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Thank you, Mad Eye. What a vision. Somewhere back before First Manassas I knew a guy who was a high dollar bill collector. He maintained she was the worst offender he knew, worse even than the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
Funny guy, he looked like an anonymous extra from 'The Honeymooners' but had exquisite and discerning taste. After all the exasperation and opportunity to tire of celebrity he was thoroughly enchanted with Lollobrigida. He couldn't, perhaps wouldn't get a dime from her but enjoyed their periodic meetings immensely and had a ton of stories. He always maintained that no matter how beautiful on film, the image was nothing to her charismatic charm in person.
Put me on to the best custom boot makers I ever knew off the Plaza Mayor in Madrid, Tenorio.
As a small town fire department EMT we responded to a call to an injured person at a nearby lake to take to the hospital. The person was a big city businessman who was with his incredibly beautiful and amazingly charming wife who had a thing for fire fighters. As we transported her unconscious husband to the hospital she took the opportunity to flirt with us on a scandalous scale.
[Breitbart] A man has been arrested under anti-terror laws after a Pakistani package containing uranium was sent to an Iranian business based in Britain.
A suspect described by the press as a businessman with British citizenship — his ethnic background and whether he holds another nationality has not been disclosed as of the time of publication — has been arrested under provisions of the Terrorism Act 2006 which outlaw “making or possessing a radioactive device or possessing radioactive material with the intention of using it” to commission or perpetrate terrorist acts.
[Sunny's Journal] Some tectonic shifts have taken place in Geopolitical power structures during the past week. The result will be the widely despised avatar "Joe Biden," being replaced as US President by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Pentagon and MI6 sources say. Also, preparations to move UN headquarters from New York to Laos have begun in earnest, CIA sources in Laos say.
These changes are taking place as the main culprits for the present dysfunctional state of the planet gather at Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum. As this report was about to go live, CIA sources say the head of this organization, Klaus Schwab Rothschild, Klaus Schwab would miss the opening of the WEF conference in Davos today "due to a health issue". Enjoy.
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Always wonder why the UN was in the USA when Ponta Delgado in the Azores archipelago, would have been a better location with a lot less diplomatic immunity issues and concerns for the NYC residents.
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From what I remember from the Gerald Ford era, the VP replacement process is not what everyone thinks it is. With these existing policies, Harris will not have a long shelf life as president. They are doing this earlier and for a reason that is not advantageous to them.
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Great news! Thousands and thousands of babies will now live!
We tried to follow suit here in South Carolina till our 3 of our idiot Supreme Court "justices" decided that our state constitution demands killing babies. In South Carolina!!!!
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...well technically, they core it, then invert it, using extra left over for cosmetic construction. Warning, do not go to Thailand or Brazil for 'recreation', the docs got too good. Remember shoulders and hands are the usual clue.
[Red State] The World Economic Forum gets underway Monday in Davos, Switzerland Tuesday as hundreds of world leaders, business titans, and politicians will gather to privately discuss the issues of the day and make recommendations to reduce climate change, hunger, and poverty.
If you’re not concerned about the WEF’s doings, read RedState writer Nick Arama’s excellent article from Monday, "Michael Shellenberger Drops a Chilling Thread About the WEF That Gives Elon Musk the ’Willies.’"
But how do all these leaders get there? Do they fly commercial then take a train, the likely option if you or I were to go? Do they rent a car, or ride alongside the unwashed masses on a bus?
Nope. Many of them drive in surrounded by huge convoys of gas-guzzling vehicles, while another bunch flies in on private jets, some of them on incredibly short flights. An estimated 1,500 private flights flew in and out of nearby airports in the pre-pandemic year of 2019, while Greenpeace puts the 2022 number at around 1,040. (When the radical environmental group highlights the incredible hypocrisy of the folks shaming you on climate change, you know they’re on shaky ground.)
Beware the onion Jihadi!
[Jpost] The 10 Philippines Airlines crew members arrived in the country on two separate flights, one from Dubai and one from Riyadh on Friday, and were caught by customs with 27 kg of onions, 10.5 kg of lemons and a kilogram of strawberries and blueberries, local media sources reported.
The confiscated foods were found in the flight attendants' suitcases when they arrived at Manila International Airport.
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"Worn on our belts. Which was the fashion at the time"
/Grandpa "Chuey" Simpson
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I've had wild onions growing on every property I ever owned and seen them on many properties as a kid. Is there something about Philippine dirt that makes onions difficult to grow?
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Does it rain a lot? You need a dry season to finish onions if you want them to keep.
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I guess this is the reason to not wash my tub that I have been looking for.
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Moses led the people away from the urban sprawl. Some fussing and argumentation, but he appears to have enjoyed some degree of success (less trees), for 40 years or so.
Do you put your feet up in front of the TV? Maybe shopping is your way to unwind? Perhaps you're a bit more adventurous and enjoy a stroll in the countryside?
That doesn't quite cut it for some people, who choose to run a 200-mile ultra-marathon in a disused railway tunnel instead.
The Tunnel Ultra is a race like no other. It's easy to find longer events. Some even involve repeating the same loop for days on end. But nowhere else can you take part in a race so twisted that you spend more than two days in darkness doing a one-mile shuttle run 200 times, or so punishing that one runner went temporarily blind - then thanked the race organiser for the privilege.
No outside support is permitted, headphones are banned and runners are not allowed to run side by side. Oh, and there is a strict time limit of 55 hours.
The Tunnel website describes it as "a mind-bending test of extreme endurance and sensory deprivation". It is more health warning than marketing slogan.
The race takes place in Combe Down Tunnel, a mile south of Bath city centre, and starts at 4pm on a Friday in March. No more than 40 runners make it that far, partly because of a strict - and deliberately opaque - qualification process and largely because the tunnel is not big enough to accommodate many more. "Even the start line is weird," says Mauduit. "You have to stand one behind another in a queue."
Combe Down was restored as a cycle path in 2013 after 47 years under weeds. It is the UK's longest foot tunnel - and the obvious setting for an ultra-marathon if your name is Mark Cockbain.
All of which adds up to a notoriously low finish rate. Of the 31 runners who started the inaugural Tunnel, only two completed it, and 13 in total in the three years it has been in existence.
[BBC] A former commander with the Russian paramilitary Wagner Group has claimed asylum in Norway after deserting from the mercenary outfit.
Andrey Medvedev, 26, crossed the border into Norway last Friday, where he was detained by border guards.
He is currently being held in the Oslo area where he faces charges of illegal entry to Norway, his lawyer Brynjulf Risnes told the BBC.
Mr Risnes said his client left Wagner after witnessing war crimes in Ukraine.
The Norwegian Border Guard confirmed to the BBC that a Russian man had been detained after crossing the country's 198km (123 mile) long border with Russia, but said it could not comment further for "reasons of security and privacy".
Tarjei Sirma-Tellefsen, police chief of staff in the Norwegian region of Finnmark, said a man had been detained by a border patrol and said he had applied for asylum.
But the Russian human rights group Gulagu.net, who helped Mr Medvedev leave Russia, confirmed his identity. His escape is believed to be the first known instance of one of the group's soldiers defecting to the West.
Gulagu.net's founder Vladimir Osechkin told the BBC that Mr Medvedev had joined the paramilitary group in July 2022 on a four-month contract, but had deserted after witnessing a host of human rights abuses and war crimes while serving in Ukraine.
He said that Mr Medvedev is a former soldier in the Russian army and that he later served time in prison between 2017 and 2018 before joining the Wagner Group.
He was placed in charge of a Wagner division in Ukraine, where the mercenary group supplied him with around 30-40 troops every week, Mr Osechkin said.
Definitely a definition of division than we are accustomed to.
In a video posted by Gulagu.net to its social media channels, Mr Medvedev said he fled Ukraine in November after being informed that the group intended to extend his contract indefinitely.
After spending two months underground in Russia, he crossed the border into Norway last week.
Mr Risnes said his client had also witnessed a host of war crimes while fighting in Ukraine, including seeing "deserters being executed" by the Wagner Group's internal security service.
"In short he felt betrayed and wanted to leave as soon as possible," Mr Risnes said.
He added that he believed Mr Medvedev had taken some evidence of war crimes with him to Norway and that he intends to share his information with groups investigating war crimes in the coming weeks.
In response, the founder of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, appeared to laugh off the allegations.
In a press release from one of his companies, Prigozhin issued a sarcastic statement, linking Mr Medvedev to a non-existent Nordic mercenary unit and said he was a Norwegian citizen, in an apparent attempt to mock the man's testimony.
Prigozhin also accused him of "mistreatment of prisoners" and said that his former employee was "very dangerous". Mr Risnes told the BBC that the Wagner leader's claims were not true.
UK officials believe the Wagner Group makes up about 10% of Russia's forces in Ukraine, and played a significant part in helping Moscow's forces take the town of Soledar in eastern Donbas region last week.
Thousands of its troops have been recruited from Russian prisons. Mr Prigozhin - a former convict himself - has promised recruits their freedom in exchange for six months service in Ukraine.
Before the invasion of Ukraine, it had only a few thousand mercenaries. Most were believed to be experienced former soldiers, including some from Russia's elite regiments and special forces.
Since 2015, it is believed to have deployed troops to Syria, Libya, Mali and the Central African Republic.
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Kind of a nothing-burger. You might remember him, he was in the news cycle last month. This is just a continuation of an anti-wagner narrative from Dec. This is the West's point man in the propaganda war to discredit Wagner.
Background: Medvedev is already set to testify against Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin about the alleged extrajudicial killings... Medvedev previously appeared on camera in mid-December claiming to have witnessed Wagner soldiers carrying out several extrajudicial killings against comrades who refused to go into battle in Ukraine.
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In other news, President Biden claims the tens of thousands of ukrainians who died defending Soledar and Bakhmut - they died in vain as Biden's White House claims the two cities hold no strategic value.
#ToTheLastUkrainian
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A slip. Long hours. Many coworkers sick. What cannot be cured must be endured. 23 looking to be very difficult. So many on one drug or another. Drugs everywhere. 13 year old died from overdose supplied by mother who was drudged up at funeral while grandparents both were drunk. Net night pool tournament drugs everywhere also. The new normal.
[MAIL] This is the moment an angry beanie hat-wearing reveller is knocked out after being smacked across the face with a pool cue.
Footage shows the man lunging across the table and wildly swinging at people before a punter turns his cue into a weapon and delivers a brutal full-force blow to his face.
He crashes to the ground motionless as a group of revellers then piles in with cues and glasses. It is unclear what triggered the chaos. Police have said no arrests have been made yet.
One reveller told MailOnline: 'It was threatening to kick off all night. There was a load of them by the pool table. Then a big row broke out and the lad with the hat was going at them all
Six people, including a six-month old baby, a teenage mother and an elderly woman, were killed in a California, Central Valley farming community
The local sheriff said it was likely a targeted attack by a drug cartel
Massacre occurred around 3:30am Monday in and around a home in Goshen
Authorities said they were searching for two suspects and that the killings may have been related to a search warrant carried out last week at one of the homes
Sheriff said the level of violence and the manner of the attacks suggested experienced killers
Tulare County, a small agricultural region with a population of less than half a million, has historically played a significant role in the transnational drug trade, transporting drugs from Mexico to various markets in the United States.
