[USAA News] FREE HIGH SPEED INTERNET: To get the poor on board with the digital dystopia and keep them transfixed to their media outlets, high-speed internet rates have basically been cut to zero. This was an element of the Affordable Connectivity Program passed by Congress as part of the 2021 infrastructure bill. 11.5 million people whose annual income is $27,180 or less will be able to get a high-speed internet connection from Verizon (via Fios), Comcast or Cox Communications gratis. Of course, as always happens with government largesse, the ordinary paying customers of these companies will now see their rates rise to cover this "giveaway." Remember, nothing is "free!" This will allow the Government and the tech tyrants to better spy on and keep track of consumers who had previously escaped surveillance because they weren’t "tech savvy" or obtained their consumer goods the "old fashioned way" via direct cash purchases. This "gift" will provide another means for advertisers to ply their wares to the historically foolish and unwary.
FANATIC FOOL FURTHERS (ANTI-)FOSSIL FUEL FOLLY: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres wants the world to abandon the use of "fossil fuels" — coal, gas and oil — in favor of so called "renewable resources!" Guterres has declared in his wisdom [!], "The ’scientific’ imperative is clear. (Huh?) There must be no new investment in fossil fuel expansion, including production, infrastructure and exploration." How ignorant must one be or how low an IQ must one have to qualify to lead the UN? Apparently, we have yet to plumb those particular stygian depths but I’m willing to bet that it’s deeper than coal, gas or oil!
LEADING "DEMONRAT" DELIVERS STUPID QUIP: Faux President and all-round bad joke Brain-Dead Biden made this quip at a recent Annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, drawing a chuckle from his "awedience" when he took aim at Donald Trump’s Presidency as a " . . .horrible plague followed by two years of Covid." According to Sleepy Joe, "I’m really excited to be here tonight with the only group of Americans with a lower (approval) rating than I have!" Instead of chuckles, anyone with brains would have said it was about time that he — Biden — was himself "chucked".
OVAL OFFICE VOIDED OVER LACK OF TELEPROMPTER: The White House has abandoned using the "Offal" [sic] Office for press events "in part" because it can’t be equipped with a teleprompter. As is very well known by now, Brain-Dead Biden requires a teleprompter in order to "follow the script" since he frequently forgets his lines. Hell, he probably forgets his name! However, it must be noted that this is not a first. Barack Obama was notoriously speechless when his own teleprompter failed to function! Needless to say, Donald Trump had no such problems but then it is always easier to speak the truth than lies! Biden aides prefer the prop stage built into the Old Executive Office Building across the street, sacrificing the historic Oval Office for an otherwise sterile room outfitted with an easily read teleprompter screen for Joe’s screeds. The fake setting is styled to look like the White House and features fake windows that display a digital view of the Rose Garden. This "new" reality was apparently deemed a necessity to avoid even more gaffes by the gaffer-in-chief. Next, natural intelligence may be replaced by AI if Biden gets an implant to fill in for his failing faculties! Meanwhile, we keep hitting lower and lower bottoms.
WHITEWASHING (BLACKWASHING?) CRIME STATISTICS: After the Serial Criminal George Floyd inspired riots of 2020, newspapers were seven times more likely to mention the race of an offender if he were White than otherwise. Before May 2020, news outlets were likely to mention a White offender’s race "only" twice as often as that of a minority. Statistically, half of media reports on homicides mention the race of the perp within the opening sentence of the article if the criminal is White, whereas half the articles that bother to mention a Black offender’s race, do not do so until halfway through the article — if race is mentioned at all. Where some sort of description is required of those involved, most readers recognize such adjectives as "youths" and "gangs" are as close to placing the blame where it belongs as the media is willing to go. It is amazing that given the tremendous rise in violent crime especially in our large cities, that reports of the true extent of Black crime is both half-hearted and half-headed!
BIG (a/k/a OBESE) IS BEAUTIFUL: Here’s the skinny: LARGE Black women exhibiting big breasts and prodigious rumps is the new Western cultural ideal. The latest women’s clothing ads display acres and acres of brown or black adipose. This "trend" indicates quite a change from the days of Ms. Twiggy when the ideal was skinny and white. Accordingly, the term "obese" — a word that does not lend itself to compliments — is now deemed "racist" by the woke police. More than 40% of Americans including half the Black population are considered obese, a condition associated with a plethora of health issues such as increased risks of heart disease, high blood pressure, strokes, cancer, and diabetes. The US is considered the most obese country in the West. In 1960, only 13% of the country’s population was considered obese but with chowing down on snacks and watching TV and the internet almost 24/7 it was inevitable that Americans would gain weight. The restoration of fat shaming would be a good sign that normalcy was returning to the USA. Fat chance that will happen anytime soon especially as the criteria now used to determine what is "beautiful" has gone from white to black and from trim to portly.
MURDER METHOD MEANINGLESS: One thing most intelligent people have discovered is that any crisis in government is usually followed — that is, offset — by a "mass shooting" event. These events have been and continue to be a direct consequence of something that our government doesn’t wish ordinary, intelligent Americans to think about or pay attention to for any length of time. Like a stage magician, some nut-job comes out of the woodwork to shoot a bunch of innocents as a means of distracting Americans from wondering why our food processing plants are burning down and our infant formula is being given away to people who aren’t even Americans!
And, of course, mass shootings provide a most needed opportunity to decry the "violence" in our society — violence our leaders do nothing to stop or even curtail! — while providing yet another opportunity to disarm law abiding Americans! Indeed, we’ve gone though this nonsense so many times that one wonders how it can all be trotted out yet again without ordinary Americans questioning the same old script.
Now, given the state of our present economy and more and more proof of a crooked election in 2020, the ante has been upped and so today we have not one "mass shooting" but several scattered throughout the US. Meanwhile, with every incident, all the past shootings are recalled and that includes the "crisis actors" who seem to appear in every such incident and ending with the school — if the event takes place in a school — being bulldozed to the ground very much as the remnants of the Twin Towers were removed before any forensic examination could take place!
Of course, even if at least some of these events are not "staged" — that is, they aren’t false flag "ops" intended to obfuscate all the real crimes going on, it really is possible to address them as actual crimes. First, of course, it is necessary to target the causes involved; that is, to look for both common causalities as well as behavioral commonalities in their commission. It’s easy to piece together profiles that lead to pugnaciousness and off-putting behavior in those involved. For instance, not too many years ago, it was discovered that virtually all mass shooters were on psychotropic medications. As these had been dispensed by physicians rather than being "street drugs," there certainly was information available to law enforcement about those who might pose a threat as possible gunmen as well as those who had already acted on their madness.
Of course, given the desire by the Deep State to disarm decent, law abiding Americans, the nature of these attacks and the weapons used are very much part of the dialogue. Yet, statistics show that when it comes to assault and murder in the culture, guns play a much lesser role than Americans are led to believe. More people are killed and injured by knives, hammers and even fists than are murdered by guns. Ghetto entertainment like the knockout game and general fisticuffs are much more common means of murder and mayhem in our cities than is the armed thug. Even arson is more common than acknowledged, and among Muslims it is a routine means of violence often on a mass scale.
The rundown on the cultural maladies and social conditions associated with murderous mass mayhem include the fact that most murderers live in social settings far removed from normal life as seen on TV including black family sitcoms. They are not a part of or adjusted to a traditional nuclear family; that is, they have no normal relationship with a father-figure. Indeed, there is no father in the home at all if it can even be said that they have a "home" as we understand that word. Most criminal types — men and women — have no respect for human life; they are loners, locked out of day to day reality, connected to computers and/or "mobile devices" through which they live vicariously in violent video games and pornography. Such human interaction as they experience involve mindless "social media" rather than face-to-face relationships.
Where there is a mother figure involved, often the child has little support or comfort from her as can be seen when riots and looting often includes very small children learning the worst of lessons from that "parent." Children who do remain home all day absorb leftist brainwashing and guilt-tripping from an early age, eventually becoming drug or alcohol addicted. They suffer from rejection and are often ill as the result improper diets and living conditions. The Covid lockdowns only exacerbated the situation by eliminating what opportunities for socialization that did present themselves.
BLACK LIES MATTER. Black lives don’t matter at all to those out to soak the suckers for Simoleans to supposedly help Blacks. The Black Lives Matter (Racist Hate Group) Global Foundation has released its Crooked IRS forms revealing that it is sitting on $43 million after raising nearly $90 million during the violent riots of summer 2020. What happened to the other $47 million plus is anyone’s guess but one doesn’t have to be Einstein to make a correct one! The filing shows BLM has an operating budget of $4 million, despite having no executive director or in-house staff while spending millions on real estate that includes $6 million on a sprawling Los Angeles compound complete with a sound stage, game room, and swimming pool. Just another example of advancing infantile and criminal personalities beyond their ability to function! As the old saying goes, "Put a beggar on horseback and he’ll ride it to death!"
Ernest Hemingway, in his short story titled "The Capital of the World," relates how a young man named Paco had been kicked out of his home for wrongdoing. Paco wandered the streets of Madrid, homeless.
In time, Paco’s father, desiring to repair the split between them, took out an ad in the local newspaper. All it said was, "Paco, meet me at the Hotel Montana at noon on Tuesday. All is forgiven!" On Tuesday, 800 young men named Paco came to the hotel, looking for forgiveness.
[The Defender - Children's Health and Defense News and Views]
Sudies suggest a link between an incurable and fatal prion disease known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and COVID-19 vaccines.
Researchers believe the prion region from the original Wuhan COVID-19 variant’s spike protein was incorporated into mRNA vaccines and adenovirus vector vaccines — given to hundreds of millions of humans — and that it can cause a new type of rapidly progressing sporadic CJD.
According to Mayo Clinic, CJD is a degenerative brain disorder that leads to dementia and, ultimately, death.
Although the Omicron variant does not have a prion region on its spike protein, current COVID-19 vaccines still use the genetic material — including the prion region — of the parent Wuhan strain.
A French pre-print paper published in May on CJD and COVID-19 vaccination identified a new form of sporadic CJD that occurred within days of receiving a first or second dose of Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.
Researchers analyzed 26 cases of CJD and found the first symptoms appeared on average 11.38 days after injection with a COVID-19 vaccine.
Of the 26 cases, 20 had died by the time the study was published and six were still alive.
"The 20 deaths occurred only 4.76 months after the injection. Among them, 8 of them lead to a sudden death (2.5 months)," researchers wrote.
"This confirms the radically different nature of this new form of CJD, whereas the classic form requires several decades," wrote the researchers.
Dr. Jean-Claude Perez, lead author of the French study, on June 6 told The Epoch Times that all 26 cases resulted in death.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), prion diseases are a family of rare progressive neurodegenerative disorders that affect humans and animals. Prion diseases are usually rapidly progressive and always fatal.
Although prions occur naturally in the brain and are usually harmless, they can become diseased or misfolded, affecting nearby prions and causing them to become misshapen.
The abnormal folding of the prion proteins "leads to brain damage and the characteristic signs and symptoms of the disease," the CDC’s website states.
Sporadic CJD occurs when a person becomes infected for no apparent reason. Once a single prion becomes infected, it will progress to other prions, and there is no treatment capable of stopping it.
It is characterized by the final completion of the Second ("concrete") stage of the so-called. NWO. The offensive of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the Armed Forces of the LDNR (who are completely subordinate to the command of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, if someone has not yet understood this) in the Donbass has completely fizzled out.
Apparently, our troops have reached the limit of their offensive capabilities and now the maximum that can be expected is that they will be able to "torment" the industrial zone of Severodonetsk and the remnants of the bridgehead of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Seversky Donets in this area.
There was an operational pause in the remaining areas in active hostilities.
During the battle, which lasted almost two months, both sides suffered huge (in relation to the total number of manpower and equipment involved) losses. In terms of manpower, the Ukrainians lost noticeably more, but they are able to quickly make up for the losses, and even being "on a string" from defeat, they did not use their main strategic reserves here, firmly adhering to the defensive tactics chosen in this operation.
In general, if we evaluate the past operation from a military-theoretical point of view, then it is incorrect to talk about "victory" on both sides:
- Russian troops failed to achieve the set strategic goals, or even to get much closer to them (the complete liberation of Donbass is almost as far away as in early May). At the same time, they managed to liberate a number of important territories and large settlements (Popasnaya, Krasny Liman, Severodonetsk), push the Armed Forces of Ukraine behind the Seversky Donets and defeat a number of units and formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine almost "to the ground".
- the Ukrainian command, in general, managed to solve its main task - to stay in the area of Donetsk and Gorlovka, prevent the defeat of the main forces of its Donetsk group and gain time to create new reserves. At the same time, this result was worth heavy losses and a drop in the morale of part of the troops.
In general, therefore, the result of the May-June battle in the Donbass can be called a "draw". However, in general, the scales (in my subjective opinion) leaned slightly towards Kyiv. Why? - The answer is elementary: the very gain of time.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation failed to defeat the Armed Forces of Ukraine, even partially "on the last homemade pies." "Pies" are almost completely "eaten up" and need to be re-formed and large replenishments to restore combat capability.
This, of course, does not mean that the Russian General Staff no longer has reserves at its disposal. There are reserves - they have been prepared "urgently" since April or early May. New units and formations are being knocked together - moreover, their replenishment (according to the idiotic-ostentatious desire "a la Hitler in 1944" - to have "as many units and formations on paper as possible") is carried out due to the lack of replenishment for those already at war and carrying large loss of shelled military units. The result is that "completely raw" units will again fall to the front, mixed with those withdrawn and replenished after the "first-stage run to the border."
However, the picture of the Ukrainians is approximately the same: many new units from recruits + some ahead of time replenished personnel who have avoided the "Donetsk meat grinder".
How long the operational pause will last and when the summer battle for the initiative will begin (from a great mind, everything was "announced" by the same R. Kadyrov as a "rapid and effective stage") - I do not know.
Terms can be from a week to a month and a half. Hardly any longer. It is unlikely that our military will be able to delay until autumn with the start of a new offensive operation, enduring continuously growing attacks on Donetsk and the territory of the Russian Federation itself. Or rather, it is unlikely that the political leadership will tolerate such restraint. Similarly, the Armed Forces of Ukraine - after heavy losses at the front, their military-political leadership urgently needs a major (or at least looking like such) military success.
