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Venezuelan style elections?
Breaking News: In Wayne County Michigan, over 700 Republicans applied to be poll watchers and out of the 2,350 poll watchers they hired, only 50 out of the 700+ applicants were Republicans.
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A long time ago a number of republicans in swing states should have registered as Democrats. Play the long game people. Maybe you'll even get the other team to elect you if you say the right things. Doesn't matter if they toss you out after one term you will have done your job and gotten juicy gov retirement. I'm pretty sure this has been the Dem gameplan for decades.
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#5. A long time ago, you should've passed a law that poll watchers should be representatives of each party. Nominated by the party, not some bureaurat.
Her hair is Harlow gold
Her lips, a sweet surprise
Her hands are never cold
She's got Bette Davis eyes
She'll turn the music on you
You won't have to think twice
She's pure as New York snow
She got Bette Davis eyes
And she'll tease you
She'll unease you
All the better just to please you
She's precocious
And she knows just what it takes to make a pro blush
She got Greta Garbo stand-off sighs
She's got Bette Davis eyes
She'll let you take her home
It whets her appetite
She'll lay you on a throne
She got Bette Davis eyes
She'll take a tumble on you
Roll you like you were dice
Until you come up blue
She's got Bette Davis eyes
She'll expose you
When she snows you
Off your feet with the crumbs she throws you
She's ferocious
And she knows just what it takes to make a pro blush
All the boys think she's a spy
She's got Bette Davis eyes
And she'll tease you
She'll unease you
All the better just to please you
She's precocious
And she knows just what it takes to make a pro blush
All the boys think she's a spy
She's got Bette Davis eyes
She'll tease you
She'll unease you
Just to please you
She's got Bette Davis eyes
She'll expose you
When she snows you
'Cause she knows you
She's got Bette Davis eyes
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DETROIT — Michigan’s biggest city hasn’t met its legal duty to hire roughly equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans as election inspectors, the local, state and national GOP argue in a lawsuit filed Friday.
[HeadlineUSA] Shorty after the publication of this article, Blaze Media published a clarification that the pipe bomb suspect seen walking by the Capitol Hill Club was not the same person who walked towards Capitol Police vehicles minutes later. Blaze’s report has come under intense criticism, but Headline USA will leave this article intact so readers can judge the evidence for themselves.
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Blaze Media has published possibly groundbreaking footage that shows the suspected J6 pipe bomber seemingly interacting with Capitol Police the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill uprising.
The footage reportedly comes from Capitol Police CCTV files recently made public by the Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight. The specific finding was made by the social media user "Armitas," according to Blaze.
"The alleged bomber emerged onto First Street Southeast from an alley between the Capitol Hill Club and the Republican National Committee at 8:14 p.m. Jan. 5. The suspect walked north past the Capitol Hill Club. As the individual passed under the restaurant’s green awning at 8:14:30 p.m., a Capitol Police SUV turned the corner onto First Street. The alleged bomber waved at the squad car and then pointed — it appeared — at the driver as the vehicle passed by," Blaze reported.
[ABC] Many healthy people have immunity from vaccines and previous infection.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved an updated COVID-19 shot for everyone 6 months old and up, which renews a now-annual quandary for Americans: Get the shot now, with the latest COVID outbreak sweeping the country, or hold it in reserve for the winter wave?
The new vaccine should provide some protection to everyone. But many healthy people who have already been vaccinated or have immunity because they've been exposed to COVID enough times may want to wait a few months.
COVID has become commonplace. For some, it's a minor illness with few symptoms. Others are laid up with fever, cough, and fatigue for days or weeks. A much smaller group -- mostly older or chronically ill people -- suffer hospitalization or death.
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I learned a new word today, and one amazingly apt for where we are as a nation whose government and media are so adversarial as they commit misprision!
"Misprision -the deliberate concealment of one's knowledge of a treasonable act or a felony."
[FoxNews] House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., issued a stark warning against Vice President Kamala Harris, arguing she knew the "entire time" that President Biden was "checked out" as the U.S. faces a series of domestic challenges and threats from across the globe.
Johnson joined "Fox & Friends" to discuss the administration's failure to handle various domestic and foreign issues as Biden jet sets to the beach in Delaware and Harris campaigns ahead of the November election.
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Actually, your adversaries should fear her more than Biden (or Reagan) because (IMO*) she's borderline psychotic and go full delusion of infallibility if elected.
*She reminds me of a female professor I worked for once.
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"They have no shame. You saw that on display at the Democratic National Convention. They're engaging in fantasy over fact," Johnson said. "We've got to make sure people understand... You can't make an emotional decision here. You have got to make a decision based on their record and not their rhetoric. They're saying things that are patently untrue. They're gaslighting the American people, and they expect that, I guess, that the people are not intelligent enough to figure this out."
My biggest fear is that too many people rely on corporate media for their information and they are NOT intelligent to figure it out.
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I don't think our adversaries should fear Kamala Harris any more or less than Biden. They are both doing exactly what they're told by whoever their puppet master is.
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My biggest fear is that too many people rely on corporate media
How about all the people who are part of the current arrangement?
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I don't think our adversaries should fear Kamala Harris any more or less than Biden. They are both doing exactly what they're told by whoever their puppet master is.
This is true but there are still some 'ceremonial' roles for such an arrangement.
Diplomatic and Policy detente. The ability to sell the program, and/or give give covering face to those involved. Say for example, the US and Iran find a diplomatic solution to current events, and a weak US president gets on TV and crows about victory, how would Iran handle such internal and international embarrassment seeming to cave?
Selling the results of a policy result to the general population.
Not saying something stupid which derails happenings. When Brandon slipped up, everyone just kind of well gramps needs his keys taken away. Saying the quiet part out loud is the meme; but remember when NATO was all lined up to provide air cover in an assault against Team Assad back in the Obama tenure for allegedly using chemical weapons, and John Kerry, billed as smartest person in the room, accidentally gave an out 'well the only way is if all of Assad's chem weapons would be destroyed.'? And Russia was like, absolutely that can be done. Air totally went out of the balloon for such an action.
These are reasons why I think Harris is best case scenario, because even if they pull the cheat I don't think she (or Michelle) could possibly pull off these requirements.
Sheet mohn, even Oprah's wig couldn't pull off the catlady joke.
Long. Information dense. Links to things you probably want to see, dear Reader. Important enough, it seems to me, to go to the link to download and save the whole thing as a PDF or something for future reference.
[ElizabethNickson] There are 1000 ways to commit election fraud and we know all of them.
After engineer and data scientist Kim Brooks worked on cleaning the voter rolls in Georgia for a year, she realized she was on a stationary bicycle. She’d clear a name for various reasons, dead, felon, stolen ID, living at a seasonal campground for twenty years, duplicate, moved out of state, 200 years old, etc., and back it would come within a month. At that juncture she realized that a program within the Georgia voter registration database was methodically adding back fake names.
She looked deeper. For new registrants, the culprit was principally Driver’s Services creating new registrations and in this case, the manufacturer was a person, or persons. Within the government office, someone was stealing names and duplicating, even tripling that person’s vote and then forging their signature. Sometimes it was someone who just died, or a teacher who had no voting record. In the case of a nurse who died in 2022 with three registrations, she was registered to vote in two counties, and all three of her voted in the 2022 election and the 2024 primary. Each signature was slightly different, the last three letters spelled, ly, ley, and lley
This operation works under AVR, or automatic voter registration, and is being used to register migrants. They will not vote, but their names have been entered into the Voter Registration database when they apply for a driver’s license and their vote will be voted for them. I imagine that this is repeating something everyone knows, but the borders are open for precisely this reason, so the Democrat/RINO machine can steal their votes. By the way, the process for advancing permanent residency has been cut from 11 months to two.
In 2020, twenty states used operation AVR. Of those, Trump lost 18.
That’s because there are registration fraud rings, as identified in the Arabella doc. and in the work of Omega4America. This worked well in Michigan, where, according to Captain Seth Keshel, who is one of the leads on this fight, believes that Trump likely got 576,443 more votes than were counted and won Michigan by 8.5%.
Every state is host to a dozen or more NGO’s which do nothing but fill out ballots for the faked registrants. Peter Bernegger’s team in Wisconsin has video of NGO functionaries doing just that in Wisconsin in 2020 at 1 am, early morning after Election Day.
Seth works with demographic trends and does detailed statistical analysis; travelling almost ceaselessly to teach Americans how to stop the cheat.
A name to note, for those who want to do something useful beyond or in addition to poll watching this November.
AVR was launched in Michigan, after Trump’s win in 2016. By 2020 there were 547,460 net new registrants in Michigan. Today, more voters are registered to vote than there are people old enough to vote. Keshel:
That means 83.5% of Michigan's population is registered to vote. Pennsylvania claims 8,826,265 registered voters with a population of 12,961,683 per the same estimate used above. That means a paltry 68.1% of Pennsylvania's population is registered to vote, and that Automatic Voter Registration was needed there to boost the rolls and the follow-on phantom votes. Finaly, Wisconsin claims 3,456,732 registered voters with a population of 5,910,955. Only 58.5% of Wisconsin's population is registered to vote, a number that fits within the trend line of states not operating Automatic Voter Registration, and also highlighting why I think Wisconsin will be the easiest of this trio for Trump to carry. Another important thing to keep in mind when highlighting this sort of corruption is that 22.1% of the population is under 18, and therefore not eligible to cast a vote. The Census Bureau also counts illegal aliens and non-citizens in the totals and in many states felons can't vote ever again or at…
Per Keshel’s analysis, the Democrats and RINOs are frantically operating a dying political coalition which began to shift hard after Obama’s performance in his first four years, when not only did nothing change for the working class, it worsened. Democrat registrations in Michigan collapsed to the point where the Dems lost 16,000 as of 2016. Enter AVR and boom, 500+K new registrants.
What we are observing is a coalition shift from wised up voters recognizing that the Uniparty is there to serve itself. And the Uniparty is fighting back hard. While most of this steal is operated out of the Democrat political shops, the RINOS are all in, and I suspect embedded deep in Trump’s campaign. Easier to loot the public during a Democrat regime while voicing all the right frustrations very very loudly, with a subtext of extreme weakness, requiring ever more money.
Bernegger, who is one face of the fight in Wisconsin, says swings used to be much wider as voters became disgusted by one party, and hundreds of thousands would shift, but now they are won within 1-2%, even less, which is why swing states and particularly pivot counties are won by four or five digits, not six. And by 11,000, not 90,000. There are just so many votes NGO’s can manufacture, no matter how hard they work. And work they do, as soon as they determine the number of votes from the voting machines in the late hours of voting day. Hence the panicked, simultaneous, across-the-swing-states voting shutdown in 2020.
Everyone who has dug into election fraud has come to the same conclusion. At the coal face, with the assistance of literally tens of thousands of NGO’s funded by the usual suspects, the government is running the show. The county clerks, the lawyers and judges, various functionaries are the ones stealing the election. Some of them are unwitting, many not. All are breaking federal law.
THE GEORGIA NERDS
Kim Porter is the face of the Georgia Nerds.
“We are a group of data scientists and engineers and we have read half a million lines of code. Our sourcing is entirely from the Secretary of State’s data and we use multiple official government records to compare and contrast. Many of us are anonymous. Last week, one of our members, a member of the GOP, stole our database under the direction of the assistant head of the GOP in Georgia. And he refuses to give it back. The GOP want us to stop. We have to get along, we have to trust, we have to shut up…..”
She grins. “We have our work on servers in several states, and in each state there are back-ups.”
“We saw criminal patterns in the 2020 election which were not checked, so they continue. We observed the same pattern in 2022, and the 2024 primaries are ugly.
“In our recent primary in Georgia,” Kim says, “not one elected candidate won fairly. We have the wrong people running. Votes were manipulated in all of Georgia’s 159 counties.”
Porter reports multiple schemes using the deceased, the non-voting, and felons on the voter rolls. “We studied these until we realized it was a computer program stealing the IDs, changing the street, changing their status. They manipulate dates, backdating registrations, but the registration lists are updated every two months and they don’t appear on those old lists.”
They steal an individual’s driver’s license number, her social security number, her birthdate, her height and weight, stay the same, but the address will be fake and so would the signature.
“Generally they use people who don’t vote. They change a street number, a county, a signature: “But only a little fake, in the case of a nurse whose vote was stolen three times over, the last three letters of the signature were changed: ly, ley, lly…”
Each instance of identity theft is criminal; the fine is $50,000.
After the 2020 vote, registrants, whose voter history showed they had only voted in the 2020 election, were cancelled, only to reappear for 2022. “Votes are being deleted, swapped and diluted before , during and after an election.”
Wherever you look in the swing states, and unnervingly in the not-swing states, the same pattern is emerging. Especially in the south, where the left’s stated goal is to overwhelm what they call the “new confederacy”.
Lori Tullos, once military intelligence, is a plaintiff and with precision, she explains her case here.
The bureaucracy, elected officials, the Dems and RINOs are stealing every election down to county supervisor, county clerk. Every seat is gamed to the max.
In Wisconsin the bulldog on Adderall is Peter Bernegger. The writer closes with:
I am pretty sure all hell is going to break loose in November. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are working to prevent the cheat, the Trump team is fielding 100,000 observers alone. But the regime is ahead of them by miles and is funded by an estimated $4 billion. Equally, if they lose a lot of them will be charged with election crimes. Absurdistan plans to cover this story relentlessly, because we are supremely pissed off. If the decision takes three months after November, because of the challenges, if you come here, you will know what is happening.
