[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.—Democrats have temporarily pushed pause on the January 6th hearings in order to lead an insurrection against the federal government.
"On January 6th, a branch of our federal government was almost overthrown because politicians used dangerous rhetoric that caused—wait, hold on everyone, I just got the update. Roe's been overturned!" said Representative Adam Schiff. "Okay, well if all the Republicans could please sit tight, there will be a brief recess while our Democratic caucus takes to the streets demanding we overthrow a branch of the federal government."
After closing down their presentation entitled "How Trump Undermined Institutional Authority", Democrats raced to join the crowd surrounding the Supreme Court building. "Rigged! Rigged decision!" shouted Senator Elizabeth Warren. "Judges must no longer be allowed to hold power! We will never abide by an illegitimate decision by an illegitimate court. Fight, fight!" she screamed as beleaguered police arrived in riot gear.
Despite the fact liberal states will still have the most permissive abortion laws in the world outside North Korea, Democrats helpfully painted the Supreme Court's decision as a matter of life and death. "They are literally going to enslave every woman in America and force them to have 17 babies," said Representative Ilhan Omar to a group of mentally unstable lunatics. "Which is why the Supreme Court cannot stand! To the streets!" she shouted, then returned to the House for a speech on why Trump's words were directly responsible for violence.
At publishing time, the January 6 committee had resumed its hearings to the stark sound of no one caring.
JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man who was recently sentenced to death in the killings of two corrections officers during an escape attempt five years ago has died in prison of an apparent suicide, corrections officials said.
Prison guards found Ricky Dubose unresponsive in his cell at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson around 4:45 p.m. Sunday, according to a Department of Corrections news release. The guards called for medical help and began rendering aid. The coroner at the prison declared Dubose dead at 5:56 p.m.
Dubose, 29, was sentenced to death June 16 after he was convicted of murder in the June 2017 shooting deaths of Sgt. Christopher Monica and Sgt. Curtis Billue.
Dubose and Donnie Rowe were being transported between prisons along with other inmates when they killed the two guards and escaped from the bus in Putnam County, southeast of Atlanta, on June 13, 2017. They were arrested days later in Tennessee.
Dubose was accused of firing the gun that killed the officers after he and Rowe slipped out of handcuffs and burst through an unlocked gate at the front of the bus. Prosecutors say Dubose grabbed one of the officers’ weapons and shot Monica, the guard, and then Billue, the driver, both in the head. Security cameras on the bus recorded the violent escape and roughly 30 other prisoners witnessed the killings.
Rowe was convicted of murder in September. A judge sentenced him to serve life in prison without parole after jurors couldn’t agree whether he should be sentenced to death.
The Department of Corrections is working with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to investigate Dubose’s death, which is standard procedure.
[Breitbart] The New York Supreme Court has struck down a New York City law, passed by Democrats late last year, that sought to give municipal voting rights to nearly a million foreign nationals.
As Breitbart News has chronicled, Democrats on the 51-member New York City Council approved a plan last month that allows more than 800,000 foreign nationals with green cards, visas, and work permits the opportunity to vote in citywide elections so long as they have resided in the city for at least 30 consecutive days.
Subsequently, black Americans in New York City, along with naturalized American citizens, the New York State Republican Party, the Republican National Committee (RNC), and Democrat officials like Councilman Robert Holden sued Mayor Eric Adams (D) and the city’s Board of Elections.
The lawsuit noted that the New York State Constitution expressly states that voting rights are a privilege reserved for American "citizens."
In its decision on Monday, the Court ruled that the law is "illegal, null, and void" because "it is clear ... that voting is a right granted to citizens of the United States," writing:
Local governments, including city governments, must be elected by the people, which is defined as citizens under Article II. Based upon the foregoing analysis, the Court finds that the Municipal Voting Law explicitly violates the New York State Constitution, as only "citizens" may vote in elections. [Emphasis added]
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The Court needs not look to the legislative intent of this section to know there is no carevout for noncitizens to vote under the Election Law. This section applies to "any" election within New York State. [Emphasis added]
The Court’s granting a permanent injunction will ensure that the New York City law is thrown out and that the Board of Elections cannot register foreign nationals to vote.
"Today’s ruling is a huge victory for election integrity and the rule of law: American elections should be decided by American citizens," RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a statement. "The RNC is proud to head a broad coalition in successfully challenging this unconstitutional scheme and will continue to lead the effort across the country to ensure only citizens can vote in America’s elections."
"This is a great win for the rule of law in our democratic election process," said former Ambassador Ken Blackwell, board member of the Public Interest Legal Foundation and chairman of the Center for Election Integrity at the America First Policy Institute.
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Its New York City - local polling stations will just look the other way when Jose comes to cast his ballot. Even if it gets enforced they'll still have the mail-in vote that'll be 90% for Dems anyway.
[Axios] Sanctions drive Russia to first foreign debt default since 1918
Russia is set to default on its foreign-currency sovereign debt after bond holders reported the Kremlin missed two payments late Sunday, per the Wall Street Journal.
Why it matters: This is the foreseeable outcome of sanctions imposed due to the invasion of Ukraine, even though Russia had successfully pushed off the inevitable for months. For now, the default is mostly notable for its symbolism as Russia's first foreign debt default since 1918, reflecting the country's international pariah status and crumbling economy.
Our thought bubble, via Axios' Felix Salmon: Bond defaults normally happen because the issuer doesn't want to make the payment. In this case, Russia was clearly willing to do so; it just wasn't able to.
The big picture:Russia hasn't defaulted on international debts since the Bolshevik Revolution, though it defaulted on domestic debt during a financial crash in 1998.
Russian officials have struggled with payments on $40 billion of outstanding bonds since the U.S. and allies moved to impose sanctions on the country after Putin's forces launched their invasion last February.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin signed a decree last week for a temporary measure giving the government 10 days to pick banks to handle payments under a new scheme, indicating Russia will regard its debt obligations fulfilled by paying bondholders in rubles, Reuters reports.
What to watch: Although the deadline passed for Russian officials to meet a 30-day grace period on interest payments that were originally due on May 27, it could be a while before a default is confirmed, AP notes.
Maybe the debtors should require payment in bullion?
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The two largest Pride parades in the country - New York City and San Francisco - were interrupted on Sunday by a panicked crowd mistakenly hearing gunfire
In Manhattan, revelers celebrating in Washington Square Park scattered after hearing bangs, which NYPD confirmed were fireworks
In San Francisco, police said they responded to reports of a shooting near Civic Center but were unable to locate any shooting or victims
The Pride celebrations come amid a moment of deep tension nationwide, with Friday's ruling overturning Roe v Wade sparking protests across the country
In Arizona protesters tried to break into the Senate, and in Iowa a man drove his truck through a crowd of protesters; ugly scenes also unfolded in Los Angeles
[FoxNews] Manhattan has hemorrhaged about 12% of the staff so far this year.
Hundreds of prosecutors in New York City are quitting the district attorneys' offices amid controversial criminal justice reforms.
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's office this year has hemorrhaged 65 assistant district attorneys, which is about 12% of the staff.
Bragg released a memo on his third day in office, ordering prosecutors not to seek prison sentences for a number of crimes and to downgrade charges – including for robberies and commercial burglaries.
Manhattan's situation mirrors that of Brooklyn, where 67 prosecutors — approximately 13% — have resigned from DA Eric Gonzalez's office as of June 17, with three more leaving last Thursday alone, according to the New York Post. In 2020, 84 resigned, and 94 left office in 2021. Fifty-nine prosecutors have quit in the Bronx beginning this year through May.
The resignations come amid state criminal justice reforms that some have criticized for being too onerous.
In 2019, New York adopted discovery requirements that ordered lawyers to turn over large amounts of material to the defense in a short amount of time.
Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, a former Manhattan assistant district attorney and trial division chief who prosecuted Harvey Weinstein, told the New York Post that such regulations are "crippling our lawyers."
"You become a file clerk rather than a trial lawyer," she said, providing the example of how every officer's bodycam footage at a protest might have to be produced if there are allegations of wrongdoing.
[FoxNews] Three dedicated experts reveal keen insights to relieve sleep issues among those suffering from PTSD.
On Monday, June 27, PTSD Awareness Day — and on every day of the year, for that matter — it's important for all Americans to recognize that up to 30% of service members experience some sort of post-traumatic stress from their experiences during wartime or deployments or from other traumatic events, such as sexual and physical assault.
Dr. Yuval Neria, a Columbia University professor of medical psychology and PTSD expert, told Fox News Digital in an interview that PTSD sufferers often find difficulty falling asleep due to anxiety, agitation and hyper-vigilance.
They also may experience chronic nightmares.
"Nightmares are really a common symptom of PTSD," said Neria. "People are terrified by their nightmares and always very ambivalent about whether to fall asleep or not because they know that they may meet their demons," he also said.
RAND Corporation senior behavioral scientist and sleep expert Dr. Wendy Troxel agreed that nightmares, along with feeling "chronically vigilant" and experiencing flashbacks, are among the hallmark symptoms of PTSD.
"There’s even some evidence that sleep disturbances can predict the onset of post-traumatic stress disorder," she said in an interview with Fox News Digital.
Troxel led a 2015 RAND Corporation study that found that only 37% of veterans achieve adequate sleep — while more than half reported some sort of sleep disturbance.
Jen Satterly, a St. Louis-based certified health coach and respected authority on PTSD, has worked closely with combat veterans and others who have dealt with PTSD issues.
"Sleep — and a lack of thereof — is such a huge issue in this community, and it really affects everything," she told Fox News Digital in an interview this past weekend. "Unfortunately, for our special operators, they work in reverse cycle — so they've trained their whole lives to work at night."
Satterly worked alongside many special ops combat forces in the field and today helps veteran couples and others address their PTSD issues head-on, along with her husband, Tom Satterly, a highly decorated combat veteran whose story was portrayed in the Oscar-winning 2001 film "Black Hawk Down," about the 1993 battle in Somalia.
For veterans and active duty service members who recognize they may have PTSD symptoms or who want to try to ward it off completely — and for their loved ones and other family members going through these issues right alongside them — here are five expert tips on how to get better sleep.
1. Establish a routine to promote sleepiness
The best way to get into the groove of consistent sleep is to maintain a regular sleep-wake schedule.
"Our bodies and our brains simply work better when we have predictable, reliable routines," said Wendy Troxel. "And the best place to start with that is having a regular wake-up routine."
Troxel advised beginning by waking up at the same time every day followed by immediate exposure to sunlight.
"That's a very powerful cue to set our internal biological clocks, otherwise known as our circadian rhythms."
Neria, an Israeli military veteran, said people should avoid taking naps during the day in order to promote sleepiness at night.
The psychologist also mentioned the importance of daily exercise, since physical activity will exert energy as well as improve mental health.
2. Avoid alcohol, especially at night
Imbibing a few alcoholic beverages at night may make people feel sleepy at first — but alcohol is not a sleep aid.
"It is a sedative," Troxel said. "Sedation is not sleep."
Excessive alcohol, which the body must process during the night, will actually cause fragmented sleep — which disturbs REM sleep.
REM, or rapid eye movement, is the part of sleep most associated with emotional processing, learning and memory consolidation.
"So, by disrupting and fragmenting sleep, particularly REM sleep, this can further disrupt one's ability to emotionally regulate, which can exacerbate any other mental health symptoms," said Troxel.
Neria added that people with PTSD already have "great difficulty" achieving REM sleep due to disturbances such as nightmares.
3. Get up for a bit if struggling to fall asleep
For those who are tossing and turning and waiting for sleep to kick in, getting out of bed for a short time may help.
"Go to a chair in the room or go to a separate room and do something that's relaxing but distracting," Troxel said. That way, "you can actually get your body and your brain sleepy again so that you're able to fall back to sleep."
The key is to avoid stimulation from light or aggressive activity — so busying your brain with reading a book, listening to music or engaging in deep breathing could help, especially if a nightmare was the culprit in disrupting your sleep.
"Those types of self-soothing strategies can be really helpful, and you do that until you're ready to return to bed," said Troxel.
4. When to seek treatment
It might be time to seek medical treatment if sleep problems persist for more than three nights a week for longer than a month, noted Troxel.
"Better to nip it in the bud sooner rather than later, because the more chronic it becomes, the more debilitating it can become," she said.
5. Other suggestions
Consider taking natural supplements such as magnesium and melatonin, said Jen Satterly of All Secure Foundation; it's always wise to check with your doctor first. "Work on your gut health for better sleep as well," she said.
...over-the-counter prebiotics and probiotics, yoghurt, kimchi, sauerkraut, and other fermented foods and drinks improve the diversity of the gut flora
Don’t drink caffeine at least 8 to 10 hours before bed.
Also, consider reducing or removing energy drinks from your diet.
Use meditation or sleep-assist apps such as Calm to help relax into sleep, "without having the TV on," she said, "which can keep you awake in the long run."
Check with your doctor to see if you should have your hormone levels tested.
[Liberty Daily] Think about the worst thing a U.S. Senate candidate could say on a recorded conversation with a prison inmate. Whatever you thought of, the things Krystle Matthews said were worse and Project Veritas delivered the audio just two days before her runoff to represent Democrats as their U.S. Senate candidate in South Carolina.
"We need some secret sleepers," she said. "Like you need them to run as the other side, even though they for our side. And we need them to win. We need people to run as Republicans in these local elections. This is the only way you’re gonna change the dynamics in South Carolina."
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Dems have been doing this for years to 'select' primaries in Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa and Minnesota. The plan usually doesn't work, but sometimes it does. It has a secondary strategy, however.
Run a stealth candidate, make the real conservative expend buckets of time and money during the primaries, thus lessening his/her effectiveness during the real elections.
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When I was working Ga. campaigns in the mid 70's to early 80's. Cross-over voting and paying for a shill candidate to keep the opponent was common. Over the years, the process just got harder with a collection of Campaign Finance Voting law changes.
BTW: Herschel Walker (R) got 413,361 votes compared to Warnocks (LSD) 151,019.
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BTW: Herschel Walker (R) got 413,361 votes compared to Warnocks (LSD) 151,019.
Which means Warnock will win in the general election by 557,000 votes. And Raffensperger will say it's all good.
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^ Brutal realism. Real brutalism. Something like that...
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I believe they've been doing this everywhere for years. Run a crazy hard right and a moderate against real Republicans. One might win, or you might just force the Republican to say something that makes people stay home. The left have always treated elections as a war against evil and any tactic however dishonorable is acceptable.
The right on the other hand, well any of them that deny this, or do nothing to stop the tactic can be assumed to be in on it, but protecting their position as long as they can.
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And GOPe comes up with people like Roy Moore and Todd Akin.
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Manchurian candidates (RINOS) placed in the Pub Party to create a single party? No wonder things are so screwed up in D.C. Time for a Declaration of Independence 2,0. Time to restore and reaffirm the Bill of Rights and shift power from Washington to the people and States via the 10th Amend. There needs to be term limits and a reformation of the tax struture; a flat tax might be a good approach.
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All you need to know about the authenticity of the demokrat black political class and working the white guilt ATM:
"Matthews complained about black people in South Carolina: “Honestly, these ain’t the same type of black people that I grew up around. I don’t recognize these black people.”
