2,255 heavy and light machine guns, 498 tanks, 346 armored vehicles, 581 aircraft.
The enemy could field 25 infantry battalions, 17 cavalry squadrons, 135 field and 142 anti-tank guns, 60 mortars and bomb throwers, 1,238 heavy and light machine guns, 120 tanks and armored vehicles, and 450 aircraft.
The commander of the 1st Army Group of Soviet Forces in the Mongolian People's Republic, Corps Commander Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (second from right) conferring with commanders during the battles at Khalkhin Gol
On August 20, at 9:00 a.m., the Soviet-Mongolian offensive began. The next day, our fighter-interceptors repelled a massive raid by the Japanese Air Force, and bombers carried out a "counter-raid," dropping 96 tons of bombs on Japanese positions. On the ground, the Soviet-Mongolian forces managed to force the enemy into defensive battles. Armored and motorized forces advancing from the northern and southern directions closed pincers around the 6th Japanese Army by August 26.
Kamatsubara's troops lost up to 60,000 people, while Soviet and Mongolian forces lost up to 9,700 fighters.
The Imperial Government, through the Japanese Ambassador to Moscow (let us recall that the USSR and Japan were not de jure in a state of war and maintained diplomatic relations) Shigenori Togo, sent a request to cease hostilities on the border of Mongolia and Manchukuo. On September 15, the USSR and the Mongolian People's Republic on one side and the Japanese Empire on the other signed this agreement, which was ratified on September 16.
"MEMORIES LIVE ON IN THE KWANTUNG ARMY"
Local conflicts like the "Nomonhan incident" became an almost everyday reality around the world in the pre-war years. It is enough to recall the Italian campaign in Ethiopia, the civil war in Spain, or the geographically closer Japanese intervention in Manchuria in 1931, the invasion of "mainland" China in 1937, and, finally, the battles on the Soviet-Japanese border in 1938.
But the background of the "Nomonhan incident" was already quite "hot". The fighting in the Mongolian steppes began when German and Italian diplomats were preparing to sign the "Steel Pact", and ended when the Wehrmacht was crushing the remnants of the Polish Army near Włodawa and on the Bzura River.
The battles at Khalkhin Gol (also known as the "Khalkhin Gol War" in Mongolian historiography) ended, one might say, in favor of the "admiral" faction of the Japanese General Staff. Japan remained a loyal ally of the Reich in the Axis, but only in the war against the USA and Britain. The attack on Pearl Harbor and the capture of Singapore became inevitable, and the campaign to the north against the USSR relegated itself to the realm of hypothetical projects.
In 1941, the German ambassador to Tokyo, General Ott, reported to the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Joachim Ribbentrop : Japan’s decision not to enter the war against the USSR was influenced by “memories of the Nomonhan (Khalkhingol) events, which are still alive in the memory of the Kwantung Army.”
In August 1942, the above-mentioned Mr. Schildknecht accompanied the Japanese ambassador in Berlin, General Hiroshi Oshima, on a trip to the Eastern Front. By presenting the successes of the German forces, including on the Volga, Adolf Hitler hoped to influence Tokyo's position.
But the USSR presented Japan with the second most compelling visual argument after the defeat of the “Kwantungians” at Khalkhin Gol: the defeat of the Nazis and their European allies at Stalingrad.
After the clear turning point in the war, those who advised Mikado Hirohito clearly decided: Japan would faithfully follow the 1940 neutrality treaty, while remaining the same aggressor and enslaver in relation to China, the countries of Indochina and other East Asian territories.
But the plans to build an “East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere” – a Far Eastern analogue of the “thousand-year German Reich” – failed to materialize. The Red Army’s lightning offensive in August 1945, far more successful than the aggression of the Kwantung Army in 1939, put an end to the history of Japanese militarism.
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[REGNUM] The election campaign in the US is starting to resemble a real "Wild West". In two months, there has already been a second assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
The split in American society and the crime crisis are on full display. But the main thing is the further disintegration of the once functioning political system in the US, which is now rapidly being Ukrainized.
The July assassination attempt on Trump in Pennsylvania exposed the blatant negligence of the US Secret Service, which protects top government officials and presidential candidates.
Since then, Trump's security has been beefed up, and during the second assassination attempt, it was more professional than in July. This time, agents spotted the gunman with a rifle outside Trump's golf club in Florida in time and arrested him.
The character turned out to be unusually colorful.
It turned out to be a roofer from North Carolina named Ryan Routh. He had been arrested several times, and in 2002 he was even convicted of spreading terrorist threats. At that time, it was “fashionable” in the US to send envelopes with a white substance under the guise of real pathogens like anthrax.
In recent years, the unsuccessful gunslinger Root has devoted all his free time to criticizing Trump on social media and the international agenda. This is where he really went wild.
The criminal held entire "fairs" inviting Americans to go to Ukraine as mercenaries, for which they were promised a salary of up to one and a half thousand dollars a month. Ruth even managed to visit Kyiv himself and take a selfie on the Maidan.
He was similarly interested in what was happening in Taiwan, where he supported anti-Chinese forces and the Taiwanese army.
Immediately after the arrest of the criminal, social networks rushed to delete his pages with content, just to avoid setting up the Democrats, to whom Ruth actively donated money. But much of it was saved.
Before our eyes is a spherical victim in a vacuum of the liberal propaganda campaign led by the elites of the Democratic Party in the United States. An opponent of Trump and the Republicans, a supporter of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, obsessed with the war in Ukraine and other conflicts that are now on everyone's lips.
A separate question is whether he is a "lone wolf", as they call those who act independently in the US. Or whether there were some forces in the same "deep state" behind him who do not want Trump to return to power.
The background of the previous assassination attempt is still shrouded in secrecy. The criminal who carried it out was killed immediately, but before that he managed to get into the event bypassing security and even climbed onto the roof of the building where the law enforcement officers were sitting. He had an earpiece, and FBI agents hinted that he might have acted on someone's instructions. But no reliable information was ever presented.
Now the criminal has been detained, so it will be more difficult to cover up all the loose ends. Unless, of course, he dies under mysterious circumstances in prison, which happens quite often.
It is clear that Ryan Routh had prepared thoroughly for the assassination attempt on Trump. He took an AK-47 and a camera with him, and crept through the bushes to within a few hundred meters of his victim. If he had opened fire, he might well have had a chance of achieving his goal.
Trump was lucky again - he turned his head in time during the first assassination attempt. And before the second assassination attempt, security agents were able to spot the criminal in the bushes and drive him away.
The current situation is particularly awkward for the Democrats, who have just had their supporter stage yet another episode of political violence.
And even immediately after the assassination, prominent Democrats like House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries continued to call for Trump and his MAGA Republican supporters to be “stopped.” Some rank-and-file Democrats took this too literally.
Republicans regard the incident as another attempt by the "Washington swamp" to illegitimately remove Trump from the presidential race. Or at least to intimidate him into becoming more willing to negotiate. However, immediately after the assassination attempt, he himself promised to "never give up" and fight to the end for the presidency.
For Trump, the current assassination attempt, as strange as it may sound, comes at a rather opportune moment.
After all, he failed to win the recent debates with Harris. In addition, for some reason he got into a losing squabble with the popular American singer Taylor Swift, who supported Harris's candidacy in the elections.
Now everyone has forgotten about the debates and is once again starting to discuss the problem of the surge in political violence in the US with attacks on Trump. He is again appearing as a new Kennedy who managed to survive. And twice at once. And at the same time in the role of a "victim of the regime", which is expectedly causing sympathy from many ordinary Americans.
Trump will try to seize the initiative in the race and reduce his gap with Harris in the ratings. Harris has managed to get ahead of Trump since mid-August, but the gap is not very large. She is less popular than Hillary Clinton was in September 2016 or Biden in September 2020. Every failed assassination attempt adds points to Trump - the main thing is that it does not end fatally for him.
The situation is unprecedented for American politics.
Never before in history have there been double assassination attempts on one of the leaders of the election race. And there are still two months until the elections - there may be new attempts to eliminate the contender for the presidential seat. The situation is electrified to the limit - if Trump is killed, the division of the United States will worsen so much that it could put the country on the brink of civil conflict. Republican states will simply refuse to recognize the results of such an election without Trump.
And we can expect this level of violence in American politics to only continue to grow, as the discord between Democrats and Republicans intensifies with each election cycle.
The political system in Washington has long been in disarray - Congress is dysfunctional, trust in the presidency, the press, and the courts is at an all-time low in modern US history.
It is impossible to resolve one's contradictions by legal political methods - one has to resort to illegal ones. Especially since the American population has more than half a billion guns in its hands, and there are plenty of people trained to handle them.
