[IsraelTimes] After deadly incident leaves 3 IDF soldiers dead, Cairo has attempted to prevent gunman Mohammed Salah Ibrahim from being worshiped as a martyr, with limited success
At 4:20 in the afternoon of October 5, 1985, an Egyptian soldier manning a checkpoint in the Red Sea resort town of Ras Burqa raised his gun and began firing into a crowd of Israeli tourists. Seven Israeli civilians, including four children, were slain in the attack. At the time, Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... ’s government moved quickly to keep the soldier, Suleiman Khater, from becoming a national hero and jeopardizing the peace treaty with Israel that had been signed only six years before.
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[REGNUM] One can argue furiously on this score, but Kyiv, throughout its long and interesting history, has been a Russian city and the center of Rus', which all neighbors were well aware of.
Even during the famous Polish January Uprising, which set the goal of returning the borders of the Commonwealth in 1772, Archangel Michael appeared on the flag of the rebels: the Poles finally matured to the “triune people”, where the leader of the heavenly host was responsible for Rus'. At the same time being the patron saint of Kyiv.
And dumplings with potatoes and sour curd are still called “pierogi ruskie” in Poland, despite attempts to rename them politically correct.
However, now Kyiv is ostentatiously Ukrainian-patriotic, with a Galician accent.
Those who quickly and brutally drove a multi-million Russian-speaking city into the framework of a new myth no longer have the baptism of Rus', the Russkaya Pravda, Bogdan Khmelnitsky, the “one-man rule and autocrat of the Russian”. There is no first Orthodox university in Eastern Europe, the Kiev-Mohyla Academy, only its ugly, arrogant copy. There are no Saints Anthony and Theodosius, their memory is defiled.
The Petrovsky fortress and the rapid transformation of the city at the turn of the century, when the architectural appearance of Kyiv was created, are crossed out. In it you will not find a single building in the "Ukrainian style", because even the Baroque of St. Andrew's Church, which excites the soul of a patriot, is Elizabethan, authored by the Italian Rastrelli.
The hero city, which stood on the defensive all the hard summer of 1941, is also no more, as well as the post-war heyday, with pathos Khreshchatyk, metro and the world's largest cargo plane. It was smashed in Gostomel by artillery fire of the National Guard of Ukraine and will never be built again.
Ukrainian Kyiv is not building anything, except for plans to break something else. The great interesting past is crumpled up and stuffed into a dirty plastic bag: there was only Nenka-Ukraine, and nothing more.
Russian speech is no longer heard from Kiev - only a timid whisper, reminding that there is someone else who has not accepted the official setting to change their identity, keeping the inner light left by their grandfathers. Probably, these are the people who this year on May 9 came to the Park of Glory to lay flowers at the Eternal Flame. Lonely figures on a spacious alley, where earlier on Victory Day it was not overcrowded. The shadow of many thousands lurking in their "royal" houses, spacious Stalinkas and dejected panels, which grew densely in the 60s and 70s on the site of former suburban villages.
It is said that they are such by nature, passive and ready to be a victim, waiting for "when it will resolve itself." In fact, the Russians of Kiev are underground. But the underground is inactive. So why don't they leave, and those who have left are returning en masse to where it would seem to be simply unbearable to live?
Because Kyiv is love.
Real Kievans, even in the first generation, cannot imagine themselves without their hometown, as cozy as a grandmother's apartment. What can we say about those whose surname is recorded in the documents of the 17th century, like Cyril. Last summer, we talked with him about leaving for Irish whiskey, which our intelligent friend prefers, and his face twisted with longing: how to live without Podol? And where to get the same coffee shops? A chestnut in a foreign land does not bloom at all like that, and you can’t buy a blood drop like in the Zhitny Market, where you were born - it came in handy there.
The whole city from edge to edge to drive a car - about 30 kilometers. Moreover, you can go to the address by different routes, according to your mood or traffic situation, even by courtyards - “the people of Kiev know asphalt”. Through the city, always through the Dnieper - green islands, on the high bank of the Lavra, Vydubychi, Baba. You know all this space like at home: on which shelf what lies, or “I put it somewhere here, you have to look.”