She continued, “Listen, I can’ move in all kind of circles but I’m a n***** at heart…. I’m very much a n***** in a lot of ways, but I know how to turn it off and turn it on.”
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They've been doing this at the Presidental level for decades: Mitt Romney, John McCain. I believe there were one or two primary candidates the media was fawning over leading up to the 2016 primary before Trump blew them away. They had no hope in 2020 with Trump.
Generally if the media is fawning over a Republican Candidate leading up to a primary - its a RINO.
[Oleg Atbashian] This is a brilliant study, profusely illustrated with cartoons and propaganda posters. Atbashian explains why Socialism cannot work. He exposes the injustice of "Collective Greed" and shows why Economic Equality is a fraud. The book is an eye-opener as the author illustrates his points with examples drawn from his life in the Soviet Union before 1994 and more recent events in the USA.
"Oleg Atbashian has written a timely warning for Americans about the collectivists among us and their plans for the future. I hope everyone reads this book."
-- David Horowitz, Author of One Party Classroom (2009)
"In his brilliant, witty, and wonderfully illustrated Shakedown Socialism, Oleg Atbashian -- who grew up in the Soviet Union, shows what is happening in Obama's America today, and explains why it is putting us on the road to ruin. Shakedown Socialism is an enlightening, sobering, and wonderfully clear explanation of why statism kills -- and thus also of why and how Barack Obama is killing the American economy. This book shows why Obama's statist economic policies are a looming disaster for America and for the spirit of the free human individual."
-- Pamela Geller, author, The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War On America
"Brightly written and filled with entertaining and illuminating illustrations, Oleg Atbashian's Shakedown Socialism is a clear and eye-opening guide to exactly what is wrong with socialism and state control of the means of production, and how it kills both the economy and human initiative. Shakedown Socialism is an essential and inspiring guide to the virtues of the free market."
About the author:
Oleg Atbashian is an American writer and graphic artist. He was born in June, 1960, in Cherkassy, Ukraine, which was then part of the totalitarian Soviet Union. His writings present a view of America and the world through the prism of his Soviet experience. He is the author of Shakedown Socialism and the creator of a satirical website, ThePeoplesCube.com, which Rush Limbaugh described on his show as "a Stalinist version of The Onion." His essays and satires have been translated into many languages and his graphics reproduced in various publications around the world.
Raised in a communist dictatorship, he grew up believing in Marxism and in the communist future. From 1983 to 1986 he worked as a propaganda artist, creating visual agitprop for the local Party committee in a Siberian town. Observing the hypocrisy and corruption of the socialist system, however, he gradually reexamined his Marxist upbringing. Having returned to Ukraine in 1986, he joined the opposition movement, lending his apartment to dissident gatherings and collecting signatures in defense of Soviet dissidents.
His first Russian-language short stories were published in Moscow in 1990. Around the same time his translations of contemporary Russian, Ukrainian, and American poetry were published in the U.S., Russia, and Ukraine. He also wrote articles in Russian and Ukrainian for several newspapers. He now writes exclusively in English.
Atbashian emigrated to the United States in 1994 and settled in New York City, hoping to forget about politics and raise his three children in a country governed by reason and the rule of law. Working across the street from the World Trade Center, he witnessed the 9/11 attacks from a block away. That shocking experience was soon followed by his disenchantment with the American cultural establishment that almost uniformly blamed America for the attacks and used painfully familiar Marxist concepts of "anti-colonialism" and "class struggle." That prompted him to start speaking against the leftist ideology that permeated the American political scene.
Atbashian describes his political views as classical liberalism, with the emphasis on individual freedoms, free market capitalism, and international peace based on free trade.
In 2011 he moved from New York to Florida, where he now resides in the Tampa Bay area.
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He exposes the injustice of "Collective Greed" and shows why Economic Equality is a fraud.
Socialism sells an unattainable utopia. They demand total power. Our Founders realized man is inherently a corruptible creature. They proscribed limits on power. There is no guess on who had a better grasp of how the world really works.
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^ Cancer cells grow uncontrollably, hoard resources, spread throughout the body and hide from the immune system. Eventually they kill the host. Pretty good analogy!
[PJ] With several controversial SCOTUS rulings addressing divisive issues like gun rights and abortion, an exchange between Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Dr. Debra Birx during a congressional hearing on Thursday escaped scrutiny. However, if a power-hungry politician, university, or employer compelled you or someone you love to receive an experimental vaccine in the last two years, it may make you furious. And Birx should be ashamed of herself for not speaking out earlier.
The House Oversight and Reform Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis held a hearing with Birx Thursday morning. Jordan questioned Birx on the United States’ participation in and funding of the World Health Organization and gain of function research. Birx was candid that she felt the United States should withhold funding from the WHO until needed reforms occurred. She also admitted the U.S. should not participate in some gain-of-function research, such as any in China.
However, Jordan’s questions about the Biden administration’s message on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness should shock the conscience. Jordan asked Birx if the government was lying or guessing when it told the public that people who received the vaccination couldn’t get COVID. Birx responded that she did not know. However, she continued (emphasis added):
"All I know is there was evidence from the global pandemic that natural reinfection was occurring. Since the vaccine was based on natural immunity, you cannot make the conclusion that the vaccine will do better than natural infection. Although it can often do slightly better."
It is unclear what vaccine produces better immunity to an illness than recovering from a natural infection, nor did Birx expand. Why didn’t she speak up about this while still in office? Public health "experts" like Dr. Anthony Fauci actively tried to convince Americans that natural immunity was inferior to the jabs. It is also unclear what large numbers of reinfections Birx was referring to, since most positive post-infection tests were reported in asymptomatic people. One study in preprint finds that the spike protein, the part of the virus the tests detect, can be in a recovered patient’s body for up to 12 months post-infection. How this could affect post-recovery testing in asymptomatic patients is unknown.
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If Gheys were practicing monogamous sex, this and HIV and AIDS wouldn't spread. It's the Bathhouse promiscuous behavior patterns that spread diseases. Whoda thunk it, right, Barack?
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CDC Monkey Pox Comments
"Monkeypox is rare and does not spread easily between people without close contact. The threat of monkeypox to the general U.S. population remains LOW."
Surprise CA. NY, Ill & Fla. account for
64.79+/-% of all cases.
So if a person is part of the US overestimated 3.4+/-% that are Gay or Bi-Sexual or have a Bi-partner. Then you stand about 3 in 100 chance of getting it.
Compared to a heterosexuals (Straight), odds of 0.00005760233918128655 of 1% / 100 in the USA.
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So if a person is part of the US overestimated 3.4+/-% that are Gay or Bi-Sexual or have a Bi-partner. Then you stand about 3 in 100 chance of getting it.
Compared to a heterosexuals (Straight), odds of 0.00005760233918128655 of 1% / 100 in the USA.
That's what mathematicians, statisticians, g@mblers and finance geeks call "a pretty big spread."
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anyone ask Pence what he was doing for over a year leading the Covid response team yet never having a press conference despite the ever changing narrative and rules coming out of Fauci?
[NYP] If you’ve flown recently, or attempted to, it might have gone something like this: Your 1 p.m. flight became a 5 p.m. flight became a midnight flight before being summarily canceled. No explanation is given. The next flights out are already fully booked, but they have a middle seat with two stopovers leaving next week if that still works for you.
We’ve put up with so much from airlines. Food on airplanes is now limited to crackers and a shot glass of soda. We pay exorbitant amounts to check baggage. Only some people get to bring a carry-on bag on the plane. We pay to choose our seat. A seat, by the way, that is designed for someone who is 4’8" and 95 pounds. They’ve tortured us in a variety of ways.
We dealt with it because they got us from point A to point B swiftly and safely. Sometimes it was even cheaply. We accepted the continued downgrading of service because they had something we wanted that only they could deliver. But airlines are not keeping up their end of the bargain. We’re missing meetings, events, family time and more because they just can’t get their act together.
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I'm done with airlines whenever humanly possible. Livestock get better treatment. I'm old enough to remember when you wore a suit and tie to fly, the seats were comfortable, fellow passengers were well behaved, leg-room was more than adequate, and the food was quite good, served on a small tray with actual metal siverware, and the stewardess was cordial and deferential. Of course the plane was a four engine Constellation turboprop and Eisenhower as still in office!
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The airline industry would have gone under w/o the subsidy. It was justified as a national defense priority if memory is correct. Not saying it was right or wrong.
People were to frightened to fly. Freight traffic increased though.
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Screw the airline industry, I don't fly why should my taxes go to bail out ANOTHER airline. There is demand , that means someone will always step up to start another 1. Hell, put the cartels on it, they could do a better job.
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[NYT via ZERO] A fresh New York Times report has confirmed what many already suspected - that the CIA is still very active inside Ukraine - especially with training as well coordinating weapons among its Ukrainian allies. The Times report details "a stealthy network of commandos and spies rushing to provide weapons, intelligence and training," based on US and European intelligence officials with knowledge of the operations. The report says Ukrainian forces are reliant on this Western clandestine network "more than ever" while outgunned by the Russians. "Clandestine?" Well, yes. It was when we started.
This comes months after investigative journalist Zach Dorfman's bombshell expose in Yahoo News which detailed how a prior 8-year long CIA covert program to train Ukrainian fighters helped provoke the Russian invasion. The only question that remained after that March report was the extent to which the CIA was still active in the ongoing fight against the invading Russians. Bombshell? What bombshell ?
The new Times reporting confirms that the US program is not only active and ongoing, but appears larger in scale than previously thought given the CIA's close cooperation with the Ukrainians is happening both inside and outside the country, across multiple locations. Sort of like...."Gain of Function." No ?
"Much of this work happens outside Ukraine, at bases in Germany, France and Britain, for example. But even as the Biden administration has declared it will not deploy American troops to Ukraine, some C.I.A. personnel have continued to operate in the country secretly, mostly in the capital, Kyiv, directing much of the vast amounts of intelligence the United States is sharing with Ukrainian forces, according to current and former officials," the report indicates.
It appears much the CIA's work in Ukraine is centered on coordinating intelligence with local intel services and counterparts. "Few other details have emerged about what the C.I.A. personnel or the commandos are doing, but their presence in the country — on top of the diplomatic staff members who returned after Russia gave up its siege of Kyiv — hints at the scale of the secretive effort to assist Ukraine that is underway and the risks that Washington and its allies are taking," NY Times continues. Risks? Yes, that's why we published the story. No one likes surprises.
Over the weekend, Canada also has been reported to have special operations troops inside Ukraine. This was reported months ago, but with a separate NYT report offering further confirmation. "Both CTV and Global News reported in late January that Canadian special forces had been sent to Ukraine, but National Defense did not comment on that deployment," Ottawa Citizen writes Sunday. Back in January, a full two months before the invasion, Yahoo News disclosed the following: That's correct. The Embassy cafeteria is closed indefinitely. Don't come here. Use the alternate messing plan.
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Meanwhile Russia has an army inside Ukraine. Putin started the war, and has threatened multiple other countries since.
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I find it amusing he's threatening the Finn's. It's not like the Russians have a good track record in regards to Finland. And messing with people who like to scream "Hakkapeliitta" (Cut them down) as a battle cry, maybe poking the isn't a good idea? Especially when you are already WAY overextending just fighting the Ukraine. But hey, tap dance through that minefield all you want Putin, I'm just going to make popcorn.
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Perhaps some sort of 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo could be established. Some of the city names could remain the same, and the missions could stay open.
Mission monks? No, French Laundry culinary staff photo.
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I'm not exactly a fan of the Agency, but they'd be incompetent and/or negligent if they weren't doing something of the sort in the circumstances. As for the Russian whining, whose army is on whose side of the border again?
[Hot Air] Since the announcement of the decision in Dobbs on Friday, elected officials and media personalities across the board have been weighing in with their own takes as you would expect. But one of the last people I would have expected to dive into the public debate was Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. And yet he somehow made the decision to wade into the Roe v Wade issue up to his hips. This turned out to be a very poor decision for several reasons, as we’ll see in a moment, but the question here goes far beyond one retired military officer’s personal views. The spectacle Austin created was simply damaging and Lloyd Austin needs to either resign or be fired, not that Joe Biden will make any such move. At Redstate, Mike Miller highlights Austin’s comments and points out how wrong he managed to get the entire affair.
[ZERO] A new talk by Professor John J. Mearsheimer has recently been made public, wherein the famous author and political science theorist details the causes and consequences of the Ukraine war. Mearsheimer became more well-known, and "controversial" in establishment circles, after it emerged that he clearly predicted going back to 2014 the war which kicked off in Feb. 2022. Correct me if I'm wrong....again, but I believe wat he is saying (has been saying for many years) is 'stay the fok out of it.' Amiright ?
He had said in a 2014 University of Chicago lecture, "The West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path and the end result is Ukraine is going to get wrecked." This tragedy for the Ukrainian people is playing out now, with little hope that now totally defunct Russia-Ukraine ceasefire talks will halt the fighting. Other than efforts of France's Macron, attempts at basic diplomacy and direct communications are all but dead.
As the lecture intro describes: Prof. Mearsheimer focused on both the origins of the war in Ukraine and some of its most important consequences. He argues that the crisis is largely the result of the West’s efforts to turn Ukraine into a Western bulwark on Russia’s border. Russian leaders viewed that outcome as an existential threat that had to be thwarted.
While Vladimir Putin is certainly responsible for invading Ukraine and for Russia’s conduct in the war, Prof. Mearsheimer states that he does not believe he is an expansionist bent on creating a greater Russia.
Regarding the war’s consequences, the greatest danger is that the war will go on for months if not years, and that either NATO will get directly involved in the fighting or nuclear weapons will be used — or both. Furthermore, enormous damage has already been inflicted on Ukraine. A prolonged war is likely to wreak even more devastation on Ukraine.
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Was Mearsheimer a lone voice in the forest, or were there others of a like mind ?
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There were SCORES of other top Russia experts, diplomats, scholars, CIA officials, military strategy experts who said the same thing going all the way back to Clinton's regime.
George Kennan in 1998; also around that time:
Edward Luttwak
Harvard Historian Richard Pipes
Ambassador Jack Matlock
Paul Nitze
Princeton Historian Stephen F. Cohen
Henry Kissinger
Current CIA Chief and then-Ambassador to Russia, Bill Burns, in his famous memo to Condi Rice in 2008
Senators Bill Bradley and Sam Nunn
Columbia Political Scientists Seweryn Bialer, Robert Jervis, Bob Legvold and Jack Snyder
German Foreign Policy expert Josef Joffe
Former CIA Russia Desk lead Ray McGovern
This was a train wreck that has been in motion for the vet a quarter century. So painfully obvious to every single American expert on Russia, and yet ignored by every one of the last five administrations.
1. Arrogance: "Because we can," as Bill Clinton loved to say. End of History! America triumphant!
2. Ignorance: foolish unawareness of Russian history, of Russian national pride, of Russian geography, of even the most basic economic facts of Russian production. See Obama's stupidity: "Russia makes nothing the world wants" -- try oil, gas, potash, titanium, neon, platinum, coal, nickel, and wheat, you ignorant little fool. Ignorance of Russian national strategy, and the simple fact that EVERY Russian elite -- as Bill Burns said, "from the knuckle-staggers in the deepest recesses of the Kremlin to the sharpest and most liberal Russians"-- that every Russian views NATO, correctly, as a hostile and threatening military power thatust not under any circumstances be allowed to expand into any part of Ukraine -- especially not Crimea.
