[DC] Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) abruptly shut down its operations in Brazil on Saturday after the company claimed Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes threatened to have a legal representative arrested over non-compliance with content removal demands, Reuters reported.
X posted the announcement Saturday, citing concerns over "censorship orders" issued by Moraes. The company claimed Moraes secretly threatened to arrest one of the company’s legal representatives in the country if they did not comply with court orders to remove certain content from the platform, Reuters reported. (RELATED: European Gov Berates Top Official For Sending Threatening Letter To Elon Musk Ahead Of Trump Interview)
X Global Affairs asserted that, despite multiple appeals to the Supreme Federal Court, the Brazilian public had not been informed of the orders and that X’s Brazilian staff had no control over the content removal decisions, according to the statement. The statement also emphasizes, while the service itself would remain available to users in Brazil, the platform’s decision to close operations was made to protect the safety of its employees.
Last night, Alexandre de Moraes threatened our legal representative in Brazil with arrest if we do not comply with his censorship orders. He did so in a secret order, which we share here to expose his actions.
— Global Government Affairs (@GlobalAffairs) August 17, 2024
This platform is being asked to censor content in Brazil where the censorship demands require us to violate Brazilian law! That is not right. https://t.co/ovsIA1QBNg
[JPost] Update to yesterday's story
Algeria will immediately supply Lebanon with fuel to operate power plants to ensure electricity supplies across the country, Algerian state radio said in a statement on Sunday.
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Running out of petroleum in the Middle East is a bit ironic. I mean, the Juice had to wander in the desert for 40 years before they found a place without any oil.
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the Juice had to wander in the desert for 40 years before they found a place without any oil
Such a wonderful line. It turns out they had oil and gas all along — it’s just harder to find and to get to, so they only figured it out a few years ago. ;-) Lebanon has tried claiming it’s really theirs, but as they don’t have the technology…
[NY Post] Russia launched a cruise missile and an aerial bomb across the border into Ukraine Saturday that sparked a fire in the city of Sumy.
Two Ukrainian soldiers were injured in the attack, which also damaged a number of vehicles and buildings.
Russia also flew kamikaze drones overnight Friday into Ukrainian airspace Friday.
At least 14 were downed by the Ukraine air force.
Ukraine continued to deepen its incursion into Russia, days after taking control of the Russian town of Sudzha.
The Kremlin accused Ukrainian forces of using Western-made rockets Friday to take out a strategically important bridge over the Seym River in Russia’s Kursk region.
Russian officials said the rocket attack destroyed not only the bridge but killed volunteers who were in the area to evacuate civilians.
It was unclear how many volunteers died.
Overnight Friday, Russia flew kamikaze drones into Ukraine airspace.
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...more fully Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, he was born to a Christian family in Jerusalem, is legally a Jordanian citizen following Jordan’s annexation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem in 1950. He murdered RFK because RFK supported of Israel (and possibly because of a race track head injury). His communism is extra. For a while Fatah’s Black September demanded his release every time they took hostages. Some of Aristotle Onassis’ relatives claim Mr. Onassis got him to do it...
the man convicted of assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, has been denied release in a parole hearing held at a San Diego prison.
Sirhan, 80, will be eligible for another hearing in three years, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Friday’s hearing took place at the R.J. Donovan Correctional Facility in Otay Mesa, where he is in prison.
It marks the 17th such hearing for Sirhan.
He was last denied parole in March 2023 for three years, with an administrative review of the denial resulting in his hearing date being advanced, according to corrections officials.
In 2021, a two-person state panel recommended that Sirhan be granted parole, but Gov. Gavin Newsom later reversed that decision, saying Sirhan "poses a current threat to public safety."
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If he had killed a Republican maybe, but he killed a Kennedy, a Super (D)
So maybe, Gov. Gavin Newsom real reason for denying the parole is that Sirhan poses a current threat to public Democrat safety.
BTW: There is also a Palestine vs Israeli connection. Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was born in Palestine and hated Israel. His parents immigrated here in 1956.
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What a true vision of loveliness she was this Jeanne Crain; thank goodness I have my black light polarized filtering glasses on viewing this exquisite picture. I even see the mole on the left center of her chest -- wow -- Venus De Milo with arms - real positive that...👀🙂💯
[Treehouse] One of the great mysteries about the January 6, 2021, events is the lack of curiosity by the FBI about who planted the pipe bombs at the DNC and RNC headquarters. Amid all of the available CCTV video and surveillance technology exploited by the justice department, their transparent unwillingness to identify the pipe bomber has always been a dog that did not bark.
The Occam’s Razor explanation for why DC and federal law enforcement have been incurious, points to law enforcement actually planting the bombs. New CCTV video seems to show exactly that.
Shortly after 12:51pm a DC police SUV appears next to the park bench where the pipe bomb was discovered. [Video Below] A man with a bag exits the SUV, points to the bench, pulls up his right coat collar to obscure his face from the camera located across the street, then walks to the bench with the bag. The "pipe bomb" device allegedly was found at 1:05 p.m. by a plainclothes officer from the Capitol Police. How unlike the Trump office burglary in Virginia
I am not going to repeat the reporting above, the timelines therein, or the granular details painstakingly outlined. The research is solid, informative and accurate. Instead, my focus is about "why" the pipe bombs were planted.
Nancy Pelosi, Kevin McCarthy (House) along with Chuck Schumer, Mitch McConnell and Mike Pence (Senate) did not want the January 6th certification of electors challenged. If you suspect the 85 million votes for Joe Biden might have been manufactured (mail-in ballots), then you understand the DC motive to avoid any electoral challenge that might have resulted in state level legislative inquiry and/or vote counting review.
To avoid the challenge to the electoral certification process, a lengthy and very formal process where the Senate must separate from the House as each state is formally questioned/challenged and a debate/vote on each state’s set of electors takes place (minimum 2 hours each state), an EMERGENCY process triggered by the House Speaker (Pelosi) was needed. That’s where the pipe bombs come into play.
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During the Gulf War, Baghdad taxis were routinely used to cover the movements of US SOF operators. Movements were oftentimes conducted in pre-dawn hours.
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Given the data presented on Here Is The Evidence Plus on the same site there is the collected evidence files on 2020 tampering.
Add to that the Heritage and other respected, truthful sites.
Yes, I've been beyond suspecting, since seeing them kick out the poll watchers, cover the voter count room windows and the van video dropping off "found votes".
I sure many, many others are also.
BTW: The numerous GA "mistakes" by Metro Atlanta Area Board of Elections dept. resulted in well over 100,000++ proven fraudulent votes being counted. A review of the "found votes" showed an amazing constancy of about 6% more votes for Biden. Yet the whole process was still certified by the GA SOS & Gov. Kemp.
BTW: The Fulton co. DA cleared the Fulton Co. BOE members of criminal charges, then indited Trump.
[TCN] Whistleblowers Calley and Casey Means expose how Big Pharma co-opted government agencies and the food industry to poison America and keep us sick.
Casey is the co-founder of Levels, a health technology company with the mission of reversing the world’s metabolic health crisis. She received her BA with honors and MD from Stanford and has previously served on Stanford faculty. She left a successful career in traditional medicine to devote her life to tackling the root cause of why Americans are sick.
Calley is Casey’s brother and is an advocate/whistleblower about the corruption of the food and pharma industries. He’s also the co-founder of Truemed - a company that enables Americans to purchase healthy food and exercise tax-free. https://www.TrueMed.com/
Buy Casey and Calley’s book, "Good Energy" here - https://www.CaseyMeans.com/GoodEnergy
[NYPOST] A Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, bike mob ransacked three separate 7-Eleven stores in under 20 minutes just hours after Democratic Gov. Gavin Governor Hair Gel Newsom ...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland... signed a ''landmark'' package to crack down on retail thefts.
Approximately 20 bicycling riding thieves targeted the Hollywood area convenience stores two miles apart on Friday night, according to NBC Los Angeles, citing the LAPD.
The brazen bunch broke into each store and stole food and drink items beginning with the 7-Eleven located at 7040 West Sunset Boulevard just after 8 p.m.
The store was left with a broken window.
An employee at a second store near Hollywood Blvd and Highland Ave. was allegedly assaulted around 8:16 p.m., the outlet reported.
Friday night’s mayhem is the most recent smash-and-grab incident plaguing The Golden State.
One store manager told the outlet that the teens caught on video surveillance cameras on Friday, looked like the same group that struck two other 7-Eleven locations in the area last week.
Between 2019 and 2022, California saw a 22% increase in shoplifting and 16% and 13% upticks in commercial burglary and robbery, respectively, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.
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and they say the younger generation doesn't have a work ethic...
[DHAKATRIBUNE] One of the biggest red marks against the previous government were its increasingly heavy-handed tactics against the population during any moment of crisis -- frequent stop and checks by the police in which they would be given the order to go through a civilian's transportation and often times even their personal belongings and the data on their phones, were a frequent occurrence especially in the capital.
It is with the highest level of disappointment, and alarm, that we now feel compelled to condemn our youth -- the very same people who fought against the undemocratic practices of the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and now exiled former Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She was President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia showed such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums. That is probably because Khaleda's late husband was the Pak tool who had Mujib assassinated... 's government -- for resorting to the same actions against civilians.
In the past few days, student activists have been observed in the streets of Dhaka stopping cars on the road and harassing civilians to check their phones and belongings without any legal precedence whatsoever. The practice was the most prevalent on the August 15, the death anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The day was also marred by student activists engaging in violent mostly peaceful, unruly behaviour against journalists, warning them against taking photos or recording footage at Dhanmondi 32.
