[Breitbart] The government of Israel confirmed on Sunday that it had discovered a terrorist “Hamas command and control center” in a complex run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the U.N.’s agency for Palestinian issues.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israel Security Agency (ISA), or Shin Bet, issued a joint statement confirming an airstrike Subday on the facility, which they said intelligence confirmed was being used as “a staging ground for multiple attacks on IDF troops located in Gaza’s central corridor in recent weeks.”
The strike reportedly occurred shortly before Israeli officials confirmed that the country had begun dropping flyers to civilians in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, urging them to evacuate before a military operation against Hamas.
In January, UNRWA acknowledged intelligence that found at least 12 of its employees directly participated in the atrocities, which resulted in the killing of approximately 1,200 people and abduction of an estimated 250 others. Leaked communications in an online group featuring thousands of UNRWA employees found that many celebrated the slaughter and openly prayed for the terrorists engaging in it.
Despite this, UNRWA insisted that its only objective in Gaza is to aid civilians, not Hamas, and that its operations are pivotal for the survival of the people of Gaza.
The IDF and Shin Bet accused UNRWA in a statement on Sunday of allowing Hamas to use a complex allegedly intended for humanitarian efforts to stage terror attacks against Israeli troops.
“Following precise IDF and ISA intelligence, IAF fighter jets struck a Hamas command and control center in the central Gaza Strip which served as central terrorist infrastructure,” the statement said. “The strike was carefully planned and carried out using precise munition in order to minimize harm to uninvolved civilians.”
“The command and control center was used as a staging ground for multiple attacks on IDF troops located in Gaza’s central corridor in recent weeks,” the agencies said. “Furthermore, the forward operations base was used to carry out attacks on humanitarian efforts, which aims to increase the distribution of humanitarian aid to Gazan civilians.”
The IDF and Shin Bet added that Hamas used the location to distribute weapons to terrorists.
“The Hamas terrorist organization systematically exploits the civilian population and institutions as human shields for their terrorist activities against the State of Israel,” the agencies affirmed.
UNRWA has long operated as the closest thing to a functional government in Gaza, in charge of the education of children, the little health care available for residents, and some distribution of food and other aid.
…thus freeing up Hamas to concentrate on the fun of violent jihad against Israel rather than the drudgery of governance. Yay.
UNRWA’s education efforts have been particularly disastrous, as years of evidence has revealed UNRWA teachers using antisemitic, genocidal Islamist propaganda to indoctrinate Gazan children.
UNRWA funds these activities with money from governments. The top donor prior to the discovery that UNRWA officials participated in the October 7 attacks, which resulted in a suspension of funding, was the United States. According to the State Department, the administration of President Joe Biden donated nearly $700 million to UNRWA between 2021 and 2023.
“We’ve provided over $890 million for Palestinians, including over $680 in humanitarian assistance for refugees in the region through UNRWA … When Secretary Blinken was in Ramallah, he announced another $50 million in funding for UNRWA,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said in February 2023.
[Eleven Alive] ATLANTA — As metro Atlanta businesses and individuals continue to grapple with mail delays stemming from a new centralizing facility in Palmetto, an audit just released by the USPS Office of Inspector General on the opening of the same kind of facility last year in Richmond, Virginia says delays there lasted four months. Palmetto is a bit of a drive from Metro Atlanta. Could the tenured-entitled resent the commute ?
The Atlanta Regional Processing & Distribution Center in Palmetto opened on Feb. 24, consolidating Atlanta, Augusta, Macon and Duluth area processing and distribution centers.
REPORT: USPS audit report sheds light on mail delays in Atlanta and elsewhere
Since then, 11Alive has increasingly heard from viewers who have experienced frustrating delays or other problems with their mail, impacting everything from their small business shipments to medicine deliveries to tax documents. Members of Congress from Georgia from both sides of the aisle, including Republican Rep. Mike Collins and Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, have called for answers.
Atlanta is not the first area to experience disruption following the opening of this kind of facility. They are a centerpiece of a system-wide modernization drive within the USPS, and the first one the agency opened was in Richmond last year.
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Did USPS use it as an excuse to replace older, maybe higher paid, employees with younger DEI hires? Untrained and probably more trouble than they are worth...?
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The efficiency in those facilities is to print the ballots already filled out. And then deliver to the voter centers once the broken water line is fixed.
[NYP] Minouche Shafik certainly ought to go as president of Columbia, along with all her peers across academia who’ve utterly bungled their "tentifada" occupations, but America’s campus rot runs far deeper.
Note the CCNY staff who pulled a sympathy sickout after City College had its encampment cleared, and the Columbia and NYU profs who formed human chains in defense of the students (and outsiders) grossly violating the schools’ rules.
And, as Charlie Gasparino flags, the way elite colleges have taken vast overseas donations in tacit exchange for shaping their faculties and curricula in opposition to Israel (and America).
Heck, notice that Pritzkers serve on the boards of both Columbia and Harvard — even as the Pritzker family foundation funds multiple groups supporting the "pro-Palestinian protests."
Mayor Adams is certainly right to stress the role of "outside agitators" in fanning the campus flames, but plenty of "agitators" are deep on the inside, too.
[Market Ticker] "... You can look at this however you'd like, but there is an underlying and very-seriously negative problem in here that nobody wants to acknowledge: If we do not address not only the rate but the balance of who's having kids and what they're inculcating in those kids we're screwed, and we do not have years or decades to do it either.
Simply put, only the productive children -- that is, those who grow up and then produce more than they consume can keep a society going. Some percentage of children are never going to be productive and for those who are unproductive simply due to bad luck it's not their fault nor that of their parents -- fortune just is that way, and a just society doesn't treat them like a deformed puppy and cull them."
But you cannot make up for the lack of said productive children in your society by throwing open the borders and inviting "everyone" in. Those who come here with their first act as a criminal one are demonstrably unfit right up front to fit into a social order that has "law-abiding" as any part of its requirement. Oh sure, some will change their minds but their general mental position, which is "screw the law, I want mine" is not one you can permit on a mass-basis if you want to have a society at all.
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It also doesn't make sense to warehouse millions at great expense who contribute nothing but remain a threat to social commerce and the productive members of society. It's only possible in a very rich society to fund this avoidance.
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All part of the plan. Bathhouse Barry’s 3rd term going better than planned. If Slow Joe can last until the convention, he will nominate Barry as his running mate. Joe then resigns leaving Barry in the left seat. Don’t believe there is an amendment prohibiting him from being VP. I’ll leave it up the the Constitutional scholars here at the Burg to comment.
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12th amendment: But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
Since Oblahblah already served two terms, he's maxed out and ineligible IIUC
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Don’t believe there is an amendment prohibiting him from being VP.
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
So technically there isn't, but I doubt the courts will allow this as if the president croaks the previous president that hit the term limit will be back in the seat.
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I get the impression that he doesn’t want to work that hard anymore. Being the grey eminence behind the scenes — a word in this one’s ear or that one’s at a private gathering seems more his speed, and the presidency was only a step to this final, pleasurable status.
Une éminence grise, or greasy eminence as the Frenchish people say. Some of us had the impression Barack was not much interested in working hard when he was the Prez first go-round.
[TK] Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth is concerned about the risk of "developing a warrior caste" as, stubbornly, the majority of military recruits come from military or veteran families. In a recent hearing in front of the House Armed Services Committee, Secretary Wormuth warned of the possibility that the Army would become "more and more distant" from the population it swears to defend. Secretary Wormuth insisted "that’s something you want to guard against," but did not manage to give a reason why.
The military must exist based on hierarchical values that are—justifiably—unknown to a democratic society built on liberalism. Service in the military requires a life of sacrifice and order that runs counter to a civilian American upbringing. Adultery, for example, is against military law; you must seek approval to go on vacation; and you will lose your job if you gain too much weight. Such limitations on personal freedom are presumably objectionable to many Americans, and to society writ large. The military requires different lifestyles of its members, so we should be grateful that a caste of veterans’ descendants stand ready to serve.
In his 1957 book The Soldier and the State, Samuel P. Huntington defined the proper balance between a democratic society and a military that must exist based on contrary principles. Huntington paints a compelling picture of an American military forged between 1860 and 1940 that was built, not on "citizen soldiers," but on professional officers who saw themselves as set apart, or you could say "distant," from the society they existed to defend. William T. Sherman disdained any political involvement from officers, even to the point where he did not vote.
Having never served in uniform herself, Secretary Wormuth has spent decades cycling back and forth between bureaucratic outposts and think tank roles. She has evidently spent little time considering the military as a profession. Civilian leadership is necessary to promote trust in military leaders to manage training, tactics, and policies that make the fighting force lethal, so Secretary Wormuth need not have worn the uniform.
But her inability to comprehend the role of the military profession in society is a common but dangerous failure among defense leaders in both Democratic and Republican administrations. The military does not exist to reflect or mirror society, but to fight bloody wars on behalf of the nation. The culture and values required for this grave responsibility are, thankfully, not something one finds in most of the American population. We have a "military caste" that bears the burden of American warfighting. Public policy should embrace this reality, not wish it were not so.
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Those from the military who may aspire to high political office are too often removed or destroyed. They understand the realities and consequences of war and insist on victory. They can easily become a control problem and impede the Military Industrial Complex hunger for Forever Wars.
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^^ Plus they're just 'icky' because they know how to use assault rifles.
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They have achieved a geo-political understanding and knowledge of foreign regions and peoples that oftentimes conflicts with ruling aristocracy goals and objectives.
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They have no problems with Praetorian Guards. They have big problems with armed people, the populous or the uniformed, who hold the Constitution to be worth defending to the last full measure of devotion.
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You could always renew the draft but be prepared for resistance and civil unrest in the case of unpopular wars like Vietnam. I believe that's how Lyndon Johnson lost his job. I hate to bring up Switzerland but, IIUC, they have universal conscription but never get into any wars. Nobody ever attacks them because getting up those mountains where the entire populace is shooting down at you might be too tough. The population goes along with it because they trust their leaders not to get them involved in foreign adventures where they have nothing at stake. That's a bit more than we can say.
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^ we use to have a small standing army only expanded during wars. Even after WWII we demobilized only to reinstitute the peacetime draft in 1948. The justification was the Soviet threat. When the Wall came down, that mission was over and we should have drastically downsized the active component and drawn back to our own interests. Instead the MIC supported by the general officer corps resisted it to support playing the world's policeman. Something that fed right into the old Russian paranoia.
[AmericanThinker] Seventy years ago in 1954, immigration authorities created a mass deportation program in the face of out-of-control intrusions at our southern border. Then, like now, the gravity of the problem called for a dramatic policy response. Unlike now, the federal government rapidly responded, creating a system of roaming "deportation parties" concentrated on border-area factories and farms, netting tens of thousands of illegals in its first few days. The model, which would establish Border Patrol and ICE as we know them today, would later be dubbed, "Operation Wetback."
Intensely reviled by the globalist Left even to this day, the program is recurringly attacked in mainstream outlets and scholarly journals as yet another blot on America’s trail-of-tears history. As something of an immigration scholar myself, one of the better examples of academic treatment I’ve come across is a 2006 paper from UCLA African-American Studies professor, Kelly Lytle Hernández. As she shows, Operation Wetback offers plenty of guidance on how to deal with the current border invasion, especially in reclaiming deportations and border control as essential to both receiving and source countries alike.
No doubt surprisingly to some, Prof. Hernández writes in the piece that "cross-border research [into the program] transforms the typically nation-bound and time-bound narrative of Operation Wetback into an unexpected story of evolving binational efforts at migration control" -- that is, "binational" efforts between the U.S. and Mexico such as "collaborative deportations, coordinated raids, and shared surveillance." Few would know or at least admit that Operation Wetback was indeed a "binational effort" and essentially co-created by the Mexican government; such is the degree of disinformation and slanted revisionism of the program. As Hernández recounts in her piece, due to Mexican agribusiness facing upward wage pressure from what had grown into a mass outflow of domestic laborers by the mid-1940s, Mexican officials met with State and Justice department officials and successfully negotiated for things like an increase in U.S. Border Patrol officers on the border.
Capturing the sentiment on the other side of the border at the time, Hernández writes: "Mexican newspapers, politicians, and activists all tried to convince [would-be illegals] to stay in Mexico... remind[ing] them of their duty to participate in the economic development of Mexico by working south of the border." So patriotic, nationally-minded, and focused on curbing the exodus, Mexican officials "attempted to directly interrupt illegal labor migration to the United States" (think of their simple refusal to deport U.S.-bound migrants today) while some in government even called for "turning intransigents among them into ’forced labor’ within Mexico." (Emphasis mine).
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The economics and politics of illegal immigration have radically changed on both sides of the border. The biggest obstacle to fixing things if Biden is defeated will be corporate ownership of GOP Senators and Cogressmen.
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Temporarily move all those new IRS agents over to the BP.
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It'd be easy to get rid of them. No need for box cars rolling toward the border filled with deportees. Just don't let them work. You know, the idea of tamper proof Social Security cards and a database of valid cards. No welfare, health care or education either. The fact that we don't have any such system is proof that both parties want illegal immigration in defiance of what the people want and the dangers posed by an open border.
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^ Yes, it will also stop when nobody votes for "Chamber of Communism" repubs.
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[Ynet] President Gustavo Petro accused Israel of war crimes in Gaza and declared a diplomatic rift, however, just as with Brazil, where the president accused Israel in a similar manner, behind the scenes, arms deals with Israeli industries worth hundreds of millions of dollars are still inked
[MAIL] Warren Buffett has said he expects the US government to increase taxes rather than reduce spending as the country struggles with its mounting national debt.
The declaration, delivered Saturday, comes as the US is hard-pressed to address widening fiscal deficits, and as the national debt recently topped $34 trillion - an amount nearly as big as the entire US economy.
More concerning is the fact the Fed and other money-minded officials have no plan in sight, paving the way for the Berkshire Hathaway boss's unsettling prediction. Buffett aired his prediction at his hallowed hedge fund's annual shareholder meeting in Omaha, attended by some of the top CEOs in the country.