I still assume that the battle may have a "counter-multidirectional character." That is, Russian troops can attack in one region, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine - in another. Moreover, both sides will try to "catch" the enemy on a successful defense in combination with counterattacks. The Donetsk front is likely to become "quiet" for some time (which does not at all mean an end to terrorist shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and fighting of local significance). I cautiously assume the main battles in the area of Kherson and Kharkov. At least, it is in the Kherson direction behind the front that a fairly large strike force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is concentrated.
To what extent my predictions will come true - time will tell. It is difficult for me to claim high accuracy in the field of "event / time of event" without having ANY information from headquarters military sources and drawing conclusions based on a very rare "mosaic" and my own thoughts.
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The new chief of Britain's Army just told us to get ready for World War III.
Stoltenberg says the war will go on for years.
Perhaps they're just posturing while Macron Scholz and Draghi are secretly passing along the capitulation terms to Zelensky... Stoltenberg a week ago said publicly that there has to be a peace settlement with territorial concessions. So maybe this is just more bullshit from a crew that's spread nothing but lies and nonsense for months.
But it's more likely that demented old Biden actually believes this shit and welcomes a world war. Biden and Raytheon-Austin are escalating the war and destroying the world's economy. These people are fucking insane and need to be overthrown.
Prepare to fight and beat Russia in a Third World War, Britain's top general warns: New UK Army commander tells troops to brace for European land war
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They're lying to us. They're not lying when they talk to Zelensky or Putin. A great political scientist who studied elites' lying found that leaders of democracies are far more likely to lie to their own people than to other leaders. This is because their own people trust them, whereas leaders do not trust each other. Thus they can get away with lying. He cites Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson and Donald Rumsfeld as examples.
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In Why Leaders Lie, Mearsheimer provides the first systematic analysis of lying as a tool of statecraft, identifying the varieties, the reasons, and the potential costs and benefits. Drawing on a trove of examples, he argues that leaders often lie for good strategic reasons, so a blanket condemnation is unrealistic and unwise.
Yet there are other kinds of deception besides lying, including concealment and spinning. Perhaps no distinction is more important than that between lying to another state and lying to one’s own people. Mearsheimer was amazed to discover how unusual interstate lying has been; given the atmosphere of distrust among the great powers, he found that outright deceit is difficult to pull off and thus rarely worth the effort.
Leaders more often mislead their own publics, sometimes with damaging consequences. Though the reasons may be noble–Franklin Roosevelt, for example, lied to the American people about German U-boats attacking the destroyer Greer in 1940, to build a case for war against Hitler--they can easily lead to disaster...
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In Joe Bidet's case, it's much less elaborate. He's the sort of incontinent and indiscriminate liar who will lie even when the truth would actually be more to his advantage.
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^ Very well said. Biden is a pathological, congenital liar whose lies advance no strategic concept at all.
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[The Hill] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky backed an advisory committee’s recommendation on Saturday that will allow children under the age of 5 years old to receive the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, capping off the last step needed before children can start getting inoculated.
Vaccinations for children aged six months and older can begin this coming week.
"Together, with science leading the charge, we have taken another important step forward in our nation’s fight against COVID-19," Walensky said in a statement.
"We know millions of parents and caregivers are eager to get their young children vaccinated, and with today’s decision, they can. I encourage parents and caregivers with questions to talk to their doctor, nurse, or local pharmacist to learn more about the benefits of vaccinations and the importance of protecting their children by getting them vaccinated," she added.
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Raj, that was before the appearance of COVID19, which is more deadly than Ebola, hemorrhagic fever, the black death, and the Spanish flu combined. Plus the opportunity to dump Trump.
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@#2 - And to babies/young children who don't even NEED the vaccine. But the parents who want to play the virtue signaling game just might be in for a rude awakening down the road.
And remember California legislature (I believe) passed a bill permitting pupils to get the vaccine without parental consent. Just sick.
[Red States] As we head into Father’s Day, it’s important to remember the millions of young Americans who don’t have dads in the house and who never had a male role model to look up to. According to Fox News, more than 18.5 million children are "fatherless," and the United States leads the entire world in that category.
This is a record we surely do not aspire to and is clearly—at least partly—to blame for the dysfunction among today’s youth.
Think not having a father isn’t that big a deal? You’d be mistaken. Eighty-five percent of children and teens with behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes, according to the Fox News piece, as do over 70 percent of all adolescent patients in drug and alcohol treatment centers.
If you’re lucky enough to have grown up with a father who taught you how to behave, how to put a worm on a hook, how to ride a bike—how to be a good person—you know how important he was to you and your life. Take this beautiful Father’s Day tweet from Coach Kurt Hines:
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Texas need to change their divorce laws to allow/encourage fathers to spend time with their kids. A 50-50% custody requirement is a good place to start instead of the current !00% to the mother only, leaving the father out of the picture.
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Father's Day Crisis, as the US Leads World in ‘Fatherlessness'
All by design. The Great Society programs were based upon 'Big Brother' replacing the father. The social and economic consequences of choosing poorly the sperm donor and out of wedlock birthing were removed. Thousands of years of social evolution that focused on stability of the family and the society were tossed over board. Check the rate of out of wedlock births among groups in 1960 and today. As ye sow so shall ye reap.
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That's too bad, SCFI. Texas used to be pretty much in the forefront for protecting a father's rights.
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^re#3 They also don't practice what they preach. Fatherlessness and divorce rates among white, upper and upper middle class families is very low, statistically speaking. The social chaos and failure is directed downward.
[Aljazeera] Nguy Thi Khanh, a prominent campaigner for the environment who convinced Vietnam to reduce the amount of coal in its national energy plan, has been jailed for two years after being found guilty of tax evasion.
The 46-year-old globally recognised climate and energy campaigner, was sentenced in Hanoi on June 17, her NGO said on Saturday. A court official confirmed the sentence to the AFP news agency without giving any further details.
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I wonder if the Central Committee™ suddenly discovered that Free Money™ in the form of First World Climate Payola -- wasn't happening. ...and cheap windmills, PV cells and other "green stuff" wasn't coming from China any more.
Basically there is no Magic Unicorn and somebody is going to pay for the scam.
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^ Probably too much to hope for, but there's always an outside possibility that some of them (younger ones) realize that they are screwed if the whole thing is run into the ground before they are set to retire.
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Tax evasion as in not paying the taxes, or as in not paying the correct bribes? (Although it amounts to the same thing.)
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[Washington Examiner] British officials will begin placing electronic monitoring devices on some asylum-seekers who arrive in the country, according to a new one-year program announced this week.
The 12-month pilot program will test whether equipping immigrants with GPS trackers will allow the government to maintain regular contact with those facing deportation, as well as more accurately track violations of curfew and other rules. The policy comes in response to an influx of illegal immigration in Britain, posing a "significant challenge" to officials, the government said.
"There has been an unprecedented growth in irregular migration through unnecessary and dangerous routes, to the point where this represents a significant challenge to the operation of effective immigration control," the policy reads. "Those arriving via such routes are a relatively unknown cohort to the Home Office, and we do not know much about their individual circumstances or the routes they have taken to travel to the UK."
The policy will target those who attempt to enter the country via the English Channel, a route that officials say is dangerous. More than 10,000 immigrants have entered Britain through the channel so far this year, and at least 27 died in one incident last November.
The program would target asylum-seekers who are released from holding centers on bail to ensure that for those who breach their contract, the government can "more effectively reestablish contact ... or locate them for removal or detention if appropriate in their case."
The program is also likely to tag those who have challenged being sent to Rwanda while they wait for the country to process its request for asylum, which many have challenged as "unlawful on multiple bases." A court ordered the first flight transporting asylum-seekers to Rwanda, but it was stopped just before departure.
British officials have urged migrants to seek "safe and legal" alternatives, noting many are smuggled into the country via dangerous routes.
"Migrants are often told by smugglers that travelling to the UK will be safe and easy. In reality the journey puts people at serious risk of injury, abuse and exploitation. The journey is not only expensive, but dangerous," the government said. "Don’t risk it. Choose a safe and legal alternative."
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The 12-month pilot program will test whether equipping immigrants with GPS trackers will allow the government to maintain regular contact with those facing deportation, as well as more accurately track violations of curfew and other rules.
...Oh, that can't POSSIBLY go wrong.
Mike
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Well, if you nail it to their foreheads I could see some upside..
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Test program, to be rolled out to the entire population after refinement...
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^ You may need to reprogram your automated pet door, but on the plus side, a drone with an RFID reader could flow over a crowd and harpoon "persons of interest" with a tranquilizer dart.
[Two Minds] The economy has reached an inflection point where everything that is unsustainable finally starts unraveling.
Our economy is in a crisis that's been brewing for decades. The Chinese characters for the English word crisis are famously--and incorrectly--translated as danger and opportunity. The more accurate translation is precarious plus critical juncture or inflection point.
Beneath its surface stability, our economy is precarious because the foundation of the global economy-- cheap energy--has reached an inflection point: from now on, energy will become more expensive.
The cost will be too low for energy producers to make enough money to invest in future energy production, and too high for consumers to have enough money left after paying for the essentials of energy, food, shelter, etc., to spend freely.
For the hundred years that resources were cheap and abundant, we could waste everything and call it growth: when an appliance went to the landfill because it was designed to fail (planned obsolescence) so a new one would have to be purchased, that waste was called growth because the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) went up when the replacement was purchased.
A million vehicles idling in a traffic jam was also called growth because more gasoline was consumed, even though the gasoline was wasted.
This is why the global economy is a "waste is growth" Landfill Economy. The faster something ends up in the landfill, the higher the growth.
Now that we've consumed all the easy-to-get resources, all that's left is hard to get and expensive. For example, minerals buried in mountains hundreds of miles from paved roads and harbors require enormous investments in infrastructure just to reach the deposits, extract, process and ship them to distant mills and refineries. Oil deposits that are deep beneath the ocean floor are not cheap to get.
Does it really make sense to expect that the human population can triple and our consumption of energy increase ten-fold and there will always be enough resources to keep supplies abundant and prices low? No, it doesn't.
Many people believe that nuclear power (fusion, thorium reactors, mini-reactors, etc.) will provide cheap, safe electricity that will replace hydrocarbons (oil and natural gas). But nuclear power is inherently costly, and there are presently no full-scale fusion or thorium reactors providing cheap electricity to thousands of households.
Reactors take many years to construct and are costly to build and maintain. Cost over-runs are common. A new reactor in Finland, for example, is nine years behind schedule and costs have tripled.
The U.S. has built only two new reactors in the past 25 years.
The world's 440 reactors supply about 10% of global electricity. There are currently 55 new reactors under construction in 19 countries, but it will take many years before they produce electricity. We would have to build a new reactor a week for many years to replace hydrocarbon-generated electricity. This scale of construction simply isn't practical.
Supplying all energy consumption globally--for all transportation, heating of buildings, etc.) would require over 10,000 reactors by some estimates--over 20 times the current number of reactors in service.
Many believe so-called renewable energy such as solar and wind will replace hydrocarbons. But as analysts Nate Hagens has explained, these sources are not truly renewable, they are replaceable; all solar panels and wind turbines must be replaced at great expense every 20 to 25 years. These sources are less than 5% of all energy we consume, and it will take many decades of expansion to replace even half of the hydrocarbon fuels we currently consume.
To double the energy generated by wind/solar in 25 years, we’ll need to build three for each one in service today: one to replace the existing one and two more to double the energy being produced.
All these replacements for hydrocarbons require vast amounts of resources: diesel fuel for transport, materials for fabricating turbines, panels, concrete foundations, and so on.
Humans are wired to want to believe that whatever we have now will still be ours in the future. We don't like being told we'll have less of anything in the future.
The current solution is to create more money out of thin air in the belief that if we create more money, then more oil, copper, iron, etc. will be found and extracted.
But this isn't really a solution. What happens if we add a zero to all our currency? If we add a zero to a $10 bill so it becomes $100, do we suddenly get ten times more food, gasoline, etc. with the new bill? No.
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Not entirely true. Every "peak oil" prediction for the last half century has failed to materialize because of technology advances.
The obvious solution to our current malaise is to produce more, build more pipelines and refineries, and immediately revoke America's foolish, ruinous, self-destructive sanctions.
End the sanctions, now. Unleash the world's greatest oil companies to invest in exploration, production, R&D and refining capacity.
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Photo depicts an oilfield power driven pump near Palestine, IL. Circa 1909 "technology." Still pumping last week, along with a 6 other units connected to the power. Power sits back in the woods and runs on propane. Many used to run on regulated natural gas from the wellhead. This well (termed shallow) is probably in the 1000-1300 foot depth range. Oil from this well is pumped via a 2 inch underground line back to a set of tanks in the woods. Tank trucks pump it out and take it to the refinery, trunk line, or larger tanks when the smaller tanks are full. An operator known as a "pumper" manages the process at the wellhead and power. The operation is termed a "lease" and is, or was generally named after the property owner, ie, the 'Johnson Lease' 'Goodson lease', etc. A lease could have numerous fractional owners or heirs due to family inheritances, farm sales, etc. 'Mineral rights' are oftentimes retained by the original owners.
Farmers used to complain about having to farm around the elevated rod lines. Not much complaining going on today at $110. per barrel. Only a hand full of old oilfield powers operate today.
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The oil price is ultimately responsible for about 70% of the inflation index:
"Energy prices have become the main driver of G7 inflation. Changes in the oil price lagged by one to four months explain 70% of the monthly change in the CPI, according to an Asia Times study.
"The sensitivity of the US Consumer Price Index to the oil price, moreover, was about twice as high during the February 2020 to May 2022 period than it had been during the preceding 15 years, the study shows."
"President Joe Biden’s administration faces a double disaster after its Ukraine miscalculation, namely a US recession and a second strategic humiliation in the space of a year. The US economy is almost certainly in recession, while oil prices drive inflation that has cut workers’ real pay by about 6% year on year.
"Washington’s earlier boasts of driving Russian President Vladimir Putin from power, destroying Russia’s capacity to make war and halving the size of the Russian economy look ridiculous in retrospect....
"The world economy is reeling from supply shocks in energy and food provoked by Western sanctions on Russia. Monetary policy can reduce inflation only by forcing consumers to stop buying, which forces retailers to liquidate inventory at lower prices and crushes demand for raw materials – a cure that is worse than the disease.
