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Off the "crumbs or croutons or bread pudding" pile...
In a world where the standard for vicars
Is "tats that extend past their slickers,"
One bird's so demure,
So impossibly pure,
That her tats are all hid by her knickers!
[PJMedia] In a news conference that aired live on Rumble, Facebook, and Twitter, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the immediate suspension of Hillsborough County state attorney Andrew Warren for consistent refusal to enforce certain laws. Accompanied by county sheriffs and law enforcement officers, DeSantis said Warren has publicly put himself above the law, citing Warren’s announcement that he would refuse to enforce any Florida laws limiting abortion in the wake of the Dobbs decision, laws against allowing children to undergo mutilating surgeries, and a consistent record of charges not being brought in violent crime cases.
Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister spoke, citing the case of a shooting that targeted a young family in which Warren failed to file charges, only for the suspect to continue to commit violent offenses. Chronister said the state attorney told him they didn’t prosecute because the depositions would be too long and complicated.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd then spoke about liberal cities like Chicago, New York, and Portland that have failed to prosecute violent crimes and the resulting spikes in crime in those cities. He noted that it’s the elected prosecutors who decide whether or not to support law enforcement and keep people safe.
DeSantis made a point of distinguishing between prosecutorial discretion (which is rightly exercised on a case-by-case basis) and a consistent stance of refusing to uphold the constitution and laws of Florida.
Today’s announcement came in the wake of Warren’s public proclamations that he would not prosecute riot crimes or laws against late term abortion, despite his oath to uphold the laws of the state of Florida. In June, he signed on to a letter vowing to protect abortion:
Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren issued a joint statement with prosecutors nationwide declining to go after people “who seek, provide, or support abortions” following the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The prosecutors who signed on to the letter from the organization Fair and Just Prosecution say that while they all don’t agree on abortion, “we stand together in our firm belief that prosecutors have a responsibility to refrain from using limited criminal legal system resources to criminalize personal medical decisions.
In 2020, Warren declined to file charges against rioters in the wake of the George Floyd killing:
Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren will not prosecute 67 protesters arrested June 2.
The 67 individuals were arrested for unlawful assembly during demonstrations calling for police reform [in] the face of the George Floyd killing in Minneapolis.
Warren’s office said Monday during a news conference they would not be filing charges.
“I’ve said many times that criminal justice reform involves looking at each case as a problem to solve, not just a person to be punished,” State Attorney Warren said. “In these unlawful assembly cases, there is no value in filing charges,” Warren said. “Prosecuting people for exercising their First Amendment rights creates problems rather than solving them. It can weaken the bonds between law enforcement and the community, while undermining faith in our system.”
DeSantis has laid down a marker, refusing to allow any Florida county or municipality to become one of those blue cities overcome by crime and violence due to woke politics and misapplied social justice.
I figgered all the hot air in Texas and the midwest sucked the heat out of the hurricane season. [Forbes] It is the Atlantic hurricane season, and all of the seasonal projection experts said the same thing. It’s going to be another above-average season. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) website notes, "Based on a 30-year climate period from 1991 to 2020, an average Atlantic hurricane season has 14 named storms, 7 hurricanes, and 3 major hurricanes." To date, three storms have been named, and they were all tropical storms. But, never fear - the worst is yet to come!
While the past few weeks have been normal to slightly-below normal, it may surprise some readers that activity is still trending slightly ahead of schedule relative to climatological normals over a 30-year period. The third named storm of the season does not typically form until August 3rd. This year it formed around July 4th. On average, we do not expect the first hurricane and major storm (> category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson scale) until August 11th and September 1st, respectively. The next named system in the basin (4th storm) does not usually form until around August 15th. Many more boring meteorological details at the link.
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This is EXACTLY what climatistas predicted: few hurricanes or more hurricanes. Droughts and floods. Extra hot summers and cold winters. Or cool summers and warm winters.
Anything can be blamed on climate change!
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Sand from the Sahara is suppressing storm formation in the Atlantic. For now.
As a resident of hurricane country, I don't want to jinx myself, but my favorite thing about hurricane season is the way they play state funeral dirge music on the weathertainment channels when the seasons ends without a catastrophe.
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"...But let's have a look back at Named Raindrop™ Jennifer..."
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Well would you want to visit south Texas in this heat? Neither does the hurricanes. Plus they are all liberals and groomers so they are avoiding Florida like the plague.
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Bah. ERCOT shows the committed capacity hitting 80 gigawatts at 12:55 pm - an hour ago (CDT). Today's demand is supposed to top out at 78.5 GW at 5:30 pm, when capacity is 84 GW. Somebody's 'making news'!
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#2 - best we got
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COMPARE AND CONTRAST:
* Had this happened anywhere in the US - and actually, a good chunk of the West - she would be slightly contrite while still at least strongly implying that she was being persecuted for her skin color and sexual orientation. There might be a few days in a minimum security facility, served at her convenience. There would be a minimal fine, possibly some public service, and she would go back to telling everyone how awful it was here for Someone Like Her.
*In Russia, there is no appeal, no demand that her color or orientation be brought into consideration, because they don't care. There's no comparatively cushy 'Club Fed' to go to - Russian prisons are maybe one step ahead of a dungeon. You start your time when you're found guilty. And she's about to find out that if there's one thing Russians like less than Ukranians or Poles...it's Someone Like Her, where her lifestyle alone would bring a prison sentence and they are not at all fond of anyone of African heritage.
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Bout is useless to them. He could've been a trophy exchange once. They've moved on, most of his consolidated accounts and interests were co-owned by others, probably Vlad offered them protection and continued enjoyment of their credit line. Anyway, it would be nice optics if she serves time in a Russian prison for some years, then President Trump gets her pardoned and brought back. Of course, I wouldn't advise just optics this time round.
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I'm guessing Russia doesn't have any Soros prosecutors.
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Piss test all US pro athletes the day before every game. Only allow those who are clean to play. Watch the fun.
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She had a chance until Media turned it into a GROQMER+ Crusade, which pumped up her trade value to this.
And the Guns Are Bad people are going to have to square the circle to release an Arms Dealer. Africa Arms Dealer.
And everyone knows she is guilty as all getout. So they beg and slander to get old white man Biden to buy her, but in the process increase her price, because they are morons, and quite frankly the more they promote her, the less people like this rather unattractive person.
My favorite so far has been, "But but but...if it were Lebron James, he'd be free already!" Bitch please. First of all Lebron, like Hunter, generates Billions with a B, not hundreds of dollars. Also, former like the latter, your agent gets in touch with the local agent to get the goods; you don't take anything which doesn't pass check in. Even the motherfucn Beatles know this. This fcn bitch thought she could just walk drugs across check in while playing third string WNBA in Russia because she had 5 30second ESPN highlights back in the '90s? Har har har.
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To further the problem, now they have to get her out before she is like, "you know, for its faults, USA, not so bad in the world." Can't have that.
Just another standard French summer, thanks to the Moslem colonist yoots in the suburbs.
[Breitbart] Police and firefighters in the French city of Limoges were subjected to attacks by Molotov cocktails and mortar fireworks for at least four hours this week after being lured to a “sensitive” area of the city.
The four-hour-long battle between locals and police and firefighters took place over the course of Monday night and early Tuesday morning. The assaults took place in the district of Val de l’Aurence, which is described as being a “sensitive” area, French government jargon for what others in Europe might term a ‘no go zone’.
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When you attack emergency services, your neighborhood should be cut off from all emergency services, water, and electricity. Leave everything off until the attackers are handed over, dead or alive.
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Nickerson Gardens firefight, over 1,000 rounds expended by LAPD and feral youth in total, L.A. riots. We had to put armed Guard personnel on every fire engine to keep the sniping suppressed.
As an amusing anecdote, there was sudden demand for the laser pointers used in power point briefings for front-line troops. They discovered that pointing them at assembled groups of Bloods and Crips at night always caused them to immediately disperse as they thought it was sniper targeting with Night Vision optics.
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"These indicators were initially created because we wanted to identify breakthrough infections as we were ramping up the vaccination campaign. As most of the population has now been vaccinated with at least two doses of vaccine and many more have been infected with COVID-19, the data became hard to interpret."
You mean it's hard to understand why the vaccines aren't making any difference?
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I thought British Columbia is the conservative corner of Canada.
[NPR] When a group of engineers and researchers gathered in a warehouse in Mukilteo, Wash., 10 years ago, they knew they were onto something big. They scrounged up tables and chairs, cleared out space in the parking lot for experiments and got to work.
They were building a battery — a vanadium redox flow battery — based on a design created by two dozen U.S. scientists at a government lab. The batteries were about the size of a refrigerator, held enough energy to power a house, and could be used for decades. The engineers pictured people plunking them down next to their air conditioners, attaching solar panels to them, and everyone living happily ever after off the grid.
"It was beyond promise," said Chris Howard, one of the engineers who worked there for a U.S. company called UniEnergy. "We were seeing it functioning as designed, as expected."
But that's not what happened. Instead of the batteries becoming the next great American success story, the warehouse is now shuttered and empty. All the employees who worked there were laid off. And more than 5,200 miles away, a Chinese company is hard at work making the batteries in Dalian, China.
The Chinese company didn't steal this technology. It was given to them — by the U.S. Department of Energy. First in 2017, as part of a sublicense, and later, in 2021, as part of a license transfer. An investigation by NPR and the Northwest News Network found the federal agency allowed the technology and jobs to move overseas, violating its own licensing rules while failing to intervene on behalf of U.S. workers in multiple instances.
Now, China has forged ahead, investing millions into the cutting-edge green technology that was supposed to help keep the U.S. and its economy out front.
Department of Energy officials declined NPR's request for an interview to explain how the technology that cost U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars ended up in China. After NPR sent department officials written questions outlining the timeline of events, the federal agency terminated the license with the Chinese company, Dalian Rongke Power Co. Ltd.
"DOE takes America's manufacturing obligations within its contracts extremely seriously," the department said in a written statement. "If DOE determines that a contractor who owns a DOE-funded patent or downstream licensee is in violation of its U.S. manufacturing obligations, DOE will explore all legal remedies."
Several U.S. companies have tried to get a license to make the batteries
The department is now conducting an internal review of the licensing of vanadium battery technology and whether this license — and others — have violated U.S. manufacturing requirements, the statement said.
Forever Energy, a Bellevue, Wash., based company, is one of several U.S. companies that have been trying to get a license from the Department of Energy to make the batteries. Joanne Skievaski, Forever Energy's chief financial officer, has been trying to get hold of a license for more than a year and called the department's decision to allow foreign manufacturing "mind boggling."
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NPR Science™
I won't lose much sleep...
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Storage batteries of any type are wasteful and require many harmful raw materials mined from the earth with enormous diesel powered machines. What ever happed to just using wind and solar and forget about batteries?
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recalled by the voters after they voted him in on promises to do exactly what they later recalled him for.
Perhaps there weren't so many mail-in and harvested ballots in the recall.
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Not sure having a legal system that consists of a rug that can be pulled any time is a good thing.
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Never any federal action on the fentanyl problem, no effort whatsoever to secure the border and commie bastards like Boudin won't even prosecute fentanyl dealers. From all of this I can only imagine one solution: Politicians from the federal to the local level, including the likes of Nancy Pelosi and the Biden crime family, are getting a cut of the fentanyl action. They don't want the traffic stopped, they don't want the dealers prosecuted. How else can it be explained?
OK, on second thought, here's another possible explanation: Since the fentanyl precursor chemicals come from China to Mexico, maybe it's Xi Jinping who wants to destroy America by turning us all into fentanyl junkies. And since Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi are corrupted by that bastard, they won't stop it.
Well, anybody else have any other possible explanations for this nonsense?
Meanwhile, just down the road in Los Angeles, Boudin's colleague George Gascon along with California Attorney General Rob Bonta are doing their part:
BTW, the petition had enough signatures so Gascon will face a recall election in November. He's too crazy even for Los Angeles.
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Note Gascon was previously SF's DA
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Oh yeah. That's right.
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You do have to question the intelligence of SF voters for electing Boudin in the first place. How on earth (aside from the most wishful of wishful thinking) could they not have known what would happen?
At least they do apparently learn from their mistakes. Some of them, anyway.
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You do have to question the intelligence of SF voters for electing Boudin in the first place.
...the increasingly troubled, Antifa-loving rap artist who went by ‘Awake the Rapper’. His father, who’d signed off on the paperwork so he could buy guns and other weapons, was separated from his flakey mother...
21, has pleaded not guilty to 117 counts after he was accused of killing seven people during an Independence Day attack in Highland Park, Chicago
Seven people were injured and more than 40 injured in the July 4th attack after gunman Crimo allegedly opened fire from a roof and took aim at paradegoers
He has now pleaded not guilty to 21 counts of first-degree murder, 48 counts of attempted murder and 48 counts of aggravated battery
He's accused of using a rifle 'similar to an AR-15' to spray more than 70 rounds from atop a commercial building into a crowd that had gathered for the parade in Highland Park, Illinois
[Free Beacon] The $433 billion Inflation Reduction Act will have no meaningful impact on consumer costs, according to the economist President Joe Biden cites most often.
By the end of 2031, the latest Democratic reconciliation bill would shave just .33 percent from the Consumer Price Index, the traditional inflation metric, according to a report from Moody's Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi. The current CPI is 9.1 percent, the highest in over 40 years.
Zandi and his coauthors say the Inflation Reduction Act will only "nudge the economy and inflation in the right direction." And that conclusion strains the definition of "nudge." Americans will see no change in inflation due to the bill, the report states, until the third quarter of 2023—a .01 percent decrease.
Zandi's analysis is often shared by the White House or the president himself. During a February 2021 speech, Biden cited Zandi's work twice while pitching his economic agenda. In July of last year, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) called on lawmakers to read Zandi's favorable report on the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
But Zandi's latest findings have not deterred the White House. Both Chief of Staff Ron Klain and Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates retweeted a CNN reporter's tweet that quotes the report as saying the bill will "meaningfully address climate change and [reduce] the government's budget deficits."
The White House's celebration of the report signals how desperate they are to pass a budget reconciliation package before the midterm elections. Initially named "Build Back Better," the bill has seen a number of rebranding attempts as voters increasingly sour on Biden's presidency over the economic concerns.
Zandi and his coauthors conclude that the inflation reduction bill lowers consumer costs for some medications, something the White House highlighted, although they decline to specify the total savings. Moreover, the deflationary benefits from lower health costs, the authors write, do not kick in until "mid-decade."
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We are already in a recession. Matters little what the Biden owned economists say.
And it's going to get worse. The big driver is fuel costs. Those costs are the long pole in the tent for the final pricing of everything we need to survive.
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There will be no significant reduction in inflation until fuel costs come down.
The Fed can say nothing about that in their inflation kabuki dance because strangling investment home construction and car sales is meaningless.
Because fuel and food are burning everyone’s paycheck they don’t have money for cars and homes
[BBC] The only ways to get to the Old Forge Pub are by sea ferry or by a two-day, 18-mile hike across the Scottish Highlands — a trip that gives new meaning to the term "pub crawl".
Our journey began at the end of the road. The longest dead-end road in Britain, in fact. It took two hours of knuckle-whitening jags around hairpin bends and past sheer descents, on a 22-mile taxi ride from the town of Fort William in the western Scottish Highlands, to get to our starting point of Kinloch Hourn.
In the company of two friends, Carl and José, I was embarking on a journey to the most remote pub in mainland Britain. Accessible only by sea ferry or by a two-day, 18-mile hike across the Scottish Highlands from the small settlement of Kinloch Hourn (or an even longer, 28-mile yomp from the hamlet of Glenfinnan), the Old Forge sits in the village of Inverie, on the southern coast of the Knoydart peninsula. "Walking in" to the pub is a rite of passage in the outdoors community, and one we were keen to tick off, thirsty in equal measure for adventure and the extreme satisfaction of a pint well earned.