The county, which is bisected by the 99 Freeway and has a limited law enforcement presence, acres of open land, and a highly mobile population of farmworkers, has been a haven for drug traffickers since at least the 1970s.
In recent years, the area has also become known for the production of methamphetamine and the cultivation of both legal and illegal marijuana.
Notable and violent figures of Mexico's drug wars, such as former leader of the Zetas cartel, Jose Maria Guizar Valencia, have connections to Tulare County as he was born there.
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Something the old time crime bosses would not have tolerated. Family was off limits.
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Norteños (Spanish: [noɾˈteɲos] meaning Northerners; Norteñas for females) are the various, affiliated gangs that pay tribute to Nuestra Familia while in California state and federal correctional facilities.[9] Norteños may refer to Northern California as Norte Califas. Their biggest rivals are the Sureños from Southern California.[3] The statewide north-south dividing line between Norteños and Sureños has roughly been accepted as Bakersfield, California.[3] The gang's membership consists primarily of Mexican Americans. Consider the horrific execution of an entire family as a turf-violation example by the cartel. Far more common a tactic in Mexico, but we are importing all that rapidly.
As for a basis for the insane Biden illegal immigrant surge, consider that Obama era Hispanics include people with connections or thoughts in refernces to Atzlan and Mecha: M.E.Ch.A. (Spanish: Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán; "Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán") is a US-based organization that seeks to promote Chicano unity and empowerment through political action. The acronym of the organization's name is the Chicano word mecha, which is the Chicano pronunciation of the English word match and therefore symbolic of a fire or spark; mecha in Spanish means fuse or wick. The motto of MEChA is 'La Union Hace La Fuerza'. Research Atzlan and find the Reconquista, which is well underway...
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#2 - spot on
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While I was living in California, there was a movement of Mexican and African American middle class outward from the Bay towards the suburbs. Unfortunately, they brought their kids so schools in places like Antioch and Pittsburg got tougher. Mostly it was kids pretending to be hard. This incident is different. It is the Nortenos grabbing turf outside of Oakland and Richmond. More turf is achieved through increased staffing available through the open border. These are soldiers. They do not go to school, pick tomatoes or hang drywall. The RINOs who want to give out amnesty at the behest of special interest are not going to achieve cheap labor; they will be bringing Juarez violence to every state.
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Yes, they can't possibly get them all registered to vote before the next major election. That's a crisis.
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He said yesterday that New York City is now and will stay a sanctuary city. He said that status has nothing to do with the influx of illegals. Putz. Finally blames feds.
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In other news, Politician Is Full of $hit. Film at 6 O'clock.
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[Fox News] Murders in the U.S. are becoming increasingly concentrated in densely populated urban centers in just a handful of counties, according to a newly released report.
Some 73% of all murders in the U.S. took place in just 5% of counties while 52% of all counties reported no murders at all, according to a Crime Prevention Research Center study published this week and provided to Fox News Digital.
"Murders in the United States occur in very small areas, and that concentration has increased since 2014," the study stated. "The concentration in 2020 is now greater than in 2010."
The report comes as a violent crime wave that ballooned in 2020 still rages in some parts of the country.
"Murder isn’t a nationwide problem," the study found. "It’s a problem in a small set of urban areas and even in those counties murders are concentrated in small areas inside them, and any solution must reduce those murders."
Fascinating
. Illinois’ Cook County, home to Chicago and about 40% of the state’s population, had the highest amount of recorded murders of any location in 2020 with a whopping 775, according to the report.
Cook County was followed by:
Los Angeles County, 691 murders
Harris County, Texas, 537 murders
Philadelphia County, 495 murders
New York City’s five counties, a combined 465 murders
Wayne County, Michigan, 379 murders
Shelby County, Tennessee, 311 murders
Maricopa County, Arizona, 299 murders
Baltimore City county, 291 murders
Dallas County, 281 murders
Marion County, Indiana, 234 murders
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"Murder isn’t a nationwide problem," the study found. "It’s a problem in a small set of urban areas and even in those counties murders are concentrated in small areas inside them, and any solution must reduce those murders."
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Tragically, those same urban densities are the places Soros has targeted for the DeFund-the-Police, No Bail, Prog DA political campaigns. Almost as if it is intentional to create chaos, gun control and a national police force!
[IsraelTimes] One person treated for shock after bullet strikes kitchen window in Shaked, near Jenin; military launches manhunt for button men
Paleostinian button men fired a hail of bullets Monday evening at a settlement in the northern West Bank, causing damage to a home, the military and local officials said.
Images from the scene showed large hole punched through the kitchen window of a home in the settlement of Shaked, some 10 kilometers (six miles) west of the Paleostinian city of Jenin near Israel’s security barrier.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack by armed Paleostinian groups, although previous shootings against the settlement have been claimed by a local wing of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group.
The Samaria Regional Council said one home was damaged by the shooting. The Rescuers Without Borders emergency service said there were no physical injuries, but one person was being treated for shock following the attack.
"We will not wait for the victims. This government should order the IDF to react with severity," the council’s leader, Yossi Dagan, said in a statement.
The Israel Defense Forces said troops were dispatched to the area to search for the suspects, who expeditiously departed at a goodly pace. The bullets were fired from outside the settlement.
In a separate incident Monday night, Israeli security forces at the nearby Reihan checkpoint reported coming under gunfire from a distance, Rescuers Without Borders said. No injuries were reported.
The IDF did not immediately comment on the second reported attack.
In recent months, Paleostinian button men have repeatedly targeted military posts, troops operating along the West Bank security barrier, Israeli settlements, and civilians on the roads.
[IsraelTimes] Pair, from central region of the country, suspected of ’deliberate vandalism’ with a racist motive at Protestant Mount Zion Cemetery, where 28 tombstones were damaged
Charges are to be brought against two teenagers suspected of vandalizing dozens of graves at a historic Christian cemetery in Jerusalem earlier this month, Israel Police said in a statement Monday.
An investigation found that 28 tombstones were vandalized at the Protestant Mount Zion Cemetery.
The two suspects, aged 18 and 14, are from the central region of the country, police said, without giving any further details of their identities.
Security camera footage of the attack showed two young men wearing a Jewish skullcap and tzitzit, the knotted ritual fringes worn by observant Jews, knocking over crosses, breaking tombstones and throwing debris over the graves.
During questioning, police discovered that the "deliberate vandalism" was done for racist reasons, the statement said. The suspects were arrested days after the vandalism was reported, and their remand extended until they were eventually released to house arrest.
The graves of Christian figures at the cemetery were found pushed over and pulled from their foundations, unsettling the city’s Christian minority and drawing worldwide condemnation. The cemetery is more than 170 years old and houses prominent members of the armed forces and clergy in the holy city.
The Anglican Church in Jerusalem denounced the desecration at the time as the latest hate crime targeting the Christian community in Jerusalem amid the decades-long Israeli-Paleostinian conflict.
Among the destroyed tombs was one containing a 19th-century bust of Samuel Gobat, the second Protestant bishop in Jerusalem who died in 1879, the Episcopal diocese said. The graves of three coppers, British citizens serving in the police force of what was then British-ruled Paleostine, were also vandalized.
The diocese cautioned that the desecration of the cemetery should be seen as an ominous warning about "hatred against Christians."
"Many stone crosses were the targets of the vandals, clearly indicating that these criminal acts were motivated by religious bigotry," it said.
The vandalism drew widespread international condemnation.
The Protestant Cemetery on the venerated Mount Zion just outside Jerusalem’s Old City walls was established in 1848 and was part of territory that Israel captured in the 1967 Six Day War. The cemetery houses the graves of dozens of Paleostinian coppers killed during the First and Second World Wars as well as Christian leaders who died in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Mount Zion, associated in Christian tradition with the site of the Last Supper that Jesus shared with his disciples the night before his crucifixion, is also sacred to Jews and Moslems and has been at the center of competing religious claims.
Jewish faceless myrmidons have defaced church property on Mount Zion in the past years. Jews consider Mount Zion the traditional burial place of the biblical King David and some ultra-Orthodox and nationalist activist muppets have opposed Christian prayer rights at the site. A Jewish seminary known as the Diaspora Yeshiva is located in many buildings in the Mount Zion compound.
Some 16,000 Christians live in Jerusalem, the majority of whom are Paleostinian. Israel claims Jerusalem as its capital, while Paleostinians want East Jerusalem as the capital for their hoped-for independent state.
In December 2021, Christian leaders in the Holy Land warned that their communities were under threat of being driven from the region by bad boy Israeli radical groups, and called for dialogue on preserving their presence.
Patriarchs and heads of churches in Jerusalem issued a joint statement similarly warning of the danger posed by radical groups they said were aiming at "diminishing the Christian presence."
Extremist Jewish activist muppets have for years carried out vandalism against Christian sites in Jerusalem and other areas of Israel, including hate graffiti and arson. The faceless myrmidons also target Paleostinians.
[IsraelTimes] 4 women who arrived from Germany, plus 2 men connected to one of them, arrested after large quantities of cocaine and ketamine found in their luggage at Ben Gurion Airport
“They say it’s just for personal use, Sgt. Avi.”
Police said Monday that detectives had thwarted a major drug trafficking attempt and arrested six suspects who allegedly tried to smuggle over 15 kilograms (33 pounds) of cocaine and ketamine worth millions of shekels into Israel.
Four women in their 20s, residents of central Israel, had raised cops’ suspicion while they were on a flight from Germany to Ben Gurion Airport, with detectives tracking them since their exit from the plane on Sunday night, police said in a statement Monday.
By analyzing the women’s movements during passport control and luggage retrieval, the detectives determined that they were providing illegal courier services, police said.
While inspecting the luggage of three of the suspects, officers found a large amount of suspected cocaine and ketamine hidden in shampoo containers and food supplement packages. The substances have been taken to a police lab for confirmation.
The three suspects were arrested along with a fourth woman who had been with them on the flight. She was detained outside the airport along with her boyfriend and another relative of hers on suspicion of being behind the smuggling attempt.
The four women and two men have been in detention since their arrest and were set for a remand hearing Monday.
Police added that in a separate incident over the weekend, the same unit arrested three couples and another man — seven suspects in total — who allegedly tried to smuggle over 40 liters (4 gallons) of date rape drug GBL into Israel.
[IsraelTimes] Military says suspects hurl explosives, stones, Molotov cocktails at troops in Dheisheh refugee camp; button men also open fire at forces in Qabatiya and Nablus
A 14-year-old Paleostinian was killed during festivities with Israeli troops near the West Bank city of Bethlehem early Monday, the military and Paleostinian health officials said.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, troops entered the Dheisheh refugee camp to arrest wanted Paleostinians amid a months-long anti-terror effort, mostly in the northern West Bank, following a series of terror attacks that killed 31 people in 2022.
"Suspects threw stones, explosives, and Molotov cocktails at the forces, who responded with riot dispersal means and live fire," the IDF said in a statement.
