[X] Biden’s out, Kamala is in. Don’t be fooled: policies won’t change. Just like Biden wasn’t the one calling the shots, Kamala Harris won’t be either. She is the new figurehead for the deep state and the maidservant of Hillary Clinton, queen of the cabal of warmongers. They will continue their efforts to engulf the world in war and taking away our liberty.
.. more in the video at the link.
I’ve known Obama since 1995. We both come out of Chicago politics. I know how it works. He’s behind the campaign to dump 15 million Dem primary voters & replace Biden with his choice. Classic Chicago Democrat machine politics. Selection over election. The bosses over the people. pic.twitter.com/5ibvaX9IzP
[FoxNews] President Biden announced Sunday that he will suspend his 2024 re-election campaign amid mounting pressure from within the Democratic Party for the president to end his 2024 bid after a disastrous debate performance last month.
The unprecedented announcement came as an increasing number of Democrat lawmakers had begun to publicly call for Biden to step aside and the party's leadership reportedly was engaged in efforts to convince Biden, 81, he could not win in November's general election against former President Trump, the 2024 GOP nominee who Biden defeated four years ago to win the White House.
And Biden quickly offered his "full support and endorsement" for Vice President Kamala Harris to take over as the party's presidential nominee.
"It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your president," Biden wrote in a public letter. "While it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interests of my party and the country for me to stand down and focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term."
Biden said he will formally address the nation later this week about his decision.
The Trump campaign quickly started fundraising off the blockbuster news. Within 440 minutes of the preisdent's announcement, the Trump campaign put out a fundraising post on X with the subject line, "Biden just suspended his campaign."
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The Biden-Clinton-Harris wing of old-demokrat kleptocrats are now aligned against Obama and the zealot/ideologues for control of the Presidency/government lottery. Hilda just endorsed Kamala and Obama did not. Signals to minions have been set. Both sides will play nice for about a week and then the blackbooks open and the battery-counterbattery fires begin. Interesting and the quality of the dirt, when it gets to stuff that can be collected by sources only governmental resources like the 3-letters command, will show where the Deep State betting is going and who they gave it to. Fascinating.
BUT...the people in the WH, The Foreign Policy/National Security leadership at senior levels, are ALL going to taking their eyes off the ball, polishing resume's and sucking up. The already amateur-hour level of attention will rapidly diminish, and Iran, Russia, China, Cuba, and mutts from every third rate-shithole will know it and see this as the moment to act! This is a DEFCON 2 moment my friends....
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My bet is Hillary comes on board as veep to mind the store and keep Kammy looking over her shoulder. Ideal Dem candidates are then Sherrod Brown with Tulsi Gabbard. Sherrod offsets Vance and can play “the adult in the room.” Tulsi punches the DEI buttons and is also a vet. She can play up reconciliation with the Dems the way Vance did with Trump to chase the swing votes. More mainline candidates increase making the margin of cheat believable
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We are witnessing a third world-style coup engineered by oligarchs as we speak, and it isn’t going to be pretty. Stay calm, folks. It’s about to get crazy.
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There are questions being floated as to why Biden doesn't resign now instead of finishing out his term.
Perhaps it would be because of who's in line for a President Harris' Vice President until January. That would scr*w up the Senate.
That and she'd be the first female Prez instead of Saint Swillery.
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There are questions being floated as to why Biden doesn't resign now instead of finishing out his term.
Perhaps it would be because of who's in line for a President Harris' Vice President until January. That would scr*w up the Senate.
That and she'd be the first female Prez instead of Saint Swillery.
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Ref #22. "Not thus shit again" graphic here please.
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There is a chance Joe gets up tomorrow and forgets he dropped out… he will remember when he sees a Kamala for President ad on CNN where she takes credit for ‘finally defeating Medicare’.
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Why not resign? Maybe because the Speaker of the House would be next in line of succession. You think the Donks would nominate someone to fill the position (see - Gerald Ford) that the Trunks would confirm? I guess they could ask for Mitt Romney RINO who they called Hitler when he ran against Obama.
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Apparently it's conspiracy theory season - already one circulating that someone simply persuaded Joe's Twitter poster to slap that thing up during his afternoon nap. Unlikely - but it'd be hilarious watching him try to walk it back.
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Wait a minute. To be clear Biden has not said anything. This announcement, I think came from his personal twitter account. He as said NOTHING in public.
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Too angry to show his face or make any recording? Jill and others cut the deals and made the announcements knowing he can't let the public know he is that disconnected from power?
He may well be that far gone, the last couple of days he has look really decrepit and damaged, perhaps Kamala may be President for a time after all?
[Epoch Times] A bipartisan group of senators called on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) not to go ahead with a previously announced rule that would restrict the number of dogs coming into the country that’s slated to go into effect next month.
The CDC’s new requirement on importing dogs into the United States is set to go into effect Aug. 1. The agency rules desgined to stop the spread of rabies, mandates that dog owners show documentation and meet age requirements in order to have a dog enter the country. A rule published in the Federal Register says that U.S. Customs officers will enforce the measure at border crossings.
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The CDC needs to also demand the same for the biggest health issue facing the US. We have over 10 Million Illegals that have brought a number of US eradicated diseases back to our cities in the last 3 years.
[World Net Daily] WASHINGTON — The turn of a few key events may change the fate of the Jan. 6 political prisoners now staring down the dark tunnel of a decade or more in prison for seditious conspiracy.
While the re-election of Donald Trump in November would almost guarantee the leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers a presidential pardon, a series of recent Supreme Court rulings may likewise end up cutting time off the lengthy prison sentences they were handed for what many consider no greater crime than "wrongthink."
On June 28, SCOTUS ruled the Justice Department's use of 18 U.S.C. 1512(c)(2), in conjunction with the most serious criminal charges leveled against former President Donald Trump and an ever-growing number of Jan. 6 defendants, is unconstitutional.
The statute says an offender who "(1) alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object's integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding; or (2) otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both."
The trouble is, in all of American history the DoJ had never used this statute to prosecute demonstrators, even when protests descended into skirmishes, riots, arson, assault, death or worse. Prosecutors, in effect, invented previously non-existent crimes, as if they were the U.S. Congress.
The Supreme Court's ruling should put a precipitous halt to the government's over-prosecutorial adventurism of nonviolent offenders whose only crime amounts to misdemeanor trespassing, and consequently vacating the convictions of possibly more than a hundred J6ers.
But as criminal defense and civil rights attorney Norm Pattis drafts the appeal for the Proud Boys who were handed the lengthiest prison sentences of all the J6 protesters, he is preparing to face defiant federal prosecutors who remain hellbent on circumventing the Constitution and the Supreme Court so they can bury their political opposition when they return to the courtroom.
"It appears the Justice Department is just digging in, pretending nothing ever happened, and baiting the defendants to raise the 1512 Obstruction issues on appeal on the theory that the DOJ may be able to salvage those convictions," Pattis told WorldNetDaily in an exclusive interview.
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The Supreme Court's ruling should put a precipitous halt to the government's over-prosecutorial adventurism of nonviolent offenders whose only crime amounts to misdemeanor trespassing, and consequently vacating the convictions of possibly more than a hundred J6ers.
I don't look for this to happen until the onerous, Deep State facilitator Merrick Garland vacates the DoJ.
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Photos of the audience on 13 July showed hundreds of members of the audience holding their phones up and making recordings. There must be a large number of such recordings available. AFAICT the FBI has not tried to solicit contributions of these (but they should).
[PeakProsperity] Audio Analysis Is 100% Clear: Trump & Crowd Were Shot At By Two Separate People
There’s zero doubt. Two separate weapons were fired toward Trump and the Crowd. One fired 3 rounds, the other(s?) 6 or 7 depending on how many sniper rounds were fired at Crooks. This indicates a conspiracy to assassinate Trump.
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Interesting datum. Local Butler official says cops USSS lying: local cops were on traffic control only, so the news about a local sniper team taking a shot at Crooks is bull, leaving the question of who were the three shooters? Crooks, SS Sniper and ?
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I thought I read there were four (4) sniper teams onsite, two USSS, a local and a state team. The second USSS team, farther away, did the kill shot, one of the locals also fired and missed, and Crooks fired multiple times. That seems to match the initial audio depiction of 3 disparate shooting sounds. Early yet and the failure of the USSS/EFFBEYE to report anything is highly suspicious and can only invigorate alternative theories. Really stupid, I expected more from the USSS, my father was an agent on the FDR/Truman WH details for all of WWII..
[CNN] Former President Donald Trump’s security detail had complained they were not being given enough resources and personnel by the Secret Service over the past two years, and the agency acknowledged Saturday it denied some requests.
A spokesperson for the Secret Service said in a statement Saturday that the agency has not provided certain resources in the past but has instead provided other security measures including from local partners.
The news comes amid widespread concerns about how a sniper was able to obtain rooftop access roughly 150 meters from Trump’s position at an outdoor rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last week.
The Washington Post and The New York Times reported earlier Saturday that the Secret Service denied previous request from Trump’s security team over the past two years.
Some close to the former president felt the decisions, which they believed were personal to Trump, came from the top ranks of the agency.
While Trump holds close relationships with members of his Secret Service detail, the relationship between those agents and the upper ranks of the agency has been tense for some time, according to multiple sources familiar with the dynamic.
In response to questions from CNN over whether the Secret Service had denied additional security requests, a spokesperson told CNN the agency makes "modifications" when certain resources are not provided to protectees.
"In some instances where specific Secret Service specialized units or resources were not provided, the agency made modifications to ensure the security of the protectee," Anthony Guglielmi, chief of communications for the Secret Service, wrote in a statement. "This may include utilizing state or local partners.... Or 'Joe Shi* the Rag Man' from DHS.
....to provide specialized functions or otherwise identifying alternatives to reduce public exposure of a protectee." Emphasis added.
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The horse faced Secret Service director will likely resign just before testifying to congress, them plead the 5th.
She was likely turning down the additional resurce requests for Trump as directed by the WH. No one under her would dare make such a decision, nor would she make the decision without POLITICAL COVER !
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The security that day was deliberately weakened. While I'm not completely in the "They knew about the shooting and wanted Trump dead" camp (although they would shed no tears and private pop Champaign if he was), it was a deliberate process to bring the USS to that state.
1)First a DEI incompetent chief is pushed into the position by Jill
2) DEI hires and promotement are pushed through the agency preventing competent people from being hired or getting promoted.
3) USS refuses to give Trump more protection. And while it is USS policy to only give candidates the full protection, it was pretty bloody obvious Trump was the guy.
4) Jill decides to have an event on the same day as the rally pulling agents (and I'm assuming the more experienced ones)
5) Trump is now "protected" by his core group he had and a bunch of ones thrown in without adequate training and leaders.
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Wonder how well staffed the 2028 Dem nominee's detail is going to be staffed - three fat broads and a token male is what he / she / xer deserve after this crap. Severe payback in every conceivable way and manner is the only way to stop this.
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As all of this was unfolding, did ANYONE on the Butler Secret Service team contact folks monitoring in events from D.C.? Ask for guidance? You know damn well there's D.C. monitoring and reporting effort, either Secret Service, Homeland Security, FBI, or all three.
Come on you sorry SOB's, come clean or leave the field.
I'd like to hear from Erik Prince. Has anyone heard from him. How about JSOC at Fort Bragg? Opinions, comments ?
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Just the most casual glance at the visible security at Butler fairgrounds at the time of the rally would have led a decent security team to directly tell the candidate "Sir, we cannot adequate protect you for this event. You must call it off."
Has that ever happened, even once?
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Thank you for finding Grom’s link, Pancho Poodle8452. He accidentally pasted the headline where the URLis supposed to go — a first for him, I think.
[American Greatness] Joe Biden’s escalating dementia and the long media-political conspiracy to hide his senility from the public are the least of the Democrats’ current problems.
Biden’s track record as president may be more concerning than his cognitive decline. He has literally destroyed the U.S. border, deliberately allowing the entry of more than 10 million illegal aliens. His callous handlers’ agenda was to import abjectly poor constituencies in need of vast government services without regard for the current struggles of a battered American middle class and poor.
The widespread poverty of a vast new cohort of illegal immigrants could serve as indictments of a "racist," "unequal," and "unfair" America—as if the residents of East Palestine, Ohio or inner-city Chicago had anything to do with the centuries-long corruption and oppression of Mexico and Latin America that daily drives thousands of their own poorest citizens northwards to a society founded on very different ideas than those of their homelands.