As a rule, everything is located, and Muscovites who came to promote projects in the fat 2000s did not want to go back to their dusty bustle: they wandered along the shady alleys, bought apartments, someone got married in the heat of the moment. After all, even the geographical center of Kyiv is huge flowering meadows in the middle of the Dnieper, where on Monday morning you can fish, hearing how bridges-workers rumble somewhere in the distance.
First of all, Kyivians from Europe go home, to the usual summer smells and landscapes, where everything is different, but nothing unbearably complicated. And our stubborn Natasha, who recently surprised her neighbors with repairs, suddenly gave birth sensationally. 3800, guy, they don't run from the ward to the bomb shelter.
Where does this optimism come from? Probably from the feeling of power and peace that the City has always radiated. It is too strong even for the arrogant noisy monkeys who declared it their property.
A citizen of Kiev has long been accustomed to living in a parallel world. It has its own urban geography, because each new government begins with the renaming of streets: this was the case under the Directory, under the Soviets, under the Germans and again under the Soviets, in the dashing 90s, and now under Bandera with their habit of marking all corners, like a yard dog .
Therefore, there is no Petlyura Street: if there are traffic jams, then from the Comintern there will always be a left turn to Vetrov - and there you can quickly slip through to Gorky in order to roll all the way to Lybidskaya.
Same with mine.
The phenomenon of those who, according to Bulgakov, "forgot how to speak Russian since November last year" is neither unique nor new. “You can’t really beat off the letter “I” in the word“ homeopathic ”and think that thanks to this, the pharmacy will turn from Russian into Ukrainian ,” Mikhail Afanasyevich rightly noted at one time.
A Russian from Kiev is accustomed to living in a schizophrenic landscape, when there is an “external language” that shouts at you from road signs and store signs, commands all official document flow and forces you to switch to it in some hopeless situations. And there is an “internal” one, on which all life rests, in addition to the necessary touches with the requirements of constantly impudent lawmakers.
Yes, the “external language” rapidly filled all the free space, where every minute you expect a shout: “Why not sovereign?” But he turned out to be unable to overcome the powerful wave of immigrants from the East, who had drunk on Lviv-Ternopil hospitality and chose a Russian-speaking space that was clear to them.
A foreign world has crept even into the Lavra, where they now serve for the stupid and greedy hetman Mazepa, who has mediocrely lost everything. On the other hand, there is a church on Vozdvizhenka built by chronicle leather workers, hundreds of churches and monasteries, where the familiar warm world glimmers.
The whole past of the “city on seven hills” suggests with a smile that this world has always been stronger than temporary difficulties. And these difficulties, in turn, are always stronger than unorganized people without any serious state behind them.
Those who remember the Kiev underground of 1941 usually do not say that by the spring of 1942 it had already been defeated, as was the case throughout Ukraine. Today, those who fought the regime to the best of their ability or even simply laughed at it are killed, sit or fled the country. Therefore, in their internal underground, Russian Kievans do not plan for a revolution, do not seek happiness abroad, but simply live.
Remembering that Bulgakov, who knew everything, promised: “It will be rebuilt, its streets will boil again, and it will again be a royal city above the river that Gogol loved. And the memory of Petliura perish.”
[PJMedia] The news was shocking beyond measure: a man went on a stabbing spree at a playground in the French city of Annecy last Thursday, stabbing four three-year-olds and an adult. The attacker shouted "In the name of Jesus Christ" as he did his stabbing and claimed to be a Christian. He even had a made-to-order Christian name: Abdelmasih Hanoun; "Abdelmasih" means "Slave of Christ."
He lived for a decade in Sweden with official refugee status and a Swedish wife, but left when his citizenship application was denied and his wife divorced him. France denied his asylum application days before the attack because he was already approved in Sweden.
It was suspicious and contrived, but it did seem to confirm the Leftist elites’ claim that the largest terror threat comes from right-wing Christians. There was just one catch: some people have recognized Abdelmasih Hanoun and say that he is actually a Moslem. I know, knock me over with a feather, right?