There, the conglomerate reported its collection of businesses generated some $11.2 billion of operating earnings, up 39 percent from the year before.
Despite those results being a sign of a relatively robust economy, the 93-year-old who is valued at more than $131billion said he believes a federal tax hike is on the horizon.
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No one in DC ever suggests getting rid of the ineffectual/corrupt departments such as education, energy, interior, homeland security, State, DOJ, FBI, NSA, CIA, ATF, IRS….. push it all to the states and local GIVERnments.
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Time to stop foreign aid and downsize our bloated government.
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Pa., West Va., Maryland all doing poorly. Virginia however seems to be be doing well. I spoke to two CPA's and asked if refunds were down again this year in Maryland. They are and they indicated withholding's were too low. Seems companies on their own reduced employee withholding's. Then food stamps also have been cut. Normally a family with children see big cuts from 200-600 monthly benefits to 25-27 dollars for a month. So the Maryland rainy day savings are gone already with the new administration in Maryland. Big tax increases and no cuts in many of the new spending programs. All the Democrats do is tax and spend.
[Federalist] Everyone wants to talk about what’s wrong with men, whether it’s "toxic masculinity," "men without work," "the end of men," the longhouse, or the need for men to "clean their rooms." Not so many people, however, want to talk about what’s wrong with women. Even the longhouse complaint is that women are too successful:
As of 2022, women held 52 percent of professional-managerial roles in the U.S. Women earn more than 57 percent of bachelor degrees, 61 percent of master’s degrees, and 54 percent of doctoral degrees. And because they are overrepresented in professions, such as human resource management (73 percent) and compliance officers (57 percent), that determine workplace behavioral norms, they have an outsized influence on professional culture, which itself has an outsized influence on American culture more generally.
The bureaucracy that controls Western life is feminized, the longhouse argument goes; implying that women have won. But is that true? Is it "winning" for women to wield power at the expense of their sexual counterparts, the other half of humanity, without which there is no humanity? Are women happier ostensibly being in charge? It seems obvious the answer to that is a resounding no.
Our society offers very few generally accepted successful strategies for helping both men and women achieve happiness through maturity. The women might look better on their resumes, but they’re also a skyrocketing majority of antidepressant and other pharmaceutical users. And it sure doesn’t satisfy women that they can kick tail in the office if their apartments are filled with cats, houseplants, and vacation pictures because the available men aren’t working toward family-sustaining salaries or interested in trying to lead even one slightly fractious and anxious woman on the quintessential life adventure of growing a family.
While our culture may not offer either men or women good counsel about how to create a fulfilling life, author and life coach Suzanne Venker does. A longtime Federalist writer, Suzanne has expanded her writing career into coaching so she can get right in the trenches with women. Venker’s latest book out in March from Post Hill Press, How to Build a Better Life, distills her countercultural, practical, and effective life advice for women into eight digestible chapters.
Her overarching theme is simple: To be happy, women have to do just about the opposite of what secularized Western culture tells them. This theme builds on other how-to books Suzanne has written, including The Alpha Female’s Guide to Men and Marriage, which I buy for friends’ wedding showers.
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As far as I know, there is only one longitudinal study of female happiness 1974 - 2009. Conducted by the Univerity of Pennsylvania for the National Bureau of Economic Research. It shows women getting progressively (pun intended) unhappier as time went on. Here's the link:
https://www.nber.org/papers/w14969.
NATURALLY there is no explanation of why women are getting more unhappy all the time. Naturally.
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Trying to be like men and hate them too ain't too good for mental health.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:28 Swiss President Viola Amgerd invited Pope Francis to the Global Peace Summit, which will take place on June 15-16 in Bürgenstock. "We invited the Holy See. The Vatican evaluates the peace conference very positively," she said.
21:05 The German defense concern Rheinmetall will transfer experimental artillery shells with a range of 100 km to Ukraine by the end of the year, company head Armin Pepperger said. He also promised that within the same time frame the concern would supply Ukraine with “hundreds of thousands” of conventional 155-mm shells.
21:01 Xi Jinping, who arrived on a visit to France, said that China intends to look for ways to resolve the conflict in Ukraine: “We hope that peace and stability will soon return to Europe, and we intend to work with France and the entire international community to find ways to resolve the crisis."
20:47 The number of victims as a result of today's Russian strike on Kharkov has increased to 15 people, the regional prosecutor's office reported.
19:32 As a result of today’s shelling of the village of Monachinovka, Kharkov region, one person was killed - the body was removed from the rubble after the fire in the house was extinguished, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
18:28 The Russians attacked an elevator in the Poltava region, no people were injured, said the head of the OVA, Philip Pronin.
17:55 The Russian military launched a strike with five missiles on the territory of the Slavyanskaya Thermal Power Plant in the Donetsk region, said Vladimir Proskunin, deputy head of the Nikolaev State Military Administration. According to him, as a result of the shelling, a number of objects on the territory of the station were damaged. No people were hurt.
17:36 The Russians hit the Shevchenkovsky district of Kharkov with KABs, ten people were injured, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. More than 15 apartment buildings, private houses, a non-working sports complex, and office buildings were damaged. In addition, as a result of Russian shelling of the village. One person was injured in Monachinovka, Kupyansky district, and another may be under the rubble. One person was also injured as a result of the shelling of Kovsharovka.
15:19 In occupied Berdyansk, Zaporozhye region, the car of Yevgeny Ananyevsky, one of the organizers of torture facilities on the territory of Berdyansk correctional colony No. 77, where he held his occupation post, was blown up. As a result of the explosion, Ananyevsky was eliminated, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reported.
14:27 Russia has concentrated about 25 thousand military personnel near Chasov Yar, said Nazar Voloshin, spokesman for the Khortitsa group of troops. According to him, the Russian Federation attracts both professional military personnel and former prisoners to hostilities. “The enemy has not changed its goal - to reach the administrative borders of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. According to our intelligence, Russia is trying to supply and reinforce units in different directions. For example, in the Chasovoyarovsky direction, the enemy concentrated 20-25 thousand military personnel,” Voloshin said.
13:44 Macron considers Russia’s nervous reaction to his statements about the possible dispatch of Western troops to Ukraine as evidence that this idea is working. In his opinion, the strategy of “strategic uncertainty” should be maintained in relation to Russia, that is, not revealing plans. Macron's statements that he would not rule out sending troops to Ukraine are part of this strategy. "Russia's unrest shows that we are right not to close any doors. Otherwise, this means that we agree to abandon the international order based on law, and therefore peace and security," the French president said.
The French leader also stressed that “the security of Europeans is at stake in Ukraine” and if Russia wins, “in the next second security will no longer be possible in Romania, Poland, Lithuania, or at home. The range of Russian ballistic missiles missiles are covering us all."
12:36 The Russians hit the village. Mikhailovka, Pokrovsky district, Donetsk region, three people were injured, the prosecutor’s office reported. According to preliminary information, the Russian military dropped an F-1 grenade from an FPV drone.
12:20 On the evening of May 4, Russian troops attacked one of the settlements in the Shostkinsky district of the Sumy region. Large-scale fires broke out in the residential sector and at a civilian facility, two people were injured, the State Emergency Service reported.
11:49 Russia is preparing sabotage in Europe - the governments of EU countries have already received such warnings, writes the Financial Times, citing data from intelligence services from three unnamed countries. According to their information, the Russian Federation is “heading for a permanent conflict with the West” and “has already begun to more actively prepare secret explosions, arson and damage to infrastructure on European territory.”
A senior European government official said information was being circulated through NATO security services about "clear and convincing Russian actions, coordinated and widespread." One intelligence official says the increased activity reflects Russia's desire to apply maximum pressure "on all fronts."
10:51 Macron said that at his meeting with Xi Jinping in Paris on May 6-7 he will discuss the Olympic Truce: “The Olympic Truce should serve as a message to the world. This is one of the topics that I will discuss with the President of the People's Republic of China on Monday and Tuesday.. "We will try to achieve it for all theaters of war."
09:13 At night, the Russians attacked the Osnovyansky district of Kharkov with drones - a fire broke out in a residential building and outbuildings. Six people were injured, including a child born in 2015, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA.
09:07 Zelensky congratulated Ukrainians on Easter:
08:58 In the Kherson region over the past 24 hours, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was wounded, two high-rise buildings, a private house, and an educational institution were damaged, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin.
08:39 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of May 5:
personnel - about 474,260 (+860) people,
tanks - 7375 (+9),
armored combat vehicles - 14,179 (+18),
artillery systems - 12,212 (+21),
MLRS - 1057 (+1),
air defense systems - 790 (+2),
aircraft - 349 (+1),
helicopters - 325 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 9636 (+25),
cruise missiles - 2147 (+1),
ships/boats - 26 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 16,418 (+37),
special equipment - 2002 (+4).
08:26 Over the past 24 hours, 95 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report. In particular, 20 attacks were repelled in the Avdeevsky direction - in the Novoaleksandrivka, Sokol, Novopokrovsky, Umansky districts of the Donetsk region. In addition, the enemy tried 15 times to break through the defenses of the Ukrainian troops in the Novopavlovsk direction - in the areas of the settlements of Krasnohorivka, Georgievka, Paraskoveevka, Vodyanoye and Urozhaynoye in the Donetsk region.
In the Kupyansk direction, the Defense Forces repelled 12 attacks in the areas of Sinkovka, Peschany, Kislovka, Kharkov region, as well as Stelmakhovka, Berestovo, Lugansk region; on Limansky - nine attacks in the Serebryansky forestry areas of the Lugansk region and Ternov, Donetsk region; on Bakhmutskoye - 12 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Belogorovka, Luhansk region and Spornoe, Razdolovka, Novy, Kleshcheevka, south of Ivanovskoye, Donetsk region; on Orekhovsky - five attacks in areas south of Novodarovka, Staromayorsky, Donetsk region and Rabotino, Zaporozhye region; on Kherson - ten attacks on the left bank of the Dnieper.
07:43 In the Dnepropetrovsk region, 12 drones were shot down during a night attack - one each in the Krivoy Rog and Nikopol regions, ten in the Dnieper region, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak. As a result of debris falling into the Dnieper, infrastructure facilities were damaged and there were several fires. A high-rise building was also damaged. A store in the Slobozhany community was damaged. No people were hurt.
07:35 Air defense at night destroyed 23 of 24 attack UAVs of the Shahed-131/136 type, which Russia attacked from the Kursk region and from the Crimean Cape Chauda. The drones were destroyed in the Kharkov, Kherson and Dnepropetrovsk regions, the Air Force reported.
03:51 Ukraine, after receiving American military assistance, plans to launch a new counter-offensive in 2025, said White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. At the same time, he believes that Russia will “achieve progress in the coming period,” despite the new US funding package approved last month, since “it is impossible to instantly switch the switch.” However, he said, thanks to new help from Washington, Kyiv will be able to “hold the line” and “ensure resistance to Russian attack” during 2024.
Speaking about forecasts for next year, Sullivan noted that Ukraine intends to “move forward to retake the territory that the Russians took from them.”
01:12 Ukrainian military analysts from the DeepState project report that the Russian army occupied Arkhangelskoye in the Donetsk region and Kotlyarivka in the Kharkov region, reached the administrative borders of Ocheretino and advanced near Novopokrovsky, Umansky, Pervomaisky and Krasnohorivka in the Donetsk region.
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[Korrespondent] Ukrainian soldiers repelled dozens of enemy attacks.
The hottest thing on Sunday, May 5, was in the Bakhmut direction, where Ukrainian defenders repelled 32 attacks by Russian troops.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine published operational information about the Russian invasion as of the evening of Sunday, May 5.
“During the day, 103 military clashes were recorded. In total, the enemy carried out 2 missile and 100 air strikes, carried out 57 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems on the positions of our troops and populated areas. As a result of Russian terrorist attacks, unfortunately, there were wounded. Multi-story buildings were damaged. and private houses, as well as other infrastructure facilities,” the General Staff said in a statement.
In the Kupyansky direction, Ukrainian fighters repelled 11 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Sinkovka, Peschanoe, Berestovo in the Kharkov region; Stelmakhovka, Lugansk region, where the enemy, with the support of aviation, tried to improve the tactical situation.
In the Liman direction, the Defense Forces repelled four attacks in the areas of the settlements of Novosadovo and Torskoye, Donetsk region.
In the Bakhmut direction, our soldiers repelled 32 attacks in the areas of Belogorovka settlements, Lugansk region; Verkhnekamennoye, Spornoye, Vyemka, Novy, Razdolevka, Ivanovskoye and Andreevka in the Donetsk region, where the enemy, with the support of aviation, tried to improve the tactical situation.
In the Avdeevsky direction, our defenders repelled 24 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Novoaleksandrovka, Novopokrovskoye, Umanskoye, Yasnobrodovka and Netaylovo in the Donetsk region, where the enemy, with the support of aviation, tried to oust our units from their occupied lines.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the Defense Forces continue to contain the enemy in the areas of the settlements of Konstantinovka, Krasnohorivka, Vodyanoye and Urozhaynoye in the Donetsk region, where the enemy, with the support of aviation, tried 16 times to break through the defenses of our troops.
In the Orekhovsky direction, the enemy, with the support of aviation, attacked the positions of our defenders five times in the area of Staromayorskoye, Donetsk region, and Robotinoye, Zaporozhye region.
In the Kherson direction, the enemy, with the support of aviation, made two unsuccessful attacks on the positions of our troops in the area of the village of Krynki, Kherson region.
During the day, Defense Forces aircraft carried out strikes on 13 areas where personnel were concentrated and four enemy anti-aircraft missile systems. The missile force units hit one area where enemy personnel were concentrated, three radar stations, two air defense systems and two enemy artillery weapons.
Let us remind you that tonight the Russian military attacked Ukraine with 24 Shaheds, 23 of which were destroyed by Ukrainian air defense.
It was previously reported that from February 24, 2022 to May 5, 2024, the total combat losses of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine amounted to approximately 474,260 people.
