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Marion Davies was an American actress, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. Educated in a religious convent, Davies fled the school to pursue a career as a chorus girl. As a teenager, she appeared in several Broadway musicals and one film, Runaway Romany.
Born:
Marion Cecilia Douras, January 03, 1897, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
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September 22, 1961, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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A printer liked playing with dollies.
[pulls newspaper line-up of Follies]
Sure, she was unversed:
"You're me first... Mister Hearst!"
Curtain, please, on her Gs and his gollies.
[Mises] With Sri Lanka’s short-lived green revolution of 2021 having quickly devolved into a real revolution just one year later, complete with the ouster of former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s incompetent and authoritarian government this past week, now is a good time to hammer home not only why the effort failed, but why so-called ESG (environmental, social, and governance) policies and the green energy movement more generally are hopeless and destructive wastes of time.
First, facing financial difficulties largely the result of taking on heaps of Chinese loans for projects of questionable or outright nonexistent value, Rajapaksa’s government abruptly informed its overwhelmingly agricultural society that its farmers would no longer be allowed to use the petrochemical fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides that made feeding the population of tens of millions possible. Forced to go organic, Rajapaksa, suddenly the darling of Western environmentalists everywhere, watched as his countrymen fell quickly into starvation and poverty. Twenty percent drop-offs in the production of rice and tea, the country’s staples, led to inflation of over 50 percent and to nine out of every ten Sri Lankan families skipping meals each day.
While no economy or society could have been expected to handle such a food-supply-disrupting decree without immense suffering, let alone a poor and civil-war-wracked state like Sri Lanka, the truth is that modern life as we know it is simply not possible without fossil fuels and their byproducts.
With congressional Republicans and Democratic senators like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema virtually all that stands in the way of the United States pursuing similarly misguided policies, the facts about the hopeless inadequacies of green energy and ESG-related policies need to be made clear.
[JustTheNews] "Any port of entry, any potential vulnerability, is something we know foreign terrorist organizations and others will seek to exploit," said Christopher Wray at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
[LB] The invaders continued ground attacks to the northeast and south of Bakhmut.
by Natalka Lototska
ISW: The Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out counterattacks between Izyum and Slovyansk and retook positions in a number of settlements
Russian troops tried to advance to the northwest of Izyum .
This was reported in the American Institute of Warfare (ISW).
Ukrainian forces conducted a series of localized counterattacks between Izyum and Slovyansk and retook positions in a number of populated areas.
The invaders continued ground attacks to the northeast and south of Bakhmut .
The Russian Federation continued its attempts to attack Pisky and carried out a limited ground strike southwest of Donetsk .
ISW notes that the Russian high command is faced with a dilemma, the severity of which may depend on Ukraine's ability to conduct significant counteroffensive operations in several directions at the same time.
If Ukraine can strengthen its position around Izyum, continuing the transition to a counteroffensive on Kherson, then Russian troops will face a very difficult choice.
They will probably have to decide:
or leave their positions in the west around Izyum in favor of defending their land lines of communication further north and east,
or bring in more personnel and equipment to try to hold the current front line.
"However, such forces would have to come from another axis, which would endanger Russia's other achievements," the analysts emphasized.
It will be recalled that the Institute for the Study of War also stated that the preparation for the counteroffensive on Kherson for the first time allows Ukraine to start actively shaping the course of the war . The Armed Forces are likely to seize the strategic initiative and force Russia to reallocate forces and change priorities.
[LB] The enemy is trying to create conditions for an attack on the cities of Donetsk region.
by Tanya Matyash
The Russian occupiers are trying to create favorable conditions for an attack on the cities of Donetsk region , have conducted offensive and assault actions to improve the tactical position. However, the attempts of the Russians turned out to be unsuccessful, the defenders of Ukraine repelled four enemy attacks.
This was announced by the head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration, Serhii Gaidai.
"Four enemy attacks ended with their retreat to previous positions," he noted.
Gaidai noted that the Russians are using all available weapons to dislodge units of the Defense Forces from occupied positions. They are shelling settlements and fortifications of our military, trying to get closer to Bakhmut.
"Enemy aircraft operate several times a day in these areas. Yesterday they carried out four airstrikes. Three more times the Russians conducted artillery attacks, used rocket artillery, twice the assault operations were supported by tank offensives. Six more times mortar attacks were carried out," Gaidai emphasized.
It will be recalled that earlier the General Staff announced that the Russians will not stop their attempts to advance on the Bakhmut and Avdiiv directions .
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A big shot of the Islah party (the 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... i branch of the Moslem Brüderbund) has admitted that the party leadership made a serious mistake, in joining the Saudi-led coalition and in refusing to listen to the advices of those defending the homeland alongside with the forces of Sana’a.
"The party’s remnant leaders deserve to be dismissed from the Saudi-led coalition-backed government, through decisions issued by the ’Riyadh-formed Presidential Council’ because the party’s leadership in Riyadh refused to listen to the advices about making alliance with Sana’a forces and leaving the Saudi capital," said Anis Mansour al-Subaihi, who is also the Head of the Hana Aden Center for Studies.
"Those who are covered by the Saudis will become naked," Mansour said, referring to the fact that Soddy 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. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... let down its allies.
Mansour noted that the fate of the Islah Party’s leaders will be imprisonment next to Saudi religious scholar Suleiman al-Awda, who was arrested by Saudi authorities in 2017 and has remained in prison ever since.
Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:16 Ukrainian troops tried to call the fire of the Russian Armed Forces on residential areas in the Zaporozhye region in order to accuse them of indiscriminate strikes - the Russian Defense Ministry. 17:11 Ukrainian militants fired at the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. After the shelling, a fire broke out on the spot. Two power lines necessary for the functioning of the station were also damaged.
15:20 The head of the CAA of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, was put into a medically induced coma, sources in the regional administration confirmed to the media. The condition of the Balance is assessed as moderate. He was hospitalized the day before after a medical examination. The deterioration in well-being was the result of complications after covid.
11:35 Parents whose children will study full-time in the Kherson region have the right to:
monthly allowance for a child from 0 to 18 years or up to 23, subject to full-time education, regardless of the social status of the family - 4,000 rubles for each child;
monthly allowance for a child under guardianship - 15,000 rubles;
monthly payment to single mothers or fathers in respect of children from 0 to 18 years old or up to 23, subject to full-time education - 10,000 rubles.
Residents of the region who have received Russian citizenship are entitled to receive payments under the federal programs of the Russian Federation, namely:
payment for first-graders (for the purchase of uniforms, stationery and other necessary goods).
Documents required for registration:
passport;
identification code;
parent's birth certificate;
birth certificate of children;
a document confirming one or another category (guardianship, disability, etc.).
Addresses for submission of documents:
Kherson, st. Repina, d. 1;
Kherson, st. Perekopskaya, 166;
Skadovsk, st. Alexandrovskaya, 32;
Alyoshki, st. Guards, d. 6;
village Belozerka, st. Svobody, d. 89.
Addresses in Hola Pristan, Genichesk and Nova Kakhovka will be announced later.
Working hours of the Department of Labor and Social Policy in Kherson:
Mon-Thurs from 9:00 to 16:00;
Fri from 9:00 to 15:00.
Hotline of the Department of Labor and Social Policy:
+7 990 034-07-67
11:07 A series of blows was inflicted on Nikolaev. According to "Come and See", in the early morning powerful explosions thundered in Nikolaev. “Nikolaev, several arrivals. They are knocking out the infrastructure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, ”said the source of the channel. According to him, blows were also inflicted on the region.
09:37 In Kharkiv, a conscript got into a fight with a member of the military registration and enlistment office. The grave-digger from the Kharkov military enlistment office received in full from one of the conscripts, while trying to hand over the summons. And then, apparently, my wife also joined.
09:35 Zaporozhye region will soon switch to the Russian telephone code. This was stated by a member of the main council of the region's CAA Vladimir Rogov.
09:17 The Russian army has assembled 30BTG: "Secret plans" of the RF Armed Forces near Kherson were again "exposed" by Arestovich. The Russian army can go in the direction of Krivoy Rog or Nikolaev, as well as hit the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Posad-Pokrovsky area. In total, according to him, Russian troops have assembled about 30 battalion tactical groups in this sector of the front.
08:06 Platoon flamethrowers of the Western Military District received the task of destroying the strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the path of advancement of the armored vehicles of the Russian troops in the zone of the Northern Military District.
According to the coordinates received, the flamethrower platoon was divided into cover and strike subgroups. Additional reconnaissance was carried out in the dense wooded area, through which the armored vehicles of the Russian units should pass.
Flamethrowers covertly, without cover, moved as close as possible to the strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to strike. At a distance of up to 300 meters, flamethrowers from different firing points with the fire of thermobaric ammunition from hand-held flamethrowers destroyed the strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, entered into battle with the enemy and the tactical deuces withdrew to positions to further cover the advance of Russian units on armored vehicles.
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This is what the Ukrainians and Russians did behind real 'Nazi' lines 1941-45. When the Russians need more troops on the front line, anti-partisan warfare will further bleed manpower resources as it did the Germans. We can watch as the Russians institute policies similar to what the Germans did in their anti-partisan operations, which bring even greater irony to the use of the phrase denazification.
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Same people who made outlandish excuses for America crushing itself in Afghanistan now saying "Russia can't lose."
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With all the propaganda and unsavory truths that are floating around, some folks who aren't directly involved are legitimately confused about who the bad guys are. My take is to see what tack Russia's neighbors take and consider their position to be the most reasonable. See Poland, Sweden, Finland, Bulgaria, Latvia, etc. etc.
[NYPOST] The Brooklyn McDonald’s worker who was shot in the neck in a spat over cold fries has died, cops announced Friday.
Matthew Webb, 23, "departed this vale of tears" after he was shot Monday outside the Bedford-Stuyvesant fast-food restaurant where he worked, the NYPD said.
The attack "has been deemed a homicide," the force said early Friday, stressing that "the investigation remains ongoing."
Michael Morgan, 20, has already been charged with attempted murder and criminal possession of a loaded firearm for blasting Webb in anger at his mom getting served cold fries.
He is expected to face upgraded homicide charges, prosecutors told a court hearing Thursday, even before Webb’s death was confirmed.