"Russia meanwhile earned a record €93 billion (US$97 billion) from energy exports during the first 100 days of the war, a Finnish study concluded. China and India, which refused to join Group of Seven sanctions against Russia, reportedly arebuying oil at a discount of $30 to $40 per barrel, while American and European consumers are paying the full price..."
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China and India, which refused to join Group of Seven sanctions against Russia, reportedly are buying oil at a discount of $30 to $40 per barrel, while American and European consumers are paying the full price
Biden and his son are CCP agents.
The Big Guy probably gets kickbacks on China's discounted Russian oil buys from that bogus Chinese "energy company" that his corrupt crackhead son did a joint venture with after he flew with his Vice President dad to Beijing on Air Force Two
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The Fed is fighting inflation using an old playbook
Raising interest rates discourages investment in homes cars and capital goods
This inflation is being driven by energy policy and you can’t discourage inelastic demand people have to buy gas and groceries no matter what the cost
Jacking the prime rate won’t touch that
It will make investment in energy more expensive and exacerbate the cost of fuel
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Yes, there's another person with an semi-WASP name here to lecture us about how the main problem with the shut-down American oil industry is that it isn't going to work for Russia. Yeah, right.
In other news:
Biden and his son are CCP agents.
The Big Guy probably gets kickbacks on China's discounted Russian oil buys from that bogus Chinese "energy company" that his corrupt crackhead son did a joint venture with after he flew with his Vice President dad to Beijing on Air Force Two
Well, that's a definite possibility if you have overlooked all the evidence that they're also agents of Putin's. Which is what they try to distract away from with their flood.
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You're trying, son, but you miss the point. The sanctions are not hurting Russia anywhere near as much as they are hurting America, Britain and Europe. Sanctions are what football (soccer to you) fans call an own goal.
It matters not a whit if removing the sanctions helps Putin. Doing so helps us. If we want to avoid years of hyperinflation and a nasty recession, there is no alternative to lifting the sanctions. Our leaders should stop being so emotional and start using their brains for once.
You miss the point because it's against your slimy fucking lies.
The sanctions are not hurting Russia anywhere near as much as they are hurting America, Britain and Europe. Sanctions are what football (soccer to you) fans call an own goal.
You think this is about the sanctions when Putin's appeasing agent Biden and his predecessors has done everything in his power to SHUT DOWN the American oilfield? Not to mention the effect of banning coal in such a way that it has to be replaced with natural gas.
It matters not a whit if removing the sanctions helps Putin. Doing so helps us.
Who the fuck is "us?" You weren't here for the past thirteen years of aggresive sanctions against the _American_ oilfield but you came out of nowhere in 2022 to tell us all about how the real problem is we're not going along with Putin?
If we want to avoid years of hyperinflation and a nasty recession, there is no alternative to lifting the sanctions. Our leaders should stop being so emotional and start using their brains for once.
Again, "we?" You laid the groundwork for the hyperinflation and economic contraction with your silence during the last fourteen years of war on the US energy sector.
If appeasing Putin but keeping the foot on the neck of the American oilfield _doesn't_ do anything to halt hyperinflation can Ukraine get their country back? Will you even be here for that conversation or will "you" vanish and another nym from the boilerroom be in your place?
You're basically a propagandist trying to extinguish the argument for American energy production by flooding the zone with non-sequiturs. You're not going to say it's impossible but you refuse to say that anything _is_ possible except for appeasing Putin. You and Biden are codependent in this manner.
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America was not only supplying its own oil needs through January 2021, but had become a major exporter and the primary driver for for low oil prices worldwide — much to President Putin’s frustration. President Biden reversed that, as so much else, which helps Russia while making things difficult for China — though abetting China’s economic war against the U.S.
And yet his paid keyboardists still show up to proclaim how it's in "our" interests to stop the sanctions SO MUCH!
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Conservative Russians throw curves,
Discussing, maneuvring with verve,
Saying "neocon c---,"
Sending Frankie to front...
Where they'll follow on finding their nerve.
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You know there is a difference between soldiers and cannon fodder. I doubt Russia is running out of the latter. A German leader found that out to his sanguine.
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Palmerston is right. There is no excess refining capacity in the US -- none. Chevron's CEO talked about this the other day. So y'all can bitch all you like about Biden's screw ups but that horse has left the barn. The only way to push prices down in the next 18 months is by dumping Russian and Saudi oil on the market.
Chevron CEO Wirth said, "Capacity is added by de-bottlenecking existing units by investing in existing refineries … but what we’ve seen over the last two years are shutdowns. We’ve seen refineries closed. We’ve seen units come down. We’ve seen refineries being repurposed to become bio refineries. And we live in a world where the policy, the stated policy of the U.S. government is to reduce demand for the products that refiners produce.”
Wirth said that the federal government’s current policy is to reduce the demand for oil, making it “very hard” in a company “where investments have a payout period of a decade or more.”
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The analyst above us also right that Biden and Jay Powell are pursuing the absolute worst policy you could imagine. They're raising the cost of capital thus the hurdle rate for new projects, starving the American oil industry of investment and new capacity, while preventing Russian supply from reaching western buyers. A foreign enemy could not come up with a policy better designed to screw the American and European economies.
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There's nothing that can be done now about the lack of spare refinery capacity. The only thing to do is free up existing production, and the swing producer whether we like it or not is now Russia.
The guy above is right. Dump Russian oil on the market is unfortunately the only way out of this jam
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Top ten biggest refineries in the world.
How do we help them operate at peak capacity while we push an Operation Warp Speed to build several in CONUS?
Thank you, Oli Derek. I was discussing this with Mr. Wife over dinner tonight — he trained as a chemical engineer and worked with/on internal and external manufacturing throughout his career. He pointed out that just to restart a closed processing facility takes 18 months to 2 years, plus the cost of refurbishment of untouched equipment.
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I'm not into politics... just an oil guy with no dog in the Ukraine-Russia dustup, and I really don't care who "wins" over there.
It's just obvious to anyone who understands how the oil industry works that we the American people are losing from this crazy policy of punishing us in order to try to punish putin
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It's really important to understand that this hyperinflation is not demand-driven. It's not a demand shock, it's a supply shock. There's not enough supply.
This insufficient supply is 100% a problem of US policy. It used to be just because Biden wanted to throttle American oil production but it's gone way beyond that. It's now about Biden's drive to starve the world of Russian oil.
That's a joke. The Chinese and Indians and even the Europeans are buying all the Russian oil they can get. Even at discount prices, the Russians are making money hand over fist.
There's just no other way to get out of this very deep hole we're in except to free up purchases by Europe and the US of Russian oil. You can bitch and moan all you like about putin but this is just the simple hard reality of the situation we're in.
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Biden's not a capitalist. He and Raytheon and the MIC and other Swampies are crony capitalists at best ... socialists at heart. These assholes wouldn't know a "supply shock" if it bit them in the balls
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Which is why they don't understand the unintended consequences of their retarded sanctions
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It's just obvious to anyone who understands how the oil industry works that we the American people are losing from this crazy policy of punishing us in order to try to punish putin
It may be obvious to the Russian stooges that IT MUST NOT BE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE PAIN IS FROM BIDEN DESTROYING THE AMERICAN OILFIELD AND NOT FROM HIS HALFHEARTED FAKE ATTEMPTS AT FIGHTING PUTIN but what do I know, I don't have a fucking boiler room and don't enjoy seeing Rantburg turned into a czarist equivalent.
[Washington Examiner] The State Department appointed its first-ever racial equity and justice special representative on Thursday, another Biden administration step toward promoting equity as some question the administration's efficacy on policy.
Desiree Cormier Smith will be tasked with leading the department's "efforts to protect and advance the human rights of people belonging to marginalized racial and ethnic communities and combat systemic racism, discrimination, and xenophobia around the world" with the hope of achieving "more effective foreign policies and programs that support all people regardless of their race or ethnicity," according to a press release.
"The State Department strives to promote and protect the rights of individuals and communities who are oppressed because of their race or ethnicity and create a just world where all people are valued, included, and able to live up to their full potential," the release read.
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Except the Saudis, we won't be badgering them at all. And all of our other dictator friends.
This is just another blunt instrument with which to bash the globalists' enemies. Countries that don't play ball and don't think it's a good idea to orient their policies towards serving the interests of international banks.
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Future WoKi History Note: 2020-2024 The Presidente Biden Admin. An administration that took power based on a mountain of documented evidence of widespread organized Voter Fraud.
Using its position of illegally obtained power and 5th column placed persons in key positions between 2008 and 2016. It proceeded to play every Social & Political agenda card in the deck, All while failing to realize its collection of Immoral and Oddity agenda groups only accounted for about 23% of voting America.
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Sounds like they are starting their own "systemic Racism" to me.
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From Besoeker’s bio link:
Desirée Cormier Smith is the Special Representative for Racial Justice and Equity. Previously, she served as a Senior Advisor in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs. Special Representative Cormier also worked at the Open Society Foundations as the Senior Policy Advisor for Africa, Europe, and Eurasia. In that role, she led the global foundation’s U.S. advocacy strategy and execution on a wide range of human rights issues in these dynamic and diverse issues. From 2015 until 2020, she was the Senior Director with Albright Stonebridge Group’s Africa Practice, where she advised and assisted private and social sector clients on growth strategies across the African continent.
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Sounds like they are starting their own "systemic Racism" to me.
No its the same systematic racism they had with the old southern slave states, the Jim Crow laws, and the terrorism of the KKK. Its just now they want to enslave everyone except the elite -- to the government, dispense 'Jim Crow' like special privileges to special groups (self defense for me but not for thee), and replace the KKK with BLM/Antifa.
Oh and this time they won't even have to feed and shelter their slaves. The government will do it for them.
They just reap the rewards via special expenditures which never seem to get to their intended target - or solve the problem. Just print the money and everyone else will have to pay for it via inflation.
⚡️ Governor: Russia pulls all reserves to Luhansk Oblast, massive offensives expected in coming days.
Serhiy Haidai said on June 18 that Russian forces are continuing to try to gain full control of Sievierodonetsk and to cut off the highway between Bakhmut and Lysychansk.
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A Somali couple has been convicted by a military court in the capital Mogadishu for terrorism activities under the Islamic State (IS) branch in Somalia.
Dayib Moalim Hassan and his wife Halima Abdi Mursal were on Thursday identified as having worked for the terrorist group or Daesh under the pseudo names of Mustaf and Hawa. They were sentenced to 15 years each.
They were arrested by the Somali security agents in March this year, with materials and apparatus for assembling explosive devices.
The court found that Mr Hassan was tasked with assembling the explosive devices while his wife Ms Mursal was in charge of the recruitment.
The prosecutors told the court that the couple used fake names, Mustafa and Hawa. The suspects had told the court that their jihadist superior had arranged their marriage under those names.
The lawyers defending the couple asked for clemency. The verdict, read by Judge Colonel Mohamed Abdi Mumin, condemned each to a 15-year jail term.
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Three explosions have hit a busy road in the Afghan capital city of Kabul, leaving at least one dead and three others injured.
The explosions happened near the Sikh-Hindu temple in the fourth police district of the capital on Saturday, according to reports.
"The explosions hit a busy road near a Sikh-Hindu temple (Gurdwara) in Police District today in Kabul," China’s Xinhua News reported citing eyewitnesses.
Rooters said the temple was the target of the attacks.
Afghanistan's interior ministry and witnesses said button men stormed the temple with at least one grenade.
"There were around 30 people inside the temple. We don't know how many of them are alive or how many dead. The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... are not allowing us to go inside, we don't know what to do," Gornam Singh, a temple official, was quoted by Rooters as saying.
Meanwhile reports show the security guard at the temple was killed and three Taliban soldiers were maimed.
Singh, who said he was close to the scene, claimed the number of casualties could rise.
"Generally at that time in the morning we have several Sikh devotees who come to offer prayers at the gurdwara," he said.
He added that minutes after the first blast, a boom-mobile detonated in the area, but caused no casualties.
In the meantime, the security forces have cordoned off the area for precautionary measures, an eyewitness told Xinhua.
"We heard a huge blast in Kart-e-Parwan neighborhood at around 6 am local time (GMT +4:30 hours). The blast was followed by another explosion which occurred about half an hour after the first blast. The whole place has now been sealed off," he said.
"Several warning shots were also fired by the security forces," he added.
The explosion sent a column of thick smoke into the sky and triggered panic, the witness added.
Tolo TV aired footage showing heavy grey fumes of smoke rising from the area.
Two years ago, a ISIS (ISIS) attack on the temple had left dozens of people dead.
Religious minorities in Afghanistan have been the target of rampant attacks. However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... Sikhs only make up a tiny religious minority there.
The Shia Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... community, another minority in Afghanistan, has been the main target of frequent kabooms and explosions in the war-ravaged country.
⚡️ Governor: Russian military shelled gas processing plant near Izium, Kharkiv Oblast.
According to Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Synehubov, several missiles hit the plant, causing a massive fire. Rescuers are trying to extinguish it.
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{JPost] The increase of Gazan entry permits into Israel has been suspended following the firing of a rocket into Israel, shattering a two-month lull.
The decision by Defense Minister Benny Gantz was made following a security evaluation Saturday evening.
The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories announced earlier this week that an additional 2,000 entry permits into Israel were going to be granted to Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip for purposes of work and commerce.
"The suspension is in response to the firing of a rocket toward the State of Israel," COGAT said in a statement, adding that "the Hamas terror organization carries responsibility for all activities directed against Israel in and from the Gaza Strip, and it will bear the consequences."
Incoming rocket sirens were activated at 3.10 AM in the city of Ashkelon and neighboring communities. The rocket was intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system.
The strikes, by aircraft and tanks, took place several hours after the rocket fire during the daylight hours and targeted a weapons manufacturing facility along with three outposts in the Strip, including one that overlooked Kibbutz Netiv Ha’asara on Gaza’s northern border, the military said in a statement.
תיעוד התקיפה של עמדת ארגון הטרור חמאס: pic.twitter.com/kw2VHyy2Vg
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Machine-gun fire was directed toward the kibbutz from Gaza later on Saturday, with at least one bullet entering a home and causing material damage.
Hamas members then returned to the observation post next to Netiv Ha’asara that had been damaged by the IDF and started to repair it. The strike had damaged the observation cabin but it did not destroy the structure holding it up.
