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While you were all preoccupied with other questionable news stories posted here on R D-S & T-P,👀😁 an important freedom was restored to all adults in the United States of America, by Judge Mark Pittman, a Trump appointee. So in effect, Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton has been vindicated! Cheers!🍸😁
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You could build a leadership curriculum around her mistakes.
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The last thing a fire chief wants is fiery controversy.
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[DW] Remember: David Frum is a POS
Less than 24 hours after a failed assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump — which left one bystander dead and three others, including Trump, injured — The Atlantic’s David Frum blamed the violence on the former president and his supporters.
"The Gunman and the Would-Be Dictator," blared the headline, and on the off-chance anyone missed the intended tone of the piece, a subhead followed: "Violence stalks the president who has rejoiced in violence to others."
Frum’s premise was that Trump was a fascist and because "fascism feasts on violence," the former president was simply getting a taste of that which he had fostered.
Addressing the attack on Trump, which took place on Saturday at a Pennsylvania rally, as "a horror and an outrage," Frum went on to invoke history to quickly forget the name of the man who would commit such a despicable act. But first he blamed the victim, writing,"Now the bloodshed that Trump has done so much to incite against others has touched him as well."
"Trump and his supporters envision a new place for violence as their defining political message in the 2024 election," the political commentator continued, returning to his original premise. "Fascist movements are secular religions. Like all religions, they offer martyrs as their proof of truth. The Mussolini movement in Italy built imposing monuments to its fallen comrades. The Trump movement now improves on that: The leader himself will be the martyr in chief, his own blood the basis for his bid for power and vengeance."
Frum ventured further in the same vein, ultimately concluding that "the gunman and Trump, at their opposite ends of a bullet’s trajectory, are nonetheless joined together as common enemies of law and democracy."
Critics were not impressed with Frum’s take — and even less impressed with his timing — as they responded via X.
"David Frum needs help. In every way," Joe Concha commented.
"They are still trying to get Trump killed," The Blaze’s Auron McIntyre added.
"Former Bush 43 political appointees with Trump derangement are some of the most pathetic, delusional, and self-righteous people in politics. Blaming Trump and his family for his near assassination? @davidfrum definitely wins the trophy with this one. Truly a douche bag," Mike Davis posted.
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[Gateway] A Polish border guard was murdered, and several others were injured by illegal immigrants throwing spears at the border. Spearchuckers
These are the barbaric savages, rapists, and murderers that Globalists are importing to terrorize civilized societies across Europe and North America.
Polish officials reportedly blame Putin for the attacks, claiming he has waged hybrid warfare utilizing cyber attacks, disinformation, and weaponized migration to destabilize the EU. This appears to be an attempt to deflect the blame from the EU’s unchecked mass migration policies.
Similar consequences are seen across Europe and in Poland. The Gateway Pundit reported last month that two stabbings claimed the lives of two police officers in Germany and Poland. In Germany, the perpetrator was a 25-year-old Afghan illegal. In Poland, an illegal immigrant reportedly stabbed a soldier after reaching through the fence "on the country’s border with Belarus in May," according to Deutsche Welle.
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Lead should have flown the other way immediately.
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Re #3,
The Jungle Look
Howled a bear cub, "Beware! Over there!
It's the wolf!"
But his parents weren't scared.
"Sonny ain't very bright..."
"Though, that once, I was right!"
"And he don't much resemble a bear."
[WarZone] After a yearlong hiatus, production F-35 deliveries are resuming, but the long-awaited Block 4 upgrades will have to wait.
A fix of a kind has been found for problems with the F-35’s vital Tech Refresh 3 software, or TR-3, which had seen production deliveries suspended for around a year. Deliveries of the stealth fighters will resume "in the near future," clearing a backlog of jets sitting in storage, although the TR-3 is only installed in what’s described as a "truncated" form, raising questions about when the F-35 will actually be able to make full use of the long-awaited Block 4 improvements that this software underpins.
The F-35 Joint Program Office announced yesterday that Lt. Gen. Michael J. Schmidt, the F-35 program executive officer, approved the use of the "truncated" TR-3 software on July 3. This means that more than 90 (perhaps as many as 120) F-35s that had been manufactured but then put into storage at Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth, Texas, plant can be delivered. These jets are destined for both U.S. and foreign customers.
In the meantime, the TR-3 software remains in flight testing, with the aim of achieving a long-term fix.
Schmidt’s decision was made, the JPO explains, "after extensive coordination with the services, Joint Strike Fighter Executive Steering Board, pilots, maintainers, and industry."
As we have reported in the past, the first flight of an F-35 test jet with a version of the TR-3 backbone took place in January 2023.
Production jets then began to be completed with TR-3 processors and related hardware. However, TR-3 has suffered numerous delays that have contributed to significant cost overruns in the program. The ongoing issues meant that deliveries of these aircraft were suspended in July 2023.
As of December 2023, it was reported that the development of TR-3 would be completed sometime between April and June of 2024 — after this, the same TR-3 enhancements would have to be incorporated into the existing jets.
By January of this year, Lockheed Martin was saying it didn’t expect F-35 deliveries to resume until late this summer, but it also confirmed that thought was being given to accepting jets before then, without the fully validated TR-3 hardware and software. This is the workaround that Schmidt signed off earlier this month.
[Dr. Paul Alexander] LIONESS OF JUDAH MINISTRY's excellent scholarship highlighting Thorp's clarion calls to protect the mother and baby in utero! 1200 times increase in menstrual abnormalities; increase in miscarriages.
What say you Malone? Bourla? Bancel? Sahin? You criminals...you Nobel criminals, money whore criminals! What about you Weissman? Kariko? All of you animals...I have nothing but sheer disdain for you all, each of you for it was untested, mRNA, in LNP complex, in vaccine, you never proved out safety, never and you know to this day, not one RCT has shown this mRNA vaccine reduces death, ICU, hospitalization etc. Just bull shit speculation by you people yet you brought death...to babies, children...you all are just money fame whores! You all have blood and death on your hands and now you pushing mRNA vaccine for fraud PCR manufactured fake H5N1, H5N2 pandemic? There never will be a bird flu pandemic, you know you al are fraudsters.
mRNA is an unsafe platform for vaccines. it is a failed gene-therapy
it's being pushed by corruption within the biomedical-military-industrial complex by people who are profiting off the Moderna patents.
This was all about Moderna money.
Never made a single profit.
Suddenly its stock valuation went up and it had a market cap of billions. On the eve of coronavirus
why?
Military-biowarfare top brass were buying in, laundering their investments through Venture Capital firms and family members so they wouldn't be done for corruption.
BARDA top brass and alumni - Rick Bright, Richard Hatchett (CEPI) etc
The top people at HHS
why do you think it was rammed through approvals? CEPI (Gates foundation which must be CIA linked) has been lobbying with the WHO and Johns Hopkins and the Chinese CDC (George Gao) practising at Event 201 with CIA deputy director Avril Hains and Gates Foundation's Paul Elias
Moderna CEO Stephan Bancel retires a billionaire and so do many others.
patent holders on mRNA go on earning billions every year for 20 years under patent as it's used as a platform for every new vaccine plus migrating previous ones.
These people don't give a crap that it's killing say 1 in 1000 and crippling and maiming many more
the mRNA could never have been safe because it turns your own body's cells into the factory for the antigen - you can't measure the dose. There's no off switch. It provokes auto-immune attack wherever it lands, and the lipid nanoparticle case takes it everywhere including the developing foetus and your heart and your brain and your ovaries.
They don't care they all want to retire with their golden paycheck every year for the next 20 years.
America - you need to repeal the law that gives liability immunity to vaccine manufacturers
you need to repeal the PREP Act.
You need to repeal the Intellectual Property Rights protections for medicines. NO the drug manufacturers do NOT need patent protection as reward for drug discovery. Remove it and you remove this perverse incentive.
We don't need revolutionary new drugs. We need not to be poisoned by greedy patent rent-seekers.
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Sorry, anon1, I've got a pretty good shot at being the least vaxed person to post here today, and I'd rather take the whole menu at one sitting than vote RFK. Never happen.
[NYP] Embattled Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who is facing congressional outcry and calls to resign over security lapses leading to former President Donald Trump’s near-assassination Saturday, landed her role thanks largely to a close relationship with first lady Jill Biden, The Post has learned.
Cheatle, 53, is the second woman to lead the presidential protection agency and secured the non-Senate-confirmed role in August 2022 after a three-year stint as senior director of global security at PepsiCo.
Before that, she had served 27 years in the Secret Service, beginning in the Clinton administration.
Four sources close to President Biden’s family, including people who interacted with Cheatle during the Obama-Biden administration, said she was well liked by the future first lady and her most senior aides, including top adviser Anthony Bernal.
"Cheatle served on Dr. Biden’s second lady detail and Anthony pushed for her," a Democratic insider told The Post. "Anthony has no national security or law enforcement experience. He should have no influence over the selection of the USSS director."
"I heard at the time she was being considered for director that Anthony had pushed her forward as an option," another well-placed source told The Post.
'That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there's a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn't want to put somebody up on a sloped roof'
This is the only place I've seen it, obviously he got it from somewhere but there's a woman sitting behind trump, that kind of ducks down just before the shots and holds up a Biden sign. Then as the shots are fired she ducks a little more, and pops back up with her camera. She didn't flinch, she did NOT react in a normal person on the downrange side of gunfire.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, this was planned and not just by the patsy. He had help, the way was prepared for him. And I'll wager that SOMEONE from the FBI or CIA groomed him for this.
[NYP] BUTLER, Pa. — The Secret Service blamed local police for failing to secure the rooftop from which gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump, insisting it was outside the perimeter the federal agency was tasked with protecting.
Instead, securing and patrolling the factory grounds of AGR International Inc. — located about 130 yards from the stage where Trump was speaking Saturday — was the responsibility of local Pennsylvania police, Secret Service representative Anthony Gugliemi said, according to the New York Times.
The Secret Service was only tasked with covering the grounds where Trump’s rally took place, with local police being recruited to assist with those efforts and secure the area outside the rally.
So says the Liberal / Socialist / Democrat Party (LSD's) appointed SS leadership.
Less we forget, this LSD Coup supported - DEFUND THE POLICE.
To facilitate the Civil riots and looting during elections.
The Protection Team, or the H.R.T. are always in charge of the mission.
Viewable L.O.S. areas are constantly double-checked.
Locals are given duties, areas, and a 100% monitored joint comm channel.
Besides, explain how there are multiple verified reports and supporting videos that the Shooter was seen as much as 5 to 10 mins and reported crawling on the roof by police, before he pulled the trigger.
Like many have said.
Given, the LSD's have failed to bring down Trump in the courts.
Are they now using other means of needed to stay in power?
With examples and statements from other security and former USS members he thinks it is the USS shifting the blame to the locals. There were general fuck ups all around, but the USS knew about the suspicious guy and they should have had a couple sniper teams watching him and the second they saw the rifle, killed him.
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If I were the candidate, I'd get me some of them robot flamethrower dogs, more for the drama than anything else. Then, I'd take a big chunk of my campaign funds and hire the best private security company I could find. People with a record of successful protection details.
In the commercial world, if you don't deliver the goods & services, you don't get paid. Quite the opposite of a government department where you can screw the pooch and everyone keeps their jobs. Skin in the game, man!
[Breitbart] Erik Prince, the entrepreneur who founded Blackwater and other military companies, said Monday that the Pentagon had blocked him from giving Israel technology to flood the Hamas tunnels in Gaza.
Prince told the Heritage Foundation’s Policy Fest outside the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee that he had been willing to donate the necessary equipment, “fully funded,” to Israel, but that the Department of Defense had rejected his involvement. “Blocked by the Pentagon,” he said.
The suggestion of flooding the tunnels with seawater came up early in the war, when it was learned that Hamas had succeeded in digging between 350 and 450 miles of tunnels under Gaza — far more than had been previously estimated. As Breitbart News reported, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) attempted to flood some tunnels, avoiding those where it was presumed that hostages were being held.
However, a broader flooding project was not undertaken. There were concerns that bringing so much seawater underground could permanently destroy Gaza’s underground aquifer, whose water is already saltier than normal.
The primary benefit of the proposal appears to have been as a form of psychological warfare, suggesting to Hamas terrorists that they might eventually drown underground if they persisted in staying in their subterranean lairs.
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The tunnel flooding would have been a lot harder than it seems. Many tunnels are sealed off. Many have other kinds of barriers. Some tunnels are not connected to the main N-S arteries.
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Sorry for the hostages but they need to be regarded as casualties of war
flood the tunnels
They should have been regarded as casualties of war on day 1.
October 8 the flooding needed to begin and the forced relocation of the entire Arab Muslim population of Gaza to live with their Arab Muslim relatives in Jordan, Iraq and Egypt.
Israel needed to be ruthless and effective on Day 1.
They are losing because they failed to be ruthless on day 1.
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Flood the tunnels with H2S. It's heavier than air so will remain underground. If they open a door, they'll die. Plus it's flammable, corrosive and quite nasty. Once a week, ignite it and then replace it. Slow but certain.
Odor threshold (when rotten egg smell is first noticeable to some). Odor becomes more offensive at 3-5 ppm. Above 30 ppm, odor described as sweet or sickeningly sweet.
2-5
Prolonged exposure may cause nausea, tearing of the eyes, headaches or loss of sleep. Airway problems (bronchial constriction) in some asthma patients.
20
Possible fatigue, loss of appetite, headache, irritability, poor memory, dizziness.
50-100
Slight conjunctivitis ("gas eye") and respiratory tract irritation after 1 hour. May cause digestive upset and loss of appetite.
100
Coughing, eye irritation, loss of smell after 2-15 minutes (olfactory fatigue). Altered breathing, drowsiness after 15-30 minutes. Throat irritation after 1 hour. Gradual increase in severity of symptoms over several hours. Death may occur after 48 hours.
100-150
Loss of smell (olfactory fatigue or paralysis).
200-300
Marked conjunctivitis and respiratory tract irritation after 1 hour. Pulmonary edema may occur from prolonged exposure.
500-700
Staggering, collapse in 5 minutes. Serious damage to the eyes in 30 minutes. Death after 30-60 minutes.
700-1000
Rapid unconsciousness, "knockdown" or immediate collapse within 1 to 2 breaths, breathing stops, death within minutes.
#4
For the last couple decades the demoncrats have kept founding ways and making a habit of launching circling torpedos. And they just keep hitting themselves.
#5
Apparently, President Trump has an "upgraded" security team of 15 at this point. I'd like to know how many agents were swapped out and the make-up of the new team. Maybe these can figure out how to holster a weapon.
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this failed assassination attempt was the luckiest thing in the world for trump
it hands him the election
ends the lawfare
and culturally crushes the leftist bullying from Antifa/BLM that will no longer be tolerated by law enforcement
[JustTheNews] The homeless encampments are visibly located between the two main convention sites.