Webb was toiling at the Fulton Street eatery on Monday evening when Morgan’s mom, Lisa Fulmore, complained to workers that her fries were cold and asked to speak to a manager.
When the workers began laughing at her, Fulmore was FaceTiming with Morgan, who came to the restaurant and got into a fight with Webb that spilled out onto the sidewalk.
Morgan punched Webb in the face and when he got back up, he pulled out a gun and blasted him in the neck, prosecutors alleged.
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One of my fondest memories with my Dad was one day having a hamburger and mulkshake at Daggs (a Mc Donalds like hamburger joint). I was pretty young kid then.
Thanks!
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[Vesti] Ukrainian defenders "continue to successfully carry out rocket and artillery fire missions in certain areas," while "the enemy is experiencing an acute shortage of trained and somehow motivated reinforcements for units that will suffer losses as a result of the war in Ukraine." This is stated in the operational summary of the General Staff as of 18.00 Friday, August 5.
On the Volyn and Polesye directions without changes.
In the Seversk direction , the enemy is holding separate subunits of the troops of the Western Military District in the border areas of the Bryansk and Kursk regions. Carries out engineering equipment of positions and installation of video surveillance systems. From artillery, the enemy fired at civilian infrastructure in the areas of the settlements of Zhelezny Most and Gremyach in Chernihiv and Starikov in Sumy regions.
In the Slobozhansky direction , the enemy continues to focus his efforts on preventing the creation of favorable conditions by the Defense Forces for the resumption of the offensive. So, in the Kharkov direction , the enemy used cannon and rocket artillery to shell the areas of the settlements of Kharkov, Russkaya Lozovaya, Korobochkino, Cherkassky Tishki, Stary Saltov, Verkhny Saltov. He conducted aerial reconnaissance with unmanned aerial vehicles near Russkaya Lozovaya, Malyye Prokhody, Gusarovka and Chepil.
In the Slavic direction , the enemy did not conduct active offensive operations, firing from artillery of various types near Bogorodichny, Dolina, Dibrivnoye, Velyka Kamyshevakhi and Ridny.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy is concentrating efforts in the areas of Bakhmut and Avdiivka. He is trying to create favorable conditions for establishing control over the cities of Soledar and Bakhmut and pushing our troops back from the western outskirts of the city of Donetsk .
In the Kramatorsk and Bakhmut directions , the enemy used tanks, cannon and rocket artillery for shelling near Seversky, Grigorievka, Verkhnekamensky, Bakhmut, Zaitsev, Soledar, Yakovlevka and Kodema. Launched an air strike near the Summit. With offensive actions, the invaders tried to seize advantageous lines and improve the tactical situation in the areas of Bakhmut, Zaitsev and Vershina, but they did not succeed , they retreated.
In the Avdeevka direction , artillery shelling was recorded near Avdeevka, Novobakhmutovka, Nevelskoye, Netaylovy and Krasnogorovka. The enemy unsuccessfully tried to advance in the directions of the settlements of Krasnogorovka, Avdeevka and Peski .
In the Novopavlovsk and Zaporozhye directions , the enemy fired from tanks, cannon and rocket artillery at the areas of the settlements of Maryinka, Vladimirovka, Novomikhailovka, Bolshaya Novoselka, Novoandreevka, Kamenskoye, Novoselka, Volshebnoe, Novopol, Gulyaipole and Neskuchne. Ukrainian soldiers successfully repelled another enemy assault in the direction of Maryinka and forced the enemy to flee. The occupiers conducted reconnaissance with unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of Zaporozhye and Novoselivka II.
In the Yuzhnobuzhsk direction , the enemy is trying to hold their positions with the available means of fire destruction and prevent our subunits from creating favorable conditions for a counteroffensive. Thus, the enemy fired at the areas of the settlements of Posad-Pokrovskoye, Stepnaya Dolina, Luparevo, Novonikolaevka, Novogrigorovka, Krasnaya Dolina, Zelenaya Grove, Andreevka, Trudolyubovka, Novovorontsovka, Topolino, Potemkino, Olgino, Nikopol. Engaged aviation for strikes near Lozovoye, Veliky Artakovo and Andreevka. The enemy made a second attempt to attack in the direction of Lozovoe. He received a decisive rebuff from the Ukrainian soldiers and retreated.
In the waters of the Black and Azov Seas , the enemy ship grouping focuses its main efforts on maintaining the land grouping, blocking civilian navigation in the northwestern part of the Black Sea and hitting military installations and infrastructure elements deep in Ukraine. Four carriers of sea-based cruise missiles are in readiness for the use of weapons .
August 5 is the 163rd 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] In Rovenki, mobilization agendas are distributed by teachers
To mobilize men in the uncontrolled territories of the Lugansk region, the Russian military is actively using various methods.
Serhiy Gaidai, head of the Luhansk OVA, wrote about this in his Telegram channel.
“Everyone is involved in the mobilization. So, in Rovenki, teachers are forced to carry summons, recalling them from vacation,” Gaidai wrote.
According to the head of the OVA,"... there was even a recorded case of an attack on a teacher after she tried to present a" letter of happiness ".
In addition, about 300 people were mobilized in Bryanka in a week: they were searched for on the streets, bus stops, and in public transport.
"The situation is similar in Kadievka," writes Gaidai.
He clarified that in Luhansk they are talking with the heads of personnel departments of enterprises, they are demanding lists of male workers.
"They ordered to call for 10 people to begin with," the message says.
According to him, the military of the Russian Federation in the Luhansk region hand out stories in crowded places, in particular, in markets and shops, as well as during public works to clear rubble.
It should be noted that earlier the National Security and Defense Council denied fakes about those subject to mobilization during the war .
We saw today people’s heads on a spike in Russian-occupied Popasna.
This is only a fraction of the Russian war crimes committed. I’m terrified when I think of what we’ll see when we retake the Russian-occupied cities and villages.
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PIJ Saraya Al-Quds, DFLP National Resistance Brigades, Al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade, Martyr Abdel Qader Al-Husseini Brigades and Al-Nasser Salah Al-Din Brigades have all taken responsibility for firing rockets towards #Israel today.
The Good:
[BLS] Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 528,000 in July, and the unemployment rate edged down to 3.5 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Jobgrowth was widespread, led by gains in leisure and hospitality, professional and business services, and health care.
The bad:
The number of persons employed part time for economic reasons increased by 303,000 to 3.9 million in July. This rise reflected an increase in the number of persons whose hours were cut due to slack work or business conditions.
The Ugly (because Y over Y inflation was 9.1%, the info below means employees lost):
In July, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 15 cents, or 0.5 percent, to $32.27. Over the past 12 months, average hourly earnings have increased by 5.2 percent. In July, average hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory employees rose by 11 cents, or 0.4 percent, to $27.57.
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I told ya
Department of Labor cooking the books for bidet errr Biden
Israel will keep going until they’ve achieved their key goals in this iteration of mowing the grass in Gaza. See here for links to all of today’s posts on Operation Breaking Dawn.
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Sirens sounding in Nitzanim between Ashkelon and Ashdod. Sirens have not sounded this far north for a few hours. pic.twitter.com/tfJBFtXvMj
The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Egypt is holding feverish talks in order to bring calm in Gaza. Palestinian sources: Egypt conveyed a message to Hamas from Israel "if it enters the fighting there will be a broad escalation and Hamas will pay a heavy price." https://t.co/ccd1hDKCoq
[IsraelTimes] The Khayyam satellite was designed and manufactured with the assistance of Russian corporation Roscosmos; launch scheduled for Tuesday, weeks after Putin’s trip to Iran
Russia will launch an Iranian remote sensing satellite into orbit next Tuesday, the two countries confirmed, two weeks after President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... visited Tehran.
"In cooperation with Russia, the Khayyam satellite will be launched next week from the Baikonur space station in Kazakhstan by a Soyuz satellite carrier," the Iranian space agency said late Wednesday.
The satellite, apparently named after 11th-12th century Persian polymath Omar Khayyam, aims to "monitor the country’s borders," enhance agricultural productivity and monitor water resources and natural disasters, the agency added. "It's a dessert topping, a floor wax, and a satellite! It's Shimmer Kayyam!"
Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos confirmed the launch is scheduled for Tuesday.
"On August 9, 2022, a Soyuz 2.1B rocket is scheduled to be launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome... to put the Khayyam remote sensing device ordered by the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... into orbit," it said in a statement.
"The Khayyam device was designed and manufactured at enterprises that are part of the state corporation Roscosmos," it added.
News of the launch follows Putin’s visit to Iran on July 19, when he met President Ebrahim Raisi and Iran’s Lord High Potentate and Supreme Leader of All He Surveys Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... Khamenei called for strengthening "long-term cooperation" with Russia in his talks with Putin.
Iran’s state news agency IRNA said the satellite has high imaging accuracy and is capable of filming the earth’s surface in different image spectra.
Russia is putting the satellite into space but it will be guided and controlled from ground stations in Iran, IRNA added.
Khayyam will not be the first Iranian satellite to be put into space by Russia.
In October 2005, Iran’s Sina-1 satellite, which aimed to study and observe the Earth, was deployed from Russia’s Plesetsk cosmodrome.
In June 2021, Putin denied a US media report that Russia is set to deliver an advanced satellite system to Iran that will vastly improve its spying capabilities.
Iran insists its space program is for civilian and defense purposes only, and does not breach the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, or any other international agreement.
Western governments worry that satellite launch systems incorporate technologies interchangeable with those used in ballistic missiles capable of delivering a nuclear warhead, something Iran has always denied wanting to build.
Iran successfully put its first military satellite into orbit in April 2020, drawing a sharp rebuke from the United States.
In March, the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological arm of Iran’s armed forces, announced it had successfully put a military "reconnaissance satellite," Nour-2, into orbit.
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What if the Iranian Sat is really an 500 KT EMP? At 110 miles up detention say between Chicago & NYC would get 80% much of the East Coast I.T. world.
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would get 80% much of the East Coast I.T. world.
All stored at NSC data center in Utah.
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1st, my apologies for going off the specific article topic.
QUESTION:
Reload of data from UTAH to a what functioning Interstate network?