The last time that rockets were fired from the Hamas-ruled enclave was on April 18 when one was fired toward the southern Israeli communities of Kissufim and Ein Hashlosha, which are located just across from the Palestinian city of Khan Yunis. Before that, the last rockets fired was on January 1 when two landed in the sea off the coast of Tel Aviv.
Israeli military aircraft have carried out a series of airstrikes against targets in the central and northern parts of the Gaza Strip as the Tel Aviv regime continues with its acts of aggression against the besieged Palestinian coastal sliver. https://t.co/1jZPRzXZk1
[NYPOST] An elderly woman shot during a gunman’s rampage at an Alabama church’s potluck dinner has died — bringing the corpse count of the bloodbath to three, police said Friday.Jane Pounds, 84, had been rushed to the hospital after the gunman shot her and two others during a "Boomers Potluck" at Stephen’s Episcopal Church in the suburbs of Birmingham on Thursday, cops said.
A "hero" attendee thwarted the 70-year-old gunman’s attack and helped save lives, Vestavia Hills Police Capt. Shane Ware said.
After refusing to join around 25 others at the dinner, the killer — identified by authorities Friday as Robert Findlay Smith — suddenly pulled out a handgun and opened fire, the church’s founding pastor told AL.com.
A church member, Jim Musgrove, then hit the shooter with a chair, pinning him to the floor and wrestling away his gun, the Rev. Doug Carpenter told the local outlet.
Ware said his heroism had been "extremely critical in saving lives."
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The killer's mind was squirming like a toad's.
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A white toad! Sez the article, "The gunman and all three victims were white."
A portrait in whiteness and tie-dye
Confirmed for me wondering mind's eye:
"Mad gunman not Brown,
Nor the ones he shot down!"
Golly, thanks, Lee! Black eye for the white guy?"
Couldn't care less whether Lee Brown is actually black Black, having always been equally irked by commie cover-up clique and kneejerk Coulter's Lawyers.
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Circassian activist Aslan Naptugov, after six days of administrative arrest, was re-detained and arrested for two months on charges of extremism, a source in the investigating authorities said. The activist is under pressure in order to obtain the evidence necessary for the investigation, his acquaintance said.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that Aslan Naptugov, a resident of Cherkessk, was detained on May 24 for petty hooliganism and arrested for six days. The protocol stated that Naptugov tried to provoke a fight, insulted the security forces. The blogger stated in court that he did not commit any violation. After being released from the detention center, Naptugov was again detained by the security forces.
The activity of the International Public Trade Union Organization "Solidarity" (MOPOS) attracted the attention of law enforcement agencies, a source in the investigative bodies of Karachay-Cherkessia told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. As part of the initiated criminal case against members of this organization, which dealt with various issues from the quality of medical services to human rights, seven local residents were detained, including Aslan Naptugov, a representative of the investigating authorities said.
Naptugov took part in the MOPOS "people's control" raids, which, in particular, were devoted to the fight against forced vaccination, follows from the entries in the Instagram * account of the MOPOS in Karachay-Cherkessia. In particular, Naptugov takes part in a raid on Rospotrebnadzor, a video report of which was published on August 24, 2021.
The last entry in the account, which is followed by 2,321 people, is dated August 26, 2021. The last post on Instagram dated August 26, 2021 is a petition demanding that the transformation of the Teberdinsky State Natural Biosphere Reserve into a national park be prevented without public discussions with the population. Most of the entries in the ethos account deal with the issue of forced vaccination.
"A criminal case was brought against him according to MOPOS - this is a public organization that deals with illegal write-offs, human rights, etc. In Cherkessk, this organization was closed, but it was not recognized as extremist, Naptugov was in charge of healthcare affairs in it," said a source familiar with with the circumstances of initiating a criminal case against the activist.
Aslan Naptugov was detained on May 24 after leaving the detention center, where he served an administrative arrest for insulting a government official. "He was detained under Article 91 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, stayed for two days, "until his identity was established." A few days earlier, other members of this trade union were detained. A total of seven people were detained. All of them are charged with Part 2, Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity by a group of persons - note of the "Caucasian Knot"). A measure of restraint was chosen against Naptugov in the form of detention for a period of two months, he was placed in pre-trial detention center No. 1 of Cherkessk," the source said.
A close acquaintance of Naptugov said on condition of anonymity that the activist was arrested before July 29 by the decision of the Circassian city court chaired by Judge Shukurov. An appeal was filed against the decision to arrest on June 6, but the date for its consideration has not yet been set.
According to him, "in addition to the Abaza-Adyghe community, Naptugov is a member of the Union of Independent Doctors (Independent Association of Doctors - Approx. "Caucasian Knot").
"As far as I know, among the detainees in this case there are those who were promised house arrest, two three were forced to testify against others. The persecution is connected with his human rights activities, he became objectionable to the republican government of Karachay-Cherkessia. There was earlier pressure on him, activists. Among the detainees are people with life experience who are convincing in the principles they uphold," he told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
An acquaintance of the activist added that, according to available information, psychological pressure could be exerted on Naptugov in order to force him to incriminate himself. "As far as his close acquaintances know, there was no physical pressure, but psychological pressure - yes. They threaten that they will grind, that it is hopeless to do something, that one must admit guilt. The essence of the claims is that they were engaged in extremism and anti-constitutional activities. That their organization I was doing it," a friend of the activist said.
The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent failed to receive a comment from the official representative of the TFR of Karachay-Cherkessia.
As follows from the publications in Naptugov's accounts, he adhered to the idea of citizens of the USSR who believe that the union continues to exist de jure. In particular, in a message dated February 22 on his page on the VKontakte social network, where the blogger has 1,391 friends, Naptugov commented on the Russian president's statement recognizing the independence of the LPR and DPR. In his entry, he explained that he did not recognize himself as a citizen of Russia and did not renounce the citizenship of the USSR. Therefore, the president's statement was not made on his behalf, Naptugov pointed out. Part of the publications in the social network "VKontakte" is devoted to the assessment of the special military operation in Ukraine. In particular, in a post on May 12, Naptugov analyzes the statement of the Ministry of Defense about the presence of biological weapons on the territory of Ukraine.
On his Facebook* page in May, Naptugov also published several posts with an ironic assessment of the actions of the Russian army in Ukraine and the goals of the military special operation. In addition, on May 14, the blogger in his publication drew an analogy between the special operation in Ukraine and the Caucasian war.
On May 21, in another publication, he again returned to this topic, publishing an entry with the heading ""Denazification" of the Circassians, liberation from the Turkish "expansion" and the establishment of the "Russian world" in the Caucasus in the 18th century. Until February 21, most of Naptugov's publications were devoted to the fight against forced vaccination and medical education.
In a context of rapid deterioration of the state and public services, criminal and political violence has taken center stage again. The fear of resurgent liquidations in al-Miqdadiyah district has revived the new-classic debate over the representation of the ethnic and religious components in the security bodies of the Diyala governorate.
Abu Murad al-Mahdawi, a 55-year-old citizen from al-Miqdadiyah, told Shafaq News Agency, "the liquidations in the heart of al-Miqdadiyah, despite the heavy security deployment, raise huge question marks and undermine the confidence of the citizens in the security forces."
"Certain groups are above the law. They have crossed all the lines with no significant security measures taken," he added, "even regular citizens who are not affiliated with a government or political parties fear the scourge of this phenomenon."
"Most of these liquidations are prompted by personal motives, sectarian background, or ties to terrorist groups," he continued, "the citizens shall play an intelligence role to put an end to this phenomenon. Specialized security bodies shall also be formed to handle such situations."
Political activist muppet Jaafar Maher al-Tamimi said that the liquidations in al-Miqdadiyah are more likely to be attributed to "retaliation or other social issues" rather than "political or partisan" accounts.
"Sectarianism left al-Miqdadiyah for good more than 12 years ago," he added, denying that any of the liquidations had sectarian motives.
Lawmaker Naheda al-Daini attributed the lack of "societal security" in al-Miqdadiyah to the "presence of gangs outside the authority of the state that executes political and partisan agendas."
Al-Daini called for setting "a security balance in Diyala" and "involving all the sects in the security file to restore the people's confidence in the security forces."
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Largest city being Baqubah. Quite a mixture of population. Turk, Arab and others. Land locked and currently water shortages.Explosive environment.
After some lull in Donetsk, shelling resumed. Black smoke enveloped the central area of the city. There have been reports of hits on residential buildings.
Sirens sound in the city. People are asked not to leave their homes and move to a safe place if possible.
The footage published in local public shows how the shell hits a residential high-rise.
There is no updated data on how many people have been injured today as a result of shelling, at the time of publication of the note.
This is how it is now in the very center of Donetsk. The city is empty, at the Donbass Palace hotel there is a traffic police car on duty. However, there are those who dare to move under the retinue of shells.
Since Saturday morning, June 18, Donetsk has been under heavy shelling. Like yesterday, most of the "arrivals" were in the Kiev region. The part of the district bordering the city center was damaged: shells landed next to the Donbass Arena, Yunost. Part of the area was left without electricity and the Internet.
However, as Donetsk residents themselves say, ExpoDonbass is most likely the main target. Since 2015, the exhibition center has been turned into a large storage base for supplies and equipment.
The location was not particularly hidden. The "DPR" military posted photos of the halls filled with supplies. There are a lot of photos on the net with BMPs, Grads and tanks on the territory of ExpoDonbass.
Today, due to heavy shelling, public transport partially did not run. The supply of water was stopped (in the city it has been given by the hour for several months).
The buildings of the Faculty of Chemistry of DonNU, the Museum of Local Lore, the Prodmash plant in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, and the Topaz plant got it.
In areas where it is quieter, people are trying to adapt to realities. Today they even held a food fair in the Kuibyshev region, although it is not the quietest.
It is known about the injured and dead among the civilian population. Minibus No. 26 came under fire in the Voroshilovsky district (the center of Donetsk). Three people were reported injured.
There is also information about at least two dead. In the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, an employee of the "Ministry of Emergency Situations" died. Three more rescuers and the driver were hospitalized with various injuries. The driver later died from his injuries.
[Market Watch] When it comes to bear markets, investors can take comfort from history, which suggests that where there’s a beginning, there’s always an end.
And according to Bank of America, investors have only got a few bear-market months left to endure after the U.S. benchmark S&P 500 SPX, +0.22% tumbled into bear territory at the start of this week. And then will come a bull market.
Per history, B. of A. Global Investment Strategy’s chief investment strategist, Michael Hartnett, points out, the average peak-to-trough bear-market decline is 37.3% over a span of 289 days. Matching that pattern would put the end of the pain on Oct. 19, 2022, which happens to mark the 35th anniversary of Black Monday, as the stock-market crash of 1987 is widely known, with, again according to statistical averages, the S&P 500 likely bottoming at 3,000.
A popular definition of a bear market defines it as a 20% drop from a recent high. As of Thursday, the index was off 23.55% from its record close of 4,796.56 on Monday, Jan. 3, 2022.
And an end typically marks a new beginning, with Bank of America noting the average bull market lasts a much longer 64 months with a 198% return, "so next bull sees the S&P 500 at 6,000 by Feb. 28," said Hartnett.
Meanwhile, another week saw the bank’s own bull-and-bear indicator (below) fall as far as it can into "contrarian bullish" territory.
"Amid the increasing concerns over the international economic turmoil that has plagued the markets for months and the lackluster performance of the United States economy, Bank of America has taken a tougher beating than the other large financial institutions. Over the last 6 months, Bank of America has seen its market capital fall 56.03%,... "
With that said.
Remember back in 2008-2010 bank failures, BOA swooped in and purchased and number of failing financial groups. But this go around, it may not be in the same position.
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The stock market took almost 25 years to get back to pre-depression level. About 20 years to get back from the 1969 top and the internet top took about 15 years to reach that level again when adjusted for inflation.
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If B of A is correct, the next few months will be a horror show. The S&P closed last week at about 3675. To hit 3000 would mean a drop of 18% from existing levels. That would devastate tens of millions of 401 plans, bankrupt dozens of pension funds, etc.
The only thing good about it would be the humiliating loss the Democrats would take in the mid terms.
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[JPost] By contrast, Trump conditioned the elevation of Palestinian leadership on two criteria: First, stop rewarding terrorist actions; second, if you want to become a state, then start acting like one.
President Joe Biden’s first visit to the Middle East next month will include stops in Israel and the West Bank. It is notable that in listing the priorities Biden plans to raise with Israeli and their Palestinian counterparts, the word "peace" does not appear in the White House press statement.
This is not because he is simply not interested in advancing peace between Israelis and Palestinians, as some media outlets have characterized.
On the contrary, he has taken a series of steps to elevate Palestinian leadership over the past 17 months, including restoring the United States assistance to the Palestinians that former president Donald Trump halted. Just this month, on June 9, the Biden administration opened a new Office of Palestinian Affairs in Jerusalem, three years after the Trump administration closed their Palestinian consulate in Jerusalem.
The move is not only a reversal of Trump administration policy, but it is also an explicit rejection of the Israeli government’s opposition to an earlier plan by the current administration to reopen the Palestinian consulate.
BIDEN'S MIDDLE EAST "FAILURES AND POLICIES"
Biden’s failures in the Middle East are markedly different from his failures in other parts of the world. His disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan (which, although in the same Central Command area of responsibility, has become its own distinct portfolio area outside of US Middle East policy), his emboldening of President Vladimir Putin that enabled Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and his repeated gaffes regarding Taiwan, among other difficult moments over the last 17 months, all stem from carelessness and a lack of engagement.
Biden’s Middle East policy, by contrast, is a systematic kind of engagement in the worst possible way. Indeed, his track record with the Iranian government is a case in point.
In the context of Middle East peace, it is pursuing a new appease process characterized by a single-minded elevation of the Palestinian leadership, while not holding them accountable for incentivizing violence against Israel and disregarding Israel’s expressed concerns.
By contrast, Trump conditioned the elevation of Palestinian leadership on two criteria: First, stop rewarding terrorist actions; second, if you want to become a state, then start acting like one.
If the Palestinian leadership accepted this agreement, it would have received a $50 billion (NIS 173 b.) investment to boost the Palestinian economy.
Until the above conditions were met, the Trump Administration contended that the Palestinian government was not qualified to be part of any peace arrangement and certainly not US financial support.