Forming part of the so-called Rough Bounds – the "highlands of the Highlands" – Knoydart is remote and inaccessible even by local standards. There are no streetlights, you can't get a mobile phone signal, and the seven miles of paved roads are unconnected to the mainland network. Around 120 residents lived here at the last count, spread across 86 square miles (that's approximately the same population density as Alaska). The majority of those brave and hardy souls live in Inverie, and now, after a community buyout in March 2022, most of them own a stake in the Old Forge.
[Fortune Magazine] There’s a heated debate going on across the country about the proper definition of a recession.
When investors got the news that U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) contracted for the second consecutive quarter this spring, many were quick to claim that a recession was here. But most economists argue that the U.S. isn’t officially in a recession until the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that conducts research and assesses market cycles, makes the call.
All debates aside, there are some undeniable signs that the economy is slowing, and this week another recession indicator began sending off warning signals.
A YIELD CURVE INVERSION
A key part of the U.S. yield curve inverted on Tuesday for the first time since March 2020, when the economy was in the depths of the COVID-19-induced recession.
The yield curve is a line that plots the interest rates of government bonds with different maturity dates. The slope of that line can be a very useful recession indicator for the Federal Reserve.
Typically, the yields on short-duration government bonds are lower than those on long-term bonds, because investors take on more risk holding longer-term investments. This means that the yield curve is usually upward-sloping, and when that changes, it can signal economic issues.
A flat yield curve indicates "weak growth" in the economy, while a steep upward sloping curve indicates "strong growth," researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland recently described. And when the yield curve inverts, meaning that yields on short-duration bonds move higher than yields on long-term government bonds, it can signal an impending recession.
That’s what’s happening now. The difference between the yield on 10-year U.S. treasuries and three-month U.S. treasuries fell to just 0.04% to start the week, and it even briefly dipped into negative territory on Tuesday, FactSet data shows.
That’s not great news for the U.S. economy given that the last eight U.S. recessions were all preceded by an inversion of the 10-year and three-month Treasury yields.
Still, Cleveland Fed researchers noted in their report that while the yield curve can be "important information for business cycle analysis," it should "be interpreted with caution."
After all, the 2s-10s yield curve, another popular recession indicator that measures the difference in yields between two-year and 10-year U.S. treasuries, was inverted for most of the month of July, but we’re still debating whether the U.S. is in a recession or not.
That doesn’t mean we should ignore the yield curve, however. In January, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell admitted that the yield curve remains "one of many things" that the Fed monitors when tracking the health of the American economy. And when asked about its recession implications, Powell added:
"I don’t think of it as some kind of an iron law. But we do look at it and try to understand the implications and what it’s telling us."
Mohamed El-Erian, a noted economist who serves as the president of Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, also wrote in a Monday tweet that the current yield curve inversion is a sign that investors are concerned about global economic growth.
And on top of that, Alfonso Peccatiello, the former head of fixed income portfolio management at ING Deutschland, argued in an article on Tuesday that the yield curve’s inversion could not only be a sign of economic issues, it may also contribute to them.
"An inverted yield curve not only predicts, but it directly contributes to sharp economic slowdowns: As refinancing credit short-term becomes prohibitively expensive while markets already price in poor expectations for long-term growth, the economic engine actually slows down and a vicious circle unfolds," he wrote.
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The media actually thinks they got away with re-defining recession on the fly. They will look really stupid when they try to do it yet again next quarter.
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Well the Department of Labor and Department of Commerce produce the key economic indicators and I am sure the word is out to put a thumb on the scale and produce a much rosier picture next month
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each recession is different but there are some fairly obvious types and economists could have and should have produced a typology by now
so far this recession has been shallow and we've had a number of other shallow recessions
what would be bad is if the recession deepened a lot, e.g., 2008-09 - so far that is not the case -- or if we got a double dip recession e.g., 1979, 1981-82
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Comrades, you are showing BadThought! Only the 'Republican' lackies of Emmanual Goldstein cause Recessions and Depressions BadEconomy!
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the word is out to put a thumb on the scale and produce a much rosier picture next month
Yasssss...with a HUGE "correction" after the midterms
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But most economists argue that the U.S. isn’t officially in a recession until the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that conducts research and assesses market cycles, makes the call.
Nonprofit and nonpartisan, huh? Who appointed them?
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Non-profit = kissed the IRS's ass.
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NBER is a non profit org. It is self governing although big contributors are on the board of directors.
They are about the only org that does detailed research on the business cycle (many economists consider the biz cycle an ugly duckling dead end).
It is funded by grants and contract research. NIH and NSF are two govt agencies that fund contract research.
A number of private foundations also fund research or have grant programs that fund the NBER's indirect admin costs: e.g., Gates Foundation, Sloan Foundation, Bradley Foundation.
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[NYPOST] Longshot challenger Suraj Patel came out swinging in the Democratic primary debate for the race to represent Manhattan’s Upper West and Upper East sides, saying it’s time to retire septuagenarian Reps. Jerrold Nadler and Carolyn Maloney.
The call for new blood from the 38-year-old came right after Nadler stumbled badly through his own opening statement.
"It’s 2022. It’s time to turn the page on 1992," Patel, 38, said in a swipe at Nadler, 75, and Maloney, 76, during his introductory statement in the debate co-sponsored by NY1 and WNYC.
Nadler’s delivery was halting during his initial presentation and he misspoke and often seemed unable to come up with the right words.
And then Nadler, the House Judiciary Committee chairman, uttered a real whopper, proclaiming, "I’ve impeached Bush twice."
He was referring to his oversight of the politically divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... impeachments of former President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... , whom he confused with either the 41st or 43rd president.
Nadler’s bumbling seemed to prove Patel’s point.
"Nineteen-nineties Democrats have lost about every major battle to Mitch McConnell ...Senate minority leader from Kentucky. A politician's politician, Mitch is smarter than he's given credit for, not as smart as he thinks he is. He is married to former education secretary Elaine Chao, whose father has extensive shipping interests, including a company in China, which makes sense since he's Chinese. He is sometimes maligned as Cocaine Mitch because a few million bucks' worth of the drug was once found on one of his father-in-law's ships in Colombia, which is kind of a tenuous assertion, to say the least... and the Republicans," said Patel, referring to the Senate Republican leader from Kentucky.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?
Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features.
If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!... Nadler sat during the entire 90-minute session while Maloney and Patel stood at their lecterns.
Nadler had many other verbal stumbles throughout the debate and at one point when the moderators offered him a chance to respond since his name had been brought up by an opponent, he seemed stunned and had nothing to say.
At one point, WNYC moderator Brigid Bergin asked Nadler about the importance of seniority and how he and Maloney differed on policies, two related but different questions.
Nadler answered that seniority is important if used effectively, but forgot about the Maloney comparison.
"The second one, the second question, what was the second one?" Nadler asked.
Maloney made waves for a different reason during the debate: She predicted that President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family, the guy who bungled Afghanistan...... , 79, would not run for re-election.
"I don’t believe he’s running for re-election," Maloney said.
Nadler, meanwhile, would not commit to supporting Biden’s re-election and would only answer, "It’s too early to say," when asked.
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And then Nadler, the House Judiciary Committee chairman, uttered a real whopper, proclaiming, "I’ve impeached Bush twice."
"...And I stopped the Germans from bombing Pearl Harbor!!!!"
[ANNAHAR] German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday raised the possibility of keeping nuclear plants going as he accused Russia of blocking the delivery of a key turbine to throttle gas supplies to Europe.
The continent's biggest economy has been scrambling for energy sources to fill a gap left by a reduction in gas supplies from Moscow.
Standing next to the turbine, Scholz said that extending the lifetime of Germany's three remaining nuclear power plants "can make sense".
The power stations, which are set to be taken off the grid at the end of the year, were "relevant exclusively for electricity production, and only for a small part of it", Scholz said.
In total, the nuclear fleet accounts for six percent of Germany's electricity output.
The government has said it will await the outcome of a new "stress test" of the national electric grid before determining whether to stick with the long-planned phase-out.
- NUCLEAR SWITCH -
Former chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... spectacularly decided to ditch atomic energy in 2011 following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.
Extending the lifetime of the plants has set off a heated debate in Germany, where nuclear power has been a source of controversy stretching back before Merkel's decision.
Germany has already moved to restart mothballed coal power plants to guard against an energy shortfall.
The squeeze comes as Russia dwindles supplies of gas, which Germany has long relied on to power industry and heat homes.
Russian energy giant Gazprom has chalked up limited supplies to technical issues.
The delayed return of a turbine from Canada, where the unit was being serviced, was behind the initial reduction in deliveries via the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline in June, according to Gazprom.
Supplies via the energy link were further reduced to around 20 percent of capacity in late July, after Gazprom halted the operation of one of the last two operating turbines due to the "technical condition of the engine".
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...sparking fears climate goals will go up in smoke
Well it's either that or riots and famine.
Of course the greens would go along with the 'riots' part.
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"How dare you!"
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"A poll should be done to determine
The views of you Rooskies," sez Hermann,
"On whether it's brilliant
To breed more resilient
New cold, angry, coal-burning Germans."
Not the same as sharks with friggin' lasers in their heads. [NYPOST] An alligator in a Florida pond gave passerby a scare over the weekend when it was spotted swimming with a large knife sticking out of its head.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said on Monday it was notified about photos depicting the knifed reptile circulating on social media, ClickOrlando.com reported.
Reports stated that several passersby observed the alligator in a pond along Providence Boulevard in Deltona on a recent afternoon.
FWC officers were dispatched to the location over the weekend and captured the alligator with the knife still protruding from the top of its head.
The animal was then euthanized because of the severity of its injuries.
The person who stabbed the alligator has not been identified yet.
Florida laws prohibit intentionally killing or injuring an alligator, unless authorized by the FWC commission, or as part of the Statewide Alligator Harvest Program.
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"The person who stabbed the alligator has not been identified yet."
[THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE] The Trump-endorsed candidates in Arizona are running the board; however, the corrupt, conniving and scheming UniParty constructs that have thoroughly infected the state election process still remain.
As it currently stands, Trump-endorsed Blake Masters appears to have easily won the GOP primary in the Senate race and will now face Mark Kelly. The comprehensively corrupt Rusty Bowers, the Arizona state House speaker who was insistent upon retaining corruption as a political business model — and a favorite of the J6 committee in DC, has thankfully lost his bid for a state senate seat to Trump-endorsed David Farnsworth.
Additionally, Trump-endorsed Kari Lake has taken a sizable lead in Governor’s primary race over decepticon Mike Pence-endorsed Karrin Taylor Robson.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Cynthia backed into the galley, the barbecue fork held in front of her. Jack! she called. Where the hell are you?... Arizona voters have overwhelmingly selected Trump-endorsed Mark Finchem as their candidate for the secretary of state’s office. Perhaps Finchem, if he succeeds in the general election, can finally fix the insufferable mess of Arizona elections.
Kari Lake’s victory, if certified, is a profound set-back for the two UniParty wings of the political club.
No doubt RNC Club Chairwoman Heavy McD (Ronna McDaniel) ate a few extra slices of red velvet cake for breakfast before throwing the coffee pot at the trembling concierge hiding behind the spa door. For the Arizona contest, Ms Kari Lake raised about $3.8 million in mostly small dollar donations, while Ms. Taylor Robson -a billionaire club member- raised more than $18 million. The one thing Arizona voters and Heavy D would agree upon, is that Arizona rebels are revolting.
In the State of Florida, it was always Broward County that led to more than twenty years of constant eyerolls whenever an election cycle came around. The issues with Broward County voting in the sunshine state were well documented, transparently corrupt and brutally obvious for decades.
Then newly elected Governor Ron DeSantis finally intervened, appointed state oversight, removed the corrupt Brenda Snipes (with her entire staff) as supervisor of elections, and ’presto’ — just like that all of the Broward County issues mysteriously resolved. In 2020 the full state reported election results by 10pm on election night. Funny that.
The state of Arizona, specifically Maricopa and Pima counties, who seem to need days -if not weeks- to tally their votes, perhaps needing the assistance of DNC (If you're white you ain't right!) ...Democrat National Committee, where all those off-the-wall talking points originate... trained carrier pigeons handled by GOPe caretakers, has become the new Broward County.
Despite the intransigence of the GOP club, the turban MAGA victories continue....
DUBAI, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Top Iranian and U.S. officials will resume talks in Vienna this week on reviving the 2015 nuclear pact, officials from both countries said on Wednesday, though they played down chances of a breakthrough and placed the onus on each other to compromise... Why this farce, you may ask. Analysts say neither side wants to be blamed for collapse of the negotiations. US doesn't want to admit Iran is going nuke. Iran doesn't want to be blamed for going nuke.
And Israel is quietly preparing to do what needs to be done in defiance of America protecting Iran.
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In Blazing Saddles the Mel Brooks character as Governor LePetomain and the phoney-baloney jobs classic...
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When the Biden team and England-France-Germany stop negotiating, they’ll have to admit it’s too late to matter ... and that the negotiators were complicit in Iran’s accomplishment.
[NYPOST] Rep. Peter Meijer, who ripped Democrats this week for bankrolling his Trump-backed primary opponent, lost his bid for a second House term to challenger John Gibbs in Michigan’s 3rd District Tuesday.
Meijer, one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... over last year’s Capitol riot — and who was targeted for defeat by Trump as a result — conceded early Wednesday with results showing Gibbs ahead by almost 4,000 votes with more than 88% of the expected ballots counted.
"This was a hard-fought primary campaign and I want to thank everyone in west Michigan for their support. ... I also want to congratulate my opponent, John Gibbs, on his victory tonight," Meijer said in a statement, according to the bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... Free Press.
"I’m proud to have remained true to my principles, even when doing so came at a significant political cost," he added.
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Rep. Peter Meijer, who ripped Democrats this week for bankrolling his Trump-backed primary opponent, lost his bid for a second House term to challenger John Gibbs in Michigan’s 3rd District Tuesday.
Anybody remember Rush Limbaugh's operation chaos to back Obama over Hillary?
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Meijer spent $4 million of his own money on his campaign. The $450k from the dems is not chicken scratch but it isn't the push over the top either. And it's money they don't have now to spend elsewhere.
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Happily, there are no Meijer's stores where I live. I'd hate to get busted for public defecation on their sidewalk.
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90-10 rule. Or maybe 80-20. A small number of criminals commit most of the crimes, so get them off the street and the crime rate drops like a rock. Or don’t, and watch it go up like a rocket. They’ll be writing all new case studies for the same old principles in the textbooks after this little experiment.
[NYPOST] A small group of just 10 career criminals was allowed to run amok across the Big Apple and rack up nearly 500 arrests after New York enacted its controversial bail-reform law — and most of them are still out on the streets, The Post has learned.
Stunning statistics compiled by the NYPD show that the city’s alleged "worst of the worst" repeat offenders have been busted a total of 485 times since bail reform went into effect in 2020.
Two of the unidentified defendants are actually accused of embarking on lives of crime in the wake of bail reform, with one busted 33 times since 2020 and the other busted 22 times, all this year, the data shows.
Mayor Eric Adams — who’s been demanding that state politicians roll back the bail-reform law to crack down on repeat offenders — is expected to discuss the disturbing findings Wednesday during an afternoon news conference at One Police Plaza.
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It's not just the bail reform laws, the liberal judges also need to be replaced.
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[Vesti] On Volyn, Polessky and Seversk directions without any changes. At the last, the enemy fired from barrel artillery at the areas of the settlements of Seredina Buda, Ryzhevka and Zhuravka of the Sumy region. This is stated in the operational summary of the General Staff as of 18.00 Wednesday, August 3.
In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy carried out shelling from tanks, cannon and rocket artillery in the areas of the settlements of Duvanka, Dementyevka, Zolochev, Prudyanka, Svetlichne, Pitomnik, Russian Lozovaya, Lesnoye, Russian Tishki, Cherkassky Tishki, Petrovka, Mikhailovka, Korobki, Mospanovo, Prishib, Peremoga, Ukrainka, Rubizhne, Upper Saltov, Stary Saltov, Molodova and Bolshaya Babka.
Launched an airstrike near Prudyanka. Conducted UAV aerial reconnaissance near Petrovka, Fedorovka and Dementievka. Engaged electronic warfare in the areas of Ivanovka, Studenko, Vasilenko and Getmanovka.