And, by the way, it is very symbolic that the second assassination attempt on Trump was organized by a person connected with Ukraine.
One of the obvious consequences will be problems for Ukrainian lobbyists, who are already having difficulty “push[ing] through” new tranches for 2025.
Trump will be even more vocal in his criticism of the Ukrainian agenda and, at the same time, demand that Republicans in Congress block approval of new aid packages for Kyiv. They will likely cause at least a temporary delay at the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025 — in the midst of the transition of power in Washington.
But the long-term consequences are connected with the Ukrainization of American policy itself. There is a certain historical irony in this.
The US has become so deeply immersed in the wilds of Ukrainian reality that it has begun to slowly adopt it itself. Those Americans who fought as mercenaries on the Ukrainian fronts and then returned home can play a significant role in this. They may be destined for a dramatic and tragic role in their homeland, especially since the preconditions for this – with the protracted political crisis in the US – already exist.
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Given the 'threat level', shouldn't some SS resources be moved from Clinton, Bush, and Obama to cover the active candidate? If not, why? /rhet question.
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the best i can do for trump,vance,abbot,and greene is to pray for their protectors via 'auum' and i do so several times a day. also i am 87 and have two pistols.
[LIFESITENEWS] “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6)
Bergoglio, with his ungodly statements addressed to young people in Singapore that “all religions are a path to God,” offends the Majesty of God, betrays Divine Revelation, tramples on the principal Mysteries of our Faith and nullifies the redeeming Sacrifice of the Son of God, Our Lord Jesus Christ.
His lying words are particularly insidious because they are addressed to the new generations, whom Bergoglio deceives into believing that it is possible to be saved without recognizing that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the Only Savior, and that His Church is the only ark of salvation. I am the door (Jn. 10:9) said Our Lord of Himself. To deny this truth is to apostatize from the Faith and to trample on the Cross. To do so from the highest Threshold is a scandal of unprecedented gravity, surpassed only by the fearful or complicit silence of the majority of the Episcopate.
The “passio Ecclesiæ” is accomplished in the betrayal of a usurped authority, of a new Sanhedrin equally apostate.
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The good archbishop is sort of a Dan Bongino of the Catholic establishment.
[NYPOST] Alleged would-be Trump assassin Ryan Wesley Routh rolled up in Ukraine last year looking to fight the Russians and make an impact — but was quickly rejected and pushed aside after being dubbed a ''wack job'' and ''off'' by the more serious imported muscle in the country, several sources involved in the volunteer effort said.
While some had interacted with him personally, others told The Post they knew his ''type'' and were ''not at all surprised by it.''
''A crazy idiot, but no one's really surprised. There are people like that that show up and are desperate to help and be important,'' one American fighting for Ukraine told The Post. ''And he was just one of those — just on the crazier end of things.''
The American fighters and volunteers who spoke to The Post requested anonymity for fear of Russian doxxing.
Routh, 58, had no military experience, but traveled to Ukraine around March 2023 thinking he could help out in the war effort, anyway. How easy was that for a fringe asset useful idiot?
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Death, starvation, polio vaccines and GAMING consoles?
The Never-Bibi crowd is always happy to find something new to scream at him about. What odds the game console is either booty stolen from Israel on 10/7 or sold by a desperate Gazan parent for some money to buy basics from the Hamas warehouses full of goods brought in by well-meaning NGOs, then stolen upon delivery by Hamas officials before the needy could even see what they’re missing?
[Jpost] The video caused shock and anger among several prominent right-wing Israeli commentators, with many calling this proof that Netanyahu was going too easy on Gaza.
Despite persistent claims of goods shortages and price rises in Gaza, the prices of some goods have been astoundingly low, including that of a PlayStation 5 (PS5), according to video obtained by French journalist Jonathan Serero on Sunday.
The video shows the PS5 game console, fresh fruits, soaps, perfumes, sweets, snacks, soft drinks, and more in the market in the center of Gaza.
PLAYSTATION PRICE SURGE
When the PS5 was first released in 2020, there was a massive shortage of consoles, leading to the price spiking to over twice or thrice the retail price, with one person telling Metro they spent £900 on theirs, while the Guardian reported that some paid nearly £1200.
Although prices stabilized as the release rolled out worldwide, prices were often above retail for a few months.
When the PS5 was approved for import to Gaza, it was sold at a premium of between £765-£860 by Israeli wholesalers to Gazan merchants, according to the Guardian.
Imports continued to be fed mostly by gaming cafes, which charge people to play their consols.
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...that would be found in the Declaration of Independence.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
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Quickly scanning the nice graphics, one might assume both sides have wackos. Also the wackos have similar experience with protests, military experience, and guns.
Ergo, Rantburg is not a threat!
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I'm expecting the next shoe to drop to be a false flag of a right wing effort, possibly against Joey B. (Hey, they're through with him, right?)
It would tie the package together nicely.
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"A source tells me the leak of Trump's whereabouts is coming from Homeland Security, not USSS. Homeland Security is leaking location details to FBI, and FBI is running the assassins. The entire top leadership of the FBI is desperately trying to figure out how to eliminate Trump, while the loyal elements of US Secret Service are trying to stop it. Homeland Security and US State Dept are full-on treasonous criminal ops at this point. If Homeland can't eliminate Trump soon, State Dept will make sure a war begins with Russia. If they fail, hundreds of top people within FBI and Homeland are going to either flee the country or be criminally prosecuted under a Trump presidency. This is what's at stake."
[MSN - Barron’s] Tech giant Oracle gave a big vote of confidence to nuclear power this week, sending stocks in the industry higher while simultaneously baffling experts who aren't sure how the company's plans are possible.
Oracle founder Larry Ellison told investors on an earnings call Monday that his company is designing one of the largest data centers in existence; a behemoth facility that could consume more power than 300,000 homes.
He also said Oracle plans to use nuclear reactors to power the facility, and is already working with a company that has "building permits" to build three small reactors. Or a nice patio
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21:45 Following the talks between Biden and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the United States is not ready to announce the lifting of restrictions on Ukrainian long-range weapons strikes deep into Russia, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said.
20:59 Scholz called for exploring the possibilities of starting a peace process in Ukraine: "It is clear to us that at the same time, it is also necessary to continually explore the possibilities for starting a peaceful development." According to the Chancellor, "now is the time to see what is possible."
20:27 Most of the fighting since the beginning of the day is in the Kurakhovsky and Pokrovsky directions, Zelensky said in an evening video address. In addition, the president said that he discussed the Kursk operation with Syrsky, and also signed several decrees on awarding participants in the Kursk operation with state awards. They also discussed the provision of drones - "this is not just something tactical, it is a strategic priority."
Zelensky also held meetings during the day to prepare a Ukrainian victory plan: "The steps necessary for Ukraine have already been defined, absolutely clearly. For each step, there is a clear list of points. There are no impossible things there, more than 90% of everything has already been written out. We are already preparing a victory plan for presentation to the allies next week."
20:08 Another assassination attempt may have been prepared against Donald Trump. On Sunday, law enforcement officers detained a man hiding in the bushes on the territory of the Trump International Golf Club in Florida. An AK-47 assault rifle with a telescopic sight, two backpacks and a GoPro camera were found near where he was. American and international media identified this man as Ryan Wesley Routt, who ardently supported Ukraine in the war with Russia, visited Kiev and tried to get into the International Legion. More details in the article New assassination attempt on Trump .
18:56 Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said that Tehran had not transferred any weapons to Russia. At the same time, he noted that Iran and Russia have the right to maintain relations. Speaking about the war in Ukraine, Pezeshkian stressed that it was allegedly provoked by NATO countries, since they violated their promise not to expand to the east.
18:44 Ukrainian intelligence has noted a noticeable deterioration in discipline in Russian units, Zelensky said following a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's Headquarters. In addition, the meeting participants discussed the readiness of engineering protection at critical infrastructure facilities and the work of combat training centers. "In conclusion, drones. Some of the largest states exporting components for drones are introducing export restrictions. We know how to ensure that these restrictions do not become critical for us," the president assured.
17:58 Stoltenberg said that there will be no peace in Ukraine until it joins NATO. At the same time, he acknowledged that there is no consensus among the Alliance countries on inviting Kiev. The Secretary General also noted that NATO does not observe any actions by the Russian Federation in the nuclear sphere that would require its response.
17:13 War criminal and propagandist Alexander Korobov, nicknamed Krab, has been liquidated in Belgorod. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, his skull was fractured. The propagandist worked for the Rossiya 1 channel, headed its Belgorod office, and also created products for the Russian Defense Ministry's resource - the Zvezda TV channel. Korobov worked, in particular, in the occupied territories of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions and personally participated in the commission of serious war crimes against Ukraine.