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[LB] The enemy concentrates different numbers of personnel in different directions.
by Ivanna Kapustyanska
The Russian army has concentrated different numbers of personnel on different areas of the front, in particular, 25 thousand Russian troops are currently stationed in the Chasovoy Yar area.
This was reported by the spokesman of the "Khortytsia" OSU, Nazar Voloshyn.
According to the spokesman, who refers to intelligence data, the Russians are trying to replenish their ranks and are recruiting new military units.
"For example, in one of the directions he pulled his units to another direction. That is, the enemy concentrates different numbers of his personnel in different directions," Voloshyn says.
In particular, the spokesman added, in the area of Chasovoy Yar, the enemy concentrated a group of about 20-25 thousand military personnel.
THE SITUATION IN THE CHASOVOYARSK DIRECTION
The Russian army continues to storm the outskirts of Chasovoy Yar in the Donetsk direction. Currently, there is a great struggle between the Defense Forces and the army of the Russian Federation for the control of logistics routes.
The Russian army is trying to bypass the outskirts of Chasovoy Yar near Bohdanivka and Ivanivskyi in order to bypass the city in a circle. Defense forces repulse enemy attacks.
Earlier it was reported that the Russian army is trying to bypass Chasiv Yar on the flanks through other settlements and has now begun to storm Andriivka and Klishchiivka, west of Bakhmut.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi, stated that the higher Russian military leadership had set the task for its troops to capture Chasiv Yar by May 9.
In order to capture Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region, the Russian army began to use tactics that were used during the offensive in Avdievka. The enemy drops aerial bombs on the city.
Over the last week, the situation on three fronts has escalated. In particular, the situation remains difficult in the Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Novopavlivka regions.
This was stated by the spokesman of the "Khortytsia" OSUV, Nazar Voloshyn, on the air of the telethon, writes RBC-Ukraine.
The "hottest" directions are Bakhmutskyi, Avdiivskyi, Novopavlivskyi. The situation has worsened over the last week. Heavy fighting continues, but the situation is under the control of the Armed Forces," Voloshyn said.
The enemy concentrated its efforts on these three directions in order to break through the defense of the Armed Forces, creating a certain advantage in forces and means.
"The enemy is also attacking along the entire front line, and has tactical success in some directions. But recently, a dynamic change in the situation has been taking place," the spokesman added.
At the same time, the Russian army does not stop trying to storm the positions of the Armed Forces using various types of weapons - artillery, tanks, drones and aviation.
On the night of May 3-4, the Russian army tactically advanced to the northwest of Avdiivka near the village of Arkhangelske after the Ukrainian Armed Forces retreated from their positions in the area. It is likely that the Ukrainian army is trying to trade space until Western aid arrives, the ISW report said.
In particular, analysts refer to a video released by a Russian military blogger, where fighters of the Russian "Lavina" battalion of the 132nd Motorized Rifle Brigade raise the flag in the village of Arkhangelsk.
ISW notes that additional geo-location footage released to the public indicates that Russian troops have advanced on the eastern edge of Arkhangelsk.
ISW analysts note that the capture of Arkhangelsk by the occupiers also indicates that the Russian army is likely to control the villages of Keramik and Novokalynove, southeast of Arkhangelsk.
"The Armed Forces probably decided to exchange space for time, waiting for the delivery of large-scale aid from the United States to the front in the coming weeks - this is a solution for under-resourced forces that can surround from the flank. And the Russian army is trying to "buy time" before the arrival of Western military aid, activating offensive operations, and may take further tactical steps in the area in the near future," the ISW report said.
Western analysts are convinced that Russian troops decided to take advantage of the tactical situation northwest of Avdiivka. In their opinion, this is a smart military decision, but the ultimate goal of the invaders on this part of the front remains unclear.
ISW notes that it is unclear whether they will continue to move north to Toretsk or return to their previous focus on Pokrovsk in the northwest, ISW stressed.
It is noted that Russian troops have transferred approximately four brigades of the Central Military District to the front line northwest of Avdiivka and continue to transfer additional forces to the area.
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[NewsFront] 23:57 Ukrainian military fired at the market area in Kremennaya (LPR), no one was injured as a result of the shooting.
About it reports Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Republic.
21:35 South Donetsk direction. district settlement Krasnogorovka.
Reported about the defeat of several enemy armored vehicles "Kirpi". The enemy's vehicles were destroyed at the exit from a residential area, where they had been hiding for a long time.
20:56 Visual demonstration of the plan of strikes by the Russian Armed Forces against the energy generating capacities of Ukraine.
The graph clearly shows that the March shocks turned Ukraine from an exporter of electricity into an importer. Importing electricity allows Ukraine for now to avoid full-scale blackouts, which would become a reality without EU support.
In other words, Russia is making Ukraine an energy-consuming “suitcase without a handle” for Europe. Europe is forced to spend expensive energy resources (which it buys in the USA) in order to prevent the Stone Age from beginning in Ukraine.
European production, apparently, also indirectly comes under attack from the Russian Armed Forces: European electricity at expensive intra-European prices is spent on Ukraine, and this pleasure is paid for by the European taxpayer and that same European production, which has already begun to flow to the United States in an attempt to maintain competitiveness.
20:23 Objective monitoring of the consequences of attacks on Slavyanskaya TPP -photo.
19:31 Personnel strike on the Slavyanskaya thermal power plant. The thermal power plant in the occupied part of the DPR is seriously damaged.
18:44 Opponent reports about several arrivals at Slavyanskaya TPP. The station has long been used to accommodate personnel and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
17:20 Special military operation. Situation on May 5 –map.
16:54 Kherson direction. district settlement Krynki
There is a relative calm and respite in the work of artillery on both sides. Reported, that FPV drones are still active on our side and on the enemy’s side. The transfer of enemy forces by boat is not observed.
15:15 Unique shots: GV “North” destroys enemy manpower and equipment near the state border.
During reconnaissance in the vicinity of the village of Aleksandrovka, Kharkov region, an accumulation of manpower and equipment of Ukrainian fascists from the 125th territorial defense brigade (natives from the Lvov region) was discovered. GV "Sever" promptly inflicted fire damage.
The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to:
- 29 Ukrainian fascists
- Four pickup trucks
- One infantry fighting vehicle
14:32 Khar'kov region (border region).
Reported about a repeated strike on a military facility with air-to-ground missiles. A military facility of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, previously an engineering workshop, was damaged. Our tactical aviation worked without entering the enemy’s air defense coverage area.
13:07 Dnipropetrovsk region. Powerful sound of explosion.
And again reported about the sound of an explosion in the southern part of the region near the industrial zone. Second time in 24 hours in this area. Local publics report a possible ballistic missile hitting a military facility.
12:41 Situation in the NWO zone –map:
The situation in the Kupyansk direction: The Russian army has completely taken control of the village of Kotlyarovka.
Situation north and west of Avdievka: The Russian army has advanced north of Ocheretino and northwest of Solovyevo. In addition, our troops advanced south of Solovyevo in the direction of Novopokrovsky. Also, Russian troops expanded the zone of control along the western bank of the Durnaya River towards Umansky.
Situation in Krasnogorovka: The Russian army has taken full control of the refractory plant in the city center.
Situation southwest of Donetsk: The Russian army continues its advance northwest of Novomikhailovka and has entered Paraskovievka.
11:53 Summary on the morning of May 5, 2024
The Russian Armed Forces maintain the initiative at the front and are successfully conducting tactical offensives in a number of directions. Events are developing rapidly in the Pokrovsky direction (the trap of Avdeevka) - the Russian flag is planted on the Ocheretinsky ledge in Arkhangelsk, flank attacks by our units are underway, with which the line of combat contact is leveled.
In the South Donetsk direction, the Russian Armed Forces, after protracted fighting, broke into the territory of the refractory plant in Krasnogorovka. There is a battle for Georgievka, attacks are launched from Novomikhailovka on Paraskovievka. The Vremev direction became more active, our troops entered Urozhaynoe.
There are heavy battles for Rabotino, Chasov Yar, and Kislovka.
The enemy is experiencing a shortage of manpower along the entire length of the front, the level of training of Ukrainian soldiers thrown into battle is falling, and enemy troops are being transferred to the most difficult areas from other sectors of the front, reducing its defensive capabilities.
At the same time, the enemy is still able to conduct an organized defense and skillfully restrain the advance of the Russian Army. Of particular danger are enemy drones, which, due to their repeater systems and their numbers, hit many targets to a depth of 30 km.
NATO is intensifying the production of anti-aircraft systems and guided missiles: Russian FABs with UMPC and missile weapons are being used more and more every day, and supplies to the troops are increasing. Our military pilots report the depletion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' air defense in a number of directions, which allows them to more freely carry out combat missions.
After the US allocated a multi-billion-dollar aid package, Western media increasingly contain explanations about the difficulties and time required to deliver weapons and equipment to Ukraine.
At the same time, the same artillery strikes with NATO-caliber cluster munitions are carried out constantly by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which indicates that the enemy retains barrel artillery and ammunition for it. Hoping to stop the advance of our troops, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost at least one more American Abrams in defensive battles over the course of a week, despite instructions from the United States to no longer allow the loss of this equipment.
Mobilization in Ukraine is getting tougher. TCC (military registration and enlistment offices) have been allocated quotas to take people from defense and socially significant enterprises, where people previously had reservations from the front. Cadets of 2-5 years of one of the military universities, under the legend of field training, were also sent to the combat zone this week.
TCC officers are now on duty at mobile police posts in cities, and the leadership of Ukraine is taking practical measures to limit the rights of Ukrainian citizens abroad to ensure their return to the country. However, Ukraine's mobilization potential is still estimated at several million people, although further forced sending of people to the front will only increase social tensions and wrest workers from the dying economy.
The enemy daily strikes with drones and artillery in the “old” Russian regions, periodically tries to hit air defense position areas in Crimea, naming the Crimean Bridge among the main targets in the future.
In Russia, many processes have come to a standstill on the eve of the inauguration of the Supreme Commander and Victory Day. News about the arrested Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov faded away, and there were no significant positive changes in the military bureaucracy.
Ukraine expects the Russian Armed Forces to attack the Kharkov and Sumy regions, estimating the offensive potential of our Army in the direction of 35-70 thousand people, which is not enough to storm large cities. Significant was the announcement by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs that Zelensky, Poroshenko and a couple of Kyiv functionaries were wanted, which indicates probable plans after May 20, 2024 to stop recognizing the Kiev regime as legitimate with all the ensuing consequences.
11:22 Statement by the head of the press center of the “West” group -video.
Units of the West group of forces continue to carry out combat missions in the special military operation zone.
Motorized rifle units occupied more advantageous positions and, with the support of artillery and aviation, inflicted fire damage on manpower and equipment to formations of the 30th, 63rd mechanized and 57th Motorized Infantry brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of Sin'kovka and Chervona Dibrova.
They repelled six counterattacks by assault groups of the 77th Airmobile brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the 1st and 31st brigades of the National Guard of Ukraine in the areas of Grigorovka and Stelmakhovka.
The enemy lost up to 40 military personnel, two vehicles, a 155mm M777 howitzer, a 152mm D-20 gun, a 122mm D-30 howitzer and a 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS combat vehicle.
10:15 Zaporozhye direction. Rabotino/Verbovoe.
Reported, on the use of cluster munitions by the Ukrainian Armed Forces against our positions. At night, our MLRS was actively working on enemy positions. That night, heavy mortars, FPV drones and other weapons were also actively used.
09:57 Telegram channel «WarGonzo":
- Zaporozhye Front. The assault operations of Russian troops in Rabotino continue. Advances greatly complicate the means of long-range destruction of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
– Donetsk front. In Krasnogorovka, Russian troops advanced in the area of the Refractory Plant. In Georgievka and Netailovo, as a result of assault operations, there were tactical successes of the Russian Armed Forces. Encounter battles continue on the approaches to Umanskoye. In the Semyonovka and Berdychi areas there are no significant changes. The Russian Armed Forces continue to put pressure on the defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, pushing Ukrainian troops to the west. In the Arkhangelskoye area, Russian troops knocked out the remnants of the Ukrainian garrison from the territory of the settlement, taking the village under their control.
– Chasovoyarsk direction. Heavy fighting continues along the entire line of contact. Long-range weapons are actively working.
– Kupyansk direction. Following Kislova, Russian troops liberated the village of Kotlyarovka.
09:27 Criminal Kyiv regime continuesto fire at the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from cannon artillery:
-- n.p. Malaya Kakhovka 5 rounds;
-- n.p. Chulakovka 3 rounds;
-- n.p. Gornostaevka 4 rounds;
-- n.p. Korsunka 2 rounds;
-- n.p. Tsukura 3 rounds;
-- n.p. Novaya Kakhovka 3 rounds.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Lyubimovka, settlement Kazachi Lagery, settlement Kakhovka firing a total of 16 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.
08:52 Telegram channel “Fisherman":
Chronicle of a special military operation for May 4, 2024
During the day, the Russian Armed Forces attacked several targets in territory controlled by the Kyiv regime, including a facility in Velikodolinskoye in the Odessa region and the Pavlogradskaya-330 substation in the Dnepropetrovsk region. In turn, the enemy once again attacked Crimea with ATACMS ballistic missiles.
– In the Artemovsky (Bakhmutsky) direction, Russian troops entrenched themselves in the Stupki-Golubovskie-2 nature reserve in the area of ??the Seversky Donets - Donbass canal, and to the southeast of Krasnoye they expanded the zone of control in the adjacent forest belts.
– In the Avdeevsky direction, the Russian Armed Forces liberated Arkhangelskoye, which opens the way for an offensive in the direction of Kalinovo. In the Novopokrovsky area, Russian troops destroyed another M1A1SA Abrams tank, as well as an M2A2 ODS Bradley infantry fighting vehicle.
– In the Donetsk direction, Russian troops took control of most of the territory of the Krasnogorovsky refractory plant. It also became known about the significant advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the central part of Georgievka and south of Pobeda.
08:00 Official summary Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC.
A total of 19 facts of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC.
Two civilians were reported injured.
No damage was recorded.
