[Fox4News] TEXAS - A draft of new social studies curriculum in Texas removes the commonly used BC and AD calendar dating system. You mean the dating system everyone else on the Planet is using? that dating system?
The terms meaning "Before Christ" and "Year of Our Lord", would be written out in place of more religiously-neutral language.
BC would be replaced by BCE (Before Common Era) and AD would be replaced with CE (Common Era).
Andrew Pearce, a certified social studies teacher, brought attention to the change at the Texas State Board of Education meeting on Monday.
"The Biblical authority for BC and AD was created over 500 years after the events described. So it has nothing to do with removing Christ from the calendar, and everything to do with accuracy," said board member Rebecca Bell-Metereau. But of course we all know it has everything to do with removing any vestages of Christianity from schools
Barry Strauss, an author and historian at Cornell University, says the widely-used dating system was originally invested by a monk in the Middle Ages.
"It was thought year 1 was the year Jesus was born, we now know he was probably born in 4 BC," said Strauss.
The Texas Education Agency says the discussion is still early in the process, and the issue will likely be discussed at length this fall.
#12
This is the same Texas Board of Education that recently firmly shot down a proposal to teach second graders some idiocy about slavery in language understandable to college students. Once again it looks like certain unnamed Progessives are trying to either agitate or put one over the rubes.
BCE/CE instead of BC/AD has been in use in academia since I was a child, if not longer. That the Christian count of years has become nearly universal bespeaks the effectiveness of the culture that underlies it compared to all others, though I don’t hear anything about cultural colonialism when it is used.
And after all, that method of counting replaced every kingdom, principality, and village across Europe having their own count based on local events of importance, as Afghanistan still does in measuring 1444 years since the Prophet Mohammed hijra.
To be honest, I’m very glad these culture war things are being forced into the open instead of being quietly put in place in the educational equivalent of smokey back rooms.
#20
From history's abyss [leftist terror]
To optimist's hope (rounding error),
He pissed off the pope
And drove Dawkins to dope
By insisting CE's "Christian Era."
[USSA News] There’s little doubt that the Historical American Nation is about done. Even without the draconian directives of Big Brother about to crash down upon us, cash has been gradually elbowed out to make the change seem less drastic even as our pocket change dwindles. Cash transactions now only account for 15% of all retail sales in terms of value, and it has been widely speculated and predicted that physical cash and the accompanying pocket change would become redundant by just examining the trends. Personal check usage in retail outlets has virtually been checked although it remains a major means of sending payments via the "post."
One of the objectives of the pandemic pandemonium was to make contactless payments the preferred — and eventually the only way to exchange currency for services and products. Future lockdowns accompanying the next big virus bugaboo will permanently lock in contactless payments as well. The current availability of physical cash, although diminishing in use, allows the effects of the system’s staged gradual collapse to be less noticeable and therefore less frightening much as is the case with our gradual loss of freedoms! These are not causing any revolutions because the losses have been done in stages just as the frog in the pot of water adjusts to the gradually heating of that water before it reaches a boil and kills him. It all boils down to the fact that conservatives will have very little left to conserve by that time and what is left will hardly seem worth the effort by then.
Increasingly, consumers and customers carry credit cards vice cash as it is more convenient, safe, and just feels like less of a loss. All kinds of inducements are offered for use of the cards such as cash and travel "rewards", special insurance coverage, and the ability to better dispute fraudulent charges. Some businesses resist use of the cards for payment because of the service charges they thus incur, but the trend is to accept these charges as a cost of doing business, and pass the additional costs on to customers by charging higher prices. All the problems associated with the digital dysphoria such as the reality of cyber hack attacks, "phishing" and all manner of identity theft and scams are accepted as just one of those things one is supposed to accept as an accepted reality with advancing technology. All of this presents no worry to the controllers who are wont to make us feel the squeeze of unease and worry in order to better squeeze us into the small-minded paradigm boxes they have prepared for us. All credit card transactions are traceable within the banking system, but using cash allows for discreet donations to the charities and causes dear to our patriotic/nationalist hearts, so restricting use of cash will put a big damper on our support of, and philanthropy towards our favored groups and causes.
All of this is only the beginning of the woes associated with the woeful system presaged by the Biblical sages. The new system will be accompanied by a control of all money transactions by the GovMint as all your accounts will be consolidated into one big account whereby all your politically incorrect or questionable transactions that run afoul of phony "community standards" or politically correct viewpoints will be rejected as if you used an incorrect password to access your account. You may also be denied access if your "social credit" score is too low. Such scores will replace the current purely financially oriented current scores presently extant. You will be forced to use mobile or cell phones to function under the new system, whether you like it or not, or you may wind up in a cell or some other form of social purgatory. That will be a prerequisite to get to first base under the new system.
Currencies will become "digital currencies" and this transition is already in the process of occurring in various stages in the West. It has been fully adopted in Communist China — a communist tyranny that the rest of the world is becoming tethered to economically — so it will be soon be universal. The digital yuan was introduced in Communist China last February during the Winter Olympics. They required patrons to pay for meals, hotels, transportation, etc. using funny looking square "QR" codes on their mobile phones that linked to their digital yuan accounts. Nine countries have already launched systems in line with this lunacy. A digital euro is being tested right now. The US has been lagging but with the Chinese now in control — at least unofficially! — we are catching up fast. The Fed is presently studying implementation of this system and though the dollar will remain the dollar, it will not exist in its present physical form. It will become digital and ownership will be recorded on a ledger maintained by a central bank.
Banks and credit card companies as well as Pay Pal and similar payment systems will be phased out. The result of all of this "advancement?" The GovMint will have control of your money and will have the ability to place you under constant surveillance. Under the NWO, the GovMint will know every purchase you make, every transaction you conduct, and even your physical whereabouts at the point of purchase. It is a short step from there to "negative" interest rates, account freezes, tax withholdings from your account and the ability to place you under government investigation if you vote for the wrong candidate or give donations to the wrong political party — always assuming that any such will remain in our Brave New World. If that sounds like a stretch, be advised that it is not. The system will be used to deny travel and educational opportunities to political dissidents. Canada seized the bank accounts and even the crypto accounts of the non-violent trucker protestors last winter. This kind of oppression will be easy to conduct once the new system is fully in place.
There will be only two ways to counter this tyranny short of a revolution. There is only one non-digital, non-traceable, non-hackable form of money you will be able to use and that is physical gold and probably silver. However, for these to work, there has to be an "underground economy" that will support its use. At present, these can be purchased in a certain manner to avoid this tyranny. Throughout recorded history, precious metals have always been the form of money of last resort that have been universally accepted in the toughest of times. But remember, FDR confiscated Americans’ gold reserves with the blessings of our "democracy." In the assumption that first, an underground economy does exist and second, Americans are able to obtain and keep such "precious metals, the form called "junk silver" is the easiest modality to use in such situations, especially in everyday small transactions. Junk silver are US dimes, quarters, and half-dollars minted before 1965 when these coins actually contained 90% real silver. They are sold in bags of $1,000 face value. Such bags are currently worth over $20,000 and their value will further skyrocket as conditions deteriorate! If this is the way you are going to go, it is imperative that you get started on a program to accumulate these assets right away if you have no program of "hard" money accumulation now. It might pay to take some money you have in the bank or under your mattress and accumulate some junk silver with it now. More details on this strategy will be explored in future editions of the Freedom Movement Action Newsletter in articles labelled "Prepperism". We have already posted two articles on prepperism in past issues of this newsletter.
The other option to survive in the coming cashless society will be to create local currencies enabled by a local trading system a/k/a: LETS — as in let’s do it! This type of system was used and was very popular in Canada at one time. LETS allows members to obtain goods and services through their local currency which is accepted by local retailers who are enrolled in the system. Members who provide goods and services are able to earn credits in the local currency which are expended within the local system. This type of system could not replace the conventional economy in its entirety, of course, but it would make living under the dictatorship bearable especially for those in more rural areas. This system is not to be confused with barter systems which are much more limited in applicability. This type of system is one that patriots should have been employing for generations now to help form viable and strong local communities based on shared values or important commonalities such as race, religion or ethnic group, such as what the Mennonites and Mormons employ to some extent now. The potential for the state to break up or proscribe such groups is a real challenge but its efforts would be greatly lessened by the cohesiveness of such groups. However, the other day, it was reported that an Amish farmer has been fined many thousands of dollars as a result of his efforts to sell his produce. Never put anything mean, rotten, criminal and downright despicable as being beyond our political and social "leaders."
A new law is set to take effect in Israel starting August 1 that will ban payments of large sums of money in cash and bank checks. The goal of the reform, according to a statement issued by Israel’s Tax Authority, is to fight organized crime, money laundering and tax non-compliance.
Under the new law, any payment to a business above 6,000 NIS ($1,700) must be made using alternative methods, such as a digital transfer or a debit card. Trading between private citizens who are not listed as business owners will be limited to 15,000 NIS ($4,360) in cash. This is another step in Israel’s fight against the use of cash. Previously, cash up to the amount of 11,000 NIS ($3,200) could be used in business deals.
“We want the public to reduce the use of cash money,” adv. Tamar Bracha, who is in charge of executing the law on behalf of Israel’s Tax Authority, told The Media Line. “The goal is to reduce cash fluidity in the market, mainly because crime organizations tend to rely on cash. By limiting the use of it, criminal activity is much harder to carry out.”
#5
I use cash almost exclusively for local purchases. The demise of cash is the demise of privacy in virtually every aspect of your life. Not only will it mean your every financial act is monitored and recorded, so is where, when and to whom. Equally, you cannot hold wealth external to a government controlled institution, thus ending the fundamental concept of property and prosperity independent of government control. And, the power to destroy your life by the simple act of judicial fiat through locking down your financial access devices makes you instantly helpless and obedient. This is the power of a police state being hidden behind the myth of convenience. This must be resisted!
#7
You are hereby geofenced to within a radius of 1 km around your domicile. Financial transactions, including transit, will not process outside that radius, and your driver's license is similarly invalid.
Attached is a list of items and quantities you may purchase. It will be updated as required.
Your activities have been noticed. Oh, yes, they've been noticed.
Broadcasting legend Vin Scully passed away today at age 94, according to a Dodgers news release. “He was the voice of the Dodgers, and so much more. He was their conscience, their poet laureate, capturing their beauty and chronicling their glory from Jackie Robinson to Sandy Koufax, Kirk Gibson to Clayton Kershaw. Vin Scully was the heartbeat of the Dodgers – and in so many ways, the heartbeat of all of Los Angeles,” the release stated.
For all of the legendary voices who have called baseball games over the decades, there is little debate that Scully was the best of them all, both for the incredible length of his tenure in the booth, and his unmatched quality over those 66 years of broadcasting Dodgers games. Amazingly, Scully was already a Hall-of-Fame level broadcaster even aside from his work with the Dodgers, as he covered the NFL, pro golf, tennis, and (naturally) postseason and All-Star baseball games for such outlets as CBS, NBC, ABC, and TBS.
From start to finish in his iconic career, Scully was a master storyteller, finding endless inventive and poetic ways to call the action, yet never overwhelmed the play on the field. Scully was on the mic for many of the greatest moments in baseball history, adding to those moments with both wonderful calls and (just as important) poignant silences.
Scully was something of a prodigy, as quite early in his career he began calling Dodgers games in Brooklyn in 1950 on both TV and radio broadcasts. He was then in the booth until the end of the 2016 season, following the Dodgers to Los Angeles. As noted in the press release, “it was Vin as much as anyone who bonded the franchise with its new city. Fans – not only around the city, but at the games themselves in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum – would listen on their new transistor radios to Vin and colleague Jerry Doggett.”
On behalf of all of us at MLBTR, we send our condolences to Vin Scully’s family and legions of friends and fans.
#1
I come from a die-hard SF Giants family (grandfather worked for the Giants) and everyone has only nice things to say about Vin Scully (and Tommy Lasorda not long ago). Rivalry does not mean hate despite the emotions of the game.
[OneIndia] Terrorists threw a grenade at a police post in Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... 's Ramban district early Tuesday, prompting police and Army to launch a massive cordon and search operation in the area, news agency PTI reported.
The grenade went kaboom! on the roof of the police post without causing injuries to anyone, sources said.
Additional Director General of Police Mukesh Singh said, "A grenade blast has occurred near the premises of police post Ind, which falls in the jurisdiction of cop shoppe Gool."
Earlier, police sources had said that a crude bomb had been thrown at the police post.
The Jammu Kashmir Ghaznavi Force (JKGF) has grabbed credit for the attack in a letter, the ADGP said.
The special operation group (SoG) and Army teams have been mobilised for cordon and search operations, he said.
An alert has been sounded in the district and a case registered.
Mr. Zidan’s FBI Most Wanted poster can be seen at the link offering $10 million head money. And an old photo, for those interested in such things.
[OneIndia] The coming days would be crucial because the al-Qaeda would not want to break the momentum it has generated when it comes to spreading its ideology in India
Mohammed Salahldin Zidan who is of Egyptian origin is likely to be the next chief of the al-Qaeda. The terror group began the hunt for a new chief after US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run. On the other hand, he did abandon Afghanistan... announced that al-Qaeda boss Ayman al-Zawahiri ...Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodox al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra... had been killed in a dronezap in Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday.
Zidan who also goes by the alias Saif-al-Adel is tipped to be the next chief of the terror group that carried out the 9/11 attacks. His whereabouts are however unknown currently.
While the death of Zawahiri is welcome news for India, the agencies are also worried about the possible spillover of al-Qaeda cadres into 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.... whose ideology has caught traction against many radical Indian Moslems. The Islamic State has demonstrated how deeply it is able to penetrate in India especially in the southern states.
An official tells OneIndia that the death of Zawahiri will break the morale of the al-Qaeda cadres and a lesser known Zidan may not be able to hold them back. The resultant of this could be a spillover into the Islamic State and that it could be very bad news for India.
The Islamic State currently is the strongest in Afghanistan and it has demonstrated in recent times its ability to mount spectacular attacks. It has primarily focused on launching attacks against the minority community in Afghanistan and with the backing of the ISI, it will continue to target the minorities in Afghanistan, the official cited above says.
Zidan on the other hand is stronger in terms of operational capabilities rather than have an ideological hold. He was a former lieutenant colonel in the Egyptian special forces and has been instrumental in the bombings of the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998. He also fought against the Russian forces in Afghanistan and had played a key role in training the hijackers who carried out the 9/11 attacks.
An Intelligence Bureau official says that the coming days would be crucial because the al-Qaeda would not want to break the momentum it has generated when it comes to spreading its ideology in India. The outfit has been instrumental in setting a narrative when it came to the hijab issue which broke out in Karnataka. It has made comments on the Indian Army and also provoked people during the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests.