16:17 In the Kursk region, a decision has been made on the mandatory evacuation of settlements in the Rylsky and Khomutovsky districts, which are located in the 15-kilometer zone near the border, reported Governor Alexey Smirnov.
16:11 Since 2022, Russia and its partners have sold grain stolen from the occupied territories of Ukraine for almost $1 billion, The Wall Street Journal writes.
16:00 Russians shelled Kupyansk, one person was wounded. In addition, in the village of Petrovpavlovka, as a result of enemy shelling, one person was killed and two were wounded, reported the head of the Kharkiv OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
15:39 Zelensky will address the UN General Assembly at the end of September, Voice of America reports. Next Tuesday, September 24, the UN General Assembly will begin a general debate, the main topics of which will be the war in Ukraine and support from the international community. Biden will deliver a speech on the first day, and Zelensky on September 25.
15:08 Zelensky signed a law providing for the inclusion of a new structure in certain branches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - the Unmanned Systems Forces.
14:37 Putin, by his decree, increased the authorized strength of the Russian Armed Forces to 2 million 389 thousand people, including 1.5 million military personnel. The previous increase in authorized strength was in December 2023, when it was 2,209,130 people, including 1,320,000 military personnel.
14:32 Ukraine will receive another batch of F-16 fighters from Denmark before the end of the year, Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said. According to him, the exact date and number of aircraft in the new deliveries remain classified for security reasons.
14:25 Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said at a meeting with Scholz that Russia is "invincible" militarily and that further escalation would lead to "irreparable consequences." He said a good chance to achieve a truce was missed with the cessation of work on the Istanbul Agreement, but that there is an opportunity to achieve peace.
13:43 Italy will soon send Ukraine a second battery of SAMP-T air defense systems, the country's Foreign Ministry reported.
13:22 Beijing hosted the first official event in China to highlight the tragedy of the deportation of Ukrainian children - an exhibition of the Bring Kids Back project and a presentation of the book Living the War, the Office of the President reported. Diplomats from 40 countries, representatives of the media and think tanks witnessed real stories about children who survived the horrors of war and were returned home.
11:54 Russians have attacked their own units near the Aggregate Plant in Volchansk, the Kharkov operational-tactical group reports. The enemy used multiple launch rocket systems to shell areas adjacent to the plant, causing damage to their own units.
In addition, in Volchansk, in the evening, in the northern part of the city, the Russians attempted to deliver personnel using vehicles, but suffered losses due to fire damage from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The enemy is also evacuating medical losses and logistical support.
11:03 The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has asked the UN to take part in humanitarian response measures in the Kursk region. At the same time, the department emphasized that during operations in the Kursk region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces comply with all norms of international humanitarian law, and pay special attention to the protection of the civilian population, providing humanitarian aid and the possibility of evacuation from combat zones.
10:58 In the draft state budget for 2025, the Cabinet of Ministers refrained from making predictions regarding the duration of the war: "It is not yet possible to make a final, even approximate assessment of the negative impact of the war on the economy of Ukraine due to the uncertainty of the scenarios of military actions both in terms of their duration and intensity, and, consequently, the consequences."
10:51 Latvia will transfer to Ukraine combat reconnaissance tracked armored vehicles CVR(T), which it had previously purchased from Britain, the country's Defense Ministry reported. The quantities of equipment are not being disclosed for security reasons.
09:35 In Donetsk Oblast, on September 15, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed - in Pokrovsk. Another seven people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours, reported OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
09:24 In the Kherson region, over the past day, six people were injured as a result of Russian shelling, reported the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin.
08:58 The number of victims of yesterday's Russian strike on a 12-story apartment building in the Nemyshlyansky district of Kharkiv has risen to 43, including four children. One person was killed, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. 22 apartment buildings were damaged. In addition, three people were injured as a result of enemy shelling by Kubyansk and one more in the village of Peski-Radkovsky in the Izyumsky district.
08:51 In the Kiev region, as a result of falling debris from a downed drone, one person was injured, reported the head of the OVA Ruslan Kravchenko.
08:33 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of September 16:
personnel - about 634,860 (+1060) people,
tanks - 8683 (+3),
combat armored vehicles - 17,071 (+8),
artillery systems - 18,123 (+14),
MLRS - 1187 (+1),
air defense systems - 947 (+0),
aircraft - 369 (+0),
helicopters - 328 (+0),
Operational-tactical level UAVs - 15,263 (+29),
cruise missiles - 2592 (+0),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 24,712 (+28),
special equipment - 3090 (+6).
08:27 Air defense destroyed 53 out of 56 Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs at night, the Air Force reported. Three more enemy drones were lost in several regions, preliminary - without casualties and consequences. The main direction of the attack was the Kiev region. Drones were shot down in the Kiev, Cherkasy, Vinnytsia, Poltava, Sumy, Zaporizhia, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Cherkasy regions.
[PJ Media] Thierry Breton, the European Union commissioner who tried to bully Elon Musk into banishing free speech from Twitter/X, resigned in shame from his post today.
Breton quit in an open letter where he accused European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen of plotting against him. "You asked France to withdraw my name — for personal reasons that in no instance you have discussed directly with me — and offered, as a political trade-off, an allegedly more influential portfolio for France in the future College," he wrote.
The European Commission spokesperson stated that "the timing and wording" of Breton’s letter to Musk had not been coordinated with von der Leyen or other commissioners, in a response that was seen as a rebuke to the commissioner.
Translation: Breton embarrassed Brussels and had to be sidelined.
Similarly, neither the EU nor its member nations have ever had anything like America's First Amendment protection of free speech. That was fine before Elon Musk bought Twitter and began exporting free speech around the world. Meta could be fined into submission but not Musk, who paid an outrageous sum for Twitter in part because he believes free speech is more important than his net worth.
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[AlArabiya] The withdrawal of US troops from Niger is complete, an American official said Monday.
A small number of military personnel assigned to guard the US Embassy remain, Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh told reporters.
Earlier this year, Niger’s ruling junta ended an agreement that allowed US troops to operate in the West African country. A few months later, officials from both countries said in a joint statement that US troops would complete their withdrawal by the middle of September.
The US handed over its last military bases in Niger to local authorities last month, but about two dozen American soldiers had remained in Niger, largely for administrative duties related to the withdrawal, Singh said Read the rest at the link
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"Niger is the world’s seventh-biggest producer of uranium. It possesses Africa’s highest-grade uranium ores and is a major exporter of uranium to Europe, particularly to France1. In 2021, Niger ranked as the seventh biggest supplier of uranium globally, contributing 5% of global supplies.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] An evacuation order has been issued after a pipeline in a Texas city burst into flames.
The fire started just before 10am in La Porte, which is located around 25 miles southwest of Houston.
The company that owns the pipe, Energy Transfer, has since confirmed it is a natural gas line which they have now isolated so it can burn itself out.
According to the company they had been made aware that an unknown vehicle had struck a valve at the pipe, which they believe may have caused the fire.
Dramatic images captured at the scene show an extremely large jet of fire burning high in the sky, blanketing the area in thick black smoke.
Other images captured at the scene show the damage caused to the nearby area, with one picture showing a burnt out car.
The company said in a statement: 'We experienced an incident this morning in La Porte, Texas, at a valve station along Spencer Highway for a 20" natural gas liquids line that resulted in a fire.
'There are no reports of injuries at this time. The LaPorte Fire Department is on the scene and has evacuated all homes and businesses within a half mile of the incident site.
'The line has been isolated so that the residual product in the line can safely burn itself out.
'We have no timeline at this point on how long that process will take, but we are working closely with local authorities.
'We are aware of early reports indicating that an unknown passenger car entered our right-of-way and struck the value location.
'Air monitoring equipment is in the process of being set up in the area. We will continue to release details as they become available.'
Due to the fire, nearby Spencer Highway has been closed in both directions and neighboring roads have blocked off to traffic.
Evacuations have also been ordered for the Brookglen neighborhood area, with San Jacinto College issuing a shelter-in-place order.
In a post to social media, the college said: 'SJC Central remains under shelter in place. No fire on campus.
'Emergency responders are on site. A shelter in place will remain for the San Jacinto College Central Campus until all clear is provided.'
Izzat liquefied natural gas (LPG) or just gaseous natural gas?
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A liquids line that carried a mix of natural gasoline, propane, butane, hexane, and everything in between.
It's common for crude refiners to 'batch group' their products in separation, rather than go for exact products. They then send the batches on to secondary fraction distillers who take the mix down as far in final purity as wanted.
(This concept in refining was actually created by John D Rockefeller, ie there's always something else in the mix, 'safety kerosene'.)
