[IsraelTimes] Former President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... has agreed to be interviewed by the FBI as part of an investigation into his attempted liquidation in Pennsylvania earlier this month, a special agent says.
The expected interview with the 2024 Republican presidential nominee is part of the FBI’s standard protocol to speak with victims during the course of its criminal investigations. The FBI said on Friday that Trump was struck in the ear by a bullet or a fragment of one during the July 13 liquidation attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
"We want to get his perspective on what he observed," says Kevin Rojek, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Pittsburgh field office. "It is a standard victim interview like we would do for any other victim of crime, under any other circumstance."
Trump says in a Fox News interview that he expects the FBI interview to take place Thursday.
Through more than 450 interviews, the FBI has fleshed out a portrait of the gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, that reveals him to be a "highly intelligent" but reclusive 20-year-old whose primary social circle was his family and who maintained few friends and acquaintances throughout his life, Rojek says. Even in online gaming platforms that Crooks visited, his interactions with peers appeared to have been minimal, the FBI says.
His parents have been "extremely cooperative," with the investigation, Rojek says. They have said they had no advance knowledge of the shooting.
The FBI has not uncovered a motive as to why he chose to target Trump, but Sherlocks believe the shooting was the result of extensive planning, including the purchase under an alias in recent months of chemical precursors that Sherlocks believe were used to create the bombs found in his car and his home, and the deployment of a drone about 200 yards (180 meters) from the rally site in the hours before the event.
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Are we starting to see the Leadership of the assigned protectors looking to find reasons to blame the victim for their well documented screwup?
BTW: Hats off and salutes to those that used their own bodies to shield Trump from the shooter and the still strongly suspected possibility of a 2nd sniper.
[IsraelTimes] A federal judge has ordered the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Los Angeles, to craft a plan to protect Jewish students, months after pro-Paleostinian protests broke out on campus.
Three Jewish students sued the university in June, alleging that they experienced discrimination on campus amid demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... war. Yitzchok Frankel, a UCLA law student who is Jewish, said in the lawsuit that he declined an invitation from the director of student life to help host a lunch gathering because he did not feel safe participating.
"Under ordinary circumstances, I would have leapt at the chance to participate in this event," Frankel said. "My Jewish identity and religion are integral to who I am, and I believe it is important to mentor incoming students and encourage them to be proud of their Judaism, too."
But Frankel argued UCLA was failing to foster a safe environment for Jewish students on campus.
UCLA spokesperson Mary Osako says the school is "committed to maintaining a safe and inclusive campus, holding those who engaged in violence accountable, and combatting antisemitism in all forms."
"We have applied lessons learned from this spring’s protests and continue to work to foster a campus culture where everyone feels welcome and free from intimidation, discrimination and harassment," Osako says in a statement.
The university was ordered to craft a proposed plan by next month.
[IsraelTimes] US Central Command (CENTCOM) says its forces successfully destroyed one Iranian-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... uncrewed aerial vehicle in a Houthi-controlled area of 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... in the past 24 hours.
"It was determined this weapon presented an imminent threat to US coalition forces, and merchant vessels in the region," CENTCOM’s statement adds.
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Yeah Grom, we just watched a video of a 'security team' (hire a shooters), 4 guys with what appeared to be FN FAL's take one out. The cost of the security team all told would be less than a single missle, much less a whole destroyer.
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[IsraelTimes] Inverted red triangle used by Hamas in propaganda videos showing attacks on Israelis painted alongside ‘Jews for Palestine’ on Squirrel Hill Chabad. Federation, homes also hit
Vandals painted a symbol associated with Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... on a synagogue in Pittsburgh, near the site of the deadliest attack on Jews in US history.
The slogan "Jews for Paleostine" and an inverted red triangle appeared Monday on Chabad of Squirrel Hill, walking distance from Tree of Life, the synagogue complex where a white supremacist murdered 11 Jews in 2018. The building is across the street from a Jewish day school.
The inverted red triangle is linked to the Hamas terror group, which has used it on propaganda videos produced by its al-Qassam military wing to signify Israeli targets. It has since been adopted by pro-Paleostinian demonstrators.
Last month, vandals painted a red triangle on the home of the Jewish director of the Brooklyn Museum while a banner they strung across her porch branded her a "white supremacist Zionist." The triangle was also used with graffiti threatening "Hamas is coming" painted on a statue near Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, last week.
Some pro-Paleostinian advocates say the triangle symbolizes resistance, generally, and have used it as a pro-Paleostinian signifier in their social media profiles. But critics say it represents a call to violence given its origins.
"The Squirrel Hill community witnessed the deadliest act of antisemitism in our nation’s history at Tree of Life Synagogue," Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Jewish Democrat, said on social media. "They should not need to wake up to antisemitic graffiti in their neighborhood. Vandalism of any type of a house of worship has no home in our Commonwealth — and we must all continue to call it out and speak with moral clarity."
Rabbi Yisroel Altein, the director of the Chabad synagogue, said the municipality had already cleaned up the graffiti and that he had shared security camera footage with the police.
"People are obviously fearful, considering," he said, referring to the 2018 shooting. But he said there was also a lot of local support, which was heartening. "Everyone’s reaching out, expressing their support and willingness to help."
A sign outside the office of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh was also vandalized. It said the federation "funds genocide" and used emojis and words to exhort observers to love Jews but "hate Zionists."
"For a Jewish community still healing from the worst antisemitic attack in U.S. history in 2018 and now retraumatized by the worst single act of terrorism against Jews since the Holocaust, these acts of vandalism are particularly despicable," the federation said in a statement, which noted that several private homes had also been vandalized. "Vandalism targeting Jews is criminal hate speech, pure and simple."
Separately, vandals in Calgary, Canada, on Saturday night painted the red triangle along a route that a local synagogue, Beth Tzedec, had publicized for an Israel solidarity march that took place the next day.
"Free Paleostine" and the triangle appeared on a sound barrier. David Inhaber, the synagogue’s CEO, said there was also graffiti daubed on an overpass. Both properties belong to the municipality.
"We had upwards of a thousand registrants and walk ups and at 1 pm yesterday, we commenced our march around the neighborhood," Inhaler said. "I believe through advertising and media the route was shared on social media or simply leaked allowing for graffiti to be introduced the previous evening. It was adjacent to our property and along the route."
Inhaber said the community reported the graffiti to police.
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Frank discussions seem to be in short supply these days, but the "Paleostine" rag that Hamas supporters wear these days is nothing more nor less than the modern-day swastika.
[PJMedia] Nina Jankowicz, the one-time (and short-lived) head of the Department of Homeland Security's "Disinformation Governance Board," filed suit against Fox News last year alleging that the network "built a narrative calculated to lead consumers to believe that Jankowicz intended to censor Americans' speech" among other allegations.
In a delicious and deserved irony, the judge summarily tossed the suit, writing that, in essence, Fox told the truth.
"Fox contends, and I agree, that Jankowicz has not pleaded facts from which it could plausibly be inferred that the challenged statements regarding intended censorship by Jankowicz are not substantially true," U.S. District Judge Colm F. Connolly wrote in his July 22 order to dismiss. "On the contrary, as noted above, censorship is commonly understood to encompass efforts to scrutinize and examine speech in order to suppress certain communications. The Disinformation Governance Board was formed precisely to examine citizens' speech and, in coordination with the private sector, identify 'misinformation,' 'disinformation," and 'malinformation.'"
Case dismissed.
The Disinformation Board was tasked with searching far and wide across the internet to ferret out "misinformation (unintentional falsehoods), disinformation (deliberate falsehoods), and malinformation (inconveniently shared truths)," as J.D. Tuccille of Reason.com reports.
The problems with this mandate are that 1) it's the government doing the policing, and 2) trying to decipher and separate truth from fiction, fact from fancy, and interpreting any speech based on subjective criteria is idiotic and unconstitutional.
In addition to the allegation that Fox News spread information about Jankowicz's role with the Disinformation Board, she claimed the network also:
"said that Jankowicz was fired from DHS" even though "Jankowicz had resigned due to harassment arising from Fox's defamation," and
"said that Jankowicz wanted to give verified Twitter users the power to edit others' tweets."
Tuccille notes that "Judge Connolly found that 36 of 37 specified criticisms were leveled at the board as a whole and not her. Further, many statements were expressions of opinion, which are not actionable under U.S. law."
Even more embarrassing for Jankowicz, Judge Connolly found that most of the allegations were true.
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Security sources in Beirut tell Reuters that Fuad Shukr survived Israeli strike
By REUTERS
Bystanders surround an ambulance near the site of an Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs on July 30, 2024. (Anwar Amro/AFP)
Bystanders surround an ambulance near the site of an Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs on July 30, 2024. (Anwar Amro/AFP)
BEIRUT — The head of Lebanese armed group Hezbollah’s operations center Fuad Shukr survived an Israeli strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut aimed at killing him, two senior security sources tell Reuters.
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Security sources tell Reuters that fate of Hezbollah commander remains unknown
By REUTERS and EMANUEL FABIAN
An Israeli strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut targeted the head of the armed group Hezbollah’s operations room, three senior security sources tell Reuters, saying that his fate remained unknown.
The sources names him as Muhsin Shukr but say he’s also known as Fuad Shukr.
The Al-Arabiya outlet meanwhile reports that the assassination failed. No further details are given.
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US: Fuad Shukr sits on Hezbollah’s top military body, previously aided pro-Assad forces in Syria
By LAZAR BERMAN
According to the US State Department’s Rewards for Justice program, Fuad Shukr — aka Hajj Mohsin — serves as a senior military adviser to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. He also sits on the Jihad Council, Hezbollah’s top military body.
Shukr played a “central role” in the 1983 bombing of US Marine Corps barracks that left 241 US Marines dead, according to the State Department.
The State Department reported that during the Syrian civil war he “aided [Hezbollah] fighters and pro-Syrian regime troops” as they battled anti-Assad forces.
The US placed a $5 million bounty on his head.
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Shortly after strike, PM’s office releases photo of Netanyahu at military HQ
By LAZAR BERMAN
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, with his chief of staff Tzachi Braverman, his military secretary Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman and National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi, in a photo released soon after an Israeli strike on a Hezbollah target in Beirut, July 30, 2024 (PMO)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, with his chief of staff Tzachi Braverman, his military secretary Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman and National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi, in a photo released soon after an Israeli strike on a Hezbollah target in Beirut, July 30, 2024 (PMO)
Shortly after the IDF announces it carried out an airstrike in Beirut targeting the Hezbollah commander behind Saturday’s deadly rocket attack that killed 12 children in the Golan Heights, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office releases a photo of him on the phone at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv.
He is joined by his chief of staff Tzachi Braverman, his military secretary Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman and National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi.
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Targeted Hezbollah commander named as Fuad Shukr, head of precision missile project who is wanted by US
By EMANUEL FABIAN
US State Department wanted details for Hezbollah's Fuad Shukr (State Department)
US State Department wanted details for Hezbollah's Fuad Shukr (State Department)
The Hezbollah commander targeted in the Israeli airstrike in Beirut a short while ago is reported by multiple media outlets to be Fuad Shukr, also known as Hajj Mohsin, a senior adviser to the terror group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah.
Shukr was named by the IDF several years ago as a commander of Hezbollah’s precision missile project. He is also wanted by the United States for his role in the 1983 bombing of a US Marines barracks in Beirut.
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[MAIL] William Calley, the army officer who was the only person to be convicted in relation to the mass murder of Vietnamese civilians, including children, in what came to be known as the My Lai massacre, has died at the age of 80.
The Washington Post on Monday first reported Calley's death, which happened in April, according to a death certificate the newspaper cited. The New York Times, citing Social Security Administration death records, also reported Calley's death.
Neither paper reported a cause of death. Calls to numbers listed for Calley's son, William L. Calley III, were not returned.
American soldiers killed 504 people on March 16, 1968, in Son My, a collection of hamlets between the central Vietnamese coast and a ridge of misty mountains, in an incident known in the West as the My Lai Massacre. The killings shocked the U.S. and galvanized the anti-war movement.
Initially charged in an Army court martial for 102 deaths, Calley was sentenced to life in prison in 1971 for the killing of 22 civilians. He was behind bars only three days before then President Richard Nixon ordered him released under house arrest. After being discharged from the service, he lived out his life quietly in Georgia.
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The Viet Cong and the NVA committed similar atrocities against hostile civilians in the South. The Tet Offensive was when a tiny portion of these atrocities came to light. The dreary reality is that they were essential in order to rapidly force civilians who were aiding the enemy to switch sides. The ROKs in Vietnam used similar measures, and in so doing, rejiggered the balance of terror such that the civilians in their sector feared the Koreans more than they feared the VC. The result being that the VC learned to avoid ROK sectors because civilians there would not hide, feed or supply them, for fear of being tortured or killed by the Koreans. For whatever reason, Korean threats outweighed similar VC threats.
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#1 I know you weren't. He was a scapegoat. My point is such events may not have even occurred if better people were selected to fill those offices and those parents of those better people insisted that the pols win and not play f*ing games.
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#5 Armed conflict may not be the only measure of a Man, but it is revelatory. Consider Hamilton Fish, William Tiffany and Woodberry Caton to mention but a few of the genuinely privileged who worried about not qualifying to be Rough Riders, and made their way to the action once they did.
Meh. Both the far left and the far right love to hate the Jews — one of the many ways they are exactly alike. And nowadays it’s a way that those who are otherwise fairly normal like to play at being edgy free spirits.
[X] Ruby Freeman was actually awarded the "Presidential Citizens Medal" for helping STEAL the 2020 election by committing voter fraud in Fulton County!!
They literally throw it in our face! Isn't their arrogance just astounding???!!🙄👇
According to the Rantburg archives, Ms Freeman, her daughter (the shift supervisor), and several others were presented with the award in early 2023. Which explains why President Biden is looking so much more spritely in the video than we’re used to seeing him nowadays.
[FoxNews] After narrowly losing Arizona's gubernatorial election in 2022, Trump surrogate Kari Lake is the clear front-runner in Tuesday's GOP Senate primary
The key southwestern general election battleground state of Arizona holds primaries on Tuesday, which will set the stage for likely competitive autumn showdowns that may determine control of the House and Senate.
The contest grabbing the most national attention is the race to succeed Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Democrat-turned-independent who is not seeking a second six-year term in the Senate.
Kari Lake, the front-runner for the Republican Senate nomination, on the eve of the primary teamed up with former President Trump for a tele-rally. Lake is a top surrogate for the former president as he seeks to regain the White House and gave an address two weeks ago at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
Lake, the former TV anchor and major MAGA supporter who never acknowledged her narrow 2022 election defeat for governor, enjoys Trump's backing as she runs for the Senate in a race that is one of a handful that may determine if the GOP wins back the chamber's majority.
Besides enjoying the Republican presidential nominee's support, Lake also has a major fundraising advantage over her two GOP primary rivals: Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb and neuroscientist Elizabeth Reye.