Note that the left, neither in Mexico nor in America, never asks why millions of these impoverished people prefer to break into a supposedly racist America. Much less do they even distinguish those principles and values that once made America prosperous, free, and secure from their antitheses that have sadly made much of Latin America mostly poor, without freedom, and insecure.
Biden inherited near-zero real interest rates and inflation at 1.4 percent. Almost immediately, in nihilistic fashion, Biden did to a sound economy what he had done to a secure border. So, he recklessly printed money at a time of spiraling, quarantine-ending demand and supply chain disruption. Middle-class wages never caught up with Biden’s inflation, as prices for key staples are nearly 30 percent higher than when he took office.
The cost of servicing the ballooning national debt at high interest is now nearly $1 trillion per year. The world abroad is aflame, lit by Biden’s inexplicable withdrawal from Kabul, his mixed signals to Vladimir Putin on the eve of his invasion of Ukraine, his deliberate alienation of Israel, his appeasement of Iran and China, and his cuts in the defense budget, coupled with his woke war on mythical "racists" in the military.
Energy prices soared, even as Biden’s green agenda proved unworkable and prompted draining the strategic petroleum reserve and begging foreign oil despots before key elections. The "unifier" Biden by design needlessly alienated nearly half the country, and in his debate, he reiterated why Trump supporters do not deserve his concern. And more ominously and recently, Biden grossly told hundreds of his donors that "it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye"—just days before the attempt on Trump’s life.
[IsraelTimes] David Lammy says he ‘was appalled’ by Israeli accusations of UNRWA complicity in October 7 ‘but the UN took these allegations seriously’
Britain’s new Labour government said on Friday it would resume funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), in the first major change by the new government to British policy regarding the Israel-Hamas war.
Britain was one of several countries to halt their funding to UNRWA in January, following accusations by Israel that some agency staff were involved in Hamas’s October 7 attack, when thousands of terrorists invaded southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages, starting the ongoing war.
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy told parliament on Friday he was reassured that the agency, which provides education, health and other services to millions of Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere, had taken steps to ensure it has the “highest standards of neutrality,” including improving vetting.
Lammy described UNRWA as the backbone of aid operations in Gaza, saying it helps feed about half of the territory’s population, and announced the government would provide 21 million pounds ($27 million) in new funding to the agency.
He also said that “with journalists banned from entering, aid agencies are also a vital source of information from the Strip, and their reports are devastating,” beginning with the statistic that “almost 40,000 [have been] killed.”
The figure cited by Lammy appeared to come from the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, whose toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 15,000 combatants in battle and some 1,000 terrorists inside Israel during the October 7 attack.
He also cited accounts that malnutrition in Gaza was so severe mothers could not produce breast milk for their children, that diarrhea was found at 40 times its normal prevalence, and that polio had been detected in Gaza.
“Humanitarian aid is a moral necessity in the face of such a catastrophe, and it is aid agencies who ensure UK support reaches civilians on the ground,” he said. “UNRWA is absolutely central to these efforts. No other agency can deliver aid at the scale needed.”
The government’s change in policy comes after Labour’s commanding election victory was dented by the loss of five seats to pro-Palestinian independent candidates.
Britain joins other countries including Japan, Germany, Italy, Australia and Canada that have resumed funding to the agency after initially withdrawing their support in the wake of the October 7-related allegations.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry has charged that “more than 2,135 UNRWA employees are members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and one-fifth of the principals of UNRWA schools are Hamas activists,” saying “it is impossible to say where UNRWA ends and Hamas begins.”
Lammy cited a review in April, led by former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna, that said Israel had not provided evidence for those accusations. Israel rejected the review’s conclusions.
The British foreign secretary, however, said he was reassured by Colonna’s report “that UNRWA is ensuring they meet the high standards of neutrality, and strengthening its procedures, including on vetting.”
Earlier this month, the Israeli Foreign Ministry sent a letter to UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini listing 108 employees of the agency who Israel says are Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists.
The IDF has also found a Hamas data center located directly beneath UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City, in addition to numerous findings indicating the use of the agency’s assets for terror purposes.
In February, Britain’s then-foreign minister David Cameron said he wanted an “absolute guarantee” that UNRWA would not employ staff who were willing to attack Israel.
Cameron was replaced by Lammy as foreign secretary following the Labour Party’s July 4 landslide election win.
Lammy declined on Friday to elaborate on other elements of the government’s policy with respect to the war and, when asked about potential arrest warrants for Israeli leaders by the International Criminal Court, he said the government was taking legal advice and still deciding its position.
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info I have is that Hasidic leaders are telling their followers to report for military duty while other Haredim leaders are either silent or advising against reporting for military duty
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one suspects the disruption they cause will offset the manpower considerations. Hopefully an article 6 months down the road will provide enlightenment... and entertainment...
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Sounds like the Chinese of the 19th Century. They figured their failure to keep true to the old ways was the cause of their downfall. The Japanese figured it was the technology and gave the West a run for its money in the 40s. By the late 80s the Chinese caught on.
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China's woes were due to a hostile and aggressive UK that started repeated wars in an attempt to take over the world. This eventually bankrupted them and they had to give it up in favor of developing their own country. Let's follow their lead and skip to the end without the bankrupting wars with China.
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Like all dynasties it suffered from corruption, multiple European states getting 'concessions', and unwillingness to 'Westernize' its industry, infrastructure, and institutions. The Japanese did exactly the opposite.
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Do your part physically or get out. They are out breeding the rest of Israel and in 50-70 years they will be the majority and not doing anything WILL assure Israel's destruction.
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Neither Biden or Harris would still be in it unless they knew the fix was in (like last time). They'll be riding it out if Joe has to be wheeled in on a gurney with IV's.
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Easier said than done absent legislation enabling withholding funds from offending jurisdictions (and/or making enabling violation of immigration laws a federal offense). Courts have held that absent such legislation, the Feds can't withhold funds. And I DO NOT want to see executive actions that usurp the legislative process whether it's by the Donks or Trunks.
The idea here may be to make the process the punishment, especially if the GOP can catch both the House and Senate. Figure out some way to slow roll that money for EVERYBODY - I suspect that a fair amount of cities may start leaning on the others.
Another possibility is to redirect those funds to provide care for those the cities say they can't cover. "Hey, you guys say you can't afford these people, we only have so much money, we're helping you out!"
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You tell the cities and their state governments, we're not bailing you out. As more diseases break out, publicly identify them as hot zones for you and your families. Cities that have refused to report accurate crime stats can have their fed monies moved to those that report.
The assassination attempt on Donald Trump, in the midst of a contentious presidential campaign against the most famous man on planet Earth, has been almost memory-holed by the federal authorities.
They are saying very little.
Now it's true that for the most part, the media is doing its job digging. They are generally 2 days behind Dan Bongino, but the mainstream media is stretched so thin these days and often staffed by "journalists" who mostly gave up doing journalism when Barack Obama became president that it doesn't surprise me that they are late to the party.
This is more due to their modest competence and the rustiness of their skills than any attempt to bury the facts. They know this is a big story, and are doing their best, however bad that is.
[AmericanGreatness] Speaking at a rally in Grand Rapids, MI, Vice Presidential Nominee J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) mentioned said that Vice President Kamal Harris doesn’t like him and even said he was disloyal to the U.S.
Vance’s response:
@JDVance1
: Kamala Harris said that I had no loyalty to this country. Well, I don't know Kamala — I did serve in the United States Marine Corps and built a business. What the hell have you done other than collect a check?
Vance, who has represented Ohio in the U.S. Senate since 2023, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 2003 after graduating from Middletown (OH) High School and served in Iraq.
Harris’ career has consisted entirely of government and political jobs, having begun her career as a deputy district attorney in Alameda County, Calif.
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As California Attorney General Kamala Harris
prosecuted David Daleiden for his undercover investigation of Planned Parenthood for the
selling of fetal tissues and organs for big bucks to research institutions.
This was her pro-abortion qualification to run as VP to Joe Biden.
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Dan Whitfield was born in Clearlake Oaks, California. He earned three associate degrees from Northwest Arkansas Community College, magna cum laude, in 2020. Whitfield's professional experience includes working as an information services intern and as a quality engineer intern with JB Hunt, as an instrumentation technician, in cable, and with Dominos Pizza. - BALLETPEDIA
[Gateway] An Obama judge has tossed out a lawsuit by the GOP to ban mail-in ballots in Nevada received up to four days after election day.
The challenge to the state’s law passed in 2021, which is designed to allow Democratic organizers to commit fraud and steal elections from Republicans, was dismissed by Obama-appointed Federal District Court Chief Judge Miranda Du as lacking standing.
In her 15-page ruling, Du said there was no evidence that the plaintiffs "have suffered, or will likely suffer, an injury" from the rules, which allow Democrats and corrupt election officials to "find" the required number of votes to steal elections in which Republican candidates have a small but surmountable lead.
"It does not necessarily follow that mail ballots arriving after Election Day will skew Democratic," she wrote. "And even if later-arriving mail ballots have favored Democrats past elections, it is far from guaranteed that Nevada voters will behave similarly this November."
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Interesting ruling because I recall in the 2020 Pennsylvania lawsuit about counting ballots the judge ruled ‘plaintiffs should have sued before the election; not after’. So there you have it. Per-election=no standing —— post-election = too late to change the rules.
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The Houthi Terrorist Group in Western Yemen has released a Statement claiming to have carried out a Successful Military Operation against a number of Targets in and around the City of Eilat in Southern Israel utilizing several Ballistic Missiles. Despite this there weren’t reports of any Ballistic Missile Impacts near Eilat, or anywhere else in Israel.
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And IDF SAYS:
The IDF Aerial Defense Array successfully intercepted a surface-to-surface missile that approached Israeli territory from Yemen using the "Arrow 3" Aerial Defense System.
The projectile did not cross into Israeli territory. The incident has concluded.
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#3 that's because one side is playing game of 'deterrence' while the other side engages in war. By all their actions, we are at war whether we like it or not. You don't deter. You completely destroy their means to operate. That's all infrastructure, electrical, water, bridges, port facilities, any military installations and facilities, etc. It's not a tit for tat. It's all out.
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^Yeah, so Israel can destroy it again! I see from some of the images they missed a few oil tanks. Need a follow-up strike. Can the US lend them a few BUFFs?
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I doubt the piping and controls are intact. It'll be a loooong (dark) night in So. Arabia, just like Mo would want it
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Serious allegations have been raised that USSS Director Kim Cheatle may be using Signal to communicate with colleagues, potentially hiding or altering communications to evade FOIA requests. Such actions are against federal law and could lead to legal action and investigations.
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Send her funky ass back to Frito-Lay (owned by Pepsico) whence she came.
Have you ever seen a more lawless Administration?
Have you ever seen a more toothless system to do anything about it? Well, except for old Blood and Guts Jim Jordan. He's all over things and will get to the bottom of those things since it's all for the "American people".
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I read somewhere that Cheatle had 27 years with the USSS before being 'promoted' to Pepsico. She's got more to hide than just the last few years.
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If she broke the law, she ought to be charged in January.
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I'm sure it was going on long before then but when Hillary was found to be evading various "Sunshine" laws by conducting official business via non-official-un-accountable communication systems, the hammer should have dropped. We can't as a society ever hold government accountable if we're going to not prosecute those who violate this principle at the highest of levels.
Crowdstrike CONFIRMS, BEYOND THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT,
Dominion Rigging Systems CEO, the son of a bitch, LIED,
Dominion rigging machines are connected to the interned and participated in the seditious conspiracy that overthrew the U.S. government on Nov 3,… https://t.co/Cjhdysa1p1pic.twitter.com/RVYzibx7zZ
Julian Assange says the email shown in this video is the most significant in his whole collection. This is because the email contains sensitive info between Hillary Clinton and John Podesta. At the end he claims Hillary Clinton when she was Secretary of state gave 80 Billion... pic.twitter.com/jMiUsHZQdr
… only assigned to a traffic detail, and not security detail.
It was the responsibility of Secret Service to protect President Trump, and they failed.
Kim Cheatle must resign and face criminal charges for being an accessory to the murder of Corey Comperatore, and the attempted murder of President Trump.
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still a toss-up between incompetence or collusion... although "and" is a real possibility.
By Clarice Feldman
The three top stories of the week are the Crowdstrike failure which interrupted internet service to millions; the attempted assassination of Donald J. Trump, and the ongoing Democratic coup against President Biden. You may recall that Crowdstrike was the source of the lie that Russians hacked the DNC files, so I have no sympathy for them. Apparently, there is little legal recourse for the victims of this outage, but I can imagine many institutions and businesses will be reconsidering continuing this service.