While the anger against the previous establishment is more than justified, there is absolutely no necessity for any of the student activists to still be on the streets, more so when they are resorting to the similar unruly behaviour exhibited by groups such as Chhatro League and Chhatro Dal.
Bangladesh now has an interim government in place until the next elections -- a government which has two representatives from the student movement in key advisory roles and has shown an immense willingness to listen to the people -- the student activists who are still on the streets need to understand that and shy away from further plunging Bangladesh into another age of undemocratic practices.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS] A leading source in the Islamic Resistance® Movement Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... said on Friday that ''the new American proposal responds to the conditions of the Israeli occupation and is in line with them, and does not include a commitment to what was agreed upon on July 2.''
The source added that the occupation continues to evade and obstruct and insist on adding new conditions to obstruct the agreement.
He also affirmed commitment to what the movement agreed to on July 2, which was based on the Biden declaration and the Security Council resolution, calling on the mediators to put pressure on the occupation and force it to implement what was agreed upon.
The source stated that ''any agreement must ensure the cessation of aggression against our people and the withdrawal from 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.''
He pointed out that any agreement must also include providing urgent relief and reaching a real deal to exchange prisoners.
The United States, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , and Egypt had issued a joint statement on Friday regarding the Doha talks and the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip.
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[NEWARAB] US Green Party candidate Jill Stein announced her pick for her vice-presidential running mate at an online event on Friday night - academic, activist and Moslem convert Rudolph "Butch" Ware.
Perhaps they’ll split the Moslem vote with the Democrats and the Republicans. But it still won’t be enough to get the Green Party out of the small single digits as their share of the vote.
The announcement came after days of speculation over who Stein would choose in her, by all indications, quixotic campaign for president.
Over the past several days, multiple names - mainly Arab Americans - have been floated as Stein's VP contender, however Ware's name did not appear in most major news reports on the subject.
After Stein announced him as her running mate, Ware described himself as a "willing warrior with resolve in the cause of liberation."
Stein, who ran for president in 2016 and in 2020, followed up by saying, "We're going to turn the empire upside down." She went on to praise their alliance as a Jewish woman and a Moslem man, describing their ticket as unstoppable.
The web event lasted nearly an hour and 45 minutes with around the first hour and a half dedicated to the run-up to the VP pick. The discussion mainly focused on the war 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... and the duopoly of the two-party system that prevents multiple parties from running for president.
Though Stein appears to have no viable path to the presidency, raising concerns among many that she is a potential election spoiler, she does have a significant following in the Arab and Moslem communities. This is mainly due to her unconditional support for a ceasefire in Gaza and for a US arms embargo on Israel.
"She's the only campaign with a principled stance on Paleostine. We should all get behind her," Amer Zahr, a comedian and activist from Dearborn told, whose name has been in the news recently as a potential running mate for Stein told The New Arab.
Rudolph "Butch" T. Ware III is a historian of West Africa at the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Santa Barbara. He formerly taught at the University of Michigan and before then at Northwestern University.[1][2] He received his Ph.D. in history in 2004 from the University of Pennsylvania.
[NEWARAB] ''I'm sorry, I can't take the risk to talk to you. It's already been quite a journey,'' said one presidential candidate after turning down an interview request from The New Arab.
In Tunisia, an increasing number of public figures are declining to engage with foreign media as private meetings with NGOs, embassy officials, or foreign press are being used in legal cases against political opponents of President Kais Saied.
Tunisia is experiencing a never-before-seen presidential election. Under Ben Ali's regime, the situation was straightforward: even the few opponents who managed to run as candidates could not criticise the regime without risking imprisonment.
During the democratic era, Tunisia saw hundreds of political activists and leaders participate in the presidential elections of 2014 and 2019. However,
corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... Kais Saied's coup in July 2021 marked the beginning of an ongoing authoritarian shift.
The army was deployed to close the elected parliament, hundreds of Tunisians were arrested for opposing the government, an anti-press decree led to widespread censorship (and self-censorship) of mainstream media, and the parliamentary system was abandoned after the largely boycotted 2022 constitutional referendum.
The 2023 Human Rights Report concludes that Tunisia ''experienced further regression in terms of human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... and the rule of law during 2023 in the absence of genuine checks and balances on President Kais Saied's power''.
As Kais Saied announced presidential elections for 6 October, the political climate of the runoff was not the one Tunisians had become accustomed to in recent years.
The leader of the Free Destourian Party and former lawyer of Ben Ali, Abir Moussi, the leader of the Islamist Ennahda party Rached Ghannouchi, the former leader of the centre-left party Ghazi Chaouachi, and at least 60 other political opponents are currently imprisoned.
With most prominent opposition figures behind bars, many sought to exploit this political space to challenge the authoritarian shift and present an alternative vision. However,
corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... most were barred from running due to new administrative requirements imposed by the electoral committee (ISIE).
[NEWARAB] As Britannia watched on with bated breath during this historic General Election, there was one conspicuously spotlighted demographic for whom Labour's win was met with rightful trepidation.
British Moslems, 6.5% of the population in England and Wales, have a long and checkered history with the Labour Party, made only more fraught following recent geopolitical and domestic events.
Labour's reluctance to court the disaffected Moslem vote, and their reticence on Moslem concerns throughout campaigning, was felt abjectly by the diverse group of communities that make up this segment of the electorate.
Overwhelmingly from ethnic minority and economically deprived backgrounds -- a fact which exemplifies this electoral neglect -- historically, Moslems had forged a kind of political home in a begrudging Labour party, that waned rapidly in recent months following domestic responses to the war on 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... While much of Britannia was keen to see what ‘anyone but the Conservatives' had to offer the country, Moslems had expressed a jaded sense of anticipation for what the incumbent government would do for them.
Labour's flagship policy in education is, adverse to its stated aim, already proving to disadvantage less-privileged Moslem communities.
'UNFAIR TAX BREAK'
In a move welcomed by much of the British public, Labour will make all private school fees subject to VAT from January 2025, declaring the erstwhile exemption of a service used predominately by the rich an ‘unfair tax break'.
Designed to ensure those families at the top of the economic food chain are giving back to the country, and in particular an education sector beset with funding-related issues, the policy is projected to raise 1.6 billion a year in extra tax revenue, a net gain that would allow for more than 2% increase in state school funding.
Ostensibly, Labour's planned VAT inclusion makes economic and social sense. The hidden cost of this to a small subset of the sector, however, could be catastrophic.
Private, British Islamic schools would catch the sharp end of this blanket policy approach, with devastating consequences to the sector on the lam.
The average school fees charged by the 2,500 private schools in the UK %u2013 educating 6% of the British population %u2013 is 15,200 a year, with more exclusive schools such as Eton, Harrow and Winchester College charging closer to 50,000 a year.
Compare this to the minuscule private Islamic school sector, consisting of approximately 155 community schools across the country, the majority of which charge fees a fraction of the 10,000 a year bottom average within the wider sector, and which faces possible near-extinction due to these tax changes.
Islamic independent schools in the UK are entirely community-led and based %u2013 a tradition that carries through from the first Islamic schools established in the UK, Islamia Primary in North-West London and al-Furqan in Birmingham, in response to local needs.
They are a true anomaly within the broader independent school sector, both because of the economic make-up of the communities they serve, and the aims and objectives of their institutions.
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[SAHARAREPORTERS] Gunmen attacked a police checkpoint beside the Nnobi Police Station at Nnobi/Nkpor Road in Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State, killing a policeman.
A source in the area said the policeman killed during the attack on Friday was the driver of one of the police vehicles.
According to PUNCH, the source said, ''The hoodlums entered the community on Friday and lodged in a house close to the checkpoint. They broke a wall through which they entered the compound and forced the residents to open the gate to drive in their cars.
''They were also said to have collected the handsets belonging to the residents and forced them into a room and warned them not to raise the alarm failing which they would be shot.''
The latest attack is coming less than three weeks after some button men similarly attacked a police checkpoint on Omata-Nnobi Road in Nnewi, Nnewi North Local Government Area of the state, during which one police officer was also bumped off by the hoodlums, who also used an bomb to launch the attack.
The Anambra State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Ikenga Tochukwu, confirmed the attack.
Ikenga also disclosed that the situation was under control as there was an ongoing operation in the area on the directive of the state Commissioner of Police, Nnaghe Itam.
[SAHARAREPORTERS] Gunmen suspected to be bandidos have attacked the residence of Alhaji Sanusi Ango Gyaza, an aide to the Katsina State Governor, in Gyaza, in the Kankia Local Government Area (LGA).
Gyaza, a former Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) for Kankia LGA, was reportedly killed during the raid, along with his wife.
It was gathered that the incident occurred on Friday night, during which the assailants also kidnapped his other wife.
When SaharaReporters contacted the Katsina State Police Command spokesperson, ASP Abubakar Sadiq Aliyu, he said, "I will get back to you.''
SaharaReporters had earlier reported that over 20 medical and dental students and a House Officer were kidnapped in Benue State while en route to the Federation of Catholic Medical and Dental Students (FECAMDS) annual convention in Enugu.
The students, from the University of Maiduguri and University of Jos, were travelling together when they were ambushed by button men around 5:30pm in the Otukpo area of Benue State.