In the Slavic direction, the enemy fired from artillery of various calibers in the areas of the settlements of Protopopovka, Bolshaya Kamyshevakha, Mechebilovo, Gusarovka, Chepol, Nortsovka, Dolina, Mazanovka, Krasnopolye. Novopavlovka, Dovgenkoye, Dubrovnoye, Brazhkovka, Vernopolye, Krasnoye, Karnaukhovka, Ridne, Adamovka, Bogorodichnoe and Mayak.
In the Kramatorsk direction, shelling was recorded near Zvanovka, Starodubovka, Disputed, Seversky, Verkhnekamensky, Piskunovka and Grigorievka.
In the Bakhmut direction, Russian invaders fired from tanks, cannon and rocket artillery in the areas of the settlements of Bakhmut, Bakhmutskoye, Berestovoye, Soledar, Yakovlevka, Zaitsevo, Maiskoye, Kodema, Mayorsk, Podgorodnoye, Veselaia Dolina, Pokrovskoye, Krasnopolovka, Beloe. The enemy also launched air strikes near Bakhmutsky, Soledar, Berestovoye, Yakovlevka and Klinovoye.
The Russian invaders conducted assault operations in the area of Berestovoye and in the directions of Vladimirovka - Yakovlevka, Pokrovskoye - Bakhmut, Vladimirovka - Soledar, Vozrozhdenie - Kodema, Vozrozhdeniye - Zaitsevo, Semigorye - Kodema and Dolomitne - Semigorye. Ukrainian soldiers beat off all enemy assault attempts, inflicted damage on the invaders and threw them back.
In the Avdeevka direction, the enemy shelled the areas of New York, Krasnogorovka, Avdievka, Peski, Netailovoe and Kamenka from tanks and artillery. The enemy tried to conduct an offensive in the directions of Novoselovka Second - Krasnogorovka, Spartak - Avdievka, Vasilyevka - Krasnogorovka, Mineralnoye - Avdievka and in the direction of Donetsk - Peski, had no success, retreated.
In the Novopavlovsk and Zaporizhia directions, shelling was recorded in the areas of the settlements of Maryinka, Novomikhailovka, Bogoyavlenko, Shevchenko, Vladimirovka, Pavlovka, Bolshaya Novoselka, Ugledar, Prechistovka, Novopol, Zelenoye Pole, Novoselka, Zheleznodorozhnoe, Maly Shcherbaki, Kamenskoye, Lukyanovskoye, Neskuchnoye, Poltavka , Storozhev's Grave, Olgovskoe, Novoandreevka, Novodanilovka, Krasnoye, Belogorye and Vremovka. The enemy launched airstrikes near Novoselka, Novopol and Poltavka. All attempts by the Russians to advance in the directions of Maryinka and Belogorka were nullified by our defenders \.
In the Yuzhnobuzhsky direction, the enemy fired at the armament of tanks, cannon and rocket artillery in the areas of the settlements of Nikolaev, Pribuzhskoye, Zarya, Luch, Posad-Pokrovskoye, Limany, Luparevo, Partizanskoye, Kobzartsy, Novaya Zorya, Andreevka, Galitsinovo, Lyubomirovka and Krasnaya Dolina. Inflicted an air strike near the Andreevka tract. He led an offensive battle in the direction of Belogorka, had no success, retreated. But the enemy does not stop conducting aerial reconnaissance of the UAV.
In the Black Sea, two carriers of Caliber sea-based cruise missiles are in readiness for the use of high-precision weapons. The threat of missile strikes on military installations and critical infrastructure facilities on the territory of Ukraine remains.
August 3 is the 161st 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 .
[Vesti] On the night of Wednesday, August 3, after several explosions, a fire broke out at the oil depot of Russian troops in the uncontrolled Makiivka, Donetsk region.
The corresponding videos are published by local Telegram channels.
The oil depot is located in the Kirovsky district of the city.
The information is also confirmed by the Center for Strategic Communications.
"A fire show took place at night, held at the oil depot in occupied Makeevka, which the orcs used to store "not fuel and lubricants, but pillows and blankets, as part of humanitarian aid." It burned and burned clearly and for a long time. Somewhere far from a herd of under-fuelled orcs howled in desperation," wrote the Stratcom of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
It should be noted that earlier the railway echelon of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation of more than 40 wagons with manpower, equipment and ammunition was destroyed in the Kherson region by Ukrainian artillerymen .
[ANNAHAR] Two soldiers were killed Wednesday over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh as the two warring sides accused each other of ceasefire violations.
Arch enemies Armenia and Azerbaijan fought two wars -- in 2020 and in the 1990s -- over Azerbaijan's Armenian-populated region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia ceded swathes of territory it had controlled for decades, and Russia deployed some 2,000 peacekeepers to oversee the fragile truce, but tensions persist despite a ceasefire agreement.
On Wednesday, the Azerbaijani defense ministry said Karabakh troops targeted Azerbaijani army positions in the district of Lachin, which is under the supervision of the Russian peacekeeping force, killing an Azerbaijani conscript.
The foreign ministry in Baku said that the "bloody incident" demonstrated that Armenia did not respect the ceasefire agreement.
"All responsibility for the incident in Azerbaijan lies with military and politicianship of Armenia, which has not yet withdrawn its illegal armed formations from the territory of the neighboring state," the foreign ministry said in a statement.
The army of the breakaway statelet accused Azerbaijan of violating a ceasefire Wednesday morning and killing one soldier and wounding another eight at the line of contact later in the day.
"Measures are being taken together with Russian peacekeepers to stabilize the situation," the Karabakh army said in a statement.
Six weeks of fighting in the autumn of 2020 claimed more than 6,500 lives and ended with a Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement.
[ANNAHAR] The Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation... has approved two massive arms sales to Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... and the United Arab Emirates to help them defend against Iran.
The more than $5 billion in missile defense and related sales follow President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter, close friend of an imaginary negro named Corn Pop. He blames Trump for losing Afghanistan.... 's visit to the Middle East last month, during which he met with numerous regional leaders in Saudi Arabia. Both Saudi Arabia and the UAE have been hit in recent months with rocket attacks from the Iran-backed 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... rebel movement 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... Although Tuesday's approvals are for defensive weapons, they may be questioned by politicians who had supported Biden's decision last year to cut Saudi Arabia and the UAE off from major purchases of offensive U.S. arms because of their involvement in the war in Yemen.
The new sales include $3 billion for Patriot missiles for Saudi Arabia specifically designed to protect itself from rocket attacks by the Houthis, and $2.2 billion for high-altitude missile defense for the UAE.
"The proposed sale will improve the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's capability to meet current and future threats by replenishing its dwindling stock of PATRIOT GEM-T missiles," the State Department said in its notice informing Congress of the sale.
"These missiles are used to defend the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's borders against persistent Houthi cross-border unmanned aerial system and ballistic missile attacks on civilian sites and critical infrastructure in Saudi Arabia," the department said.
For UAE, the department said the sale would "support the foreign policy and national security of the United States by helping to improve the security of an important regional partner. The UAE is a vital U.S. partner for political stability and economic progress in the Middle East."
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.
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Rapidly coming to the conclusion that they should be called the Federal Bureau of Insurgents given they are plotting with the Demonrats to destroy this country and turn it into a socialist hellhole. I hope if they attempt to unleash that nightmare they receive the fullest amount of quarter their behavior begs for. Karma hurts.
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Politics eventually corrupts everything it touches. The feebs used to be good at catching bank robbers, kidnappers, white collar crooks, and actual violent criminals.
Now, not so much.
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fibbey used to be useful, now ? The fbi and ag need to be removed from the doj and the doj scrapped. also scrap 'homeland security'. presidents form these departments to distribute blame.
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Each law proposed, debated and passed by congress and signed by the presedeint should do one thing only. No more "comprehensive" or "omnibus" crap sandwiches. Every department should do one thing only. Each should be kept small (capped) and focused.
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"There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws...just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted—and you create a nation of lawbreakers."
[ANNAHAR] The U.S. Justice Department has said it is seeking possession of a Venezuela ...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... n cargo jet that has been grounded in Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... since early June because it was previously owned by an Iranian airline that allegedly has ties to terror groups.
The request to Argentina was revealed a day after an Argentine judge allowed 12 of the 19 crewmembers of the plane to leave the country as authorities continue to investigate possible terror ties of those traveling in the Boeing 747. Federal Judge Federico Villena said late Monday that the remaining four Iranians and three Venezuelans must stay.
The U.S. request sent to Argentina on Tuesday followed the unsealing of a warrant in federal court in the District of Columbia that was issued last month and that argues the U.S-made plane should be forfeited because of violations of U.S. export control laws.
The plane, according to the Justice Department, was transferred from Iranian airline Mahan Air — which officials have alleged provides support for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force — to Emtrasur, a subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned Consorcio Venezolano de Industrias Aeronáuticas y Servicios Aéreos, or CONVIASA. CONVIASA is under U.S. sanctions.
By transferring the airplane to the Venezuelan firm in October without prior U.S. government authorization, Mahan Air violated a 2008 order issued by the Department of Commerce that has since been periodically renewed, the U.S. says. The Justice Department says Emtrasur subsequently re-exported the plane between Caracas, Tehran and Moscow -- also without U.S. government approval.
"The Department of Justice will not tolerate transactions that violate our sanctions and export laws," Matthew Olsen, the head of the Justice Department's national security division, said in a statement. "Working with our partners across the globe, we will give no quarter to governments and state-sponsored entities looking to evade our sanctions and export control regimes in service of their malign activities."
The moves marked the latest development in the saga of the mysterious plane, which landed June 6 at Ezeiza International Airport outside Buenos Aires and was grounded two days later.
The case has raised attention in several South American countries as well as the United States and Israel amid allegations that the plane was a cover for Iranian intelligence operations in the region. Iran ...The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both... and Venezuela vehemently deny those claims.
The issue has caught the attention of members of U.S. Congress. On July 26, a dozen U.S. Republican senators wrote a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland ...Attorney General of the U.S., who classifies indignant parents as domestic terrorists. The is the respected legal scholar Obama nominated for the Supreme Court... accusing the Justice Department of failing to assist Argentine authorities in its investigation of the Venezuelan plane.
Rep. Darrell Issa, a Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Republican, pressed Olsen about it at a hearing last week and lamented that in his view Iran was not receiving the scrutiny it deserved. Olsen said he was aware of the case but added: "This is an ongoing matter. I can't talk about the specifics."
The U.S. Commerce Department took its own action Tuesday, announcing it had suspended for 180 days the export privileges of Emtrasur.
The Israeli government has praised Argentina for grounding the plane and contends at least some the Iranian crew members "were involved directly in the trafficking of weapons to Syria and the terrorist organization Hezbollah of Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity™, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade... Among those who will continue to be prohibited from leaving Argentina is the Iranian pilot of the plane, Gholamreza Ghasemi.
Ghasemi is a former commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard and is a shareholder and board member of Iran's Qeshm Fars Air, which the U.S. Treasury Department has said is controlled by Mahan Air and provides material support to the Quds Force.
The other crew members required to remain in Argentina are Abdolbaset Mohammadim, Mohammad Khosraviaragh and Saeid Vali Zadeh of Iran and Mario Arraga, Víctor Pérez Gómez and José García Contreras of Venezuela.
"What is being investigated is whether, under the appearance of legal activity, they are financing terrorism operations (specifically with Hezbollah) or whether they are part of a plan that has ties with" Hezbollah, the judge wrote.
Villena emphasized that connections with Iran's Revolutionary Guard are not under investigation because Argentina does not consider it to be a terrorist organization.
Mahan Air has denied any ties to the aircraft and Venezuela has demanded that Argentine authorities release the plane.
Yet Argentine authorities who searched the plane found a Mahan Air flight log documenting the aircraft's flights after the transfer to Emtrasur, including a flight to Tehran in April, the Justice Department said.
The plane was carrying cargo for several Argentine auto parts companies that it loaded in Mexico before stopping in Caracas and arriving in Argentina.
The plane is also under investigation in Paraguay, where the plane landed in May and spent three days in Ciudad del Este, near the border with Argentina, where it loaded cigarettes to transport to Aruba, according to Paraguayan authorities.
There are suspicions the plane's cargo was "a facade" that hid the real reason for its time in Paraguay, says René Fernández, a former prosecutor who leads Paraguay's National Anticorruption Secretariat.
Villena said the plane's stopover in Paraguay was "at least striking" and added that further investigation was needed.
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[NYPOST] A maiden of tender years chewed through restraints to escape a rural Alabama home where Sherlocks later found two decomposing bodies, authorities said.
José Paulino Pascual-Reyes, 37, is facing kidnapping charges and multiple counts of capital murder in connection to the bodies found at the home after a 12-year-old girl was discovered walking along a roadside early Monday in Dadeville.
Tallapoosa County Sheriff Jimmy Abbett told news hounds at a presser that a driver picked up the girl and called 911 — setting off an investigation that led to Pascual-Reyes’ arrest and the gruesome discovery, AL.com reported.
Pascual-Reyes, who remains tossed in the calaboose Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! pending a bond hearing, was arrested in Auburn. The bodies were found in his Dadeville home, not far from where the girl was discovered wandering alone.
The decomposing remains have been sent to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences to be identified, Abbett said, adding it’s unclear how long they had been there. They hadn't yet mummified. "It's a fluid investigation"
"It’s a fluid investigation," the sheriff told news hounds. "Things are changing, and I don’t want to jeopardize the identification of our juvenile."
Court filings obtained by WSFA show the girl had been tied to bedposts for nearly a week. She was assaulted and plied with alcohol, but managed to escape by chewing through her restraints, the documents show.
Authorities did not indicate whether the girl knew Pascual-Reyes, AL.com reported.
“I would say she’s a hero,” Abbett said. “It’s one of those things we won’t get into until later. We gave her medical attention. She is safe now. We want to keep her that way.”
Pascual-Reyes had lived at the home since February, Abbett said. Other people were there when cops arrived, but he did not elaborate, AL.com reported.
“It’s horrendous to have a crime scene of this nature,” the sheriff told reporters Tuesday.
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If he turns out to be an illegal? I hope every blog brings it up and uses it as an example of what Wide Open and/or Improperly Secured Borders offers the US Citizens.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] "sold" is a little strong. Bill Roggio is scathing about President Biden’s false claims about Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and elsewhere. He doesn’t stint his scorn for the similar statements on the subject from Presidents Obama and Trump, as well.
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If we learned anything from the drug cartels is that when we cut the head off, two, more violent, heads appear. Expect the young guns to hit soft targets to make their name know...
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I don't see what the danger is with al Q in Afghanistan.
they haven't been able to pull off a big hit in the past decade or so; they are a much decayed group
of course their past actions, e.g., embassy bombings, USS Cole, 9/11 make it a legitimate target but that's another thing
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[NYPOST] Republicans are calling on state Attorney General Letitia James to investigate alleged pay-to-play schemes involving Gov. Kathy Hochul ahead of the Nov. 8 election.
"Kickback Kathy is the new reigning champion of the Albany cesspool of corruption," State GOP Chair Nick Langworthy said in a statement Tuesday.
"She is brazenly selling lucrative state contracts to her donors and just because it’s likely done with a wink and a nod doesn’t make it any less criminal. She needs to be investigated and thrown out of office by the voters," he alleged of the Democratic governor.
The Hochul campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Calls for an investigation of gubernatorial fundraising follow a growing list of media reports detailing controversial campaign contributions to Hochul ahead of the Nov. 8 election against Republican gubernatorial nominee Rep. Lee Zeldin.
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Sorry, folks, the date of the Democratic primary has passed, and Letitia doesn't need to shovel any dirt on Kathy. Maybe in four years, when there's another Democratic primary that Letitia thinks she can win.
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[NYPOST] The man who allegedly shot a McDonald’s worker — leaving him clinging to life — during a heated spat over cold fries has been charged with attempted murder, cops said Wednesday.
