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[PJMedia] Yet another young Coptic Christian girl recently "disappeared" off the streets of Egypt, and yet again the only ones to be punished were the Copts themselves.
On Dec. 2, Marna Barsoum ’Aziz, aged about 15, disappeared on her way to a private tutoring lesson. Immediately her family contacted and pled with police to find and retrieve her. When two days had passed with the police displaying nothing but apathy, the Copts of al-’Amoudain village in al-Minya, where the girl hails from, gathered together to stage a protest against both the disappearance of yet another Christian girl and the police’s lack of concern. They held signs and chanted "Marna must be returned to us" and "We want our daughter back."
To this, police were quick and zealous to respond. They descended on the village, and, according to eyewitnesses from the girl’s family, "in order to disperse the protest, police opened fire on us with tear gas," which prompted "loud screams from the women and a state of panic in the village." Police further arrested and hauled off 22 Coptic protesters during the clash. They were duly accused of "causing sectarian strife" and "illegal resistance of public authorities."
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Artillery fire from the Ukrainian armed forces has been reduced of late.
[NewsFrontInfo] The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, commented on the joint statement of the Minister of Defense and the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine following the meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group on Donbass, as reported on the agency's website.
She recalled that measures to strengthen the ceasefire were signed by Kiev, Donetsk and Lugansk with the mediation of Russia and the OSCE and entered into force on July 27, 2020.
"All this time, Donetsk and Lugansk have observed and continue to comply with all obligations under this document and have invariably called for the same Kiev in the negotiations. In turn, Ukraine constantly evaded its implementation, continued shelling of the territory of Donbass, in September 2020 it stopped the direct interaction with Donbass provided for by the "measures" to promptly prevent firefights," Zakharova emphasized.
According to Zakharova, at the end of September, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) Valery Zaluzhny made a statement allowing servicemen to open fire at their own discretion. This decision was a way out of the agreements reached.
Summing up, the representative of the Foreign Ministry stressed that Russia expects that Kiev will fulfill all obligations to ensure a "sustainable ceasefire in the east of Ukraine."
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[REGNUM] The American political class is about to get into yet another self-brewed mess, this time in Ukraine, which is an ideal mixture of foreign policy mistakes and defensive miscalculations that are likely to unleash the American people in a series of future crises and conflicts.
Unwilling to acknowledge Moscow's vital interests in this former Soviet republic, the US now wants to put Kiev and NATO to a dangerous and unnecessary test by engaging in armed confrontation with Russia, albeit not a nuclear one. In turn, the United States and its allies also face a test that they could easily avoid and which they are likely to fail. First you need to turn to the facts, writes retired US Army colonel and former senior adviser to the Secretary of Defense Douglas McGregor. For more information, see an August 23rd article in The American Conservative.
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The superiority of the Russian ground forces is partly due to the strategic advantage of fighting close to Russia. In addition, the Russian authorities have carried out extensive military reforms and reorganizations.
During this reform process, old generals who had resisted the change were expelled from the army. A new, determined fighting force was created, consisting of young single men with a deep sense of Russian patriotism and firmness. This policy has led to the creation of an operationally flexible grouping of smaller Russian combat formations, created for the ruthless use of the striking power of Russian rocket artillery, tactical ballistic missiles and loitering ammunition.
Nonsense on stilts, as usual. The problem with Russia is the problem with all autocracies that aren't German - each and every military officer is a contender for supreme national power. Consequently, no Russian leader can afford to appoint war leaders who are to smart for his own good. They might, on their own or in concert with like-minded individuals, decide to make a run at the throne. Stalin purged his officer corps not because he was stupid and paranoid, but for prudential reasons. The penalty for being wrong is death.
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Russia stands in the way of a global governance. Therefore they must be invaded and regime changed. If it kills millions in a nuclear war then so be it. We must have unite the planet under a single government so as to redistribute the wealth of countries like America over the whole world. There will be a global level of prosperity that a Pakistani manual laborer would consider acceptable.
You'll live in the pod, eat the bugs, own nothing and be happy. Or else.
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^ Well put. Managed so poorly. World controlled by one master; Ha, never happen. Power only corrupts absolutely. Look how a virus disrupted the world. Especially the industrialized world. They dream of a Sky net. AI and all will be well. Fools delusion.
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REGNUM News Agency is a Russian nationwide online news service disseminating news from Russia and abroad from its own correspondents, affiliate agencies and partners. REGNUM covers events in all regions of Russia as well as neighboring countries in Europe, Central Asia and South Caucasus. Wikipedia
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#1 problem with Russia is the problem with all autocracies that aren't German - each and every military officer is a contender for supreme national power.