The State Police Command confirmed the incident to SaharaReporters on Friday morning, sparking concerns for the safety of the kidnapped students.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his shoulder. Ow! he exclaimed, with feeling...... one of the victims has been identified as a House Officer named Dr Louis.
The abductors have demanded a ransom of N50 million for their release.
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[NewsFront] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 08/17/2024 to 00:00 08/18/2024.
A total of 28 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 10 civilians being injured, including a boy born in 2012.
DAMAGED:
Six residential buildings
Three cars
A total of 17 artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction,
A total of 11 artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction.
A total of 82 units of various ammunition were fired.
22:30 Aerospace Forces crews strike with FABs at Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in Sumy Oblast. Ballistics work is also reported in a number of regions of Ukraine.
21:35 Assault on the settlement of Urozhainoe in the DPR, filmed in the first person by Russian marines from the “Storm” detachment – video .
20:51 Advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the direction of Selidovo – map.
20:12 Destruction of the Polonez electronic warfare system of the Ukrainian Armed Forces – video.
In Kursk Oblast, the Ixovods of the Sever group fell victim to the Polonez UAV countermeasure system of the Ukrainian fascists. The Ukrainian system was unable to counter the Russian Lancet UAV.
19:27 Selidovo – Zhelannoe.
Positional combat operations in the Krasnoarmeysk area. An infantry unit of the Russian Armed Forces came under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces during rotation south of Zhelannoye. Expansion of the Russian Armed Forces control zone by more than one km in the direction of Selidovo.
18:48 Data from objective control is coming in that our troops have taken a fortification in the area of the ventilation shaft of the Yuzhnodonbasskaya mine near Ugledar. An extremely important advance for this direction.
18:18 Special military operation. Situation on August 17 – map.
17:57 Iskander strike – video.
The footage shows the destruction of an M270 MLRS multiple launch rocket system in Sumy Oblast. A reconnaissance unit located an M270 MLRS position in the area of the settlement of Bezdrik in Sumy Oblast.
A missile strike was launched by an Iskander OTRK crew against a detected MLRS firing position supplied by NATO countries. As a result of the missile strike, the M-270 MLRS multiple launch rocket system with Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel was completely destroyed.
17:34 Statements by representatives of the North, West, South, Center, East and Dnepr groups on the progress of the special military operation (as of August 17, 2024) – video o.
16:48 Army aviation crews continue to destroy Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment in the border area of Kursk Oblast – video .
The footage shows Ka-52 helicopter crews launching S-8 air-launched missiles at armored military vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
16:10 Svatovo – Makeyevka.
Positional combat operations in the Svatovsky direction. artillery attack of the Russian Armed Forces position in the residential part of Makeyevka on the northern outskirts of the village. Advancement of the Russian Armed Forces to the Zherebets River up to one km.
15:44 Footage of the destruction of a self-propelled artillery unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by a Lancet loitering munition near the state border in Sumy Oblast – video.
Aerial reconnaissance by one of the units of the "North" military group in the area of a forest belt near the state border in the Sumy region detected a self-propelled artillery unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which was firing at the territory of the Belgorod region.
15:11 An army aviation crew on a Mi-28NM helicopter launched an attack with unguided air-to-air missiles on a concentration of manpower, armored vehicles and automobile military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units in the border area of the Kursk region – video .
The attack was carried out using unguided S-13 aircraft missiles.
14:55 Telegram channel "Rybar":
Kursk direction: battles along the entire length of the front
– The situation in the Kursk direction remains difficult, and the enemy is still trying to break through the defensive lines of the Russian Armed Forces in different parts of the direction.
– In the Glushkovsky district, the situation has not changed significantly in 24 hours – yesterday’s information about the Ukrainian Armed Forces entering Vishnevka has not been confirmed. Also, not far from the bridge in Glushkovo destroyed by a missile strike, Russian troops have set up a pontoon crossing.
– In the Korenevsky district, evidence of the enemy’s presence in Russkoye Porechny, for which there was fighting yesterday, has appeared. Footage published online shows strikes on Ukrainian Armed Forces armored vehicles in the center of the village.
– In Sudzhansky district, Ukrainian formations continue to film videos in the same western part of the city, including near one of the Magnit stores on Pervogo Maya Street. At the same time, there is still no objective evidence of the presence of any of the parties on the eastern side of the settlement.
– In the Belovsky district, the situation has not changed significantly, and in the area of the settlements of Kamyshnoye and Giri, no clashes have been reported in the last 24 hours. After the statements of the Russian Ministry of Defense about the clearing of the settlement of Ozerki several days ago, no data on battles have been received, so the village is currently under the control of the Russian Armed Forces.
14:04 Sudzha – Sleeping.
Military operations in the Sudzha area. artillery attack of Ukrainian Armed Forces deployment sites in the residential area of the village of Spalnoye in the Kursk region at a distance of about five km from the demarcation line.
13:16 Situation in the SVO zone – map:
– The situation in the Pokrovsk direction: The Russian army continued its offensive in the Grodovka area, taking control of a number of positions in the north, southeast and inside the settlement. In addition, Russian troops advanced to the settlement of Novozhelannoye.
– The situation in the Toretsk direction: The Russian army has taken control of the Severnaya mine and the adjacent waste heap west of Kirovo (Pivnichnoye). In addition, Russian troops have advanced southwest of Zheleznoye in the direction of Nelepovka.
12:38 Russian paratroopers' 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS crews destroyed a Ukrainian Armed Forces command and observation post and disrupted the enemy's rotation on the right bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region - video .
12:01 Khar'kov direction (Kupyansk area).
It is reported that our barrel artillery has been actively working since early morning. In particular, our 152mm 2S19 MSTA-S self-propelled guns have been working on the enemy's fortified positions.
11:46 The Russian Armed Forces have liberated the village of Novozhelannoye. Fighting continues in Grodovka and on the outskirts of Novogrodovka.
11:17 Statement by the head of the press center of the Dnepr group of forces – video.
The Dnepr group of forces continues to carry out combat missions in the area of the special military operation.
The group's units inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of the 65th and 118th Mechanized brigades in the areas of the settlements of Nesteryanka, Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka and Pyatikhatki.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 75 servicemen, two 155mm M777 howitzers, a 152mm D-20 gun and two radar stations.
10:55 The Su-34 crew destroyed a concentration of personnel and military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border area of the Kursk region. The strike was carried out on reconnoitered targets using aerial bombs with a universal planning and correction module - video.
10:10 During the past night, during an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack using an unmanned aerial vehicle against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation, air defense systems on duty destroyed an aircraft-type UAV over the Belgorod region.
09:52 Another Ukrainian Armed Forces vehicle was destroyed by Sudoplatov drone operators with their VT-40 drone — video.
09:25 Telegram channel “ WarGonzo ”:
Frontline report for the morning of 17.08.2024
- Zaporizhzhya Front. LBS without significant changes. Positional battles continue. The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to accumulate forces and resources in this direction.
- Donetsk Front. In Krasnogorovka, Russian troops are driving out the remnants of the Ukrainian garrison, which is still holding on to its positions, but is slowly withdrawing its main forces.
In Karlovka, there are no significant changes, fighting continues. In Grodovka, Russian troops are approaching the center of the settlement. Our troops are also advancing in the Novogrodovka area. There are more successes for the Russian Armed Forces in New York.
- Khar'kov Front. No significant changes. Fighting continues in the area of Volchansk and Glubokoe.
- Kursk region. The situation here remains tense. The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to try to act in small groups, but these attempts are not bringing success. In a number of areas, the Ukrainian units are unable to hold unprepared positions for long.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked several bridges in the Glushkovsky district, however, this should not become a serious problem for the logistics of our troops. In general, as was said, the situation remains tense.
08:52 Telegram channel "Rybar":
Kursk direction: battles in Korenevsky district and defeat of Ukrainian air defense missile systems in Sumy region, what is known by the end of August 16, 2024
– The situation in the Kursk direction remains difficult. Ukrainian formations continue to attack positions of the Russian Armed Forces and strike critical infrastructure.
Russian troops are repelling enemy attacks, gradually stabilizing the front line and searching for and destroying Ukrainian SRGs. Also, apparently, the Russian Armed Forces have begun work on the systematic "knocking out" of fire support assets and air defense systems in the border areas of the so-called Ukraine.
– In the Korenevsky district, clashes were noted on the approaches to Kremyanoye, during one of them, units of the Russian Armed Forces destroyed an enemy sabotage and reconnaissance group.
Russian Aerospace Forces aviation regularly operates against the positions of Ukrainian formations using FAB-500 with UMPK. The enemy also launched several attacks in the area of Kauchuk and Anastasyevka, but they were repelled by Russian fighters.
– In the Glushkovsky district, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are focused on strikes against Russian military communications. In Glushkovo, as a result of artillery attack from a HIMARS MLRS and a subsequent strike by a guided aerial bomb, a road bridge over the Seim River was destroyed. Earlier, as a result of a Tochka-U missile strike in this area, a car with Russian volunteers was damaged, two of them were killed.
- In the evening, reports began to arrive from the area about enemy units penetrating into Vishnevka, but it was not possible to confirm this with objective control footage or data from sources on the ground. Most likely, the reports are being disseminated by the information and psychological units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with the aim of creating panic among the population and disinformation for Russian intelligence.