Chicago officials have shut down a homeless encampment ahead of the Democratic National Convention.
The tents are gone from the site off the Dan Ryan Expressway south of Roosevelt Road. The people who lived there have been offered housing until Aug. 31 in a former hotel on the Near North Side.
Patricia Nix-Hodes, of the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, said it is critical that the city provide permanent homes for the people who were moved.
"People shouldn’t be displaced for any major event without being offered housing," Nix-Hodes said.
Nix-Hodes also said the encampment area should not be shut down permanently.
"Unfortunately, people become homeless every day, so there will be other people who need that space when they have no place else to go," Nix-Hodes explained.
City workers have also been clearing an encampment farther south near the Dan Ryan, along Canalport Avenue.
Chicago Department of Family and Support Services Brandie Knazze said the City is acting proactively ahead of the Democratic National Convention, which is scheduled from August 19th through the 22nd.
The primary event centers for the convention are the United Center on the Near West Side and McCormick Place in the South Loop.
The homeless encampments are visibly located between the two main convention sites.
Knazze said the City plans to keep the homeless site near the Ryan Expressway and Roosevelt Road closed permanently.
Nix-Hodes said this location is a longtime spot for people who have no place else to stay.
"We don’t have enough affordable housing in the city. The shelter system has been over capacity, so people do need a place to go when they can’t find another place to go," Nix-Hodes said.
Commissioner Knazze said the City gave notice to the people in the homeless encampment near Roosevelt Road in June.
Nix-Hodes said her understanding is that outreach workers did visit the camp before the site was cleared.
Nix-Hodes said the encampment site should reopen, even if it is no longer needed for the people who are now being displaced.
"We don’t want to deprive people in the future who may become homeless from having that location, so that’s an important piece of this," Nix-Hodes added.
Nix-Hodes said it is important to think about what happens beyond the convention.
Earlier this year, the City reported a total of more than 18,000 homeless people within Chicago's boundaries.
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Can’t they be used in a rally or protest to keep them busy? A portion of them would have experience as Dem activists. Give them a sign, a flag and a keffiyeh and you have an instant protester. They will even smell authentic.
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Like Xi visiting SanFran the 'authorities' suddenly discover the ability to act.
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/\ Yes, Eagle Claw was an example of FAILED operational integration. 9/11 was yet another.
"Top Police Group" is absolutely correct in blasting the Secret Service. No one has produced the name of the Secret Service supervisor in charge at ther rally.
#6
Typical fed finger pointing and shifting blame when they fucked up. There were fuck ups on both sides, but the USS was the one in charge and should have had someone ON THE FUCKING ROOF. They had people inside the buildings. Yeah, that was fucking helpful.
Turkey, Turkey, Turkey ...
[BBC] For more than 10 years, Abu Mohammad has been living in a tent with his family in northern Syria, displaced by the long-running civil war. Unable to earn enough to support them, he, like hundreds of others, has decided to travel via Turkey to Niger to work as a mercenary.
Abu Mohammad (not his real name), who is 33, and his wife have four young children - they have no running water or toilet and rely on a small solar panel to charge his phone. Their tent is sweltering in summer and freezing in winter, and leaks when it rains.
“Finding work has become extremely difficult," he says. He is a member of Turkish-backed opposition forces that have been fighting President Bashar al-Assad for more than a decade.
The faction he works for pays him less than $50 (£40) a month, so when Turkish recruiters appeared offering $1,500 a month to work in Niger, he decided it was the best way to earn more money.
He says Syrian faction leaders help facilitate the process and after “faction taxes and agents” he would still be left with at least two-thirds of the money. “And if I die in battle [in Niger], my family will receive compensation of $50,000," he adds.
Violence in West Africa's Sahel region has worsened in recent years as a result of conflict with jihadist groups. Niger and its neighbours Mali and Burkina Faso have all been affected - and all three countries have experienced military coups in the past few years, partly as a result of the instability.
Abu Mohammad is not alone in wanting to go to Niger.
Ali (not his real name), who lives in a tent in rural Idlib, joined Syria’s opposition forces 10 years ago when he was 15. He says he is paid less than $50 a month too, which lasts him five days. He has had to borrow to support his family and sees Niger as the only way to pay off his debts. "I want to leave the military profession entirely and start my own business," he says.
And for Raed (not his real name), another 22-year-old opposition fighter, going to Niger feels like the only way to build up enough money to “achieve my dream of marriage and starting a family".
Since December 2023, more than 1,000 Syrian fighters have travelled to Niger via Turkey, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), which monitors the conflict in Syria through a network of sources on the ground. They tend to sign up for six months, but some have now extended the contract to a year.
THE TURKISH CONNECTION
Before they go, the official line is that the men will be protecting Turkish projects and commercial interests in Niger.
Turkey has extended both its political influence and business operations in the region, selling equipment such as drones to Niger to help it combat militant jihadist groups. It is also involved in mining the country’s natural resources, which include gold, uranium and iron ore.
But the recruits know that despite what they are told, when they arrive in Niger, the reality can be very different.
The SOHR and friends of mercenaries who have already worked in Niger told the BBC that Syrians had ended up under Russian command fighting militant jihadist groups in the border triangle between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso.
Niger's democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum was overthrown a year ago, and since then the junta has cut Western ties.
“Niger started looking for new allies and found a suitable alternative in Russia," explains Nathaniel Powell, a researcher on the Sahel at Oxford Analytica. “Russian weapons are cheaper than Western ones. Russia also offers military resources and training and shows a willingness to adapt to local requirements without imposing strict conditions, unlike its Western counterparts.”
The prospect of fighting under Russian command poses a dilemma for Syrian fighters who are opposed to the Syrian regime because Russia has been a staunch supporter of President Assad.
“We are mercenaries here and mercenaries there,” says Abu Mohammad, “but I am on a Turkish mission, I will not accept orders from the Russians.”
But he may not have a choice, as Raed acknowledges. “I hate these forces but I have to go for economic reasons,” he says.
They are all still waiting to sign their contacts which they will do “just before or during travel”, says Raed. He explains that the process is secretive and he knows one man who was imprisoned by a Syrian opposition faction “for leaking some details of the operation in Africa and the registration mechanism”.
The recruits we spoke to said their faction leaders had told them that a Turkish company called SADAT would look after them once the contracts were signed and would be involved in arranging their travel and logistics.
About five years ago, Abu Mohamad went to Libya where he worked as a mercenary for six months and says that was also arranged by SADAT.
The SOHR also claims that, based on information from other mercenaries who have already been to Niger, SADAT is involved in the process.
We have not been able to independently verify these claims. We contacted SADAT, which vehemently denied recruiting or deploying Syrian fighters to Niger, saying the claims “had no connection with the truth… we do not carry out any activities in Niger”. It also said it had no activities in Libya apart from a “military sport” project more than a decade ago which it had had to withdraw from because of the crisis there.
The company added that it did "not provide services to non-state actors" but rather provided “consultancy, training and logistics services to armed forces and security forces in the field of defence and security according to the Turkish Commercial Code”.
But private companies are used by the government in Ankara to recruit and send Syrian mercenaries to Niger, according to the SOHR. The organisation’s director, Rami Abdul Rahman, accuses the Turkish state of exploiting Syrians with no money and dire economic prospects.
The BBC put these allegations to the Turkish ministry of foreign affairs, but we have not received a response.
This is not the first time the Turkish government has been accused of sending Syrian fighters abroad. Several reports, including one by the US Department of Defence, have documented Turkish-backed Syrian fighters in Libya - Turkey previously acknowledged that Syrian fighters were present there but did not admit recruiting them. It has also denied that it recruited and deployed Syrian mercenaries to the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region in the Caucasus.
[Bee] A new wave of controversy erupted as 12 women came forward alleging they had been sexually assaulted by whoever Trump's vice presidential pick would end up being.
The damning allegations began to come in despite the fact that Trump has yet to officially name a running mate or even disclose whether the pick is a man or a woman. Sources confirmed at least a dozen highly credible accusers emerged to demand justice against whoever the VP candidate might be.
"Whoever the VP pick is, I am here to tell my story of how I was inappropriately touched by them," claimed one accuser. "As soon as Trump sees fit to announce who his running mate is, I'm going to positively identify him... or her. Whatever. No matter who he picks, they aren't going to get away with what they did. They must be held accountable!"
Other women quickly joined the ranks of accusers, suggesting Trump's eventual VP selection — no matter who it may end up being — has a long history of serious misconduct. "The person Trump picks as his running mate will not get away with the things we all know they did. Once he announces who it is, we'll know who to blame for what happened to all of us."
At publishing time, the DOJ had announced they would be charging Trump's VP pick with serious federal crimes, once they find out who it is.
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Any guesses on how long before the Bee's prediction is fulfilled this time?
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I've read Vance converted to Catholicism in 2019
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Vance isn't controlled by anyone, including Trump. He's playing a long game while standing in the long shadow of his childhood, all the while thinking about what has happened to places like Middletown, Ohio. (Read his book.)
[JPost] He was hungry?
A senior North Korean diplomat based in Cuba defected to South Korea in November, a South Korean newspaper said on Tuesday, becoming the highest-ranking North Korean diplomat to escape to the South since 2016.
Before fleeing to the South, Ri Il Kyu, 52, was a counselor at the North Korean embassy in Cuba, the Chosun Ilbo said citing an interview with Ri.
Among Ri's jobs at the embassy was to block North Korea's rival South Korea and old ally Cuba from forging diplomatic ties, the newspaper reported. In February, the two countries established diplomatic relations. So he was going to be recalled. Reason to flee.
Details on North Koreans defections often take months to come to light, with defectors needing to be cleared by authorities and going through a course of education about South Korean society and systems.
Ri entered North Korea's foreign ministry in 1999 and received a commendation from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for successfully negotiating with Panama to lift the detention of a North Korean ship caught carrying arms from Cuba in 2013, Chosun said.
[GEO.TV] Kenyan police have arrested Collins Jomaisi Khalusha, 33, who is alleged to be a ’’serial killer’’, suspected of murdering nine women whose decomposing bodies were mutilated and dumped in a disused quarry ground, suspected to be a rubbish dump. Mutilated, or butchered for meat?
Khalusha admitted to having murdered 42 women since 2022 including his wife.
The arrest happened at a bar at around 3:00 am on Monday while Khalusha was watching the Euro final match. The recent finding of mutilated corpses at Mukuru quarry of Nairobi has led to surprise and anger all over the country.
Director of Criminal Investigation cast his voice and said, " [He] confessed to having lured, killed, disposed of 42 female bodies at the dumping site, all murdered between 2022 and as recent as Thursday. "
These revelations prompted many Kenyans to wonder how 42 people could be murdered in two years without police knowledge. After his arrest, the suspect, Khalusha, directed the police to his home, approximately 100 meters from the scene of the crime.
They included phones, a laptop, two forged identity cards, female clothes that were personal to the victims, a machete that is said to have been used to dismember the dear departed, and nine sacks which resemble those used to pack the dead.
Police have closed the dump where the bodies were identified in different states of rigor mortis. They all died from asphyxiation and the age range of the victims was between 18 and 30 years.
Authorities have confirmed discovering nine bodies in the quarry although the residents of the area and human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... activists continue hunting for more bodies with one of the residents Joseph Waweru and his team helping out in pulling out the bodies.
Waweru noted that he saw 16 severely mutilated corpses during the time. The police are yet to ask Khalusha for reasons that led to the bloodbath and he is expected to answer to charges in court on Tuesday.
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It's missing: "He succumbed to his arrest"
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[ZeroHedge] Dr. Robert Redfield, the former director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pushed a false “safe and effective” COVID vaccine narrative by underreporting adverse events. The mRNA shots “never should have been mandated,” Redfield told the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Thursday.
The Democrat-controlled Senate oversight hearing entitled “Risky Research: Oversight of U.S. Taxpayer Funded High-Risk Virus Research,” included witnesses Dr. Gerald Parker, Dr. Carrie Wolinetz, Dr. Kevin Esvelt, and Redfield.
Former President Trump’s CDC director accused the Biden government of suppressing data about vaccine injuries in an effort to prevent vaccine hesitancy.
“There was not appropriate transparency from the beginning about the potential side effects of these vaccines, and I do think there were inappropriate decisions by some to try to underreport any side effects because they argued that would make the public less likely to get vaccinated” Redfield testified.
Redfield said the biggest mistake of all was the Biden regime’s decision to mandate the mRNA products.
“They never should have been mandated,” he said. “It should have been open to personal choice. They don’t prevent infection, they do have side effects.”
A growing number of doctors and scientists now say that the cost to society and the cost to the individual taking the COVID injection far outweighed any of the proposed benefits.
Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) pointed out that Biden regime officials like Dr. Peter Marks, head of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, continue to deny that the injections are dangerous.
“They’re saying they [vaccine side effects] are rare and they’re mild,” Johnson said.
“The FDA should release all of the safety data they have,” Redfield replied. “I was very disappointed to hear that they’re planning to hold on to that [safety data] until 2026,” he continued. “That really creates a sense of a total lack of trust in our public health agencies toward vaccination. It’s counterproductive,” he added.
Johnson lamented that he has been unable to get Rep. Gary Peters (D-Wis.), the chairman of the the Senate Homeland Security Committee, to issue any subpoenas to the relevant health agencies to obtain the safety data.
“I would suggest you do that,” the Republican told Peters.
Johnson was poised to spearhead investigations into COVID vaccine malfeasance himself as Chair of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations starting in 2023, but Republicans did not gain the majority in the 2022 midterm elections.
The Wisconsin senator said there’s “a lot more” being covered up than the COVID origin story.
“There are many aspects of our miserably failed response to COVID that needs to be uncovered, not the least of which, the sabotage of early treatment,” Johnson said. “The public has a right to know.”
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So if The State wants to infect, inject and harm more it is OK. Because there was a lot $$$$$$ changing hands and The State needed to adjust the voting process for a win?
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In the days of newspapers and 3 news channels, I never would have heard any of this. The government is struggling to claw back control with censorship, but it’s not going to happen
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They were dishonest, but they meant well, so it's really OK!
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Covid was just the method the intel-biomed-Gates-military combine used to get you to accept mRNA as a platform technology for vaccines, to enrich Gates, top brass at Barda/HHS/military/Moderna and Gates's billionaire friends.
Covid was to get you to accept mRNA for humans
That's what the entire thing was about
Bird Flu is to get you to accept mRNA for livestock
anyone interested should look up Dr Mike Yeadon on substack, rumble, telegram (mike yeadon solo channel) and bitchute
he was Pfizer's former head of allergy research (global) - a toxicologist who spent decades at the head of drug discovery for allergy research at Pfizer.
He immediately saw the mRNA was a dangerous "vaccine" that would injure and kill people and he could immediately see why. He wrote to the European Medicines Agency immediately with Dr Wolfgang Wudarg (influential scientist who exposed the Swine Flu fraud) asking them to immediately halt the trials.
