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Antifa 4th of July attacks in Portland, FBI finally called in
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Home Front: Politix
Black Conservative Turns Tables on Gun Grabbing Liberals (Ad)
Saw this on Rumble and had to share...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/06/2022 16:48 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11131 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sorry - it did work in preview. You can click the link to get the video. Pretty good :).
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/06/2022 16:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Grabber: we should have common sense laws like the Europeans do.

Europeans: time to start shooting farmers.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/06/2022 17:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Sorry - it did work in preview. You can click the link to get the video. Pretty good :).

Fixed.
Posted by: badanov || 07/06/2022 17:15 Comments || Top||

#4  That’s former NFL running back Jerone Davison — running in Arizona’s August 2nd primary for Arizona’s 4th Congressional District against Republicans Kelly Cooper, Dave Giles, Rene Lopez, and Tanya Wheeless, according to the NY Post, which also points out the non-Republican critics voicing shock that a Black man would want an effective gun for defense against the KKK.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2022 18:17 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
The Game Plan for Stealing Elections?
[AND Magazine] After reading Sasha Issenberg’s 2013 book called The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns, the methods, and techniques, used to manipulate the U.S. electorate and control the outcome of our elections, have become much clearer. The prologue of the book says it all: How to Win an Election Without Anyone Knowing.

The Victory Lab follows the academics and maverick operatives rocking the war room and re-engineering a high-stakes industry previously run on little more than gut instinct and outdated assumptions. Armed with research from behavioral psychology and randomized experiments that treat voters as unwitting guinea pigs, the smartest campaigns now believe they know who you will vote for even before you do. Issenberg tracks these techniques—which include cutting-edge persuasion experiments, innovative ways to mobilize voters, and heavily researched electioneering methods.

For the 2008 election, the game-changer, as Issenberg explains, occurred when Obama’s operatives began buying and integrating data from Catalist to feed Ken Strasma's algorithms to generate predictive scores on eligible voters across the country. The scores are used to isolate liberal progressives to be micro-targeted to register to vote and cast their ballots. Strasma states "We’re able to update scores in near real-time; ... it will take about a third of a second for us to get a new piece of information in, for it to ripple through the system, update, and predict its scores."

As a Catalist client, and due to Calatist’s non-profit status, the Obama campaign was able to "create seamless links across the activist left, including outside groups with whom candidates were legally prohibited from coordinating directly." Catalist and Democrats bragged to Issenberg about the immediate and practical benefit of this link.

When [outside group] Democracia USA collected a new voter's registration form in Florida, Obama's targeting team often knew about it before the local board of elections. Democracia would create a record in its databases, which synced daily with Catalist servers. When the Obama campaign conducted its daily download from the Catalist database, per its contract with the information vendor, the new record would show up in VAN. The campaign could start treating the person as a voter-assigning model scores, canvassing her, communicating by mail and phone, or getting her an absentee ballot-even before the registration had been officially processed.... Republicans wouldn't have an idea the new voter existed until she went on the books.

The strength and power of Catalist are based on the huge number of groups feeding it data. Leftist players sacrifice their egos for the larger messianic call of ’destroying Republicans’, obliterating conservatives, and ultimately gutting the Constitution. Non-profit interest groups on the left gladly feed their internal data into Catalist because it helps progressives win — period. They don’t care about profit, glory, connections, or a new car.

Fast forward to 2012. Obama's "re-election team built a vast digital data operation that for the first time combined a unified database on millions of Americans with the power of Facebook to target individual voters to a degree never achieved before. Digital analysts predicted that 2012 would be the first election cycle in which Facebook could become a dominant political force. The social media giant has grown exponentially since the 2008 presidential election, rendering it for the first time a major campaigning tool that has the potential to transform friendship into a political weapon.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2022 14:54 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11137 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How long has "vote early, vote often" been going on? Nothing was done about it then, and nothing will be done about it.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/06/2022 16:23 Comments || Top||

#2  And yet 2016 happened. What changed?
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2022 18:06 Comments || Top||

#3  So, Obama didn’t win 2012? He cheated like Biden?
Posted by: Xyz || 07/06/2022 18:31 Comments || Top||

#4  I still cannot believe he won in 2008.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2022 18:39 Comments || Top||

#5  It was a similar story. Romney looked like he had it won - huge crowds, the excitement was electric.

The the late returns kept rolling in. Precincts with 100% Obama. And again, just enough to win, then the votes trickled to a stop.
Posted by: KBK || 07/06/2022 18:57 Comments || Top||

#6  What happened in 2016 was the margin was far too large. in 2020 they stopped counting and sent everyone home until they could literally stuff the ballot box.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/06/2022 19:51 Comments || Top||

#7  #2 They thought they had it in the bag and didn't cheat as much as usual. Their arrogance brought them down. Thus the four years of tantrums and willingness to cheat so hard that it becomes obvious with every passing month.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/06/2022 19:57 Comments || Top||

#8  @#5 - Hmmm, now, I'm not so sure if Mittens would have been much better.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/06/2022 22:01 Comments || Top||

#9  Obama won easily in 2012 because he had a superior ground game. His field operatives outnumbered Romney's by four to one. This ground game began very early – two years in a Vance – and focused on increasing turnout among African-Americans.

This sharply increased turnout, in heavily Africa-America can never fhborhoods in major urban battleground-state centers such as East Cleveland, put Obama over the top. It wasn't closexandcwas never going to be close -- because African-Alert cabs rallied in support of their guy.
Posted by: Lionel Hatfield8646 || 07/06/2022 23:18 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Heads of MI5 and FBI warn of threat posed by China in first ever joint speech: Security chiefs say they are facing 'game changing challenge' from communist party which is 'covertly applying pressure across the globe'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Masters of the Ob[li]vious
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2022 13:45 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11138 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Top men, seventy years late...
Posted by: Raj || 07/06/2022 17:14 Comments || Top||

#2  The pressure on Beijing Biden isn't that covert.
Posted by: Bob Borgia4549 || 07/06/2022 17:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Continuing ^

This could be a shot across the bow to get Biden to withdraw from politics at a time convenient for the powers that be.

It is likely coordinated with Axelrod's thinly veiled mention of Biden's obvious mental shortcomings.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 07/06/2022 17:48 Comments || Top||

#4  On the ball, aren't they? Or, did they get their talking points from VP Pence's 45 minute speech a few years ago?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/06/2022 17:49 Comments || Top||

#5  You've been busy since 2016 to oust an elected American President. China is far less a threat than you are.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/06/2022 18:02 Comments || Top||

#6  China's a global threat. We've got our best people on it just as soon as we get done dealing with school board moms.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/06/2022 20:46 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Two teens, 16 and 17, caught 'trying to smuggle 16 migrants in Texas' in back of stolen pickup truck following high-speed chase - just days after 53 died in back of tractor-trailer
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Two teenage boys were arrested Monday in Atascosa County, Texas, for smuggling 16 migrants

  • A 16-year-old boy led Border Patrol agents and local police on a pursuit and at one point crashed into two properties

  • He and a 17-year-old boy were charged with human smuggling and evading arrest
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2022 13:20 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11133 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  "....Have fun in prison!"

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 07/06/2022 16:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Justice would see them both themselves sold to traffackers....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/06/2022 16:55 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Soros takeover: Outrage as Miami's anti-communism Radio Mambi could be controlled by Obama, Clinton staffers
From June 14th.
[FoxNews] Miami’s iconic, Spanish-language conservative talk radio station Radio Mambi could soon be controlled by political strategists who worked for President Obama and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. The pending sale to a George Soros-linked group has caused outrage inside the station, throughout Miami’s Cuban-American community and among conservative media watchdogs.

Radio Mambi, which is historically linked to the Cuban exile community and offers an anti-communism view, would be controlled by a group of liberals partially funded by Soros, a far-left billionaire, if the $60 million deal is approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Media Research Center director of MRC Latino Jorge Bonilla blasted the move as a power grab by the left.

"This is about power, this is about control. This is not about free speech. This is not about this misinformation. This is about controlling the flow of information to a specific community for political purposes, and that is what makes this deal, I think, so controversial," Bonilla told Fox News Digital.

Bonilla believes the looming takeover has a specific, strategic purpose as influential liberals are set to control Miami's "mainstay of the right" in addition to Spanish-language stations in other major markets, including New York, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and San Antonio.

The formation of the Latino Media Network, a new network set to be made up of 18 Hispanic radio stations including Radio Mambi, was partially financed by Lakestar Finance, an investment group affiliated with Soros Fund Management. The stations, currently owned by Univision, would be controlled by Jess Morales Rocketto, a former Hillary for America and AFL-CIO employee, and Stephanie Valencia, a former Obama White House staffer, if the venture receives FCC approval.

Bonilla believes it’s an "unprecedented" situation, and he had a hard time coming up with a comparison until conservative radio legend Rush Limbaugh came to mind.

"I guess the closest equivalent would be to imagine Rush Limbaugh's affiliate in New York City. His flagship in New York City at the height of when he first came out and made a ruckus in the '90s," Bonilla said. "Imagine a Clintonite group coming in and buying that station out and basically setting up [former left-wing radio network] Air America in its place and knocking Rush Limbaugh off the air."

Bonilla learned of an all-hands meeting last Thursday in which Valencia traveled to Miami to help ease tensions inside the station. Fox News Digital has confirmed the meeting took place, and that Valencia was accompanied by Cuban-born, anti-Trump conservative Al Cardenas in an attempt to calm panicked staffers. Cardenas is married to liberal CNN political commentator Ana Navarro, who remains a Republican but worked in Florida to elect Joe Biden in 2020 and openly supports Democrats.

During the meeting, the former Obama aide claimed "nothing will change" at Radio Mambi, but employees don’t buy it.

"Nobody believes her," a Radio Mambi insider who attended the meeting told Fox News Digital. "Honestly, they really believe we are stupid."

Bonilla feels that liberals controlling Radio Mambi would be a significant factor in the 2024 presidential election, as the Hispanic community doesn’t have many well-established conservative media options. Florida's shift to the right in the past two presidential elections has mirrored an increase in Latino support for Republicans – former President Trump comfortably carried Florida in 2020 over Biden, in part by making major gains in Miami-Dade County with increased support from Cuban-Americans.

"So Miami, because of its ecosystem, where it's a city populated on the Hispanic side, mostly by victims of communism and their descendants, that makes Miami and that Miami market very unique in the nation," Bonilla said. "I think that this is an effort to sort of consolidate control of the message Hispanics receive."

The Soros-backed group would take control of the station in 2023 if the FCC approves the deal.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2022 13:03 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11140 views] Top|| File under:


#2  ^^ And so it starts.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2022 16:58 Comments || Top||

#3  It would be easy to take over a poor-serving station and transfer all the resources, relocating Mambi and leaving the assholes with an Air-America clone
Posted by: Frank G || 07/06/2022 19:27 Comments || Top||

#4  The left hasn't had much success with talk radio in the past.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/06/2022 20:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Frank, see this from Skidmark’s link:

Conservative radio star Lourdes Ubieta has quit Miami’s iconic, Spanish-language conservative talk station Radio Mambi ahead of a planned takeover by a George Soros-linked liberal group and will move to upstart Americano Media on a full-time basis.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2022 22:10 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Ga Guidestones damaged by explosive device
[11Alive] Authorities are investigating after an explosion destroyed the Georgia Guidestones in Elbert County, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.

They said "unknown individuals" detonated an explosive device at around 4 a.m. on Wednesday. The Elbert County Sheriff’s Office responded to discover the explosion destroyed a large portion of the structure, they said.

According to multiple people nearby, the explosion was heard in the area and even shook their homes. Some shared images showing debris near the stones.

The meaning behind the mysterious 19-foot monoliths has been unclear since the structure was built in 1979.

No one knows exactly what the granite slabs are doing in the middle of a cow pasture - or who who put them there more than 40 years ago.

The Guidestones are about 100 miles from Atlanta in the northeast corner of the state -- not far from the South Carolina border.
It will be interesting to discover Who & Why they blew up part of the Georgia Guide stones. Given the writing on the columns state some ideas in conflict with various Political & Social Agendas.

Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.

Guide reproduction wisely; improving fitness and diversity.

Unite humanity with a living new language.

Rule passion; faith; tradition; and all things with tempered reason.

Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.

Let all nations rule internally, resolving external disputes in a world court.

Avoid petty laws and useless officials.

Balance personal rights with social duties.

Prize truth; beauty, love seeking harmony with the infinite.

Be not a cancer on the Earth; Leave room for nature Leave room for nature.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/06/2022 13:01 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11137 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Aaaaaaaaand they're gone
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 07/06/2022 19:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Been a couple of times, when we had a place at Oconee.

Sad
Posted by: Beavis || 07/06/2022 20:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Reminds of the Taliban.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/06/2022 22:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Yeah, that 500,000,000 figure was most problematic, and since tearing down monuments is all the rage - I'm good.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/06/2022 22:33 Comments || Top||


Economy
Biden Selling Strategic Reserve Oil Overseas
See also here.
[Townhall] As a result of his domestic war on the oil and gas industry, energy prices for American families continue to hit records with no relief in sight.

For months, President Joe Biden has repeatedly tapped the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and claimed it was helping to ease the pain at the pump. Not only has the depletion of the emergency supply not decreased gas prices, we're learning the supply is being sold to foreign countries.

"More than 5 million barrels of oil that were part of a historic U.S. emergency oil reserves release aimed at lowering domestic fuel prices were exported to Europe and Asia last month, according to data and sources, even as U.S. gasoline and diesel prices touched record highs," Reuters reports. "The export of crude and fuel is blunting the impact of the moves by U.S. President Joe Biden designed to lower record pump prices."
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/06/2022 11:45 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11143 views] Top|| File under:

#1  it gets worse, as this article points out that the Chinese are buying it and using it to fill THEIR strategic reserves.

"he American Energy Alliance points out that it's actually worse than it looks -- China isn't even using the oil -- it's stockpiling it for its own strategic petroleum reserves, meaning, the U.S. oil taken off the market is not helping to lower the price of crude even on a worldwide basis.

China has also refused to play Biden’s game. Biden thought he had coordinated a global effort to release more than 1 million barrels per day of strategic oil reserves in order to reduce gasoline and diesel prices since he expected those reserves to be refined and sold to consumers. However, for every barrel of reserve the President has sold, China has taken a barrel off the global market, adding it to Chinese stockpiles. China’s stockpiling eliminated any benefit to U.S. consumers from the SPR release, instead reducing U.S. energy security while strengthening China’s energy security"

American Thinker link
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/06/2022 15:27 Comments || Top||

#2  ^^^---- Working as Designed. You can bet Biden's handlers knew this would happen.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/06/2022 16:42 Comments || Top||

#3  And if a war or national emergency comes, we can do nothing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2022 16:51 Comments || Top||

#4  The usual 10% for the "Big Guy?"
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/06/2022 18:30 Comments || Top||

#5  I hear no talk of restocking anything. Oil or military equipment of all sorts.In USA Americans be damned. Everything liberals touch is ruined.
Posted by: Dale || 07/06/2022 18:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Everything liberals commies touch is killed or ruined.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/06/2022 20:39 Comments || Top||

#7  The greenies love this.
Posted by: Cletle Shinese1880 || 07/06/2022 22:35 Comments || Top||

#8  Also, Biden reducing tariffs on Chinas cheap imports will destroy what is left of American manufacturing.
Posted by: Cletle Shinese1880 || 07/06/2022 23:27 Comments || Top||

#9  ^^--- Again, as designed.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/06/2022 23:47 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
US sends six stealth F-35A fighter jets to South Korea for training exercises in show of force to North Korea
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • U.S. Air Force F-35A stealth fighters arrived in South Korea on Tuesday as a show of force to North Korea

  • South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, who took office in May, has sought to increase public displays of allied military power

  • The aim is to counter a record number of missile tests conducted by North Korea this year


Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2022 09:35 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11135 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Europe
Extraordinary argument between Macron and Putin four days before Ukraine war is revealed - to Moscow's fury: French leader blasted Russian aggression... then Vladimir ended call by saying 'I'm in the gym'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Leaders held a fiery phone call on February 20 as Macron tried to prevent war

  • Macron accused Putin of breaking the law by giving power to separatists

  • The details of the confidential call have been revealed in a French documentary

  • Sergei Lavrov said the publication is a breach of 'diplomatic etiquette'
    And so it is.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2022 09:26 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11132 views] Top|| File under:


Economy
Joe Biden has allowed FIVE MILLION barrels of oil from US national supply to be shipped abroad after claiming they'd be released to help lower soaring gas prices
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] See also here.
  • Joe Biden on April 21 announced the largest-ever release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves, in a bid to reduce soaring energy costs

  • The move has put one million additional barrels on the market per day on average, every day, and will continue for six months, until October

  • Yet in June more than five million barrels were exported to Europe and Asia, despite the record price highs in the United States

  • Phillips 66 shipped about 470,000 barrels of sour crude from Texas to Trieste, Italy

  • Atlantic Trading & Marketing (ATMI), an arm of French oil major TotalEnergies, sent 1.12 million barrels

  • Cargos of oil were also sent to the Netherlands, India and China and more will leave Louisiana in July
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2022 09:23 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11148 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  So we'll soon have no choice but to use electric airplanes, locomotives, trucks, and cargo ships, using wind and solar power to charge the batteries.

Brilliant.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/06/2022 15:13 Comments || Top||

#2  It's going to be necessary to revoke the voting privileges of the "81 million."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/06/2022 15:36 Comments || Top||

#3  I can't wait to see the next generation of KC-135's.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/06/2022 16:20 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ # 1 that is no choice. It will fail and never deliver. Abortion needed as soon as possible. Ev's will only restrict movement. Military hardware junk in the field if it could be fielded in any numbers anyway.
Posted by: Dale || 07/06/2022 18:39 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Biden admin sues Arizona over law requiring proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections
[FoxNews] The Justice Department contends Arizona's H.B. 2492 violates the National Voter Registration Act and the 1964 Civil Rights Act

The Justice Department is suing Arizona over a law that is slated to take effect next year that would require voters to provide proof of American citizenship to cast ballots in federal elections.

In a court complaint filed Tuesday, the DOJ alleged House Bill 2492 violates the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

The law is slated to take effect in Jan. 1 2023. The complaint alleges the law would throw thousands of voters off the rolls.

"For nearly three decades, the National Voter Registration Act has helped to move states in the right direction by eliminating unnecessary requirements that have historically made it harder for eligible voters to access the registration rolls," said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. "Arizona has passed a law that turns the clock back on progress by imposing unlawful and unnecessary requirements that would block eligible voters from the registration rolls for certain federal elections."

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said he plans to fight the lawsuit.

"In addition to free rooms and transportation for those illegally entering our country, the DOJ now wants to give them a chance to vote," he said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "It’s another round of Brnovich v. Biden. I will once again be in court defending Arizona against the lawlessness of the Biden administration."
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2022 09:09 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11138 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  You need to show identification for just about everything else, it's no burden to show ID for voting. Not having to show ID makes it easier to steal elections.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/06/2022 18:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Time to ignore this administration of fools.
Posted by: Dale || 07/06/2022 18:33 Comments || Top||

#3  I think the Supreme Court ruled some years ago that states could require citizenship to vote but could not require proof of citizenship or something like that.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/06/2022 19:51 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Colorado funeral home owner pleads guilty to selling body parts without families' consent
[FoxBusiness] A former Colorado funeral home owner pleaded guilty on Tuesday to defrauding families by selling body parts of the deceased without the consent of their relatives.