The focus of the al-Qaeda in the past couple of years has been around the sub-continent. It had even appointed Asim Umar ...chief of al-Qaeda's Sharia Committee for Pakistain, named head of al-Qaeda in India. His video appearances are frequently accompanied by clips of al Qaeda's senior propagandist in Pakistan, Ahmad Farooq. Umar the author of The Army of Anti-Christ: Blackwater, Documentation of the Dreadful Terrorist Activities of America's Blackwater in Islamic Countries... who is from Uttar Pradesh as the chief of the al-Qaeda in the Sub-Continent. Officials say that if the al-Qaeda is unable to hold on its cadre there is a good chance that they may move towards the Islamic State. While the Islamic State has demonstrated that it can spread its ideology in India, it has also shown that it is capable of launching spectacular attacks including the ones involving lone wolves and this is a major cause of concern for the Indian Intelligence agencies.
[Trade For Profit] A little over six months ago, when stocks were still trading near all time highs, former NY Fed repo guru and current Credit Suisse strategist Zoltan Pozsar made an immodest proposal to the Fed: crash stocks to contain inflation, to wit:
The FOMC has one big problem: inflation. There are two ways to slow inflation: by hiking short-term interest rates or by forcing long-term interest rates higher. Historically, the Fed used rate hikes to engineer recessions that generated the slack needed to keep inflation in check ("opportunistic disinflation"). With the Fed’s "updated dual mandate" of inclusive low unemployment and the political imperative of redistribution through firmer wage growth at the bottom of the income distribution, the Fed aiming to slow inflation via a recession is unimaginable. Hikes today then are meant to slow inflation without a recession... which is not something that the Fed has ever managed to achieve before.
Zoltan was also confident that "lower risk assets won’t kill growth" and his solution to contain inflation and "to improve labor supply, the Fed might try to put volatility in its service to engineer a correction in house prices and risk assets — equities, credit, and Bitcoin too..." In short: crash everything.
Fast forward to today when once again the Fed has followed Zoltan’s advice to a tee with stocks in a deep bear market, bitcoin in another crypto winter, commodities soared then plunged (with the exception of nat gas and oil), the economy in a technical recession... and yet inflation remains sticky to the upside.
Of course, with oil and gasoline sliding in anticipation of Biden’s recession, and most other commodities at or below Ukraine war levels, it’s unlikely that inflation will remain quite so sticky, especially when considering that yesterday, we saw the ISM-Prices Paid sub-index print 60.0, down from 78.5 prior. This, JPMorgan writes, "...feeds into our house view from Mike Feroli that between now and the September FOMC we should continue to see CPI levels cool due to energy prices/base effects and along with likely softening in jobs data, indicative from higher initial claims recently, leaves us expecting a 50bp hike in September and a more dovish stance for the rest of the year. Jackson Hole at the end of August could deliver more support for the dovish pivot."
Here we completely agree with JPM for once, as it has been our base case for a long time that the Fed will use this month’s Jackson Hole to hint at the coming dovish reversal.
But let’s assume that’s not the case and inflation remains deeply entrenched, Friday’s jobs come in hot, wage growth continues to beat expectations as the wage-price spiral proves unbreakable, and next week’s CPI print comes in far hotter than expected. Well, that in a nutshell is what Zoltan Pozsar’s latest note is all about.
According to the repo guru, inflation is now so embedded, that the US economy may need to undergo a deeper and longer recession than investors (and he himself) anticipate before sharply higher prices can be brought under control.
#6
Depression is a bit of an overstatement. See 1979.
But if a 1979-style recession is necessary now, as it was then, then bring it on.
Better that than to have the half-hearted recessions of the early- and mid-70s which did nothing for inlfation and only made the ultimate cure much worse (again, see 1979.)
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[IsraelTimes] Deal includes $3 billion for Patriot missiles for Riyadh, designed specifically to protect against rocket attacks by Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , and $2.2 billion for UAE missile defense.
Although Tuesday’s approvals are for defensive weapons, they may be questioned by lawmakers who had supported Biden’s decision last year to cut Saudi Arabia and the UAE off from major purchases of offensive US arms because of their involvement in the war in Yemen.
Early in his administration, Biden had pledged to cut off or cut back weapons sales to both Saudi Arabia and the UAE because of their actions in Yemen.
[IsraelTimes] Imam Saleh Bin al-Humayd prayed for God to "bring annihilation upon the plundering and occupying Jews" and to protect the Moslems from their evil during a Friday sermon at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute.
The sermon came less than two weeks after Israeli journalist Gil Tamari illegally entered the site where non-Moslems are banned.
[IsraelTimes] Egyptian mediators said to enter Strip to try to calm anger in terror group after arrest of its West Bank leader
Road restrictions near the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip remained in place Wednesday for a second day, as Israel warned terror groups based in the enclave that it would respond forcefully to any Dire Revenge attack following the arrest of a terror leader.
At the same time, reports indicated that efforts were underway to calm tensions following the overnight capture of Bassem Saadi, who leads Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... in the West Bank.
Roads around Gaza were shut Tuesday morning and area residents were instructed to stay near shelters for fear of rocket or anti-tank missile attacks in Dire Revenge for the arrest of Saadi.
In a message to residents, the Sdot Negev and Eshkol regional councils said Tuesday evening all road closures would remain until Wednesday at least, following an assessment by the Israel Defense Forces.
Authorities had earlier indicated that the restriction could be lifted if the night passed peacefully. It was not immediately clear what prompted the shift in policy.
Multiple reports in Hebrew and Paleostinian media Tuesday evening indicated Egyptian mediators had entered Gaza to attempt to talk Islamic Jihad out of any Dire Revenge attacks.
With fears of an imminent attack rampant, Channel 12 reported that Israeli officials passed a message via Egypt to leaders of Islamic Jihad and to Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, which rules the Paleostinian enclave, indicating that Jerusalem was not interested in a fresh round of fighting, but would respond harshly to any attack or breach of its illusory sovereignty.
The reports were not attributed to sources. Military officials often pass messages through Israeli media while insisting on total anonymity.
Tensions around the Strip spiked throughout Tuesday following the arrest of Saadi in Jenin overnight.
The arrest, and videos that showed him being dragged away by soldiers, stoked Paleostinian anger and rumors that he had been slain.
Saadi was taken in by forces in Jenin along with his son-in-law and aide, Ashraf al-Jada, and another member of the terror group was killed in a shootout with troops.
Some Paleostinian reports said Saadi was hurt after being bitten by a military dog during his arrest.
The IDF later leaked images to news hounds seeming to show Saadi in good condition, with the aim of calming tensions.
The military’s level of alert along the border with the Gaza Strip remained high Tuesday afternoon, though several roads closed earlier as a precautionary step were reopened, the Israel Defense Forces said.
In response to Saadi’s arrest, the Gaza-based group announced in a statement that it was declaring a state of "alertness" and raising its fighters’ "readiness."
On Tuesday morning, the IDF said it ordered the closure of several main highways, train lines and lookout points along the Gaza border, following an uptick in activity by fighters tied to Islamic Jihad that posed an imminent and "a direct threat of a possible attack on Israeli civilians."
The imminent threats included possible anti-tank guided missile fire, sniper attacks, and rocket fire.
In the afternoon hours, the IDF issued an update to the road closures, saying Route 232 between Mefalsim and Sa’ad and access roads for farmers nearby were closed, but the road between Sa’ad and Kerem Shalom had been reopened for traffic.
Route 242 and 2410 were also shuttered, as were Route 4 from Zikim Junction toward the Erez Crossing, and Route 34 between Yad Mordechai Junction and Nir Am Junction.
All towns along the border have alternative routes to exit, apart from Kerem Shalom and Kibbutz Nahal Oz, which were entirely blockaded due to the restrictions.
The IDF also closed the Erez Crossing for pedestrians going in and out of Gaza. The border checkpoint is used by thousands of Paleostinian workers every day.
Channel 12 also reported that Israeli troops were on high alert in the West Bank as well, amid the possibility Islamic Jihad would attempt an attack there.
According to the Shin Bet, Saadi, 61, has been tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! and released by Israel seven times over the years.
The Shin Bet said that in recent months, Saadi had "worked even harder to restore PIJ activities, and was behind the creation of a significant military force for the organization in [the northern West Bank] in general and in Jenin in particular."
"His presence was a significant factor in the radicalization of the organization’s operatives in the field," the Shin Bet added.
Jenin is widely seen as a hotbed of terror activity. Gunmen and other attackers behind several deadly terrorist attacks earlier this year came from the city and its refugee camp.
[Guardian] The chemical imbalance theory of depression is well and truly dead. A paper by Joanna Moncrieff and colleagues, longtime critics of the effectiveness of antidepressants, has caused a splash. The paper provides a summary of other summaries that confirm there is no evidence to support the idea that depression is caused by disturbance of the brain’s serotonin system.
They have done us a favour by corralling the evidence that says as much, even if we knew this to be the case.
But the death of the chemical imbalance theory has no bearing on whether antidepressants that affect the serotonin system are effective. These medications weren’t developed on this premise. In fact quite the opposite is true — the chemical imbalance theory was based on an emerging understanding of how antidepressants were shown to work.
How did the ’chemical imbalance’ theory start?
The first two antidepressant medications, both discovered in the 1950s, were observed to have positive effects on mood as side-effects of their hoped-for functions. Iproniazid was developed as a treatment for tubercolosis, and imipramine as an antihistamine.
We know now that ipronizaid is a monoamine oxidase inhibitor — it stops the enzyme that breaks down serotonin and similar brain chemicals. But we didn’t know this when its antidepressant effects were first observed in 1952.
Imipramine is a tricyclic antidepressant and, among other effects, it blocks the reuptake of serotonin after it has been secreted, also allowing more to stay in the brain.
A simple hypothesis then presented itself: if both classes of antidepressants were shown to increase brain levels of serotonin, then depression must be caused by low levels of serotonin.
Researchers set out to demonstrate this in patients with depression, showing that serotonin and its metabolites and precursors were lower in the blood, in the cerebrospinal fluid, and so on.
But these studies suffered from what we now know plagued many studies of their era, leading to the so-called "replication crisis". Studies used small sample sizes, selectively reported their results and, if they failed to demonstrate the hypothesis, were often not reported at all. In short, the findings were unreliable, and since then larger studies and meta-analyses (which summarised the many smaller studies) made it clear the hypothesis wasn’t supported.
What’s the link between the theory and antidepressants?
In the meantime, pharmaceutical companies spotted a clear line to communicate the effectiveness of their medications. Depression was caused by a "chemical imbalance" that could be corrected by antidepressants.
This coincided with the development of a new class of antidepressants, the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, which, as their name suggests, were more selective than the tricyclic antidepressants in targeting serotonin reuptake as their mechanism of action.
These drugs — then known as Prozac, Zoloft, and Cipramil — became blockbusters, and remain widely used today (albeit with a variety of names since expiration of their patents).
Few psychiatrists with an understanding of the nuance of brain function believed the chemical imbalance theory. It never fitted with the way they could see that SSRIs worked, with serotonin function changing hours after taking the medication but depression not showing improvement for about four weeks.
But there were, and are, many medical practitioners with less sophisticated understanding of depression and neurochemistry who were happy to repeat this message to their patients. It was an effective message, and one that took hold in the popular imagination. I have heard it repeated many times.
So are antidepressants effective?
The new paper by Moncrieff and colleagues, while not saying anything new, does us all a favour by reiterating the message that has been clear for some time: there is no evidence to support the chemical imbalance theory. Their message has been amplified by the extensive media attention the article has received.
But much of the commentary has extrapolated from the study’s finding to suggest it undermines the effectiveness of antidepressants — including by the authors themselves.
This shows a misunderstanding of how medical science works. Medicine is pragmatic. It has often established that a treatment works well before it has understood how it works.
Many commonly used medicines were used for decades before we understood their mechanisms of action: from aspirin to morphine to penicillin. Knowing they worked provided the impetus for establishing how they worked; and this knowledge generated new treatments.
The evidence for SSRIs being effective for depression is convincing to most reasonable assessors. They are not effective for as many people with depression as we might hope, as I have written before, but they are, overall, more effective than placebo treatments.
Critics suggest the magnitude of the difference between the medications and placebo isn’t great enough to warrant their use. That is a matter of opinion. And many people report significant benefits, even as some people report none, or even that they have caused harm.
How do antidepressants work?
In truth, we still don’t really know how or why antidepressants work. The brain is a complex organ. We still don’t have a clear idea about how general anaesthetics work. But few people would refuse an anaesthetic when contemplating serious surgery on this basis.
In the same vein, when contemplating whether an antidepressant might be an option for someone with depression, it is of little consequence that its mechanism of action is incompletely understood.
So let’s put the chemical imbalance theory to bed. We should continue our efforts to understand the nature of depression while we keep searching for better treatments.
Attending to diet, exercise and sleep is effective for many people with depression. Psychotherapy can be very helpful too. But many people struggle with depression despite trying these things, and it is for them that we need to keep up our efforts to find better treatments.
They "work" just like weed works. They mask the anxiety and depressive moods.
Notice the lack of discussion here about addiction and the long-term impacts of antidepressant usage, potential cures, or the tens of millions of people in the US currently taking the drugs ?
[IsraelTimes] A Palestinian teen is arrested at the Allenby crossing between the West Bank and Jordan with a knife, after he claimed to border guards he sought to kill Israelis, the Israel Airports Authority says.
According to the IAA, the suspect, born in 2003, told inspectors that he had a knife and he intended to kill Israelis.
“A security guard demanded the suspect take the knife out of the bag and put the knife aside, and after taking the knife out he was handed over to security forces for interrogation,” the IAA says.
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Ishmael & Isaac were brothers and although brothers have a tendency to exceed the other they dont usually kill each other. Jared Kushners Abraham Accord works with UAE, Morocco, and others it doesn't seem to be wanted by the Palestinians.
Perhaps there is no Palestine? Perhaps they would be better off in Afghanistan with the Taliban. Who knows ... the Shadow do.
[DW] Brussels police on Tuesday said a 25-year-old man escaped a detention cell after ripping out its toilet.
The escapee "unhooked the toilet from the wall" and slipped out "through a hole no larger than an A4 sheet of paper," a police front man told the AFP news agency.
From that hole, he landed into an underground corridor, where he climbed out of a window onto the street, the front man added.
According to Belgian broadcaster VRT, police said security cameras at the detention cell were not working at the time of the incident.
FEW HOURS IN JAIL
The man was previously convicted over assaults on law enforcement and drug-related charges.
He was wanted by the West Flanders prosecutor's office.
The case against him is over failure to comply with a police order, AFP reported, citing a front man for the prosecution in the Phlegmish city of Courtrai.
Police arrested the 25-year-old late on Monday for violating his parole in the ongoing case and held him in the cop shoppe in Brussels' Molenbeek neighborhood.
Molenbeek is one of those NoGo Zones that were vehemently denied in response to Donald Trump mention of them, but were later quietly admitted to exist. But even if they were not dangerous to police and other non-residents, they are definitely home to a seething mass of Moslem colonists which has nurtured generations of career criminals and throwing up the occasional jihadi named in the Rantburg archives.
He broke out of jail just hours later, police said.
The unnamed he will be one of those Molenbeek career criminals.