Two attacks from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction,
A total of 17 attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Gorlovka direction.
In total, the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired 67 units of various ammunition.
[NYPOST] Behold the "frat boys" unapologetically saving Old Glory, singing the national anthem, chanting "USA, USA, USA," and rudely ridiculing the campus freaks who parade around in Hamas ...always the voice of sweet reason... colors and barricade themselves in university buildings.
God Forbid! They look like Trump voters.
This display of irrepressible masculinity erupting in Gen Z is an affront to the grand societal feminization project of the left, which only has itself to blame.
Frat Boy Summer is this year’s backlash against an epidemic of arrogant, entitled women who have been coddled all their lives and think they’re smarter and more important than they really are.
It is a manifestation of the growing political divide between men and women that has been evident in opinion polls for some time. There is a 10-point gap on most issues between men and women.
Young unmarried women, in particular, skew very left, while young men are becoming markedly more conservative.
The latest ABC-IPSOS poll over the weekend showed Donald Trump winning the under-30s by five points over Joe Biden, 48% to 43%. That that was entirely down to Trump’s huge 12-point advantage with young men, 54% to 43%.
Young women favored Biden by three points, 44% to 41%, still a rather anemic vote of confidence considering all the “Handmaid’s Tale”-style propaganda being thrown at them about abortion and Trump’s beastly ways.
It’s a nightmare scenario for Biden, who has been counting on the youth vote to win him the election like it did in 2020. Hence his desperate pandering to Gen Z.
The president is splashing around billions of taxpayer dollars on student debt relief, relaxing cannabis legislation, championing “trans kids” as the greatest heroes of their generation and inviting gender-fluid young Tik Tok influencers to VIP events at the White House. This is not your granddad’s Joe Biden.
But none of it can close the growing ideological gulf between the sexes, which has its roots in the unjust treatment of boys and young men in recent decades.
The college gender gap was a crisis when men outnumbered women up until the 1980s, but now that there are three women for every two men in college, we must rejoice. You go, girl!
Now there are 1 million fewer men in college than in 2011, according to Pew Research, with one-quarter of male Ivy Leaguers identifying as LGBT. It’s sexual reparations that nobody had a say in.
There is a cohort of women who are giving the fairer sex a bad name. These toxic femmes gobbled up the unjust privileges of affirmative action and the punitive fakery that the #MeToo movement became and then found they were more miserable than ever.
So they doubled down, offloading blame onto the patriarchy or toxic masculinity ...the liberal concept (the science is settled!) that men are knuckle dragging bastards who spend all their time watching football, drinking beer, burping, farting, and thumping their women. This doesn't apply if the men are girls transitioning to boys, or boys transitioning to girls, or either transitioning to sheep... or whatever excuse they could find to avoid looking in the mirror.
During the pandemic they were given the name “Karen” as they marched around in masks enforcing petty rules or flew into aggressive rages during minor parking lot encounters.
When accountability occasionally finds them, they are flabbergasted beyond belief, while the rest of the world quietly revels in their comeuppance.
Karine Jean-Pierre is the avatar of the entitled female.
The White House press secretary is simply horrible at her job. She’s not on top of her material and never provides a coherent answer to reporters’ questions.
But instead of showing a little humility and upping her game she does interviews boasting about how awesome she is at “the hardest job in the White House . . . I’m an historic figure and I walk in history every day.”hen men outnumbered women up until the 1980s, but now that there are three women for every two men in college, we must rejoice. You go, girl!"
[Jpost] Since the IDF has one of the world's most advanced integrated air defense systems, if this is an issue for Israel’s military, it is likely to be an issue for other militaries worldwide.
The IDF is shooting down a significant number of its own drones in the course of operations, The War Zone (TWZ) reported Thursday, citing a US Marine Corps official.
According to Marine Lt.-Col. Michael Pruden, the IDF destroyed 40% of its own uncrewed aerial systems (UAS).
Pruden is head of the Marine Air Command and Control Integration Branch of the Air Combat Element Division within the service's Combat Development and Integration Command (CD&I).
"Something interesting that comes from Israel, 40 percent, 40 percent (this figure was repeated for emphasis), of the UASs ... knocked out" by Israel are instances of "friendly fire," Pruden said during a talk at the annual Modern Day Marine exposition on Wednesday.
He did not provide any additional details of this statistic, including a timeframe, according to TWZ. However, he did imply that this data comes from operations in the Gaza Strip in the current war against Hamas.
While discussing possible reasons for this number of friendly drones that are knocked down, Pruden said, "As Israel's engaging in Gaza, and they're on their front line, they see a small UAS; what are they going to do if it's not identified immediately? They're going to shoot it down."
Pruden said this is the default course of action because the time between when a drone might be detected and when it could execute an attack is usually measured in "seconds."
IDF HAS PREVIOUSLY ACKNOWLEDGED ACCIDENTAL KNOCKDOWNS OF ITS OWN DRONES
Pruden clarified that the IDF has also previously acknowledged accidental knockdowns of its drones. Since the IDF has one of the world's most advanced integrated air defense systems, if this is an issue for Israel’s military, it will likely be an issue for other militaries worldwide.
The US Marine official highlighted a related communication issue in the US military. "How am I putting a small UAS in the sky, thousands of these things, and not telling anybody about it, especially your ground-based air defense and counter-UAS [elements]?"
Pruden sees these mistaken interceptions as a problem that will only increase as the number of drones flying through the air increases in volume.
Israel’s current defense system includes Arrow 3, an exoatmospheric hypersonic anti-ballistic missile, and Arrow 2, an endoatmospheric anti-ballistic missile built by Israel Aerospace Industries. Below them are David's Sling and the Iron Dome, made by Rafael.
The laser air defense system, the Iron Beam, will join as another line of defense. In this system, Rafael plays a critical role as the developer of the launcher, while Elbit is the supplier of the laser itself. With the help of a laser beam with a power of about 100 kilowatts, the system is designed to intercept rockets and various drones. However, if the detection system does not improve, this system could also intercept friendly drones.
[AmericanThinker] Increasing numbers of worried Americans have been wondering over the last few years whether progressive Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... have succeeded in creating a police state in America. From the Russia Hoax to the revelations of the Twitter Files release, to the coordinated attempts to quash scandalous and true Biden family stories, to the blatant display of dual justice, they’ve seen that the cabal of one political party, with its power bases in the government and the sycophant media, has succeeded in limiting or destroying political opponents while eliminating individual rights. Just how bad is it? Has that cabal suspended our American Constitution and Bill of Rights and created an authoritarian alternative? Are we there yet?
In his piece “Shock and Awe on the Campaign Trail,” Roger Kimball outlines the numerous and egregious illegalities and irregularities taking place in the legal assault on candidate Trump and asks, “Why are people not up in arms over these revelations?” Similarly, in his interview with Mike Davis, who founded the “Article III Project,” Steve Bannon says, “I don’t know why people are not more on fire with the ridiculousness, the obvious lawfare, which is working, because Trump is not on the campaign trail.”
These are important questions as we look at the nearly countless unprecedented actions involved in some 91 counts of alleged wrongdoing in federal and local indictments filed against the leading presidential candidate. From the eye-popping civil suit verdicts overseen by judges with serious conflicts of interest to attempts to keep Trump off the ballot in several states, to charges related to classified document handling, to the most recent gag order, these efforts have flown in the face of precedent, due process, and equal protection at nearly every turn. They have already achieved much of what they were intended to do: Greatly hamstring (draining time and financial resources) the leading threat to Democrat party/government power.
But why haven’t we seen more overt objection to this travesty, such as more poster-carrying, angry citizens outside of the Trump trial courtrooms, on campuses, at congressional hearings, and in the streets? Part of the answer to this question has to do with the intended target for the shock and awe. It isn’t Donald Trump. As Trump has correctly observed, he is just in the way. No, the primary targets of the shock and awe are people like you and me. And the left may well have hit their mark.
Could it be that the average non-leftist citizen now feels both powerless and terrified to object to any of these injustices? They see the brutal treatment meted out to President Trump, his associates, and his legal team, on the one hand, versus the reverence for a president whose family has inexplicably received millions of dollars from foreign sources and for violent protesters who have magically escaped jail time, or of crack-using, tax-dodging Biden family members.
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Maybe they all are hoping their vote will still count.
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Lawfare is definitely part of what is going wrong. Illegal intelligence gathering on US citizens is another part. An unequal justice system completes the trifecta.
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Leftist lawfare and a corrupted deepstate have done great harm to our system of governance.
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Lawfare gained ground when judges decided to play social engineering rather than stick to the law. Reform will start when the judiciary tell litigants to take their issue to the voters not their branch of government.
[10News] Nike: "Just Do It" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the key Hamas demands “extreme” — including the withdrawal of Israel forces from Gaza and an end to the war.
The latest round of Gaza cease-fire talks ended in Cairo after “in-depth and serious discussions,” the Hamas militant group said Sunday, reiterating key demands that Israel again rejected. After signs of progress, the outlook appeared to dim.
Israel closed its main crossing point for delivering badly needed humanitarian aid for Gaza after Hamas attacked it. The defense minister claimed Hamas wasn't serious about a deal and warned of “a powerful operation in the very near future in Rafah and other places across all of Gaza."
Israel didn't send a delegation to the talks mediated by Egypt and Qatar, and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said that “we see signs that Hamas does not intend to go to any agreement." Egyptian state media reported that the Hamas delegation went for discussions in Qatar, where the group has a political office, and will return to Cairo for further negotiations on Tuesday.
Another threat to talks came as Israel ordered the local offices of Qatar’s Al Jazeera satellite news network to close, accusing it of broadcasting anti-Israel incitement. The ban did not appear to affect the channel’s operations in Gaza or the West Bank.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, under pressure from hard-liners in his government, continued to lower expectations for a cease-fire deal, calling the key Hamas demands “extreme” — including the withdrawal of Israel forces from Gaza and an end to the war. That would equal surrender after the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 that triggered the fighting, Netanyahu said.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in a statement earlier said the militant group was serious and positive about the negotiations and that stopping Israeli aggression in Gaza is the main priority.
But Israel's government again vowed to press on with a military operation in Rafah, the southernmost Gaza city on the border with Egypt where more than half of Gaza's 2.3 million residents now seek shelter from Israeli attacks. Rafah is a key entry point for aid.
Kerem Shalom, now closed, is another. The Israeli military reported 10 projectiles were launched at the crossing in southern Israel and said its fighter jets later struck the source. Hamas said it had been targeting Israeli soldiers in the area. Israel’s Channel 12 TV channel said 10 people were wounded, three seriously. It was unclear how long the crossing would be closed.
The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, called for an independent investigation and “accountability for the blatant disregard of humanitarian workers.” He also said Israel this week denied him entry to Gaza for a second time.
The closing of Kerem Shalom came shortly after the head of the U.N. World Food Program asserted “full-blown famine” in devastated northern Gaza, one of the most prominent warnings yet of the toll of restrictions on food and other aid entering the territory. The comments were not a formal famine declaration.
In expanded remarks as the full NBC interview was released Sunday, WFP chief Cindy McCain said famine was “moving its way south” in Gaza and that Israel's efforts to allow in more aid were not enough. “We need more ability to be able to get more trucks in,” she said. “We have right now a mass on the outside border, about enough trucks and enough food for 1.1 million people for about three months. We need to get that in."
Gaza's vast humanitarian needs put further pressure on the pursuit of a cease-fire. The proposal that Egyptian mediators had put to Hamas sets out a three-stage process that would bring an immediate, six-week cease-fire and partial release of Israeli hostages taken in the Oct. 7 attack, and would include some sort of Israeli pullout. The initial stage would last for 40 days. Hamas would start by releasing female civilian hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
Netanyahu claimed that Israel has shown willingness to make concessions but said it "will continue fighting until all of its objectives are achieved.” That includes the stated aim of crushing Hamas. Israel says it must target Rafah to strike remaining fighters there despite warnings from the U.S. and others about the danger to civilians.
An Israeli strike Sunday on the al-Attar family house in an urban refugee camp near Rafah killed four children, including a baby, and two adults, according to Abu Youssef al-Najjar Hospital.
In later remarks for Israel’s annual Holocaust memorial day, Netanyahu added: "We will defend ourselves in every way. We will overcome our enemies and we will ensure our security — in the Gaza Strip, on the Lebanese border, everywhere.”
The Hamas cross-border attack on Oct. 7 killed some 1,200 people and took 250 others hostage. Israel says militants still hold around 100 hostages and the remains of more than 30 others. Netanyahu is under growing pressure from some hostages' families to make a deal to end the war and get hostages freed.
Israeli's air and ground offensive has killed over 34,500 people, according to Palestinian health officials, who don't differentiate between civilians and combatants but say women and children make up a majority of those killed.
Israel blames Hamas for civilian deaths, accusing it of embedding in residential and public areas. The Israeli military says it has killed 13,000 militants, without providing evidence to back up the claim.
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Hamas chief accuses Netanyahu of sabotaging truce efforts, delegation leaves Cairo
[NEWARAB] A Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... official said on Sunday that its delegation left Cairo after the second day of ceasefire negotiations with Egyptian officials concluded as the two warring parties accuse each other of sabotaging a deal, leaving hopes of an agreement fading.
Israel has yet to send a delegation to Cairo and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that it would not agree to a deal which included the full military withdrawal from Gazoo
Islamic Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. , as demanded by Hamas.
Also on Sunday, Israel's cabinet voted unanimously to shutdown Al Jazeera network on Sunday taking its website and TV channel off air. In an unprecedented move, Israeli police raided the outlet's premises in east Jerusalem and confiscated equipment.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Senate, Tremulus continued with his speech against Varius and his cohorts, watching as his colleagues dropped off to sleep one by one... Israel launched attacks on neighbourhoods east of Rafah which killed and injured several civilians, while jets struck areas near Gaza City and in central Gaza, Paleostinian news agency Wafa reported.
Hamas fired rockets at a military base near Karam Abu Salem crossing which injured several Israeli soldiers and prompted Israel to shut the aid border.
