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[Regnum] The US decision to withdraw its troops from Niger was a strategic victory for Russia. The British newspaper The Financial Times wrote about this on April 24.
“The departure of the US military was another strategic victory for Moscow in the Sahel,” the article says.
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Shitholery aside, which is more useful: the US State Department funding LGBTQWERTY initiatives or the Russians sending Wagners to help tamp down the hard boys?
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[Regnum] The terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall near Moscow was carefully planned, it was carried out by an international network of accomplices, the head of Rosfinmonitoring Yuri Chikhanchin said on April 24 at an international forum dedicated to current issues of combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
“We are faced with a carefully planned, prepared terrorist attack that was carried out using an international network of collaborators,” he said.
[IsraelTimes] This means ’Iran can never carry out the destruction it intended 10 days ago,’ says president; vows to ’surge’ aid ’to the innocent people of Gaza’; $95B bill helps Ukraine, Taiwan Evidently nothing available for US border security.
United States President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass.... signed into law on Wednesday a $95 billion war aid measure that includes assistance for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, and that also has a provision that would force social media site TikTok to be sold or be banned in the US.
Biden underscored that the bill also includes a surge of humanitarian relief for Paleostinians in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... suffering as the Israel-Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... war continues.
The legislation will send $17 billion in wartime assistance to Israel and $9 billion in humanitarian relief to citizens of Gaza and other war-torn regions — with Biden specifying at a White House event to announce the signing on Wednesday that the package "includes $1 billion for additional humanitarian aid in Gaza."
Another $8 billion will go to counter Chinese threats in Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific. US officials said about $1 billion of the aid could be on its way shortly, with the bulk following in the coming weeks.
Addressing the aid component for Israel, Biden noted that Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Sturmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Fuhrer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... launched an unprecedented direct missile and drone attack at Israel just days ago, but thanks to Israel’s defenses, "and other allies across the world, including from the region, no serious damage occurred."
"My commitment to Israel, I want to make clear again, is ironclad," he stressed. "The security of Israel is critical. I will always make sure that Israel has what it needs to defend itself against Iran and gunnies it supports."
The aid for Israel in the package, he said, "can help replenish Israel’s air defense and provide other critical defense so Iran can never carry out the destruction it intended with its attack 10 days ago."
Biden also said Israel must ensure the aid for Paleostinians in the bill reaches Gaza "without delay."
He noted that the package "significantly increases humanitarian assistance we’re sending to the innocent people of Gaza, who are suffering badly. They’re suffering the consequences of this war that Hamas started. And we’ve been working intently for months to get as much aid to Gaza as possible."
He said that the bill "includes $1 billion for additional humanitarian aid in Gaza. We’re going to immediately secure that aid and surge it — surge it, including food, medical supplies, clean water. And Israel must make sure all this aid reaches the Paleostinians in Gaza without delay."
Biden noted that "everything we do is guided by the ultimate goal of bringing these hostages [held by Hamas in Gaza] home, securing a ceasefire, and setting the conditions for an enduring peace."
The war in Gaza erupted on October 7 when the Paleostinian terror group Hamas led a devastating cross-border attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians. Israel responded with a military campaign to destroy Hamas and free 253 hostages kidnapped during the attack. The fighting has led to a humanitarian crisis in Gaza as aid workers struggle to deliver supplies.
The signing of the war aid measure marks an end to a long, painful battle with Republicans in Congress over urgently needed assistance for Ukraine.
"We rose to the moment, we came together, and we got it done," Biden said. "Now we need to move fast, and we are."
Tucked into the measure is a provision that gives TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance, nine months to sell it or face a nationwide prohibition in the United States. The president can grant a one-time extension of 90 days, bringing the timeline to sell to one year, if he certifies that there’s a path to divestiture and "significant progress" toward executing it.
The administration and a bipartisan group of politicians have called the social media site a growing national security concern.
TikTok said it will wage a legal challenge against what it called an "unconstitutional" effort by Congress.
"We believe the facts and the law are clearly on our side, and we will ultimately prevail," the company said in a statement. "The fact is, we have invested billions of dollars to keep US data safe and our platform free from outside influence and manipulation. This ban would devastate seven million businesses and silence 170 million Americans."
House Speaker Mike Johnson delayed a vote on the supplemental aid package for months as members of his party’s far right wing, including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Thomas Massie of Kentucky, threatened to move to oust him if he allowed a vote to send more assistance to Ukraine. Those threats persist.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell suggested his fellow Republicans’ holding up the funding could have a lasting impact on Ukraine’s hopes of winning the war.
"Make no mistake: Delay in providing Ukraine the weapons to defend itself has strained the prospects of defeating Russian aggression," McConnell said Tuesday. "Dithering and hesitation have compounded the challenges we face."