[RedState] Do you think the DNC went well? I'm not sure the Democrats did. Reading between the lines of what was said and done between all that "joy," I think the Democrats are panicking, and for good reason. They aren't selling themselves well.
If you think this is good, I've got sour news for you. This is the kind of thing that spurs Democrats into action. They live by the mantra "by any means necessary," and if the Democrats are the cornered animal they're hinting they are, then they're about to resort to some really brutal tactics to hold onto power.
The signs are all there. Bizarre time change-ups, internal discord, Democrats avoiding each other, sudden and out-of-place displays of patriotism, speech disruptions, and a presidential candidate that they had to force into the position of nominee by abandoning the Democracy they claim to defend. Even as CNN contributor Scott Jennings noted, noticeably absent from all the speeches and talks was an explanation as to why the country is in the state it is after Democrats have been in control for 12 of the past 16 years.
Moreover, as the DNC went on, a lot of claims were made that were disproven in real-time. Social media denizens and news sites alike watched the proceedings like hawks, calling out Democrats when they pushed lie after lie.
It had a very interesting effect, and while it will take days for polls to catch up, you could see just how much damage people telling the truth and exposing the facts were doing to the Democrat Party and Harris in particular by looking at websites like Polymarket. The website, which allows for betting on everything from sports to politics, prominently displays the 2024 presidential election. Harris led Trump in terms of favorability for a while, but now Trump is on top.
Interestingly, that switch happened during the DNC.
The Democrats see all this info and more and aren't going to take this lightly. As they feel the wall at their back, they're going to start lashing out, but don't think they're lashing out alone. They will have their allies in the corporate media and Silicon Valley pulling out all the stops to make sure that the party and Harris look as good as possible in order to fool people into believing she's not the communist she actually is.
As I've covered before, Harris and her VP pick Tim Walz are big fans of censorship and coming down on free speech. Both are on record proclaiming that they will come down on what they call "misinformation" and "hate speech," and they will make themselves the arbiter of what defines those terms.
You and I know how far they're willing to go because we witnessed it in real-time. The Hunter Biden laptop story, Tulsi Gabbard's Google results, and even various attempts to discredit and silence RedState have all come at the hands of the Democrat Party allies who are bent on seeing to it that the Democrats have every advantage. Google even tried to suppress information about the attempted assassination of Trump.
[JPost] NO
Among what officials call "concessions," is included "Israel's gradual withdrawal from the Philadelphi Corridor during the first phase of the agreement."
Sunday's hostage deal negotiation talks focused on the "concessions on Israel's side which the mediators believe may lead Hamas to agree to a deal," according to a Monday report by the pro-Hezbollah Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, citing sources familiar with the subject.
Among what officials call "concessions" are "Israel's gradual [partial] withdrawal from the Philadelphi Corridor during the first phase of the agreement," alongside "a promise that no construction work will be carried out on the corridor or attempts to change the existing situation." to allow Hamas to rearm
At the same time, a "land corridor" will allow the IDF troops to move and reach the area quickly.
Israel rejected the mediators' proposals to resolve the disputes. The Israeli delegation stated it did not have sufficient authority to accept or reject the proposals and that it needed to discuss them with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
ISRAELI DELEGATION TO MEET WITH NETANYAHU
Despite this, the round of talks is expected to continue on Monday with in-depth discussions with the Israeli delegation after it meets with Netanyahu and returns with final answers.
The current efforts of the mediators are focused on "a return to the previous agreement that Hamas agreed to, with minor changes, including a gradual and not complete withdrawal from the Strip, in exchange for clear Israeli flexibility regarding the return of the displaced to the north of Gaza."
The US has offered a revised proposal that will be discussed in detail at Monday's meetings.
Although "many of the details are pending Israel's final answer," Cairo still refers to the "optimism" promoted by Washington about reaching an agreement soon as "an attempt at internal political exploitation in the US in preparation for the presidential elections."
As for the Rafah crossing, the discussions on the issue reached the same conclusions as the previous ones, which link its reopening to "restoring Palestinian control over it."
Lots of promises have been made about controlling immigration in recent years. Let’s see if this time he actually follows through.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz
…Social Democrat, Angela Merkel’s Number 2, then slid into her place when she retired. He was a Marxist in his youth, but charmingly claims to have outgrown it after making “almost all possible mistakes at some point"…
vowed to step up deportations and bring down irregular migration on Monday during a visit to the city of Solingen, where three people were killed in a mass stabbing over the weekend.
"This was terrorism, terrorism against us all," Scholz told reporters in the western city after laying a flower at the site of the attack in memory of the victims.
The attack, which investigators believe was carried out by a suspected Islamic State member from Syria, has fueled political tensions over asylum and deportation rules as well as violent crime ahead of three state elections next month.
[Breitbart] Stay in your lane, Francis
ROME — Europe is experiencing a crisis evidenced by a "wave of populism" that threatens European universality, Pope Francis warned Saturday.
In a message to participants in the European Alpbach Forum, an Austrian nonprofit foundation advocating a strong and democratic Europe, the pontiff said that Europe is "experiencing a time of crisis," a time "in which various populist movements are enjoying great popularity."
In Europe, "as a result of this ’wave’ of populism, some ideals have vanished and some principles, with regard to behavior towards the weaker members of society, have been sidelined," he added.
The pope was no doubt referring to the many conservative populist movements enjoying increased favor in European nations such as Italy, France, Poland, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, and Hungary.
Francis has never attempted to disguise his contempt for right-leaning populism, and in 2019 famously said that citizens of European nations should put the good of Europe before that of their own countries.
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With all due respect, how about excommunicating some of those 'Catholic' supporters of butchering babies? Ever ask yourself why there's a wall around the Vatican?
#5
"...Some ideals have vanished and some principles with regard to...the weaker members of society"--you mean like freedom of speech, of religion, and association? Those "ideals" you godless bastard?
[NY Post] Sen. Ron Johnson accused the FBI and Secret Service of stonewalling a Senate probe of last month’s assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.
Johnson (R-Wis.), who is part of a bipartisan Senate investigation into the attempt on Trump’s life, argued that the bureau and Secret Service have complicated the probe by giving them redacted documents, often on the day of key interviews.
"All I can really tell you is the Secret Service, FBI are basically dragging their feet. They’re stonewalling us," Johnson vented on Fox News’ "Sunday Morning Futures."
"We’re not getting squat, from my standpoint, from the Secret Service or the FBI. We have requested all their 302s, their transcriptions of their interviews with hundreds of individuals. They’re not turning those over to us as well."
A bevy of organizations is probing how Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was able to crawl up onto a rooftop on July 13 and fire off eight shots, including one that clipped and drew blood from Trump’s right ear.
The shooting killed firefighter Corey Comperatore, 50, and left two other rally attendees — David Dutch, 57, and James Copenhaver, 74 — severely wounded. Crooks was killed by law enforcement.
"If you want to design an investigation to raise suspicions and drive conspiracy theories, this is exactly how you do that investigation," Johnson added. "It was just jaw-dropping that they released the body for cremation before anybody’s seen any autopsy or toxicology reports."
"It’s just driving suspicion and conspiracy theories."
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chair Gary Peters (D-Mich.) is helming an inquiry into the assassination attempt in the upper chamber. Johnson was previously chair of that committee.
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We know a lot more than they provided to us for the JFK assassination. It took place 60+ years ago and we are still waiting to read and see whom in DC were the planners and the Grassy Knoll shooters.
[NY Post] Karma is a bitch Karmala?
Maybe there was a surprise guest at the Democratic National Convention after all.
Multiple attendees at the convention in Chicago last week subsequently tested positive for the COVID-19 respiratory illness, as health officials worry about infections spiking across the country.
"When you spend five days in Chicago for the DNC and come home with COVID-19. Womp womp," Christopher Wiggins, a reporter at The Advocate, an LGBTQ magazine, posted on X.
Several others also shared their diagnosis on social media. See Monkeypox
"Indeed. I arrived at the DNC healthy and hopeful and left very sick and disillusioned," human rights lawyer Yasmine Taeb wrote on X.
"Oh man! I brought home so much sweet swag from the DNC! Coffee mugs, stickers, t-shirts, poster, buttons, bags, pins, and....COVID! SWEET!" "On Democracy Pod" host Fred Wellman exclaimed.
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About monkeypox: although the infection is ugly and distressing (not to mention revealing about behaviours that in too much of the world are safer left unannounced), would it — like Dr. Edward Jenner discovered about milkmaids and cowpox — confer immunity to the much nastier smallpox?
Interestingly, according to the FDA they approved a joint smallpox/monkeypox vaccine in 2019 — for at-risk adults only — in response to the first reported monkeypox outbreak in the US, which occurred in 2003 and was the first reported outbreak outside of Africa.
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Separately, reportedly this month’s version of Covid is short but nasty. I wonder how many of this year’s DNC participants will risk returning in the future?
[NY Post] The sound of explosions rang out in central Kyiv on Monday morning during rush hour as Ukraine’s military warned of a massive Russian missile and drone attack following waves of drone attacks in the early hours.
The air force told Ukrainians Russia had 11 TU-95 strategic bombers in the air and confirmed the launch of a number of missiles.
Outside the Ukrainian capital, Reuters reporters heard the sound of air defenses engaging targets.
Local authorities reported explosions in the northwestern city of Lutsk and said that an apartment block had been damaged and that they were verifying possible casualties.
The Operational Command of the Polish armed forces said on X that Polish and allied aircraft had been activated after Russia launched the attack which also targeted regions in Ukraine’s west and near the Polish border.
Ukrainians have been expecting a major Russian missile attack for some time.
The US embassy issued a warning last week of an elevated risk of attack around Ukrainian Independence Day, which Ukraine marked on Saturday.
Ukraine has itself stepped up its long-range drone attacks on Russia to try hit back at Moscow, which launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
"The desire to destroy our energy will cost the Russians dearly: their infrastructure," Andriy Yermak, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff, said on Telegram, apparently vowing retaliation.
Russia launched two waves of drone attacks earlier on Monday, Ukraine’s military said, with initial information showing no damage or casualties.
Up to 10 drones were destroyed on their approach to the city in the region around Kyiv at about 0230 GMT, Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s military administration, said on the Telegram messaging app.
There was no immediate comment from Russia.
Both Russia and Ukraine deny targeting civilians.
Each says its attacks are aimed at destroying infrastructure key to the other’s war effort.
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This was a massive attack striking entire Ukrainian country. During the day. Full view. No defense to speak of. No let up. Russian tempo will only continue and increase.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) threatened on Saturday to declare a government in the capital Khartoum if the army continues to refuse negotiations to end their 16-month conflict.
The RSF, led by General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, said such a move would aim to protect civilians and delegitimize army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who they claim controls only 20% of Sudan.
''The army's refusal to negotiate could lead to the declaration of a government in Khartoum,'' said Elbasha Mohmed Tbaeq, an advisor to Daglo, in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
He accused the army and its allies of ignoring the humanitarian crisis and prioritizing a return to power, even at the cost of the Sudanese people and the potential fragmentation of the country.
Al-Bashir said a potential RSF-led government would establish diplomatic relations, create a banking system, and open markets for exports in areas under its control.
''All options are open in the coming weeks,'' he warned.
The threat comes as Burhan, in a separate press conference, indicated a willingness to form a transitional technocratic government.
[NY Post] A British safety adviser working with a team of journalists was killed after a Russian missile struck a hotel in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, Reuters news agency confirmed.
Ryan Evans, 38, was staying at the Hotel Sapphire with colleagues in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region when it was hit by a Russian missile Saturday night.
Two other members of the six-person Reuters crew were hospitalized with injuries.
Local officials said the hotel was struck by an Iskander-M Russian ballistic missile, leaving the reporters with blast injuries, concussions and cuts on the body.
Associated Press reporters at the scene described the hotel as "rubble," with excavators being used to clear debris hours after the attack.
Besides the hotel, a nearby multistory building was also destroyed, said Donetsk regional Gov. Vadym Filashkin.
Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region also came under Russian fire, resulting in multiple civilian injuries, regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov wrote on the Telegram messaging app Sunday.
In Kharkiv’s Chuhuiv region, five people were injured, including a 4-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl, after two houses were hit by a Russian strike.
In Kharkiv city, eight people were wounded when a two-story house was set on fire by a Russian attack.
In Russia, five people died in Ukrainian shelling in of the border region of Belgorod, officials said Sunday.
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When I served during Intifada I, I often fantasized about killing western journalists.
A precise missile strike in Kramatorsk destroyed a hotel where Ukrainian Armed Forces militants and mercenaries were staying
The Russian Armed Forces launched a missile strike on a hotel in Kramatorsk (northern DPR), where Ukrainian Armed Forces militants and mercenaries were accommodated.
The enemy publishes footage of the aftermath of the strike.
The region's occupation authorities claim that foreign journalists were living there, two of whom were wounded.
When I was in we had a saying that if you saw a soldier with an RPG pointed at you and a cameraman with a camera pointed at you, shoot the cameraman as their weapon does more damage.
[AFRICANEWS] It was another dramatic night on the central Mediterranean Sea on Friday with NGO Doctors Without Borders rescuing nearly 200 migrants colonists in five operations.
One of the survivors said they had spent four days stranded at sea after the boat they were on suffered engine failure.
Some people in distress on a fibreglass boat had to be plucked from the water.