President Biden lost hold of that leash, guys. So sorry.
[GEO.TV] Spokesperson for Hamas ...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... Osama Hamdan has stated that the fighter group needed a guarantee from the United States that the Israeli military would not invade Rafah after the ceasefire deal.
Except that Israel — in the person of Prime Minister Netanyahu, has already promised they will. The ceasefire is only for so long as Hamas delivers live hostages. How many live hostages do Hamas & friends still have? Versus dead hostages, I mean. They’ve already said they can’t deliver all forty of those who are supposed to be alive.
"We are still talking about the main issues, which are the complete ceasefire and complete withdrawal [of Israel] from Gazoo
Islamic Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. ," he told Al Jazeera in an interview.
"Unfortunately, there was a clear statement from Netanyahu saying regardless of any ceasefire or not, he’ll continue the attack against Rafah — which means there will be no ceasefire.
"Our understanding to achieve a ceasefire means there will be no more attacks anywhere in Gaza, including Rafah," he said.
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[AFRICANEWS] There is growing concern after prosecutors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... opened a judicial inquiry against Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo of Kinshasa for "seditious comments".
The Archbishop is believed to be one of Pope Francis ...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess... ’ main advisors and the Vatican says it is closely monitoring the situation.
Ambongo was accused of "incitement" after speaking out against insecurity in the east of the country, where the army is fighting the M23 rebels, during his Easter Mass..
Ongoing violence in North Kivu province has caused almost two million people to flee their homes since the end of 2021.
Prosecutors says his comments were likely to discourage soldiers in the east and encourage mistreatment by the rebels fighting them.
Reactions to the announcement of the judicial investigation against Ambongo have been swift with both clergy, human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... groups, and opposition politicians rallying to his defence.
Opposition leaders say the state’s case against the Cardinal sets a dangerous precedent for those wishing to criticise the government.
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Ongoing violence in North Kivu province has caused almost two million people to flee their homes since the end of 2021.
Fleeing California
Many people have been leaving California in recent years, with over 343,000 residents departing the state in 2022 alone. The exodus is not a new phenomenon, as California has been struggling with resident retention for 20 years. The cost of living is a major reason why many people are fleeing, with 4 in 10 Californians considering moving out of state due to the high cost of living.
High-income earners are also joining the exodus, with 220,000 leaving California in 2021. This could have a significant impact on the state’s treasury, as the top 1% of earners pay nearly 50% of the state income taxes.
Some of the destinations for those leaving California include other states with lower costs of living, such as Texas, Arizona, and Nevada. However, the reasons for leaving California are not limited to the cost of living, as people are also citing issues like rising home prices, stagnant wages, and crime.
Despite the challenges, many people still appreciate California’s diversity and are happy with their decision to live there. A statewide poll found that 70% of respondents expressed high levels of happiness with living in California and applauded the state for its diversity.
[NYPOST] The anti-Israel protesters who stormed Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall were urged by a radical activist group to rekindle the bloody Black Lives Matter riots of the summer of 2020, a new report says.
Furiously pumping the bellows is New York City nonprofit The People’s Forum (TPF), an anti-Israel organization with known ties to the Chinese Communist Party and backed by American businessman Neville Roy Singham, a self-described socialist known for financially supporting left-wing causes through Goldman Sachs’ charity arm.
At a Monday night meeting in Manhattan hosted by TPF — hours before the infamous building takeover — around 100 mask-wearing activists were worked into a lather by the organization’s executive director, Manolo De Los Santos, who called for a "final blow to destroy Israel" in a viral video earlier this year.
Eh? How is violent revolution in one tiny corner of New York City going to behead a nation of 8 million on the other side of the world?
Addressing the group, De Los Santos spewed invective about Columbia’s "Zionist" administration, whom he skewered for wanting "to be more like their masters in Israel," the Washington Free Beacon wrote.
[Breitbart] What oh what could've sparked this? Three guesses and the first two don't count
City Health Officer Dr. Anissa Davis made the declaration to "strengthen the City’s preparedness and ability to respond" to the outbreak, the official press release said.
Authorities noted the outbreak is isolated to a "distinct population" and informed the public that the risk of contracting the illness is low.
"The population at risk in this outbreak has significant barriers to care including homelessness and housing insecurity, mental illness, substance use and serious medical comorbidities," the news release continued:
Several individuals associated with a single room occupancy (SRO) hotel in Long Beach have recently been identified with TB disease. As of April 29, 14 cases of TB disease have been associated with this outbreak; nine people have been hospitalized at some point in their illness; and one person has died. To protect patient privacy and comply with HIPAA regulations, the name of the hotel will not be released. The facility is a private hotel not operated by or contracted with the City of Long Beach. People who were staying at the hotel at the time or could have otherwise been exposed have been or will be contacted by the Health Department.
Officials noted that about 170 people may have been exposed to the illness, and Health Department workers are currently screening contacts for tuberculosis. Authorities believe the number of cases and contacts will increase as the investigation continues.
"This is surprising," Director of Infectious Disease at Dignity Health Dr. Suman Radhakrishna told KTLA:
We’ve had a lot of people coming from the developing part of the world where tuberculosis is endemic. And if they haven’t had a chance to get adequate healthcare and they have active TB, when they cough, they will aerosolize the bacteria, and all the susceptible individuals around them start to come down with TB.
According to the Mayo Clinic, tuberculosis is classified as a serious illness that mainly targets a person’s lungs. The illness "spreads easily where people gather in crowds or where people live in crowded conditions," the clinic said, adding that people with weakened immune systems have a greater risk of catching the illness.
"Drugs called antibiotics can treat tuberculosis. But some forms of the bacteria no longer respond well to treatments," the clinic noted.
The majority of people living in the United States are not vaccinated against tuberculosis because doctors say there is a low incidence of it within the country, according to KCAL:
"There is a skin and a blood test to detect tuberculosis, and if you are found to have it, you’ll be given a four-month supply of medication," a reporter for the outlet said.
In April, health officials in Chicago reported several cases of tuberculosis at migrant shelters, according to Breitbart News.
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[REGNUM] In the last few days alone, four people convicted of “ideological crimes” have been arrested in Latvia. In addition, in recent years, demonstrative intimidation has been carried out: residents who have at least somehow expressed their agreement with Soviet and Russian values are detained or, at best, fined. The Latvian State Security Service (SSS) is conducting “precautionary conversations” on a large scale, the reason for which can even be a congratulation on a Soviet holiday posted on a social network. However, despite these intimidations, there are still “renegades” who dare to openly protest against the nationalist regime established in the country.
[GEO.TV] Israeli forces Saturday claimed they killed five Paleostinians, including four fighters of Hamas ...always the voice of sweet reason... , in an overnight raid near the city of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank.
Hamas confirmed that four of the men killed during the raid in Deir al-Ghusun village were from its al-Qassam armed wing. The Paleostinian health ministry said their bodies had been taken by the Israeli military.
There was no information about the fifth man, whose body was too disfigured for immediate identification, the Paleostinian health ministry in the West Bank said.
The Israeli military confirmed the deaths and said an Israeli officer from a special police unit was maimed in the operation it said targeted a Hamas cell responsible for numerous shooting and boom-mobileing attacks.
It said the group was responsible for killing a reservist soldier and wounding a police officer in an attack last November and also carried out a boom-mobileing attack in April which maimed two Israelis including a soldier.
[NYPOST] The Biden administration last week halted a shipment of US-made ammo that was slated to go to Israel — a decision that reportedly sent members of the Israeli government into a tizzy as they tried to figure out why the delivery has been withheld.
The move marks the first time since Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... ’ deadly Oct. 7 terrorist attack that the United States has hit the brakes on a weapons shipment to its longtime Middle East ally, according to Axios, which learned of the decision from two Israeli officials.
When questioned, a White House National Security Council spokesperson told Fox News that the administration has supported Israel since Hamas’ assault, which left 1,200 Israelis dead.
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Why?
Could it be they are just trying to buy Muslim Vote and donations?
OR
Could it be the O'Biden Regime & LSD Swampers are worried about possible US Civil Unrest issues, or a MAGA celebration on Nov. 6th?
[IsraelNationalNews] Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Weizen, father of Amichai who fell in battle in Kerem Shalom, addressed the IDF hesitating to enter Rafah and claimed that the waiting is wrong.
"We don’t have the strength to speak but we are incapable of remaining silent", he said in an interview to 'Kol Chai' radio. "We don’t understand or interfere in military decisions but we can’t forgive ourselves for the fact our son went out to protect the residents of Kerem Shalom while the residents of the kibbutz can’t return home."
According to him, a decisive campaign in Gaza means one thing - complete Israeli control over the entire Strip.
"From our side, a decisive victory will manifest as absolute military rule over all parts of the Strip. It is already difficult, to think that in some time they would suddenly decide to enter Rafah?"
"Now is the time and it is forbidden to hesitate and miss the opportunity. We are committed to our son’s will, that is our call. When David heard of King Saul's fall, he called ’to teach the sons of Judah the bow’, we must have the strength."
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[Regnum] Two synagogues in New York were evacuated due to bomb threats. The New York Post reported this on May 4,citing the city police.
It is clarified that police officers received information about the bomb threat twice on May 4. The messages were received at 15:15 and 16:30 local time (22:15 Moscow time and 23:30 Moscow time). The first synagogue is located near Central Park, the second is located in Manhattan in Midtown.
Both threats were later found to be false.
Someone having fun making threats, or someone testing responses?
The police began an investigation into the incident. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said her office is aware of the false threat incident and is monitoring the situation. As Hokul pointed out, attackers who tried to intimidate people should be held accountable for such acts.
Earlier, IA Regnum reported that a suspect was detained in Warsaw for attempting to set fire to a synagogue using a Molotov cocktail in a bottle. According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic, Radoslaw Sikorski, no one was injured as a result. A bottle with a flammable mixture broke against the wall of the building, leaving traces of soot and soot on the wall. The building was not seriously damaged.
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[Regnum] At least 228 people died in Kenya from floods and landslides caused by heavy rains, Reuters reported on May 5, citing data from the Republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Due to the severity of the disaster, more than 200 thousand people had to be evacuated. At least 164 residents were injured.
The ministry warned that flooding is expected in low-lying areas, coastal areas in cities. There is also a risk of new landslides in hilly areas.
According to journalists, rainfall in Kenya began in March and continues to this day. According to forecasters, precipitation will become even heavier in May.
As Regnum reported, rains also hit Indonesia. On May 4, 14 people were reported dead due to flooding and landslides. 115 people were evacuated from flooded areas. The disaster caused damage to 2,052 families.
Heavy rainfall also occurred in Brazil. On May 3, it became known that 39 people had died. Another 68 are missing. At least 74 people were injured.
[Breitbart] Arne Duncan, former President Barack Obama’s Secretary of Education, was photographed at an anti-Israel encampment next to a Chicago alderman who has received criticism for speaking in front of a burned American flag.
In a post on social media from the Coalition of Progressive Staffers from the Mayor’s Office and the Chicago city council, Duncan was seen standing next to Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez, who represents Chicago’s 25th ward, at an anti-Israel encampment at the University of Chicago.
Sigcho-Lopez was seen speaking at the encampment at the university on Monday.
Sigcho-Lopez has previously faced criticism from several Chicago aldermen and veterans after he was captured on video speaking at a rally in March where the American flag was burned, according to CBS News.
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[Regnum] The draft resolution on the events in Srebrenica proposed by Germany and Rwanda in the UN General Assembly is being promoted with the goal of “breaking the Serbs.”The head of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov, stated this on May 5 in an interview with the Bosnian TV channel ATB.
“Today we all see what is happening in the UN General Assembly, that Germany and Rwanda are trying to adopt a draft UN General Assembly resolution on Srebrenica, which would condemn one people... The goal is to break the Serbs,” the diplomat said.
Ten years ago, the West also tried to promote a similar initiative in the UN Security Council. Then Russia used its veto power and blocked the draft resolution, Lavrov recalled.
According to the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the West cannot come to terms with the fact that the Serbs, being too independent in their actions, refuse to join anti-Russian sanctions and oppose recognition of Kosovo’s independence.
Thus, the West, promoting a draft resolution on the events in Srebrenica, actually delivered an ultimatum to Belgrade, demanding that Serbia, aimed at joining the European Union, recognize the independence of self-proclaimed Kosovo and join sanctions against Russia.
“Saying this to the Serbs, completely ignoring the history of our friendship, joint battles for freedom, for independence, for Orthodoxy, and, in the end, for the Slavs? The West is absolutely not interested in all this. I would even say interested, but with a minus sign. This is exactly what they need to destroy,” Lavrov concluded.
As Regnum reported, on April 30, Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, said that the draft resolution on the events in Srebrenica violates the Dayton Agreement. In addition, the possible adoption of the initiative will not only have a disastrous effect on Bosnia and Herzegovina, but could also lead to destabilization of the entire Balkan region. Nebenzya stressed that the peoples of BiH must independently come to a consensus regarding their history.
More from regnum.ru Lavrov: The West has “crowded” international secretariats, this needs to be corrected Well, where we s'posed to put our aspiring international communists?
Representatives of Western countries have “flooded” the secretariats of international organizations, including the UN, to promote an agenda that benefits only them, this needs to be corrected through reforms. This statement was made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on May 5 in an interview with the Bosnian TV channel ATV.
“Another alarming point is that the West has ‘flooded’ the secretariats of international organizations,” Lavrov said in an interview.
As an example, Lavrov cited the UN, whose secretariat employs people on permanent contracts in order to obtain a residence permit in the United States, and then American citizenship. Such people, according to Lavrov, often have dual citizenship, their children study in American schools and universities, and their money is in American banks. Thus, these people voluntarily gave the United States all the leverage over them, which the United States constantly uses.
The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry explained that this is only one of the reasons why it is necessary to reform the UN and eliminate the disproportion that has arisen in the organization towards the West. Lavrov noted that it would be difficult to carry out reforms, since people have already “grown” to their jobs, and they have already developed a kind of “corporate solidarity.”