As for the attempted assassination, it bears a resemblance to the Crowdstrike outage in that it underscores the growing incompetence, lack of resilience, and poor preparation that marks so much of modern life here. Many have linked to a wonderful must-watch video of Ugandan kids reenacting the event. To me, the most amazing thing is that within 24 hours of the event, these kids in apparently a poor neighborhood in Africa, saw what happened, reenacted it with Trump as the hero, and then it was videoed, posted on Tik Tok, and seen around the world without filtering. The ability to instantly see, video, and transmit around the globe is amazing and underscores how rapidly the news business is changing. (It’s another reason why X, the largest free speech platform in the world, is so successful.)
As for the performance of the Secret Service, the number of shooters and the backstory about the attempted assassin itself, there are many questions which require further investigation and analysis. For one thing, there are reports that the Service was shorthanded because it had to assign its best agents to another event that day by Jill Biden in Pittsburgh. Was this a deliberate attempt to draw off agents? One commentator thinks it was suspiciously so.
[NY Post] Bangladesh soldiers patrolled the deserted streets of the capital, Dhaka, on Saturday during a curfew meant to quell deadly student-led protests against government job quotas that have killed at least 105 people this week.
A suspension on internet and text message services has remained in place since Thursday, cutting off Bangladesh from the world as police cracked down on protests that have continued despite a ban on public gatherings.
Overseas telephone calls mostly failed to connect, while the websites of Bangladesh-based media organizations did not update, and their social media handles remained inactive.
In addition to the deaths, the clashes have injured thousands, according to data from hospitals across Bangladesh. The Dhaka Medical College Hospital received 27 dead bodies between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Friday.
For five days, police have fired tear gas and hurled sound grenades to scatter protesters as demonstrators clashed with security personnel, throwing bricks and igniting vehicles.
The demonstrations — the biggest since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was re-elected for a fourth successive term this year — have also been fuelled by high unemployment among young people, who make up nearly a fifth of the South Asian nation’s 170 million people.
With the death toll climbing and police unable to contain the protests, Hasina’s government imposed the national curfew and deployed the military.
The curfew was eased for two hours from noon on Saturday to allow people to shop for supplies and complete other chores, television channels reported.
It will last until 10 a.m. on Sunday, when the government will assess the situation and decide the next course of action, the reports added.
Those venturing out on the streets had their identification cards inspected by army personnel at different check points, TV footage showed.
The nationwide unrest broke out over student anger against the controversial quotas for government jobs, including 30% for the families of those who fought for independence from Pakistan.
Hasina’s government had scrapped the quota system in 2018, but a court reinstated it last month.
The state appealed against the reinstatement and the Supreme Court suspended it for a month, pending a hearing on Aug. 7.
In the central Dhaka district of Narsingdi, protesters stormed a jail on Friday and freed over 850 inmates before setting fire to the facility, TV channels reported, citing police. Scattered incidents of arson were also reported on Saturday.
Hasina dropped plans to leave on Sunday for visits to Spain and Brazil due to the protests, the AFP news agency reported, citing her press secretary.
Many opposition party leaders, activists and student protesters had been arrested, said Tarique Rahman, the exiled acting chairman of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
Police arrested Nahid Islam, a leading coordinator of the students’ agitation, at 2 a.m. on Saturday, the protesters said in a text message.
[FoxNews] NSC spokesperson says US 'not involved' in Yemen strikes, and didn't 'coordinate or assist' Israel with them.
Israel’s air force on Saturday launched surgical strikes against the Islamic Republic of Iran-sponsored Houthi terrorist regime in Yemen.
According to an Israel Defense Forces statement, "A short while ago, IDF fighter jets struck military targets of the Houthi terrorist regime in the area of the Al Hudaydah Port in Yemen in response to the hundreds of attacks carried out against the State of Israel in recent months."
In a video statement posted on X, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that, "The port we attacked is not an innocent port. It was used for military purposes; it was used as an entry point for deadly weapons supplied to the Houthis by Iran." Netanyahu, who is due to address Congress next week, congratulated the IDF and Air Force for the operation and warned: "I have a message for Israel's enemies: don't misunderstand us. We will protect ourselves in every way, on every front. Anyone who harms us will pay a very heavy price for his aggression."
Netanyahu noted that the port was over 1000 miles away from Israel's borders, saying "It makes it clear to our enemies that there is no place that the long arm of the State of Israel will not reach."
On Friday, the Houthi movement fired a lethal drone into Tel Aviv, resulting in the death of an Israeli and at least 10 injured and severe damage to buildings. The strike took place near the U.S. consulate building in Tel Aviv.
Gallant continued "The Houthis attacked us over 200 times. The first time that they harmed an Israeli citizen, we struck them. And we will do this in any place where it may be required. The blood of Israeli citizens has a price. This has been made clear in Lebanon, in Gaza, in Yemen, and in other places. If they will dare to attack us, the result will be identical."
A Houthi spokesperson said via a public Telegram board message that Israeli airstrikes targeted civilian facilities, oil tanks and a power station in al-Hudaydah.
Houthi-linked media reported that several people were killed, according to Iran International. A Houthi official told the pro-Hezbollah news outlet in Lebanon, Al Mayadeen, that the Houthi regime will retaliate against Israel for the IDF strikes in Lebanon. The U.S.-designated terrorist entity, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthi regime and the Islamic Republic of Iran form the anti-American and anti-Israel "axis of resistance."
Iran International noted the IDF strikes on Saturday hit oil refining facilities in the Hodeidah port, according to sources cited by Al-Masirah TV, the main television news outlet run by the Houthi movement.
The Saudi Arabia-owned Al Arabiya reported that 12 Israeli aircraft, including an F35, attacked the port of Hodeidah.
The Friday drone attack unsettled the Israeli public because the country’s aerial defense failed to intercept the lethal projectile, possibly because of human error. Tel Aviv is the second-largest city in the Jewish state. Israel’s aerial assault in Yemen appears to be the first-ever IDF attack on the Arab country that has been ravaged by the Houthi movement.
A National Security Council spokesperson told Fox News that the U.S. was not involved in the strikes. "We’ve been in regular and ongoing contact with the Israelis following the strike in Tel Aviv that killed an Israeli civilian on Friday morning. We fully recognize and acknowledge Israel’s right to self-defense. The United States was not involved in today’s strikes in Yemen, and we did not coordinate or assist Israel with the strikes. We refer you to the Israelis for more information."
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This target should have been destroyed by the US coalition many months ago. I hope the coalition has given the IDF whatever intel they have on Houthi command and control sites.
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The Washington Post proves that DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas *LIED* about not denying Secret Service protection to former President Donald Trump prior to last Saturday's assassination attempt.
… about the denial of Trump team security requests.
“The assertion that a member of the former president’s security team requested additional security resources that the U.S. Secret Service or the Department of Homeland Security rebuffed is absolutely false,” said Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Secret Service. Former Chicago PD spokeshole. Referred to as "Google Me" by Second City Cop
The Washington Post later reported "Guglielmi said the agency had learned new information indicating the agency’s headquarters may have in fact denied some requests for additional security from Trump’s detail and was reviewing documentation to understand the specific interactions better."
The Congress already had enough justification to impeach DHS Secretary Mayorkas over deliberately causing a border crisis. The Secret Service's mishandling of the Trump assassination attempt and the DHS cover-up add to the disgraceful record of one of the worst Cabinet officials in U.S. history.
Mayorkas should have been removed from office a long time ago. The fact he is still there means that the Biden administration and the Congress feel they are above accountability to the American people.
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The Congress also already has enough info to impeach Biden for his mismanagement of US border security, bad enough to be called either a "high crime" or a "misdemeanor" justifying removal from office.
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WaPo is in a brief period where it will actually commit journalism when the facts are against the Biden regime. This period will end when Biden resigns.
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In a just world she would be fired and jailed for criminal negligence.
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They allowed the shooter to scan the security setup with a drone and then sent the president to the podium with no knowledge of the security threat. They are broken.
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[GEO.TV] The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government on Saturday announced to form a commission to conduct a transparent investigation into the Bannu incident in which at least four people were killed while several others sustained injuries.
The development comes a day after the non-combatants were killed in a firing incident during a protest rally in Bannu district against the worsening law and order.
The protest was staged on the call of the trader community, where a complete shutter-down strike was observed. They were demanding action against the gangs operating in the city and its adjoining areas.
Many people were also injured due to the stampede.
"KP Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur has taken notice of the ongoing situation in Bannu and announced the formation of a commission for transparent investigation of the incident," said Adviser on Information Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif.
The adviser said that the commission will conduct a transparent and impartial investigation and submit its report which will be made public and legal action will be taken against those responsible.
He also said that the commission's report would identify those who were involved in the incident, stressing that rumours and unverified allegations should be avoided before the report.
Barrister Saif said that security is usually on high alert in sensitive places. He highlighted that the sensitive nature of the area was also the reason behind the incident.
He advised the people to remain careful amid the ongoing wave of terrorism.
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[NYPOST] Families of Israeli hostages fear political upheaval in the US will pull focus from their missing loved ones — and are desperate for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to announce a deal to bring them home when he addresses Congress on Wednesday.
The anti-Bibi group, anyway. The pro-Bibi families and returned hostages are desperate for the prime minister to drive the war against Hamas, et al until they surrender and voluntarily return those they hold. They just aren’t the ones emoting photogenically.
Udi Goren, 42, whose cousin Tal Haimi’s body has been held by Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... holy warriors 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... since they murdered him Oct. 7, said he’s confident the hostage families will continue to receive immense bipartisan support if Trump wins the election.
"There is no question where Trump stands on this issue, specifically with the statement he just made," Goren said.
Former President Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... issued a strident warning to Hamas during his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention Thursday, promising the terror group would pay "a very big price" if the captives were not freed.
That sounds blunt rather than strident to me, but I’m not a professional wordsmith.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... on Friday said that cease-fire talks led by the US, 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 Egypt are "inside the 10-yard line and driving toward the goal line" of an agreement that would including returning the hostages.
Dream on, dude. Or in the French of your childhood (according to Google Translate) Rêvez, mec. But that’s not one of my languages, so I have no idea if it’s correct.
"There remains some issues that need to be resolved, that need to be negotiated,"
…like whether or not Israel is allowed to defend itself, and whether or not Hamas will be in charge after all this is over — minor questions, indeed…
Blinken said at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado. "We’re in the midst of doing exactly that."
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Guess what? It turns out that the anonymous turncoat Democrats calling for Biden to step down are relaying the wishes of their donors. And there is more. Most of these donors are calling for the ouster of both Biden and Harris.#VoteBidenHarrisToSaveAmericaFromOligarchshttps://t.co/DrIlGQrwCa
A lot of the Democratic bigshots are in this age group.
Pelosi born in 1940.
Bernie born in 1941.
Hillary born in 1947.
Liz Warren born in 1949.
Schumer born in 1950.
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The 'voters' had their say in the primaries and chose Biden/Harris. That's nice. Now the 'donors' want to buy their way out of that quandary?
If only the donors had recognized JoJo's problems sooner!
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Their operation of a illegal shadow government, after Mr. Biden mentally lost it about 2 years ago. Then their conspired denials to hide it from the American Public, is now costing them millions in needed campaign dollars.
For some, it may even cost them rest of their free lives, given the US Criminal code punishment for such treasonous crimes.
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[Regnum] As of September 2023, the United States had 3,748 nuclear warheads at its disposal, which were intended to equip strategic forces. This was reported by the press service of the National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA) on the official website.
In October 2021, Washington last announced data on the quantitative composition of its nuclear arsenal. After that, the authorities began to hide this information.
According to the agency, the 2023 figures indicate that the stockpile has declined 88% from its peak of 31,255 warheads at the end of fiscal year 1967. Compared with the end of fiscal year 1989, the decline was 83%. At that time, the United States had 22,217 of these weapons.
As reported by the Federation of American Scientists, in 2024 the United States already had only 3,708 nuclear warheads.
The NNSA also noted that Washington dismantled 12,088 nuclear warheads between fiscal years 1994 and 2023. Since September 1991, the number of non-strategic nuclear weapons in the country has been reduced by more than 90%.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on June 7, US Presidential Aide Pranay Vaddi said that US President Joe Biden had signed new instructions on the conditions for the use of nuclear weapons. He did not rule out that the US nuclear arsenal could increase in connection with them.