Megan Hess ran the Sunset Mesa funeral home and a human body parts business called Donor Services from the same building. She admitted in federal court on Tuesday to defrauding at least a dozen families who wished for their loved ones to be cremated. Court records show her body dealer firm harvested heads, spines, legs and arms, and then sold them – mostly for surgical and educational purposes.

Hess, who had previously pleaded not guilty, is set to be sentenced in January. Prosecutors are asking for 12 to 15 years in jail. Hess has been out on bond since her arrest.

She and her mother, Shirley Koch, operated the funeral home and were indicted by a grand jury in March 2020 over accusations they were using the funeral home to sell body parts, forging signatures and misleading families about what happened to their relatives’ remains.

Hess and Koch founded a nonprofit organization called Sunset Mesa Funeral Foundation in 2009. The organization was a "body-broker service" operating out of the funeral home doing business selling body parts to third parties, authorities said.

The indictment said that, from 2010 through 2018, Hess and Koch charged customers at least $1,000 for cremations, many of which never happened. They also offered free cremations in exchange for a body donation.

The families received ashes from bins mixed with the remains of various cadavers, prosecutors said. One customer was given a concrete mix as an alternative to their family member's ashes.

A former employee accused Hess of earning $40,000 by extracting and selling the gold teeth of some deceased individuals, court documents revealed.

The two women also shipped bodies and body parts that had either tested positive for, or belonged to people who died from infectious diseases, including Hepatitis B and C, and HIV. This was done despite certifying to buyers that the bodies did not contain disease, authorities said.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2022 09:02 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11131 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
On the prospects for the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.

Please note that Rozhin only recent came from a Russian ministry of defense briefing conference for bloggers in Moskva. This all is straight from them.

[ColonelCassad] Regarding the questions about the prospects for more or less large-scale offensives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the summer of 2022.

Given the current trends, the Armed Forces of Ukraine seem to have two realistic options.

1. Krivoy Rog-Nikopol direction. The task is to squeeze out a piece of the bridgehead of the RF Armed Forces on the right bank
(west bank of the Dnepr River)
, remove the threat to Krivoy Rog and Nikopol, and push the RF Armed Forces directly to Kherson. Of course, the Armed Forces of Ukraine do not have the strength to storm, just as the attack on Kherson from Nikolaev does not promise success. But you can already try to sell the reduction of the foothold on the right bank as a victory.

2. Zaporozhye direction. They may try to take Vasilievka, advance to the Pologi and, with a successful development of events, to Tokmak.

Relying on Zaporozhye, the accumulation of forces can be carried out on the Orekhov-Gulyaipole front. Such an offensive would show a willingness to challenge the claims of the Russian Federation for control of the Zaporozhye region.

3. Local counterattacks are possible in the Kharkov, Izyum or Donetsk directions, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine can hardly count on significant successes there due to the serious superiority of the RF Armed Forces in artillery and aviation.

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation may benefit from such counter-offensives if they are detected in a timely manner, since in this case it is possible to inflict serious losses in people and equipment on the most combat-ready units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a short time.

The main difficulties for any counter-offensive attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine are that most of the aid from the West and the available units are sent to the Donbass to hold the front, which makes it difficult to accumulate reserves that could be used for counterattacks. However, work is underway in this direction, and the stated dates - the second half of July - August, are quite realistic, so you should not underestimate the readiness of the enemy for such actions, especially since, for political reasons, the United States needs at least some kind of military victory before the midterm elections this fall. of the year.

The lack of victories will have consequences not only and not so much for the Zelensky gang, but also for the Biden administration, which will be criticized, including for the lack of effectiveness of military support for the Zelensky gang, and this is already a domestic political factor. Therefore, there will certainly be a Ukrainian offensive in the summer, regardless of whether the Armed Forces of Ukraine are ready for it or not. Therefore, reconnaissance plays an important role, which should uncover preparations for such an offensive in advance and provide the necessary time to stop such enemy efforts.

Posted by: badanov || 07/06/2022 04:37 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11131 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why no mention of the ongoing Ukrainian push to destroy the Russian LOGISTICS system? That has a lot more long term potential than small changes of front-lines.
The Russians have a flawed logistics system and the Ukrainians have identified and begun to respond in effective ways to it's flaws.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/06/2022 6:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Also, no discussion of the actions by special units deep deep in Russia destroying transportation, arms depots and arm development and manufacturing.

Even the derailment of the Trans-Siberian RR that shut it down for about 30 hours.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/06/2022 6:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Russian infrastructure is, crudely, based on railroads. They have 30,000 some troops allocated to repairs and improvements to the rail system. If it fails they don't have a transport system that can move ammo more then 90km without major hassles.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/06/2022 6:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Might have to move to the Burg 'high side' to discuss the TSRR
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2022 7:28 Comments || Top||

#5  #3 Russian infrastructure is, crudely, based on railroads. They have 30,000 some troops allocated to repairs and improvements to the rail system. If it fails they don't have a transport system that can move ammo more then 90km without major hassles.

Russian railroad troops are a separate branch within the Russian security infrastructure.
Posted by: badanov || 07/06/2022 9:13 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US ‘alarmed’ at Iran’s nuclear progress, deal may become ‘thing of the past’ — envoy
Alarmed is a lot like concerned, but with more brow furrowing.
[IsraelTimes] Rob Malley says Tehran has enough uranium to build bomb within weeks if it chooses to, accuses Iranian negotiators of adding irrelevant demands in Qatar talks about the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
Thus is President Barack Obama’s objective achieved though, like Moses, he himself never made it to the Promised Land.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2022 04:18 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11132 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1 

ANY DEAL with Iran is just the same as Winston Churchill making a deal with Heir Hitler "peace in our time".

The Wetworks Cleaning Team should have been called out during the Iranian Riots some years ago. The opportunity that Muhammad Obama refused to do or support.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/06/2022 9:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Get the printing presses started.
Posted by: Chris || 07/06/2022 12:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Alarmed is a lot like concerned, but with more brow furrowing.

And the memos have bigger, more impassioned, words.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/06/2022 12:57 Comments || Top||

#4  One morning, adjusting our dial,
We heard a harrumph and a "Heil!"
As turncoat Herr Churchill
In new German merch
Led another crazed Kraut up the aisle.
Posted by: Andy Forkbeard6154 || 07/06/2022 13:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Seriously,
Having the previous day signed the Munich agreement with Adolf Hitler; British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain triumphantly returns to Britain claiming to have negotiated, 'peace with honour' and declares, 'I believe it is peace in our time.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/06/2022 13:42 Comments || Top||

#6  Churchill was a lone voice against the Nazi menace,throughout the 30's and his speech at the demise of Czechoslovakia is a classic proof of his vision of what was to come:

https://www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org/disaster-of-the-first-magnitude.html
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/06/2022 13:48 Comments || Top||

#7  You mean the same Iran that was six months away from a nuclear weapon 25 years ago?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/06/2022 13:52 Comments || Top||

#8 
Twice in 1 week, darn.

NoMoreBS #5 Is correct, it was Neville Chamberlain and I should have remembered better.

Churchill was the one that had to fix the stupid
Chamberlain deal.

Wonder if it will be Trump or DeSantis that will be one, fixing the Obama/Biden's deal in much the same way?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/06/2022 18:04 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Man who allegedly funded Kanpur violence arrested
[OneIndia] The police have arrested a person from Lucknow for allegedly funding June 3 Kanpur violence.

The man identified as Haji Vasi had gone missing following the violent mostly peaceful clash that broke out between two groups belonging to different communities allegedly over a market shutdown in Kanpur. A non-bailable warrant was issued earlier against the accused, AP Tiwari, Additional Commissioner of Police said.

"Kanpur Police arrested Haji Vasi on Monday night. He is accused in the June 3 Kanpur violence case. We had a non-bailable warrant against him and were searching for him continuously since the incident. His search was on in Delhi and other neighbouring states. He will be presented to the court," he said.

As many as 36 persons were arrested in connection with the clash so far.

Earlier, the Kanpur Development Authority sealed off Vasi's property, the police said. On June 11, the police arrested another accused identified as the President of Jamaatul Quresh, Nizam Qureshi from Kanpur, who was often seen with the criminal mastermind of the violence, Hayat Jaffar Hashmi, ANI reported.

Hayat Jaffar Hashmi, the main accused in the Kanpur violence case was arrested along with three other criminal masterminds, namely Javed Ahmed Khan, Mohammad Rahil, and Mohammad Suffian the day after the violence on June 4. All of them were allegedly associated with the Maulana Ali Jauhar Fans Association,
...Muhammad Ali Jauhar was an Indian Muslim activist, prominent member of the All-India Muslim League, journalist and a poet, and was among the leading figures of the Khilafat Movement back in the days leading up to Indian independence...
and were sent on a 14-day judicial remand on June 5, the police said.
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Good Morning

School board director Jenn Mason
to teach sexual 'pleasure' class to 9-year-olds
Wednesday July 6th, 2022

Washington, D.C., circa 1918._n4hr5iLIrl1r9jvdwo1_500.
Drug smuggling: Underwater drones seized by Spanish police
GRAPHIC VIDEO: Migrant Running from Police Killed by Passing Vehicle on Texas Highway near Border
Resident of Karachay-Cherkessia fined for justifying terrorism
Day 3: Highland Park shooting suspect Robert Crimo pictured in female disguise
Sudan's main civilian bloc, the Forces for Freedom of Change, urges more protests
As similarities emerge in Lal, Kolhe murders, IB digs deeper into patterns by Islamists
Supply Chains. How the Navy sabataged
MacArthur in Leyte and for the Japan invasion.

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#1  Nice bodices.
Posted by: jpal || 07/06/2022 20:11 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
KU bombing planned by two banned groups, suspect in custody trained in 'neighbouring country': Sharjeel
[Dawn] Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon said on Tuesday that the April 26 Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
University suicide kaboom was a joint plan by the banned Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
Liberation Army (BLA) and the Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF), in which a "neighbouring country" had played a role.
Continued on Page 49
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Afghanistan
Thousands of Afghan Refugees Expelled from Iran, Pakistan Recently
[ToloNews] Nearly 5.000 Afghan refugees have been expelled from neighbors Iran
...The nation is 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...
and Pakistain over the past three days, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) said on Monday.

Officials at the ministry stated that many of the returnees have come from Iran where they encountered a census taken by the Iranian government.

According to the findings of the ministry, at least 4,559 have returned home from Iran and Pakistain.

"I have visited the embassy several times, although I have paid the money of the identity card, they are telling me the site is closed, we will call you. They (people in embassy) do not consider our problems," said Assadullah, an Afghan refugee in Iran.

"We go to the embassy and we face the same answer: come a month later. They are asking for identity cards from us," said Rassoul, another Afghan refugee in Iran.

Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, a little lightbulb figuratively appeared over Bossy's head...
the Iranian government urged Afghan authorities to stop illegal travel.

"With the start of the census process of Afghans, the deporting of Afghans without legal documents has increased. The government of Iran counts people who do not take part in the census as illegal refugees," said Asefa Stanekzai, a representative for Afghan refugees in Iran.

At the same time, several Afghan refugees who have gone through the census process said they will gain access to some facilities including banking services.

"The people who receive these documents will receive some benefits like bank accounts, sim cards and their children will be allowed to go to school," said Nusratullah Kashnani, an Afghan refugee in Iran.

The deportation of Afghan refugees comes as the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
and Amnesia Amnesty International have called on the host countries to stop the eviction of refugees and migration and as well as the violating of the rights of refugees.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2022 01:56 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11134 views] Top|| File under:


Taliban’s Education Department Official Arrested in Central Afghanistan for Adultery
[KhaamaPress] An official of the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
’s Department of Education in Bamyan province, in central Afghanistan, has been arrested on charges of the crime of adultery. According to local sources, the perpetrator was caught red-handed.

The Intelligence Agency of the Taliban, according to local sources, arrested Bashir Haidari, the official of the education department in Bamyan province in Sadat valley on Sunday night.

The source claims that this official of the Bamyan Department of Education initially promised a maiden of tender years a teaching position before making her engage in sexual acts.

Sources claim that Mawlawi Islamuddin Osmani, the head of the education department in Bamyan, who happens to be related to the offender, is attempting to release him from the detention facility managed by the Taliban’s intelligence.

The spokesperson for the Taliban’s governor in Bamyan also confirmed the arrest. He said, "I cannot confirm that Bashir Haidari was arrested for committing adultery or any other charge, you should contact the intelligence agency for the details."

While the Taliban boast that corruption in Afghanistan has been completely eradicated, this official of the Bamyan Education Department has been arrested on adultery-related accusations.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2022 01:56 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11132 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA

#1  The only intelligence agency in the world that investigates adultery.

[Except perhaps the MI5. 😉]
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/06/2022 16:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Motto not on unmarked auto: "Instigare et investigare."
Posted by: Snineling Clomort3746 || 07/06/2022 16:47 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkish Security Forces’ Fire at a Vehicle Kills an Afghan Child
[KhaamaPress] According to local Ottoman Turkish media, Ottoman Turkish security forces in eastern The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
opened fire on a van carrying a group of Afghan migrants colonists, killing a four-year-old Afghan boy.

According to reports, the tragedy happened on Sunday, July 3rd, in the Saray area of the eastern Ottoman Turkish province of Van.

The incident also resulted in the injuries of 12 other migrants colonists, including the boy’s mother.

The driver of the van carrying the migrants colonists allegedly disregarded a stop warning, according to witnesses cited in reports.

The Van provincial government office issued a statement confirming one migrant’s death and the injuries of 12 others, but it withheld information regarding the victim’s age or country. It claimed that the car accommodated 40 migrants colonists.

Later on Twitter, the governor’s office for the province of Van stated that only the car’s wheels had been shot and that the four-year-old had been killed by a "ricocheting" gunshot.

This is even though Turkey recently conducted forced deportations, expelling a large number of Afghan migrants colonists and according to reports from the local police, it will deport over 300 migrants colonists in the coming future.

For migrants colonists from Afghanistan, Pakistain, and Iran, Van, which is contiguous with Iran, is a common route.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2022 01:56 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11137 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


Afghanistan
Afghans Stranded in Pakistan Allowed to Return With IDs
[ToloNews] The Afghan nationals stranded across the Torkham port were allowed by Pakistain to enter Afghanistan with their national Identity Cards (ID), local officials said.

According to the officials, more than 3,000 Afghans entered Afghanistan from Pakistain over the past two days.

Two days ago, an Afghan citizen did away with himself by throwing himself in front of a truck after he was not allowed by the Pak forces to enter Afghanistan.

The photos circulated on social media show an elder Afghan throwing himself in front of a truck.

The Afghanistan embassy in Islamabad also identified the man as an Afghan national and said he did away with himself after he was prevented from reaching the crossing's gate by Pak forces.

"We have talked about this matter many times--the Afghans can enter Afghanistan via their national identity cards," said Sayed Ghaziullah Hashimi, an Afghan official at the gate.

Meanwhile,
...back at the saw mill, Scarface Al had tied Little Nell to the log and was about to turn on the buzz saw...
the Afghans who returned to the country with their IDs complained of problems at Torkham gate.

"I went to Pakistain four months ago for treatment. I have faced severe problems. They would ask for a bribe," said Emal, an Afghan.

Meanwhile,
...back at the saw mill, Scarface Al had tied Little Nell to the log and was about to turn on the buzz saw...
Afghans seeking health treatment in Pakistain expressed their concerns over the long time waiting for a Pak visa.

"Whenever we want to go to Pakistain, they ask for a passport. We don’t have the capacity to forge a passport for ourself," said Mohammad, a relative of a patient.

Meanwhile,
...back at the saw mill, Scarface Al had tied Little Nell to the log and was about to turn on the buzz saw...
residents on both sides called on the officials of the two countries to improve facilities between the two countries.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2022 01:56 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11130 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Closure of Abrisham Crossing With Iran Creates Obstacles for Afghans
[ToloNews] The closure of Abrisham border connecting the western province of Nimroz with Iran
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
has created severe problems for the Afghan citizens.

Some of the Afghan citizens called on the local officials to solve the issue.

People with legal documents and visas say they have been stranded on the border for more than three days.

"It has been two days that I am waiting on the border to cross it. I have a visa and passport," said Abdul Shokor, a resident of Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
"I have a residential visa for Iran. If they don’t allow me (to cross), it will expire," said Ghulam Ali, a resident of Nimroz.

Meanwhile,
...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. The whole thing smelled phony, kind of like a dead mackeral but without the scales...
some Afghans who have been deported from Iran complain over the mistreatment by Iranian border forces.

"The passengers are being disturbed and the passengers are facing a lot of problems," said Noor Rahman, a deportee.

According to an official, the border was closed after the Iranian forces opened fire on an Afghan child.

"In recent days, in two separate events, Iranian border forces opened fire on two Afghan children, in which one child was killed and another one was maimed, and therefore, the Abrisham border is closed. We hope to reopen the border through talks," said Mufti Habibullah Elham, head of the department of Information and Culture of Nimroz.

"Unfortunately, today, due to disputes between Iran and Afghanistan, the traders and our citizens are being harmed," said Ahmad Javid Sedeqqi, a political analyst.

There have been many disputes along the Abrisham crossing over the past months, but this is the first time that the border was blocked by the Afghan side.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2022 01:56 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11132 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Arabia
Iraq hands over a new batch of Kuwaiti documents and properties
It’s admirable that they’re still finding and returning what was stolen by Saddam Hussein a generation ago.
[Shafaq News] The Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign affairs announced on Tuesday receiving 738 boxes containing Kuwaiti properties that were lost during the Gulf war in 1990.

The boxes contained a sword dating back to the era of the country’s former emir, Sheikh Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabah, and two copies of the Holy Qur’an, in addition to Media materials belonging to the Kuwaiti Ministry of Information.

Kuwaiti Assistant Foreign Minister Nasser al-Qahtani expressed his appreciation for the Iraqi efforts to continue handing over the archives belonging to the State of Kuwait and praised the bilateral relations between the two countries.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2022 01:46 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11128 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Iraq
Iraq's air forces target ISIS hideouts in Diyala
[Shafaq News] Iraqi fighter jets pounded two caves and a hideout used by ISIS gunnies in the mountains of Hamrin in Diyala, the Security Media Cell (SMC) said on Tuesday.

SMC said that the Iraqi F-16 fighter jets carried out two Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s on the targets based on accurate intelligence information.

The statement noted that cooperation and coordination are ongoing between the security agencies to end the presence of the terrorist organization in Iraq.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2022 01:46 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11132 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Two Iraqi soldiers injured in an explosion in Mosul
[Shafaq News] Two Iraqi soldiers were maimed in a kaboom on Tuesday, north of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, Nineveh.

A security source told Shafaq News agency that an bomb blew up in Hasan Jalal village, north of Mosul, injuring two soldiers who were carrying out a search campaign.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2022 01:46 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11142 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Iraqi forces killed two ISIS leaders in Kirkuk
[Shafaq News] The Iraqi Military Intelligence Directorate announced that two prominent ISIS leaders were killed on Tuesday.

In a statement, the Ministry of Defense said that a joint force of the Intelligence, the Infantry Brigade (Land Forces Command), and a commando regiment of the Nineveh Operations Command launched an operation on a tunnel used by the bully boyz in the Jabal Karaw region of Kirkuk Governorate.

The operation resulted in the killing of two "of the most dangerous terrorists."

The two men held the positions of finance official and deputy governor in Wilayat Dijlah (Arabic of the state of the Tigris.)

Earlier today, the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service arrested ISIS members, including a prominent leader.