The Paleostinian Authority health ministry said a 14-year-old boy was hit in the head by the gunfire, and described his condition as critical. The ministry later said he had died, and named him as Omar Lutfi Khamour.
No suspects were arrested in the camp according to the IDF.
The IDF said 19 Paleostinians were arrested elsewhere across the West Bank, with some violent mostly peaceful incidents.
In Qabatiya, near Jenin in the northern West Bank, the IDF said troops came under fire while arresting two wanted Paleostinians. "The troops fired at button men who fired at them," the military said, adding that suspects were hit.
Troops also came under fire in Nablus during the arrest of another two suspects, the IDF said.
In Hebron, troops detained a wanted Paleostinian and seized an M16 assault rifle, the army added.
The IDF said the 19 Paleostinians who were arrested in the West Bank over suspected terror activities were taken to be questioned by the Shin Bet security agency.
No Israeli soldiers were hurt in the overnight raids, the IDF said.
[FreeMovement] The fall of Kabul in August 2021 prompted an emergency evacuation of around 15,000 people eligible for repatriation or relocation in the UK. Within weeks, amid intense criticism of the UK government’s mishandling of the situation and leadership failures surrounding the Afghanistan evacuation, Operation Warm Welcome was launched, to ensure support for Afghan arrivals to rebuild their lives in the UK. More than a year after the fall of Kabul, over 9,000 Afghans remain in temporary bridging accommodation.
Bridging accommodation is a key function in the government’s Warm Welcome strategy. It refers to the use of temporary hotels and serviced accommodation procured by the Home Office to house those arriving in the UK. Nearly all Afghans arriving in the UK have been or continue to be placed in temporary bridging accommodation before more permanent accommodation has been found.
Within weeks of temporary bridging hotels beginning to be used, a 5-year-old Afghan boy died falling from a window of a hotel in Sheffield. Following his death, it emerged that the Home Office did not carry out any safety checks on the hotel, which was the subject of a fire enforcement action at the time the Home Office placed families there.
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[NationalNews] Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai was charged with the murder of a man in Bournemouth after an argument over an e-scooter.
An Afghan asylum seeker accused of murdering a British man over an argument about an e-scooter has told a court his parents were killed by the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai is charged with the murder of 21-year-old Thomas Roberts outside a sandwich shop in Bournemouth in the early hours of March 12 last year.
It is alleged Mr Abdulrahimzai stabbed to death "peacemaker" Mr Roberts who intervened during a dispute over a hired Beryl scooter between the defendant and Mr Roberts' friend.
On Monday, Mr Abdulrahimzai, originally from Afghanistan, began to give evidence in his defence at Salisbury Crown Court.
He described his parents being killed when the Taliban planted bombs at his family home, as they suspected them of colluding with American forces.
"I have seen some explosions not very far away. There was an American base not far from where we lived and the Taliban would come and demand things and there would be fighting and gunshots," he told the jury.
"They used heavy weapons like rocket launchers. They planted bombs around my house, I was at my uncle’s house at the time, when I came home my parents were dead. I saw their body parts and a lot of blood."
After briefly breaking down in tears, Mr Abdulrahimzai said he was then captured and tortured by the Taliban for up to three weeks before being dumped and left for dead on the side of a road.
The jury was shown photographs of scarring all over his body which he said was caused by the torture, during which he was beaten with the butts of rifles and injured with knives.
However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... a passer-by rescued him, tended to his wounds and put him back in touch with his uncle, who arranged for him to leave Afghanistan.
He first went to Serbia via Pakistain and Iran ...They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... in October 2015, before arriving in Norway with a friend he considered to be an adopted brother.
Mr Abdulrahimzai then left Norway and spent some time in Italia and Serbia. He applied for asylum in Norway, but when his application was refused in December 2019, he left out of fear of being deported to Afghanistan.
He arrived in the UK in Poole, Dorset, in the same month and told the authorities he was 16 when he was arrested, but the court has since determined that he is now 21.
Nic Lobbenberg KC, prosecuting, had earlier told the court that Mr Abdulrahimzai does not deny carrying out the stabbing using a knife he had taken with him from home, and has previously pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
He said the defendant is likely to claim he had not intended to kill Mr Roberts and his actions were a result of a "loss of control".
The jury has been shown CCTV footage of the fatal incident, which Mr Lobbenberg said "was all about a scooter, that cost this boy his life".
The defendant, who was living in Poole at the time of the incident, denies murder. The trial continues.
EXPLOSION IN KABUL KILLS 3 TALIBAN SECURITY PERSONNEL – A blast occurred along the Darul Aman Road in Kabul yesterday, in the house of a Taliban security force member. An apartment on the 9th floor of the Kefayat Center, given to the Taliban member, exploded and claimed the lives of 3 security forces personnel. Initial reports claimed it may have been a terror incident, but follow-on reports now suggest it was due to a propane gas cylinder that had ignited in the room.
REPORTS CONTINUE OF PAKISTANI - AFGHAN TALIBAN DIALOGUE OVER THE TTP PROBLEM – After a recent National Security Council meeting in Islamabad had concluded, it is said that Pakistani authorities asked the Afghan Taliban to fulfill obligations under the Doha Agreement and help to neutralize the TTP threat in Pakistan. Reputedly, the Taliban pushed back against the suggestion and recommended dialogue with the TTP should begin between Pakistan and the TTP directly. The situation looks to remain in a stalemate and many regional analysts believe it is only a matter of time before Pakistan is forced to conduct strikes on suspected TTP hideouts in Afghanistan. Most agree, that strikes would likely take place if a major terrorism incident occurs in Pakistan that can be attributed to the TTP.
SAVE THE CHILDREN ACTIVITIES APPEAR TO BE SANCTIONED – The Ministry of the Economy confirmed yesterday the international NGO, Save the Children, had resumed some operations in Afghanistan. The Ministry’s spokesman was careful to emphasize the NGO had agreed to several stipulations under the new Sharia framework of governance in Afghanistan. A long-time observer said the activities that resumed were never banned in the past and were allowed under the regime in the 1990s. International aid experts are cautioning against reading too much into the announcement and do not believe a repeal of the ban on women aid workers is likely under the current political climate. CARE, another well-regarded international NGO announced late yesterday that they would be resuming some of their operations with both male and female staff. CARE will restart health and nutrition programs with assurances from the Taliban’s Ministry of Public Health.
RAHMATULLAH NABIL, FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE AFGHAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE, ANNOUNCES FORMATION OF POLITICAL PARTY – The Afghanistan National Liberty Party has been stood up by the former intelligence chief. Nabil released several statements on his social media accounts and provided a copy of his party’s charter. In essence, the ANLP will advocate for the return of a republic style of governance with a heavy emphasis on decentralized power. It is not clear how much support the ANLP has in the country but Nabil’s well-publicized break with the former President and his long-standing criticism of Pakistan’s interference in Afghan affairs will likely resonate with many who oppose the Taliban regime.
DEATH TOLL FROM THE COLD FRONT NOW STANDS AT 16 – However, many more are thought to have perished in rural areas and a news outlet opined this morning that many deaths have gone unreported among beggars and drug addicts in an effort to save the regime some embarrassment.
CORRECTION - RUMORED SHUTDOWN OF GIRLS EDUCATION IN KHOST PROVINCE, 16 JAN 2023 – In yesterday’s brief, we reported that a girls’ school in Khost had potentially been forced to close by the Taliban. This was incorrect. The school depicted in the video was a Madrassa supported by a local Mosque and the incident depicted involved the arrest of the Mullah for unknown reasons. We do not believe the policy is directed at any other schools at this time.
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POSSIBLE RESHUFFLING AT THE TOP OF THE CENTRAL BANK – After blowback from controversial posts made on Social Media, the Taliban are considering removing some officials from their roles at the Central Bank.
PASSPORT PROCESS STARTING AGAIN – There has been confirmation that the Passport Directorate, in conjunction with local Police, intends to reopen the issuance process across the country. According to sources, the program will ‘roll out’ to Provinces in a somewhat scheduled manner. The order of reopenings is not known but at-risk Afghans are encouraged to reach out to their local offices to find out when the process may be restarted.
[Rudaw] An American national imprisoned in Iran ...The nation is 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... on Monday addressed US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S., who gives the term geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan.... , announcing he will go on a week-long hunger strike, a day for every year spent in Iran’s infamous Evin prison.
"All I want sir, is one minute of your days’ time for the next seven days devoted to thinking about the tribulations of the U.S. hostages in Iran. Just a single minute of your time for each year of my life that I lost in Evin prison after the USG could have saved me but didn’t," Iranian-American national Siamak Namazi said in a strongly worded message to Biden released by the detainee’s lawyer.
The 51-year-old Namazi has been in Iranian prisons since October 2015. In February 2016, Namazi’s father Baquer Namazi, a former UNICEF official, was arrested when he traveled to Iran to urge the release of his son. Both men were sentenced to ten years on espionage charges, however Baquer Namazi was released last year on medical leave, while his son remained in Tehran’s infamous Evin prison.
"Alas, given I am in this cage all I have to offer you in return is my additional suffering. Therefore, I will deny myself food for the same seven days, in the hope that by doing so you won’t deny me this small request," Namazi concluded in his letter, urging the US government to take immediate action.
Namazi’s message comes seven years after the release of five other Americans when Tehran and Washington agreed on the nuclear deal, a prisoner swap Namazi was excluded from.
There are a number of dual and foreign nationals being held in Iranian prisons on charges of spying for foreign governments with rights groups accusing Tehran of using them as bargaining chips to gain concessions from world powers.
Iran on Saturday announced that they had carried out the death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... of Iranian-British national Alireza Akbari on charges of spying for the UK’s intelligence agency and threatening Tehran’s national security.
In its annual world report on global rights conditions published on Thursday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) slammed Iran for conducting unfair trials and obtaining confessions under duress, as well as for charges brought against dual nationals.
"Iranian courts, and particularly revolutionary courts, regularly fall far short of providing fair trials and use confessions likely obtained under torture as evidence in court," the report read.
"The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Intelligence Organization continued to arrest Iranian dual and foreign nationals on vague charges such as "cooperating with a hostile state," it added.
[ShabelleMedia] Somali defence minister Abdulkadir Mohammed Nur confirmed that SNA along with allied local clan militia seized control of the coastal town of Harerdhere in Mudug region from al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... The takeover came with no resistance after al-Shabaab pulled out from the town prior to the army’s advances.
It is yet another blow to al-Shabaab as Harerdhere was the financial and staging hub for the group over the past 15 years.
Local residents reported no fighting as troops moved in on Monday morning. al-Shabaab retreated to nearby areas in the central region which sees heavy military operations.
Early today, the troops took over Gal’ad near Harerdhere without fighting.
US military provides air assistance to SNA by carrying out dronezaps hitting al-Shabaab bases to weaken the power of the krazed killers.
Harardhere on the Indian coast once served as a pirate hub during the peak of piracy in Somalia's waters from 2008 to 2011. The fall of the town marks a big victory for the Somali government which launched an all-out offensive last year to end the al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... insurgency.