On June 8, during a speech on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, commented on this statement by the United States, noting that the Russian authorities will respond to Washington’s statements about increasing its nuclear arsenal in accordance with its nuclear doctrine.
On June 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Russia will continue to develop the nuclear triad, as it is a guarantee of strategic deterrence and balance of power in the world.
[GEO.TV] The European Commission said on Friday it would provide the Palestinian Authority with 400 million euros ($435.5 million) in emergency financial support in the coming two months amid concerns within the EU that the authority could collapse.
The money will be disbursed in the form of grants and loans in three payments between July and September, subject to progress in the implementation of the reform agenda of the Palestinian Authority, the Commission said in a statement. grants and loans which will disappear like dust
It had earlier signed a letter of intent with the PA setting out a strategy to address its budgetary and fiscal situation.
"Together, we are laying the groundwork for economic and political stability in the West Bank," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.
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We Jews are very patient People with very long memory.
[GEO.TV] After forming a committee to hold dialogue with 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), Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one that was led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spent more time running his madrassah until his secretary rubbed him out in a jealous rage. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... -Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman ...Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty. Fazl seldom misses a meal and is now so large he has his own gravitational pull... on Saturday claimed that the embattled party agreed to step down from the assemblies and dissolve the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) legislature to force the government into elections.
The religio-political party constituted a committee headed by Kamran Murtaza whose members include Maulana Lutfur Rehman, Mufti Fazal Ghafoor, Aslam Ghauri and Maulana Amjad to hold talks with the Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... -founded party.
The holy man, while talking to journalists in Islamabad today, said that the former ruling party assured him of stepping down from the assemblies and dissolving the KP Assembly.
"The JUI-F committee will finalise the future strategy after holding consultations with the PTI."
However,
the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... speaking to Geo News, PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan rejected the JUI-F supremo’s claims that his party had agreed to resign from assemblies.
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[Regnum] On the night of July 20, unknown assailants attacked a ship in the Red Sea off the coast of Eritrea, 64 nautical miles from Yemen, the UK Navy's Maritime Trade Coordination Centre reported.
Reuters, citing a source familiar with the matter, said a container ship flying the Liberian flag was attacked. The ship sustained minor damage as a result of two strikes, the British center said in a statement.
"The first attack was carried out using an unmanned aerial vehicle, which exploded in close proximity to the vessel, causing minor damage. For the second attack, an unmanned boat was used, which exploded near the vessel," the center's press service noted.
Later, drones appeared near the ship again, the report also said. The crew is safe, and an investigation into the circumstances of the incident is underway, the press service added.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the day before the center reported that a British ship was attacked in the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Yemen. The ship's crew was not injured.
In the fall of 2023, amid the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East, representatives of the Yemeni Ansar Allah movement (Houthis) began attacking ships associated with Israel and its allies. The Houthis threatened to prevent Israeli-affiliated ships from passing through the Red Sea until the operation in the Palestinian enclave ceased. In January 2024, the US and UK began retaliatory strikes against Yemeni rebel positions.
Ansar Allah leader Abdel Malek al-Houthi reported that since November 2023, the movement has attacked a total of 162 vessels in the Red and Arabian Seas. The attacks were carried out using ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as drones and unmanned boats.
It sounds like the Regnum reporter believes this was another little Houthi project.
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[REGNUM] Eighty years ago, on July 20, 1944, Germans heard the astonishing news through their home radios (which many secretly called Goebbels-Schnauze - "Goebbels' snout") - an attempt had been made on the life of the leader of the German nation, Adolf Hitler. The Führer was alive and well, Goebbels' propagandist emphasized. But for the Germans, who (at least outwardly) had no doubt that "Germany is Hitler, and Hitler is Germany," this was a sudden realization that the threat to the Reich came not only from the "Russian front," but also from within. In fact, the Nazi "thousand-year empire" began to be undermined from within quite a long time ago. Moreover, in the environment that was supposed to become the pillar of National Socialism.
Gavin Newsom would appreciate it if you didn't retweet this video of him apologizing for getting caught sleeping with his campaign manager's wife pic.twitter.com/yMHKxNzLaK
That would be the then-hard drinking Ms Ruby Rippey Gibney, his appointment secretary when he was mayor of San Francisco, known socially as Mrs. Alex Tourk. The affair was revealed in 2007, and she reportedly quit drinking shortly thereafter. One wonders how much less appealing Hizzoner was without beer goggles…
[NEWARAB] Tunisian President Kais Saied, who grabbed wide-ranging powers two years after his 2019 election, announced on Friday he will seek a new five-year term in an election set for October.
"I officially announce my candidacy for the October 6 presidential election in order to keep up the fight in the battle for national liberation," Saied, who has ruled by decree since suspending parliament in July 2021, said in a video released by his office.
Speaking in the southern region of Tatouine, the 66-year-old said he was answering the "country's sacred call" which left him no choice but to run for a second term.
Several would-be challengers to the president who had announced their candidacy are either in prison or being prosecuted.
In his announcement Friday, Saied called on "everyone preparing to sponsor (candidates) to steer off any corruption".
[NEWARAB] A potential Tunisian presidential candidate on Friday received an eight-month prison sentence and lifetime ban from running for office, reports said, with NGOs warning of increasing obstacles for President Kais Saied's opponents. Jack Smith stands in awe
Lotfi Mraihi, head of left-wing opposition Republican People's Union, was arrested on July 3 on suspicion of corruption.
In addition to the prison sentence, Mraihi, who announced his candidacy in early April, was given a lifetime ban from standing in any election, Tunisian media said.
Saied, who was democratically elected in 2019 but launched a sweeping power grab in 2021, has yet to announce whether he will seek a second term, though many believe he will.
A number of his opponents who announced their candidacy for the election expected in October are currently either in prison or being prosecuted.
Abir Moussi, a vocal critic of Saied and head of the Free Destourian Party, has been tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! since October last year.
Her party is often described as nostalgic for the autocratic era of independence hero Habib Bourguiba and his successor Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Issam Chebbi, a leader of the main opposition National Salvation Front who was arrested in February 2023 for "plotting against the state", dropped out of the race on Thursday, his party said.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] At least one person was injured on Saturday in armed confrontations in the middle of a popular market east of the city of Ataq, the center of Shabwah province, which is under the control of the Saudi-led coalition in eastern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... The confrontations broke out between tribal Lions of Islam from the ’Al Laql’ family and the ’Al-Sawahra’ family from the "Ba’odha" tribe in the Gul al-Rayda market in the Mayfa’a district. As a result, maimed people fell, including one of the Lions of Islam who was transferred to the city of Mukalla in Hadhramaut province to receive treatment.
The factions loyal to the UAE and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat Frational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... are working to fuel conflicts and fighting between members of the tribes loyal to them and support them with money and weapons in the various districts of the province.
Nearly 13 people were killed and 12 others maimed among the Shabwah rustics last month as a result of armed confrontations in four districts: "Al-Saeed, Habban, Ataq, Markha, and Usyilan."
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Anthony Fauci
…who hasn’t practiced medicine for over half a century, having gone straight into government research following his internship…
dismissed the gunshot wound Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... sustained during Saturday's liquidation attempt, telling CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... viewers: 'he's in the clear.'
Fauci made the comments after the former president, 78, wore a large white bandage over the gunshot wound on his ear throughout the Republican National Convention this week.
'I don't think there is much more to it,' Fauci, 83, said of Trump's wounds while talking to CNN host Wolf Blitzer on Friday. 'It was a bullet shot that grazed his ear.'
And Covid-19 is just a common cold virus, dude. No reason to force the population to isolate while shutting down the nation’s economy.
Trump was nearly killed last week when gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks shot up a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania - but there has been no formal update on his condition.
Fauci, who served as chief medical advisor to the president, added that, according to the physician who examined Trump, there was no other further damage. The point isn't that the bullet only grazed Trump and left a hole in his ear. The reason he got grazed was that somebody tried seriously to murder him. Had he not turned his head precisely when he did, his brains would have splattered the people behind him.
Update on Trump's wound
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] What President Trump’s physician has to say on the subject:
[THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE] My, how quickly the winds can change [or do they]. Previously in order to assist his ideological travelers, specifically Barack Obama That’s just how white folks will do you.... , Mark Zuckerberg ...the Peewee Herman clone who owns Facebook. He's got more money than Croesus and thinks he should be regulated by the government because it does such a nifty job with all the other stuff it regulates.... gave the DNC (If you're white you ain't right!) ...Democrat National Committee, where all those off-the-wall talking points originate... a $500 million ballot harvesting operation as a gift in 2020. It was one of the most obvious examples of election fraud facilitated.
Fast forward a full election cycle, the installed 2020 outcome, Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family... , is on the ropes and being isolated, ridiculed and marginalized -in part- by the same network of ideological travelers (i.e. the Obama network).
When asked if he was going to participate in funding the goals and objectives of the political apparatus in 2024, Zuckerberg announced his intention to stay out of the game of influence, he would not be endorsing "any political candidate." He then went further saying what he witnessed in the liquidation attempt of President Trump, "was one of the most badass things I ever witnessed in my life."
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[GEO.TV] Israeli forces pounded several areas across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least 30 Palestinians, according to health officials, as tanks advanced deeper into western and northern Rafah.
Among those killed on Saturday were local journalist Mohammad Abu Jasser, his wife, and two children, in an Israeli strike on their house in the northern Gaza Strip, a medic said.
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Group Aida, book 1. Everyday life of the white mountain
Commander of the Special Forces Group "Akhmat" on the Issue of Mistakes in War Akhamat is a Chechen unit.
This is the Price of Mistakes
As I said earlier, during the SVO, during assault and sabotage operations, 2 scouts were killed under my command.
2 scouts in 2 years.
This is a tragedy for families, a tragedy for the unit, a tragedy for the country, but in fact, I and our command of Akhmat, sought to minimize personnel losses.
When did minimizing personnel losses become a Russian army thing?
A few months in, when Russian casualties began to mount, word went out to minimize friendly casualties
Thank goodness the generals are trainable. The idea that the Russian people will soon disappear hurts my soul.
One of the postulates of minimizing losses and avoiding them is a clearly planned operation. Like Butler, PA.
If there was even a drop of doubt in success, the operation was subject to cancellation, and the plan was redone.
Exactly until the plan seemed real.
During assault operations, in addition to creating a "mirror" trench, and practicing the assault and approaches to it, I began to actively use diversionary maneuvers in the form of penetration of sabotage groups, which were supposed to engage in combat and begin to draw the enemy's forces and attention to themselves. Strongholds were cut by smoke screens, giving a corridor for the assault groups to operate.
We got the "Tropa" from the warehouses, which helped the assault troops to pass 60 meters of minefields to the stronghold.
Having collected a set of tactical maneuvers in the group's arsenal, we quite successfully carried out combat missions to storm enemy fortified areas.
Always wounded, but never killed.
Remembering April 1, 2024, and the task of storming the approach to the mountain, I have been spinning and reviewing the recording of the assault in my head for several months.
What went wrong? Where did I make a mistake?
Two scouts died, and this was my fault as a commander who did not notice something somewhere.
What did I make a mistake in? Only in one thing: I did not have normal electronic warfare to protect against airdrops, not expecting that the group would be delayed waiting for the consolidation platoon.
Two airdrops that took the lives of two of my scouts haunted me for a long time in dreams the following days. Mine most often visit me when I'm dreaming about buying groceries. They tell me my list is wrong, or what I forgot.
Such is the price of our mistakes.
Such is war.
I'm waiting for the book in printed form.Group "Aida" is currently working in Volchansk. Not long ago, it had a very big success in ambush actions.
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[Regnum] The distortion of the history of World War II, attempts to downplay the feat of the Soviet people and rehabilitate the Nazis and their accomplices are the West's strategy for preparing for war, military analyst, retired Swiss Army lieutenant colonel and former high-ranking OSCE official Ralf Bosshard told the Donetsk News Agency (DAN).
"After 1945, the US Army Military Historical Service hired a large number of German generals to write the history of the war that had just ended. And the gentlemen took the opportunity to embellish their role, to invent a fairy tale about how the German Wehrmacht had always fought fairly, and to explain why they were still defeated by the Red Army," he said.
According to the expert, many of them remained true to their National Socialist convictions and continued to regard the soldiers and officers of the Red Army as “subhumans.” Bosshard emphasized that their self-justification had defined the historiography of German-speaking countries for decades, and today this spirit once again defines reports on the Russian army and the conflict in Ukraine.