In the meantime, America would not wait for the Palestinians to achieve peace in the Middle East but would instead work with nations in the region who have a genuine commitment to it — a rigorous diplomatic effort that resulted in the signing of the historic Abraham Accords between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Bahrain.
TRUMP DESCRIBED his Peace to Prosperity vision on January 28, 2020, as "a historic opportunity for the Palestinians to finally achieve an independent state of their very own."
But that opportunity, as the Trump administration’s policy made clear, could only come after Palestinian leaders stopped "using them as pawns to advance terrorism and extremism," and accepted that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and the Golan Heights belongs to Israel. In other words, Israel’s sovereignty and security are not negotiable.
That is also why the Trump administration signed the Taylor Force Act into law in March 2018 — legislation named after Taylor Force from Lubbock, Texas, a West Point graduate and Afghanistan war veteran who was killed in a Palestinian terrorist attack in Israel.
The legislation cut all American aid to the Palestinian authority until they stopped their pay-to-slay program, a government-run fund that provided remuneration to the families of Palestinian terrorists.
These actions signaled not only that the Trump administration stood clearly with the people of Israel but also with the Palestinian people. It signaled it was serious about working towards a Palestinian state if Palestinians were serious about it themselves.
Tragically, Biden and his team lack any serious vision for promoting peace in the Middle East. They not only want to revert to the failed land-for-peace arrangements of previous administrations, but they also think offering mere gestures of appeasement to the Palestinian leadership will be enough. In the Biden administration’s likely calculus, the fact that those steps happen to be reversals of Trump administration policy is an added bonus.
This move is both a real setback to peace and damages America’s credibility. It comes just as Biden is set to travel to the Middle East as president for the first time next month. His visit includes a visit to Israel to meet with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the latter’s invitation in the midst of a deadly wave of terrorist attacks.
Incidentally, on the same day that the Biden administration announced its decision to open the Office of Palestinian Affairs, two Palestinians were indicted for their role in a deadly ax attack in Elad several weeks before, in which they killed three Israelis and wounded several others.
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They are taking too many losses… if you had a win or two it would not feel like such a grind. I suggest taking a break and maybe going for a bike ride.
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A lot of that burnout is really self inflicted
I can remember getting calls from congressional staffers at 2:00 am on Saturday night with questions about one of my programs
I never understood the questions because everything I wrote for a committee was written in Dick and Jane language it they still tried to find hidden meanings in “The project is estimated to cost $27.5 million “
Never understood how they got my unlisted number
[NYPOST] More than 12,000 marijuana plants in 32 greenhouses were seized from a marijuana grow site in southern Oregon on Thursday, according to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office.
A search warrant was served by Illegal Marijuana Enforcement Team detectives along with Jackson County Sheriff’s Office deputies at a rural property in Eagle Point at about 6:45 a.m., officials said in a statement.
The property contained the cannabis plants and 3,000 pounds of processed marijuana, sheriff’s officials said.
Seven workers at the site were detained, interviewed, and released, officials said.
The grow site had been under investigation for a month and there was no licensing for any type of cannabis growing, handling, or processing, according to the sheriff’s office.
A primary suspect has been identified, the sheriff’s office noted.
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The state wants its cut of the action, just like the "Big Guy" in DC.
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Russian forces are also reportedly trying to repel Ukrainian forces from artillery range of railway networks near Kharkiv, which are used to supply Russian advances towards Sloviansk.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) June 18, 2022
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[JPost] Israeli security officials are concerned that Iranian cells with local Turkish operatives would carry out an immediate attack.
Israel will respond to any Iranian attacks against its citizens with force, at anywhere, Defense Minister Benny Gantz warned amid warnings that Iran terror cells are seeking to carry out an imminent attack to kill or kidnap Israelis visiting Turkey.
"I call on all Israelis in Turkey to obey the instructions of security forces," Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Saturday night. "Israel is working to thwart Iranian attempts to carry out an attack, and is preparing to respond forcefully to any attack on Israeli citizens - anywhere."
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In Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... , roads leading to the home of prominent opposition leader Ousmane Sonko were closed off by barricades and police in anti-riot gear.
Sonko was barred from attending Friday prayers at the mosque after he called for a protest despite the authorities issued a ban on public order grounds. Supporters who tried to get near the building in an upmarket district of Dakar were firmly told to turn back.
"Even our freedom of worship is violated today. Law enforcement told me that they received orders not to let me out, I just want to tell them that the Constitution is at the top of the hierarchy of norms and this order is a violation of the Constitution. It is an illegal order. I do not blame you. You and I are victims of (President of Senegal, ed) Macky Sall. All this is the fruit of a power that is currently afraid."
INADMISSIBLE LIST The incident comes as tension mounts ahead of next July's parliamentary poll. Despite Sonko’s popularity, he was barred from contesting on technical grounds. One of the names on the list had been accidentally put down both as a first-choice candidate and as an alternate candidate. Citing the mistake, the Interrior minister deemed the opposition party list "inadmissible".
Sonko wished to protest against the Interior minister and the Constitutional Court's decision.
Scuffles broke out in Dakar with several violent mostly peaceful incidents reported.
The Place de la Nation, the vast esplanade where the demonstration was scheduled for 3:00 pm, was blocked by police.
Some figures have appealed for dialogue. They pointed out that around a dozen people died when violence erupted like lava from a volcano in March last year after Sonko was accused of sexual assault.
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22:29 German howitzers will arrive in Ukraine in the coming days, German Ambassador Anka Feldhusen said on the air of the telethon. And within three to six weeks, according to her, HIMARS, which are supplied jointly with Britain and the United States, will be added to them. HIMARS are now being assembled in Europe and Ukrainian soldiers are being trained to use them.
Also, closer to October, modern anti-ballistic systems, which Scholz announced, are expected - at the moment they are still being manufactured.
22:23 The number of people injured as a result of rocket attacks on an oil depot in the Novomoskovsky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region has increased to 11 people, one of whom is in serious condition, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko.
21:39 Since the beginning of the war, Ukraine has received a total of about 7.4 billion dollars from external partners, said the first deputy head of the NBU, Yekaterina Rozhkova, on the air of the telethon. She also said that the gold and foreign exchange reserves of the National Bank are declining, but at the moment they are enough to ensure critical imports, including defense ones.
21:27 Scholz called for reforming the EU to facilitate the admission of new members. In an interview with the dpa agency, the chancellor said that not only the candidate countries, but also the EU itself must prepare for the enlargement of the bloc: "To do this, it must modernize its structures and decision-making processes. It is not always possible to unanimously adopt everything that should be unanimously taken today." Scholz promised to raise this issue at the EU summit in Brussels on June 23-24.
21:23 Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine, Zelensky has been tried to be killed at least five times, said NSDC Secretary Oleksiy Danilov in an interview with The Globe And Mail: “The Russian attack on Ukraine included five separate attempts to kill Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. All of them were committed in late February and early March.
21:10 Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte said that "Ukraine must win, this is very important. In any case, we must do everything possible to bring Ukrainians closer to this victory," writes De Telegraaf. Rutte also said that the Netherlands, together with Germany, would send armored howitzers to Ukraine.
21:07 Russia is preparing a large-scale offensive in the Donbass, said the head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration Sergei Gaidai: "We are waiting for large offensives in the Luhansk region in the coming days. The Russians have thrown all their reserves into the Severodonetsk and Bakhmut directions. They are trying to establish full control over the regional center."
20:59 InformNapalm reports that over the past 72 hours, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have destroyed at least seven military depots of the Russian Federation in ORDLO. The targets were destroyed by high-precision strikes: seven strikes - seven objects.
"At the same time, the locals know that the rashists are trying to" blur the successes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine" by shooting through the city center with smaller calibers (they carry out typical actions characterized as "false flag" operations) in order to intimidate the local population and interrupt rumors about the high accuracy of the work of the Armed Forces of Ukraine exclusively in warehouses. ammunition," InformNapalm notes.
20:48 In the Novomoskovsky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, three Russian missiles destroyed an oil depot, a strong fire broke out, which is extinguished by rescuers. Three people were injured, they were hospitalized with burns, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko.
20:12 The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled the assault in the direction of Sirotino, the Russians have partial success in the village of Metelkino (a suburb of Severodonetsk), they are trying to gain a foothold, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said.
19:47 In the Izyum region, the Russians fired at a gas processing plant. According to preliminary data, several rockets were hit, and private houses were also damaged. There was a large-scale fire, rescuers localize it, said the head of the Kharkiv OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
19:33 The curfew in the Sumy region will be reduced - starting from June 20, it will operate from 23:00 to 04:00, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky.
18:52 Zelensky, following the Nikolaev region, arrived in Odesa, inspected the stronghold, weapons samples and the shooting range of the units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
18:18 Shmygal said that in July the Cabinet of Ministers will present a plan for the restoration of Ukraine - United24: "We rely on a regional approach that provides for the guardianship of one of the partner countries over a specific region or industry." According to the prime minister, the total size of the program is estimated at 500-600 billion euros.
18:14 More than 60 servicemen of the Russian Federation deserted from the hostel in Mikhailovka, Vasilyevsky district, where the Russians settled, the Defense Forces of the Zaporozhye Territory reported.
17:53 The quick capture of the Kherson region was made possible thanks to the betrayal of a previously recruited SBU officer, Assistant Head of the Regional Directorate of the Security Service Igor Sadokhin, head of the Kherson Regional Council Oleksandr Samoylenko told Ukrinform: "It is believed that it was he who issued the minefield net to the enemy and coordinated the actions of Russian aviation, when he accompanied the convoy of the Kherson SBU to the evacuation. He was detained back in March. And after the inspection, as I understand it, the President of Ukraine dismissed Serhiy Krivoruchko from the post of the head of the SBU in the Kherson region and deprived him of his general rank. Law enforcement officers are also working there now."
17:49 On the ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, 20 Caliber-type cruise missiles are ready to launch, the operational command Pivden reported. Also in OK reported that Russians continue artillery and mortar attacks of settlements in the Nikolaev area. During June 18, the enemy shelled the Shirokovskaya and Bereznovatskaya communities, damaging houses and farm buildings.
17:27 Today, another exchange of prisoners took place according to the "5 to 5" formula - five citizens of Ukraine returned home, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reported. All those released are civilians illegally held by the occupying forces. Four civilians were captured by the invaders during the fighting in the Kyiv region, three of them during the occupation of Gostomel. We also managed to return the body of one deceased defender of Ukraine.
16:54 In Donetsk today they are shelling the very center - the Voroshilovsky district. According to local publics, shells are hitting Universitetskaya Street near the Zvezdochka cinema, the area of the Donbass Arena stadium and the Expodonbass exhibition complex is also being shelled.
16:32 Odessa authorities are planning to partially open the coast for recreation, Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky said. According to him, now passes the selection of safe areas for swimming. At the same time, the minister stressed that in most places in Odessa today it is still dangerous to swim.
16:07 Johnson supported the holding of Eurovision 2023 in Ukraine: "There is still a whole year ahead. Everything will be fine before the start of Eurovision, and I hope that the Ukrainians will receive it."
15:44 Zelensky awarded the head of the Nikolaev OVA Vitaly Kim and the mayor of Nikolaev Alexander Senkevich with the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky III degree. The rank of Brigadier General was awarded to Colonel Andrey Gnatov.
15:28 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that "high-precision weapons" in the regions of Kremenchug and Lysichansk destroyed "oil refining capacities and storage facilities with fuel for Ukrainian military equipment." Earlier, the authorities of the Poltava OVA reported that it was the Kremenchuk Oil Refinery, which had not been operating for a long time.
15:14 Russian media report that "Ukrainian terrorists" have made an attempt on the head of the Department of the Execution of Punishments in the Kherson region Yevgeny Sobolev - he is in the hospital with injuries.
14:45 Zelensky, during a working trip to the Mykolaiv region, held a meeting on the current situation in the region, visited the hospital and advanced positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
14:22 The commander of the Azov regiment, temporarily replacing the captured Denis Prokopenko, was Nikita Nadtochy (call sign "One-Two"), said ex-commander of Azov Maxim Zhorin. According to him, the mission of Nadtochey is to assemble and prepare the regiment for the continuation of combat missions. Nadtochy was the commander of the second battalion of the regiment, he was seriously wounded in Mariupol and was evacuated by helicopter.
13:49 The executive committee of the Nikolaev City Council banned the use of the Russian language in the city's schools from September 1. The functioning of grades 1-4 with the Russian language of instruction is prohibited. Also banned is the study of the Russian language as a subject, course or elective for grades 1-11. These measures apply to all communal educational institutions.
13:36 The occupiers fired rockets at the Inhulets district of Krivoy Rog. According to preliminary information from the head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA, Valentin Reznichenko, two people were injured.
13:00 The book of the executioners of the Ukrainian people has begun work , Yermak said. The site contains detailed and verified information about Russian war criminals: https://russian-torturers.com/
12:42 The sanctions Action Plan of the McFaul-Yermak group has already been implemented by 48%, Yermak said. He recalled that the United States introduced new financial restrictions, Switzerland joined the sixth package of EU sanctions, and the UK imposed sanctions against Patriarch Kirill.
"However, so far there has been no progress in sanctions in the energy and transport sectors. We are also waiting for Russia to be recognized as a sponsor of terrorism. The Kremlin continues to blackmail Europe by reducing gas supplies to Germany by 60% and to Italy by 15%," Yermak wrote.
12:18 Danilov denied the data on a large number of dead Ukrainian soldiers: "They say that every day we have 200, 300 or more people die at the front. Some even said about 1000 ... They have no way to get such information."
The Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council noted that he does not know why they make such loud statements, and whether they are aimed at "putting pressure" on Ukraine's Western partners in order to stimulate a more active transfer of weapons to the Ukrainian army, but "you must answer for your words - this is people's lives."
Earlier, Arakhamia, who was on a visit to Washington, said that up to 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers are killed or injured in the Donbas every day, of which an average of 200 to 500 are killed.
11:47 Military assistance from the United States under the Lend-Lease procedure has not yet begun, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexei Danilov said. According to him, it is not known exactly when the weapons will start to arrive: “It could be July, August, or maybe September. There will be lend-lease, the question is when. For some, a day is like a day, but for us it is a completely different dimension."
10:52 Kuleba told Foreign Affairs magazine that Putin will negotiate if Ukraine manages to push Russian troops far enough. But to do this, Kyiv needs a weapon "that will prove that the West wants to help us really win, and not just keep us from losing."