Before the seizure of Harardhere, the specially trained Danab forces of the Somali military captured the village of Galcad in the east of the Galgaduud region, where al-Shabaab was in control for a long time.
[ShabelleMedia] A resident says a suspected dronezap targeted al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... hideouts in the vicinity of Gal’ad town during intensified ground military operations.
The drone fired missiles on El-Hassan Ali and Bud Bud areas which are located on the outskirts of Gal’ad, a small but strategic town in the Mudug region under Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... State.
The details of the casualties inflicted on the holy warriors in the targeted bases are still unclear as the remote areas are inaccessible to reach out to the witnesses for further information.
The aerial bombardment came just before the Somali troops and local clan militia took over the control of Gal’ad and the next coastal town of Harardhere, which are now fully liberated.
[ShabelleMedia] A suicide kaboom occurred today in the Halgan area of the Hiran region, resulting in the death and injuries of officials and citizens.
Eyewitnesses told Shabelle radio by phone that a car filled with explosives went off in Halgan during the morning rush-hour, targeting senior regional officials and military officers.
The CID Commander of Beledweyne Police Station, Jamal Ahmed Jama, and two others are confirmed to be among the fatalities.
Al-Shabaab ...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... has grabbed credit, saying it struck a military base with a boom-mobile.
There are also civilians who suffered wounds in the attack, as well as commercial buildings were destroyed in the earth-shattering kaboom, which was the biggest to happen in the town this year.
Al-Shabaab seems stepped up attacks in central regions, where the army is conducting operations to retake the areas still remained under the control of the krazed killers.
[Gateway] Tucker Carlson reported Monday night that tax returns for the years 2016-2018 have disappeared from Joe Biden’s campaign website’s financial disclosure page at Joe Biden.com .
Those years cover the same timeframe that first son Hunter claimed on a background check report to allegedly have paid nearly $50,000 per month rent to stay at father Joe’s Wilmington, Delaware home where illicit classified documents were found in December 2022 and last week. (Note added at end to reflect headline edit: Rent claim is in question)
The link for Biden’s tax returns for 2019 for federal, Delaware and Virginia is still active. All the others redirect to a Democrat donation page.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris proudly displayed their tax filings on the JoeBiden.com webpage.
TRENDING: "It's a Clean Up Job...They Are Trying to Cover-Up Something Else" - Christina Bobb on Biden's Classified Document Crimes
Links to their tax filings were posted on the joebiden.com financial disclosure webpage in July 2019.
The original list of tax filings included filings from 2016, 2017, and 2018:
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a lot of clarifications and explanations are due for this
but since a special prosecutor has been assigned the WHouse and DOJ can just defer to the SP and the SP office can just 'no info until investigation is finished'
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I guess Congress will just have to subpoena his tax records for the last 20 years and release them publicly - with the SSN info redacted, of course.
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Well someone did point out that Biden did not declare the $50K/month rent from Hunter as 'income'.
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Keep in mind that the reason they were so damn sure that revealing Trump's tax returns would show all sorts of 'smoking guns' and they would finally 'get him' is that their own returns very likely actually *do* have 'smoking guns'.
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At some point on Tuesday afternoon, the missing files were restored to Biden’s website. These files were only uploaded on Tuesday, as one can see by hovering over the links where the files are located. Probably altered.
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[FoxNews] 'It's not FEMALE EMPOWERMENT when the first 'woman' to own the Miss Universe pageant organization was born a MAN,' one user wrote.
The new owner of Miss Universe gave a speech extolling the organization as run by women, for women, and composed of women, as a "trans woman." Twitter users had some questions.
"Welcome to the Miss Universe organization," JKN Global Group CEO Anne Jakrajutatip told the live audience at the 71st Miss Universe competition in New Orleans.
R’Bonney Gabriel, a model, fashion designer and sewing instructor ultimately took the Miss Universe crown, beating out 83 other contestants.
"From now on it’s going to be run by women, owned by a trans woman for all women around the world to celebrate the power of feminism!" Jakrajutatip declared as the audience burst into applause.
Jakrajutatip, who purchased the parent company of Miss Universe for $20 million in 2022, continued to celebrate a new era in the Miss Universe competition.
"Diverse cultures, social inclusion, gender equality, creativity, a force for good, and a force for the beauty of humanity."
Jakrajutatip is a well known Thai reality TV star.
But some Twitter users debated whether women themselves were actually better off with a transgender owner at the helm of Miss Universe.
"It’s not FEMALE EMPOWERMENT when the first ‘woman’ to own the Miss Universe pageant organization was born a MAN," conservative influencer James Bradley wrote.
Political commentator Ian Miles Cheong called out Jakrajutatip for lecturing women on "what it means to be a woman." "Listening to that transgender Miss Universe owner lecture the public on what it means to be a woman really takes the cake."
The west is "completely detached from reality," one user wrote in response to Cheong.
New Culture Forum founder and journalist Peter Whittle said that it was hypocritical for an organization designed to champion women should be run by a woman. "The new boss of the Miss Universe contest proclaims it will now by run by women and will celebrate feminism, inadvertently forgetting perhaps that he is, in fact, a man."
"I see America is not the only thing to have gone to s--- since Donald Trump stopped running it!" El American editor Ben Kew wrote. Former President Donald Trump sold the Miss Universe Organization in 2015.
The Spectator editor-at-large Ben Domenech gave one of the shortest responses to the video of Jakrajutatip’s speech. "Dude, come on."
"The father of the attacker had represented Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani physician who helped the CIA find al-Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden"
[FoxNews] A gunman dressed as a lawyer shot and killed a prominent attorney inside a courtroom in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, police said.
The attacker, who was arrested at the scene, had opened fire at Abdul Latif Afridi, a former president of Pakistan’s lawyers union and a prominent figure in the community, fatally wounding him. The attack took place at the High Court in Peshawar.
The attacker, Adnan Khan, had previously accused Afridi of orchestrating the 2015 killing of his father, Samiullah Khan, who was also a lawyer, said Naeem Khan, a police officer.
It was unclear how the attacker managed to sneak into the court building with a handgun. The killing was condemned by Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, government officials, politicians and lawyers.
In a statement, Sharif expressed concern over the deteriorating security situation in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where Peshawar is the capital. His chief rival, the party of opposition leader and former Prime Minister Imran Khan is in power in the provincial assembly.
Before his killing, Samiullah Khan, the father of the attacker, had represented Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani physician who helped the CIA find al-Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden was killed in 2011 by Navy SEALs in a raid on his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
The physician ran a fake vaccination campaign that helped locate and identify bin Laden. The doctor and the lawyer killed on Monday are not related.
In 2012, Pakistan sentenced Shakil Afridi to 33 years in prison on charges of allegedly providing money and medical treatment to Islamic militants in a former tribal region. Afridi and his family have denied those charges.
Pakistan was outraged over being kept in the dark ahead of the SEALs operation. Washington has demanded Afridi’s release but Islamabad has resisted the demand, saying he violated Pakistani law. The doctor was never formally charged in bin Laden’s case.
The police arrested the perpetrator and identified him as Adnan Afridi. The attacker was related to the Afridi tribe, and the incident happened due to personal enmity, according to the findings of the police.
The Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... high court bar association described the terror incident as security lapse and criticized how a gunman managed to reach the bar room, and shoot Afridi.
Following the incident, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and many high-ranking Pak politicians and public figures condemned the brutal attack on the senior lawyer and expressed their deep condolences to the family and relatives of the victim.
Afridi, 80, was sitting in the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar High Court bar room with other lawyers when the attacker shot up him, according to the police. He was rushed to Lady Reading Hospital but could not survive.
The police claimed that the attacker, identified as Adnan Samiullah Afridi, was arrested from the scene of the crime and moved to East Cantonment Police Station where a case was registered.
An officer at the cop shoppe told Dawn that the suspect had confessed to the crime and that he had killed the victim over a family feud.
‘A PROGRESSIVE VOICE NO MORE’
Afridi’s killing marks the end of an era and has left the legal fraternity and his admirers shaken.
Latif Afridi, commonly known as Latif Lala, has left behind a legacy of a decades-long struggle for civil liberties, democracy, rule of law, and the rights of people, especially those belonging to the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
Born in 1943, he had done his LLB from the University of Peshawar in 1968 and his career as a lawyer spanned over five decades. His election as the president of the Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... Bar Association in 2020 and multiple tenures as the president of the Peshawar High Court Bar Association is a testimony to his popularity among the lawyer community.
He had also remained the vice chairman and a member of the Pakistain Bar Council.
He was also a blunt critic of militancy in the region and often called for a clear state policy on terrorism. He was also vocal against the military’s interference in politics and termed the practice usurpation of the fundamental rights of people.
During his lifetime, Latif Lala was known for his progressive politics. During his political career, he largely remained associated with the Awami National Party founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... , with which he stayed until a few years ago. Before his death, he was a part of the National Democratic Party — a recently-formed party led by North Wazoopolitician Mohsin Dawar.
[NYPOST] The Texas woman who was allegedly decapitated by her husband was found in a pool of blood near the couple’s bed — and her head was located in the shower.
Anggy Diaz’s corpse was discovered Wednesday at the home near the town of Magnolia, northwest of Houston, according to Waller County Sheriff Troy Guidry.
Jared James Dicus, 21, confessed to murdering Diaz, also 21, whom he had only just married in October, according to cops.
According to court documents cited by Fox 26 Houston, Diaz was found on the floor with multiple stab wounds in her back and police found "what appeared to be the head of the victim to be in the shower."
Guidry said Dicus’ father immediately called the cops when they found the victim.
"They [the parents] were addressed by the suspect [husband] and when they saw something wasn’t feeling right for them, they approached the house that they were living in, and that’s when they found what they found," he said.
The knife used in the gruesome crime also has been recovered.
"Everything happened on the property. And all parts and pieces were recovered and submitted for evidence," Guidry said.
Chilling security video shows Dicus calmly walk into the Chepes meat market where his wife worked, swipe a beer and then chug it outside.
A friend of the victim last week told The Post that Diaz had confided that her husband was a jealous person.
"He posted a video saying, ’She is mine,’ to social media, and it was weird because no one was questioning that ... it was out of nowhere," said the friend, who asked not to be identified.
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The #Kremlin said on Monday that Russian forces did not strike residential buildings in Ukraine, two days after an apartment complex in the city of Dnipro was hit during a major Russian missile attack that Kyiv says killed at least 36 people. pic.twitter.com/HGHxyozp3b
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
Normalization of relations with Russia after the end of the Ukrainian conflict is out of the question, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview with the German newspaper Handelsblatt
And this is good.
A rare case when we not only agree, but also are happy. There are no more illusions. "Partners" finally honestly said that they are not partners, but enemies.
NATO is an alliance, first created against the USSR, and then performing its function specifically against Russia. You might think that they used to be our bosom friends, but now something!
Worse than a war with the West can only be friendship with him!
I hope that in the next century there will be no business at all with the West "on parole". And Russia will now keep all the unfriendly at arm's length. We will never see honest relations from the other side.