And then there's the colossal ignorance of a generation of US politicians who grew up in an era that sneered at the achievements of "dead white males" -- like the greatest modern poet, the greatest modern novelist, the greatest modern playwright, the greatest modern composers and pianists, all of them Russian. Not to mention complete ignorance of Russian and European history, and the central, indispensable role that Russia has always played in Europe's security architecture for 200 years.
Clinton is an exception but he was too distracted and Russia too weak during his time for him to apply his intelligence to the problem. His expansion of NATO in 1998 sent the train rolling downhill toward today's train wreck.
3. Incompetence: see Bush's proclamation at the Bucharest Summit -- which resulted in Georgia's starting a foolish war that ended in disaster. See Obama's foolish provocations in the Maidan fiasco -- which unleashed violent Ukrainian ethnic-nationalism and fascism, triggering eight years of savage civil war and acreign of terror that killed over 13,000. See Trump's foolish decision to begin training these Ukrainian thugs in December 2017.
See Biden's unbelievable string of provocations in 2021 from March (encouraging Zelensky to seek NATO membership and claim Crimea) through July (the US-Ukrainian "See Breeeze" hostile and unbelievably provocative naval exercises off Crimea) and September and November's declarations.
4. Russophobia and reverse racism: the degree of stupidity, astonishing ignorance hostility and foolish arrogance shown above is not found when it comes to China or any Asian nation, or the Arabs and Africans for that matter. Chinese sensitivities must be deferred to. Japan's pride must be respected. Spheres of influence are respected. Rule of law prevails.
But when it comes to the Great Whitey, all that goes out the window. No deference or diplomatic finesse, as with Xi Jinping; no, the White Leader's evil! He's a "thug"! Same for Arab or African chaos states that require us to avoid provocative or insulting language. Ah, but the Great Evil Whitey, why, "Russia makes nothing the world wants!"
We're seeing an orgy of stupid Whitey-Hatred now, and Russia is the ultimate symbol of everything loathed by the left, the greens, and the global Ghey-trans civil rights freaks. It has tons of oil. It refuses to let ghey sign prey on schoolchildren. Russia is pro-family and its population and fertility are increasing. Russia's proud of traditional European culture and makes no apologies for it. Russia rejected Pfizer's monstrous experimental therapy that doesn't work and that's caused millions of horrible adverse side effects.
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#3 It has become difficult to rationally discuss. People have taken sides, some tribally, some out of sentiment or personal friendships. But one thing that can be agreed upon by all is that the stated reasons for this catastrophe are utter nonsense.
After the fall of the Soviet Union one of the first things they asserted was their concept of border nations and legitimate Russian analysts universally said, 'they really mean it'. Putin has said the same things in direct language for decades. This was a provocation and one that has been incrementally building for years.
Why? We live in a time of governments that do not serve their own people but other agendas set by small groups of internationalists. How any of this benefits them is beyond, well me primarily, but I see no other threads that should have begun to create a recognizable pattern.
At this point in time, I only hope there is an ambitious 18 Alpha or more in theater who can help some of the obscenely orphaned billions of dollars find a new home.
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/\ At this point in time, I only hope there is an ambitious 18 Alpha or more in theater who can help some of the obscenely orphaned billions of dollars find a new home.
They'd better dust off the EXFIL plan. I'm afraid there will be no 'happy ending' on this one.
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And "Jeremiah" chimes in with the "nothing is Russia's fault" line of Kremlin BS. No mention of Russia's role in the "violent ethno-centrism" in Ukraine, no mention that Russia invaded over what in past decades the Russians would have lectured the world was "a purely internal matter".
Because Sainted Russia -- run by a gangster, with a population that has a hard time finding a future outside the vodka bottle -- is supposedly the future of "western" civilization.
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No mention of Russia's role in the "violent ethno-centrism" in Ukraine,
Crawford is a caricature of a spitting Russophobe. Of course Putin deserves blame for invading. Mearsheimer' amd every other Russian expert's point is that the ultimate blame resides with NATO and the five US presidents whose foolishness, arrogance and gross incompetence created the crisis in the first place.,they bear most of the blame. No honestvassessment can conclude otherwise.
Within Ukraine, the violently Russophobic Ukrainian nationalists bear almost the entirety of the blame.
A bit of history. The internal diplomatic balancing act -- over Crimea and the rights of the pro-Russian eastern provinces -- that was pursued successfully within Ukraine throughout the 1990s was upset by the bandit and fake democrat Tymoshenko after 2004. At that point the nationalists began a surreal campaign to purge the entire country of any taint of Russianness -- in everyday language, in the schools, the culture, and supplemented this was harsh punitive measures that benefited their own corrupt crony billionaires while ripping off and suppressing the rights of Russian speakers.
Imagine your children and their teachers suddenly being forced to use a language nobody uses. That all of your favorite films and television programs are suddenly dubbed in that weird, harsh grating and inferior patois. That all the street signs suddenly have ridiculous new names reflecting the nationalist insanity.
That your local assembly no longer has basic rights and cannot pass local ordinances any more. That all your taxes are suddenly being redirected to the piss-poor worthless regions favored by the same corrupt thieving nationalist politicians who forced your language underground. Ukrainian nationalism ran amok beginning around 2004. It's the central fact in the domestic story.
Even Zelensky, when he improbably slouched into the presidency in 2019, was solidly against Ukrainian nationalism and foolish provocations.
It was only the combined pressure on him by extreme right-wing fascist political parties such as Right Sector as well as the return to power of the Nuland Biden and Jake Sullivan crew in March 2021 that caused the little comedian to suddenly go 180 degrees, becoming the defiant pro-NATO would-be conqueror of Crimea
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Within Ukraine, the violently Russophobic Ukrainian nationalists bear almost the entirety of the blame.
Doing nothing more that what the Russians did to the ethnic Germans of the former East Prussia, now Kaliningrad. 'It all depends upon who's ox is getting gored'
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None of this moistens my panties at all. I'm just a little upset because so many people have to die so that Hunter Biden can get a seat on the Gazprom board of directors.
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I don't see Besoeker thinking I believe he wears panties. Enjoy your Mearsheimer all-day sucker.
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I, myself, believe we should not be aligned with Ukraine at all. It's a corrupto-state. That's what makes it so attractive to the corruptos inside the beltway.
No aged academic blathering is needed to explain that.
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We're fucked now precisely because our idiot leaders didn't listen to the dozens of wise men, including Mearsheimer, who told them to pull back from the brink.
If Obama had listened to them prior to 2014 none of this would have happened.
If Biden had listened to them in March and forced negotiations and a settlement on Ukraine then, we would have cutvour losses and avoided a trillion dollars in economic losses and spared tens of thousands in lives
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^ Bath House Barry say Ukraine as another piece of ammo in his fight against the non-communist world. The Vindman saga confirms it.
Where was Mearsheimer when Trump needed to be told to essentially ignore almost backstabber he hired, including his own fambly?
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Say, not say.
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"This particular obscure academic over here agrees with me" is just not a compelling argument.
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Imagine your children and their teachers suddenly being forced to use a language nobody uses. That all of your favorite films and television programs are suddenly dubbed in that weird, harsh grating and inferior patois. That all the street signs suddenly have ridiculous new names reflecting the nationalist insanity.
Back in the early 1990s, my Czech and Polish au pair girls told interesting stories about being forced to study Russian in school.
My paternal grandmother was one of the linguists who at the turn of the last century did the studies that categorized Latvian as a formal language rather than as mere debased peasant dialect. She was born a Russian, but her son was born a Latvian with a national history and literature to support it. Also military training for all schoolboys against future Russian reconquest, as did indeed happen.
As for the suffering of the poor Russian speakers, that is exactly what the Russia as the Soviet Union did to the Ukrainian-speaking Ukrainians for the better part of a century. What a transparent argument to justify a second attempt at cultural genocide you make, Jeremiah Angusoque4776.
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I've come to the conclusion that they pay by the word in Saint Petersburg. Say, two rubles per? I hope they allow The New Guys to post the same work on multiple sites!
So "Jeremiah" wrote himself lunch in this thread alone?
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^I think we can safely lay to rest the old racial stereotype of Ivan being drunk and lazy. As a penny-a-word hack, "Jeremiah" seems really quite industrious! (You have to be. I started my writing career as a penny-a-word hack.)
[OneIndia] A terrorist was arrested in Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... 's Doda district on Sunday, a police official said.
A pistol, one magazine and some rounds were recovered from the terrorist, the official said.
Based on a specific information, the terrorist was nabbed by a joint search party of the police and security forces from the outskirts of Doda town, the official added.
...also in our archives as Haroon al-Afghani. Asadullah Haroon “al Afghani” Gul, as he is listed in his lawsuit against Donald J. Trump, et al demanding his release as a mere member of merely Al Qaeda-linked Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin rather than a full member of boogey-groups Al Qaeda and the Taliban. The lawsuit ignored the fact that the innocent economist was also an admitted courier for senior Al Qaeda leaders...
one of two Afghans recently released from the US detention area in Guantanamo Bay, arrived in Kabul on Saturday.
Haroon said US forces treated him in a bad manner and that the US lacked documents to prove his guilt.
"There was no legal grounds for detaining me in Guantanamo. They didn’t have any legal documents about me. They would make allegations one after another. I think they were just wasting time and then finally thought to free me," he said. "Thanks, Asadullah. Your valuable intel helped us eliminate multiple ISIS, AQ, and Taliban heads. Your account has been paid. Stay in touch!"
The Islamic Emirate said that Haroon was freed as a result of engagement between the US and Kabul but did not provide details.
Haroon was welcomed by senior Islamic Emirate officials, including Amir Khan Muttaqi, acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Zabiullah Mujahid, the Islamic Emirate’s front man.
"The engagement which we now have with the US--we have made good progress in this regard and it resulted in the release of (Haroon). We hope for further progress and another brother of ours will be freed too," Muttaqi told news hounds.
"The Islamic Emirate says to the nation that we will reach out to any Afghans who are detained abroad. And we will address their problems. We are assessing the cases of detainees in other countries too and some of them will be soon, inshallah, be released," Mujahid told the news hounds.
Haroon was arrested in 2007 by US forces in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
[ToloNews] The former police head for the Qaisar district of Faryab province under the previous government, Nizamuddin Qaisari, returned to Kabul on Sunday after spending 10 months in Tehran.
According to Qaisari, the Islamic Emirate should include all of the nation's tribes in the government in order to achieve long-lasting peace in the country.
"I ask leaders of the Islamic Emirate to include all the tribes in the government, because Pashtuns, Uzbeks, Tajiks, 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... s, Aimaqs are all the people of Afghanistan," said Nizamuddin Qaisari the former police chief for Qaisar district, Faryab.
Following the tensions between the previous government and Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... , Ghani's vice president, Qaisari, who was loyal to Dostum, rose to fame.
"You should provide me a portion in the government because there are a lot of people of Turk decent. They should have a share of our intellectuals and cadres and appoint them to departments and ministries," said Nizamuddin Qaisari, the former police chief for Qaisar district, Faryab.
"We call on these people to come to the country, the security is provided, come and live peacefully," said Mohammad Amin, a resident of Badakhshan.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory, Igor and Oleg were discussing what the quickest way might be to deal with the monster... the "Return and Communications with Former Afghan Officials and Political Figures" commission called on Afghans who have fled to other countries due to political developments to return to Afghanistan.
"All those who served in the previous government, if they served in high positions or low, this is the best opportunity to use the amnesty decree of the Amir al-Muominin and return to their country," said Ahmadullah Wasiq, front man for the commission.
According to the commission, more than 150 former government officials and political figures have returned to the country so far through the commission of "Return and Communications with Former Afghan Officials and Political Figures."
[Dawn] Two soldiers were martyred and seven Lions of Islam killed during an exchange of fire in North Wazoo's Ghulam Khan Kalle area, the military's media affairs wing said on Sunday.
According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), soldiers "effectively engaged" the terrorists, killing seven of them and recovering weapons and ammunition from them.
It added that the Lions of Islam were "actively involved" in terrorism activities against security forces.
The ISPR said that Subedar Munir Hussain, 44, resident of Parachinar, and Havildar Babu Khan, 38, resident of Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... , "fought gallantly" during the battle and were martyred.
"Area clearance is being carried out to eliminate any other Lions of Islam found in the vicinity," the statement said.
A day ago, four bad boyz were potted during an intelligence-based operation conducted by security forces in North Waziristan's Dossali area.
On Friday, two bad boyz were potted in Kulachi area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Dera Ismail Khan.
[AlAhram] Diplomats from the United States, Israel and four Arab countries will convene in Bahrain Monday, Israeli officials said, three months after they vowed to boost cooperation at a landmark meeting in Israel.
The talks in the Bahraini capital Manama will bring together foreign ministry officials from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco -- which all normalised ties with the Jewish state in 2020 -- and from Egypt, which made peace with Israel in 1979.
In March, they met for the first time on Israeli soil in the Sde Boker kibbutz in the Negev desert, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken joining his counterparts.
The UAE and Bahrain forged ties with Israel under the Abraham Accords, brokered by former US president Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... . Morocco then re-established relations with Israel under a separate Trump-brokered agreement.
The Abraham Accords infuriated the Paleostinians, who argued that they marked a betrayal of a decades-old Arab consensus to isolate Israel until it agrees to the establishment of a Paleostinian state, with its capital in east Jerusalem.
Indeed.
Washington has said it wanted the meeting to be annual and to include the Paleostinian Authority and Jordan, another Arab nation that recognises Israel, but which has seen rising criticism over the status of Jerusalem.
That’s one way to drag everything to a shuddering halt...
Blinken has voiced strong support for the Abraham Accords but cautioned at the Negev meeting that they cannot replace Israeli-Paleostinian peace-building.
The meetings aim to deepen cooperation on areas including water, tourism, health, energy, food security and on regional security.
Israel has also found common cause with Gulf Arab states in their tense relationship with Iran's Shia holy manal state.
Monday's "meeting will also serve as a milestone ahead of the US president's expected visit to the Middle East", the Israeli foreign ministry said in a statement.
President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. A latter-day version of Romulus Augustulus, only more friendly to the barbarians at the gates... will travel to Israel, the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... from July 13 to 16, his first trip to the Middle East since taking office.
Once there, he will attend a Gulf Cooperation Council summit with leaders from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman, joined by the leaders of Egypt, Iraq and Jordan, a US official said.
The view from Egypt, which really wants to be acknowledged as a macher in the Arab world.
[AlAhram] Saudi Crown-Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince and modernizer of Saudi Arabia as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists. As crown prince, Moe has quietly jettisoned his country's policy of trying to impose its religion on the rest of the world... paid Cairo a two-day visit on Monday to discuss Biden’s upcoming visit to Jeddah. Bahraini King Hamad ...King of Bahrain (since 14 February 2002), having previously been its emir (from 6 March 1999). He is a Sunni, while the rest of Bahrain is predominantly Shiite... bin Eissa al-Khalifa and Jordanian King Abdullah II had already met with President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi in Sharm El-Sheikh to the same end. Both meetings confirm Egypt’s central role in reaching a united Arab stand ahead of the widely anticipated, mid-July meeting between the US president and leaders of nine Arab nations: the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq.