Democrats control the Senate with a 51-49 majority, but Republicans are looking at a favorable Senate map with Democrats defending 23 of the 34 seats up for grabs. Three of those seats are in red states Trump easily carried in 2020: West Virginia, Montana and Ohio.
Five other seats are in key swing states narrowly carried by President Biden in 2020: Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
In the race for the House, the GOP holds a fragile majority in the chamber. And in Arizona, Democrats are aiming to unseat two vulnerable Republican incumbents in districts Biden carried four years ago.
In the 1st Congressional District, which includes parts of northeast Phoenix and surrounding suburbs, seven-term GOP incumbent Rep. David Schweikert is the front-runner in a field of primary rivals that includes businessman Robert Backie and former FBI agent and corporate investigator Kim George.
There's a crowded field of Democrats vying for their party's nomination.
In the southeastern part of the state, Republican Rep. Juan Ciscomani is running for a second term in a district that includes much of suburban Tucson.
He's facing off on Tuesday in a GOP primary that includes challenger Kathleen Winn, who came in third in the 2022 nomination race.
If Ciscomani wins the primary as expected, he'll face off in November against Democrat Kisten Engel in a rematch of their extremely close 2022 election showdown.
Meanwhile, in the red-leaning 8th Congressional District, Trump has endorsed both major candidates in the Republican primary, Blake Masters and Abe Hamadeh, who ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate and state attorney general in 2022.
[FoxNews] According to Bailey's lawsuit, the government has not provided records on illegal immigrant transportation into Missouri.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is filing a lawsuit against the Biden administration for reportedly flying illegal immigrants to Missouri.
Bailey told Fox News Digital he is filing a lawsuit against President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for refusing to turn over documents related to flying illegal immigrants into Missouri.
"We have reason to believe they are deliberately flying illegal aliens from the border into our cities. Not on my watch," Bailey wrote in a post on X.
In his lawsuit that he shared exclusively with Fox News Digital, Bailey says the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has intentionally delayed responding to his request for the documents about the flights to Missouri.
"This game of ‘hide and seek’ violates the spirit and the letter of FOIA, which states that an agency shall withhold information only when the agency ‘reasonably foresees that disclosure would harm an interest protected by an exemption’ or if ‘disclosure is prohibited by law’," the lawsuit reads.
"DHS’s withholding of crucial information has frustrated the ability of citizens to exercise the rights Congress outlined in the FOIA statute. This lack of transparency and refusal to comply with lawful FOIA demands has hindered efforts by the Missouri Attorney General's Office to determine the size and scope of illegal immigration within the Show Me state," the lawsuit continued.
Bailey said the transportation of illegal immigrants into Missouri is a matter of public concern, and the citizens of Missouri have a right to know the facts about these alleged activities.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Dr. Anthony Fauci is being accused of lying to Congress last month when he said he never used private email to conduct official business.
Fauci, 83, told a journalist in 2021 that he would reach out to them through his private email as he faced backlash over research being done on beagle puppies by his National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID).
The project saw innocent hound dogs tormented and killed in a lab in Tunisia to learn more about a parasitic disease, something the NIAID initially denied funding before Fauci confirmed this year that was a fib.
It also saw the hashtag #ArrestFauci trend on the site formerly known as Twitter, as he also faced backlash over his handling of the pandemic. The now-retired expert faced a grilling about this in June as well.
The White Coat Waste Project, who years ago revealed how NIAID spent $1.86million in taxpayer funds on the tests, has now uncovered correspondence where the doctor told a reporter he would message him personally as they spoke briefly about the then budding scandal.
Back in June, the former head of the NIAID told lawmakers he never used a personal email to discuss work - a stance that, while now coming into question, he continues to maintain.
'I will send you an e-mail via my gmail account,' Fauci wrote in the email dated October 29, 2021, and sent to Washington Post reporter Yasmeen Abutaleb.
Shortly before, the journalist who had been the national health policy reporter for the paper at the time, sent a message that appeared to air pity toward the doc about the series of 'crazy articles' that had surfaced surrounding the beagle experiments.
Earlier emails showed how Fauci shared an article from the fact check website Snopes, in which journalists seemingly sought to cast doubt on his connection to the experiments.
The article further suggested Fauci, who retired in August 2022, did not sign off on the taxpayer-funded experiments, which, aside from spawning widespread outrage, warranted a scathing rebuke from members of Congress.
The Snopes article called them 'rumors' designed to 'disparage' the then-NIAID director, and Fauci in turn wrote to the journalist, 'As per our discussion, more of the same.'
The latter appeared to dismiss legitimate questions about the experiments where dogs were left for sand flies to be eaten alive for research purposes as outlandish.
Some three years later, he would concede to a House subcommittee that he 'signed off' on grants that funded the tests - an admission offered before several lawmakers on June 3.
The inconsistency isn't the first from the lifelong doctor, and apparently isn't the last either, if the FOIA records obtained by the White Coat Waste Project and The New York Post are to be taken seriously.
As mentioned, the exchange - occurring less than a year before Fauci's retirement and Abutaleb's seemingly simultaneously ascension to Post White House reporter - suggested the doctor sent an email to the woman from his personal account.
In a fact-check last month surrounding the now confirmed Beagle experiment, the Washington Post found the government-sanctioned was erased from a grant database weeks after members of the press began inquiring about it in 2021.
'Beaglegate' was thus born, a mostly online movement that questioned Fauci and the government's involvement that culminated with White Coat Waste Project in 2022 releasing internal NIAID documents that included the full grant proposal.
Months before, Fauci had asked NIAID staff for details of the grant - after which one of the agency’s employees pressured the journal that published the study to remove its affiliation, according to internal NIAID documents obtained by White Coat Waste.
Representatives for the NIAID would then argue it funded a separate but similar study involving sand flies, before Fauci slammed reports on the experiments as 'lunacy' from the 'far-right' in his recent memoir.
However, days before the book published, he suddenly changed his tune - telling Congress he did, in fact, sign off on the Tunisia experiments - 'because they were approved by a peer review', he said in his June 3 testimony.
The committee had already obtained a trove of emails showing one of his top aides, Dr. David Morens, using a private email account to evade FOIA requests while bragging about deleting 'smoking guns.'
Fauci’s top adviser at NIAID from 1998 to 2022, Morens is now the subject of an internal NIH investigation for alleged FOIA evasions and the deletion of federal records.
Correspondence between EcoHealth Alliance President Dr. Peter Daszak and Fauci was also uncovered, after the nonprofit received more than half a million in funding from NIH to help conduct gain-of-function experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology beginning in 2014.
A teenage mom who was apparently living in the country illegally has given a sickening excuse for placing her newborn baby in a trash bag and tossing it in a dumpster.
Everilda Cux-Ajtzalam, 18, a Guatemalan national, was taken into custody on Thursday for allegedly leaving the baby boy with his umbilical cord still attached in the dumpster outside of an apartment building in Houston, Texas on July 21.
She allegedly told police in the aftermath that she thought she had 'no choice' but to put the baby in the dumpster because she didn't want her boyfriend to break up with her, according to court documents obtained by Law & Crime.
The documents go on to reveal she gave birth 'on the ground behind the food truck where she works' and then taking the baby - referred to in court documents as John Doe or CW - and placing him in a dumpster.
'[Defendant] put the child, placenta and umbilical cord into a trash bag, took the trash bag to a dumpster and left the child in the dumpster tied inside the trash bag,' a magistrate judge wrote in a bond order, noting that the 'event' was caught on surveillance footage.
Eventually, a passerby heard the newborn crying from the dumpster and called 911.
Officers with the Houston Police Department and emergency personnel responded to the scene at around 1.15pm.
Cux-Ajtzalam is now charged with one count of felony abandoning a child without the intent to return.
Cux-Ajtzalam's bond was later raised to $200,000 on Monday, ABC 13 reports.
She is said to be a flight risk, having no ties to the country, according to Click 2 Houston.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement have also placed a hold on her release, and court documents noted she was previously arrested in 2023 by Customs and Border Patrol.
The court documents also note she has a mental disability.
[Barrons] An explosion and subsequent fire Monday at the main plant of German chemical giant BASF left 18 people slightly injured including seven firefighters, police said.
The explosion occurred around at the massive Ludwigshafen plant, BASF said, setting off a fire that was extinguished by an hour later.
The company said its injured employees had received care on site.
Images showed a cloud of smoke emanating from the Ludwigshafen plant, the largest chemicals complex in the world.
Residents were initially told to keep doors and windows shut, but authorities in the western German city later gave the all-clear.
Environmental monitoring vehicles had detected "slightly elevated levels of hydrocarbons" in the immediate area, BASF said. I always worry about that'll happen once Islam takes over Europe and Muslim rulers have European dhimmi engineers at their disposal. But, maybe I shouldn't.
[Red State] Over 50 fighters from the Russian-controlled Wagner Group PMC may have been killed in an engagement with Tuareg separatists in the West African country of Mali. This defeat marks the single largest loss of life for Wagner Group guns-for-hire since any day it spent in Ukraine. While this was not the first time a Wagner Group expedition has been soundly spanked — see Three Hundred Dead and Wounded Russians Are a Reminder of US Airpower in Syria and The Mystery of the Dead Russian Mercenaries in Syria Deepens — it is the first time Wagner Group has been roughed up in Africa.
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"The Wagner PMC justified their defeat by a sandstorm that caught the Russians after the cleansing operation near Tin Zaouatine. The rebels ambushed the Russians there and launched a counterattack, taking advantage of the weather conditions." - cite
[Breitbart] A report has found that the United States military is "not prepared" to fight in a major war, as "major powers" — such as Russia and China — have become "top threats" to the U.S., with China "outpacing" the U.S.
The report, which the Commission on the National Defense Strategy released in July, reveals that while the U.S. is currently facing some of "the most serious and most challenging" threats since 1945, several problems are preventing the U.S. military from being able to address threats from China or Russia.
Among the problems preventing the U.S. military from addressing threats from China and Russia is reportedly the Department of Defense’s (DOD) "business practices, byzantine research," and its "reliance on decades-old military hardware," which reflects "an era of uncontested military dominance." The report adds that "such methods" are "not suited to today’s strategic environment."
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What the US military is prepared for is a lot of 'hut-hut' for the grunts, while the guys with stars figure out how to order gold nicknacks from the defense contractors.
It's the business they're in, and they like it.
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... ‘Not Prepared' for War
Maybe not, but they'll dominate the next Pride Parade.
we know from the 2018 situation that a lot of the enlisted troops are anti regime; back then the anti regime people were able to get a few generals to defect but didn't get much farther than that
In the months before now, Maduro promoted many officers hoping to get loyalty. I saw one estimate that there are now about 1 General or Admiral and 30 other officers for every 60 enlisted soldiers.
Every situation has potential moments that can change the balance.
Also some estimate that Iran and Cuba have a few hundred soldiers on site to keep the Venezuelan military in line but this is just a rumor.
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[IsraelTies] Two members of terror group killed in Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon; ministers reportedly not shown retaliation options for fear they would leak them
Hezbollah has begun moving around its precision-guided missiles, as the region braced for a fierce Israeli response to a rocket attack by the terror group over the weekend that killed 12 children.
I imagine the Eyes in the Sky are fascinated.
An official with a Lebanese group told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Monday that Hezbollah’s stance has not changed, and that the Iran-backed organization does not want a full-blown war with Israel, but that if war breaks out it will fight without limits.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive activities, said Hezbollah since Sunday has started moving some of its "smart precision-guided missiles" to use if needed.
Earlier Monday, two Hezbollah operatives were killed in an IDF dronezap in southern 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... . Lebanese rescue services said two people were killed and three were maimed, including a child, in the attack between the southern Lebanon towns of Mays al-Jabal and Shaqra.
According to Lebanese media, the strike targeted a car and a cycle of violence.
The IDF later confirmed carrying out the strike, publishing footage of the attack.
Following the attack, Hezbollah announced the deaths of two members killed "on the road to Jerusalem," its term for operatives slain in Israeli strikes. They were named as Abbas Hijazi, from Majdel Selm, and Abbas Salami, from Khirbet Selm.
Their deaths brought the terror group’s toll since the beginning of the war in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip to at least 383.
They were the first operatives killed in an IDF strike since Saturday, when four members of the terror group’s elite Radwan force were killed. After that, Hezbollah carried out the rocket attack on the Golan Heights town of Majdal Shams that killed 12 children and teens.
Hezbollah has denied its involvement in the attack, but Israel and the United States have blamed on the Lebanese terror group. The IDF has also provided evidence tying Hezbollah to the attack.
Israel has vowed retaliation against Hezbollah, and Israeli jets hit targets in southern Lebanon early Sunday and reportedly shelled sites there just after midnight Monday.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, another bullet hole appeared in Butch's hat...... a barrage of 20 rockets was fired Monday from Lebanon at the Gomeh Junction area, just south of Kiryat Shmona, the IDF said.
Hezbollah took responsibility for the attack, claiming to have targeted an Israeli military position in response to the deadly strike near Shaqra.
There were no injuries.
A short while after the attack, a Hezbollah site in southern Lebanon’s Houla, used to carry out the rocket barrage, was struck by fighter jets, the IDF said.
Additionally, the IDF said fighter jets struck Hezbollah infrastructure in Kfarhamam, used in a rocket attack on the Mount Dov area.
Also on Monday, a drone launched from Lebanon was shot down by the Israeli Navy over Israel’s territorial waters in northern Israel, the military said. The drone was intercepted by one of the Navy’s Sa’ar 6-class corvettes.
Over the weekend, another Hezbollah drone, thought to be heading toward Israeli offshore gas infrastructure, was shot down by the Navy.
Earlier on Monday, the IDF said a drone that crossed into the Western Galilee from Lebanon was intercepted by air defenses.
The interception triggered predawn rocket sirens in the towns of Yaara and Adamit due to fears of falling shrapnel, according to the IDF.
Late Sunday, Lebanese media reports Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s near the southern Lebanon towns of Houla and Markaba.
And on Sunday morning, the IDF said fighter jets struck a series of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon the previous night, following the Majdal Shams attack.
The targets included weapon depots and other infrastructure in Shabriha and Burj el-Shemali near Tyre; the Beqaa Valley; and southern Lebanon’s Kafr Kila, Rab al-Thalathine, Khiam and Tayr Harfa, according to the military.
None of those strikes appeared to be Israel’s response to the deadly Hezbollah rocket attack on Majdal Shams, which is expected to be more significant.
Hezbollah snuffies have been firing rockets into northern Israel since October 8, drawing Israeli reprisal attacks and threatening to widen the conflict between Israel and Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... beyond Gaza’s borders.
So far, the skirmishes have resulted in 24 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 18 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Hezbollah has named 383 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some in Syria. In Lebanon, another 68 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed.