Because in 2.5 nanoseconds, a 500KT EMP burst at 110 miles also destroys about 75% of the Non-EMP shielded electronics for about 750 miles in all directions. Which includes the Pathway Electronics, and the systems attached. Plus Just about every vehicle made after 1995, just about all Cell Phones & Cell tower systems, roughly 80+% of Civilian CPU's. OH! and If you're wearing a pacemaker, you drop dead with a smoking, crispy hole in your chest. Hearing aids tend to burst into small flames.
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[Korrespondent] 23:38 Putin and Erdogan held talks in Sochi. Read more about them in the material Gas and grain .
23:24 The Polish office of Amnesty International, a day after the release of the scandalous report, published a statement condemning the crimes of the Russian army in Ukraine. Meanwhile, the head of the Ukrainian office of the organization, Oksana Pokalchuk, announced that she was leaving her post, because "we disagreed with the leadership on values."
23:19 Investigators from Bellingcat and The Insider have identified a Russian occupier who castrated a Ukrainian soldier on video . It turned out to be a Tuvan named Ochur-Suge Mongush from the Akhmat battalion.
23:17 Zelensky said in an evening video message that Russian assets worth 28 billion hryvnias were forcibly seized in Ukraine, more than 900 objects were proposed to be confiscated. "And if we evaluate the package of property not only of the terrorist state, but also of its residents, then we are talking about 36,000 positions for withdrawal. All this will be aimed at compensating for the damage that Russia causes by war and terror," the president added.
22:36 Zelensky, in an evening video message, called for sanctions against the entire Russian nuclear industry: “Today, the invaders created another extremely risky situation for the whole of Europe - they fired at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, twice a day. This is the largest nuclear power plant on our continent. And any shelling this facility is a frank and daring crime, it is an act of terror. Russia should be responsible for the very fact of creating a threat to the nuclear power plant."
22:18 The White House will announce a new $1 billion aid package to Ukraine on August 8, Reuters reports, citing sources. According to the agency, the new package will include ammunition for HIMARS and NASAMS, as well as 50 M113 armored medical vehicles.
21:17 The Russian occupiers fired at the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant twice today. Energoatom talks about the risk of radioactive spraying, as well as a fire that could lead to a nuclear catastrophe. Read more in the material A radioactive threat has arisen .
20:40 Putin and Erdogan, following the meeting, announced the need to ensure the implementation of the Istanbul agreements, "including the unimpeded export of grain to the Russian Federation." The parties also agreed to increase the volume of mutual trade, strengthen interaction in many areas and reaffirmed the will of Russia and Turkey to further develop relations "despite the current regional and global challenges." The Presidents emphasized the key importance of "trust-based relations" between the Russian Federation and Turkey for "achieving regional and international stability."
20:29 Due to the war with Russia, gas use in Ukraine has decreased by 40%, and the winter may require less than expected, Energy Minister German Galushchenko said on the air of the telethon. According to him, because of this, the plan for filling gas storage facilities can be increased from the current 12 billion cubic meters to 19 billion cubic meters. The minister also noted that part of the gas could be used to generate electricity, since the war could cause problems with the delivery of coal to thermal workers.
20:25 Putin and Erdogan agreed to begin partial payment in rubles for Russian gas supplies to Turkey, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said.
20:06 The Russians are trying with all their might to push the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the western outskirts of Donetsk, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the evening report . The enemy also attempted an offensive in the direction of Lozovoye, but received a decisive rebuff and retreated.
19:44 Zelensky said that he had the first conversation in the history of Ukraine with the President of Malawi, Lazarus Chakvera: "We appreciate the support within the framework of international organizations. We are determined to strengthen cooperation. An important direction is ensuring food security in the region. We are working on expanding the anti-war coalition."
19:33 China calls on all countries to conclude a general agreement on the non-first use of nuclear weapons, the country's Foreign Ministry said.
19:26 As a result of today's shelling of the Ship district of Nikolaev, 22 people were injured , the head of the regional council Anna Zamazeeva reported. Residential buildings, including high-rise buildings, were damaged.
19:09 Russia has asked Turkey to help circumvent Western sanctions, writes The Washington Post, citing information from Ukrainian intelligence. The Russian offer, intercepted ahead of the Putin-Erdogan meeting in Sochi, indicates that Russia hopes Turkey will help. However, as the newspaper writes, there are no signs that Ankara will agree.
18:48 The war in Ukraine is entering a turning point, according to the American edition of The New York Times. U.S. and Western intelligence estimates suggest the likelihood that the next weeks or months will be decisive for Ukraine. For more details, see War Scenarios from the NYT .
18:33 In mid-July, in the occupied territories of Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, a closed sociological survey was conducted on whether local residents want to join Russia. Meduza was told by two interlocutors close to the Putin administration that, according to the results of the poll, about 30% were in favor of joining the Russian Federation, and the same number were in favor of keeping the regions within Ukraine. The rest "difficult to answer."
There is no reliable sociological data on this issue, but the Kremlin has no doubt that despite the low level of support, "referendums will be held as they should," the newspaper writes.
18:04 Ukraine will confiscate 903 objects belonging to Russia in favor of the Ukrainian people, Shmyhal said.
17:40 PMC Wagner recruited at least 1,500 prisoners to participate in the war against Ukraine. As the Nesting publication found out, "recruiters" are most interested in criminals convicted of murder and robbery. Those selected are taken to a colony in Rostov-on-Don, where a training camp is organized. According to journalists, the first group of prisoners went to the war zone on July 20.
17:37 Ukraine and Russia are preparing for the start of an extremely active phase of hostilities in the south, Natalya Gumenyuk, head of the joint coordination press center of the defense forces of the South, said on the air of the telethon: "There is the formation of a strike force by Russian forces in the Krivoy Rog direction and attempts to bring up reserves." According to her, in this regard, it is necessary, among other things, to ensure the evacuation of the population.
17:34 The EU Council approved the decision to reduce gas consumption in the European Union by 15%. Also, the Council "clarified various exceptions and possibilities to partially or completely not comply with this requirement in accordance with the specific conditions of the EU countries, and to ensure that the reduction in gas consumption really contributes to improving the security of gas supplies to the European Union."
17:30 The SBU has launched an online service to search for prisoners of war and missing persons in war conditions. Now it is possible to report the circumstances of the disappearance of a person through an online form . Those citizens who applied to the Joint Center for the Search and Release of Prisoners earlier do not need to re-fill out the electronic form. The data sent through the form is confidential and will not get to unauthorized persons, assured the SBU.
17:09 Despite the war, about 500 Hasidim have already arrived in Uman, who plan to stay in Ukraine until the celebration of the Jewish New Year at the end of September, Mayor Irina Pletneva said.
17:01 Ukrainian air defense forces successfully eliminate many Russian missiles, but there are several types of missiles that are extremely difficult to shoot down. As the speaker of the Air Force Yuri Ignat said, the most dangerous are the Soviet-style Kh-22 and Kh-31 missiles, as well as Onyx and Iskander: "These missiles are very fast, not all missiles can be shot down by our air defense."
At the same time, Russia also produces a large number of Kh-101 and Kalibr cruise missiles in Ukraine. The Ukrainian military, thanks to the cooperation of units, skillfully detects, intercepts and eliminates them.
16:40 The Russians in Energodar staged another provocation - they fired in the direction of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. According to Energoatom, today at 14:30 three “arrivals” were recorded near the ZNPP industrial site. The enemy hit the high-voltage communication line of the ZNPP autotransformer - Zaporizhzhya TPP.
Despite the provocations, the Zaporizhzhya NPP continues to operate and deliver power to the energy system of Ukraine through operating lines. In accordance with their throughput, it was decided to unload and disconnect one of the operating power units of the NPP from the network. Emissions and discharges of radioactive substances have not been recorded.
16:09 The Latvian embassy in the Russian Federation announced that it will stop issuing visas to Russians for an indefinite period, the only exception is entry to the funeral of close relatives.
16:06 The "head" of the occupied Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, has been hospitalized, he is in a medically induced coma, his condition is assessed as moderate, according to Russian media. Earlier, a message appeared on his Telegram channel about complications after suffering COVID.
15:55 Scholz, on the day of the publication of the scandalous interview with Gerhard Schroeder, held an unusual photo session with the Siemens turbine for the Nord Stream gas pipeline, which Gazprom demanded to resume supplies. About what this means - in the material, Scholz revealed Putin's bluff .
15:44 Putin and Erdogan are holding talks in Sochi, according to Russian media.
15:39 In Nikolaev after daytime shelling only in one place more than ten wounded, there are also dead, the head of OVA Vitaly Kim reported.
15:17 The coat of arms of the USSR on the sculpture of the Motherland in Kiev will be replaced with a trident no earlier than 2023, Minister of Culture Alexander Tkachenko said. According to him, the process will require funds, possibly donations from Ukrainians will be attracted.
14:52 The SBU reported the suspicion to the former deputy head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense. The major general is suspected of high treason, as well as an attempt on the life of a law enforcement officer and illegal possession of weapons. According to the investigation, he passed secret and top secret information to the Russian special services.
SBU officers detained a suspect at the beginning of a full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation. During a search at the place of work, he tried to shoot representatives of the investigative-operational group of the Security Service from a Makarov combat pistol. The detainee was the deputy head of the GUR MOU from 2008 to 2010, then worked in various positions in the civil service of this department, as well as in the leadership of the State Space Agency of Ukraine.
14:35 The number of missing Ukrainian servicemen is significantly less than the 7,000 people announced in July, Oleg Kotenko, authorized for missing persons under special circumstances, said on the air of the telethon: "We talked about the fact that more than 7,000 people are considered missing. missing. This figure is incorrect. Since then, we have found about 20-25%, they were in captivity. Therefore, this figure is much lower. "
Kotenko also added that today they managed to return more than 500 bodies of the dead defenders of Ukraine: "We do this every week. The work is underway, and I think that we will return all our defenders who died."
14:07 Podolyak explained why freezing the war in Ukraine is dangerous: "What does the Russian occupation of the south of Ukraine look like? Filtration concentration camps. Mass arrests and torture. Limited distribution of food. Total control. No rights and freedoms. "Freezing" the war is getting a new DPRK with millions of hostages. Ukraine needs weapons, we must immediately release people."