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[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... ’s preparations for a further military campaign in northern Syria are intended to shore up President Erdogan’s popularity at home.
As the Ottoman Turkish army and the Syrian militia factions under its command complete preparations for another military campaign in northern Syria, Ankara’s determination to re-escalate the conflict in the area has raised widespread concerns regionally and internationally. The new Ottoman Turkish intervention in northern Syria is integrally related to Turkey’s recalcitrant Kurdish question, as Ankara claims that the predominantly Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria are affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which Turkey has designated a terrorist organization.
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[Rudaw] The bodies of three Kurdish migrants colonists recovered from the Greek coast earlier this month will be returned to the Kurdistan Region on July 2, the representative of an organization working with refugees and displaced persons announced on Sunday.
The three Kurdish migrants colonists are set to arrive in the homeland through Erbil International Airport on July 2 at 4:05 pm, said Hussein Hama Salih, the Greece representative of Summit (Lutka) Foundation for Refugees and Displaced Affairs.
He confirmed the three migrants colonists’ bodies as those of 32-year-old Ameera Othman, four-year-old Hanasa Hazhar, and seven-year-old Rezhwar Rebwar. Their bodies were identified on June 15.
Greece is a key route used by refugees and migrants colonists as an entry point into the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... At least three separate migrant boats sank in the Aegean Sea late last year, leading to the drowning of at least 30 people, including Kurds, between December 21 and 25.
Othman, Hazhar and Rebwar drowned after their boat capsized on the night of December 21, according to Lutka.
An 11-year-old boy who lost his entire family in the Aegean Sea was returned to his hometown of Koya in March.
Salih in mid-June told Rudaw that the two children whose bodies will be returned next Saturday belonged to the same family, and they were from Koya town.
The Kurdistan Region saw a large exodus of its youth last year, when tens of thousands of mostly young Kurds left the Region and headed to Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... seeking a better life, using smuggling routes. A number of these migrants colonists met their unfortunate end on the freezing Belarus-Poland border and others drowned at sea.
The bodies of 16 migrants colonists who drowned in the deadliest migrant disaster in the English Channel were returned to the Kurdistan Region in late December, with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) describing the tragedy as the "worst disaster on record."
People, mostly youth, take the perilous journey away from the Kurdistan Region through smuggling routes trying to escape an ongoing crisis grasping the Region — with high unemployment, corruption, political instability, and a fragile economy influencing their decision to depart.
The Kurdish government has acknowledged the existence of systemic issues and financial hardships but has said it is working to address these problems.
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Seven dwarves. Such bravado in the face of a complete rout.
These idiots have now painted themselves in a corner.
Vershinin demonstrated that the US can't hoe toatch Russian missile and munitions production. The Europeans are now rationing fuel -- the Germans are experiencing a run on FIREWOOD, for fucks sake -- and the Ukrainians are grinding themselves into oblivion.
What's left of that country is completely, totally wrecked. Soldiers are mutinying. Recriminations within the elite are spreading. Zelensky's rivals are openly asking why this idiot insists on reinforcing hopelessly surrounded units in the Kessen's of the East, only to be slaughtered.
It is an utter shitshow. The Ukrainians now are suffering losses of over 70%. They're literally suiting up grandpas and children and sending them into the meat grinder in Donbas.
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What's left of that country is completely, totally wrecked. Soldiers are mutinying. Recriminations within the elite are spreading. Zelensky's rivals are openly asking why this idiot insists on reinforcing hopelessly surrounded units in the Kessen's of the East, only to be slaughtered.
And yet, the Russians can't seem to seal the deal.
In only four months? Against a NATO adversary that's the beneficiary of the biggest military spend in Europe?
It took the US the better part of a DECADE to just get a lid on Iraq -- a much smaller and weaker third world nonentity that the US bombed into oblivion before sending an invasion force that was roughly four times larger than Russia's.
And you expect this to be over in a few months, when instead of random jihadis with no air or artillery support Russia's facing NATO?
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the US can't hoe toatch Russian missile and munitions production.
That's what I always thought. If you can't hoe toatch em, negotiate, right comrade?
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It took the US the better part of a DECADE to just get a lid on Iraq -- a much smaller and weaker third world nonentity that the US bombed into oblivion before sending an invasion force that was roughly four times larger than Russia's. 🤡
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Both sides say the war started in 2014 with the invasion of Crimea. So the clock is still ticking big boy.
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Remember , US soldiers hands are tied with ROE that are moronic with lawyers hovering like buzzards waiting to pounce. Not so much with the Russians.
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I remember Obumble had toyed with the idea of embedding lawyerettes with the troops to Mirandize any prisoners captured during ops.
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Hoo boy. Send in the clowns.
Biden's Freakshow's latest: Chief Economic Clown Janet Yellen's bug idea is for some kind of GLOBAL PRICE-CONTROLS ON OIL -- details to come later, natch -- as a way to punish Russia.
For real. She's that fucking stupid. A global cap on the oil price.
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^ They actually believe they run the world. It's mean to point out they don't.
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NYTimes: The effort to put a price cap on Russia oil is the brainchild of Janet L. Yellen, President Biden’s Treasury secretary. The details are likely weeks or more away from being finalized, requiring intense negotiations by G7 finance ministers, private companies and leaders of countries in Latin America, Africa and elsewhere that buy Russian oil.
And there is no guarantee that the plan will come together quickly, or at all, or that it will succeed as the G7 leaders hope.
There is also a potential political downside in Europe and possibly the United States: To succeed, the plan will need to give China, India and other countries that have not joined the G7 in opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine the ability to buy oil at a much lower price than America or much of Europe can.
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These people are.fucking.INSANE.
Have they ever worked in an actual market environment for even one day in their entire lives?
Do they know anything about the global oil trade?
How did we get saddled with such unbelievable shitheads?
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If they keep poking the bear, we're liable to wake up one morning with a devastating Polish object lesson. I'm pretty sure Vlad really doesn't give a fok at this stage in his life.
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The Europeans are now rationing fuel -- the Germans are experiencing a run on FIREWOOD, for fucks sake
I’m afraid they worked hard to get to this point, and hopefully now will work as hard to get past it. They were warned, over and over again, that depending on Russia would have exactly this result when Russia wanted to make a point about something, and so it has come to pass.
They can get all the firewood they need in their extensive forests, and probably get a good start just cutting down the trees killed by whatever insect infestation has been causing problems for decades.
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whatever insect infestation has been causing problems for decades
You mean Turks?
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Remember , US soldiers hands are tied with ROE that are moronic with lawyers hovering like buzzards waiting to pounce. Not so much with the Russians.
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A Spanish police source said the migrants who stormed the fence had used sticks, knives and acid against security forces and had changed tactics to try crossing at one perceived weak spot en masse, rather than in separate attempts along the fence.
A shootout broke out between turbans and security forces in Shirmal area of south Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... 's Shopian district on Saturday evening, police said.
"Encounter has started at Shirmal area of #Shopian. Police and security forces are on the job. Further details shall follow, " a police front man said.
The encounter started soon after security forces cordoned the area following a tip off.
Kira Anne Elliott, 20, of Eugene, was arrested at the #Antifa black bloc attack in Eugene, Ore. She's a social justice coordinator at the private @BrynMawrCollege in PA. Officers were injured by the violent extremists. DHS had to provide emergency help to local police. pic.twitter.com/OBeqcDHVSl
Juliana Bernado, 23 (dob 5/26/99), was arrested at the violent #Antifa Los Angeles pro-abortion riot & charged with a felony for allegedly trying to steal an officer's baton.
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[LB] The partisan movement is becoming more and more active in the Kherson region.
by Irina Gamaliy
Yesterday the occupiers fired on Chernihiv Donetsk, Luhansk, Rivne regions and Kharkiv. In the morning explosions sounded in Nikolaev.
This is stated in the summary of military-civil administrations on the situation in the regions of Ukraine at 8:00 on June 26.
The night passed relatively calmly in Volyn, Zakarpattia, Rivne region, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Chernivtsi, Vinnytsia, Khmelnytsky, Zaporizhia, Odessa, Ternopil regions, Kirovohrad, Cherkasy, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Zhytomyr regions.
Kyiv region : the night passed quietly. In the morning, the air defense worked - one missile was shot down. The remains of the rocket fell on the outskirts of one of the villages in the area. There are no destructions and victims.
Sumy region : the night passed quietly. Yesterday, the Russians launched 6 missiles from helicopters that did not cross our state border. Getting on the civil infrastructure of the Krasnopil community: school, club, library, hospital.
Rivne region : two missile strikes on civilian infrastructure were made the night before at 7:20 p.m. Destroyed service stations, car wash and disassembly. In particular, cars for the Armed Forces were repaired here. Three people died. Two are in serious condition. Four - minor injuries. Rescuers are clearing the site of the missile strike.
Chernihiv region: last night - mortar shelling of the territory near the village of Gremyach (Novgorod-Siversky district). At night - shelling of the territory between the villages of Leonivka and Galaganivka (Novgorod-Siversky district), shelling of positions near the village of Girsk (Koryukivsky district).
Kharkiv : yesterday evening the occupiers struck at the northern districts of Kharkiv. One of the shells hit a residential building, previously - two wounded. Cars, outbuildings and warehouses were on fire.
The medical institution in the 602nd microdistrict was damaged. No one was injured.
A total of 7 people were injured in the region during the day due to Russian shelling. One person died in Zolochiv, Bohodukhiv district.
The occupiers struck at Kharkiv, Chuhuiv, Izium, and Bohodukhiv districts of the region.
Luhansk region: air strikes were inflicted on Lysychansk, as well as in the area of Bila Hora. A lot of destruction. The TV tower was destroyed, the road bridge was seriously damaged, shells hit residential and administrative buildings, in particular, the SBU building, etc.
Within a day, one person was killed and one was injured.
Donetsk region : small arms, tanks, artillery, mortars, 9M727 cruise missile, MLRS "Hail", "Hurricane", the enemy uses all this both on the positions of Ukrainian defenders and on the settlements of the region. In Avdiivka, a coke plant, a railway station area, a school, a garage cooperative, a football stadium, and a transformer were shelled in the village of Avdiivka. Lighthouses - school; in Slovyansk, with. Pervomaiske and New York are residential areas.
Three were killed and two civilians were injured.
Nikolaevshchina : in the morning in Nikolaev explosions sounded. The information is being clarified.
In the Nikolaev area last night owing to hit of ammunition in the village. Shevchenkove Shevchenkivska community there was a fire on the territory of a private household.
Bashtansky district: from 23:30 to 05:00 there were shellings outside the settlements, hits were on agricultural lands. There are no victims.
The shelling continues in the Bereznehuvatsky community. The shelling of villages along the demarcation line continues. Information on victims and injuries is being clarified.
Kherson region : residents of the region heard shots and explosions. Again, the settlements of the border areas are suffering as a result of the fighting. The critical situation today in the village of Bila Krynytsia, in Velykooleksandrivska TG: many houses were destroyed, the elevator, social and road infrastructure were damaged. Almost all the villages through which the Ingulets River passes (Kalynivska TG, Davydiv Brid and others) are in serious condition, and the coast in many cities is mined.
Increasingly, local guerrillas are slapping the occupiers, and after recent events, local "leaders" have tightened their security.
[LB] Currently, the entire line of contact is under fire.
Yuri Korogodsky
The head of the Donetsk regional military administration Pavlo Kyrylenko stated that the Russian occupiers were drawing forces to Slovyansk.
He stated this on the air of the all-Ukrainian telethon, Donetsk OVA reports.
"We observe the accumulation of manpower, heavy armored vehicles and artillery in the Slavic direction. The enemy is using its tactics and trying to move closer to our line of defense in order to use artillery to shell the city in addition to the missiles and aircraft they systematically use in the Donetsk region. The Russians do not change tactics. We saw what was happening in Mariupol and Severodonetsk , so we are preparing for any scenario with Slovyansk, "Kyrylenko said.
The head of the Donetsk Regional State Administration said that the entire line of contact was currently under fire from the Russian occupiers.
We will remind that the British intelligence considers that for occupation of Donbass the army of the Russian Federation needs to take control of Kramatorsk and to provide protection of the main ways of supply of Donetsk.
After the capture, the Severodonetsk enemy army concentrated all its forces on the capture of Lysychansk in the Luhansk region.
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Estimating that about 20k military fatalities (counting both sides) so far in the battle of the Donbas (probably a few thousand civilian fatalities also) since Mid April.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS] Head of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) and member of the Riyadh-formed Presidential Council, Aidarous al-Zubaidi, has on Sunday ousted two ministers in the government loyal to the Saudi-led coalition.
This coincides with the expansion of the protests in the southern and eastern areas of Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... especially in Aden and Hadhramaut provinces.
Southern media reported that al-Zubaidi issued a decision to suspend the Minister of Oil, Abdulsalam Abboud, the Minister of Electricity, Anwar Kalashat, and the director of the oil company from their duties.
Al-Zubaidi had held a meeting with the government and demanded that it quickly complete service projects.
The decision comes at a time when protests against the increase in fuel prices and continuous electricity cuts continue for the second week in a row.
Earlier, the Presidential Council’s president, Rashad al-Alimi, admitted the coalition’s inability to fulfill its obligations in confronting the worsening situation in the southern areas.
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[RIA Novosti] The planned opening of the Ukrainian checkpoint for civilians "Pervomaisk-Zolotoye", located in Katerynivka, was surrounded along the perimeter by the firing positions of the Ukrainian security forces, dugouts and military equipment, despite the agreements on the separation of forces and means operating in this area during the period of the Minsk agreements, told RIA Novosti a serviceman of the People's Militia of the Lugansk People's Republic with the call sign "Pisar."
Earlier, the People's Militia of the LPR stated that the settlement of Katerynivka came under the control of the forces of the republic and the Russian Federation.
"Judging by the dugouts, by their fortifications, there were quite a few of them (Ukrainian security forces - ed.). Heavy equipment was also present, there are camouflaged caponiers, which proves that they systematically violated the Minsk agreements. There are also firing points along the perimeter..." - said the clerk.
According to him, all positions and equipment were hidden behind a high fence.
By the decision of Kiev , since 2015, a permit regime has been in effect with the territories of Donbass not controlled by the Ukrainian authorities. You can enter or leave the DPR and LPR only through checkpoints.
In November 2020, the Ukrainian authorities announced the opening of two new checkpoints near the line of contact in Donbass: Luhansk-Happiness and Pervomaisk-Zolotoe. The LPR called the unilateral opening of checkpoints a provocation. In fact, these checkpoints remained closed. Forces were withdrawn in these areas, including military equipment, but the LPR repeatedly accused Kyiv of violating these agreements.
[An Nahar] Israeli firefighters were on Sunday battling to control a huge blaze in the northern city of Haifa after a number of buildings containing hazardous materials caught fire overnight in an industrial and logistics complex, Israeli media reports said.