[Rudaw] At least 30 Christian families migrated from Nineveh’s Hamdaniyah in July, due to economic and security reasons, a local official told Rudaw on Tuesday.
"Thirty families migrated from Hamdaniyah in July," Issam Bahnam, the district’s mayor told Rudaw, adding that the families previously left the area but had returned.
Bahnam claimed that the numbers of families leaving the area on monthly basis "did not exceed two families" before with most leaving for Jordan and Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch... The Christian town of Hamdaniyah is located some 20 kilometers southeast of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... that was heavily affected when 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) controlled swathes of Iraq in 2014.
The official put the toll of Christians in the area to 10 thousand, noting that they have now decreased to about 5 thousand.
[Manufacturing Bus Tech] MIT engineers designed an adhesive patch that produces ultrasound images of the body. The stamp-sized device sticks to skin and can provide continuous ultrasound imaging of internal organs for 48 hours.
Ultrasound imaging is a safe and noninvasive window into the body’s workings, providing clinicians with live images of a patient’s internal organs. To capture these images, trained technicians manipulate ultrasound wands and probes to direct sound waves into the body. These waves reflect back out to produce high-resolution images of a patient’s heart, lungs, and other deep organs.
Currently, ultrasound imaging requires bulky and specialized equipment available only in hospitals and doctor’s offices. But a new design by MIT engineers might make the technology as wearable and accessible as buying Band-Aids at the pharmacy.
In a paper appearing today in Science, the engineers present the design for a new ultrasound sticker — a stamp-sized device that sticks to skin and can provide continuous ultrasound imaging of internal organs for 48 hours.
The researchers applied the stickers to volunteers and showed the devices produced live, high-resolution images of major blood vessels and deeper organs such as the heart, lungs, and stomach. The stickers maintained a strong adhesion and captured changes in underlying organs as volunteers performed various activities, including sitting, standing, jogging, and biking.
The current design requires connecting the stickers to instruments that translate the reflected sound waves into images. The researchers point out that even in their current form, the stickers could have immediate applications: For instance, the devices could be applied to patients in the hospital, similar to heart-monitoring EKG stickers, and could continuously image internal organs without requiring a technician to hold a probe in place for long periods of time.
If the devices can be made to operate wirelessly — a goal the team is currently working toward — the ultrasound stickers could be made into wearable imaging products that patients could take home from a doctor’s office or even buy at a pharmacy.
[ShabelledMedia] An explosion reportedly occurred at Tarabunka Junction in Mogadishu on Tuesday morning, police and witnesses said.
Reports indicate that at least two people have died and others have been injured. The blast was reportedly targeting a security forces convoy in the area.
Heightened security impacted the area within minutes. Road and business closures in the area are reported.
No group grabbed credit for the bombing, which comes amid ongoing military operations against al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... in the south and central Somalia.
[ShabelleMedia] A ‘Dutch’ woman was sentenced to three years in prison Monday for donating several hundred dollars to a group that supported the bully boy group al-Shabaab ...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all of which have enough problems without them... in Somalia.
The sentenced imposed on Farhia Hassan,
...whose friends, naturally, call her Helga...
38, was far less than the 8-year sentence sought by prosecutors.
She was convicted earlier this year by a jury at U.S. District Court in Alexandria of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.
Prosecutors said she was one of about 15 women who gathered in an online chatroom and regularly committed small amounts of money to support al-Shabaab turbans in Somalia and Kenya. In all, prosecutors say she donated about $300 over a three-year period, though they admitted difficulty tracking payments.
They cleverly called themselves the Group of Fifteen, which included women from Somalia, Kenya, Egypt, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Canada, and Minneapolis. The money was sent to Al Shabaab money men in Hargeisa (Somalia) and Nairobi (Kenya), while the ladies chatted companionably with the Al Shabaab big turbans.
Hassan, a Somali native and mother of six, was granted asylum in the Netherlands as a teenager and settled in the city of Terneuzen. She was initially charged in 2014, but fought extradition for seven years before she was brought to the U.S. to face trial.
Was it an American chatroom? Or was it that the big burka was in Minneapolis?
Two leaders of the group have already been convicted and sentenced to terms of 12 and 11 years, respectively.
Hassan’s lawyers argued she never should have been charged in the first place. They said it was overreach for the U.S. to charge a Dutch woman for supporting Somali turbans when she had no connection whatsoever to the U.S.
While al-Shabaab has been designated a terrorist organization by the U.S., it carried no such designation in the Netherlands or the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... at the time the group was active, from 2011 to 2014.
The defense lawyers, Jessica Carmichael and Yancey Ellis, also said the minimal contributions attributed to their client warranted only a minimal sentence. They argued for a sentence of time served, about nine months.
"Ms. Hassan has been punished enough," they wrote in sentencing papers.
Prosecutors, though, said $300 can go a long way. In court papers, they said the money could be used in Somalia to pay an al-Shabaab fighter’s monthly wages or buy an AK-47 military rifle or a camel.
At Monday’s hearing, Hassan said through a Somali interpreter that she is not an al-Shabaab supporter but was donating money to help the Somali people.
Prosecutors, though, said there is no evidence Hassan has truly deradicalized, and said those who participated in the online chats regularly heard lectures supporting suicide kabooms and liquidation of holy mans, among other violent mostly peaceful acts.
"Every indication before the Court is that she believes just as firmly in al-Shabaab’s mission as she did in 2011 when the conspiracy began," prosecutor Danya Atiyeh wrote.
Judge Anthony Trenga, who imposed the sentence, said he largely agreed about Hassan’s radicalization. But he said Hassan’s actions did not merit imposition of a so-called "terrorism enhancement" that usually results in extreme increases to the recommended term under federal sentencing guidelines.
Hassan has the ability to appeal her conviction and sentence.
[AlAhram] The U.S. dronezap that killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri on the balcony of a Kabul safe house intensified global scrutiny Tuesday of Afghanistan's Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... rulers and further undermined their efforts to secure international recognition and desperately needed aid.
The Taliban had promised in the 2020 Doha Agreement on the terms of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan that they would not harbour al-Qaeda members. Nearly a year after the U.S. military's chaotic pullout from Afghanistan, al-Zawahri's killing raises questions about the involvement of Taliban leaders in sheltering a criminal mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks and one of America's most-wanted runaways.
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Indignation is certainly one approach to being caught with your pants down around your ankles...
[KhaamaPress] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... condemned the drone attack and claimed it is a "clear violation" of both international law and the 2020 Doha Agreement, to which the US and the Taliban are parties.
Taliban senior spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid stated in the statement that the attack occurred on a residential home in the Sherpur area of Kabul, a diplomatic neighborhood where several Taliban commanders currently reside.
"Such actions are a repetition of the failed experiences of the past 20 years and are against the interests of the US, Afghanistan, and the region," Mujahid said.
The US killing of the al-Qaeda chief raises the question of whether the al-Qaeda leader received protection from the Taliban, even though the US has claimed that it can still tackle threats from Afghanistan without a military presence.
According to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri ...Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodox al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra... has made the world a safer place.
He also blamed the Taliban government in Afghanistan for "grossly" breaching its obligations to the international community by "hosting and sheltering" the al-Qaeda leader in Kabul.
Al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian with a $25 million bounty on his head, was one of the criminal masterminds behind the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US, which resulted in the deaths of numerous people.
Late in May, al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri reaffirmed the long-standing affiliation and cooperation between his organization and the Taliban by swearing loyalty and allegiance to Hebatullah Akhundzadah, Taliban supreme leader.
[KhaamaPress] According to the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... -run Central Bank of Afghanistan, a cash package containing $40 million arrived in Kabul on Tuesday, August 2, as part of continuous humanitarian assistance from the international community.
The aid shipment, which arrived in Kabul today, was placed at one of the commercial banks, while a shipment totaling $40 million was handed to a commercial bank in Kabul two days ago.
The total value of these humanitarian packages delivered to Afghanistan in the last few months surpasses $1 billion 33 million dollars.
There is no information, however, on how these aids are utilized, how much has been used thus far, or for what purposes.
To establish a strong foundation for effective engagement with other states in the region and around the world, the Central Bank of the Taliban’s administration has urged that banking relations with Afghanistan be made easier.
The central bank reiterated its gratitude to the international community for its generous financial assistance.
Afghanistan’s foreign reserves were frozen and its access to international banks was restricted after the Taliban took power.
The national currency of Afghanistan experienced a rapid decrease in value as a result of this limitation, which created a liquidity cash flow crisis.
The Central Bank of the caretaker government of the Taliban, on the other hand, held auctions in late July to sell millions of dollars to retain the Afghani currency’s purchasing power relative to the US dollar.
The next turning of the screw. Forward in the past!
[KhaamaPress] According to Taliban ...Arabic for students... local officials in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, in eastern Afghanistan, three people—two men and one woman—were reportedly flogged publicly for committing adultery.
The newsletter of the Taliban governor’s office in Nangarhar province states that these three individuals, who shared a residence, were tried and sentenced after being detained on suspicion of having an illegal sexual relationship.
Each of these three people reportedly received 39 lashes in public, according to the publication.
The newsletter about the implementation of this sentence states that "they were flogged in front of people in public so that it would serve as a lesson to others."
As for flogging, the Taliban has previously flogged people accused of adultery, fornication and theft in the southern province of Kandahar.
Nearly a month ago, three individuals in the province of Kandahar were subjected to 39 flogs for allegedly committing adultery and theft.
Public executions and public floggings, in the opinion of an Afghan legal scholar, are inevitable as a result of the Taliban’s reforms to Afghanistan’s justice system, which are based on their strict interpretation of Islamic law, particularly when it comes to "crimes against God."
Human Rights Watch, on the other hand, sees the Taliban’s Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice as a "notorious symbol of abuse", especially for Afghan women and girls.
Adultery, also known as extramarital sex, is viewed as a breach of the matrimonial bond and is one of the major offenses decried by Allah in the Moslem holy book, the Koran.
[JustTheNews] DHS was "very clear" in a meeting with lawmakers that they're planning this asylum system so individuals can claim asylum online "from anywhere in the world," said Oklahoma Republican James Lankford.
Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford, who recently visited the U.S.-Mexico border, is warning that President Joe Biden's online asylum system is an "open invitation for Chinese spies" and all of Yemen to enter the U.S.
Under the emerging plans, asylum seekers "can just say, 'I have credible fear,' fly into the country, be here for eight years while they await their hearing," Lankford told Just the News after speaking at the America First Summit last week. "This is an open invitation for Chinese spies to be able to come into the country. It's an open invitation for everyone to come from Yemen, to say it's a war-torn country.
"Immigration is not designed to be just open to anyone who wants to come. Asylum is the same definition as refugee. If you're a refugee, you go to the next safest country, andthcoming you go there. They're turning this on its head, saying if anyone wants to come to America for any reason, just come here, and we'll just take you from everywhere. That's not what we're designed to be able to do."
Lankford, a member of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, argued that such a system would flood U.S. airports.
"It will dramatically increase the amount of illegal immigration into our country," he said.
"They're facilitating this catch-and-releasing," Lankford noted, referring to Biden's policy of allowing illegal immigrants who arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border to claim asylum to get released into the U.S. to wait for their court date. "We have catch-release at the border, and now they're looking for catch and release to happen at the border and at our airports."
Just the News asked Lankford if DHS officials responded to his concerns during a meeting with lawmakers.
"It's in design, we're discussing it, we're looking at it ... we're trying to evaluate how we're going to do it," he said, paraphrasing the department's responses.
"But they're very clear," Lankford emphasized. "They're planning this asylum system to be able to do asylum from anywhere in the world."
[BBC] Tensions are running high between ethnic Serbs and the Albanian-led government in Kosovo, south-east Europe.
Protesters have blockaded roads and reportedly fired guns after being made to put Kosovan-issued number plates on their cars.
There are fears violence between ethnic Serbs and ethnic Albanians could flare up again, 23 years after the Kosovo war.
WHERE IS KOSOVO AND WHO LIVES THERE?
Kosovo is a small, landlocked country in the Balkans, bordering Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.
Many Serbs consider it the birthplace of their own nation.
But of the 1.8 million people living in Kosovo, 92% are Albanian and only 6% Serbian. The rest are Bosniaks, Gorans, Turks and Roma.
HOW DID KOSOVO GAIN INDEPENDENCE?
After the break-up of the Yugoslavia, in the 1990s, Kosovo - a province of the former country - sought its own autonomy and independence.
Serbia responded with a brutal crackdown against ethnic Albanians seeking independence.
This ended in 1999, with a Nato bombing campaign against Serbia, between March and June.
Serbian forces withdrew from Kosovo - but for many Kosovo Albanians and Serbs, the conflict has never been resolved.
The Nato-led Kosovo Force (KFor) is still based in Kosovo, with a current strength of 3,770.
In 2008, Kosovo unilaterally declared independence.
A total of 99 out of 193 United Nations countries now recognise Kosovo's independence, including the US, the UK and 22 out of 27 EU countries.
But Russia and China, which do not, have blocked Kosovo's membership of the UN.
And Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has vowed Serbia would never recognise Kosovo as an independent country.
Neither Kosovo nor Serbia are in the EU - but:
Serbia has been an EU candidate country since 2012
Kosovo indicated it would like to apply by the end of 2022
WHY HAS TROUBLE FLARED UP NOW?
Relationships between the Albanian-dominated government and the Serb minority have been strained for years.
Last weekend, tensions boiled over into civil disobedience.
Kosovo's government wanted to make those in majority ethnic Serb areas swap their Serbian-issued car number plates for Kosovan-issued ones.
Some 50,000 people in these areas will not use Kosovan number plates because they refuse to recognise Kosovo's independence.
On Sunday, ethnic Serbs in the northern region of Kosovo, which borders Serbia, barricaded roads and some men reportedly fired shots in protest.
Kosovo's government postponed implementing the new rules, for a month.
IS RUSSIA INVOLVED?
Kosovo's government says Serbia is stirring up ethnic tensions and Russia is supporting it.
Serbia and Russia are traditional allies.
Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Serbia refused to join other European nations' sanctions regime.
Instead, in May, Mr Vucic signed what he said was a favourable gas deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova blamed the Kosovo tension on Kosovan authorities imposing "groundless discriminatory rules".
An MP from Mr Vucic's party said Serbia would soon be compelled to begin the "denazification of the Balkans" - using the same language President Putin used to justify his invasion of Ukraine. He later apologised for his words.
Kosovo's President, Vjosa Osmani, said Mr Putin could use Kosovo to widen the current conflict in Ukraine and destabilise Europe further.
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No longer united by their hatred of the Russians, the ethnic states that made up the Country Formerly Known As Yugoslavia have returned to their age old custom of hating each other.
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Kingston Trio's The Merry Little Minuet -- People don't love their neighbors as a general rule. Especially when your neighbor is a Serb, or an Albanian for that matter.
[Breitbart] Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, had slurred speech, red and watery eyes, and a drug in his system at the time of his arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol, according to new court documents.