A total of 191 migrants colonists were brought to safety on board the NGOs ship, Geo Barents, which is now sailing towards the Italian port of Salerno.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people attempt to reach Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... from North Africa by crossing the Mediterranean Sea.
The UN's International Organization for Migration's Missing Migrants Project found that 3,041 people were dead or went missing in the Mediterranean last year.
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[Regnum] Terminals 2 and 3 of Orly Airport in Paris were evacuated on the evening of August 25 due to a bomb threat, the newspaper Parisien reported, citing sources.
“The complainant called and said that he had planted a bomb in the airport toilet,” the publication quoted the source as saying. "I just had Taco Bell. Nobody is safe!"
He said that the anonymous message was received at 18:00 local time (19:00 Moscow time). The premises are being examined by specialized teams with dog handlers.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on August 6, a stampede occurred at the Koltsovo airport in Yekaterinburg due to panic caused by one of the passengers. Two people were injured as a result. Presumably, the incident occurred due to a loud noise from a falling trash can.
In April, Bullund Airport in Denmark was evacuated due to a bomb threat. Security forces detained a man and an investigation was launched.
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[ColonelCassad] FORMING NEW GOALS AND OBJECTIVES.
In a New Era of Strategic Competition, the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has identified Russia and China as equal (or close to it) adversaries. At the same time, American strategists clearly understand that the confrontation will be long-term and costly, and the future operating environment will be determined by the expansionist aspirations of all major participants.
According to USSOCOM, in the "new era" of strategic competition, gaining the upper hand in the "gray zone" without allowing a direct clash for as long as necessary will be a "victory" in the new sense. At the same time, the command proposes to significantly reform the US SOF and organize military construction, identifying critically important geographic regions where the confrontation will correspond to the national interests of the United States.
To do this, it is proposed to:
- identify geographic regions and assets of strategic value;
- define US policy regarding strategic competition in the "gray zone";
- involve additional sources, organizations and specialists from the civilian sector of allies in the analysis and assessment.
USSCOM reformers believe that setting new priorities for US special operations forces will allow them to outperform China and Russia in the short term, from superiority in regions of confrontation to successful containment of armed conflicts.
USSOCOM proposes to define a policy of strategic competition "in the gray zone", additionally defining an acceptable level of competition for economic influence, natural resources, reserves of rare earth metals and control over global supply chains. Currently, the SOF command has already taken the initiative to develop and consolidate information and expert assessments in the field of strategic competition and the dynamics of escalation of conflicts in regions of interest.
At the same time, USSOCOM is already attracting independent experts to its work who are able to give a clear assessment of the effectiveness of investments in a particular direction in the confrontation, which in the long-term rivalry, in their opinion, will allow more successful use of available forces and resources to achieve their strategic goals. This will also allow the SOF command to most effectively set goals that will correspond to the strategic plan as a whole.
DEVELOPING SCENARIOS AND STRATEGY OF ACTION.
USSCOM, unlike the aged vultures on Capitol Hill, understands very well that US resources are currently limited, and offers several scenarios for how the situation might develop:
- In the first scenario, the US retains a strategic and technical advantage, but at a cost that is much higher than necessary;
- In the second scenario, the US again retains a strategic advantage, but is unable to create favorable conditions for achieving global goals;
- In the third scenario, the US resources used for strategic competition have a limited strategic impact. Therefore, these resources are better used to quickly acquire new technologies and innovations.
Given that USSOCOM analysts emphasize the limited strategic capabilities of the United States in each of the scenarios, imposing the old approach to competition with potential adversaries, in their opinion, will be ineffective. Instead of competing in all areas, it is proposed to strengthen only those in which the United States is traditionally strongest, i.e. unmanned technologies, computing power, AI, space, etc. So, everything?
Thus achieving global leadership and creating an overwhelming imbalance with the enemy.
As a simple and primitive example, we can observe the use of the simplest FPV drone technology, which has significantly limited the use of combat equipment in conflict zones. USSOCOM leadership has already indicated its intention to focus on innovations to strengthen the US position in gray zones around the world. USSOCOM will also prepare for the outbreak of conflict, including aggression against a US ally or international partner, such as Ukraine.
In accordance with the new strategic approach, the US Special Operations Forces will also be tasked with deterring adversaries, meaning great powers, from unleashing large-scale armed conflicts. The tasks will include collecting information on preparations for the conflict, assessing the operating environment and taking preventive actions that prevent the enemy from focusing on implementing their plans. A thinly guised Phoenix Program, for the next generation of Congress, et. al. who may have forgotten.
That is, using small forces and proxies to create hotbeds of tension that will prevent larger-scale actions from starting. That is, from creating man-made disasters to implementing the concept of indirect control over strategic infrastructure facilities of international importance, political and economic blackmail, etc. Most likely, we are now seeing the initial testing of this approach in the Kursk region.
The US National Security Strategy, adopted in 2022, states that the main priority of the United States will be deterring aggression while being ready to engage in armed conflict under the best possible conditions, giving priority to confrontation with China in the Indo-Pacific region and with Russia in Europe. In implementing this strategy, USSOCOM is defined as one of the most important roles, using limited resources to create conditions for effective action, preventing a full-scale conflict before favorable conditions for its beginning.
RESULTS AND FUTURE USE OF US SOF IN THE GLOBAL CONFRONTATION.
Significant changes are currently taking place that may lead to unpredictable events in world politics, and this is one of the reasons for the reorientation and reform of USSOCOM from the global fight against terrorism to strategic actions. It is assumed that now the US SOF command will focus on new areas of activity.
- Countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. USSOCOM will prioritize countering state and non-state structures and their attempts to acquire, develop and deploy weapons of mass destruction. The United States will seek to limit the spread of Russian and Chinese potential to countries that do not possess nuclear weapons (for example, the deployment of TNW in Belarus);
- US SOF groups will be formed for the so-called "civil affairs", which, having language skills, will build strong ties with public associations and organizations on enemy territory. The goal is to create public influence networks oriented toward US interests in anticipation of an armed conflict. Civil relations initiatives will be implemented to reach key constituencies in critical regions, such as creating separatist sentiment in specific regions.
- Information Support Operations. USSOCOM can use information support operations to achieve strategic effect in priority geographic areas by targeting key populations whose changing perceptions can have a measurable impact on shifting the operating environment in the United States’ favor. With its broad digital reach and relatively low cost compared to other core activities, information support operations can provide opportunities to counter China and Russia in new ways.
- Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief. USSOCOM identifies humanitarian assistance as a key driver of U.S. influence around the world. USSOCOM also plans to use humanitarian assistance to reduce or increase radicalization of vulnerable populations in regions of interest.
- USSOCOM leadership will continue to use SOF to prepare for future armed conflict, more broadly than it has done since the creation of the Office of Strategic Services.
The format of the fusion of an independent intelligence structure and a paramilitary organization in one person is assumed. The so-called cyber component will also be included here.
- USSOCOM will have the ability to initiate economic sanctions, which it will use in a strategic confrontation with China and Russia. Moreover, USSOCOM can become the leading component of the Ministry of Defense in synchronizing joint efforts with other departments in this direction.
- USSOCOM will receive priority in the use and implementation of new technologies, including in the area of operations in the so-called "smart cities". With a developed control and video surveillance system. That is, they will receive technologies to combat biometric systems associated with the enemy's technologies to combat terrorism and ensure national security.
We clearly see the undisguised, in fact, activity to restructure one of the key special services of our enemy on the eve of a global confrontation. At the same time, the Americans do not hesitate to define the zone of action of their special forces, including the territory of Russia. They designate their goals to create large groups of influence within the country and the formation and support of separatist movements. And this is the minimum.
In fact, everything new is well forgotten old, but in this case seasoned with modern technologies. Secret operations in the style of the "Cold War" are just around the corner, I hope our specialists have a worthy response to this. But unfortunately, we are far from the Soviet Union now.
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[Regnum] A new defendant has appeared in the criminal case of mother of many children Yulia Loginova and her accomplice Natalia Patoka on the trafficking of newborn children — a resident of the Moscow region Victoria Ponomareva. This was reported on August 25 by law enforcement agencies.
It is noted that the suspect has already confessed, TASS reported. Her involvement in the crime has also been confirmed by information from the civil registry office and the findings of molecular genetic forensic examinations.
The court chose a preventive measure in relation to the woman in the form of a ban on certain actions. She is prohibited from leaving Moscow and the Moscow region, communicating with other defendants and witnesses, sending and receiving correspondence, and conducting negotiations using communication devices and the Internet.
“Ponomareva Viktoria has been charged with trafficking in minors as part of an organized group (Part 3 of Article 127.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation),” a source in law enforcement agencies clarified.
In total, there are 13 defendants in the case.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the investigation into the main defendant in the case began in October 2023. Loginova came to the attention of law enforcement officers when doctors found a drug contraindicated for his illness in the blood of one of her children. When they found out where the woman had so many children, she said that she gave birth to two herself, three were born to her by a surrogate mother, and the rest were adopted.
DNA testing did not confirm Loginova's relationship with any of the children. According to investigators, Loginova submitted false information about the birth of her children to specialized agencies in 2018–2019, since she could not have given birth to them during this period for medical reasons. Investigators suspect that the woman may have bought the children. In total, the accused is supporting 15 minors.
On October 18, the Preobrazhensky Court of Moscow decided to remand Loginova in custody. The case also involves Natalya Patoka, who is suspected of assisting Loginova, and Farizade Usmanova, who gave her her young daughter and son for adoption using false documents.
Investigative bodies are conducting DNA tests to identify new defendants in a criminal case on the trafficking of newborn children in Moscow. Investigators have managed to identify another suspect. The woman was charged under the article on human trafficking for a transaction made in 2020.
According to the case materials, ten criminal cases on the trade of newborn children in Moscow have been combined into one proceeding. The investigation period for this case has been extended until October 16.
On August 10, it became known that Loginova fully admitted her guilt in the child trafficking case.
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[EngMilRu] The units of the Sever Group of Forces in Volchansk and Liptsy directions have engaged the 82nd Air Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 36th Marine Brigade, the 13th National Guard Brigade, and the 117th Territorial Defence Brigade in Velikaya Pisarevka (Sumy region), Prudyanka, Liptsy, and Volchansk (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses were up to 130 Ukrainian troops, one armoured personnel carrier, one armoured fighting vehicle, and four D-30 howitzers.
The units of the Zapad Group of Forces have captured more advantageous lines and positions, inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of 14th, 44th, 45th mechanised, 3rd assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and the 112th Territorial Defence Brigade near Berestovoye, Kolesnikovka, Novoosinovo, Petropavlovka (Kharkov region), Novovodyanoye (Lugansk People's Republic), and Serebryanka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Five counter-attacks of the AFU 66th Mechanised Brigade, 1st and 4th national guard brigades, and the 12th AFU Azov Special Operations Brigade have been repelled.
The AFU losses were up to 510 Ukrainian troops, one Kozak armoured fighting vehicle, and nine motor vehicles.
In the course of counter-battery warfare, two U.S.-made 155-mm M777 and M198 howitzers, one Polish-made 155-mm Krab self-propelled artillery system, three 122-mm D-30 howitzers, one U.S.-made 105-mm M119 gun, and three Anklav-N and Kvertus electronic warfare stations have been eliminated. Four AFU ammunition depots have been destroyed.
The units of the Yug Group of Forces have improved the situation along the front line, inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of 24th, 28th, 30th, 32nd, 54th mechanised, 56th motorised infantry, 46th airmobile, 79th air assault brigades of the AFU, the 37th Marine Brigade close to Pereyezdnoye, Zaliznyanskoye, Grigorovka, Raigorodok, Chasov Yar, Kurdyumovka, Pleshcheyevka, Kurakhovo, Katerinovka, and Konstantinovka (Donetsk People's Republic). One counter-attack launched by units of the AFU 59th Mechanised Infantry Brigade has been repelled.
The AFU losses were up to 630 Ukrainian troops, one U.S.-made Abrams tank, one armoured fighting vehicle, and 17 motor vehicles.
In the course of counter-battery warfare, Russian troops have hit one U.S.-made 155-mm M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system, two U.S.-made 155-mm M777 and M198 howitzers, two 152-mm D-20 howitzers, four 122-mm D-30 howitzers, and one U.S.-made 105-mm M119 gun. Three AFU ammunition depots have been destroyed.
The units of the Tsentr Group of Forces' continue to advance into the depths of enemy defences and inflicted losses on 32nd, 110th mechanised, 25th airborne, 71st jaeger brigades of the AFU, 109th, 111th, 129th territorial defence, and 15th national guard brigades close to Selidovo, Galitsynovka, Vozdvizhenka, Tarasovka, Grodovka, Rozovka, Toretsk, Memrik, and Dimitrovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Seven counter-attacks by AFU 100th, 150th, 151st mechanised, 68th jaeger brigades, the 49th Assault Battalion, and the 14th National Guard Brigade have been repelled.
The AFU losses were more than 500 Ukrainian troops, two tanks, nine motor vehicles, one 152-mm Giatsint-B gun, one 152-mm D-20 gun, and one 122-mm D-30 howitzer.
The units of the Vostok Group of Forces have improved the tactical situation and delivered strikes at manpower and hardware of the AFU 58th Mechanised Infantry Brigade, the 105th Brigade, and the 48th Assault Battalion of the Territorial Defence near Ugledar, Vodyanoye, Shakhtyorsk, Prechistovka, Zolotaya Niva (Donetsk People's Republic), and Novodarovka (Zaporozhye region).