Instead he was censored to oblivion by the CIA and the Censorship Industrial Complex including the entire media sector plus Tech giants Google, Meta and pre-Elon Twitter. And though he's given 300 interviews you've likely never heard his name.
Running supplies directly to Hamas. Perhaps the IDF dropped trackers in the boxes.
[GEO.TV] The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... said on Monday that it will start bringing in more armoured vehicles and personal protection equipment for its humanitarian aid operations in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip after receiving approval from Israeli authorities.
The approval was in response to a UN letter sent to Israel last month on safety and security in Gaza, said Scott Anderson, deputy humanitarian coordinator for the Occupied Paleostinian Territory, as the war between Israel and Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... enters its tenth month and law and order has broken down.
The UN has long complained of obstacles to getting aid into Gaza — Israel inspects and approves all trucks — and says it is also struggling to distribute aid amid "total lawlessness" within the enclave of 2.3 million people, where a global hunger monitor last month said there is a high risk of famine.
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The entire place should have immediately been razed to the ground.
Sorry but the hostages even 200 of them, should have been out of the equation as assumed casualties of war.
This is actually the ethical response - because if you lose 300 young Israeli soldiers by carefully over months and months trying to fight a house-to-house combat, trying to weed out 'who is hamas' when every Arab Muslim man woman and child is actually hamas - then that is not ethical.
The hostages were lost day 1. Yes some got rescued and some were handed back, but others lost their lives.
This war should have been resolved in one week of shock and awe, and relocation of the entire Arab Muslim population to Arab Muslim countries by force.
This was not/could not be done, so we have almost a year now dragged out Israel is predictably losing the PR war across western countries thanks to the huge muslim diaspora (and hamas are muslim brotherhood)
so basically they may lose their entire country now
This is existential. Israel is in fact going to cease to exist. Hamas will win if they don't resolve this soon with mass deportation.
They can't rule it. They can't live peacefully side by side with it. They can't genocide it. The only option is resettlement of the Arab Muslims - which should have been done in 1948.
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That’s certainly one perspective anon1. I’m afraid I disagree on some key points:
I don’t believe Israel has already lost or will lose the war against Iran’s sock puppets — Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis. I believe that when this slow-motion war is over, Israel will still be standing strong, surrounded by the rubble of Gaza, Lebanon, and key bite of Syria and Iran. And at least half of Gaza’s population will have departed for Egypt and beyond.
I do not care that people and countries disposed to hate Jews and the Jewish state are using this excuse to put their ugliness out in the open. They are trading their few creative, law-abiding Jews for the excitements inherent in an invasion of Moslem colonists, at the end of which they’ll all look like the Syrian hinterlands. Tom Kratman’s Caliphate addresses the aftermath of those choices for them. (It’s a free download from publisher Baen book, which is how they seduce us into buying their other titles.)
Even as Israel is losing friends who were not actually friends, new friends — whether eager to be trading partners with the high tech start-up nation, admirers of Israeli spunk and accomplishments, or simply supporters of a robust democracy — are lining up to sign formal and informal accords… despite the Biden administration’s efforts to poison the atmosphere.
Finally, almost the entirety of Israel’s problems can be laid at the feet of the Biden administration, which has worked very, very hard to get to this point. Should the Republicans win in November, that will be turned around by January 21, 2025. Last time President Trump accomplished the Abraham Accords, and more countries were lined up to join them. This time I expect to see a preference cascade that will galvanize the world.
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If it were up to me, I'd have fired every teacher who refused to go back into the classroom during Covid when it became obvious that children weren't susceptible to it like adults were. This broad would've been on that list, no doubt.
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clean house stating now. all current teachers and profs to take and pass a civics test. what is the US? democracy or republic? what is the difference?
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A moment of serendipity for Trump - he survived and this changes everything
This has pretty much handed him the election. Trump wins now.
But more than this - culturally this has crushed any possibility of Antifa and BLM
this was in fact providence (although not for the poor audience member who died)
Remember all those years when violent antifa/blm burned down city blocks, rioted and prevented people like Ann Coulter or Brett Weinstein or Jordan Peterson or Ben Shapiro from speaking on college campuses?
That's all gone - that all died the second the bullet whizzed through Trump's right ear.
No threatening violent person is going to be allowed anywhere near. They will be shot by the cops who now will be forced to do their jobs.
[JustTheNews] Donald Trump as president pushed for members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to increase their defense spending to 2% of their total Gross Domestic Product as a central part of his foreign policy platform, but now President Joe Biden appears to be trying to take credit.
Members of the alliance initially agreed to the 2% spending increase during former President Barack Obama's presidency in 2014, but most members were not expected to reach the threshold by the 2024 deadline.
Prior to Trump's first term – from Jan. 20, 2017 to Jan. 20, 2021 – only three countries were meeting the target, though six reached the benchmark by the end of Trump's term.
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NATO should have been disbanded in 1992 with the end of the cold war
Their only reason for existence is to funnel money to weapons dealers Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman etc as all the countries signing on have to agree to update their military equipment so it can be interoperable with NATO forces (which means buying US military hardware)
[ZeroHedge - GatestoneInstitute] Before the Biden administration gets too carried away celebrating the election of Iran's so-called moderate president, it should understand that Masoud Pezeshkian's victory is nothing more than a ploy to distract world attention away from Iran's nuclear weapons programme.
While Iranian voters have understandably been focused on electing a new president to replace hardliner Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a mysterious helicopter crash in May, the regime has been intensifying its efforts to acquire nuclear weapons.
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Pezeshkian is a genuine moderate on a few issues (e.g. headscarves), an almost moderate on some other issues (e.g., relations with Afghanistan) and a regime acolyte on other issues (e.g., uranium enrichment)
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[GEO.TV] Israel struck the southern and central Gaza Strip on Monday to put more pressure on Hamas, following a weekend strike targeting the group's leadership which killed scores of Palestinians camped in a designated "safe zone".
Two days after the Israeli strike turned a crowded swathe of Mawasi near the Mediterranean coast into a charred wasteland littered with burning cars and mangled bodies, displaced survivors said they had no idea where they should go next.
"Those moments as the ground shook underneath my feet and the dust and sand rose to the sky and I saw dismembered bodies - was like nothing I have seen in my life," said Aya Mohammad, 30, a market seller in Mawasi, reached by mobile text message. "It was a Sand Worm! Wearing a Hamas bandana!"
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[CBSnews] President Biden has directed the Secret Service to protect independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., following Saturday's attempted assassination of Donald Trump, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced Monday.
How very thoughtful and generous of him … or his administration, anyway.
The RFK Jr. campaign was requesting Secret Service protection long before the attempt on former President Donald Trump's life. The Kennedy family is painfully aware of how quickly life can be taken by a single attacker — both RFK Jr.'s father, Robert F. Kennedy, and his uncle, John F. Kennedy, were assassinated in the 1960s.
"In light of this weekend's events, the president has directed me to work with the Secret Service to provide protection to Robert Kennedy Jr.," Mayorkas announced during Monday's White House press briefing.
Kennedy is still trying to appear on ballots across the country, and his presidential aspirations are a long shot. But he does enjoy strong support from some Americans, and his events have drawn crowds.
Mr. Biden has ordered an independent review of Trump's Saturday rally and law enforcement's handling of the situation. Trump was not seriously injured when he was shot, but one spectator was killed, and two more were critically injured. The shooter was outside of the security perimeter, but managed to fire off shots mere hundreds of feet away from the stage of Trump's Butler County, Pennsylvania, rally site.
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RFKs run is damaging to Biden although he does hurt Trump in certain swing states. Biden does not have the margin available to sustain the harm, though. I think that one of Biden’s handlers explained to Jill that pressuring RFK to get out by not giving him protection is liable to backfire in spectacular fashion. The post Trump assassination attempt polls are going to be brutal for Jill.
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Slow Joe waits for something bad to happen before taking precautions.
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Slow Joe and his colleagues set the conditions for disaster by steering the ship of state into the night storm; then blame sleeping passengers for the wreck as the row away to safety.
He should be the next US President, he is the only one who will really root out their networks because he knows it from the INSIDE of the democrats where the rot is festering.
Trump can take care of the Bush/Cheney networks in the repubs.
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^ Ignorance in Australia. You have noooo idea what you're talking about, and thank God, you can't vote here.
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FrankG, I spend a lot of time listening about it mainly as the best commentators come out of the US
RFK Jr is the only anti-corruption candidate you have
my evidence for this is Trump's previous presidency.
He didn't build the wall and he brought in operation warp speed bringing us all the poison vax. (and i am not interested in the 'dims blocked him' or 'he was deceived' excuses)
He sent weapons and money to Ukraine also - so much for America first.
He is a populist, which the Foreign Policy blob and military contractors don't like as it's a threat to their forever-war revenue
But he's not a big threat like RFK would be
He's not an existential threat
they're prepared to assassinate Trump for even being a minor threat to revenue and foreign policy control.
RFK would literally take them apart.
Also, Trump is not going to secure your southern border like you wish.
He has said he will electronically tag instead.
You want a secure southern border. Trump will say anything now and not do it. He had that chance already in 2016 and he didn't do it.
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Also Frank G I will say this, which is pertinent to everyone in the US.
Trump will win this election.
You are hoping that means he actions the things you care about: securing the southern border etc.
But he is not going to do any of that.
Trump will win the election
But you are not going to win the election.
That's because you're all just falling for the "I hate the other team" two-party shell game
It's one or the other side but both red team and blue team answer only to the donor class and that includes Trump.
In Australia far away here, sadly it affects us what happens in the US ricochets here including BLM including the poison mRNA, including the war on free speech - everything.
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You think that when Trump wins that means you will win the policy changes that will make America great.
But the two things are different.
The Democrats are a corrupt disaster run by the war machine.
But Trump's entire first term in office shows he will promise you anything then not do it.
So really, either way you don't win.
Your only hope of getting your democracy to be responsive is to take the hard medicine, risk losing and vote for the independent candidate, you have a viable one in RFK.
You know what would happen then?
The two major parties would stop taking voters for granted.
Breaking: The far-left have gathered to try to disrupt the RNC @GOP convention in Milwaukee two days after a deadly mass shooting against a Trump rally where the former president was injured and narrowly survived a bullet to the head. pic.twitter.com/bQoD5swctL
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Remember.
The Left, Far Left, Socialist, & Democrats (The New Democrat Party) call Constitution following voters Fascist.
All while they, themselves, perform acts of violence that are in step with Hitlers Sturmabteilung's (Brown Shirts).
Handling Political Opponents
They use THEIR JUDGES, State AG's,
They commit massive Voter Fraud,
They use THEIR Government Agencies to control or tax,
They use hidden funded Special Political Groups,
They create Racism for political use,
They openly promote anti-Semitic attacks,
They promote sexual perversion,
They silence those exposing their dirt and crimes.
They open call for Basic Rights to be outlawed,
They control the media.
I am sure I missed a handful of what the New Democrat Party is and doing.
None of that matters when a flat building around a 150 yards away a 20 year old kid can snipe the President...
Imagine if the kid decided to first take out those SS snipers. He would have had a hay day. But remember, he didn't. He had one job. A kid who got kicked out of his own…
— Wisdom is not bound by the messenger she uses! (@El0nics) July 14, 2024
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Iraqi diplomatic politician and Information Minister
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf is an Iraqi former diplomat and politician. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1992 to 2001. He came to worldwide prominence around the 2003 invasion of Iraq, during which he was the Minister of Information under Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, acting as spokesman for the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and Saddam's government. Wikipedia
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I can see Jill demanding a motorcade to Aldi. Glad to know that she will be out of non-office soon enough.
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I can't wait to see the size of the Biden's Secret Service detail once they're out of office. Make the detail from the newly hired DEI broads. Two or three of them ought to suffice.
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Who would want to bother with Biden after the election? He'll be irrelevant.
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The story coming out is that the Penn state police had a sniper team, not set up somewhere, but in the building with the shooter on the roof.
Is that planning, or what?
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[GEO.TV] Upping the ante against the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI), the federal government has decided to ban the former ruling party as well as file references against PTI founder Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... and former president Arif Alvi for treason under Article 6.
"The PTI and Pakistain cannot co-exist," Federal Information Minister Attaullah Tarar told a presser in Islamabad, saying that the matter would go to the federal cabinet and the Supreme Court.
The decisions, as per Tarar, were taken in light of the former ruling party's involvement in the May 9 events and the PTI's former or current leaders' attempts to sabotage Pakistain's deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The development comes following PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi ...a Pak political shape-changer. He is undistinguished except for his habit of periodically needing to have his lips reattached... ’s indictment in cases related to the May 9 riots and Khan’s arrest in cases pertaining to the incidents taking place on the day.
Touching upon the foreign funding issue, the information minister said that the PTI failed to defend itself in the foreign funding case wherein, he claimed, the ex-ruling party received funds from Indian-born United States citizens.
"Why did you [PTI] seek a stay order [in said case] for six years?" he questioned, adding that the Khan-founded party had nothing to say in its defence.
Stressing that whoever provides financial support to a political party, does so with the hopes that the party would serve its interests if it comes to power, Tarar said that the PTI failed to explain and defend itself regarding the funds received by certain lobbies abroad, including Israeli ones.
Reflecting on the May 9 riots, triggered after Khan's arrest in a graft case wherein party workers and supporters vandalised several military installations, the minister said that the PTI founder targeted national interests for his own personal ones.
"Your whole family was involved in those attacks. Your three sisters were present outside the [Lahore] core commander's house," he said.
He also censured the PTI's government for allegedly providing safe havens to snuffies and resettle them.
"Who gave you the right to re-settle the Taliban ...Arabic for students... [...] and attack the institution that is responsible for guaranteeing the country's illusory sovereignty," he noted.
TREASON CASES AGAINST PTI LEADERS Speaking about the time when the then-government decided to dissolve the assemblies during the no-confidence motion against Khan, the minister said the ruling alliance has also decided to move a reference against the then-prime minister, then-president Arif Alvi and then National Assembly deputy speaker Qasim Suri.
He said that this reference, under Article 6, will be sent to the Supreme Court after the cabinet's approval.
Referring to what is known as the cipher case, Tarar said that the PTI founder and his party "played" with the diplomatic cable and used it to create a false narrative around it.
The cipher case controversy revolves around Khan claiming that Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Affairs Donald Lu had sought his removal from the prime minister's office.
The same month, the then NA opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif tabled the no-confidence motion against the then PM Khan.
However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome... the then NA deputy speaker Suri dismissed the motion citing sufficient evidence of alleged US interference.
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[Jpost] A global leader in rail transportation, Israel Railways has developed innovative electric trains, smart stations incorporating artificial intelligence, and cellular frequencies for train management.
[FrontPage] “Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation,” Joe Biden tweeted. “He’s a threat to our freedom. He’s a threat to our democracy. He’s literally a threat to everything America stands for.”
Yesterday he declared, “most importantly, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, Trump is a threat to this nation.”