Pelosi was involved in a car crash on May 28 around 10:00 p.m., just five miles away from the Pelosi’s River Run vineyard. Pelosi was arrested and charged with a DUI shortly after the crash.
As Breitbart News reported:
Pelosi was driving eastbound down Walnut Drive when he attempted to cross State Route-29, and his 2021 Porsche was “struck by” a Jeep traveling northbound just before 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, CHP said in a statement.
Photos of the junction reportedly show Pelosi would have had to have driven through a stop sign to get on SR-29. Video of the crash site reportedly shows “a busted out fence and downed sign.”
Investigators determined that Pelosi’s blood alcohol level was .082%, just above California’s limit. When was he tested? Likely hours after.
Pelosi’s 2021 Porsche had “major collusion damage” after crashing into the victim’s 2014 Jeep.
According to the two-count misdemeanor complaint, Pelosi displayed “signs of impairment” when officers conducted field sobriety tests. The officers also “observed objective signs and symptoms of alcohol intoxication,” according to court documents.
“His eyes appears red/watery, he was unsteady on his feet, his speech was slurred, and he had a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage emanating from his breath,” the complaint read.
Further, Pelosi allegedly injured the Jeep driver “while under the influence of an alcoholic beverage and a drug and under their combined influence.”
Although the victim opted not to receive medical treatment on the scene, he told investigators he was suffering “pain to his upper right arm, right shoulder and neck,” just days after the crash. The victim also experienced headaches and had trouble lifting objects, the document said.
The multimillionaire Pelosi allegedly provided officers with his driver’s license and an “11-99 Foundation” card when they asked him for identification, Fox News reported. The 11-99 Foundation provides “emergency benefits and assistance to CHP employees and their families and scholarships to their children,” according to its website.
Pelosi will not attend his arraignment that is scheduled to happen on Wednesday. Instead, he will likely be represented by his attorney.
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Interestingly the Judge was replaced yesterday by a young Democrat who has never presided over a criminal case. The fix has been in since the beginning.
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How do they figure he had another drug in his system if there was no toxicology report (which is awfully convenient)? In my experience, alcohol can cause a great deal of impairment all by itself.
One more question: If we discovered that Mr. Pelosi is addicted to fentanyl and I was unable to stifle a bitter little chuckle, would that make me a bad person?
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The guy's over eighty. At some point you kind of need to be on something!
A fistful of black letters flicker atop the pale yellow background. When they first built the place eleven letters burned a hole in the dark southern sky. But the strength has gone out of most of them from years of signaling weary, wayward souls towards a hot meal.
The sign is broken, but few care. Because they are broken too. What few letters still shine serve as a beacon, reminding all comers that there is a place, like God and grandmother’s house, where the door is always open.
You may find better food elsewhere, but you won’t find better food for the money. They have a menu, though I have never needed it.
Two eggs, over medium; bacon, hash browns covered, smothered, and covered; one waffle with butter and maple syrup; and a cup of black coffee. That has been my standing order for decades and there’s been no need to get any more ambitious than that.
When you sit down at the table or the bar you will likely be greeted by someone who calls you “honey,” or “sugar,” or “baby,” or sometimes “boss.” But you will be greeted, and usually with a smile. And by someone who knows what it means to work long and hard for very little.
Some of them are working their way through college. Some of them are single parents trying to pay the rent and keep the lights on at home. Some are ex-cons trying to hold down a job by wiping tables and desperately trying to believe the rumors of second chances.
Waffle House is at once mainstreet and back alley, cosmopolitan and parochial.
On any given day there might be a family of five seated near you with three small children scarfing down jellied toast and scrambled eggs. They’re here because the food is cheap and sometimes dad doesn’t want mom to have to cook after working twelve hours at the shirt factory.
There’s a trucker driver sitting by himself, now on his sixth cup of coffee. He’s flirting with the waitress. But he isn’t trying to pick up a date, he’s just trying to survive the loneliness of a life of endless mile markers and few trips home.
On one side of you will be three bikers and a war veteran swapping stories about close calls and near misses.
On the other side will be an elderly couple who come every Thursday night. They come just to hear the voices. Their own kids have long since stopped visiting, and they’ve already buried all of their other friends.
And then one Thursday night he will show up alone. A waitress will pour him a cup of coffee and lightly touch his shoulder. She knows she can do nothing about the empty chair, but she can at least keep his cup full for an hour or two.
At one table sits a group of college kids, drunk off their asses. Beside them is an addict wishing he could tell them to quit while they still can.
In the corner a Baptist preacher is pleading with a teary-eyed backslider over ham and buttered grits.
It doesn’t matter what you’ve done or where you’ve come from, you are welcome here. Straight-laced or strung out, drunk or sober or in that fuzzy place in between. In blue jeans, a business suit, or pajamas. No one is turned away.
Waffle House may not be a church, but I know several people who have met God there. And many of our churches could stand to learn a few things about open arms, hot meals, and second chances from this wild, wayside diner.
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...This is so, so accurate and true. Won't say that Waffle House is a holy place, but it is a sanctuary in the finest sense of that word.
No matter where you walk into one, you know exactly what you're going to find. And in my own humble experience - YMMV, of course - it's always been a good thing.
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1990's
R.T.P. I-440, while 90% of the area was without power (Hurricane Fran?) the Waffle house had Power??? BTW: Power crews ate free at that Waffle House ☺ with customer paying their tabs.
The WH off I-85 near Commerce GA. (Atlanta Road Race week) sitting in the Acey-Ducey seating. We watched the Waitress serving "Special Order" Orange Juice for $5 a pop (Vodka added).
Having some fun with a new WH waitress, My I.T. team all asked for "Left Handed" Coffee cups. Yep! she went looking for them
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Re#2 Don't go there on the graveshift unless you want dinner and a show. That's when the bars let out, and from the fight vids I've seen , Waffle House employees are like 75-0.
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GREAT article, Bad.
Less pretentious than Denny's.
I have taken refuge.
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Chris! Late night with a meal is the best!!! You will get introduced to the finest law enforcement officers as they deal with the drunks, hookers, and brawlers!
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A couple of years ago when the St. George of Floyd riots were in full swing we had an article which included the fact that the mostly peaceful protesters in Atlanta refused to attacked a Waffle House. "Not the Waffle House! No! No!"
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His hash brown order is wrong, scattered, smothered, covered, diced and peppered
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I found the waffle house near my work to be quiet, with only a few customers who were probably truckers or tradesmen. The food was perfect and they claimed to have messed up my first pecan waffle so I got another and was allowed to eat the first. The second I took home to use as a bribe for going to waffle house without the wife.
[AlAhram] The killing of al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri ...Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodox al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra... in a US dronezap will not affect the operations of the terror group's affiliates across the world, but opens the way for a potentially troubled succession process.
Most likely contenders: Saif al-Adel, a former Egyptian special forces lieutenant-colonel and old guard of Al-Qaeda, reported in Iran, and Abu Abd al-Karim al-Masri, part of the leadership of Hurras al-Din in Syria.
The Egyptian jihadist, who the United States says has been killed in a hideout in the Afghan capital Kabul, never even attempted to replicate the charisma and influence of his predecessor the late Osama bin Laden
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Photos and lots of useful illustrations in the helpful Daily Mail way.
The CIA announced they executed Ayman al-Zawahiri, 71, in a drone strike on July 31 as stood on his balcony
Intelligence services monitored him for months, including British experts based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire
al-Zawahiri took over terrorist group Al-Qaeda after Osama bin Laden was executed by US military in 2011
He is believed to have been the last surviving of the eight masterminds of the September 11 terror attacks
It was 6.18am on Sunday, more than an hour after dawn prayers, when the Supreme Leader of Al Qaeda appeared on the balcony of his safe house to enjoy a little sunshine and fresh air.
For Ayman al-Zawahiri, one of the masterminds of the 9/11 terror attacks, watching mornings unfold in the centre of the Afghan capital from his supposedly secure perch had become one of the few regular pleasures of his life in hiding.
He wasn’t to know that his balcony was anything but safe and that Taliban spies in the pay of the Americans and the British had been monitoring him for months – their knowledge of his whereabouts so detailed that a scale model of his hideaway had sat on a table in President Biden’s White House office for weeks.
And they were watching him again now, not only from Washington but also from a listening station in – of all places – Harrogate, North Yorkshire, after a Western-recruited intelligence source spotted him on the balcony.
According to a senior Taliban official, Zawahiri – who took over Al Qaeda after the US killed Osama bin Laden – had never left the country. After he became one of the world’s most wanted men in September 2001 and a US-led invasion expelled the Taliban that year, Zawahiri spent most of his time in the remote mountains of Musa Qala in the southern Helmand province.
He kept a low profile, said the Taliban leader, although he crossed into Pakistan’s border regions several times. The founders of Islamic State reportedly sought an alliance with the destroyers of the World Trade Centre but, unimpressed by Zawahiri’s cautious leadership, changed their minds.
According to intelligence insiders, just as Bin Laden’s whereabouts were revealed by following his courier, so Zawahiri’s family gave away his location.
While Zawahiri had been obsessed with personal security, the return to power of the Taliban opened new possibilities.
British security sources reportedly also became aware around April that Zawahiri’s family had moved from Helmand to Kabul.
The terror leader married four times and had seven children, although at least four of them had died along with his first wife Azza.
He was living with only one wife and a daughter when – under the protection of the Haqqani Network, a militant and ultra-violent faction considered to a semi-independent offshoot of the Taliban – he moved into a high-walled compound in Sherpur, a relatively affluent part of central Kabul.
The house reportedly belongs to an aide to Haqqani leader Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban’s interior minister. Sherpur, once the diplomatic quarter, is now home to senior Taliban officials, who may have not been aware of his arrival.
US intelligence insiders say they discovered the location and identified those inside through various sources, including – the Mail has learnt – personnel inside the Taliban recruited by British spies who provided significant elements of the information used to plan and execute the mission.
US officials waited some 36 hours before announcing they had killed Zawahiri, a period during which they observed the Haqqani Network and Taliban troops restrict access to the safe house and relocate the tar - get’s family. US officials believe the Taliban was trying to hide the fact that they harboured Zawahiri.
The revelation that the Taliban was harbouring the Al Qaeda leader is likely to fuel demands for sanctions. Meanwhile, a furious hunt is under way for those who tipped off British and US intelligence officials, with suspects having their mobile phones and laptops seized.
The insider added: ‘They had people inside the Taliban whose cooperation made the mission possible.’
Update from Garowe at 1:10 p.m. EDT, which also has a nice photo of what is claimed to be the house where Dr. Al Zawahiri kissed a missile, adding:
Hellfire missiles are air-to-surface missiles initially designed for anti-armor strikes, but later versions have been used for precision dronezaps. The arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin developed the missiles with the name "Heliborne, Laser, Fire, and Forget Missile," which evolved into the Hellfire missile, as it is now known, CBS further reported.
The R9X variant was initially deployed in secret in 2017, according to a U.S. Army equipment guide, and was used to kill Abu Khayr al-Masri, a member of al Qaeda's leadership. Photos of the aftermath on social media showed the car where al-Masri was purportedly killed as having damage to the passenger compartment of the beige Kia sedan but no damage to the engine block. The roof was blown open on the right side of the vehicle.
There were unconfirmed reports that al Qaeda deputy leader Abdullah Muhammad Rajab Abdulrahman, aka Abu al-Khayr al-Masri, was killed in the strike.
The Hellfire variant became public knowledge after it was used in 2019 to take out Jamal Ahmad Mohammad al-Badawi, who was behind the 2000 USS Cole Bombing.
Commentary by Russian military journalist in italics.
According to the Russian ministry of defense, this narrative was taken from the Facebook page of purported Ukrainian volunteer Sergiy Gnezdilov.
Ukrainian military journalist Yuri Butusov confirms the story.
[ColonelCassad] The realities of the battles for the village of Peski. View from the Ukrainian side of Peski.
What to lose, what else can be taken from me on the sixth day of my personal hell, in Peski, a kilometer from the first street of Ukrainian Donetsk? The bodies of those who were dearer to me than relatives are lying under the heat in trenches cut with 152mm caliber. As I wrote earlier, 6,500 shells per fucking village in less than a day.
There have been six days of such attacks, and it doesn’t fit in my head how at least some of our infantry remains alive in this flurry of fire.
No, I don't whine.
Two mortars 82mm and 120mm are working from our side.
Sometimes he wakes up and “sneezes” two artillery barrels towards Donetsk.
We hardly answer. There is no counterbattery fire, from the word at all, the enemy, without any problems for himself, puts an artillery shell in our trenches, dismantles very strong, concrete positions in tens of minutes, pushing through our defense line without a pause and minimal rest.
The day before yesterday, it broke down, and dead/wounded poured in. I do not publish any statistics, it is prohibited in our country, but you can’t even imagine the number and percentage of losses.
This is a hell of a meat grinder, where the battalion simply holds back the invasion with their bodies.
For almost a week we have been waiting for at least some help that would hit the enemy artillery, we, I repeat, are being burned with impunity with everything that the Russian military system is rich in, aviation was working today.
I am proud of the leadership of the battalion, which remains here with us. The battalion commander is with us, everyone is with us, shell-shocked, light wounded, having bandaged, they return to their positions in a couple of hours, if you can call these bottomless funnels that way.
There is a war going on.
But without a counterbattery fight, it turns into a senseless meat grinder, where a frantic amount of our infantry is ground in a day.
Are you sure you want the truth? Here it is, the naked truth.
The reserve goes to the position, close the breakthrough with itself, and after five minutes out of 15 people only one remains intact.
The bodies are lying. If it's a lightly wounded, maybe you'll be lucky, you'll stumble, and you'll go out on foot, you'll get there.
They took only wounded. He shouted all the way: - Where is the support? Where is the artillery? Why were we abandoned? Why didn't anyone cover us?
I don’t know, my friend, why no one covered us ... he screams, And I’m ashamed that I’m still safe and sound, only a couple of times I got pretty deaf.
Vomited, pissed off, sorry, and back in the ranks.
All reserves will disperse, military equipment is on fire, the enemy approaches and takes our positions without any problems after another barrage of artillery.
Right now we are losing the Peski, all our human and material possibilities are almost exhausted.
Denis, a resident of Mariupol, who told me, "Well, I believe Arestovich, we will return everything back very soon" is dead. He was wounded twice, they bandaged him right in the trench, they told him, Denchik, go to the evacuation, but he answered, "Guys, I won't leave you." Arestovich is a Ukrainian video blogger, and former Ukrainian military.
And he was wounded for the first time, and after the second wound he continued to shoot back.
We haven't recovered his body yet. On the ruins of the Peski, he lies with his arms outstretched, and his gaze is fixed. He asks for revenge. How can I refuse his latest request? How can we all leave Dan?
I believe that Dimka survived after all. Because he couldn't die, having recently returned from the hospital, just proposed to his girlfriend. They say that after one of the parishes, he simply disappeared. Covered with earth. But, I believe that this is a mistake and he is alive. Foolish hope and expectation.