Communicate, conclude military and economic alliances, build long-term relationships, develop joint plans, projects should be with China, Iran, India, Malaysia, South American countries and other states, those who vote FOR a resolution condemning the glorification of Nazism, and not with those who votes against such a resolution.
[PJMedia] At least 80 county sheriffs and prosecutors have vowed not to enforce the new Illinois gun control law that bans 170 kinds of semi-automatic rifles and places limits on ammunition magazines.
"The right to keep and bear arms for defense of life, liberty and property is regarded as an inalienable right by the people," said Iroquois County Sheriff Clinton Perzee. "I, among many others, believe that [House Bill 5471] is a clear violation of the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution," he added.
Perzee said he would not use his jail to detain people solely for violating the new gun law.
"[N]either myself nor my office will be checking to ensure that lawful gun owners register their weapons with the State, nor will we be arresting or housing law abiding individuals that have been arrested solely with non-compliance of this Act," Perzee said.
Governor J.B. Pritzker reminded the sheriffs that they took an oath to uphold the law. "As law enforcement, that’s their job and I expect them to do that job," Pritzker said.
"It’s political grandstanding by elected officials. These are elected sheriffs," Pritzker said during an evening interview with MSNBC.
Illinois gun rights groups are lining up to sue the state over the law. The "Protect Illinois Communities Act" bans 170 brands of semi-automatic rifles, limits ammunition magazines in pistols and rifles, and forces those with legal semi-automatic rifles to register their guns by Jan. 1, 2024.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul isn’t worried about sheriffs not enforcing the law. Center Square:
Attorney General Kwame Raoul said Friday if local law enforcement won’t act, someone will.
"As law enforcement agencies, there’s overlapping jurisdiction as well, so if they don’t do their jobs, there are other people there to do the job," Raoul said.
Rhonda Ezell, who was a lead plaintiff in a case several years ago successfully challenging reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... gun restrictions, said gun owners in Illinois need to stand up for their rights.
"They don’t care what color you are, where you reside, where you live, where you work. Their goal is to disarm America and they made that very clear," Ezell told The Center Square.
What we have in Illinois is a public relations gambit versus the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. The only people who are affected by the new law are law-abiding citizens who will be forced to register their legal firearms. Are criminals and gang members going to turn in their guns or register their firearms? Pritzker and those who support him should stop talking about how "safe" Illinois is going to be after the passage of this law.
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When working Scott AFB in the mid 90's. My Site Security Officer give me the paperwork and told me to acquire an Illinois State Patrol Firearms license> I was told to even to have a weapon in the trunk of the Vehicle I needed. He clearly stating Gun laws there were crazy and not like Ft. Bragg.
note: I had to drive thru East St. Louis a lot.
On the permit being issued, I was quickly, and bluntly, told it was NOT VALID in Chicago.
Why the story?
I learned that day, why LSD's feed and cared for Large Political Metro area voters. So that can they can with ease overrule the safety and rights of others.
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note: I had to drive thru East St. Louis a lot.
Advice - Stay on I-70, I-55 or I-64. Don't get off. If traveling east and you accidentally missed the last Missouri exit (which is a VERY easy thing to do if you aren’t paying attention), keep driving until you're about 10 miles up the road before you turn around.
The nearby Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site is pretty safe though, and well worth the visit.
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M.R.- Is Fair View Heights still safe., or is O'Fallon now the safe line?
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Fairview Heights is still about as safe as most any metro suburb, and full of strip malls. Hgwy 157 seems to be a fair buffer from ESL and the further east of that you get, the better.
You should still maintain situational awareness, though.
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Interesting that someone who regularly ignores immigration laws cites they took an oath to uphold the law
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Once you get across the Wabash River headed East, Just off I-64 (10 minutes south), the 'Yellow Tavern' in historic New Harmony, IN. Pretty damn good chow and a relaxing walk around town.
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When I was young, my dad took me to see an animated version of Animal Farms. It seems like Pritzker had a starring role. Could be wrong it has been many years.
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Much like school hostage situations, I imagine there is some trepidation about transgressing the 'nogo' zones of home armories.
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If Baraq and Joe could refuse to enforce US immigration laws then so can the county sheriffs. I see the beginning of a trend.
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Seconding the recommendation of Cahokia Mounds ...
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I had to drive thru East St. Louis a lot.
After driving thru the tornado in Kansas, Pan and I returned thru St. L. Late night, we referred to the map looking for a route thru the untimely exit. Not much later, we looked at each other and agreed we should turn the map light off.
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I’m not sure why I find the idea of the two of you touring the landscape terrifying, Skidmark. I’m sure that really a wonderful time was had by all... ;-)
Link via Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin [LENTA] The European Commission (EC) demanded that Russia stop charging foreign companies for flights over Siberia. It is reported by Reuters with reference to the statement of the head of the Directorate General for Transport of the European Commission, Henrik Hololei.
“If one day we have the opportunity to see the opening of Russian airspace, one thing should disappear - Trans-Siberian royalties (flight payments from international airlines - approx. Lenta.ru),” he said.
Earlier, aviation expert Roman Gusarov said that due to the retaliatory sanctions of the Federal Air Transport Agency, which restricted flights in Russian airspace for airlines from 36 countries, Finland suffered the most. He recalled that due to the ban on flights over Russian territory, a large number of European companies have to fly around Russia. This applies not only to the transportation of passengers, but also goods and cargo. A vivid example of countries that cannot fly at all, Gusarov called Finland: it is located in such a way that it has Russia on all sides.
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He might want to acquaint himself with the ICAO treaty regarding “freedom of the air.” No way the other countries of the would will give up their fees for overflights.
"But it keeps the rats away!"
[FoxNews] Police arrested the child's mother
Israeli police conducting a raid at a residential building in Haifa on Sunday found a toddler locked in a cage.
According to the Israeli news agency TPS, officers were looking for drugs in an apartment when they found the child, who is 1 year and four months old, in an iron structure with a pillow and bottle. Five older children were also present, but the mother was not.
"This is one of the most serious and difficult cases I’ve come across," Police Corporal Yossi Atias said, according to TPS. "The police in cooperation with welfare officials of the Haifa municipality carried out an emergency operation with immediate concern for the other children of the family who were there. We take seriously any harm to the helpless and will work hard to handle the case."
The mother, who police identified as a 35-year-old Haifa resident, was eventually located and brought to the residence, and police arrested her on charges of false imprisonment, child neglect, and abuse.
Police said they also recovered a large quantity of what they believed to be drugs from the building, including crystal and hashish, TPS reported. In addition to the mother, two other suspects were arrested.
Israeli police conducted a number of operations in recent days to crack down on drugs, as well as organized crime. According to the Jerusalem Post, police arrested 40 people between two other busts on Sunday and Monday.
Sunday's operation was in Ashdod, where police arrested seven suspects at what they believed to be a plant-based drug laboratory. Cops had been investigating the alleged operation for five months.
On Monday, police arrested 33 suspected drug dealers after an informant supplied information over the course of eight months. According to the Post, the informant had purchased large amounts of drugs including MDMA, cocaine, LSD, hallucinogenic mushrooms, and more from them.
Cops reportedly seized suspected drugs, cash, and 14 vehicles.
"In the past year we have been putting a heavy emphasis on operations in the heart of crime syndicates and we will continue doing so without respite for the wellbeing and safety of the people of Israel," police Insp.-Gen. Kobi Shabtai said in a statement.
Isn't this a VP:VP role?
Where's Kamela?
[FoxBusinessNews] Yellen's China meetings come after Biden and Xi’s Bali meeting last November.
In hopes of strengthening communication between the U.S. and the People’s Republic of China, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will be in Zurich, Switzerland on Wednesday to meet with China's Vice Premier Liu He.
Despite three virtual meetings, the summit will be Yellen’s first in-person meeting with Liu He since taking office and will cover an exchange of views on macroeconomic developments and other economic issues.
YELLEN WILL THEN VISIT AFRICA
The Treasury secretary will also visit Africa this week to discuss the Biden administration’s plans to deepen economic ties with countries there by expanding trade and investment flow.
The Treasury Department announced on Monday that Yellen will travel to Senegal, Zambia and South Africa from Jan. 17 to 28, in hopes of building a stronger and more resilient economy on the continent that benefits their citizens, the U.S., and the entire world.
Last month, at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C., President Biden announced over $15 billion in two-way trade and investment commitments, deals and partnerships.
According to the Treasury announcement, high-quality infrastructure investments will be funded through the Partnership for Global Infrastructure Investment to prevent and prepare for future pandemics through the new Pandemic Fund.
I have a dream...that all this shit will go away!
[FoxNews] A shooting at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event left eight people wounded on Monday evening in Fort Pierce, Florida, according to the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office.
The shooting broke out around 5:20 p.m. near Ilous Ellis Park following a "disagreement of some sort" between two groups of people, a spokesperson for the sheriff's office said.
An "MLK Car Show & Family Fun Day" was being held at that park from noon to 6:00 p.m., according to the City of Fort Pierce.
One of the gunshot victims is in critical condition, according to the sheriff's office. Four people were also injured as they were fleeing the scene.
Videos posted on social media showed large crowds enjoying the event before multiple gunshots rang out in the distance, sending people scrambling behind cars.
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"An MLK Car Show? Who won?"
"Well, I guess it was, um, Family Fun,
Since we hid behind cars
When our kids went to war
In the MLK Gun Show, eh, son?"
[Lincoln backfiring; everyone run]
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[KavkazUzel] The court sentenced one of the leaders of the armed underground in Ingushetia, Ali Taziev,
...emir of Caucasus Front, the military wing of the Al Qaeda-linked Caucasus Emirate following the death of Shamil Basayev in 2006. In 2010 he voluntarily surrendered to the Ingush police; Russia claims his interrogation led to removing a great many jihadi commanders from the board...
to life imprisonment, finding him guilty of attacks on traffic police and military personnel in 2009-2010. Taziev was sentenced to life for the third time.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on April 27, 2021, the Southern Military Court in Rostov-on-Don began considering the case of one of the leaders of the armed underground, Ali Taziev, accused of attacks on traffic police and military personnel in 2009-2010 on the territory of Ingushetia. Taziev, twice sentenced to life terms, pleaded not guilty .
The Southern District Military Court today found Ali Taziev guilty of attacks on traffic police and military personnel in 2009-2010.
"The court found Taziev guilty and sentenced him to a life sentence for the totality of crimes," Interfax-South quoted the judge as saying.
Earlier, the state prosecutor requested a life sentence for Taziev. The defendant was charged with creating and leading a gang, encroachment on the life of law enforcers and military personnel, damaging other people's property in a generally dangerous way, illegal circulation of weapons and illegal manufacture of explosive devices, the agency informs.