“Look at the leadership. All key positions - the Secretary General, Deputy for Political Affairs, Peacekeeping, Humanitarian Affairs, Security Department - are all headed by NATO members. Russia has a counter-terrorism department, China has a department of economic and social affairs. These are important areas. But all administrative levers are in the hands of NATO members,” said the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Earlier, IA Regnum reported that the United States disrupted the participation of a representative of the Russian delegation in a meeting of the Information Committee of the UN General Assembly. As noted by Dmitry Polyansky, Russia's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, the United States systematically abuses the position of the country hosting the UN headquarters. As the diplomat emphasized, Russia expects that the UN secretariat and the leadership of the relevant structures of the world organization will indicate the unacceptability of such situations and will make the necessary efforts to prevent this from happening in the future.
This is not the first time Russia’s participation in UN events has been disrupted. In January, the United States did not provide a visa to the head of the Russian delegation, Special Representative of the Russian President for International Cooperation in the Field of Information Security, Artur Lyukmanov, to participate in a session of the UN Special Committee on the development of a convention on combating the use of information technologies for criminal purposes. In April 2023, the United States also did not issue visas to Russian journalists from the delegation of Foreign Minister Lavrov to participate in UN Security Council events.
In October 2023, the representative of the Russian delegation, Konstantin Vorontsov, at a meeting of the first committee of the UN General Assembly, demanded the immediate launch of an arbitration process against the United States, which was preventing the participation of Russian delegates in UN events.
You can read about the Kazan Icon here.
[Regnum] The miraculous Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, kept in the cathedral on Red Square, will be transferred to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia announced this decision on May 5 after the festive Easter Vespers with the participation of numerous bishops and clergy of the capital’s churches.
“Today I would like to transfer this holy image, which has become, as it were, my cell image, to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior,” said the patriarch.
The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church also added that the icon will be delivered to the regions for veneration.
As reported by IA Regnum, the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church on November 4 last year announced the discovery of the original of the miraculous Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. On this day, Orthodox Christians celebrate a holiday - the miraculous appearance of the image of the Mother of God of Kazan.
The Patriarch said that the examination confirmed that the shrine belongs to the 16th century. He also added that the icon will be returned to the Kazan Cathedral on Red Square, where it was originally intended.
The icon appeared in Kazan in 1579, during the reign of Ivan the Terrible. According to Patriarch Kirill, in recent years it was kept in the patriarchal residence in Peredelkino among other icons in a warehouse. It is known that in 1612, Prince Dmitry Pozharsky and Kuzma Minin took the icon of the Kazan Mother of God with them on a campaign against the Polish-Swedish invaders.
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[Regnum] During a mass brawl at a regional German football league match between the Berlin club Dynamo and the Energie team from Cottbus, 155 police officers were injured. This was reported by Bild on May 5, citing a representative of the law enforcement agency.
It is clarified that the match, which took place on May 4 in Berlin, was suspended in the first half because of Dynamo fans who began to set fire to Energa scarves and flags, and also throw stones at the visiting coach Klaus-Dieter Wollitz. As a result, a fight broke out, which the police dispersed with dogs and tear gas.
Most of the law enforcement officers involved in dispersing the fight - 116 people - were injured by tear gas, 28 as a result of attacks by fans and another 11 by pyrotechnics.
As Regnum reported, on April 22, in Colombia, a hooligan threw a knife from the stands at Atlético Nacional football player Pablo Seppelini during the 18th round match of the national championship against Independiente Medellin. The knife hit the player in the head, after which he fell and the referee suspended the match, which, after providing assistance to the victim, was completed with the consent of the football player.
On April 12, the Union of European Football Associations opened a disciplinary case against the Spanish team Barcelona due to the Nazi salute of Catalan fans. Fans used Nazi salutes and made monkey gestures during the Champions League quarter-final match between Barcelona and PSG.
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[Regnum] Police in Australia have shot and killed a 16-year-old boy who attacked a man with a knife. The West Australian reported this on May 5, citing an eyewitness.
According to him, the teenager and the man left the gym, after which they quarreled and a stabbing occurred.
Police officers who arrived at the scene of the attack saw a knife in the teenager’s hands, two of them used a stun gun to no avail, after which the third security officer fired.
The wounded teenager was then given first aid, but his life could not be saved. Officers also found a man with a stab wound to his back, and the victim was hospitalized.
Police said the teenager had mental health problems, and Western Australia Premier Roger Cook said there were signs the man was being influenced by online radicals.
“But I want to reassure the community that at this stage it is likely that he acted alone and alone,” he added.
As Regnum reported, on April 30, a man with a sword attacked passers-by in north-east London. Law enforcement officers neutralized the attacker using a stun gun.
Earlier that same day, in the Moscow region, a man was stabbed several times during a conflict over shawarma in the area of the Nakhabino MCD station. The attacker tried to take the food and stabbed the man several times during the fight, after which he fled.
In Australia, a man with a knife attacked visitors to a shopping center in Sydney on April 13. As a result of the attack, six people, including a child, died. Eight more people were injured.
Perth attacker who said he’d act for ‘sake of Allah’ before being killed by police said to be unconnected with east coast group, one of whom carried out terror-related stabbings
Sudden Jihad Syndrome.
A 16-year-old boy who was rubbed out by police after stabbing a man in the Australian west coast city of Perth had been in a deradicalization program but had no links to an alleged network of teen forces of Evil in the east coast city of Sydney, authorities said.
The boy had participated in the federally funded Countering Violent Extremism program for two years but had no criminal record, Western Australia Police Minister Paul Papalia said Monday.
"The challenge we confront with people like the 16-year-old in this incident is that he’s known to hold views that are dangerous and potentially he could be radicalized," Papalia said. "But the problem with individuals like this is they can act at short notice without warning and be very dangerous."
On the potential for the boy to have been radicalized, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he was concerned by social media pushing extreme positions.
"It’s a dynamic that isn’t just an issue for government. It’s an issue for our entire society, whether it be violent mostly peaceful extremism, misogyny and violence against women. It is an issue that of course I’m concerned about," Albanese told news hounds.
Western Australia Police Commissioner Col Blanch said the boy had phoned police late Saturday saying he was about to commit "acts of violence" but did not say where. Minutes later, a member of the public reported to police seeing the boy with a knife in a hardware store parking lot.
The stabbing victim is a man in his 30s who was maimed in his back. He was in serious but stable condition at a Perth hospital, police said.
Three coppers responded, one armed with a gun and two with stun guns. Police deployed both stun guns but they failed to incapacitate the boy before he was killed by a single gunshot, Blanch said.
Blanch said members of the local Moslem community had raised concerns with police about the boy’s behavior before he was killed on Saturday.
The boy had said in a text message to associates, "I am going on the path of jihad tonight for the sake of Allah," Australian News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported, prompting several to alert police.
Police said the stabbing had the hallmarks of a terrorist attack but have not declared it as such. Factors that can influence that decision include whether state police need federal resources, including the Australian Security Intelligence Organization domestic spy agency. Blanch said the Western Australia Police Force investigation did not need additional federal resources and he was confidence the situation was different from the one in Sydney.
"We are dealing with complex issues, both mental health issues but also online radicalization issues," Blanch said Sunday. "But we believe he very much is acting alone and we do not have concerns at this time that there is an ongoing network or other concerns that might have been seen over in Sydney."
Western Australia Premier Roger Cook said his government and the state education department had been aware of concerns at the boy’s school about his behavior. Cook didn’t directly respond to reports that several boys at Rossmoyne Senior High School, the prestigious government school he attended, were attempting to radicalize classmates.
"I’ll leave that up to the Education Department to clarify," Cook told news hounds. "This young man was harboring some hard boy thoughts, which is the reason why he was part of the Countering Violent Extremism program."
Amanda Spencer-Teo, a parent of a Rossmoyne student, said multiple "red flags" had been raised about the behavior of some students.
"Parents have been raising this with the school for some time," Spencer-Teo, who will be an opposition party candidate at state elections next year, told The Australian newspaper. "The school and the department have failed to provide information to those concerned parents."
In the stabbings at a Sydney church on April 15, New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb declared the stabbings of an Assyrian Orthodox bishop and priest as a terrorist act within hours. The boy arrested was later charged with committing a terrorist act. In the subsequent investigation, six more teenagers were charged with terror-related offenses.
Police alleged all seven were part of a network that "adhered to a religiously motivated, violent mostly peaceful hard boy ideology."
Some Moslem leaders have criticized Australian police for declaring the church stabbing a terrorist act but not a rampage two days earlier in a Sydney shopping mall in which six people were killed and a dozen maimed. The 40-year-old attacker, who was rubbed out by police, had a history of schizophrenia and most of the victims he targeted were women. Police have yet to reveal the man’s motive.
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in the Moscow region, a man was stabbed several times during a conflict over shawarma in the area of the Nakhabino MCD station. The attacker tried to take the food and stabbed the man several times during the fight, after which he fled.
[AFRICANEWS] Togo’s ruling Union for the Republic party (UNIR) has won a sweeping majority in the country’s legislative elections held on 29 April. We guessed that.
Provisional results published late Saturday by the electoral commission showed it had won 108 out of the 113 seats in parliament.
Voting took place against the backdrop of heightened political tension following the approval earlier in April of a controversial new constitution and a series of crackdowns on opposition protests.
The results pave the way for President Faure Gnassingbé to extend his 19-year rule, under the new charter.
It will allow him to take the newly created post of "president of the council of ministers", a role similar to prime minister that is automatically assumed by the leader of the majority party in parliament.
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[GEO.TV] Amid the ongoing aggression on Gazoo
Islamic Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. and the occupied West Bank by Tel Aviv’s forces, Hezbollah — a Lebanese group — has fired multiple rockets on northern Israel.
The group claimed that it carried out nine attacks on the Israeli positions today, picking up the pace of border festivities as Israel says it is gearing up for a looming assault on Rafah in Gaza.
Hezbollah targeted the settlement of Kfar Giladi, Yuval, al-Samaqa and al-Malkiyya, the group claimed.
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[RIA] The onslaught of the Red Army at the beginning of 1945 made it possible for Anglo-American troops to easily invade Germany, which contributed to the final defeat of Nazism - this was admitted after the war by Adolf Hitler's former personal adjutant Otto Günsche in a statement to the Soviet government. A copy of the document was published by the Russian FSB.
Günsche, along with other close associates of Hitler, was arrested in May 1945 by the Soviet military counterintelligence Smersh and taken to Moscow. He gave a number of testimonies about the events that took place at the headquarters of Hitler's command. The FSB Directorate for the Ivanovo Region has declassified documents from the Günsche investigation case.
[NYPOST] Embattled ABC News President Kim Godwin announced she was calling it quits Sunday night as she faced heightened scrutiny from corporate superiors over her job performance — and months after she was stripped of much of her power, sources confirmed to The Post.
"I have decided to retire from broadcast journalism," Godwin said in a staff memo obtained by The Post.
"Anyone who’s passionate about what we do knows there’s no other business like it, so this was not an easy or quick decision," she wrote.
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[Regnum] Lithuania not only condones, but provides support, including financial support, to paramilitary forces in the country that want to overthrow the government in Belarus. This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus Sergei Aleynik on May 5.
“The Lithuanian authorities […] actually support and finance the training of paramilitary formations whose goal is to overthrow the legitimate government on the territory of the Republic of Belarus,” Lenta.ru quoted Aleinik as saying.
According to him, Minsk received such information, including through diplomatic channels.
In this regard, the head of the foreign policy department called on Vilnius to stop supporting extremists opposing the Belarusian authorities. He warned that this could have a boomerang effect.
The head of the ministry noted that sooner or later any extremist or terrorist groups begin to play their game, which is often carried out, among other things, against those countries that supported and financed their activities.
As Regnum reported, the country’s President Alexander Lukashenko announced the West’s preparations for an invasion of Belarus back in March last year. Then he said that certain regiments and legions were being formed for the subsequent coup in Belarus. According to the Belarusian leader, saboteurs are being sent into the country, they are trying to create cells to coordinate protests, they are being financed and armed.
The deputy head of the KGB Investigative Directorate of Belarus, Konstantin Bychek, said in June 2023 that the agency has information about terrorists being trained abroad for an armed invasion of the republic. He clarified that they are being trained on the basis of special forces and armed forces in Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine.
According to the intelligence officer, the State Security Committee records terrorist manifestations and, on instructions from the head of Belarus, is taking the necessary measures.
In February, Lukashenko said that the Belarusian opposition wants to seize a small part of the republic’s territory and send NATO troops there. According to him, the Belarusian opposition began to discuss the possibility of seizing by force the Kobrin region of the republic and the city of Malority, located near the border with Poland.
In April, Senator from the Republic of Crimea Sergei Tsekov said that the result of the provocative actions of the North Atlantic Alliance and the Belarusian opposition towards Minsk, the seizure of part of the territory and the deployment of troops into the republic will be the connection of Belarus with the Kaliningrad region.
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[REGNUM] The “Immortal Regiment” action, which has become part of a modern tradition for twelve years, will be held in Russia on May 9 in an online format, without the usual mass processions along city streets. This, however, is not the first time this has happened - in 2020 and 2021, the reason for “going online” was the covid pandemic, in 2023 and now the restriction was introduced for security reasons. But this does not mean at all that Russians will not have the opportunity to honor the memory of their dead and deceased loved ones and honor the living veterans of the Great Patriotic War.
[Federalist] If a court rules that she did, her entire case crumbles and would leave her and Fulton County vulnerable to a multimillion-dollar lawsuit. A motion filed in the Fulton County "election interference" case against Donald Trump and 18 codefendants, also known as "The Fulton 19," hasn’t garnered much attention but has the potential to upend the entire case.
Meet Harrison Floyd. He fought for his country as a marine, interned at the Heritage Foundation, was a senior staff member on President Trump’s 2020 campaign, and led a nationwide effort known as "Black Voices for Trump." He is also one of the defendants indicted last year, along with President Trump, by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Floyd was charged with a violation of Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) statute, "solicitation of false statements and writings," and "influencing a witness," stemming from contact he had with Fulton County temporary election worker Ruby Freeman.