I know my state doesn't like thinking out loud. But, I was not left with a choice among victory rage and arrest. The truth should sound, not whispered conversations in the kitchen. Of course, for this message will fly separately, because how; So, is the state really lying to its own citizens?
I won’t be surprised if someone says today: “Kremlin agent Sirozha blabbed about the ingenious plan of the winner on the Donetsk front. We’ll hang him on Myrotvorets.”
I've been trying to say that everything is under control. Now in Peski everything is not fucking under control, but for some reason the situation is hushed up.
Ring the broken bells while we cover Peski with bodies.
From the translation of Butusov's account, the ending:
We need artillery.
At this sensitive time, Ziad al-Nakhalah, Secretary-General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, is visiting Tehran. So far he has met with Kamal Kharazi, head of Strategic Council on Foreign Relation, who told him that Israel is doomed to collapse. https://t.co/xj4993ASKFpic.twitter.com/fL4gwKJqB6
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[REGNUM] The Soviet government was in a hurry to eliminate the remaining centers of the Civil War, which could divert forces from the western direction. The white North fell first. Even from the beginning of January 1920, changes were noticeable in the mood of the soldiers of General Miller. On the night of February 7-8, most of the 8th Infantry Regiment went over to the side of the Bolsheviks. On February 8, 1920, the Red Army went on the offensive along the entire Northern Front. It developed successfully. The unrest in the rear of the whites intensified, many teams made up of prisoners fled. On February 17, a mass exodus of soldiers from the front began; on February 18, it became clear to Miller that Arkhangelsk would have to be surrendered. The authorities of the Northern region also failed to organize the correct evacuation - they did not prepare for it in advance. On February 21, the Red troops entered Arkhangelsk, Miller and his supporters fled the city on the armed icebreaker Minin, which was towing the yacht Yaroslavna. Those who remained on the shore in desperation fired at the ships with machine guns, the Minin responded with cannon shots.
Unidentified button men have on Tuesday assassinated a prominent leader in the General People’s Congress (GPC) in Ma’rib province, northeastern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... .
This was reported by Yemen News Portal, based on testimonies of local sources.
Sources said that button men shot a member of the Standing Committee of the GPC Sheikh Hussein Zabenullah Shajara in front of his house in Harib district, south of Ma’rib.
Shajara is one of GPC’s leaders in Harib and was previously attacked and threatened with death in 2011 by Islah Party button men in Ma’rib city for criticising the practices of the joint meeting party bloc.
Harib district has been witnessing conflicts between the Islah Party and pro-UAE forces, following the latter’s attempt to find popular support against Islah in exchange for allowing the General People’s Congress to have a seat at the table.
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[KavkazUzel] YouTube video hosting has blocked one of the parody videos that ridiculed Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, blogger Max KomikazdZe said. The deleted video was the first part of a series of several videos starring the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that Ramzan Kadyrov has repeatedly criticized the President of Ukraine and the filming of the "series" about Zelensky has become a continuation of the federal trend of attacks against the Ukrainian authorities, although the videos with Kadyrov's participation should be considered primarily as entertainment, they pointed out political scientists Alexei Malashenko and Sergei Zhavoronkov. Such videos are not capable of strengthening the political position of the head of Chechnya at the federal level, Caucasian expert Ruslan Kutaev pointed out.
Since July 4, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has been publishing on the social network a series of "series" "The Adventures of Zelensky", ridiculing Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. The head of Chechnya himself took part in the filming of the commercials. In one of the videos, Kadyrov forces the actor playing the role of Zelensky to sign the act of capitulation of Ukraine and say "Akhmat is strength," and in the second, he refuses to accept him into the Akhmat battalion.
Kadyrov, by publishing "humorous videos" about Vladimir Zelensky, made an attempt not only to humiliate the President of Ukraine, but also to exalt himself, netizens pointed out. Who is behind the creation of these videos ?Bad jokes: Kadyrov's "TV series about Zelensky " was ridiculed online.
YouTube removed the first of three parody videos about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, blogger Max KomikazdZe, who played Zelensky, said on his Telegram channel on August 1. The video was removed "due to copyright infringement in several initial frames," the blogger wrote. Youtube will give the video maker the opportunity to remove the copyrighting material before making the new video public. It's either that or it was stated after the video was removed. I seriously doubt it was just a Youtube user who made the request.
According to the screenshot attached to the KomikazdZe post, the content was removed at the request of user Evgeny Panyuta on July 30th. The second and third parts of the "series" "Zelensky's Adventures" are still available on the blogger's YouTube channel.
The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, who starred in all three videos of the "series", at 17.42 Moscow time did not comment on the news about the removal of the first series on his pages in Telegram and VKontakte.
Ramzan Kadyrov published the first part of the series "Zelensky's Adventures" on July 4 in his Telegram channel. In the video, the blogger KomikazdZe, who played the role of Zelensky, announces the signing of the document on the surrender of Ukraine and quietly adds: "Akhmat is strength." The next two videos appeared on Kadyrov's channel on July 7 and 11.
After Kadyrov began to actively write about the military operation in Ukraine in his Telegram channel, the number of subscribers to his blog increased significantly. So, in February, about 60 thousand people signed up for it. As of 17.42 Moscow time on August 2, 2,697,137 people signed up for it.
PLA Eastern Theater Command to hold joint military ops around Taiwan, with joint maritime & air drills in N, SW,SE of island, long-range artillery shooting in Taiwan Straits, & conventional missile test firing in sea regions E of island starting Tue night: spokesperson pic.twitter.com/0wVACvGJ62
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Oh well, it's only money. Right, Chuck? You'll just have the fed print some more, right?
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Sloppy phrasing: ""...on approving" unless the writer is an oracle
#5
I dated this beautiful capra.
We danced all evening to Sinatra,
and ended up sleeping together.
In the morning they came,
Waving guns, crying 'Shame!'
And us, at the end of our tether!
#3
India was a vast empire at one time. The riches looted mainly with British occupation. Even their history destroyed.Currently history is being reclaimed actively. Next year with the worlds largest human population. So vast a country and so many different peoples. Issues even today with China but China has very large presence in India. India could and would be the logical choice to seek help. I believe they would even trust India more than any other nation. India as I recall when a great empire encompassed entire region of southern Asia including Afghanistan(so a shared ancient culture). Colonialism is a thing shared with most nations for this part of the world.
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India could and would be the logical choice to seek help.
This isn't because of the old civilizational connect, Dale, so much as about enemy of my enemy and cheap food grains. At one time all Afghanistan was buddhist. But islamic calvinball has reduced all cultural ties to simple strategic relations. That and economics.
They see the Indian government as appeasers because it is. The Indian government currently appeases 200 million moslems so that they don't riot in the streets. The asian Umma has got these socialist democracies deeply infiltrated and invested in the 'we are all brothers' role play this way. In reality, the asian Sunnis all defer to what Islamabad decrees, directly or indirectly. The Taliban have just denounced that control, they think they have their own nation now.
The Taliban have high ambitions, having seen the opulence of the Saudis, Qataris... they were told they're sitting on a gold mine and they wanna be another Emirate. For this they need the influence of Islamabad in the region cut down to size. Deeper than this, there runs a cultural, sub-racist kind of rivalry with the Punjabis running Pakistan and calling themselves Khan. There's a murderous hatred for uppity Punjabis who they see as weak and cowardly sell outs while the Punjabis see them as no better than really tough guard dogs.
India has helped out Afghanistan only on humanitarian terms it would seem, but often it was to project as a saviour of Moslems in Asia, to win favor with the OIC countries and back home. These gestures were ultimately rewarded with zilch, Pakistain terming them insincere and thankless asian moslems towing the line. And all the money spent on afganistan was wasted anyway. But the pashtun prides himself on never forgetting a favour just as he doesn't forget an insult.
If India does help the taliban at any time, it should be in return for their mercenary services against Pakistain. And while Washington might not see it as a good thing, it is. I think the Taliban will try and play to the sentiments of the hindu leadership in Delhi and give them stuff like... 'oh! Looky here, we're restoring this 3rd century temple!' and 'Indian biradars! We welcome your investment! Namaste!' ... anything for the pols in India to sell to their own voters as 'look! We have made the talibans build a temple. Cheer for us, everyone!'
#5
Truth is, the Taliban have very basic needs right now. And they've just been shown that they continue to live only because America allows it. That, is a quantity that can be used, to get them to do stuff.
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The people in the region referred to as Afghanistan Taliban have very basic needs right now.
Those needs were met and exceeded for twenty years. Instead of defending what they had, they decided to sit on the sidelines. Actions and inaction have consequences.
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Zawahiri was allegedly killed at Sirajuddin Haqqani's home in Kabul... A peaceful environment is not what he seeks.
And we may have our answer on who ratted out Zawahiri...Haqqani is reaching out to India days after the hit. This would indicate the ISI was responsible for Zawahiri's demise.
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It's not "tragic dirt." It's the people walking around on it.
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^ If only they could drop that loser culture and embrace modernity.
Hint: they can't/won't. Eat dirt bitches
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Tennessee is right at #9.
In fact Haqqani reached out that afternoon itself. This interview was given much later. Can't say more. Suffice to say, the rift with Pakistain just deepened.
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^ #4 well put. It is indeed difficult to review the many facets of India. Christian, Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist. Then in each area of India so many different peoples, music, dance, clothing, collar of skin and so on. I hope they can keep it together and offer others stability. Hard fought independence by individuals like Bhagat Singh muted by Gandhi prevailed with independence achieved.
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[REGNUM] The Tbilisi authorities, as well as the Georgian society, believed that the only possible way to resolve the Abkhaz and South Ossetian issues was only the use of brute force. Therefore, for these purposes, Georgia was forming a full-fledged national army as quickly as possible.
Yemen’s warring sides agreed to renew a two-month truce expiring on Tuesday, the United Nations envoy said, despite international pressure for an extended and expanded deal that would build on the longest stretch of relative calm in over seven years.https://t.co/wnDJcUjW0H
Somalia has appointed the former deputy leader and front man for the al-Shabaab ...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all of which have enough problems without them... Islamist group as religion minister, Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre said Tuesday.
The announcement marks a sharp reversal of fortune for Muktar Robow, who has spent the last four years under house arrest after a falling-out with ex-president Mohammed Abdullahi Mohammed, better known as Farmajo.
Robow, 53, publicly defected from the al-Qaeda-linked snuffies in August 2017, with the United States government at one point offering a $5-million bounty for his capture.
"After consultations that took a period of more than 30 days... I'm very happy to present Somali men and women who I have selected based on their academic background, experience and fairness," Barre said.
"I'm expecting they will respond to the needs of the country."
Robow was arrested in late 2018, days before he was scheduled to run in regional elections.
Farmajo's government accused him of "organizing a militia" in Baidoa, the capital of the southwestern Bay region, and seeking to "undermine stability".
His arrest triggered sporadic protests with demonstrators burning images of Farmajo, whom they accused of meddling in regional affairs.
His elevation comes weeks after recently elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud hinted at his government's willingness to negotiate with al-Shabaab, saying it would only happen when the time is right.
Al-Shabaab has waged a bloody insurrection against Somalia's fragile central government for 15 years and remains a potent force despite an African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... operation against the group.
Its fighters were ousted from Somalia's capital Mogadishu in 2011, but continue to wage attacks on military, government and civilian targets.
Barre was initially expected to name a cabinet within 30 days of his appointment on June 25 but said the delays were due to the country's protracted election process that culminated in May with the selection of Mohamud as president.
Tuesday's appointments include a deputy prime minister, 25 ministers, 24 state ministers and deputy ministers in a 75-member team, with parliament due to vote on the nominees.
The new government faces a host of challenges, including a looming famine and the grinding Islamist insurgency.
A crippling drought across the Horn of Africa has left about 7.1 million Somalis -- nearly half the population -- battling hunger, with more than 200,000 on the brink of starvation, according to U.N. figures.
In July, Mohamud said ending the violent mostly peaceful insurgency required more than a military approach.
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[Korrespondent] 22:23 Departure from the Kherson region to the territory controlled by Ukraine is actually blocked, because the road through Vasilievka was washed out because of the rains, said the adviser to the head of the Kherson OVA Serhiy Khlan. According to him, "it was the only more or less normal way to get out of the occupation in the direction of controlled Ukraine."
22:20 US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan shocked the world over China's threats. Relations between China and Taiwan are an ever-smoldering conflict that began more than 70 years ago. Read more in the material Confrontation between China and Taiwan .
22:17 Zelensky admitted in an evening video message that Ukraine still cannot completely break the advantage of the Russian army in artillery and manpower: "And this is very felt in battles, especially in the Donbass - Peski, Avdiivka, and other directions. It's just hell. This can't even be described in words... And every Ukrainian should always be grateful to our soldiers who defend the Ukrainian positions there, despite the tangible fire advantage of the terrorists."
22:10 In one of the districts of Nikolaev, after powerful explosions around 21:00, a fire started, there are also power outages, Mayor Alexander Senkevich said.
21:38 The RF Armed Forces are deploying airborne units to the Kherson direction, thus making up for the losses, said the adviser to the head of the Kherson OVA Sergey Khlan on the air of the telethon. At the same time, he denied the information about the impending attack of the enemy. Khlan also said that the Russians are moving pontoon bridges across the Dnieper near Kherson by boats, the crossing takes about two hours. The pontoons carry civilian vehicles and military equipment.
21:17 The first dry cargo ship with Ukrainian grain arrived in Istanbul, the Turkish Defense Ministry said. After inspection, the ship must deliver the cargo to the port of Tripoli in Lebanon.
20:49 In the Lviv region, during an air raid, two explosions occurred on the territory of a military facility in the Chervonograd region, said the head of the OVA Maxim Kozitsky. The extent of the damage is currently being established, and there are no casualties yet.
20:14 Today, the Russians fired eight X-101 (X-555) type cruise missiles in the direction of the central, southern and western regions of Ukraine, said Air Force Command spokesman Yuriy Ignat. Seven out of eight missiles were shot down by air defense, including six missiles destroyed by anti-aircraft missile troops and one shot down by an Air Force fighter.
19:43 The troops of the Russian Federation conducted assault operations in a number of operational areas, while in some of them the invaders had partial success, and in the rest they were stopped, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in an evening summary . In particular, the enemy has partial success in the Vozrozhdeniye-Kodema and Donetsk-Peski directions.
19:32 The United States expanded sanctions against Russia, adding 13 more individuals to the list, including Alina Kabaeva and the head of Phosagro Guryev, as well as more than 30 legal entities and two ships. New sanctions, among other things, will be introduced against Skolkovo and the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, the Gauleiters of Mariupol Ivashchenko and the Kherson region of Saldo.
In addition, the US is imposing visa sanctions on 893 Russian officials, including members of the Federation Council and the military, as well as 31 third-country officials for supporting the annexation of Crimea.
18:59 Russia launched a missile attack on the territory of the Chervonograd district of the Lviv region, said the head of the OVA Maxim Kozitsky.