Recall that on October 15, 2013, the court sentenced Taziev to life imprisonment on charges of leading a group of militants, which, according to investigators, blew up a bus in Nevinnomyssk in 2007, and in 2009 blew up the police department building in Ingushetia and attempted to assassinate the head of the republic, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov. On July 9, 2015, Taziev was sentenced to a second life term in the case of an attack by militants led by Shamil Basayev
...(1965-2006). Chechen warlord in the Al Qaeda-linked Caucasus Emirate (2007-2015) and its predecessor, the post-Soviet Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. In 2015 most of the hard boys changed their allegiance to the local Islamic State affiliate, Vilayat Kavkaz, whereupon a majority chose to escape the Russian hunters by moving themselves and their families to the caliphate in Syria...
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:16 Ukrainian troops fired at Donetsk, hits were recorded in a supermarket, a pharmacy and a residential building, according to the People's Militia of the DPR, at least two people died, four were injured. 22:21 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the defeat by army aviation and artillery of the forces of Kyiv in the Kupyansky, Krasno-Limansky, Donetsk and South Donetsk directions.
20:45 February will be the key to the conduct of the special operation - the cleansing of Ukraine will begin. About itdeclaredleader of the Russian Union of Afghan Veterans, reserve colonel Franz Klintsevich.
20:42 Soldiers of Wagner PMC in Soledarmanagedcapture the BGM-71 TOW ATGM fire control system (in the 2nd photo, a similar module on the HMMWV M1167 transferred to the APU).
The FCS (FCS) provides computer functions for the Advanced Target Acquisition System (ITAS) TOW. It tracks the target and the missile, adjusting the missile's trajectory to ensure it hits the target. The SLA also contains a circuit that allows the gunner to test the functionality of the ITAS prior to putting it into service.
Noticeable damage to the FCS by shrapnel, apparently, when the BGM-71 TOW APU itself was hit.
19:42 It's still in Donetsk disassemble blockages on Ilyich Avenue in the Kalininsky district after the morning shelling.
They say there are people under the rubble. Nearby are friends and relatives of pharmacy employees who went to work today and did not return home. They've been standing for several hours. Of course, we didn't shoot them. Wrapped up in a blanket, there stands the daughter of one of the women employees ... standing in the morning, wrapped in a blanket - it's cold outside. Next to her is a psychologist of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
18:17 In the Kupyansky direction, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated in the areas of Sinkovka and Berestovoye, Kharkiv region - Russian Defense Ministry
In particular, the department clarified that the defeat was inflicted on the 92nd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 103rd Brigade of the defense. Over 30 militants, two armored combat vehicles and three vehicles were destroyed there.
What else was reported in the Ministry of Defense:
- In the Krasno-Limansky direction, during the fire destruction of the 95th Air Assault Brigade and the 125th Brigade of the territorial defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Serebryanka and Terniv DPR, more than 75 militants, three tanks, five armored combat vehicles and a pickup truck were destroyed;
- Offensive operations continue in the Donetsk direction. In just one day, more than 50 nationalists, an armored personnel carrier and eight cars were destroyed there;
- In the South-Donetsk direction, the 65th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was defeated in the area of Stepovoe, Zaporozhye region and the 108th Brigade of the territorial defense in the area of Novoselka of the DPR. Over 30 Ukrainian militants, an armored combat vehicle and two pickup trucks were liquidated there;
- In the Krasny Liman area of the DPR, a warehouse of weapons, military and special equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hit, as well as a hangar with military equipment of the 9th Special Purpose Regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine in the area of Malokaterinovka, Zaporozhye region;
- During the day, during the counter-battery fight, the 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS and the 152mm 2A36 Giatsint-B howitzer, the 122mm D-30 howitzer, the 152mm 2A65 Msta-B howitzer and the 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer, the 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer were destroyed.
16:44 Ukrainian troops fired six shells of 155mm caliber at Horlivka, reported representation of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC).
15:51 Eyewitnesses testify about the arrival for the "Topaz" in the Kuibyshev region. The information is being specified.
15:50 Four enemy shells with a caliber of 155mm fell on the territory of the Kyiv and Kuibyshev regions, and they were fired at 14:55 from Orlovka. It is reported by the SCCC.
15:22 Employees of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation are working in a retail and office complex in the Kalininsky district of Donetsk, which was shelled, a correspondent reportsRIA Novosti.
14:30 Ukrainian troops fired 10 shells with a caliber of 152mm at Zaitsevo in the Donetsk People's Republic, reportedrepresentationDPR at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC).
14:18 In the Kupyansky and Krasnolimansky directions, Kyiv lost about 105 military personnel per day, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Monday.
14:17 Subdivisions of the Eastern Military District of the Russian Federation in the South Donetsk direction destroyed up to 30 Ukrainian military and three units of equipment in the Stepovoe district in the Zaporozhye region and Novoselki in the DPR per day, they reported on Monday inMinistry of DefenseRussia.
14:06 At the moment, Wagner attack aircraft are fighting hard for the population of the Kleshcheevka settlement.
The enemy puts up fierce resistance, because he understands the strategic importance of this settlement. The capture of Kleshcheevka will allow the Wagner operators to enter Bakhmut from the southwest, as well as to develop an offensive on the settlement. Red.
The fighters of PMC "Wagner" again have to recapture house after house, breaking through the well-fortified defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which use fortifications and terrain.
Assault units are supported by artillery and aircraft of the Orchestra.
14:03 According to the official data of the DPR JCCC since the beginning of the escalation as of 12:00 01/16/2023
For 333 days of escalation 644 civilians were killed in the territory within the borders before the start of the NMD, incl. 26 children.
On the territory liberated during the NMD, 3,769 civilians were killed, incl. 106 children.
Total: 4,413 including children - 132.
On the territory within the borders before the start of the NMD, 2,369 civilians received injuries of varying severity, incl. 159 children.
A total of 87 cases of undermining civilians were registered, incl. 4 children, on minesPFM-1 "Petal". One of the injured died in the hospital.
In the territory liberated during the NMD, 1,656 civilians were injured, incl. 92 children.
Total: 4,025 including children - 251.
Damage:
— 9,537 residential buildings;
— 2,325 civil infrastructure facilities, incl. 128 medical institutions, 467 educational institutions, 915 social security facilities, 63 critical infrastructure facilities, 751 electricity, water, heat and gas supply facilities.
- 1,191 vehicles.
At the moment, it is impossible to establish for certain the data on damage and destruction of residential housing construction and civil infrastructure facilities in the territory liberated during the NWO.
During the 333 days of the escalation of the DPR JCCC, 14,744 cases of firing were recorded, of which 14,413 were using heavy weapons.
In total, the enemy fired 95,589 units of ammunition of various calibers, including 37 rockets from OTRK "Tochka-U", 185 missiles MLRS "Himars", 255 MLRS missiles 220mm BM-27 "Hurricane"and 12,666 missiles MLRS (122 mm), as well as 18,972 shells caliber 155mm.
13:07 Peskov: Western deliveries of heavy armored vehicles to Ukraine are not able to change the situation on earth, "these tanks are on fire and will continue to burn."
12:58 The terrible consequences of the strike on Donetsk -a photo.
The mayor of Donetsk spoke about the victims and destruction in the Kalininsky district:
— a direct hit on the building of the shopping center along Ilyicha Avenue;
- the building of the service station "Avtoprofi" on Ilyich Avenue was damaged;
- two multi-apartment residential buildings along Ilyich Avenue were damaged;
- route taxi No. 46 was damaged;
- the roof of the building of the Second Distillery was damaged.
12:45 Military from two Ukrainian battalions stationed in Artemovsk (Bakhmut) and Soledar left the front line due to lack of ammunition, the Spanish newspaper Pais writes.
12:42 Massive raid on Sevastopol: By this hour, the air defense forces and the Black Sea Fleet have already shot down seven UAVs over the sea, - the governor.
12:35 Ukrainian troops fired 11 “NATO” shells in Donetsk in 10 minutes, 10 missiles in Makiivka from MLRS,reported representation of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC).
12:16KA-52 gunships "Alligators" of the "brave" destroy equipment and manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video.
Attack helicopters Ka-52 regularly cover the fortified positions of Ukrainian militants and hit their equipment and manpower. Our helicopter pilots approach at extremely low altitudes and launch missiles from a pitch-up, which makes it possible to hit the enemy from a long distance without entering his air defense zone. The onboard complex of the helicopter allows you to conduct accurate shooting in this way.
12:11Ukrainians continue to terrorize the residents of Donetsk.
-- from n.p. Yelizavetovka fired four shells of 155mm caliber at the town of Yelenovka;
-- from n.p. Thin in the Kuibyshev and Kyiv regions, three shells with a caliber of 155mm were fired;
-- from n.p. Lastochkino fired three rockets from the MLRS in the Kyiv region.
11:11 Ukrainian troops at 10.45 fired three “NATO” caliber shells in the Kievsky district of Donetsk - the DPR representative office in the JCCC.
10:53 A video has appeared on Polish social networks in which the author claims that the Morawiecki government planned to send Leopard tanks with Polish crews to Ukraine, but supposedly the officers of the Polish army refused to comply with this order -video.
10:39 There are still people under the rubble of the shopping center in Donetsk, which was hit by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This was reported by RT correspondent Viktor Miroshnikov.
10:31 “Our electronic warfare is working very well” - the situation in the liberated Soledar /video— TK Zvezda.
The situation in the city requires caution, at any moment there may be an arrival of an enemy projectile. The enemy continues to be hit, including from tanks.
10:13 As a result of the morning attack of the VFU in the Kalininsky district, three people were injured.
08:38 Summary on the morning of January 16, 2023
- The Russian Armed Forces are conducting offensive operations in the Artemovsky (Bakhmut) and Avdeevsky directions. In the Svatovo-Kremennaya sector, artillery and army aviation of the Russian Armed Forces attacked enemy positions.
- PMC "Wagner" is fighting in the area of the railway station Sol, developing success after the capture of Soledar. In Artemovsk, units of the Wagner PMC are fighting hard.
- Marine Corps units of the Russian Armed Forces are fighting in the Pavlovka-Ugledar direction.
- At night in Zaporizhzhia, a blow was struck at an industrial infrastructure facility in Ukraine. Report power and internet outages
- APU shelled the market in Shebekino in the Belgorod region. No casualties were reported. In the Bryansk region, a Ukrainian UAV attacked one of the largest power substations in Bryansk with grenades. The first dropped grenade did not explode, the second was covered by a guard, he is in intensive care.
- In Sevastopol at night, our air defense shot down an enemy UAV.
- In the LPR - shelling of the settlement. Novopskov, Svatovo and Kremennaya with the use of 155 mm (six shells) and the Ukrainian MLRS "Alder" (one rocket). Two civilians were killed
- The DPR reported that the enemy fired 115 rounds of ammunition in Donetsk, Gorlovka, Shirokaya Balka, Panteleymonovka, Shakhtersk in a day.
For the first time, a #Muslim character has been chosen to be the superheroine in a new series produced by Marvel Studios of the #WaltDisney Studios.https://t.co/q5izbh9pWO
Two children killed by an unknown device explosion in #Syria's #Idlib and two others reported injured in the same incident as they were looking for woods for heating. https://t.co/EoNvFE7Bdm
It had to happen
[FoxNews] Local activists said the patron went beyond self-defense when he shot and killed 30-year-old Eric Eugene, who was robbing customers at gunpoint with a fake weapon.