Michael Morgan, 20, was taken into custody shortly after the Monday night shooting outside the eatery at 1531 Fulton St. in Bed-Stuy — and was charged late Tuesday with attempted murder and criminal possession of a weapon, authorities said.
Camellia Dunlap, 18 — identified by police sources as Morgan’s girlfriend — was charged with two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, cops said.
Her exact role in the shooting was not immediately known.
The 23-year-old victim was working at the fast-food joint at 1531 Fulton St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 7 p.m. Monday when Morgan’s mother began hassling him over her fries, a high-ranking police source said.
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Couldn't Morgan and his girlfriend just have asked for some different fries instead of blasting some hapless Mickey Dee's worker (Rhetorical question)? Toss the mom in the clink too. Most likely the Yoot was carrying illegally.
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[RIA Novosti] Ukraine insisted that its prisoners of war be placed in penal colony No. 120 in Yelenovka in the DPR, which was then attacked by American HIMARS MLRS, said Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin.
"I draw your attention to the analysis of the chronology of events. On May 20, 2022, the surrendered servicemen of the Azov National Regiment were taken to the pre-trial detention center in the village of Yelenovka. The Ukrainian side insisted on this particular place of detention," he said at a briefing for foreign military attaches.
The Deputy Minister recalled that on July 28, 2022, a video confession of Dmitry Kozatsky's crimes by Azov residents appeared. Further, on the night of July 29, HIMARS attacked Yelenovka.
The Kyiv authorities decided to strike at the place of detention of prisoners of war in order to eliminate witnesses of their crimes against their own people, Fomin added.
According to him, now many Ukrainian servicemen voluntarily lay down their arms, knowing about the humane treatment of prisoners of war in the Russian Armed Forces . The provocation in Yelenovka, Fomin noted, is aimed at intimidating the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, "it was an attempt to counter their surrender."
At the same time, the Ukrainian authorities, without providing any evidence, are trying to shift the responsibility for the death of prisoners of war to Russia , he said.
In addition, Fomin indicated the direction of the strike on the pre-trial detention center. The shooting was carried out from the trajectory of Marinka - Kurakhovo - the triangle Sergeevka - Pokrovsk - Lucky, he noted.
The deputy minister also drew attention to the "clumsy" US attempts to justify the Kiev regime. At the same time, when planning a fire engagement, the Ukrainian military is actively using space and aerial reconnaissance data received from the US Armed Forces and its allies, and Washington representatives are preparing tasks for firing, Fomin recalled.
In addition, he especially noted the gratitude of the prisoners of war wounded during the strike to Russian doctors for medical assistance. At the briefing, they also showed a video with testimonies from the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and their appeal to the doctors.
On the night of July 29, Ukrainian troops attacked the pre-trial detention center where prisoners of war were kept, primarily militants of the nationalist Azov regiment*. The building was almost completely destroyed. As a result, 53 people died. Fragments of an American MLRS HIMARS shell were found on the spot.
The Russian defense ministry called the shelling a blatant provocation, committed to intimidate Ukrainian servicemen and prevent their surrender. The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin , in turn, attributed the attack to the fact that the prisoners began to testify.
In mid-May, about two and a half thousand fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and "Azov," blocked at the Mariupol plant "Azovstal", laid down their arms. The wounded were sent to the hospital, some of the prisoners of war have since been in the colony in Yelenovka.
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▪the Kiev regime wanted to remove the witnesses and perpetrators of its crimes against its own people with a strike on Yelenovka;
▪With a provocation in Yelenovka, the Ukrainian authorities wanted to intimidate Ukrainian servicemen, it was an attempt to counteract their surrender;
▪The Kyiv regime insisted that the prisoners of war be placed in the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka, which was attacked by the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
▪On July 28, 2022, a video was published with confessions to the crimes of the Azov militants Dmitry Kozatsky. Further, on the night of July 29, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked Yelenovka from HIMARS;
▪The US is clumsily trying to justify the Kyiv regime by claiming the unintentionality of its attack on Yelenovka, although it has previously noted the high accuracy of HIMARS systems.
[LB] Although the interrogations were conducted regularly, the Ukrainian defenders persevered.
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Prisoners of war were tortured in Yelenovka to break, humiliate and use for Russian propaganda, - intelligence
Ukrainian intelligence established some circumstances of the deliberate killing of Ukrainian prisoners of war in the colony in Yelenovka in Donetsk region .
This is stated in the message of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
"Prisoners were interrogated by the so-called MDB DNR investigators together with representatives of the "Wagner" PMC and the FSB of the Russian Federation. During the interrogations, physical torture and beatings were actively used.
Such measures, first of all, were not aimed at obtaining certain confidential information, but at bullying, physical humiliation, psychological demoralization with the aim of breaking the moral and psychological qualities of Ukrainian soldiers," the HUR said.
If the plan was implemented, the Russians planned to use the Ukrainian prisoners for filming in propaganda reports.
"The purpose of the broadcast was to highlight the prisoners' recognition of "crimes committed by them, atrocities against the local population, the fighters' renunciation of their views, as well as condemnation of the actions of the leadership of Ukraine," the intelligence agency noted.
The head office emphasized that although the Russians conducted interrogations on a regular basis, they did not succeed. Ukrainian prisoners of war showed courage and indomitable willpower.
The intelligence added that Russia had no intention of exchanging prisoners of war. In order to hide the improper conditions and forms of interrogation of Ukrainian servicemen, which would become the evidence base at the Hague Court, the enemies deliberately destroyed the prisoners.
According to Ukrainian military intelligence, the fighters of the "Wagner" PVK mined the places of detention of Ukrainian soldiers, using a highly flammable substance, which led to the rapid spread of the fire in the premises.
We will remind, as reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on July 28, the Russian armed forces carried out a targeted artillery shelling of a correctional facility in the temporarily occupied Yelenovka of the Donetsk region , where Ukrainian prisoners of war were also held. This was done in order to accuse Ukraine of committing war crimes and cover up the torture of prisoners
According to the Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets, the occupiers are ready to hand over the bodies of the prisoners of war defenders of Mariupol who were killed in Yelenovka. The invaders said they would do it "after the investigation is over."
[BREITBART] A the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... , Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, law that allowed illegal aliens and other foreign nationals to vote in some local elections was struck down in court late last week.
On July 29, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard Ulmer overturned the city’s ordinance that was first passed in 2016, which allowed foreign nationals — including illegal aliens — to vote in citywide school board elections so long as they are the parent of a school-aged child and are not incarcerated or out on parole.
By 2018, as Breitbart News reported, the city had spent almost $400,000 to register a total of 61 foreign nationals to vote in the school board elections.
Ulmer, though, ruled that the ordinance is in violation of the California Constitution, which specifically states that "a United States citizen 18 years of age and resident in this state may vote."
"In sum, San Francisco ordinance 206-21 is contrary to the California Constitution and state statutes and thus cannot stand," Ulmer wrote,
The ruling is yet another blow to the open borders lobby, which has made noncitizen voting a fixture of their agenda to eliminate the privileges of American citizenship.
In June, the New York Supreme Court similarly struck down a New York City law that allowed foreign nationals to vote in citywide elections so long as they had lived in the city for at least 30 days. In that case, the court found that the state’s constitution is clear that voting "is a right granted to citizens of the United States."
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Aliens/illegal aliens voting proves its all a ritualistic shame no different than dictators with mock elections getting 99% of the vote.
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It's all political posturing for mid terms that the LSD's are tanking in the polls. Question is ... Did LSD's get their new ballot printing machines in yet?🙃
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[Korrespondent] 23:14 The International Committee of the Red Cross said that it did not guarantee the safety of Ukrainian prisoners of war leaving Azovstal - the parties to the conflict are responsible for this. The organization stressed that during the withdrawal of the military from Azovstal, the ICRC was a "neutral intermediary."
23:07 Zelensky, in an evening video message, commented on Moscow’s new propaganda activity and Schroeder’s statement: “New propaganda activity has begun from Moscow. They suddenly decided to define the Azov people as terrorists, although when a terrorist state does this, this is obviously absurd. They activate various emissaries with theses that the terrorist state allegedly wants negotiations... If Russia really wanted the end of the war, it would not be pulling reserves to the Ukrainian south now and would not produce mass graves of murdered innocent people on Ukrainian territory. when the former leaders of powerful states with European values work for Russia, which is at war against these values.
22:56 Zelensky said in an evening video message that the world needs a new global security architecture that would guarantee that no state can ever again resort to terror against another state: "The other day there were a lot of messages about conflict situations and threats occurring in other geographies.First the Balkans, then Taiwan, now maybe the Caucasus... All these situations seem different, although they have one factor in common, namely, the global security architecture has not worked.And this is actually what Ukraine draws attention not only 161 days from the start of a full-scale war, but already for years. Since Russia completely ignored international law, the interests of humanity as such."
21:32 The next ships with Ukrainian grain are already ready and will soon depart from Ukrainian ports according to the agreed schedule, Kuleba said during a joint briefing with his Estonian counterpart Urmas Reinsalu in Kiev. The Ukrainian minister stressed that, as of today, the agreements reached under the grain agreement are being implemented, and recalled that Ukraine was the first of all the participants in this agreement, which was fully prepared to fulfill all the points.
20:45 The UN is launching a mission to establish the facts of the tragedy in the Yelenovskaya colony , Secretary General António Guterres said.
20:41 The International Criminal Court cannot apply the article on aggression specifically to Russia's war against Ukraine, Kuleba said in an interview with Ukrinform: "It is written in its charter that one of the crimes for which it can judge is aggression. But in practice, purely for legal reasons, it cannot apply this article specifically to the case of Ukraine and Russia."
20:32 Kiev will break diplomatic relations with Minsk if Belarusian troops enter Ukraine, Kuleba said in an interview with Ukrinform: "Belarus is an accomplice in the crime of aggression against Ukraine, this is beyond any doubt. Therefore, there are no excuses for them and there will not be."
20:04 Gazprom said that the sanctions of Canada, the EU, the UK and the "inconsistency of the situation with the obligations of Siemens" make it impossible to supply a turbine for Nord Stream.
19:43 The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled all enemy assaults in the Bakhmut direction and did not allow the invaders to advance in the directions of Maryinka and Belogorka, the General Staff said in the evening report .
19:28 The Cabinet of Ministers issued an order on the mandatory evacuation of the population of the Donetsk region. According to the document, residents are going to be taken out to safe areas of Vinnitsa, Volyn, Zhytomyr, Transcarpathian, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kirovograd, Lviv, Poltava, Rivne, Ternopil, Khmelnytsky, Cherkasy and Chernivtsi regions. The reason for the evacuation was the destruction of gas pipelines in the region and, as a result, the inability to heat it in the winter.
19:02 Baykar Director Haluk Bayraktar and Turn Back Alive Foundation Director Taras Chmut signed a partnership memorandum in Istanbul. The parties have not yet disclosed all the details of future interaction, however, the fund reported that the partners had agreed on the introduction of best practices and international standards for the development of cooperation and the involvement of other representatives in such cooperation.
18:41 In the south of Ukraine, Russian troops are accumulating forces and planning actions to reach the administrative border of the Kherson region, OK Pivden reported: "The enemy continues to conduct hostilities along the occupied defense line. plans counter-offensive actions to reach the administrative border of the Kherson region.
18:36 According to the UN, 10.35 million people have left Ukraine since the beginning of the war, most of them are in Russia - 1.86 million. In second place is Poland, which received 1.26 million Ukrainian citizens. At the same time, almost 4 million more people went to other countries in transit through Poland. 915 thousand Ukrainians moved to Germany.
18:05 In Ukraine, 60% of internally displaced persons have lost their jobs. In total, 6.6 million people are considered IDPs in Ukraine, the International Organization for Migration reported. At the same time, 35% reported that their family's monthly income does not exceed UAH 5,000, which is UAH 1,500 less than the minimum wage in Ukraine.
17:46 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that it was Kiev who allegedly insisted that the prisoners of war be placed in the detention center in Yelenovka, which they themselves then struck. According to Moscow's "data", Kyiv "wanted to remove the witnesses and perpetrators of its crimes against its own people" by attacking Yelenovka.
Also, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that Russia and Ukraine have already carried out 27 operations to exchange prisoners of war and the bodies of dead servicemen; the repatriation of the Ukrainian military "is carried out in a timely manner, 18 people have already been transferred to Ukraine." In addition, Moscow accuses Kyiv of non-compliance with international law in relation to Russian prisoners of war.
17:35 Zelensky met with Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsal and thanked him for his assistance in restoring critical infrastructure - schools and kindergartens. According to the president, construction of a kindergarten was launched yesterday in the border town of Ovruch in the Zhytomyr region.
17:15 Ukrainian military intelligence has established some circumstances of the deliberate murder of Ukrainian prisoners of war in Yelenovka. According to the GUR MOU, interrogations of prisoners were carried out by investigators of the so-called. "MGB DPR" together with representatives of PMC Wagner and the FSB of the Russian Federation. During interrogations, physical torture and beatings were actively used. The purpose of such "interrogations" was not to obtain confidential information, but to mockery, humiliation, demoralization.
If the plan was implemented, the FSB representatives planned to involve Ukrainian prisoners in filming pro-Russian reports, in which they had to admit "the crimes they committed, atrocities against the local population", as well as renounce their views and condemn the actions of the Ukrainian leadership.
Interrogations were carried out in a pipeline on a regular basis, but were not successful. Ukrainian prisoners showed exceptional courage and willpower. The Russian side had no intention of exchanging the prisoners and, in order to hide the improper conditions and forms of interrogation, deliberately destroyed them. According to intelligence, the mining of the place of detention of Ukrainian fighters was carried out by Wagner PMC militants using a flammable substance, which led to the rapid spread of fire in the room.
17:04 Avdiivka direction, Peski in particular, has become the hottest area on the front. The occupiers cover the Ukrainian positions with heavy artillery fire. About what is happening with the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Donetsk - in the material Hell in Avdiivka .
16:41 Sweden has declared that in case of joining NATO it will not deploy nuclear weapons on its territory.
16:27 Canada provides $40 million to provide granaries in Ukraine. According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, this initiative will allow for the storage of an additional 2.4 million tons of grain in 2022-2023. The project complements a $17 million recent aid provided by the Japanese government to secure the storage of 1 million tons of grain.
16:08 The monument to the liberators of Riga will be completely destroyed after the demolition, Mayor Mārtiņš Stakis said: "The monument complex will be demolished in parts. Since the Occupation Museum did not recognize any of them as artistic value, the entire monument will be completely disposed of."
16:06 Switzerland has joined the seventh package of EU sanctions against Russia. According to the government of the country, first of all, we are talking about a ban on the purchase, import or transportation of gold and products from it from Russia. Services related to these items are now also prohibited.
The assets of Sberbank will also be frozen. The Bank is prohibited from providing funds, economic resources or technical services. This also applies to subsidiaries of Sberbank.
16:02 This afternoon, the enemy fired twice with cluster shells from Hurricanes in the Krivorozhsky district of the Dnepropetrovsk region, said the head of the UVA, Valentin Reznichenko. One person was injured in the Zelenodolsk community, several dozen private houses were damaged in Maryansky and Velikaya Kostromka.
15:58 Shooting lessons will become an obligatory part of the educational process in Polish schools with the start of the new academic year, the Ministry of Education and Science of Poland reports: "The growing threat to the security of the state requires supplementing the goals of education with the acquisition of the ability to shoot and preparing students for actions caused by military conditions."
15:55 Podolyak commented on Schroeder's statement about Moscow's "readiness" for negotiations: "With one hand, Russia raises the degree of terror with new barbaric crimes, with the other, it invites surrender. Schroeder is a well-known herald of the empire and a voice at the royal court of the Russian Federation. If Moscow wants dialogue, the ball on its field. First, a ceasefire and the withdrawal of troops, then a constructive one."
15:51 The RF Armed Forces fired at Ochakov of the Nikolaev region from heavy cannon artillery, OK Pivden reported. According to the command, an electrical substation was damaged during the shelling, as a result of which part of the city was left without electricity.