18:55 Podolyak called the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation to recognize the Azov Battalion as a "terrorist organization" as legal nonsense. He recalled that no Azov volunteer battalion has existed in nature since 2014, since Azov is a separate special forces detachment, which is part of the 12th operational brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine, that is, it is part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The adviser to the head of the Presidential Office stressed that the decisions of the Russian courts will not have any consequences in the international legal field, and Russian jurisdiction does not extend to the territory of Ukraine and the actions of Ukrainian citizens to protect the territorial integrity of the state. "In any case, Russia will bear direct legal responsibility for the abuse of prisoners of war, in particular, by provoking invalid and fake" court decisions ". Even if these decisions are needed by the Russian Federation purely for internal propaganda use," Podolyak summed up.
18:47 The presence of the OSCE in Ukraine will continue without the consent of the Russian Federation, Zbigniew Rau, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, said at a press conference in Kiev.
He also announced a new program for Ukraine: "Today I have the opportunity to announce that we are launching a large and ambitious program for Ukraine ... We are determined to stay on the ground and support Ukraine on its way to overcome a huge number of challenges, as well as with post-war reconstruction. I am convinced that the OSCE will play an important role in these projects."
18:35 Germany is blocking a package of assistance to Ukraine for 8 billion euros, Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Igor Zhovkva said at a briefing: "We expect another 8 billion euros to be provided. Unfortunately, certain EU states, in particular Germany, are blocking consideration of this issue, and the President of Ukraine is active negotiations with partners.
18:04 Air defense has just shot down two Russian missiles over the Vinnytsia region, the head of the OVA, Sergei Borzov, said.
18:01 There is no reason to trust the lists of the dead and wounded in Yelenovka published by the Russians, Andrey Yusov, a representative of the GUR MOU, said on the air of the telethon. According to him, the coordinating headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war immediately turned to Russia for information after the attack, but has not yet received official answers.
During the check, it turned out that the lists published by the Russians contain the names of Ukrainian soldiers who were wounded before the events in Yelenovka and in respect of which there were agreements on an exchange in the near future. At the time of the attack, they should have been in a hospital, not in a barracks in an industrial area, Yusov stressed. "Accordingly, we cannot talk about confirming the lists, and the Russians have not yet provided official answers within the framework of international law," he added.
17:51 The whole world is watching the tour of the third person in the US government to the island, which China considers its own, expecting a military conflict. There is a concept of the Thucydides trap about the inevitability of war between America and China. Read more in Taiwan Pelosi Press .
17:30 Another 500 thousand people can be called up to the Armed Forces of Ukraine if necessary, but so far there are no problems with personnel in the Ukrainian army, Major General Andriy Kovalchuk, commander of the Pivden operational command, said in an interview with Tabletmag: “We have already mobilized half a million people, and we can mobilize another half million if necessary. What we need now to continue the operation is heavier weapons."
16:48 Canada has expanded the list of sanctions against Russia, adding more than 40 individuals and 17 legal entities to it.
16:33 In the Kherson region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have liberated seven more settlements, the total number of de-occupied ones has increased to 53 , the head of the OVA Dmitry Butriy said on the air of the telethon: “To date, 53 settlements have been officially confirmed that have been liberated. We provide this information only when it is agreed with the General Staff, until the complete liberation, the military will carry out certain demining actions." At the same time, he added that almost the entire de-occupied territory is under constant enemy shelling, so it is still impossible to return to these settlements.
15:54 Miami is handing over 167 firearms to Irpin as part of a campaign to buy weapons from Americans called Guns 4 Ukraine, Irpin Mayor Alexander Markushin said. Those wishing to hand over unnecessary weapons were offered a cash reward in the amount of 50 to 200 dollars per unit. To the repurchased pistols and machine guns, the Miami police added confiscated ones. Now the legal procedure for the transfer of weapons to Irpen is being completed, a license and permits have been received. Similar negotiations are already underway with Houston. The weapons will be handed over to the Irpin police and territorial defense fighters.
15:27 Spain will not send the promised Leopard tanks to Ukraine, Defense Minister Margarita Robles said. According to her, due to downtime, the equipment is in a deplorable state and is unsuitable for shipment.
15:12 Shoigu said that the occupation of the Donetsk region "is going according to plan." According to the head of the RF Ministry of Defense, after "taking control" of the territory of the "LPR", the Donetsk region is planned to be "liberated". He clarified that recently the Russians allegedly seized six settlements - Grigorievka, Berestovo, Stryapovka, Pokrovskoye, Semigorye and Novoluganskoye, as well as the Uglegorsk TPP.
14:48 American legislators have submitted a bill recognizing Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. The initiators of the legislation, including both Democrats and Republicans, explain that they want to use all possible levers to end the Russian war against Ukraine. For more details - in the material , Congress recognizes the Russian Federation as a sponsor of terrorism - what does this change .
14:33 Zelensky signed a decree according to which foreign volunteers serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be able to renew their contracts for ten years at once - up to reaching the age limit for military service.
14:12 Stoltenberg said that he spoke with Zelensky about priorities in military support, the grain agreement and the need for its full implementation: "It is imperative that NATO and allies provide even more assistance to Ukraine and even faster."
14:09 The death toll as a result of a rocket attack on Vinnitsa on July 14 has risen to 27 people: another doctor died from burns in the hospital, said the head of the OVA, Serhiy Borzov.
13:45 Podolyak reacted to Trump's statement that Ukraine needed to give Crimea to Russia and abandon NATO: "Russia would not have attacked Ukraine if it had abandoned NATO and Crimea! - an absurd Russian propaganda stamp that is repeated by some Western politics. Why? Russia attacked because it wants to destroy Ukraine, kill children, scare Europe with its cruelty. There is no need to look for excuses for non-humans."
13:37 Partisans began to work successfully in the Lugansk region, the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai said on the air of the telethon: "The situation in the Luhansk region remains unchanged for several weeks in a row. In a small part of the Lugansk region, in the area of two settlements, our Armed Forces hold the line of defense. Everything offensives that the Russians are trying to undertake, they repulse. So the Russians have no success there. But the partisans began to work for us, and quite successfully. This is not only posting leaflets, but also the destruction of infrastructure, which helps a lot to slow down attacks and advance Russian army".
13:30 The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the Azov battalion as a "terrorist organization" and banned it on the territory of Russia.
13:26 The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the recognition of Russia as a sponsor of terrorism could lead to a break in diplomatic relations with the United States.
12:38 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, OSCE Chairman-in-Office Zbigniew Rau arrived in Ukraine, the organization reported. OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid arrived with him. The delegation has already visited Bucha.
12:35 The first vessel with Ukrainian grain successfully passed through the grain corridor, the Joint Coordination Center in Istanbul reported. Now the ship is moving to Istanbul, where it will arrive at midnight, it will be inspected by representatives of Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and the UN.
12:14 Ukraine has not yet lost a single HIMARS system, Major General Andrei Kovalchuk, commander of the Pivden operational command, said in an interview with Tablet Magazine. At the same time, he emphasized that every HIMARS missile hits the target: “Each missile destroys a bridge or an ammunition depot. Our allies also saw tremendous economic efficiency in the way we use missiles. Each missile fired destroys much more of its value in Russian equipment or ammunition.”
The general noted that Ukrainian troops use missiles against HIMARS much more effectively than the Russians, who hit missiles worth millions of dollars for "insignificant gain."
11:41 In Crimea, they are preparing to return to the control of Ukraine, Vadim Skibitsky, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, told TSN: "The enemy continues to regroup its forces in the Kherson and Zaporozhye directions. A battalion tactical group of Russian paratroopers has arrived in the occupied Crimea to be sent to the mainland of Ukraine. In addition "On the peninsula, the invaders are strengthening the air defense system. Against this background, the partisans and the movement against the invaders have become more active. People are preparing for the fact that we will return there."
11:37 Blinken said that the Russians are using the occupied Zaporozhye nuclear power plant as a military base, which serves as a kind of "nuclear shield" for them. According to him, Russian troops are constantly firing at Ukrainian forces from the territory of the nuclear power plant, but they do not receive a response, since the Armed Forces of Ukraine cannot allow an accident at the plant.
In turn, the representative of the Russian Federation to the UN stated that "there are no military formations at the nuclear power plant, with the exception of a limited number of military personnel necessary to control its safety."
11:29 The Ministry of Culture recommends renaming streets throughout Ukraine named after Gagarin, Pushkin, Gorky, Lermontov, Mayakovsky, Michurin, Chkalov, Komarov, Suvorov and Matrosov. According to the ministry's expert council, these are the ten most common toponyms associated with Russians whose lives and activities have nothing to do with Ukraine.
11:08 Irina Vereshchuk announced the start of mandatory evacuation from Donbass. The first train arrived this morning in Kropyvnytskyi. Among the evacuees are women, children, the elderly, and many people with limited mobility. "Everyone was met and settled, everyone was helped," the minister assured.
10:53 The share of Russian gas in Germany's imports has fallen from 55% to 30%, Scholz told The Globe and Mail: "I don't want to deny that we have relied too different reality and are adjusting quickly. We have stopped importing coal from Russia, we will stop importing oil by the end of this year. Gas is the hardest thing."
The chancellor also called Moscow's idea of gas supplies through Ukraine instead of Nord Stream a trap, and problems with the delivery of the turbine - Putin's bluff: "He can no longer use this pretext and refer to technical reasons for reducing gas supplies. This is already a well-known scheme: the Russian Federation wanted to stop gas supplies and blame the outcome on EU sanctions."
10:38 The Administration of the Sea Ports of Ukraine reported that 68 ships with 1.2 million tons of cargo on board have been in Ukrainian ports since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation. Two-thirds of these cargoes are "food awaited around the world."
10:25 The head of Nibulon Alexey Vadatursky knew that Russia was hunting him, Le Monde journalist Olivier Truk, who met with Vadatursky in Izmail in mid-July, told Le Monde journalist: “The day before our meeting, he barely escaped from a missile attack on Nikolaev University. Visibly stunned However, he was preparing to return on the road to Nikolaev. He asked us not to remember his visit. He knew that he was a priority target. Alexey Vadatursky knew that he was under attack, especially since he condemned the organized theft of Ukrainian grain by Russian troops, the victim of which he became in his warehouses in Kherson.
10:19 In the Kharkiv region, Russians fired at Kharkiv, Bogodukhovsky, Chuguevsky and Izyumsky districts at night, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. As a result of the shelling, civilian infrastructure was damaged: production in the Chuguevsky district, a residential building in Kharkovsky, a hotel and restaurant complex and outbuildings in Cherkasy Tishki, a farm in the Bogodukhovsky district. People were not hurt.
09:43 Russians again fired at two districts of Nikolaev from MLRS Smerch and S-300 tonight. The dormitory of one of the universities was damaged, a guard was wounded. Residential buildings and shops were also damaged. Previously without casualties, said the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim. Settlements in the Nikolaevsky and Bashtansky districts also came under shelling, there is no information about the victims and injured.
09:26 Before the launch of HIMARS missiles, Ukrainian and American intelligence are holding consultations, allowing Washington to stop any potential attacks if they are "dissatisfied with the intended target," said Vadim Skibitsky, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, in an interview with The Telegraph. According to him, for precision strikes on Russian targets, Ukraine “uses real-time information,” but at the same time, “US officials do not provide direct targeting information so as not to undermine the argument that they are not direct participants in the war.” .
Skibitsky also said that a special group of GRU special forces from unit 29155 is hunting for HIMARS systems in Ukraine. Today, the total number of installations in Ukraine is 16 pieces, their destruction is not confirmed. According to Skibitsky, Russian agents monitor all Western weapons that enter Ukraine mainly through the airfield in Polish Rzeszow. Then they pass the information on to agents in Ukraine, who direct them to the places where Caliber is stored. Skibitsky admitted that "Russia has a lot of information", they use all types of intelligence: air, space, collaborators from the Ukrainian side.
09:09 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy by the morning of August 2. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Bakhmut and Krivoy Rog directions.
personnel - about 41,170 (+140) people liquidated,
tanks - 1768 (+0),
armored combat vehicles - 4014 (+3),
artillery systems - 936 (+4),
MLRS - 259 (+0),
air defense systems - 117 (+0),
aircraft - 223 (+0),
helicopters - 191 (+1),
UAV operational-tactical level - 739 (+3),
cruise missiles - 174 (+0),
ships/boats - 15 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2914 (+2),
special equipment - 82 (+0).
08:42 British intelligence notes that the incident with a drone near the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation in Sevastopol was another setback for the Black Sea Fleet in the five months of the war against Ukraine, among which was also the loss of its flagship, the cruiser Moskva. After reports of the cancellation of the celebrations, it is unlikely that the Black Sea Fleet will be able to hold high-profile public events in parallel with hostilities, analysts say.
08:29 In the occupied Kherson region, the Russians are suffering significant losses - the number of wounded is constantly increasing, which caused the deployment of a military hospital in Berislav on the basis of the hospital. According to the deputy head of the Kherson Regional Council, Yuriy Sobolevsky, doctors were brought from Russia, about forty people. They tried to resettle them in dwellings left by people, but the locals drove them away, so for now military doctors are forced to live in one of the hospital buildings.
08:13 The Armed Forces of Ukraine repulsed the enemy assault on the Bakhmut, Kharkov, Kramatorsk, Yuzhnobugsky, Avdeevsky directions, the General Staff said in the morning report .
08:06 Scholz said in an interview with Globe and Mail that Ukraine is receiving weapons from the Germans that the Bundeswehr does not yet have: “Self-propelled howitzers, multiple rocket launchers, anti-aircraft systems, counter-battery radars. Some of these systems are so new that they were very few were produced, and some of them were not even represented in the Bundeswehr."
Ukrainians are being trained on new and more sophisticated equipment at several locations in Germany, he said, and Berlin will continue to support Ukraine "for as long as it takes."
07:35 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) is convinced that the Russian forces are responsible for the death of 53 Ukrainian prisoners of war in the colony in Yelenovka. According to analysts, satellite and other images from the site show that only one building was damaged in the attack, the walls of this building were not destroyed, and there were no shell craters around, which is very strong evidence that the destruction of the prison was the result of either point strike, or embedded inside an incendiary or explosive. In addition, there are no traces of the use of HIMARS on the territory of the colony, as stated in the "DNR".
06:01 In Nikolaev around 4:00 powerful explosions thundered in several districts of the city, Mayor Alexander Senkevich said. According to preliminary data, one person was injured.
03:44 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that the Russians are transferring troops from the north of the Donetsk region to Zaporizhia and stop the campaign to attack Slavyansk. This is likely to create an opportunity for the Armed Forces of Ukraine to launch a counteroffensive in the Izyum direction - just as the Russian seizure of the Luhansk region allowed Ukraine to create conditions for a counteroffensive in the Kherson region, analysts say.
The redeployment of Russian troops to the Zaporozhye region suggests that Ukrainian counter-offensives will not be limited to the Kherson region and will likely be carried out along the entire southern axis, according to ISW.