The spokesperson for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Maj. Gen. Yahya Rasoul said that the Agency launched an intelligence operation against terrorism, which resulted in the arrest of an ISIS leader known as "Abu Ali Baghdad," who participated in many crimes against citizens and security forces.

Rasoul added that four other bully boyz were arrested in al-Anbar, Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
and Saladin governorates. In contrast, a terrorist was killed in al-Sulaymaniyah, in coordination with the Asayish.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2022 01:28 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11134 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Lapid: Lebanese govt. must rein in Hezbollah or we will do so
”Don’t make us come in there!”
[AnNahar] The Lebanese government "needs to rein in Hezbollah" or else Israel "will be forced to do so," Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid warned on Tuesday, as he headed to La Belle France for an official visit.

"Israel will not agree to this kind of attacks on its illusory sovereignty, and anyone who does this needs to know that they are taking an unnecessary risk to their well-being," Lapid added, in reference to Hezbollah's launching of three drones towards the Karish offshore gas field on Saturday.

"The Lebanese government must guarantee that Hezbollah will not obstruct the finalizing of the demarcation of the maritime border between Israel and Lebanon Hezbollahstan
Continued on Page 49
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US threatened Lebanon with oil sanctions after Hezbollah's move
[AnNahar] In the wake of Hezbollah’s launching of three drones towards the Karish offshore gas field, the United States warned Lebanon Hezbollahstan
...The land area formerly occupied by the state of Lebanon, before that Phoenicia...
that it might face "deterring punitive measures" that might involve "slapping oil sanctions" on the country, media reports said on Tuesday.

"U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein openly cautioned Lebanese officials that such a step would torpedo the U.S. efforts and could subject the Lebanese investments in the oil and gas resources to the threat of sanctions, especially that it targeted a maritime area that is outside of Lebanon’s internationally-recognized border under the U.N. records," diplomatic sources told the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper.

The warnings were what prompted Lebanon to hold the Grand Serail meeting that distanced the Lebanese state from Hezbollah’s move and condemned it as "unacceptable," the daily added.

The London-listed Greek energy firm Energean, which has sent vessels to the Karish field, meanwhile held a meeting and described Hezbollah’s step as "blatant violation by Lebanon against the works of the company outside of its border, which necessitates taking decisive measures that prevent such attacks in the future," Nidaa al-Watan said.

"As part of these measures, Energean Power might demand the issuance of a unified European stance encompassing all oil companies operating in the Middle East in order to declare a boycott of any form of cooperation with Lebanon in operations related to exploiting its oil and gas resources at the levels of exploration, extraction and production," the daily added.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2022 01:18 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11135 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


French women, children repatriated from Syria camps
[Rudaw] La Belle France repatriated over 16 French women and dozens of children affiliated with the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) from Syria camps, a bigwig said on Tuesday.

"Over 16 women and 35 children" were handed over to a French delegation from the foreign ministry, the co-chair of northeast Syria’s (Rojava) foreign relations commission Abdulkarim Omar said in a tweet.

The French foreign ministry said the minors were handed over to child protection services while the women would face judicial proceedings.

Save the Children on Monday afternoon welcomed the repatriation.

"Finally away from this camp, these children can start to have hope about their lives and futures," Matthew Sugrue, acting Syria response director said.

"The children are living in inhuman sanitary conditions, lacking basic necessities including water, food, and health care, and facing an imminent risk of death," Ann Skelton, member of the UN Child Rights Committee said.

"At least 62 children have reportedly died in the camps as a result of these conditions since the beginning of 2021," she added.
Dawn adds:
One of the women was 37-year-old Emilie Konig, a Moslem convert from northwest La Belle France who became a notorious recruiter for the group and urged supporters in the West to carry out attacks, a security source said.

Family members of the returnees said that French officials had entered the sprawling and squalid Roj camp on Monday to select orphans and women with medical problems for the flight home.

"It’s a 180-degree turn from the French government to repatriate women as well. It gives us hope, but there are still a lot of children over there," the aunt of one of the repatriated women said, asking not to be named.

The decision to return 51 people in a single operation points to a change in policy that came after Germany and Belgium announced that they would bring back all of their minors from Syria. Around 150 remain in Syria, lawyers and campaigners said on Tuesday.

The president of the Seine-Saint-Denis region northeast of Gay Paree, where many previous returnees have been housed, said it was important to make a distinction between IS fighters and children, many of whom are orphans.
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Iraq
Turkish drone targets Makhmour camp
[Rudaw] A Ottoman Turkish drone on Tuesday targeted Makhmour camp, controlled by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), according to news outlets affiliated with the group, adding that no casualties were inflicted.

The drone targeted a house in Makhmour camp and only caused material damage, according to PKK-affiliated Firat News Agency (ANF) and Rojnews.

The Kurdistan Region's counter terrorism department disputed the information from the Kurdish opposition news outlets, claiming that the drone attacked an alleged PKK office and resulted in both material and immaterial damages, without releasing any possible casualty information.

The attack comes hours after an Iraqi military delegation visited Makhmour.

Ottoman Turkish drones and jets often bombard the camp on the grounds of targeting PKK fighters. Three people were killed in a suspected Ottoman Turkish Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
near the camp in June 2021.

Makhmour camp hosts more than 12,000 Kurdish refugees who fled persecution by the Ottoman Turkish state, mainly in the 1990s. It is located in areas disputed between Erbil and Baghdad.
Fog of war: Shafaq reports:
The Counter-Terrorism Group in the Kurdistan Region revealed on Tuesday that a Ottoman Turkish aircraft targeted a site for the Kurdistan Workers party, in Makhmour district, Nineveh.

The Group said in a statement that the attack, which occurred at 12:30 pm local time, did not cause any human or material losses.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkish shelling kills two in northern Syria, says SDF
[Rudaw] Ottoman Turkish artillery shells targeted northern Syria’s Ain Issa district on Monday killing at least two, announced the Kurdish-led forces as Ankara renews threats of launching a military operation in the area.

The casualties were identified as Shiekh Mohammed, 25, and Buzan Awsi, whose age was not revealed, according to a statement published by media office of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

The shelling, which hit the village of Hoshan in northwest Ain Issa, also resulted in severe injuries of at least two other citizens, aged 16 and 25, the statement added.

Ankara often targets areas in northern and northeast Syria (Rojava).

It launched its last military incursion in northern Syria in October 2019, which was followed by a deal between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
and Russia to drive Kurdish fighters 30 kilometers away from the Ottoman Turkish-Syrian border.

However,
you can observe a lot just by watching...
Turkey has recently renewed threats to carry out a new military operation against the Kurdish-led SDF in northern Syria’s Manbij and Tal Rifaat towns in a bid to complete the 30 kilometer "safe zone" it began creating along its southern borders.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2022 01:12 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11133 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


India-Pakistan
Two local terrorists surrender during Kulgam encounter


Police on Wednesday said that two local snuffies surrendered before the security forces in Hadigam 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 Kulgam district.

A police front man, the local duo surrendered on the appeal of their parents.

"Encounter has been started at Hadigam area of #Kulgam. Police and security forces are on the job, " a police front man said.

"During the #encounter, 02 local snuffies #surrendered on the #appeal of their parents & police. #Incriminating materials, arms & ammunition recovered. Further details shall follow, " he added.
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Fifth Column
Antifa militants in black bloc marched in DC for a direct action over abortion on Monday night.
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#1 
OPENLY Refusing to accept the SCOTUS Ruling. (INSURRECTION)

Refusing to accept that each state has the Right to allow VOTERS to determine what laws they live and operate under. (INSURRECTION)


Violently threatening Judges for rulings. (FELONY)
Violently harmed Law Enforcement. (FELONY)
Violently harmed citizens for peacefully expressing opposing views.
(FELONY)

Stolen $$ Millions of donated $$$$. (FELONY)

Physically Destroyed $$ Million in Private & Government Property.
(FELONY)

Anti-FArt that claimed to be Anti-fascist has clearly demonstrated they are a Fascists Domestic Terrorist Group. Plus being an ANTI-Gun Group now has stated it members will be armed at protests and demostrations.


Where is the DOJ/_ _ _ ?.
Or is this just a Deep State COUP run government?

Either way
Given the Coup's Jan 6th Kangaroo Court attempts to stay in power.
Will the Coup use the same Logic to arrest & display this Actual Attack on DC and the LAW OF THE LAND?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/06/2022 7:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Allow only black women to abort at will. Fixes more things than you can count. Rap music would fade out, that's unfortunate, but...
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/06/2022 10:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Agreed dron. But we have like 75 million rappers in the US now so we'll be good for awhile.
Posted by: Chris || 07/06/2022 12:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Unrelated question, does anyone know where one can buy a Gatling gun?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 07/06/2022 14:13 Comments || Top||

#5  ^
You might be able to find a cheap bump stock….
Posted by: Ebbuger Whuque4103 || 07/06/2022 15:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Plans for vehicle mounted Quad AR-## .308 can be easily found on the net😌
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/06/2022 16:01 Comments || Top||

#7  You might enjoy this (too late to post today).

NRA Sniping in Ukraine
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2022 16:56 Comments || Top||

#8  Fascinating, Besoeker. And lady snipers, too.
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Antifa 4th of July attacks in Portland, FBI finally called in
Click on headline to see more,


But not all are sheep or wolves:
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#1  Antifa is an FBI pet project. Used for harassing and controlling conservatives
Now the concept is Imitated by all so called NATO Democratic countries
In Europe, Germany, Holland Nederland, Police are violently pulling down protesters and blockades one by one, through the use of "Romeos" (Basically police sanctioned ANTIFA antifa actually is an accomplice of police and politicians in many Americans and Europeans cities.
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#2  Antifa dates back to the Weimar Republic, when Stalin commissioned them to fight the Nazi Brownshirts in the streets in order to soften up the Normies for a Communist overthrow of the government. Unfortunately for them, the Nazis overthrew the government first.

The FBI and Progressive Democrat prosecutors and politicians may be coddling them now, but the cadres are keenly aware of their roots.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2022 1:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Come see the inherent violence in the left!
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/06/2022 7:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Help! You're Being Repressed!
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/06/2022 8:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Why call in the FBI? I don't believe they could find their own ass with both hands unless it's a "white supremacist".
Posted by: Chris || 07/06/2022 12:23 Comments || Top||

#6  Fart Belch Itch
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/06/2022 12:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Antifa dates back to the Weimar Republic, when Stalin commissioned them to fight the Nazi Brownshirts in the streets in order to soften up the Normies for a Communist overthrow of the government
Modern antifa as nothing to do with the past old antifa
The antifa of today is a creation and a pet of the FBI and the other so called Democratic Countries security services.
Same as Isis, created by the CIA and Mossad.

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#8  They called in the FBI to help Antifa, obviously they aren't able to overcome the police without help. You don't really expect the FBI to go enforce the law do you? LOL, they don't do that anymore.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/06/2022 13:23 Comments || Top||

#9  created by the CIA and Mossad.

Ah, yes, the Juice. Tricksy as hobbits, they are.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/06/2022 13:35 Comments || Top||


#11  "Reporting from Belarus, I'm Acapulco Joe"
Posted by: Frank G || 07/06/2022 15:11 Comments || Top||

#12  …..Sunny Malibu CA
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/06/2022 15:32 Comments || Top||

#13  Were Calvin and Henry and Hus
And Luther all tools of the Juice,
The whole Reformation
An Office creation?
"Uh... that oughta notta got loose."
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#14  1. Aca Joe, when creating a hot link, please erase the placeholding http:// in the drop down window before pasting in your URL. I just fixed your links.

2. With regard to your links, we were watching events in Syria at the time. Israel was very open about the fact that if they wanted to provide the local Syrians with medical care, the local terrorists insisted on being treated as well. The alternative was to leave the local Syrians to suffer. That the local terrorists — taqfiri Sunnis or atheist Communists, all — did not allow any Assad-supporting Shiites to share in the bounty ought to be no surprise. But David Duke is a proud racist and Jew-hater of long standing, being a former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan before he gave politics a try, so one would expect confirmation bias rather than thoughtful insight.

Unspoken was the fact that in the process of treating the terrorists — some of whom no doubt were indeed ISIS, Al Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood, and Communists of various sorts — Israeli intelligence learned all sorts of information about them and their groups including tables of organization and identities. And also that Israeli intelligence had a chance to debrief their moles in the various groups. I have no doubt that something similar is going on with the tens of thousands of Gazans Israeli hospitals treat for free, up to the mother of the previous senior Hamasnik in Gaza, if I recall correctly.

But training ISIS? I fear that just because some Russian activist makes a claim to Iranian state television, that is not proof the claim is true.

Modern antifa as nothing to do with the past old antifa

They’ve been in continuous operation since their founding, though they were forced underground during the Nazi period. Putting in new false-nose-and-glasses name changes from time to time, along with turning their attention to newly fashionable causes, does not mask the continuity of personnel and tactics. Just at the moment some are marching and rioting about abortion instead of about the police or the latest Black criminal to get himself killed, while others have gone back to environmental issues. Yes, the FBI and the Department of Justice are coddling them, but they are merely working with preexisting groups and structures.
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India-Pakistan
Suspected IED found on Srinagar-Baramulla highway
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Olde Tyme Religion
Daughter of Iran’s ex-president charged with propaganda, blasphemy
[IsraelTimes] Faezeh Hashemi indicted for reportedly saying demand to remove IRGC from US terror list is ’damaging’ to Tehran’s interests, referring to Mohammed’s daughter as a ’businesswoman’

The daughter of Iran’s former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
... the fourth President of Iran. He was a member of the Assembly of Experts until he was eased out in 2011 He continues, for the moment, as Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council. In 2005 he ran for a third term as president, ultimately losing to rival Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was in Khamenei's graces back then. In 1980 Rafsanjani survived an assassination attempt, during which he was seriously injured. He has been described as a centrist and a pragmatic conservative without all that much reason. He is currently being eased out of any position of actual influence or power and may be dead by the end of 2012...
was charged with carrying out propaganda activity against the country and blasphemy
...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
in social media comments, the judiciary said Sunday.

"The indictment... has been issued and referred to the court on the charges of propaganda activity against the system of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
and blasphemy," Tehran’s chief prosecutor Ali Salehi said, according to the judiciary’s website Mizan Online.

The charges are connected to comments reportedly made by Faezeh Hashemi, 59, a former politician and a women’s rights activist muppet, during an audio debate on a social media forum in April.

Hashemi is reported to have said that Iran’s demand for the Revolutionary Guards — the ideological arm of the country’s military — to be removed from a US terror list was "damaging" to the country’s "national interests," according to local media. Removal of the terror designation of the Guards is a key sticking point in negotiations over restoring Tehran’s frayed 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.

Hashemi also made separate comments concerning Khadija, the wife of the Prophet Mohammed. She is reported to have called Khadija a "businesswoman," showing that women can also engage in economic activity, and whose money the prophet spent.

She later said the comments had been a "joke... without any intention of causing insult," state news agency IRNA reported.

Hashemi’s late father was a relative moderate who advocated improved ties with the West and the United States.
Yes, but during his term in office Iran’s scientists continued working toward designing a nuclear bomb and making enough uranium to build one in order to wipe out those uppity Jews in the Zionist entity. It’s just that life was pleasanter for Iran’s citizens when he was in charge.
In 2012, she was sentenced to six months in jail on charges of "propaganda against the Islamic Theocratic Republic."
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
70-year-old Missouri man arrested for beating, killing disabled sister
[NYPOST] A 70-year-old Missouri man is facing charges in the beating death of his disabled sister — a crime police said the man carried out because he was frustrated about having to care for her.

Medics and officers were called to a home Sunday in an unincorporated part of St. Louis County by Anthony Sokolich, who said his sister was unresponsive, the St. Louis Count Police Department said in a statement Tuesday.

Officers found Katherine Sokolich, 63, with serious injuries to her face, and she was taken to a hospital with a brain bleed, the department said.

"The defendant subsequently admitted to striking her multiple times prior to her being unresponsive," police said.

Police said Anthony Sokolich was arrested and charged Sunday with felony assault. His sister later died at the hospital, and police said they expected his charges to be upgraded. Sokolich was set to appear in court on Tuesday.
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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: July 5th, 2022
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] 23:20 Johnson enjoys incredible popularity in Ukraine, which cannot be said about his native country. In the UK, every now and then they try to dismiss him. Either a vote of no confidence is initiated, now the flight of ministers from the government is already beginning. Ukraine's biggest friend may lose his post and influence? More details - in the material Clouds are gathering over Johnson .

23:13 Ukraine has tentatively agreed with the World Bank on $200 million in funding for projects to develop grain export capacity, Alexander Kamyshin, head of Ukrzaliznytsia, said following a conference in Lugano.

23:08 The head of the Khmelnytsky OVA, Sergei Gamaly, said that today at 19:45 Russians fired four rockets across the territory of the region. One rocket was shot down by air defense forces, the fragments fell on the territory of the Shepetovsky district. Three other rockets hit the territory of one of the communities of the Khmelnytsky region. The target of the strikes was a water tower, which fully supplies water to the community. As a result of the explosions, one person was injured, there were no casualties.

23:04 There are now four surface ships and two submarines in the Black Sea with a total salvo of 40 cruise missiles. Yesterday, the Russians launched three carriers into the sea with a total salvo of up to 20 cruise missiles, OK Pivden reported.

23:01 Today, bombers and attack aircraft of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed two field ammunition depots, two strongholds of the invaders, up to 20 units of equipment and manpower of the enemy, the command said.

22:40 Reznikov congratulated Finland and Sweden on signing the NATO accession protocol: "This is a timely and correct step. 32 countries are better than 30! A new border of more than 1,300 km between the North Atlantic Alliance and Russia is good for Europe and bad for the terrorists. I wonder who's next?"

22:19 Three cruise missiles, which the Russians fired tonight from the Black Sea, were shot down by air defense forces, the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.

22:11 Ukraine turned to Turkey with a request to help check three ships under the Russian flag on suspicion of stealing grain, Reuters reports. In a previously unreported letter dated June 13, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine asked the Turkish Ministry of Justice to investigate and provide evidence against three ships it suspects were involved in the transport of grain stolen from recently occupied Ukrainian territories, such as Kherson. Vessels departed from the main grain terminal of the Crimea in Sevastopol in April and May.

All three large bulk carriers - Mikhail Nenashev, Matros Pozynich and Matros Koshka - are owned by a subsidiary of Russian state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation, which is under Western sanctions.

22:03 On the outskirts of the Lugansk region near Lisichansk, heavy fighting is underway, the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai said on the air of the telethon. According to him, the Russians have used a lot of forces and means, they are constantly trying to build crossings to transfer even more equipment. "The equipment is outdated, but there is a lot of it," Gaidai added.

22:00 Analysts at NASA Harvest reported that Russia controls approximately 22% of Ukraine's agricultural land. According to the organization, Ukraine provided 46% of world exports of vegetable oil, 9% - wheat, 17% - barley, 12% - corn, so the occupation leads to a food crisis. In addition, some of the fields are already unusable.

21:18 Zelensky said that he had instructed the Minister of Defense, the Chief of the General Staff and the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to report to him tomorrow all the details regarding the decision to approve the procedure for obtaining permits for those liable for military service, conscripts and reservists: "I see that there are different assessments of such a decision, there is misunderstanding and indignation. I ask the General Staff not to take such decisions without me."

20:45 The mayor of Khmelnytsky Alexander Simchishin announced rocket attacks on the Khmelnytsky region.