This kind of rhetoric depicting Trump as the ultimate threat had become normalized. Is it any wonder that it was also acted on?
There’s a pattern here.
A Bernie Sanders supporter opened fire at a Congressional baseball game and brought along a list of House Freedom Caucus members. The FBI falsely claimed that he wasn’t targeting anyone.
Justice Kavanaugh was the subject of an assassination plot by a deranged leftist.
And now a gunman opened fire at a Trump rally, wounding President Trump, killing one attendee and wounding others.
Despite that pattern, the media repeatedly claimed that the violence was coming from conservatives, and the Biden administration, his secret service brass, and Democrats colluded to deny Trump full security and protection.
Even now the media is warning that the real threat will come from a conservative reaction to the attempted assassination.
The danger to this country is coming from the Left.
The violence is coming from the Left.
And the coverup of that violence and the criminalization of conservatives is also coming from the Left.
The Left pulls the trigger and then blames those who were shot for the violence.
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BLM/Antifa were sure as hell NOT Republicans. But then, we all know that Joe lies all the time.
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I sure hope, y'all don't believe that's was the last attempt on Trump?
Yes, we know how desperate the Democrats are. But if you miss the first shot it's gonna be a lot harder to get a hit with any subsequent shots. The element of surprise is gone.
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Abu, you ignoring the actual process. They don't send a trained agent. They create an appeal to a certain type of personality. Once the appeal has been created, they have no further control.
[FoxNews] Lots of good questions starting at about 2:50 in the video.
Suspecious guy on a rooftop spotted by rally goers for 20 minues? Cop climbs up on roof but backed down when shooter points his gun at him? Police sniper has shooter in his sights and Trump STILL permitted to speak? WTF ? Very bad smell.
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^ That roof doesn't look all that sloped to me.
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In fact it looks like a very gentle slope and I notice the roofs where the police snipers were stationed were also gently sloped.
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Given that roofs are commonly found on the tops of buildings and that roofs tend to have a bit of pitch, maybe the Secret Service should be hiring roofers instead of girls.
tl;dr: the roof slope excuse is BS.
As Solzhenitsyn put it: We know they are lying.
They know they are lying.
They know we know they are lying.
We know they know we know they are lying.
But they are still lying.
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Grasping at straws-pathetic to assert such nonsense. The real screw-up is the last-minute patchwork team assembled to cover the diversion of ample resources from the Pittsburgh Office to cover the regal visitation of the Shadow President, Dr. Jill. Short-handed, they relied far too much on local, rural LE who were not experienced in this level of security operations.
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it the PA diversion of Secret Service resources could have been a planned event.
I imagine it was intended by the White House that Dr. Jill’s rally would take significant attention away from President Trump’s rally. That Trump got only the ragtag spare agents was probably intended to be yet another insult and a way to handicap the Trump organization.
If they did not realize that the consequences were likely to be deadly, then they were not competent to do their jobs.
[Daily Wire via Bongino] A federal appeals court on Friday sided with Tennessee, finding that its law saying transgender-indentifying individuals cannot change their sex on their birth certificates does not run afoul of the Constitution.
In a 2-1 decision, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Tennessee statute saying that birth certificates need to line up with sex does not violate the 14th Amendment. The state was sued by four men who identify as women who wanted to change the sex on their Tennessee birth certificates to female.
"But absent an existing fundamental right, the Constitution does not require the States to embrace the plaintiffs’ view of what information a birth certificate must record," wrote Judge Jeffrey Sutton. "That’s why Tennessee’s choice to record sex — not gender identity — does not withhold a constitutionally prescribed benefit. Its amendment policy treats both sexes equally, and as elaborated below there is no fundamental right to a birth certificate recording gender identity instead of biological sex."
Note: General Apty Alaudinov is Chechen.
[Regnum] The murder of a captured Russian serviceman, filmed and published by Azov (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation), is a violation of the Geneva Convention. Although no one expected anything else from the Azov people, said the commander of the Akhmat special forces, deputy head of the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces, General Apty Alaudinov.
"This is a violation of the Geneva Convention. We probably didn't expect anything else from Satanists like Azov, who are fascists in all their manifestations," he told reporters.
The general added that what happened did not surprise him.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, in August 2023, the Supreme Court of the DPR sentenced Azov serviceman Andrey Bogdan to 25 years in a maximum security penal colony for the execution of a Russian prisoner of war in March 2022. The militant was found guilty under paragraphs "g" and "l" of Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code (murder committed by an organized group, motivated by political or ideological hatred) and Part 1 of Article 356 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (cruel treatment of a prisoner of war in the occupied territory).
In December 2022, details of the shooting of several civilians in Mariupol by members of the Azov Battalion were made public. The International Public Tribunal for Ukraine reported on the massacres.
[GEO.TV] A suspected member of the Lebanese Iran-backed group Hezbollah has been arrested in Germany, accused of procuring components for drones believed to be used in attacks on Israel, German prosecutors said Monday.
The Lebanese man named as Fadel Z was detained on Sunday, federal prosecutors said in a statement.
He was "strongly suspected of membership of a foreign terrorist organisation," the prosecutors said.
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You know how this happens?
mass migration of muslims
and multiculturalism giving them a huge diaspora to hide in
You know how you end this?
remove and deport all the muslims and don't allow any more to migrate in
Le Pen promised to do this in France. They rigged the second election against her
Paul Joseph Watson then blamed Le Pen because she's female!
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] In the first week of the championship in the game "Rock, Paper, Scissors", which is held as part of the festival "Summer in Moscow. Everyone out on the street!", the winner was 11-year-old Artem Nazarov, reports the official website of the mayor of Moscow.
This Sunday, July 14, the championship final took place on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street. The absolute leader in points at the moment is Artem Nazarov, in the first game week he scored 21 points.
The winner on the central site this week was 16-year-old Artem Kulibin, who scored 15 points. Three more finalists were determined in the North-West District on the Moscow Seasons site on Aviatsionnaya Street. The most points for the week were scored by 10-year-old Albina Manazbaeva - 20, the top three were closed by 17-year-olds Natalia Garina and Alexander Popov.
It is noted that the championship in the game "Rock, Paper, Scissors" is held every day from 12:00 to 20:00 on Chistoprudny Boulevard, near the monument to the poet Abay Kunanbayev. The schedule of games in the districts can be found on the website. Every weekend, three leaders are determined in the districts. At the moment, the leading results were shown by players in the South Administrative District, having scored a total of 483 points in the final.
As reported by IA Regnum, from June 1 to September 8, the capital is hosting the festival " Summer in Moscow. Everyone out on the street! ", which will unite summer activities. For 100 days, festival sites will be open throughout the city, including boulevards, squares, parks, embankments and more.
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[Regnum] In Omsk, FSB officers detained migrants from the Central Asian region who organized a collection of money to buy weapons for militants of the Islamic Katiba Tawhid Wal-Jihad,
…an Uzbek/Kyrgyz unit of the Al Qaeda-oriented Al Nusra/Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Syria. In 2022, founding leader Sirojiddin Mukhtarov was airstruck by the Russian Air Force….
the press service of the FSB Directorate for Omsk Region reported.
“Having entered into a criminal conspiracy, they established contact with an emissary of the terrorist organization Katiba Tawhid Wal-Jihad, who was wanted internationally, and then organized a collection of funds for the purpose of purchasing weapons for the militants,” the statement said.
According to law enforcement, the accomplice to the crime has been arrested. The man regularly transferred small amounts to the accounts of an international terrorist organization. His accomplice, who lives in Novosibirsk, has also been detained. Both criminals are from Central Asian countries, the press service of the UFSB added.
The department also specified that the men were planning to leave the Russian Federation and become members of a terrorist organization. A criminal case was opened under articles of a terrorist nature.
It is also reported that the accomplices were trained in the manufacture of homemade explosive devices; they were trained in a number of areas using specialized literature on terrorism.
Earlier, Regnum news agency reported that a foreigner was detained in the Amur Region for financing a terrorist organization. A criminal case was opened against him under the article "Financing of terrorism", under which he faces 8 to 15 years of imprisonment.
FSB officers also detained a resident of Rostov-on-Don suspected of financing the Ukrainian army. The woman transferred a total of over 330 thousand rubles for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
[Breitbart] Investors pushed U.S. stocks higher on Monday as markets gauged the aftermath of this weekend’s shocking assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose by more than 180 points, around half a percentage point, to hit a new record high. The biggest gainer on the blue-chip index was Caterpillar, whose stock rose by more than two percent.
The S&P 500 index rose six-tenths of a percentage point and is near making a new record high. The Nasdaq Composite rose by nearly one percent to near the record high hit last week.
Many investors are focused on the so-called “Trump trade,” assessing which stocks and assets will do better if Trump wins back the presidency in November. Analysts on Wall Street believe the odds are rising that Republicans will not only take the White House but also the Senate, which retaining control of the House, for a GOP sweep.
Bond yields moved up a bit on Monday. Yields move in the opposite direction of prices. The price of oil fell by around half a percentage point. Gold moved higher by three-tenths of a percentage point. Bitcoin rose by five percent.
Seven of the 11 sectors of the S&P 500 rose Monday morning, led by financials, consumer discretionary, and communications services. Utilities, health care, consumer staples, and real estate sectors declined.
[Breitbart] Human traffickers, perhaps one of the most dangerous groups operating in Europe today have struck again with a group of young people walking home from a music festival run down by a smuggler’s car trying to outrun police.
Police attempted to perform an inspection of a vehicle in Bavaria which resulted in a high speed chase. During the driver’s attempt to get away from police, the vehicle drifted in an attempted turn and hit a group of young people walking home from a music and fireworks festival in Vilshofen. The six injured pedestrians were aged between 21 and 11 years old and were all hospitalised, and two police officers were injured. Four of the young people were seriously injured but there were no fatalities yet, reports German broadsheet Die Welt.
The driver did not stop at the scene of the collision and continued in his attempt to escape. Eventually, the vehicle got stuck in a dead end and the driver, a 24-year-old migrant male from Georgia in the Caucasus, West Asia, was arrested. Also inside the vehicle were eight migrants, none of whom had legal travel documents.
Police are working on the assumption the Georgian driver is a people smuggler and the eight passengers were his customers. The investigation continues.
The incident is only the latest in a great series of such attempts by people smugglers driving illegals across Europe attempting to outrun the police, many of which have had deadly consequences, both for their passengers and for other road users. In 2023 seven people including a child were killed when a trafficker crashed his minivan while trying to outrun the police.
The small truck had seats for nine people but was carrying 23, and was travelling at over 100 miles per hour when it rolled at a junction in southern Germany. The same year another such crash in Hungary killed one and seriously injured several. The year before three were killed and 11 injured in a grossly overloaded smuggler car in southern Hungary after running a police checkpoint. The vehicle burst into flames after crashing.
In other cases, the traffickers kill through sheer neglect. In 2021, two migrants died of asphyxiation in the back of a van being driven through Europe by a smuggler, who knew they had been sealed in the back for hours without fresh air. In an even more infamous case in 2015, 71 migrants died in the back of a trafficker’s truck in Austria after the vehicle had been abandoned by the smugglers but not unlocked.
These dreadful events pale in comparison to the death tolls of traffickers at sea, taking advantage of Europe’s weak border control policies to make enormous amounts of money, but killing thousands of people in recent years in the process.
[Townhall - Kurt Schlichter] Maybe Alec Baldwin was guilty of involuntary manslaughter. We will never know because the prosecution and other government agents failed to do their jobs. It’s not because Alec Baldwin is a movie star. This should be the same result for any citizen, and too often, it’s not. Some people claim that the evidence that the prosecution withheld — some bullets related to the case — was immaterial and wouldn’t have changed anything had it been disclosed before trial. That might be true, but we don’t know that. We aren’t his defense attorneys. We don’t know what that evidence might have shown. We don’t know what those bullets proved or could have proven. We don’t know if that evidence could have convinced the jury to acquit. And it shouldn’t be up to the victim of prosecutorial misconduct to prove what might have been. We should assume that withheld evidence is material because you never know what evidence might prove critical. And we must hold the government to an unyielding and unwavering standard. It turns over all the evidence. And if it doesn’t turn over all the evidence, it loses its ability to prosecute the alleged crime.
That’s how it must be, not just for some idiot movie star but for all of us. We’ve seen how the justice system can be perverted and twisted to pursue the political ends of the people in power. Anything that limits that power is good. Anything that limits that power is necessary. I’m not happy that Alec Baldwin had his case dismissed, and I’m not happy that the people of New Mexico lost their opportunity to find out if he had committed a crime. But I am ecstatic that a judge held the prosecutors to the expected high standards. And again, I’m not some thug-hugger. My mom was a prosecutor for many years before she became a judge. I grew up around ethical prosecutors. There’s not a lot of patience for criminals running in my veins. But there’s even less for a government that fails to use the power we entrusted to it to do justice. DOOO read the final paragraph.
There may still be some justice for Halyna Hutchins and her family. The civil lawsuit — the lawsuit by the family for money damages — will still go forward. And Alec Baldwin’s got a big problem. Her family’s lawyer is Brian Panish of Los Angeles. Let me tell you a little something about Brian Panish. He’s the best lawyer I’ve ever seen. I’ve watched him in court. I’ve gone up against him. He’s unbelievably good. And he’s a good guy. If anybody out there will present the best possible case against Alec Baldwin, it’s Brian Panish and his team. And he’s going to do it ethically. Too bad the prosecutors didn’t.
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It's the same thing with the Florida judge tossing the classified documents case against Trump. The real danger is a rogue executive branch abusing the justice system to persecute political opponents.
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if Baldwin had been convicted in a criminal case, the civil case would be a walk in the park
now the civil case is a struggle
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[Regnum] Every person has experienced pain more than once in their life. This is the body's reaction to harm caused to it, which helps us survive. So, pain warns of a threat — do not try boiling water with your finger, do not touch fire, be careful with sharp objects.
However, living with long-term pain can be very uncomfortable: sleep is lost, productivity decreases, mood deteriorates, not to mention physical suffering. Getting rid of it, in turn, is necessary not only to restore a normal quality of life, but also for health - long-term pain exhausts the endocrine and immune systems of the body, weakening its protective functions.
To relieve pain, analgesics are used in most cases, blocking the transmission of pain signals at the level of the brain or peripheral nerves. One of the most popular types of analgesics are the so-called non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) - according to statistics, they are prescribed to every third patient. The popularity of these drugs is due to their complex action, a wide range of indications, as well as a wide variety of dosage forms. Due to specially selected components, NSAIDs have not only an analgesic effect, but also an anti-inflammatory and antipyretic effect. Most often, these drugs are used for muscle and joint pain, neuralgia, but they can be used for headaches and toothaches, fever, etc. It is important that, unlike steroid drugs, NSAIDs do not weaken the immune system and metabolic processes.