13:41 The SBU detained a man who called for missiles to be fired at the Bandera monument in Lviv and handed over the coordinates of this monument to the DPR.
13:22 Kuleba commented on the words of Amnesty International Secretary General Agnes Kallamar that their report on social networks is "attacked" by Russian and Ukrainian bots and trolls: "Apparently, the Secretary General of Amnesty International calls me a 'bot' and a 'troll', but that won't hurt me to say that her report distorts reality, draws a false moral equality between aggressor and victim, and contributes to Russia's disinformation efforts.
12:49 British Ambassador to Ukraine Melinda Simmons commented on the Amnesty International report: "The only thing that threatens Ukrainian civilians is Russian missiles, weapons and looting by Russian troops. Period. If Russia stopped invading Ukraine, there would be no danger."
12:37 People from 110 countries of the world have joined the UNITED24 platform, and the total amount of charitable contributions has exceeded UAH 6 billion.
12:22 In Nikolaev, a curfew is introduced from 23:00 Friday, August 5, to 5:00 Monday, August 8 , said the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim.
12:20 In a technical well in the Kiev region, they found the body of another person who died during the occupation, said the head of the regional police Andriy Nebytov.
12:18 The Russian military keeps four carriers of Caliber cruise missiles on combat duty in the Black Sea with a total salvo of 24 missiles, in the Mediterranean Sea - five carriers, the Navy reported. Meanwhile, in the Sea of Azov, the Russians continue to control sea communications and keep up to three ships and boats on combat duty.
12:07 Latvia has suspended an agreement with Russia on economic cooperation, the country's Foreign Ministry said. Intergovernmental agreements in the field of scientific, technical, humanitarian and cultural cooperation, as well as agreements on simplification of mutual trips of residents of border areas were also suspended.
11:53 Ukraine asks the IMF to intensify work on a new cooperation program, Shmygal said after a conversation with the director of the IMF's European Department, Alfred Kammer: "The armed forces of Ukraine resist Russian aggression and protect the entire civilized world. The government, for its part, is working to strengthen the economic stability of our state. Ukraine and the IMF have a long history of relations, and we look forward to strengthening cooperation."
11:39 Russians last night, around 21:55, fired four rockets at a residential area in the Shevchenkovsky district of Kharkov. According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, four people were injured, multi-apartment houses and cars were damaged.
10:53 An "investigative department of the Investigative Committee of Russia" has been formed in Donetsk, the press service of the RF Investigative Committee reported. The department will investigate "the crimes of Ukrainian nationalists." It is also reported that the head of the RF Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin arrived in the occupied Severodonetsk, Luhansk region. "Investigation departments" should open in a number of captured cities.
10:48 In the Luhansk region, there is a hunt for collaborators, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the partisan movement in the region is gaining momentum, and due to the destruction of the railway, the enemy's logistical communication is complicated, so the hunt for the leaders of the occupation administrations is underway.
10:31 Ukraine received a grant of 1 million euros from Albania, the Ministry of Finance reported. Financial assistance has already been received on the accounts of the State Treasury Service.
10:07 Russia is preparing to launch a reconnaissance satellite commissioned by Iran, but will use it for several months to monitor its military targets in Ukraine, writes The Washington Post, citing Western officials.
Roskosmos announced on August 9 the launch of a satellite, called Khayyam, in pursuance of an agreement with Iran. The satellite will be launched by a Russian Soyuz launch vehicle from the Baikonur space station in Kazakhstan. The Canopus-V system will be equipped with a high-definition camera, which will give Tehran unprecedented capabilities - for example, to monitor important objects in Israel and the Persian Gulf almost continuously. However, Moscow has already told customers in Tehran that it plans to use the satellite for several months or longer to monitor military targets in Ukraine.
10:01 Ukraine is 60% ready for the heating season, Shmyhal said: "Currently, all regions are 60% ready on average. This is in line with the preparation plan developed by the government. We will accelerate in this direction in order to steadily pass the heating season."
09:58 Another ship is heading to Ukraine to load grain. According to the Turkish Ministry of Defense, the Fulmar S vessel under the flag of Barbados has already been inspected and is heading to Chornomorsk.
09:29 Canada has allocated $6 million to improve nuclear security in Ukraine. According to the Permanent Mission of Canada to the UN, $1 million is intended to improve security at Ukrainian nuclear facilities and $5 million to help identify and respond to illegal trafficking in nuclear materials.
09:13 At night, the enemy fired at the Shevchenkovsky, Industrial and Saltovsky districts of Kharkiv, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. As a result of shelling, three people were hospitalized with wounds, the condition of one is stably grave, the rest are wounded in a state of moderate severity.
09:10 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of August 5. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Donetsk direction.
personnel - about 41,650 (+150) people liquidated,
tanks - 1792 (+3),
armored combat vehicles - 4032 (+6),
artillery systems - 950 (+4),
MLRS - 260 (+0),
air defense systems - 123 (+5),
aircraft - 223 (+0),
helicopters - 191 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 742 (+0),
cruise missiles - 182 (+0),
ships/boats - 15 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2964 (+4),
special equipment - 83 (+0).
09:06 Russians fired at the Ship area of Nikolaev at night and in the morning. It is preliminary known about getting into a private house and damage to houses around. In addition, a fire broke out in an open area as a result of the hit of ammunition and their fragments, said the head of the OVA, Vitaly Kim.
09:01 Canada resumes Operation Unifier - up to 225 Canadian troops are sent to the UK to train the Ukrainian military, Reznikov said.
08:44 In Toretsk, Donetsk region, as a result of enemy shelling, seven civilians were killed in a day, nine more people were injured, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
08:42 On the outskirts of Zaporozhye, a rocket hit an infrastructure enterprise. Production equipment was damaged, there were no casualties, said Anatoly Kurtev, secretary of the City Council.
08:24 The Russians fired at night on the Nikopol and Krivoy Rog districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region, the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko, said. In particular, the enemy fired on Nikopol twice from Gradov, private houses were damaged, a fire broke out at a local enterprise - a bus and several cars were destroyed. People were not hurt. In the World Community, after the X-59 missile hit, there is also destruction of housing, a gas pipeline was disabled.
08:10 This morning, the first caravan of ships with Ukrainian grain left the ports of Odessa , Minister of Infrastructure Alexander Kubrakov said. Three bulk carriers NAVI STAR, ROJEN and POLARNET carry 57,000 tons of Ukrainian corn on board, bound for Turkey, the UK and Ireland.
07:47 The Russians are carrying out an offensive operation in the Bakhmut and Avdeevsky directions and are trying to expand the controlled territory on the western outskirts of Donetsk, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report .
06:04 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that if Ukraine can put a lot of pressure on Izyum by continuing the counteroffensive in the Kherson region, then the Russians will face a difficult choice - either withdraw from their western positions around Izyum, or use more personnel and equipment.
Analysts also report that the Russians attempted to advance northwest of Izyum and continued ground attacks northeast and south of Bakhmut. In addition, they continued to attempt to advance on Peski and carried out a limited ground attack southwest of Donetsk.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out a series of local counterattacks between Izyum and Slavyansk and repelled positions in a number of settlements. Meanwhile, Russian troops continued to transfer equipment and personnel to the northeast of Kherson and west of Zaporozhye regions. Ukraine, apparently, is seizing the strategic initiative and forcing Russia to redistribute forces and change the priorities of efforts, military experts say.
03:11 The Russians launched several missile strikes near Zaporozhye, said the head of the OVA Alexander Starukh. According to preliminary information, there are no victims.
02:27 AFU destroyed three ammunition depots in Kherson, Pridneprovsky and Tokarevka, OK Pivden reported. In particular, four S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems were destroyed, from which the occupiers are shelling Ukrainian cities.
[Free Beacon] The man likely to become al Qaeda's next leader has spent decades using Iran as a base of operations and maintains deep ties to the hardline regime, signaling that two of the globe's leading terrorist forces could exponentially expand relations in the near future.
Saif al-Adel ...holed up in Iran from 2002 until 2010, when he made bail and moved back to the Pak-Afghan border...
...before he was an Al Qaeda big turban, he’d reached the exalted level of special forces lieutenant-colonel in the Egyptian army, then joined the Egyptian jihadist movement in the 1980s. He already rejoices in £7.5 million head money, which will no doubt go up with this promotion...
al Qaeda's number two leader and longtime head of its security arm, fled to Iran in the early 2000s, along with other senior leaders, following the September 11 attacks. From there, he helped relay orders from the just-killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and orchestrate terrorist operations that killed dozens of people, including Americans, according to former U.S. officials and information on the Iran-al Qaeda axis published by a watchdog group.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) protected al-Adel during his time in the country, and the regime permitted him to plan deadly terror attacks, including a May 2003 operation in Saudi Arabia that killed eight Americans. "Adel's suspected presence in Iran has raised further questions regarding Iranian influence on al Qaeda if Adel were to be named leader," according to United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), an advocacy group that closely tracks Iran's regional terror operations.
These ties have only deepened since President Joe Biden's bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan that left the Taliban in power and the country in shambles. Senior leaders in Iran's Quds Force, an elite IRGC branch, remain in close contact with al Qaeda leaders, "and since the fall of Afghanistan, have provided some al Qaeda leaders with travel documents and safe haven," according to a European intelligence analysis. The Iran-al Qaeda alliance, former U.S. officials told the Free Beacon, has quietly grown for many years, making the prospect of a new nuclear deal with Iran—which will provide Tehran with billions in cash—beneficial for its allies in al Qaeda.
"When the U.S. government enriches Iranian terrorists through sanctions relief or a lack of enforcement, that money ultimately goes back to support al Qaeda," Gabriel Noronha, a senior Iran adviser for the State Department during the Trump administration, told the Free Beacon. "We know that Saif al-Adel has not just been living in Iran for most of the past 20 years—he's been hosted there by the regime along with other al Qaeda operatives. Since 2015, the Iranian regime has allowed al Qaeda to establish an operational headquarters in the country, providing them with documents, passports, funding, and logistical support like safe houses."