– There are reports from Belovsky District about Russian units controlling the settlements of Kamyshny and Giri. Ukrainian formations have been pushed back west of the settlements, however, they may soon repeat their attempts to dislodge the Russian Armed Forces from their positions. Nevertheless, we can already speak about the relative stabilization of the front in this area and the growth of coordination of the actions of Russian troops.
– In the Sudzhansky district, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched an unsuccessful attack towards Russkoye Porechny. The combat situation in the Makhnovka area, where earlier in this area Russian UAV operators disabled two enemy armored personnel carriers, is hidden by the "fog of war". There have been no reports of either side controlling the settlement at the moment.
– In Sumy Oblast, the Russian Armed Forces struck two IRIS-T SAM launchers in Sennoy. As a result of a close approach by an Iskander OTRK missile with a high-explosive warhead, one of the launchers received damage of unknown severity. It is worth noting that this position is not the first time the enemy has used it – about two weeks ago, a Buk-M1 SAM was destroyed not far from this place.
08:05 Telegram channel "Rybar":
Chronicle of the special military operation for August 16, 2024
– Russian troops destroyed a MiG-29 fighter at the Aviatorskoye airfield in the Dnepropetrovsk region and launched a cluster munition strike on a Patriot air defense missile system position in the same region.– In the village of Ryabina in Sumy Oblast, a rare S-125 air defense system of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was destroyed as a result of a direct hit. Ukrainian formations carried out a massive combined attack on Crimea, attempting to hit the Crimean Bridge and objects in Sevastopol.
– Fierce clashes in the border area continue in the Kursk direction. In the Sumy region, Russian troops destroyed two HIMARS MLRS and also launched a missile strike on the air defense position area of the IRIS-T SAM system.
– In the Slobozhansky direction, a partial evacuation of the population from several settlements in the border zone has been announced. due to protracted fighting and attempts by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to break through in the area of the Kolotilovka and Bezymeno checkpoints.
– In the Pokrovsk direction, Russian troops have consolidated their positions on the southeastern outskirts of Grodovka, and are also attacking in the direction of Novogrodovka from the direction of Nikolaevka.
[NYPost version] A top commander in Hezbollah’s al-Hajj Radwan Force was killed on Saturday in southern Lebanon, the terrorist organization has confirmed.
The Israel Defense Forces released aerial footage online, showing the drone strike that is believed to have taken out Hussein Ibrahim Kassab.
Kassab was killed as he rode a motorcycle through the coastal city of Tyre, The Times of Israel reported.
Hezbollah did not provide information about Kassab’s position or rank.
The IDF said Kassab’s death marks the 412th killing of a Hezbollah operative since Oct. 7.
Hezbollah, meanwhile, launched 55 rockets at northern Israel on Saturday in response to a deadly Israeli airstrike overnight that left 10 people dead near the city of Nabatieth in south Lebanon.
The IDF said some of the Hezbollah rockets fell in open areas while others ignited multiple fires.
No injuries were reported.
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some of the Hezbollah rockets fell in open areas while others ignited multiple fires.
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It is important to remember the Islamic Terrorists & Arab Nations have been attacking Israel for over 60+ years using various group names.
However, the media and the Pro-Palestinian HAMAS supporters want us to focus on using an invalid comparison. By comparing the most recent large scale terrorist attack on Civilians to the Seek & Destroy operation currently under way.
In all seriousness, Israel should have been doing this years ago.
Think about how many, peace agreements have the Islamic Terrorists / Arabs nations broken in that 60+ years?
How many in GAZA / Palestine have been found to have supported Hamas and other terrorist groups, allowing them to use their homes, hospitals, businesses to start and dig tunnels. Tunnels used to store weapons/supplies, terrorists and to launch attacks to murder Israeli citizens, not soldiers, CITIZENS?
SERIOUSLY, a 100+ miles of a 10x10 ft tunnels works out to over 25,387,200 TONS of dirt & rock. So, they didn't dig and blast out over 100 miles of tunnels and dispose of the dirt & rock w/o locals and their government in the know.
I am sure any nation would support eliminating a constant threat to its own nation & civilians. Except maybe the current LSD's in the DC Swamp here.
Especially when the attacker has done it over and over, and cannot be trusted to honor their own demanded terms for the agreements.
BTW: GAZA refugees seem to love Canada, and the USA just happens to have an OPEN BORDER there also.
Longer than that, NN2N1. Look up Jabotinsky and the 1920 Palestine riots. Earlier than that, Hashomer (the watchman) was founded in 1909 to defend Jewish communities in the Holy Land from Arab banditry.
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TW you are very correct.
In my lame defense, I did say 60+ 😇.
I only go back to the 1967 6 days war, and I was in PHV Heidelberg, when I heard it on SW US AF-Radio of the attacks. At the time, my US Army Dad was in the area setting up Quick-talk sites in the Mid-E and Suez Canal area nations. He was lucky he got back.
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Mohammedans! What could be odder
Than to re-do the slaughter at Badr
In modern Gazoo --
More barbarically, too! --
And be shocked that you're gawd's canon fodder?
[NYPOST] Anti-Israel radicals at Columbia University are pushing for the ''total eradication of Western Civilization'' — and threatening even more extreme tactics to accomplish their twisted goal until the ''empire crumbles.''
Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a coalition of 116 student groups at the Ivy League School whose members set up encampments on the Manhattan campus and stormed Hamilton Hall this past spring, made the explosive claim after ''comrades'' in Bangladesh ousted former Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and now exiled former Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She was President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia showed such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums. That is probably because Khaleda's late husband was the Pak tool who had Mujib assassinated... following weeks of bloody anti-government protests.
''We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization''
''We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization,'' the group wrote in an Aug. 7 Instagram post. ''We stand in full solidarity with every movement for liberation in the Global South.''
The chaotic demonstrations in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, initially sparked by student protesters opposing government job quotas, have since fueled mob violence targeting Hindu minorities, who traditionally supported Hasina's now-collapsed Awami League party.
''As the movement for Palestine faces draconian censorship and counter-insurgency in the [United] States, we must learn from our comrades in Bangladesh and continue to escalate until the empire crumbles,'' wrote the Columbia student coalition, which has demanded the university divest from all companies with business ties to Israel.
The scorched-earth social media post was attributed to the ''militants of Hind's Hall,'' referring to Columbia's historic Hamilton Hall, which a mob of protesters briefly seized on April 30 and renamed in honor of a 6-year-old Palestinian girl killed in the Israel-Hamas war named Hind Rajab.
[GEO.TV] Gaza's civil defence agency said an Israeli air strike in the early hours of Saturday killed 15 members of a Palestinian family, including nine children and three women.
The strike hit the home of the Ajlah family in Al-Zawaida neighbourhood of central Gaza, civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP.
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To be a for-real refugee,
It is far from sufficient to flee.
If you're down on your luck
You must fight f-ck f-ck f-ck!
Thus your sheeple shall surely be free!
…that would be where the CSP-DPA — the latest coalition name of the Azawad (Tuareg) separatists — and the regional al-Qaeda in the Sahel group that in Arabic is called JNIM and in French is GSIM teamed up to beat the pants off those tough Wagner boys. Kiev apparently trained the Tuaregs…
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Looks like a complex attack. Mines, RPG's, and or IED's followed by small arms ambush. Note the fire discipline (short bursts), high ground position and cover, directed fires (hajji with radio yelling instructions).
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 20:26 Russians shelled Mirnohrad in Donetsk region - one person was killed, four were wounded, reported the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin.
15:14 Cyber specialists of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense together with the hacker group VO Team paralyzed the work of an enterprise developing nuclear weapons of the Russian Federation. In particular, as a result of the attack on the only provider in the city of Snezhinsk in the Chelyabinsk region - the Vega company - its 1173 switches and ten servers were disabled. The information on the Vega servers was destroyed. A number of strategic enterprises of the city have been without Internet and communication services for almost a week. Among them is the All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics - a developer of nuclear weapons. In addition, the attack made it possible to obtain personal data of employees and an array of other documents of the said plant.
13:47 Zelensky reported that he heard Syrsky's report: "First - Toretskoye and Pokrovskoe directions. Over the past day, dozens of Russian assaults on our positions. But our soldiers and units are doing everything to destroy the occupier and repel the assaults. The situation is under control."
"The second is the operation in the Kursk region. As of this morning, there is a replenishment of the exchange fund for our state. General Syrsky also reported on the strengthening of the positions of our forces in the Kursk region and the expansion of the stabilized territory. The third is to provide our actions with weapons and strong decisions. We are working on new support packages for our state from partners. We are determining priority points. The main thing is to limit the Russian offensive potential and our long-range capabilities. We are preparing relevant instructions for Ukrainian diplomats," the president said.
12:00 Zelensky showed weapons of Ukrainian production. "At sea: Neptune, Sea Baby, MAGURA V5. On land: Bogdana, Stugna, Korsar. In the air: Bober, Morok, Lyuty. Our Ukrainian developments, which cleanse the Black Sea, give strength to our state and destroy Russian potential," the president noted.
11:51 The Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk region has disrupted secret talks with Russia on a partial ceasefire, The Wall Street Journal reports. According to the newspaper's sources, Kiev and Moscow were supposed to send delegations to Doha (Qatar) this month to negotiate a historic agreement that would stop attacks on energy and energy infrastructure on both sides. But the meeting did not take place due to Ukraine's unexpected invasion of the Kursk region. Russia did not cancel the talks immediately, but said it "needed time."