However, there are side effects: studies have shown that most non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs increase blood pressure. According to experts, there are also safe painkillers for hypertensive patients in Russia. In the program "Live Healthy" on Channel One, Elena Malysheva said, that some headache medications can be dangerous for hypertensive and heart patients, as they increase blood pressure. She named naproxen, the active ingredient in Novema,
…in America the main brand is Aleve…
as the safest medication from a cardiovascular perspective.
And most importantly, to choose an effective and safe method of pain relief, you need to see a doctor. The doctor will understand the causes of pain, assess its intensity, the patient's condition, and then offer optimal treatment methods, including correctly prescribing medications.
"the commonly taken drugs that could leave you sweating and overheating even more in extreme heat, putting you at risk of dehydration, kidney injuries, and heat stroke"
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[Regnum] At least five people were killed and at least 20 more were injured as a result of an explosion in the Somali capital Mogadishu near a cafe where visitors were watching the final match of the European Football Championship. This was reported on July 14 by the Somali television and radio company Shabelle Media Network.
It is specified that the explosion was caused by a car bomb parked near the popular Top Coffee cafe, in which many people were at the time of the explosion. After the explosion, a fire broke out in the building.
"The horrific event occurred as visitors gathered to watch the long-awaited Euro 2024 football match between Spain and England," the publication notes.
Rescuers and police officers are working at the scene. According to eyewitnesses, as a result of the explosion, part of the wall collapsed in the cafe, and the blast wave blew out windows in the houses next to the building.
A police spokesman said that, according to preliminary information, the car bomb near the cafe was left by a suicide bomber. Or a really slow bomber
Earlier, Regnum News Agency reported that the FSB prevented an armed attack by a member of a terrorist organization banned in Russia on an Orthodox church in Adygea. The terrorist was preparing an attack on a church in the city of Maykop and the murder of its clergy and guards, followed by arson of the building. The FSB reported that the criminal's activities were promptly identified and stopped during the measures taken.
On June 23, terrorists in Dagestan attacked two Orthodox churches, two synagogues and a traffic police post in Makhachkala and Derbent. As a result of the attacks, 22 people were killed, including the rector of the church, Father Nikolai (Kotelnikov), and the head of the police department of the city of Dagestanskiye Ogni, Lieutenant Colonel Mavludin Khidirnabiyev. The Investigative Committee reported that the suspects in the attacks in Makhachkala and Derbent were charged with terrorism.
[CBSnews] Former President Donald Trump has chosen Sen. JD Vance of Ohio to be his vice presidential running mate this November. Trump announced his VP pick on social media just before he was to accept the presidential nomination at the in Milwaukee on Monday.
A source familiar with Vance's selection told CBS News that Vance flew privately to Mar a Lago to meet with Trump Saturday morning. He received the call from Trump asking him to be his running mate 20 minutes before the former president announced his selection on social media.
Trump said in his social media post, "After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio."
He said of Vance that he had "honorably served our Country in the Marine Corps, graduated from Ohio State University in two years, Summa Cum Laude, and is a Yale Law School Graduate, where he was Editor of The Yale Law Journal, and President of the Yale Law Veterans Association."
The former president noted that Vance's book, "Hillbilly Elegy," was a bestseller that "championed the hardworking men and women of our Country." And he pointed to Vance's previous career as a venture capitalist.
A source familiar with Vance's selection told CBS News that Vance flew privately to Mar a Lago to meet with Trump Saturday morning. He received the call from Trump asking him to be his running mate 20 minutes before the the former president announced his selection on social media.
Vance, who is just 39, is half Trump's age, is one of the youngest men to be a vice presidential nominee and is political neophyte, a first-term senator who's only been in office for about a year and a half.
Sources confirmed before Vance's selection was announced that Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, who were also considered to be top contenders for the No. 2 job, were informed that they had not been chosen. Upon the announcement that Vance was the pick, Burgum said in a social media post that his "small town roots and service to country make him a powerful voice for the America First Agenda."
Although Vance wasn't at the Pennsylvania rally where a shooter made an attempt on the former president's life, the senator expressed his concern and support for the president from Ohio. He also shared fundraising information for the families of those who were killed or injured at the rally.
The Trump campaign released a campaign video showing clips of Vance appearing on the campaign trail with Trump, and his TV appearances and concluded it with the Trump-Vance campaign logo.
Vance has frequently joined Trump on the campaign trail and was long considered to be on the shortlist of VP contenders. Vance and his wife, Usha, were spotted leaving their Ohio home Monday morning, a sign that Vance might be the pick.
Ohio has been a reliably Republican-dominated state in recent elections, although the senior senator from the state, Sherrod Brown, is a Democrat and is also up for reelection this year. But Trump has focused less on choosing a running mate from a key battleground state and more on the qualities in a candidate that matter most to him.
Trump has prioritized picking a running mate who would be loyal to him and support him publicly, as Vance has increasingly done through the years.
Initially, though, Vance harshly criticized Trump and was an avowed "Never-Trump guy." Earlier this year, Fox News' Bett Baier confronted Vance with some of his previous statements, including comments that Trump could be "America's Hitler" and "cultural heroin." Vance told Baier he was "wrong" about Trump.
"I think you should, when you are wrong about something, you should change your mind and be honest with people about that fact," Vance said in the interview.
Vance grew up in challenging circumstances, largely raised by his grandparents before going on to college and law school at Yale.
Now one of Trump's most vocal allies, Vance defended the former president during his criminal trial in Manhattan, including after his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records for "hush money" payments.
"The entire purpose of this trial was to allow the media and the Democrats to say exactly that," Vance told CNN after the New York verdict. "This was never about justice, this is about plastering 'convicted felon' all over the airwaves when in reality the only thing that Donald Trump is guilty of is being in the courtroom of a political sham trial."
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Trump really needs people who understand government, legislation and federal executive rulemaking. It doesn't have to be his VP but it would have been nice to have someone who could help a bit with that.
Remember that during Trump's first term his own bureaucracy conspired against him (many of the 51 'laptop is Russian' people were part of Trump's govt. and of course Fauci was part of the permanent govt.). A big failure of the Trump admin was that they didn't start border control until the 3rd year of his term partly because of a lack of understanding of the process of govt.
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What I like is, it's not another 60-70 year old. Time to change the guard.
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Picking someone who will be just as much as a threat to Deep State as Trump instead of some compromised RINO.
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A major fore behind Vance and a key source of his meteoric rise is Tucker Carlson. Did you note Tuckers proximity to Trump last night and their repeated conversations. It was amusing to see the entire Fox TV crew assiduously never even mention Tuckers presence. Fox has made him taboo, a glaring mistake given his obvious influence in the months to come.
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[Regnum] Conscripts from the past spring campaign were not sent to the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, as well as to the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions. This was assured by the Russian Defense Ministry.
“Conscript servicemen were not sent to the deployment points of the Russian Armed Forces units in new regions of Russia, including to participate in the implementation of special operation tasks there,” the defense department explained.
In total, 150,000 conscripts were sent to serve during the spring draft.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the draft commissions began their work on April 1. The dispatch of conscripts from assembly points in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation to the troops began on April 15. As in previous draft campaigns, young people could choose the type and branch of the military for service, taking into account their health and the results of professional psychological selection.
It is specified that before being sent to their places of service, the conscripts were provided with everyday uniforms: black for the Navy, blue for the Airborne Forces and the Aerospace Forces, and protective colors for other types and branches of the military. They were also given toiletry bags, bank cards, and personal electronic cards.
According to the new rules, which came into force on January 1, 2024, citizens aged 18 to 30 are subject to conscription for military service, excluding those who turned 27 before the end of 2023 and those who are 28 or 29 years old and who are in the reserve. The Russian Armed Forces must be replenished by 150 thousand people - 3 thousand recruits more than in the spring conscription of 2023. The autumn conscription will take place from October 1 to December 31.
More from regnum.ru Spring conscription for military service has ended in Russia
The spring conscription of 2024 has been completed, 150,000 people have been sent to the troops. This was reported on July 15 by the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry in the Telegram channel.
“In accordance with the decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated March 31, 2024, No. 222, this spring 150,000 people were called up and sent to serve in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and other military formations,” the report says.
It is noted that the draft commissions began their work on time, on April 1. The dispatch of conscripts from assembly points of the subjects of the Russian Federation to the troops began on April 15. As in previous draft campaigns, young people who arrived at the military commissariats of municipal entities could choose the type and branch of the military for service, taking into account their health and the results of professional psychological selection.
It is specified that before being sent to their places of service, the conscripts were provided with everyday uniforms: black for the Navy, blue for the Airborne Forces and the Aerospace Forces, and protective colors for other types and branches of the military. They were also given toiletry bags, bank cards, and personal electronic cards.
No conscripts were sent to the deployment points of the Russian Armed Forces units in the new regions of Russia - the DPR, LPR, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions - or to participate in the tasks of a special military operation there, the defense department clarified.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the head of the State Duma Defense Committee Andrei Kartapolov stated that conscripts called up to the Russian Armed Forces during the autumn draft will not be sent to the zone of the special military operation. He emphasized that there were no changes in the issue of conscription, so everything will proceed as during the previous draft.
According to the new rules, which came into force on January 1, 2024, citizens aged 18 to 30 are subject to conscription for military service, excluding those who turned 27 before the end of 2023 and those who are 28 or 29 years old and who are in the reserve. The Russian Armed Forces must be replenished by 150 thousand people - 3 thousand recruits more than in the spring conscription of 2023. The autumn conscription will take place from October 1 to December 31.
On March 1, President Vladimir Putin signed an annual decree on conscription for military training in the Russian Armed Forces. The document states that Russians in the reserve are subject to conscription for military training in the Armed Forces, the Russian National Guard, the Emergencies Ministry, the state security agencies, and the FSB. The training of Russian citizens in the reserve is a planned event and is held annually. Its goal is to improve the combat training of those in the reserve.
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[REGNUM] Lithuanian Jews are applying for compensation for property taken from their relatives during the Holocaust, who were shot by the Nazis and their local collaborators. Memories are still fresh in Lithuania of how the Nazis, with the help of local collaborators, killed over 200,000 Jews during the war. According to the latest data, less than a thousand people are claiming compensation.
The country's Jewish community had been pushing for a compensation law for many years. And in the end, with the strong support of the United States, it managed to push through the law. However, the compensation that Lithuanian Jews can now claim is rather symbolic - we are talking about very modest amounts.
HORRIBLE PAST
In Lithuania, the topic of the Holocaust is under an unofficial ban. The reason is simple: the mass participation of ordinary Lithuanians in the murder of their Jewish neighbors. Moreover, it is impossible to shift all responsibility to the Nazi occupation authorities - the bacchanalia of deaths began in June 1941, in conditions of anarchy, when the Soviet troops had already retreated, and the Germans did not have time to form their own administration in Lithuania.
Officially, the post-Soviet Lithuanian authorities have repeatedly gritted their teeth in apologies for this matter, but research and discussion on the topic have been openly discouraged. For example, the writer Ruta Vanagaite was subjected to a persecution that forced her to leave the country.
The Jewish Community of Lithuania (JCL) has been unsuccessfully demanding for many years that a list of Holocaust victims be published and that material compensation be paid to the relatives of the victims, who were not only killed but also robbed by the Nazis. At the same time, local Jews have constantly faced threats and insults.
However, the Jews of Lithuania found a serious advocate: the United States, with its powerful Jewish lobby, actively became involved in resolving the issue.
Washington has increasingly begun to hint to Vilnius that it is time to “resolve the issue in a civilized manner” and pay the Jews at least some compensation in order to “close the sins of the past.” “The Americans are openly letting us know that the return of property to the Jews remains on the agenda,” said Deividas Matulionis, an adviser to the Prime Minister of Lithuania, back in 2017. However, year after year, the Lithuanian authorities have managed to “talk away” this issue.
Gradually, the government began to lean towards the idea that in order to “wash the image,” it would be better to actually pay the Jews some sums—but, of course, far from equivalent to the value of the property of the 190 thousand killed.
Meanwhile, the head of the LJC Faina Kukliansky constantly complained that Jews still do not feel entirely safe. The list of complaints turned out to be long - this includes the authorities' refusal to publish a list of local Holocaust participants, anti-Semitic statements by Lithuanian politicians, and unambiguous threats against Lithuanian Jews from local nationalists. Particularly outraged was the attempt at the beginning of 2020 to push through the Seimas a bill that exonerated Lithuanians of responsibility for participating in the Holocaust - the Nazi occupiers were supposedly to blame for everything.
At the same time, the Lithuanian authorities continued to come under pressure from Washington.
ANTI-SEMITISM HAS NOT GONE AWAY
What was old is new again: Jew hate has once again become fashionable.
Finally, in December 2022, Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė proposed paying the Jewish community 37 million euros. “This symbolic amount is aimed at restoring at least partial justice and ensuring care for Lithuanian Jews, their culture and heritage,” the explanatory note to the bill said.
Washington, in order to prevent another “sliding off topic”, rather painfully “spurred” its Baltic satellite.
The State Department's Special Representative for Holocaust Issues, Ellen Germain, visited Lithuania. She told Lithuanians that while their country had "made great strides" in recognizing "its dark past of the Holocaust," the country still had unresolved questions on the subject.
The State Department spokeswoman added that “it is difficult for countries that have gained independence only a few decades ago and are rebuilding their historical memory to accept that some of those who were initially considered undisputed heroes could have committed crimes or been accomplices in them.” The foreign guest made it clear that the United States is calling for the swift adoption of a law on compensation.
"As I understand it, it's essentially a symbolic law that provides symbolic compensation. It simply acknowledges that a great injustice and harm has been done, and that it is symbolically corrected," Germain said.
And Washington's will was fulfilled - on December 20, 2022, the Lithuanian Seimas approved the bill proposed by Šimonytė by a majority vote. Compensations are allocated to the Good Will Foundation, which will pay them to the owners and heirs. Compensation payments should begin in 2025 and end in 2030.
Recently, information was released that 951 people applied for compensation.
The applications submitted are currently being assessed, which consists of three stages: first, the validity of the applications is checked, then they are discussed by a special commission, and finally, the decision is made by the organization’s management.
"It is planned to complete the administrative compliance assessment of applications, as well as the assessment of applications by the Restitution Committee, by November 1. Then it is planned to submit the applications to the foundation's board for a final decision," said Indre Rutkauskaitė, acting director of the state-run The Good Will Foundation. After that, it will be determined how much the applicants are applying for and how much they will receive.
"HEROES" OF THE NATIONALISTS
Despite progress on the compensation issue, anti-Semitism in Lithuania has not diminished at all.
Already this year, a new scandal has broken out - and it is connected with the name of Kazys Škirpa, a diplomat of the pre-war Lithuanian Republic, whom the nationalists in 1941 wanted to put at the head of the self-proclaimed Provisional Government of Lithuania, which was subsequently not recognized by the Germans.