The French-language news site Resistance® Républicaine reported Monday that "Syrians living in La Belle France and Germany" have recognized the attacker as a "madman of Allah," and that the identification has been confirmed by others as well. The attacker, according to those who have recognized him, is actually a Moslem named Selwan Majd, "a refugee from al-Hasakah in northern Syria."
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I had not heard that he was purportedly Christian. I just assumed he was Muslim because there have been so many Muslim stabbers that it is easy to sloppily prejudge them and not notice when one subtly attempts to slander Christians. A pro-tip for terrorists: People won’t be terrified into acquiescing to your cause, if you masquerade as a different cause.
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His choice of headwear and the word Taqiyya give a clue about motive both in his anger and his choice of victims causing maximum harm and greater visibility.
[NYPOST] The Soros family billions will soon be serving an even more radical agenda as George, 92, surrenders control of his foundation to his son Alex, 37.
The new czar of the $25 billion empire calls himself even "more political" and more focused on domestic politics than his dad.
He’s also generally seen as more radical.
Just what America needs — a younger, more extreme Soros, with more energy and more interest in the nation’s internal politics.
And decades ahead of him to wreak havoc.
Much of George’s international spending was a plus: He supported the Polish union Solidarity and other dissidents across the old Soviet empire, and after the USSR’s collapse bankrolled efforts to ensure the newly-freed nations embraced liberty.
But his spending on domestic US politics and policies has treated American institutions as if they were as authoritarian as the old Communist ones.
BLUF:
[PJ Media] Kash Patel is a former federal prosecutor, former federal defense attorney, and former DoD official who was instrumental in ferreting out the 2016 Russian Collusion fraud against Donald Trump, along with former Congressman Devin Nunes. Patel says that first of all, prosecutors overcharged the former president. As in, Whoa, 37 charges? That’s what overzealous prosecutors do. Well, yes, of course. Patel says, "They charged each separate document as one count. That’s going to be their calamitous regret."
And prosecutors have two different legal theories in the one indictment, hoping to convince a judge that he or she can pick one from the jurisprudential potluck table. "They have two separate legal theories in the same document in this one indictment, and they cannot both be true," Patel says. "Either, he had classified documents unlawfully ... or he did not," he told John Solomon of Just the News. "It’s one or the other. You can’t have it both ways."
Patel said, "In this charging document, they did not charge the president with unauthorized possession of classified documents." They did a little legal jujitsu and took "an ancient statute in the National Defense Information Act — Espionage Act — and charge[d] him with improperly taking materials related to national defense information and ’using them against the interest of the United States of America.'"
That’s a problem first of all, because past presidents can’t be charged with that. But life in the banana republic is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you’re gonna git, Forrest.
Second, as legal commentator and constitution expert Mike Davis told me on my Adult in the Room Podcast (see below), Trump declassified the documents the feds wanted on the day before he left office.
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Star Chamber and Kangaroo Court comes to mind as descriptors. This so-called "Records" arraingment and subsequent indictment is transparent. It is a brazen attempt by the DS to get rid of Biden's opposition in 2024.
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The process is the point. Unending political hack noise about "ongoing trial". "indicted former President", "espionage act violation", filling every leftie pundit script for the next yer and a half.
The classified documents, necessary clearances, "nuke material" TS/SCI-Codeword material story-line is all about obfuscating the coverage and thwarting the trial judge from throwing the whole thing out on PRA and SCOTUS-Sock-Drawer exemptions on the front end. They just want the new version of the Russia, Russia, Russia mantra for the '24 election coverage.
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The process is the point. Unending political hack noise about "ongoing trial". "indicted former President", "espionage act violation", filling every leftie pundit script for the next year and a half.
The unintended consequence being that among people who understand the system is totally corrupt, all that talk is now Street Cred™.
Imagine how sick they will feel if it doesn't play out the way they expect.
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[American Greatness] Casablanca," first released in 1942, holds down a spot on many top-10 lists of all-time great films. The Academy Award-winner last year got a new theatrical release, in conditions eerily similar to those in the film.