20:34 The IT sector, the agro-industrial complex and metallurgy have been identified as the priority sectors for the restoration of the Ukrainian economy, MP Irina Kostankevich said on the air of the telethon after the conference in Lugano.

20:11 In Finland, 865 freight cars belonging to Russian companies that fell under EU sanctions were arrested, writes Reuters.

20:09 Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said in an interview with Channel 24 that Belarus is conducting exercises and a number of information operations, which may be signs of readiness for a possible invasion of Ukraine: "We are considering all possible scenarios, including a threat from Belarus ... Now negative attitude towards Ukraine is being escalated in Belarus. This could be a marker that they are on alert, as one of the scenarios. But we cannot predict 100%. However, the fact that their exercises are usually a cover for readiness is such there are signs."

20:05 Russians are preparing for conscription in Berdyansk, according to the National Resistance Center. The leaders of condominiums in the city received an order to provide lists of residents of military age. The condition for mobilization is a Russian passport. The Russians also increased the pace of mobilization in the occupied Luhansk region, in particular, they took all the men from the Lugansk meat processing plant and the Lugansk "State Academy of Culture" into the army.

20:03 The Polish government has decided to sell the frozen assets of the Russian Federation and sanctioned persons. According to the amendments to the so-called sanctions act, it will be possible to appoint a temporary administration in sub-sanctioned companies, which will have the goal of selling this asset or transferring it to the State Treasury.

"This is an extremely important provision that will allow you to manage a sanctioned company in order to sell it, as well as to protect the interests of employees," said Minister of Development and Technology Waldemar Buda.

20:01 The General Staff published another clarification on the situation with the control of the movement of conscripts. "If it is within the region, it is not necessary. If it is within the city of Kyiv and the Kyiv region, it is also not necessary. If a person travels outside the region, he must come to the head of the TCC, clarify his data and obtain such permission," the representative of the Main Department said. personnel of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Khlys. That is, in order to travel outside the regions, those liable for military service must obtain permission from the territorial recruitment and social support centers.

In turn, Zaluzhny’s adviser Yevhen Ryabeka said in a media comment that men liable for military service can move around Ukraine without obtaining permits, since it is only about changing their place of residence or registration.

19:59 Shmyhal in Lugano handed over Ukraine's application to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

19:57 In June, 44 children were returned to the territory controlled by Ukraine, whom the invaders illegally took to Russia and the occupied territories, the Ministry of Reintegration reported. Most of these children are orphans or deprived of parental care.

19:50 Switzerland opposes the confiscation of frozen Russian assets, writes The Guardian. President Ignazio Cassis said protecting property rights is fundamental to a liberal democracy and stressed the serious concerns of some leaders that proposals to confiscate Russian assets would set a dangerous precedent and require specific legal justification. "Property is a fundamental right, a human right," Cassis said.

Meanwhile, the idea to confiscate the frozen Russian assets was approved in principle by British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss at a conference in Lugano.

19:43 Military registration in Ukraine is planned to be digitized, spokesman of the Ministry of Defense Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said: “We have a general policy of the state - this is a “country in a smartphone.” And, of course, including such an issue as accounting for military service, in the future it may also , at least in the first steps, was partially transferred to digital mode using Dії". According to Motuzyanyk, such work is already being carried out by the relevant ministries.

19:37 Since February 24, the war and general mobilization have continued in Ukraine. Men liable for military service are not allowed to go abroad, and now it turned out that they must also leave the borders of their settlement with special permission from the military registration and enlistment office. About what it all means - in the material Scandal over the rules for military service .

19:24 There is a threat from Transnistria, Zelensky said during a speech at the 26th annual government round table of The Economist. The President emphasized that he did not agree with the head of Moldova, Maia Sandu, and knew that Pridnestrovie was committing provocations: “They are small, but they exist, Russia does it. ".

18:49 In the Slavyansk direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine repulsed the assault in the Krasnopolye area, in the Donetsk direction, the enemy is concentrating the main efforts on taking control of the Bakhmut-Lysichansk road and trying to capture Belogorivka, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the evening report .

18:26 The defense forces in the Kherson region hit from helicopters on the accumulation of the Russian military in the Pravdino region and destroyed the fuel and lubricants warehouse, OK Pivden reported. Also yesterday, the Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled a counterattack by a reinforced enemy platoon in the Lozovoye area.

18:14 The beaches in Odessa will not be opened this season, said the head of the OVA Maxim Marchenko. Such a decision, according to him, was made jointly with the city authorities and was due to security requirements, including because of the mines that washed ashore.

18:11 So far, the Ukrainian military has only four HIMARS systems, but they demonstrate maximum operational mobility, striking enemy rear bases along the entire front. Artillerymen say that HIMARS are already beginning to change the balance of power. Read more about this weapon in the article How HIMARS burn the occupiers .

18:08 Shmyhal said that the government has already begun preparations for the heating season: a supply of modular boiler houses, generators and water purifiers is being created.

18:05 Support to Ukraine should remain a priority for donors, IMF European Department Director Alfred Kammer said in Lugano: "Supporting macroeconomic stability now - as a platform for recovery and reconstruction - should remain a priority. Good economic governance in Ukraine needs to be complemented by further external financial support ".

17:38 The fall in Ukraine's GDP in 2022 will be at least 35%, Shmygal said at the final press conference in Lugano.

17:34 The representative of the "administration" of the Zaporozhye region, Vladimir Rogov, announced the appointment of Andriy Kozenko, ex-deputy of the State Duma from Crimea, as the "deputy head" of the region. Kozenko in 2014-2016 was "deputy chairman of the State Council of Crimea", from 2016 to 2021 - a deputy of the State Duma. Another "deputy" was Viktor Emelianenko, who during the time of Yanukovych was the first deputy head of the Zaporozhye Regional State Administration. Emelianenko will be responsible for political integration, Kozenko - for the economy.

17:28 Ukraine has arrested Russian assets worth UAH 33 billion, Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova said.

17:26 Shmyhal said at a conference in Lugano that two years would be enough for Ukraine to implement the basic rules of the European Union. According to him, the Cabinet of Ministers and international partners will work to create a military risk insurance mechanism for companies that invest and work in Ukraine. He also stressed that the authorities will make every effort to make doing business in Ukraine “more convenient than anywhere else”, and digitalization is one of the key foundations of anti-corruption policy.

17:18 Russia has begun withdrawing military equipment from the Finnish border after statements about Finland's entry into NATO. Probably, the equipment will be transferred to Ukraine, writes Yle.

16:40 The Russians fired at the central market of Slavyansk today, as a result, at least two people were killed, seven were injured, said the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko.

16:38 Today at noon, Russian aviation hit the ports of Ochakov and Chernomorsk with X-59 missiles, all three missiles were destroyed by air defense forces, said Sergey Bratchuk, speaker of the Odesa OVA.

16:36 The UK will soon transfer ten more self-propelled artillery mounts to Ukraine, Johnson said during a telephone conversation with Zelensky. London will also supply the Armed Forces with loitering ammunition. The parties also discussed the export of Ukrainian grain, the situation with British prisoners and the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine. Separately, Johnson said that Britain had asked the EBU to consider Ukraine's proposals to host Eurovision 2023.

16:34 The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted a bill on criminal liability for calls for action against Russia's security and participation in hostilities against it. Now, for the participation of Russians in hostilities against the interests of the Russian Federation abroad, imprisonment for up to 20 years is provided, and switching to the side of the enemy "in conditions of an armed conflict or hostilities" will be considered treason and punishable by imprisonment for a term of 12 to 20 years. Confidential cooperation of Russians with "foreign special services, international or foreign organizations" will be punished by imprisonment for up to eight years and a fine of up to 1 million rubles.

16:15 The Eighth Administrative Court of Appeal in Lviv banned the Communist Party of Ukraine.

16:00 Zaluzhny addressed the conscripts and those liable for military service: “I remind you that there is a war going on. Your state needs you. regions, they must take permission from the TCC. No instructions were given by the military command to prevent the movement of people in the coming days."

15:56 The loss of the Russian Federation is up to 115 thousand killed and wounded, Podolyak said. According to him, the army units lost 36 thousand people, PMCs - up to 12 thousand, all the rest were wounded. From the military units that captured the so-called "LPR", 25-35% of manpower remained.

15:39 Russia in the occupied territories has increased the scale of the forced conscription of those liable for military service to recruit units and subunits of the 2nd Army Corps of the Russian Federation. The search for persons liable for military service is carried out by employees of the so-called. "MDB LPR" and the local "police", said the speaker of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Alexander Motuzyanyk.

15:25 The Netherlands has provided an additional 200 million euros in assistance to Ukraine through a special IMF account - the funds will be used to pay salaries to civil servants, teachers, doctors, said the Minister of Foreign Trade and Cooperation of the country Lissie Schreinemacher.

15:23 The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted a law on granting veteran status to civilians participating in the "special operation" in Ukraine - we are talking about civilian personnel of the armed forces, repair teams, doctors and other specialists.

15:19 "Head" of the occupied part of the Zaporozhye region Yevgeny Balitsky said in an interview with TASS about an agreement on the export of grain to the countries of the Middle East - Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia. According to him, one of the largest contracts has now been concluded with Iran - for the supply of 150,000 tons of grain. He also said that agricultural traders and state-owned companies of the Russian Federation allegedly buy grain from local farmers - farmers receive about $ 200 per ton.

15:16 Greek companies provide the largest tanker fleet for transporting Russian oil, Zelensky said during a speech at The Economist's annual government round table: "Russia, by playing with gas, is doing everything to ensure that inflation only unwinds and that Europe experiences the greatest crisis in history this winter "At the same time, we see how Greek companies provide almost the largest tanker fleet for transporting Russian oil, while another Russian energy resource is used as a weapon against Europe and against the family budget of every European."

15:10 On the night of July 3, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked one of the Russian military bases in Melitopol - barracks, warehouses with ammunition and fuel were destroyed, more than 200 Russian soldiers were liquidated, more than 300 were injured, Mayor Ivan Fedorov said. According to him, collaborators are afraid to go to work.

15:07 The Russians fired at the territory near the village of Bleshnya, Chernihiv region, this afternoon, the head of the OVA, Vyacheslav Chaus, said. According to him, about 40 explosions were recorded - probably fired from multiple launch rocket systems, as well as another ten - probably from artillery. There are no previous casualties or destruction.

15:05 The enemy does not have the forces for a landing operation in the Odessa region, but the threat of missile attacks remains very high, said the head of the OVA, Serhiy Bratchuk.

15:01 The mayor of Slavyansk Vadim Lyakh reported on the shelling of the city and urged citizens to stay in shelters.

14:58 Russia ordered the Jewish Agency (Sokhnut) to stop its activities in the country, writes The Jerusalem Post. The publication notes that the order was issued against the backdrop of growing tensions between Israel and the Russian Federation due to Jerusalem's position regarding the war in Ukraine.

14:44 The "head" of the Zaporozhye administration, collaborator Evgeny Balitsky said that the inhabitants of the "liberated" territory would not be subject to mobilization for "at least five years."

14:31 The "people's militia of the LPR" said that the Ukrainian troops need to be "pushed" to the Kiev region, "so that their missiles stop threatening the population of Donbass."

14:26 The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted in the first reading a government bill on providing for the armed forces during "operations" outside the country. According to the new rules, when special measures are introduced, companies in Russia will not have the right to refuse contracts in order to ensure such "operations." Also, the government will receive the right to temporarily reactivate mobilization capacities and facilities, as well as the right to unbook the material assets of the state reserve. The Cabinet will also be able to regulate labor relations in individual organizations, including the conditions for granting leave, work after hours, at night or on weekends.

14:15 Negotiations on the unblocking of Ukrainian ports are still taking place in a bilateral Ukraine-Turkey format, Ukrainian Ambassador to Turkey Vasily Bodnar told Suspіlny. According to him, a quadripartite format with the participation of Russia and the UN will be formed after Kyiv agrees with partners on security issues and "red lines".

13:49 The "LDNR" forces, after establishing control over the entire territory of the Luhansk region, "are moving to the Donetsk direction," Pushilin said.

13:27 The Norwegian authorities will allocate 1 billion euros to Ukraine. Funds will be transferred within two years. The funding will be used for humanitarian aid, budgetary support and reconstruction efforts, Norwegian Minister for International Development Anne Beate Twinnerheim told a conference in Lugano. She also promised that Norway would continue to provide significant military support to Ukraine.

13:23 Donetsk publics report an explosion at one of the large Russian ammunition depots located in the KAMAZ center, the detonation of shells is heard.

13:21 In Ukraine, during the hostilities, the second citizen of France was killed. According to RTL, a 20-year-old volunteer came under artillery fire. In total, according to the publication, 50 Frenchmen are fighting on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

13:19 In the Pologovsky district of the Zaporozhye region, the occupying "authorities" are forcing local residents to send their children to schools and kindergartens that work according to the Russian curriculum. They are taught by teachers and educators who came from the Russian Federation. If the parents disagree, the "administration" threatens to take the children away from their families and place them in boarding schools. The parents themselves are promised to be punished by administrative measures - men are sent to the "army of the DPR", women - to municipal work to clean up the city, reports the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

13:15 At night, Russians hit Kramatorsk with rockets, the mayor of the city Alexander Goncharenko said. In the village of Malotaranovka near Kramatorsk, the garages of a private enterprise were destroyed, windows were broken in one of the utilities, there were no casualties.

13:12 Sweden and Finland are considered invited countries from July 5 and can participate in the work of NATO, Stoltenberg said.

12:50 The General Staff confirmed the information about the ban on leaving the place of residence for those liable for military service without the permission of the military registration and enlistment office. This rule has been in force since 1992, and in order to streamline the registration of displaced persons, the General Staff has developed a procedure for granting permission to Ukrainian citizens who are registered with the TCC and the joint venture to leave their place of residence (place of stay) from the moment mobilization is announced and in wartime. The permit is issued from 30 days to a year, depending on the category of the subject. The General Staff also states that additional regulation of the issues of movement of persons systematically crossing the administrative borders due to official or personal necessity is being considered.

12:37 The Mayor of Moscow signed a decree on assigning the territory near the British Embassy in the capital of the Russian Federation the name "LPR Square".

12:35 The Permanent Representatives of the NATO countries, in the presence of the Foreign Ministers of Sweden and Finland, signed the accession protocols at the headquarters of the alliance. Now the decision to join the Scandinavian countries must be ratified by each member of the alliance.

12:32 The Stratcom of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that the Ukrainian military attacked an enemy barracks in the occupied Yasinovataya Donetsk region yesterday.

12:29 The conference on the restoration of Ukraine in Lugano, following the results of the work, approved the Lugansk Declaration. It lists seven principles of the Ukrainian reconstruction process:

  • partnership;

  • focus on reforms;

  • transparency;

  • democratic participation;

  • multi-stakeholder involvement;

  • equality;

  • sustainability.

"In Lugano, we launched the process of restoring Ukraine at the international level and outlined the principles underlying the restoration. The basis of the declaration is the seven Luhansk principles. They determine the beginning of the restoration process, the criteria and methods for restoration," Swiss President Ignazio Cassis said, presenting the document.

12:13 The next conference on the restoration of Ukraine will be held in 2023 in the UK, MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak said.

12:10 Brovary Mayor Igor Sapozhko warned that on July 5-6, command and staff exercises will be held in the Brovary district of the Kiev region. Equipment can move around the district, control at checkpoints has been strengthened and additional security measures have been introduced.

11:51 Zelensky addressed the participants of the 26th annual government roundtable of The Economist magazine: “Now Europe is united in a way that it has not been united for many decades. Five years ago it was impossible to imagine that Europe would achieve such unification, and there were many discussions about how far the division of Europe will go. Ukraine fixed it. And we must work on even greater unity. Europe is a global entity. It should be so. And it can only be so with Ukraine."

11:15 Foreign Ministers of Finland and Sweden signed protocols on joining NATO.

11:13 Kiev and Warsaw are planned to be united by high-speed rail, the corresponding project is contained in the Plan for the Recovery of Ukraine, which was presented at a conference in Lugano, Switzerland. The project is estimated at $1.2 billion.

11:06 Scotland and Wales have allocated 100 million pounds (about $ 121 million) for military support to Ukraine, Johnson said. He also added that these territories received 9,000 Ukrainian refugees.

11:04 The world's first successful combat use of SMArt shells manufactured by the German company GIWS mbh took place in the Donbas, journalist Yuriy Butusov said. According to him, thanks to these ultra-modern homing projectiles, the Armed Forces of Ukraine received a significant advantage. So, during the shelling on July 1, two units of Russian equipment were destroyed by two shells, and on July 2, German shells of the Armed Forces of Ukraine covered an entire column - up to eight units of military equipment of the occupiers were damaged or destroyed.

10:47 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of July 5. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Slavic and Donetsk directions.

  • personnel - about 36,350 (+150) people liquidated,

  • tanks - 1594 (+5),

  • armored combat vehicles - 3772 (+18),

  • artillery systems - 806 (+2),

  • MLRS - 247 (+1),

  • air defense systems - 105 (+0),

  • aircraft - 217 (+0),

  • helicopters - 187 (+0),

  • UAV operational-tactical level - 660 (+2),

  • cruise missiles - 144 (+0),

  • ships/boats - 15 (+0),

  • automotive equipment and tankers - 2634 (+5),

  • special equipment - 65 (+0).

10:26 British intelligence suggests that Russian troops, in an attempt to capture the entire Donetsk region, will continue to level the cities with the help of artillery. Unlike previous phases of the war, the Russian Federation appears to have achieved fairly effective coordination between at least two groupings of forces - a central one, presumably under the command of Colonel General Alexander Lapin, and a southern one, presumably under the command of the newly appointed General Sergei Surovikin.

Also, the UK Department of Defense believes that the withdrawn Ukrainian forces are probably mostly in good shape, and there is a real possibility that Ukrainian forces will now be able to retreat to a more defensively straightened front line.

10:18 Turkey launched an investigation into the origin of grain aboard a Russian ship anchored off the Black Sea port of Karasu after Ukraine said the cargo had been stolen, Bloomberg reports, citing senior Turkish officials.

10:16 The main event of the conference on the restoration of Ukraine in Lugano will take place today in the afternoon - a closed round table, at which all donors will gather together with Ukrainian representatives and discuss joint coordination, MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak said. According to him, as at the meeting in London at the end of May, "there is a certain competition between donors, and we need a common vision and specific commitments."

09:50 The SBU convicted the assistant to the people's deputy of Ukraine of treason. Being a Russian agent, he carried out reconnaissance and subversive activities in the authorities. The official was recruited by Yury Vodolazkin, an employee of the 9th department of the 5th service of the FSB, during a trip to Moscow. Subsequently, he handed over the agent "for communication" to his leader Dmitry Zubarev.

09:48 It is necessary to evacuate from Slavyansk while it can be done safely, said the mayor of the city Vadim Lyakh. According to him, the Russians' next targets will be Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Bakhmut.

09:46 In Mariupol, the invaders dismantled a playground near the Drama Theatre, which miraculously survived the shelling, and are already installing it in the center of Donetsk. They also tear off granite tiles with excavators, load them and take them out towards Donetsk. Prior to that, medical equipment, a skating rink and a fountain had already been taken to Donetsk from Mariupol, said Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor.

09:42 In Belogorivka, the Ukrainian military repelled the assault of the enemy, the occupiers withdrew, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the main efforts of the Russians are focused on establishing control over the territory of the region within the administrative boundaries.

09:29 In the Saltovsky district of Kharkiv, one of the schools was damaged as a result of a missile attack, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.