Al-Adel and his network of al Qaeda confidants used their time in Iran to build close "operational coordination" with Tehran's security forces, including the IRGC. While Iran was once at odds with al Qaeda due to religious differences, that has not been the case for many years now, according to Noronha and other former U.S. officials familiar with these ties.
"These are not totally separate and distinct terrorist groups or even rivals anymore—they are part of an anti-American and anti-Western alliance," Noronha said.
From his perch in Iran during the mid-2000s, al-Adel "was allowed by Iran to travel to Pakistan and open more contacts with other al Qaeda leaders," according to UANI's research, which is based on intelligence and open-source reporting. Iran's decision to permit al-Adel and other al Qaeda operatives to freely move in the region "opens up speculation that al-Adel could establish a ’satellite office' for the group in Iran," according to a 2011 AP report.
Nathan Sales, former U.S. ambassador-at-large and coordinator for counterterrorism, told the Free Beacon that "contrary to expectations and contrary to conventional wisdom, the Iranian regime and al Qaeda have maintained a mutually beneficial relationship for many years."
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Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed on his balcony by an R9X. An R9X has no explosives. It is as tall as a man and has slicing blades that slices the target into smaller pieces and chunks.
[Breitbart] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the South China Morning Post on Thursday that he would like to discuss his country’s war against Russia with the leader of Russia’s closest ally, Xi Jinping, "directly," and invited China to help rebuild Ukraine once the war is over.
Zelensky’s discussion with the Morning Post, a Hong Kong newspaper, was the first with an Asian news outlet since Russia escalated its eight-year-old war against Ukraine into a full-scale invasion in February. Zelensky used the opportunity to request a personal discussion with Xi, a genocidal communist dictator who is largely bankrolling the invasion of Ukraine through large purchases of cheap Russian oil and gas.
Ukraine is a member of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a global program to trap poor countries in predatory loans to China that they cannot afford. The loans are nominally meant to pay China for massive infrastructure projects. China was also Ukraine’s top trading partner prior to the war. Last year, Zelensky said he hoped that Ukraine would become a "bridge to Europe" for Chinese influence in his last conversation with Xi.
While welcoming Chinese financing and failing to criticize China for maintaining a strong alliance with Russia throughout this year’s invasion, Zelensky has been slightly more critical of the Chinese Communist Party than his predecessors, unilaterally sanctioning the world’s second-largest economy last year after a Chinese company tried to buy a key Ukrainian defense corporation.
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Volodymyr was implanted as a tool of the west to destabilize and weaken Russia. He is currently failing big time. Send me money, send me weapons and they do but he complains it is not enough and too slow. Soon we will see his exit after having his country destroyed. The loss of life of his troops is huge but covered up. His country will be divided up. Poland will acquire lands lost after WW11. Russia will reclaim Russian speaking areas so who else might be tempted. The spoils of war.
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State Department needs to be reduced to a pamphlet operation with one serious officer per embassy to sort out US Passport holders idiot troubles in foreign lands.
Don't even ask me what CIA needs to be reduced to.
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Foggy bottom is nothing more than the Klingon...'downtown detachment.' Scrap the entire bunch
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Ukraine is a money laundering operation for the beltway bandits. A brothel would be more respectable.
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Will D.C. and Hollywood now stop kissing Volodmyr Zelensky's ass?
On the contrary, Vogue was just the beginning. It will be capped so not to make US/Euro 'leaders' look weaker than he. Long, tedious, boring, cribbed from other efforts, and a nod to all involved, like "No Time to Die".
[GEO.TV] The Director-General of Inter-Services Public Relations Major General Babar Iftikhar Friday commented on rumours concerning the use of Pakistan’s air space in the drone strike that killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri and said that there was "no question on the use of the Pakistani soil in Zawahiri's killing.
“The Foreign Ministry has issued a clear statement regarding Ayman Al-Zawahiri. It is impossible that Pakistan’s soil has been used for this,” he said, adding that irrelevant comments are made without any evidence.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:33 Another humanitarian convoy assembled by caring people of Russia has arrived in Donetsk.
For civilians, volunteers delivered hygiene products, kits for schoolchildren by the beginning of the school year. Also, binoculars, body armor, walkie-talkies and quadrocopters were brought for the defenders of the republic. 21:35 Ukrainian Armed Forces fired on residential area "Gladkovka"
As a result of a barbaric strike, a shell hit the roof of a residential apartment building at Savchenko 9. Glazing was damaged in nearby houses, the roof and technical floor were destroyed in the above-mentioned house, miraculously, civilian casualties were avoided.
19:51 As a result of today's shelling of the VFUin the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, the number of wounded increased to 14 people, another 1 civilian died.
19:41 Several districts of Donetsk and Makiivka at once under massive enemy artillery fire
VFU attacked Kuibyshevsky, Kalininsky, Kirovsky, Kyiv districts of Donetsk and Chervonogvardeysky district of Makeevka. The shelling continues. We ask residents to take personal safety measures and not leave shelters.
19:23 The operational lines of the JCCC DPR received additional information on civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk:
Kuibyshevsky district:
- men born in 1980 and 1959 were wounded.
- as a result of a mine explosion PFM "Petal"wounded men born in 1983 and 1958
As of 19:00 on August 5, 24 cases of undermining civilians have already been registered in the Republic, incl. child, I passedPFM "Petal". One of the injured died in the hospital.
Thus, the total number of civilian casualties from VFU attacks at 19:00 on August 5, 2022 is 20 people, including two children (one killed, 19 injured). The information continues to flow.
Received additional information on damages as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
n.p. Makeevka:
Chervonogvardei district:
- st. Davydenko, 150 - apartment building.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
15:34 Don NTU and Ufa Petroleum Technological University signed a Cooperation Agreement. The joint activity plan was approved for the period until August 2023. It includes the provision of training, field trips and internships for students, graduate students, faculty, as well as the joint organization of additional education and research work.
15:17 Assault units are clearing Maryinka, from where the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been shelling Donetsk for the last eight years. This was announced by an RT source at the headquarters of the People's Militia of the DPR. Earlier it became known that the settlement of Sands was completely cleared of nationalists and came under the control of the allied forces.
15:15 Verkhnekalmiusskaya filtration station is powered. At 13:20 on August 5, employees of the Regional Energy Supply Company, after carrying out repairs that lasted two days, turned on the 110 kV power line, feeding the 110 kV Yasinovataya substation and a number of objects that were de-energized on August 3, including the Verkhnekalmiusskaya filter station, which provides water to residents of Donetsk, Makeevka and Yasinovataya.
15:00 The Armed Forces of Ukraine hit the maternity ward of hospital No. 17 in Donetsk. Initially, 10 people were injured.
14:08 The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case after the shelling of the drama theater and hotel in Donetsk.
The moment of shelling of peaceful areas by the Ukrainian army was caught on video. It was a targeted Ukronazi strike on the city with the goal of killing and injuring as many civilians as possible. According to the Investigative Committee, five civilians were killed during the shelling, and at least six were injured.
13:24 Allied forces of the Russian Federation and LDNR liberated 266 settlements of the Donetsk People's Republic, including Gladosovo. Fighting is going on in the city of Artemovsk, reports the Headquarters of the DPR TerO.
13:05 Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation of August 5, 2022
— In the area of N. p. Novoivanovka (Zaporozhye region) destroyed up to 150 militants, two American M777 howitzers and up to 1,500 ammunition for them, six Msta-B howitzers, eight artillery pieces, about 350 shells for the Grad MLRS, as well as seven UAVs;
- Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery hit 187 objects, incl. four control points;
— In the area of N. p. Konstantinovka and Artemovsk (DPR) destroyed two depots of rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition;
- During the counter-battery fight, three platoons of D-30 howitzers and a platoon of the Grad MLRS were suppressed;
- Five Ukrainian UAVs were shot down;
- Intercepted three Tochka-U ballistic missiles.
13:00 Bezsonov: The sands are completely cleared, our guys are entrenched. Cleansing continues in Maryinka. More than half of the territory has been cleared and is under our control. There are successes in other areas as well.
12:53 As a result of today's shelling of the VFU in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, one person was killed and two more civilians were injured.
12:11 As a result shelling of the VFU in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, the number of wounded increased to two people.
11:28 On the direction of n.p. Sands and to the north - to Avdeevka. The enemy retreats to the second line of positions, where it is reinforced by units of the Right Sector DUK, separate airmobile battalions and an airmobile brigade. After the failure near Donetsk, they are reinforced by artillery. They are losing positions.
We press them hard, and they try to regroup. Ours settle down in the Butovka mine area. 75% n.p. Peski are behind us. We went to Avdievka. We press.
I do not rule out that we will take Avdievka into the ring. In recent days, the wounded have gone, mostly shrapnel and shell shock. Normal personal protective equipment is required. Okay, worn trunks, that's not so bad. There are no normal helmets, there are also Soviet “bowler hats” and incredibly heavy non-Kevlar “armor”: that is, a rag and metal plates. It's outdated and doesn't work. I need Kevlar
11:25 N.A. Gladosovo came under the control of the DPR.
11:24 In the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, the following were injured:
Bokia Street wounded woman;
Chusovskaya street child-2010
11:21 Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk: they got to the 17th hospital in the maternity ward. Details are being specified.
11:16 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): four shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
11:08 Briefly about the situation in the east of Soledar. Fights are going on at the walls of the Knauf factory. It is difficult to cling to the streets of the city due to the massive work of enemy artillery. It is clear that here the regime has a certain advantage, they are hitting their own abandoned positions.
Everything is shot. And Soledar cannot be bypassed. "Musicians" are already working in Artemovsk. But, also, it's too early to say that the attack aircraft entrenched in the city.
11:01 Arrivals in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are once again hitting the civilian population of the city.
10:49 The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has formed an investigative department in Donetsk - a department.
09:25 Additional results of yesterday's shelling of Donetsk:
Kyiv region. Victims:
- woman born in 1959 (11, Kobylyanska St.) – shrapnel wound in the back, taken to the RTC;
- a man born in 1961 (Listoprokatchikov St., 3a) - concussion, shrapnel wounds to the thigh, shoulder, forearm; delivered to RTC.