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Translated to approximately $475 for every person in Gaza based on CIA population estimate of 2,098,389 in 2023. Somehow I doubt that the few who aren't Hamas supporters will even see a dime of it.
[IsraelTimes] White House welcomes independent report that rebuffed Israel’s claim staff are linked to terror; agency head calls for UNSC probe into ’blatant disregard’ for UN operations in Gaza
The White House says it will "have to see real progress" before restoring its funding to the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... agency for Paleostinians, the main aid agency operating in war-torn Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... National Security Council front man John Kirby’s comments Tuesday came as a number of countries that froze aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) following accusations by Israel have reinstated funding after a probe found that other claims had not been backed up by evidence.
"In terms of our funding of UNRWA, that is still suspended. We’re gonna have to see real progress here before that gets changed," Kirby said.
Israel charged earlier this year that at least 12 UNRWA staff had participated in the October 7 massacre. It also alleged that thousands more of the agency’s employees had ties to terror groups or were members themselves.
An independent review into UNRWA found some "neutrality-related issues" in a much-anticipated report released Monday, such as agency staff sharing biased posts on social media and tensions between politicized staff unions and the agency’s upper management. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
the report found Israel had yet to provide evidence for incendiary allegations that staff were members of terrorist organizations.
Many donor countries have resumed funding since Israel’s accusations, including Sweden, Canada, Japan, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and La Belle France — while others, particularly the United States and Britannia — have continued to hold out.
"We welcome the results of this report and strongly support the recommendations in the report," Kirby said, noting that the US also faced legal constraints in restarting its funding.
Congress passed a bill signed into law by US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family... last month that blocks US funding until March 2025.
In a separate investigation, a UN oversight body is looking into the Israeli allegations against the 12 UNRWA staff.
After the Monday report was released, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said Tuesday that the claims against the agency were "primarily motivated by the objective to strip the Paleostinians from the refugee status — and this is a reason why there are pushes today for UNRWA not to be present" in Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Israel has long complained about the agency, founded in 1949 to care for Paleostinian refugees. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for UNRWA to be shut down, saying it is infested by terror elements and unjustly seeks to perpetuate a Paleostinian refugee crisis.
Lazzarini called for a Security Council investigation into the "blatant disregard" for UN operations in Gaza, adding that 180 of the agency’s staff have been killed since the war began. He said that the Israeli army has arrested, even tortured UNRWA staffers, echoing assertions published in the UNRWA’s own report from February, which claimed that detained staffers made false confessions about their ties to Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... under coercion from Israeli soldiers.
Lazzarini, who had warned the agency would be insolvent within weeks after funding was pulled months ago, also revealed that the organization had been able to partly offset the shortfall by raising $100 million from online donations.
Israel rejected the conclusions of the report released Monday, saying it was sidestepping the issue.
"This is not what a true and comprehensive investigation looks like," said the Israeli statement. "This is what a desire to avoid the problem and not call it by its name looks like."
Israel’s Foreign Ministry charged that Hamas’s penetration of UNRWA is so deep that "it is impossible to say where UNRWA ends and Hamas begins," as a review of the organization’s links to terror was released.
Numerous past reports have found that UNRWA schools and teachers continue to teach hatred of Jews and glorify terrorism, including a 2022 report by the IMPACT-SE organization that UNRWA textbooks continue to contain incitement. A 2023 report by the same organization along with the UN Watch group cited dozens of examples of social media posts by UNRWA employees that "glorify terrorism, encourage martyrdom, demonize Israelis and incite antisemitism."
I think we need to make use of the economies of scale, like industrial shredders and wood chippers.
a candid examination of the real purpose of UNRWA
IMHO, the name alone gives it away. UNRWA - The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. Not quite as succinct as Death to Juice, but it does give you the flavor.
[IsraelTimes] Foreign Ministry denounces UN chief as ’standing shoulder to shoulder with rapists and murderers,’ asserts Antonio Guterres would not have condemned crimes of Nazi Germany either
Foreign Minister Israel Katz accused United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
Secretary-General António Guterres
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IDF is ready to start the operation in Rafah immediately - and is now waiting for the approval of the political level, Israeli defence sources reveal to Reuters.
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[Regnum] Russian diplomats visited the MSC Aries ship detained in Iran, where they met with a sailor from the Russian Federation Timofey Kolchanov, the press service of the Russian Embassy in Iran reported on April 24 in its Telegram channel.
“Today, diplomats from the Russian Embassy in Iran visited the MSC Aries ship detained by the Iranian military, where they met with crew member T. S. Kolchanov. The Russian sailor is healthy, the conditions of his stay are satisfactory, he is provided with everything necessary, and, etc., has the opportunity to regularly communicate with his family by phone,” the message says.
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.
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
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...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