09:27 The Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation has denied media reports that the Azov fighters are being held in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center in Moscow.

09:24 People's Deputy Oleksandr Fediyenko published a letter from Zaluzhny addressed to all authorities, which states that travel outside the place of residence is allowed only with the permission of the military commissar.

09:18 Russia systematically exports Ukrainian grain through the Crimea to Turkey, although Ankara denies this. Radio Liberty journalists have found that the Russians turn off the radars on ships that take Ukrainian grain from Crimea to Turkish ports, but this systematic process is regularly captured by satellite images.

08:51 T.S. "LPR authorities" claim that Tochka-U fired at an ammunition depot in Stakhanov, resulting in a massive fire.

08:48 The governor of the Kursk region Roman Starovoit said that this morning artillery shelling of the border settlements of the Glushkovsky district was recorded - in the village of Tetkino and in the village of Markovo. The shelling, according to the governor, continues.

08:32 The "DPR" has filed a "charge" against a Swedish citizen who fought in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and surrendered at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, Russian media write.

08:25 In the controlled territory of the Donetsk region, two civilians in Bakhmut were killed during the day from Russian shelling, four more were injured, said the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko.

08:12 In the morning on Nikolaev Russians have caused rocket blows, the mayor Alexander Senkevich reported. Rescuers, doctors, emergency teams and public utilities are working on the ground, more information is not yet available.

08:09 Russians early in the morning fired at the Shostka bulk of the Sumy region with two rockets. The fire is localized, the commission is working to clarify the damage, said the mayor of Shostka Nikolai Noga.

08:07 In the early morning, the Russians fired on Velikaya Kostromka, Krivoy Rog district, power lines were damaged in the village, no one was previously injured. In Zelenodolsk, they got through a dacha cooperative. People were not hurt, the scale of destruction is being specified, said the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council Nikolai Lukashuk.

07:52 Russian troops are trying to establish control over the territory of the Lugansk region within its administrative borders. In the Bakhmut direction, an assault is underway in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bNovolugansky and Disputed, the General Staff reported in the morning report . In the direction of the village of Dolina in the Slavyansk direction, Ukrainian defenders repulsed the assault and drove the enemy back. Also, Ukrainian aviation and rocket and artillery units continue to strike at enemy warehouses and concentrations of invaders, in particular, in the Kherson region. The Russian occupiers are demoralized and are looking for any opportunity to get slightly injured.

07:19 The Russians fired seven missiles at the Dnepropetrovsk region in the morning, the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko, said. The Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to shoot down six of them - over the Dnieper and Sinelnikovsky district. In the Dnieper, fragments of a downed rocket caused dry grass to catch fire, the fire was extinguished, and there were no casualties. In the city of Pokrov, a rocket hit the private sector. Several houses were destroyed, windows were broken in several more. There were no casualties.

07:04 The Japanese government approved a ban on the import of Russian gold, the country's Ministry of Finance announced. The new sanctions list also includes 57 individuals and six organizations from Russia. The “head” of the Kherson military-civilian administration Saldo and his “deputy” Stremousov, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Grigorenko, relatives of the main owner of Severstal Mordashov, fell under the sanctions. Japan also prohibits the provision of services to Russia, including audit and trust services. In addition, Tokyo imposes an export ban on 90 organizations from Russia and Belarus.

06:17 The Russian army destroyed, damaged or occupied 90% of wind farms in Ukraine, Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko said. In addition, according to him, 30% of solar stations and cogeneration plants, as well as the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, have been destroyed or captured.

04:44 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) notes that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are increasingly attacking Russian military infrastructure with the help of indirect fire and US-provided HIMARS systems deep in the occupied territories. In particular, Ukrainian forces attacked Russian ammunition depots in Dubrovny, Kharkiv region (near the front line) on 4 July and Snizhne, Donetsk region (approximately 75 km from the front line) on the night of 4 July, after hitting one of four Russian ammunition depots in Melitopol 3 July.

ISW also reports that Russian troops will likely continue to advance west of the T1302 Bakhmut-Lysichansk road to eventually pass to Bakhmut and Seversk, although their ability to do so successfully after the losses incurred in taking Lisichansk is questionable. The Institute also suggests that the Russian leadership may be preparing to mobilize Ukrainian citizens in the occupied territories.

01:52 Ukraine will receive the first tranche of EU macro-financial assistance in the amount of 1 billion euros at the end of July, said Valdis Dombrovskis, Executive Vice President of the European Commission.

01:33 In Melitopol, the invaders are trying to run schools with the Russian curriculum and threaten to deprive them of parental rights for refusing to send children to them, Mayor Ivan Fedorov said.
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India-Pakistan
As similarities emerge in Lal, Kolhe murders, IB digs deeper into patterns by Islamists
[OneIndia] The similarities in the murders of Kolhe and Lal has prompted the Intelligence Bureau to dig deeper into such cases to try and understand the pattern behind it

With the National Investigation Agency (NIA) being directed to take up the investigation into the murder of Amaravati based pharmacist Umesh Kolhe by Islamists on June 21, the Intelligence Bureau is now looking at similar incidents to join the dots.

The murder of Kolhe and Kanhaiya Lal of Udaipur are similar in nature and the Intelligence Bureau has been tasked with finding out if there is a pattern to it.
Continued on Page 49
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#1  Just so you know, these are all fcuking idiots padding the job after the fact. There's basically no 'national security angle' to this other than the two poor dead men and their families were citizens and citizens make a nation.

'Dig deeper into patterns' my ass. Intelligence babus trying to justify their exorbitant salaries and perks, making shit up, finding every possible thing in the perps' lives and linking it to something outrageouly sinister. They'll soon find a 'pakistain angle' to this, and maybe even an Isis one too.

Truth is, the moslem needs no orders from a high council of hookah smoking schweinhunden somewhere. Neither does he have some elaborate mechanism of political assassinations in place. These were the usual targets of opportunity that die from America to Israel and Africa to Bangladesh everyday. Open targets for underevolved, lawless, primitive sasquatches of the rabid fcuk-upedness that our governments have allowed to fester in all our lands.

There is nothing to investigate here. Just two typical moslems, killing and making snuff videos, smug in the knowledge that the idiots of this world continue to believe in shit like 'due process'. Shit!
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#2  So the story should properly be framed as X Moslem citizens felt free to exercise their indignation, either directly or as a group project:

Ajmer man calls for beheading of Nupur Sharma, promises his house and property
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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Let Nakhimov come!
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Platon Besedin

[REGNUM] July 5, 2022 marks the 220th anniversary of the birth of Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov . Perhaps the largest events on this occasion are held in my home city, the hero of Sevastopol . Yes, Pavel Stepanovich was born in the village of Gorodok, Smolensk province, but his life, as they say in such cases, was forever connected with the white-stone city near the Black Sea. Here Nakhimov earned well-deserved fame. And here he died. In the physical sense, he died, because a person lives as long as the memory of him lives.

It makes no sense, perhaps, to list all the merits, victories and achievements of Pavel Stepanovich, of which there were a great many. Others will do it for me. It is important to understand and voice something else: what place does Nakhimov occupy in the modern world order and worldview? What is Pavel Stepanovich talking to us today? And in this context, I insist that Nakhimov is primarily not about the past, but about the present. Considering the events that unfolded on February 24, 2022, his work, his testaments are more alive than all the living.

Nakhimov permeated and connected the entire Crimean space. Already toponymically, the name of Pavel Stepanovich pervades Sevastopol and the Crimea. The main square of the hero city is named after Nakhimov. A magnificent monument to him adorns this iconic space. Significant, if only because it was here, on February 23, 2014, that the inhabitants of Sevastopol made their civilizational choice, declaring that they wanted to be in Russia and with Russia. It was a movement not from, but to, which is extremely important to understand. And this choice was observed by Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov.

One of the city districts of Sevastopol is named after him. And on the Central Hill of the Hero City, this Russian Acropolis, you climb the Sinop Stairs, built and named after the victory of the Black Sea Fleet squadron under the command of Vice Admiral Nakhimov over the Turkish squadron in the Sinop Bay. Then, by the way, the name of Pavel Stepanovich sounded throughout Russia. Nakhimov cannot be removed from Sevastopol - and thank God! Yes, and in Sudak, Belogorsk, Dzhankoy, and other settlements of Crimea there are streets named after the great naval commander.

Why is it important? The name of Nakhimov holds the Crimean peninsula together and does not let us forget what role he played, is playing and will continue to play in Russian history. But this is not only evidence of greatness, a reminder, but also a kind of guiding star, a talisman against the plague of unconsciousness, when something that, on the contrary, should live forever, crumbles. How many such examples have we seen? And what misfortunes they, like a broken convoy, dragged along with them.

Today it is especially important to remember how Pavel Stepanovich treated his colleagues, subordinates, and people in general. In battles, he protected and inspired them. Nakhimov was called both the guardian angel, and the father-benefactor, and the sailor's dad - they called their own sailors and officers. And he answered them like this: “From a young age I was a constant witness to your labors and readiness to die at the first order; we have become friends for a long time, I am proud of you since childhood. Honest words from an honest man. The historian Tarle wrote that Pavel Stepanovich forgot to fall in love, forgot to marry, but the team, the fleet, to which he really treated with paternal care, became his family, his home.

He did not just lead, he was part of the mass that rushed towards one goal, its flaming core. Nakhimov gave them all of himself, without a trace. His personal feat became an inspiring example for others. And it was not dashing hussars, but truly Christian self-sacrifice and humility. Actually, Pavel Stepanovich always remained a deeply religious person, he wore a family cross-reliquary on his body. And he also idolized Russian culture, wary of the passion for everything foreign. There was no pose in this - Nakhimov simply remained a deeply Russian person.

Agree, here one would just like to recall the textbook: “Yes, there were people in our time, not like the current tribe ...” And indeed, people, because not only Nakhimov, although he was unique, we should be proud - then there was such a striking and salutary thing, like continuity. Nakhimov studied with Lazarev, and then instructed the others.

Of course, there was enough rubbish. After all, the same Kazarsky, the commander of the legendary brig "Mercury", who survived and won the battle with two Turkish battleships, was poisoned when he was investigating corruption cases. But one way or another, we should equal ourselves not by the worst, but by the best, and judge ideals by them, the essence of which, in my opinion, is contained in the lines from the letter of Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov, another legendary hero of the Crimean War.

He wrote them to his wife from the besieged Sevastopol: “We live on earth not only for ourselves; remember that a great drama is being played out before us, to which the consequences will respond, perhaps in whole centuries; it is a sin to be, with folded hands, to be only an idle spectator…” And further: “Those whose heart for the high and holy has not yet cooled down cannot look at everything that is happening around us, look with a one-sided egoistic look…”

Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov was also guided by this principle. With his will, talent and, above all, self-sacrifice. The word "feat" is untranslatable from Russian into any language of the world, meanwhile, Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov became its actual, materialized incarnation. And the feat in his case became an everyday act. Agree, today Nakhimov is somehow especially lacking.

Sevastopol celebrates the 220th anniversary of Admiral Nakhimov - photo report
See the link in the title for photos of the commemoration.
[REGNUM] Large-scale events on the occasion of the 220th birthday of the legendary admiral, one of the leaders of the defense of Sevastopol Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov are held on July 5 in the hero city. IA REGNUM invites readers to immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the holiday together with photojournalist Alexander Polegenko.

July 5 is a special date for Sevastopol residents. On this day in 1802, Pavel Nakhimov was born, who became an outstanding naval commander and one of the leaders of the legendary defense of Sevastopol in 1854-1855.

Sevastopol residents traditionally celebrate Nakhimov's birthday on a grand scale. This anniversary year is no exception.

The events opened with a service at the Vladimir Cathedral, the tomb of the admirals, where Nakhimov is buried. The service was held by the priests of the Sevastopol deanery, attended by representatives of the city authorities, the Black Sea Fleet Command, and young Nakhimovites. Here, flowers were laid at the Admiral's burial place.

Pavel Nakhimov was born on July 5, 1802 in the Smolensk province, died in Sevastopol in 1855. Like all four of his brothers, he chose the path of a sailor. Graduated from the Naval Cadet Corps. Midshipman, from a young age went to sea. Nakhimov served in the Black Sea Fleet for about 20 years. He led the defeat of the Turkish flotilla in the Battle of Sinop in 1853. In 1855 he was appointed commander of the Sevastopol port and temporary military governor of the city. In July of the same year, he died - was mortally wounded during a detour of the fortifications.

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#1  Thank you, Badanov. The photos are great. It would appear they have done some positive reclamation after they got rid of their commies. With any Luck and God willing perhaps we can do the same after we rid ourselves of ours.
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Europe
Police across Europe have arrested about 130 people suspected of involvement in human trafficking
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Police across Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
have arrested about 130 people suspected of involvement in human trafficking in a joint operation carried out by 22 countries, the international police agency Europol said on Tuesday.

The police actions, which took place in the week up to June 13, also led to more than 100 possible victims of human trafficking being identified, Europol said.

During the operation, coordinated by the EU border agency Frontex, checks on almost 1 million persons and 200,000 vehicles were carried out at sea, land and air borders, mainly on heavily utilized routes into Europe.

Fifteen countries from across the EU participated in the actions, alongside Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Ukraine, Britannia and Liechtenstein. About 22,500 law enforcement officers took part.

Police bust scheme to smuggle ‘thousands’ to UK in boats
The rest of the story:
[Dawn] Police across several European countries on Tuesday launched a major coordinated crackdown on criminal networks suspected of using small boats to smuggle people into the UK, British and German authorities said.

Officers staged dawn raids in Belgium, Britannia, La Belle France, the Netherlands and Germany, said police in the northwestern German city of Osnabrueck, considered a hub for the traffickers.

Britannia’s National Crime Agency said the sting was "believed to be the biggest ever international operation targeting criminal networks suspected of using small boats to smuggle thousands of people into the UK".

Officers made six arrests in the Docklands and Catford areas of London, the NCA said.

In Germany, some 900 police carried out searches of 36 sites and arrested 18 suspects in an operation coordinated by Europol and European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
judicial agency Eurojust, they said in a statement.

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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Day 3: Highland Park shooting suspect Robert Crimo pictured in female disguise
See Day 1 here. Day 2 here, here, and here.

[NYPOST] This is the twisted disguise the suspected Highland Park gunman donned so he could blend in with the fleeing crowd just moments after he allegedly opened fire on Fourth of July parade-goers.

Robert E. "Bobby" Crimo III, 21, wore women’s clothing in a bid to conceal his identity and his distinctive tattoos during Monday’s slaughter in the wealthy reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
suburb, authorities revealed Tuesday.

A surveillance photo obtained by local outlet WGN-TV shows Crimo allegedly wearing what appears to be a long black wig as he expeditiously departed at a goodly pace of the mass shooting.

He was also allegedly dressed in a long-sleeve shirt, black gloves and a neck scarf, according to the image.
At the height of summer in Chicago? That’s certainly one way to get attention — but at least he shaved in preparation, and did not put on that exaggerated facial make-up style that transvestites fancy (but less so transsexuals).
Crimo, who was carrying a black backpack, had headphones in and was clutching a phone, too, the alleged footage shows.

Before fleeing, the accused killer wrapped his weapon of death — a high-powered rifle — in a red blanket and dropped it behind the building, authorities said at a later briefing.

County Major Crime Task Force spokesman Christopher Covelli added that officials have recovered five firearms in all tied to Crimo: “at least two rifles, some pistols and possibly a shotgun.”

Crimo is accused of firing on parade-goers from the top of a building during the Independence Day parade, killing seven and injuring more than 40 others.
The 21-year-old man accused of opening fire on a crowd celebrating US Independence Day in a suburb of Chicago planned the deadly attack for weeks, police said at a press conference on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, authorities reported the death of a seventh person who died after being hospitalized.

SUSPECT CHARGED WITH MURDER
The alleged shooter was later charged with seven counts of first-degree murder, prosecutors said.

Lake County State's Attorney Eric Rinehart said the suspect will eventually face "dozens of more charges centered around each of the victims."

If convicted, the man could face a mandatory life sentence without parole, Rinehart added.

GUN WAS PURCHASED LEGALLY
After taking position on a roof overlooking the holiday parade route, the suspect fired 70 rounds into the crowd below, authorities said.

Authorities confirmed that the shooter legally purchased the gun used in the attack, adding that it was similar to an AR-15 rifle.

The suspect also possessed other weapons, including another high-powered rifle, police said, despite authorities having been called to his home twice in 2019 for threats of violence and suicide, police said.

He also appeared to target victims at random, and police do not suspect there was any religious or racial motive.
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#1  After drawing attention of LEOs who took his only weapons knives, away from him after he threatened to kill his family and others, his idiot father sponsored his purchase of his AR.
Posted by: Black Charlie Slairt1430 || 07/06/2022 3:34 Comments || Top||

#2 

As I have said here and in other postings.
TRANSGENDERISM is a Mental Illness and has been recognized by the American Psychiatric Association as such.

"Gender dysphoria is listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), a manual published by the American Psychiatric Association used to diagnose mental conditions. "


Question: Given the LSD's overdrive to create New Gun Laws over isolated, but deadly incidents. Shouldn't we demand all Transgenders be BANNED from owning or handling a firearm?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/06/2022 10:10 Comments || Top||

#3  A lack of understanding right from wrong, reality from delusion, in one area of life, may well carry over into others.

Just sayin'...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/06/2022 10:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Good old dad:

Father of Highland Park shooting suspect Robert Crimo sponsored his FOID application

Dad should hang right alongside his son.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/06/2022 11:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Interesting that the Smith & Wesson M&P 15 is the weapon he used.
According the The Smith & Wesson website, the M&P 15 is for law enforcement only and is not available for private purchase
It looks more like an FN than an AR
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 07/06/2022 22:23 Comments || Top||

#6  Cabelas lists it
Posted by: James || 07/06/2022 22:27 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Personal data of employees of the GUR MOU
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.

[ColonelCassad] The hacker group RaHDit has published a large array of personal data on employees of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. The data of 1000 employees are posted and the continuation of publications is promised.

As the hackers write, the computer networks of the Main Intelligence Directorate in Kyiv were hacked, which turned out to be insufficiently protected, as a result of which the personal data of employees of the department working both in Ukraine and abroad under diplomatic cover got into the public domain.

According to the GUR, this is one of the largest leaks since 2014 - earlier, of course, information leaked from there, but not in such volumes and not with such consequences.

Link to materials https://nemez1da.ru/voennye-prestupniki/gur/
Link is dead.

About the 2014 hack:

I had the impression at the time that the first hack was merely a stolen thumb drive, taken from a US state department employee.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Palestinians briefly capture Israeli military dog set on suspect in West Bank
[IsraelTimes] Border Police and IDF’s Oketz K9 unit seeks to arrest man, who flees with dog clinging to him, later turns himself in to PA; heavy festivities reported amid incident

A military dog sent to take down a wanted Paleostinian man was briefly captured by locals in the West Bank city of Dura on Monday afternoon.

According to a Border Police front man, officers along with the Israeli military’s Oketz canine unit sought to arrest the Paleostinian suspected of "terror activities" in the city near Hebron.

"When the forces arrived, the wanted man fled the house," the front man said.

He said the Oketz dog was sent to try and make an arrest as the suspect fled, but "clung to the wanted person, who was assisted by a vehicle that passed by."

A video circulated online showed what appeared to be the maimed military dog captured by locals. The dog was retrieved by the forces "after a few minutes," according to the police front man, who said it was unharmed. The Israel Defense Forces declined to comment on the incident.