Community activists in Houston are calling for a restaurant patron who shot and killed a robbery suspect during a holdup to be arrested, saying he went beyond self-defense despite many calling him a hero.
Customers were eating inside a local taqueria when 30-year-old Eric Eugene Washington entered and pointed a pistol at them and demanded cash. As he gathered the cash, an armed patron can be seen on surveillance video getting up from the booth he was sitting in and shooting his pistol at Washington multiple times.
"He was within the law when he fired the first initial shots," said activist Quanell X in a news conference in front of the establishment. "But we believe he went from being a law-abiding citizen to a lawbreaker."
Washington ultimately fell to the ground and died. The unidentified shooter has not been charged and has cooperated with authorities.
The man's attorney released a statement saying: "In Texas, a shooting is justified in self-defense, defense of others, and defense of property."
The armed diner has been hailed a hero by many but local activists said he went beyond self-defense when he fired several more times than needed to neutralize the threat posed by Washington, who was holding a fake gun.
"You do not go and shoot someone over and over when they are no longer a threat," said Candace Matthews of the New Black Panther Nation. "He was actually in the clear for a justified kill by shooting him like he did the first time when he was no longer a threat."
The shooter fired a total of nine shots as Washington was leaving the restaurant. Washington was shot as he was on the restaurant floor after he had been disarmed, Fox Houston reported.
"I'm hoping the grand jury does something because if they don't, the message that will be sent will be the wild wild west," Quanell X said. "He should be charged with something," saying the man left the scene before authorities arrived and fired even after Washington was unarmed.
He noted that he doesn't condone Washington's actions and that he deserved to be punished, but not killed. He also said the shooter dumped a drink on Washington as he was leaving the restaurant and threw a cup at him.
"At the least, it's called abuse of a corpse, that's a misdemeanor crime in Harris County," he said.
Washington's mother, Corine Goodman, said the shooter should have stopped firing as soon as there was no longer a threat.
"If you had to kill him, I can deal with that. I can come to grips with that. He did something wrong, I understand that," she said. "But for him to be shot four times in the back leaving and when he falls down and he shoots him four more times. He abused him."
A grand jury is weighing whether the shooter will face charges.
Washington had a lengthy criminal history. In 2015, he was convicted of a lesser charge of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon and sentenced to 15 years in prison in connection to the shooting death of 62-year-old Hamid Waraich a father of three sons who was engaged, KTRK-TV reported.
He was paroled in 2021 and charged with assaulting his girlfriend in December 2022.
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Washington had a lengthy criminal history. In 2015, he was convicted of a lesser charge of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon and sentenced to 15 years in prison in connection to the shooting death of 62-year-old Hamid Waraich a father of three sons who was engaged, KTRK-TV reported. He was paroled in 2021 and charged with assaulting his girlfriend in December 2022
The robee/shooter did the job that the criminal justice system wouldn't. He deserves a medal.
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You can always count on them to take the side of their own people. They're much like Jewish people in that way. They have loyalty towards their own ethnicity.
It's a weird concept to wrap your head around if you're white.
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You never spent any time in the southern states, have you Herman.
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I was expecting Quanell to sound off. He hasn't been on TV in a while.
Next to be heard from is Sheila Jack-a$$ Lee.
We would normally get Sylvester Turner in here, but he's now the mayor.
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#5 southern states
You mean, like, the Caucasus?
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Quannellex sounds like one of them prescription medicines.
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Almost 40 years ago the jurors in Baton Rouge sentenced a cold blooded killer to community service and probation… look up Plauche Doucet Baton Rouge airport. Houston jurors, take note.
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During the BLM riot season, one of neighbors who is a cop in HPD told me how the brass were afraid the marches in houston would turn violent. So the HPD kept them under control. They were afraid that if they rioted and started burning and looting, it'd be a bloodbath when they got out of downtown and hit residential. And it would have been because SO many people in this area simply won't roll over. You try to destroy their stuff and they WILL KILL YOU. And the laws in this state let you do it. After dark, we are permitted to employ lethal force to prevent virtually any criminal mischief on our property.
SUBCHAPTER D. PROTECTION OF PROPERTY
Sec. 9.41. PROTECTION OF ONE'S OWN PROPERTY. (a) A person in lawful possession of land or tangible, movable property is justified in using force against another when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to prevent or terminate the other's trespass on the land or unlawful interference with the property.
(b) A person unlawfully dispossessed of land or tangible, movable property by another is justified in using force against the other when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to reenter the land or recover the property if the actor uses the force immediately or in fresh pursuit after the dispossession and:
(1) the actor reasonably believes the other had no claim of right when he dispossessed the actor; or
(2) the other accomplished the dispossession by using force, threat, or fraud against the actor.
Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
Sec. 9.42. DEADLY FORCE TO PROTECT PROPERTY. A person is justified in using deadly force against another to protect land or tangible, movable property:
(1) if he would be justified in using force against the other under Section 9.41; and
(2) when and to the degree he reasonably believes the deadly force is immediately necessary:
(A) to prevent the other's imminent commission of arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, theft during the nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime; or
(B) to prevent the other who is fleeing immediately after committing burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, or theft during the nighttime from escaping with the property; and
(3) he reasonably believes that:
(A) the land or property cannot be protected or recovered by any other means; or
(B) the use of force other than deadly force to protect or recover the land or property would expose the actor or another to a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury.
Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
Sec. 9.43. PROTECTION OF THIRD PERSON'S PROPERTY. A person is justified in using force or deadly force against another to protect land or tangible, movable property of a third person if, under the circumstances as he reasonably believes them to be, the actor would be justified under Section 9.41 or 9.42 in using force or deadly force to protect his own land or property and:
(1) the actor reasonably believes the unlawful interference constitutes attempted or consummated theft of or criminal mischief to the tangible, movable property; or
(2) the actor reasonably believes that:
(A) the third person has requested his protection of the land or property;
(B) he has a legal duty to protect the third person's land or property; or
(C) the third person whose land or property he uses force or deadly force to protect is the actor's spouse, parent, or child, resides with the actor, or is under the actor's care.
Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
Sec. 9.44. USE OF DEVICE TO PROTECT PROPERTY. The justification afforded by Sections 9.41 and 9.43 applies to the use of a device to protect land or tangible, movable property if:
(1) the device is not designed to cause, or known by the actor to create a substantial risk of causing, death or serious bodily injury; and
(2) use of the device is reasonable under all the circumstances as the actor reasonably believes them to be when he installs the device.
Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1975, 64th Leg., p. 913, ch. 342, Sec. 6, eff. Sept. 1, 1975. Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
[Federalist] The son of a notable Alabama civil rights activist muppet was indicted on charges related to voter fraud on Wednesday, undercutting claims by leftist organizations and corporate media that legitimate concerns about the issue are unfounded.
According to Advance Local, an Alabama news outlet, Perry County Commission Chairman Albert Turner Jr. has been charged by Fourth Judicial Circuit District Attorney Michael Jackson and Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill "with voting more than once, which is a misdemeanor, and harvesting ballots, a felony." The alleged incidents occurred during two separate elections in May and November of last year.
As noted in the report, Jackson revealed how several witnesses claimed they saw Turner "stuffing filled out ballots in favor of the candidates he was supporting" into a voting machine during the county’s May 2022 Democrat primary election. Regarding the November contest, Jackson said Turner has been, as Advance Local described, "accused of mailing an undisclosed number of absentee ballots."
"Since January 19, 2015, we have worked extraordinarily hard to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat in Alabama," Merrill said. "While the accused is innocent until proven guilty, it is important to know that this incident ... will receive the full attention of this office as we confirm for the people for the State of Alabama that we are the gold standard for election administration in the United States."
Merrill and Jackson did not indicate which particular races Turner has been accused of meddling in nor whether those alleged actions could have affected any election’s outcome.
While Turner’s alleged crimes present a striking example of problems with the integrity of U.S. elections, the story will almost assuredly be ignored by Democrat-friendly nonprofits and corporate media. For years, such entities have worked overtime to dismiss concerns related to fraud and ballot harvesting.
In 2018, for instance, The Washington Post ran a lengthy article lamenting Republican-backed voter ID laws as a form of voter suppression and castigating voter fraud as "extremely rare in recent elections."
"The real problem with American elections is not voter fraud but abysmally low turnout that ranks the United States near the bottom of peer democracies," the diatribe reads. "The many forms of voter suppression now in place could have an effect on the outcome of the [2018] midterm elections, with many House, Senate and gubernatorial races decided by a handful of votes."
Left-wing nonprofits such as The Center for American Progress ...George Soros-funded think tank headed by John Podesta, White House chief of staff under Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of the word is... , supplied progressive talking points and policy positions for the Obamaregime. There was a revolving door between the White House and its nerve center, with B.O. staffing his administration with many of its operatives... have also gone to war against Americans concerned about election integrity issues. In 2016, the group published an article titled, "Voter Fraud Isn’t Real—But Voter Suppression Is a Grave Danger," in which the authors bemoan how the "toxic myth of voter fraud is used to justify real voter suppression that costs citizens their voices in democracy."
While there’s been ample evidence of fraud, irregularities, and other rigging in recent elections, there’s also been historic numbers of people voting, putting to bed false narratives that so-called rampant voter suppression is killing democracy.
Cyber-attack targets Damascus International Airport leaving the experts scratching their heads, and causing disruption of air traffic. #Syria#Iranpic.twitter.com/IJ0P6i8jsN
A notorious Russian rapist and serial killer, Mikhail Popkov has declared his interest to fight for Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... in Ukraine, DailyMail has reported.
Mikhail Popkov, 58, nicknamed 'The Werewolf' had killed 83 women, He now wants to join a controversial scheme that has seen thousands of murderers, rapists and other hardened criminals become mercenaries.
President Putin has also pardoned those who fought and stayed alive for six months in the war.
The country’s prison recruitment scheme reportedly sees criminals sent out to fight with pro-Russian forces in Putin's illegal war in exchange for a pardon if they continue to fight and stay alive for six months.
Popkov, a former police officer known as 'The Werewolf' and the 'Angarsk Maniac,' murdered 83 women and is currently serving two life sentences plus nine years in prison after three separate trials.
According to a police source, his true tally is "closer to 200".
Popkov raped the majority of his victims, who ranged in age from 18 to 50, before murdering them with axes, hammers, knives, screwdrivers, and spades.
Despite this, Russian authorities allowed state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
to interview him behind bars as he begged to join Putin's fighters, claiming radio-electronics experience from his time as a Red Army conscript.
He hopes to gain his freedom through the sickening Kremlin scheme that has freed up to 40,000 prisoners.
Popkov is even suddenly confessing to more murders in order to join the Wagner private army, which is led by Putin crony Yevgeny Prigozhin and is supporting the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine.
When asked by Russian state TV "what is your dream?", he replied: "To join the army."
The mass killer continued: "I would not hesitate to do so [join the war].