Explosions were heard, apparently as the flames detonated the contents of the building. Videos posted to social media showed flames engulfing the structures.
It was unclear what had been stored in the buildings, with some of the earth-shattering kabooms appearing to produce light-colored flames.
No casualties were reported in the fire, but three people were rescued from nearby homes.
Firefighters were working to prevent the flames from spreading to nearby structures.
Haifa is a key location for Israeli industry, with a number of plants and processing centers linked to the oil and chemical industries.
Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ’s Hezbollah had in the past threatened to target chemical facilities in the city in the event of a future war.
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Gunmen on Sunday morning kidnapped a Catholic priest, Rev. Father Osia in Ikabigbo community, in the Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State.
The priest was said to have been preparing for Sunday Mass when button men invaded his residence and took him away.
A source told The Punch that the kidnappers shot a young man who made attempts to look for the Reverend Father, adding that the victim had been taken to hospital for treatment.
He added that the vigilantes in the community were searching the area as well as combing the bush to ensure they rescue the priest.
"The kidnappers came with sophisticated weapons and took away the Reverend Father while he was preparing for the morning mass. It was sad. One of the boys who tried to look for the holy man was shot and he is currently in hospital," the source said.
The traditional ruler of the community, Bramah Alegeh, who confirmed the incident, explained that efforts were ongoing to ensure the release of the Catholic priest.
He further confirmed that the Army, in collaboration with local vigilantes were combing the bush to ensure the release of the holy man.
[ALARABIYA] A 20-year-old Arab woman was stabbed to death in the United Arab Emirates’ city of Sharjah, local media reported citing the Sharjah Police General Command.
The police caught the murderer within two hours of the crime.
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The woman’s body, stabbed several times, was found in a car.
The police were able to identify the suspect using CCTV camera footage at the parking lot of the young woman’s residence. The footage showed the killer attacking the woman inside her car, stabbing her multiple times.
He was then seen leaving the victim’s car, taking her body with him.
Attempting to run away from the authorities, the suspect was found on a beach where he was arrested. He confessed to the crime due to "personal differences" and has now been transferred to the Public Prosecution.
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Remember all the fanfare about Russell Honore being tapped to "get to the bottom" of Jan 6? He is way off the radar these days, eh?
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Is colonel-general a real rank?
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#4: Just like Major Major? Major Major was an awkward child, disliked by other children and even by parents, who found he made them uncomfortable. Major Major majored in history in college, distinguishing himself in no way, then entered the Army, where he was promoted to Major through a glitch in a computer system. Once promoted, he remained a major, even though he had no military experience—no one saw fit to demote him. Major Major was thus a major even before he completed boot-camp with Lieutenant Scheisskopf, whom he outranked. When Major Duluth of the 27th Squadron was killed in action, Major Major was assigned by Cathcart to take his place, despite the fact that Major had only just arrived to Pianosa.
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Great book. Decent movie. Orson Welles was past his prime but excellent as Gen. Dreedle.
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Yup. Height of his career, the Paul Massoon phase ("sell no wine... before it's / its time, heh, get it?").
Plus Bob Newfart, Art Garfinkle, AEllen BArkin. The Van Patten Family.
A winning lineup of B-List Hollywoodies from the Golden Age of 60s Schlock.
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[Censor] The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has released operational information on the situation in the Bakhmut direction.
According to Censor.NET, this is stated on the official Facebook page of the General Staff of the Armed Forces.
The evening report states: "In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy fired at our positions with mortars, barrel and jet artillery near Mykolayivka, Berestovo, Pokrovsky, Kodema and New York.
Ukrainian soldiers inflicted heavy losses on the enemy near the village of Pavlivka. After an unsuccessful assault, the occupiers withdrew. "
The occupiers suffered significant losses during the enemy assault near Berestovo in Zaporozhye, - General Staff of the Armed Forces
The occupiers suffered losses in the Bakhmut direction and took units to rebuild,
- General Staff
News: The US plans to announce as soon as this week that it has a purchased a NASAMS—an advanced surface-to-air missile defense system— for Ukraine, a source familiar with the announcement tells CNN. with @kaitlancollins@Phil_Mattingly
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Brought to you by Raytheon!
I tell you, those arms manufacturers were having a tough year until all this started. Now they're doing great! It's good news all around, like Christmas in June.
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...It ain't that advanced, but it's still pretty impressive: 6 AIM-120 Slammers on a truck, something we should have been turning out like nickel hamburgers.
Mike
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When are they going to announce what train and time it will be arriving in the Ukraine so the Russians can immediately blow it up?
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At the Pentagone, they are negotiating whether a ghey or a trans will breathlessly spill the beans.
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Too little. Too late. Ukrainian elite units have lost EIGHTY PERCENT of their troops. From SkyNews yesterday - watch the whole thing... it's appalling:
Watch: #Afghanistan’s #Taliban administration calls on international governments to roll back sanctions and lift a freeze on central bank assets following the earthquake that killed more than 1,000 people and left thousands homeless.https://t.co/ukG5Li7bzPpic.twitter.com/oub5sUrhn3
[An Nahar] Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... 's caretaker interior minister has given instructions to security forces to stop gatherings of the LGBTQ community, following pressure from religious institutions.
Caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi instructed Lebanon's Internal Security Forces and the General Security agency to "immediately take the necessary measures to prevent any type of celebration, meeting or gathering" by the LGBTQ community.
The orders followed "calls on social media to organize parties and events promoting homosexuality in Lebanon, and following communication from religious figures rejecting the spread of this phenomenon," he said.
Members of the LGBTQ community enjoy more freedom in Lebanon than in most other Middle East countries but still lack rights and face constant harassment.
"This phenomenon is contrary to the habits and customs of our society" and religious principles, Mawlawi said, adding that "personal freedoms cannot be invoked."
The move sparked anger and sarcasm on social media.
"What he (the minister) calls traditions and religious principles are inherited prejudices that repress the rights of thousands of citizens," lawyer Nizar Saghieh said.
LGBTQ events in Lebanon are often canceled, usually following pressure from religious authorities, and security forces are known to raid nightclubs and other locations frequented by members of the community.
Lebanon's top Sunni Moslem mufti, Sheikh Abdul Latif Daryan, has said that Dar al-Fatwa, the country's top Sunni religious authority, "would not allow the legalisation of homosexuality."
In 2019, a top Lebanese music festival canceled a concert by Mashrou' Leila, arguably the country's best-known band, whose lead singer is openly gay.
Clerics had called for the cancellation of the concert in Byblos because some of the group's songs were deemed offensive to Christians.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS] A new missile attack targeted the Emirati Dana Gas facility in northern Iraq, Iraqi media reported, citing local sources on Saturday.
According to al-Sumeria News, the Khor Mor gas field in Chamchamal district, Sulaimaniyah province, was targeted by missile attacks. No casualties or damages have been reported.
This marks the third attack on Dana Gas facility in Iraqi Kurdistan region in just three days, after it was reported on Wednesday that a Dana Gas facility in the Khor Mor gas field in the Kurdistan Region’s Chamchamal county was targeted with rockets.
No group or individual has grabbed credit for the attacks as of yet.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS] Mahdi al-Mashat, President of the Supreme Political Council in Sana’a has received a telephone call from his Iranian counterpart, President Ebrahim Raisi of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran.
During the phone call, they discussed bilateral relations between the two countries and ways to strengthen and develop them, in order to meet the aspirations of the two brotherly peoples.
President al-Mashat appreciated the principled position of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... in opposing the Saudi-led aggression and blockade of Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... . He also hailed the firm position of Iran on the Paleostinian issue and the issues of the greater Islamic nation.
President al-Mashat expressed the Yemeni Republic’s "aspiration to strengthen the relations of cooperation between the two countries and push them to wider heights."
He also stressed Yemen’s "keenness on peace which preserves the rights of the Yemeni people and meets their aspirations for freedom and independence as well as ending the aggression and lifting of the blockade."
For his part, President Raisi reiterated Iran’s support for Yemen’s illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity.
He said that "Iran supports any ceasefire that would lead to bringing full peace in Yemen and the lifting of the economic siege on the country." Raisi furthermore expressed Iran’s readiness to send humanitarian aid.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:03 286 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit by Russian missile forces and artillery. 19:32 An air raid alert is roaring in almost all regions of Ukraine. It is reported about the flight of a rocket over the Vinnitsa region.
18:26 High-precision weapons and "Caliber" hit the territory of the training centers of the Ukrainian troops in the Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, Lvov regions.
The Pantsir-S missile system of the Russian Armed Forces shot down a Su-25 aircraft and 12 rockets, repelling another attempt by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to strike at Zmeiny Island.
17:24 New arrivals in Odessa. Something is on fire north of the city.
13:08 Highlights from the new briefing by the RF Ministry of Defense:
In an air battle, a MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down in the Dnipropetrovsk region;
The Ukrainian side made another unsuccessful attempt to launch airstrikes and MLRS strikes on Zmeiny Island;
Russian air defense systems destroyed eight Ukrainian UAVs and 19 MLRS rockets, including over Zmeiny Island;
The RF Armed Forces with high-precision weapons and Kalibr missiles attacked the territory of the training centers of the ground forces, air assault troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
The successes of the Russian army, the People's Militia of the DPR and LPR significantly reduce the moral and psychological state of the Ukrainian army;
As a result of air strikes, missile troops and artillery, more than 720 Ukrainian nationalists were killed;
As a result of the strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces and Kalibrov, two motorized infantry brigades and an airmobile brigade from the strategic reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost their combat capability;
Aviation, rocket troops and artillery hit two command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, four ammunition depots and the western outskirts of Lisichansk;
Ten MLRS platoons were hit by high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the Donetsk direction;
"Pantsir-S" of the Russian Armed Forces shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft and 12 rockets near Zmeiny Island, there are no casualties among the personnel;
Since the beginning of the special operation, the RF Armed Forces have destroyed 1,363 UAVs and 3,809 armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
13:03 Gas supply will be restored in Berdyansk. This was announced by the head of the State Administration of Berdyansk. A specific date for the supply of raw materials to the city is not yet known, but work is already underway. Specialists of the military-civilian administration report that they have already established contacts with the gas supplier.
11:35 A terrorist attack was prevented in Kherson. Ukrainian deserters who were hiding in the city were going to arrange a mass execution of civilians and blame the Russian military for this.
10:15 Shoigu inspected the Russian group of troops involved in a special military operation in Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
09:47 The possibility of Ukraine's entry into NATO is not considered - Spanish Foreign Minister.
08:06 Kyiv time were hit by cruise missiles.
08:05 Personnel combat work of the MLRS "Hurricane" during a special operation in Ukraine. Russian rocket artillery units are engaged in the destruction of manpower and military equipment of nationalists and units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry reports.
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As a result of air strikes, missile troops and artillery,more than 720 Ukrainian nationalists were killed
A fucking slaughterhouse now. A complete rout.
SkyNews just did a lengthy piece on an elite Ukrainian commando battalion holed in Lysychansk that has lost EIGHTY PERCENT of its men.
Their commander shrugs and says all they can do us keep replacing their hardened professionals with cannon fodder trainees, and watch those are chef souls get slaughtered, and on and in it goes.
Three members of the #SDF-affiliated al-Sanadid forces were killed and four others injured as a result of an armed attack near the Iraqi-Syrian border.https://t.co/qhSLRhQzcV
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— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) June 26, 2022
On June 26, 2022 and under period of darkness the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) conducted a successful operation against an ISIS sleeper cell in Jurda in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria, a military source in the Global Coalition said.
In the operation, the SDF managed to arrest three ISIS members named Mohammed Sahboo al Zekia, Harith al-Mahal al-Salih and Tariq Abddulbassar al-Sebty, the source added.
The source stressed that the SDF replaced security measures to ensure no innocent civilians were maimed during this operation.
The SDF is committed to providing security and stability throughout Deir ez-Zor and will not tolerate ISIS putting innocent civilians in harm’s way.
According to the source, ISIS is incapable and incompetent of conducting full scale operations throughout Deir ez-Zor which has cause infighting within the remaining ISIS cells.
*snicker*
Members of ISIS want to create more instability, but many of the members believe their leaders are afraid and want to remain in hiding, the military source said.
[An Nahar] Israel on Sunday approved housing allowances for South Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... Army (SLA) veterans residing in Israeli territory, providing so-called "historic justice" to former members of the militia, officials said.
The decision, passed by the government, would see some 400 former SLA fighters who did not hold commanding ranks receiving a one-off grant of 550,000 shekels (around $161,000) towards buying a home over the next four years, the Israeli army said in a statement.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz said he was "proud" of the approval, hailing it as "historic justice to those who fought shoulder to shoulder with us, and were uprooted from their homes and homeland."
The army said the grant provides "a solution for the housing shortage of around 400 families that were not properly accommodated upon their arrival in Israel," noting the assistance would be given to SLA widows too, "provided that they reside in Israel."
The SLA was formed in 1976 as a splinter from the Lebanese Army, whose ranks were divided a year after the start of the civil war. Initially it was called the Free Lebanon Army.
The conflict shifted dramatically when Israel invaded the south in 1978 to stop attacks by the Paleostine Liberation Organization (PLO) emanating from Lebanon, and the militia started taking its orders from the Israeli army, which trained, funded and supported it.
When the Israeli army withdrew from southern Lebanon in 2000, thousands of SLA members and their families chose to cross the border too, for fear of reprisals from the groups they once fought -- particularly Hezbollah -- and settle in Israel or elsewhere. Others stayed and faced trial, receiving lenient sentences.
Amnesia Amnesty International and other human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... groups have often accused the SLA of torturing prisoners, particularly at the notorious Khiyam Prison.
The SLA, generally commanded by Lebanese Maronite Christians, was formed during the country’s bloody civil war with training and support from Israel, which hoped to see the formation of a Lebanese government with which it could make peace. Israel and Lebanon have formally remained at war with one another since Israel’s creation in 1948.
From the mid-1980s until the summer of 2000, the Israel Defense Forces maintained outposts in southern Lebanon, dubbed collectively the Security Zone, which were there both to assist the SLA to maintain control over the region and to prevent terror groups in Lebanon from attacking northern Israel.
Following the IDF’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon in May 2000, thousands of SLA soldiers came to Israel for fear of persecution and reprisals from their countrymen, in large part due to the militia’s brutal tactics in southern Lebanon during that period, particularly in its notorious al-Khiam prison, where torture was rampant. Thousands more SLA members remained in Lebanon or were exiled following Israel’s chaotic withdrawal.
Sunday’s bill was jointly suggested by Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman, after the IDF established a panel for addressing “gaps” in the absorption of SLA veterans in Israel, some four years ago.
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[SHAFAQ] A secret plot to oust Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... could already be underway within his inner circle, according to a CIA insider.
Putin's cronies could already be lurking in the wings if Russia's invasion of Ukraine fails, with concerns and speculation mounting over the president's health.
Sergei Shoigu, Russian Defence Minister and a close Putin-ally, may be central to a mutiny to overthrow the president, according to ex-CIA Moscow station chief Daniel Hoffman.
He added that if anyone is going to overthrow Putin then it'll be done in secret so that he doesn't find them and kill them first.