11:33 The Wall Street Journal writes that the United States does not share intelligence with Ukraine about targets in Russia, so as not to be considered a party facilitating the Ukrainian offensive. But the Ukrainian Armed Forces used American equipment during the Kursk operation. In particular, according to the publication, Ukrainian units entered Russia in American Bradley and Stryker armored vehicles. Due to the mined ground and drones in the south and east of Ukraine, Western equipment is limited in its use, but in the Kursk region, Ukrainian troops advanced practically without resistance.
The WSJ also writes that in order to avoid weakening the front line, Ukraine sent a significant number of troops from its reserve forces to Russia. Russia, in turn, withdrew several brigades from Ukraine, totaling up to 5,000 troops. However, as the newspaper notes, Russia may need more forces to stop the Ukrainian offensive.
09:37 The number of victims as a result of the morning Russian attack on the city of Sumy has risen to two, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.
09:25 The Times writes that the US has banned Ukraine from launching British long-range Storm Shadow missiles at Russia due to the Biden administration's concerns about escalating the war. According to the publication's sources in the British government, London has been waiting for US approval for more than a month before giving the Ukrainians permission, but no response has been received. According to the sources, approval of the strikes "requires consensus from allies, including the US, France and a third NATO country that has not been disclosed."
09:19 At night, Russians attacked the village of Kazachya Lopan, Dergachiv community, Kharkiv region, one person died, reported the chairman of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
09:14 In Donetsk Oblast, two people were killed as a result of Russian shelling on August 16 - in Toretsk and Vremenny Yar. Another two people in the oblast were injured in the past 24 hours, reported OVA Chairman Vadim Filashkin.
08:46 Air defense destroyed all 14 Shahed-type attack UAVs in Mykolaiv, Cherkasy, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia and Kyiv regions at night, the air force reported. In addition, the enemy struck the city of Sumy with an Iskander-K cruise missile.
08:30 In the Kherson region, over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, six people were injured, including one child, reported the chairman of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin. Critical infrastructure facilities, educational institutions, one multi-story and 22 private houses, and a gas pipeline were damaged.
08:23 In the morning, Russians launched a missile strike on Sumy, one person was wounded, the OVA reported. MVA Chief Alexey Drozdenko specified that the strike was in the area of Svobody Avenue.
07:51 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of August 17:
personnel - about 598,180 (+1230) people,
tanks - 8501 (+5),
combat armored vehicles - 16,473 (+12),
artillery systems - 16,985 (+58),
MLRS - 1160 (+1),
air defense systems - 923 (+1),
aircraft - 367 (+0),
helicopters - 328 (+0),
Operational-tactical level UAVs - 13,714 (+55),
cruise missiles - 2432 (+3),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 22,913 (+65),
[Breitbart] Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... appear rattled that they could lose Senate, House, and presidential elections if Vice President Kamala Harris It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day is transparent about policy solutions to reverse the administration's failures.
Harris, who has not held an unscripted presser for 26 days since joining the race, is facing calls to not only remain hidden from the press but to keep her proposed policies a secret as she prepares to deliver economic proposals in North Carolina on Friday.
Harris, however, already published several policies, such as socialist-style price controls, subsidies for homeowners, and two policies that copy the Trump-Vance ticket: a child tax credit and no tax on tips.
''She doesn't need to negotiate against herself. We've got the biggest possible tent right now,'' Rep. Ann McLane Kuster (D-NH), told Politico. ''I don't think there's a real strong reason for her to try to weed out any points of view right now.''
Harris's honeymoon phase of the campaign energized some Democrats, while others raised concerns against doing anything that could end the phase.
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[NYPOST] The United States Secret Service is investigating allegations a female agent left her post at a campaign event for former President Trump this week to breastfeed her child.
''All employees of the U.S. Secret Service are held to the highest standards. While there was no impact to the North Carolina event, the specifics of this incident are being examined. Given this is a personnel matter, we are not in a position to comment further,'' Secret Service front man Anthony Guglielmi told The Post.
The breastfeeding allegation was first made by RealClearPolitics correspondent Susan Crabtree in a lengthy X posting Thursday — shortly after the Trump campaign event in Asheville, North Carolina.
''The site agent went to do one final sweep of the walking route and found the agent breast-feeding her child in a room that is supposed to be set aside for important Secret Service official work, i.e. a potential emergency related to the president,'' Crabtree wrote.
''A working agent on duty cannot bring a child to a protective assignment. The woman was out of the Atlanta Field Office,'' she added, citing three people ''in the Secret Service community'' as the source of the info.
The charge comes as the agency is already under fire for security lapses which lead to a near-fatal liquidation attempt against Trump last month.
Secret Service Director Kimberley Cheatle, who made elevating more women into the agency a priority, was forced to resign amid the fallout.
[NYPOST] Even the Washington Post isn't buying Vice President Kamala Harris What can be, unburdened by what has been ' plan to slap socialist price controls on groceries.
The longtime, left-leaning broadsheet — owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos — published a scathing editorial ripping the Democratic presidential nominee for claiming price gouging is causing inflation and, rather than offer a legit plan to fix it, offering only ''populist gimmicks.''
With food prices surging more than 20% nationwide during the Biden-Harris administration, Harris, during a North Carolina rally earlier Friday, unveiled economic policies she'd enact during her first 100 days as president that include enforcing government price controls on groceries.
Instead of ''level[ing] with voters'' and saying ''inflation spiked in 2021 mainly because the pandemic snarled supply chains, and that the Federal Reserve's policies, which the Biden-Harris administration supported, are working to slow it,'' the veep ''opted for a less forthright route: Blaming big business,'' the newspaper wrote.
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[Regnum] Croatian police are searching for three Ukrainian citizens aged 25 to 28 who threw Molotov cocktails and burned 34 boats in the port of Medulin, the newspaper Jutarnji list reported on August 17.
Hard working miscreants…
The incident, according to the publication, occurred in May 2024. According to preliminary information, the attackers, who arrived in Croatia from Poland, threw a bottle with a Molotov cocktail at a yacht belonging to a 65-year-old man. The fire spread to nearby boats. A total of 22 vessels burned completely, another 12 were partially damaged. The damage from the incident was estimated at 2 million euros.
According to security forces, the perpetrators have left Croatia and they are planned to be placed on an international wanted list.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in December, police officers in Germany had to call in special forces to detain an armed troublemaker from Ukraine. The incident took place in Dresden. The 47-year-old Ukrainian got to the airport by train, but when asked by a station employee to show his travel ticket, he started a row.
The knife-wielding man behaved aggressively, slashed several train seats and broke a glass panel with a fire extinguisher. He pushed away the police officer who arrived and barricaded himself in the toilet. The police had to call in a special forces unit. The service officers broke down the toilet door and detained the man.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The defense of Muhammadsobir Faizov, a participant in the attack on the Crocus City Hall concert hall(included by Rosfinmonitoring in the list of terrorists and extremists), asked the court to release him from the pre-trial detention center due to his poor health, Gazeta.Ru reports, citing a relevant document. "NO"
“The court did not take into account the health condition of Faizov M.Z., did not take into account that Faizov uses a wheelchair and needs treatment,” the document says.
It is noted that the lawyer asked the court to cancel the preventive measure in the form of detention for another one that does not involve deprivation of liberty.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the terrorist attack in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region, occurred on the evening of March 22. Four armed terrorists broke into Crocus and opened fire on visitors, after which they set the place on fire. As a result, 145 people died, including six children. More than 500 people were injured. The court recognized more than 1,700 people as victims in the terrorist attack case. The alleged perpetrators of the terrorist attack were taken into custody on March 25. The accused are being held in solitary confinement for their own safety.
In May, it was reported that the alleged perpetrators of the terrorist attack – Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev, Saidakram Murodali Rachabalizoda, Shamsiddin Fariduni and Muhammadsobir Faizov (all four are included in the Rosfinmonitoring list of terrorists and extremists) – did not appeal the court’s decision to extend their detention until August 22.
[GatewayPundit] Left-leaning media outlets like MSNBC are doing their best to protect Vice President Kamala Harris launched her campaign on the “RuPaul’s Drag Race” from scrutiny.
As Ben Shapiro has been so keen on pointing out these last few weeks, it’s been nearly 30 days since Harris became the de facto Democrat nominee, and not once in that time has the media asked her an adversarial question.
The media, which once loathed Harris, has provided nothing but glowing coverage of her. It hasn’t pushed her to lay out her policy proposals or explain how her new administration would be any different than the disastrously unpopular one she is currently serving in.
Given how hard set they are on protecting her, it’s likely the propagandists over at MSNBC were more than a bit troubled by the focus group that managed to find its way onto their airwaves Thursday.
The focus group, led by Harvard Institute of Politics Director of Polling John Della Volpe, sought to get a reading on where Gen-Z voters stand heading into the November election.
One issue seemed to feature most prominently for the Gen-Z voters polled: the state of the economy under the Biden-Harris regime.
"I’m 20 years old. Why is a one-bedroom apartment $1,600?" one Gen-Z voter asked. "Rent prices [are] outrageous and then these jobs, they’re bare-minimum jobs."
A common theme among the voters polled was frustration at the rising cost of housing.
Two voters even acknowledged they had recently experienced homelessness. One woman said she was working full time while she was homeless, indicating it was because she had to choose between eating and having a home.
Not all Gen-Z voters are going to have the wisdom to connect those rising prices to Democrat policies.