Huh? I get it... you mean, like that Russian military dictator, um what's his name... Oh wait: there never has been a Russian military dictator or junta. Not in 900 years. Not even in Nicholas II's time or any other Time of Troubles. Never.
This Russian's analysis isn't "nonsense." It's sensible. And what he says about Russian military reform is totally plausible. Russia's fighting on its home turf. The last twenty years have seen extensive military reform -- even as our own military leadership has become politicized, bureaucratic and hobbled by careerism.
Our Woke masters and the Russian leadership are moving in opposite directions: it's our own moronic rulers who are moving toward autocracy with the help of their completely political idiot generals and assorted brass.
Would that we could have some of this type of reform here -- emphasis on 'determined,' 'patriotic' and 'ruthlessly' focused on fighting and winning:
During this reform process, old generals who had resisted the change were expelled from the army. A new, determined fighting force was created, consisting of young single men with a deep sense of Russian patriotism and firmness. This policy has led to the creation of an operationally flexible grouping of smaller Russian combat formations, created for the ruthless use of the striking power of Russian rocket artillery, tactical ballistic missiles and loitering ammunition.
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the United States and its allies also face a test that they could easily avoid
... easily, if they had even half the wisdom and good sense of an Eisenhower. Or even Reagan, or Bush's father. We didn't go to war with Russia over the 1956 Hungarian invasion, or the crushing of the Prague Spring in 1968, or the crackdown in Poland in 1981.
Back when our political leadership was intelligently focused on vital national interests, we carefully chose our battles. We understood that Russia has a legitimate sphere of national interest which deserves respect. GHW Bush himself saw that Ukraine lies in Russia's sphere of interest.
Our idiot political class has botched yet another foreign policy.
All they have to do to preserve our national interest is do what Ike did in 1956: nothing. Stay out.
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^Stalin purged his officer corps not because he was stupid and paranoid, but for prudential reasons. The penalty for being wrong is death.
And also because the Red Army at the time was still filled with former Czarist officers who Trotsky had to hurriedly recruit in 1919 because nobody else knew how to do the job. Almost twenty years later a lot of these guys had reached the upper ranks - and, because Trotsky had recruited them in the first place, they were viewed as "Trotskyites." And you know the OTHER mid-century mustache man wasn't going to have that. Still, he didn't actually kill most of them (waste not, want not), and reinstated 30% or soonce the Germans invaded.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] A new project "Volunteer" was launched, which is a large database of citizens of Ukraine and other states involved in the punitive operation in Donbass and the commission of various war crimes there, as well as persons who contributed to the implementation of the criminal policy against residents of Donbass.
Foreign citizens who took part in the punitive operation and contributed to it are placed in a separate section.
Also on the site, apparently, they plan to upload various original Ukrainian documents of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the NSU.
For a significant part of the persons represented on the site there are personal data, photographs and documents.
The project is necessary, but seriously overdue. So for 7 years. Nevertheless, it was done well - the scheme of work is clear, it loads quickly, the categorization is also logical. Good luck to the authors with the development of the project and its replenishment with Ukrainian war criminals and terrorists.
If you have clarifying information about the persons presented on the site or information about the persons not represented there, you can report it here
[American Thinker] Just three months ago, I wrote that the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America had appointed its first transgender bishop: In this case, Megan Rohrer, a woman who sliced off her breasts, kept her female name, and claimed to be a man. Now, though, Rohrer has been suspended for being a racist. Live by woke political correctness; die by woke political correctness.
It was a big deal when Megan Rohrer, a woman who claims to be a man and insists on being referred to by the pronouns "they" and "them," was installed as the Bishop of the Sierra Pacific Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. This was one of those "firsts" that simply thrill leftists. Suddenly, the left had achieved the first transgender bishop.
My feeling about Rohrer is that the woman is a monster. She has a child and had this to say about that poor, innocent thing:
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Thanks for giving us a picture of Luther rather than a picture of the subject of the article. Really.
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Megan Rohrer is an American pastor, bishop, and activist. Rohrer is the first openly transgender minister to be ordained by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and to serve the denomination as bishop.
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Posted by: Spanky the Full Bosomed1752 ||
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I left the organized church scene 6 years ago. Plenty of other ways to worship.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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I've never understood why God would need me to give 10% of my money to a building.
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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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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