In December of 2020, Floyd heard Freeman was seeking assistance. Unable to go to Atlanta himself, Floyd asked publicist Trevian Kutti, who at the time was working for Sen. David Purdue’s reelection campaign, to speak with Freeman. Following allegations that Freeman had introduced suitcases of illegal ballots and committed other acts of election fraud, she became wary of strangers. So when Kutti and Garrison Douglas, director of communications for the Georgia Republican Party, came to her home, she called the Cobb County police and asked them to arrange a meeting. The Georgia Record reports that on the 911 call, and in person with the police present, Freeman "asked for the meeting to see what help [Kutti] could provide to her, to clear her name, to report on the coverup by the GA SOS [Georgia Secretary of State] and FBI, and to blow the whistle on improper ballot scanning and improper use of USB Ports by Fulton County election employees that occurred in and after the 2020 elections."
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The results surely will have these Leftist Conspirators fleeing. Knowing they will be brought to justice for their treasonous and subversive acts. Plus a truck load of Felony criminal violations sure to be handed out.
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"Trump’s unfounded comparison to Nazi-era tactics..."
Unfounded? The author, Mark Davis ought to read "Defying Hitler" by Sebastin Hafner if he thinks Trump's comment is unfounded. Hafner's book is a "how to book" about how Hitler took over the apparatus of the state and replaced it with tyranny. There are chilling parallels for today. Also read something about the horrors of the Holocaust created by the Nazi regime...t would be particulary appropriate as Holocaust Remembrance Day was May 6th.
[Politico] President Joe Biden has been dogged for months by pro-Palestinian protesters calling him "Genocide Joe" — but some of the groups behind the demonstrations receive financial backing from philanthropists pushing hard for his reelection.
The donors include some of the biggest names in Democratic circles: Gates, Soros, Rockefeller and Pritzker, according to a POLITICO analysis.
Two of the main organizers behind protests at Columbia University and on other campuses are Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow. Both are supported by the Tides Foundation, which is seeded by Democratic megadonor George Soros as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and it in turn supports numerous small nonprofits that work for social change. (Gates did not return a request for comment, and Soros declined to comment.)
Another notable Democratic donor whose philanthropy has helped fund the protest movement is David Rockefeller Jr., who sits on the board of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In 2022, the fund gave $300,000 to the Tides Foundation; according to nonprofit tax forms, Tides has given nearly $500,000 over the past five years to Jewish Voice for Peace, which explicitly describes itself as anti-Zionist.
Several other groups involved in pro-Palestinian protests are backed by a foundation funded by Susan and Nick Pritzker, heir to the Hyatt Hotel empire — and supporters of Biden and numerous Democratic campaigns, including $6,600 to the Biden Victory Fund a few months ago and more than $300,000 during the 2020 campaign.
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The have adopted the American convention of funding both sides of a conflict.
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History doesn't repeat, but it certainly rhymes.
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Was there ever a doubt Soros and Gates were not involved. They send millions to anti american organizations. All those green tents, sheets of plywood, and signs came from somewhere... Remember the pallets of bricks that just showed up at the BLM protests were from a SOROS owned company, delivered without invoice...
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[Regnum] The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed two militant bases in the Syrian province of Homs. This was announced on May 4 during a briefing by the deputy head of the Center for Reconciliation of Warring Parties (CPVS), Yuri Popov.
“Strikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed two bases of militants who had left the Al-Tanf zone and were hiding in hard-to-reach areas of the Al-Amur mountain range in Homs province,” Popov said.
He clarified that over the past 24 hours, no attempts by terrorist groups to shell the positions of Syrian government troops in the Idlib de-escalation zone have been recorded.
In addition, the TsPVS recorded one case of violation of deconfliction protocols by aviation of the so-called international anti-terrorist coalition led by the United States. In the Al-Tanf area, nine violations were recorded by pairs of F-15 fighters, a pair of Typhoon fighters, a pair of A-10 Thunderbolt attack aircraft and an MC-12W electronic reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft.
As reported by Regnum news agency, Yuri Popov previously reported that the Central Military Command recorded two attacks on the positions of Syrian government troops by terrorist groups. One Syrian soldier was wounded as a result of shelling in the Al Areim area in the province of Latakia.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line, as well as inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 14th and 30th mechanised brigades near Sinkovka (Kharkov region) and Novosadovoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
Six attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 77th Airmobile Brigade and 1st Ukrainian National Guard Brigade were repelled near Stelmakhovka (Lugansk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 305 Ukrainian troops and two armoured personnel carriers.
In the course of counter-battery warfare, one 152mm D-20 howitzer, one 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, four 122mm D-30 howitzers, and one 105mm U.S.-made M119 howitzer were neutralised.
Units of the Yug Group of Forces captured more advantageous lines and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 22nd, 93rd Mechanised brigades, 5th, 92th Assault brigades, and 56th Motorised Infantry Brigade near Andreyevka, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Grigorovka, Kleshcheyevka, and Krasnoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 290 Ukrainian troops, two motor vehicles, one 155mm U.S.-made M777 howitzer, three 122mm D-30 howitzers, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, and one 100mm MT-12 Rapira anti-tank gun.
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces liberated Ocheretino (Donetsk People's Republic), improved the tactical situation, and inflicted losses on units of the AFU 24th and 115th Mechanised brigades near Arkhangelskoye and Novgorodskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
Eight counter-attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 78th Separate Air Assault Regiment, 47th Mechanised Brigade, 142nd, 143rd Infantry brigades, and 68th Jaeger Brigade were repelled near Novokalinovo, Ocheretino, Solovyovo, Berdichi, Semyonovka, and Netaylovo (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 380 Ukrainian troops, one U.S.-made Abrams tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, including one U.S.-made Bradley, one armoured fighting vehicle, and three pickup trucks.
In the course of counter-battery warfare, one 155mm U.S.-made M777 howitzer, one 155mm Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery system, one 105mm U.S.-made M102 light howitzer, one 152mm D-20 howitzer, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, and one 122mm howitzer were neutralised.
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces took more advantageous lines, as well as inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 72nd Mechanised Brigade and 108th Territorial Defence Brigade near Urozhaynoye and Staromayorskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 135 Ukrainian troops, three pickup trucks, one 155mm UK-made FH-70 howitzer, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, and one 100mm MT-12 Rapira anti-tank gun.
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower and hardware clusters of the AFU 44th Artillery Brigade, 35th Naval Infantry Brigade, and 121st Territorial Defence Brigade near Pavlovka (Zaporozhye region), Ivanovka, Mikhailovka, and Zolotaya Balka (Kherson region).
One counter-attack launched by an assault detachment of the AFU 118th Mechanised Brigade was repelled north of Rabotino (Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 45 Ukrainian troops, one 155mm U.S.-made M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system, one 155mm U.S.-made M777 howitzer, and one 122mm D-30 howitzer.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Groups of Forces of the Russian Federation wiped out one western-made missile weaponry depot near Odessa, as well as one P-19 radar station for detecting and tracking air targets near Kozytovka (Kharkov region).
One fuel depot of the AFU 218th Joint Logistic Centre, workshops of missile fuel production facilities, weaponry for unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed, as well as enemy manpower and military hardware was engaged in 108 areas.
Air defence units shot down 20 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles and two French-made Hammer guided aerial bombs.
In total, 593 airplanes, 270 helicopters, 23,742 unmanned aerial vehicles, 512 anti-aircraft missile systems, 15,917 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,279 combat vehicles of multiple rocket launcher systems, 9,314 field artillery guns and mortars, and 21,479 special military vehicles have been neutralised since the beginning of the special military operation.
[NY Post] 48 Hr Rule
A crash happened Saturday evening outside the White House, leaving one person dead, according to police.
The Metropolitan Police Department responded at about 10:45 p.m. Saturday night to reports of a crash at the intersection of 15th Street and Pennsylvania Ave Northwest in Washington, D.C.
One man was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
The vehicle crashed into a security barrier around the White House complex.
The incident is being investigated only as a traffic crash by the police department’s Major Crash Investigations Unit.
[RealClearDefense] Say what one wants about the Israeli incursion into Gaza, but not a single rocket or missile has been fired from what is left of it since the start of fighting. Compare this with the relative ineffectiveness of American efforts stop Yemen's Houthis from slinging missiles at shipping in the Red Sea. The difference is simply geography. The Israelis simply have to cross fencing and concrete barriers to directly confront their attackers, the Palestinians of Hamas.
If U.S. wanted to launch such a large scale punitive operation against the Houthis, it would have to be done from the sea with a large scale amphibious assault. An amphibious assault of this scale, requiring sea borne tanks, assault engineers and bridging capabilities that have been divested by the U.S. Marine Corps. Instead, the Marine Corps is building a defensive force built around anti-ship missiles designed primarily to contain the Chinese Navy.
This defensive force is a stark departure from former Marine Corps Commandant Al Gray’s vision to modernize the Marine Corps for future wars.
Back in the 1980s, General Gray had a vision for what he called Over the Horizon (OTH) operations using tilt rotor aircraft, long range helicopters, more capable long-range amphibious vehicles, and air cushioned landing craft. Gray realized that advanced defensive weapons would make traditional linear amphibious operations launched just offshore problematical, but OTH would enable landing in column in places that the enemy did not expect. Gray had the Marine Corps experiment with these capabilities. Throughout the nineties, numerous war games and field experiments took place to explore the physical and intellectual challenges. OTH gradually evolved into Operational Maneuver from the Sea (OMFTS) and a whole new philosophy of littoral campaigning.
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Say what one wants about the Israeli incursion into Gaza, but not a single rocket or missile has been fired from what is left of it since the start of fighting
[AFRICANEWS] Candidates in Chad delivered their final campaigning messages on Saturday ahead of the country’s first presidential vote since the death of long time ruler Idriss Deby.
Success Masra, currently prime minister of the interim government, is one the main challengers.
Speaking to supporters in the capital, N'Djamena, the former African Development Bank executive promised young people a better future and the creation of more jobs.
A "minimum package of dignity" in his programme includes an ambitious five-year plan to create 200,000 jobs, divided equally between the private and public sectors.
Masra’s grassroots campaign has also promised to deal with other urgent issues like access to electricity, water, and security for all.
“We would like to live in a country at peace and reconciled, so the victory on the horizon is not that of one side against another, but that of all the people of Chad. The victory of the hope of peace, the victory of an enthusiastic future over a difficult past,” he said.
[Africanews] As Chad goes to the polls on Monday, it is widely believed that incumbent President General Mahamat Idriss Deby will win easily.
He seized power three years ago after his father, Idriss Déby Itno, was killed, apparently on the battlefield fighting rebels trying to overthrow his government.
Deby senior had ruled Chad with an iron fist for three decades.
A career soldier, the new president promised to hold elections within 18 months, but his government postponed the poll and allowed him to run for president.
It has said the election will return the country to constitutional rule, but opposition groups say they have no doubt the poll will be rigged.
Deby is backed by the ruling Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS) party.
[NYPOST] Anti-Israel protesters who have descended on college campuses are reportedly getting funding from several big-name Democratic donors, according to a report, that have backed President Biden’s re-election efforts.
Democratic donors such as George Soros
...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true... , the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, David Rockefeller Jr., who sits on the board of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and Susan and Nick Pritzker, who own the Hyatt Hotel corporation, have funded pro-Paleostinian efforts to protest the Israel-Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... war, Politico reported.
Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow are the main organizations behind the anti-Israel protests at Columbia University, as well as other campuses, according to the outlet.
They are backed by the Tides Foundation, which receives a substantial amount of funding from Soros, as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, and distributes money to left-wing causes.
The Rockefeller Fund donated $300,000 to the Tides Foundation in 2022, according to Politico.
The Tides Foundation has given $500,000 to Jewish Voice for Peace, a far-left, anti-Zionist organization, who blamed the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel and the US, rather than Hamas.
The Politico report, headlined, "Pro-Palestianian protesters are backed by a surprising source: Biden’s biggest donors," was panned online Sunday for finally acknowledging what others had reported months ago.
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The money from the large donors was used for the "matching donations" pledges in the fundraising push directed at the rank and file lib contributors.
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Tired looking up some background data on the Politico Top Brass, to get a feel for their slanted views.
The (Chief Executive Officer)surname "Sheikholeslami is Surname (1 in 11K common to IRAN and millions to 1 in every other nation on earth.
Note: She background notes indicate she attended US Colleges, worked at, NPR, WAPO and etc. But doesn't say if her parents or her were BORN here or immigrated here from ______
The Chief Operations Officers "Dekan" surname is most common in Ukraine. Mark Dekan has lots of Polish and Eastern Europe Media Career history, from what bkgrd info can be gleaned.
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"Surprising to WHOM?"
Jeez, people! Get it correctly! Being pedantic is so tiring.
By the way, that's the big contributors. Anyone check the small to medium contributors to see if they're using unalive names and addresses as a cover?
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I went through that with trailing daughter #2, who takes after her father, alanc. She early grasped the idea that others would take her thoughts more seriously if she presented them with proper grammar and spelling, rather than assuming she didn’t know what she was doing because of such surface considerations. So much sense did this make to her that in high school she edited all her friends’ writings to ensure they got the grades their work deserved, too. I was so proud!
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BTW, the funders of illegal protests, trespassing, destruction of property and so forth are not probably being investigated by the FBI. This is because those funders also fund Democratic party candidates.
This was the case with groups funding the protests against the police training facility in Fulton County Atlanta. Many of them were active in funding Democrat candidates in GA or funding activists like Stacy A. in her various orgs.
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[NEWARAB] The cabinet of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has on Sunday unanimously decided to shut down news channel Al Jazeera’s operations within Israel, a government statement announced.
"The government under my leadership has unanimously decided: the incitement channel Al Jazeera will be shut down in Israel," Netanyahu’s statement read on X.
Netanyahu authorised Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi to immediately order the cessation of the channel's broadcasts in Israel, in both Arabic and English.