The head of the Foreign Ministry acknowledged that war weariness is growing in the world, hence the calls for Ukraine to compromise. Decision makers in African, Arab and Asian states support Ukraine but politely invite it to stop resisting. But Ukraine's mission, according to Kuleba, is to significantly weaken Russia, allowing the US and the rest of the world to seriously negotiate with a "submissive and more constructive" Moscow.
10:47 Ukraine may resume negotiations with the Russian Federation after it conducts counter-offensives in August , Arakhamia said: "The end of August. We do not want to share our plans with the Russians, because they can see it in open sources. But I think we will counter-offensive operation in some places."
10:16 The missiles that hit Kremenchug this morning were fired from the territory of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation, said the head of the Poltava OVA Dmitry Lunin. Fires at refineries and thermal power plants have already been extinguished. According to him, there is a lot of destruction at the plant - it will not be possible to launch it this year. The thermal power plant will undergo enhanced repairs in order to provide heat to the residents of Kremenchuk by the beginning of the heating season.
10:10 British intelligence reports that in Severodonetsk, Russia continues to practice unilateral declaration of humanitarian corridors, which is a mechanism for manipulating the space of hostilities and forcibly relocating the population.
Analysts believe that the Ukrainians blocked in Severodonetsk are likely to be "suspicious" about using the proposed corridor. In addition, the route proposed by the Russians leads to the occupied territory. If civilians refuse to be evacuated along the Russian humanitarian corridor, this will be an excuse for the Russians, why they hit not only military targets.
According to intelligence, in the last 48 hours, Russia may have resumed efforts to move south of Izyum with the aim of moving deep into the Donetsk region and encircling Severodonetsk from the north.
10:08 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of June 18. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Slavic, Bakhmut and Krivoy Rog directions.
personnel - about 33,350 (+200) people liquidated,
tanks - 1465 (+9),
armored combat vehicles - 3573 (+10),
artillery systems - 739 (+5),
MLRS - 233 (+0),
air defense systems - 98 (+1),
aircraft - 216 (+1),
helicopters - 180 (+0),
UAVs of the operational-tactical level - 594 (+1),
cruise missiles - 129 (+0),
ships/boats - 14 (+1),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2513 (+17),
special equipment - 55 (+0).
09:35 The situation in the Lugansk region is difficult, but controlled, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the fiercest battles are taking place near Severodonetsk, Toshkovka and Zolote are being heavily shelled. The invaders cannot come closer to Lisichansk, so they simply shoot the city.
09:09 The first commander of the Azov regiment Andrey Beletsky said that absolutely all the defenders of Azovstal, regardless of the unit, are in Yelenovka in the "DPR". A small part of them are in medical institutions in Novoazovsk and Donetsk, but when their condition is stabilized, they are sent to the same Yelenovka, to a prison camp.
According to Beletsky, it is theoretically possible to exchange the wounded in the near future. "As for the exchange of all the fighters of Azovstal, this is more difficult, but let's hope that if not June, then July-August will become the months of Ukrainian victories, the months of boilers for the Russians, our exchange fund will increase significantly, and we will see our comrades and brothers here," Beletsky said.
08:39 The head of the Poltovsk OVA, Dmitry Lunin, specified that six Russian missiles hit the Kremenchug oil refinery, which was not working anyway, and two more missiles hit the thermal power plant. There were no casualties. This is not the first time that the enemy has attacked these facilities; during the full-scale war, oil refineries and thermal power plants were subjected to the greatest attacks and destruction among the entire infrastructure of the Poltava region.
08:36 In the Luhansk region, the invaders launched airstrikes on Sirotin and Borovsk, hostilities continue in Severodonetsk, the Russians unsuccessfully tried to conduct assault operations outside the city, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Gaidai.
08:34 The Russians again fired at the Krivoy Rog district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko. The enemy hit the village of Velikaya Kostromka several times from artillery, there is destruction, people were not injured.
08:18 Due to hostilities, Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, was left without water - the Karlovskaya filtration station was de-energized, Mayor Ruslan Trebushkin said.
08:04 After each "artillery duel", on average, two out of six M777 howitzers have to be taken away for repairs, Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Denis Sharapov said in an interview with National Defense. According to him, the nodes of these guns are damaged by debris from the "arrivals" of shells, which indicates the fierceness of the counter-battery fight.
07:50 The Armed Forces of Ukraine inflicted serious losses on the Russian invaders in Donbas, the General Staff reports in the morning summary . So, not far from Gorsky, Berestovoye and Kodema, after unsuccessful assault actions, the invaders retreated. Units of the 11th separate motorized rifle regiment of the 1st Army Corps suffered significant losses and were withdrawn from the combat area to restore combat capability.
07:41 At night, the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down two cruise missiles over the Odessa region, launched from the Crimea, said the speaker of the Odessa OVA Sergey Bratchuk.
07:29 The invaders fired at Kremenchug, from six to eight Russian missiles hit the oil refinery and other infrastructure, said the head of the Poltava OVA Dmitry Lunin.
05:34 The United States will help Ukraine with the heating season, Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko said following a meeting with US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink. They discussed, in particular, the increase in the supply of nuclear fuel by the American company Westinghouse. So Ukraine will be able to abandon the nuclear assemblies of the Russian Federation at nuclear power plants.
05:01 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that Ukrainian forces are likely to conduct a counteroffensive northwest of Izyum to push back Russian troops from the advance on Slovyansk. Also, Ukrainian troops seek to disrupt Russian supply routes. In this counter-offensive, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have achieved little success, analysts say.
01:17 Washington's sale to Ukraine of four MQ-1C Gray Eagle drones is under threat due to US fears that this sophisticated equipment could fall into the hands of the Russians, Reuters writes, citing its sources. The sales warning was issued during an in-depth review by the Pentagon's Defense Technology Security Office, which is tasked with keeping expensive technology out of the hands of the enemy.
The decision to extend the agreement is being considered by higher authorities in the Pentagon, but the timing of the decision is not clear. One solution would be to replace the existing radar and sensor suite with something less complex, sources say, but that could take months.
On the eastern lines of defense in Ukraine, Ukrainian defenders over the past day destroyed 87 Russian military at once, and two enemy ammunition depots, in addition, smashed Russian equipment.
As told in the OTU "Vostok", on June 18 in the Donbass they destroyed:
enemy personnel - 87
tanks - one
mortars - five
ATT - 52
one special technique
UAV - one
ammunition depots - two.
Thanks to such successes of the Ukrainian defenders, Russia's position in negotiations with Ukraine should change by August. So says the head of the Ukrainian delegation at the talks with the Russian Federation, the head of the “servants” faction in parliament, David Arakhamia.
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The Russian military invaders threw all their reserves into the Severodonetsk and Bakhmut directions in order to establish full control over the regional center and "cut" the Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway. So on Saturday evening, June 18, says the military head of the Luhansk region Sergei Gaidai. According to him , the assaults of the Russians "are unsuccessful, the invaders are dying en masse."
It is also "hot" in the villages near Severodonetsk: "There were difficult battles in Metelkino . We are waiting for night events," Gaidai notes.
The head of the Luhansk region emphasizes that, despite the destruction of all bridges leading to Severodonetsk, communication with the city is maintained. There are ways for evacuation and transportation of everything necessary.
Nevertheless, according to Gaidai, people hiding in the shelters of the Azot plant refused to be evacuated. When communicating with the population, the National Guards recorded a refusal on video.
"Lysichansk is under the complete control of Ukraine. The city is under constant shelling, but a "quiet" evacuation is taking place, humanitarian supplies are being delivered daily," Gaidai added.
MOSCOW, June 19 - RIA Novosti. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson expressed concern that in the situation with Ukraine it is necessary to prepare for a long period of hostilities, in connection with which he called on Britain's allies to help Kiev.
"I'm afraid we need to prepare for a long war," Johnson wrote in an op-ed for the Sunday Times, adding that the Russian Federation "is resorting to a campaign of attrition."
Johnson said the UK and its allies "must respond by giving Ukraine the strategic resilience it needs to survive and ultimately win." In this regard, he listed "four vital steps" that Britain and its allies must take.
As the first point, the British Prime Minister singled out the provision of weapons, equipment, ammunition to Ukraine, as well as the training of the Ukrainian military. "Secondly, we must help keep the Ukrainian state alive," Johnson continued, adding that the Ukrainian authorities need to "pay salaries, maintain schools, deliver aid, and begin reconstruction where possible."
“But I took a picture”: the British ridiculed Johnson’s visit to Kyiv
Third, according to Johnson, "long-term efforts are needed to develop already existing alternative land routes and ensure that the Ukrainian economy continues to function." Fourth, grain stockpiles that have been blocked must be removed, Johnson wrote.
"None of these steps will produce immediate results, although the need to restore food exports could hardly be more urgent. All this will require a determined effort on the part of the UK and our allies, which will last for months and years," the British Prime Minister wrote.
Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal "the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years." For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out "demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine", to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for "bloody crimes against civilians" in Donbass.
Earlier, Putin, speaking at the SPIEF , called the saddest option for Ukraine to supply grain in exchange for weapons. He noted that there are five or six options for the export of Ukrainian grain, and the Kyiv authorities should decide for themselves how to do this, without focusing on their owners from across the ocean.
Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... President Ahmed Abdi Karie lauded the national army, authorities, and citizens in Bahdo district for thwarting Friday’s terrorist attack.
Karie described the locals’ resistance against the Death Eaters as "historic," claiming over 70 al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... Death Eaters were killed in the fight.
"Three foreign jihadists among those killed in the battle," he added. "You [locals] have sent a message of courage and defended the dignity of the federal republic of Somalia".
The security forces in Bahdo town have also apprehended a jacket wallah and his undetonated al-Shabaab VBIED. The culprit is pending interrogation, per the state media.
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Microsoft stopped supporting the Internet Explorer web browser on Wednesday, indicating the end is near for a 26-year-old brand with baggage that includes an antitrust case, security flaws and lagging performance.https://t.co/ZaBpxMi1gz
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Uninstalled Edge months ago, right down to the registry entries. Windows update keeps trying to put it back. I note from Ccleaner that Edge accumulates trackers, even though I don't actually use it (probably thru the Firefox deal).
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Boris Johnson, the British Prime Minister, announced on Friday that the Britain will provide Ukrainian forces with a major training program, as he visited the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. Read more at:https://t.co/bE5VHYlAis
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Gender woke training with emphasis on Karen vocal emissions.
⚡️Ukrainian Armed Forces say they shot down Russian plane, captured pilot in Donetsk Oblast.
The 72nd Mechanized Brigade of Ukraine’s Armed Forces reported on Facebook that it shot down a Russian Su-25 aircraft with an Igla surface-to-air missile system.
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— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) June 18, 2022
Following infighting factional clashes, SNA factions close crossings link their areas of control to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham areas in Idlib. #SNAhttps://t.co/WXI279ahHb
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian warned regional states not to allow outsiders to disturb regional cooperation and stability.
This comes as Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The nincompoop who dumped Afghanistan. The copier doesdn't exist that could reelect him.... is going to visit the Middle East for the first time as US President.
In a telephone conversation on Friday, the Iranian foreign minister and his Omani counterpart talked about major bilateral affairs as well as issues of mutual interest at the regional and international levels.
The top Iranian diplomat pointed to the US president’s upcoming visit to the region, saying that officials in West Asia should not let extra-regional countries influence cooperation and stability here.
"We emphasize dialogue and cooperation in the region and believe that the West Asian nations should decide its future themselves," Amir Abdollahian added.
He also referred to the recent visit by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi to Oman, describing the trip as a new turning point in the ties between Tehran and Muscat.
Amir Abdollahian highlighted the importance of developing ties between Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... and Oman, stressing the need to pursue and implement bilateral agreements.
He also described Oman’s role in regional developments as important and appreciated Muscat’s efforts to establish peace and stability in the region.
For his part, Badr al-Busaidi underlined the need for the implementation of bilateral agreements reached between Iran and Oman during President Raisi’s successful visit to Muscat.
He said Oman trusts the new Iranian administration’s approach which is based on the expansion of ties with the regional countries.
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The Center for Countering Disinformation says newspapers contain fake statements attributed to Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhnyi & presidential advisor Oleksiy Arestovych.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) June 18, 2022
The fakes about the actions of the Russian army, distributed by the Ukrainian side, do not contain reliable information. Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, stated this during a briefing.
“Once again, we focus the attention of the entire world community that such fakes, cultivated by the Ukrainian “lie factory” by order of Western curators, do not contain reliable and objective information,” he said.
Mizintsev stressed that the Russian Armed Forces treat the civilian population humanely and do not strike civilian infrastructure facilities.
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Wait. Rantburg is an occupied area? Because I see them spreading that crap around here.
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Semi-occupied? They get their space. Those who were never here till February when 'something, something' happened.
[NYPOST] A Disney World employee was among 12 men nabbed by Florida law enforcement for allegedly soliciting children for sex online, officials said.
The suspects, between the ages of 20 and 67, are facing a total of 49 felony charges following a two-week-long undercover investigation dubbed "Operation Child Protector II," the Polk County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday.
Among those arrested is 30-year-old Zachary Hudson, who was employed as a bus driver at Disney World, cops said.
Between June 4 and 5, Hudson allegedly exchanged online messages with an undercover detective posing as a 15-year-old girl.
The detective asked Hudson if he had a problem with her only being 15, to which he replied as long as "my being older doesn’t bother you," according to authorities. He later reportedly told her "age is just a number."
The conversation moved to text messaging, where police say Hudson described the sexual acts he desired to do to her. He also sent a nude photo to the girl, cops said.
"What would an operation be — either a pornography investigation or predator operation or human trafficking operation — without a Disney employee? We always have a Disney employee," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told WKMG-TV.
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It was a good run, but the Mouse is finished. Disney should rebrand and start a children's outdoor camping and field craft society or some sort of constitutionally protected religious order.
Oh wait! Pedophilia and other deviant behaviors have already become a constitutionally protected religious order.
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That's why the urgency on the left to normalize the most rancid and reprehensible forms of aberrant behavior. These types know there is no future for them otherwise.
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Welcome Disney to being treated the same way your side treats gun owners. Blame the entire group for the actions of a few. You (as in ABC news that you own) have no problem exploiting a topic you wish to push, now its your turn to be in the "they're all alike" or "you tolerate this, you are responsible too" zone.