As to the event, witnessess said an SUV with and 'elderly looking' individual was driving erratically in the Wal Mart parking lot, went through the bushes, down the hill, through the fence, and kaboom. (Just another day at Wally World.)
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[FoxNews] The State Department said it is aware of unconfirmed reports that two additional Americans were detained in Venezuela
A U.S. service member has been detained in Venezuela, the U.S. State Department said.
On Saturday, Venezuela's Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said three Americans, two Spaniards and a Czech had been detained as they were accused of trying to assassinate Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and overthrow the Venezuelan government, Reuters reported.
Overenthusiastic amateurs or insufficiently prepared professionals?
In a statement obtained by Fox News Digital, the State Department denied the allegations with spokesman Matt Miller saying "any claims of U.S. involvement in a plot to overthrow Maduro are categorically false."
Miller confirmed the detention of the service member and said the State Department was aware of "unconfirmed reports" that Venezuelan authorities detained two additional Americans.
The Associated Press identified the American service member as Wilbert Joseph Castañeda Gomez, a member of the Navy.
The detentions come amid an international dispute over Venezuela's recent presidential election, which was marred by allegations of fraud. While Maduro was declared the winner in July by Venezuelan officials, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said last month there was "overwhelming evidence" Maduro's opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez secured the most votes. Guess their's was easier to figure out than ours.
During a press conference on Saturday, Cabello said the detainees were allegedly linked to plans to assassinate Maduro and other officials.
"These groups seek to seize the country's wealth, and we as a government will respond firmly to any destabilization attempt," Cabello said, adding that officials seized about 400 rifles originating in the U.S.
The U.S. State Department denied the allegations.
Cabello said the Spanish nationals were detained as they were taking photographs in the town of Puerto Ayacucho.
"These citizens have links — we know they will say no, that it is a lie — they have links with the center," Cabello said, referring to Spain's intelligence agency.
Spain's government similarly denied any involvement, Spanish media reported.
Diplomatic tensions between Venezuela and Spain remain strained following Venezuela's disputed July 28 presidential election.
A Spanish minister has accused Maduro of running a "dictatorship."
Venezuela was also upset by the decision by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to meet with Gonzalez, who went into exile in Spain last week after being threatened with arrest by Maduro's regime following the election.
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Bear in mind, if they hire illegals, they're also not paying taxes and Social Security on them.
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I understand a lot of the illegals use fake Social Security numbers and the employers do withhold at least the FICO tax - which since the numbers are fake will never need to be paid out as benefits, perhaps one reason the government doesn't care much about stopping the illegal workers.
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True story on the withholding tax wars.
I was working with a mexican (who got US citizenship) who got called in to the IRS office for an audit. They wanted to assess extra tax based on his second job.
Manuel asked them, what second job?
The night job they showed he was working at a Denny's in Oak Park, Il.
"So, you think after working a 10 hour day in Houston, I jump on a plane to go bus tables in Chicago?"
"So you say that's not you?"
"Nope. Why did you come at me about this?"
"Well, we had your address."
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[Townhall] Regarding one of the questions surrounding this second assassination attempt concerning when/if the FBI knew, we learned that the bureau did know about Routh in 2019. It involved an investigation into illegal possession of a firearm. Routh’s rap sheet could span the continental United States, so how he was able to obtain firearms remains a mystery, though, as in the past, I’m sure we’ll find out that it was some form of government incompetence. It could also be that criminals don’t follow federal firearms laws.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. US court indicts suspect in Trump assassination attempt
A US court has indicted Ryan Wesley Root, a suspect in the second assassination attempt on presidential candidate Donald Trump. CNN reported this on September 16.
It is noted that the suspect has been charged with two counts related to firearms.
According to the channel, the charges include possession of a firearm while convicted of a felony and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on September 15, the FBI reported that Trump was shot while the politician was playing golf at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.
Law enforcement officers detained Ryan Wesley Root. It turned out that he had previously been in Kiev and participated in recruiting mercenaries for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene pointed out Root's participation in a video in support of the Ukrainian formation "Azov" (a terrorist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation).
Trump said he was unharmed and safe. The politician added that nothing will stop him and he will never give up.
The first assassination attempt on Trump was made on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, during his campaign rally. The politician was shot several times. He was wounded in the ear. The suspect was then eliminated by security personnel.
Even more from regnum.ru Kremlin has commented on the second assassination attempt on Trump
The Russian side is monitoring information coming from Washington after the second assassination attempt on former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. This was reported on September 16 by the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov.
“This is not really our business,” the Kremlin spokesman noted, answering a question about how this situation could affect the elections and whether there is a risk of destabilization of the situation in the country.
Peskov added that the current stop in the country before the elections is tense.
“The political struggle is intensifying, a variety of methods are being used <…> We have never interfered in this in any way and are not interfering now,” explained the Russian leader’s press secretary.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on July 13, an assassination attempt was made on Trump in the city of Butler (Pennsylvania) during his campaign rally. Several shots were fired at the politician. He was wounded in the ear. The suspect in the shooting was eliminated by security personnel.
On September 15, a shooting occurred outside a golf club in West Palm Beach while Trump was there. The FBI called the incident a failed assassination attempt, and a suspect was arrested. According to police, he was 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh.
Later, the former head of the White House said that he was not injured in the incident and was safe. The politician emphasized that nothing will stop him and he will never give up.
On September 15, US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene reported that the suspect in the assassination attempt on Trump had appeared in a video in support of the Ukrainian nationalist formation Azov (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation). It later became known that the detainee had visited Kiev, participated in recruiting mercenaries for the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), and called on US President Joe Biden to send all the weapons the Americans have to Kiev and to introduce an American military contingent into Ukraine.
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev did not rule out that Rauta could have been hired by the Kiev regime to organize Trump’s assassination.
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My question regards the SKS he had. He had left NC and moved to Hawaii several years ago, but came back for this.
I'm assuming TSA didn't let him bring the rifle on the plane, and he didn't come back by bus.
So, he has a weapons source/depot somewhere nearby.
Who?
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[Bee] PHILADELPHIA, PA — Americans across the country breathed a sigh of relief this morning following breaking news that Vice President Kamala Harris had survived an attempted interview.
The incident took place late yesterday afternoon during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania when a rogue reporter reportedly approached the vice president and fired off several questions before being tackled to the ground and subdued by Secret Service agents. Harris was quickly evacuated from the area and taken to a secure location.
"Thankfully, Vice President Harris is safe and in stable condition," a campaign spokesperson said. "We all feared the worst when that crazed person emerged from the crowd and attempted to interview the sitting U.S. vice president right there in broad daylight. Someone must be looking out for her, though, because she avoided suffering any damage in the incident."
The FBI arrived at the scene shortly thereafter and discovered that the would-be interviewer was in possession of several notepads, pens, a cellphone, and a camera authorities believed was intended to capture the event for a livestream or video. "Isn't that sick?" said a campaign insider. "This nutjob had this all planned out. He was coming out here for the specific purpose of interviewing Kamala Harris — and he was trying to record himself doing it. This is the type of America we can expect under Donald Trump."
At publishing time, the Secret Service had advised the Harris campaign that it would be best for the Vice President to avoid all public appearances from now through election day.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Bombshell documents prove leaders in Aurora, Colorado knew Venezuelan super gang Tren de Aragua had taken control of three apartment buildings, but then denied the city had a gang problem when video of an armed takeover sent shock waves across the US. "Oh shit. Am I on video?"
DailyMail.com obtained city records where staffers admitted three rental properties 'are in complete control' of Tren de Aragua (TdA) and claim that many more than just three properties are victims of the 'criminal infestation.'
'As of now, the Aurora-Multi-Family Properties are in the complete control of the Gangs,' the police report dated June 29 states.
One document had been prepared by the Aurora Police Department for attorneys of the owner of the apartment complexes, CBZ Management, turned to the cops for help.
'One June 27, 2024, the Owners were informed that the Aurora Multi-Family Properties had been forcibly taken over and were in the control of individuals claiming to be part of one or more gangs ("Gangs") who have immigrated from the country of Venezuela to the City of Aurora, Colorado,' the crime report reads.
The property manger of the three properties (Aspen Grove Apartments, the Edge of Lowry and Whispering Pines) was told by the thugs not to go back or his life would be in danger.
Gang members were also known to be armed with deadly weapons, including assault rifles and knifes.
A report by the law firm detailed the chaos at the apartments, including beatings that nearly left victims dead, shootings, drug sales and even child prostitution were taking place.
The crime report was complied before video of TdA (as Tren de Aragaua is known to authorities) surfaced August 28, showing armed gangsters storming units at the Edge of Lowry apartments in the Denver suburb.