"Unoccupied France welcomes you to Casablanca," prefect of police Louis Renault (Claude Rains) tells Major Heinrich Strasser (Conrad Veidt). His fellow Nazis occupy most of France, and in the early going viewers see a mural of Marshall Philippe Pétain and his famous slogan, "Je tiens mes promesses, meme celles des autres,"—"I keep my promises, even those of others."
Back in 1940, the French World War I veteran, already in his 80s, struck an armistice with the German invaders. The Nazis made Pétain head of their puppet government in Vichy, allowing him to govern parts of France under their supervision. Non-veteran Joe Biden is also 80, and there the similarities begin.
Conrad Black’s quip that Biden is a waxworks effigy of a president is too kind. The Delaware Democrat has trouble with basic motor functions and, for all but the willfully blind, is incapable of exercising national office. On the other hand, Biden is the ideal puppet to keep the promises of others: an axis of globalists, climate warriors, white coat supremacists, abortion celebrants, gender jihadists, institutional racists and Stalinist thugs, panting to take the summer of 2020 to a whole new level.
Under these forces, as in wartime France, people flee to the freer regions and the Vichy types don’t like it. California, for example, is making it harder for those who move to shut down their nonprofit companies, and state Attorney General Rob Bonta once backed a bill that would tax people for 10 years even after they leave.
In "Casablanca," many refugees believe they will never get out, and in the meantime everybody comes to Rick’s. Ugarte (Peter Lorre) tells proprietor Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), "You despise me, don’t you?" Without missing a beat, Rick says, "If I gave you any thought, I probably would," one of the great put-downs of all time.
Ugarte has murdered two German couriers and stolen two letters of transit, guaranteed exit visas, authorized by General Charles de Gaulle. Rick hides the letters in Sam’s (Dooley Wilson) piano, but does nothing to protect Ugarte from the police, proclaiming "I stick my neck out for nobody." That claim will soon face a challenge.
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America, with the Red States as the Vichy portions, with Biden as Petain and the Obama minions as the actual Nazi thugs in charge. The DoJ/FDI as the SS and conservatives as the FFI/Maquis...damn, it really does have parallel roots as you flesh it out in some ways! Even Trump as Victor Lazlow...
[Breitbart] Tucker Carlson told his viewers that former President Donald Trump’s prosecution "isn’t just political, it’s ideological" and said the Washington, DC, establishment is targeting Trump for his staunch anti-war stance.
Carlson said Trump made himself "the blood enemy of the largest and most powerful organization in human history, which would be the federal government" when he called out the D.C. establishment over their Iraq War lies."
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Tucker probably should have put an apple in Pompeo’s mouth before he roasted him on the spit. 100M views later means that Mike is just like the rest of us - never going to be president.
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Who was it again who named Pompeo to the CIA and DoS positions?
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^^^ If I have one complaint about Trump, it is that his personnel selections generally left a lot to be desired.
On the other hand, his experience (like mine) was entirely in the private sector, where the amount and level of brazen staff insubordination and opposition and obstruction he experienced as President is unheard of.
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To me, it looks like Tucker is on a pace to take out at least one clown per 15 minute segment. It will be interesting to see whether Tucker is satisfied to sideswipe peons like Milley or if the B-52 will unload an entire payload on him in a future segment. It sort of rewards the moles to lay low in their holes. Eventually, the bad actors will need to stop what Tucker is currently doing.
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/\ That is EXACTLY correct. Tucker is essentially conducting independent discovery, faux FOX News shackles. The dumb ass DS has unleashed their own worst nightmare. I fear for him and his family.
[ConservativeTreehouse] The National Security “Nuclear” Documents Outlined by Jack Smith Are Pure Lawfare Manipulation – “Defense Centered” Records Not What Media Claims
Devin Nunes was previously the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. In that very specific role, Nunes was a member of the Gang of Eight who are briefed on all intelligence issues at the same level as the President, the chief executive. The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman, is the #2 ranking intelligence oversight member within the national security oversight apparatus, exceeded in rank amid the Gang of Eight group only by the House Speaker.
As the HPSCI chairman, Nunes has a very granular understanding of intelligence language and the way the intelligence apparatus uses words within national security documents. When Nunes talks about national security documents, he is a subject matter expert on the administration side of the process. Why is that important right now? Because Nunes knows how to contrast the wording in the Jack Smith indictment against wording used to describe national security documents.