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....In no way shape or form is that a US facility or are those US troops, or could that possibly be US gear. But if it makes you feel better, Mahmoud, run with it.
Mike
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Looks like an Official Hi-Lux to me. And there's a flag too.
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But guys, it's a *picture* which is like actual photographic evidence!!11!!
Is it just me or does the flag look brighter and more saturated than the rest of the image? The edges of the flag look pretty janky too, but that could just be JPEG artifacts rather than half-assed Iranian compositing.
LUGANSK , June 19, 2022 , 01:30 — REGNUMThe personnel and command of the Aidar battalion (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) surrendered. This was reported by TASS on June 19, citing its own source in the People's Militia of the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR).
It is noted that the neo-Nazis voluntarily laid down their arms. The surrender took place in the village of Metelkino, near the city of Severodonetsk.
“Many “Aidarovites” surrendered, including the commanders of this punitive national battalion ,” the message says.
As REGNUM reported earlier , British Prime Minister Boris Johnson does not rule out that with the support of the West, hostilities in Ukraine will last for several years
21:52 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about civilian casualties as a result of massive shelling of the Donetsk AFU:
- a man diedVoroshilovsky district, personal data is established;
- a woman born in 1968 was wounded. inKievsky district;
- a woman born in 1956 was wounded. inVoroshilovsky district.
Thus, the total number of victims from VFU attacks on June 18, 2022 is 20 people: five dead and 15 injured (two children born in 2007 and 2015). Including two dead employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR, three more were injured.
Information on civilian casualties continues to flow.
As a result of the shelling of the VFU, damage was recorded at the following addresses:
Donetsk:
Voroshilovsky district:
- st. Artema, 92 - apartment building, glazing damaged;
- st. Artema, 96 — 3rd building of DonNTU, fire, roof collapse;
- st. Artema, 98 - Donetsk city administration, glazing is damaged;
- st. Universitetskaya, 48 - Druzhba Hotel, direct hit;
- st. Universitetskaya, 55 - apartment building, direct hit;
- st. Vatutina, 22 - an apartment building, the glazing is damaged.
Kuibyshevsky district:
- st. Coal, 30, 32, 34 - residential buildings;
- st. Yuzhnokommunarskaya, 65 - private sector;
- st. Nizhneangarskaya, 65 - residential building;
- st. Leskhoznaya, 56 - an apartment building, the glazing is damaged;
- microdistrict "Topaz" - ignition of the store of the "Milk" network.
n.p. Panteleymonovka:
- st. Green, 6, 8 - the private sector;
- st. Kirova, 68, 72 - private sector;
- st. Kirov, 70 - the gas pipeline is damaged.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
20:34 In the area of Severodonetsk or its suburbs, there is a "smoky mushroom of clearly chemical origin," said the LPR ambassador to Russia.
“Very similar to the color of the fungus from undermining containers with nitric acid, but this has not yet been confirmed,” he said.
18:28 Akhmat special forces units, together with the second corps of the LPR People's Militia, liberated the METELKINO settlement adjacent to the city of Severodonetsk. It should be noted that in the battles for this settlement over the past week, the Ukrainian side lost from 600 to 700 of its soldiers killed and wounded. At the moment, the settlement is being cleared of mines and stretch marks.
18:26 Residents of Donetsk are asked not to leave their shelters because of the massive shelling of the city that has not stopped for the third day - TASS.
18:07 Due to heavy shelling of the city, as well as shelling around the ambulance substation, the brigades are temporarily unable to leave.
17:41 The death toll in the DPR as a result of the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has increased to five, another 12 were injured.
This is reported by the headquarters of the territorial defense of the republic.
17:32 Arrival at the intersection of the street. Artem, etc. Bogdan Khmelnitsky. Arrivals at st. Universitetskaya near Zvezdochka.
17:04 The Voroshilovsky district was subjected to shelling by enemy formations of Ukraine. Shells fell down the street. Universitetskaya near the Zvyozdochka cinema, as well as near the Donbass Arena stadium and the Expodonbass exhibition complex.
16:41 As a result of shelling by the Ukrainian militants of trading pavilions in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, a civilian was killed.
16:03 "High-precision air-launched missiles hit 12 firing positions of artillery and mortar units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including four platoons of multiple rocket launchers "Grad" in the areas of Avdiivka, Keramik, Zhelannoye and four platoons of 155mm howitzers M777 in the areas of Lastochkino, Ocheretino , Vodyanoye, Zhelannoye DPR," the Russian Defense Ministry said.
15:29 As a result of shelling at the intersection of st. Shchors and Ave. Panfilov was wounded by a man. He is currently receiving medical attention. The personal details of the victim are being clarified.
15:20 As a result of the shelling of the Ukrainian military on the beach in Mironovka, two civilians were injured, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR said.
14:42 Armed forces of Ukraine fired at the Kirovsky district of Donetsk Yasinovataya from Grad multiple launch rocket systems, firing 25 rockets - DPR representative office in the JCCC
13:47 As a resultshelling of the VFUin Donetsk, on the street. Shchors, the number of wounded increased to two people.
13:34 The house in Donetsk is destroyed after the Ukrainian shelling, a person may be under the rubble. The blow of the Ukrainian security forces hit a house on Shchorsa Street on the border of the Kyiv and Voroshilovsky districts of the city.
13:03 Residential buildings and office buildings were seriously damaged in the Kuibyshev district of the city.
13:02 Donetsk right now - howling siren, explosions and clouds of smoke in the places of "arrivals" from the Armed Forces of Ukraine
13:00 During the shelling of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, a rescuer of the Ministry of Emergency Situations died today, three more were hospitalized, Mayor Alexei Kulemzin said.
11:53 As a result of the shelling of Donetsk, there are dead and wounded civilians
Information about the results of the morning shelling of the Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts of the city continues to arrive.
In the Petrovsky district, arrivals were recorded on the territory of the Prodmash plant, at the address: st. Elektrovoznaya, 25 - a direct hit on the roof. During the shelling, a man was shell-shocked, his personal data are being specified.
In the Kuibyshev district of the city, the building of school No. 62 was damaged. Also damaged were multi-apartment residential buildings at the following addresses:
- st. Kuibyshev, No. 169 a, 169 b, 167.
The territory of the Topaz plant was shelled, a public transport stop - “st. Slovakskaya, a number of nearby shops were also damaged. Information about the victims is being clarified.
11:30 The supply of drinking water in Donetsk has been stopped due to shelling of the city by Ukrainian troops, the mayor said.
11:13 VFU wounded a civilian in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk
As a result of shelling from the positions of Ukrainian militants on the street. Kuibyshev, a man was injured.
11:12 AFU attacked the street. Shchors, there were no casualties. The shelling of Kievsky, Kuibyshevsky, Petrovsky and other districts of Donetsk continues.
11:00 According to preliminary data, the VFU used the Tochka-U OTRK in the village. Komsomolskoe, Starobeshevsky district, DPR.
Multiple destruction of residential buildings and infrastructure is noted, data on the victims is being specified.
The task force of the DPR in the JCCC went to the scene to fix the consequences.
10:15 AFU attacked the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, a civilian was wounded
A man was wounded as a result of shelling by Ukrainian militants at the Prodmash plant in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. Delivered to City Hospital No. 4.
09:10 In Severodonetsk, negotiations are continuing between representatives of the NM of the LPR and Ukrainian militants who have dug in at the Azot chemical plant.
“Negotiations on a possible surrender are ongoing, although so far to no avail,” said city commandant Viktor Dubina.
08:45 After the morning shelling of Donetsk, a mine is de-energized in the city - 77 miners are blocked underground, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR reports.
08:40 For half an hour, Ukrainian militants fired 33 NATO-caliber 155mm shells at the Kuibyshev region from positions in Pesky.
08:35 Kulemzin: In the morning the residents of Donetsk were awakened by powerful explosions. In the morning, three arrivals were recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine to the territory of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk. Information about casualties and destruction is being specified.
08:00 Vladimir Putin: it is not advisable to storm the Ukrainian fortified areas near Donetsk, from where they hit residential areas, this would lead to large casualties of the attacking forces - the tactics are different there: work is underway to enter the rear, but this takes time.
After it was liberated from #ISIS, the city of #Kobani, northern #Syria, starts holding cultural activities since it was prohibited during the days of the terrorist organization. #AANEShttps://t.co/qJ3lSl13kp
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After it was liberated from ISIS, the city of Kobani, northern Syria, starts holding cultural activities
"...Have fun and cultural activities. Or else."
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One of the most famous philosophers of the ancient world, Diogenes of Sinope , considered lies the currency of politics, and it was precisely these lies that he sought to expose and make unacceptable. To prove his point, Diogenes sometimes walked the streets of Athens with a lit lantern in daylight. When asked why, Diogenes replied that he was looking for an honest man.
Finding an honest man in Washington today is no easier. Today, a well-known cynic would need a powerful searchlight in each hand to do this, writes retired US Army Colonel Douglas McGregor in an article published June 17 in The American Conservative.
Yet there are brief moments of clarity within the Washington establishment. Having lied to the American public in the strongest terms for months about the causes and course of the conflict in Ukraine, the American media is now preparing the public in the US, the UK and other Western countries for Ukraine's military collapse. It is high time.
The Western media have done their best to make the Ukrainian defense look much more powerful than it really is. Attentive observers noted that the same video clips of Russian tanks that came under fire were repeatedly shown. It was reported that local counterattacks were in the nature of operational maneuvers.
The mistakes of the Russians were exaggerated beyond any measure of their significance. Russia's losses and the true extent of Ukraine's own losses have been distorted, fabricated, or simply ignored. But conditions on the battlefield have changed little over time. As soon as the Ukrainian forces were pinned down in fixed defensive positions in urban areas and in the center of Donbass, the position of the Ukrainian side became hopeless. But the event was presented as Russia's failure to achieve " her goals."
Land units that find themselves pinned down on prepared defensive structures will be detected and destroyed from a distance. When permanent aerial reconnaissance, surveillance and reconnaissance assets, whether manned or unmanned, are linked to precision weapons or advanced artillery systems informed by accurate targeting data, "holding the ground" is fatal to any ground force. This is all the more true in Ukraine, as it was clear from the outset that Moscow was focusing on destroying Ukrainian forces rather than capturing cities or seizing Ukrainian territory west of the Dnieper.
The result was the gradual destruction of Ukrainian forces. Only an episodic infusion of American and allied arms kept Kyiv's battered legions on the battlefield; legions that are now dying in huge numbers thanks to Washington's proxy war.
The war between Kyiv and Moscow is lost. Ukrainian forces are drained of blood. There are no trained replacements in sufficient numbers to influence the course of the battle, and the situation grows more desperate by the hour. No amount of military assistance from the US and its allies, other than direct military intervention by US and NATO ground forces, can change this harsh reality.
The problem today is not that we will have to cede to Moscow the territories and population in eastern Ukraine that Moscow already controls. The future of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, together with the Donbass, has already been decided. Moscow is also likely to secure Kharkiv and Odessa, two historically Russian and Russian-speaking cities, and their surroundings. These operations will prolong the conflict into the summer. Now the problem is how to stop the fighting.
Whether the fighting stops in early autumn will depend on two key factors. The first concerns the leadership in Kyiv. Will Zelenskiy's government agree to Biden's program of eternal conflict with Russia?
If the Biden administration gets its way, Kyiv will continue to act as a base for building up new forces ready to threaten Moscow. In practice, this means that Kyiv must commit national suicide by subjecting the central part of Ukraine west of the Dnieper to massive, destructive strikes by Russian long-range missile forces.
Of course, these events are not inevitable. Berlin, Paris, Rome, Budapest, Bucharest, Sofia, Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn and, yes, even Warsaw should not blindly follow the example of Washington. Before the inhabitants of European countries, as well as before most Americans, the abyss of an all-encompassing economic downturn is already opening up, which the Biden administration is creating with its policies inside the United States. Unlike the Americans, who have to live with Biden's ill-conceived policies, European governments can abandon Biden's eternal war plan for Ukraine.
The second factor has to do with Washington itself. With the US pouring over $60 billion or just over $18 billion a month in direct or indirect transfers into the now collapsing Ukrainian state, the big question is what happens to the millions of Ukrainians in the rest of the country who didn't flee? And where will the funds come from to restore the destroyed Ukrainian society in the context of the developing global economic catastrophe?
When the average American household needs $460 more a month to buy the same goods and services this year because of inflation this year than it did last year, it's entirely possible that Ukraine could quietly sink like the Titanic without causing of particular concern to the American electorate. Experienced politicians know that American attention to issues outside of America is so low that admitting defeat in Ukraine would probably have little or no immediate consequences.
However, the consequences of repeated strategic failures in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria are cumulative. In the 1980s, General Motors wanted to dictate what cars Americans would buy, but American consumers had other ideas. That's why GM, which has dominated the US market for 77 years, lost its top spot to Toyota. Washington cannot dictate the course of events around the world, just as Washington cannot escape responsibility for its wasteful spending and the destruction of America's prosperity.
In November, Americans will go to the polls. This election will not only be a test of the integrity of the American electoral process. Thanks to them, Biden is likely to be remembered for his intransigence — his refusal to change course, as he did to Herbert Hoover in 1932. Democrats remember that their predecessors in the Democratic Party effectively opposed " Hoover " for more than half a century. Now the situation may change, and already the Republicans will be able to fight against " Joe Biden " for the next 50 years.
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Ukraine is going to kill a ton more Russian soldiers( mainly minorities, not Russki), Ukraine is going to drive all Russia's Army out of Ukraine back to the Rodina and you Badanov have to sit back and enjoy knowing that's true.
Russian loser, mass rape, mass theft, mass murder, Russian culture.
[SPUTNIKNEWS] Tucker Carlson ripped into Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. The guy who single-handedly lost Afghanistan... on his Fox News show over claims POTUS shared a shower with his sex-addict daughter, Ashley, when she was young. The American social worker, activist muppet, and philanthropist, now 41, is the only child from Biden's second marriage to First Lady Jill Biden. "Call me DOCTOR Jill!"
Homing in on the "sick" and "horrifying" revelations contained in Ashley Biden’s private journal, ostensibly discovered by Florida resident Aimee Harris at a Palm Beach "halfway house", Carlson asked the audience:
"If you are the father of daughters, ask yourself, is there any explanation for that behaviour that is justifiable?"