As outrage over the images spread across the country, Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman denied Aurora had a gang problem in interview after interview with the media.
While the city did not respond to an interview request from DailyMail.com asking when the city knew TdA had seized control of apartments, the Republican mayor has made every effort to downplay the South American mob's presence in his city.
In an interview with the local Fox station on Aug. 29, Coffman said Aurora was not overrun by migrant criminals and instead described their control to be in 'isolated areas' and 'pockets' of the city.
He claimed to know even less with a different Denver outlet on Sept. 4, when asked if he could confirmation Tren de Aragua was behind the violence, he said no.
'I think the view is kind of mixed on that,' Coffman told Denver7. 'Quite frankly, that part is not relevant to me.'
In the next breath, Coffman went on to say the DEA had told him TdA was selling fentanyl in the his city, but kept to his narrative that no one knew if Tren de Aragua was involved.
'I don't think we know at this time,' he added.
The police department had already arrested two known TdA member Jhonardy Jose Pacheco-Chirinos, also known as “Cookie” or “Galleta,' and his brother Jhonnarty Dejesus Pacheco-Chirinos.
Additionally, a July 3 letter to the city manager obtained by DailyMail.com details a meeting between the Aurora Police Department, the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations or HSI to discuss the gang problem at the three properties owned by CBZ Management.
'In that meeting, it was disclosed that our situation is not an isolated event, but numerous other multi-family projects in the City of Aurora and throughout the State of Colorado are subject to the same gang control,' disclosed CBZ management's attorney.
That major revelation is in stark contract to what the mayor has been saying.
'There is a tendency to exaggerate and to say this incident that's isolated to three buildings under the same ownership with the same people, concentration of Venezuelan migrants, is the city of Aurora...that the entire city is unsafe,' he said in the Denver7 interview.
The apartment lawyer pleaded for an 'immediate face-to-face meeting' with City Manager Jason Batchelor.
'We are very concerned for our residents, our clients' properties, the surrounding neighborhoods, and our fellow property owners due to this criminal infestation, which includes extortion and the utilization of lethal weapons,' the letter reads.
Despite the mayor's rejection of the information in the documents, his interview may have revealed why a person in his position might want to downplay a 'criminal infestation' in his community.'
'That narrative isn't true,' Coffman said. 'That's a destructive narrative to the economic health of this city.'
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[REGNUM] On September 10, the second meeting of the Arab Committee for Relations with Syria took place. The event took place in Cairo on the sidelines of the summit of the heads of the Arab League (LAS) foreign ministries. Oddly enough, the event received virtually no coverage in either the world or Russian media, although in fact it is extremely important for understanding the essence of the processes in the region.
The meeting was attended by the foreign ministers of Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the Secretary General of the Arab League. The final statement said that the parties had decided to “form a group of experts to study the topics that the Committee will work on together with the Syrian Arab Republic, and will hold its next meeting in Baghdad.”
At first glance, it may seem like a passing event. However, this is not entirely true, especially given the chronology of the Syrian-Arab normalization.
SLOWING DOWN THE PROCESS
The process of restoring relations between Damascus and the Arab states, which were practically severed with the outbreak of the civil war in Syria, was intensified after the devastating earthquake that occurred in the SAR in early 2023. The humanitarian aspect became a reason justifying the inevitability of interaction with the Syrian government.
Riyadh played a leading role in resuming ties. Its actions launched the process of Syria's return to the Arab League. To this end, Saudi Arabia initiated a series of preparatory meetings, the central one being the Inter-Arab Conference in the Jordanian capital on May 1, 2023.
The participants of the event developed a formula in which the restoration of relations with Damascus will not be one-sided, and the Syrian authorities must also make efforts towards this.
In order for full normalization to be launched and for Syria to be able to count on the participation of Arab states in the reconstruction of the country, it was required to begin the process of political reform, resume the work of the Constitutional Committee, create conditions for the return of refugees, withdraw foreign troops, and take measures to combat cross-border smuggling and drug trafficking. The demands presented were formulated in the final document, which was called the "Amman Statement."
It is important that Damascus was returned to the "Arab family" in advance. At the May 2023 Arab League summit in Jeddah, the resumption of the Bashar al-Assad government's membership in the pan-Arab organization was announced. The event was presented as a success of Syrian diplomacy.
But it was from this point on that further normalization began to stall. The key reason was Syria's slow implementation of its commitments.
To monitor Damascus's actions, an Arab Committee for Relations with Syria was created, the first meeting of which was held on August 15, 2023. The meeting was indicative. By the time it began, none of the conditions had been met. Moreover, the Syrian delegation made its proposals for resolving some issues.
For example, the resumption of the work of the Constitutional Committee and the implementation of political reforms were linked to the provision by Arab countries of guarantees to lift sanctions against the SAR. Moreover, the Syrian side insisted that the document signed following the results of the Inter-Arab Conference was not binding.
After that meeting, the Arab Committee was unable to meet for over a year. The parties were closest to resuming its work in the spring of 2024, with a meeting scheduled for May 8 in Baghdad. However, the day before the scheduled date, the event was postponed.
According to the Syrian government newspaper Al-Watan, the decision was made at the request of one of the committee members. According to the Arab press, Jordan was behind the postponement: Amman was unhappy with the lack of progress in the fight against cross-border smuggling and drug trafficking.
The Hashemite Kingdom is the most affected party in this matter, because it is through its territory that all illegal traffic from Syria to the Persian Gulf countries passes. In this regard, Jordanian law enforcement forces are forced to act, including on the territory of their northern neighbor.
Another important demand that has stalled is the resumption of the work of the Constitutional Committee. Until May 2022, its meetings were held in Geneva. But since Switzerland has de facto ceased to be a neutral party, as demonstrated in the Ukrainian conflict, Russia has proposed choosing a new negotiating platform. And Syria has agreed to this idea.
The new site was supposed to be Oman, and work was supposed to resume at the end of 2023. But it didn’t work out.
The media reported that the ninth round of the Constitutional Committee was to take place in the spring of 2024, and that one of the Arabian monarchies would act as the host. However, the work has not resumed. This indicates that the parties are still far from resolving the issue.
The refugee issue also remains a fundamental issue. In fact, the process of returning Syrian refugees home has been suspended for a year now. Lebanon suffers the most from this.
In the spring, this even caused an internal political crisis in the "land of cedars". The Syrians represent a huge burden on the economy of the neighboring country, which has been on its last legs for several years. Therefore, the Lebanese government began to simply deport people back to Syria.
SYRIA IS STEPPING UP ITS ACTIVITIES
Given the pile of unresolved issues, even the fact that the meeting took place within the Arab Committee is already a success. This shows that the parties still count on dialogue.
Yes, the demands of the committee members have not changed. They still expect Damascus to fulfill the conditions outlined in the "Amman Statement." This was also stated on September 9 at the 161st session of the Council of Ministers of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) in Riyadh.
Therefore, the main conclusion from the current meeting in Cairo is that in a year neither the positions of the Arab countries nor the position of the Syrian government have changed. However, the parties are not abandoning the process.
For the leading Arabian monarchies, Syria's return to the "Arab family" is primarily a question of reducing Iran's influence within the SAR. In addition, there is an interest in integrating Damascus into future economic projects.
So in 2024 they took a number of steps towards each other: in May, air traffic with Bahrain and Saudi Arabia was relaunched, and the day before the meeting, Riyadh announced the resumption of its diplomatic mission in the Syrian capital.
Meanwhile, for Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon, fulfilling the conditions is a matter of national security. Accordingly, it is also in their interests to keep the process active.
The Syrian government also understands that their actions have led to nothing over the past year. In the conditions of an acute socio-economic crisis, the country needs outside help. Considering that Iran has already taken most of the assets it needs and is not trying to increase its support, and Russian business has significantly reduced its presence, Damascus will still have to seek help from the Arabs.
That is why the Syrian authorities are taking some counter-measures. For example, they have reshuffled the security forces, in order, among other things, to tighten control over the southern border.
The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kirill Budanov personally contacts the leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group (a terrorist organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation) Abu Muhammad al-Julani to recruit terrorists to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This was reported on September 16 by the Syrian newspaper Al-Watan.
According to the publication's sources close to the opposition militias in the Syrian province of Idlib, the actions of Ukrainian intelligence in this region to search for people from post-Soviet countries willing to fight against Russia have already become public. Active work in this direction began two months ago.
“The head of Ukrainian intelligence, Kiril Budanov, maintains contact with <…> Abu Muhammad al-Julani in order to send terrorist mercenaries with experience in the Syrian war to Ukraine to take part in battles against the Russian army,” the publication says.