The suspect later turned himself in to the Paleostinian Authority security forces, Border Police said. It was not immediately clear if he would be taken by Israel to be questioned.

Heavy festivities were reported between Paleostinians and Israeli troops amid the incident, with footage showing dozens of people hurling stones at military vehicles. Unconfirmed Paleostinian media reports said at least four people were hurt by Israeli fire.

Rights groups have previously lamented the army’s use of dogs against Paleostinians.

Israeli security forces have stepped up their operations in the West Bank following a deadly wave of terror attacks that left 19 people dead between mid-March and the beginning of May. The raids have mostly concentrated on the increasingly unstable Jenin area, home to several of the attackers.

During raids across the West Bank overnight, security forces arrested 13 wanted Paleostinians, the IDF said Monday morning. During an operation in Jenin that detained two suspects, improvised bombs were hurled at the forces, and gunfire was heard in the area, a statement said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11141 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Send in the 'hair missile'!"

Rights groups have previously lamented the army’s use of dogs against Paleostinians.

Because dogs are haram?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2022 13:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Told my friend Moshe many may times in the past: in Gaza and Hebron, you need to use Boerboels not Malinois, at least use a Corso.
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/06/2022 15:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Beste in Show.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2022 16:43 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Supply Chains. How the Navy sabotaged MacArthur in Leyte and for the Japan invasion.
[Twitter]
Follow the whole thread.

Posted by: 3dc || 07/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11139 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The people who created globalism will never stop. They will gladly inflict suffering on us so that they can keep chasing their dreams.

All of these people have names and addresses.
Posted by: Albemarle Snerert7268 || 07/06/2022 0:55 Comments || Top||

#2  I am not experiencing supply chain issues. My father fought in Leyte Gulf. He never complained about the logistics.
Posted by: Black Charlie Slairt1430 || 07/06/2022 2:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Globalism's goal is to bring everyone (except the very rich) down to the Cuba, Zim and Mozambique level of gov't dependency. No middle class or hope for upward mobility. Every one will be equal and enjoy 'equity' in the global gutter.

Sound like communism does jt? That's exactly wat it is.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2022 7:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Nobody ever got promoted for putting another branch's goals ahead of his own branch's.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/06/2022 7:43 Comments || Top||

#5  #3 I resisted thoughts along those lines for quite some time. But you can see it in real time in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and now even Holland. There's no getting around it and this lunatic bating of the Russians seems to make perfect sense to the Davos crowd.
Posted by: Cesare || 07/06/2022 7:46 Comments || Top||

#6  Gov't contro is the key:

Control of the banks.
Control of meds.
Control of education.
Control of energy.
Control of voting.
Control of employment.
Control of farming and food production.
Control of the airlines and travel.
Control of the media.


Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2022 7:50 Comments || Top||

#7  Control of immigration.
Control of wages and prices (soon to come)

Biden already telling the oil companies to lower gasoline prices.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2022 7:56 Comments || Top||

#8  Gov Gavin Nosense will soon be using gov't money to relo people to California. Got to have replacement people. Can't afford to lose house seats or education $$$$. Old Soviet technique, relo and replacement people.



Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2022 8:08 Comments || Top||

#9  According to libcom dot org the BOAK group took responsibility for both derailings on the Trans Siberian railroad in the past 10 days
Posted by: Cloluck Bourbon1058 || 07/06/2022 8:20 Comments || Top||

#10  Big Chinese box stores support gov't woke agenda, hop in bed with the politicians. Take the SNAP. They have lobby guys on K street who help craft regs and legislation. Costs them pennies. Meanwhile small business has to suck it up and continue to go broke. Box stores sit back and smile as family owned businesses go under.

The rich get richer.


Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2022 8:47 Comments || Top||

#11  Worthless video, it's not closed captioning. my hearing ain't what it used to be.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 07/06/2022 13:39 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Spread over a vast, remote landscape in north-western Saudi Arabia are millennia-old archaeological remains that could change our understanding of prehistory
[BBC] A mysterious cult that predates Stonehenge

I'd come here because recent discoveries in AlUla, a region in north-western Saudi Arabia, are shining a light on a fascinating period of history in Saudi Arabia. Since the nation only opened for international research a few years ago (and to tourists in 2019), many of its ancient sites are being studied for the first time. While historians are familiar with the ruins of the 2,000-year-old cities Hegra and Dadan and their place on the Incense Route (Hegra's tombs and monuments are a Unesco World Heritage Site), they didn't have much knowledge about the civilisation that came before, until now.

What has been discovered is that spread over AlUla's vast, remote landscape are millennia-old archaeological remains that could change our understanding of prehistory. Work by McMahon and her colleagues is shedding light on some of the earliest stone monuments in world history – predating Stonehenge and the earliest pyramid in Giza.

When McMahon arrived, she explained that the circle of rocks next to me was the remains of a house occupied in the Neolithic period (from 6000 to 4500 BCE), and that this area was once scattered with thriving settlements. Until recently, the prevailing wisdom was that this region had little human activity until the Bronze Age after 4000 BCE. But McMahon and her colleagues' work has unearthed a very different story: that Neolithic Saudi Arabia was a dynamic, intensely populated, complex landscape spread over a vast area.

Around me were more than 30 dwellings and tombs, and that was just a tiny fraction of the remains here. I tried to imagine the landscape as it may have been thousands of years ago: green, lush and teeming with people as they moved noisily round, herding goats and calling out to each other.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11134 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And with the Saudi restrictive visa rules, none of those icky tourists (or non-approved archeologists...you know, those who might report findings that dispute the Kingdom's narrative) will damage the sites.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/06/2022 8:42 Comments || Top||

#2  If they're a millenia old, they're not prehistoric.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/06/2022 9:22 Comments || Top||

#3  "intensely populated"? With what food sources?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/06/2022 9:41 Comments || Top||

#4  occupied in the Neolithic period (from 6000 to 4500 BCE),

Up to 8 millennia old, Rob.

the landscape as it may have been thousands of years ago: green, lush and teeming with people

In the time of Abraham, during the Bronze Age, the Middle East was covered with grassland from Iraq to Israel. So it’s possible that Arabia was similarly green earlier.

Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2022 10:10 Comments || Top||

#5 
Mehh. Al-Hazred found it first. One of his fav plug sites probably.

Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/06/2022 10:37 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
School board director Jenn Mason to teach sexual 'pleasure' class to 9-year-olds
[NYPOST] A Washington state school board director who owns a sex shop is making headlines after announcing she will teach sex education classes for children as young as 9 on topics such as "sexual anatomy for pleasure" and "safer sex practices for all kinds of sexual activities."

"The class for 9- to 12-year-olds is an introduction to topics related to relationships, puberty, bodies, and sexuality. We focus on what makes healthy vs. unhealthy friendships and romantic relationships, the science of how puberty works, consent and personal boundaries, defining ’sex’, and discussing why people may or may not choose to engage in sexual activities," Jenn Mason, owner of sex shop WinkWink in Bellingham and school board director for the Bellingham School District, told KTTH radio host Jason Rantz.
Enough voters preferred Jenn over the other candidates to vote her into office, a distressing thought.
Mason announced there will be four, three-hour sex education classes held at WinkWink next month as part of an event billed the "Uncringe Academy." The classes, which Mason will teach, are broken down by age, with 9- to 12-year-olds in one class and 13- to 17-year-olds in another class.

Class topics include, "What IS sex? Kinds of solo and partnered sexual activities," "Sexual anatomy for pleasure and reproduction," "Gender and sexual identities," "Safer sex practices for all kinds of sexual activities," among others. The description of the classes stipulates that the "workshops are divided by age and presentation of topics will vary for developmental appropriateness (sic)."

WinkWink is described as a "woman-owned, identity-inclusive sex shop" that is "sex-positive, body-positive, and gender-affirming." While the "Uncringe Academy" is advertised as offering "honest, supportive, and inclusive sex education classes to help young people of all genders and sexual identities understand this important part of their life."
Operation Sunlight adds:
This is not the first time the school board director has garnered attention for such activities. She has hosted events for “queer youth” in the past, garnering the attention of many in her city.

Mason is hosting these classes as a small business owner, not as a school director or associated with the Bellingham School District.
So it isn’t mandatory for all students in the district, but is being offered as an outside service for those whose parents are willing to pay the extra fee. Whew!
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11142 views] Top|| File under:

#1  First the pedo's had to get the Ten Commandments out of the children's classrooms.
Posted by: Black Charlie Slairt1430 || 07/06/2022 2:44 Comments || Top||

#2  The fact this "woman" hasn't been tarred, feathered and run out of town on a rail shows how far the decay has gone in our culture.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/06/2022 7:56 Comments || Top||

#3  This creature should be in jail. There's a clearly defined legal limit for that sort of thing and it's 18.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/06/2022 8:42 Comments || Top||

#4  It's past time to bring back public stocks placed in the center of town. This woman deserves to have garbage thrown at her.
Posted by: Chuckles Black4255 || 07/06/2022 8:58 Comments || Top||

#5  First its Optional, then its You Volunteered and then its Mandatory.
Posted by: magpie || 07/06/2022 9:26 Comments || Top||

#6  This is in Bellingham Washington - a very Liberal University Town.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/06/2022 9:47 Comments || Top||

#7  People who elect this sort aren't:

Fit to vote.
Fit to raise children.
Fit to have any say in the raising of anyone else's child.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/06/2022 10:30 Comments || Top||

#8  school board director who owns a sex shop

Yo, WTF?!
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/06/2022 10:46 Comments || Top||

#9  ^Yep. Grooming generations of indoctrinated future customers. I'm wondering when the Fed will get into the sex shop business.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/06/2022 11:07 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ The gummint does not need toys to fcuk you...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/06/2022 11:09 Comments || Top||

#11  Lunacy abounds in Washington State.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/06/2022 11:14 Comments || Top||

#12  I'm wondering when the Fed will get into the sex shop business.

There's that joke about the Fed being so inept that they couldn't sell whiskey in a whorehouse (Bunny Ranch?).
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/06/2022 11:40 Comments || Top||

#13  My favorite, in the tech field in the 1980s, was people saying that if immortality had been invented at Bell Labs, AT&T would have botched the marketing...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/06/2022 11:44 Comments || Top||

#14  Feds probably get a cut from every bidness by now.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/06/2022 16:03 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli light rail company hit in cyberattack amid Iranian reports of ‘metro hack’
[IsraelTimes] Denial of service, said to cause no lasting damage, is latest apparent salvo in Israel-Iran
...The nation is 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...
cyberwar


The company building the light rail network for the Tel Aviv area said Monday that its website was temporarily disrupted by a foreign cyberattack, as Iranian media reported that pro-regime hackers managed to infiltrate the servers of the "Israel Metro."

Israel’s NTA Metropolitan Mass Transit System Ltd said in a statement that "a glitch was detected" Monday morning on its website and that an examination determined that it had fallen victim to a denial-of-service [DoS] attack from abroad. NTA said it managed to regain control of the website and that it had sustained no lasting damages.

Iranian media reports, which all cited an unsourced report on the Sabereen News Telegram channel, said the "massive" cyberattack targeted the operating systems and servers of the "Israel Metro." Israel’s Channel 12 reported that this led to ridicule online, as Israel has no underground train system.

The attack came just a day after a similar one disrupted operations of the websites belonging to Iran’s official culture and media offices, Channel 12 reported, clarifying that Iranian opposition activist muppets had grabbed credit and that it was not tied to Israel.

Last week, a large cyberattack forced the Iranian state-owned Khuzestan Steel Co. to halt production, and two other major steel producers also reported being targeted.

An anonymous hacking group grabbed credit on social media for the attack, saying it had targeted Iran’s three biggest steel companies in response to the "aggression of the Islamic Theocratic Republic."

Israeli military correspondents, who are regularly briefed off-the-record by senior Israeli officials, hinted that Israel was directly responsible for the steel company assault in retaliation to a suspected cyberattack that caused rocket sirens to be heard in Jerusalem and Eilat last week.

Earlier in June, Israeli communications firms were instructed to bolster cybersecurity, as the government rolled out a new initiative to guard the country against online attacks amid an uptick in hacks targeting Israeli websites.

Under the reform, Israel’s major communications companies are required to implement detailed plans for identifying and preventing future cyberattacks targeting communication networks. The companies now need to adhere to unified standards.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11141 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Resident of Karachay-Cherkessia fined for justifying terrorism
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] The Southern District Military Court sentenced Zukhra Uzdenova, a resident of Karachay-Cherkessia, to a fine of 350,000 rubles, finding her guilty of justifying terrorism because of publications on the social network.

A court in Rostov-on-Don delivered a verdict in a criminal case to justify terrorism against a resident of Karachay-Cherkessia, Zukhra Uzdenova, the press service of the Southern District Military Court reported today. 

According to the investigation and the court, in October 2020, Uzdenova published on her page in one of the social networks images with comments justifying terrorism and recognizing the ideology and practice of terrorism as correct. "The defendant was found guilty and she was sentenced to a fine of 350,000 rubles," the court's Telegram channel said.

Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Public calls for terrorist activities, public justification of terrorism or propaganda of terrorism" provides for up to seven years in prison.

The criminal case was received by the Southern District Military Court on May 26, three court sessions were held, the verdict was delivered today, follows from the case file on the court website. On the case file, the defendant's name is listed as Zahra. 

The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that in May another resident of Karachay-Cherkessia was also fined 350,000 rubles for posting a video on a social network in which the court found signs of justifying terrorism.
Posted by: badanov || 07/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11141 views] Top|| File under:


October 1919. Baltic States and Petrograd
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Oleg Airapetov

[Regnum] On October 16, the Defense Council decided "... to hold Petrograd at all costs until the arrival of reinforcements that have already been sent ... Therefore, to defend Petrograd to the last drop of blood, not yielding a single inch and fighting on the streets of the city." On the same day, Trotsky decided:

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: badanov || 07/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11133 views] Top|| File under:


Russia says it is investigating the torture of Russian soldiers held prisoner in Ukraine

Any discussion by Russia of the summary executions of POWs and random civilians by its own troops visible all over the web?
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11131 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Did they make him sit through CRT and gender study indoctrinations?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/06/2022 7:21 Comments || Top||

#2  So they 'tortured' them and then almost immediately exchanged them? ROL...
Posted by: magpie || 07/06/2022 17:15 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Texas Proposal to Refer to Slavery as 'Involuntary Relocation' Rejected
Whew! Glad that's been taken care of, so we can move on to the next thing.
[IJR] A proposal suggesting schools should call slavery "involuntary relocation" has been rejected by the Texas State Board of Education.

The board issued a statement, saying, "As documented in the meeting minutes, the SBOE provided feedback in the meeting indicating that the working group needed to change the language related to ’involuntary relocation.'"

The statement continued, "Any assertion that the SBOE is considering downplaying the role of slavery in American history is completely inaccurate."

The chair of the State Board of Education, Keven Ellis, told The Washington Post the board "voted unanimously to send the language back to be reworked."

Aicha Davis, a Democratic board member representing Dallas and Fort Worth, reportedly saw the proposed language the group of educators wanted to suggest and "immediately questioned it," as the Post reported.

She added, "I am not going to support anything that describes the slave trade as ’involuntary relocation.'"

Davis continued, "I’m not gonna support anything that diminishes that journey."

Texas education made headlines in 2021 after Gov. Greg Abbott
... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too...
(R) signed an anti-Critical Race Theory

...teaches that skin color is the most important characteristic of any person, which translates to separate but equal with a different bunch in charge. All whites and Asians are born racist and racism permeates every aspect of society, which should be dismantled and the remains turned over to the kind of dipshit who pushes this nonsense...
bill, as The Hill reported.

The legislation stated that schools cannot teach that "an individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of the individual ’s race or sex."

Additionally, schools cannot "require an understanding of The 1619 Project."

Schools are also not allowed to teach that "an individual, by virtue of the individual’s race or sex, bears responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex."

Students are required to be educated on "the history of white supremacy
...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happiness first will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacist societies, since they push the same values...
, including but not limited to the institution of slavery, the eugenics movement, and the Ku Klux Klan, and the ways in which it is morally wrong."
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11140 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2022 2:21 Comments || Top||

#2  "Involuntary Relocation" is what happen to many indigenous natives. Trail of Tears being the most prominent. Similar attempts to remove the Seminoles from their land in Florida failed. [as had the NCAA attempt to remove their name from Florida State University athletic program]
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/06/2022 7:45 Comments || Top||

#3  But the innercity Black Flight continues anon.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2022 8:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Meet the American who wrote 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic'
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2022 9:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Euphemisms for 100$, Alex! Also "What is a word starting with 'A' that is alternatively used for 'Reproductive Rights' ...?"
Posted by: magpie || 07/06/2022 9:42 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ ...Contestant in a LOUD voice (ignoring lack of an 'A'): "Right. To. Choose!"
Posted by: magpie || 07/06/2022 9:44 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Perspective from the Breakaway Republics: Invasion of Ukraine: July 5th, 2022
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:15 All the miners of the mine. Zasyadko, who remained underground due to the shelling of the VFU, were raised to the surface. No casualties

22:31 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC, additional information was received about civilian casualties as a result of shelling of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:

Donetsk:
Petrovsky district:
- a woman born in 1940 died.

Kievsky district:
- wounded: men born in 1989, 1966, 1952 and 1977

Thus, the total number of victims among civilians from the attacks of the VFU for July 5, 2022 is 16 people (four died and 12 injured).

Information was received about damage as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:

Donetsk:
Kievsky district:
- Partizansky Ave., 43 - a direct hit in the building of the company "Biokon";
— Partizansky Ave., 35 “a” – Donetsk College of Technology and Design;
- st. Krutaya, 56, 58 - a direct hit in private residential buildings;
— 45 Partizansky Ave., 48 — multi-apartment residential buildings;
- st. Chapaeva, 2 - apartment building.

Petrovsky district:
- st. Beloozerskaya, 11 - a fire was recorded in a private residential building.

n.p. Alexandrovka:
- st. Kirova, 118 - private house.

n.p. Gorlovka:
- st. Zemnukhova, 3 - a private residential building.

Today, as of 22:00, the enemy fired 453 ammunition of various types, including the BM-21 Grad MLRS, as well as artillery ammunition with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm.

Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.

21:51 Foreign mercenaries who escaped from Lisichansk complain in their chat:

"I think I will break the contract because they are completely devoid of professionalism. The Russians almost completely surrounded us. A whole platoon escaped during the battle.

Everything is too bad. It's a fucking miracle that I survived. People do not follow orders, and, in fact, there are practically no orders."

20:42 Ukrainian troops at 20.10 fired 10 rockets from the "Grad" in Verkhnetoretsky in the DPR - representative offices in the JCCC.

20:00 Statement by the official representative of the NM DPR: the Ukrainian side continues to terrorize the civilian population of the Republic, inflicting massive artillery strikes on residential areas and civilian infrastructure, which in turn are not military facilities and do not pose a danger to the enemy.

Over the current day, according to information from the DPR JCCC, the enemy fired more than three hundred shells from Grad multiple launch rocket systems, cannon artillery with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm, as well as 120mm mortars.

The fire was fired at the districts of eleven settlements of the Republic. As a result of the shelling, nine civilians were injured, and three civilians were killed, including one child. Three residential buildings and twelve civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.

19:58 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 10 missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.

19:33 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Codema - n.p. Golmovsky: fired five shells with a caliber of 122mm;
— n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Dolomite: fired eight mines with a caliber of 120 mm; 19:10 — n.p. Codema - n.p. Dolomite: fired 20 mines in 120mm caliber.