Destruction:
- st. Kobylyanskaya, 11 - a direct hit on the house;
- st. Young Miners, 27 (garage cooperative) - three garages caught fire.
- st. Savchenko, 11, 13 - damaged balcony railings, glazing.
09:20 Rocket artillery of the allied forces in the morning struckblowon the accumulation of the enemy in the Maryinka area. The Nazis suffered serious losses in manpower and equipment.
08:00 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
--n.p. Nevelskoye - Donetsk (Kirov district): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
--n.p. Dzerzhinsk - n.p. Gorlovka: five shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
--n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kyiv and Kirov districts): five shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
--n.p. Nevelskoye - Donetsk: five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
--n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 20 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad MLRS.
--n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Mikhailovka: five shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
--n.p. Netaylovo - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): five shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
[AnimalPolitico] The Secretary of Security of San Luis Potosí indicated that the people who died, 10 men and 3 women, are presumably members of an organized crime cell.
Thirteen suspected criminals were killed and two detained was the result of a confrontation between security forces and an armed group in the municipality of Rayón, San Luis Potosí.
The Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection of the state indicated that the people killed are presumably members of an organized crime cell in Rayón, which would have been responsible for multiple criminal situations in the region.
The people who died are 10 men and 3 women, who wore ballistic vests.
The agency explained that this Thursday afternoon an armed group was detected on a road in the town of Vaqueros, in the municipality of Rayón. Agents of the State Civil Guard repelled the aggression by subjects who were sheltering inside a home.
Inside the building, five 7.62×39 caliber long guns (AKs)
and 22 long guns, apparently 308 caliber, were found.
While, outside the home, three Pick Up trucks were located, and inside one of them, with license plates from the state of Tamaulipas, a man was found and a woman was found next to him in the passenger seat, and between the front seat a long weapon of the so-called horn of a goat, as well as multiple tire punches made by hand.
Also located is a Ford Lariat double cab pickup truck with Florida state identification plates.
The secretariat reported that another gray Honda CRV truck without identification plates and a white pickup truck with black stripes were found in the back of the home.
Outside the house, on the dirt road vehicular stream, a gray Ford pickup truck was found, without tires, mounted between stones and metal structures.
[FoxNews] Jose Gomez III pleaded guilty to finding knives in a Texas Sam's club and slashing an Asian family inside the store in March 2020.
Was he upset about Covid? And now the answer:
A Texas man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for an assault against an Asian family at a Sam's Club store in what officials have described as a "hate crime" stemming from coronavirus-related discrimination.
Jose Gomez III, 21, of Midland, Texas, pleaded guilty to attacking an Asian family with young children on March 14, 2020, because he believed the Chinese were responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Pandemic-driven and racially-motivated acts of violence are deplorable crimes, and the Justice Department stands ready to use our hate crimes laws to hold perpetrators accountable," Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, said in a Thursday statement. "Hate crimes targeting Asian Americans have spiked during the pandemic and must be confronted. All people deserve to feel safe and secure living in their communities, regardless of race, color or national origin."
Gomez did not know the family but assumed they were Chinese and proceeded to follow them around because he believed they were a "threat" from the country that "started spreading that disease around," according to the Justice Department, citing statements made during his guilty plea.
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[KavkazUzel] A terrorism financing case has been initiated against a resident of Izberbash, who is serving a sentence for illegal arms trafficking. According to investigators, he transferred at least 10,000 rubles to a member of a terrorist organization.
According to the investigation, from 2020 to April 2022, a 29-year-old resident of Izberbash, knowing that the Hayat Tahrir Ash-Sham
...formerly known as Al Nusra, Al Qaeda’s franchise in Syria...
organization was recognized as a terrorist organization and its activities were banned on the territory of Russia by a court decision, transferred at least 10,000 thousand rubles to its participant, reported the Department of the Sledkom for Dagestan.
The suspect was sentenced in June to seven years in prison for trafficking in weapons and explosives, and a criminal case has been opened against him for participation in the activities of a terrorist organization, according to a statement on the agency's website.
Part 1.1 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (assistance to terrorism) provides for up to 15 years in prison.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on April 1, the FSB announced the arrest of 10 accomplices of the Hayat Tahrir ash-Sham terrorist organization in nine Russian regions, including Dagestan, Ingushetia, Krasnodar Territory, Astrakhan and Volgograd regions.
[ZMan] The most recent flareup between the Global American Empire and China has brought forth all of the usual commentary about the rise of China, its plans for Taiwan and the relative decline of America. The underlying assumption is that China could take Taiwan if it wanted and there is not much the United States can do about it, short of a nuclear strike on mainland China. Further, it is assumed that China will one day make its move on Taiwan when it feels the time is right.
This is an odd set of assumptions. If China can take Taiwan and wants to take Taiwan, then why are they not taking Taiwan? The standard answer is that they think they can wait out the American empire. That could be true but there is good evidence to suggest the clock is ticking in her ability to make war. China is hitting the wall demographically and she knows it. They have a lot of young military age males right now, but a decade from now they will be nearing middle-age.
Demography is destiny, as they say.
The more likely reason for China’s hesitance is that taking Taiwan would be an enormous gamble. It is a big island with no beaches. It has great ports, but those are heavily defended. The Taiwanese military is exceptionally good. They have the best weapons America can produce and they may have the best air defense system on the planet, thanks to America using Taiwan as a listening post. At the top of the island is advanced radar used to listen to the Chinese.
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— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) August 5, 2022
An Iraqi delegation, arrived in northeast Syria at the beginning of this week, is registering the names of people and families wishing to leave Hawl Camp and go back to their country.
“The delegation, which belongs to the Iraqi Ministry of Migration and Displacement, has been in the camp for about a week and is registering the names of families and individuals wishing to leave the camp to the Iraqi territory,” an informed source told North Press.
About 450 to 500 individuals are scheduled to be repatriated, the source added.
The identity of the registrants is also checked and verified, and a security search is conducted about them by the Iraqi authorities before their departure, the source further explained.
During the years 2019/2020, the Iraqi government resumed trips to get back Iraqis from Hawl Camp, but it then suspended those trips due to pressure from Iraqi tribal notables who accused these returnees of being ISIS members, according to refugees.
Iraqi refugees in Hawl camp, east of Hasakah, northeastern Syria, are calling on their country’s government to speed the process of repatriating them to Iraq in light of the continuing killings in the camp and the poor security conditions there.
Following the ISIS attack on Mosul and the Sinjar District in Iraq in 2014 and 2015, many residents fled to the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) areas.
⚡️ Bulgaria, Latvia cease issuing visas to Russians.
The Bulgarian consular service in Moscow has reportedly temporarily suspended the acceptance of visa documents for Russian tourists and real estate owners due to “extraordinary circumstances.”
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) August 5, 2022
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Which says nothing about Pakistani air — isn’t that how the SEALS got to Osama bin Laden’s compound?
[GEO.TV] The Director-General of Inter-Services Public Relations Major General Babar Iftikhar Friday commented on rumours concerning the use of Pakistain’s air space in the dronezap that killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri ...Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodox al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra... and said that there was "no question on the use of the Pak soil in Zawahiri's killing.
"The Foreign Ministry has issued a clear statement regarding Ayman al-Zawahiri. It is impossible that Pakistain’s soil has been used for this," he said, adding that irrelevant comments are made without any evidence.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] AA boss urges drivers to protect their fob in a metal box after his £55,000 Lexus was stolen - as drivers are warned HALF of cars are sitting ducks.
The boss of AA is encouraging motorists to keep their keyless car fobs inside a secure pouch, locked in a box and then placed inside a microwave after hackers stole his wife's £50,000 car.
Edmund King, one of Britain's leading motorist experts, said that thieves intercepted his wife Deidre's car key signal and were able to steal the keyless Lexus.
He now keeps his car fobs securely in a wired pouch that blocks the hacker's signal, locked inside a red metal box, and then places the box in a microwave at the very back of his house.
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^^ Also just wrapping the keyfob in heavy tinfoil a couple times seems to work pretty well, too. Used a friend's industrial RF sniffer probe and my 1GHz spectrum scope (yeah, I know we're geeks) to test this method. Fobs usually operate in the 300-500 MHz range, FYI.
A little leakage right next to the wrapped fob (probably how we wrapped it), but nothing over 6 inches away.
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Gee. Imagine if the manufacturers just put a sleep button on the fob.
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^^ Or an 'Off' button/switch. They'd just charge $300-500 more unfortunately.
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He now keeps his car fobs securely in a wired pouch that blocks the hacker's signal, locked inside a red metal box, and then places the box in a microwave which he shoves up a dwarve's arse, who's putting up in the small room at the very back of his house.
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Why doesn't the car shut itself off when the FOB signal is lost?
H1B software "engineer."
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There was this guy's Bentley which had a lockbox I needed to get into. The locksmith said there was a thumbprint recognition thingy in the stupid box. I went at it like a delinquent with a hammer, pliers, screwdriver, everything. No give. Enraged, we kidnapped the guy, beat him senseless and opened the shitty box with his thumb. All the while he was trying to tell us something but we didn't speak his Malayalam.
It was much later we realized the box had a keyhole too, concealed in the side. The locksmith had probably seen it earlier but didn't even mention it out of fear all the time. Hee hee hee...
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My brother told me of a 'anti-theft' device he cobbled together for his Harley Shovelhead motorcycle (yes, it was a long time ago). He had a box covering the battery and there were four toggle switches that had to be flipped up or down in the right order to get any electricity. More of a deterrent because a really motivated thief would just drive up and toss the bike in a truck and leave...
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They are doing away with the fob / push to start setup because too many idiots are leaving their cars running.
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Coming from the other side of the coin, its all fun and games until driver 1 takes off with the FOB, and driver 2 is left stranded when the FOB gets out of range.
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I have found buying a Stupid Simple $19.99 Driveway Alarm and placing the transmitter in the car and the receiver next to the bed has interrupted a few Mid-night visits. Shaking car will set it off if positioned on the hump of the Dashboard.
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Bought a used 1970 Dodge 440 Super Bee in 1974 for $1,500 ($54.00 a month payment). Wife totaled it 4 years into our marriage. I still have the wife but...... have thought about buying another one until I saw hell people want $45K to $100K or more now.