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[GreaterKashmir] Security forces last night launched a cordon and search operation in Budhal area of J&K's Rajouri district after some Village Defence Committee (VDC) members fired at "suspicious" persons in the area, sources said on Wednesday.
As per local sources, at around 9 PM on Tuesday evening, a local resident from Shahpur village, who is also a VDC member, noticed movement of suspected persons, who pelted stones at the VDC member leaving him injured.
The VDC member fired upon the suspects using his .303 rifle after which other VDC members of the area also fired at the suspects with over a dozen gunshots heard on the area, local sources said.
The villagers claimed that the suspects present in the area also fired two gunshots towards the VDC members and then beat feet from the spot.
Soon after the incident, army teams from local camp and police teams from Kandi and Budhal cop shoppes reached at the site and laid a cordon and launched searches which were going on when last reports came in.
[Townhall] Over the weekend, Houston's Democrat Mayor Sylvester Turner held a gun buyback event in a church parking lot where residents could turn in their firearms and receive a gift card ranging from $50 to $200 with no questions asked.
According to the Mayor's announcement, the funds provided to those turning in firearms came from the American Rescue Plan — aka American taxpayers — and the amount-per-firearm was $50.00 for a non-functioning firearm, $100.00 for a rifle or shotgun, $150.00 for a handgun, and $200.00 for a fully automatic rifle.
Heralded as a success by the mayor and hyped up by the liberal Houston Chronicle, the event on Saturday saw 845 guns bought back and some $100,000 in gift card payments given. But the alleged success isn't exactly what it seems.
The FAQ section for the buyback noted that there's no limit on the number of firearms that could be turned in by an individual, nor was there any restriction on the types of handguns, as long as they're functioning. Enter some creative and apparently entrepreneurial individuals who saw an opening and decided to make some extra cash.
Photos and videos from the event show authorities unloading boxes of... fresh 3D-printed firearms.
One man showed up to the buyback with dozens of 3D-printed firearms, and Houston authorities had no choice but to accept them and hand over gift cards in return. The real kicker: it only cost the man $3 to print each firearm, of which he made 62, and received $50 per 3D-printed gun for a total of nearly $3,000 in gift cards.
FOX 26 caught up with the man, who remained anonymous, and asked him why he 3D-printed a bunch of firearms to sell back to Houston authorities. "The goal was not personal profit, but to send [Houston leaders] a message about spending $1 million tax dollars on something that has no evidence of any effect on crime," he said.
Still, Houston's mayor thinks his buyback program will convince criminals and gang members to hand over their firearms for as little as $50.
I wonder how many "fully automatic rifles" were bought.
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In several Metro-Cities in GA. the Gun buybacks had Sheriff Departments, after checking the weapon form previous shootings, auctioning off the purchase firearms to FFL dealers in other areas.
PLUS Private individuals standing on nearby street corners with signs offering as much as $50 more depending on the weapon and condition.
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My former father-in-law was a deputy in Jefferson County, Alabama. They had a buy-back program and the instances of stolen guns skyrocketed. Criminals were breaking into homes and stealing weapons and selling them in the buy back.
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Reminds me of an old Dilbert where the coders were gonna get a gift certificate for each bug they found and they left the meeting planning to write some bugs into the code.
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Not the sharpest knife in the drawer but nevertheless a tool, Mayor Sylvester Turner managed to create a demand for lame-ass 3D-printed 'firearms' and an enterprising entrepreneur filled it. The amusing part is that making money was not the guy's point.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:54 Additional information was received through the operational lines of the DPR JCCC about civilian casualties as a result of shelling of the cities of the Republic by the AFU:
Donetsk:
Petrovsky district:
- a man born in 1954 died.
- a man born in 1949 was wounded.
Kievsky district:
- men born in 1973, 1952, 1995 were injured.
Kirovsky district:
- as a result of a mine explosion PFM-1 "Lepestok" wounded: a teenage boy born in 2005, a boy born in 2002, a girl born in 2002.
As of 22:30 on August 2, 11 cases of undermining civilians have already been registered in the Republic, incl. one child, on mines PFM-1 "Petal".
Thus, the total number of civilian casualties from AFU attacks on August 2, 2022 is 27 people (2 killed, 25 injured).
Additional information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
d. Donetsk, Kirovsky district:
— str. Institutskaya, 4 – the power line is damaged;
- he is. Kirova, 207 - private residential building;
- he is. Tekstilshchikov, 15 «b» — School No. 97;
— as a result of strafing on the street. Kirov missile launcher PFM-1 "Lepestok".
n.p. Yelenovka:
- as a result of shelling in the village. Novonikolaevka scattered PFM-1 "Petal".
As of today, as of 22:30, the enemy fired 393 rounds of various types, including the BM-27 Uragan and BM-21 Grad MLRS, as well as artillery ammunition with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm.
22:15 On the street. Kirov in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, three people, including a teenager born in 2005, were blown up by mine petals. 21:53 a.m. Travnevoe (DPR) came under the control of the Allied Forces.
20:57 Petrovsky district of Donetsk, on a residential area on the street. Romanovskaya died a man
20:42 A Russian sister region has appeared near the Lutuginsky district of the republic. The corresponding agreement was signed today by the Governor of the Ulyanovsk Region of Russia, Alexei Russkikh, and the Head of the Administration of the Lutuginsky District, Evgeny Bondar.
19:32 Statement by the official representative of the NM DPR on the situation at 19.30 02.08.2022:
Over the current day, according to information from the JCCC of the DPR, the enemy fired more than 300 rounds from Uragan multiple launch rocket systems, cannon artillery with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm, 120mm mortars.
The fire was fired at the areas of ten settlements of the Republic. As a result of shelling, one civilian was killed, 17 were injured, including a child born in 2016. Twenty-two residential buildings and 10 civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged.
Additional information about injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified. Currently, a set of works is underway to clear anti-personnel mines PFM-1 "Lepestok" (PFM-1C).
We regret to inform you that while performing military duty in the struggle for independence, seven defenders of the Donetsk People's Republic died and seventeen were injured. We express our sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims.
19:23 Five Ukrainian soldiers surrendered to the People's Militia of the Donetsk People's Republic in the village of Peski in the suburbs of Donetsk, the NM DPR department reports.
"The units of the People’s Militia of the DPR, with the support of parts of the Russian Federation, are conducting successful operations in the Avdievka direction. The result was the fact that five servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were taken prisoner in the village of Peski in the suburbs of Donetsk. This happened on the first of August, ”RIA Novosti reports with reference to a representative of the People’s Militia of the Republic.
18:08 DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the direction:
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): three rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Noises - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of Izotov sh-ty): six mines were fired with a caliber of 120mm.
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Donetsk (Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts): seven rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
17:49 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
-- n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Donetsk (Kirovskiy, Kuibyshevsky district): five rounds of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Noises - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of Izotov mine): eight mines were fired with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Nikolaevka 2 — n.p. Golmovsky: 10 rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
17:38 As a result of the shelling of Aleksandrovka, three people were wounded along Shkolnaya Street.
17:03 As of 16:00 on August 2, the DPR has already registered seven cases of undermining civilians on PFM-1 “Petal” mines. Reported by Rodion Miroshnik.
16:47 Consequences of shelling Kievsky district of Donetsk. The Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled the city with 155mm rounds. A woman died and ten people were injured.
16:28 Avdievka fortified area of ??the Armed Forces of Ukraine was taken into a semicircle by units of the allied forces.
Earlier, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, the armed formations of Ukraine fired on their own soldiers, retreating from Donetsk.
"The 21st battalion of the 56th Motorized Infantry Brigade, which suffered significant losses in the area of Peski, during the retreat to the settlement of Vodiane, was subjected to artillery fire by Ukrainian troops and was almost completely liquidated."
15:32 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Makeevka (Dugouts): fired six rounds of 152mm caliber;
-- n.p. Dzerzhinsk — n.p. Gorlovka (Kalininsky district): three rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): five rounds of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (Kalinin district): four rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: seven rounds of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three rounds of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Kurdyumovka - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of the Rumyantsev mine): four rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Nevelskoye - n.p. Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky districts): four rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.
15:20 As a result of the strike of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the combat positions of the 54th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the settlement of Maryinka of the Donetsk People's Republic, more than 50 nationalists of the 2nd battalion of this formation were destroyed.
Seven ammunition depots were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Artyomovsk, Konstantinovka, Ocheretino of the Donetsk People's Republic, Trudovoye of the Zaporozhye region and Nikolaev.
Also suppressed: four platoons of the Grad MLRS and nine artillery platoons at firing positions in the areas of the settlements of Seversk, Kirovo, Artemovsk, Avdievka, Peski, Orlovka, Miners, Velyka Novoselka of the Donetsk People's Republic, Dobropolye of the Zaporozhye region, Shirokoye, Bereznegovatoe of the Nikolaev region, Russian Lozovaya and Nortsovka, Kharkiv region.
Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
15:01 Armed Forces of Ukraine with the help of MLRS Hurricane (BM-27)
remotely mined the microdistrict Azotny Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk.
14:29 Officers of the LPR representation in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire recorded the effects of the shelling of Stakhanov by the Kyiv security forces. This was reported in the office.
14:14 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
-- n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Donetsk (Kyiv, Voroshilovsky district): four rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
-- n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Makeevka (Chervonogvardeisky district): three BM-27 Uragan missiles (equipped with PFM-1 Petal anti-personnel mines) were fired.
14:12 Consequences of shelling in the Kievsky district of Donetsk.
14:11 In the Kiev region of Donetsk, a civilian was killed during the shelling.
13:10 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
-- n.p. Pervomaiskoye - n.p. Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): five rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - n.p. Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): four rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Netailovo - n.p. Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): five rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Donetsk (Kyiv region): three rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Donetsk (Leninsky district): three rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
12:56Peski district is a tough fight. Our units are driving the enemy out of the village. Reports reporter Rudenko.
12:18 Six DPR settlements have recently been liberated during a special military operation in Ukraine, the liberation of the DPR is underway - Shoigu
12:07 Footage from the recently recaptured positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Avdievka in the area of the ventilation shaft of the Butovka-Donetskaya mine.
11:27 Consequences of the night shelling of Nikitovka in Gorlovka.
10:50 Kirovsky district of Donetsk was remotely mined today with the help of MLRS Hurricane with mines PFM-1 "Petal" prohibited by international conventions. Local residents help the sappers in clearing mines with simple improvised methods, a tire and a rope.
10:35 Statement by the official representative of the NM DPR on the situation as of 10.30 02.08.2022
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 do not pose a danger to the enemy and are not military targets.
Over the past day, according to the DPR JCCC, the enemy fired 355 rounds from Grad multiple launch rocket systems, 155mm, 152mm and 122mm cannon artillery, as well as 120mm mortars.
Artillery was fired at the districts of thirteen settlements of the Republic. As a result of the shelling, one civilian was killed and four were injured. Eighteen residential buildings and two 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: one installation of the Uragan MLRS, one BM-21 Grad, three trucks and more than 50 personnel. Three enemy firing points were suppressed in the areas of the settlement. Avdievka, Nevelskoe and Zhelannoe.
10:01 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the LPR, Captain Filiponenko I.M. as of 08/02/2022. Over the past day, during the active offensive operations of the units of the People's Militia of the LPR, the enemy suffered heavy losses in manpower and military equipment. Destroyed:
-up to 60 personnel;
-six armored personnel carriers;
-three artillery installations;
-five units of special vehicles;
The enemy continues shelling civilian infrastructure facilities in LPR settlements. These facilities are not military and are not used by the People's Militia. Over the past 24 hours alone, the armed formations of Ukraine fired at the settlement Pervomaisk and Stakhanov using American-made M142 HIMARS MLRS, firing fifteen missiles.
As a result of shelling in N. p. Pervomaisk, five apartment buildings were damaged, the building of the Pervomaiskugol enterprise was destroyed, the branch of the Pension Fund, the City Center for Culture and Leisure Zarya, the Yunost Complex Children's Youth Sports School, and a store were damaged.
Peaceful life is being restored in the territories of the Lugansk People's Republic liberated from Ukrainian nationalists: engineering and sapper units of the People's Militia of the LPR continue demining. During August 1, they cleared more than six hectares of territory from explosive objects left by Ukrainian nationalists in the areas of the settlements of Sirotino and Belaya Gora.
The forces of the NM of the LPR, together with public organizations, are delivering humanitarian aid to the residents of these areas. Yesterday, pupils of the Young Guard - Yunarmiya VPD delivered humanitarian aid to the residents of the village of Novoderkul.
09:47 "As our guys say, they haven't been this close to Avdievka for eight years," Denis Pushilin, in an interview with RT, reported on the breakthrough of the defense line of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by allied units across the highway in the direction of Konstantinovka.
The head of the DPR stressed that this allows the troops to occupy certain heights one by one and move on. Also, according to Pushilin, there are some successes in the Peski area and in the Maryinsky direction.
09:24 Headquarters of the Tero DPR: over the past day, from 08:00 on August 1 to 08:00 on August 2, as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, one person was killed and four more civilians were injured, of which one was blown up by a mine PFM-1.
09:09 A fighter of the 11th Regiment, who heroically storms Peski, told that the defense has been breached. The liberation of this settlement will help to encircle Avdievka.
08:59 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Aleksandrovka: 10 each 122mm rounds were fired;
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Donetsk (Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts): seven rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired three rounds with a caliber of 122mm;
— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kyiv district): three rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.
08:58 The shelling of Stakhanov by the Kyiv security forces led to the destruction of the building of the motor transport enterprise, two buses burned down. This was announced by the city administration.
08:23 AFU mine the city of Donetsk. This time, mines were scattered in the Tekstilshchik microdistrict.
08:05 Kirovsky district of Donetsk under fire. Mines "Petal" near the ice palace "Leader", arrival through the playground on Tereshkova.
07:00 Summary of the Representative Office of the Luhansk People's Republic in the JCCC for the past day, August 01.
From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, 2 artillery attacks were recorded on the settlement. Pervomaisk and Stakhanov using American MLRS M142 HIMARS (15 missiles).
As a result of shelling in N. p. Pervomaisk, five apartment buildings were damaged, the building of the Pervomaiskugol enterprise was destroyed, the branch of the Pension Fund, the City Center for Culture and Leisure Zarya, the Yunost Complex Children's Youth Sports School, and a store were damaged. Additional information about the victims and damage is being specified. Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.
06:55 Artillery duelin the DPR - near Artemovsk and Soledar. Ukrainian militants are firing at the advancing troops from American M777 howitzers, in response they receive a flurry of fire from the artillery of the allied forces.
06:23 After the DPR JCCC 06:00 shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:
— n.p. Nevelskoye - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): five rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
0:18 Fighting near Artemovsk does not subside even at night. Allied troops are advancing on this city occupied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR. Artillery hits the outskirts, where the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Battalions dug in.
Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:47 The SBU has detained several hundred civilians since the beginning of the SVO. Most of them are random people.