“Since 1991, NATO, once created as a defensive alliance, has been waging wars beyond its borders, and the revision of history that the West is conducting at home and imposing on other nations is part of a systematic preparation for military action,” the lieutenant colonel noted.
The military analyst also noted that for years the West had wanted to establish a new "rules-based order" that it could define without consulting countries it had already declared enemies. That is why the Soviet Union's contribution to the defeat of National Socialism is now being downplayed, Bosshard added.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that the justification of Nazi criminals and their accomplices leads to tragic, destructive consequences for millions of people. The head of state pointed out the need to firmly and consistently defend the truth about the Great Patriotic War, to resist any attempts to revise Russia's contribution to the great victory.
To counter Nazi propaganda, the Russian leader proposed creating a National Center of Historical Memory in Russia.
[PeakProsperity] There’s zero doubt. Two separate weapons were fired toward Trump and the Crowd. One fired 3 rounds, the other(s?) 6 or 7 depending on how many sniper rounds were fired at Crooks. This indicates a conspiracy to assassinate Trump.
Video and audio at the link, so you can decide for yourself, dear Reader.
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Even when the first videos were played on 7/13 I could hear 4 different sets of shots. The first 2 bursts definitely sounded like two different sources, then much later there were another 2 isolated shots.
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Recording of 7 shots recorded. Beyond Crook at 400 and 1200 or 1400 locations. I tried to find this information posted yesterday. Even the water tower possibility issue. Those 7 shots showed two different firearms. None of which were of sniper team. The eye shot was of sniper team. That stops Crook instantly. Only trigger pulling afterward. Going to site you will be met by the FBI and will be refused entry. Information is disappearing.
There are already enough odd coincidences, security 'lapses' and things that don't add up to consider this a criminal conspiracy. Unfortunately, the likely conspirators are in charge of the investigation. The only hope the American people have of getting to the truth is an independent investigation (which isn't really possible since the FBI has contaminated the evidentiary chain of custody) and/or Congress grabbing on and never letting go until all questions and discrepancies have been explained. The stakes can literally not be higher. If there is no day of reckoning when a former president and current presidential candidate comes within an inch of losing his life, there NEVER will be for anything or anyone in government.
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[NewsFront] 21:35 Volchansk – Staritsa.
Khar'kov direction. Positionalmilitary actionsin the area of ??Volchansk. Forward positions of the Russian Armed Forces in agricultural buildings in the village of Staritsa are under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Expansion of the zone of control of the Russian Armed Forces by about 1 km in the western direction. 20:17 Between 14:30 and 18:15 Moscow timestoppedanother attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using aircraft-type UAVs against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed over the territory of the Belgorod region by air defense systems on duty.
19:57 Svatovo - Dzherelnoye
Consequences of military operations in the Svatovo area. Russian Armed Forces servicemen raise the battle flag of their unit on one of the buildings on the northern outskirts of Dzherelny.
19:11 Kupyansk – Peschanoye.
Consequences of military operations in the Kupyansk direction. Servicemen of the RF Armed Forces are installing the flag of the Russian Federation on the Great Patriotic War memorial, confirming confident control of the central part of Peschaniy north of the Peschanaya River. Advancement of the RF Armed Forces in the western direction up to 2.5 km.
18:35 Kherson direction. Right bank.
Russian Aerospace Forces struck a concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel and equipment using several FAB-500 aerial bombs from the UPMK. Su-34Ms were used.
18:15 Russian Army broke through enemy defenses and cuts off the main supply route of the Ugledar group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
17:49 Special military operation. Situation as of July 20 –map.
17:27 Today is a good day in terms of advances of our troops.
The enemy has completely lost the north-eastern part of Krasnogorovka, rolling back to the north-western outskirts. The city of Krasnogorovka will soon return to Russian control.
16:48 RF Armed Forces took control over the waste heap to the east of Dzerzhinsk. This will allow the control zone here to be significantly expanded in the coming days.
16:24 Statements by representatives of the North, West, South, Center, East and Dnepr groups on the progress of the special military operation (as of July 20, 2024) –video.
15:44 Maryinka – Pobeda.
Active military actions in the Maryinka area. Attack of the Russian Armed Forces with armored vehicles in the direction of the Ukrainian Armed Forces stronghold on the Georgievka-Pobeda line under fire. Advancement of the Russian Armed Forces about 700 meters along the H15 highway to Kurakhovo.
15:07 Ocheretino – Novoaleksandrovka.
Positional military actions on the northern flank of Avdiivka. The position of the Russian Armed Forces in the strong point west of Novoaleksandrivka near the highway to Vozdvizhenka is under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the western direction is up to 400 meters.
14:32 Advance of the Russian Armed Forces –map:
Alexandropol (west of New York). There are also reports of movements north of Arkhangelskoye in our favor + about an advance to Rozovka. The area northeast of Ocheretino has come to life again.
Progress (west of Ocheretino). The most threatening section of the front for the enemy. There are also reports that the enemy has begun to retreat from Novoselovka Pervaya. This was facilitated by taking supply roads under fire control.
Dzerzhinsk (advancement to Artemovo, the enemy has lost a number of important positions and is not yet able to stabilize the defense in the city)
14:11 Enemy admits the loss of almost all Progress and the advance of the Russian Armed Forces on the outskirts of Karlovka to the south of the Karlovskoye Reservoir.
13:53 Map of Offensive operations of the Russian Armed Forces – Square.
Territorial changes related to the conduct of the offensive operation by the Russian Armed Forces in the North-Eastern Military District zone in various directions for October 2023 – June 2024.
12:45 Statement by the head of the press center of the Vostok group –video.
Units of the East group of forces continue to carry out combat missions in the area of the special military operation.
During the active operations, the group's units improved the position along the front line, prevented the enemy from strengthening the forward positions and conducting rotations in the areas of Prechistovka, Levandnoye and Zagornoye.
Strongholds and areas of concentration of manpower and equipment of the 58th Motorized Infantry Brigade and the 128th Territorial Defense Brigade in the Oktyabr and Vodyanoye areas were hit by artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems.
Over the course of 24 hours, up to 115 enemy servicemen, two towed FH-70 howitzers, a 122mm D-30 howitzer and one 152mm Giatsint-B, six vehicles and five aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed.
12:10 The Russian army has expanded the offensive front in the Northern direction –map.
Seversky direction. The remaining part of Razdolovka and areas west and east of the village came under the control of Russian troops (advancement in an area up to 3.1 km wide), Ukrainian military analysts finally acknowledged.
Liman direction. In the area of Makeyevka and Nevskaya ravine, high intensity of military actions remains. The Russian Armed Forces are pressing from positions north of the village and in the central part, where they had previously managed to gain a foothold in the buildings along Zarechnaya Street.
Toretskoye direction. Our units are pushing the enemy out in the western and northern directions in the area of the settlement Druzhba.
Pokrovskoe direction. Russian troops are clearing previously occupied territories in the village of Progress and liberating the south of the settlement and along the railway in the western direction.
In Novosyolovka, the First Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are smashing the enemy in the southern and western directions along Pervomayskaya Street.
South of the Karlovskoye Reservoir, our troops are improving their tactical positions in the eastern part of the Rassvet garden association and along the forest belt south of the Domakha gully.
11:48 Between 09.30 and 10.15 Moscow time stopped an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using an aircraft-type UAV against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed over the territory of the Belgorod region by air defense systems on duty.
11:15 Nikolaev region.
It is reported, that as a result of the morning missile strike by our cruise missiles, a military warehouse of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and military equipment were hit. In particular, the cruise missile "X-59" fired heat traps and hit the assembly warehouse. The strike was carried out by the Su-34M aircraft.
10:54 Artemovsk direction. (area of Chasov Yar settlement).
It's been quite active since morning today.are workingour assault groups and armored vehicles. At the same time, we try to minimize the risk of injuries during the attack.
10:29 Statement by the head of the press center of the Dnepr group –video.
The units of the Dnepr Group of Forces carried out combat missions in the Kakhovka direction. They ensured control of the island zone of the Dnieper River. They did not allow the enemy troops to regroup with artillery fire. They continued to destroy the Ukrainian Armed Forces' floating craft trying to land on the left bank of the Dnieper. They actively destroyed FPV drones, reconnaissance and attack UAVs.
During the day, the enemy's losses amounted to: up to 85 servicemen; during the counter-battery attack, a 105mm M119 gun, an Anklav-N electronic warfare station, and a P-18 radar station were destroyed.
The use of strike UAVs disabled five units of automotive equipment.
09:56 Criminal Kyiv regime continues to shell civilian infrastructure of populated areas of the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces released:
-- n.p. Kakhovka two rounds;
-- Four rounds in the village of Dnepryany;
-- in the village of Lyubimovka four rounds;
-- Three rounds in the village of Novye Lageri.
As a result of artillery attack in the village of Dnepryany, the post office building was damaged.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the villages of Stara Zburyevka, Obryvka, Aleshki, Dnepryany, and Kairy, firing a total of 21 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being clarified.
09:23 During the past night, during an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out terrorist attacks using unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type on targets on the territory of the Russian Federation, air defense systems on duty destroyed and twenty-six UAVs were intercepted over the territory of the Rostov region and one UAV was destroyed over the territory of the Smolensk region.
08:48 Telegram channel «Fisherman»:
Chronicle of the special military operation for July 19, 2024
– Russian troops launched several missile strikes on targets on the territory of the so-called Ukraine, including Nikolaev and Chuguev.
– Ukrainian formations again tried to cause damage to Russian territories, but without success: in Melitopol, Kursk and Lugansk, air targets were destroyed by air defense systems on duty.
– In the Slobozhansky direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to land a force consisting of members of elite units on the shore of the Travyansky Reservoir, but without success.
– In the Liman direction, Russian troops advanced in the area of ??the Zhuravka ravine and consolidated their positions on the approaches to Nevsky.
– In the Seversky direction, the Russian Armed Forces liberated Ivano-Daryevka and hoisted a flag on a building in the center of the settlement.
– In the Pokrovsky direction, fighting continues in Lozovatskoye, and footage has also appeared confirming the complete control of Russian fighters over Progress.
08:00 Official summary of DPR representative offices in the JCCC over the past day.
A total of 28 cases of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC.
There were reports of three civilians being injured.
DAMAGED:
Nine residential buildings,
Two cars,
One civil infrastructure facility.
A total of 14 artillery attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction,
A total of 14 artillery attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Gorlovka direction.
In total, the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired 81 units of various ammunition.
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[Korrespondent] Ukrainian army holds back Russian offensive in eastern and southern Ukraine.
Currently, clashes continue in the areas of Novoaleksandrovka, Novoselovka Pervaya, Vozdvizhenka and Progress.
Since the beginning of the day, 85 combat clashes have occurred on the front, including more than 30 in the Pokrovsk direction. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a report on Saturday, July 20.
Thus, in the Kharkov direction, two Russian attacks were repelled near Glubokoe, and a battle is currently underway in the area of Vovchansk.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy unsuccessfully tried to advance towards the Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in the Glushkovka and Petropavlovka areas throughout the day. Three enemy attacks are still ongoing near Stelmakhovka, Makeyevka and Peschanoye.
In the Liman direction, the enemy has increased the number of attacks to six. Combat operations continue near Nevsky, Makeyevka and in the direction of Lozovaya.
In the Seversky direction, the enemy tried to break through our defenses eight times in the areas of Vyemka, Sporny, Pereyezdny and Verkhnekamensky. Two combat clashes are still ongoing. The situation is under control.
In the Kramatorsk direction, our defenders continue to repel two enemy attacks in the areas of Klyshchivka and Kalinovka. Today, the total number of enemy assault attempts in the direction has increased to six.
In the Toretsk direction, there were four enemy assaults in the area of Zheleznoye, where the enemy is still attacking, and New York. The occupiers also bombed Severnoye, Dilievka and Toretsk.
The enemy's greatest activity remains in the Pokrovsky direction - 32 battles of varying intensity. At present, clashes continue in the areas of Novoalexandrovka, Novoselovka Pervaya, Vozdvizhenka and Progress.
In the Kurakhovsky direction, fighting continues in two locations near Krasnogorovka. Our soldiers successfully repelled six more assaults - the enemy suffered losses near Georgievka, Paraskoveevka and Konstantinovka.
In the Vremivsky direction, the aggressors carried out four assaults near Konstantinovka and Staromayorsky.