In fact, some of the very same voters in the focus group went on to praise Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz ...Kamala's running mate, governor of Minnesota. One man's socialism is another man's neighborliness.... That said, overall, voters tend to connect the current economic conditions to the sitting president — that’s why incumbent candidates often have a hard time winning re-election during recessions.
Many have forgotten that before COVID hit, it looked like Trump was going to coast to re-election, thanks largely to the strong economy he had led thus far.
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It is great that we are ending the genocide in Paleostine, but that doesn't help in the checkout line. At some point, self interest overwhelms ideology. In the words of Karl Marx, "It's the economy, dummkopf!"
[GEO.TV] Hezbollah, the Lebanese armed group, says it has hit Israeli artillery positions in al-Zaoura in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights with rockets.
Hezbollah has claimed several attacks on Israeli positions along the Israel-Lebanon border so far today.
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[FOXNEWS] Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has promised to continue busing migrants out of his state's border towns until Biden and Harris 'do their jobs to secure the border'.
[Whatfinger] "It’s illegal, you say, for illegal aliens to vote in a federal election. Well, actually, it’s not illegal, it turns out. Congress passed something in the US code, the federal code, a line that, unbeknownst to the rest of us, makes it legal for illegal aliens to vote in federal elections if they believe they are citizens. It’s a state of mind" Founder of True The Vote, Catherine Engelbrecht found in the US Code "Non citizens can vote without penalty if at the time they are voting they believe themselves to be US citizens.
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our elections need to be normalized at the supreme court level. citizens only on paper ballots counted by hand on election day. exceptions only foe military. inked thumbs to show voted.
[ARABNEWS] Israel said it killed two senior Hamas militants in an airstrike on their car in Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, claiming they were involved in the killing of an Israeli.
A joint statement from the Israel Security Agency and the Israel Defense Forces identified the militants as Ahmed Abu Ara and Rafet Dawasi, both from the West Bank's northern district around Jenin.
In a statement, Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades military wing said it was mourning the deaths of two fighters in an Israeli air strike on their vehicle in Jenin.
The Israeli statement said the two militants were involved in planning a shooting attack last week in the West Bank's Jordan Valley where an Israeli man, Yonatan Deutsch, was killed. Israeli authorities said then that Palestinian gunmen opened fire on a main road in the occupied West Bank on Aug. 11, killing one and wounding another.
Later that day, the Al-Qassam Brigades said its West Bank-based fighters killed an Israeli soldier at point-blank range near the settlement of Mehola in the Jordan Valley and ''returned to their bases safely.''
Hamas said the operation came in retaliation for Israel's strike on a school where displaced Palestinians were sheltering in Gaza City which the civil defense service said had killed at least 90 people.
#1
The Israeli statement said the two militants were involved in planning a shooting attack last week in the West Bank's Jordan Valley where an Israeli man, Yonatan Deutsch, was killed.
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[Regnum] The former Soviet aircraft carrier Minsk caught fire in China's Susitun Park. This was reported by the Chinese publication Penpai.
There are no reports of casualties.
Earlier, on August 16, the Susitun Park Fire and Rescue Brigade reported a fire during the dismantling of an aircraft carrier, but did not specify which aircraft carrier caught fire.
The Soviet aircraft carrier Minsk was sold to a Chinese company in the 1990s and used at a theme park in Shenzhen, southern China. In 2016, the carrier was moved to Susitun Park.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on February 24, in the city of Nanjing in the province of Jiangsu in eastern China, at least 15 people died and 44 were injured as a result of a fire in a multi-story residential building. 25 units of equipment and 130 people were involved in extinguishing the fire and in the search and rescue operation.
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[Korrespondent] 13:47 Zelensky reported that he heard Syrsky's report, in particular regarding the operation in the Kursk region: "As of this morning, there is a replenishment of the exchange fund for our state. General Syrsky also reported on the strengthening of the positions of our forces in the Kursk region and the expansion of the stabilized territory."
11:51 The Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk region has disrupted secret talks with Russia on a partial ceasefire, The Wall Street Journal reports. According to the newspaper's sources, Kiev and Moscow were supposed to send delegations to Doha (Qatar) this month to negotiate a historic agreement that would stop attacks on energy and energy infrastructure on both sides. But the meeting did not take place due to Ukraine's unexpected invasion of the Kursk region. Russia did not cancel the talks immediately, but said it "needed time."
11:33 The Wall Street Journal writes that the United States does not share intelligence with Ukraine about targets in Russia, so as not to be considered a party facilitating the Ukrainian offensive. But the Ukrainian Armed Forces used American equipment during the Kursk operation. In particular, according to the publication, Ukrainian units entered Russia in American Bradley and Stryker armored vehicles. Due to the mined ground and drones in the south and east of Ukraine, Western equipment is limited in its use, but in the Kursk region, Ukrainian troops advanced practically without resistance.
The WSJ also writes that in order to avoid weakening the front line, Ukraine sent a significant number of troops from its reserve forces to Russia. Russia, in turn, withdrew several brigades from Ukraine, totaling up to 5,000 troops. However, as the newspaper notes, Russia may need more forces to stop the Ukrainian offensive.
08:50 The US Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports, citing geolocation images, that Ukrainian troops have continued to advance in the Kursk region, including southeast of Sudzha. Russian military bloggers claim that Ukrainian forces have advanced east of Myrnoye and south of Spalnoye (both southeast of Sudzha). Also, according to an analysis of open data, Ukrainian troops have recently operated within the village of Borki. In addition, fighting is ongoing north of Sudzha near Russkoye Porechnoye, east of Sudzha near Agronom, and southeast of Sudzha along the Giri-Kamyshnoye-Krupets-Spalnoye line.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
The units of the Sever Group of Forces in Volchansk and Liptsy directions have hit manpower and hardware of 43rd Mechanised, 82nd, 92nd Assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 36th Naval Infantry Brigade close to Liptsy, Izbitskoye, Bely Kolodez, and Volchansk (Kharkov region). One counterattack launched by assault detachments of the AFU 57th Motorised Infantry Brigade has been repelled.
The AFU losses were over 150 Ukrainian troops, four motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzer, and two 122mm D-30 howitzers. Polonez and Anklav-N electronic warfare stations as well as one Plastun electronic reconnaissance system have been destroyed.
The units of the Zapad Group of Forces have captured more advantageous lines and positions, defeated 14th, 30th, 44th, 67th Mechanised brigades of the AFU, 110th, 117th Territorial Defence brigades close to Sinkovka, Petropavlovka, Tabayevka (Kharkov region), Stelmakhovka, Nevskoye (Lugansk People's Republic), and Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic). Two counterattacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 116th Mechanised and 44th Airmobile brigades have been repelled.
The AFU losses were up to 580 Ukrainian troops, one U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, three U.S.-made MaxxPro armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, one Polish-made 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery system, and one 122mm D-30 howitzer. Garant and Bukovel-AD electronic warfare stations have been destroyed.
The units of the Yug Group of Forces have improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of 23rd, 54th Mechanised, 56th, 59th Mechanised, 144th Infantry, 10th Mountain Assault, 46th and 81st Airmobile brigades of the AFU near Serebryanka, Seversk, Ivano-Daryevka, Grigorovka, Chasov Yar, Krasnogorovka, Maksimilyanovka, and Konstantinovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses were up to 680 Ukrainian troops, six motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155mm M198 howitzer, two UK-made 155mm FH-70 howitzers, one 152mm D-20 howitzer, two 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems, three 122mm D-30 howitzers, and one UK-made 105mm L-119 howitzer. Four ammunition depots have been destroyed.
The units of the Tsentr Group of Forces have taken more advantageous lines, defeated 32nd, 53rd, 100th, 150th Mechanised, 68th Jaeger brigades of the AFU, and the 111th Territorial Defence Brigade near Toretsk, Artyomovo, Novgorodskoye, Zhelannoye, Kalinovo, and Novoekonomicheskoye (Donetsk People's Republic). One counterattack launched by the Lyut Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian National Police has been repelled.
The AFU losses were up to 420 Ukrainian troops, one infantry fighting vehicle, one U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carrier, three armoured fighting vehicles, five pickup trucks, one U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzer, two 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems, and two 122mm D-30 howitzers.
The units of the Vostok Group of Forces have improved the situation along the front line, defeated manpower and hardware of the AFU 58th Mechanised Infantry Brigade and the 123rd Territorial Defence Brigade near Prechistovka and Neskuchnoye (Donetsk People's Republic). One counterattack launched by an assault detachment of the AFU 72nd Mechanised Brigade has been repelled.
The AFU losses were over 105 Ukrainian troops, eight motor vehicles, and one 152mm Msta-B howitzer.
The units of the Dnepr Group of Forces have hit 65th Mechanised and 128th Mountain Assault brigades of the AFU, and the 126th Territorial Defence Brigade near Malaya Tokmachka, Pyatikhatki (Zaporozhye region), and Ivanovka (Kherson region).
The AFU losses were up to 75 Ukrainian troops, four motor vehicles, two U.S.-made M777 howitzers, and one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system. One AFU field ammunition depot have been destroyed.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have destroyed one Su-24 tactical bomber and three helicopters of the Ukrainian Air Force including two Mi-8 and Mi-17 helicopters on the airfields, two U.S.-made HIMARS multiple-launch rocket system transport-loading vehicles, four launchers, and two U.S.-made AN/MPQ-65 radar stations of the Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems, one IRMIS-T anti-aircraft missile system launcher and TRML-4D radar system as well as one S-125 anti-aircraft missile system launcher.