15:44 The Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council says that Russian propaganda is inciting Ukraine to negotiate, including through foreign politicians. Among the latest examples of such manipulations are the statements of the wife of the President of Ireland that "the conflict in Ukraine will continue until Moscow and Kyiv agree on a ceasefire", as well as Gerhard Schroeder that Russia is ready to sit down at the negotiating table. Such manipulations with the statements of individual speakers are an element of the information and psychological operation of the Russian Federation, the purpose of which is to create an image of a peace-loving country around Russia, emphasize the NSDC CPD.
15:19 The Russians fired at Chuguev from the MLRS. As a result of falling into a residential five-story building, one person died, two were injured, Kharkiv OVA reported.
15:06 In Ukraine, 30% of schools are ready to switch to full-time education, Minister of Education and Science Serhiy Shkarlet said. According to him, together with the State Emergency Service, almost 30,000 inspections were carried out.
15:04 Ukrainian citizens who carried out a peacekeeping mission in Kosovo as part of KFOR - the NATO-led International Peacekeeping Force in Kosovo - will be recalled, the command of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said.
15:00 Peskov said that Russia "was and remains ready to solve the Ukrainian problem through diplomacy on its own terms." He again stressed that these conditions were agreed in Istanbul, but then the Ukrainian side refused to negotiate. "Russia is ready, our conditions are well known to the Ukrainian side. One way or another, they will be provided," Peskov added.
14:51 The Planet Labs satellite recorded that the Russian military began to use a separate ferry crossing to transport equipment across the Dnieper near occupied Kherson. According to Radio Liberty, this is the second crossing that the Russians built after the attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Antonovsky automobile and railway bridges.
14:22 The situation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is completely out of control. According to the head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, all the principles of nuclear safety were violated at the ZNPP, and contact with the plant personnel is unstable.
14:00 Zelensky, during a conversation with Australian students, called the difference between the Russian Federation and terrorists: "The only difference between terrorists and Russia is that the former take responsibility for their deeds, while Russia does not have the courage to do this and has the audacity to blame others for their crimes - some countries and the whole world ... And now this world is facing a choice: long overdue, uncomfortable, unpleasant for some, but inevitable for everyone. For many countries, the time has come when their own interests must give way to the interests of the planet. Because otherwise both the former and the latter will be threatened by the actions of a global terrorist."
13:36 Ex-Chancellor of Germany Schroeder said after a meeting with Putin that he is ready for negotiations on Ukraine. In an interview with Stern magazine, Schroeder said that Russia wants to find a diplomatic solution to Ukraine, and the agreement reached in Istanbul on the supply of grain "can continue the way forward."
At the same time, he called Kyiv's statements about the return of Crimea absurd and added that an alternative to NATO membership for Ukraine "may be military neutrality, as in Austria."
13:12 The head of the Kharkiv OVA, Oleg Sinegubov, commented on the reports spread by the occupiers about a possible re-offensive on Kharkiv: “Without success at the front, the occupiers not only spread fakes, but also continue terror against civilians out of impotence. There is information that in the coming days the enemy will intensify missile attacks on the city of Kharkov and districts of the region. Therefore, I ask the residents of the Kharkov region not to neglect the alarm signals, not to be on the street unless absolutely necessary, but to be in shelters during the alarm."
At the same time, Sinegubov assured that the Ukrainian defenders are ready for any actions of the enemy, "hold the defense securely, do not allow the enemy to move forward, although he is trying."
13:07 Russia has no scenarios for the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine, Alexander Trofimov, a representative of the Russian delegation on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, said at the UN. According to him, the Russian doctrine on this issue is "well known and extremely clear." Moscow allows the use of nuclear weapons only in response to a nuclear strike or to aggression using conventional weapons, "when the very existence of Russia is endangered."
13:04 It will take ten years to clear the Ukrainian sea. According to Roman Primush, Deputy Head of the State Emergency Service, Ukraine turned out to be the most mined country in the world. Ukrainian sailors are already being trained on specialized ships. The crews will be ready for work in a few weeks.
12:56 The vessel RAZONI with Ukrainian grain passed the inspection of the Joint Coordination Center and is ready to head to its destination , the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine reported.
12:39 FlyEye reconnaissance drones, which are used by NATO countries, have arrived in Ukraine. More than 20 DJI Matrice multicopters and, probably, Warmate kamikaze drones also arrived. According to the Minister of Digital Transformation Mikhail Fedorov, this is the first delivery under the contract for 260 million hryvnias. The Ministry of Digital Development is now considering the purchase of Ukrainian drones SKIF, Skyton and Ukrjet.
12:13 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that a missile attack on Radekhiv in the Lvov region allegedly destroyed "a base with weapons and ammunition of foreign production that came from Poland."
11:42 The first cargo ship with Ukrainian grain is already being controlled in Istanbul, according to the Turkish Ministry of Defense. A ship flying the flag of Sierra Leone is heading to the port of Tripoli in Lebanon. On board - 26 thousand tons of corn.
11:38 Last night, the Ukrainian military shot down seven out of eight Russian Kh-101 (X-555) cruise missiles. Forbes calculated that it cost Russia 91 million dollars: X-101 - 13 million, Caliber - 6.5 million, Iskander - 3 million, Onyx - 1.25 million, X-22 - 1 million, Tochka-U - 0, 3 million
11:07 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of August 3. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Bakhmut and Donetsk directions.
personnel - about 41,350 (+180) people liquidated,
tanks - 1774 (+6),
armored combat vehicles - 4022 (+8),
artillery systems - 939 (+3),
MLRS - 259 (+0),
air defense systems - 118 (+1),
aircraft - 223 (+0),
helicopters - 191 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 740 (+1),
cruise missiles - 180 (+6),
ships/boats - 15 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2922 (+8),
special equipment - 83 (+1).
10:52 Since the start of martial law, 6,400 conscripts have been detained at the border who illegally tried to leave the country, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported. More than 4 thousand of them were detained outside the checkpoints, the rest tried to deceive the border guards at passport control: they disguised themselves as women, hid in cars (even in baby boxes), bought fake documents about their children or illnesses. There was even a man who, according to the entry in the document, was dismissed due to a difficult birth.
10:09 A powerful agency of Ukraine is working in Russia, Vadim Skibitsky, a representative of the GUR MOU, said. According to him, many Ukrainians managed to make a serious career in the public service during the years of their life in the Russian Federation. The environment makes it "very easy" to work with the enemy, spies were introduced back in 2015. Skibitsky noted that it was the agents who informed Kyiv that a full-scale attack on Ukraine was being prepared for February 15, but Putin's decision was postponed to February 24.
09:47 Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexei Danilov criticized men who want to leave the country during the war: "Go help those guys who are now at the front. There is a lot of work in the country. There is no need to hide behind a woman's skirt and flee the country. We need to help "You can't fight, you can't take up arms - help in another way. Find an opportunity to help."
09:33 Two-thirds of the residents were evacuated from the Donetsk region, now there are about 250 thousand residents left in the region, said the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko.
09:16 British intelligence reports that the railway connection between the Kherson region and the Crimea is probably not working after the APU hit the Russian echelon with ammunition. The Russians can repair the railway line within days, but it will remain a vulnerable point for Russian forces and their supply routes from Crimea, analysts say.
Intelligence also writes that the Russians will use the ferry crossing, recently built to replace the damaged Antonovsky Bridge in the suburbs of Kherson, to transfer troops and equipment, despite statements of intention to use it for civilian purposes. Analysts believe that the number of civilians trying to leave Kherson and its environs will increase in the near future, as fighting continues and food shortages worsen. This will put pressure on transport hubs and routes, which will likely lead to the implementation of traffic control measures.
08:57 Ukrainian refugees will be able to return to the EU at any time if they decide to go back to Ukraine, European Commissioner for Internal Affairs Ylva Johansson said during a visit to Kiev. She clarified that when returning home from the EU, Ukrainians must waive the status of temporary protection, but it can be renewed at any time.
08:48 The Pentagon denied Shoigu's statements about the destruction of six HIMARS installations in Ukraine. "We are aware of these latest statements by Minister Shoigu, and they are clearly false again," the acting minister said. Pentagon Representative Todd Bressail.
08:36 As a result of hostilities in Krasnohorivka, Donetsk region, four civilians were killed, seven more people were injured, said the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko.
08:09 The Russians attacked the Krivoy Rog district of the Dnipropetrovsk region at night, the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko, said. In particular, the Zelenodolsk and Apostolovsk communities came under fire, people were not injured.
08:03 The Armed Forces of Ukraine forced the Russians to withdraw with losses in the Kharkov, Avdeevsky, Bakhmut directions, and in the Slavyansk direction, the Ukrainian army neutralized the enemy reconnaissance group, the General Staff reports in the morning report .
07:05 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that Iran may have sent the first batch of drones to Russia and sent pilots and maintenance personnel to train on the Russian Su-35. Meanwhile, Russian troops were conducting unsuccessful offensive operations to the northeast and northwest of Kharkov. The occupiers also made limited ground attacks northwest of Slavyansk and east of Seversk.
The enemy forces made minor gains southeast of Bakhmut and continued offensive operations northeast and southeast of Bakhmut. Russian troops have been gradually advancing around Avdiivka and continue to attempt to advance southwest of Avdiivka. In addition, they launched two assaults in the north of the Kherson region and continue to redeploy troops to the southern axis.
Russia is forming new "volunteer battalions" in the Novosibirsk, Saratov, Ulyanovsk and Kurgan regions, and is also changing the timing of payment of monetary compensation.
06:23 The Russians attacked Kharkiv at night - one blow fell on the Kholodnogorsky district, the second - on the Novobavarsky district, where an infrastructure facility was damaged. In both cases, there was no fire, there were no casualties, Mayor Igor Terekhov said.
06:14 In Nikolaev around 5:00 powerful explosions have thundered, in one of districts of the city there was a fire, in another - the supermarket is destroyed, mayor Alexander Senkevich reported.
03:10 The Russians began the creation of a strike force in the Krivoy Rog direction, OK Pivden reports. The command also reported that rocket and artillery units of the Ukrainian army hit Chernobaevka, where the occupation troops are based.
00:08 In the occupied Kherson region, they began to accept applications from Ukrainian citizens for obtaining Russian citizenship without a local residence permit. Documents are accepted from residents of all regions of Ukraine on the basis of Putin's decree on simplifying the acquisition of Russian citizenship for Ukrainians, said "deputy head of the VGA" Ekaterina Gubareva.
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[REGNUM] On August 3, the Serbian List, a political organization of Kosovo Serbs, announced that they had set themselves the task of overthrowing the government of Albin Kurti in Kosovo.
According to the Albanian news agency Telegrafi, the party has said that this government is working against the interests of the Serbian people.
The "Serbian List" emphasized that they do not cooperate with Kurti, since he interferes with the establishment of peace.
“[Kosovo’s] Minister of the Interior Celal ] Svechla cannot accept the fact that the Serbs in northern Kosovo are more united than ever and are surviving and standing up against his threats and trusting in the leadership of the Serbian List.
It should be noted that Kurti's government was the first to not accept the "Serbian list" into the ruling coalition.
[IsraelTimes] Military bolsters forces surrounding Strip with terror group said determined to avenge arrest of West Bank leader; Israel said refusing PIJ demands made through Egyptian mediator
Following a new assessment held by the Israel Defense Forces, road closures along the border with 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 will remain in place on Thursday, for the third day in a row, local authorities said Wednesday night.
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[WND] Many journalists in Washington, D.C. are taking small doses of psychedelic mushrooms to improve their performance, according to Politico.
A 2020 D.C. ballot initiative made enforcement of bans on the purchase and distribution of psychedelic mushrooms the lowest priority of law enforcement, making the substance “basically legal,” according to Politico. The substance is used recreationally in full doses as well as in smaller "microdoses," which some believe can improve brain function.
"Microdosing mushrooms as a kind of performance-enhancing brain boost — already wildly popular among the California tech set — is now fairly common in Washington, especially in media circles," the Politico article said.
Additionally, many journalists are "macrodosing," or taking large quantities of mushrooms to experience a psychedelic trip, as well.
Some journalists questioned the author’s claim that microdosing was common is Washington media circles. Read the rest at the link
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...It may well be the ONLY way to overcome the cognitive dissonance they face every day in dealing with what the Biden Administration says, and reality...
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since i get my news from newsmax and my opinions from rantburg and instapundit, i dont care what they eat, drink, smoke, or rub-on. WGAF(who gives a f---)
#9
if they can start smelling their words, they might come back to reality.
Or die from the toxicity of the Stoopid
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i get my news from newsmax
Looking at the news that CPAC takes Soros money, how can any source that promotes CPAC be reliable?
Looking at you, Breitbart...
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Win Win.
"I see an alternate reality, where adding copious amounts of money into circulation devalues the money, like when 6 year olds play Monopoly and all paid money goes into Free Parking."
#3
To all the woke renamers, Piss off! Keep your hurt feeling to yourself...
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E pluribus unum! So it references a 'coming together' after a bitter Civil War -- what an absolutely horrid idea to Wokester bigots. I thought for a moment that it was a Ku Klux Klan insignia the way they were acting.
#5
I despise the motives behind this. Orwellian erasure of our history is essential to its deconstruction to create the basis for revolutionary thought. They have to make American exceptionalism and prosperity brought on by capitalism and a vast middle class into a hate filled lie to justify the globalist future they are selling.
Honoring Confederate Generals was an act of reconciliation and recognition of resumed brotherhood. History of shared national comity, with all the sad exceptions along the way, doesn't fit the "white supremacy and racism" needed to fuel the useful idiot minds for the coming revolution.
"Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present, controls the past… The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. And since the Party is in full control of all records, and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it."
#6
Lee's actions after the war more than qualify him for recognition. It all could have degenerated into an ongoing unending insurgency at even greater costs to each side. Instead, Lee set the example, and had the influence that it required, that the issue was done and over.
#7
Wiki on 29th ID: "The 29th Infantry Division has been featured numerous times in popular media, particularly for its role on D-Day. The division's actions on Omaha Beach are featured prominently in the 1962 film The Longest Day,[61] as well as in the 1998 film Saving Private Ryan.[62][63] Soldiers of the division are featured in other films and television with smaller roles, such as in the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds and the 2005 film War of the Worlds.[citation needed]
The 29th Infantry Division is also featured in numerous video games related to World War II. The division's advance through Normandy and Europe is featured in the games Close Combat, Company of Heroes and Call of Duty 3, in which the player assumes the role of a soldier of the division.[64]"
No wonder the Wokesters have a good hate for the 29th ID --it's popular with all the wrong people!
Commentary by Ukrainian writer Roman Donik
[SiteUA] I have bad news for those who enjoy the post about the traitor in the Sands and suck it up. Welcome to reality. Maybe, finally, something will switch in your stupid heads and you will understand what is going on around you now. That every settlement we left we defended with the same effort. Every kilometer of the front, in 99 cases out of 100, was left just like that. And what was even worse.
Now with artillery is much better due to NATO calibers. It's just that when you scream that the enemy is still advancing, that there is still a threat of losing the state, then all of them are some kind of bullshit and scarecrows, and let's go around the political bullshit.
Once again for the particularly gifted. We have a full-scale war, which has not happened since World War II. We have problems with BC for artillery, and the fucking barrels of Soviet calibers. And there is nowhere to take it. The Russians have an advantage in artillery. In order to have an advantage in offensive artillery, we need more guns than all European NATO member countries have.
At our front, the M-777 155mm field gun is a priority target for the enemy. They are being hunted. If after a volley they find shells flying, then in two minutes a cluster package of BM-27 Uragan MRL flies there. Whole divisions of BM-27 Uragan MRL are hunting.
We have success in some areas, but it is all very unstable. Because this is due to the fact that the enemy transfers forces to other locations. Understand it all. We hit warehouses, not because we are such humanists. And because it is the only way to reduce pressure on the front line. Every day is a superhuman effort with losses at the front. What is wrong with you that you don't want to understand the obvious? The tape is like a solid obituary. Half of the contacts in the phone will never answer. Did you just wake up because of a post on Facebook?