Two executives for Chinese energy company Wanxiang secured a meeting with VP Joe Biden in the West Wing in July 2014, according to White House visitor logs
A client of Hunter Biden's company Seneca Global Advisors partnered with Wanxiang in 2012 on a $1.25billion natural gas plant in China
Four days after the meeting, one of the execs emailed Hunter offering to service his $102,000 Fisker sports car and inviting the VP's son for a visit
Joe's meeting with the two Wanxiang executives is one of 15 occasions he met with businessmen closely linked to his son
Read the near-unintelligible comment response to this story from Hunter's lawyer, Chris Clark
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If Joe could only play golf, or at least pretend to play it, he could have met these guys on a golf course where the meeting would not have been recorded in the White House visitor logs. Didn't he learn anything at all from Baraq?
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CPAC takes Soros money.
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The anti-slavery movement that began (after 4000+ of slavery) in 18th Century Christian Western Civilization. How come in those prior 4000+ years other cultures never implemented it? /rhet question
[FoxNews] The driver was arrested at the scene after an SUV drove through the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial parade in downtown Gallup
A vehicle drove through a ceremonial parade in New Mexico, leaving several people, including two police officers, with injuries.
The New Mexico State Police said an SUV drove through the annual Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial parade in downtown Gallup on Thursday. The driver was arrested at the scene.
Witnesses at the scene said there were at least two passengers in the SUV when it drove through the parade route.
According to New Mexico State Police, multiple pedestrians were hurt and were being treated at the scene.
Two Gallup police officers were among those who were injured and were also being treated at the scene, New Mexico police said.
A 33-year-old man, three times over the legal alcohol limit, driving through the parade, injuring 15 people – including two Gallup police officers...Irving was driving on a suspended license at the time for a prior DWI charge. His two passengers were detained and taken to the Gallup detox center. - cite
Catch and release has been the SOP in New Mexico for DWI nearly forever.
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...reached peak grim during Covid as its the major city around the Navajo Nation. The Navajo suffer from the modern plague (though it looks like the Greens are working on a solution) of abundant and readily available food. They have extremely high levels of diabetes and morbidly overweight. Covid went through the community like a fire.
I Can Kidnap More Nigerians If I Kill Him Today; I Won't Take Anything Below N50m As Ransom – Terrorist Tells Relation Of Murdered Oyo Hotelier | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/zkOe7kUInYpic.twitter.com/JlHJJMgv5f
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...Interestingly, DOD has told DC rather bluntly that they were not getting any help from the Guard:
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin rejected the request because the Department of Defense has "determined providing this support would negatively impact the readiness of the DCNG and have negative effects on the organization and members," the official said.
However, as Billy Mays used to say, "But wait, there's MORE!!!" :
The official said grant funding through FEMA's Emergency Food and Shelter Program is sufficient. "We understand SAMU First Response has received grant funding through FEMA's Emergency Food and Shelter Program and has indicated that sufficient EFSP funds exist at this point to provide migrant assistance."
That's about as direct a slap as you're gonna get without direct physical contact.
Mayor Bowser's response was, "Bowser told reporters on Friday that she wants to continue to work with the Pentagon to ensure political considerations "are not a part of their decision."
If Muriel Bowser is accusing the Biden Administration of 'political considerations' on this subject, it's possible that the Blue on Blue warfare is just getting started.
Mike
PS - And it's interesting that Her Honor's response to this - instead of calling on the residents of some of America's richest zip codes to meet their rhetoric and step up and help - is to call for guys with guns who come under her direct control.
Funny, that.
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Arrivals say city has the best opportunities
Yeah, watch out for those Monty dealers and Nigerian watch salesmen. They bite.
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[NY Post OpEd] On paper, Ukraine’s David is running circles around Russia’s Goliath.
In the beginning of the war, Ukrainian defenders worshiped "St. Javelin," the US-supplied, shoulder-fired, tank-killing missile that turned hundreds of Russian tanks into smoldering hulks of roadside wreckage.
In the current phase of the war, it’s America’s HIMARS shoot-and-scoot precision rocket artillery system that’s helped Ukraine overcome Russia’s numerical advantage by taking out ammunition depots far behind the front lines, forcing Russian guns into hiding to avoid deadly accurate GPS-guided artillery fire.
In more than five months of brutal combat, the plucky Ukrainians repulsed the Russian attempt to capture the capital Kyiv and depose President Volodymyr Zelensky, inflicted morale-busting casualties on Russia’s largely conscription army, and fought the putative superpower to a virtual stalemate in the east, where Russian forces are paying heavily for every few meters they take.
The war is now at a critical inflection point, say outside experts, with only a few months of warm weather before the battle lines are frozen in place and pressure increases on Ukraine’s European allies who rely on Russian gas to keep their people from freezing.
"I don’t want to sound like a character from ’Game of Thrones’ but, yeah, winter is coming," said Britain’s top spymaster Richard Moore at the Aspen Security Forum last month.
To maintain the flow of military, economic, and political support, Zelensky needs a dramatic battlefield triumph to show the U.S. and the world the war is winnable.
"It’s important I think to the Ukrainians themselves that they demonstrate their ability to strike back, and I think that will be very important for their continuing high morale," said Moore. "I also think, to be honest, it will be an important reminder to the rest of Europe that this is a winnable campaign by the Ukrainians because we are about to go into a pretty tough winter."
Putin seems to be banking on a "winter strategy" that as European countries face higher prices to heat their homes, Western resolve will buckle, and Ukraine will be forced to cut a deal on Moscow’s terms.
But Russian losses have been staggering, with estimates of war dead ranging from 15,000 to 40,000."We continue to see Russia failing on the battlefield, paying a high price for very little gain, and suffering domestic failures at home," a senior military official told reporters at a Pentagon briefing. "When you look at the numbers of people that they have lost, it’s impossible to believe that they’re not having to figure out ways to replace them if they want to continue to go toe-to-toe with Ukrainians."
That said, the Russian president has a high pain threshold, especially because he’s not the one feeling the pain.
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Putin seems to be banking on a "winter strategy" that as European countries face higher prices to heat their homes, Western resolve will buckle, and Ukraine will be forced to cut a deal on Moscow’s terms.
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Green thinking is "proles gotta suffer," so that may not cut much ice.
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I am a bit surprised they haven't made the burning of wood explicitly against the law, for air quality reasons donchyaknow. Probably the immigrant neighborhoods.
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Wonder how many of Putin's 'volunteers' are themselves prepared for winter. Too many make the assumption that Russian are immune to the cold. Way back when the Russians and Chinese had a spat over the Amur river area, the 'Soviets' got a shock when numerous casualties arose from the cold weather. Those were not the old WW2 vets. They had to relearn 'how to' to stay alive. Given what we have witnessed so far, it looks like another learning process.
That was then. Subsequently 140 was claimed, no doubt later it will be even more. The question is how many landed on their fellow Gazans, and how many actually managed to do any damage in Israel. See here for links to all of today’s posts on Operation Breaking Dawn.
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#UPDATE: Palestinian islamic jihad fired 80 rockets at Israel, 34 of them landed in Gaza - N12/N13
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) August 5, 2022
Breaking: PIJ spokesperson tells Al Jazeera that the group “has begun its initial response to the Israeli bombing. This is an open confrontation and is not limited to the Gaza Strip. PIJ is in coordination with the rest of the factions in Gaza.” (@ariel_oseran)
Iran says that "The Zionist attacks on Gaza are a crime and a provocative adventure, Israel will bear the responsibility of their consequences" https://t.co/86809APSp4
#BREAKING: IDF estimates 15-20 PIJ operatives killed in opening strikes of Operation Dawn in Gaza. IDF spokesman: “We successfully eliminated Jabari & also targeted two squads on their way to an anti-tank attack, & killed the commander of the anti-tank formation, Abdullah Kadum”
PIJ Sec.Gen. Ziad al-Nakhala after Israeli airstrike in Gaza which killed PIJ commander: "We are heading to battle, and there is no truce after this airstrike." https://t.co/Wq32Lan5a3
[Shafaq News] The Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) arrested an ISIS member in Nineveh.
"A force from the PMF's 30th Brigade apprehended the terrorist, of Syrian nationality, on the outskirts of the Nineveh Plain," PMF said in a statement.
The terrorist was handed over to the relevant authorities.
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N. Korea made it clear it is willing to assist in Russia's war, news agency reported
This would include providing a vast fighting force - 100,000 soldiers - and builders to repair damage “If you feed them, they’re yours for as long as needed. We need to free up funds for more of Pudge’s our beloved Fearless Leader’s special cognac.”
In return, it said grain and energy would be supplied to Kim's stricken economy
Reacting, reserve colonel Igor Korotchenko told Russian state TV: 'We shouldn't be shy in accepting the hand extended to us by Kim Jong-un.'
Russia and North Korea have shared close ties dating back to 1948, when Soviet Union became first country to recognise DPRK. Putin and Kim last met in 2019
They would be deployed to the forces of the separatist pro-Putin Donetsk People's Republic [DPR] and Luhansk People's Republic [LPR], both of which Kim has recently recognised as independent countries.
'If North Korean volunteers with their artillery systems, wealth of experience with counter battery warfare and large calibre multiple launch rocket systems, made in North Korea, want to participate in the conflict, well let's give the green light to their volunteer impulse.'
He said: 'If North Korea expresses a desire to meet its international duty to fight against Ukrainian fascism, we should let them.' It was the 'sovereign right of the DPR and LPR to sign the relevant agreements,' he said.
Russia has repeatedly claimed Ukraine is a 'fascist' country as one of its many ways to attempt to justify Putin's brutal invasion, that has killed thousands of civilians and caused millions of people to flee their homes.
Korotchenko is known for his fierce pro-Putin rhetoric.
Russians should feel 'no shame' of its ambition of obliterating Ukraine as an independent state, he also said recently.
Such an objective was 'absolutely healthy', he said.
'It was said here that Russia is trying to wipe Ukraine off the geopolitical map of the world,' he said. 'It isn't quite that. We are wiping an anti-Russia project off the geopolitical map of the world…'
Ukraine had 'never existed' as a truly independent state in the past, he falsely claimed. 'It is an artificial 'formation' which was born thanks to the national policy conducted after 1917 by the Bolsheviks,' he said.