Skirpa is known as one of the instigators of the Holocaust in Lithuania. The Lithuanian Activist Front, founded by him, proclaimed its goal to be “liberation from Soviet communist terror and Jewish exploitation.” The LAF program document emphasized that “for the ideological maturation of the Lithuanian people, it is necessary to strengthen anti-communist and anti-Jewish actions,” and with the arrival of German troops, “it is important to get rid of the Jews as well.”
Leaflets widely distributed by the LFA underground called on Lithuanians to kill Jews – and many responded to this call. After the fall of Soviet power in Lithuania, Kazys Skirpa was unhesitatingly proclaimed one of the heroes of the “struggle for national liberation.”
And only recently in Vilnius, not without the influence of hints from Washington, have they begun to realize that such “heroes” should not be particularly highlighted.
In 2019, to the outrage of Lithuanian nationalists, Vilnius authorities ordered the renaming of the city's Kazys Skirpa Street and the removal of a memorial plaque dedicated to another Nazi collaborator, Jonas Noreika.
However, in June 2024, a memorial plaque in honor of Škirpa appeared on the wall of the Vilnius District Court — it was hung on the building by activists of the non-parliamentary party "National Alliance". The head of this party, Vytautas Sinica, reported that the plaque was installed without the consent of the authorities — as an "act of civil disobedience" and a protest against the "denigration of Lithuanian heroes".
The EOL drew attention to the inadmissibility of such a stunt. “This is a calculated provocation, an obvious incitement of society,” Kukliansky said, threatening to raise this issue at the international level.
Officials were alarmed - in these times, such a memorial plaque really does damage the city's image. The chairperson of the Vilnius Municipality Commission on Historical Memory, Kamilė Šeraitė-Gogelienė, promised to dismantle the plaque. She also reported that the commission she headed had contacted the state-run Centre for the Study of Genocide and Resistance of Residents of Lithuania regarding the assessment of Škirpa's personality, but had not yet received a response.
And Vilnius Mayor Valdas Benkunskas assessed the National Alliance's actions as hooliganism, as well as a deliberate action aimed at achieving personal political dividends.
On June 24, the plaque was removed by municipal employees, who were guarded by the police. Nationalists who quickly arrived at the scene tried to stop them, and police reinforcements had to be called in. Three nationalists were detained during the ensuing skirmish.
There is no doubt that such incidents will be repeated. Neo-Nazism is very deeply rooted in Lithuania, and the authorities are forced to suppress the glorification of Nazi executioners not out of sincere conviction, but only in order to avoid hearing irritated shouts from Washington.
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[REGNUM] Russian fighters in the SVO zone have a new dangerous enemy - heat. The offensive continues at temperatures up to 40 degrees. In trenches and positions in the steppe, fighters are saving themselves from the scorching sun by building awnings and shelters. And supply workers have to deliver more water to their positions using drones and other improvised means.
"The phrase has already come into circulation that it is not drones or shells that we should be afraid of, but the sun. This may seem like a joke, but it is very difficult for the fighters, especially at the front line. The only good thing is that the heat is tormenting the enemy too," said a source of IA Regnum, who is in the region.
He also added that Ukrainian soldiers fight in a single unloading vest, shorts and sandals on bare feet, neglecting the standard means of protection. But the heat did not become an ally of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and could not affect the advance of the Russian army.
Heavy fighting continues in the former Avdeevka and now Pokrovsk direction. Last week, the Russian Armed Forces liberated the settlements of Yevgenovka, Sokol and Voskhod. The front moved several kilometers west to the settlements of Progress and Volchye.
The main fortified area of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in this direction, Novosyolovka Pervaya, was half-encircled. Satellite images appeared on the Internet, which captured defensive structures created by Ukrainian troops. In fact, the area of the settlement was turned into a solid "fortification" covering the direction to Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) - the last town in the eastern part of Donbass that remains under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
"The battle for Pokrovsk is a key stage in the final operation to liberate Donbass. Specifically, Novosyolovka is the main, most powerful "fortification" in the path of Russian forces coming from Avdiivka," the publication's source added.
For a long time, Russian troops did not begin an assault on the fortified area, successively encircling it from several sides. Now the Ukrainian Armed Forces units defending Novosyolovka are forced to defend themselves in semi-encirclement. According to the most optimistic Ukrainian sources, Russian troops control the northern and eastern outskirts of the settlement, striking at reinforcements that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are sending for defense.
According to some reports, there are units of former prisoners operating in the area, acting in the ranks of the 47th Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The regular staff of the brigade has suffered heavy losses, since it has had to operate in the Avdiivka direction since February without being withdrawn for rotation and reinforcement. Newly formed infantry companies from among the recruits are joining the unit, equipped with American Abrams tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles.
Over the course of several days, Russian forces in the area burned a lot of armored vehicles, including American-made MaxxPro armored vehicles used to transport troops and ammunition. Ukrainian sources also complain about Russian electronic warfare systems, which disable most of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' reconnaissance and attack drones.
Taking Novosyolovka will allow the Ukrainian Armed Forces to clear the area on the left bank of the Volchya River and most of the Yasinovataya district of the DPR, pushing the enemy back several dozen kilometers from Donetsk.
FIGHTING IN THE STREETS OF NEW YORK
Another section of the front where fierce fighting continues is the Toretsk agglomeration area: the city of Toretsk itself, the villages of Pivnichnoye, Pivdenne and New York.
According to Ukrainian sources, the Russian army controls part of the settlement, advancing along Zelenaya and Pochtovaya streets. The same sources accuse the command of the 59th Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces of incompetence, which led to a breakthrough of the defense that had been held for several years.
An appeal to Vladimir Zelensky has also been published : the authors demand an investigation into the brigade command, stating that command posts are being handed out based on the principle of nepotism, while officers are ineptly using mobilized recruits, throwing them into the hottest areas.
"The command of the 59th does not stand out in any way from the other brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which were cobbled together during the SVO. They were put together anyhow, armed with whatever they could find, and with the corresponding fighting spirit. Fortunately for us, there are no others there," a source from the region told Regnum about the situation.
Russian troops continue to push through the enemy's defenses to the north, in the area of the city of Chasova Yar, pinning down the Ukrainian Armed Forces units that Kyiv planned to redeploy to the Toretsk area. Russian aviation is striking Ukrainian Armed Forces bases in the industrial zone of New York.
There are also reports of new defensive lines being prepared on the approaches to the settlements of Druzhkovka and Konstantinovka. It can be assumed that the Ukrainian Armed Forces command is considering the possibility of retreating from Chasov Yar and Toretsk, but for now the Ukrainian troops are holding the line in both directions, occasionally attempting to counterattack.
FALSE HOPE OF THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES ON AVIATION
Against the backdrop of disappointing news from the front, official Kyiv is left to maintain the fighting spirit of the population with news about arms deliveries. The day before, the government announced the imminent arrival of several divisions of the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system and other air defense systems.
In addition, a number of NATO countries have announced the start of deliveries of F-16 fighters in the near future. According to some reports, the aircraft are already operating in the airspace of the Odessa region, taking off from Romanian territory. At the same time, reports appeared on the Internet about the training of Ukrainian pilots to use French Mirage-2000 and Swedish Saab Grippen fighters.
Kiev is positioning the F-16 as another "wonder weapon" that could have a decisive impact on the course of military operations. However, Bloomberg " grounds " Kiev's aviation impulse.
According to journalists, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be able to receive a maximum of six fighters by the end of the summer and a total of 20 by the end of the year. Bloomberg also notes that the use of fighters is complicated by several problems.
Firstly, the aircraft are planned to be used directly as fighters, for reconnaissance or direct participation in combat operations. In other words, there are too many tasks for several aircraft.
Secondly, modern aviation needs high-quality and equipped airfields, of which there are very few in Ukraine. And given the recent strikes by the Russian army on Ukrainian airfields, after which air defense installations and military aircraft burned down, the deployment of F-16s on Ukrainian territory is highly questionable. The aircraft will either have to be deployed on the territory of Poland or Romania, or camouflaged and constantly moved. In both cases, the use of fighters near the front line is excluded.
Thirdly, American journalists predict that Kyiv will face a shortage of weapons and spare parts for aircraft repairs.
In general, Bloomberg concludes, the supply of Ukrainian aircraft will not affect the advance of Russian troops. This means that the Russian Armed Forces will continue to liberate Donbass.
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[NewsFront] 23:59 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 15.07.2024 to 00:00 16.07.2024
A total of 29 cases of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
There were reports of a civilian being killed and a civilian being injured.
DAMAGED:
Two cars
Two residential buildings
One civil infrastructure facility.
A total of 12 artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction,
A total of 16 artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction,
One artillery attack in the Volnovakha direction.
A total of 82 units of various ammunition were fired.
23:31 It is reported that Geraniums have been launched at the southern regions of Ukraine.
According to the source, a group of Russian Geran UAVs is aimed at enemy targets in the Kherson and Odessa regions.
21:00 Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian military personnel have shelled eight villages in the Russian-controlled part of the Khar'kov region, one person was wounded, the regional police department of the Russian military-civil administration (VGA) reported on its Telegram channel.
19:50 Snipers of the Dnepr group of forces destroy manpower and heavy quadcopters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
19:04 152mm Msta-B howitzer crews of the North force group destroyed a concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower and equipment.
The scouts discovered that the enemy was pulling units into a forest plantation and planning further actions. The Msta-B howitzer crew received the mission and, with the help of UAV adjustments, struck the targets.
18:12 The crew of the Mi-35M VKS helicopter hit a stronghold and enemy manpower in the area of responsibility of the North group of forces.
17:43 Military expert Boris Rozhin on the situation in the Krasnoarmeysk direction of the SVO:
Karlovka.
Minor advance of the Russian Armed Forces on the outskirts of Karlovka in the dacha sector + fighting continues near the shore of the Karlovskoye Reservoir.
Yasnobrodovka.
Part of the village is in the gray zone. The enemy has not yet left the pocket on the eastern shore of the Karlovskoye Reservoir. The Russian Armed Forces have made a small advance south of Yasnobrodovka.
Novoselovka Pervaya.
The Russian Armed Forces have occupied the northern and northeastern outskirts of the village and are trying to cut it into two parts by attacking from the north. Most of the Ukrainian Armed Forces positions on the northern, northeastern and eastern outskirts of the settlement have been lost to the enemy. The road to Novoselovka Pervaya from the west is under partial fire control of the Russian Armed Forces.
Volchya-Progress-Vozdvizhenka.
Fighting continues on the outskirts of Evgenovka, in the direction of Progress (about 1 km) and not far from the outskirts of Vozdvizhenka. The enemy has lost a number of positions near Evgenovka and Vozdvizhenka. The front remains mobile, and further advances by the Russian Armed Forces can be expected in the coming days.
Kalinovo-Rozovka.
North of Ocheretino - no major changes. The enemy is holding the defense to the south and southwest of Kalinovo, relying on the stronghold located to the south of Kalinovo. It has not yet been possible to bypass it from the West. There are also positional battles near Rozovka. The advance of the Russian Armed Forces to the west of New York (in parallel with the ongoing assault on the city) in the medium term may lead to pressure in this area.
In general, the Russian Armed Forces maintain the operational initiative in the Krasnoarmeysk direction and do not allow the enemy to stabilize the front, which, in combination with the problems of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near New York and Dzerzhinsk, makes this section of the front a source of constant problems for the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
17:33 Kupyansk – Liman 1st.
Positional combat operations in the Kupyansk area. artillery attack of Russian Armed Forces positions in the forest area near Molchanovo station. Clarification of the line of combat contact. Expansion of the Russian Armed Forces control zone from the station about 500 meters to the Oskol River.
16:57 Special military operation. Situation on July 15 – map.
16:18 Statements by representatives of the North, West, South, Center, East and Dnepr groups on the progress of the special military operation (as of July 15, 2024) – video.
15:26 Soledar – Fedorovka.
Positional combat operations in the Soledar area. artillery attack by the Russian Armed Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces south of Fedorovka.
14:55 At about 13:40 Moscow time, an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack using an aircraft-type UAV against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation was thwarted.
A Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed by air defense systems on duty over the Black Sea near the western coast of the Crimean Peninsula.
14:14 Ocheretino- Evgenovka.
Combat operations on the northern flank of Avdeevka. A motorized rifleman of the Russian Armed Forces in the central part of Yevgenivka under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Expansion of the zone of control of the Russian Armed Forces in the village by more than 400 meters in the western direction.
13:22 Advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the settlement of Artemovo – map.
12:54 The enemy acknowledges the advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the northwestern part of Krasnogorovka, as well as in the Kirovo (Severnoye) area near Dzerzhinsk – map.
12:15 We are receiving information that an agricultural farm in the north-east of Novoselovka Pervaya has come under our control.
11:34 Advance of the Russian Armed Forces near Novoselovka Pervaya, as well as advancement along the railway line towards Progress – map.
11:09 Statement by the senior officer of the press center of the Sever group – video.
The North group of forces continues to carry out combat missions in the area of the special military operation.
The group's units destroyed manpower and equipment of the 31st Mechanized, 92nd Assault brigades, 34th and 36th Naval Infantry brigades, 116th, 117th, 125th and 129th Territorial Defense brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of Volchansk, Liptsy, Tikhoye, Zhuravka, Miropolye, Volchanskiye Khutors, Konstantinovka and Staritsa. An attack by two assault groups of the 57th Motorized Infantry brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was repelled.
The enemy's losses amounted to 150 soldiers, five pickups, an M777 howitzer, two 152mm D-20 guns and six 122mm D-30 howitzers.
10:55 On the morning of July 15 this year, another attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack using an aircraft-type UAV against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation was thwarted.
The air defense systems on duty destroyed and intercepted six UAVs, of which one was intercepted over the territory of the Oryol region, two were destroyed over the territory of the Bryansk region, and three were destroyed over the territory of the Kursk region.
10:17 The Russian army is expanding the offensive front in the Pokrovsky direction – map.
Pokrovskoe direction. To the east of Vozdvizhenka and in the Lozovatskoye area, the high tempo of military operations continues. To the east of Progress, Russian troops have advanced along the railway and landings in a section up to 1.12 km wide.
Heavy fighting continues in the Novosyolovka Pervaya area. The Russian Armed Forces are attacking in the northern and eastern parts. To the south of Novosyolovka Pervaya, the Russian Army has consolidated its position along a forest belt in a section up to 1.91 km wide. Positional combat operations continue to the east of Karlovka.
Toretskoye direction. Our units have consolidated their positions in Yuzhny and are storming the eastern outskirts of Zhelezny
Khar'kov border area. The fighting near Glubokoye and in Volchansk remains intense. Northeast of Volchansk, the Russian Armed Forces are attacking along forest belts and abandoned gardens in an easterly direction
Kurakhovskoye direction. In Krasnogorovka our troops have dug in to a depth of 250 meters.
09:53 Telegram channel "Rybar":
Chronicle of a special military operation: events of the week 08 - 14 July 2024.