Two counter-attacks by the AFU 72nd Mechanised Brigade have been repelled.
During the day, the enemy losses were up to 130 Ukrainian troops, one infantry fighting vehicle, one armoured fighting vehicle, five motor vehicles, one French-made 155-mm Caesar self-propelled artillery system, and two Bukovel-AD electronic warfare stations.
The units of the Dnepr Group of Forces have engaged the units of 65th mechanised, 141st infantry brigades of the AFU, the 35th Marine Brigade, and the 124th Territorial Defence Brigade near Novodanilovka (Zaporozhye region), Kherson, Tokarevka, and Dneprovskoye (Kherson region).
The AFU losses were up to 60 Ukrainian troops, five motor vehicles, two 152-mm D-20 howitzers, and one Anklav-N electronic warfare station.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged one temporary deployment area of foreign mercenaries as well as clusters of enemy manpower and military hardware in 147 areas.
Air defence facilities have shot down six U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles and 41 unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, 640 airplanes and 283 helicopters, 30,475 unmanned aerial vehicles, 575 air defence missile systems, 17,566 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,425 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 13,621 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 25,200 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
With the support of Army Aviation and artillery, the units of the Sever Group of Forces have repelled attacks launched by enemy assault detachments in the direction of Komarovka, Malaya Loknya, Nechayev, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye.
Russian troops have thwarted enemy attempts to attack in the direction of Vishnyovka, Borki, Pogrebki, and Spalnoye. As a result, the AFU losses were up to 40 people killed and wounded, one tank, four armoured fighting vehicles, and two motor vehicles.
Russian servicemen continue to conduct reconnaissance and search operations to identify and destroy enemy sabotage groups in forestry areas attempting to move deep into Russian territory.
Aviation, artillery, and troops have defeated manpower and hardware concentration areas of 22nd and 61st mechanised, 80th and 82nd air assault brigades of the AFU as well as the 1st National Guard Brigade and the 1004th Security and Service Brigade close to Vishnyovka, Gordeyevka, Ivashkovsky, Krasnooktyabrsky, Kruglenkoye, Lyubimovka, Mikhailovka, Novaya Sorochina, Plekhovo, Rubanshchina, and Snagost.
Operational-Tactical Aviation have carried out strikes in Sumy region against enemy manpower and military hardware concentration areas of reserves of the 22nd, 41st, 54th, 61st, 115th mechanised, 80th, 82nd air assault, and 92nd assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 1st Brigade of the National Guard. Russian troops have also hit 101st and 103rd territorial defence brigades near Belopolye, Belovody, Vorozhba, Druzhba, Katerinovka, Obody, Pervomayskoye, Pershetravnevoye, Peremoga, Svessa, Sumy, Ugroyedy, Yunakovka, and Yastrebinoye.
The enemy losses were over 300 troops and 14 armoured vehicles, including one tank, one infantry fighting vehicle, one armoured personnel carrier, 11 armoured fighting vehicles, seven motor vehicles, one artillery gun, one engineering vehicle, two electronic warfare stations as well as ST-68 air target acquisition radar.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses were over 5,800 troops, 72 tanks, 31 infantry fighting vehicles, 58 armoured personnel carriers, 383 armoured fighting vehicles, 177 motor vehicles, 37 artillery guns, 5 air defence missile systems, 11 multiple-launch rocket system launchers, including three HIMARS MLRS and one another MLRS, 9 electronic warfare stations, one counter-battery warfare radar, one air defence radar, five engineering vehicles, including two counterobstacle vehicles, and one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
[GEOTV] ThePunjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Police have rescued a cop from a gang of notorious Katcha (riverine area) dacoits of Machka in District Rahim Yar Khan, a police spokesperson said on Sunday.
On Thursday, a group of Katcha bandidos blew up two police vehicles with a rocket in Machka, martyring 12 cops and wounding six others.
Constable Ahmed Nawaz was kidnapped by robbers heavily armed with sophisticated modern weaponry after the attack on police mobile.
In a statement, Rizwan Omar Gondal, District Police Officer (DPO) Rahim Yar Khan, said that the police department was working with full strength in the riverine areas.
Constable Nawaz was reportedly released in exchange for dacoit Jabbar Lolai, who had been in police custody, according to sources cited by Geo News. However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... the police have neither confirmed nor denied this exchange.
A video circulating on social media showed Katcha bandidos celebrating with gunfire following the release of their accomplice.
After Nawaz's release, Punjab Police Inspector General (IG) Dr Usman Anwar met with the constable's family to inform them of his safe return.
Dr Anwar stated that every member of the Punjab Police was crucial to the force, and Nawaz's recovery was a top priority for his department. He also emphasised that the Punjab Police were prepared to deal firmly with terrorists, assailants, and criminals.
Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz appreciated the police on a successful operation in Katcha to safely recover the kidnapped constable.
[GEOTV] Israeli troops battled Palestinian fighters in Khan Younis in southern Gaza and destroyed tunnels and other infrastructure, as they sought to suppress small units that have continued to hit troops with mortar fire, the military said on Friday.
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) said troops had killed around 100 Palestinian fighters since Israeli troops began their latest operation in Khan Younis on Monday, which continued as pressure mounted for a deal to halt the fighting.
It said seven small units that had been firing mortars at the troops were hit in an air strike, while further south, in Rafah, four fighters were also killed in air strikes.
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Israeli comments from CTH and the lonline mickery is brutal- “Colonol Schmeul Sanders”!
Their “evidence” is as solid as a falafel made of sand. This is a 5-minute walk from my house in Ramat Hasharon. Can literally see it from my backyard. We had a beautiful, sunny, quiet day today. No Nasrallah missiles over here. The little bastard did kill some chickens up north though.
Oy, a shtikel gemoreh."
[AlJazeera] An gang linked to al-Qaeda, Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Moslemin (JNIM), has grabbed credit for what it says was an attack that killed up to 200 people and injured at least 140 in central Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president used to be Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and was chased out in 2014. Now it's the usual army officer type guy, Captain Ibrahim Traore, running things, who's just doing a bang-up job unless he's already been deposed... .The attack took place on Saturday in the region of Barsalogho, about 40km (25 miles) north of the strategic town of Kaya, which analysts said is home to the last standing force protecting the capital, Ouagadougou.
Fighters opened fire on teams of people digging trenches designed to protect security outposts. Several soldiers were missing after the attack, and the attackers took weapons and a military ambulance.
Reporting from Dakar, Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... , Al Jazeera's Nicholas Haque said JNIM posted gruesome videos of the aftermath of the attack.
''We see men, women and kiddies laying inside the trenches they were digging themselves. Effectively, they have turned into mass graves,'' he said, adding that the hospital in the area has called doctors, nurses and other medical staff from Kaya to treat those who have been injured in the attack.
Haque noted that the Burkina Faso army knew on Friday that an attack was going to happen and called on the population to dig trenches.
''That shows the desperation of Burkina Faso's forces, who have lost control of half of their territory to gangs linked to al-Qaeda,'' he added.
Burkina Faso has severed its ties with Western countries such as La Belle France that had been involved in helping the country's security forces tackle gangs.
Haque said that recently the government had been calling on the help of Russian mercenary fighters to support it strategically but also to help stem the attacks.
''Despite that help, it seems that those attacks are getting closer and closer to the capital,'' Haque said. He noted that the country's military leaders, who came to power in a coup in 2022, have also had to face down several attempted coups due to discontent with the way it has struggled with the fight against gangs.
[NEWAGEBD] Thousands of Ansar personnel on Sunday kept all the entrances of the Bangladesh Secretariat blocked even after the office hours pressing for nationalisation of their jobs and later clashed with students, who rushed to get the leaders of the anti-discrimination student movement out of the administrative hub.
About 35 students and six Ansar members were maimed in the clash and were taken to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital before the protesting Ansar members were removed from the place at about 10:40pm.
The situation came under control as additional police and army personnel were deployed and those who were confined in the secretariat were brought out.
The agitating Ansar members blocked the roads of the secretariat holding a sit-in at around 12:00pm and also confined the secretariat officials blocking all the gates of the secretariat in the afternoon to press home their one-point demand.
Some officials, however, were seen leaving the secretariat without their vehicles in the evening. Later, the other confined officials came out in the vehicles under the protection of the army.
Several meeting were held with representative of coordinators of Ansar and interim government home affairs adviser Md Jahangir Alam, information adviser Nahid Islam, sports adviser Asif Mahmud and Ansar-VDP director general Abdul Motaleb Sajjad Mahmud.
At first, a seven-member representative of Ansar met with the home adviser and discussed their demands.
Following the meeting, a representative Moniruzzaman announced the protesters that the authorities revoked the six-month rest rule and they would look into the demands gradually.
The protesters, however, rejected the announcement chanting slogans for nationalisation of their jobs.
Newly appointed DG Sajjad talked with the Ansar in front of the secretariat entrance and announced that he was very much aware of the discriminations in the troupe and the initiative to abolish those discriminations were already begun.
He also assured the Ansar that he would see the results of the initiatives within seven days but protesters again rejected the assurance demanding written assurance.
Ansar personnel effused to leave the street till nationalisation of their jobs.
He said that Ansar members from across the country, including Dhaka, Chattogram, Barishal, Narayanganj and Noakhali joined their protest, which began on August 11.
A seven-member committee was also formed on Saturday to examine logical demands of Ansar-VDP.
They began their protests about a week after 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... resigned and fled to India on August 5 amid a student-led mass uprising.
They have been continuing their protests for more than two weeks demanding job regularisation, cancelling vacation in every three years and others.
According to Ansar VDP officials, 98,000—99,000 trained Ansar members are active in the force with 55,000 now employed in different government and private establishments.
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] Cholera cases have surged in five districts of eastern 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... 's Gedaref state, health officials said on Sunday, amid concerns over a weak government response.
The emergency room in Gedaref reported 125 cases and seven deaths. The majority of infections are in the Wad al-Hiliu area.
''Most cases are in Wad al-Hiliu, reaching 70 infections, while 20 cases are in Fashqa,'' a health official told Sudan Tribune.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, criticized the state's response and its failure to implement preventive measures.
''There are areas that have not yet received water purification doses,'' the official said.
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[Korrespondent] 22:12 The Ukrainian Armed Forces have advanced in the Kursk region from one to three kilometers and taken control of two more settlements, Zelensky said following a conversation with Syrsky. "Active actions are continuing in relation to another settlement. There is a replenishment of the exchange fund," the president noted in an evening video address.
21:50 The US and UK provided Ukraine with satellite images and reconnaissance of the Kursk region after the Ukrainian Armed Forces began their offensive, The New York Times reports, citing US officials. The information helped Ukrainian troops track the movement of Russian reinforcements that could attack the Ukrainian Armed Forces or cut off their possible retreat routes to Ukraine.
Some sources reported that with the strengthening of the Defense Forces' control over the western part of the Russian Federation, the risk of overloading the logistics chains and air defense systems of the Ukrainian Armed Forces increases. The transfer of additional forces to the Kursk region could threaten to weaken Kyiv's position along the front lines in eastern Ukraine.
At the same time, Washington is not sure that Ukraine will hold the captured territories in the long term. At the same time, a Pentagon representative in a commentary to the NYT noted that Kyiv may be planning to strengthen its positions on Russian territory in order to expand the buffer zone. Officials also emphasized that the Ukrainian Armed Forces offensive was indeed carefully planned, but the success exceeded expectations. "Ukraine took advantage of Moscow's slow reaction and is now acting more flexibly," the sources note.
14:12 Zelensky said in an interview with Indian media that the Kursk operation is part of a "large military-political, military-diplomatic operation. Everything we do is only to force Russia to be ready for a just peace."
[JPost] Hamas said on Sunday that it rejects new Israeli conditions put forward in Gaza ceasefire-hostage talks, casting further doubt on the chances of a breakthrough in the latest US-backed effort to end the 10-month-old war.
Months of on-off talks have failed to produce an agreement to end Israel's military campaign in Gaza or free the remaining hostages seized by Hamas in the terrorist group's Oct. 7 attack on Israel that triggered the war.
Key sticking points in ongoing talks mediated by the United States, Egypt and Qatar include an Israeli presence in the Philadelphi Corridor, a narrow 14.5 km-long (nine-mile) stretch of land along Gaza's southern border with Egypt.
Hamas said Israel has backtracked on a commitment to withdraw troops from the Corridor and put forward other new conditions, including the screening of displaced Palestinians as they return to the enclave's more heavily populated north when the ceasefire begins.
"We will not accept discussions about retractions from what we agreed to on July 2 or new conditions," Hamas official Osama Hamdan told the group's Al-Aqsa TV on Sunday.
AGREEMENT IN JULY
In July, Hamas accepted a US proposal to begin talks on releasing Israeli hostages, including soldiers and men, 16 days after the first phase of an agreement aimed at ending the Gaza war, a senior Hamas source has told Reuters.
Hamdan also said Hamas has handed mediators its response to the latest proposal, saying that US talk of an imminent deal is false.
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A minor girl was allegedly raped and murdered before being thrown in a garbage dump in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
's Saddar area, Geo News reported citing police and hospital officials said on Sunday.
According to the police, the body of the 12-year-old victim was found stashed in a gunny bag from the garbage dump near Lukcy Star.