But now it had become 'a springboard for a strike against Russia'.
Its political elite 'have no right to exist from the point of national interests of our country'.
The West 'will not be able to influence the decisiveness of the leadership of our country and our people to make it so that such a threat from the territory now called Ukraine never exists.'
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Close support already exists between these two especially after Pelosi's stunt. Close behind her stunt Volodymyr has asked China to have Russia back down. Western media in chronic damage control mode. Even Denmark now is drawn towards Russia and I have read the Swiss and Finland have buyers remorse.The weakness of the EU and USA is obvious to most nations of the world. Inflation in UK, USA and Germany is historic. The leadership of Western nations is the worst I have ever seen. Desperate hardly. He plays this game well. Kim's offer will be accepted. Look what he offers Putin. The unification of the Asian world only gets stronger. Diplomats and bureaucrats will not make the world safer or stronger. Ability, will and strength are the qualities needed now. China let Pelosi go back because they knew she would do more damage here. I expect Biden will do everything wrong as he is now(80,000 IRS agents; what a joke, nobody wants to work). My historic rant for the day.
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Ah! So instead of a bridge, they'll just fill rivers with North Korean corpses!
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Nothing says better a better evaluation than Go-No Go testing. Putin has found out the hard way and, unfortunately, for the grunts on the ground what the cost is. Can Kim afford to show the same level of military effectiveness that a real life (and death) demands. If they fail as the Russians have their threat posture evaporates. Who you going to send? Your palace guard or the ranks? Who will validate your military effectiveness best? Can you afford to lose your untested formations against people who've already been through Darwin's environment for many months. Remember your military organization follows the Soviet/Russian model not the Western.
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#14 back in the 'old' Army, one form of testing whether troops retained the information they had received instruction in was to spend a morning or afternoon session running a route with stations/tables. Each station had evaluators and applicable gear/materials. The troop had to run to each station, present his sheet and then take a test. It could be computations, it could be equipment stripping and reassembly, it be setting up equipment that would then operate, and etc. It was timed both in execution of tasks but also the run overall. At each station you got a rating of Go (successful) or No-Go (unsuccessful). Failure in peacetime usually involved retraining classes usually at the price of the troop's 'free time', like Saturday or Sunday and a repeat of the test shortly there after. In war, it may well mean a body bag.
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I didn't know sauerkraut was fermented. Now I know. Thanks, TW. What I do know is everyone expects me to make two pork roasts on New Years Day, one with sauerkraut, one with kimchi.
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[BBC] At least 10 people have been killed by Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip, including a top commander of a Palestinian militant group. Local health officials said a young girl was among the dead with dozens of others wounded.
Israel's PM said the operation followed "an immediate threat" by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) after the arrest of one of its members early this week.
The PIJ fired more than 100 rockets into Israel "in an initial response". Most were intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile defence shield. Sirens were heard in a number of Israeli cities.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it then resumed strikes late on Friday, targeting militant positions.
In a televised address earlier in the day, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said "Israel carried out a precise counter-terror operation against an immediate threat".
The IDF said it struck sites linked to the PIJ. They include the high-rise Palestine Tower in Gaza City, hit in a loud explosion which left smoke pouring from the building. Four PIJ militants - including Tayseer Jabari - and a five-year-old girl were among those killed since the strikes started, local health officials say. They say another 55 people were injured.
An Israeli military spokesman said the IDF was "assuming about 15" militants had been killed.
Israel's Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked told Channel 12 News: "We don't know how this will play out... but this could take time... This could be a lengthy round [of conflict] and a hard one."
Speaking while on a visit to the Iranian capital, Tehran, PIJ secretary general Ziyad al-Nakhala said "we will respond forcefully to this aggression, and there will be a fight in which our people will win".
For a given definition of winning that would look like losing to anyone else.
"There are no red lines for this battle... and Tel Aviv will be under the rockets of the resistance."
Meanwhile, Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, said that armed groups were "united" in battle and would not keep silent.
On Monday night, Israel arrested Bassem Saadi, reported to be the head of PIJ in the West Bank. He was held in the Jenin area as part of an ongoing series of arrest operations after a wave of attacks by Israeli Arabs and Palestinians that left 17 Israelis and two Ukrainians dead. Two of the attackers came from the Jenin district.
[JPost] Israel takes initiative and launches widescale attack on northern Gaza in Operation Breaking Dawn. Iron Dome batteries deployed throughout Israel.
The IDF launched Operation Breaking Dawn against Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip on Friday evening, striking multiple targets belonging to the group and killed close to a dozen terrorist operatives including the head of the group in the northern part of the enclave. By late Friday night, over 100 rockets had been fired into Israel from the Gaza Strip.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz approved a draft call up order of up to 25,000 soldiers in reserve duty for operational purposes and the IDF began calling up reservists in the Southern Command, Air Defense Units, the Homefront Command and combat troops and officers.
"The goal of this operation is the elimination of a concrete threat against the citizens of Israel and the civilians living adjacent to the Gaza Strip," Prime Minister Yair Lapid said in a statement.
Dozens of targets across the Gaza Strip were hit, with casualties including the head of the group’s northern command Tayseer al-Jabari.
Seems like the IDF info on retaliation was ...accurate
The rocket attacks were carried out hours after a senior Islamic Jihad terrorist was killed in a targeted Israeli Air Force airstrike in northern Gaza.
More than 100 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip into southern and central Israel on Friday night, hours after the IDF struck multiple terrorist targets in Gaza, killing a top Islamic Jihad terrorist leader as well as additional operatives.
Sirens were heard across a number of key Israeli cities as more than 100 rockets were fired at Yavne, Be'er Yaakov, Ashdod and Gaza-border communities. Most of the rockets were intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system. The IDF was retaliating and striking additional targets said to be affiliated with Islamic Jihad terrorist infrastructure.
The targeting range was soon widened as rockets were fired toward the center of Israel including Rishon Lezion, Bat Yam and Holon.
An hour later, more rockets were fired at Sderot, Ibim and Nir Am.
No casualties were reported. Islamic Jihad took responsibility for the attacks.
[GEOTV] ISIS on Friday grabbed credit for a deadly blast in a minority residential area in Afghanistan's capital Kabul, the group said.
The Afghan police said at least eight people were killed and 18 maimed in the blast. ISIS said in a statement that 20 people were killed and injured in an attack launched in western Kabul.
That’s where the Shiite neighbourhoods are that ISIS-Afghanistan so like to attack.
"The explosion happened in a crowded place," said Khalid Zadran, the city's police front man.
Video shared on social media purportedly of the blast site showed men rushing to help the injured after the incident.
A senior Taliban ...Arabic for students... security official, who declined to be named, said primary investigations revealed that explosives were placed in a vegetable cart and the blast resulted in the wounding and killing of more than 50 people, including women and kiddies.
"There is a possibility that the corpse count will increase because most of the maimed people had critical wounds," he said.
ISIS has claimed recent attacks, mainly on the minority community.
The ISIS affiliate operating in Afghanistan since 2014 is seen as the country's most serious security challenge since the Taliban took control of the country in August last year.
The bomb exploded in a western district of the city where members of the minority Shi'ite Muslim community regularly meet. Islamic State, a Sunni Muslim militant group, claimed responsibility for the attack, the group said on its Telegram channel.
A senior medical officer at a private hospital said at least eight people died and 22 were wounded.
No up-to-date census data exists, but estimates put the size of the Shi'ite community at between 10-20% of the population of 39 million, including Persian-speaking Tajiks and Pashtuns as well as Hazaras.
[IsraelTimes] Albanian government services were attacked after a group of Iranian dissidents attempted to hold a conference on Albanian soil in July
A cyberattack that temporarily shut down numerous Albanian government digital services and websites in mid-July was likely the work of pro-Iranian hackers seeking to disrupt an Iranian opposition group’s conference in Albania, a leading US cybersecurity firm said Thursday.
In a report, Mandiant expressed "moderate confidence" the attackers were acting in support of Tehran’s anti-dissident efforts based on several factors: The timing, the content of a social media channel used to claim responsibility, and similarities in software code used with malware long used to target Farsi and Arabic speakers.
The July 23-24 conference by the Iranian dissident group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq was in fact canceled following warnings from local authorities of a possible terrorist threat. Some 3,000 Iranian dissidents from the group, best known as MEK, live at Ashraf 3 camp in Manez, 30 kilometers (19 miles) west of Albania’s capital, Tirana.
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A group calling itself "HomeLand Justice" claimed credit for the cyberattack, which used ransomware to scramble data. Ransomware is best known for its use in for-profit criminal extortion but is being increasingly wielded for political ends, particularly by Iran.
The claim by "HomeLand Justice" came on a Telegram channel in which documents purported to be Albanian residence permits of MEK members were posted, along with video of the ransomware being activated. The channel alleged corruption in the Albanian government and used hashtags including #Manez.
"This activity poses an active threat to public and private organizations in other NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... member states," Mandiant said. "As negotiations surrounding the Iran nuclear deal continue to stall, this activity indicates Iran may feel less restraint in conducting cyber network attack operations going forward."
At the time, the Tirana government said the hackers’ method was identical with attacks last year in other NATO states, including Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Belgium.
The MEK began as a Marxist group opposing the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Iran. It supported the 1979 Islamic Revolution, but soon had a falling out with Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and turned against his holy manal government, carrying out a series of liquidations and bombings in the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
The MEK later fled into neighboring Iraq, leading many in Iran to oppose the group. Although now largely based in Albania, the group claims to operate a network inside Iran.
[OffThePress] Almost every sea turtle born on the beaches of Florida in the past four years has been female, according to scientists.
The rise in female baby turtles comes as a result of intense heatwaves triggered by a growing climate crisis that is significantly warming up sands.
If a turtle’s eggs incubate below 27C (82F), the turtle hatchlings will be male, accoeding to the National Ocean Service. If the eggs incubate above 31C (89F), the hatchlings will be female. Temperatures that waver between the two extremes will result in a mix of male and female baby turtles.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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Almost every sea turtle born on the beaches of Florida in the past four years has been female, according to scientists.