In the Orekhovo direction, three military clashes occurred in the areas of Malaya Tokmachka and Novodanilovka.
In the Dnieper direction, our defenders repelled four enemy attacks in the Krynki area.
"Ukrainian troops are in control of the situation and are exhausting the enemy along the entire line of combat engagement," the General Staff said.
Let us recall that on July 19, Ukrainian troops destroyed 990 Russian occupiers in one day. The enemy's total combat losses are currently approaching 570 thousand people.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21:29 On Sunday, July 21, power outage schedules will be in effect throughout the day, Ukrenergo reported. From 15:00 to 24:00, two stages of outages will be in effect, and one stage at other times.
17:40 Trump "has the power" to end the Russian-Ukrainian war on the "right" terms for Ukraine and the West, said former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson: "I believe Trump understands the reality: a defeat for Ukraine would be a huge defeat for America. The Ukrainians have shown that they can and will win."
16:38 Russians struck the village of Ivashki in the Kharkiv region with an FPV drone: as a result of the strike on a store, four people were injured, said OVA head Oleg Sinegubov.
14:59 Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Parolin is visiting Ukraine. The purpose of his visit is to grant the Ukrainian shrine - the All-Ukrainian Sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Berdichev - the status of a minor basilica, as well as to express the attention that Pope Francis pays to the situation in Ukraine, writes Vatican News.
14:07 In Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region, one person was killed as a result of Russian artillery shelling, reported the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak. Another person was wounded in the Pokrovsk community.
11:36 Ukrainian Presidential Press Secretary Serhiy Nikiforov said that during a telephone conversation between Zelensky and Trump, a "fundamental agreement" was reached for a meeting: "Indeed, let's put it this way: a fundamental agreement by both sides for a meeting was recorded. Certain time periods were discussed when this meeting should take place. But it is still very, very early to talk about this. According to Nikiforov, during the conversation, Trump urged people not to believe the "fake news" that his victory in the elections could be beneficial to Russia.
11:15 The death toll from yesterday's Russian strike on Nikolaev has risen to four, the prosecutor's office reported. Fifteen people, including four children, sought medical help. Another nine people received medical care without hospitalization.
09:20 At night, Russians hit an infrastructure facility in the village of Barvinkovo, Izyum district, Kharkiv region, with an Iskander missile, reported OVA head Oleg Sinegubov. More than 50 residential buildings and administrative buildings were damaged. Two people were killed and three were injured.
09:11 In Donetsk Oblast, on July 19, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed - in Toretsk. Another six people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours, reported OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
09:08 In the Kherson region, three people were killed and 13 were injured as a result of Russian shelling over the past day, OVA head Oleksandr Prokudin reported. An administrative building, six multi-story and 98 private houses, gas pipelines, and an ambulance were damaged.
09:03 At night, Russians attacked a railway in the Kharkiv region, four railway workers were injured, Ukrzaliznytsia reported. Buildings and rolling stock, as well as the contact network, were damaged.
08:49 At night, Russians attacked the facilities of the electricity transmission system operator in the Poltava, Sumy and Chernihiv regions, Ukrenergo reported. Industrial and household consumers in certain areas of the Poltava and Chernihiv regions were cut off from power. As of this morning, power supply to most consumers has been restored.
08:17 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of July 20:
personnel - about 565,610 (+990) people,
tanks - 8257 (+7),
combat armored vehicles - 15,917 (+15),
artillery systems - 15,542 (+22),
MLRS - 1121 (+1),
air defense systems - 895 (+1),
aircraft - 362 (+1),
helicopters - 326 (+0),
Operational-tactical level UAVs - 12,350 (+34),
cruise missiles - 2401 (+0),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 20,968 (+59),
special equipment - 2607 (+14).
08:09 At night, Russia attacked Ukraine with three Iskander-M ground-based ballistic missiles, one Iskander-K cruise missile and 16 Shahed-type attack UAVs. The Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Chernihiv and Kyiv regions were attacked, the Air Force reported. It was possible to shoot down 12 Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs, as well as one drone of an unspecified type.
07:40 Publics write about strikes on the Millerovo military airfield in the Rostov region. They report that there were more than 16 explosions, fires broke out in the area of the runway and aircraft parking. The Russian Defense Ministry stated that air defense systems allegedly destroyed 26 drones over the territory of the Rostov region and one over the Smolensk region overnight.
07:27 The number of victims of yesterday's Russian missile strike on a residential area of Nikolaev has risen to 24, including four children. Three people were killed, including one child, said OVA head Vitaly Kim. Nine apartment buildings and a preschool were damaged by the blast wave and debris.
06:25 At night, Russians launched a drone strike on an energy infrastructure facility in the Konotop district of the Sumy region, OVA reported.
06:08 Russia attacked Kiev with drones at night, KGVA reported. The fall of drone debris was preliminarily recorded in the Solomensky district of the capital, there is no information about damage or casualties.
02:12 Russians attacked Poltava region, hit was recorded in Poltava district, reported OVA head Filipp Pronin. Civilian infrastructure was damaged in Mirgorod district. According to preliminary information, no casualties.
01:53 Zelensky reported that he had a conversation with Donald Trump: "I congratulated him on his nomination from the Republican Party and condemned the terrible assassination attempt in Pennsylvania. I wished him strength and absolute safety in the future. I noted the vital importance of bipartisan and bicameral American support for protecting the freedom of our state. We agreed with President Trump to discuss during a personal meeting what steps can make the world fair and truly lasting."
In turn, Trump said that he had a "very good phone call" with Zelensky. "I appreciate President Zelensky for reaching out because I, as the next President of the United States, will bring peace and end the war that has cost so many lives. Both sides can come together and negotiate a deal that will end the violence and pave the way for prosperity," Trump said.
01:44 The United States has commitments to Ukraine regardless of who leads the country, said Secretary of State Antony Blinken: "These commitments will be fulfilled through one mechanism or another — either direct assistance or an agreement with NATO — regardless of the composition of the next American presidential administration." Blinken stressed that there is "a strong bipartisan majority in both houses of Congress in support of Ukraine, so any next U.S. president must take into account not only the external geopolitical situation, but also the domestic political situation."
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[Regnum] The global outage in Microsoft programs on July 19 affected less than 1% of computers running the Windows operating system, the company reported in a blog post.
It is noted that on July 18, independent cybersecurity company CrowdStrike released an update that began to affect IT systems around the world. The failure led to problems in many areas. Problems were encountered in airlines, banks, hospitals, and media in many countries around the world.
The failure did not affect the operation of computers in Russia.
"The CrowdStrike antivirus update affected 8.5 million Windows devices, or less than 1 percent of all Windows PCs. While this percentage was small, the broad economic and societal impact reflects the use of CrowdStrike by enterprises that support many mission-critical services," Microsoft explained.
As reported by IA Regnum, in many countries around the world on July 19, there were failures in the operation of devices with the Windows system. In the morning, users began to complain about the appearance of the "blue screen of death" on devices with Windows 10. The failure affected many companies and government agencies in Australia, the United States, Turkey, Ireland, India, Great Britain, Japan and other countries.
Restoring all systems to full functionality after a global outage in Windows-based technology could take weeks, the British newspaper Guardian suggested, citing the opinion of experts in the field of digital technology.
Experts believe that similar failures could happen again if various companies do not take care to create proper protection and backup copies of important information.
The massive failure of Windows has shown how important import substitution of foreign software is, the press service of the Ministry of Digital Development noted in its commentary.
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Microsoft has a real business opportunity here.
That is if they can demonstrate a better cybersecurity system that can seamlessly envelop the Crowdstrike work.
Not sure how the lawsuits will play out. Crowdstrike says the existing service agreements cover situations like the outage and the company would only be liable for some minor refunds. But that may not hold up.
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Deflecting our attention maybe?
Because it is interesting, how all this and more seems to suddenly happen, as they trying Kill Trump, push Biden out the door and find a replacement.
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i have used c# for 20 years now and admire it but i dont like their policy of automatic updates. its
my machine and if i say its not broke then dont you fix it. I have migrated my programming to the web and use javascript and dont need c# for that.
so i am thinking of swapping microsoft for linux.
my endeavor is at www.weemfg.com. give it a poke and tell me what you dont like
[NY Post] The rank smell continues Secret Service officials repeatedly rejected Donald Trump’s request for additional security in the two years before last weekend’s assassination attempt, The Post has learned.
The ex-president, 78, asked for more agents and magnetometers at large public events he attended, as well as extra snipers for outdoor venues, four insiders told The Washington Post, which first reported the damning revelation.
Each request was shot down by senior officials who claimed the agency lacked the resources Trump was asking for, the outlet reported.
Secret Service agents, alone with local law enforcement, were responsible for securing the rally when 20-year-old gunman Matthew Thomas Crooks opened fire at the Republican presidential nominee’s campaign outdoor rally in Pennsylvania last Saturday.
Crooks was lying on a rooftop just 130 yards away from Trump when he squeezed off as many as seven rounds, grazing the politician in the ear and killing an audience member who sat behind the stage. Two others were seriously injured.
Outrage at the security lapse led the federal security agency to up Trump’s detail to the same level as President Biden, The Post exclusively reported earlier this week.
The Secret Service initially denied claims that someone from Trump’s camp asked for more help ahead of the deadly shooting as “absolutely false.”
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who has faced mounting pressure to resign in the last week, doubled down on the denials in a meeting with Trump campaign leadership in Wisconsin on Monday, the insiders said.
After massive holes in the ex-president’s security team were revealed, however, the agency has changed its tune.
Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Secret Service, admitted to The Washington Post that the agency had denied Trump’s request for additional security, but claimed it had only learned about the new information in the wake of the tragedy.
Trump has continued on the campaign trail despite the terrifying experience, this time with beefed-up security at his disposal.
He was given a “pretty unprecedented level of police officers” Saturday for his indoor event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where the presidential hopeful and his new running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, were welcomed by roughly 14,000 adoring supporters.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … years before assassination attempt - as their shocking reasons are revealed.
Secret Service officials refused to provide Donald Trump with additional security in the two years prior to last weekend's assassination, according to a report.
The damning details revealed that the ex-president's request for more agents and magnetometers at events he attended was denied.
Four insiders told The Washington Post that each request was rejected by senior officials. The higher-ups of the Secret Service allegedly claimed that the agency lacked the resources Trump was asking for.
It has also been revealed that Trump was receiving less protection - after losing the election and his bid for a second term in 2020 - than other former presidents and major party presidential candidates.
These oversights have been unearthed in the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Trump, 78, last Saturday at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Crooks' attempt on Trump's life was enabled by multiple instances of negligence on behalf of the security agents. Somehow, Crooks was able to fly a drone over the rally site the same day as the event - which investigators believe was an effort on his behalf to scope out the situation and prepare for his assassination attempt. Additionally, he was spotted and then watched by law enforcement at the Trump rally site - because they sensed something wasn't right - and yet they managed to lose sight of him before the carnage unfolded, according to reports.
They now face a torrent of questions about how the first assassination attempt in 43 years was allowed to happen.
Last Saturday night, FBI Special Agent Kevin Rojek released a statement saying that it was 'surprising' that Crooks managed to fire off so many shots.
There have been suggestions that routine checks would have eliminated all potential threats - which calls into question the standard of the Secret Service under the current administration. Experts have told DailyMail.com that these failings are a symptom of an 'agency in crisis' after decades of understaffing and corrupt promotion and hiring practices.
John Koskinen, from the nonpartisan National Academy of Public Administration, led an 18-month study into the Secret Service's workforce in 2019.
That was on President Trump’s watch. No wonder they were out to get him.
Saturday's events shocked him, but Koskinen was not surprised by the whistleblower claims, telling DailyMail.com that the Service has been struggling to cover an increasing number of people and respond to more sophisticated threats in recent years.
'Life has gotten much more complicated,' he said, 'the threats are more sophisticated and ongoing, and now you're in the middle of a campaign.'
Cheatle, 53, was appointed director of the Secret Service in 2022, having worked for the agency for 27 years before leaving in 2019 to head up global security at PepsiCo.
Announcing her selection, President Joe Biden revealed that 'Kim' had 'served on my security detail when I was Vice President' and he and Dr. Jill Biden 'came to trust her judgment and counsel'.
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They will remove the figurehead at the top but the acting director will likely be the one who was really blocking Trump’s protection and swapping in the non-Secret Service personnel.
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it was 'surprising' that Crooks managed to fire off so many shots.