The police said that the victim looked like a "destitute girl from her appearance". They further stated that investigation was underway to ascertain the facts related to the case.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Big Shirley was still trying to snatch Nunzio bald-headed. She was already halfway there... Chief Police Surgeon Dr Summaiya Syed said that the girl's body was brought to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) for medical examination.
Citing the initial post-mortem report, the official said that the girl was subjected to "sexual abuse", while the cause of death will be ascertained after further testing.
Dr Syed further stated that samples had been collected from the victim's body for DNA testing.
Later, the police started the paperwork but haven't done much else at Saddar Police Station on the complaint of victim's mother.
Taking notice of the matter, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah expressed grief and ordered a thorough investigation into the case to bring the culprits to justice.
He directed the police to take stern action against the suspects who commit offences against children, women, elders, and vulnerable sections of society.
He also instructed Sindh Inspector General (IGP) Ghulam Nabi Memon to inform all cop shoppes in the province about the government's policy on vulnerable sections.
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[Regnum] The Russian Aerospace Forces have destroyed three militant bases in Syria. This was announced during a briefing on August 24 by Oleg Ignasyuk, deputy head of the Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides (CROS) in the Arab Republic.
“On August 23, strikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed three locations where militants had been based, having left the At-Tanf zone and taken refuge in hard-to-reach areas of the Syrian White Desert, ” Ignasyuk reported.
He added that over the past 24 hours, the Center for Strategic and Inter-Agency Cooperation has not recorded any instances of shelling of positions of Syrian government troops by terrorist groups in the Idlib de-escalation zone.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on July 10, the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out high-precision strikes on targets of illegal armed groups in the Syrian province of Idlib, including a militant training camp near the settlement of Ashkhani-Takhtani and a workshop for the production of unmanned aerial vehicles. As a result of the strikes, 15 militants were eliminated and another 20 were wounded.
On July 23, the deputy head of the Center for Strategic and Intervention Studies in Syria reported that the Russian Forpost-R unmanned aerial vehicle, in response to the ongoing attempts by radical groups to use UAVs and multiple launch rocket systems to attack targets in the territory controlled by the Syrian government, struck a militant base in Idlib province.
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Confucius say, playing with braid,
"When chucking a Chinese grenade --
Er, Russian-style -- duck!"
...
"Sometimes... [tick-tock... Xi cluck...]
Detonation is slightly delayed."
[SUDANTRIBUNE] An gang has kidnapped a journalist in an area of 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... 's capital controlled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and is demanding a ransom for his release, the Sudanese journalists' union said on Sunday.
The union said Alaa El-Din Abu Harba was taken from his home in east Khartoum on Friday.
It said the kidnappers initially demanded a ransom of 1 million Sudanese pounds ($365) and after receiving it were now demanding a further billion pounds. "One million Sudanese pounds!"
"Yeah. Okay, Doctor Evil. We can swing that!"
"Oh, sorry! I meant a billion! With a 'b'!"
''This puts the life of Abu Harba in grave danger,'' the union said in a statement, holding the RSF responsible for his safety.
The RSF did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
There has been widespread lawlessness in the capital since war broke out in Sudan in April between the army and the RSF.
The journalists' union has recorded 438 violations against journalists since the conflict began, including four killings.
Earlier this month, another journalist in east Khartoum, Abdel Rahman Hanin, had his home raided by an gang who looted valuables and cash, the union said.
The men terrorized Hanin's wife and children and stole laptops, mobile phones, cash and gold jewellery, it added.
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[NewsFront] 23:59 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 08/25/2024 to 00:00 08/26/2024
A total of 13 cases of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
There were reports of a civilian being injured.
DAMAGED:
Two civil infrastructure facilities.
Five artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction,
Eight artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction.
A total of 39 units of various ammunition were fired.
23:30 Sumy borderland –works Russian aviation, enemy reserves are being destroyed.
22:51 Russian military "captured" enemy armored personnel carrier International MaxxPro –photo
21:35 FPV drone operators of the "East" group of forces hit the Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower and equipment in the South Donetsk direction –video.
"My task is to defeat the Ukrainian Armed Forces' manpower, as well as their equipment - tanks, artillery and other weapons. I have destroyed such targets as the Ukrainian Armed Forces' infantry, strongholds, command posts," the senior FPV drone operator with the call sign "Beha" said about his combat work.
21:31 A Ukrainian tank burns out in Dzerzhinsk after being hit –video.
20:55 Advance of the Russian Armed Forces in Novogrodovka –map.
20:25 Dzerzhinsk – Microdistrict No. 1.
Positional military operations in the Gorlovka area. Advance of assault units of the Russian Armed Forces to the south of Microdistrict No. 1 about 500 meters. The forward position of the Russian Armed Forces in the area of the railway line to the correctional facility came under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Expansion of the control zone of the Russian Armed Forces to the west of the Severnaya mine waste heap.
19:49 Telegram channel «Fisherman»:
Pokrovsk direction: offensive of the Russian Armed Forces in the area of Novogrodovka and Kalinovo.
– The units of the Russian Armed Forces are developing their success on the southern face of the Pokrovsk direction. Russian troops are pushing through the defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces both in Novogrodovka itself and from the flanks, trying to take the city in a semi-ring. The Ukrainian formations, deprived of their usual advantage in the form of well-fortified defensive lines, are gradually rolling back on several sections of the front at once.
– The advanced units of the Russian Armed Forces have advanced along the Krutoy Yar – Krasny Yar line, having secured a foothold on the southeastern outskirts of the latter. Russian troops are actively using artillery and UAVs to suppress the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ firing points, which allows attack aircraft to clear enemy positions without significant problems.
– Some sources are already reporting that the Russian Armed Forces have control over both settlements, but it has not yet been possible to confirm this information with objective control personnel.
– The liberation of Krutoy and Krasny Yar will allow the Russian Armed Forces to begin the assault on the Ukrainian Armed Forces positions on the Novogrodovskaya mine waste heap No. 3. This height serves as the “key” for forming the northern face of the Novogrodovka semi-envelopment and the enemy units located in the city.
– In Novogrodovka itself, Russian assault aircraft are rapidly overcoming the enemy’s defensive lines. We can confidently speak about the Russian Armed Forces’ control over Michurin and Turgenev streets, as well as the beginning of battles for Molodezhnaya street. According to some reports, the advanced Russian assault groups have already reached the central part of the city and started fighting there.
– Information is being spread online about Russian troops occupying enemy positions in the area of the crossing on the western outskirts of the city and isolated firefights to the north, in the area of the substation on Nekrasov Street. It is likely that we are talking about Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups disrupting supplies and attacking key defense nodes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and not about line units capable of gaining a foothold in the area.
– Despite the spreading panic in the enemy’s information space, it is premature to talk about the Russian Armed Forces’ control over the city. Most reports of Russian units entering certain areas of the settlement come from disoriented local residents who do not have adequate information about the situation in the city.
- To the south, Russian troops are fighting on the approaches to the Kotlyarevskaya mine, the capture of which will simplify the offensive in this section of the front. The advanced assault detachments have advanced close to the Mikhailovka railway station and physically cut off the M-30 highway, along which the enemy units on the northern flank of the Donetsk direction were supplied.
– On the Karlovka-Memrik line, Russian troops significantly expanded their zone of control, developing an offensive from Ptichye towards Kalinovo, and also significantly advanced south along the Karlovskoye Reservoir after taking Skuchnoye.
– According to some information, Russian troops are actively attacking from the flanks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ defensive lines in the Kalinovo area, trying to bypass and isolate the enemy’s strongholds. The enemy, in turn, is attempting to prevent the Russian Armed Forces from breaking through to the M-30 highway and advancing on Galitsynovka.
19:23 Army aviation attacks Ukrainian Armed Forces in Kursk region –video.
An army aviation crew on a Ka-52 helicopter carried out an air strike on the manpower and armored military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units in the border area of ??the Kursk region.
18:58 Krivoy Rog. Explosion.
It is reported, that the explosion in Krivoy Rog was the result of our tactical aviation. Our Su-34 worked. The X-59 cruise missile accurately hit the target.
18:12 Telegram channel «Fisherman»:
Kursk direction: fighting in the Ol'govka area and attacks on Ukrainian armored vehicles.
– In the Kursk region, Russian troops continue to contain the enemy’s onslaught, inflicting significant losses on Ukrainian formations along the entire length of the contact line.
– In the Korenevsky district, the Russian Armed Forces have regained control over Ol'govka, which was fought over several days ago. Apparently, after losing a large number of armored vehicles and manpower in the village and district, the Ukrainian Armed Forces were forced to retreat.
– Two BMP-1s were hit by FPV drones on the approaches to Korenevo and Zeleny Shlyakh. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are not giving up their attempts to enter Korenevo itself, but all their attacks are successfully repelled.
- In the Sudzhansky district, fighting continues in the area of ??Malaya Loknya. All attempts by the enemy to enter and consolidate the village have been thwarted; it is under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. Counter-clashes continue in the area of Martynovka and Russkoye Porechny.
– An increase in the intensity of artillery artillery attack on Russian positions has been observed in this area, which is associated with the transfer of additional weapons by Ukrainian formations from other parts of the front.
– Russian troops continue systematic work to destroy air defense systems and radar stations in the Sumy region. UAV operators hit an ST-68 radar of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with a Lancet kamikaze drone near Shevchenkove in the Sumy region. In the morning, a Buk-M1 air defense missile system was hit in Gritsenkove.
17:50 Fighters of the Storm detachment of the 68th Army Corps of the Vostok group advanced in the Konstantinovka area –map.
17:01 RF Armed Forces by midday control more than half of Novogrodovka, advancing to the western and northwestern outskirts of the city. The enemy is currently unable to stop this offensive.
The enemy also claims that the Russian Armed Forces in the Marinovka area have taken the Krasnoarmeysk-Karlovka highway under fire control, which will worsen the situation of the Karlovka group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Kalinovo has not yet been liberated, and fighting for the settlement continues.
16:38 "Rooks" hit the Ukrainian Armed Forces' manpower and equipment in the border area –video. Rook is a Russian designation for the Russian Su-25 ground interdiction fighter.
Attack aircraft crews on Su-25 aircraft carried out an air strike on a concentration of manpower, armored and automobile military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border area of the Kursk Region. The strike was carried out with air missiles on reconnoitered targets.
After using airborne weapons, the crews performed an anti-missile maneuver, released heat traps, and returned to the departure airfield. According to intelligence reports, all indicated targets were destroyed.
Active military operations on the southern flank of Artemovsk. An assault infantry unit of the Russian Armed Forces occupies new positions in a stronghold on the western bank of the Seversky Donetsk-Donbass Canal. Russian forces crossed the canal south of Ozaryanovka in the Peschanaya gully area under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
15:55 Special military operation. Situation as of August 25 –map.
15:10 Advance of the Russian Armed Forces to Kalinovo –map.
14:44 Novomikhaylovka – Konstantinovka.
Active military operations in the Novomikhaylovka area. Attack of the Russian Armed Forces by an infantry unit near Konstantinovka. An assault group of the Russian Armed Forces clears a Ukrainian Armed Forces position at a strong point in a forest belt on the southern approaches to the village. Expansion of the Russian Armed Forces control zone by about 1 km in the western direction.
13:48 Footage of the destruction of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS by artillerymen of the Sever group of forces in the Kursk border area –video.
During reconnaissance activities, servicemen detected the movement of the 122mm BM-21 MLRS "Grad" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the border area of the Kursk region. After analyzing the received intelligence, a decision was made to destroy the enemy's combat vehicle. As a result of a precise strike by the artillery of the "North" group of forces, the combat vehicle of the MLRS "Grad" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed.
13:29 DPR (region of Konstantinovka settlement).
It is reported about the work of our tactical aviation on the identified enemy positions. In addition, bombers of the 11th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense struck an enemy ammunition depot in the Konstantinovka area.
12:45 Russian Army knocked out Nazis in the Krasnoarmeysk direction northwest of the village of Kalinovo and is conducting a cleanup operation on a bridgehead of eight square kilometers, the 105th Motgorized Rifle Regiment of the DPR People's Militia reports.
11:38 Around 10.30 Moscow time stopped an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Two Ukrainian UAVs were destroyed over the territory of the Kursk region by air defense systems on duty.
11:05 Another MLRS was destroyed in Sumy Oblast –video.
10:44 Destroyed Ukrainian 122mm self-propelled gun 2S1 "Gvozdika" in the Khar'kov region -video.
10:10 Telegram channel «WarGonzo»:
Frontline report for the morning of 25.08.2024
- Zaporizhzhya Front. No significant changes in LBS. Positional battles continue. However, at the same time, reports continue to arrive about the concentration of Ukrainian forces and assets in this section of the front.
- Donetsk Front. Fighting continues in Konstantinovka, Russian troops continue to put pressure on the defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In Krasnogorovka, the Russian Armed Forces also continue to drive the Ukrainian garrison out of the settlement, and the clearing of occupied positions continues.
In Karlovka, Russian troops, with artillery support, are conducting assault operations, there is progress.
In Novogrodovka, at least half of the settlement is under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. Fighting is underway on the approaches to Kalinovo.
In Dzerzhinsk, assault operations by Russian troops continue. There is progress.
- Chasovoyarskoe direction. As a result of successful assault actions, the Russian Armed Forces were able to advance in the eastern part of the city.
- Khar'kov Front. No significant changes. Fighting continues in Volchansk and in the Glubokoe area.