18:33 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Peski - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky and Kyiv districts): 10 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad.

18:32 The Azov commanders who surrendered in Mariupol are kept in Russia, a source told RT. We are talking about Denis Prokopenko and his deputy Svyatoslav Palamar, they were taken to one of the special facilities.

18:15 The Headquarters of the TerO DPR reports: as a result of the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, a civilian was killed and two more people were injured.

18:12 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:

— n.p. Nelepovka - n.p. Verkhnetoretsk: fired eight shells of 152mm caliber;
— n.p. Nelepovka - n.p. Verkhnetoretskoye: four shells of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky and Kyiv districts): 10 shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

18:00 The prosecutor's office will start working in the city of Severodonetsk soon. Currently, measures are being taken to prepare the premises and organize the working process.

17:23 Housing for residents of Mariupol will be restored free of charge, according to the Ministry of Information of the DPR

17:08 According to updated information, as a result of the shelling of the Budennovsky district, destruction was recorded at the following addresses:

- st. Bauman, 8 - warehouses were damaged;
- st. Rogachevskaya, 1v - the warehouse building was damaged;
- st. Brave, 1 - the wall panel of an apartment building was damaged.

16:51 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Semigorye - n.p. Dolomite: fired six mines in 120mm caliber.

16:18 "A 10-year-old girl was killed in the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk as a result of the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine," reports the Head of Donetsk Administration Aleksey Kulemzin

16:12 Footage of the consequences of massive shelling of peaceful quarters of Donetsk by Ukrainian troops, filmed from a RIA Novosti drone

16:12 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Budenovsky and Kyiv districts): 15 shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

15:44 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Voroshilovsky and Kyiv districts): 15 shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

15:22 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Semigorye - n.p. Dolomite: fired four mines with a caliber of 120mm.

15:12 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky and Kyiv districts): 10 shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

15:02 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired five shells of 122mm caliber.

14:38 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Semigorye - n.p. Dolomite: fired 12 mines in 120mm caliber.

14:18 The Headquarters of the TerO DPR reports: the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired on the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, a civilian was killed. As a result of the shelling in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, on the street. Zvenigorodskaya killed a civilian.

14:13 Consequences of shelling armed formations of Ukraine Stakhanov 04.07.2022. As a result of the shelling of N. p. Stakhanov, using the Tochka-U tactical missile system, damaged six residential buildings and an office building. First transport company and SUE LPR "Republican Grid Company". There are no victims or injured. Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.

14:06 The people's militia of the LPR said that the Ukrainian troops need to be "pushed back" to the Kyiv region so that their missiles no longer threaten the population of Donbass

13:56 Fire was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky and Kyiv districts): 10 shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

13:54 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired five shells of 122mm caliber.

13:37 In the Lisichansk direction, the soldiers of the DPR army caught Ukrainian saboteurs who were going to our positions for "language". As a result, they themselves became “languages”. Initially, there were three of them, but they did not immediately surrender, so one of them was killed in battle. Reported by NeoficialniyBeZsonoV

13:24 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 10 missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.

13:20 Donetsk under incessant fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Kuibyshevsky and Kyiv districts of the capital of the DPR suffer the most. Houses and institutions are burning.

12:53 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Maryinka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 10 shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

12:37 An asphalt-concrete plant has begun work in the city of Shchastya. The working volume of production is 240 tons of asphalt per hour. The mixture will be used for the capital reconstruction of the M-04 Znamenka-Lugansk-Izvarino highway in the Perevalsky district.

12:28 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Marinka - n.p. Aleksandrovka: fired 20 mines in 120mm caliber.

12:24 The mayor of Moscow signed a decree on assigning the territory near the British Embassy the name LPR Square - Sobyanin's press service

12:03 Military correspondent "KP" Alexander Kots reports from the LPR about the future of the offensive after the capture of Lisichansk.

The first point, which, apparently, will be stormed further is the city of Seversk. All units of the national battalions and the Armed Forces of Ukraine were withdrawn there from Lisichansk. It was convenient for them to defend Lisichansk because of their location on a hill, but Seversk is located in a lowland, which means that the units will be under tight artillery control of the Russian troops.

12:11 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky and Kyiv districts): 10 shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

12:00 DPR JCCC: since early morning, more than 100 155mm artillery shells have been fired at Kuibyshevsky, Kievsky and Voroshilovsky districts. There are civilian casualties.

11:47 Fire was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kyiv district): 10 shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

11:40 "KAMAZ Center" in the Kievsky district of Donetsk is on fire after the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

11:39 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the following directions:

— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 10 missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad;
— n.p. Kurdyumovka - n.p. Golmovsky: fired five shells with a caliber of 152mm.

11:32 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kyiv district): 10 shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

11:26 Social networks report that as a result of the shelling of Shcherbakov Park in the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk, a bridge was damaged.

11:14 The network reports the arrival of Ukrainian shells in the area of ​​the park. Shcherbakov in the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk. This information is confirmed by the mayor of Kulemzin.

11:12 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Codema - n.p. Golmovsky: fired five shells with a caliber of 152mm.

11:12 Head of Donetsk administration Alexei Kulemzin published the consequences of the shelling of the Armed Forces at kindergarten number 74 in the Petrovsky district.

11:11 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kyiv district): 10 shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

11:01 With the support of the NM of the LPR, representatives of the Russian Humanitarian Mission delivered humanitarian aid for civilians to Lisichansk.

10:57 Fire was detected from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Voroshilovsky district): three shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

10:52 Fire was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kyiv district): 10 shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

10:47 "Donetsk, city sensations. Now they shot twice with an interval of two minutes at the city. Hard flights. We answered two minutes later. And again, the answer is for us. The enemy fires from different positions, and we also respond from different places. Perhaps the first clear example of counter-battery combat. I really hope we get there. Now we hit the enemy again. Are we answering!? It's great," the telegram channel Sladkov+ reports.

10:44 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the following directions:

— n.p. Kurdyumovka - n.p. Dolomite: fired 10 shells with a caliber of 152mm;
— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kyiv district): 10 shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

10:33 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the following directions:

— n.p. Ceramic - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: 10 unguided rockets of 80 mm caliber were fired (without the use of aviation);
— n.p. Semigorye - n.p. Dolomite: fired six mines with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Nelepovka - n.p. Ozeryanovka: four shells of 152mm caliber were fired.

10:30 Statement by the official representative of the NM DPR: the Ukrainian side continues to terrorize the civilian population of the Republic, inflicting massive artillery strikes on residential areas and civilian infrastructure, which in turn are not military facilities and do not pose a danger to the enemy.

Over the past day, according to the DPR JCCC, the enemy fired more than seven hundred shells from Uragan and Grad multiple launch rocket systems, 155mm, 152mm and 122mm cannon artillery, as well as 120-mm mortars.

The fire was fired at the areas of fifteen settlements of the Republic. As a result of the shelling, 32 civilians were injured, of which one child, and four civilians were killed. Forty-three residential buildings and 20 civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.

Joint actions of the military personnel of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the following enemy weapons and military equipment: two Uragan MLRS, three BM-21 Grad, five trucks and more than 60 personnel. Three enemy firing points were suppressed in the areas of the settlement. Avdievka, Nevelskoe and Zhelannoe.

10:16 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:

— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleymonovka: five each 122mm shells were fired;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Ozeryanovka: five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

10:12 Andriy Turchak: On July 15, student teams of doctors and builders will arrive in Lugansk.

The first detachment - pedagogical - within the framework of the humanitarian mission of United Russia is already taking over the shift. These are guys from Moscow, Samara, Lipetsk, Rostov and St. Petersburg. In Lugansk, they were joined by students from the DNR and LNR. Together they will work as counselors in children's leisure centers, which are opening in the Donbass and in the Lugansk boarding school, the Secretary of the General Council said.

10:00 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the LPR, Captain Filiponenko I.M. as of 07/05/2022: the enemy continues to terrorize the civilian population of the Republic, shelling civilian infrastructure facilities in LPR settlements that do not pose a threat to the enemy and are not military facilities.

Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian nationalists fired one missile from the Tochka-U tactical missile system at the settlement. Stakhanov.

Engineering and sapper units of the People's Militia of the LPR have begun demining the cities of Lisichansk and Severodonetsk, as well as adjacent settlements.

Over the past day, sappers of the NM LPR cleared more than two hectares of territory from explosive objects left by Ukrainian nationalists.

The forces of the NM of the LPR, together with public organizations, continue to deliver humanitarian aid to residents of the liberated territories of the Republic. So, yesterday volunteers of the NGO “Food for Life. Donbass” with the support of the NM of the LPR, hot meals were delivered to the residents of the liberated settlement. Frontier.

09:49Consequences of shelling of Yasinovatoy. Eight apartment buildings, eight private sector houses, business and infrastructure facilities were damaged.

09:41 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the following directions:

— settlement Novoluganskoye - n.p. Dolomite: fired four mines with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Zaitsevo Severnoye - n.p. Dolomite: fired seven shells with a caliber of 122 mm.

09:30 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kyiv district): 10 shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

09:13 The network reports that as a result of the morning shelling of the Ukrainian Armed Forces of the Kyiv region of Donetsk, on the street. Artyom 198 bv, a civilian died.

09:08 Vthe result of the morning bombardment of Gorlovka VFU additionally revealed damage to the building of the Pension Fund Office in the Central City district of Gorlovka, st. Minina and Pozharsky, 3e (photo 1-3), buildings of the RUEK KP "Company" Water of Donbass "on the street. Minin and Pozharsky, 3g (photo 4, 5), as well as the former store "Evrostroy", located on the street. Minin and Pozharsky, 9a (photo 6, 7).

At night, hits of Ukrainian shells on the building of the Golmovsky Palace of Culture were recorded. Damaged windows, doors, roof, facade.

09:04 Cars of the next, 160th, convoy of the Russian Emergencies Ministry delivered food and building materials to Lugansk, the press service of the Emergencies Ministry of the LPR reported.

08:44 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kyiv district): 10 shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

08:34 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district):five shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

08:33 Fire was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Aleksandrovka: eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

08:26 According to the Ukrainian Gaulater of Slavyansk, Russian troops are now 7-10 kilometers from the city. Artillery shelling on the outskirts of Slavyansk intensifies.

08:21 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:

— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Novoselovka: four mines of 120mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kyiv districts): five shells of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kyiv district): 10 shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

07:50 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: eight missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad.

07:12 Gorlovka. Effects of morning shelling. st. Minin and Pozharsky. Car wash. One of yesterday's victims died last night.

05:46 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Dzerzhinsk - n.p. Gorlovka: 13 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

04:41 After 03:00 shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— settlement Nikolaevka. Second - n.p. Golmovsky: six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

01:05 Shelling was recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine: 22.30 from the direction of the settlement. Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) according to the settlement Stakhanov using the Tochka-U tactical missile system (one missile). Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.

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Europe
NATO's 30 allies sign an accession protocol for Finland and Sweden to allow them to join the nuclear-armed alliance
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#1  SWEDEN YES
Posted by: Albemarle Snerert7268 || 07/06/2022 0:50 Comments || Top||

#2  And so we have a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Government Corruption
Karine Jean-Pierre won't discuss Biden voicemail on Hunter's laptop
[NYPOST] White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to discuss a 2018 voicemail from President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter, close friend of an imaginary negro named Corn Pop. He blames Trump for losing Afghanistan.......
that was recovered from a laptop that belonged to his son Hunter — further undermining Biden’s claim that he never discussed foreign business deals with his son.

"Why is there a voicemail of the president talking to his son about his overseas business dealings if the president has said he’s never spoken to his son about his overseas business dealings?" Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked Jean-Pierre at her regular briefing Tuesday.

"Well, first I’ll say that what the president said stands. So if he — that’s what the president said, that is what stands," Jean-Pierre replied.

"He’s leaving a voicemail about a New York Times

... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

article concerning Hunter Biden
...son of President Joe: cashiered from the Navy, a crackhead, wheeler dealer, leg humper, horn dog, and general all around ne'er do well. We're supposed to feel sorry for him...
’s business dealings and he says, ’I think you’re clear,’ " Doocy interjected. "How is that not him talking to his son about his overseas business dealings?"

"We’re not, from this podium — I’m not going to talk about alleged materials from the laptop," Jean-Pierre replied.

"Are you disputing that this is the president’s voice on the voicemail?" Doocy pressed.
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#2  Biden lies. Nothing new there. Unless a shift of Congessional power shifts in 2022 away from Rinos and Dems, none of the corruption will be addressed.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/06/2022 11:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Not about about the guy who had university scholarships and graduated high in his class.
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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Threat of missile strikes is high - a summary from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Vesti] The Russian army continues to carry out missile strikes on military and civilian targets on the territory of Ukraine. This is stated in the operational summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 18:00 on Tuesday, July 5, 2022.

The department notes that there remains a further threat of missile strikes on the country's critical infrastructure.

"Our units continue to successfully carry out rocket and artillery fire missions in certain areas. It is increasingly difficult for the enemy to replenish units that are suffering losses as a result of the war on the territory of Ukraine," the report says.

In addition :

in the Volyn and Polesye directions, no signs of the formation of enemy offensive groupings were found, at the same time, the threat of missile and air strikes from the territory of the Republic of Belarus continues to persist. According to available information, the control and warning system is being tested in the armed forces of this country;

in the Seversky direction, the enemy continues to provide enhanced security for a section of the Ukrainian-Russian border. In addition, the enemy fired at our positions in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Mkhi and launched an air strike near Esmani;

in the Kharkov direction, the enemy is defending on previously captured lines. He used tanks, mortars, cannon and rocket artillery for shelling the areas of the settlements of Udy, Dementievka, Novoe, Russian Tishki, Tsirkuny, Kutuzovka, Bazalovka, Prishib, Shevelovka and Protopopovka. Assault actions were carried out near Sosnovka, the enemy had no success, but launched an air strike in the Kharkov region;

in the Slavyansk direction, the enemy is trying to improve the tactical position of his subunits. Shelling from artillery was recorded near Dibrovnoye, Dolyna and Adamovka. Enemy assault actions in the area of ​​Krasnopolye were successfully repelled by our soldiers;

in the Donetsk direction, the main efforts of the enemy are concentrated on taking control of the Bakhmut-Lysichansk road and attempts to capture the settlement of Belogorovka;

in the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy fired at civilian infrastructure in the areas of Krivoy Luka and Serebryanka. Launched a missile and air strike near Seversk. Fighting continues in the Belogorovka area;

in the Bakhmut direction, the enemy fired at our troops with mortars, cannon and rocket artillery in the areas of the settlements of Kodema, Pokrovskoye, Zaitsevo, Zheleznoye and Novoselovka;

with the support of artillery and operational-tactical aviation, the occupiers conducted assault operations in the areas of the settlements of Spornoe and Vershina, the fighting continues;

on Avdeevsky, Kurakhovsky, Novopavlovsky and Zaporizhzhya artillery shelling continues on collision. The enemy launched air strikes on the positions of the Defense Forces in the Avdiivka area;

in the Yuzhnobugsky direction, the enemy carried out systematic shelling of civilian and military infrastructure from cannon and rocket artillery in the areas of the settlements of Osokorovka, Dobryanka, Potemkino, Ivanovka, Bereznegovatoe, Partizanskoye, Krasnaya Dolina, Kiselevka and Mirnoye.

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Africa North
Twenty-two migrants from Mali, including three children, have died off the coast of Libya
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Africa Horn
Sudan’s main civilian bloc, the Forces for Freedom of Change, urges more protests
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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russian Perspective: Operation to Denazify Ukraine: Operational Brief July 5th (updated)
Direct Translation via Google Translate.

Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.

[NewsFrontInfo] 21:52 The main thing from the statement of the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mizintsev:

▪️Militants are preparing to blow up containers with liquid chlorine at the Slavyanskaya TPP in Nikolaevka, DPR;
▪️The militants placed MLRS on the territory of the Ukrhimtransammiak enterprise in Nikolaev;
▪️More than 22,000 people were evacuated per day from the territories of the DPR, LPR and Ukraine to the Russian Federation;
▪️Almost 30 requests for evacuation from Ukraine were received by Russia in a day;
▪️More than 500 tons of humanitarian aid were transferred to residents of the DPR, LPR and Kharkiv region.

20:13 Alarm throughout Ukraine. Massive missile launches from the Black Sea. A Kalibr rocket was spotted over Odessa.

18:55 Details of the operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the armies of Donbass on tickets of the Ministry of Defense of Russia.

▪️The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hastily withdraws forces, but the artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation does not leave them a chance to gain a foothold.
▪️The units of the RF Armed Forces are gradually returning the previously lost territories in the north of the Kharkiv region.
▪️The situation is similar in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions - the counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine ended in vain.
▪️High-precision weapons are destroying objects of the Ukrainian army in the Nikolaev and Odessa regions.
▪️Kyiv's only response is the barbaric shelling of civilians in Donetsk, Makeyevka, and Gorlovka.

18:01 Russian special services found a cache with weapons and ammunition, including grenades and a box of Molotov cocktails, in the house of the deputy head of the SBU of the Kherson region Kirill Rudsky, a TASS correspondent reports from the site of special events in Kherson.

"A cache with ammunition and weapons was found in the garage: unloaded RGO and F-1 grenades, a smoke bomb, an illuminating cartridge, Molotov cocktails ready with combustible liquid, ammunition of various calibers (5.45mm and 7.62mm - cartridges for machine guns and machine-gun cartridges), a one-time grenade launcher (apparently, they tried to activate it, because there are no checks, which means they forged it themselves), a machine gun 5.45mm and a machine gun 7.62mm, one store," a representative of the Russian law enforcement agencies told reporters at the location of the discovery of the cache.

17:56 Commanders of "Azov" who surrendered in Mariupol are kept in Russia.

16:52 In Melitopol opened a registry office. Citizens first of all apply for archival documents necessary for obtaining citizenship of the Russian Federation.

16:00 Vladimir Putin signed a decree on conferring the honorary title "Guards" on the 80th Red Banner Tank Regiment.

16:00 One of the headquarters of the "Caucasian Legion" militants was bombed by Russian helicopters. They reported it themselves. The "Caucasian Legion" is a newly formed paramilitary volunteer unit on the territory of Ukraine, which consists mainly of Georgians.

15:06 Ukrainians are in shock: the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed prohibition to leave the place of residence for men of military age. Simply put, now men are tied to their cities of residence and cannot leave it. Ukrainians are shocked and indignant in social networks. Apparently, there are no more people who want to go to the front.

14:07 Residents of the liberated territory will not be drafted into the army for five years, - Zaporozhye VGA.

14:06 The main thing from the statement of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu during the conference call:

▪️Conscripts are not sent to the zone of the special military operation;
▪️Russian specialists have completely eliminated the mine danger in the water area of ​​the port of Mariupol;
▪️The Russian Federation is making every effort to ensure the safety of navigation in the Black and Azov Seas, two gum
(humanitarian Russian love them some portmanteaus)
corridors for ships have been created;
▪️Ensuring peaceful life in the territories controlled by Russian troops will continue;
▪️The West continues large-scale arms deliveries to Kyiv to prolong the conflict in Ukraine;
▪️Weapons supplied to Kyiv by the West end up in the Middle East and the black market;
▪️Russian sappers have cleared about 4,000 hectares of mines in the Donbass;
▪️Over the past ten days, 170 mercenaries have been killed in a special military operation.