Not only that, he was able to fire two bursts which sounded so different from each other.
[Regnum] The entire Middle East sees the "flame in Hodeida", Israel will repeat this wherever necessary in the event of new attacks on its citizens, said the country's Defense Minister Yoav Galant. Y'all like rockets and bombs? Here's some rockets and bombs for yaz.
Earlier, it was reported that Israel carried out its first direct airstrikes on Yemen on July 20. The Israeli Air Force attacked fuel depots in the port city of Hodeida in western Yemen. The attack on the port was carried out by 12 Israeli warplanes, including F-35s.
The Ansar Allah (Houthi) government's Health Ministry confirmed the Israeli airstrike. The raid on the port left people dead and wounded, the ministry said.
Earlier that day, the Royal Navy's Maritime Trade Coordination Centre reported that unknown assailants had attacked a ship in the Red Sea off the coast of Eritrea, 64 nautical miles from Yemen, on the night of July 20. The ship sustained minor damage as a result of two strikes, the British centre said in a statement.
The day before, the center reported that a British ship had been attacked in the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Yemen. The ship's crew was not harmed.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, in the fall of 2023, against the backdrop of the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East, representatives of the Yemeni movement Ansar Allah (Houthis) began attacking ships associated with Israel and its allies. The Houthis threatened that they would not allow ships associated with Israel to pass through the waters of the Red Sea until the operation in the Palestinian enclave ceased.
More from regnum.ru Yemen's Houthis Vow to Respond to Israeli Airstrikes on Hodeida
Supporters of the Yemeni rebel movement Ansar Allah (Houthis) have promised to respond to the Israeli military's attack on the port city of Hodeida. This was stated by the movement's supreme political council.
"The Israeli aggression [on Hodeida] will not go unanswered by Ansar Allah and will not prevent the movement's supporters from continuing to support the Palestinian people," Al Masirah TV reported.
The Houthis condemned the Israeli attack, including on diesel fuel tanks and a power plant, which killed and injured civilians.
The movement's Supreme Political Council stressed that Israel's attack would only strengthen the Yemeni people's support for the Palestinians.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on July 20, Israel carried out direct airstrikes on Houthi positions in Yemen for the first time. The Israeli Air Force attacked fuel depots in the port city of Hodeida in western Yemen. According to Al Arabiya TV channel, the strike was carried out by 12 Israeli combat aircraft. Among them were F-35s. Al Masirah TV channel reported that the raid on the port of Hodeida resulted in casualties.
The IDF said the strikes were in response to hundreds of Houthi attacks on Israel in recent months.
Even more from regnum.ru At least 80 injured in Israeli airstrike on Yemen's Hodeida
Dozens of people were injured in Israeli airstrikes on Hodeida in western Yemen. This was reported by the SABA news agency, citing the Ansar Allah (Houthi) government's Health Ministry.
The IDF's strike on oil tanks and a power plant in Hodeida province has resulted in 80 casualties, most of them from severe fires.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on July 19, in Israel, in the center of Tel Aviv, an explosion occurred, caused by the fall of an "air target", the IDF confirmed. To protect the country's airspace, the Israeli Air Force increased patrols. The explosion occurred near the US consulate, one person was killed, ten more were injured.
Yemeni Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saria claimed responsibility for the incident. According to Maariv, the IDF did not confirm that the explosion was actually prepared by Yemeni rebels.
The attack on Yemen's Hodeida port was a direct response to the Houthi drone strike on Tel Aviv and hundreds of other attacks. Israel will defend itself by any means necessary, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video address to the nation on July 20.
The Houthis have promised to respond to the Israeli military's attack on the port city of Hodeida.
Oh? So what were the acts of war they were doing before?
[GEO.TV] The Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s believe the Israeli attack on Hodeidah was carried out in coordination with the US, UK and other allies, including Arab ones.
The Houthis say that "any state, any Arab regime, any government in the region that helps Israel or the US carry out attacks on Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... will be met with retaliation", said Yusef Mawry, a journalist and political analyst.
"It’s going to be an all-out attack against all Israeli, US and British military presence across the region — whether that would be in the island of Socotra here in Yemen, US military bases in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat Frational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... , UAE and Jordan," he added.
The Houthis "are basically declaring war on Israel, the US, the British government and any Arab regime considered an ally of Israel".
Additional details about Operation “Long Arm” in Yemen:
1. Dozens of veteran pilots, reservists, squadron commanders, and colonels led formations with numerous aircraft in the furthest strike and a historic Air Force operation.
[NEWARAB] An Israeli air strike in north 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... has killed the journalist Mohammed Abu Jasser and his family, Paleostinian medical officials announced on Saturday. Was he holding hostages too?
The journalist’s home in the Jabalia area was targeted at dawn, making him the latest of 161 journalists to be killed in the enclave since the start of Israel’s latest war on Gaza on 7 October. "journalists"
Local Paleostinian media reported his two children and wife were also killed in the strike.
The Gaza based al-Jazeera journalist Anas Al Sharif confirmed the killing of Abu Jasser, sharing video footage of his destroyed home in a post on X.
"We went to sleep last night, just like anyone else as normal, with women and kiddies near us, and Mohammed my friend was there. We woke up to the sound of air strikes, smoke and fire. We woke up at around 3am and ran, and saw bodies torn apart and strewn across the road outside," an eyewitness and friend of Abu Jasser says in an interview with al-Jazeera Arabic following the strike.
Another neighbour of Abu Jasser’s told al-Jazeera his home was "directly targeted" causing widespread damage.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 38,919 journalists since October and maimed around 89,622 others in the same time frame.
The war on the enclave has levelled entire neighbourhoods and plunged the Strip into a deep humanitarian crisis.
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The Democratic Party plans to formally nominate Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity.... for president in an early virtual roll call vote in early August, the Democratic National Committee said Friday, as calls for the 81-year-old leader to step down from the campaign mount.
The DNC (If you're white you ain't right!) ...Democrat National Committee, where all those off-the-wall talking points originate... 's convention rules committee met virtually Friday and decided the vote would not take place before Aug. 1 or after Aug. 7. The committee said a final date would be set by DNC leadership after a second committee meeting next week.
The 3,896 pledged delegates will be given a 24-hour notice before the virtual ballot window opens.
There also are 700 automatic "superdelegates," which include members of the House and Senate, governors, state party chairs and DNC members. They are not permitted to vote on the first ballot unless it's determined that one candidate has an absolute majority of pledged delegates.
Biden won 99% of the pledged delegates.
The four-day Democratic convention is scheduled to start Aug. 19 in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... Typically, parties nominate their candidates at their national conventions, during live roll-call votes. In 2020, the process was conducted virtually because of the pandemic.
Party leaders say the virtual roll call is necessary to avoid litigation in Ohio, which requires major parties to have a presidential nominee by 90 days from the presidential election to appear on the ballot. This year that date falls on Aug. 7.
"My goal as counsel is to ensure we address and avoid all unnecessary legal risk on the way. And that's why we need a virtual nominating process," Dana Remus, a former White House counsel advising the DNC on the process, said. "It's why the wisest, most prudent course is to have that process conclude in time to allow us to file a certified nomination in Ohio by Aug. 7."
Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison on Friday described his excitement to "renominate President Joe Biden and Vice President Kámala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, and Joe Biden's wing nut... " and to promote the "Biden-Harris ticket."
So far, 35 members of Congress have called for Biden to leave the racwe.
Late Friday, Ohio Sen. Sherrod I absolutely trust Hillary Brown Dem senator from Ohio who harbored the same presidential ambitions as the rest of his colleagues. At a distance he was indistinguishable from most other Dem politicians, including the females. It can be said that he waned without waxing... , a Democrat seeking reelection, called for Biden to not seek reelection.
Other Senators seeking a change are Peter Welch of Vermont, Jon Tester of Montana and Martin Henrich of New Mexico. All but Welch are seeking reelection.
Prominent members of the House urging him to at least consider leaving the race are Adam Schiff >...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation"...> is Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Jim Hines of Connecticut and Zoe Lofgren of California. Jamie Raskin of Maryland said Biden should reconsider his decision.
Rep. Mark Takano of California on Saturday posted on Facebook: "Joe, I love and respect you. But the stakes are too high to fail. It's time to pass the torch to Kamala (Harris)."
Biden defiantly has ignored their advice during public appearances and interviews with the media.
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Virtual roll call. Why have the convention?
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If Trump had NOT survived the assassination attempt, how many Dems would be calling for Biden to step down ?
ZERO! None of them. The step down crap is nothing more than media cover for failed events. Kabuki theater at it's finest. The Dems already know he's not stepping down.
When you begin to see the media start talking about Biden Crime Family pardons, YOU WILL THEN KNOW he is stepping down.
[An Nahar] Parliament Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri
...perennial Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... has ruled out a broad Israeli war on Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... while stressing the need to "stop the genocidal war that Israel is waging on the Paleostinian people."
In an interview with the Milan-based Avvenire newspaper, which is affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church, Berri added that "Lebanon does not need new agreements to restore calm and stability in the (southern) border area," noting that "there is a resolution issued by the U.N. Security Council carrying the number 1701 and Lebanon is committed to all its stipulations."
"The international community must press Israel to halt its violation of the terms of this resolution," the Speaker said.
As for the presidential vacuum crisis, Berri said: "Give me 10 days of dialogue among all parliamentary blocs and take a finalization of this juncture." "Catered meals, of course"
"Dialogue among the blocs would be aimed at reaching an agreement on one, two, three or four candidates within seven to 10 days, in order to go to parliament’s hall and finalize the election with a parliamentary, constitutional and national quorum," the Speaker added.
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[An Nahar] Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Friday met with Vladimir Safronkov, the Russian foreign minister’s special envoy for Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... .
"The meeting tackled the situation in south Lebanon and 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... and the stalled grinding of the peace processor," the National News Agency said.
"The Russian envoy stressed the need that all parties show restraint in order to pave the way for reviving the grinding of the peace processor," NNA added.
Safronkov also emphasized "the firm relations between Lebanon and Russia and the importance of bolstering and developing them in all fields."
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[NEWARAB] Pak authorities said Friday they had arrested a "close associate" of al-Qaeda founder and criminal mastermind of the 9/11 attacks the late Osama bin Laden ...... who is no longer with us, and won't be again...... .
Counter-terrorism officials in the most populous province of Punjab swooped in on Amin Ul-Haq in the city of Gujrat, accusing him of planning "sabotage activities" and seeking to "target important installations" in the country.
"The arrest of Amin Ul-Haq is a major victory in the ongoing efforts to combat terrorism in Pakistain and worldwide," a statement from Punjab's Counter Terrorism Department said.
He was listed by the United States, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... as an associate of al-Qaeda and Bin Laden, the head of Punjab's counter-terrorism department, Usman Akram Gonadal, said in a presser.
"He resurfaced after the withdrawal of western NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... forces (from Afghanistan). He visited Afghanistan in August and he began his efforts to reorganise al-Qaeda."
US troops backed by NATO toppled the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... 's first regime in 2001 for refusing to hand over al-Qaeda turbans behind the 9/11 attacks.
Bin Laden was later discovered living in Pakistain and rubbed out in a nighttime US operation in 2011.
[FoxNews] A Florida man was accused of making "written threats to kill" former President Trump and Sen. JD Vance and their families just days after a Pennsylvania man attempted to assassinate the 45th president.
The Jupiter Police Department announced that 68-year-old Michael M. Wiseman was arrested on Friday for charges for written threats to kill.
There’s a photo of the miscreant at the link. He looks profoundly unwell.
Authorities alleged that Wiseman wrote threats against the Republican presidential nominee and vice presidential nominee on his Facebook account and also made to members of the Trump and Vance families.
Serious threats or the usual bloviation seen too often in both sides of the aisle, but now being taken seriously by the authorities after they so visibly dropped the ball last weekend?
The police department said it was notified of the threats, including bodily harm, by multiple members of the community.
Once again the common folk do their duty to say something when they see something.
Jupiter, Florida is about 20 miles, or an approximately 30-minute drive, north of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach.
"JPD coordinated the investigation with the United States Secret Service and the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office," the department said. "JPD officers took Wiseman into custody without incident."
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … being charged with lying to feds about Joe and Hunter Biden bribery claims.
Good lord. Exactly how gullible are those FBI agents?
FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who was indicted for lying to the feds after claiming Joe Biden took a $5million bribe, has been unmasked for the first time by DailyMail.com. Israeli-American Smirnov, 43, was secretly used for years by the FBI as a trusted Confidential Human Source. But every time he appears in public he goes to great lengths to cover his face to avoid being recognized. But now DailyMail.com has obtained previously unpublished pictures of the man who told his FBI handler he was at meetings with a Ukrainian oligarch who bragged about bribing Joe Biden and his son Hunter with $10million.
Republican lawmakers published an FBI write-up of the claims, and seized upon it as evidence of the president's corruption.
Smirnov now faces 25 years in prison for allegedly fabricating the claims, and is accused of 'high-level' and 'extremely recent' links with senior Russian intelligence officials – including the chief of an assassination squad.
Or is someone trying to gin up another Russia, Russia, Russia!
An FBI report describing his claims about the Bidens became one of the shocking documents in the Republican impeachment probe of the President when it was published last year.
The allegations are now being cast as potential Russian propaganda by Special Prosecutor David Weiss. In federal court filings, Weiss said Smirnov's travel and communication records show he didn't engage with Burisma executives until 2017, and he never met Zlochevsky.
One of Weiss's court submissions claimed Smirnov had 'high-level contacts with Russian intelligence operatives,' and that he passed on 'false information' to the FBI from these sources. The filing said Smirnov told his FBI handlers that one of his confidants was a son of a 'former high-ranking Russian government official,' who 'controls two groups of individuals tasked with carrying out assassination efforts in a third-party country.'
Prosecutors said Smirnov had planned to be back in the US for just two days, before flying to meet his Kremlin spy contacts, when he was arrested in Vegas.
Weiss claimed Smirnov had $6million in 'liquid funds', including $3.8million accessible by his 'wife/girlfriend', who pays his personal expenses from her own account – an apparent reference to Lavrenyuk, 58.
Residency records show her living with Smirnov in San Juan Capistrano, California, until 2023. A three-bed, 2,805 sq ft condo in a Vegas luxury high-rise was purchased in her name for $980,000 in February 2022.
Smirnov has a murky background with ties to trading of penny stock public companies and offshore companies. A source who worked with Smirnov provided company documents showing the FBI informant is linked to a firm called A.S. Financials Ltd in the Republic of Vanuatu, a tiny Pacific island chain off the northeast coast of Australia.
But in February prosecutors charged Smirnov with lying to the FBI by fabricating the bribery story – and suggested that he was in fact a Russian double agent planting Kremlin disinformation.
Smirnov, represented by top Vegas attorney David Chesnoff, has entered a not guilty plea.
Photographs exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com show him partying in Las Vegas, his city of residence before he was thrown in federal prison awaiting trial.
The mysterious informant has never been pictured in public without a mask. At a court hearing on February 20, Smirnov's girlfriend Diana Lavrenyuk, 58, and cousin Linor Shefer, 38, were pictured flanking him as he walked through a gaggle of journalists and photographers with his face covered with sunglasses, a face mask, scarf and hood. Photographs inside the federal courthouse were prohibited.
The unmasked pictures, obtained by DailyMail.com from a source who has worked with Smirnov, show him flying business class with Lavrenyuk, taking a selfie while smoking a cigarette beside the Bellagio Fountain in Vegas, and attending a gala dinner with his girlfriend, who wore a red dress, furs, and a costume mask over her eyes.
Other undated photos show Smirnov dressed in a black suit, red rose boutonniere and gold chain, appearing sloppy with his eyes closed, at a Vegas hotel dinner table with Lavrenyuk posing by his side.
In April CBS News previously obtained a grainy passport photo of Smirnov from several years ago – the only other unmasked picture of the mysterious man.
The Israeli-American kept a low profile while he acted as a paid informant for federal law enforcement over 13 years, helping numerous criminal and counterintelligence probes, according to prosecutors.
His indictment revealed he was the 'Confidential Human Source' who told handlers about alleged 2015 and 2016 meetings with the owner of Ukrainian gas firm Burisma, Mykola Zlochevsky, in which the oligarch boasted about bribing Joe and his son Hunter Biden with $5million each.
Smirnov and his girlfriend are pictured again during the same Vegas trip, posing around the dinner table
Despite being named after Smirnov's initials, the firm's sole director and shareholder is his father, Konstantin Smirnov, a Russian-born Israeli resident, 2017 company documents show.
Konstantin is also a partner in Felymos Trades Inc, a company based in the offshore tax haven of Panama, another document obtained by DailyMail.com shows.
Hints of the FBI informant's double-life slipped through to neighbors at his former home in San Juan Capistrano in conversations over dinner at a local steakhouse or backyard barbecue.
'He said he had connections with important people. In one conversation he mentioned that he had a meeting with the Minister of Defense in Afghanistan,' one neighbor, who asked to remain anonymous, told DailyMail.com. 'And he had connections with important people in the US.'
'I know he was involved with the government. I know he was originally from the East Bloc. Though I don't think he actually told me that,' said Mike Pastore, a 75-year-old mortgage broker who lives opposite the terracotta-tiled four-bed house where Smirnov resided the past five years before moving to Vegas in 2023.
'From time to time, we talked about geopolitical stuff, and he was well informed. It was an interesting conversation with him… He traveled a lot.'
The government's prosecution of Smirnov for lying is a dramatic reversal of their position from just last year, when FBI director Christopher Wray said that the then-unidentified informant was so valuable to the Bureau's investigations that they could not release a write-up of his interviews with a handler to Republican lawmakers.
And after using the intelligence Smirnov provided for many federal probes over a decade, the new charges against him have opened a can of worms for the government.
Other defendants, who were convicted after federal probes involving Smirnov, have started challenging their charges.
Andrew Hackett, 35, says he is a victim of a government cover-up of Smirnov's involvement in his case, over a pump-and-dump stock trading scheme.
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Cheatle Bailey has no credibility regardless of whether she stays or goes. The Secret Service now has a reputation equivalent to the FBI. Institution after institution are being sucked into the Honey Dipper truck.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
The Sever Group of Forces hit manpower and hardware of AFU 42nd Mechanised, 127th Territorial Defence, and 13th National Guard brigades close to Volchansk, Staritsa, Malye Prohody, and Liptsy (Kharkov region).
Five attacks launched by assault detachments of AFU 92nd Assault and 36th Naval Infantry brigades were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 185 Ukrainian troops, two pickup trucks, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, and one Plastun electronic reconnaissance station.
The Zapad Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line, hit AFU 44th, 54th, 60th, 115th, 116th Mechanised, 103rd, 110th Territorial Defence brigades near Peschanoye, Petropavlovka, Berestovoye (Kharkov region), Torskoye, Krasny Liman (Donetsk People's Republic) and Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic).
Two counter-attacks of AFU 66th and 67th Mechanised brigades' assault groups were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 540 Ukrainian troops, one tank, one armoured fighting vehicle, six motor vehicles, one UK-made 155mm Braveheart self-propelled artillery system, two 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems, one Bukovel-AD electronic warfare station, and one ammunition depot.
The Yug Group of Forces continued to take more advantageous lines. Units of AFU 22nd, 24th, 30th, 72nd Mechanised, 56th Mechanised Infantry, 81st Airmobile, 79th and 80th Air Assault brigades were hit near Grigorovka, Krasnogorovka, Zalyznyanskoye, Konstantinovka, Chasov Yar, and Raygorodok (Donetsk People's Republic).
Two counterattacks launched by units of the AFU 5th Assault Brigade were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 640 Ukrainian troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, and 18 motor vehicles.
In the course of the counterbattery warfare, one UK-made 155mm Braveheart self-propelled artillery system, U.S.-made 155mm M198 and M777 howitzers, one 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, two 152mm D-20 howitzers, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, and two UK-made 105mm L-119 howitzers.
One AFU electronic warfare station and five field ammunition depots were destroyed.
The Tsentr Group of Forces improved the tactical situation and hit units of AFU 32nd, 41st, 47th Mechanised brigades close to Toretsk, Novgorodskoye, Rozovka, Progress, and Novosyolovka Pervaya (Donetsk People's Republic).
Eight counterattacks launched by units of AFU 31st, 151st Mechanised, 95th Air Assault brigades, and the Lyut Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 280 Ukrainian troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, five motor vehicles, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, two 122mm D-30 howitzers, and two 100mm Rapira anti-tank guns.
The Vostok Group of Forces captured more advantageous lines, inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of AFU 72nd Mechanised, 120th, 129th Territorial Defence, and 21st National Guard brigades near Vremevka, Makarovka, Storozhevoye, Vodyanoye, Razliv, and Oktyabr (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 110 Ukrainian troops, four motor vehicles, one UK-made 155mm FH-70 howitzer, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, and two Nota electronic warfare stations.
The Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on units of AFU 141st Infantry, 128th Mountain Assault, 106th, and 108th Territorial Defence brigades near Kamenskoye, Belogorye, Mirnoye, and Pyatikhatki (Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses were up to 140 Ukrainian troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155mm Paladin self-propelled artillery system, one 152mm Giatsint-B gun, and one 152mm D-20 howitzer.
One Nota electronic warfare station, one U.S.-made AN/TPQ-36 counter-battery radar station, and one ammunition depot were eliminated.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged two launchers and one AN/MPQ-65 radar station of the U.S.-made Patriot SAM system, and clusters of enemy manpower and military hardware in 113 areas.
Russian air defence systems have shot down two U.S.-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles, four U.S.-made HIMARS projectiles, and 74 unmanned aerial vehicles, to include 27 ones over the territory of the Russian Federation.
In total, 630 airplanes and 277 helicopters, 27,915 unmanned aerial vehicles, 554 air defence missile systems, 16,620 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,379 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 12,120 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 23,870 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
[An Nahar] Hezbollah’s top politician Mohammad Raad on Friday noted that the "course" of his group’s conflict with Israel will become clear "within a few days," in an apparent reference to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the U.S. "We're waiting to see if Biden or Blinken will actually help us out"
"Let us be patient for a few days to see the prospects and the atmosphere that we will move forward in. We will not hesitate or give up our resistant choice and we will not weaken in the face of the arrogance of tyranny and occupation," Raad added.
"In the end the enemy will be forced to accept its situation and its major disappointment and failure," Raad went on to say.
The cross-border violence since October has killed 516 people in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , according to an AFP tally. Most of the dead have been fighters, but they have also included at least 104 civilians.
On the Israeli side, 18 soldiers and 13 civilians have been killed, according to authorities.
The violence has raised fears of all-out conflict between the two foes, who last went to war in the summer of 2006.
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At least 38,919 Palestinians have been killed and 89,622 have been injured in the Israeli military offensive in Gaza since October 7, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
No longer claiming the casualties are mostly civilian wimmin, kiddies, and wise elders? It’s a start…
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Willing to bet, a significant part of those numbers were Islamic Terrorists from surrounding areas & countries, or their supporters, looking to murder Israel citizens?
[MSN-Law&Crime] The 48-year-old former mayor of College Park, Maryland was sentenced to more than 100 years behind bars after he pleaded guilty to 140 charges for the possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Associate Seventh Circuit Court Judge Karen H. Mason on Monday ordered Patrick Wojahn to serve 150 years in a state correctional facility, but decided to suspend 120 years of that sentence, authorities announced.
Specifically, Wojahn in August pleaded guilty to 60 counts of distribution, 40 counts of possession, and 40 counts of possession of child sex abuse material with intent to distribute, records show.
Judge Mason also sentenced Wojahn to serve five years of probation upon his release and to register as a sex offender. Under Maryland state law, defendants convicted of nonviolent mostly peaceful crimes are eligible to be released on parole after completing 25% of their sentence. In Wojahn’s case that would be 7 1/2 years.
Effectively, that means that if Wojahn is released and violates the conditions of his probation, he can be sent back to prison for the remaining 120 years of his sentence.
THE SENTENCE
In a news conference following the sentencing hearing, prosecutors said that the CSAM found on Wojahn’s electronic devices was quite disturbing and included pictures and videos of infants and toddlers being sexually abused by adults.
Prosecutors reportedly also said that there was hundreds of child victims being sexually abused in the material found on Wojahn’s devices, noting that Sherlocks were able to identify 52 of the victims, at least one of whom had died by suicide. Several of those victims penned victim impact statements that prosecutors read in court, The Baltimore Sun reported.
As previously reported by Law&Crime, Wojahn in March resigned as mayor of College Park — home to the University of Maryland campus — following his arrest in March 2023.
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...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
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...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
At least 38,919 Palestinians have been killed and 89,622 have been injured in the Israeli military offensive in Gaza since October 7, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