Yes, there is cautious optimism that we have stopped the rapid advance, but we have to prepare day and night. Nothing has been decided yet. The existence of Ukraine is still under threat. And if someone thinks that this applies only to Donetsk, Luhansk, and perhaps partially Kharkiv and Mykolaiv regions, I have some bad news - they will not stop. If we don't stop them. They still have resources. And there are enough camps in Siberia for everyone.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — After a trip that drew China’s wrath, a defiant Nancy Pelosi concluded her visit to Taiwan on Wednesday with a pledge that the American commitment to democracy on the self-governing island and elsewhere "remains ironclad."
Pelosi received a euphoric welcome as the first U.S. House speaker to visit in more than 25 years, and China swiftly responded by announcing multiple military exercises nearby.
The speaker’s departure for South Korea came just a day before China was scheduled to launch its largest maneuvers aimed at Taiwan in more than a quarter of a century.
Before leaving, a calm but resolute Pelosi repeated previous remarks about the world facing "a choice between democracy and autocracy."
"America’s determination to preserve democracy, here in Taiwan and around the world, remains ironclad," she said in a short speech during a meeting with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen.
27 Chinese fighter jets, including 16 Russian-made Su-30s, have flown into Taiwan's air defence zone today
Comes amid huge air-and-sea war games that Beijing has declared in response to Pelosi visiting the island
Taiwan's generals have defied Beijing's threats, saying they will 'not shy away from a fight' with China
Expert told MailOnline that Xi's fury comes ahead of autumn's Party Congress where he will establish autocracy, with Taiwan 'reunification' his hoped-for legacy
Update:
PLA has launched multiple DF ballistic #missiles at our NE and SW waters since 13:56. #ROCArmedForces have monitored the situation with various means, while our defense systems have been activated. We condemn such irrational action that has jeopardized regional peace. pic.twitter.com/9JAFVBJIUO
— 國防部 Ministry of National Defense, R.O.C. 🇹🇼 (@MoNDefense) August 4, 2022
#8
I still can find no logical reasoning for her to even go on trips like this.
Remember 'Queen' Nancy's triumphant walks with a ceremonial gavel when she was elected speaker? Vanity. Narcissism. Nancy seems to live in a world where she is Prime Minister For Life™ in a parliamentary US government ...or at least she seems to act like it.
#12
I still can't believe Nancy would do anything that Xi Jinping didn't want her to do. So, yeah, kabuki even if kabuki is Japanese and the Chinese hate it.
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Wasn't it during the George W. Bush presidency that Speaker Pelosi paid a call to Syrian president Bashir al Assad? This is Pay Attention To Meeeeeeeee!!!!!! stuff.
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Confucius screech opera: "Pooh shit
In the Strait! Nancy pitches a fit!"
Cue chop-socky talkie in
Chinese and Hokkien:
Biden dismissed? Or just quit?
["It big hit!"]
#18
Let’s see, she is second in line after the Vice President who is not a natural American. Biteone dies of COVID, Camala is not eligible to be president.. Viola.. President Pillousy…
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[REGNUM] A new Naval Doctrine has appeared in Russia. It was approved by a decree of the President of Russia V. V. Putin on July 31, the day of the Navy. The multi-page document, in full accordance with the title, is strategic, at the same time complex and specific. The absence of the usual vagueness, a clear prioritization and frankness in identifying problem areas favorably distinguish the new Naval Doctrine from many other documents.
The previous one was adopted in 2015. Seven years is not long enough to radically change strategic priorities, so the new doctrine is largely clarifying and concretizing.
First of all, much more attention is paid to security issues, taking into account the long-term nature of the confrontation between the Russian Federation and NATO led by the United States in the context of their actively waged hybrid war to destroy Russia. Chapter 2 of the document "National Interests, Challenges and Threats to the National Security of the Russian Federation in the World Ocean" is devoted to these issues. Chapter 1 contains general provisions and definitions - the very logic of building the Naval Doctrine speaks of the highest priority of security issues for Russia.
Ensuring maritime security is interpreted broadly: not only as the protection of maritime borders, but also as a presence in the oceans, the protection of key routes and communications, including underwater ones (pipelines and cables).
The reference to "the lack of a sufficient number of bases outside the Russian Federation to provide ships and vessels of the Navy performing tasks in remote areas of the World Ocean" indicates Russia's intention to develop a network of naval bases to ensure its national interests in those regions which she considers to be her priority.
The issue of shipbuilding and shipbuilding is still acute, both for the Navy and for increasing the capabilities of the merchant fleet. The doctrine emphasizes the need to achieve technological self-sufficiency in the industry, maximize the utilization of domestic production capacities and localize the industry in Russia.
Import substitution in technology is one of the most painful issues in the Russian economy, including in the military-industrial complex. If it is not resolved in the coming years, Russia may forever lag behind competitors in the transition to a new technological order, which will inevitably affect not only the civilian sector of the economy, but also the country's defense capability.
The issue of the need for an integrated approach to the port economy was pointed out. The access roads, the actual transshipment (loading and unloading) capacities of the port and the tonnage of the fleet should correspond to the cargo turnover predicted for the medium term. Otherwise, bottlenecks will have to be constantly “opened up” when ships and railway cars stand idle for weeks waiting for their turn to be processed at the port. This is a well-known and long-standing problem, the solution of which requires the coordination of relevant departments and companies using port facilities.
Russia's priorities in the World Ocean have been revised in the new Naval Doctrine of Russia. The Baltic direction gave way to the first place in the Arctic. This is apparently caused by the ongoing melting of the ice, which expands the possibilities of navigation. As a result, the Arctic coast of Russia is gradually becoming one of its most important borders - the length of the Northern Sea Corridor (Northern Sea Route - NSR) alone is 5600 kilometers.
The Arctic shelf is still little explored, but already known geological exploration data indicate significant deposits of minerals. In addition, the NSR is the shortest route from China and other Far Eastern countries to Europe; this factor makes Arctic transit competitive even if ice assistance is required. For control over the minerals of the Arctic shelf and transit routes, a serious struggle flares up between Russia on the one hand and the United States, Canada and their allies from Northern Europe on the other.
In the new Maritime Doctrine, the NSR is called the national transport artery of Russia, that is, the sovereignty of the Russian Federation over territorial waters and the Northern Sea Corridor is emphasized.
The Baltic direction is not indicated in the new Naval Doctrine, now it is referred to the Atlantic direction, which obviously reflects Russia's growing ambitions for presence in the World Ocean. The Atlantic direction is listed third in the new doctrine, followed by the Pacific direction. The growing geopolitical tension in the region and the need for intensive development of the Russian Far East make the Pacific area one of the key ones in Russia's strategic plans.
The new Naval Doctrine emphasizes the importance of the Caspian Sea. Five states are located along the coast of this relatively small and closed sea, four of which are former republics of the USSR. Rich in natural resources and fragile in terms of ecology, the Caspian Sea is becoming increasingly important as a crossroads of international transport corridors East-West and North-South. Despite its small size, the Caspian Sea is listed fourth in the list of priorities in the Naval Doctrine.
The Indian Ocean direction became the fifth most important. At the same time, the doctrine speaks of the need to create bases for the Navy in the Persian Gulf and other Indian Ocean regions. Russia intends to project naval power into one of the most geopolitically complex regions of the world.
The new Naval Doctrine of the Russian Federation is very ambitious. At the same time, it speaks quite frankly about existing problems and bottlenecks. Now it's up to the performers and coordinators of the tasks. Whether Russia will become a truly great maritime power or trail behind the United States and China depends primarily on the organizers of the work.
[IsraelTimes] Michigan progressive Levin notes opponent spent 5 times more than his campaign due to ’outside money,’ alluding to pro-Israel lobby, but pledges to support Stevens in November vote
A Jewish political dynasty’s four-decade run in Congress has come to an end after Rep. Andy Levin conceded to Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan’s 11th congressional district Tuesday.
Stevens’ decisive win concluded a bank-busting primary that attracted more than $4 million in pro-Israel outside spending to a face-off between two incumbents in the bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... suburbs.
"She ran a strong campaign," Levin told his supporters. "My hat’s off to her." He pledged to support Stevens in the general election.
In his concession speech, Levin did not mention the role that spending by the political action committee founded this year by AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby, played in his loss. But he did mention that Stevens’ supporters outspent his own by a factor of five to one, thanks to "outside money."
Stevens drew significant support from a PAC founded to support women candidates and was seen as favored from the beginning because of the new district’s map. But with nearly half of the outside spending coming from AIPAC’s PAC, United Democracy Project, the race also emerged as a battleground over US-Israel politics — made more poignant as AIPAC backed the non-Jewish candidate over the Jewish one. A JINO Not all Jews are Zionists. Just the smart ones.
In addition to ending a Michigan Jewish political dynasty that has lasted since Levin’s uncle Carl was elected to the Senate in 1979, Levin’s loss means the wing of the Democratic party that is most critical of Israel is losing its most outspoken Jewish ally in the House of Representatives.
"Especially for young Jews, Andy was our candidate," Levi Teitel, a local organizer with the Jewish pro-Paleostinian group IfNotNow, told JTA. "He championed the issues we care about: climate justice, the need to forge peace between Israelis and Paleostinians."
For AIPAC, that result is something to celebrate. Despite drawing criticism for its spending in this year’s primaries, the first time the pro-Israel lobby has supported candidates directly, AIPAC has unapologetically stood behind the candidates it believes to be most beneficial to the US-Israel relationship — even, as in Michigan’s 11th District when it means opposing a Jewish incumbent.
Levin, who was backed by J Street, the liberal pro-Israel lobby, is vocally critical of Israel and authored a "Two-State Solution Act" this session that would restrict how Israel could use US aid, has been in AIPAC’s crosshairs. AIPAC’s former director David Victor, a Detroit resident, called Levin "arguably the most corrosive member of Congress to the US-Israel relationship." He also said in a letter to prospective donors in January that "less engaged fellow wardheelers may take [Levin] at his word" on Israel because of his Jewish credentials.
In the waning days of his campaign, rather than try to win over the voters that AIPAC had sought to mobilize, Levin instead drew attention to his Israel politics. He held a rally with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders ...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... and Representative Rashida Tlaib and did a virtual event with Peter Beinart of Jewish Currents, three figures who are critical of Israel and its treatment of the Paleostinians and largely despised by the hardline pro-Israel crowd.
"I’m really Jewish," Levin said on MSNBC last week. "But AIPAC can’t stand the idea that I am the clearest strongest Jewish voice in Congress standing for a simple proposition: that there’s no way to have a secure democratic homeland for the Jewish people unless we achieve the political and human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... for the Paleostinian people."
On Tuesday night at the Crofoot Ballroom in Pontiac, volunteers and young campaign staffers wearing "Jews For Levin" shirts commiserated with Levin supporters of a variety of races and ages. Outside, the rock band Coheed and Cambria was playing a loud gig to a parking lot full of headbangers.
Though Levin was fighting a variety of uphill factors in the race, including a redrawn district that covered much of Stevens’ territory, his Jewish supporters laid the blame for his loss squarely on AIPAC’s spending.
"Andy is actually very close to the center of gravity of the American Jewish community," Eva Borgwardt, a Levin volunteer who drove from her parents’ home in Missouri to knock on doors for the campaign and who had written invective against AIPAC in red ink on her arm, told JTA.
Not really, no. But it’s very human to define where one stands as the center, especially for those driven by feelings instead of actual facts.
"This is an attempt from AIPAC to send a very clear message that if you are an American Jew for Paleostinian rights, we will destroy you."
Nah, they aren’t prejudiced. If you are a non-Jewish American politician who occupies the same anti-Israel territory, they’ll express their opinions on the subject by supporting your pro-Israel opponent, regardless of your or their faith/race/ethnicity.
Matt Nosanchuk, the president and executive director of the progressive Jewish group New York Jewish Agenda, is Levin’s brother-in-law and flew into Michigan to campaign for him.
"Ultimately AIPAC may enjoy a victory in the short term, but I think they need to think hard about the political space they’re shutting down through their efforts and their money," Nosanchuk said.
Oh. So it’s perfectly ok for you to push your agenda, but not for AIPAC to do the same — because Israel is icky. Gotcha.
For its part, AIPAC was eager to claim victory Tuesday night, tweeting that Stevens was "the 10th AIPAC-backed Democrat to defeat a challenger who sought to undermine America’s partnership with our ally Israel." (So far this year, one AIPAC-backed candidate has lost).
Making the Democrats more sensible, on candidate at a time.
The group added, "Being pro-Israel is both good policy and good politics!"
AIPAC also poured more than $4 million into a different Michigan race, in the 13th District, to support Adam Hollier against a billionaire state senator, Shri Thanedar, who funded his own campaign and whom AIPAC considered a threat because he once introduced anti-Israel legislation. That race had not been called Tuesday night.
[IsraelTmes] Ahead of hotly contested US primary, local partisan group says clip mentioning AIPAC campaign spending and saying ‘Zionists have no place in office’ was ‘completely inappropriate’.
The chair of a county Democratic Party in Michigan apologized after the group made a social media post reading “Zionists have no place in office,” apparently meant to support a member of the US Congress, Rep. Andy Levin, who identifies as a Zionist.
But as we all know, identifying as is not at all the same as being.
Washtenaw County Democratic Party chair Chris Savage issued an apology Saturday for the TikTok post, which was sent Friday by the @WashtenawDems account and referenced the millions of dollars’ worth of pro-Israel money that has flowed into Michigan’s 11th District primary. The race, a redistricting battle between progressive Jewish member Levin and centrist non-Jewish Rep. Haley Stevens, concludes Tuesday.
The party group has since deleted the post, but a screenshot of it was shared on social media by Jordan Acker, a Jewish Democrat who is an elected member of the University of Michigan Board of Regents. It contains the text “Zionists have no place in office” under a headline reading “AIPAC VS ANDY LEVIN” and a hashtag reading “#nastywoman” with a devil-horns emoji.
“Naturally, I was troubled by this,” Levin told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “I was grateful for the Washtenaw Dems’ swift action and apology.”
The post, which Acker later said was made by a college student, was notable for arriving in the thick of a Democratic primary season that has been largely defined by how thoroughly Israel has taken center stage in even local races. AIPAC has demonstrated a willingness to spend enormous sums of money to back their preferred candidates, who support hardline pro-Israel policies, over more liberal opponents.
Sooner than later, the political faction that illegally seized power in DC by its Organized Voter Fraud will instruct the DOJ/_ _ _ to get inventive and try something to stem the flow.
Like charging the TX Gov. with interstate trafficking, Rico Act, or something found in the Immigration and Nationality Act (I.N.A.), at Section 274 (a) (1) (A) (ii).
But the question then becomes.
Can the Biden Puppet Run Admin be charged with
8 U.S. Code § 1324 also. Since it is transports and dumps massive amounts of illegals in certain states/cities for political reasons?
[FEDERALIST] Joe Manchin, the Democratic U.S. senator from West Virginia, may finally see the writing on the wall and realize his time in politics is coming to an end. Manchin, who held onto his Senate seat by just over 3 percent during his most recent reelection bid, is likely to squander any of the goodwill he has generated among his constituents with his recently declared support for the latest reconciliation bill in the Senate.
After presenting himself as a foil to many of the Biden administration’s leftist legislative goals, Manchin has come to an agreement with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer ...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 46.65985 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017... about dedicating "hundreds of billions" of federal funds to "deficit reduction," raising taxes on American industry, and emboldening green energy ... the attempt to produce energy without using fossil fuel. The preferred methods are solar, wind, geothermal, phlogiston, philosophers' stones, and rattling bears' teeth. The approach with the most promise involves attaching generators to perpetual motion machines, but using Words of Power to summon energy-rich demons may also work. The green in the term refers to the vast number of dollars that have been thrown at the problem since 1973 with indifferent results... initiatives.
Manchin has insisted that passing the reconciliation bill will bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States, but the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) disagrees. According to NAM, the bill intends to raise $313 billion, nearly half of which will be generated by imposing a 15 percent minimum corporate levy on domestic manufacturers.