Pay very close attention to this interview, prompted to 05:06, for the Nunes part. You have to get past the paid to obfuscate Mrs. Hannity interruptus, as she tries to shut down Nunes from bringing sunlight on the indictment. However, what Nunes introduces in his comments is the origin of what I am going to explain after the interview.
This is a game-changing context for the Jack Smith indictment. Again, pay close attention. WATCH:
[Federalist] FBI Director Christopher Wray narrowly avoided contempt of Congress proceedings last week over his refusal to provide the House Oversight Committee with an unclassified document memorializing a trusted informant’s allegation that then-Vice President Joe Biden accepted a $5 million bribe from Ukrainian energy oligarch Burisma.
Dramatic as the near-rebuke may have appeared, and as explosive as the contents of the FBI’s concealed FD-1023 form seem to be, the trio of apparent scandals this saga touches on transcends its immediate significance.
INFLUENCE PEDDLING
The first scandal — hiding in plain sight for years yet never fully exposed, let alone prosecuted — concerns the Biden family’s potentially criminal, national security-imperiling, public trust-eroding influence peddling. The reality of this influence peddling makes the stunning allegation of a Joe Biden bribe seem infinitely more plausible than it might otherwise appear.
The House Oversight Committee’s recent review of thousands of records from subpoenas to four banks — which preceded its pursuit of the FD-1023 — shows that "Biden family members and business associates created a web of over 20 companies," the majority of which were formed during Biden’s vice presidency. Through this web, "the Biden family, their business associates, and their companies received over $10 million from foreign nationals’ and their related companies" [emphasis original] during and after the then-vice president’s tenure.
Millions seem to have come from a company controlled by a corrupt Romanian oligarch and entities tied to the Chinese Communist Party. The money flowed to Biden family members, many of whom possessed no discernible relevant skills or experience. And at times, there was no evidence they rendered any services.
These findings build on the earlier work of Republican Sens. Charles Grassley — who, alongside House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, pressed FBI Director Wray to produce the FD-1023 — and Ron Johnson. The duo detailed dubious Biden family dealings with Russian, Kazakh, and Ukrainian nationals as well — Ukraine, of course, being the famously corrupt country of origin for the alleged Biden bribe.
The DOJ has been investigating President Biden’s 53-year-old son over possible violations of tax and money laundering laws stemming from his international business deals with Chinese and Ukrainian entities.
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Biden's son can get away with anything he wants, just like Sarah Palin's daughter's boyfriend's mother got away with ... something or other.
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Historically, there have been dirtbag relatives galore in presidential families. There has not been a 50% split on a $10M bribe between president and son. That is Hunter’s significance not the hookers.
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[Dawn] WITH dangerously low foreign exchange reserves and a steep debt repayment schedule looming for fiscal year 2024 that begins in July, Pakistain is facing a stark prospect of potential default or even a larger balance of payments crisis in the 12 months ahead.
Data obtained unofficially from a senior source privy to the country’s debt repayment schedule shows Pakistain faces $8.7 billion outflows on public debt payments in FY24 (including principal and interest) that are not subject to rollover. On top of this, there is another $5bn approximately on private debt outflows as per the IMF staff report released in September 2022, bringing the total to $13.7bn in debt-related payments. Repayments on account of publicly guaranteed debt are on top of this.
The monthly schedule of outflows as per this government data is shown in the attached graphic. Assuming zero current account deficit, all rollovers going smoothly, debt payments made on time and no external financing support, the data shows State Bank’s foreign exchange reserves going negative by December of this year.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[PJMedia] The news was shocking beyond measure: a man went on a stabbing spree at a playground in the French city of 
[NYPOST] The 
"In this charging document, they did not charge the president with unauthorized possession of classified documents."
[Dawn] WITH dangerously low foreign exchange reserves and a steep debt repayment schedule looming for fiscal year 2024 that begins in July, Pakistain is facing a stark prospect of potential default or even a larger balance of payments crisis in the 12 months ahead.