- Kursk region. The Ukrainian Armed Forces do not abandon their attempts to break through deep into the Kursk region, but each of their attacks is unsuccessful. In some areas, the Ukrainian Armed Forces cannot consolidate their positions and, under pressure from the Russian Armed Forces, retreat.
However, low coordination and lack of communication between Russian units remain a serious problem. It is also impossible to say that the offensive potential of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is exhausted at the moment. The Ukrainians are actively feeding their group with fresh reserves.
09:51 Ka-52 helicopters are again operating against identified concentrations of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel in the Kursk region —video.
09:22 Telegram channel «WarGonzo»:
Naval infantry of the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade broke through to Malaya Loknya.
That night, the Black Sea naval infantry managed to break through to Malaya Loknya, where our soldiers repelled the attacks of superior enemy forces for a long time.
08:54 FPV drone operators of the "East" group of forcesare striking manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the South Donetsk direction
"My task is to defeat the Ukrainian Armed Forces' manpower, as well as their equipment - tanks, artillery and other weapons. I have destroyed such targets as the Ukrainian Armed Forces' infantry, strongholds, command posts," the senior FPV drone operator with the call sign "Beha" said about his combat work.
08:00 They don’t let the enemy raise their heads:
On frames– combat work of the 130mm M-46 gun crews of the North troop group in the border area of ??the Kursk region.
130mm M-46 gun crews set up firing positions in the border areas of the Kursk region to destroy mobile armored groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Reconnaissance UAV operators uncovered a temporary deployment point of one of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units, after which the gun crews launched an artillery strike on the militants.
The senior gunner of the crew told how he decided to sign the contract:
"I finished my military service two years ago as a 2S19 gunner. I watched the news, what was going on, and decided to sign a contract. I wanted to help the guys. I came to the regiment where I did my military service, to my guys, and now I continue to work."
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[REGNUM] Lebanese Hezbollah has announced the launch of its own retaliatory operation in response to the Israeli assassination of one of the movement's high-ranking commanders, Fuad Shukr.
The movement attacked Israeli territory with missiles and drones without waiting for Tehran to decide on its response to the death of Shukr and a number of other high-ranking members of the "Axis of Resistance."
Hezbollah's operation, although it took place in isolation from the rest of the "Axis of Resistance," was not criticized by official Tehran or other Iranian proxy groups. This suggests that the strike on Israeli territory was provocative in nature and was intended to draw the Israelis into the fight in new directions.
INTERRUPTED ANSWER
The Lebanese Hezbollah operation lasted several hours and was positioned as an "artillery preparation" before more serious actions. Representatives of the movement believe that they managed to catch the Israeli leadership by surprise and once again debunked the myth about the impenetrability of the Israeli air defense system.
The Israelis, for their part, claim that they knew in advance about the planned action, and therefore were able to almost completely disrupt it by carrying out preventive strikes on Lebanese territory. For these purposes, the IDF deployed more than 100 aircraft - a quarter of the national air fleet.
However, the game, apparently, was worth the candle. According to the IDF, Hezbollah initially planned to use about 6,000 missiles and drones in the attack, for which it concentrated more than 1,500 launchers in its control zone.
However, after the massive air raid, the movement was able to carry out only 320 launches and hit 11 targets, a significant portion of which, according to statements by the Israeli General Staff, turned out to be false. Among the thwarted "tasty" targets, in particular, are the Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv and the base of the special intelligence unit "Unit 8200" in Ramat Hasharon.
Each side predictably portrays itself as the winner. Hezbollah believes that it deserves to “win on points” — because it was able to carry out strikes on Israeli territory in the face of “internal betrayal,” which deprived them of the element of surprise, and even hit a number of targets.
In addition, the thesis about a certain “special goal” for which this adventure was started migrates from statement to statement by the Hezbollah press bureau. It is expected that the veil of secrecy will be slightly lifted by the movement’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, whose speech, according to tradition, is scheduled to take place within 24 hours after the operation.
Israel, however, reports on the successful repelling of “aggression by pro-Iranian agents.” Particular emphasis is placed on the fact that, unlike the April incident, the attack was repelled without the participation of foreign partners and exclusively by IDF forces.
Although in this case there is a certain amount of cunning in the statements of the Israeli General Staff. A few days before the exchange of blows, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Army, General Charles Brown, urgently arrived in the Middle East. He probably not only participated in coordinating the actions of the Israelis, but also simultaneously interacted with other regional allies of Washington.
In case Hezbollah's individual action is picked up by other Iranian proxy groups operating in Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
PUSH TO THE NORTH
After the exchange of massive blows, both sides took a tactical pause. Hezbollah focused on regrouping before the next stage of the retaliatory operation, and Israel - on developing a new response strategy. The country's leadership took 48 hours to think, introducing a state of emergency in the country.
The question of how to proceed next hung in the air.
On the one hand, the Israeli government – and especially the far-right populists within it – have received the long-awaited “casus belli,” which allows them, if not to launch a comprehensive operation against Hezbollah, then to significantly increase the strike force on the Israeli-Lebanese border.
The current state of affairs has given Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a free hand. He sees the hypothetical opening of a “second front” against the Lebanese Hezbollah as a good way to strengthen his authority and, at the same time, complete the defeat of the “security forces opposition” led by former Defense Minister Benny Gantz, which has been accusing Netanyahu of indecisiveness for the past year.
Possible objections from official Beirut are not taken into account: any discontent from Lebanon is rebuffed with the argument that the country’s leadership “condones” the actions of Hezbollah, thereby threatening the security of the countries in the region.
At the same time, the United States is holding back Israel's possible attack. The White House and the Pentagon, although they are assisting the Israelis in repelling Hezbollah's attacks, are unlikely to agree to igniting a new conflict in the Central Command's zone of responsibility. Especially in conditions where they have not managed to completely "extinguish" the previous one, which engulfed the Gaza Strip.
Washington will probably do everything in its power to dissuade Israel from a large-scale operation in the border area – at least while negotiations on establishing a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip continue.
Given that the next round starts on August 25 and that even after the exchange of blows between Israel and Hezbollah, Israel has not withdrawn its delegation, Washington's exhortations are working so far.
It is not worth excluding, however, that Washington is trying to buy some time to prepare its regional allies for a quick and consolidated response to the threat – in case Hezbollah’s operation ultimately turns out to be an Iranian trap, and Israel’s invasion of Lebanon escalates into a clash with the entire “Axis of Resistance.”
The anti-Iran coalition is now largely occupied with finding out whether Hezbollah acted autonomously from Tehran or whether it played the role of bait. If these fears are even indirectly confirmed, Israel is unlikely to engage in a direct confrontation with Hezbollah – but in retaliation it will increase the frequency of targeted liquidations of the movement’s commanders, including its top leadership.
[ForeignPolicy] Last month, Nicaraguan police raided the office and home of Finance Minister Ivan Acosta, who was forced to resign; allegedly for acts of corruption, but more likely because he had fallen out of favor with the presidential couple. Employees in the Finance Ministry now fear a wave of dismissals, similar to those that occurred following Murillo's purge last year of the Supreme Court, which resulted in the mass firing of some 900 government workers; including magistrates, secretaries, janitors, drivers, and even Ortega's first-born son, Camilo Ortega Herrera, who led the court's technical services department. They canned the IT guy!
On Aug. 6, Nicaraguan news outlet Confidencial reported that in late July, Murillo dismissed Ortega's chief police escort, Commissioner-General Marcos Alberto Acuntilde;a Avilés, who had served as a loyal member of the president's security team since the 1990s.
All this reveals "an internal crisis tied up with the growing power of Rosario Murillo," said Téllez, the former FSLN commander, who served as Nicaragua's health minister from 1979 to 1990. "Rosario is not satisfied with appointees who are unconditionally supportive of Daniel Ortega. She wants people who are unconditionally supportive of her."
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lots of family intrigue - Ortega's brother Humberto is in hospital detention, Murillo wants their 2nd oldest son Laureano to succeed Daniel as Prez. Laureano currently controls a lot of foreign affairs and managing the theft of foreign aid.
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One of the reasons that the construction of an inter-ocean canal occurred in Panama rather than Nicaragua was that the latter government could not be trusted. In Panama a pro-canal cabal was created that chose independence from Colombia. It used propaganda to demonstrate that volcanos in Nicaragua would pose a threat to any canal built there. Panama won the day and a canal, which was likely twice as expensive as the proposed Nicaragua canal was undertaken.
[GEOTV] United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is "deeply concerned" by the escalation between Israel and Hezbollah and calls for both parties to immediately return to a cessation of hostilities, his spokesperson said on Sunday.
"These actions put both the Lebanese and Israeli populations at risk, as well as threatening regional security and stability," UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a statement.
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The last time I reported on monkeypox, news had just broken that Sweden announced that it had the first case of the more virulent strain of the virus that is responsible for the outbreak in Africa. The case was also the first one that had been detected outside of Africa.
As a reminder, this particular variety of monkeypox (which the press is desperately trying to rebrand as ’mpox’ with little success outside of the "journalists") is easier to catch via skin contact and causes more serious illness than the version of monkeypox that I reported on during 2022 global outbreak.
The strain of concern here is referred to as Clade 1b. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global health emergency in order to gather supplies to start a massive vaccination campaign targeting this pathogen.
Now another case of Clakde 1b outside of Africa is being reported. This one is not in Europe, but in Asia.
Thailand on Thursday confirmed an mpox case reported this week was the clade 1b strain of the virus, the second confirmed case of the variant outside of Africa.
The case is a 66-year-old European man who had arrived in Thailand last week from an unspecified African country where the disease was spreading.
"The test results confirm that he is infected with the Clade 1b strain of monkeypox, which is the first case diagnosed in Thailand, but this man is likely infected from an endemic country," Thongchai Keeratihattayakorn, director-general of the Department of Disease Control, told Reuters.
He said no other local infections had been detected through contact tracing.
Asian countries are ramping up pandemic protocols in the wake of this news.
... Indonesia is enforcing screening measures at the country’s entry points following the WHO’s announcement of an emergency. The ministry’s spokesperson, Siti Nadia Tarmizi, said overseas travelers are required to fill in a form describing their overall health condition and recent travel history. "We have coordinated with the immigration authority to authenticate the travel history of incoming travelers to Indonesia," Tarmizi told Nikkei Asia.
The Malaysian Health Ministry announced on Sunday that it would initiate preventive measures, including enhanced surveillance at international entry points, where travelers from countries reporting mpox cases must monitor their health for 21 days.
Individuals with a history of high-risk activities and symptoms, such as rashes or blisters, are urged to seek an immediate medical examination and avoid contact to prevent the spread of the virus, and suspected and confirmed cases should be promptly reported to health offices. Strict hygiene protocols are imposed in premises that involve skin contact, such as spas and massage centers.
Singapore has assessed that the immediate risk of mpox to the city-state "is low for now," Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said on his Facebook page this past week. "Our clinics and checkpoint authorities are looking out for patients and travelers with symptoms," Ong added. "We will activate isolation and contact tracing measures whenever we detect a case."
The Clade II version, which was the pathogen responsible for the 2022 outbreak is still present in the US. Experts assess that the risk of Clade 1b arriving here is low and based on how many Americans go to Central Africa.
Clade II mpox, which caused the 2022 epidemic, is still circulating in the U.S. at low levels, the experts note. "It’s down to single digits or maybe a dozen cases a month," says Kuritzkes.
There are no known cases of mpox clade I or Ib in the U.S. at this time. "The risk to the general public in the United States from clade I mpox circulating in the DRC is very low," the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a news release on Aug. 14.
Experts agree that the while it is possible for a person to become infected with clade I mpox in a country where it’s spreading and travel back to the U.S., the chances of this happening are slim.
In a health alert issued on Aug. 7, the CDC stated that the risk of clade I mpox importation into the U.S. was "very low" due to the limited number of travelers and lack of direct commercial flights from the DRC and its neighboring countries to the U.S.
The news of the Thai case is concerning chiefly because the virus is more easily spread through close physical contact with someone who is infectious, with contaminated materials, or through sexual activity.
And in Thailand, sex tourism is a thing.
Ronald Weitzer shows that although some of the central pillars of Thailand’s sex industry remain unaltered over the past four decades, in other respects there has been a profound transformation.
In the sector oriented toward foreign visitors, the number of sex businesses and independent operators has grown numerically and geographically; customers are increasingly diverse in race and nationality; paid sexual encounters are no longer confined to young Thai women and older white men; transgender women comprise a significant share of the workforce; and technological advances give participants more autonomy than ever before.
Hopefully, the vaccinations and awareness campaigns work. But at this point, given where the virus has already landed, I will be surprised if they do.
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Wuhan Institute wasn't closed, and none of the CV19 creators was fired. I wonder that they've been doing the last 4 years.
[GEOTV] Hassan Nasrallah in his televised speech claims that they had no plans to target Tel Aviv, the Ben Gurion airport or the Israeli Defence Ministry building, as per Al Jazeera.
He added that the Hezbollah group hadn't used precision missiles in today's attack, they may use them in the near future.
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[LibyaReview] Former Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi is set to appear before the Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... Appeals Court next Monday as legal proceedings against him continue. al-Senussi, a key figure in Muammar Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest...> 's regime, has been imprisoned since the fall of the Qadaffy government in 2011.
His lawyer, Ahmed Nashad, confirmed the court date, responding to growing concerns about al-Senussi's health.
Nashad stated that while al-Senussi's condition is ''relatively stable,'' it remains fragile due to his advanced age and ongoing medical issues. He dismissed recent reports of a severe decline in al-Senussi's health as ''inaccurate,'' but acknowledged that his client's condition can deteriorate unpredictably.