"Nobody’s gonna ask, ’Hey Vladimir, would you like to leave?’ No. It’s a f***ing hammer to the head and he’s dead. Or it’s time to go to the sanatorium," Hoffman told The Daily Beast.
"They schwack him for it. That’s what they’ll do."
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My Magic 8-Ball is more useful: palace plotters, how insightful!
#4
Of course, there's no plan for who's going to take over afterwards. How many times has the CIA murdered someone only to have a worse situation emerge?
It's because they're not that smart. They don't think that far ahead. They just fixate on the immediate goal and think, "oh this will solve all our problems."
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Someone has been using too much of their own product
"Only users lose drugs..."
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...Will bet the house payment that when Volodya does shuffle off this mortal coil and join the Choir Invisible and/or face Mandatory Retirement, it will be a COMPLETE surprise to the national security agencies.
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I sincerely resent the fact that my tax dollars are used to fund the CIA.
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/\ And we don't have the slightest idea in HELL how much funding the Klingons receive. Their budget data is SECRET. Nor do we have any idea how much of the DoD (grudgingly) and SOF (enthusiastically without shame) budgets go to support Klingon endeavors.
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It doesn't matter if U.S. “intelligence” tells you wrongly that the enemy is running out of ammunition, or that their leaders have hemorrhoids or cancer, as long as U.S. “Intelligence” doesn't run out of imagination.
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^ Actually, you are correct.
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[An Nahar] Explosions rocked a residential neighborhood in Kyiv Sunday morning as G7 leaders gathered in Germany to discuss their backing of Ukraine against Russia's invasion, with a crucial NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... meeting set to follow in days.
The first attack on the capital in nearly three weeks was intended to "intimidate Ukrainians... at the approach of the NATO summit", the city's mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
"Some of the inhabitants have been evacuated. Two maimed people have been hospitalized," Klitschko said after visiting the apartment building that was hit, adding people remained "under the rubble".
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is expected to address both the G7 and NATO gatherings, said cities as far away as Lviv, near the Polish border, had been struck by a wave of attacks on Saturday.
"This confirms... that air defense systems -- the modern systems which our partners have -- should not be on (their current) sites or in storage, but in Ukraine," he said in his daily address.
Hours after Sunday's attack, Britannia announced it would join together with fellow G7 powers Canada, Japan and the United States in banning Russian gold experts to stop oligarchs from buying the precious metal to avoid sanctions aimed at Moscow.
The move "will directly hit Russian oligarchs and strike at the heart of (President Vladimir) Putin's war machine," said British Prime Minister Boris Johnson ...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies.... At their meeting in the Bavarian Alps, the Western allies will take stock of the effectiveness of sanctions imposed so far against Moscow, consider possible new aid for Kyiv, and begin turning their eye to longer-term reconstruction plans.
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Do we know what the actual target in Kiev was? Some half-assed searching turns up an apartment building/shopping mall/residential neighborhood.
Kiev has been pretty much left alone since that business back at the start. It is possible that the Rus are just being jerks or are reminding the G7 that there is a war on, but it seems unlikely that they would expense precious long-range ordnance to no military purpose.
My guess is some high-value target of opportunity
popped up, like those fancy new artillery pieces, and either said target or the rail infrastructure transporting it got waxed.
Ukraine War/Battle of the Donbas update. Sorry I have not done this for 3 weeks, but actually had a break and went to Sicily and have been trying to catch up with loads since. However, tbh, since the last update far less has happened on the ground than you might think.
— Phillips P. OBrien (@PhillipsPOBrien) June 26, 2022
[An Nahar] The United States said Sunday that the G7 group of nations will ban imports of Russian gold with the aim of tightening sanctions screws on Moscow and crippling its war effort in Ukraine.
"Together, the G7 will announce that we will ban the import of Russian gold, a major export that rakes in tens of billions of dollars for Russia," President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. S Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run.... said on Twitter.
The measure was initially flagged by Britannia as joint action being taken along with fellow G7 members Canada, Japan and the United States.
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... the rest of the G7, which is holding a summit in Germany, will also join in with a formal unveiling of the sanction on Tuesday, a senior US official said.
"You'll see that on Tuesday. This will be a G7 principal that is articulated," said the official, who spoke to news hounds on condition of anonymity.
With its economy already under huge pressure from Western sanctions against banks, energy companies, airlines, high-tech and consumer goods, the choking off of the gold market will have a significant impact, according to G7 officials.
Given London's central role in the international gold trade, "this measure will have global reach, shutting the commodity out of formal international markets," Britannia said.
"Gold, after energy, is the second largest export for Russia and a source of significant revenue for (President Vladimir) Putin and Russia," the US official said, adding that the blocking of Moscow's gold sector "will further isolate Russia from the global economy."
According to the White House, Russia accounted for about five percent of all gold exports in 2020 and 90 percent of Russia's output went to G7 countries -- mostly to Britannia.
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IIRC traditional 'goldbug' markets are the PRC, India and the Saudis. Embargo those when one airplane load is millions...
More than 800 children have lost contact with their families in the wake of fierce fighting between government troops and rebels in the eastern #DemocraticRepublicofCongo, a Red Cross official says.https://t.co/Ur9RAjFLgo
More than 800 children have lost contact with their families in the wake of fierce fighting between government troops and rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... , a Red Thingy official said Saturday.
The renewed violence over the past few months has forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes in the Rutshuru area of DR Congo near the border with Uganda.
"Our Red Thingy teams in Uganda and DRC tell us that 800 children have been separated from their families as a result of the upsurge in violence in Rutshuru territory," Uganda’s Red Thingy communications officer Irene Nakasiita told AFP.
Clashes have intensified in recent months after the M23 rebel militia
... also known as the Congolese Revolutionary Army, the primarily Tutsi group was founded in 2012 as a sock puppet of Rwanda, which no doubt seemed a good idea at the time. But in less than a year the Congolese army defeated them, and Rwanda publicly stepped back in response to international pressure. Recently M23 has started acting up again, possibly again at Rwandan instigation...
accused the Kinshasa government of failing to honour a 2009 agreement under which the army was to incorporate its fighters.
Nakasiita said 716 unaccompanied children from Congo had so far been registered in Uganda alone, while 155 had been reunited with their families.
"Unfortunately, the security situation in the region makes searching for missing people and reuniting them with their families difficult," the International Committee of the Red Thingy said in a statement.
"Access to areas where there are displaced people originally come from is risky and family members constantly on the move," it added.
The United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Wednesday that 13 civilians including four children had been killed in fighting in the Rutshuru district between June 19 and 21.
"Several villages in Rutshuru territory have been practically emptied of their inhabitants, some of whom have fled to Uganda," it said.
At least 158,000 people have been forced from their homes since March in Rutshuru and the neighboring Nyiragongo area because of the conflict, the UN says.
The man who fatally shot Jordanian university student Iman Arsheed shot himself in the head after he was located and surrounded by authorities, the Jordan Public Security announces in a statement
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[ColonelCassad] 1. Severodonetsk.
The control of the entire territory on the northern bank of the Seversky Donets was officially announced.
Nevertheless, according to the LPR law enforcement agencies, up to 1,000 enemy soldiers remain in the industrial zone and forest plantations, who could not retreat or changed into civilian clothes, trying to blend in with the civilian population. There are also foreign mercenaries among them.
The remnants of the Severodonetsk grouping, which retreated to Lisichansk, are now either being used to defend Lisichansk, or are gradually being pulled towards Seversk, while such an opportunity still exists.
2. Lisichansk.
The cleanup of Volcheyarovka has been completed. The enemy rolled back to Lisichansk. There are fights at the Lisichansk refinery and in Belaya Gora. There are battles for Verkhnekamenka, the retention of which is critically important for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, since in the event of its loss, the proposed withdrawal to Seversk could become a big problem.
The Seversk-Lysichansk highway is under the fire control of the RF Armed Forces. The enemy will have to solve the problem of the operational encirclement of the entire Lisichansk grouping.
3. Soledar.
Intensive fighting in Belogorovka, Berestovoye and in the Nikolayevka area near the Artemovsk-Soledar-Lysichansk highway. This road for the APU is completely lost.
4. Artemovsk.
Fighting in Klinovoe and in the direction of Pokrovsky. The Armed Forces of Ukraine note the accumulation of forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the Artemovsk direction and are waiting for the start of the assault on the city, but I believe that until our troops reach Soledar from the north, the assault on Artemovsk will not begin directly.
There are no changes near Kodema and Semigorye, as well as in the area of Novolugansk and Uglegorsk TPPs.
5. Zolotoye.
They report on the continuation of the cleansing of the territory of the boiler and active filtration measures, since a significant number of enemy soldiers, as in Severodonetsk, mixes with the local population. Those who were able to retreat from the cauldron are mostly now either in the Lisichansk area, or have retreated to Seversk and Artemovsk.
6. Avdievka.
On the front to the north of the village without significant changes - positional battles are going on, as well as near New York. There is no significant progress here.
The enemy continues to shell Donetsk, Makiivka and other settlements, but somewhat less intensively than a week ago, after hitting artillery and MLRS positions. Today there were powerful blows to Avdievka. In addition to terrorist shelling, the enemy continues to target roadblocks and warehouses using Western weapons and OTRK (including targets in the depths of the DPR and LPR.
7. Slavyansk.
Fights near the Valley, Krasnopolye and Mazanovka.
Fights near Sidorov, Prishib and Tatyanovka. According to Slavyansko - The Kramatorsk agglomeration is under attack
8. Ugledar.
Intense fighting continued in the area of Pavlovka and Yegorovka, but the enemy was unable to develop success after entering Pavlovka. Nevertheless, attempts to completely oust our troops from the Yegorovka area will certainly continue.
9. Zmeiny Island (Serpentine Island).
The enemy attacked the Tavrida drilling rig (the platform was damaged), and also continued attacks on the island, which were repulsed (1 Su-25 was shot down).
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine promises to continue the confrontation for Zmeiny Island.
10. Nikolaev.
On the Nikolaev, Krivoy Rog and Nikopol directions without significant changes. In fact, there is no “attack on Kherson” - fuss continues in the villages between Nikolaev and Kherson.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the Black Sea Fleet continue to inflict regular strikes on military facilities and concentrations of enemy manpower and equipment in Nikolaev and the Krivoy Rog region.
Odessa, Izyum, Marinka, Zaporozhye, Kharkiv - no changes.
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[Korrespondent] 23:26 Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said that a price ceiling should be set for energy imports from the Russian Federation: "Even when energy prices fall, it is unthinkable to return to the same dependence on Russia that existed before. It is necessary to work to completely eliminate this dynamic."
23:24 On Saturday, June 25, the Russians fired 62 missiles at Ukraine, Zelensky said in an evening video message: “What are these missiles about today? handwriting: to escalate whenever international events take place, and at the same time, they are about decisiveness, about, for example, that the leaders of the G7, who have gathered in Germany today for a summit, have enough overall potential to stop Russian aggression and against Ukraine, and against Europe as a whole. It's possible."
The President clarified that "this is only possible if we receive everything we ask for, and exactly in the time frame we need - weapons, financial support, and sanctions against Russia."
23:15 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, after a telephone conversation with Zelensky, assured that at the G7 and NATO meetings this week he will continue to "emphasize the importance of supporting Ukraine and protecting democracy." "You can count on Canada's support," Trudeau added.
23:13 Ukrainian special forces are involved in sabotage deep in the Russian rear, writes The Times. Some details of the operations were told to the publication by the fighters of the MTR unit. They did not name the goals of their covert operations, but the journalists concluded that the explosions at weapons depots and oil depots in Russia were most likely related to the actions of the Ukrainian special forces.
23:08 Turkey will hold in Brussels a new round of talks with Finland and Sweden regarding their membership in NATO. It will take place before the summit of the alliance, which starts on Tuesday, June 28, in Madrid. At the summit itself, one more negotiations are expected - Erdogan will take part in them.
23:01 Zelensky addressed the Belarusians in an evening video message: "I want to address the citizens of Belarus today. To people - both civilians and in uniform. You are being drawn into the war. And even more actively than it was in February and in the spring months. In the Kremlin everything has already been decided for you - your lives are worth nothing to them. But you are not slaves and not cannon fodder. You should not die. And you can not let anyone decide for you what awaits you next. "
22:42 Georgian authorities are helping Russia bypass sanctions, Arakhamia said: "When this information became available to the United States, we heard many words from various Georgian officials that this was allegedly not true. But over time, more and more objective information appears to confirm my words. Soon data on transactions abroad and the accounts of many pro-government MPs and ministers from Georgia will become more accessible, and of course, the connections of Mr. Ivanishvili, who is very deeply involved in helping the country-sponsor of terrorism bypass sanctions.But should disappoint everyone who decided to make money on the deaths of Ukrainians. This will not happen. And Mr. Ivanishvili should be the first to get ready. We are taking off soon, and this is not a tourist trip."
22:19 Blinken said that Putin has already lost, despite local successes. According to him, Putin's strategic goal was to end the sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, erase it from the world map and include it in Russia, which failed to be done. Also, Russia failed to quickly capture Kyiv and other major cities of the country. And in a geopolitical context, Putin has failed to divisive NATO.
Blinken also commented on the attacks on Kyiv on June 26: "Ever since Putin lost the battle for Kyiv and had to turn his attention only to Eastern and Southern Ukraine, Russian troops have fired missiles from a distance from time to time, mainly to terrorize people ".
21:44 According to the Georgian opposition TV channel Mtavari, there is a tanker with Russian oil products in the terminal of the Georgian port of Batumi. The journalists found out that the Turkish-flagged ship Esen Ka left Tuapse for Batumi, loading 30,000 tons of vacuum gas oil. The raw materials belong to the sub-sanctioned Rosneft. Mtavari's source said that now the Georgian side intends to change the origin of the cargo and send it to Europe as oil products from Kazakhstan. The TV channel claims that people close to the oligarch Bidzini Ivanishvili, Ucha Mamatsashvili and Grigol Liluashvili, are in charge of the situation around the tanker.
21:29 Reznikov said that the condition for the resumption of dialogue between the West and Russia can only be the demilitarization of the European part of the Russian Federation: "The long-term answer is obvious - the condition for a dialogue on the resumption of relations between the civilized world and Russia should be the demilitarization of at least the European part of the terrorist state. Depth and parameters demilitarization must be determined by experts."
21:00 Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko said that Russia is ready for negotiations with Ukraine, "but not decorative," Moscow's conditions "should be accepted."
20:57 On the morning of June 26, the Russians attacked Kiev with X-type missiles - these are modern and expensive missiles, the cost of each is from $ 5 million and more, Yuri Ignat, spokesman for the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said on the air of the telethon.
20:55 Ukraine has become a testing ground for testing Russian missiles of various types, Yury Ignat, a representative of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said on the air of the telethon: "The weapons used by Russia are extremely diverse. Ukraine, unfortunately, is a kind of testing ground for Russia."