Four missile and artillery depots as well as clusters of enemy manpower and military hardware in 157 areas.
Air defence facilities have shot down two French-made Hammer guided aerial bombs, 10 U.S.-made HIMARS projectiles, and 35 unmanned aerial vehicles, with 10 of them hit outside the special military operation zone.
The Black Sea Fleet destroyed two uncrewed surface vehicles of the Ukrainian Navy.
In total, 639 airplanes and 282 helicopters, 30,085 unmanned aerial vehicles, 575 air defence missile systems, 17,316 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,408 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 13,352 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 24,864 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
The units of the Sever Group of Forces supported by Army Aviation and artillery actively conduct actions to search for and destroy in wooded areas mobile enemy groups that were trying to break through deep into the territory of the Russian Federation in the direction of Alekseyevsky and Kauchuk.
Attacks launched by assault detachments of 22nd, 115th Mechanised and 95th Assault brigades supported by armoured vehicles have been repelled in the direction of Korenevo, Russkoye, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye.
Aviation, artillery, and defending troops have routed the enemy.
As a result of these unsuccessful actions, the AFU lost one tank and 11 armoured fighting vehicles.
Clusters of AFU manpower and hardware of 22nd, 61st, 115th Mechanised and 82nd Air Assault brigades have been hit near Novaya Sorochina, Lyubimovka, south-east of Korenevo, Leonidovo, and Kositsa.
One Iris-T SAM system launcher and one TRML-4D multi-role radar station have been destroyed by missile strikes close to Sennoye (Sumy region).
Operational-Tactical Aviation hit reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, ammunition and fuel depots close to Kiyanitsa, Kositsa, Khoten, and Boyaro-Lezhachi (Sumy region).
The AFU losses were up to 300 Ukrainian troops, 31 armoured vehicles, including three tanks, one infantry fighting vehicle, three armoured personnel carriers, 25 armoured fighting vehicles as well as eight motor vehicles, one Iris-T SAM system, one field artillery gun, and one electronic warfare station.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the enemy lost up to 3,160 Ukrainian troops, 44 tanks, 43 armoured personnel carriers, 26 infantry fighting vehicles, 244 armoured fighting vehicles, 111 motor vehicles, five SAM launchers, six multiple-launch rocket system launchers, including three HIMARS MLRSs, 24 field artillery guns, and four electronic warfare stations.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
[GEO.TV] A senior Hamas official on Saturday dismissed optimistic talk by US President Joe Biden that a Gaza truce is nearer after negotiations in the Gulf emirate of Qatar.
"To say that we are getting close to a deal is an illusion," Hamas political bureau member Sami Abu Zuhri told AFP. "We are not facing a deal or real negotiations, but rather the imposing of American diktats."
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They're getting 500+ trucks of free stuff every day - why would they want truce?
[SUDANTRIBUNE] Four detainees from Khartoum's Tuti Island have died in Rapid Support Forces (RSF) custody, a member of the island's resistance committees told 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... Tribune on Friday.
The source, who requested anonymity, said the deaths occurred in May and were revealed by a recently released detainee who informed the families of the dear departed.
The RSF arrested a number of Tuti Island residents in April following protests sparked by the alleged rape of a girl by an RSF member. During Eid prayers, residents demanded the RSF leave the island, but the paramilitary group responded with gunfire and arrests.
Tuti Island sits at the heart of the greater Khartoum where the White Nile and Blue Nile merge to form the mighty Nile River. The island is surrounded by the three towns of the ''Triangle Capital'' Khartoum, Omdurman, and Khartoum Bahri.
The RSF has occupied Tuti Island since the conflict began in April 2023, effectively turning it into a military base and preventing residents from leaving. Around three weeks ago, the RSF allowed hundreds of families to evacuate in exchange for large sums of money.
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[GEO.TV] The Lebanese health ministry said an Israeli air strike on the south on Saturday killed 10 Syrians, as the Israeli military reported hitting weapons stores of the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement.
The death toll from the strike in the Wadi al-Kafur area of Nabatieh is one of the heaviest since Hezbollah began exchanging near-daily cross-border fire with Israeli forces after the Gaza war erupted last October.
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[FEDERALIST] The Federal Bureau of Prisons has been registering federal prisoners to vote in Alabama, according to Secretary of State Wes Allen, an effort he claims is ''illegal.''
Allen said federal prison inmates include “high percentages of noncitizens,” people “not domiciled in Alabama,” and convicts of “crimes of moral turpitude” — defined as “wicked, deviant behavior” — all of whom could be “ineligible to vote” in the state, Allen said in the statement.
''At least one liberal third-party organization has been deployed by the Federal Bureau of Prisons to conduct voter registration in federal prisons in Alabama,'' Allen said in a statement to The Federalist. ''Obviously, this raised questions for my staff and I.''
[SAHARAREPORTERS] The Sarkin Gobir of Gatawa District in Sokoto state, Alhaji Isa Muhammad Bawa, who was kidnapped by terrorists, has cried out for help in a new video released by the button men.
The Emir and his son were kidnapped in July at the Kwanar Maharba area while travelling from Sokoto to his home town, Sabon Birni, the headquarters of Sabon Birni local government of Sokoto State.
''The bandidos on sighting the Emir's vehicle, started shooting guns which resulted in the tires of the vehicle bursting, and the driver losing control of the car. This forced the car to suddenly stop,'' Gobir, one of his sons had said.
''The bandidoskidnapped the district head and his driver who happens to be his biological son.''
The abductors few days after the incident requested the sum of N1 billion as ransom for the release of the victims.
In the video released online, the monarch speaking in the Hausa language narrated how they were kidnapped by the terrorists.
He said their lives are in danger in the hands of their abductors, adding that they had been suffering in the forests where they are currently held.
Pleading for help, he urged the government to urgently come to their rescue.
Also in the video, one of the button men can be heard speaking in Hausa dictating to the victims what to say.
[FoxNews] The incident took place at around 4:30 a.m., and it is unclear if there were any injuries or how many shooters were involved
Security forces at the Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland (JBSA) returned fire early Saturday on at least one drive-by suspect who is accused of firing upon the main gate at the JBSA-Chapman Training Annex, a JBSA spokesperson tells Fox News Digital.
The officers were fired upon at around 4:30 a.m. by at least one suspect in a sedan and immediately returned fire. There were no injuries reported, and the gate was shut for a number of hours.
It is unclear how many shooters were involved and how many times they fired upon the base.
San Antonio police officers also arrived at the scene to assist in the investigation, Antosh said.
A motive for the shooting is not known. The bars and strip clubs has just closed.
The JBSA-Chapman Training Annex entry gate was closed and reopened at around 9:30 a.m. local time. Drivers were advised to use an alternate gate located north of primary on Ray Ellison Boulevard.
Lackland is home to more than 24,000 active duty members and 10,000 Department of Defense civilians, according to the base website. It includes the 37th Training Wing; 149th Fighter Wing; 59th Medical Wing; the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency; 24th Air Force Wing, 67th Network Warfare Wing; the Cryptologic Systems Group; the National Security Agency; and 70 associated units.
Security guards at the entrance to a training annex at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland twice came under fire early Saturday morning from unknown assailants. The second ambush sparked a brief gunbattle. No injuries were reported.
The first attack occurred around 2:15 a.m., when Air Force Security Forces personnel at the entrance gate of the Chapman Training Annex on the Southwest Side saw a sedan drive past and heard gunshots and the sound of bullets whistling past them, police and Air Force officials said.
The guards called for backup in case the attackers returned. Shortly before 5 a.m., the same sedan stopped just east of the gate at Ray Ellison Boulevard and Medina Base Road. "For a second time, shots were fired at the Air Force security personnel," said Sgt. Washington Moscoso, a front man for the San Antonio Police Department.
This time, the Air Force guards returned fire with their service weapons, typically 9mm handguns, and the sedan sped off. No one was injured in the exchange of gunfire, said JBSA spokeswoman Stefanie Antosh.
Police said they found shell casings near where the car had stopped, but it wasn’t known how many rounds were fired.
Antosh said there was more than one shooter in the sedan but the exact number was unknown, as was the attackers' motive. No details of the car’s make, model or color were released.
Lackland resumed normal operations. It was not clear if Air Force Security Forces would assign more personnel to the gates at Lackland and other facilities on JBSA, which include Randolph AFB, the Army’s Fort Sam Houston and the Camp Bullis training ground.
SAPD officers responded to the scene of the shooting and helped to collect evidence. The department was investigating the incident as an "aggravated assault with deadly weapon."
The Chapman Annex, located just west of Lackland’s main facilities, is the home of Air Force special warfare training. Long known as the Medina Annex, it was renamed in 2020 for Air Force Master Sgt. John Chapman, a combat air controller who was killed in a battle in Afghanistan on March 4, 2002, and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
The gate where Saturday's shooting occurred faces Valley Hi Elementary school. A display of an F-104 fighter jet stands behind the guard shack, which was attended by a lone security officer on Saturday afternoon.
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[Regnum] An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 was recorded in Kamchatka Krai on the morning of August 18. This was reported by the regional branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Preliminary, residents of the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Vilyuchinsky urban districts, Yelizovsky and Ust-Kamchatsky districts felt tremors with a force of five to seven points.
The epicenter of the earthquake was located 108 km from the regional capital.