[IsraelTimes] Foreign Secretary David Lammy said earlier this month that even if sales of offensive arms are suspended due to Gaza war, defensive weapons exports will continue.
Jerusalem is concerned that the UK may cease exporting arms to Israel in the coming days, according to several Hebrew media reports Monday, following other steps taken by the new Labour government to reverse the previous government’s policy on Israel amid the war with Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... 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... After the UK earlier this month restored funding to UNRWA — the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees and their descendants — and withdrew its objection to the International Criminal Court prosecutor’s request for arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, several outlets said that Israel believes that within the next few days, the UK could announce an end to the sale of arms to Israel.
The Ynet news site, which didn’t cite sources, said Israel is concerned that if the UK were to end weapons exports, other countries could follow.
Other outlets then reported similar details, some citing unnamed diplomatic sources.
While still in the opposition, UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy had said earlier this year that the government should suspend the sale of British arms if there was a clear risk they might be used in a serious breach of humanitarian law.
Now in government, he said last week that he had requested an assessment of the legal situation regarding weapons use in Gaza, and that he hoped to be able to communicate any decisions with "full accountability and transparency."
The defense secretary, who has said he wants a balanced position on Israel and Gaza, signaled earlier this month that even in the event that the UK limits the sale of offensive weapons, it would not implement a blanket ban on arms sales to Israel.
Questioned by a Green Party politician on whether he would act to stop "all UK arms exports to Israel," Lammy answered in the negative, stressing the need for Israel to have access to defensive weapons.
"Israel is a country surrounded by people who would love to see its annihilation," Lammy said at the time. "It is being attacked by 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, missiles are being fired from Hezbollah, notwithstanding the desire for Hamas to wipe Israel off the map.
"For those reasons, it would not be right to have a blanket ban between our country and Israel," he added.
While the UK’s previous Conservative government was a strong supporter of Israel’s right to defend itself following the October 7 Hamas terror onslaught, Rooters found in June that the value of Britannia’s approvals of new arms licenses had dropped sharply after the start of the war, with the value of permits granted for the sale of military equipment to its ally falling by more than 95 percent to a 13-year low.
[IsraelTimes] Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry declares a polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain... epidemic across the Paleostinian enclave, blaming Israel’s military offensive.
The World Health Organization said last week there is a high risk of the poliovirus spreading across the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip and beyond its borders due to the dire health and sanitation situation in the war-ravaged Paleostinian enclave, but has yet to declare an epidemic.
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Thanks, tw. Interesting. I can see why Arabic is a great language for mustache cursing.
When they start doing the enunciation play...
It was delightfully overdone. "Look at me! I'm totally authentic and down with the murderous indigenes. Also, Genocide!". Reminded me of Obama carefully saying Tal-EEE-ban.
#8
From a whole other context, but... speaking of coughing and coffee and throat punches...
Cafe Conversation. The Swiftie:
"This politics stuff is sure nifty!
Like, kind of a test
Of who leads us the best?"
"Or of Kool-Aid's [shades, spliff] LD50."
28.July 2024
[Rudaw] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Sunday announced that its anti-terrorism units, in cooperation with the global coalition, have dismantled an Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) cell in northern Raqqa province, killing an operative and arresting another.
The SDF said in a statement that its anti-terrorism units (YAT) conducted a security operation with support from the global coalition, targeting "an ISIS terrorist cell consisting of two murderous Moslems in al-Karamah, east of Raqqa City.
"Supported by Coalition aerial surveillance, our YAT forces raided the hideout of the terrorist cell. One of the terrorists, Abu al-Harith, refused to answer the call for safe surrender and opened fire on our forces who dealt with the situation professionally and eliminated him," said the SDF, adding that another member, named Saad Salim al-Hamdan, was captured in the raid.
Though the jihadists no longer control any territory, they continue to pose a security risk by carrying out kidnappings, hit-and-run attacks, and bombings, and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who control Rojava, conduct frequent operations against the group.
The Kurdish-led and US-backed SDF fought the lion’s share of the battle against ISIS and arrested thousands of the group’s fighters along with their wives and children when they crushed ISIS territorially and took the group’s last stronghold in Syria in 2019.
The SDF has increased its anti-ISIS operations in recent weeks.
On Saturday, the SDF announced that its forces killed an ISIS operative during a security operation in eastern Syria’s Deir ez-Zor province.
In late March, the SDF warned that ISIS still poses a threat to the world and the region as its defeat "requires dismantling its ideological breeding ground."
"ISIS is still trying to recruit new terrorist elements, attempting to radicalize them into its ranks," said the SDF, calling on the international community to "collaborate effectively" with its forces.
28. July, 2024
[Rudaw] Eighty-two families linked to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) left northeast Syria's (Rojava) al-Hol camp on Sunday, heading to the eastern Deir ez-Zor province, according to a war monitor. This move marks the latest effort by Rojava authorities to empty the camp.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that 82 families, consisting of 346 people, left the notorious camp. This move aligns with the decision by authorities in Rojava to reduce the camp's population.
This was the second batch of Syrian families to leave the camp in recent months. In May, 254 people from 69 families left the camp and returned to Deir ez-Zor.
The return of the families came following coordination between the Rojava authorities and the tribal chiefs in Deir ez-Zor.
Tens of thousands of people joined ISIS from across Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) captured more than 10,000 ISIS snuffies and their families during the conflict. The majority of them are Syrian or Iraqi, and about 2,000 are from other countries. The fighters are kept in detention centers while the families are kept in camps.
The majority of the ISIS family members are held in al-Hol camp, which houses 45,355 people, mostly women and kiddies. This number includes 21,633 Syrians and 17,022 Iraqis, according to the latest figures from the US-led global coalition against ISIS.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Dramatic footage has emerged from inside El Salvador's mega-prison for gang members showing its concrete confinement cell and impenetrable security.
The Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT) in Tecoluca is home to 40,000 of the world's most dangerous men who will never be released - each one with at least one homicide conviction.
And now YouTuber Nick Shirley has offered one of the most in-depth looks at the prison's interior yet.
He also takes a tour of the solitary confinement chamber, a narrow cell comprising only a raised concrete platform used as a bed alongside a rudimentary toilet basin.
There is no mattress on the bed and anyone finding themselves in a solitary is not given any sheets to slip on.
A sink is filled with cold water for inmates to wash on - and natural light comes from a small round hole drilled into the thick concrete ceiling.
Footage from the inside shows topless and heavily tattooed inmates lined up under the watchful eye of heavily-armed guards at the institution which has been a key part of a concerted effort to drive down El Salvador's murder rate.
The number of homicides in the Central America nation dropped 70 percent last year as authorities under the leadership of President Nayib Bukele cracked down on criminals both inside and outside the jail.
'As of right now we have not had one attempt to escape or disorder inside the prison,' a security guard told YouTube content creator Nick Shirley as he displayed a enormous hidden armory designed to deal with rioters.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … on $300,000 salary with no qualification.
San Francisco's controversial DA Brooke Jenkins
…she claimed to be radically different when she led the recall effort against her Soros-supported predecessor, then fired most of his staff. But it sure looks like the biggest difference is that she is not him…
has been accused of nepotism after hiring an old friend with no legal qualifications to run her office on an eye-watering salary. Nursing professor Monifa Willis was given the $300,000 job in March, two years after Jenkins asked her to head the department's Victim Services Division.
The pair were on same high school track-and-field team and have hung out together at restaurants, football games and waxing salons
…that just expanded the list of things I do not want to know about other people…
in the last three years according to their Venmo accounts.
Jenkins did not advertise the post and allowed the former marijuana dealer to her to keep her $100,000 part-time teaching job at UCSF, despite rules banning jobs that might interfere with the office's work.
'Nepotism erodes public trust,' said Ryan Khojasteh who challenging Jenkins for her job. 'As San Franciscans, we deserve better from our District Attorney's Office.'
Whistleblowers told the SF Standard that Willis's obligations were already damaging the department when she was in charge of Victim Services.
'Stuff fell through the cracks all the time because she was too busy doing two jobs,' a former staffer said. 'I've seen her (teaching online) classes during work hours.
'She was given this position because she knew the DA.'
And a former senior administrator in the office said legal qualifications are a pre-requisite for doing the job effectively.
'You have to have some basic understanding of the criminal justice system, and you don't get that as a victim services advocate,' he added.
Jenkins was appointed DA by city mayor London Breed in July 2022 after campaigning for the recall of incumbent Chesa Boudin.
...the much-maligned Soros tool and Weatherman scion (remember them?) who was recalled by the voters after they voted him in on promises to do exactly what they later recalled him for. He is now running UC-Berkeley Law’s criminal justice center, which is an interesting choice…
She stepped into a role once held by Vice-President Kamala Harris promising to 'hold drug dealers accountable for their crimes' and 'end open-air drug markets' which had been allowed to proliferate under her predecessor.
But the number of people living on the streets has soared to more than 8,000 as businesses and residents have continued their exodus from the heart of the city.
An exacting job description for the role of DA chief-of-staff says the office holder 'oversees, develops and delegates responsibilities for essential processes of the city's preeminent law enforcement agency including areas of policy and legislation, staffing, communications, data and research, victim services, community engagement, front office operations and all large scale projects/changes and implementations that impacts the Office'.
Willis's experience includes time as the CEO of a now defunct marijuana dispensary called New Life CA.
That doesn’t feel at all the same as a dealer…
Neighboring Contra Costa County requires its DA's chief-of-staff to have a law license and 10 years of professional legal experience. San Francisco requires four years of managerial experience in a legal, legislative or clinical social environment.
But Jenkins said Willis was eminently qualified when she announced the appointment in March, hailing her 'wealth of operational experience as an organizer that has successfully launched state recognized mental health programming and improved hospital operations to better serve children and families'.
The questions emerged just days after a former employee of the Victim Services division sued the DA's department after losing his job because of an accidental 'reply-all' email.
Jovan Thomas, 56, filed the complaint Friday, six months after he was fired for asking Jenkins 'what color' her panties were in a message sent to the entire office.
Soon after Thomas sent the email, Chief Assistant District Attorney Ana Gonzalez sent the office an email saying the issue was being handled by the administration and asking staff to delete the email and not share it.
Thomas, on his part, claimed he meant to send the message as a joke to a fraternity brother. He was fired that day, but now claims that after his employment was terminated, defendants violated his privacy and defamed him by misrepresenting what had happened. He is seeking a jury trial and compensatory and punitive damages as a result.
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Looks like somebody has adopted the Fani Willis Employment method. Really don’t want to know about the off-duty perks, but nothing would surprise me.
[FoxNews] Infamous NK dictator reportedly weighs about 308 pounds, despite standing at only 5'8"
Pray for sepsis, as our Dr. Steve used to say.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has regained weight and appears to have obesity-related health problems such as high blood pressure and diabetes, and his officials are looking for new medicines abroad to treat them, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers on Monday.
The 40-year-old Kim, known for heavy drinking and smoking, comes from a family with a history of heart problems. Both his father and grandfather, who ruled North Korea before his 2011 inheritance of power, died of heart issues.
Some observers said Kim, who is about 5 feet, 8 inches tall and previously weighed 308 pounds, appeared to have lost a large amount of weight in 2021, likely from changing his diet. But recent state media footage show he has regained the weight.
On Monday, the National Intelligence Service, South Korea’s main spy agency, told lawmakers in a closed-door briefing that Kim is estimated to weigh about 308 pounds again and belongs to a high-risk group for heart disease, according to Lee Seong Kweun, one of the lawmakers.
Lee said the NIS told lawmakers that Kim has shown symptoms of high blood pressure and diabetes since his early 30s. Another lawmaker, Park Sunwon, said the NIS believes Kim’s obesity is linked to his drinking, smoking and stress.
Avanza por la Av. Francisco de Miranda, en Caracas, caravana de motorizados de Petare en protesta contra el fraude de Maduro. pic.twitter.com/BMLVmMC9Sp
Security forces in Venezuela have fired tear gas and rubber bullets against people protesting over Sunday’s disputed election result.
Thousands of people descended on central Caracas on Monday evening, some walking for miles from slums on the mountains surrounding the city, towards the presidential palace.
Protests erupted in the Venezuelan capital the day after President Nicolás Maduro claimed he had won.
The opposition has disputed Mr Maduro's declaration of victory as fraudulent, saying its candidate Edmundo González won convincingly with 73.2% of the vote.
Opinion polls ahead of the election suggested a clear victory for the challenger.
Opposition parties had united behind Mr González in an attempt to unseat President Maduro after 11 years in power, amid widespread discontent over the country's economic crisis.
A number of Western and Latin American countries, as well as international bodies including the UN, have called on the Venezuelan authorities to release voting records from individual polling stations.
Argentina is one country which has refused to recognise President Maduro's election victory, and in response Venezuela recalled diplomats from Buenos Aires.
Diplomats from six other Latin American countries - Chile, Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay - have also been withdrawn for what Foreign Affairs Minister Yvan Gil described on social media as "interventionist actions and statements".
Venezuela's government also announced a temporary suspension of commercial air flights to and from Venezuela with Panama and the Dominican Republic starting from 20:00 local time on Wednesday.
A heavy military and police presence, including water cannons, was on the streets of Caracas with the aim of trying to disperse protesters and prevent them from approaching the presidential palace.
Crowds of people chanted “Freedom, freedom!” and called for the government to fall.
Footage showed tyres burning on highways and large numbers of people on the streets, with police on motorbikes firing tear gas.
In some areas, posters of President Maduro were ripped down and burned while tyres, cars and rubbish have also been set alight.
Armed police, military and left-wing paramilitaries who are sympathetic to the government clashed with protesters and blocked off many roads around the city centre.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Staff at a facility for abused women and children unknowingly sheltered a transgender woman for weeks before she stabbed a warden so viciously her 'internal organs were exposed', police say.
Michelle Silva Perez was offered a place at Shepherd's Gate in Greenville, South Carolina, less than four miles from a men's shelter also run by Miracle Hill Ministries.
The 36-year-old had been evicted the evening before for 'not following the guidelines of the facility' but returned on July 18 armed with a sword before nearly disemboweling a staffer called Kirby.
'We found out last night that this attacker, who had been a resident at Shepherd's Gate for a few weeks, was in fact a male,' Miracle Hill Ministries CEO Ryan T. Duerk said in a statement that night.
'Let me assure you that we did not know this or suspect it, and Shepherd's Gate followed all their procedures for intake appropriately.'
Police were called at 11am when witnesses reported seeing saw Perez push the woman to the ground before stabbing her in the torso.
The victim was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery where she remains in a stable condition.
Perez was arrested at the scene and has been charged with attempted murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime'.
She was denied bond during a hearing last week and is currently being held at Greenville County Jail where she has been booked in as a male.
Lieutenant Ryan Flood of the Greenville County Sheriff's Department said she is 'in isolation because she is still transitioning to being a woman'.