At the beginning of the week, Russian troops launched a massive attack on targets in the territory controlled by the Kyiv regime. The targets were the Starokonstantinov and Voznesensk airfields, as well as other military and industrial infrastructure.
In Kyiv, the target was the Artem plant, which produced electronics, devices and aviation ammunition. As a result of at least six missiles hitting the production complex, it was heavily damaged.
Ukrainian forces launched over 40 UAVs at various regions of Russia, most of which were intercepted by air defense systems. An oil depot was damaged in Kalach-na-Donu, and substations were also attacked in Rostov and Volgograd regions.
Later, the enemy launched several more drones at targets in Russia. Air defense systems were operating in the Tambov, Moscow, and Bryansk regions. An industrial enterprise was damaged in the Tula region.
In the northern Ukrainian direction, the enemy continues to build fortifications. The exchange of blows continues along the border, both sides are actively conducting reconnaissance.
At the same time, the Russian Armed Forces manage to inflict serious losses on the Ukrainian Armed Forces: In Sumy Oblast, an Iskander OTRK strike hit an enemy convoy. Ukrainian formations suffered significant losses in manpower and equipment.
In the Slobozhansky direction, fighting continues in Vovchansk, where the enemy continues to counterattack. However, Russian troops are also advancing in the city - assault groups have occupied about half of the aggregate plant.
Meanwhile, in the area of Glubokoe, attacks by Ukrainian formations continued for almost the entire week. With losses in personnel and equipment, Ukrainian formations were able to drive the Russian Armed Forces out of the plantations to the west of the settlement.
09:17 Over the course of the past night, during an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out terrorist attacks using unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type on the territory of the Russian Federation, 22 UAVs were destroyed and intercepted by the air defense systems on duty, of which 15 were over the territory of the Bryansk region, six over the territory of the Republic of Crimea and one over the Lipetsk region.
08:41 Frontline report for the morning of 15.07.2024
Donetsk Front. The Russian Armed Forces continue to advance in Urozhaynoye, there are more tactical successes.
Fighting continues on the outskirts of Konstantinovka. In Krasnogorovka, the Russian Armed Forces are developing an offensive, continuing to push the Ukrainian garrison to the outskirts of the city. In the area of ??Karlovka, without any significant changes, the assault actions of the Russian Armed Forces continue.
In Novosyolovka Pervaya, Russian troops continue to liberate the territory of the settlement. Similarly, in New York, where there is another advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the central part.
Chasov-Yar direction. Fighting continues in the eastern part of Chasov Yar. Artillery and aviation of the Russian Armed Forces are actively working on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Fighting also continues on the northern flank, where Russian troops are fighting in the Kalinovka area.
Khar'kov Front. The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to regularly conduct attacks on the positions of Russian troops. Without any particular success. Fierce fighting continues in Volchansk and in the area of Glubokoe. Without any particular changes in the LBS.
08:00 Official report from the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC.
20 cases of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
DAMAGED:
Eight residential buildings.
Nine artillery attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction,
One artillery attack from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Gorlovka direction,
One artillery attack from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Volnovakha direction.
In total, the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired 57 units of various ammunition.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:38 European commissioners will refuse to participate in informal meetings of EU ministers in Budapest in protest against Orban's diplomacy, said European Commission spokesman Eric Mamer. According to him, senior EC officials, rather than commission members, will be sent to informal ministerial meetings in Budapest. Mamer specified that the reason for this decision was "the latest events that marked the beginning of Hungary's presidency." The European commissioners will also skip the traditional visit to the country that has begun its EU presidency.
22:29 Trump, who today officially became the Republican Party's presidential candidate, has chosen Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate. Vance has consistently opposed aid to Ukraine. Last year, he and 18 other Republicans signed a letter to Biden calling for an end to "unlimited aid" and threatened to block such packages. He has also said that Ukraine may have to "cede some territory" to Russia to stop the fighting.
21:12 Zelensky met with journalists in Kiev after a series of trips abroad. Korrespondent.net has collected the most interesting statements by the president. Read more in the article Resignations and Mobilization .
20:58 The US is not giving Kiev permission to strike Russia with ATACMS missiles because it fears the war will spread beyond Ukraine, Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder said: "Washington's policy on long-range strikes has not changed... I think the important thing to understand here is that we don't want to see the unintended consequences of an escalation that could turn this into a broader conflict that goes beyond Ukraine. I think that's something that we all need to reckon with and take very seriously."
20:03 Friedrich Merz, the leader of the German opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU), called on Berlin to transfer fighter jets to Kiev. German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit, in turn, said that Berlin does not want to supply German fighter jets to Ukraine, since several other countries are already preparing to transfer F-16 fighter jets and Ukrainian pilots are undergoing training on them. According to him, the Bundeswehr does not have such aircraft, which means that if the German Air Force supplies Ukraine with its fighter jets, Ukrainian pilots will have to undergo lengthy retraining.
"The practice of providing assistance to Ukraine has already shown that nothing good will come of everyone trying to supply everything. Instead, each country or group of countries should concentrate on what it can do best," Hebestreit explained.
18:59 Russians dropped two 250-kilogram guided aerial bombs on Liman in Donetsk Oblast - at least five people were injured, OVA head Vadim Filashkin reported. Three stores, an infrastructure facility and a private home were damaged.
18:27 On Tuesday, July 16, electricity consumption will be limited throughout the day, Ukrenergo reported. From 00:00 to 2:00 and from 16:00 to 24:00, regional power companies will apply four stages of shutdowns simultaneously, and three stages during the remaining hours.
17:42 The Strategic Review of Defense Procurement of Ukraine was approved at the 75th NATO summit in Washington, the Ministry of Defense reported. The document contains 21 recommendations to improve the efficiency of providing the Armed Forces of Ukraine in conditions of martial law and peace. Key recommendations include: ensuring interoperability of procurement between Ukraine and NATO, developing long-term procurement planning, improving procedures for direct agreements and competitive procurement, and standardizing the level of procurement secrecy.
16:53 Beijing tried to convince the European Union to accept the Chinese-Brazilian plan for Ukraine, writes the South China Morning Post, citing sources in the EU. According to them, Macron and Scholz were confident that China would send its representatives to the conference in Switzerland, but it abstained, and shortly before the summit, called on the embassies of EU countries to consider its plan, which implied the participation of Russia in the negotiations and an "honest discussion" of all proposals, taking into account Moscow's interests in the security sphere.
According to the newspaper, in March, Chinese representative Li Hui, after meeting with Putin, told Europeans that the Kremlin was confident of its victory and therefore called for Russia's position to be taken into account.
16:28 Spain is sending Ukraine a new batch of military aid, which includes, in particular, ten Leopard 2A4 battle tanks, several excavators and a large number of anti-tank missiles, the country's Defense Ministry reported. The aid will arrive in Poland this weekend, after which it will be delivered to the Ukrainian military.
15:57 Representatives of Russia should be present at the second Peace Summit, Zelensky said. According to him, the first meeting - on energy security - will take place very soon, most likely in Qatar. In addition, a meeting on free navigation and food security should be held in Turkey in August. Another meeting on the humanitarian direction - the exchange of prisoners and the return of children - is planned in Canada.
After these three points, if they work, a plan for implementing all the points will be fully prepared, the president added: “I set the task that in November we would have a fully prepared plan… I believe that representatives of Russia should be at the second Summit.”
Zelensky also clarified his words about 14 Ukrainian Armed Forces brigades that do not have enough weapons. According to him, these are not new brigades - they simply have not received the promised Western weapons. The process of delivery is slow, but the president hopes that the recently created NATO coordination headquarters in Germany will help solve this problem and speed up the deliveries. In addition, Ukraine has already received some "positive signals" regarding the use of long-range weapons. Negotiations with allies are ongoing, "they need to be pushed through," Zelensky added.
At a press conference, the president was asked to assess the progress of the campaign two months after the new law on mobilization and training of personnel came into force. "The military says that everything is going according to their plan," Zelensky replied. At the same time, he added that there are not enough training grounds for recruits, and they are being expanded. In addition, the base abroad will be expanded, in particular, there is a corresponding agreement with Poland.
According to the head of state, Ukraine needs 25 Patriot systems to fully protect the entire country. The president also confirmed that Ukraine will receive a certain number of F-16 fighters from Western countries, but they will not be enough to fight Russian aviation on equal terms: "The decision on the F-16 is strategic, their number is not yet strategic. There is a significant number of aircraft that I have agreed on with other countries. Following my agreements, there are some processes on both sides." According to him, Ukraine will receive a certain number of aircraft in the summer and by the end of the year.
Zelensky also commented on Budanov's words about the Russian offensive in northern Ukraine: "After this statement, I called General Budanov, and he said that he was understood slightly incorrectly. That is, we understand that there may be offensives, we are at war with you... We believe that serious work has been done in the Kharkiv region to make a powerful offensive from the north impossible."
As for the US elections, Zelensky said Ukraine is ready to cooperate with any political force, including the Republican Party if it comes to power. "As for ending the war, what is Trump's vision: I understand the general things. I think that if Mr. Trump becomes president, we will work. I am not afraid of that," he stressed.
Ukraine is negotiating bilateral security agreements with nine more countries in addition to the 23 with which agreements have already been signed, the president said.
Zelensky is convinced that Ukraine will receive an invitation to NATO as soon as the war ends: "Partner countries cannot give our state a full invitation if it is at war. They need a consolidated decision of all NATO members to invite us. Therefore, I believe that at this NATO summit, Ukraine received the maximum it could receive."
14:31 The government is allocating UAH 1.65 billion to purchase modern equipment for the updated school course Defense of Ukraine, said Mykhailo Fedorov, head of the Ministry of Digital Transformation. According to him, educational cells of the course will be created in cities - one for 5-10 schools or per community. Modern equipment will be purchased for the cells through Prozorro Market, including interactive laser shooting simulators; drone control simulators; training shooting ranges and models; first aid kits and medical simulators.
14:24 Germany "almost unnoticed" transferred a large batch of military aid to Ukraine, which included 39 armored vehicles, HIMARS and other equipment, the German publication Merkur reports. In particular, the package included ten Leopard 1A5 battle tanks and 20 Marder infantry fighting vehicles, two IRIS-T SLM and IRIS-T SLS air defense systems, three HIMARS MLRS, etc. Thus, according to journalists' calculations, the number of Marders supplied by Germany has grown to 120, and the number of converted Leopards - to 50.
14:13 Following the meeting of the North Atlantic Council of NATO at the summit in Washington, a declaration was adopted on the establishment of the Joint NATO-Ukraine Analysis, Training and Education Center (JATEC), the Ministry of Defense reports. The department noted that this decision is an important step in identifying and implementing the experience of Russia's war against Ukraine, as well as increasing Ukraine's operational compatibility with NATO.
According to Deputy Defense Minister Stanislav Gaider, the center will become the first-ever practical platform for Ukraine-NATO cooperation and a practical tool for accelerating Kyiv's entry into the Alliance. JATEC will organizationally function directly within the NATO structure under the leadership of one of the Alliance's strategic commands. Ukraine, together with NATO member countries, will participate in the preparation and adoption of decisions by the Center.
13:40 At night, Russian troops attacked the Odessa region with a ballistic missile, preliminarily an Iskander-M, from the territory of Crimea, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Kiper. However, he did not specify any details.
13:16 The pace of mobilization in May-June has more than doubled compared to April-March, Reuters writes, citing data provided by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. The department did not provide exact figures. Secretary of the Defense Committee of the Verkhovna Rada Roman Kostenko said that at the current pace, the figure of 200,000 recruits could be reached by the end of the year. At the same time, the average age of those mobilized remained unchanged - about 40 years.
12:19 The last Russian patrol ship has left Crimea, said Ukrainian Navy spokesman Dmitry Pletenchuk.
12:11 In the Oryol region, a "neutralized" drone fell on the territory of an oil depot, damaging an oil storage tank; there were no casualties, the regional authorities reported.
11:56 Orban sent his plan to end the war in Ukraine to all EU leaders after his "peace tour" and the proposals are on their desks, the Hungarian prime minister's office said. "These trips were very important because our country is the only country that has fresh and concrete information about how the warring parties and the key mediating players think," the office said.
11:27 Since the beginning of the day on July 15, the air defense of the south of Ukraine has destroyed four reconnaissance drones - three Orlan-10 and one ZALA. Over the past day, July 14, four enemy UAVs were also destroyed in the south - three Orlan-10 and one ZALA, Air Command South reported.
11:20 In Crimea, drones attacked the electronic reconnaissance unit of the Russian Black Sea Fleet at night on Cape Fiolent, the Crimean Wind Telegram channel reports, citing local residents. According to them, there were eight explosions in total. The "governor" of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, announced that the UAV attack was repelled.
10:28 Syrsky ordered an inspection of the situation in the 59th separate motorized infantry brigade named after Yakov Handzyuk and to clarify the circumstances of recent losses among personnel, the General Staff reported. For this purpose, a complex working group headed by the Chief of the Military Law Enforcement Service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be sent to the unit's area of responsibility.
Earlier, paramedic and Azovstal defender Kateryna Polischuk (Ptashka) accused the new brigade commander Bohdan Shevchuk, appointed "in connection with 'brilliant' official decisions and family ties with the top military leadership", of the fact that his actions led to the death of a large number of servicemen, including those in high leadership positions. Polischuk called on Zelensky "to pay attention and conduct an official investigation into the facts of criminal orders, deliberate negligence, disregard for the life and health of personnel" on the part of Shevchuk.
09:57 EU foreign ministers may ignore the summit of foreign ministers scheduled to take place in Hungary to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with Orban's uncoordinated foreign policy activities, Politico writes. The source noted that by boycotting the meeting in Budapest, other foreign ministers want to "send a clear signal that Hungary does not speak on behalf of the EU."
According to the newspaper, the EU may hold its own summit on the same dates as Hungary has planned - August 28-29. After Orban's "peaceful" trips to Russia and China, many EU foreign ministers have been trying to find a way to avoid participating in the Hungarian summit, which they consider a propaganda event for Orban.
09:19 On July 14, in the Kharkiv region, Russians struck the village of Boguslavka in the Izyum district with a KAB, one person was wounded, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. Another person was injured as a result of the KAB shelling in the village of Kovsharovka in the Kupyansk district.
08:44 In Donetsk Oblast, one person was killed as a result of Russian shelling on July 14 - in Mirnohrad. Another 11 people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours, reported OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
08:36 In the morning, Russians attacked a residential building in the village of Sadovoe in the Kherson region, one person was injured, the OVA reported. In addition, the enemy struck a civilian car in Kizomys from a drone, one person was injured. Over the past 24 hours, eight people were injured as a result of Russian shelling in the region.
08:30 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of July 15:
personnel - about 560,290 (+1200) people,
tanks - 8214 (+8),
combat armored vehicles - 15,826 (+15),
artillery systems - 15,324 (+62),
MLRS - 1119 (+0),
air defense systems - 892 (+2),
aircraft - 361 (+0),
helicopters - 326 (+0),
Operational-tactical level UAVs - 12,148 (+41),
cruise missiles - 2398 (+2),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 20,623 (+85),
special equipment - 2569 (+3).