Scientists have registered underground tremors in the Pacific Ocean, southeast of the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky urban district at a depth of 6 km.
Then there was a repeat earthquake at a distance of 116 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky with a magnitude of 4.7.
The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for Kamchatka Krai reported that there is no tsunami threat. Emergency services have begun to inspect buildings.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on the afternoon of June 29, an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 occurred off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Pacific Ocean. The epicenter of the tremors was located at a depth of 58 km, and the epicenter of the earthquake was in the Pacific Ocean at a distance of 100 km northwest of the village of Nikolskoye in the Aleutian Municipal District.
On the night of August 11, an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.7 was recorded in the Romanian county of Arad in the Banat seismic zone. The epicenter was located at a depth of 5 km. The tremor was felt within a radius of about 100 km from the epicenter.
Residents of Kiev and other Ukrainian cities noticed a falling meteor on the night of August 17. Video footage of the celestial body was published on social networks.
Residents of Ukrainian cities noticed a falling meteor in the sky
Residents of Kyiv, Kharkov, Zhitomir and other cities in Central Ukraine reported the fall of a meteorite.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on the night of May 2-3, residents of Ukraine observed a glow of unknown origin in the sky. The unusual phenomenon was noticed by residents of Kiev, Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk and western regions of Ukraine.
There are several theories about the origin of this strange glow. According to one, it could have been the launch stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket after the launch of two WorldView Legion satellites.
According to another version, the unusual aurora may be a manifestation of the polar lights, as a powerful magnetic storm hit the Earth at night. Thus, Ukrainian media suggested that the country's residents observed a "rare pink polar lights".
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[Regnum] Russian military personnel are carrying bodies of servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) out of the forests of the Kursk Region, Deputy Chief of the Main Political Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces, commander of the Akhmat special forces, Major General Apti Alaudinov, reported on Saturday, August 17, in a Telegram channel.
According to him, in the forests and forest belts of the border area of the Kursk region there are many bodies of Ukrainian soldiers, which are being carried out by servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been attacking the Kursk region since August 6. The Russian Armed Forces units stopped the Ukrainian troops in the border areas, not allowing them to go deep into the region. According to data as of August 17, the Ukrainian Armed Forces' losses amounted to 3,060 people.
On August 15, Alaudinov stated that the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region are melting away every day. According to him, what is happening in the Kursk region is a temporary initiative that the enemy has gained due to the fact that it was able to gather resources and put pressure on one area.
Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have begun to actively surrender in the Kursk region. This was stated by the commander of the special forces "Akhmat" and deputy head of the main military-political department of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Apti Alaudinov.
"We are systematically destroying the enemy. At each site, we have begun to take prisoners, and Ukrainian fighters have begun to actively surrender," RIA Novosti reports him as saying.
On August 17, Alaudinov reported that the Russian Armed Forces (RF Armed Forces) are exhausting the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region. He noted that Russian servicemen are stopping Ukrainian troops from breaking through in the Kursk direction every day, destroying enemy personnel, equipment, and reserves.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been attacking the Kursk region since August 6. Russian Armed Forces units stopped Ukrainian troops in border areas, preventing them from entering the region. The Investigative Committee reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are actively using NATO weapons in the Kursk region.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attack on the Kursk region another large-scale provocation by Kiev. According to him, the armed formations of Ukraine are conducting indiscriminate shooting from various types of weapons, attacking residential buildings, ambulances, and civilian buildings with missiles. In addition, he demanded that reliable coverage of the border with Ukraine be ensured after the enemy is driven out of Russian territory. The Russian leader noted that there can be no negotiations with those who attack civilians and nuclear power facilities.
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[Regnum] An unmanned surface vehicle of the Houthi movement Ansar Allah was destroyed by the US military in the Red Sea. This was reported on August 16 by the press service of the US Central Command (CENTCOM).
"Over the past 24 hours, US Central Command forces have successfully destroyed one Houthi unmanned surface vehicle in the Red Sea," the statement said.
It is noted that the US military considered the drone an "immediate threat" to US and coalition forces, as well as merchant ships in the region.
Earlier, Regnum news agency reported that American military personnel struck two vessels of the rebels from the Yemeni Shiite movement Ansar Allah (Houthis) in the Red Sea.
One of the ships was attacked off the coast of the Yemeni port of Hodeidah, the Royal Navy's Maritime Trade Coordination Centre reported on August 12. According to official information, the incident occurred 63 nautical miles, or about 116.6 km, southwest of Hodeidah.
Another attack on a British vessel took place on August 3. The attack took place 170 nautical miles southwest of Aden in Yemen.
As the conflict in the Middle East escalated, the Houthis warned that they would not allow ships linked to Israel to pass through the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait until the operation in the Palestinian enclave was stopped. Since November 2023, the Houthis have attacked dozens of civilian vessels. In response to the Houthis' actions, the United States and its allies began retaliatory strikes against Yemeni rebel positions in January 2024.
[Regnum] The object with which two unknown persons tried to enter the territory of the Muslim complex of the Cathedral Mosque in Moscow turned out to be a souvenir and does not pose a danger, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the capital's main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
“During the inspection it was established that this item is a souvenir and does not pose any danger,” the agency’s source said.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, security guards at the Moscow Cathedral Mosque detained two Turkish citizens with an object resembling a grenade on August 17. The detainees were handed over to law enforcement officers.
Testing?
In August, an 18-year-old attacker was detained in northwestern Turkey after he attacked people in the courtyard of the Eskisehir-Tepebashi mosque with a knife and an axe. He managed to injure five people before being captured and neutralized. The attacker broadcast his actions on social media. Two of the victims were in critical condition.
On June 16, 2023, two men who threw a grenade onto the police station grounds were detained in the city of Tynda in the Amur Region. One of the men threw the grenade over the fence, onto the police station grounds, and the second filmed the incident on video, which was then distributed on social media.
In November 2023, in Dzerzhinsky, Moscow Region, a man came to a Muslim prayer house with a fake grenade during prayer. The attacker was detained when he was about to pull out the ring. As noted in the reports, earlier that day, while intoxicated, the man stole the fake from a barber shop.
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Think Mother's (NO CBD sandwich shop turned tourist megadestination) had one like that. "Please take a number!" Up near the "Our credit manager is Helen Waite" sign?
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[REGNUM] At nine in the morning — unloading a car with humanitarian aid, two Gazelles arrive from Saratov. Then you need to take teapots to those evacuated from the border area. At three in the afternoon — signing with your beloved girl, in other words — marriage. And at six — again going for people, helping them get out. This is the work schedule of volunteer Sergei Makarov, who has been working in the Kursk region for 10 days already. This is quite common in the Novorossia region, where for the last 10 years Russian retired military raise funds and distribute aid to civilians and others suffering from the near constant Ukrainian artillery fire. Continued on Page 49
[NYPOST] Israeli soldiers inspecting an underground Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... compound earlier this year allegedly uncovered the terror group’s grisly plot to exhume British and Commonwealth World War I and II soldiers buried 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.
Hatched in 2022, the seven-page plan apparently called for Hamas to dig up the soldiers’ bodies and hold their remains hostage, the Telegraph reported.
The Israeli Defense Forces claims the plot was conceived as a way to keep the UK from moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a move announced by then-British Prime Minister Liz Truss.
The Hamas plan, the IDF contends, was concocted by the terror group’s leader Yahya Sinwar and the its military commander, Muhammad Deif, who was killed in a July Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... A little more than 3,000 Christian and Jewish British soldiers are interred in a cemetery in central Gaza.
Many of the British soldiers laid to rest there died fighting the Ottomans in 1917.
The terror group also reportedly planned on demanding UK officials relocate the soldiers’ bodies, or pay them "lease fees" retroactive to 1917.
"If the British government does not meet the aforementioned demands, the Gaza Municipality will act to remove all the corpses from the cemeteries and collect them in a special location by judicial order, declaring that the corpses are considered captive until a solution or deal is found," read part of Hamas’ plan, which was shared with The Telegraph.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[Treehouse] One of the great mysteries about the January 6, 2021, events is the lack of curiosity by the FBI about who planted the pipe bombs at the DNC and RNC headquarters. Amid all of the available CCTV video and surveillance technology exploited by the justice department, their transparent unwillingness to identify the pipe bomber has always been a dog that did not bark.
[TCN] Whistleblowers Calley and Casey Means expose how Big Pharma co-opted government agencies and the food industry to poison America and keep us sick.
...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland...
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
[SAHARAREPORTERS] Gunmen attacked a police checkpoint beside the Nnobi Police Station at Nnobi/Nkpor Road in 
[NYPOST] Anti-Israel radicals at 
...every time you hear the phrase 
The United States 
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...Kamala's running mate, governor of Minnesota. 
[FOXNEWS] Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has promised to continue busing migrants out of his state's border towns until Biden and Harris 'do their jobs to secure the border'.
[Whatfinger] "It’s illegal, you say, for illegal aliens to vote in a federal election. Well, actually, it’s not illegal, it turns out. Congress passed something in the US code, the federal code, a line that, unbeknownst to the rest of us, makes it legal for illegal aliens to vote in federal elections if they believe they are citizens. It’s a state of mind" Founder of 
...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...
[FoxNews] The incident took place at around 4:30 a.m., and it is unclear if there were any injuries or how many shooters were involved
[FoxNews] The mobile health clinic will roll into Chicago, Aug. 19-20.
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