The case echoes that of Harvey Marcelin, 84, who identifying as a transgender lesbian when she murdered Susan Leyden, 68, in the women's section of a New York homeless shelter in 2022.
He had already been convicted of two previous homicides by the time he was admitted to the Sage Center at Stonewall House in Brooklyn where he was filmed stuffing Leyden's headless torso into a garbage bag and dumping it in a shopping cart.
Separate store surveillance footage recorded Marcelin sitting on a severed human leg in his electric wheelchair.
Last week it emerged that a transgender murderer who pleaded to be moved to a female prison because she was suffering 'chronic diarrhea' and stress had her request denied by a federal judge.
Michelle Renee Lamb, 83, is serving three consecutive life sentences for abducting two women, strangling one to death and leaving her naked body in a field in 1969.
She is currently being held at the Topeka Correctional Facility in Kansas, having moved from a men's prison in January 2023 when she had gender-affirming surgery.
'I also suffered frequent bouts of diarrhea. This was never a problem until I was put into this hateful environment,' Lamb - who previously identified as Thomas - said in the handwritten lawsuit.
[NBC Chicago] Pro-Palestinian protesters want to know what the security footprint will be around the United Center during the Democratic National Convention later this summer. Now, amid their ongoing legal battle with the city of Chicago, the protester's attorney is proposing to depose U.S. Secret Service agents and other decision makers to find out that information...
The coalition, which represents 125 protest organizations and counting, has been fighting a legal battle with the city over its denial of protest permits. The city declined the protester's request to set up at Union Park, just blocks away from the United Center, offering a spot several miles away on Columbus Drive instead. Protesters have maintained the spot near Grant Park is not a viable solution because it is not within "sight and sound" of the convention hall.
"When you come to our city, you will hear our voice..."
[FoxNews] Vice President Kamala Harris has never been closer to becoming president of the United States. And if she succeeds in that endeavor in November, her administration would likely be the most socialist and destructive in our country’s history.
The Biden-Harris administration has been nothing short of a complete disaster. Under the leadership of President Joe Biden and Harris, Americans have experienced soaring levels of government debt and inflation. Housing has never been more expensive. Families are becoming increasingly more dependent on government to survive. Europe and the Middle East are now embroiled in deadly conflicts after four years of stability under former President Donald Trump.
As bad as things have been with Biden as president, however, putting Harris in charge would make life substantially worse. Biden has been one of America’s most progressive presidents, but Harris’s past policy positions are even further to the left of those backed by Biden. '
In fact, if Harris were to become president, it’s fair to say that she would be the first democratic socialist candidate to fill the position in the 248-year history of the United States.
I have listed below two of the most socialist legislative proposals backed by Harris. Together, they feature more than 10 different radical policies. If they were enacted, they would crush the U.S. economy and reduce individual liberty in unprecedented ways.
I find it hilarious that the concept of a JEDI (justice, equality, diversity, inclusion) Score has fallen out of favor after Acolyte made the Jedi evil. LOL Clowns.
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[Regnum] Two American MQ-9 Reaper drones came dangerously close to Su-24 aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the skies over Syria. This was reported on July 28 by the deputy head of the Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides (CRPS) in the SAR, Oleg Ignasyuk.
“Two incidents were recorded involving dangerous approaches between MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles of the ‘coalition’ and Su-24 aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces, which were carrying out a planned flight in the airspace of Syria,” he said during a briefing on July 28.
Ignasyuk clarified that the incidents in question occurred in the area of the settlement of Es-Sukhna in the province of Homs on July 27 from 08:57 to 09:00 and from 09:50 to 09:54 Moscow time (coincides with local time) at an altitude of 6,500 meters.
It is noted that the collision was avoided thanks to the actions of Russian pilots, who demonstrated high professionalism and took the necessary measures in a timely manner.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, it was previously reported that the Russian Forpost-R unmanned aerial vehicle, in response to the ongoing attempts by radical groups to attack targets in the territory controlled by the Syrian government using UAVs and multiple launch rocket systems, struck a militant base in Idlib province. Over the course of 24 hours on July 22, terrorist groups recorded five attacks on positions of Syrian government troops in the provinces of Aleppo and Idlib.
[GEO.TV] At least one soldier was martyred and sixteen others including an officer were maimed after a violent mostly peaceful mob under the guise of "Baloch Raji Muchi" attacked security forces' personnel in Gwadar district of Balochistan, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Monday.
A violent mostly peaceful mob in the garb of so-called Baloch Raji Muchi or Baloch National Gathering summoned by the Balochistan Yakjehti Committee (BYC) assaulted security forces' personnel today who have been performing duties in Balochistan's Gwadar district.
Resultantly, Sepoy Shabbir Baloch, age 30 years; resident of district Sibi, embraced shahadat, it added.
In addition, the unprovoked assaults by the violent mostly peaceful protesters have resulted in injuries to sixteen soldiers including an officer, the ISPR said.
Moreover, the ISPR said fake and malicious propaganda is being spread on social media using doctored pictures and videos by the propagandists to gain sympathy and support for the unlawful violent mostly peaceful march.
"Security forces have displayed extreme restraint to avoid unwarranted civilian casualties despite provocations," it said adding that the violent mostly peaceful actions of the mob are unacceptable and those responsible will be brought to justice.
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[IsraelTimes] Survey indicates rise in support for premier; report says premier considering offering defense minister role to Gideon Sa’ar to bolster his coalition
28. July, 2024
[Rudaw] Iraqi authorities have disbanded 25 so-called "international" drug-trafficking networks since the start of the year, said an official from the interior ministry on Saturday.
"In cooperation with neighboring countries, 25 international drug-trafficking networks have been dismantled in 2024," Ziyad Khalaf, an official of the ministry’s drug affairs directorate, told Iraqi state media, adding that extraditions and exchange of information have taken place between the countries.
Iraqi courts have also issued 74 death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... s for suspected drug pushers since the start of the year, according to Khalaf.
"The number of setences issued during the current year is very high due to the arrest operations... The last three years only witnessed 54 sentences issued," he added.
There has been an alarming rise in drug dealing and use in Iraq in recent years, despite strict measures taken by the government to curb the phenomenon.
Miqdad Miri, spokesperson for the interior ministry, announced earlier this month that nearly 2 tons of narcotic substances have been seized across the country since January.
Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... i has ordered the establishment of rehabilitation centers in all Iraqi provinces, excluding the Kurdistan Region, as part of his cabinet’s commitment to combat drugs with the same determination as it fights terrorism.
In 2023, more than 19,000 people were arrested across Iraq on drug-related charges and over 15 tons of psychotropic substances were seized.
Two tons for the first half of this year versus 15 tons for all of last year — is the narcotics business down substantially over there or are the Iraqi authorities catching considerably less of it?
In a quadrilateral meeting in Amman in mid-February, the interior ministers of Iraq, Jordan, Syria, and 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... agreed to establish a joint communications cell to keep up cooperation on addressing the alarming rise of narcotics in their countries.
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[Regnum] Member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Oleksiy Goncharenko demanded that Oleksandr Syrsky be removed from the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and that the former commander of the joint forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuriy Sodol be brought to criminal responsibility.
"We need new faces. A new army. If we don't change, we'll die. Syrsky must go, Sodol must be behind bars," Goncharenko wrote on his Telegram channel.
He published this statement in response to a public appeal by soldiers of the 80th separate airborne assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine regarding the resignation of their commander Emil Ishkulov. Goncharenko also stated that the former commander of the joint forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuriy Sodol should be brought to criminal responsibility, adding that the leader of the Kiev regime Volodymyr Zelensky is also to blame for the army's problems.
As reported by Regnum news agency, Verkhovna Rada deputy from the Servant of the People faction Maryana Bezugla stated that the replacement of former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny with Oleksandr Syrsky has not changed anything, the military leadership continues to lead the troops to defeat. According to her, a "general faction" has formed around Syrsky, which deprives the Kiev regime of "a chance for change and victory."
On February 8, the head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, appointed Syrsky as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine instead of Zaluzhny.
Earlier, Ukrainian media wrote that the military failures of the Ukrainian army were the result of strategic miscalculations by the authorities. Ukrainian journalist and former adviser to the head of the country's Ministry of Defense Yuriy Butusov stated that the responsibility for the strategic mistakes that allowed the Russian military to liberate several settlements in a short time lies with the country's leadership.
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[Regnum] The Russian Su-35S fighter jet set a world record by shooting down a MiG-29 belonging to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) at a distance of 213 km. This was reported by the Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper.
The publication states that the first hints of a sensation were discovered on the evening of July 28. On that day, Russian fighters announced that the launch of the R-37M long-range missile was successful, while at that moment Ukrainian air traffic controllers lost the MiG-29 fighter's radar signature.
"Confirmed. The pilot's application, plus objective control, plus confirmation from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The MiG-29 was shot down at a range of 213 km. No one in the world can repeat this," the publication notes, citing a publication in the Voevoda Broadcasts Telegram channel.
Journalists noted that the R-37M is currently the longest-range air-to-air missile in the world. Its stated range is 300 kilometers. The missile is used by Russian MiG-31, Su-30SM, and Su-35S fighters.
As reported by Regnum news agency, on July 19, the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, stated that the Russian Armed Forces (RF) had shot down three MiG-29 fighters belonging to the Ukrainian Armed Forces in one week.
On July 4, with the help of the Iskander operational-tactical missile system, Russian Armed Forces fighters were able to destroy a Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter with one strike.
Earlier, the air defense forces of the Russian Armed Forces were able to deprive the Ukrainian Armed Forces of two MiG-29 fighters in one day.
This is very serious. Israeli reports say Lebanese officials now confirm that US envoy and NSC official Amos Hochstein passed information of Israeli strikes in advance of those strikes to Lebanon (which mean Hizballah). https://t.co/UhCH54kD6o
Fairbanks — when he came back after taking a timeout during Covid, he modified his nym to Grom the XX to show he’s trying to be thoughtful and reflective.
Is he Lebanese?
My Israeli father did say that Arabs look just like Jews, only just crazier around the eyes… which would explain the error.
[Rudaw] At least two members of an Iran-backed militia were killed and three others were maimed in festivities with alleged Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) fighters in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria, a war monitor reported on Monday.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said that the pro-Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... snuffies were targeted by a group of person or persons unknown, presumed to be ISIS members, while returning from a military base in al-Bukamal countryside’s Salihiya desert.
The maimed have been hospitalized and are receiving treatment, the monitor added. All five bully boyz are Syrian nationals.
ISIS has increased its attacks in Syria in recent months, particularly in the vast expanses of desert where the group launches surprise attacks amid a security vacuum.
In May, five pro-Iran fighters were killed by an improvised bomb (IED), blamed on ISIS.
Around 400 Syrian army soldiers and affiliated militia members have been killed in ISIS operations in the Syrian desert since the start of the year, including at least 35 pro-Iran fighters, according to SOHR.
[IsraelTimes] Two children were stabbed to death at a Taylor Swift-themed event in northwest England, and a 17-year-old male suspect was arrested, police said on Monday.
He was held on suspicion of murder and attempted murder. Nine other children were maimed, six of them critically, and two adults were at death's door.
"We believe that the adults who were injured were bravely trying to protect the children," said Chief Constable Serena Kennedy from Merseyside Police.
It’s apparently the county that contains Liverpool.
She said emergency services arriving at the scene found “multiple people, many of whom were children, had been subjected to a ferocious attack and had suffered serious injuries.”
An advertisement posted online described the event as a yoga and dance workshop for children aged between 6 and 11.
Merseyside Police said the motive for the attack was unclear, but it was not believed to be terrorism-related and they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the stabbings.
An un-institutionalized nutter running amok?
Police said armed police arrested the suspect and seized a knife after being called around 11:50 a.m. (1050 GMT) to an address in Southport, north of Liverpool.
Muslim Migrant Arrested in Mass Slaughter of Children at Taylor Swift Dance Class in UK
— 🇺🇸 Pamela Geller 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 (@PamelaGeller) July 29, 2024
… it is now open season on children. Did Western leaders think their children would be spared? What did think would happen when they imported millions of jihadis?
A 17-year-old Ali Al-Shakati from Banks has been arrested in connection with the Southport stabbings and is currently in police custody.
The suspect in the Southport stabbings, Ali-Al-Shakati, was on the MI6 watch list and known to Liverpool mental health services. He was an asylum seeker who arrived in the UK by boat last year. Betcha guessed that was coming, didn't you?
None of the news sources I checked had that information, for some reason. Good find, Fred — now I can move it from Non-WoT to Page 1: WoT.
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Some confusion, indeed. Skidmark’s Fox News link reports qbout the knifeman:
…both the AP and the Sun report that the suspect was born in Cardiff, Wales.
The Sun reported that the parents of the suspected attacker, born in 2006, moved to the United Kingdom from Rwanda.
A neighbor of the family described them to the Sun as Christians, "very normal," and having a "hard-working father and stay-at-home mother."
About the riot:
The English town of Southport was the scene of clashes between protesters and police the day after the death of at least three girls in a mass stabbing inflicted by an unnamed 17-year-old male.
The victims, Alice Dasilva Aguiar, 9, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Bebe King, 6, were attending a Taylor Swift-themed dance class at the time of the attack.
North West Ambulance Services reported via X that 22 police officers have been treated, and at least 11 have been taken to the hospital in the wake of the Southport riots. At least one police van has been set ablaze by the crowds. A source describes the town as "quiet."
It is unclear what punishments protesters may face. Police vans and garbage bins have been set ablaze in the melee.
27. July, 2024
[Rudaw] A large fire has been burning in eastern Sulaimani province’s Mawat district since Friday evening, allegedly due to Ottoman Turkish bombardment of the area. There are no reports of casualties.
Kamaran Hassan, Mawat’s mayor, told Rudaw on Saturday that warplanes targeted Galala village in the district at around 11:00 pm Friday, setting fire to a large area of fields and pastures.
In the hot and dry summer, fires are easily sparked and can spread quickly.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... intensified its military operations in the Kurdistan Region in mid-June, under the pretext of targeting the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
In addition to Mawat, suspected Ottoman Turkish warplanes also struck Erbil’s Choman and Sidakan districts on Friday evening, Kamaran Osman, a member of the US-based Community Peacemaker Teams (CPT) - Iraqi Kurdistan team, told Rudaw.
Rojnews, a PKK-affiliated media outlet, reported that Ottoman Turkish strikes also targeted Aghjalar subdistrict, west of Sulaimani, on Saturday.
Hundreds of Ottoman Turkish troops and military vehicles have been deployed into the Kurdistan Region since June, establishing checkpoints and conducting patrols in northern Duhok’s Barwari Bala area. The military campaign has sparked renewed fears among villagers.
At least nine people have been killed in Ottoman Turkish attacks on the Kurdistan Region since the start of the year, according to Osman.