According to Country V, hundreds of citizens have been detained in Ukraine in the five months since the beginning of the Russian special operation in Ukraine. The SBU is actively looking for "spotters" and "traitors", but finds completely random people.
"The key problem is the lack of any adequate methods of digital warfare by the SBU. The cyber police are outsourced, and the hardware is damaged by the fighting," said a channel source familiar with the situation.
In general, the work of the SBU on the "search for spies" is based on the methods of the last century. These are passport checks, interrogations, and often torture.
"Everything ends as usual. Bribes are taken from the rich and the poor are taken away. The accusations of collaborating with the “enemy” of young children look especially terrible,” notes the interlocutor of “Country V."
21:47 Ukrainian media: Ukrainian volunteer Serhiy Gnezdilov wrote on Facebook a story about "six days of hell" in Peski, where he is now fighting. Judging by his information, everything is very bad with the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Gnezdilov writes that the enemy fires 6,500 shells per village per day. "Two mortars 82 and 120 are working from our side. Sometimes he wakes up and “sneezes” two artillery barrels towards Donetsk. We almost do not answer," the military man reports.
According to him, the Russians are hitting with large calibers, and many of his comrades have already been killed: "The bodies of those who were dearer to me than my relatives are lying in the heat in the trenches torn apart by 152-caliber. Counter-battery fire is absent from the word "completely", the enemy, without any problems for himself, puts an artillery shell in our trenches, dismantles very strong, concrete positions in tens of minutes, without a pause and minimal rest, pushing through our line of defense," Gnezdilov reports.
He writes that the day before yesterday - that is, on Sunday - the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered heavy losses in the dead and wounded in Peski: “The reserve goes to the position, close the breakthrough with itself, and after five minutes out of 15 people only one remains intact."
Soldiers have not seen artillery support for a week now.
"Right now we are losing Peski, all our human and material possibilities are almost exhausted,” writes Gnezdilov.
The fact that the enemy advanced in the Peski area was officially acknowledged by the Ukrainian General Staff today for the first time.
21:46 The first dry cargo ship with Ukrainian grain arrived in Istanbul, - the media, citing the Turkish Ministry of Defense.
21:46 There was a hit on the territory of a military unit in the Chervonograd region, there were two explosions, - the head of the Lviv OVA Kozitsky. There is no information about the victims, the extent of the destruction is currently being established, he said.
21:04 The Pentagon appropriates the funds allocated to Ukraine. Colonel Douglas McGregor, a former adviser to the US Secretary of Defense, said in an interview that the funds allocated as aid to Ukraine are actually returning back to the United States without reaching the recipient.
"We must not forget about money. All those billions of dollars, where are they? Most of them simply do not reach Ukraine. Huge sums end up in the Pentagon as compensation to the armed forces for the fact that equipment and resources were transferred to Europe," he said. It's okay. It's printed money anyway. 21:04 A blow was struck at the deployment point of the Ukrainian "Foreign Legion" in the Nikolaev region, up to 250 mercenaries were destroyed, most of which are EU citizens," - Russian Defense Ministry
19:00 "Howitzer ready for battle": Russian artillery works on the positions of nationalists in the Kherson region
18:10 Ukrainian air defense is trying to bring down cruise missiles over the Nikolaev region
16:53 Zelensky's office said that Germany is blocking the allocation of 8 billion euros of macro-financial assistance to Ukraine.
15:46 Equipment for reading ID-cards was installed in the passport offices of Kherson and Nova Kakhovka. It is no longer necessary to bring a paper statement of the place of registration.
14:51 Ukrainian troops, with strikes from the MLRS, again set fire to fields with wheat in the Pologsky district of the Zaporozhye region, local farmers reported and showed video
14:09 The Armed Forces of Ukraine do not let people go home: hundreds of people cannot return to Kupyansk. An unofficial corridor has been operating in the area of the Pechenezh dam for several months: every Monday, and sometimes more often, people could move between the two districts of the Kharkiv region.
However, recently this "shop" has closed: hundreds of people who traveled to Kharkiv on business are now unable to return home. The Kyiv regime reacted to numerous reports, including Western media, of a massive flow of people leaving for Russian-controlled territories.
14:09 As a result of the morning strike of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on Nikolaev, the dormitory of one of the universities was destroyed. Apparently, another location of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
13:06 During a special operation in Ukraine, the Russian military destroyed:
- six launchers and over 200 MLRS HIMARS missiles;
- 33 American M777 howitzers;
- five launchers of the Harpoon anti-ship missile system.
13:06Russian defense minister Sergey Shoigu called the number of air targets intercepted by the Russian army in July:
- 34 Ukrainian aircraft;
- 39 missiles of the Tochka-U complex;
— 226 shells of multiple launch rocket systems.
12:00 Head of the Ministry of Reintegration of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk announced that mandatory evacuation from Donbass has begun
"The first train arrived this morning in Kropyvnytskyi. Women, children, old people, many people with limited mobility. Everyone was met and settled, everyone was helped," Vereshchuk said.
12:00 In Ukraine, the maximum contract period for military personnel with foreign citizenship or stateless persons has been increased to 10 years. Previously, this period was 1 year.
11:01 Personnel night arrivals in Nikolaev.
11:00 Zelensky asked the Odessa City Council to consider a proposal to demolish the monument to Catherine II. This is stated in his response to a petition with a proposal to install in its place a pedestal to porn actor Billy Herrington.
09:40 Inspection of a vessel with grain that left the port of Odessa will be held on Wednesday in Istanbul, RIA Novosti reports, citing a source familiar with the situation.
08:08 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky asked the Odessa City Council to consider a proposal to demolish the monument to Empress Catherine II.!
07:30 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports:
North of Kharkov Russian offensive attempts towards Bayrak and Dementievka.
Attacks on Ivano-Daryevka resumed near Seversk.
Fighting continues in the area of Bakhmut and Zaitsevo (a village south of the regional center). Assaults on the Summit, Kodemy and Grass.
"Near" Peski fighting continues.
In the north of the Kherson region there was an assault on Trudolyubovka - near the border of the Dnepropetrovsk region. That is: the Russians are conducting offensive operations and reconnaissance in force in many directions at once.
01:41 Artillery battles on the front line Kherson - Nikolaev
Explosions are thundering in Nikolaev, MLRS are being hit from the direction of Kherson. In Nikolaev fire on shelling.
#4
The best part of it is, it will force any future president to have a praetorian guard against his own party, his cabinet and all the LE and IC agencies in the country. Which is a step towards the collapse of the entire shebang.
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Sorry - the speaker does not move up to replace the VP. Instead the President nominates a new VP (did someone sneeze 'Hillary'?).
When VP Spiro Agnew resigned, Nixon made Gerald Ford the new VP. When Nixon resigned, then Gerald Ford was promoted to President.
#10
^ There is very little time left. Everyone says Joe will proactively pardon a bunch of people before he is ousted. It just doesn't work that way. And whoever would come after has no incentive to pardon them. There are probably more people than ever before in the swamp now who are "making their own arrangements" for what happens when the bottom falls out.
If it goes "every man for himself" it will be a spectacle for the ages.
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^ Looks like the Dems have until the midterms if they're gonna select/approve VP pick. After that, the 'pubs will have the House and maybe even the Senate.
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Several of RB members mentioned the use of C19/22 as a possibility for a power shift in DC several days ago.
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The Newsom visit is highly significant, since Biden was not there but Jill, Klain, Rice, Powers, and a cast as yet unknown was. The Secure VTC nodes to the other players in the Central Committee had to be orchestrated by the WH Comms folks to be safe from Five Prying Eyes I suspect.
The outcome of the Primary last night might get Sinema thinking of the sidelines, or the Golden Ticket value she now has in her hand. How that might affect the plans is going to unfold in the next couple of weeks I'm thinking?
Using current abortion statistics, hasn't the LSD party just shot itself in the A$$ Womb by reducing its own Voter Roles by about 1/5 in 18 years. Starting with the 2040 elections and thereafter?
Where Conservative leaning States that restrict it, will likely increase their voter rolls in 18 years, in a more PRO-Conservative Voter Roll increase direction?
Example:
Official NY 2020 election results show Democrats at 6,563,866 or 50.6%. Using current abortion numbers of 1 in 5 projected 18 years out to 2040. NY would have 20% less births and likely have less than the current 50.6% (D) registered voter majority.
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[Vesti] In the Volyn and Polesye directions , the composition, condition and position of the military units of Belarus in the Brest and Gomel regions remain unchanged. However, Belarus continues to supply certain types of ammunition for the needs of the military of the Russian Federation. In addition, the threat of missile strikes from the territory of this republic remains, the General Staff reports in an operational summary as of 18.00 Tuesday, August 2.
In the Seversky direction, the enemy does not stop shelling the positions of our troops from the territory of the Russian Federation and conducting aerial reconnaissance in the border areas of the Chernihiv and Sumy regions.
In the Slobozhansky direction , the enemy continues to conduct combat operations in order to hold the occupied lines and prevent the creation of favorable conditions for the resumption of the offensive by the defense forces . Takes measures to replenish the losses of personnel, as well as weapons and military equipment.
In the Kharkov direction, the enemy fired from tanks, cannon and rocket artillery at the areas of the settlements of Kharkov, Chuguev, Dementievka, Protopopovka, Gusarovka, Chepol, Pitomnik, Cherkassky Tishki, Petrovka, Rtishchevka, Stary Saltov, Skripai, Sosnovka, Tsirkuny. Launched an air strike near Upper Saltov. The Russians failed and retreated while trying to improve the tactical situation in the direction of Ternov–Bayrak .
In the Slavic direction , the enemy fired from cannon and rocket artillery in the areas of the settlements of Kurulka, Grushuvakha, Dibrivno, Adamovka, Dolina, Krasnopolye, Mazanovka, Bolshaya Kamyshevakha, Vasilyevka Pervaya and Krestishche. Launched an airstrike near Dibrovnoe. The activity of reconnaissance groups near Dovgenkiy and the Valley was noted, the groups retreated.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy is concentrating its efforts on conducting an offensive in the Bakhmut and Avdeevsky directions . By the systematic use of fire weapons, the enemy is trying to tie down the actions of our troops and prevent their transfer to threatening directions.
In the Kramatorsk direction, shelling was recorded near Seversk, Serebryanka, Verkhnekamensky, Zvonovka and Donetsk. The enemy launched an air strike near Serebryanka. Conducted aerial reconnaissance of the UAV near Krivy Luki. The enemy tried to advance in the direction of Novoluganskoye - Ivano-Daryevka. He received a decisive rebuff from our soldiers and retreated.
In the Bakhmut direction, artillery shelling was recorded in the areas of Yakovlevka, Soledar, Bakhmut, Zaitsev, Pokrovsky, Vesely, Kurdyumovka and Zhelezny. The enemy increased the intensity of the use of aviation in the indicated direction and launched air strikes near Yakovlevka, Pokrovsky, Soledar, Bakhmut and Kodem. All attempts to advance the enemy in the directions of Rota - Vershina, Vladimirovka - Yakovlevka, Klinovo - Zaitsevo and Pokrovskoye - Bakhmut were successfully repelled , the enemy retreated with losses. In the direction of the Renaissance - Kodem, individual enemy units have a partial success .
In the Avdievka direction, the enemy shelled the areas of the settlements of Avdeevka, Netaylovo and New York. Inflicted air strikes near Avdievka and Novobakhmutovka. The Russian military invaders conducted assault operations in the direction of Mineralnoye - Avdievka, unsuccessfully , withdrew. In the direction of Donetsk - Peski, the enemy has a partial success .
In the Novopavlovsk and Zaporozhye directions, shelling was recorded near Novomikhailovka, Pavlovka, Zheleznodorozhny, Kamensky, Poltavka, Krasnoye, Novoandreevka and Maryinka. At the latter, the enemy also inflicted an air strike. Conducted aerial reconnaissance of the UAV in the Olgovsky area.
In the Yuzhnobuzhsk direction, the enemy is concentrating efforts on holding the occupied lines and preventing the offensive of the Defense Forces units . Tries to restore the lost position. He fired from tanks, cannon artillery and multiple rocket launchers at the areas of settlements Nikolaev, Trudolyubovka, Osokorovka, Ivanovka, Olenevka, Zarya, Blagodatnoye, Prishib, Tokarevo, Novovorontsovka, Belaya Krinitsa, Andreevka, Vesyy Kut. Launched an air strike near Zarya. Conducted aerial reconnaissance to clarify the results of fire damage and identify the position of our troops.
Two carriers of sea-based cruise missiles are in readiness for the use of missile weapons.
"The enemy continues to suffer losses in manpower and equipment. An increase in the facts of alcohol abuse is recorded among the Russian military, as a result - disobedience to officers and interethnic conflicts," the General Staff added.
August 2 is the 160th day of the war between Russia and Ukraine . Briefly about the main thing that happened in the country on that day, about the situation in the regions, the exchange of prisoners, as well as all the relevant information from key departments - online Vesti.ua .
[Breitbart] In the ongoing patent infringement battle between Apple and Ericsson, Apple has responded to a court-ordered iPhone ban in Colombia by claiming that its human rights have been infringed.
9to5Mac reports that in an ongoing infringement battle between Apple and Ericsson, Apple has responded to the iPhone ban in Colombia by claiming that its human rights have been infringed. The company has requested emergency relief in Colombia just days after being warned by a U.S. judge not to abuse the Colombian court system by filing emergency requests for non-emergencies.
5G iPhones and iPads use patented technology owned by Ericsson, which Apple has been licensing for some time. However, Apple is unhappy with the amount it’s being charged for the license and has stopped paying. This means that currently, Apple is infringing on Ericsson’s patents and the company is now seeking to ban iPhones in a number of countries by filing injunctions against the import and sale of 5G iPhones and iPads.
Ericcson has succeeded in filing an injunction in Colombia and the court has ordered all iPhone sales in the country to be paused. Apple responded by filing an emergency motion in the Eastern District of Texas in an attempt to obtain damages from Ericsson for its losses in Colombia. The company also filed a number of counter-claims against Ericsson.
A Texas judge rejected Apple’s motion and criticized the company for misusing the emergency motion process for a non-emergency matter.
Foss Patents writes:
Judge Gilstrap doesn’t think it constitutes “imminent, irreparable harm” to Apple that it may–as a result of enforcement actions in other jurisdictions–have to sit down and negotiate a license with Ericsson. The Texas FRAND case will go to trial in December, and no later than September, Apple and Ericsson have to engage in formal mediation […]
There’s also a procedural issue. Apple should have brought a regular motion as opposed to an emergency motion. “Emergency motions are to be filed only in truly extenuating circumstances and should not be used as a means to secure an expedited briefing schedule and hearing before the Court,” Judge Gilstrap clarifies–and “finds that Apple has misused and misapplied the rules for emergency motion practice in this Court.”
The judge also said that if Apple attempted to do something similar again, he would consider penalties against the company. However, despite this warning, Apple has taken major steps to continue the legal fight in Colombia, alleging that its human rights are being abused.
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