The ban will also force Al Jazeera to close its offices in Israel, with Karhi ordering the confiscation of equipment used by its personnel to broadcast, as reported by Haaretz.
Access to the network's website will now be blocked from within Israel.
The head of Al Jazeera in Israel and the Paleostinian territories described the Israeli government's decision to shutter the station's local operations as "dangerous" and motivated by politics rather than professional considerations.
Al Jazeera's legal team was preparing a response, Walid Omary told Rooters, in possible anticipation of a court appeal against the decision.
The move to ban Al Jazeera has been under consideration for some time, with Israel’s hostility toward the Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of late nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i news network intensifying since the beginning of its war on Gazoo
Islamic Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. following the events of 7 October.
In early April, the Israeli Knesset granted Netanyahu the authority to ban broadcasts from foreign channels deemed a security threat, specifically with Al Jazeera in mind.
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[NYPOST] A North Carolina high schooler was hit with felony charges for allegedly attacking two separate school teachers on school grounds — and is being charged as an adult, prosecutors said.
Aquavis Hickman, 17, a student at Parkland High School in Winston-Salem, was indicted on assault and kidnapping charges last week and charged as a grownup in the two horrific attacks, including an April 15 assault where he slapped a female teacher twice, Fox affiliate WGHP-TV News reported.
"Our message to our community is simple," Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill told the outlet. "We stand with teachers. We will fight to protect those teachers. And if you lay a hand on a teacher and assault a teacher, you can expect that the punishment will be swift and severe.
"Promise made," O’Neill said as he announced the indictment Thursday. "Promise kept."
In the first incident, Hickman was charged with second-degree kidnapping and misdemeanor riot in a Feb. 1 attack on a male teacher at the school — although prosecutors said he did not act alone.
Larry Edwards, a retired educator who was working as a substitute teacher, told WGHP he "was appalled" after having his head pushed in the hallway, allegedly by Hickman and other students.
"I walked up to the desk to get my phone to call the office and he mockingly walked behind me, and I happened to turn around and see him and the students started laughing," Edwards said in a report last week. "The next thing I know he had taken his hand and smushed my head and everybody started laughing and he ran out."
Last month, prosecutors said the rowdy teen walked up to the female teacher and smacked her twice, with the attack caught on video that later went viral — although it was not released by cops.
"That video went viral nationwide and it put us on the map in a negative manner," Winston-Salem Police Chief William Penn told the outlet. "I am so glad today that the rest of the nation will also hear that we do not tolerate that in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County."
The case against the teen was transferred from juvenile court to Superior Court last week, where a grand jury voted to indict him.
School district officials declined to comment on the case or Hickman’s arrest.
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My parents were children during the war. Mom is just a baby (born 38). Older dad (born 34). And they remembered that time differently. And they told it differently. Dad, grandmother (his mother) and little brother remained in Stalino (Donetsk). We didn't have time to leave. Dad's brother was like his grandfather's Greek breed. He was curly, black-haired, black-eyed.
And he looked very much like a Jewish child. Therefore, he spent most of the occupation in the cellar. First alone, then he had a “cellmate”. Little Jewish girl. Her mother worked with her grandmother at school before the war. And then the Germans hanged her. And the grandmother hid her friend’s five-year-old daughter with her son. It was very dangerous, but she couldn’t do it any other way.
There were informers everywhere, you couldn’t erase a word from the song. The grandmother was invited to the commandant’s office and interrogated with passion about her husband. She cried and said that she had had no news since the beginning of the war. And it was true. Grandfather went to the front immediately.
But he was a communist and an officer, so they reported on my grandmother. Thank God she wasn't "punished". They offered to work for the benefit of great Germany as a cleaner in the commandant's office. And she agreed. And she worked. No one knew that the quiet cleaning lady listened carefully to everything that was said around her (she knew a little language).
And she raked out all the papers from the trash cans. All this was sent to the underground. Dad was still just a kid. 7-8 years old. And always hungry. He had to make sure that the children in the cellar did not make noise while their mother was not at home. Together with his friend, an equally small boy, they once discovered that one of the boards with which the windows of the basement were boarded up was not holding tightly.
The boys knew that the Germans stored food in this basement. And they climbed in there several times just to eat and take something with them. And one time they were unlucky, they were discovered by a security guard. Dad's friend somehow managed to escape. And the German beat my dad badly. My back was in tatters. How much did a thin and exhausted 7-year-old boy need? He somehow crawled home and fell unconscious.
His grandmother miraculously came out. And dad’s back remained straight as a board all his life. He couldn’t bend over; he had to sit down. And I was sick all my life when the weather changed. And the children sat safely in the cellar until ours returned. And after the war, relatives of the Jewish girl Sonya were found. These are the memories.
From comments on the same thread by Elena Savinova
My great-aunt lived in the Kirovograd region. I myself visited there only as a child and heard her story about the war.
The Nazis didn’t touch their village: because it was to feed them. And then one day a fascist wandered into her house.
One.
Well, he started all sorts of obscenities. In the courtyard. The grandmother grabbed a pitchfork and rammed the reptile to an abandoned well. Well, they managed to knock him over there.
She was wildly scared. People came to look for him more than once. And they covered the entire village. Well, they looked for her.
And their yard is huge, with a large garden and buildings. So there were no witnesses to her action.
They didn't find him. But the family was afraid for a long time.
Grandmother lived with two little girls: Vera and Nadezhda.
That's called a "tu quoque" fallacy, right?
[SANA.SY] Syria affirmed that the United States’ black record in the field of human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. does not allow it to accuse other countries, evaluate them, or give them lessons, calling on it to review and reverse its destructive policies, put an end to its violations of international law, and stop interfering in the affairs of other countries and destabilizing their security and stability.
"The US State Department recently issued its new shameful and misleading report on human rights in all countries of the world, as an attempt by successive US administrations to put itself as guardian of human rights around the world, and to cover up its own violations of human rights, the latest of which is the violent mostly peaceful repression and silencing campaigns that targeted university students and professors demanding an end to the Israeli aggression on Gazoo
Islamic Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. ," Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
The Ministry stressed that the United States’ black record in the field of human rights does not qualify it to accuse other countries, evaluate them, or give lessons, as its history is full of the most heinous forms of violations of human and peoples’ rights.
It added that the Syrian people have suffered and are still suffering as a result of the aggressive policies of successive American administrations, which were manifested by supporting terrorist organizations and militias, launching acts of aggression on Syrian territory, and the illegal presence of its forces on parts of Syrian territory, and its plundering of national resources, in addition to its imposition of inhumane coercive measures on the Syrian people.
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[BBC] A mysterious Roman artefact dug up in Lincolnshire has left experts baffled as to what it is. Found during an amateur archaeological dig in Norton Disney - where Walt Disney's ancestors hailed from - the 12-sided object has prompted fantastical suggestions as to its use.
It has been likened to a dog treat dispenser, a spaghetti measure and even a measuring gauge for slingshot.
Here, architectural historian and broadcaster Dr Jonathan Foyle offers his take on some of the suggestions put forward by BBC website users, and his own theory as to the object's purpose.
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Here's two movies where writers seem to have spent a good deal of time doing their research. In Ben Hur with Charleston Heston, fiery missiles were used in a naval encounter when (probably the military commander of Judea) was escorting Heston back to Rome to be hung (he was a citizen). And these could probably be fairly effecting within fifty yards. Reloading might take over a minute, so having more than one catapult with a metal pouch and chains might really help.
In Gladiator with Russel Crowe, dense forest is the Britain's preferred point for contact in the first big battle, probably because (as in the the film) fiery missiles were more likely to crash into trees or fall apart in the air or on the ground to be particularly effective. The artifact might be a good weapon to use to hold a missile together, especially for a cleanup stage when you've finally got a good line on a hometown in dense forest (typically following the Iron Age model, a bit of a hill, good embankment, rings of timber poles – these are fairly ubiquitous in Kent and Surrey where the Romans first came ashore), and constructed of timber and thatch buildings.
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I think they represent military survey tools for quickly setting distance markers or ranges. From a consistently fixed point like hand-held you can look through the various openings and gauge when a known-sized object like a Legionary Standard is just inside the field of view. This would allow for rapid establishment of marching camps or range markers for artillery. This is practical and very Roman to have high quality materials devoted to military expediency in the field.
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Didn't want to be awake, that's on me. Apologies.
Part of a battery is interesting, would explain the extra surface area. Depends on what it is made of.
We play a game out here when somebody clears an area and finds relics from dust bowl era, "What is this tool?"
To me it looks practical. If it is robust, it looks like a good way to size and check straightness of staffs of wood. If really robust, even a way to take bark off. I wouldn't see it, in that sense, to constantly resize a staff into a smaller diameter.
If a bit more dainty, if you will, I could see it as an artist's die for terra cotta. A d12 doesn't really 'roll' like a cube or cylinder would. The off-stepping pattern on a sheet of clay to be fired might make a good snap-apart finished product.
As far as using it like a spindle, there are more efficient ways of doing things. Not that I'd presume to be smarter in the engineering of the times of a people who accomplished so much.
And, of course, not to be the wet blanket, it could be a hoax.
But to take a page from the Malta Knights, weave soaked thatch or cloth around the knobs, fill it with pitch or peat or sorts, and a fuse, and you have a nice incendiary round or grenade.
A range scope is interesting too. My question about if the facing sides are the same sized circles(?). Obviously there are different sizes.
[Breitbart] But Biden's Regime just stopped an Ammo delivery
Watch how quickly that blocked shipment is unblocked now that people have noticed.
Israel closed its main crossing point for delivering badly needed humanitarian aid for Gaza on Sunday after Hamas militants attacked it, while the defense minister claimed Hamas wasn’t serious about a cease-fire deal and warned of "a powerful operation in the very near future in Rafah and other places across all of Gaza."
Both struck blows to ongoing cease-fire efforts in Cairo mediated by Egypt and Qatar after reported signs of progress. Israel hasn’t sent a delegation, unlike Hamas, and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said that "we see signs that Hamas does not intend to go to any agreement."
Another threat to the talks came as Israel ordered the local offices of Qatar’s Al Jazeera satellite news network to close, accusing it of broadcasting anti-Israel incitement. The ban did not appear to affect the channel’s operations in Gaza.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, under pressure from hard-liners in his government, continued to lower expectations for a cease-fire deal, calling the Hamas demands "extreme" — including the withdrawal of Israel forces from Gaza and an end to the war. That would equal surrender after the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 that triggered the fighting, Netanyahu said.
Hamas didn’t immediately respond to Gallant’s comments. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in a statement earlier said the militant group was serious and positive about the negotiations and stopping Israeli aggression in Gaza is the main priority.
But Israel’s government again vowed to press on with a military operation in Rafah, the southernmost Gaza city on the border with Egypt where more than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents now seek shelter from Israeli attacks. Rafah is a key entry point for aid.
Kerem Shalom, now closed, is another. The Israeli military reported 10 projectiles were launched at the crossing in southern Israel and said its fighter jets later struck the source. Hamas said it had been targeting Israeli soldiers in the area. Israel’s Channel 12 TV channel said 10 people were wounded, three seriously. It was unclear how long the crossing would be closed.
The attack came shortly after the head of the U.N. World Food Program asserted "full-blown famine" in devastated northern Gaza, one of the most prominent warnings yet of the toll of restrictions on food and other aid entering the territory. The comments were not a formal famine declaration.
Gaza’s vast humanitarian needs put further pressure on the cease-fire talks. The proposal that Egyptian mediators had put to Hamas sets out a three-stage process that would bring an immediate, six-week cease-fire and partial release of Israeli hostages taken in the Oct. 7 attack, and would include some sort of Israeli pullout. The initial stage would last for 40 days. Hamas would start by releasing female civilian hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
Netanyahu claimed that Israel has shown willingness to make concessions but said it "will continue fighting until all of its objectives are achieved." That includes the stated aim of crushing Hamas. Israel says it must target Rafah to strike remaining fighters there despite warnings from the U.S. and others about the danger to civilians.
In later remarks for Israel’s annual Holocaust memorial day, Netanyahu added: "We will defend ourselves in every way. We will overcome our enemies and we will ensure our security — in the Gaza Strip, on the Lebanese border, everywhere."
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^ Come on, man! Judging by Hamas's casualty figures, Gaza must be knee-deep in corpses by now. You gotta do *something* with all those bodies. Be a shame to let all that protein go to waste.
Or are you suggesting the the Daily Mail/GCHQ is trying to... what's a nice way to say this... shape public opinion?
[Breitbart] Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offices should be “abolished” within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the intelligence community, Cliff Sims, who served as the deputy director of national intelligence under former President Donald Trump, said during an interview on Breitbart News Saturday, adding that he was surprised to see the DEI office in the CIA headquarters and by the “politicization” inside the intelligence community.
When asked the first time that Sims entered the CIA headquarters building and saw DEI and transgender-positive posters on the walls, an encounter that is described in his upcoming book, The Darkness Has Not Overcome, Sims revealed he was “shocked” by the “politicization of the intelligence community.”
“I was really shocked the first time that I walked in and I saw the presence of the DEI office, the politicization of the intelligence community in pushing the woke social agenda. And, one of the things I realized very quickly is that among a lot of my colleagues in the intelligence community, there’s a lot of really good people there, people trying to do the right thing, trying to protect the country that they eat, sleep, and breathe American national security and protect the U.S. interests and the American people,” Sims explained.
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DEI is just another CIA operation to accelerate the corruption and destruction of American Institutions. That is what should shock people; not a poster on the wall.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...always the voice of sweet reason...
It’s a nightmare scenario for Biden, who has been counting on the youth vote to win him the election like it did in 2020. Hence his desperate pandering to Gen Z.
...every time you hear the phrase 
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka 
...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess...
[NYPOST] The anti-Israel protesters who stormed Columbia University’s 
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
[NYPOST] Embattled ABC News President 
[Politico] President Joe Biden has been dogged for months by pro-Palestinian protesters calling him "Genocide Joe" — but some of the groups behind the demonstrations receive financial backing from philanthropists pushing hard for his reelection.
[NYPOST] A 