Mawat is a frequent target of suspected Ottoman Turkish strikes. At least one person was killed in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on a house in Galala in April.
In August 2023, two suspected PKK members were killed in separate Ottoman Turkishdronezaps on the same day, one on Sulaimani’s Dukan-Khalakan road and the other on Mawat.
Ankara has accused Sulaimani’s administration of having close ties with the PKK. A flight ban on Sulaimani International Airport by Turkey has been in place since April 2023. The Ottoman Turkish foreign ministry has said that the ban is related to an "intensification" of PKK activity in the province.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A massive swarm of dragonflies descended on a Rhode Island beach forcing terrified beachgoers to take cover as their day in the sun became something reminiscent of biblical plague.
Beachgoers were heard screaming as a cloud of insects swarmed Misquamicut State Beach in Westerly on Saturday afternoon.
Video shows how a swarm of dragonflies buzzed across the beach and past the dozens of scared visitors, whipping over towels, through umbrellas and past beachgoers' bodies.
Children were heard screaming as they swatted away at the bugs with shovels and sand toes. Some sunbathers packed up their things and left, while others hunkered down and took shelter in their car.
Witnesses recalled how other visitors seemingly embraced the chaotic 'invasion'. They stood and watched as the bugs flew past, with some even 'trying to catch them'.
Dombrowski, who claims the massive swarm only lasted about five minutes, added: 'I thought it was beautiful. I was very lucky to experience it.'
Dragonfly swarms tend to occur in the summer months when the insects are breeding or after the smaller insects they feed on are kicked into the air by human or weather disturbances, WBUR reported.
Individual swarms can include billions of dragonflies and have, in some instances, been so large that they are detected by radar systems.
Dragonflies feed on mosquitos and various flies, but can also prey on small mammals like hummingbirds. Not likely
Although a massive swarm can appear scary, experts say dragonflies pose no threat to humans.
"Many in the arena of media criticism suggest that open-sourcing of what should remain empirical social science corrodes the integrity of information."
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[Regnum] The US national debt has exceeded $35 trillion for the first time in history. The relevant data was published on July 29 by the country's Treasury Department.
The US national debt exceeded the $34 trillion mark in January.
According to the forecast of the US Congressional Budget Office, the country's national debt in 2034 will exceed $50 trillion, which will amount to more than 122% of the country's GDP.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on July 8, the head of the US Federal Reserve System, Jerome Powell, said that the country's national debt had reached a critical point of $35 trillion, which makes it virtually impossible to continue borrowing. The US authorities need to take some action, he said.
Associate Professor of the Faculty of Finance and Banking at RANEPA Yuri Tverdokhleb told Regnum on July 1 that the world has reached a stalemate with the US national debt. The expert specified that the rule of US President Joe Biden has led to the national debt reaching an unprecedented level and continues to grow against the backdrop of a recession and deterioration of all other macroeconomic indicators.
During a meeting of the heads of central banks and finance ministries of the G20 countries in Brazil, Deputy Head of the Russian Ministry of Finance Ivan Chebeskov spoke about the worsening situation with the growing public debt in the world, as well as the need to avoid the approaching systemic debt crisis. Of particular concern is the lack of attention from the state to the very high and continuing to increase level of debt in developed countries, Chebeskov emphasized.
'Everybody should end up in the same place.' It seems amazing that a major-party nominee for President of the United States would say this, but here it is, from Kamala Harris on Feb 27, 2021. https://t.co/H7JzOz0qtfpic.twitter.com/FwA2zb2ZV2
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If we all are supposed to end up in the same place, then all of our ancestors would have gone there together, used up the area resources and died off.
Perhaps that's the plan.
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Well, everyone goes to a sorting room then on to one of two places.
They'll find out three surprises. One that they're there. Two who are there they didn't expect. Three those who aren't there they did expect.
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[Regnum] The United States of America conducted a test launch of a hypersonic weapon, a military official told reporters.
"The U.S. Army and Navy recently tested a conventional hypersonic system on the space station at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida," he said.
The official said the test was an important step in developing operational hypersonic technology. The test provided the United States with important data for the country's further progress in hypersonic weapons, he added.
As reported by Regnum, according to Bloomberg, the US military is unlikely to receive the first batch of eight new hypersonic missiles before 2025. After unsuccessful tests in the past, the US, according to assurances from the US military, is "on track to implement the necessary corrective actions." If a problem is discovered during flight tests, the delivery of missiles and the commissioning of the first operational system may be further delayed. Hypersonic weapons are not yet in service with the US.
At the same time, Russia, a leader in the development of hypersonic weapons, has created many models of such missiles in recent years, including the air-based Kinzhal and the sea-based Zircon.
In his address to the Federal Assembly in 2018, President Vladimir Putin announced for the first time that Russia had created the Avangard hypersonic gliding cruise missile and other new weapons.
In 2021, the first regiment of "Avangards" took up combat duty.
26. July 2024
[Rudaw] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Thursday said that its forces killed an Islamic State (ISIS) operative during a security operation in eastern Syria’s Deir ez-Zor province.
“Our SDF Anti-Terrorism Units (YAT) successfully eliminated one of the ISIS terrorists’ operatives during a security operation in Markada, eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor,” read a statement from the SDF.
The SDF said that the ISIS operative was involved in “carrying out assassinations targeting military and security forces,” as well as attacking civilians in the region.
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[FoxNews] The report states that the influx of migrants warrants an urgent need to expand access to 'English for Speakers of other Languages' services.
The report, released by MassInc and UMass Donahue on Wednesday, found that an estimated 480,000 residents have limited English proficiency (LEP). This makes up approximately 10% of the state’s workforce. The data could be an undercount, considering that it stems from 2022 Census estimates.
The report urges state officials to accommodate the growing number of immigrants that could "contribute at their full potential to the commonwealth’s social and economic vitality." Furthermore, the report states that if state officials were to boost LEP skills by one level of proficiency, it could generate $3 billion in additional annual earnings to local economies.
Therefore, due to the influx of migrants, it warrants an urgent need to expand access to "English for Speakers of other Languages" (ESOL) services.
Per the report, "Nearly two decades later, additional investment to increase access to ESOL is more critical than ever. For, while Massachusetts has developed many creative models to deliver these services, state and federal ESOL spending has not kept pace with the growth of our foreign-born population."
The report comes after Gov. Maura Healey announced on Tuesday new restrictions that Massachusetts families must be prioritized for services.
The restrictions come amid a growing influx of migrants that is burdening the state’s homeless shelter system.
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Coming from the nose ring - danger hair crowd, I'll take it.
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Orange man bad, deplorables, sleepy Joe, kackling kamala, now weirdo. All the name calling is meant to make this a Jr High school popularity contest. Both sides have a machine driving policy and our nations future behind them. Joe, asleep at the wheel is living proof that the lefts machine is still in complete control.
So the question becomes which machine do we vote for, after ignoring all the personalities and names? On the left is the new progressives wanting to double down on administrative state and the policies to support it, Green "New deal", stacking the court, court term limits, and carbon mandates are examples of the future under the progressive leadership.
The right has full swung into natural rights, strengthen the states rights over federal control, focusing on what the fed is specifically and constitutionally responsible for, defense and economic growth.
We, the American people should be debating the policies and directions of the parties, not their weirdness or skin color.
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This from a guy who is well on record as wanting to nuke white rural Christians who are “disobedient” to Democrats.
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[IsraelTimes] Hodeida port official says operations resumed just days after Israeli fighter jets dealt a heavy blow in retaliation for Houthi rebels killing man in Tel Aviv drone strike
An Israeli strike 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... ’s 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... -controlled Hodeida port has caused at least $20 million in damage, adding to losses due to the destruction of fuel storage facilities, a port official said on Monday.
The July 20 attack on Hodeida, the main harbor under the control of the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, destroyed most of the port’s oil storage capacity and triggered a massive inferno that burned for days.
Israel struck the port in western Yemen after a drone launched by the Houthis on July 19 struck Tel Aviv and killed an Israeli man.
The rebel group said nine people were killed in the retaliatory strike — the first attack ever claimed by Israel on Yemen.
The strike, carried out by dozens of Israeli aircraft, targeted fuel reports and the port’s energy infrastructure, as well as four large container cranes. Israel said the port in general, and the cranes specifically, were used to import Iranian weapons.
Speaking to AFP on Sunday from the harbor after operations resumed last week, port official Nasr al-Nusairi relayed the results of a preliminary damage assessment, saying two of the cranes were destroyed, a small vessel was burnt and a number of buildings were torched.
"There is also damage to the docks," said Nusairi, the vice president of the Yemen Red Sea Ports Corporation, which runs the Hodeida harbor.
Nusairi estimated the cost of port damage to "exceed $20 million," noting, however, that the sum does not factor in losses incurred by the destruction of fuel storage facilities which "is the responsibility of the oil ministry."
The Israel Defense Forces said last week that it estimated the strike to have been a major blow to the Houthi economy. Taking the cranes out of service would also prevent the group from bringing in more Iranian weapons via the port, it said.
The port damage caused a temporary interruption of activities but operations resumed quickly, Nusairi said.
The first two container ships docked in Hodeida three days after the Israeli strike, according to Houthi officials.
The port appeared to be operational on Sunday, with container ships anchored on its docks and workers unloading containers using cranes, according to an AFP photographer who toured the area.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Sweden is going to fight to the last gender-neutral person.
Following Sweden's accession to NATO, the Swedish Armed Forces have updated their motto and now promise to fight for LGBT* values, the US and NATO to the last gender-neutral man.
The Swedish Armed Forces have published a new advertisement in the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, in which the military emphasizes its role in promoting LGBT* values and loyalty to the US and NATO.
If the Swedish military's motto used to be "We will fight to the last man," it has now been changed to "We will fight to the last gender-neutral man."
That is, they replaced the word "man" with something in between "he" and "she," namely the word "hen."
Hen is a recently introduced Swedish gender-neutral personal pronoun used when the sex or gender identity is unknown or to refer to people who do not wish to be called he or she.
"We will fight to the end. "We are proud to defend Sweden, our allies and our right to identify ourselves as we wish," reads the large ad that graces the front page of Svenska Dagbladet today.
In recent years, Sweden has been devoting significant resources to an LGBT propaganda campaign among the military, alongside its traditional mission of defending the country, which was expanded this year to include defending not only Sweden itself, but also the interests of the United States and other NATO members.
Not everyone in Sweden was pleased with the military's updated motto. The Ministry of Defence responded immediately.
"The Armed Forces have long worked to promote diversity and inclusion. The new campaign is another step in showing how important it is to remind everyone of their equal value. We believe that diversity strengthens our defence and makes us better prepared to face future challenges," says Johan Landeström, Marketing Director of the Swedish Armed Forces.
But there is still one mystery that remains unanswered. The thing is that in "Vi kommer kämpa till siste hen" (We will fight until the last something) the adjective "siste" (last) must precede the masculine pronoun. It turns out that the Swedes will fight until the last gender-neutral male creature.
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[ColonelCassad] Official from Wagner on the battle in northern Mali near the border with Algeria. A DETAILED ANALYSIS OF WHAT HAPPENED ON JULY 22-27 IN MALI
Seven days ago, fighters of the 13th Assault Detachment of the Wagner PMC, led by commander Sergei Shevchenko, call sign "Pond", together with servicemen of the Malian Armed Forces FAM, entered into an unequal battle with superior forces of Islamists from the Coordination Movement of Azawad (CMA) and al-Qaeda in the Sahel (JNIM) (banned in Russia), and for several days heroically fought the militants, not sparing their own lives. More details on how it happened.
BEGINNING OF THE OPERATION: RECONNAISSANCE AND SEARCH FOR RADICALS
On July 22, 2024, the allied forces of the Wagner PMC and the Malian army received information that large detachments of radicals from the CMA had appeared in the Tin-Zoutine area. The 13th Assault Detachment under the command of Sergei Shevchenko, call sign "Pond", was sent to search for and eliminate the militants.
Upon arrival, the fighters of the "Pruda group" and FAMa confirmed the intelligence information, having discovered a large concentration of CMA forces: detachments of militants, totaling about 100 people, as well as more than 10 pickups with large-caliber weapons. Based on this, the "Orchestra" command decided to attack the Islamists.
In the battle, the 13th Assault Detachment of the Wagner PMC destroyed up to 50 radicals and six units of equipment. The remnants of the militants were unable to resist the orchestra members and fled the battlefield.
COUNTERATTACK OF THE ISLAMISTS AND THE FORTITUDE OF THE "MUSICIANS"
From July 22 to 25, the "orchestra" fighters continued to search for radicals in the conditions of a sandstorm despite everything. Realizing that the Islamists would not stop there, the leadership of the Wagner PMC decided to transfer additional forces to the area. Taking advantage of the delay, the militants tried to counterattack using all available means. The attack on the "musicians" was coordinated by field commander Abda-Rahman Zaza, who led the JNIM units that arrived to help the Islamists.
Thanks to the skillful and competent actions of the 13th Assault Unit, the radicals were unable to carry out their plans. But in turn, the Wagner PMC fighters suffered their first losses: several stormtroopers were wounded in combat, including the commander of the "Prud" unit.
Despite the sandstorm, fierce resistance from the militants and ambushes on the escape routes, additional forces of the "musicians" continued to move to help their brothers. They fought their way through and hurried to help their comrades.
Meanwhile, the personnel of the "Prud group" and FAM took up all-round defense and steadfastly repelled the attacks of the superior forces of the CMA and JNIM: their number exceeded more than 1,000 people. The detachment's fighters continued to fight, and the radicals did not slow down the pace of the attack and tried to suppress the "musicians" with a huge number of fighters.
Despite the dust storm, the crews of the MI-8 and MI-24 helicopters of the Wagner PMC decided to move to help their comrades. One combat vehicle was shot down by oncoming fire from militants, but the crew of the second helicopter, despite the death of the commander and the injuries sustained by the co-pilot and flight engineer, completed the mission and returned to base, making an emergency landing.
THE LAST DAYS OF THE BATTLE
Understanding the complexity of the situation and the likelihood of complete encirclement, the commander of the orchestra, Sergei Shevchenko, call sign "Prud", decided to move in the direction of the moving reserves on the night of July 26-27. By this time, he had already been wounded twice and was in serious condition, but he led the detachment under intensified attacks by the Islamists.
Closer to four o'clock on July 27, the detachment reported losses among the "Orchestra" fighters and FAMa soldiers. In addition, the commander of the 13th Assault Squad, Sergei Shevchenko, call sign "Prud", who continued to stand to the end despite everything, also fell in battle
. At 17:10 on July 27, the last radiogram was received from our brothers: "There are three left, we continue to fight." It was sent by the commander of the assault platoon, call sign "Nike".
All the Wagner PMC fighters who died in battle will be awarded (posthumously).