The newspaper noted that Russia already knows about this, so it is expected that the Russian Armed Forces will intensify strikes on terrorist camps in Idlib, where mercenaries are recruited to be sent to Ukraine.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on September 12 that Ukrainian emissaries are in Idlib to recruit Hayat Tahrir al-Sham militants to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. He added that the Kiev regime is also interested in other regions in this matter.
On September 10, the Turkish newspaper Aydinlik reported on the Kiev regime's negotiations with representatives of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham to recruit terrorists to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Ukrainian agents also asked the group to release those who want to fight against Russia from their prisons, and offered 75 drones in exchange.
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[Regnum] At least four people have died in a shipwreck in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo), the France Presse (AFP) agency reported on September 16, citing local authorities.
Another 50 are listed as missing. The tragedy occurred on the Kwango River. According to the vice-governor of the Kwango province, Remi Saki, who gave details of the incident, the vessel crashed into a bridge support and sank.
There were about 150 people on board. A search and rescue operation is underway.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in mid-June a ship with 271 passengers on board sank on the Kwa River in the DR Congo. It ran aground in the dark. Immediately after the incident, rescuers began searching for at least 80 people who were listed as missing.
On August 19, the superyacht Bayesian sank off the coast of Palermo in southern Italy. It was caught in a storm. There were 12 passengers and 10 crew members on board. The yacht was found at a depth of 49 meters. At least five people died.
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[REGNUM] Russian army units are advancing in several directions at once in Donbass. In the eastern part, the offensive continues along the entire front, stretching for tens of kilometers from Pokrovsk to the south to the Kurakhovskoye Reservoir.
After a series of local defeats and the threat of the front collapsing, the Ukrainian Armed Forces command sent reinforcements to the area to stop the Russian army's advance. But they failed to do so. Russian forces liberated the village of Zhelannoye Pervoye, which was confirmed by the Russian Defense Ministry.
In addition, according to reports from the field, the offensive continues in the direction of the settlement of Ukrainsk. Ukrainian sources fear that the liberation of Zhelanny Pervy will allow Russian troops to liberate a large area on the right bank of the Volchya River and north of Krasnogorovka.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces units located in this area are in an extremely difficult situation and are trying to escape from the emerging encirclement, a source for Regnum news agency in the Pokrovsk direction reports.
"Now in the area of the village of Zhelannoye Vtoroye, where the river crossing is, soldiers from separate formations have gathered, mixed up, everyone wants to retreat. They have no command to hold this area, someone will definitely be "forgotten" there. But, most likely, they will retreat across the river in the near future," the source predicts.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces Command is trying to establish a front along the highway along a number of large settlements: Kurakhovo - Gornyak - Ukrainsk - Selidovo - Pokrovsk. According to Ukrainian sources, fierce fighting continues in the Ukrainsk area. Russian troops have taken the city in a semi-ring and are advancing in the direction of the highway, trying to cut the Ukrainian Armed Forces defense into several parts.
Further north, the offensive is developing in the area of Mirnograd. However, Ukrainian sources suspect that all military actions are now just preparations for a large-scale operation, the ultimate goal of which is the liberation of Pokrovsk, the last regional center under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the eastern part of Donbas.
EXCHANGE OF FIGHTERS FOR A WHILE
The day before, it became known that Russian troops began to destroy key objects of the enemy's transport infrastructure in the Pokrovsk area. In particular, the strike was carried out on the "Eastern Overpass" - a key transport artery connecting Pokrovsk and Mirnograd. Strikes are also being carried out on bridges in the rear of the Ukrainian group.
At the same time, Ukrainian sources report that the units being transferred to the front line are unable to contain the advance of the Russian army. The servicemen, recruited from among those forcibly mobilized, have not undergone proper training, therefore they often suffer losses and abandon their positions, said Verkhovna Rada deputy Maryana Bezugla.
“These are mostly middle-aged people, primarily those who were unable to ‘decide’. <…> The vast majority of training centers [have] instructors without combat experience – those who ‘decided’, ” the deputy said.
However, sources of the Regnum news agency note that the reinforcements sent to the front allowed the Ukrainian command to gain some time to prepare a defense in the rear. In essence, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are exchanging unprepared fighters for the time needed to turn Pokrovsk into a "fortress city."
"We must understand that for our troops the task of liberating Pokrovsk is the most difficult since Avdiivka. Even more difficult, because the city is much larger, and they are now compensating for the lack of fortifications with construction work. The industrial zone there is also powerful. In short, there is a lot of work ahead, and first of all, preparatory work," the source notes.
Russian troops may try to encircle the city instead of a frontal assault on the urban development and industrial zone. However, to do this, it is necessary to break through the front line south and north of Pokrovsk, where the Ukrainian Armed Forces are currently holding the line.
The Russian army's offensive also continues south of Pokrovsk, in the area of the city of Ugledar.
Over the past few years, the city has remained the main hub of Ukrainian defense southwest of Donetsk. Ukrainian Armed Forces units in the area take advantage of the terrain: the city is located on a commanding height in a predominantly flat area.
This location of the settlement makes a frontal assault impossible, so Russian troops are trying to encircle the city. According to local reports, they have advanced from the settlement of Vodyanoye to the highway connecting Ugledar and the settlement of Bogoyavlenka, through which supplies are supplied to the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison.
The fighting is taking place in the area of the Yuzhnodonbasskaya #3 mine north of Ugledar. With the highway under the control of Russian troops, the Ukrainian Armed Forces command will have to solve the eternal question: hold the city at any cost or withdraw forces. Given the experience of previous battles, it can be assumed that in this case the second option will most likely be chosen.
"We will work to squeeze them out of Ugledar. If we take control of the city, especially the five-story buildings that are partially destroyed but can be used to adjust the fire, the entire area will be ours. For now, they still have a highway, dirt roads, but with the muddy season, all this will come to a standstill. We will press," a source located in the Ugledar area told IA Regnum.
UKRAINE'S BLEAK OUTLOOK
Washington is taking the situation at the front very seriously, realizing that the Ukrainian Armed Forces front may soon collapse. Politico notes : The White House believes that Ukrainian troops may be defeated as early as the winter of 2024/25.
In this regard, the US is reviewing its position on the use of long-range weapons on Russian territory. Previously, Washington constantly refused its allies who requested permission to use ATACMS missiles on Russia, but the unofficial ban may be lifted in the near future, the media reports.
Washington also plans to announce the largest military aid package in the past year, after which the United States will take a pause for the period of the presidential elections and the change of the White House administration.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces thus have very little time left to seize the initiative and try to organize their own counteroffensive. However, for now Kyiv is using up its reserves, throwing them into patching holes in the front line in Donbas.
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[NewsFront] 21:04 Another prisoner of war of the Ukrainian Armed Forces told about "street mobilization"
Dmitry Pavlyuk recalls that on his way to work, a patrol with TCC workers approached him and handed him a summons. Most of his company, which consisted of 94 people, were called up in the same way.
The prisoner of war mentioned the large number of dead and wounded, as well as captured Ukrainian servicemen. This, according to him, leads to a decline in the fighting spirit of Ukrainian units.
“When the losses began, people became afraid for their lives,” he noted.
21:00 Explosions have occurred again in the Kyiv-controlled city of Kherson, Ukrainian media reported.
19:50 Tankers destroy enemy strongholds and manpower.
The crews of T-80BVM tanks of the separate guards motorized rifle unit of the "Southern" group of forces provide fire support to the actions of assault units in the Donetsk direction, destroying strongholds and observation posts, ammunition depots, manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
19:20 The Russian Armed Forces have made significant advances on the flank of Chasov Yar.
Assault groups managed to force the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal and take control of the land "canal isthmus" (the place where water flows through underground pipes). This creates a threat to the rear of the Chasovoyarsk group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and will allow us to talk about the beginning of battles for Konstantinovka in the foreseeable future.
18:55 Russian paratroopers destroyed a group of Ukrainian militants in the border area of the Kursk region.
Having suppressed the enemy's exposed firing points and disrupted its control system, the 120mm 2S9 Nona-S self-propelled gun units allowed the airborne assault groups to enter the stronghold and carry out a cleanup.
18:32 Servicemen from the 18th Army have identified and destroyed the location of Ukrainian militants in the village of Dneprovskoe in the Kherson direction.
17:54 Kursk region: fighters of the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade “caught up” with an enemy tank using an FPV drone –video.
16:45 Today, eight FAB-500 were dropped on Petropavlovka. The antitank missiles of the 14th and 116th brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed.
Assault units of the Russian Armed Forces, with the support of aviation, have become more active in this area.