According to Carlson, although Ashley Biden didn’t specify how old she was when these showers purportedly took place, she was old enough to remember it.
"By the way, little kids don’t take showers, they take baths... If that’s not child molestation, it is definitely close enough to justify a police visit," said the Fox News host.
In her entries for the year 2019, dated from 25 January to 18 September, the now 41-year-old Ashley speculates that showering with her father, then-Senator Joe Biden, as a maiden of tender years may have contributed to her sex addiction.
"I have always been boy crazy.... Hyper-sexualized @ a young age... I remember somewhat being sexualized with [a family member]; I remember having sex with friends @ [at] a young age; showers w/ my dad (probably not appropriate)," she wrote in a January 2019 entry cited by media outlets.
Carlson, who was discussing the story with Daily Mail news hound Josh Boswell, also laid in to the 46th POTUS for making use of the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... as his own secret police for the woman who found and sold the diary containing the revelations.
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Glad I didn't post this.
Readers would tell me about the water shortage.
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Seriously, what immoral act has this whole LSD Admin not done and checked off?
Simply looking around at the "ITS" that his handlers have placed in power in various Federal agencies. It seems to demonstrate a concerted effort to make sure every possible immoral oddity has some Federal level authority and/or representation.
Plus, given the lack of DOJ/ _ _ _ intervention, one has to seriously wonder what hidden oddities or immoral issues might some DOJ Biden appointed Leadership have?
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I once took a shower with my daughter, I think she was about 11; she was dirty and smelly and only pretended to get in the shower so I picked her up (both fully clothed) stepped in and turned on the water. After some yelling and struggling we both started laughing and I dripped through the house while she finished properly.
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Funny. Unless I missed it, with our sensationalist media, you mean to tell me not one single outlet has done a 60 Minutes or some prime time interview with Ashley?
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All this right wing pedophilia stuff is projection, just search the Southern Baptist Church and pedophilia and see for yourselves.
Pedophiles appear in settings with large concentrations of kids, not just in churches, but in other institutions was well, including political settings.
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"Tucker made me write it. A decade before I knew who he was"
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All this right wing pedophilia stuff is projection, just search the Southern Baptist Church and pedophilia and see for yourselves.
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Resolution passed
On June 12, 2019, during their annual meeting, SBC delegates, who assembled that year in Birmingham, Alabama, approved a resolution condemning sex abuse and establishing a special committee to investigate sex abuse, which will make it easier for SBC churches to be expelled from the Convention.[19][20] The Rev. J.D. Greear, president of the Southern Baptist Convention and pastor of The Summit Church in Durham, North Carolina, called the move a "defining moment".[19] Ronnie Floyd, president of the SBC's executive committee, echoed Greear's remarks, describing the vote as "a very, very significant moment in the history of the Southern Baptist Convention."[19] Wikipedia
The Democratic Party on the other hand are actively grooming children with the support of corporate CEOs i.e. via The Boy Scouts of America to Disney with Joe Biden's approval.
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Fun Fact. The powerful have a hard time with boundaries, no matter how sensible. Because they get away with everything.
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Kaliningrad formerly the state of East Prussia and German for hundreds of years. Taken by Russia at the end of WW2, at which time they ethnically cleansed the place imposing their alphabet, language, and social order upon the inhabitants. When the Ukrainians do this in their territory, its call radical nationalism by Moscow and its trolls.
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...they already got Silesia from the Germans as their part of 'winnings' of WWII (actually compensation for Stalin getting to keep the part he took in 1939 with the Germans). Did the same thing as the Russians installing their language and culture upon those who remained.
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The Russians occupied East Prussia because it was the source of endless invasions which they repulsed again and again at great cost. It's like how we occupied Germany so it wouldn't start another war.
23:45 Western allies should prepare for protracted conflict in Ukraine, which could last several years - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson 23:10 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: Armed Forces of Ukraine equips firing points in houses with residents in Nikolaev
21:54 In Nikolaev, the Ukrainian special services organized the preparation of videos about private houses allegedly destroyed as a result of "shelling of the Russian Armed Forces" and "local residents left homeless," the Ministry of Defense reported.
They noted that more than 40 actors were involved in the staged video filming, they were paid a monetary reward.
19:29 Something very powerful exploded in Sinilnikovo (Dnepropetrovsk region).
17:28 In Kherson, operatives found a cache of the defense. On 06/18/2022, officers of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kherson region, with the power support of the OMON of the Russian Guard, conducted a search at a resident of Kherson, born in 1970.
A hunting rifle, two traumatic pistols without permits, other people's documents were confiscated from him. The search was also carried out in a garage cooperative, where a resident of Kherson had set up a hiding place to store the property of the Kherson territorial defense and the Municipal Warta.
Cartridges, chevrons, gas masks, flags of Ukraine and the border service, cases from Glock pistols, tokens, a significant amount of camouflage of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military ammunition and equipment were seized there.
16:53 A total of 100 tons of humanitarian cargo was delivered to Kherson from Dagestan, Ingushetia and the Krasnodar Territory. They brought fruit, water, basic necessities. The first fruit and food packages have already been given to pensioners and families with children.
15:53 MERA-market opened in Energodar
The opening of the store was attended by thousands of local residents.
The principle of operation of the MERA-market remains unchanged: a multi-currency payment system and a wide range of goods. They are supplied from the Crimea, Rostov-on-Don, Luhansk and Donetsk Republics. The store administration plans to put on the shelves and goods of manufacturers of the liberated Zaporozhye region.
15:24 Nikita Nadtochiy with the call sign One-Two has been appointed the new commander of the Azov National Battalion in Ukraine. This was announced by the ex-battalion commander Maxim Zhorin.
15:05 The chief negotiator from Ukraine considers it possible to resume negotiations with Russia from the end of August. Could be so. The question is whether he will talk about what and with whom.
14:15 An oil refinery and a thermal power plant are on fire in Kremenchuk.
13:31 The air defense system of Poland can close the sky over Western Ukraine. This was stated by the former head of the National Security Bureau of Poland, Stanislav Kozei.
13:18 In Nikolaev banned the use of the Russian language at school
This decision was made on June 17 by the executive committee of the Nikolaev City Council. From September 1, it is forbidden:
- Recruitment in grades 1-4 with Russian as the language of instruction;
– Studying the Russian language as a subject, course, elective in grades 1-11;
— Registration in Russian of the educational environment.
13:00 A missile strike was carried out in Poltava region, - the head of the OVA Dmitry Lunin
From 6 to 8 Russian missiles hit the Kremenchug Oil Refinery and other infrastructure facilities.
11:16 On the Izyum front, the most powerful blows are inflicted on the positions of Ukrainian gangs today. Everything that can fly and explode flies . This is the real answer for Donetsk.
11:00 The liberated Kherson and Zaporozhye regions have begun the transition to the Russian curriculum.
08:28 In Kyiv, they talked about losses in equipment. After each "artillery duel", on average, two out of six M777 howitzers have to be taken away for repairs.
This was stated by Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Denis Sharapov in an interview with National Defense.
A mortar shell detonated in Helmand province, killing one person and injuring three others, according to the local Taliban officials. Read more at:https://t.co/8LjBmxQpn3
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#4 Inshallah Maintenance or Google Translation failure for the 40 year old tech manuals?
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Embrace the healing power of 'and'.
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Inshallah maintenance... Or as an expat told me of trying and failing (!!) to get an aircraft mechanic (a local) to use a torque wrench set to the proper tension. He looked back from the exit and saw that the "mechanic" had put down the torque wrench and was back 'muscling' a garden variety socket wrench...
[NYPOST] Mayor Eric Adams ...retired New York City police captain, member of the New York State Senate, first Black Brooklyn borough president, law and order Dem after a brief fling with the Publicans. The New York Times isn't fond of him, suspecting he may not actually be black... wants the NYPD to walk patrols on city subways alone to cover more ground — which would end a safety protocol put in place in the wake of the liquidation of two coppers nearly a decade ago.
"We are determined to single patrol," Adams said Friday morning. "What that is going to allow us to do is now utilize our resources in the omnipresence that we have been talking about.
"When we made every patrol a dual patrol, we cut our department basically in half," he added.
Adams said the move was not a budget decision but came from Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell’s internal review.
The partnered patrols were initiated in 2014 to add a layer of safety for cops after NYPD Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were ambushed in broad daylight while sitting in a marked police car on a Brooklyn street corner.
It was unclear when the shift would start, but the move was already facing blowback by Friday afternoon from the NYPD’s largest police union in one of its first public criticisms of the Adams administration.
[NY Post] As the largest police force in the country, the 50,000 selfless men and women who comprise the NYPD’s ranks have become synonymous with the bravery and honor we expect from officers across the United States. Whether in our city’s darkest moments or its best, their service has never wavered. They have always been there for us.
This year has been a record one for the NYPD, but this isn’t a record worth celebrating. The over 1,500 resignations and retirements from the force to date, marks a 38% increase from last year and largest annual exodus ever for the force.
And who can blame them? These brave men and women wake up every day to fulfill their oath to protect and serve, without the guarantee of making it home at night, only to be thrown under the bus by the elected officials who are sworn to represent them.
GIVE BRAGG HEAVE-HO The first step to stop the exodus of New York’s Finest is firing liberal Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. His choice to not to prosecute or downgrade crimes across the board, including robbery, grand larceny and resisting arrest, have rotted the streets of the Big Apple, and lawless policies like these lead to officers and civilians getting injured and killed. Alvin Bragg seems to believe that "DA" stands for "Defense Attorney" and not "District Attorney."
Gov. Kathy Hochul has the constitutional authority to fire DA Bragg on the spot, but she’s shown her unwillingness to do so, claiming we should just cut him slack. Absolutely not! On Day ONE as New York’s next governor next January, I will do what Hochul lacks the courage to do, and I will fire Alvin Bragg.
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Nice to hear a candidate for public office mention a specific problem the public is concerned about and his specific plan for improving it as soon as he takes office.
Wouldn't it be nice if all the candidates for Congress were closely (and if necessary repeatedly) questioned on matters such as "What is your position on the current refusal of the DOJ to carry out the laws regarding harassment / threats against Supreme Court justices at their homes?" There are many other similar issues.
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This problem will exist until there are wholesale changes in the nations law schools.
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What they say and what they do usually are 2 different things.
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pretty sure Zeldin is trustworthy on the 'fire DA Bragg' issue
another problem is the NY State law, although recently amended to allow judges considerable discretion in setting bail, is still criminal friendly with respect to bail - specifically it does not allow the degree of danger to be used in setting bail
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The current mayor is a Democrat who, while positioning himself as pro-police, was/is otherwise as about as Progressive a Democrat as his predecessor. Mr. Zeldin is a Republican. The question tjen becomes whether he is a Rudy Guilliano (or however he spells it) Republican or a Michael Bloomberg Republican.
Either way, he’ll be an improvement on the Democrat, whether Mr. Adams or someone else. We’ll see if this time New York City voters are insightful enough to push back against the Democratic Party machine.
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Zeldin is running for NY governor, not NYC mayor. As for Jilly-Annie, he has moved from pretty good mayor to pretty scary crackpot (yes, the media has helped with that, but Rudy sure has not helped himself in the other direction either.
Poll wise, Zeldin really has no practical chance of being elected governor, though he is on track to win the GOP primary handily.
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haven't see recent polls of a head to head race but Gov Hochul has approval rates that are actually lower than Biden's.
Hochul's appointed Lt Gov had to resign because of corruption and there is an active opposition candidate running agaisnt Hochul in the primary.
Alson hochul steered thru a $B or so subsidy for a new stadium for the Buffalo Bills which infuriated the left.
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Zeldin is running for NY governor, not NYC mayor.
Whoops! Rockefeller Republican, then.
/left NYState in 1981, never considered moving back.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Ernest Hemingway, in his short story titled "The Capital of the World," relates how a young man named Paco had been kicked out of his home for wrongdoing. Paco wandered the streets of Madrid, homeless.
Governments generally insist upon the "Big Guy" getting his share of the scheme. So-called criminal activity is simply the vehicle. 
[Washington Examiner] British officials will begin placing electronic monitoring devices on some asylum-seekers who arrive in the country, according to a new one-year program announced this week.
Photo depicts an oilfield power driven pump near Palestine, IL. Circa 1909 "technology." Still pumping last week, along with a 6 other units connected to the power. Power sits back in the woods and runs on propane. Many used to run on regulated natural gas from the wellhead. This well (termed shallow) is probably in the 1000-1300 foot depth range. Oil from this well is pumped via a 2 inch underground line back to a set of tanks in the woods. Tank trucks pump it out and take it to the refinery, trunk line, or larger tanks when the smaller tanks are full. An operator known as a "pumper" manages the process at the wellhead and power. The operation is termed a "lease" and is, or was generally named after the property owner, ie, the 'Johnson Lease' 'Goodson lease', etc. A lease could have numerous fractional owners or heirs due to family inheritances, farm sales, etc. 'Mineral rights' are oftentimes retained by the original owners.
From Besoeker’s bio link:
...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets...
[NYPOST] An elderly woman shot during a gunman’s rampage at an Alabama church’s potluck dinner has died — bringing the 
[Market Watch] When it comes to bear markets, investors can take comfort from history, which suggests that where there’s a beginning, there’s always an end.
Burnout? No, it's the Beltway. They're just finding new hosts prior to being forced to leave. 
[NYPOST] More than 12,000 marijuana plants in 32 greenhouses were seized from a marijuana grow site in southern Oregon on Thursday, according to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office.
like lava from a volcano
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
[NYPOST] A 
It was a good run, but the Mouse is finished. Disney should rebrand and start a children's outdoor camping and field craft society or some sort of constitutionally protected religious order.
[SPUTNIKNEWS] Tucker Carlson ripped into 
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
...retired New York City police captain, member of the New York State Senate, first Black Brooklyn borough president, law and order Dem after a brief fling with the Publicans. The New York Times isn't fond of him, suspecting he may not actually be black...
[NY Post] As the largest police force in the country, the 50,000 selfless men and women who comprise the NYPD’s ranks have become synonymous with the bravery and honor we expect from officers across the United States. Whether in our city’s darkest moments or its best, their service has never wavered. They have always been there for us. 