More from Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics. What is Russia doing in Mali? WHY RUSSIA NEEDS MALI
The latest activity and interest in Russian instructors from the Wagner PMC and the African Corps raises a reasonable question: "What are we forgetting in Mali?"
▪️The answer to this question is not a secret - resources that can be obtained not from Western companies, but from friendly regimes. The most important of them is lithium.
In addition, there are some oil and gas reserves in the Taoudenni basin, which, due to their high cost, were not extracted by anyone, and now they are under the control of the Islamist DNIM and the separatists of Azawad. I partially touched on this topic when FAMa staged ( https://t.me/departamente/3727 ) a raid in In-Afarak.
As far as I understand, the only reason why they did not move north is the interests of the Khalija monarchs, who are exploring oil and gas fields under the cover of reporters. Violating relations with them at the moment is not profitable.
Lithium is mainly used by Western companies, but given the trend towards anti-colonialist rhetoric, their positions are weakening and may well be taken by domestic companies. Its importance lies in its use in electronics, which is still a source of dependence.
But the best way to strengthen friendship is to help defeat all the rebels and Islamists in the region. This increases the population's trust and the leadership is more willing to make agreements. The main thing is to maintain image.
Unpleasant losses in the border zone, of course, will not stop the strategy of taking control of the border with Algeria, as well as all major settlements in northern Mali. The night events with the "Wagners" only showed that the enemy should not be underestimated and it can be expected that in future operations such threats of ambushes will be treated much more seriously; according to a number of channels, additional contingents from other countries have already been transferred to Mali.
Regarding the captured Wagners, negotiations are underway with the militants to exchange both the prisoners and the bodies of the dead fighters, so that they can be buried with dignity. The losses amounted to about a platoon of ours + an unspecified number of Malian army soldiers + several units of wheeled vehicles.
More from regnum.ru Rogozin calls for release of Wagner Group fighters from Basmachi captivity in Mali
The bodies of the dead Wagner Group fighters, as well as those captured during the clash with the Tuaregs, must be returned to Russia. This was stated on July 29 by Dmitry Rogozin, a member of the Federation Council from the Zaporizhia region.
“We must do everything possible to rescue our living guys from captivity at the hands of these Basmachi and to take back the bodies of the dead Wagner heroes,” the senator wrote on his Telegram channel.
Rogozin also called on all the dead fighters of the group to be buried with honor, and for the living to be returned to their homeland and accepted as heroes.
Even more from regnum.ru Wagner Group Confirms Fighters Killed in Fierce Clash with Tuaregs in Mali
The Wagner Group commented on the situation in Mali, where PMC fighters and the Malian armed forces were ambushed by Tuaregs. The statement was published in the Telegram channel "Wagner Unloading".
It is noted that from July 22 to 27, servicemen of the Malian Armed Forces and fighters of the 13th assault detachment of the PMC in the vicinity of the settlement of Tin-Zoutine "conducted fierce battles with militants from the Coordination Movement of Azawad (CMA) and the group Al-Qaeda in the Sahel (JNIM, a terrorist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation)."
On the first day, the group destroyed most of the radicals and put the rest to flight, but a sandstorm set in, which allowed the terrorists to regroup and increase their numbers to a thousand people, the PMC specified.
They added that in connection with this, the command decided to transfer additional forces to the combat zone.
It was reported that Malian troops were carrying out massive strikes on a bastion of concentration of terrorists and smugglers. Five terrorist targets were successfully destroyed by drones of the Armed Forces of Mali, the General Staff noted.
Civilians living in the area where military operations are taking place were called upon to leave the territories where terrorists are located in order to avoid casualties.
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[Regnum] Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Natalia Solzhenitsyna, a public figure and widow of writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, third degree. The corresponding decree of the head of state was published on July 29 on the website of the official publication of legal acts.
Solzhenitsyn was awarded for her contribution to the development of national culture and active public work, the document says. Earlier, in 2015, she was awarded the same order of the fourth degree.
"For her great contribution to the development of national culture, active charitable and social activities, award the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 3rd degree, to Natalia Dmitrievna Solzhenitsyn, President of the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Russian Charitable Foundation, city of Moscow," the text of the decree states.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, earlier in July Putin awarded the People's Artist, singer Anita Tsoi, with the medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" of the 1st degree. Tsoi received the medal for her great contribution to the effective solution of socially significant problems and many years of conscientious work. In 2001, she opened a charity foundation to help children with congenital disabilities.
On May 30, the President presented state awards in the Catherine Hall of the Kremlin. In particular, he awarded former Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin with the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, fourth degree, former Energy Minister Nikolai Shulginov with the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, third degree, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin with the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, first degree, and Belgorod Region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov with the Order of Courage for selflessness and courage shown in the performance of his professional duty.
In 2022, describing the situation in the West, Vladimir Putin recalled Solzhenitsyn’s words that the West is characterized by “the continued blindness of superiority.”
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[Regnum] The United States of America has withdrawn its B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers from the Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base in Romania near the border with Ukraine, the US Air Forces in Europe said in a statement.
"The bombers have completed the final deployment of the European Bomber Task Force," the statement said.
It is noted that American bombers carried out operations together with aircraft from the air forces of Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary and Romania.
U.S. Air Force aircraft have returned to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on July 21, Russian MiG-29 and MiG-31 fighters prevented a pair of US Air Force B-52H strategic bombers from violating the Russian Federation's state border.
The Russian Defense Ministry clarified that Russian airspace control systems over the Barents Sea detected a group of air targets approaching the Russian state border. In connection with this, MiG-29 and MiG-31 fighters from the air defense forces on duty were scrambled to identify the air target.
On June 28, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported an increase in the intensity of flights of American strategic drones over the Black Sea.
The United States could have withdrawn B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers from the Romanian air base Mihail Kogalniceanu to send them to Ukraine. This was stated by military expert, associate professor of the Department of Political Analysis and Socio-Psychological Processes at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics Oleg Glazunov in an interview with Lenta.ru.
He also suggested that the US could reinforce Poland or the Baltics with bombers. According to him, the Americans are constantly rotating and can send their planes "even to the Middle East."
“If they moved it to Ukraine, then it’s also interesting where – they are probably preparing some kind of attack,” Glazunov said.
Russian intelligence and special services monitor such movements, and the analysis of the information should take place at the level of the General Staff, he added.
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I sure hope somebody in Kamala's brain trust (she sure has none of her own) doesn't decide that "firmness" against Russia is that's needed to win the elections. That is, I hope they do have some brains.
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He also suggested that the US could reinforce Poland or the Baltics with bombers. According to him, the Americans are constantly rotating and can send their planes "even to the Middle East."
“If they moved it to Ukraine, then it’s also interesting where – they are probably preparing some kind of attack,” Glazunov said.
No great military mind here^
Putting bombers on the front line is just plain stupid when the first shots of Desert Storm were from 4 B-52s that flew out of Louisiana.
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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 115th Mechanised, 92nd Assault, 71st Infantry brigades close to Volchansk, Tikhoe, and Velikiye Prokhody (Kharkov region).
Two counterattacks were repelled close to Volchansk and Glubokoye (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 205 troops. One ammunition depot was wiped out.
The Zapad Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line, defeated units of AFU 116th Mechanised, 117th Territorial Defence, and 1st National Guard brigades near Tabayevka, Kupyansk-Uzlovoyi (Kharkov region) and Krasny Liman (Donetsk People's Republic).
One attack launched by an enemy assault group was repelled close to Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 540 Ukrainian troops, one U.S.-made Stryker armoured personnel carriers, and 16 motor vehicles.
In the course of counterbattery warfare, two U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzers, one Polish-made 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery system, one 155mm Bogdana self-propelled artillery system, and two Anklav-N electronic warfare stations were eliminated.
Eight AFU ammunition depots were destroyed.
The Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions, inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of AFU 24th, 54th Mechanised, 79th Air Assault, 46th Airmobile brigades, as well as the 12th Azov Special Forces Brigades near Kurakhovo, Katerinovka, Konstantinovka, Serebryanka, and Verkhnekamenskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 560 Ukrainian troops, one U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, and two motor vehicles.
In the course of counterbattery warfare, one U.S.-made 155mm M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system, one U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzer, one U.S.-made 155mm M198 howitzer, one UK-made 155mm FH-70 howitzer, two 152mm D-20 howitzers, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, one U.S.-made 105mm M119 gun, and one Anklav-N electronic warfare station were eliminated.
Two AFU ammunition depots were destroyed.
The Tsentr Group of Forces liberated Progress and Yevgenovka (Donetsk People's Republic) during active operations.
Units of AFU 28th, 31st, 32nd Mechanised, and 142nd Infantry brigades were hit near Dimitrov, Novogrodovka, Dzerzhinsk, Belaya Gora, and Zhelannoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
Three counterattacks launched by enemy assault groups were repelled.
The AFU lost up to 385 Ukrainian troops and five motor vehicles.
In addition, two U.S.-made 227mm M270 multiple launch rocket systems, two 122mm D-30 howitzers, two 100mm Rapira guns, and one U.S.-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery warfare radar were hit.
The Vostok Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line, defeated manpower and hardware of AFU 72nd Mechanised, 102nd and 104th Territorial Defence brigades near Ugledar (Donetsk People's Republic), Gulyaipole, and Novodarovka (Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 140 Ukrainian troops, one U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, five motor vehicles, one UK-made FH-70 howitzer, and one 152mm D-20 gun.
Three AFU ammunition depots were destroyed.
The Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on units of AFU 128th Mountain Assault, 141st Infantry, and 35th Naval Infantry brigades near Rabotino (Zaporozhye region), Tyaginka, and Ponyatovka (Kherson region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 100 Ukrainian troops, two U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzers, two 152mm D-20 howitzers, and one D-30 howitzer.
One ammunition depot was wiped out.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged one U.S.-made Patriot anti-aircraft missile station as well as clusters of manpower and military hardware in 138 areas.
Air defence systems shot down five U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, two French-made Hammer aerial guided bombs, and 34 unmanned aerial vehicles, to include 12 outside the special military operation zone.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 630 aircraft and 278 helicopters, 28,579 unmanned aerial vehicles, 556 anti-aircraft missile systems, 16,702 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,392 MLRS combat vehicles, 12,469 field artillery guns and mortars, and 24,143 units of special military vehicles have been neutralised.
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[Korrespondent] The Ukrainian Armed Forces are actively destroying the enemy in the east and south of Ukraine.
Enemy troops are most active in the areas of the settlements of Progress, Novoaleksandrovka, Timofeyevka and Zhelannoye.
Since the beginning of the day, 99 combat clashes have already occurred on the front. The fighting continues in 11 directions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in a report on Monday, July 29.
Thus, in the Kharkov direction, the Russians stormed positions in the areas of Glubokoe and Volchansk four times. The enemy suffered losses and retreated.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy three times actively attacked the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units near Stelmakhovka and Peschanoye. He bombed the areas of Kupyansk and Petropavlovka.
In the Liman direction, the invading army carried out eight attacks near Nevsky, Makeyevka and Terny. Six combat clashes ended without success for the enemy, two more are ongoing.
In the Seversky direction, our defenders are repelling attacks near the settlements of Ivanodaryevka, Spornoye and Pereyezdnoye. Four of them have already ended. Two more clashes are ongoing.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the occupiers carried out four assaults near Chasovy Yar, Dubovo-Vasilovka, Kleshchivka and Grigorovka. Two of them are still ongoing.
In the Toretsk direction, the number of enemy attacks since the beginning of the day has increased to 12. The enemy's efforts are concentrated in the areas of Severny, Zhelezny and New York. Our soldiers have repelled eight attacks, others are continuing.
The Pokrovsky direction saw the largest number of armed clashes – 36 assaults in the areas of 10 different settlements.
"The enemy is most active near Progress, Novoalexandrovka, Timofeevka and Zhelannoye. The defense forces are holding back the onslaught and have repelled 20 enemy attacks to date," the statement said.
In the Kurakhovsky direction , battles took place near Konstantinovka, Antonovka and Paraskoveyevka. During the day, 17 attacks of the enemy army were stopped.
In the Vremivsky direction, an enemy assault near Velyka Novosyolka has been repelled. At this time, five more battles are taking place in the areas of Konstantinovka and Vodyanoye.
In the Orekhov direction, the invaders made three unsuccessful attempts to advance near Malaya Tokmachka. They received a tough rebuff.
Let us recall that over 1,300 Russians were killed on the front in 24 hours on July 28. The total losses of the Russian Federation since the beginning of the war are approaching 580 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] 21:52 Chinese leader Xi Jinping is stepping up efforts to position himself as a peacemaker to end the war in Ukraine, Bloomberg writes. Last week, Beijing received the first high-ranking official from Ukraine since the conflict began in 2022, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. After meeting with him, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that both sides were signaling their readiness for talks. On Sunday, July 28, Beijing continued this work, sending its special envoy Li Hui to Brazil, South Africa and Indonesia to "create conditions for the resumption of peace talks."
21:40 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed Ukrainian strikes on traction power substations in the Kursk region. "There is information about work in the area of enemy air defense systems and explosions in the areas of at least four substations. As a result, power outages are being recorded in the Ponirovsky, Kursky and Solntsevsky districts of the Kursk region," the General Staff reported. They clarified that the operation was carried out by the Special Operations Center A of the SBU in cooperation with other components of the Defense Forces.
21:17 During a meeting with Ukrainian Ambassador Miroslav Kastran, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico threatened Kiev with consequences if the transit of Russian Lukoil oil is not resumed. In particular, he threatens to stop diesel fuel supplies to Ukraine due to interruptions in the transit of Russian oil.
20:22 Zelensky said in an evening video address that after the Kharkiv region, he visited Poltava: "Meetings with entrepreneurs, with workers within the framework of the Made in Ukraine platform. Including defense industries."
19:56 Germany, in cooperation with Denmark, has transferred eight more Leopard 1A5 tanks with spare parts to Ukraine, the German government reported. Kiev also received 21,000 rounds of ammunition for Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, two Bergepanzer 2 armored repair and recovery vehicles with spare parts, ten surface drones, ten ground surveillance radars, almost 25,000 combat helmets, and a field hospital.
19:43 Penny Pritzker announced that she is leaving her post as the US Special Representative for Ukraine's Economic Recovery. She clarified that Congressional requirements limit her time in this position to one year.
19:35 The Pentagon announced a new military aid package for Ukraine worth $200 million. In addition, $1.5 billion will be allocated under the USAI program for orders to weapons manufacturers. The packages will include, in particular, ammunition for HIMARS, NASAMS and short- and medium-range air defense systems; RIM-7 air defense missiles, 155-mm and 105-mm artillery shells; 120-mm mortar mines, high-precision aviation munitions; Javelin and AT-4 anti-tank systems, TOW anti-tank guided missiles; electronic warfare systems, small arms, explosives, etc.