16:30 Advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the area of Chasov Yar and Dzerzhinsk –map.
16:20 Destruction of the Ukrainian Armed Forces radar in the Kherson direction –video.
15:56 Losses of Ukrainian army casualties near Ugledar DPR in a few days are going to dozens, evacuation groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine cannot cope with the flow of wounded and dead soldiers, captured serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Robert Pogorelov told TASS.
15:07 Armed Forces of Ukraine lost another tank.
During reconnaissance operations in the border area of the Kursk region, servicemen of the "North" military group, using UAVs, identified a Ukrainian Armed Forces tank in a closed firing position.
As a result of a direct hit by a guided munition, the tank of the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants was destroyed.
14:50 Russian servicemen of the 810th Marine Brigade "captured" a Ukrainian Tunguska anti-aircraft missile and gun system in the Kursk region –video.
14:45 Su-34 crew struck a concentration of personnel and military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border area of ??the Kursk region. The strike was carried out on reconnoitered targets using aerial bombs from the UMPK.
14:30 Russian military launches missile strike destroyed MLRS launcher in Sumy Oblast and up to 10 Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
14:20 UAV operators of the Dnepr group of troops destroyed enemy observation post on the right bank of the Dnieper.
13:49 Calculation of the 122mm BM-21 MLRS "Grad" destroyed accumulation of Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower and equipment in the Donetsk direction, ensuring the advancement of assault units of the “Southern” group of forces.
13:10 Summary of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress of the special military operation (as of September 16, 2024):
Units of the North group of troops in the Liptsov and Volchansk directions defeated formations of the 36th Naval Infantry Brigade, the 125th and 127th Territorial Defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Liptsy, Izbitskoye and Volchanskie Khutor in the Khar'kov region.
The military personnel of the West group of forces improved the tactical position, defeated the manpower and equipment of the 43rd, 44th, 67th Mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 103rd, 110th, 117th Territorial Defense brigades and the Azov* special forces brigade in the areas of the settlements of Staroverovka, Petrovpavlovka, Kucherovka, Novoosinovo, Kruglyakovka, Vishnevoe in the Khar'kov region, Rozovka, Makeyevka, Nevskoye in the Luhansk People's Republic, Torskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic, as well as the Serebryanskoye forestry. Eight counterattacks of the assault groups of the 14th, 63rd, 116th Mechanized, 3rd Assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 1st National Guard Brigade were repelled.
Units of the Southern group of forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions, inflicted defeat on the formations of the 54th, 93rd Mechanized, 143rd, 144th Infantry, 5th Assault, 10th Mountain Assault, 77th Airmobile, 95th Airborne Assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 114th, 119th, 124th and 125th Territorial Defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Seversk, Verkhnekamenskoye, Zvanovka, Pervomaysky, Nikolaevka, Predtechino and Kurakhovo of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The fighters of the "Central" group of forces continued to advance deep into the enemy's defense, inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of the 23rd, 24th, 47th, 63rd Mechanized, 152nd Infantry, 68th Jaeger brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 122nd Territorial Defense brigade and the 15th national guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Petrovka, Shcherbinovka, Dzerzhinsk, Nelepovka, Dimitrov, Krasnoarmeysk, Grodovka, Gnatovka, Selidovo, Lesovka and Ukrainsk of the Donetsk People's Republic.
They repelled nine counterattacks by assault groups of the 30th, 32nd, 100th, 151st Mechanized, 25th Airborne brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 3rd, 12th brigades of the National Guard and the "Lyut" assault brigade of the national police of Ukraine.
The "East" group of forces improved the position along the forward edge, defeated the formations of the 61st, 72nd Mechanized, 58th Motorized Infantry brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 118th Territorial Defense Brigade in the areas of the settlements of Dobrovolye, Zolotaya Niva and the Uglesborochnaya railway station of the Donetsk People's Republic. Repulsed a counterattack by the assault group of the 116th Territorial Defense brigade.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces inflicted losses on concentrations of manpower and equipment of the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the 37th Naval Infantry Brigade, the 121st and 123rd Territorial Defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Novooleksandrivka, Gavrilovka, Kamyshany, Prydniprovskoe, Veletskoye in the Kherson region and Pyatikhatki in the Zaporizhia region.
Operational-tactical aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces groups damaged the infrastructure of a military airfield, a workshop for the production of unmanned aerial vehicles and four warehouses for storing them, as well as concentrations of enemy manpower and military equipment in 144 areas.
The Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force.
Air defense systems shot down a French-made Hammer guided bomb, 20 Czech-made Vampire rockets, and 13 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles.
12:50 Crews of T-80BV tanks of the tank army of the "West" group of forces during fire missions in the area of the special military operation destroyed identified camouflaged positions, trenches, dugouts and anti-aircraft posts with electronic warfare equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
11:57 The Ukrainian Armed Forces group in Ugledar of the DPR is almost completely “cut off” from supplies.
According to the security forces, the last route accessible to Ukrainian troops has been effectively “cut off.”
It is noted that the movement of the Ukrainian Armed Forces along dirt roads is also extremely difficult due to the fact that they are all under fire control of the Russian forces.
11:34 Soldiers of the 18th Army knock down enemy drones that are deliberately used to attack civilians in the Kherson region.
10:56 Destruction of positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces howitzer by artillerymen of the North group of forces in the Khar'kov region.
10:47 Zaporizhia region - fighting has intensified on the eastern bank of the Kakhovka Reservoir.
The Russian Armed Forces have improved their positions in the area of the settlement of Kamenskoye. There is movement to the south of the settlement and within its boundaries.
10:35 Ukrainian channels reported explosions in Sumy region.
09:49 Fighters of "Vostok" stopped the strengthening of the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, conducting rotation and moving reserves near Vodyanoye, Shakhtyorskoye, Oktyabr, Vremyevka, Charivnoye, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
09:44 In the Kupyansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces took the Kovsharovka-Borovaya highway under fire control. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are forced to look for new logistics routes.
09:05 Special forces of the Vostok group in the Ugledar direction adjust the fire of tankers of the 29th Army –video.
08:17 Enemy reports:
“The Russian Armed Forces are close to cutting off the road between Borovaya and Kupyansk.
The Russian army will soon reach the Oskol River in the Khar'kov region"
08:14 Destruction of a stronghold and manpower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces by servicemen of the "North" group of troops in the border area of ??the Kursk region.
08:12 Tos 1-A “Solntspek” SOUTHV exactly “covers» positions of the 54th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Seversky direction
08:07 Strikes were carried out in the Kyiv region and suburbs, warehouses on the railway were hit, the pro-Russian underground reported.
08:04 Calculations of the 122mm BM-21 MLRS "Grad" have applied fire damage to enemy locations, strongholds and observation points, routes of movement of military equipment and nomadic fire weapons of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
08:00 The Russian army has completely taken control of the territory of the Yuzhnodonbasskaya No. 3 mine.
[Breitbart] When will Ohio dump this POS squish?
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) announced on Monday that the 33 “bomb threats” against schools in Springfield, Ohio, “have all been hoaxes” and have originated from overseas. “None of these had any validity at all,” the governor said. Pressure is now mounting on the establishment press to apologize to former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH).
“At least 33 separate bomb threats, each one of which has been responded to, and each one of whom has been found as a hoax,” DeWine said. “So, 33 threats, 33 hoaxes. I want to make that very, very clear. None of these had any validity at all.”
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[Regnum] One of the defendants in the case of the attack on the Crocus City Hall concert hall, Yakubdzhoni Yusufzoda planned to flee abroad from the Russian Federation immediately after the terrorist attack. This is stated in the case materials, TASS writes.
The investigator's motion to arrest Yusufzod states that he supports radical Islamic movements and the need for armed struggle against people who do not share his religious views. He also planned to leave Russia immediately after the terrorist attack.
“There is reason to believe that, if left at liberty, the accused may abscond from the investigation and trial,” the Moscow City Court’s decision on the appeal against Yusufzoda’s arrest states.
A new witness in the case of the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall gave evidence to investigators in early August and confirmed that the arrested Muhammad Sharipzoda (included in the list of terrorists and extremists by Rosfinmonitoring) was involved in the crime.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, Yakubdzhoni Yusufzoda tried to destroy evidence of the investigation before his arrest. Several days before the attack on Crocus City Hall, the accused, using his bank card, transferred money to an accomplice to pay for rented housing for other defendants in the case. Yusufzoda transferred part of the funds to one of the perpetrators after the incident in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region.
Terrorists attacked Crocus City Hall on the evening of March 22. The gunmen opened fire on visitors and then set fire to the concert hall. As a result of the terrorist attack, 144 people were killed and 551 were injured.