This new tax is expected to reduce real GDP by $68.45 billion, eliminate more than 200,000 jobs, and decrease the income of laborers by $17.11 billion.
The bill also, according to Manchin, "addresses our nation’s energy and climate crisis by adopting commonsense solutions through strategic and historic investments that allow us to decarbonize." According to a summary of the bill from Senate Democrats, the bill would "put the U.S. on a path to roughly 40% emissions reduction by 2030, and would represent the single biggest climate investment in U.S. history."
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Consider - someone whispered in Joe's ear that he gets the VP slot after they Agnew Harris? Knowing the Big Guy's show only has months left, wouldn't a pol be tempted to take the bait?
#2
i recall a tv show when then rep schumer was propounding gun control when an audience member said that the constitutions 2nd amendment was not to protect citizens from criminals but to protect citizens from 'you' ... his smile turned waxen.
#3
He knows he is toast next election. He is getting his and yours before then. A promise of a VP slot wouldn't be out of the question to sweeten the deal either.
Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:55 The main thing from the statement of the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mizintsev:
▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine have equipped ammunition depots in the maternity hospital in Dobropolye, Donetsk, women with newborns are used as cover;
▪️The soldiers of the Aidar battalion occupied the hospital in the city of Kobelyaki, Poltava region, driving all the patients out of the medical institution;
▪️Armed Forces of Ukraine are shelling residential areas from the territory of a medical school in Artemovsk;
▪️415 tons of cargo were transferred to the population of the LPR, DPR, Zaporozhye and Kharkov regions;
▪️Russian sappers neutralized more than 198,000 explosive objects in the Donbass;
▪️Over 25,000 people were evacuated per day from dangerous regions of Ukraine and Donbass.
20:48 Ukrainian prisoner of war told how the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka in the DPR.
According to him, the nationalists struck two blows. After the second explosion, the roof collapsed, and then the evacuation began.
19:55 Ukraine insisted that the prisoners of war be placed in correctional colony No. 120 in Yelenovka, which was then attacked by American HIMARS MLRS, said Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin. 18:58 Russian Ministry of Defense: 81 percent of Russian prisoners of war in Ukraine are beaten, 55 percent are forced to appear in propaganda videos, 46 percent are denied medical care.
The department noted that Ukraine does not comply with international law in relation to Russian prisoners of war.
17:45 Russia and Ukraine have already carried out 27 operations to exchange prisoners of war and the bodies of dead servicemen, the Russian Ministry of Defense reports
16:44 In one of the kindergartens in Odessa, a patriotic Ukrainian found a typical "zrada" - children made drawings on the topic of the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine. And a girl named Inna drew that "ours and Russia" are fighting against the Americans.
The vigilant older brother immediately concluded that the parents of this girl did not explain to her all the vicissitudes of the current geopolitical conflict. Perhaps the SBU is already talking to them.
16:01 Residents of the Melitopol district will be able to get a Russian-style driver's license and register a vehicle with the MREO traffic police
15:59 The Ukrainian government is preparing a bill on the introduction of a 10 percent fee on foreign exchange transactions for the purchase of imported goods and services, Deputy Zheleznyak said. According to him, the goal is to reduce the demand for imports and pressure on the hryvnia.
14:56 The legal status of the Kherson region is determined by its being under the control of the Russian Federation, said the head of the military-civilian administration of the region Vladimir Saldo.
14:55 For August, the budget application for the Kherson region has been formed in the amount of 6 billion rubles, social payments and salaries to state employees will be financed, the military-civilian administration of the region reported.
13:51 The first MLS SHIELD armored vehicles are already in Ukraine, - media
12:42 The main thing from the new briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense:
▪️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed a storage base with weapons delivered from Poland in the Lvov region with high-precision missiles;
▪️The Russian Aerospace Forces killed over 50 nationalists with a strike at the point of temporary deployment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Nikolaevka;
▪️Russian air defense systems shot down five Ukrainian drones in a day, intercepted two Tochka-U missiles;
▪️The commanders of the units of the 132nd Reconnaissance Battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kharkov refused to follow the orders of the command, departed for a temporary deployment point.
11:59 Kherson authorities intend to streamline the work of the city's markets in accordance with the legislation of Russia, including in matters of security, compliance with sanitary standards and the allocation of halls for trade, informed head of the military-civilian administration of the city Alexander Kobets.
Part of the lanes of the Antonovsky bridge across the Dnieper River in Kherson, destroyed as a result of shelling by Ukrainian troops, has been restored, Oleksandr Kobets added.
10:51 To the west of Vuhledar, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are attempting to attack in the area of the settlement. Boring. With tactical efforts, groups are trying to break through the defense line using artillery. We repulse the attacks.
10:51 Yesterday, the location of Ukrainian militants from the 63rd brigade in the area of the settlement was destroyed. Heavy flamethrower systems mercilessly denazify units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to preliminary data, more than 40 nationalists were killed
09:55 APU can mobilize another half a million people, said in the Ukrainian operational command "South"
04:14 Missile attack on Ukrainian positions in Kharkov. All missiles overcame air defense and reached their targets, Ukrainian anti-missiles could not interfere with them, columns of smoke rise above the impact sites
01:39 Special forces of the Russian Guard and soldiers of the Russian Army evacuated children from the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Due to the constant artillery fire of the Ukrainian Nazis, more than 15 pupils and staff of the orphanage in the Mykolaiv region were forced to spend about three months in the basement of the institution.
In cooperation with the military-civilian administration, the soldiers of the special forces of the Russian Guard were able to quickly evacuate the pupils and staff of the orphanage to the Center for the Social and Psychological Rehabilitation of Children in the Kherson region.
01:31 Application of blows Russian artillery on Ukrainian positions in the Zaporozhye direction. Previously killed six officers and 20 soldiers.
0:59 Reported about the shelling of the Kherson region by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Explosions are heard near Novaya Kakhovka, Berislav and Chernobaevka, air defense systems are working.
[IsraelTimes] In video shared by Ottoman Turkish media, suspected Iranian agents seen following and filming potential Israeli targets in airports, shopping centers and hotels across Istanbul
Security footage released by Ottoman Turkish media on Wednesday purported to show how alleged Iranian operatives scouted potential Israeli targets in Istanbul last month, as Iran ...The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both... attempted to carry out an attack against citizens of the Jewish state.
The footage, reportedly obtained from security sources, showed several men trailing Israeli tourists and filming them. The suspects were captured by cameras following Israelis in airports, shopping centers and hotels.
The footage was obtained after police scanned hundreds of hours of security footage from Istanbul, reports said.
Ottoman Turkish authorities identified several Iranian citizens who had recently entered the country, often with fake passports, and exhibited suspicious activity, like switching vehicles routinely.
"We are talking about an event on a scale we had not seen before," a Ottoman Turkish source told Israel’s Channel 12 on Wednesday.
On June 23, Ottoman Turkish police arrested five Iranian nationals accused of plotting attacks against Israeli targets in Istanbul. The news of the bust came weeks after Israel ordered its citizens in Istanbul to leave immediately, warning of an imminent Iranian attack plot targeting Israelis in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... Among those who were being targeted for kidnapping were a former Israeli diplomat and his wife, Hebrew media reported, citing Ottoman Turkish outlets. The diplomat’s name was not published.
A month later, local reports indicated that Turkey had foiled another Iranian attempt to target Israelis in Istanbul, saying three men were detained. They were caught on July 14 while carrying a rifle, two pistols, silencers and ammunition, reports said. The men reportedly tried to target Israeli tourists staying at a hotel near Istanbul’s Taksim Square, in exchange for $35,000.
The next day, the Ottoman Turkish Sabah daily newspaper published a video showing a man photographing areas inside the hotel.
In this case, four cell members were arrested at the "last minute," the report said.
[AlAhram] The trial of Egyptian-American father Yasser Said,
...also in our archives as Yaser Abdel Said and Yaser Said, he was well known to the local police for abusing his daughters...
65, who is accused of fatally shooting his two teenage daughters in New Year's Day in 2008, began on Tuesday in Texas, with the defendant facing a life sentence if convicted.
Amina Said, 18, and Sarah Said, 17, were found dead in a taxi parked near a Dallas-area hotel nearly a week after they and their mother, Said's ex-wife, fled their home in the Dallas suburb of Lewisville to Oklahoma to get away from Said's threats, the prosecutor said Tuesday during his opening statements at the capital murder trial.
The sisters had become "very scared for their lives," and the decision to leave was made after Said "put a gun to Amina's head and threatened to kill her," prosecutor Lauren Black added, reported the AP.
The Egyptian-born cab driver came to the US on a student visa in 1983 and lived with his family just north of Dallas, Texas, and evaded arrest for more than 12 years, according to news agencies.
Said spent six years on the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list before he was arrested in 2020, nearly 12 years after the accident.
AP reported that Said wrote in a letter to the judge that he was overseeing the case and that he was not happy with his kids’ "dating activity" but denied killing his daughters, while prosecutor Black said that he was "obsessed with possession and control."
"He controlled what they did, who they talked to, who they could be friends with, if they and who they could date," the prosecutor added. "And he controlled everything in his household."
Following his capture, Patricia Owens, mother of the victims and Said’s former wife, said that she does not know the motive behind the murder. "All I can say is there’s going to be justice," Owens said in remarks to The Dallas Morning News.
In a previous statement reported in 2011 by the same outlet, Owens, who divorced Said in 2009, said that she does not know what drove Said to kill.
Owens said her ex-husband was not religious and that Islam does not condone the killing of innocents, however, she said that he was obsessed with his daughters becoming what he considered "too westernized."
Sarah Said had called 911 the night she was killed and told the operator "I'm dying, I'm dying..." A short time later, the authorities received another call from a man reporting two women unconscious in a car in the parking lot of the Omni Mandalay Hotel in Irving, Texas.
With multiple gunshot wounds each, the police found the girls dead inside the taxi that their father had driven for the past 10 days as per the taxi's registered owner.
Defense attorney Joseph Patton said in opening statements that the evidence would not support a conviction, explaining that in moments of extreme trauma like being shot multiple times, people can have hallucinations.
The police were too quick to focus on Said, Patton said, suggesting that anti-Moslem sentiments played into that focus, AP's report noted.
The report also cited an email sent from Amina Said to her Lewisville High School history teacher a few days before the crime. The prosecutor read the email in which Amina stated that she and her sister Sarah did not want to live by their father’s culture and marry men from the Middle East, "especially men we don’t know or love."
"I know that he will search until he finds us, and he will without any drama nor doubt kill us," the email added.
In 2020, the defendant was found hiding in Justin, Texas, barely 30 miles (48 kilometres) from the scene of the murder.
He had reportedly been sheltered by his son Islam Said, and his brother Yassein Said. The pair were arrested and are serving sentences in federal prison.
Said became a permanent American resident after gaining citizenship in 1997.
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Why are they only going after life? He should get the jab. This is Texas, where you are supposed to get the death penalty. But then it IS Dallas, a hive of scum and villainy second only to Austin.
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This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs. - Charles James Napier
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While I am against Abortion On Demand, I have to consider the long range flip side of this.
Giving the Gov. /Political types the POWER to decide Personal Moral issues every election, is political fertilizer, for greater social problems down the road to happen.
With that said, Kansas already has something on the Legal Books. But it badly needs tweaking, given the advancement in Pregnancy Detection kits in the last 45 years. Now available for under $5 in many a Dollar Stores.
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It seems the amendment would have given the legislature the right to regulate abortion, and (I suppose) change the regulation every time the legislature changed.
I suspect both pro-life and pro-choice groups missed that part.
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Yes. SCOTUS sent it back to the states. The state legislature should legislate, then let the courts verify the law passes muster. You know, the way the Founders intended.
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I'm not putting too much into it other than:
() Weirdly timed bill - primary rather than general.
() Therefore, low voter turnout
() Majority of 'No' voters were Interstate People
() Oddly worded
() The 'no' voters really showed their ass on election day, one even wishing rape on my daughter to prove a point.*
*bout tired of this bosswoman bullshit, no consequence thinking.
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The I-35 People were doing some end-zone dancing until they realized this result kind of destroyed The Narrative.
And like I said, The Whips going around saying that daughters needed to be raped in order to teach some manners was not a good look.
I'd more more accepting of the results had the question been during the general election, and had enough time to make the case instead of only the I-35 media yelling. And it is a constitutional amendment and I"m ok with the process, as it was our state's constitution which kindly instructed the governess to shove her ever loving covid protocols up her cat piss smelling ass.
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*there is a lot of out of state and international business on the I-35 corridor, and they love to shit all over us hick Kansans, so there is a real peer push among those communities to be seen as progressives, especially with social issues, "Oh, I'm not like those Kansans; I just work here."
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I’ve read that there was a lot of out of state money supporting the pro-abortion side, but I don’t know more than that. I expect a lot of back and forth over this in various states for a while.
[ANNAHAR] United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... experts and top NGOs urged the U.N. Human Rights Council on Wednesday to launch an international investigation into the deadly Beirut port blast, on the eve of its two-year anniversary.
The August 4, 2020 mega-blast killed more than 200 people and destroyed swathes of the Lebanese capital, after a stockpile of haphazardly stored ammonium nitrate fertilizer caught fire at the port.
Relatives of blast victims have pressed for justice and accountability for two years but the local probe has been paused since December due to political pressure.
"This tragedy marked one of the largest non-nuclear blasts in recent memory, yet the world has done nothing to find out why it happened," the six U.N. experts said.
"On the second anniversary of the blast, we are disheartened that people in Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial... still await justice, and we call for an international investigation to be initiated without delay."
The blast shocked a population already reeling from an unprecedented economic crisis, and is widely blamed on the negligence and mismanagement of Lebanese authorities.
The lead investigator, Judge Tarek Bitar, who was chasing after some of Lebanon's top brass, has been barred from proceeding after politicians he summoned for questioning filed a series of lawsuits against him.
The victims' families have appealed to the international community to set up an independent investigation under the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
They hope such an inquiry would give them the answers that Lebanese authorities have failed to provide, said the experts, who do not speak for the U.N. but report their findings to it.
The explosion and its aftermath have brought into focus systemic problems of negligent governance and widespread corruption, the experts said.
The next Human Rights Council session starts on September 13.
The Council "should pass a resolution... to create an impartial fact-finding mission into the Beirut port explosion," said 11 local and international NGOs, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesia Amnesty International.
"It is now, more than ever, clear that the domestic investigation cannot deliver justice," the NGOs said in a joint statement.
Lawmakers of the Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... party also pressed the U.N. on Wednesday to launch an international probe.
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Dramatic Israeli warning: Beirut's Dahiya district will be wiped out entirely in case of Hezbollah attack on Israeli gas rig, minister Avigdor Lieberman says (via journalist @AnnaBarskiy). City's southern suburbs are a key terror stronghold.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:37 Additional information about the injured civilian, a woman born in 1960, was received through the operational lines of the DPR JCCC. as a result of shelling from the side of the VFU of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk on the street. Miner's Glory, 12.
Thus, the total number of civilian casualties from VFU attacks on August 3, 2022 increased to 16 people (two died, 14 injured).
Additional information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk:
Petrovsky district:
- st. Polukhina, 6/2 - damaged garage and car.
Kuibyshevsky district:
- st. Miner's Glory, 12 - apartment building.
As of today, as of 23:30, the enemy fired 520 ammunition of various types, including the BM-27 Uragan and BM-21 Grad MLRSs, as well as artillery ammunition with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
22:11 Social networks report that Peski and Semigorye have come under the control of the allies.
It is noted that while it is difficult to give an assessment, most likely, a long sweep is ahead. But you can record success in these areas and wait for official information.
21:18 The situation in the Soledar direction as of 20.00 August 3, 2022
In the Soledar direction, the efforts of the allied forces are concentrated on pushing through the defensive lines near Soledar and Bakhmut (Artyomovsk).
--In Soledar, fighting is taking place along the Bakhmut-Lysichansk highway. Russian units came close to the southeastern outskirts of the settlement: clashes unfolded on the territory of the Knauf Gips plant and the Extra railway station. one km southwest, the cleansing of Bakhmut continues.