18:24 Ukraine expects $3.9 billion in budget support from the United States in the coming weeks, Shmyhal said. The prime minister specified that these funds are the first part of $7.85 billion that the United States has allocated to Ukraine.
18:03 Russian troops attacked the Dniprovsky district of Kherson, one person was wounded, OVA reported. In addition, two people who were wounded as a result of yesterday's shelling of the city sought hospital treatment today.
17:40 After the defeat of dozens of Wagner mercenaries in Mali, Tuareg rebels took a photo with a Ukrainian flag, Kyiv Post writes and publishes the photo. Sources in the Defense Forces confirmed the authenticity of the photo.
16:51 Russians are digging trenches around the Zaporizhia NPP cooling pond, according to an analysis by British military analysts McKenzie Intelligence Services commissioned by Greenpeace. According to the analysts, more than 1,000 meters of trenches have been built in the area of the nuclear power plant's cooling pond. The militarization of the cooling pond area may be related to the restart of nuclear reactors at the plant, since all six reactors were shut down in 2022, the authors of the report point out.
16:23 The General Staff does not support the exemption from military service of former "limited fitness" up to 25 years, the department told Radio Liberty. They explained that some citizens used this status to evade military service in peacetime. Also, in the opinion of the General Staff, this will reduce the mobilization resource of the troops.
15:59 Ukrainian hackers have attacked the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, Ukrainian media report, citing sources in the Main Intelligence Directorate. Since approximately 11:00 local time, the Bank of Russia's resources have been operating with significant interruptions, and some resources are completely unavailable to users. In particular, Russian users cannot use the online services of Zenit Bank and Gazprombank. The Central Bank of the Russian Federation acknowledges the fact of a cyberattack and notes that the intensity of the attack is growing.
15:24 Russians shelled Seversk in Donetsk region, one person was wounded, the prosecutor's office reported.
14:18 Rebels in Mali who liquidated and captured Wagner mercenaries "received the necessary information and not only the information that allowed them to conduct a successful military operation against Russian war criminals," said GUR spokesman Andrei Yusov. "We certainly won't talk about the details, to be continued," he added.
14:06 US Special Representative for Ukraine Reconstruction Penny Pritzker has arrived in Kyiv, US Ambassador to Kyiv Bridget Brink said. "Together with the leaders of Amentum, Clayco Inc and Westinghouse Nuclear, we are committed to helping Ukraine build its own future. A transparent business environment and strong rule of law are key to Ukraine's recovery and its path to the EU," she said.
13:57 Zelensky reported that he was on a visit to the Vovchansk area in the Kharkiv direction - he visited the forward command post of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, congratulated the SSO soldiers on their professional day, and awarded them with state awards.
13:50 In the morning, Russians shelled Toretsk in Donetsk Oblast - according to preliminary data, at least three people were killed and three were wounded, said OVA head Vadim Filashkin. In addition, one person was killed in Grodovka.
13:34 The SBU has reported suspicions to the heads of the colony involved in the deaths of Ukrainian prisoners, namely the former head of the "Volnovakha colony of the DPR" in Elenovka, Sergei Yevsyukov, and Yevsyukov's former first deputy, collaborator Dmitry Neyolov. Both were in their "positions" when the terrorist attack occurred, but they were subsequently replaced. They are currently hiding in the occupied territory of Donetsk Oblast.
13:12 Andrey Yusov, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, confirmed the destruction of the Tu-22M3 at the Olenya airfield and the oil refinery: "We do not comment on what and where, but the Supreme Commander-in-Chief noted the long-range capability. It is clear that the direction here is not difficult to guess. As for the fact of the destruction, we confirm the fact of the incident, the destruction, something hit somewhere."
12:28 Russians attacked the colony in Elenovka, where some of the Ukrainian prisoners of war from Azovstal were held, exactly two years ago - on the night of July 29, 2022. But Moscow has still not provided access to Elenovka to either Ukraine or international organizations, said Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets. He recalled that more than 50 Ukrainian soldiers were killed then, and about 130 were wounded. At the same time, the dead had the official status of prisoners of war and were verified by the ICRC.
The UN and the ICRC, as guarantors of the agreements regarding the defenders of Azovstal, expressed their readiness to investigate the terrorist attack, but five months later, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres dissolved the mission due to the lack of security guarantees. In addition, the UN mission never agreed to familiarize itself with the Ukrainian materials on the explosion in the colony. "Ukraine demands that the UN mission resume its work as soon as possible or that a new mission be created," the human rights ombudsman emphasized.
11:55 Russia has for the first time launched three submarines at sea that carry cruise missiles, said Navy spokesman Dmitry Pletenchuk. "In fact, these are all those available in the Azov-Black Sea region. Sometimes the Black Sea Fleet is called a submarine fleet. Now this is true," he added.
11:39 Fragments of an X-101 cruise missile with a warhead have been found in the steppe of Kalmykia, several kilometers from the village of Pervomaysky. There are no casualties, the Russian opposition publication Astra reports, citing sources. Earlier, on July 9, a fallen cruise missile exploded in the steppe near the village of Solenoye - according to the police, it was a 3M14 Kalibr missile. A two-meter crater remained at the site of the explosion, with fragments scattered around. There were no destruction or casualties. An X-101 cruise missile had already fallen in Kalmykia on February 1, 2023.
10:43 In the morning, Russian troops fired at Kizomys in the Kherson region, one person was wounded, OVA reported.
09:54 In Donetsk region on July 28, as a result of Russian shelling, three people were wounded - two in Toretsk and one in Yekaterinovka, reported the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin.
08:35 In the Kherson region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, 12 people were injured, including three children, reported the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin.
07:59 At night, Russia attacked Ukraine with a guided Kh-59/Kh-69 air-to-air missile and ten Shahed-type attack UAVs, the Air Force reported. The missile and nine drones were shot down in the Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson and Kirovohrad regions.
07:51 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of July 29:
personnel - about 576,000 (+1310) people,
tanks - 8356 (+12),
combat armored vehicles - 16,103 (+8),
artillery systems - 16,010 (+74),
MLRS - 1129 (+2),
air defense systems - 906 (+0),
aircraft - 363 (+0),
helicopters - 326 (+0),
Operational-tactical level UAVs - 12,805 (+39),
cruise missiles - 2406 (+1),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 21,634 (+62),
special equipment - 2690 (+19).
07:26 In the Zaporizhia region, over the past 24 hours, one person was wounded as a result of Russian attacks on the Polohovsky district, reported the head of the OVA Ivan Fedorov.
07:19 A substation was damaged in Glazunovka in the south of the Oryol Region as a result of a drone attack, Governor Andrei Klychkov reported. In Tomarovka, Belgorod Region, a substation also caught fire after a drone attack, local public groups write. In the Ostrogozhsky District of the Voronezh Region, a drone was suppressed, and when it fell, a utility infrastructure facility in the village of Gazoprovod was damaged, Governor Alexander Gusev reported. The Russian Defense Ministry said that air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 39 drones over the Kursk, Belgorod, Voronezh, Bryansk and Leningrad Regions overnight.
00:17 The unknown UAV that recently flew to Kiev is a new development of the Russians called Gerbera. These drones are positioned in the Russian Federation as the junior series of "shaheeds", reports military radio technology specialist, technical blogger Sergey Beskrestnov (Flash). According to him, the tasks of the Gerbera will differ from the Geraniums: in addition to strikes on objects, reconnaissance elements and tasks to distract the attention of the Ukrainian air defense will be added. The enemy also announces the use of swarm solutions.
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[NewsFront] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 07/29/2024 to 00:00 07/30/2024.
A total of 37 cases of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
There were reports of three civilians being injured.
DAMAGED:
Two vehicles (special equipment),
Two residential buildings,
Three civil infrastructure facilities.
Eight artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction,
A total of 29 artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction.
A total of 117 units of various ammunition were fired.
21:35 Tor-M2 SAM system crew destroys Ukrainian Armed Forces UAV –video.
The anti-aircraft missile systems of the air defense grouping "West" continue to provide the troops with a reliable shield from air threats around the clock.
20:56 Ocheretino – Volchye.
Consequences of military operations in the Krasnoarmeysk area. Servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces are installing the flag of the Russian Federation on a building in the southern part of Volchye, confirming the confident control of the village by the Russian Armed Forces.
20:03 From 18.30 to 19.00 Moscow time stopped attempts by the Kyiv regime to carry out terrorist attacks 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.
19:23 Special military operation. Situation as of July 29 –map.
18:45 Direct hit by FAB-3000 on the deployment point of the 92nd Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Liptsov direction –video.
18:12 Situation on Chasov Yar according to @rusich_army:
— Our units continue to move into the Novy microdistrict. Several successful assaults were carried out in this direction.
— The 11th Separate Airborne Brigade of the Airborne Forces, together with the 98th Airborne Division of the Airborne Forces, continue to inflict fire damage on the enemy along the arteries of supply of material resources and personnel, using FPV drones.
— The enemy is actively mining forest belts north and south of the Novy microdistrict. They understand that it is easier for the stormtroopers to clear out dugouts and trenches than hundreds of basements, and to take the microdistrict in pincers from two sides.
17:48 Statements by representatives of the North, West, South, Center, East and Dnepr groups on the progress of the special military operation (as of July 29, 2024) –video.
17:19 From 15.55 to 16.40 Moscow time stopped further attempts by the Kyiv regime to carry out terrorist attacks 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.
16:32 Telegram channel «Fisherman»:
Aleksandro-Kalinovskoe direction: expansion of control of the Russian Armed Forces in the Dzerzhinsky agglomeration.
– Throughout the past week, Russian troops continued to develop the offensive in the Aleksandro-Kalinovsky direction. The Ukrainian command has transferred new reinforcements to the area, but is still unable to stabilize the front.
– Against the backdrop of intense fighting, footage from both sides arrives with a significant delay, which makes it difficult to establish the exact configuration of the front. However, given the data that has appeared, we can state a further expansion of the Russian Armed Forces' control zone.
- In Novgorodskoye (New York), Russian assault groups are gradually moving toward the center of the settlement. At the moment, the LBS is located to the south of the machine-building plant, but according to some information, units of the Russian Armed Forces could have gone even further, right up to the outskirts of the phenol plant.
– There were also reports online about the offensive of Russian troops in the east of the settlement. However, judging by the footage of strikes on Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in the “pocket” on the southeastern outskirts of Novgorodske, the enemy still maintains control over this area.
– At the same time, the Russian Armed Forces managed to expand the “wedge” to the southwest of Novgorodskoye in the direction of the settlement of Panteleimonovka. Ukrainian formations made no attempts to regain the lost territories, limiting themselves to attacks on the positions of the Russian Armed Forces.
– In Artemovo (Zaliznoye), Russian troops are advancing along Mayskaya and Chapaeva streets, having advanced about half a kilometer to the west in a week and entrenched themselves in houses on Engelsa Street. In neighboring Kirovo (Pivnichnoye), fighting is underway in the area of ??the Sotsgorodok gardening community.
– The day before, a remarkable incident occurred in the east of Artemovo: members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to deceive their way onto the positions of the Russian Armed Forces using Russian identification marks (white armbands). However, the enemy’s plan was quickly uncovered and the attack was successfully repelled.
15:47 Ocheretino – Novoselovka 1st.
Consequences of military operations on the northern flank of Avdeevka. Red banner installed on one of the buildings in the western part of Novoselovka 1st. Advancement of the RF Armed Forces about 500 meters and confirmation of confident control of the village by the RF Armed Forces.
15:07 Destruction of a temporary deployment point for Ukrainian Armed Forces militants in the village of Velyka Novosyolka (part of the DPR occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces) –video.
A UPAB-1500 guided gliding aerial bomb was used to strike a reconnaissance point of temporary deployment of militants from the 58th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
As a result of the strike by an air-guided bomb, the temporary deployment point and the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants stationed there were destroyed.
14:46 From 12.40 to 14.00 Moscow time stopped attempts by the Kyiv regime to carry out terrorist attacks using aircraft-type UAVs and small balloons against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by air defense systems on duty over the territory of the Belgorod region, one UAV and three small-sized balloons were destroyed over the territory of the Kursk region.
13:37 The Iskander-M OTRK crew of the Russian Armed Forces carried out a missile strike on the position of the American-made M270A1 MLRS MLRS in the area of the settlement of Novotroitskoye –video.
As a result of the missile strike, a universal MLRS launcher, an escort vehicle and up to 15 Ukrainian Armed Forces militants were destroyed.
12:53 Advanceof the Russian Armed Forces in the Vesyologo square –map.
12:14 Ocheretino - Lozovatskoe - Volchye.
Positional military operations in the Krasnoarmeysk area. artillery attack of the forward positions of the Russian Armed Forces west of Volchye and the evacuation group near Lozovatskoye from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Advancement of the Russian Armed Forces more than 1.5 km in a westerly direction along the railway to Krasnoarmeysk.
11:44 Su-34 crews carried out a strike on a temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of responsibility of the West group of forces –video.
To destroy enemy positions, unguided aerial bombs with a universal planning and correction module were used.
Military operations in the Artemovsk direction. Defeat after a series of artillery attacks by FPV drones of the Russian Armed Forces of an abandoned Ukrainian Armed Forces tank during its retreat from a firing position in the western part of Kalinin behind the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal.
10:54 The enemy confirms further advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the northwest of Krasnogorovka in the morning.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces still maintain a presence on the northwestern outskirts –map.
10:27 Positive dynamics of the front west of Avdeevka. The enemy cannot reverse it yet –map.
09:52 The Ukrainian Armed Forces' "Boot" crew and the "Starlink" terminal were successfully "worked out" by drone operators from the 35th Combined Arms Army of the "East" Group of Forces using kamikaze drones —video.
09:26 During the past night, during an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using unmanned aerial vehicles on targets on the territory of the Russian Federation, air defense systems on duty intercepted and 19 fixed-wing UAVs were destroyed over the Kursk region, nine over the Belgorod region, three over the Voronezh region, five over the Bryansk region, and three over the Leningrad region.
08:45 Telegram channel «WarGonzo»:
Frontline report for the morning of 29.07.2024
- Zaporizhzhya Front. No significant changes in LBS. In the Rabotino area and northwest of Verbovoye, the fighting, to a large extent, continues to be positional.
– Donetsk Front. In Krasnogorovka, the clearing of the taken control territory of the settlement continues. In Karlovka, fighting continues in the settlement and on the bank of the reservoir. Karlovka itself repeats the fate of Pervomayskoye, when the opposing forces are dispersed throughout the settlement. In one house there may be the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in another the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, and then again Ukrainian troops.
Also, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are advancing in the area of Yasnobrodovka, with the aim of clearing the bank of the Karlovskoye Reservoir. There are further tactical successes of Russian troops in the area of Novoselovka Pervaya. Also, Russian troops are conducting assault operations in the settlement of Veseloye. Fierce fighting continues in New York.