07:23 In Lipetsk Oblast, a UAV fell on the territory of an electrical substation in the Stanovlyansky municipal district, Governor Igor Artamonov reported. According to him, there are no casualties, "the operation of the electrical substation is not disrupted." The Russian Defense Ministry stated that at night, air defense allegedly destroyed 15 drones in Bryansk Oblast, one in Lipetsk Oblast, and six in Crimea.
06:42 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that the Russian military command has redeployed forces to conduct offensive operations in the area of Glubokoe in the Kharkiv region. In the area of Vovchansk, the Russian army is preparing airborne assault groups for further offensive operations.
According to the General Staff, in the Kharkov direction, the Russians unsuccessfully attacked the positions of the Defense Forces in the areas of Glubokoye and Vovchansk three times. The most difficult situation is in the Pokrovsk direction, where the enemy attacked Ukrainian positions in the areas of Novoaleksandrivka, Vozdvizhenka, Progress, Lozovatskoye, Novoselovka Pervaya and Yasnobrodovka 35 times over the past 24 hours. The situation in the Toretsk direction also remains tense.
#1
any ukrainian who lost a family member in this artificial war, cooked up by the US State Department and the corporations whose representatives sit on the board of CIA cutout National Endowment for Democracy
should set about taking an eye for an eye at board level.
[TOLONEWS] The Tahreek-e-Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Pakistain has denied receiving fund and training from al-Qaeda and being operative from the Afghan soil or any Afghan citizen involved in their attacks.
In a written message to the religious scholars and national and politicians of Pakistain, Noor Wali Mehsud, the leader of the TTP said that they receive no cooperation from the Islamic Emirate.
The TTP leader claimed they need no foreign aid to carry out their operations nor they have foreign agenda but to defend "their nation from the oppression of generals and the rulers."
"We receive no foreign cooperation in this war of ours, nor do we feel any need to seek it. With the permission of Allah, we have fought a successful 20-year-long guerrilla campaign through the support and cooperation of our nation, and we have the capability to do so for years to come," part of the message reads.
The Pak Taliban have asked Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and other Islamic countries to investigate whether they are Death Eaters and if war has been imposed on them and that they had no choice but to defend themselves.
Mehsud thanked Pakistain’s religious, political, and national leaders for opposing the country’s new military operations called Azm-e-Istehkam.
Last month, Pakistain’s military launched operations in the country after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s approval.
The TTP leader accused Pakistain’s generals and rulers of refusing to sit at the negotiating table with the group, adding that they had experience of talks with the Pak government during Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... ’s premiership.
"We've never refused to take part in negotiations, and just as we know how to properly fight a war, we also know how to sit at the negotiating table and solve issues through dialogue (which the world witnessed during Imran Khan's time in power)," wrote Mehsud in the message.
Noor Wali Mehsud also said that the war was imposed on the Pashtuns on both sides of the Durand Line following 9/11, aiming to eliminate tribal independence.
Mehsud’s message also reads that Pak military and American drones have killed thousands of men, women, and children and destroyed the tribal people’s schools, houses, mosques, and madrassas, leaving them no option but to pick up weapons against the perpetrators.
by Mark Steyn
[StrynOnline] Death at the Trump Rally
Let's cut to the chase - the US Secret Service: In on it? Or just totally crap?
Well, I've thought the Secret Service were rubbish not just since we learned of the Cartagena hookers but for at least another decade before that. And increasingly, when it comes to American officialdom - from Kabul to Uvalde - to modify Henry Ford, you can get it in any colour as long as it's bloated, lavishly over-funded and entirely dysfunctional.
And yet and yet... it's hard to believe even these guys (plus their bevy of five-foot-two-eyes-of-blue Keystone chorus girls) could be this crap. Assuming for the purposes of argument that the body on the roof is actually that of the perp, a goofball barely out of high school hatched a plan to have Donald Trump's head explode in close-up on live TV - and, wittingly or otherwise, the world's most flush money-no-object security state did their best to help him pull it off.
In any accountable "public service", the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secret Service gal would already be gone. By this point after the Argentine invasion of the Falklands, Lord Carrington (Foreign Secretary), Sir Humphrey Atkins (Lord Privy Seal) and Richard Luce (Minister for Latin-American Affairs) had already resigned: see my column of September 17th 2001 expressing in my naïve Canadian way mystification as to why, six days later, all the 9/11 flopperoos had not been similarly dispatched.
Because that's how it goes in the Republic of Non-Accountability, and, if he's harbouring any doubts about his fitness for the job, Mayorkas figures it can wait till someone takes out RFK Jr. This is a depraved political culture.
What's the old line? When seconds count, the police are minutes away? Not at a Secret Service event: even when the police are on site in massive overwhelming numbers, they're still minutes away. Here are fifty-two seconds of members of the public yelling that "he's on the roof": Read the rest at the link
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Let's cut to the chase - the US Secret Service: In on it? Or just totally crap?
The safest thing is to always suspect the worst.
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But then, we must embrace the power of "and". I mean, if they weren't totally crap, their plot would have succeeded.
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excuse me, but why is nobody criticising the male police officer who climbed the roof
saw the shooter who then pointed the gun pointed at him
and in response, climbed down again.
Didn't shoot him
Didn't tell anyone?
The pile on is onto any woman in the frame. Paul Joseph Watson piled on to the woman bodyguard shielding Trump's body with her body, saying she was allowing his head to be exposed! She was one of six secret service all surrounding and shielding him with their bodies!
You know what is stupid about turning everything to your pet hate, in this case, hatred of women DEI appointees? (which plenty of women are highly competent and deserve their jobs because they are good at them)
it means you yourself become incompetent because you blame what you hate instead of the real culprits and incompetents
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[Regnum] Washington continues to count on concluding a new agreement with Moscow on the Strategic Offensive Arms Treaty (START) after 2026. This was announced on July 15 by Andrew Gebara, Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Integration of the US Air Force.
The Biden administration is chock full of optimistic idiots who believe themselves master negotiators.
“There is absolute hope for a new nuclear non-proliferation agreement,” he said during a webinar, commenting on the possibility of extending the Russian-American START, which expires in 2026.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 21, 2023, that Russia was suspending its participation in the START. The Russian leader pointed out that the United States, through NATO, was making demands on Russia on the START, demanding that Moscow comply with all of its points, while they themselves intended to behave as they wished.
Putin also stressed that Russia must be ready to conduct nuclear weapons tests if the United States conducts such tests first.
In March of the same year, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov stated that Moscow does not see any signs of a change in Washington's destructive position on strategic stability. At the same time, Ryabkov did not rule out the possibility of Russia continuing contacts with the United States on the START issue.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
The units of the Sever Group of Forces have engaged manpower and hardware of the AFU 92nd Assault Brigade, the 82nd Air Assault Brigade, the 36th Naval Infantry Brigade, and the 13th Ukrainian National Guard Brigade close to Volchansk, Liptsy, Tikhoye, and Volchanskiye Khutora.
In addition, one attack launched by two assault groups of the AFU 71st Jaeger Brigade has been repelled.
The AFU losses were up to 200 Ukrainian troops, three tanks, two pick-up trucks, two U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzers, one U.S.-made 155mm M198 howitzer, one U.S.-made AN/TPQ-64 counter-battery warfare station, and one Nota electronic warfare station.
The units of the Zapad Group of Forces have taken more advantageous lines and inflicted losses on 43rd Mechanised, 4th Tank brigades of the AFU, and the 1st National Guard Brigade near Kovsharovka, Boguslavka (Kharkov region), Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic), Krasny Liman, and Serebryanka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Four counter-attacks by assault detachments of the AFU 3rd Assault Brigade and the 4th National Guard Brigade have been repelled.
The AFU losses were up to 585 Ukrainian troops, two infantry fighting vehicles, and seven motor vehicles.
In the course of counterbattery warfare, two Polish-made 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery systems, one Swedish-made 155mm Archer self-propelled artillery system, one UK-made 105mm L-119 and one U.S.-made M119 howitzers, Bukovel-AD electronic warfare station have been eliminated.
Nine AFU field ammunition depots have also been destroyed.
The units of the Yug Group of Forces have improved the situation along the front line, defeated manpower and hardware of AFU 24th Mechanised, 10th Mountain Assault brigades near Vyemka and Chasov Yar (Donetsk People's Republic).
Three attacks launched by the AFU 5th Assault Brigade have been repelled.
The AFU losses were up to 540 Ukrainian troops, two HMMWV armoured fighting vehicles, and four motor vehicles.
In addition, during counter-battery warfare, one U.S.-made 155mm M777 self-propelled howitzer, U.S.-made Krab and U.S.-made Paladin self-propelled artillery systems, one UK-made 155mm FH-70 howitzer, three Msta-B howitzers, four 152mm D-20 guns, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, one U.S.-made 122mm D-30 gun, one U.S.-made 105mm M119 gun, one 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS combat vehicle, and two Anklav electronic warfare systems have been eliminated.
The units of the Tsentr Group of Forces have improved the tactical situation and defeated 31st, 47th, 110th Mechanised, 68th Infantry, 95th Air Assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and the 129th Territorial Defence Brigade close to Dimitrov, Vesyoloye, Vozdvizhenka, Katerinovka, Timofeyevka, Zhelannoye, and Dzerzhinsk (Donetsk People's Republic).
In addition, Russian troops have repelled six counter-attacks by 41st, 151st Mechanised, 95th Air Assault, 68th Jaeger brigades, and the 425th Separate Assault Battalion of the AFU.
The AFU losses were more than 340 Ukrainian troops, three motor vehicles, one 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, and two 122mm D-30 howitzers.
The units of the Vostok Group of Forces have improved the situation along the front line. The servicemen also defeated manpower and hardware of 72nd Mechanised, 58th Motorised Infantry brigades, 108th and 128th Territorial Defence brigades near Nikolskoye, Makarovka, (Donetsk People's Republic) and Lugovskoye (Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses were up to 125 Ukrainian troops, one U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, two motor vehicles, two UK-made 155mm FH-70 howitzers, and one 152mm D-20 howitzer.
The units of the Dnepr Group of Forces have engaged manpower and hardware of the AFU 35th Naval Infantry Brigade and the 124th Territorial Defence Brigade close to Tokarevka, Ivanovka, and Antonovka (Kherson region).
The AFU losses were up to 110 Ukrainian troops, six motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzer, one 152mm Msta-B gun, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, and two Anklav-N electronic warfare stations.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged AFU manpower and hardware in 109 areas.
Air defence facilities have shot down one MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force, 36 unmanned aerial vehicles, and five U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles.
In total, 628 airplanes and 277 helicopters, 27,622 unmanned aerial vehicles, 551 air defence missile systems, 16,586 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,378 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 11,916 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 23,710 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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I knew a family in California that homeschooled. I expect that California will make that harder and harder to do. Economically, it is already difficult.
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You pay taxes for the public schools whether you use them or not.
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Your children belong to the state, not you.
And then they wonder why people hate the state so much.
[TOLONEWS] A senior Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... official said on Sunday that Hamas has not withdrawn from ceasefire talks with Israel after this weekend's deadly attacks in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... that Israel said had targeted Hamas leader Mohammed Deif. Not withdrawn, just hiding.
But Izzat El-Reshiq, a member of the political office of Hamas, accused Israel of trying to derail efforts by Arab mediators and the United States to reach a ceasefire deal by stepping up its attacks in the enclave.
Saturday's strike in the Khan Younis area of Gaza, in which at least 90 Paleostinians were killed, according to local health authorities, has put the ceasefire talks in doubt.
There had been increasingly hopeful signs in recent days that a deal could be reached to halt fighting and return hostages held in Gaza.
Two Egyptian security sources at ceasefire talks in Doha and Cairo said on Saturday that negotiations had been halted after three days of intense talks.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was expected to convene his close circle of ministers later on Sunday to discuss the talks.
The strike on Saturday which targeted Deif killed Rafa Salama, commander of Hamas' Khan Younis brigade, the Israeli military said on Sunday, but there was no confirmation about the fate of Deif.
"The strike in Khan Younis was a result of surgical intelligence," the head of the Shin Bet domestic security service said in a video released by the service from Rafah.
On Saturday, a senior Hamas official denied that Deif had been killed and the group said Israeli claims were aimed at justifying the attack.
Israel's military chief said on Sunday in a televised statement that Hamas was concealing the truth about Deif's fate, but stopped short of confirming whether he was alive or dead.
Israeli forces pressed ahead on Sunday with aerial and ground shelling of several areas across the Gaza Strip, home to 2.3 million people, most of whom have been displaced by the war.
[GEO.TV] A Hamas official said Sunday that the Palestinian group was withdrawing from Gaza truce talks, as Israeli bombardments hit a school a day after a deadly strike, which Israel claimed targeted the Hamas commander Mohammed Deif, but the fighter group said the commander was doing well.
Speaking after the strike on southern Gaza’s Al-Mawasi, which the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said killed at least 92 people, a senior official from Iran-backed Hamas cited Israeli "massacres" as a reason for suspending negotiations.
A second Hamas official said Deif, commander of the Islamist group's military wing, was "well and directly overseeing" operations despite the Israeli bombing raid that the military said was an attempt to kill him.
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No talks with Hamas
Unconditional surrender or else crush them and remove every last Arab Muslim from the Gaza Strip and resettle by force in Egypt or Jordan or Iraq. NOT any western nation.
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.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Gateway] A Polish border guard was murdered, and several others were injured by illegal immigrants throwing spears at the border.
[Dr. Paul Alexander] LIONESS OF JUDAH MINISTRY's excellent scholarship highlighting Thorp's clarion calls to protect the mother and baby in utero! 1200 times increase in menstrual abnormalities; increase in miscarriages.
[Bee] A new wave of controversy erupted as 12 women came forward alleging they had been sexually assaulted by whoever Trump's vice presidential pick would end up being.
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...Arabic for 
[Regnum] In the first week of the championship in the game "Rock, Paper, Scissors", which is held as part of the festival "Summer in Moscow. Everyone out on the street!", the winner was 11-year-old Artem Nazarov, reports the official website of the mayor of Moscow.
That’s how it must be, not just for some idiot movie star but for all of us. We’ve seen how the justice system can be perverted and twisted to pursue the political ends of the people in power. Anything that limits that power is good. Anything that limits that power is necessary. I’m not happy that Alec Baldwin had his case dismissed, and I’m not happy that the people of New Mexico lost their opportunity to find out if he had committed a crime. But I am ecstatic that a judge held the prosecutors to the expected high standards. And again, I’m not some thug-hugger. My mom was a prosecutor for many years before she became a judge. I grew up around ethical prosecutors. There’s not a lot of patience for criminals running in my veins. But there’s even less for a government that fails to use the power we entrusted to it to do justice.
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