Despite a previous court ruling that granted al-Senussi release on health grounds, he remains in jug, highlighting his status as one of Libya's most prominent detainees.
Abdullah al-Senussi, often dubbed the ''Black Box'' of the Qadaffy regime, was the chief of military intelligence and a close confidant of Qadaffy. He is implicated in numerous human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... abuses, including the notorious 1996 Abu Salim prison massacre, where over 1,200 prisoners were killed.
Captured in Mauritania in 2012 and later extradited to Libya, al-Senussi has been at the center of prolonged legal battles. In 2015, he was sentenced to death by a Libyan court, though the sentence has not been executed due to ongoing appeals and health concerns. His trial has attracted significant attention both in Libya and internationally, with human rights groups questioning the fairness of the legal process in a country still struggling with instability.
Al-Senussi is also wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity, with a warrant issued for his arrest in 2011. However,
a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... Libya has resisted extraditing him, insisting on prosecuting him within its own judicial system.
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The question that has not been addressed is what will be the response of the Sanussi brotherhood to a decision made in Tripoli, western Libya. The once powerful Sufi remnant that broke bread with Qadafi still exists in eastern Libya. Has it been totally quashed?
The General Administration for Coastal Security in Libya announced the rescue of 51 irregular migrants near the coast of Qarabulli on Sunday.
According to the Administration, the boat “Wadi Kaam 300p” successfully rescued the migrants, who hailed from various nationalities, after their boat came to a halt. The migrants were brought ashore at the Shaab Port Point, which is part of the Tripoli branch, where legal procedures were undertaken, and they were handed over to the Directorate for Combating Illegal Migration.
Earlier on the same day, Coastal Security reported the rescue of 123 irregular migrants, who were on board a dilapidated boat off the coast of Zuwara.
[ARABNEWS] An attack by an outlawed pro-Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... Nigerian Shiite group on Sunday killed at least two law enforcement officers, police said, with three more found unconscious in the capital Abuja.
The capital's police force confirmed ''an unprovoked attack by the proscribed Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN)... on some personnel of the Nigeria Police Force,'' said a statement by police spokeswoman Josephine Adeh.
Sounds about right for Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky’s crew. Try ‘em fair, then hang ‘em high. That lot aren’t hanged nearly often enough.
During the attack on a police checkpoint, ''two police personnel were killed, three left unconscious in the hospital, and three police patrol vehicles set ablaze,'' Adeh added.
Inspired by the Islamic Revolution in Iran in the late 1970s, the IMN still maintains close ties with Tehran.
It has long been at loggerheads with Nigeria's secular authorities and was banned in 2019.
Sunday's attackers carried out their assault wielding machetes, knives and improvised bombs, according to the police.
With several arrests made, Abuja's police commissioner, Benneth C. Igweh, condemned the ''unprovoked attack,'' vowing to bring the perpetrators to justice.
''The situation is presently under control and normality restored,'' the police statement added.
In July 2021, after more than five years in prison, IMN leader Ibrahim Zakzaky and his wife were released by a court in Kaduna, in the north of the country.
A Shiite holy man, Zakzaky has repeatedly called for an Iranian-style Islamic revolution in Nigeria — where the Moslem population is predominantly Sunni.
[Regnum] French investigators have placed Pavel Durov, the founder of the Telegram messenger, in custody. This was reported on Saturday, August 24, by the TF1 TV channel.
A source close to the investigation told the TV channel that the founder of Telegram allegedly committed countless offenses and crimes on the platform.
It is specified that encrypted messages have become one of the main complaints of the authorities of the EU countries against Telegram.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the arrest of Pavel Durov at the airport of the Paris suburb of Le Bourget became known on the evening of August 24. It is alleged that the corresponding warrant was issued by the National Office of the Judicial Police of France (OFMIN) based on a preliminary investigation.
The search warrant issued by the French authorities against Telegram founder Pavel Durov was activated only after the entrepreneur arrived in France. This was reported on August 25 by the newspaper Le Parisien.
Journalists claim that this was the condition stipulated in the document. The warrant was issued on the basis of a preliminary investigation conducted by the juvenile affairs department of the French National Judicial Police Office (OFMI).
The said unit is engaged in combating violence against minors.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, it was previously reported that Pavel Durov was detained at Le Bourget Airport (a suburb of Paris) on the evening of August 24. The businessman was placed under arrest. A hearing is scheduled for August 25, at which he will appear in court.
Journalists have disseminated information according to which Durov may be charged with several charges related to Telegram's activities, including terrorism and drug trafficking.
The French authorities' claims against the businessman are that the messages in this messenger were encrypted and he did not cooperate with law enforcement agencies. Because of this situation, he began to be suspected of complicity in countless offenses and crimes.
The Russian Foreign Ministry stated that the Russian Embassy in Paris did not wait for inquiries from Durov’s representatives and immediately began work to clarify the situation with him.
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It's not about "free speech". When you run a platform that some people use to trade pictures of child abuse, drugs and terrorist videos, you need to cooperate with law enforcement... or face consquences.
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^ So this whole encrypted Apple phone thing is about over?
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:12 The Ukrainian Armed Forces have advanced in the Kursk region from one to three kilometers and taken control of two more settlements, Zelensky said following a conversation with Syrsky. "Active actions continue in relation to another settlement. There is a replenishment of the exchange fund... We also discussed our Donbas separately - our defensive actions. The most attention is on Novogrodovka, Vodyanoye. The most assaults," the president noted in an evening video address.
20:45 The Foreign Ministry stated that Belarus, under the guise of exercises, is concentrating a significant number of personnel and military equipment in the Gomel region near the northern borders of Ukraine. The presence of mercenaries from the former Wagner PMC has also been recorded. "Conducting exercises in the border zone and in close proximity to a nuclear power facility, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, creates threats to the national security of Ukraine and global security in general. We call on officials of the Republic of Belarus not to make tragic mistakes for their own country under pressure from Moscow, and its armed forces to stop unfriendly actions and withdraw troops from the state border of Ukraine," the statement said.
The agency also emphasizes that Ukraine "has never taken and is not going to take any unfriendly actions against the Belarusian people," and in the event of a violation of the state border, "it will take all necessary measures in order to implement the right to self-defense guaranteed by the UN Charter." At the same time, all troop concentrations, military facilities and supply routes to the territory of Belarus will be legitimate targets for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
20:34 As a result of the Russian strike on Kramatorsk, one person was killed and six were injured, said OVA head Vadim Filashkin. The deceased was a British journalist born in 1984, among the injured were four journalists and two local residents. A hotel was destroyed, 17 private houses and six multi-story buildings, three enterprises, an administrative building and a cafe were damaged.
18:59 The number of people injured in the Russian strike on a hotel in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, has risen to six, and rescuers have found a body of a deceased person under the rubble, the head of the city's military administration, Oleksandr Goncharenko, reported. All the victims are Reuters journalists, citizens of Ukraine, the United States, Latvia, Germany and Great Britain.
18:13 Pope Francis is concerned about the decision to ban the Russian church in Ukraine: "Let no Christian church be abolished, directly or indirectly: churches should not be touched." The Pontiff called for allowing people to pray "in the church they consider their own."
17:45 Zelensky said in an interview with Indian media that he is in favor of holding the second Peace Summit in one of the countries of the Global South, possibly in India: "I really believe that the second Peace Summit should be in one of the countries, preferably in the Global South. And we are very open. There are countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, like Turkey... But I want to be frank. This applies not only to India, but to any state that would be positive about hosting the summit - we will not be able to hold the Peace Summit in a country that has not yet joined the summit's communiqué. No one is pressuring anyone, but this is logical."
14:12 Zelensky said in an interview with Indian media that the Kursk operation is part of a "large military-political, military-diplomatic operation. Everything we do is only to force Russia to be ready for a just peace."
10:19 The Russian army struck a residential building in the Dniprovsky district of Kherson, one person was killed, reported the head of the OVA Oleksandr Prokudin. Over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling in the region, two people were killed, nine more were injured, including one child.
10:08 The Prosecutor General's Office clarified that Russian troops struck Kramatorsk on the evening of August 24, probably with an Iskander-M ballistic missile. Two foreign media journalists were injured on the territory of the destroyed hotel, and another colleague is probably under the rubble.
09:37 At night, Russians attacked Chuguev in the Kharkiv region - five people were injured, including two children aged four and 14, said OVA head Oleg Sinegubov. Also at night, Russian troops attacked the Slobodsky district of Kharkiv - eight people were injured.
In the city of Balakleya, one person was injured as a result of the evening shelling. Another four people were injured as a result of yesterday's shelling of the village of Novoosinovo in the Kupyansk district and one in Kupyansk. Also in Balakleya, while extinguishing a fire, a rescue vehicle was blown up, two of them were injured.
09:26 Zelensky showed the Ukrainian drone missile Palyanitsa for the first time. According to the president, the missile's development lasted a year and a half, it is cheaper than its analogues. There are about 20 Russian airfields within the Palyanitsa's operational range. The Ukrainian missile is launched from a ground-based launcher.
09:11 Russians shelled Sumy the day before - one person was killed, six were wounded, OVA reported. Ten people were wounded in the Verkhnesyrovatskaya community, including three children.
08:35 At night, Russians attacked a hotel in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast - currently, two people are known to be injured, and another person is under the rubble. All three victims are journalists, citizens of Ukraine, the United States, and Great Britain, said OVA head Vadim Filashkin. In addition to the hotel, a nearby high-rise building was also damaged. On August 24, seven people were killed in Russian shelling in the region: five in Konstantinovka, one each in Toretsk and Kotlino. Another 15 people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours.
08:23 At night, Russia launched a missile strike on the frontline regions of Ukraine with various types, the Air Force reported. The Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Donetsk regions were attacked. The enemy used ground-based missiles: the Iskander-K cruise missile, the Iskander-M ballistic missile and six Kh-59/Kh-69 guided air missiles. As a result of the counteraction, most of the missiles did not reach their targets. In addition, the Russians attacked with nine Shahed-type attack drones, eight of which were shot down in the Nikolaev region.
08:14 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of August 25:
personnel - about 607,680 (+1,190) people,
tanks - 8547 (+5),
combat armored vehicles - 16,631 (+11),
artillery systems - 17,396 (+47),
MLRS - 1171 (+2),
air defense systems - 936 (+1),
aircraft - 367 (+0),
helicopters - 328 (+0),
Operational-tactical level UAVs - 14,095 (+31),
cruise missiles - 2444 (+0),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 23,475 (+92),
special equipment - 2928 (+17).
02:20 Ukraine is seeking permission from the West to use long-range Storm Shadow missiles for a "demonstration attack" on Russia, The Guardian reports, citing sources. This, according to Kiev, could force Moscow to negotiate a cessation of hostilities. According to one of the publication's sources, the idea is that Russia will only consider negotiations when it believes that Ukraine is capable of "threatening Moscow and St Petersburg." However, this strategy is associated with high risks and does not yet enjoy the support of the United States.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. See also here. Responding to that and this story from yesterday. by Kirill Velesov
[REGNUM] The arrest of billionaire Pavel Durov in France has once again raised questions about the methods by which various states gain control over media platforms.
Durov owns the Telegram messenger, which is used by about 900 million people per month. This platform ranks 8th in the ranking of the most popular social networks in the world. India leads in the number of users of this resource.
Telegram has over 1.4 million channels and 140,000 chats, through which over 167 billion messages are sent daily. The company is valued at $30 billion, and its Dubai office employs 30 people.
The passenger of his own private jet Embraer Legacy 600 fell into the hands of French justice at the Paris Le Bourget airport, at about nine o'clock in the evening Moscow time. The French TV channel TF1 told the world about Durov's arrest.
According to him, the warrant was issued by the National Directorate of the French Judicial Police. The bracelets on the arrested man's wrists were snapped by the air transport gendarmerie.
Interestingly, Flightradar24 claims that Durov's plane attempted to change course and head south of the country. The businessman was put on the wanted list shortly before landing at the Paris airport, so it is unclear whether this was a failed escape attempt or Durov decided to go all in, realizing that he would not be able to escape.
The Telegram cryptocurrency reacted sensitively to the arrest: the Toncoin rate fell by 20% in the first hours after the news from the Paris airport appeared.
Among the crimes incriminated to Durov are complicity in terrorism, fraud and pedophilia. According to French law, a judge can imprison a defendant in these criminal proceedings for a term of 20 to 25 years. Durov, by the way, will celebrate his 40th birthday on October 10. It is doubtful that this will happen at large: apparently, he is facing a lengthy trial.
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The thing is that the brainchild of the Durov brothers - and Nikolai, the elder brother of the detainee, played the first violin in the development of the platform code - turned out to be too tough for cyber policemen around the world. The secret of users' correspondence is not available to third parties.
This is where the leading version of the arrest comes from: Western liberal elites want to take control of an independent digital platform.
The attitude towards what is happening was formulated in an indicative way by the American journalist and one of the main enemies of the liberal establishment, Tucker Carlson : “Tonight Pavel Durov will spend the night in a French prison, this is a living warning to all platform owners who do not want to censor the truth. <…> The darkness is quickly gathering over the former free world.”
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova recalled how Western NGOs called on Russian authorities to stop creating obstacles to Telegram’s work after the adoption of the “Yarovaya Law” on July 1, 2018. Moreover, Durov remained at large while Russian authorities restricted the platform’s operation in Russia.