- Chasov-Yar direction. The offensive actions of the Russian Armed Forces in the eastern part of Chasov-Yar have resumed. From the Northern flank, Russian troops managed to enter and consolidate their positions on the first streets in the Oktyabrsky district of the city.
- Khar'kov Front. No significant changes in LBS. Heavy fighting continues in Volchansk and in the Glubokoe area.
08:00 Telegram channel «Fisherman»:
Chronicle of the special military operation for July 27-28, 2024
– Over the past two days, the Russian Armed Forces carried out strikes on Ukrainian Armed Forces facilities in Poltava, Sumy, Dnepropetrovsk and the temporarily enemy-controlled part of Zaporizhia Oblast. During the attacks, a radar station on the territory of the Khar'kov airport was successfully destroyed.– In turn, Ukrainian formations carried out raids on civilian and military infrastructure in the Kursk, Rostov, Lipetsk, Belgorod, Bryansk, Volgograd, Saratov and Ryazan regions.
- In the Slobozhansky direction, battles are taking place along the entire length of the front line. At the same time, the Russian Aerospace Forces regularly hit enemy personnel, equipment and infrastructure facilities in the Khar'kov region.
– In the Artemovsk direction, according to some information, Russian troops entered the western bank of the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal and successfully occupied the first line of houses in the Novoye microdistrict.
– In the Pokrovsk direction, the Russian Armed Forces are developing an offensive in the vicinity of Progress, successfully advancing southwest along the railway lines, bypassing large strongholds of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Also, Novoselovka Pervaya, the battles for which lasted more than a week, was preliminarily completely liberated.
– The battle for Krasnogorovka is coming to an end in the Donetsk sector. Russian attack aircraft are gradually isolating the remaining Ukrainian Armed Forces units in the city, forcing them to retreat under UAV strikes.
– In the Kherson direction, the Russian Armed Forces, during a battle on one of the islands north of Krynki, captured an important enemy stronghold, which was used to transfer personnel to the left bank of the Dnieper.
[TOWNHALL] 2024 has already proven to be a headache for the Democratic Party. They had to force President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences... out of the race to save their "legacy," and 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, Joe's intended successor'... is not the saving grace they were hoping for.
Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had a cup of coffee. Even instant would do... outside the White House, things aren’t looking too good for the party.
For the first time in nearly a decade, Ohio's vulnerable Democratic incumbent, 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... (D-OH), failed to secure the police union's endorsement by four votes during a floor vote.
For the past 12 years, Brown has had the support of the Ohio Fraternal Order of Police (FOP).
However,
a hangover is the wrath of grapes... for the first time since the start of his senate career, he failed to earn it, pointing to a tweet he made about a controversial shooting as one of the top reasons for withdrawing their support this election cycle.
"It came down to a tweet," Mike Weinman, Ohio FOP front man, said. "There was a shooting here, and Sherrod, instead of taking time to listen and talk to us and understand the situation, did what all these people do now and got on his phone. Brown made a comment. It’s a shame."
27. July, 2024
[Rudaw] Ottoman Turkish counter-terrorism forces on Saturday detained 13 suspects for allegedly appearing in viral videos showing them playing songs, and dancing while chanting slogans in support of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Ottoman Turkish state media Anadolu Agency reported that security forces in Istanbul, launched into social media videos showing a woman playing "PKK anthems" in her car, and another video of young individuals chanting slogans in support of the imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan.
According to Anadolu, the Ottoman Turkish counterterrorism teams launched simultaneous operations at 24 locations across 7 districts, detaining 13 suspects and seizing "digital material."
This comes days after a similar incident in the southern Mersin province, where security forces arrested 10 people for chanting slogans in support of Ocalan.
On Friday, Ottoman Turkish police arrested six women in Siirt province for dancing in a video to a song that praises PKK fighters. The women were shown wearing traditional Kurdish clothes in the video.
The PKK is a Kurdish group that has waged an armed insurgency against the Ottoman Turkish state for decades in the struggle for greater Kurdish rights and is designated a terrorist organization by Ankara.
Clashes between Ottoman Turkish forces and the PKK fighters have intensified recently in the Kurdistan Region. This escalation in attacks is a part of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... ’s stated plans to eradicate the Kurdish group along its southern border.
In March, Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... said Ankara is close to completing a zone that will "permanently resolve" the security issues along their border with the Kurdistan Region and Iraq by summer.
Turkey has deployed a large number of troops in Duhok province since mid-June.
Erdogan said on Monday that Ankara would get Dire Revenge for one of their soldiers who was killed in Duhok, and all their losses in the region: "We are avenging all these losses. They are paying a very heavy price and will continue to do so."
But Ankara’s relentless military strikes and the deployment of ground troops also have stoked fear in the villagers of Duhok province’s mountainous areas who fear displacement from their villages as mortar shells and constant gunfire prompt panic.
Turkey has carried out more than 1,000 attacks on the Kurdistan Region and Nineveh province so far in 2024, according to conflict monitor Community Peacemaker Teams (CPT) data.
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[GEO.TV] Iran's new President Masoud Pezeshkian on Monday warned Israel against attacking 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... as tensions soar over a deadly rocket strike in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights blamed on Tehran-backed Hezbollah.
"The Zionist regime (Israel) will make a great mistake with heavy consequences if it attacks Lebanon," Pezeshkian said during a call with French President Emmanuel Macron, according to the Iranian president's website.
Pezeshkian assumed official responsibilities on Sunday after official endorsement from supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei, and is to be sworn in to parliament on Tuesday.
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[IsraelTimes] Israeli fighter jets and drones struck more than 35 targets across the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip over the past day, the military says.
The IDF says the targets include cells of button men, buildings used by terror groups, booby-trapped buildings, and other infrastructure.
The strikes come as troops continue to advance in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis and Rafah.
The IDF says troops with the 162nd Division killed several button men in close-quarters combat and by directing Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in Rafah in the previous 24 hours.
Many more terror operatives were killed in festivities and airstrikes amid operations by the 98th Division in Khan Younis, the IDF adds.
[GEO.TV] Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistain (TLP) Vice Emir Pir Zaheerul Hasan Shah, who had gone in hiding in Okara, has been arrested after being booked for inciting violence against Chief Justice of Pakistain (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa, sources told Geo News on Monday.
Shah's arrest comes after a case was lodged against him for a speech made during a protest rally outside the Lahore Press Club during a demonstration against the SC verdict in the Mubarak Sani case.
The case was lodged in Lahore's Qila Gujjar Sing cop shoppe on behalf of Station House Officer (SHO) Hammad Hussain against the TLP leader and 1,500 party workers for issuing death threats to the chief justice.
The FIR includes provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) and those related to spreading religious hatred and anarchy, pressuring and threatening the higher judiciary, interference in state affairs, obstructing in performance of legal duties and others.
It is to be noted that apart from TLP, Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...a Pak religious party. It is usually part of the govt, never part of the solution... -Sami (JUI-S), Mili Yakjehti Council Pakistain (MYC ...Milli Yakjehti Council: an alliance of Pak religious parties including the Jamaat-e-Islami and the JUI-F. Somehow this is considered to be a good way to promote sectarian and religious harmony in Pakistain despite their habit of sponsoring terrorist groups both at home and abroad... ) and Wafaqul Madaris-ul-Arabiya (WMA) have also voiced their opposition to the apex court's verdict in the said case.
The opposition comes despite the clarification issued by the apex court on Friday which said that the court's verdict clearly states that no one can be a Moslem without having faith in the finality of prophethood of Prophet Muhammad (PTUI!).
'STATE WON'T ALLOW FATWAS CALLING FOR MURDER'
Earlier in the day, the federal government announced that it won't allow malicious propaganda against the CJP and will take strict action against those responsible for it.
"The state will not allow anyone to issue a fatwa calling for someone's murder," Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said in a presser in Islamabad.
Flanked by Planning and Development Minister Ahsan Iqbal, the defence minister, while referring to the propaganda campaign hurled against the chief justice following the SC verdict in the Mubarak Sani case, said that an attempt is being made to use religion for bloodshed for vested political interests.
"There has been malicious propaganda about the chief justice and he has been targeted for a long time," said the federal minister.
He said that an attempt is being made to silence a voice which has set a tradition of speaking truth, reiterating that the law will take its course.
Asif further said that the state will now take action because CJP Isa has been targeted for a long time, adding that baseless accusations cannot be made against someone.
"There should be supremacy of Constitution in the country and justice should prevail. [The state] will not accept dictation aimed towards securing personal interests in the name of politics," he added.
[FoxNews] The United States will announce a major revamp of its military structure in Asia, unveiling a new command in Tokyo as it deepens ties with Japan in response to China’s increased ambition in the region.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin are scheduled to hold talks with Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and Defense Minister Minoru Kihara on Sunday, according to a report from Reuters, where Austin will announce a shift of U.S. forces in Japan.
"Secretary Austin plans to announce that the United States intends to reconstitute U.S. Forces Japan as a Joint Force Headquarters, reporting to the commander of U.S. INDOPACOM," a U.S. official told Reuters.
Japan has been looking to establish a new joint headquarters in the country to better coordinate with U.S. forces as it sees growing threats in the region, the report notes, with Japan citing increased missile tests by North Korea and China’s growing military ambitions.
Japan had hoped the new command would be headed by a four-star general, but the U.S. official told Reuters that a three-star general will take control of the new organization.
Talks between the U.S. and Japan Sunday are expected to cover "extended deterrence," the U.S. official said, the term the U.S. uses to describe how it deploys nuclear forces to deter attacks on its allies. Starts with Strategic Bombers.
Japan already hosts a U.S. military base with 54,000 American troops, hundreds of aircraft, and a forward-deployed carrier strike group, the report notes, but the new command will allow for greater cooperation between the two countries. Japan recently committed to double defense spending from 1% of GDP to 2% as it seeks greater deterrence over China and North Korea.
The move also comes as President Biden has looked to increase cooperation between Japan and South Korea, another key U.S. ally in the region. Relations between the two countries have been strained since the early 20th century. Add Taiwan.
The three nations on Sunday signed an agreement to "institutionalize" trilateral cooperation, according to the report, which will include sharing of real-time North Korean missile information and increased joint-military exercises.
"This memorandum, strengthens the cooperation between Japan, the United States and South Korea, making our partnership unshakable no matter how the international situation changes," Kihara told reporters after the agreement was signed.
The White House did not immediately respond to a Fox News Digital request for comment. The Pentagon declined to comment.
[GEO.TV] Security forces have killed five holy warriors in three separate operations in different areas of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Monday.
A joint intelligence-based operation was conducted in Mohmand district and three terrorists, including "Kharji alias Qari of Fitna Al Khawarij," were successfully neutralised, said the military's media wing in a statement.
It further said that during the conduct of the operation, terrorists’ hideout was also busted and a cache of arms, ammunition and explosives was recovered. However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... police constable Abrar Hussain (resident of district Swabi) of the KP police, having fought gallantly, embraced shahadat during the intense exchange of gunfire, it said.
In another intelligence-based operation conducted in the Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... district, security forces effectively engaged terrorists’ location, as a result of which "Kharji Sifatullah Mullah Mansoor of Fitna Al Khawarij was sent to hell," while three other holy warriors got injured, said the ISPR statement.
The army's media wing said that Kharji Sifatullah was involved in numerous terrorist activities in the area including the facilitation of a suicide kaboom attack in Daraban on December 12, 2023, and was highly wanted by law enforcement agencies.
In a third engagement that occurred in the North Wazoo district, "another Kharji terrorist of Fitna Al Khawarij was sent to hell" by the security forces, according to the statement.
"Pakistain’s security forces stand shoulder to shoulder with other law enforcement agencies to ensure peace and stability across Pakistain and such sacrifices of our brave men further strengthen our resolve," it added.
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[Rudaw] The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) on Tuesday said that its partnered operations with local forces in Iraq and Syria resulted in at least 44 suspected Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) members killed and 166 others detained during the first six months of 2024.
At least 30 ISIS operatives were killed and 74 others were captured in 137 operations conducted in Iraq alongside local security forces in the first half of the year, according to the CENTCOM statement. In 59 joint operations with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) during that same period, a total of 14 ISIS operatives were killed and 92 were detained.
The operations in both countries led to the killing of eight big shots of the group and the arrest of 32 others.
"These leaders include those responsible for planning of operations outside of Syria and Iraq, recruiting, training, and weapons smuggling. The removal of these individuals from their leadership positions further degrades ISIS capabilities to conduct external operations in the U.S. and allied nations," read the CENTCOM statement.
Baghdad has downgraded the threat that ISIS poses, saying that the group has been confined. The Iraqi government, under pressure from Iran-backed gangs to expel US forces from the country, has begun talks with Washington to wind down the coalition mission.
The US-led coalition advises and provides aerial assistance to Kurdish Peshmerga forces and the Iraqi army, as well as the SDF in the fight against ISIS.
Another donor in Brighton, MI has donated over 2,500 times since October 2023.
Their listed address is a retirement home. Is @actblue scamming a retiree by convincing them to repeatedly sign up for recurring contributions? pic.twitter.com/MMyftho81v
Tut tut. Nothing to see here. Move along. Move along.
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They have been doing this for years, Fred. It's a form of money laundering that the supposed 'donors' know nothing about. ActBlue uses this to get around the political donations cap
Of course it would be illegal and horrific if Republicans did it.
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[Regnum] On July 26, the Pearl G tanker flying the flag of the African country of Togo was detained in the Persian Gulf with 700 thousand liters of contraband oil, the Tasnim agency reported on July 29, citing a statement by the military from the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
"The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps detained the Pearl G tanker, flying the flag of the African country of Togo, on Friday morning in the northern part of the Persian Gulf near the Arash oil field, belonging to an Iraqi who lives in the city of Dubai (United Arab Emirates)," the statement said.
It is specified that at that time the tanker was being loaded with contraband fuel from an Iranian vessel. According to initial estimates, there were at least 700 thousand liters of oil on board.
According to the Iranian agency, the tanker, along with nine crew members who are Indian citizens, was sent to Imam Khomeini Port, located in southwestern Iran in Khuzestan province.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on July 22, the Iranian military intercepted a tanker of a UAE company in the Persian Gulf. According to information from the British company Ambrey, which specializes in maritime security, the detained vessel was a tanker sailing under the flag of Togo, which was carrying 1.5 thousand tons of marine fuel (gas oil).
In January, Iranian media reported that the Iranian navy had seized a US oil tanker chartered by the Turkish company Tupras in the Gulf of Oman following a court order.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … on $300,000 salary with no qualification.
[FoxNews] Vice President Kamala Harris has never been closer to becoming president of the United States. And if she succeeds in that endeavor in November, her administration would likely be the most socialist and destructive in our country’s history. 
...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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[FoxNews] The report states that the influx of migrants warrants an urgent need to expand access to 'English for Speakers of other Languages' services.
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences...
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
...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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