As an example, he cited Kalibr sea-based missiles, which are fired mainly from the Black Sea. Tu-95 and Tu-160 strategic bombers are launching Russian X-type missiles - they are already flying out of the Caspian region. Kh-22 is a fast missile that can reach speeds of about 3,000 km/h, they are launched from TU-22M3 bombers. If earlier the Russian Federation made such launches from the Rostov region, from the Black Sea, now it has transferred these aircraft to the north. Entering the airspace of Belarus, the plane strikes at the northern regions, such a missile has a range of only 600 km. Ignat called the Iskander and Soviet Tochka-U complexes the most destructive - it is most difficult to shoot down their Ukrainian air defense missiles.
20:48 The Armed Forces of Ukraine again hit Zmeinoye, OK Pivden reported: "Active hostilities continued at Zmeinoye with diverse forces and types of weapons. The results are being specified."
20:46 The drilling platform of Chernomorneftegaz in Crimea was again fired upon, the Russian TASS reports with reference to the "emergency services of Crimea". According to the source of the publication, the shelling was carried out by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, there were no casualties.
20:18 Reznikov urged the West to respond to today's shelling of Ukraine. In his opinion, the answer should consist of two parts: strengthening sanctions and deploying an air defense system in Ukraine.
20:12 The Verkhovna Rada will strive to adopt all the laws necessary for Ukraine's accession to the EU until 2025, Stefanchuk said on the air of the telethon. He recalled that in more than two years of work of the current convocation of parliament, 81 legislative acts related to European integration were adopted, which was an absolute record. "After that, we will receive a number of EU directives, in accordance with which it is necessary to adopt legislative acts. We are currently working on this set of bills," the speaker of parliament said.
According to him, there will be about a hundred such acts. Stefanchuk promised that the Rada would make every effort to make 2025 "the year when Ukraine fulfills all obligations to become a member of the EU." "There will be no delays behind the parliament, because our direction is clear, we will go towards it, including the well-known turbo mode," he stressed.
19:49 Scholz said that Russia's attack on residential buildings in Kiev demonstrates the importance of international unity in supporting Ukraine: "The fact that this is a brutal war waged by Putin, we have now seen again with rocket attacks on houses in Kiev - this shows that it is right that we stand together and support Ukrainians to defend their country, their democracy, their freedom of self-determination."
19:23 The failure of the G7 countries to import gold from Russia will deprive it of about $ 19 billion a year, Blinken told CNN: "The initiative that we are announcing affects the second most profitable export item that Russia has after energy."
18:59 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that on the territory of Belarus, the preparation of sabotage and reconnaissance groups by the forces of the Russian Armed Forces for further actions on the territory of Ukraine is noted.
18:51 G7 countries plan to commit themselves to indefinite support of Ukraine while there is a war with Russia, writes Bloomberg with reference to the draft document: "We will continue to provide financial, humanitarian, military and diplomatic support and support Ukraine as much as necessary" .
18:32 The invaders suffered significant losses in the Bakhmut direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine also repelled assaults in the Slavic direction, at the same time, the Russian army is trying to block Lysichansk from the south, the General Staff said.
17:49 Ukraine will not lose the status of a candidate for EU membership even if the conditions of the European Commission are not met, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanishyna said on the air of the telethon: "The decision of the European Council, which was adopted on June 23, is different from the recommendation provided by the European Commission. Because the status We received the candidate unconditionally... As for the seven conditions, the decision provides that the European Commission at the end of the year will assess the fulfillment of these conditions, and from this the further stages related to membership will be determined.
Stefanyshina explained that the fulfillment of these seven conditions would allow the start of EU accession negotiations. "The positive thing is that we have already done something in each of these areas. And literally in the next three days, the president will approve a roadmap for the implementation of each of the seven points," she added.
17:36 Under the cover of a thunderstorm, the enemy attacked the Odessa region with two Onyx-type anti-ship missiles, firing them from the Bastion coastal missile system from the territory of Crimea, OK Pivden reports. Both missiles were destroyed by air defense forces on approach to Odessa.
16:44 Hundreds of civilians of Energodar and nearby villages are being held captive by the Russian military - they are being held for ransom, city mayor Dmitry Orlov said. The standard price for releasing a prisoner under any pretext is 50,000 hryvnias. This money is extorted from the captives themselves or their relatives.
16:40 Johnson said at the G7 summit that he would be honored to receive Zelensky on a state visit, "if he can ever leave and it would be reasonable for him to leave Ukraine." But now, according to the British prime minister, the main thing for Ukraine is that Western leaders remain united in supporting Zelensky: “I think he did an absolutely amazing job leading his country and world opinion in a terrible time.”
16:22 In Kakhovka, Kherson region, the car of Irina Makhneva, who, under the Russian "administration", dealt with education and culture, was blown up. Russian media write that Makhneva herself was not injured, because she did not have time to get into the car.
16:17 In Kiev, search and rescue operations are still ongoing in a residential building, where the Russians hit with a rocket in the morning, Klitschko said. According to him, the body of one deceased was found, six residents of the house were injured. Four of them, including a seven-year-old girl, were hospitalized. According to doctors, the girl was operated on, her condition is stable. The girl's mother is in a state of moderate severity.
16:10 Lukashenka can involve 12-15 thousand combat-ready soldiers of the Belarusian troops in the war against Ukraine, Belarusian opposition leader, commander of the White Legion organization Sergei Bulba said on the air of the Espresso TV channel. According to him, Lukashenka can use against Ukraine the three most combat-ready brigades of the Special Operations Forces of the army of the Republic of Belarus, which constantly conduct training with the Russians. The number of these troops in Belarus is more than 9 thousand people. In addition, Lukashenko may involve the 120th Guards Rifle Brigade, the expert added. He stressed that Putin is in complete control of Lukashenka.
16:01 In the occupied part of the Zaporozhye region, Russians are seizing empty apartments and resorting to threats for this. According to the OVA, the Russian army decided to place personnel in the apartments of local residents who left the occupation for the territory controlled by Ukraine. The administration says that the occupiers even demand the keys to empty apartments from relatives and acquaintances, threatening them with physical violence. In case of refusal, the Russians knock out the doors and move into apartments.
15:48 On the Zelenodolsk community of the Dnepropetrovsk region, the Russians opened fire again, two people were injured. In Zelenodolsk itself, high-rise buildings, a house of culture and a post office were damaged, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko.
15:46 The EU will study the possibility of joining the embargo on Russian gold, which is planned to be introduced by Great Britain, Canada, the USA and Japan, the head of the European Council, Charles Michel, said on the sidelines of the G7 summit. At the same time, he noted that the ban should not harm the economy of the European Union.
Charles Michel also promised that the EU will provide more military, financial and political support to Ukraine and support efforts to unblock Ukraine's Black Sea ports in a way that would take into account the interests of its security.
15:32 Johnson and Macron came to the conclusion that there is an opportunity to turn the tide of the war in Ukraine, writes The Guardian, citing a Downing Street representative. Britain and France have agreed to continue to support Ukraine in order to strengthen its position both on the battlefield and at the table of possible future negotiations.
15:13 At the NATO summit in Madrid, the largest military deployment of the alliance's forces since the Cold War will be discussed, writes El País. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has resulted in NATO recognizing Russia as its main threat. A significant increase in the alliance's troops in Eastern Europe is expected to protect the allies.
14:58 Johnson said that now is "not the time to turn our backs on Ukraine": "They need the support and determination of the G7 more than ever. The UK will continue to support Ukraine at every step, because we know that their security is our security, and their freedom is our freedom."
14:39 Yermak said that the G7 summit should respond to Russian strikes on Kiev. The head of the OP suggests four steps:
sanctions should be more aggressive: "an embargo on gold exports is good, but a gas embargo is needed in the new EU sanctions package";
response to the food crisis - military convoys to unblock Ukrainian ports;
recognition of Russia as a sponsor of terrorism;
more heavy weapons for Ukraine - "this is the way to defeat an enemy who understands only force."
14:28 As a result of two rocket strikes near Cherkassy, one person was killed, five were injured , an infrastructure facility was damaged, the head of the IVA Igor Taburets said.
13:47 Scholz said after the meeting with Biden: "We remain united, we remain together. This is our clear message to President Putin."
13:35 Biden said that Russian missile strikes on Kiev are "another manifestation of their barbarism."
13:24 Johnson noted Scholz's activism regarding Ukraine: "I never thought I would see from the German Chancellor what Olaf Scholz is doing, that he is sending weapons to help Ukrainians defend themselves." The British prime minister also stated that Scholz had made "tremendous progress" in refusing Russian gas, despite the damage to Germany.
13:19 The leadership of institutions and organizations of the Gomel region of Belarus has been warned about the likelihood of the return of units of the RF Armed Forces. At the same time, the Russians are planning to increase the number of operational-tactical aviation on the territory of the Republic of Belarus, according to the military intelligence of Ukraine. The official reason is the joint patrolling of the airspace as part of the training of aviation and air defense units. For this purpose, a flight of ten aircraft to the Baranovichi airfield is planned.
Also, since June 22, mobilization exercises have been ongoing in the Gomel region. The combat training classes with reservists announced earlier in the Belarusian media are not being held, the reservists themselves are used to carry out chores.
13:04 Kuleba called on the G7 summit to respond to attacks on Kiev and other cities of Ukraine with new sanctions against the Russian Federation and the supply of heavy weapons.
13:01 For the fourth day in a row, large columns of military equipment are moving through Mariupol in a westerly direction. A limited military corps remains in the city, mainly to protect potential military facilities - the port, factories, and the railway. "The mood of the occupiers cannot be called victorious. Leaving an already familiar place by the sea for the sake of the front is not the best prospect," wrote Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol.
12:56 The Russians are gathering forces in Slavyansk, they will try to repeat the scenario of Mariupol , the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko said on the air of the telethon: "We are observing the accumulation of manpower, heavy armored vehicles and artillery in the Slavyansk direction. The enemy is using his tactics and trying to move closer to the line our defense in order to, in addition to missiles, aircraft, which they systematically use in the Donetsk region, use cannon artillery to shell the city. The Russians do not change their tactics, we saw what happened in their native Mariupol and Severodonetsk, so we are preparing for any scenario with Slavyansk" .
12:50 People's Deputy Goncharenko urges the people of Kiev to respond to air alerts - especially those who live in the area of the government quarter on Lipki.
12:24 Rescue work in the Kiev high-rise building, destroyed by a rocket hit this morning, faced problems, Klitschko said on the Kiev TV channel: "The situation is complicated by the fact that there is quite a lot of smoke, and firefighters, given the people [under the rubble], do not want much fill it with water, because people can also die from a large amount of water."
12:07 In the courtyard of a private kindergarten in the Shevchenko district of Kiev, a water main was damaged after a missile attack, the Kyiv City State Administration reported. The leak was promptly localized, the kindergarten is temporarily without water, the pressure in the city's water supply networks is within normal limits.
12:04 Rocket attacks on Kiev should be regarded as a deliberate escalation, said the former Prime Minister of Sweden, co-chairman of the European Council on Foreign Relations Carl Bildt. According to him, the shelling of residential areas of the capital is a signal for the G7 summit, which started today in Bavaria.
12:00 In Mariupol, Russians, on a tip from priests of the Russian Orthodox Church, burned books from the library of the church of Peter the Grave, among them there were unique copies, said Mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko.
11:53 The speaker of the command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuriy Ignat said that the Russians fired at Kiev from Tu-95 and Tu-160 aircraft with X101 missiles , which can fly at a distance of up to 5500 km. Bombers took off from Astrakhan, missiles were launched over the Caspian Sea.
11:51 The head of the Cherkasy Regional State Administration Oleksandr Skichko reported explosions in the city.
11:49 There is no point in waiting until Russia's offensive potential runs out or the enemy "gets tired." The Russian Federation replenishes its armed forces through covert mobilization, and it is possible to achieve victory over it only with the help of military force, Major General Kirill Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, told Reuters reporters.
"The strategy is very simple. Stabilize the situation. Get the necessary amount of equipment and prepare the necessary amount of forces and means to launch a counteroffensive in order to return our entire territory. <...> We should not wait for a miracle that they will get tired, stop wanting to fight, and so on We will recapture our territory as a result of our counter-offensive," Budanov stressed.
11:44 Podolyak compared Russia with terrorists: "Sunday morning woke Kiev not with birdsong, but with explosions. Four "high-precision" Russian missiles hit residential facilities in the center of the capital. The Second Army of the World is no different from the Taliban or Hezbollah, destroying civilization But terrorists always face one end - retribution."
11:40 Enemy aircraft was spotted over Belarus, three bombers flew towards Ukraine, reports Belaruski Gayun.
11:31 A strike on Kiev was delivered from the Caspian Sea region, the command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
11:28 Ukraine in the near future will not do anything in the direction of rapprochement with NATO, because the alliance has clearly "rejected the aspirations" of Kiev, Igor Zhovkva, deputy head of the OP, Igor Zhovkva, said in an interview with the Financial Times: "We will not do anything more about this." He acknowledged that Ukraine's accession to NATO in the short term is impossible. At the same time, Zhovkva called for the exclusion of references to Russia as a partner of NATO from the strategic concept of the alliance.
In turn, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albarez, in an interview with the El País newspaper on the eve of the NATO summit in Madrid, said that the issue of Ukraine's entry into the alliance "was never discussed, and now it is not."
11:12 From the house in the Shevchenko district of the capital, where the rocket hit, 25 residents were evacuated. A total of four victims were hospitalized, including a seven-year-old girl and her mother. Search and rescue operations continue, Klitschko said.
11:10 The second rocket in Kiev hit a kindergarten, Anton Gerashchenko reports from the scene.
11:05 From under the rubble of a house in Kiev, where a rocket hit today, they managed to get a woman, the mother of a seven-year-old girl, who was taken earlier. The injured woman turned out to be a citizen of Russia, Anton Gerashchenko showed her passport to journalists on the spot. The dead man is probably her husband.
10:30 Russian media report that Shoigu inspected "the Russian group of troops involved in a special military operation" in Ukraine.
10:28 Today at about 6:00 an enemy missile flew critically low over the South Ukrainian nuclear power plant, Energoatom reported. The missile flew from the south to the north of Ukraine, probably its target was Kyiv.
10:26 After the shelling of a house in the Shevchenko district of Kiev, five people were injured, the National Police reports.
10:21 Johnson intends to use the upcoming G7 and NATO summits to urge France and Germany to provide more military support to Ukraine. The British prime minister also fears that pressure will be intensified to "force Ukrainians into a bad world," writes The Independent.
10:14 At night, the invaders again fired at residential areas of Kharkov, in particular Nemyshlyansky and Kholodnogorsky, only civilian infrastructure, including a medical facility, was hit, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. Two Kharkiv residents were hospitalized. The Izyum direction remains the hottest in the region, the enemy is trying to hold their positions.
10:10 Explosions were heard in Nikolaev this morning. According to Mayor Alexander Senkevich, citing the military commandant's office, Ukrainian defenders destroyed a Russian drone that was conducting reconnaissance.
10:06 British intelligence assesses the capture of Severodonetsk by the Russian army as a significant achievement, but notes that this is only one of many tasks in the stated Russian goals to reach the borders of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
According to intelligence, most of the Ukrainian defenders most likely abandoned defensive positions in Severodonetsk. It is an important industrial center and is strategically located on the Seversky Donets. However, this is only one of a number of difficult tasks that Russia will have to perform in order to capture the entire Donbass. This, including the attack on Kramatorsk and maintaining the main supply chains in Donetsk, analysts say.