--The attackers from the side of the Pokrovsky division are grinding the enemy defenses in Bakhmut, suppressing firing points in the city.
--The capture of Semigorye made it possible to establish control over Travnev and come close to Kodem. The assault on the fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continues throughout the Travnevoe-Kodema-Vershina section.
21:17 Allied forces knocked out the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the southern outskirts of Maryinka in the DPR.
20:00 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the DPR: over the current day, according to information from the JCCC of the DPR, the enemy fired more than three hundred and forty rounds from Grad multiple launch rocket systems, cannon artillery with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm, 120mm mortars.
The fire was fired at the districts of eight settlements of the Republic. As a result of shelling, two civilians were killed and nine were injured. Thirty-seven residential buildings and five 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, four defenders of the Donetsk People's Republic died and nine were injured. We express our sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims.
19:16 Most of the sand is under the control of the NM DNR. The 11th Regiment of the NM DPR and the assault battalion "Somali" already control most of the village. The commander of the unit of the 11th Regiment "Small" told the project@wargonzothe situation on this sector of the front.
19:00 Ukrainian prisoners who were kept in the Yelenovka prison (DPR)tell,how they survived the moment of the APU attack on the barracks with HIMARS missiles.
18:41 The Allied Forces are storming the settlement of Maryinka. NM DNR 1st Army Corps work with fire support from the art division of the Russian Federation. There are reports that the enemy is retreating and that most of Maryinka is already under the control of the DPR. Reports the military commander Rudenko.
18:30 Sappers of the MOC of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue cleaning water areas of rivers and lakes in the liberated territories of the LPR from explosive objects.
18:08 Allied troops are already on the outskirts of Avdievka. Literally a kilometer from the DPR military NM there are well-fortified positions of the APU militants, from where the enemy is shelling Donetsk/corr. TK Zvezda Andrey Lazarev/.
18:00 Residents of the cities of Severodonetsk and Rubizhny, as well as the Kremensky district, will begin receiving pensions from August 10, the LPR government reported.
17:51 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
-17:25 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Staromikhaylovka: fired five mines in 120mm caliber;
-17:35 — n.p. Dacha - n.p. Zaitsevo (southern): eight mines fired in 120mm caliber.
17:42 Offensive in the Svetlodarsk direction. Soldiers of the 2nd Corps of the LNR Armyshowwhat fortified areas the allied forces had to storm during the liberation of the Uglegorsk TPP.
17:31 This is how the shelling of cluster rockets filled with hundreds of PFM-1 “petal” mines sounds, the use of which is prohibited.
Whistling and hum - a consequence of the dispersion of mines in the air. They are designed so that when the cassettes break, they begin to rotate rapidly, slowing down the fall and not exploding during contact with the ground.
Video filmed in the village of Klinovoye near Artyomovsk.
17:17 The work of the artillery of the NM DPR on the fortifications of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement. Peski.
Allied troops methodically grind the enemy's defenses, leaving no chance for the Ukrainian militants.
17:10 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
-- n.p. Marinka (western) - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 10 mines fired with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Zaitsevo (northern) - n.p. Zaitsevo (southern): fired six mines with caliber 120mm;
— n.p. Netaylovo - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): six rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
17:09 Representatives of the DPR found at the site of the shelling of the oil depot in Makeyevka, fragments of a HIMARS shell with preserved markings, which, among other things, will make it possible to identify the crew that carried out the shelling.
16:30 Serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Borodyukov, a native of Krasny Luch told that the commanders left him in the forest without support for certain death.
16:23 Offensive on Peski near Donetsk continues. The positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village are under continuous shelling, aviation is working.
16:17 A resident of the DPR who was blown up by a mine "Petal" spoke about the incident
"There was a proven path, there was nothing there, I walked there. This mine, apparently, flew there. Negligence - came, and that's it. Flash, bang. Completely lost consciousness. I tried to run, but I realized that there was nothing. He fell, crawled to the gate, and then the neighbors," the man told TK Zvezda.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to shell the peaceful cities of the DPR with cluster rounds with anti-personnel mines inside.
16:11 The local history museum in Popasna, despite pressure from the Ukrainian authorities, has managed to preserve exhibits from Russian culture and Soviet history. Roman Oleksin, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Youth of the LPR, announced this after a trip to the liberated territory.
15:56 Ukrainian militants fired upon a tank farm in Makeevka (DPR). The task force of the Russian Investigative Committee went to the scene.
15:44 At 13:50, as a result of another shelling of Yasinovataya, a 110 kV overhead line was damaged, three 110 kV substations and four 35 kV substations were de-energized. 93 TS, 13,800 household subscribers of Yasinovataya and 2,931 subscribers in the Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeevka were de-energized. Without tension also Verkhnekalmiusskaya filter station.
Power engineers will carry out emergency recovery work as soon as the situation allows, the DPR Ministry of Coal and Energy reported.
15:30 Circumstance in the direction of Svetlodarsk.
15:08 The assault on Soledar has begun, representatives of the DPR report.
15:03 A strike was made on the positions of the AFU militants on the outskirts of Artemovsk. It is reported that they arrived in the direction of the quarry, a huge column of smoke rises from the place.
14:10 Employees of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation inspected the shelled area near the For Friends store in the center of Donetsk, where a person died. The rounds of the armed formations of Ukraine hit civilian infrastructure - a bus stop and a grocery store, there are no military facilities nearby.
14:03 Radiation, chemical and biological protection troops of the RF Ministry of Defense are inspecting four especially dangerous facilities on the territory of the LPR to assess their environmental condition.
The four most dangerous objects in the LPR include:
- industrial site of the plant "Lisichansky orgsintez" (LNR)
-industrial site of the state-owned chemical plant "Zarya" (LNR)
-industrial site of PrJSC "Severodonetsk Association "Azot" (LPR)
- landfill for industrial waste (Volcheyarovka) (LPR)
Based on the results of the survey, objects to be brought to a safe state as a matter of priority will be identified.
13:30 Allied forces are cleaning up the territory of the KNAUF building materials plant in Soledar from Ukrainian security forces, the assistant to the head of the LPR Ministry of Internal Affairs said.
13:01 In the DPR, there have already been 12 cases of undermining civilians, including one child, on the “petal” mines scattered by Ukrainian militants in Donetsk and settlements adjacent to the city.
12:04 Highlights from the new briefing of the Russian Defense Ministry
A missile attack on Radekhiv in the Lvov region destroyed a base with foreign-made weapons and ammunition that arrived from Poland;
The commanders of the units of the 132nd Reconnaissance Battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kharkov refused to obey the orders of the command and departed for the point of temporary deployment;
Russian air defense systems shot down five Ukrainian drones in a day, intercepted two Tochka-U missiles;
Over 50 nationalists and six vehicles were destroyed in Nikolaevka as a result of a strike by the Russian Aerospace Forces at the temporary deployment point of a unit of the 81st Airmobile Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
12:02 There are reports that militants of the Kyiv regime are running and running from the front lines in Peski under massive Russian artillery fire. The Armed Forces of Ukraine no longer controls the situation at once in several sectors of the front line in the area of Peski and Avdievka. There is information about the destruction of the enemy's fortifications in the area of the AKHZ - Avdievsky coke plant. This is one of the largest enterprises in the DPR. According to military commander Yevgeny Poddubny.
11:58 The Headquarters of the TerO DPR reports: the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, on the street. Rovnoy wounded two people.
11:33 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Nikolaevka Second - n.p. Golmovsky: 15 rounds of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 22 rounds of 122mm caliber were fired.
11:10 The headquarters of the TerO DPR reports that a woman was killed as a result of the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk.
10:45 Statement by the official representative of the NM DPR on the situation as of 10.30 03.08.2022
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 419 rounds from Uragan (BM-27) and Grad (BM-21) multiple launch rocket systems, 155mm, 152mm and 122mm cannon artillery, as well as 120mm mortars.
Artillery was fired at the areas of 11 settlements of the Republic. As a result of shelling, two civilians were killed and twenty-five were injured, two of them were children born in 2005 and 2016. Thirty-six residential buildings and 13 civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.
Joint actions of the military personnel of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the following enemy weapons and military equipment: two BM-21 Grad MLRS, two M-777 howitzers, one truck and more than twenty personnel. Two enemy firing points were suppressed in the areas of the settlement. Avdievka and Kurdyumovka.
10:01 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the LPR, Captain Filiponenko I.M. as of 08/03/2022
Over the past 24 hours, 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:
-48 personnel;
-nine armored personnel carriers;
-six units of special automotive equipment;
-two long-term firing points.
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 2, they cleared more than seven hectares of territory from explosive objects left by Ukrainian nationalists in the areas of the settlements of Severodonetsk and Voevodovka.
The forces of the NM of the LPR, together with public organizations, are delivering humanitarian aid to the residents of these areas.
09:49 Russian troops entered Soledar. Sources @wargonzo reported that at the KNAUF plant, located within the city, clashes began with English-speaking mercenaries.
09:27 In Donetsk, five people have already blown up on the mines "Petal". This was reported by the headquarters of the defense of the DPR.
09:12 Cars of the next, 179th, convoy of the Russian Emergencies Ministry delivered food and educational literature to Lugansk. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the LPR.
"On Tuesday, August 2, the cars of the next convoy of the Russian Emergencies Ministry with humanitarian aid for the residents of Donbass arrived in the capital of the LPR. The current convoy of Russian rescuers, consisting of 15 vehicles, delivered to Luhansk food (pasta, canned meat) with a total weight of 145.5 tons and educational literature (5,020 pieces) for the Luhansk Pedagogical University," the report says.
08:11 After 06:00, the DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the direction:
— n.p. Avdievka - Makeevka: three rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - n.p. Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): three rounds of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - n.p. Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): three rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Zaitsevo (northern) - n.p. Golmovsky: fired four mines with a caliber of 120mm.
— n.p. Otradovka - n.p. Golmovsky: fired six rounds of 122mm caliber;
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Mineral: fired eight rounds of 122mm caliber.
08:09 The deplorable situation for the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the front near Avdievka is recognized in Kyiv. The main summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
--In the Kharkiv direction, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation fired at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, carried out an advance in the direction of Kochubeevka-Dementievka.
--The Russians are concentrating their main efforts on the Bakhmut direction. There shelling from tanks, cannon and rocket artillery. The Russian Federation launched airstrikes near Semigorye and Belogorovka, conducted an offensive in the Berestovoye area, in the Vladimirovka-Yakovlevka and Semigorye-Kodema directions.
--On the directions Vladimirovka-Soledar and Pokrovskoe-Bakhmut, hostilities continue.
--In the Avdievka direction, the military of the Russian Federation fired at the Avdievka area and improved the tactical situation.
--In the Slavyansk, Novopavlovsk, Zaporozhye and Yuzhnobuzh directions - shelling.
08:00 DPR, Makeevka. On the night from 02 to 08/03/2022, at about 4 am, there were five arrivals at the Artemis oil depot, as a result of which a fire occurred. At present, the open fire has been extinguished by the forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations
06:35 Footage of the shooting battle of the DPR assault group in the Avdievka direction.
[ANNAHAR] A Lebanese archbishop who carried more than $460,000 from Israel to Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The land area formerly occupied by the state of Lebanon, before that Phoenicia... is at the center of the latest sectarian showdown in crisis-hit Lebanon, and the case could even spill over into presidential politics.
The situation has ramped up discord between two powerful political camps: the Shiite MoslemHezbollah and the Maronite Church.
The clergyman was briefly detained last month by Lebanese border agents who confiscated 20 suitcases stuffed with cash and medicine, arguing he violated Lebanon's strict laws against normalization with Israel.
Hezbollah's opponents say the Iran-backed group has sway over Lebanese institutions and security agencies, and have used them to target the Maronite Church. The archbishop, Moussa al-Hajj, is a senior member of the Maronite Church, whose patriarch has become increasingly critical of Hezbollah and its growing influence in Lebanon.
Much of the Christian community saw the archbishop's detention as an attack on the church.
In a sermon late last month, Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi denounced the legal proceedings against al-Hajj as a fabrication, arguing that the money was for charity. He demanded that the charges be dropped and that the military judge who presides over the case resign.
Al-Rahi was met with a standing ovation and protesters gathered the following week at his summer residence to rally in support of the church.
Underlying the dispute are decades of hostile relations between Israel and Lebanon. The two countries have formally been at war since Israel's founding in 1948, and Lebanon has tough anti-normalization laws on the books. The border remains closed, though several top Lebanese Christian officials have permission to cross on occasion to visit their flock in Israel, the Paleostinian territories and Jordan.
On July 20, Lebanese border agents held al-Hajj for eight hours after he returned from Israel with 20 suitcases of medicine and cash. al-Hajj said he was delivering money and assistance from Lebanese Christians in northern Israel to their relatives in the cash-strapped country. The agents confiscated the money, the medicine, al-Hajj's cellphone and passport.
Hezbollah officials saw al-Hajj's act as normalization with Israel and accused him of delivering money from Lebanese affiliated with a militia that once fought alongside Israel.
Thousands of Lebanese moved to Israel after it ended an 18-year occupation of parts of southern Lebanon in 2000. Many of those who fled to Israel were linked to the main pro-Israeli militia in the region, the South Lebanon Army, which collapsed after Israeli troops withdrew.
The case could have wider political implications.
The country for months has been without a fully functional government and is expected to hold presidential elections before the end of October.
Under Lebanon's sectarian power-sharing system, its president must always be a Maronite. Incumbent President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... is an ally of Hezbollah, but the Maronite patriarch's increasingly vocal criticism of Hezbollah suggests there is no guarantee the next president will continue an alliance with the group.
Lebanon's parliament once had a clear majority for Hezbollah and its allies but since elections in May it now stands neck and neck with some of its staunchest opponents, most notably the Christian Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... party.
Most Christian members of parliament and politicians of other sects who oppose Hezbollah rallied to back the archbishop and the Maronite church.
"We agree with everything they have said, whether it's their calls for removing the judge, or the selectivity in how the archbishop was treated," said Elias Hankash, a Christian politician of the Kataeb Party. "They (Hezbollah officials) shouldn't just take out their anger on a religious official to send their message to the patriarch."
Imad Salamey, a political science professor at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, said much is at stake for Hezbollah.
"We're coming to a presidential election and following that we have to form a new government, and set a government policy to negotiate with the IMF (International Monetary Fund," he said. "I think Hezbollah wants to send all kinds of messages at the moment, and is determined to show it continues to be the major player among all."
Hezbollah's leadership didn't comment. Its leader Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... in a recent interview denied the group's influence in security agencies and the judiciary. "In Lebanon there are laws, and the security agencies take action towards any collaborator or possible collaborator," he said.
The head of Hezbollah's block in parliament Mohammad Raad was more explicit, saying the archbishop's delivery of money and medicine was normalization, which he called a "national betrayal and a crime."
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[ANNAHAR] Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... chief Samir Geagea ...Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005... said Wednesday that the next President should be sovereign and reformist, refusing a President from the March 8 Alliance or a consensual President.
"We will oppose with all our strength the election of a President from the March 8 Alliance," Geagea said in a presser as he accused the so-called Axis of Defiance of being the root cause of the crisis.
He considered that mismanagement, corruption and the dominance of Hezbollah on the country's strategic decisions are the main factors that contributed to the current crisis.
"Hezbollah has allied with the most corrupted parties to secure an internal cover for its illegal presence," Geagea said, slamming both Hezbollah and the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... .
He added that if a President backed by the Axis of Defiance gets elected, Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...In 2006 unknown persons blew up Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the car he was traveling in, the road he was traveling on, and a few innocent bystanders of no account whatsoever. The person or persons unknow weren't Hezbollah, you can bet on that. Really. Even though there was an international tribunal that said it was them... will be isolated and will lose all investments and international and Arab support.
Geagea also refused "a consensual President" that would "extend the hell we are living in to six more years."
He concluded his speech by urging all the opposition MPs to coordinate in order to agree on a President's name.
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