[AmericanThinker] As last week’s debate made clear, Kamala Harris’s media enablers have given Harris the green light to lie in the most flagrant ways about the most significant of issues. Even if Donald Trump were adept at giving concise answers, which he is not, he would have had no chance to expose Harris’s mendacity.
In the long run, the most damaging of issues deal with the weaponization of justice. As vice presidential candidate, Sen. J. D. Vance is perfectly positioned to address this phenomenon. He is precise in his language; quick on his feet, and, with a “J.D.” (hmmm!) from Yale, inarguably well credentialed to take on the task at hand: heading up an American Truth and Reconciliation Commission (ATRC).
Based on the model South Africa used with some success to end the Apartheid era bloodlessly, the ATRC would offer amnesty to those willing to tell the truth about the corruption of justice in the past decade. Unlike Trump, Vance has not been a victim of this corruption. He could manage the affair dispassionately and legitimize the conciliatory nature of the ARTC and, by extension, the Trump presidency. Can he work with Musk?
As an executive function, the ATRC would forward amnesty declarations to President Trump, who would have the constitutional power to grant them. To be effective, the commission would limit its scope to those issues that have most directly threatened to undermine our constitutional republic these last several years.
… At the press conference, Vance would concisely lay out the four major areas of inquiry with inarguable and well documented facts. To most Americans, and a shameful number of Republicans, these facts will come as news. Vance could challenge the media to fact-check him as he speaks.
Moving chronologically, Vance would open with Russiagate. … Next stop: Huntergate. … During the debate, Kamala Harris did not shy from repeating the lies about January 6 that, in her case, are both personal and damning. … At the press conference, Vance would do well to zero in on the inarguable fact that Harris has repeatedly deceived the public about her presence at the DNC at the very moment the pipe bomb was discovered and the riot launched — by people who did not attend Trump’s speech. …Politico unwittingly describes the criminal charges leveled against Trump as though it were something other than the open conspiracy known as lawfare.
… There are other scandals that need to be addressed — the near assassination of the former president, the Afghanistan debacle, the COVID lies, the abetting of the illegal alien invasion, the social media suppression, the dementia cover-up, the 2020 election shenanigans, and more, but these are for another day.
Once the ARTC is announced, Vance would do well to focus on the four issues cited above in every speech, every media appearance, and especially in his debate with Tim Walz. America is perilously close to becoming a banana republic, and Americans need to know it.
The Daily Mail jumbles together a bunch of different stories centering on Springfield, Ohio over the past few days. With regard to the Proud Boys and Blood Tribe: I do hope the FBI is not stirring up trouble again in a way that can be traced back to them — remember the Seventies, man.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The far-right Proud Boys descended on Springfield, Ohio, as Donald Trump doubled down on his promise to visit the town at the center of pet-eating rumors.
Members of the group were spotted marching amid reports that the KKK has been distributing recruitment leaflets in a town that has been hit by a wave of bomb threats directed at schools and colleges. 33 out of 33 bomb threats were from overseas. Hoaxes.
Around 20 members of the Proud Boys, some seen carrying flags and placards, were seen in video and photos posted to social media. Always a role for the useful idiot.
Plans for a visit by the ex-president are still taking shape, his campaign team insists, after he repeated debunked claims that the town's large Haitian population was killing and eating their neighbors' pets.
GOP leaders have angrily dismissed the stories as 'garbage' and told him to stay away.
'Look, there's a lot of garbage on the internet. This was a piece of garbage that was simply not true, there's no evidence of this at all.
'Any comment about that otherwise, I think, is hurtful and is not helpful to the city of Springfield and the people of Springfield.
'We need to focus on moving forward, not dogs and cats being eaten, it's just ridiculous.'
The Proud Boys, which have been banned as a terrorist group in Canada, currently have five chapters in Ohio, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
They have been at the forefront of some of the most violent political confrontations in recent years, and five of its leaders were indicted on seditious conspiracy charges over the January 6 riot.
Former leader Henry Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role in the violence.
Donald Trump has distanced himself from the group since telling them to 'stand back and stand by' in his 2020 presidential debate with Joe Biden.
Their arrival comes a month after around a dozen masked members of the neo-Nazi group Blood Tribe held an 'anti-Haitian immigration march' in the town as the first rumors started to emerge.
The group promoted the rumors online, and member Drake Berentz spoke at a Springfield City Commission meeting on August 27 to warn that 'crime and savagery will only increase with every Haitian you bring in'.
He was ejected from the meeting, but group leader Christopher Pohlhaus was euphoric after Trump brought up the rumors in his presidential debate.
'The president is talking about it now,' one of his members wrote on the social media platform Gab.
This is direct foreign government interference in the election. The governor should specify which nation conducted this psychological operation. Voters have a right to know who is meddling in our election.
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[VK] Message from the NKVD Directorate for the Stalingrad Region to the NKVD of the USSR about the breakthrough of German troops in the city of Stalingrad and the situation in the city.
The enemy has broken through into the city from the western side. In the center of the city, the enemy has approached the Volga River. The city has been cut into two parts. They are coming stubborn fighting on the bank of the Volga River in the area of the Astrakhan Bridge, the NKVD buildings and the oil depot.
The enemy has occupied a commanding height in the northern part of the city - Mamayev Kurgan and is conducting an offensive in the direction of the Krasny Oktyabr and Barrikady factories. The enemy has controlled a commanding height in the southern part of the city - Dar-Gora, from which an offensive is being conducted in the direction of Beketovka.
The city has been destroyed. The enemy is conducting continuous bombardment, artillery and mortar shelling of factories, crossings and populated areas located on the left bank of the Volga River. The NKVD operational staff is at the factories in the city, conducting reconnaissance, helping Red Army units to locate and destroy groups of machine gunners entrenched in buildings on the bank of the Volga River.
There have been no anti-Soviet manifestations on the part of the population. Most of the city's population has been evacuated in an organized manner across the Volga.
Head of the NKVD Directorate for the Stalingrad Region Voronin
Central Archives of the FSB of Russia
On October 15, the enemy reached the Volga River in a narrow section near the tractor plant, and on November 11, south of the Barrikady plant. Units of the 62nd and 64th armies heroically held positions in the city along the Volga bank and part of the commanding heights of Mamayev Kurgan.
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"INTENSE BATTLES IN STALINGRAD"
Active Army, September 16. (By telegraph from our corr.).
In recent days, the fighting near Stalingrad has become even more intense. Enemy attacks are becoming more frequent, and the onslaught of his tanks and infantry, supported by a huge number of aircraft, is becoming ever stronger in certain areas. Particularly fierce battles are taking place on the northwestern outskirts of the city. Our units are meeting the enemy with staunch resistance everywhere, inflicting heavy losses on them and often counterattacking, sometimes not only stopping but also pushing back enemy hordes.
Our N-th unit received orders to counterattack the enemy in one area. After preliminary reconnaissance, it went into action, trying to recapture a tactically important height from the Germans. On the way to this height, the units of the unit suppressed a number of enemy firing points and advanced to the foot of the height. Here they were met by large German forces, comprising up to 50 tanks and up to a regiment of infantry. Our soldiers lay down. Anti-tank guns and rifles were moved forward. Units on the flanks opened intense fire on the German infantry.
As a result of the ensuing battle, the enemy lost four tanks. The rest of his tanks, separated from their infantry, retreated back to the battle lines of their riflemen and machine gunners, who had already dug in by this time. The commander of our unit decided to continue the attack. With strong artillery support, his soldiers again moved toward the enemy, who could not sit still in the hastily dug trenches. Approaching the Germans, the units brought all their firepower into the battle. Then, in order to repel this pressure, the enemy threw tanks forward a second time.
Believing that our anti-tank weapons were, as before, in the center, the Germans began to act mainly on the flanks, but they achieved nothing here either. Having lost another six tanks, the enemy was forced to retreat.
An interesting incident occurred in one of our units, which was holding a defensive position in another area. In recent days, this unit had been greatly harassed by enemy aircraft. The fighters' positions were well camouflaged, but the German pilots knew that the troops were there and dropped bombs without even finding any obvious targets. It was decided to divert their attention to the side. For this purpose, five tank dummies were built, which were placed in ravines and carelessly camouflaged.
The enemy discovered the "tanks" and began bombing them. When the next group of planes flew away, the dummies were moved. The enemy bombed them again. The dummies were moved again. The last time they were bombed for half an hour by 28 bombers.
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[LIFESITENEWS] “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6)
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[Bee] PHILADELPHIA, PA — Americans across the country breathed a sigh of relief this morning following breaking news that Vice President Kamala Harris had survived an attempted interview.