09:47 State Emergency Service reported that one person was killed in Kyiv as a result of a missile strike.
09:36 In Sarny, Rivne region, under the rubble of an object that was hit by a Russian missile last night, they found the body of another deceased, said the head of the Regional State Administration Vitaliy Koval. The total number of victims thus rose to four, all of the dead - men aged 30 to 51 years.
09:27 Johnson invited Zelensky on an official visit to Britain in October, it is possible to arrange a meeting with the Queen, writes The Sunday Times.
09:12 Klitschko said that a seven-year-old girl was pulled out from under the rubble of a residential building in the Shevchenko district, she is alive, now her mother is being rescued.
09:05 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of June 26. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Bakhmut and Kurakhovsky directions.
personnel - about 34,850 (+150) people liquidated,
tanks - 1532 (+21),
armored combat vehicles - 3659 (+14),
artillery systems - 764 (+0),
MLRS - 243 (+2),
air defense systems - 99 (+0),
aircraft - 217 (+0),
helicopters - 184 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 630 (+4),
cruise missiles - 139 (+2),
ships/boats - 14 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2564 (+4),
special equipment - 60 (+0).
08:58 The G7 summit starts in Germany, Biden has already arrived there. The summit will include seven working sessions to discuss the global economy, partnerships for developing countries, foreign and security policy, sustainable development, food security, multilateralism and digital technologies. The participants will also discuss the situation around Ukraine.
08:51 Rescuers showed a photo of a destroyed house in Kiev:
08:49 After the capture of Severodonetsk, the Russian army concentrated all its forces on the capture of Lisichansk. Massive airstrikes are inflicted on the city, said the head of the Lugansk Regional Military District Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the Russians entrenched themselves in Severodonetsk, Sirotin, Voronovo and Borovsk. In Severodonetsk, the Russians “finally” fired at Azot and the State Emergency Service training ground, opened fire on the villages of Pavlograd and Sinetsky, as well as on the already destroyed bridges to Lisichansk. Volcheyarka, Loskutovka, Verkhnekamenka and Zolotarevka suffered from Russian shelling.
08:40 There are people under the rubble of a residential building in the Shevchenkovsky district of Kiev, where a Russian missile hit. Some residents were evacuated, two victims were hospitalized, Klitschko said. Rescuers and paramedics are on the scene.
08:29 The UK is ready to provide an additional $525 million to Ukraine as guarantees for a World Bank loan at the end of 2022, the press service of the British government said. The new support raises the UK's total fiscal aid to $1.5bn.
08:24 As a result of the shelling of Kiev, a fire started in a nine-story residential building, the top three floors were partially destroyed, the State Emergency Service reported. The fire occurred on a total area of 300 square meters. m. According to preliminary data, there are victims.
08:07 In the Kiev region, air defense worked - one missile was shot down, the head of the OVA, Alexei Kuleba, said. The remains of the rocket fell in the vicinity of one of the villages, no damage or casualties were reported.
07:49 The Russian Army is concentrating its main efforts on the Lisichansk direction and attempts to encircle the units of the Defense Forces in the Lisichansk region, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report .
07:46 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that the Ukrainian military leadership probably wants to centrally coordinate the actions of partisans in the occupied territories. The goal is to undermine Russian control and possibly prepare for coordinated operations with Ukrainian forces. Major General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Dmitry Marchenko said that the Ukrainian partisans are just waiting for the right moment to join the fight against the enemy.
07:03 Klitschko said that in two houses "rescue and evacuation of residents are taking place."
06:44 Klitschko reported several explosions in the Shevchenko district of Kiev. Ambulances and rescuers are on the way, the mayor said.
02:25 Lithuania will not succumb to the Kremlin’s threats regarding transit to the Kaliningrad region, President Gintas Nauseda said: “Lithuania must maintain control over goods transported through its territory. speeches about concessions to Russia in response to the Kremlin's threats. I clearly explained to the head of the European Commission how Lithuania sees this situation."
01:37 Commandos of different NATO countries continue to operate on the territory of Ukraine, including those from Great Britain, Lithuania, Canada and France. Also, CIA special agents remain in Kyiv, they all work to fight the invaders, writes The New York Times.
#Myanmar authorities torch more than half a billion dollars’ worth of #narcotics as part of eradication efforts for World Drug Day, as the UN warns that production of methamphetamine in the region is hitting record levels.https://t.co/i6AemrZz2L
A trial begins for an Egyptian man accused of stabbing a woman to death in a public street after she rejected his advances -- a case that has sparked widespread outrage.https://t.co/1tdt68z89g
#Turkey will reconsider a 2004 decision to abolish capital punishment, the justice minister says, after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan raises the death penalty in connection with the cause of this week’s #wildfires.#deathpenaltyhttps://t.co/Vv5mRHuBsl
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While I'll the 1st to say, Capital Punishment IS A DETERRENT. But, it must have a series of automatic Checks and Balances taken over a 3 to 4 year to be effective. Where each step insures it is only used for criminal acts and NOT abused for Political, Elitist or Religiously reasons.
Whereas, Life w/o parole is basically a Retirement package for too many criminals.
Gunmen believed to be holy warriors have killed another Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Vitus Borogo, on his farm in Kaduna State.
The chancellor, Catholic Archdiocese of Kaduna, Rev. Fr. Christian Okewu Emmanuel, confirmed the latest incident in a statement made available to SaharaReporters.
He said the incident happened on Saturday.
The statement read, "It is with a heavy heart, but with total submission to the will of God that we announce the death of Rev. Fr. Vitus Borogo, which sad event took place today, at Prison Farm, Kujama, along Kaduna-Kachia road, after a raid on the farm by terrorists.
"Until his death, late Fr Vitus aged 50 years was the Chaplain of the Catholic Community of the Kaduna State Polytechnic, and the Chairman of the Nigerian Catholic Diocesan Priests Association (NCDPA), Kaduna Chapter.
"Most Rev. Matthew Man-Oso Ndagoso, the Catholic Archbishop of Kaduna condoles with the immediate family, the NFCS Family of Kaduna Polytechnic, and indeed the entire Kaduna Polytechnic Community and assures them of his fraternal closeness and prayers."
He said details of Bogoro’s funeral arrangement will be announced as soon as possible.
"Meanwhile,...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase... we commit his soul to the maternal intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and call on all men and women of goodwill to continue to pray for the peaceful repose of his soul and for the consolation of his bereaved family, especially his mother," the chancellor added.
In May, the Catholic Church announced the killing of a 48-year-old Catholic priest, Reverend Father Joseph Aketeh Bako, by terrorists.
The priest was kidnapped from his residence at Saint John’s Catholic Church in Kudenda, Kaduna during an attack by the holy warriors in March.
A statement by the Chancellor, Christian Okewu Emmanuel, announcing the tragedy said the priest was killed in April.
"We have carefully verified that the unfortunate event took place between 18th and 20th of April, 2022 in the hands of his abductors," Emmanuel had said.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[LB] Lysychansk suffers from air strikes.
by Irina Gamaliy
After the capture, the Severodonetsk enemy army concentrated all its efforts on capturing the last fortress of the Luhansk region, Lysychansk.
This was announced in the Telegram by the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Haidai.
“Air strikes were inflicted on the city, as well as in the area of Bila Hora. There is a lot of destruction - Lysychansk is almost unrecognizable. There is a TV tower on the ground, a road bridge is seriously damaged, shells hit houses, the SBU building, etc., ”the statement reads.
It is noted that the body of a man without signs of life was found on the territory of the multidisciplinary hospital. He received numerous mine injuries.
After the withdrawal of units of our troops, the enemy established itself in Severodonetsk, Sirotyn, Voronovo and Borivsky.
Finally, the Russians fired on Nitrogen and the SES test site in Severodonetsk, opened fire on the villages of Pavlograd and Synetsky, and tested the strength of the already destroyed and shelled bridges to Lysychansk.
Vovchoyarivka, Loskutivka, Verkhnokamyanka and Zolotarivka were also destroyed by the Russian invasion.
We will remind, Severodonetsk is occupied by the Russian troops . Locals can only leave for Russian-occupied territory. The city is 90% destroyed.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:22 During the day, residential buildings of the private sector in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk were damaged, at the following addresses:
Address: st. Slepneva, 78, VFU ammunition hit the garages. 22:31 Tonight, during the shelling of the village of Dolya, at the address: st. Pobedy, 25 killed a civilian born in 1949 Enemy fire damaged three houses of the private sector at the following addresses: st. Wins 65, 67, 81.
20:30 As a result of today's shelling of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk People's Republic, two people were killed, eight more were injured.
20:23 The firing position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the Azot chemical plant, destroyed by our projectile.
On the territory of the enterprise, Ukrainian troops threw samples of weapons supplied by the West everywhere. The people's militia of the LPR has already taken all this stuff into circulation and is mastering the trophies. They are very grateful to Kyiv and the collective West for saving republican ammunition.
19:40 In the DPR yesterday, a monk of the Holy Assumption Nikolo-Vasilyevsky Monastery was blown up by an anti-personnel mine.
This happened outside the territory of the monastery, located in the village of Nikolskoye. Monk Amphilochius (Kozakov) received serious leg injuries and was hospitalized.
17:04 Ambassador of the LPR to the Russian Federation: the soldiers of the People's Militia of the LPR evacuated about 250 more people from the territory of the Severodonetsk Azot plant, among them small children.
15:23 VFU subjected to repeated shelling the village of Korolenko in the Central City district of Gorlovka, as a result of which four civilians were injured, who were at the Korolenkovskiye ponds near the catamaran parking lot at the time of the shelling. In the village of Golmovsky on the street. Voroshilovgradskoy, 5/14, two civilians were injured.
14:18 Consequences of the shelling in Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk from the VFU.
13:18 On the orders of the Ukrainians, the military formations of Ukraine attacked the peaceful Stakhanov (LPR) with a missile of the Tochka-U tactical missile system.
11:24 LPR servicemen are evacuating the residents of Severodonetsk.
11:13 Defense Minister Shoigu arrived in the NVO zone in Donbas.
10:34 According to the official data of the DPR JCCC since the beginning of the escalation * as of 10:30 06/26/22
During the 130 days of the escalation, 199 civilians died, incl. 12 children.
Complete data on the dead civilians in the territory liberated during the NWO are being established.
On the territory within the borders before the start of the NMD, 930 civilians received injuries of varying severity, incl. 69 children.
On the territory liberated during the NMD, 1,442 civilians were injured, incl. 79 children.
Total: 2,371 including 148 children.
Damage:
— 4,927 residential buildings;
— 1,064 civil infrastructure facility, including 64 medical institutions, 202 educational institutions, 378 social security facilities, 31 critical infrastructure facilities, 389 electricity, water and gas supply facilities. VFU is under attack in Kuibyshevsky district, Donetsk, Makeevka, and Yasinovataya.
- 578 vehicles.
At the moment, it is impossible to establish for certain the data on damage and destruction of residential housing constructions and civil infrastructure facilities in the territory liberated during the NWO.
During the 130 days of the escalation of the JCCC of the DPR, 4,937 facts of firing were recorded, of which 4,616 were using heavy weapons.
In total, the enemy fired 42,237 ammunition of various calibers, including 30 rockets from OTRK "Tochka-U", 14 MLRS missilesBM-30 "Smerch", 112 MLRS missiles from BM-27 "Hurricane" and 7,394 MLRS missiles from BM-21.
09:22 Cossacks of the 6th Regiment in the city of Zolote handed out local residents bread and food.
09:10 Today, Alexander Vladimirovich Zakharchenko could have turned 46 years old. He was a true patriot of his land. Defended Russian people and Russian Donbass. He would have defended even now, but a vile terrorist attack took his life.
08:03 The entire left-bank territory of the Seversky Donets within the borders of the LPR has come under its full control - the Ministry of Defense.
08:01 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Leninskoye
- n.p. Gorlovka (village of Gagarin sh-ty): eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:00 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, shelling was recorded from the direction of the settlement. Druzhkovka Stakhanov using the tactical missile system "Tochka-U" (1 missile) - Representation of the Luhansk People's Republic in the JCCC.
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[Vesti] Under the fire of the Russians were the cities of Avdeevka, Slavyansk, Toretsk and Konstantinovka.
As a result of shelling in the Donetsk region, a coke plant in Avdiivka, as well as other objects in the city, came under fire. This was announced on Sunday, June 26, by the head of the OVA, Pavel Kirilenko.
Also, according to him, a school in Toretsk came under fire today, and a school in Mayaki was destroyed the day before. In total, 220 schools have already been destroyed in the region.
According to Kirilenko, the military of the Russian Federation used cluster munitions in the Grodovskaya community. It is known about one wounded.
Earlier it became known that Russian troops inflicted 15 strikes on seven settlements of the Donetsk region in a day , as a result of which civilians were killed and injured. This was reported by the press service of the police of the Donetsk region.
In total, 14 civilian facilities were destroyed - nine residential buildings, two schools, an enterprise, and power grids.
Hunters in the Okehi local government area of Kogi State on Sunday killed two suspected members of a kidnap gang and rescued two victims.
The gang was said to have been terrorising Okene-Lokoja Road and Okene-Auchi Road in the state before meeting their Waterloo at Upogoro hill following intelligence reports from the personnel of Okehi Local Government Joint Taskforce, a statement by King Habib, an aide to the local government chairman on media and publicity, said on Sunday.
The statement said in line with the directive of the state governor, Yahaya Bello, “Men of Professional Hunters and Local hunters in Okehi LG led an early morning operation and apprehended some kidnap gang at Upogoro hill upon receiving credible intelligence reports from men of Okehi LG Joint Taskforce”.
It further said, “The gang have been terrorising Okene-Lokoja Road and Okene-Auchi Road of Kogi State before being nabbed and in the process, one of the kidnappers was shot dead during an exchange of gunshots and one was apprehended who later gave up before arriving hospital.
“The hunters also rescued two victims from the kidnapers namely Mallam Sanni Uwaiti and Ramatu Tukur, both of toll gate area along Okene and Ajaokuta axis.”
It quoted Abdulraheem Ohiare Ozovehe, the local government chairman as saying “we shall leave no stone unturned in a bid to rid Okehi LGA and our environs of all forms of criminality".
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Liberty Daily] Think about the worst thing a U.S. Senate candidate could say on a recorded conversation with a prison inmate. Whatever you thought of, the things 
[Oleg Atbashian] This is a brilliant study, profusely illustrated with cartoons and propaganda posters. Atbashian explains why Socialism cannot work. He exposes the injustice of "Collective Greed" and shows why Economic Equality is a fraud. The book is an eye-opener as the author illustrates his points with examples drawn from his life in the Soviet Union before 1994 and more recent events in the USA.
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[NYT via ZERO] A fresh New York Times report has confirmed what many already suspected - that the CIA is still very active inside Ukraine - especially with training as well coordinating weapons among its Ukrainian allies. The Times report details "a stealthy network of commandos and spies rushing to provide weapons, intelligence and training," based on US and European intelligence officials with knowledge of the operations. The report says Ukrainian forces are reliant on this Western clandestine network "more than ever" while outgunned by the Russians.
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