13:26 A total of 25 percent of the electricity generated at the Zaporozhye NPP will be supplied to the Crimea - the head of the Zaporizhzhya State Administration Yevhen Balitsky.

12:38 The RF Armed Forces hit an ammunition depot near Kharkov and manpower in 18 districts, including a mercenary deployment point near Nikolaev.

12:37 Russian air defense systems intercepted three Tochka-U missiles in the Kherson region and the LPR, as well as eight MLRS shells in the Kharkiv region.

12:37 A Russian fighter shot down a Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force in the Kharkiv region during an air battle.

12:37 The Russian Aerospace Forces with high-precision weapons destroyed up to 150 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and 12 pieces of equipment in Kharkov.

12:25 The fire in Nikolaev, presumably, after the put rocket strike. According to local media, the blow was delivered to the location of the 79th Separate Air Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

12:23 A total of 170 mercenaries destroyed in Ukraine over the past 10 days - Shoigu.

11:08 Member of the Terodefense of Ukraine who voluntarily surrendered in Kherson and showed where he kept the machine guns and ammunition issued to him. Three submachine guns, grenades, a gun and cartridges were stored at the service station where the surrendered prisoner worked. He showed three places in a small area where weapons and ammunition were hidden under a concrete slab, among bricks and branches.

10:44 The second mercenary from France died in Ukraine from injuries received during the shelling - RTL radio.

09:43 Residents of the Zaporozhye region will be able to receive social services. payments from the Russian Federation

08:56 The Russian army destroyed the military base of the 79th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Nikolaev.

The military unit of the 79th Airborne Assault Brigade is on fire near Army Lane, local residents tell us. There is a huge column of smoke above the city.

06:40 Missile strikes on objects in the Sumy region. Around 4 am, four explosions thundered near the city of Shostka

06:32 Over the past day, high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit the temporary deployment points of the 92nd Mechanized and 40th Artillery brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city of Kharkov, where there were about 200 Ukrainian servicemen and up to 19 units of military equipment.

03:58 A series of explosions in Dnepropetrovsk. Numerous air defense missiles are reported to have been fired into the sky. Already thundered about six explosions.

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Russians storm Bilogorivka, wants to control Bakhmut-Lysychansk road
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[LB] The occupiers are defending themselves in the Kharkiv direction and are trying to improve the situation in Sloviansk.

by Iryna Gamalii

The aggressor continues to launch missile attacks on military and civilian objects on the territory of Ukraine.

This was announced on Facebook by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the evening of the 132nd day of the heroic resistance of Ukrainians to the Russian military invasion.

In the Volyn and Poliske directions, no signs of the formation of offensive groups of the enemy were detected, at the same time, the threat of missile and air strikes from the territory of the Republic of Belarus continues. According to available information, the armed forces of this country are being tested for the control and alert system.

In the Siversky direction, the enemy continues to provide increased protection of the section of the Ukrainian-Russian border. In addition, the enemy fired at our positions near the settlement of Mkha and carried out an airstrike near Esmani.

In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy is defending on previously captured lines. He used tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery for shelling the areas of the settlements of Udy, Dementiyivka, Nove, Ruski Tyshki, Tsyrkuny, Kutuzivka, Bazalivka, Pryshyb, Shevelivka, and Protopopivka. He led an assault near Sosnivka, had no success, withdrew. Conducted an airstrike in the Kharkiv region.

In the Slavic direction , the enemy is trying to improve the tactical position of his units. Artillery shelling was recorded near Dibrovny, Dolyna and Adamivka. Our soldiers successfully repelled enemy assaults in the Krasnopil region.

In the Donetsk region, the main efforts of the enemy are concentrated on taking control of the Bakhmut - Lysychansk road and attempts to seize the settlement of Bilogorivka.

In the Kramatorsk direction , the enemy fired at civilian infrastructure in the Kryvya Luka and Serebryanka districts. Delivered a missile and air strike near Siversk.

In the Bakhmut direction , the enemy shelled our troops with mortars, barrel and rocket artillery in the areas of Kodem, Pokrovske, Zaytseve, Zalizne and Novoselivka settlements.

With the support of artillery and operational-tactical aviation, the occupiers carried out assaults in the areas of the settlements of Spirne and Vershina, the fighting continues.

Artillery shelling on the contact line continues in the Avdiyiv, Kurakhiv, Novopavliv and Zaporizhzhya directions . The enemy carried out airstrikes on the positions of the Defense Forces in the Avdiivka area.

In the South Buz region, the enemy carried out systematic shelling of civilian and military infrastructure from barrel and rocket artillery in the areas of the settlements of Osokorivka, Dobryanka, Potemkine, Ivanovka, Berezneguvate, Partizanske, Chervona Dolyna, Kiselyvka, and Myrne. There remains a further threat of missile strikes on the region's critical infrastructure.

Our units continue to successfully carry out missile and artillery fire missions in the designated directions. It is becoming more and more difficult for the enemy to replenish units suffering losses as a result of waging war on the territory of Ukraine.

We will remind you that there are fierce battles in Donbas, the occupiers are trying to dislodge the Armed Forces from the Luhansk region.

Russians shell the center of Sloviansk. Two people died, seven were injured (added)

[LB] Information is being clarified.

by Iryna Gamalii


Updated (4:40 p.m.) Today, around 3:00 p.m., occupation forces of the Russian army covered the city of Slovyansk with artillery fire. As a result of the shelling, one civilian died on the spot, and seven others were injured.

The Donetsk regional prosecutor's office reported this on Facebook.

According to the report, as a result of the shelling, apartment buildings and private houses were damaged, and the market was on fire.

Under the procedural leadership of the Donetsk regional prosecutor's office, criminal proceedings have been initiated on the fact of violation of the laws and customs of war, combined with intentional murder (Part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

In total, 10 incidents of shelling were recorded. Currently, the shelling of the peaceful city continues. Information on injured persons and damaged property is established.

Added (16:31) . Today, the occupiers shelled the city of Slovyansk in the Donetsk region. The central market of Slovyansk came under fire, Pavlo Kyrylenko , the head of Donetsk OVA , reported in Telegram .

According to him, as a result of the shelling, two people were killed and seven were injured.

"The Russians are again purposefully hitting places where civilians are gathered. This is pure terrorism. The terrorist state must be brought to justice!" he wrote.

Pavlo Kyrylenko urged residents of the region to evacuate and save their lives.

Today, around 15:00 , the mayor of Sloviansk, Vadym Lyakh , reported on Facebook about the massive shelling by the occupiers of the city center.

Posted by: badanov || 07/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11130 views] Top|| File under:


Discussion of Russian logistics in Ukraine War.
[Twitter]

Follow this Twitter Thread on down.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11132 views] Top|| File under:


#2  "Pour encourager les autres"? Settling scores in the chaotic climate?
Posted by: magpie || 07/06/2022 10:04 Comments || Top||


Twitter thread of targeted Russian ammunition depots and bases.
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 07/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11132 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I keep wondering if it is decades of corruption and shoddy housekeeping coming home to roost rather than active sabotage. Explosives are made to go Boom! and manufacturing / storing them safely requires care and attention.
Posted by: magpie || 07/06/2022 10:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Might be kids who will be conscripted next.
Posted by: Chris || 07/06/2022 12:30 Comments || Top||


Permanent mobilization in Ukraine
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:

[ColonelCassad] Permanent mobilization

In recent days, the topic of permanent mobilization has intensified in Ukraine, which is associated with the already quite obvious spillover of hostilities to 2023 and the need to compensate for the growing losses in manpower.

Hence the statements that the majority of Ukrainians "will go through the front" (including women), as well as the binding of citizens to the military registration and enlistment offices and the announcement of mobilization through the Diya application follow.

All this is, of course, the implementation of the US and NATO strategy of "war to the last Ukrainians", where Zelensky's gang must ensure the corral of cannon fodder to the front, no longer paying attention to readiness for service and even gender. The front needs meat and it needs to be provided. Obviously, this activates various schemes for evading service and fleeing abroad, which has been observed since the beginning of the NWO. Catching gaping citizens on the street solves the problem only partially, and in conditions where a battalion of reservists can come to a non-combat-ready state after 1-2 weeks of fighting, a lot of such battalions are required.

Ironically, this is happening in a country where for another three years the majority voted for Zelensky and the slogan of stopping the war. But Zelensky's gang of the expected tore up the Minsk agreements and headed for war, where they are now driving their voters who wanted peace. Such is the bloody retribution for the choice "if only not Poroshenko."

Now, instead of the desired peace, we have to go to rot in the trenches near Izyum or Kharkov. And there is no end in sight, because for the owners of the Zelensky gang, the population of Ukraine is a waste resource in the global struggle for dominance.

Posted by: badanov || 07/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11132 views] Top|| File under:

#1  TFI Global Ukraine
Posted by: Dale || 07/06/2022 3:57 Comments || Top||

#2  As a boy in Latvia between the wars, my father underwent the mandatory military training all boys there were given as part of their schooling, whether the school was public or private. It was understood that Russia — then the early years of the Soviet Union — would likely at some point want to retake lost territories, and the brand new nation needed to be prepared.

This is just the reality of living on Russia’s border.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2022 9:27 Comments || Top||


Europe
Drug smuggling: Underwater drones seized by Spanish police
[BBC] Spanish police have seized three underwater drones built to smuggle drugs across the sea from Morocco.

The unmanned submersibles are apparently capable of carrying up to 200kg (441lbs) of cargo.

As part of the 14-month investigation, eight people have been arrested in Cadiz, Malaga, and Barcelona.

Police say it means they have broken up a gang suspected of building the vehicles and supplying them to drug smugglers across Europe.

Spanish police say it is the first time they have discovered an underwater vehicle capable of being operated unmanned.

"These devices could allow drug traffickers to transport large quantities of narcotics remotely across the Strait of Gibraltar," police said in a statement.

One of the submarines was completely built and two more were still under construction. It is believed the pair being built were intended to be delivered to a French gang for smuggling cocaine.

Officials also seized 14kg (31lbs) of hashish, 8kg (18lbs) of marijuana, more than €157,300 (£135,527) in cash, and six large aerial drones.

Armed with GPS navigation systems, the vehicles could potentially be operated by drug traffickers from anywhere in the world using an internet-device as simple as a tablet.

Among those arrested were a father and son, one of whom police say was a qualified helicopter pilot who had the technical knowledge needed to build such sophisticated vehicles.

Officials claimed the gang specialised in building a wide range of air, land, and sea vehicles intended specifically to transport drugs, and accused them of supplying the devices to criminal organisations in Denmark, Italy, France and Spain.

According to EFE news agency, investigators discovered 13 different types of vehicles - including trailers with concealed "double bottoms" capable of holding up to 800kg of cargo.

It's not the first time investigators have found vehicles designed for transporting drugs under water.

Earlier this year a semi-submersible vessel carrying four tonnes of cocaine was intercepted by the Colombian navy on its way to Central America.

And in Spain, police last year seized a homemade 9-metre-long (29.5ft) fibreglass and plywood submarine in a raid on warehouse in Malaga.

Spain has become a key point of entry for drugs into Europe because of its proximity to Morocco - a major cannabis producer, and its close ties with former colonies in South America, where much of the world's cocaine is produced.

In particular the 15km-wide (9 mile) Strait of Gibraltar, which separates Europe from Africa, is a favoured route among drug smugglers.

Last year in April police arrested 100 suspected gang members accused of using speedboats to transport cannabis across the gap.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11143 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
How the mayor of Mariupol led the inhabitants of the city to the slaughter
Direct Translation via Gooogle Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:

[ColonelCassad] Today there was a small, but in our opinion an important event. For the first time, a representative of the authorities in Ukraine, People's Deputy Serhiy Taruta, confirmed:

the evacuation from Mariupol, which was NOT announced by the authorities;

Lack of notification of Mariupol residents about the need for evacuation;
That there was an opportunity to leave the city;

That the lack of evacuation of people is always on the conscience of local authorities;

That the leadership of the city left, but the people did not know about it, and were sure that everything was under control;

That Boychenko's betrayal greatly influenced people's attitude to power.

On our own behalf, we add that Boychenko not only organized NOTHING and fled the city. He also inspired the townspeople through social networks that the city would stand.

We wrote about it here (https://t.me/ZeRada1/8135), here (https://t.me/ZeRada1/8386 ) and here ( https://t.me/ZeRada1/9114). Finally, there were people's deputies ready to support this topic.

Today's recognition of Boychenko's criminal actions should be the first step towards bringing him to justice. Every mer who abandoned his city and his voters for the sake of "work" in social networks should know that he will have to answer for this!

https://t.me/ZeRada1/9374 - zinc

says Rozhin:
Boychenko solved the problem of providing a human shield for the group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which planned to defend Mariupol. It is quite obvious that without a human shield, the assault on Mariupol would have gone faster, since the army of the DPR and the RF Armed Forces would have to spend less effort on rescuing civilians who were taken hostage by Ukrainian terrorists. This is a conscious and coordinated step, which was implemented not only in Severodonetsk.

Since Boychenko himself did not plan to become a human shield and knew perfectly well what fate was in store for Mariupol, he almost immediately fled the city to Zaporozhye and from there he deceived the inhabitants, urging them to stay in the city, where street fighting was soon to begin.

Of course, no one in Ukraine will bring Boychenko to justice, because such actions are not his private initiative, but are a continuation of the strategy of state terrorism.

Posted by: badanov || 07/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11132 views] Top|| File under:


-Short Attention Span Theater-
GRAPHIC VIDEO: Migrant Running from Police Killed by Passing Vehicle on Texas Highway near Border
[Breitbart] A migrant jumped out of a human smuggler’s vehicle and ran into passing traffic on a highway in South Texas. A passing motorist struck the migrant, killing him instantly.

A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper stopped a suspected human smuggling vehicle on U.S. Highway 281 between Falfurrias and Premont, Texas on June 10. DPS officials released police videos showing a migrant jumping out of the vehicle to avoid apprehension. The video shows the migrant running across the northbound lane of the highway. A passing motorist struck the migrant, sending him flying off the roadway.
La Migra version of Frogger
At the beginning of the vehicle, a Texas DPS trooper is seen taking the driver of the suspected human smuggling vehicle into custody. A short time later, five to six migrants jumped out of the vehicle in an apparent attempt to escape and avoid arrest. At this point, a migrant on the driver’s side of the vehicle jumps out and runs into traffic.

DPS spokesman Lt. Chris Olivares told Breitbart Texas the driver is facing charges of human smuggling causing death.

Multiple human smuggling events in June resulted in the deaths of nearly 60 migrants.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11148 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  So.. Was the vehicle damaged?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/06/2022 11:34 Comments || Top||

#2  The question is, is the Hispanic version of Ben Crump on scene yet?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/06/2022 11:36 Comments || Top||

#3 
"la familia exige respuestas"
- Benito Gruñido
Posted by: bman911 || 07/06/2022 12:20 Comments || Top||

#4  you can run but you will die tired.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/06/2022 13:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Problem practically solved itself.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/06/2022 15:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Ta-thump.

I think the vehicle pulled over afterwards but not sure....is it so bad that its like armadillos?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/06/2022 17:31 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russian army shelled 13 settlements in the Donetsk region: there are dead
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Vesti] The Russians fired at the civilian population with small arms, artillery, air defense systems, etc.

In the Donetsk region over the past day, Russian troops inflicted 24 strikes, fired at 13 settlements, there are dead and wounded among the civilian population. This was reported in the press service of the National Police.

Russian troops shelled Avdievka, Seversk, Bakhmut, Krasnogorovka, Kramatorsk, Dopropolya, Kurakhovka, Pivdennoye, Severnoye, villages Ivanovskoye, Zaitsevo, Romanovka, Belaya Gora.

The Russians fired at civilians with small arms, artillery, S-300 air defense systems, Grad, Smerch and Uragan multiple launch rocket systems.

As Vesti.ua reported:

On July 5, captured Donetsk came under fire , as a result of the attack, the building of the KamAZ Center in the Kuibyshev region, where one of the ammunition depots of the Russian military was supposedly located, caught fire.

Armed Forces of Ukraine exercises to be held in Brovary: residents of the district were warned about restrictions.

Law enforcement officers detained the assistant-consultant of the People's Deputy of Ukraine . According to the Security Service of Ukraine, he, as a Russian agent, carried out reconnaissance and subversive activities in the authorities.

Donetsk came under shelling: “arrivals” to KamAZ-Center are reported

[Vesti] Donetsk came under fire: reports of arrivals at KamAZ-Center-1200x800
Explosions occurred in Kiev, Kuibyshev and Voroshilovsky districts
On July 5, Donetsk came under fire, as a result of the attack, the building of the KamAZ-Center in the Kuibyshev region, where one of the ammunition depots of the Russian military was supposedly located, caught fire. This was reported by local residents in social networks.

As a result of the shelling, a strong fire broke out in the building, black smoke can be seen from remote areas of the city.

It is also reported about "arrivals" in the central Kiev and Voroshilovsky districts. The shells allegedly fell in the area of ​​Shcherbakov Park, where the bridge was damaged.

Posted by: badanov || 07/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11133 views] Top|| File under:



China-Japan-Koreas
Chinese city of 13 MILLION people is shut down for a week to avoid Covid 'explosion' after just 18 cases are recorded
The gift that keeps on giving.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Businesses, schools and restaurants in Xi'an to close for one week

  • New lockdown imposed after just 18 cases were found since Saturday

  • China again tries to impose a zero-Covid policy on it's 1.4 billion citizens

  • New lockdown thought to be driven by the fast-spreading Omicron variant

  • Xi'an is a historic city of 13 million and home to the famous Terra Cotta Army
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11134 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Shanghai, Beijing order new round of mass COVID-19 testing
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2022 9:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Cats, dogs, ferrets, fruit bats, gorillas, pangolins, hamsters, mink, sea otters, pumas, snow leopards, tigers, lions, hyenas, hippos, giraffes, tree shrews and whitetail deer can be infected with and have tested positive at least once for the virus.

Omicron is suspected to have jumped from man to mouse, evolved and then jumped back from mouse to man.

This lock down makes as much sense as melting down tools in backyard furnaces to increase the production of worthless metal slag.

"Zero Covid" looks like one of the bouts of self-destructive fanatical madness that are typical for Chinese Communism.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 07/06/2022 10:05 Comments || Top||

#3  my theory for why CCP is over reacting is that Xi Jinping is 69, has some immunity compromising issues and is scared
Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/06/2022 10:30 Comments || Top||


Taiwan considers sending weapons to Ukraine.
[Twitter]


Hsiung Feng III



Sky Bow

Posted by: 3dc || 07/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11140 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The antiship missile:
Operational range: 250 mi (400 km; 220 nmi)
Flight altitude: 125–250 m (410–820 ft) (maximum altitude unknown)
Maximum speed: supersonic
Launch platform: surface ships , transporter erector launcher, and hardened bunkers
Posted by: 3dc || 07/06/2022 7:09 Comments || Top||

#2  The AA missile:
Top Speed: Mach 4.5
Warhead: 90 kg
Range: 150 km
Posted by: 3dc || 07/06/2022 7:12 Comments || Top||

#3  All Taiwan would like for these is real war combat data and feedback.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/06/2022 7:13 Comments || Top||

#4  All Taiwan would like for these is real war combat data and feedback.

Nothing wrong with that. The US and the Soviets did that all through the cold war.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/06/2022 10:14 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel's Prime Minister Yair Lapid will press French President Emmanuel Macron for a tougher and time-limited tack on the Iranian nuclear negotiations
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11135 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran



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