"Do you think this time they will appeal to Paris and demand Durov's release or will they swallow their tongues?" Zakharova wrote.
According to Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, Durov remains Russian, and therefore unpredictable and dangerous. That is, there are no "good" Russians for the West and there never will be. Medvedev warned Pavel about problems with the law in any country due to his refusal to cooperate with the authorities.
Durov called his refusal a "principled" position. How far his principled stand will extend now in the face of a long prison term is not yet known.
In general, Russian politicians condemned Durov's arrest, seeing political motives in the actions of the French authorities. And State Duma Deputy Speaker Vyacheslav Davankov called on Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to seek the release of the newly-minted political prisoner.
But will this stir up the remnants of patriotism in the libertarian Durov, who declared back in 2014 that he had no intention of returning to Russia, but ended up in a clash with the West?
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Another version has appeared in the community of Russian military experts. Supporters of this version claim that it was the secure Telegram that became the main messenger during the special military operation, since Russian military personnel exchange information there.
"You shouldn't fly to France when most of the combat command of the Russian Armed Forces is sitting in your midst. They might ask for cooperation," says military historian Ilya Kramnik.
However, this version still seems secondary, since the military has other communication channels.
The plane from which the hero of Sunday's news agenda stepped off had arrived from Baku. This gave rise to speculation about his possible meeting there with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Then the interest of Western intelligence services in checking Durov's possible connections with the Russian military-political leadership becomes understandable.
And, of course, despite all the accusatory pathos about the actions of the world behind the scenes, it must be acknowledged that the messenger has more than once become a tool in the hands of those whose intentions were predatory and disgusting.
It is enough to recall the role of the Telegram channel in recruiting terrorists who carried out the massacre in Crocus City. The resource's moderators were members of the Islamic State of Khorasan, which is banned in Russia. Then, the lives of 143 people were tragically cut short. However, there is no answer to the question of what extent the owner of Telegram is responsible.
Perhaps he will be offered to sacrifice the principles of an independent "man of peace" and cooperate with those who organized this arrest by changing the messenger's program code. And it may well be that Durov's team foresaw this development of events and will make any manipulation of the messenger impossible.
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LOL Zakharova, whose country has banned Whatsapp, Facebook, Signal.
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Maybe EC. But isn't banning them a bit more honest than secretly sending the FBI to direct their operations?
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It begs the question why they didn't ban Telegram.
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..in the US, the internet was found by SCOTUS to be like the phone company. Does the phone company get shut down because criminals use it to communicate illegal operations and activities? No. You get the actual criminal. Technically, the state has to get a wire tap warrant to listen in. With the internet, the perps remove that necessity and allow usable evidence for conviction to be out there.
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One of the charges are that Durov doesn't cooperate with French law enforcement.
Telegram has group talks, and in some of them, drug sales are organized or pictures of child abuse are exchanged. But if French law enforcement learns about one of these groups, Telegram doesn't respond to requests of French LE to cooperate in order to stop it because Telegram seems to believe: We're in Dubai, pound sand.
Well Durov is a French citizen arrested on French territory. Now he has a problem.
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Mr. Durov thought he was being clever a few years ago when he signed up for French citizenship in addition to all the others. What a sad illustration of the saying, so sharp he cut himself.
At least two people were killed and nine others maimed in deadly festivities between two groups in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
's Golimar area on Sunday, Geo News reported citing police personnel.
The casualties resulted when two gangs opened fire on each other, with some angry members setting various vehicles on fire and blocking both lanes of the main artery leading to Nazimabad from Lasbella.
Confirming the number of fatalities, Chief Police Surgeon Dr Sumaiyya Syed stated that one body was taken to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and the other to Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital, while the injured were being treated at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC).
Taking notice of the matter, Sindh Home Minister Zia Lanjar has sought a report on the incident from the Sindh Inspector General of Police (IGP) and Additional Inspector General (AIG), directing law enforcement agencies to bring the situation under control immediately.
Saying that no one would be allowed to take the law into their own hands or disturb the law and order situation, Lanjar also instructed the authorities to arrest the perpetrators as soon as possible.
Later, Karachi AIG Javed Alam Odho stated that the situation in the affected area was under control and the Central Superintendent of Police (SSP) was on site.
Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived... West DIG Irfan Baloch stated that the gangs clashed over the movement of a procession.
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Don’t forget to add mopery and dopery on the spaceways — that one’s always good for an extra seven years, even without a shutter gun and matching rounds of bullet.
[NewAgeBD] At least ten more murder cases were filed against ousted prime minister the loathesomeSheikh 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... and her aides on Sunday, taking the number of cases filed against her to 66 after the fall of her government on August 5 amid a mass uprising led by students.
Hasina is accused in 56 murder cases, seven cases of genocide and crimes against humanity, one case of shooting at students and public, one case of abduction, and one case of attacking the motorcade of Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson the loathesome Khaleda Zia ...Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, Pak foil, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... The first murder case was filed against the fallen prime minister on August 13, more than a week after she had resigned and fled to India.
On Sunday, a murder case was filed against Hasina and 48 others for killing Sheikh Ashabul Yeamin, a student of Military Institute of Science and Technology, on July 18 during the movement of the Student Movement Agaisnt Discrimination platform.
Victim's uncle Abdullah-Al Kabir filed an application with the Dhaka Senior Judicial Magistrate Md Saiful Islam's court appealing to lodge a murder case against the 49 accused.
Accepting the plea, the court ordered the Savar Model police to record the statement of the plaintiff and register the complaint as a First Information Report.
Awami League general secretary and former road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, among others, were made accused in the case.
According to the case statement, Yeamin, a student of MIST, was shot from an armoured car while he was attending a peaceful protest rally on July 18.
On the same day, a case was filed against 25 people, including Sheikh Hasina, over the killing of auto-rickshaw driver Babu Mollah in the capital during the recent anti-discrimination student movement.
Masud Rana, brother in-law of victim Babu Mollah, filed the complaint with the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court.
The court, after recording the statement of the complainant, asked the Hatirjheel police to accept the matter as First Information Report.
The other prominent accused in the case include Asaduzzaman Khan, Mohammad A Arafat and Jahangir Kabir Nanak.
According to the case documents, Babu Mollah and Masud Rana went for Jumma prayers on July 19 and when they were returning home after the prayers, the police opened fire on them, killing Babu on the spot.
A case was filed against Sheikh Hasina and 33 others with Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court for killing online news portal Dhaka Times journalist Mehedi Hasan near Kazla Toll Plaza on the Mayor Hanif flyover in Jatrabari during quota protests on July 18.
Rizia Begum, 36, filed the case with the court over the death of her nephew.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Saddam Hossain asked the Jatrabari police to record the complaint as First Information Report.
Two other cases were also filed with the same magistrate court, in one of which Babul Mia, 42, filed a case against Hasina and 26 others over killing Jisan in Matuail on July 20.
On Sunday, yet another case was filed against Hasina and 27 others over the killing of Md Eusuf Sanowar, a seller of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh products, in the capital during recent student movement on July 20.
Mamunur Rashid, brother-in-law of victim Md Eusuf Sanowar, filed the complaint with Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Saddam Hossain. The court after recording statement of the complainant, asked the Jatrabari police to accept the matter as FIR.
Obaidul Quader and former law minister Anisul Huq were among other accused in the case.
A case was filed against 13 people, including Sheikh Hasina and erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles director general Aziz Ahmed, over killing BDR Mutiny accused and the force's former deputy assistant director Abdur Rahim in jail custody.
Abdur Rahim's son advocate Abdul Aziz filed the case with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Akteruzzaman.
A murder case was filed against Hasina and 21 others also on Sunday with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court for killing Jasim Uddin, 35, on July 18 in the capital's Uttara.
[NEWAGEBD] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... authorities on Wednesday announced the codification of a law with 35 articles detailing wide-ranging behaviour and lifestyle restrictions based on their strict interpretation of Islamic law.
The law sets out graduated punishments for non-compliance — from verbal warnings to threats, fines and detentions of varying lengths — enforced by the morality police under the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.
'It is a distressing vision for Afghanistan's future, where moral inspectors have discretionary powers to threaten and detain anyone based on broad and sometimes vague lists of infractions,' said Roza Otunbayeva, head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan.
'After decades of war and in the midst of a terrible humanitarian crisis, the Afghan people deserve much better than being threatened or enjugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! if they happen to be late for prayers, glance at a member of the opposite sex who is not a family member, or possess a photo of a loved one,' Otunbayeva said.
Many components of the law have already been informally in place since the Taliban returned to power in August 2021, and it remained unclear if their formal codification would lead to stricter enforcement.
Women have borne the brunt of restrictions the UN has labelled 'gender apartheid', which have pushed them from public life, including barring them from secondary and higher education.
A doctor working in Kabul who did not want to give her name said she felt 'hopeless' hearing about the law.
'It would have been better if they had announced the opening of schools and universities instead of this law. That would have given us some hope.'
Yes, but they don’t want you to have hope. Hope is counterproductive to surrender.
Otunbayeva said the law 'extends the already intolerable restrictions on the rights of Afghan women and girls, with even the sound of a female voice outside the home apparently deemed a moral violation'.
The law says women must cover their faces and bodies if they leave the house, as well as ensure their voices are not heard.
The Japanese embassy in Kabul on Saturday posted on X expressing its 'deep concern about the continuing restrictions on women and girls in Afghanistan as announced in the PVPV law'.
The UN also expressed concern over restrictions on religious and press freedoms in the law, which stipulates media must not publish 'content hostile to Sharia law and religion' or 'that shows living beings'.
However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... it said there were positive articles in the law, including those banning mistreatment of orphans and 'bacha bazi', or 'boy play', where older men force boys to dress up as women and sexually abuse them.
The Taliban authorities have consistently dismissed international criticism of their policies, saying all citizens' rights are guaranteed under sharia law.
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Given the growing immigration from the Middle East and surrounding areas. We'll likely lose control and basic rights in 3 or 4 more US Metro's over the next 5 to 7 years due to growing Islamic/Muslim focused relocation.
Then clashes between them and those adopting a wide ranging Democrat lifestyle will get interesting quickly.
"How much worse?"
"Much much worse!"
[NEWAGEBD] Prime minister Keir Starmer on Tuesday was poised to warn that life in Britain will 'get worse' before it gets 'better', in his first major speech since taking office.
Starmer, whose Labour Party was elected by a landslide on July 4, is expected to use the speech to ramp up attacks on the legacy left by the ousted Conservatives.
His comments come after criticism that Labour is seeking a pretext to raise taxes, despite pre-election promises that certain taxes would not be hiked.
'We have inherited not just an economic black hole but a societal black hole. And that is why we have to take action and do things differently,' Starmer will say, according to excerpts of the speech released in advance.
'Part of that is being honest with people — about the choices we face. And how tough this will be. Frankly — things will get worse before we get better.'
Finance minister Rachel Reeves in recent days warned of 'difficult decisions' over whether to cut spending or increase taxes in her first budget on October 30.
Since Labour's election victory, Reeves has repeatedly accused the ex-prime minister Rishi Sunak's Tories of leaving a �22 billion ($29 billion) black hole in this year's budget.
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It will get worse because he's there.
It's his mission in life.
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Even if "the choices we face" were made wisely--something one does not expect from the Labour Party--it would remain true that "things will get worse before we get better." His description of the economic and social "hole" is apt there, and here. I suspect that his diagnosis will be wrong, and his cure will make things worse.
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[FoxNews] Police say 10 people were arrested for assaulting emergency workers.
At least three people were stabbed during the opening day of the Notting Hill Carnival in London on Sunday, with one still listed in life-threatening condition, according to the city’s police.
Police said 15 officers were assaulted when things turned violent, though none of the officers sustained serious injuries.
Police made 90 arrests for various offenses.
Ten people were arrested for assaulting emergency workers, 18 for possession of an offensive weapon, four for sexual offenses, one for theft, four for robbery, six for assault, one for public order offense, eight for possession of drugs with distribution intent, and 30 for possession of drugs – four arrests of which were for possession of nitrous oxide.
The Notting Hill Carnival attracts hundreds of thousands of revelers each year, who pack the streets of west London for two days, during one of the world’s biggest celebrations of Caribbean music and culture.
The carnival traces its history back to 1958, when Trinidadian human rights activist Claudia Jones began organizing a gathering to unify the community after a series of racist attacks on Black people in the Notting Hill neighborhood.
Launched in 1964 with a few Trinidadian steel bands, it has grown into a huge annual street party involving colorful floats, thousands of calypso dancers in spectacular feathered costumes, almost 20 steel bands and more than two dozen sound systems.
The Met stressed that the 'majority of the people' who attended the event 'came to enjoy themselves'.
Earlier today, an ex-inspector has claimed that Notting Hill Carnival is 'the ultimate in two-tier policing' - as more than one million people prepared to descend on west London to enjoy the festivities.
Notting Hill is one of the longest-running street parties in the UK and celebrates Caribbean culture with vividly costumed performers taking part in a parade through the streets with dancing and music.
But carnivals in the past have also been marred by violence. There were eight stabbings and 275 arrests at the 2023 event and 7,000 Met Police officers are set to be deployed onto the streets of Kensington.
Despite the high number of arrests and heavy police presence, a retired Met Police detective chief inspector has alleged that officers are hesitant to make arrests during the event for fears of being called racist.
Businesses and residents have boarded up their properties in preparation for the carnival.
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