[NYPOST] An unhinged vagrant who terrorized Manhattan’s Gramercy Park neighborhood last year is still at it — and locals say the city isn’t doing anything to help despite Mayor Eric Adams’ new program to get troubled homeless people off the streets.
Residents at one Lexington Avenue building told The Post management even spent nearly $4,000 on a locksmith to try to keep the troublesome vagabond from camping out in their lobby — but he somehow still found a way in.
"For the past two months the guy’s been sleeping in the vestibule area," said Abe Bichoupan, a resident of the co-op building on Lexington near East 25th Street. "He would pop in four, five in the afternoon. He would eat there, smoke."
Over the weekend, residents called cops at least five times after the homeless man broke into the compact room and defecated — only to have police let him go when he refused help.
"The police are saying that they don’t have any right to put him in an institution or whatever unless he consents to it in writing," Bichoupan said.
If he isn’t an imminent danger to himself or others, that’s the general rule across America for those legally adult.
"As much as he’s imbalanced he still can respond to a few questions posed by authorities, and he just doesn’t want to go in."
The Post first wrote about the man— known as Howard but nicknamed "Cheese" by local cops because of his stench — in April, when he was spotted wandering the area and muttering to himself as he tried to get into area businesses.
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Back in the pre-80's such problems were collected and driven to the county line, or given a field trip to the levee rd. swamp that runs along the Savannah River.
The levee walk was the most effective.
Given the problem person, a few miles of dodging Gators, Boars, packs of wild dogs and snakes to redeem themselves.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] With advent of the new Israeli military chief of staff Herzi Halevi after the end of Aviv Kochavi’s term, al-Qassam Brigades (Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",) Military Media published a video that shows the Israeli captured soldier Avera Mengistu.
Mengistu, who was arrested by Hamas Resistance® Movement 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 Hamaswith 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 2014, asked the Zionist authorities to do all what is possible to liberate him and his three comrades.
Al-Manar English Website inserted the English subtitles to the original video.
Hamas Paleostinian Resistance® group, which had stressed in 2021 that the Israeli captives in the Gaza Strip will only be exchanged for the release of Paleostinian prisoners at Israeli jails, reiterated its stance and indicated that Kochavi’s failure will overburden Halevi.
Hamas is holding three other Israelis captives in Gaza strip, including two occupation soldiers, since 2017.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... expects to take delivery of a number of Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets from Russia early next Iranian year, which starts in March, a politician said.
Speaking to Tasnim, member of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Shahriar Heidari said the Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets that Iran has ordered from Russia are going to arrive in early 1402 (begins on March 21).
The politician noted that Iran has also ordered a series of other military equipment from Russia, including air defense systems, missile systems and helicopters, most of which will be received soon.
Media reports suggested earlier that Iran will receive 24 of the fourth-generation twin-engine, super-maneuverable fighter jets that are primarily used for air superiority missions.
Some of the combat aircraft are anticipated to be housed at Tactical Air Base (TAB) 8 of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF), which is located in the Iranian city of Isfahan in the country’s center.
Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) says the Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jet "combines the qualities of a modern fighter (super-maneuverability, superior active and passive acquisition aids, high supersonic speed and long range, capability of managing battle group actions, etc.) and a good tactical airplane (wide range of weapons that can be carried, modern multi-channel electronic warfare system, reduced radar signature, and high combat survivability)."
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Doesn't Russia need these Jets more locally???
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No gas for Irani domestics,
no oil credit for Syrians.
Backing away from Lebanon.
What the heck is going on?
So Iran is buying the jets?
Does Russia need the cash?
#Italy’s Carabinieri police on Monday arrested Matteo Messina Denaro, the country's most wanted mafia boss who had been on the run for three decades. pic.twitter.com/O6AKlNWxM9
Italy's No. 1 fugitive, convicted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested on Monday at a private clinic in Palermo, Sicily, after three decades on the run, Italian paramilitary police said.
Messina Denaro was captured at the clinic where he was receiving treatment for an undisclosed medical condition, said Carabinieri Gen. Pasquale Angelosanto, who heads the police force's special operations squad.
In a police photo showing him sitting in a police van, Messina Denaro was wearing a brown leather jacket and white skull cap and his trademark tinted glasses. His face looked wan. He was taken to a secret location by police immediately after the arrest, Italian state television reported.
A young man when he went into hiding, he is now 60. Messina Denaro, who had a power base in the port city of Trapani, in western Sicily, was considered Sicily's Cosa Nostra top boss even while a fugitive.
He was the last of three longtime fugitive top-level Mafia bosses who had for decades eluded capture.
Messina Denaro, who tried in absentia and convicted of dozens of murders, faces multiple life sentences.
He is set to be imprisoned for are two bombings in Sicily in 1992 that murdered top anti-Mafia prosecutors, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. Among other grisly crimes he was convicted of is the murder of a Mafia turncoat's young son, who was strangled and his body dissolved in a vat of acid.
The arrest Monday came 30 years and a day after the Jan. 15, 1993, capture in 1993 of convicted "boss of bosses" Salvatore "Toto" Riina, in a Palermo apartment after 23 years on the run. Messina Denaro went into hiding in summer of that same year, as the Italian state waged a crackdown on the Sicilian crime syndicate following the murders of Falcone and Borsellino.
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni tweeted that Messina Denaro's capture is a "great victory of the state, which shows that it doesn't surrender in the face of the Mafia."
Italy's Mafia boss who set the record for the longest time on the lam was Bernardo Provenzano, captured in a farmhouse near Corleone, Sicily, in 2006 after 38 years as a fugitive. Once Provenzano was in police hands, the hunt focused on Messina Denaro, but despite numerous reported sightings of the boss, he managed to elude arrest, until Monday.
That all three top bosses were ultimately arrested in the heart of Sicily while they conducted decades of a clandestine life won't surprise Italy's police and prosecutors. Law enforcement have long said that such bosses rely on contacts and confidentiality of fellow mobsters and complicit family members to move the fugitives from hideout to hideout, supply basic needs, like food and clean clothing and communication, and a code of silence known as "omerta."
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[Korrespondent] 23:16 The appointment of Gerasimov as commander of Russian forces in Ukraine means a return to the Russian offensive, British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace believes: "The fact that Gerasimov personally assumed field command is certainly significant. This is the visible tip of the iceberg of factionalism in the Russian command. Putin, appears to be optimistic, and since Gerasimov's deference to the president is beyond doubt, a return to the Russian offensive can now be expected - no matter how many human lives it will require.
23:09 German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht resigned amid a series of political mistakes, as well as growing pressure on Berlin regarding military assistance to Ukraine. Lambrecht decided to leave her post ahead of the decisive meeting of the Western Allies at Ramstein Air Base. At this meeting, Berlin must decide whether it will send the Leopard to Kyiv and whether it will give a green light to Poland to re-export the tanks. Read more in the article Is Kiev to blame?
23:03 Investigators of the Dossier Center found out that the Wagner PMC units in Soledar are commanded by Anton Elizarov - he previously served in the Airborne Forces and in the special forces department of the GRU. In 2014, Elizarov received three years in prison for fraud in the case of the privatization of a service apartment. He sued the Ministry of Defense, but ultimately lost the case, after which he was evicted from his apartment in 2016. Then he signed a contract with PMC Wagner.
22:59 Zelensky, following a meeting with the head of the OSCE, Minister of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia Bujar Osmani, said that this is "one of those international organizations that have significant potential, but for various reasons in critical situations have a large lack of specific actions, a large lack of determination ".
"The OSCE can significantly increase attention and act accordingly on the issue of deportation of our people from the occupied territory to Russia. And on the situation with Ukrainian prisoners. Not a single international organization has yet found the strength to gain access to the places where our prisoners are kept on the territory Russia. This should be corrected. I hope that the chairmanship of North Macedonia in the OSCE will contribute to this," the President stressed.
22:46 Zelensky said that he had discussed protection against Russian missiles and Iranian drones with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte: "And it is very important that our conversation took place on the eve of the visit of the Prime Minister of the Netherlands to the United States. What happened in Dnipro , the fact that Russia is preparing a new attempt to seize the initiative in the war, the fact that the nature of hostilities at the front requires new solutions in defense supply - all this only emphasizes how important it is to coordinate our efforts of all members of the coalition for the defense of Ukraine and freedom. decisions".
22:32 In an evening video message, Zelensky announced a very active week in terms of diplomacy: "The forum in Davos will start - Ukraine will be heard at this globally important platform. At the end of the week, another meeting in the Ramstein format is to be held. We expect fundamental decisions from the coalition of our partners. Bilateral talks are also planned.
According to the president, every day of such a diplomatic marathon brings Ukraine "very concrete defensive fruits." In particular, he cited an example from the UK: "A new package of defense assistance has been announced - what is needed. Tanks, other armored vehicles, artillery. What we discussed with Prime Minister Sunak."
21:47 The United States understands Ukraine's need to hit more distant targets than the existing systems are capable of reaching, and are conducting an appropriate dialogue with the Ukrainian side, US Deputy Secretary of Defense for Political Affairs Colin Kahl said during a visit to Kiev: "As for long-range systems, such like ATACMS, we continue to hear interest in these systems. I think it is useful to focus not so much on this particular system, but on the need to hit more distant targets. "
"I will not go into details and say: we are aware of this need in the current status, and we are discussing how Ukraine can cope with this challenge. I will not specify what systems we can talk about, but we will continue the appropriate dialogue with Ukrainian colleagues," - added a Pentagon spokesman.
21:40 In Dnipro, after a missile attack on an apartment building, 25 more people are wanted, the State Emergency Service reported. According to the latest data, 39 people were rescued (of which 6 were children), 40 people were killed (including 3 children), 77 people were injured (of which 14 were children). Also, a total of 47 reports of missing persons were received - of which 18 were found dead, four were found alive with relatives, in hospitals, and 25 people are wanted.
20:52 More than 12 attempts have been made on Zelensky since the beginning of the war, writes The Independent. According to the publication, at least two of them were prevented thanks to CIA intelligence. Thus, US intelligence warned Zelensky about the threat of assassination at a secret meeting in Kyiv before the start of the war.
20:25 A delegation of high-ranking US officials headed by Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman visited Ukraine, Shmyhal said. "Our focus is on supporting people affected by the war, restoring energy after shelling, financial support. We also count on US assistance in restoring Ukraine. First of all, these funds will be used to restore people's housing," the prime minister said.
20:17 Putin instructed Gerasimov to seize Donbass by March, Andriy Yusov, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, said: “Still, we can talk about the priority direction for Rashists - this is Donbass. the leader of the war against Ukraine is the capture of Donbass and the formation of a certain security zone already before March."
Yusov recalled that Moscow has repeatedly changed the timing of the tasks. He also said that intelligence has information about signs that the Russians are preparing an offensive in the Zaporozhye direction: “This may indicate both direct preparation for offensive actions by the enemy, and certain deceptive actions in order to hide true intentions. All information is monitored ".
20:12 Russia may try to make a "final push" on the anniversary of a full-scale invasion or already in March, Danilov said in an interview with Suspilny: "It could be an anniversary. For them, these dates are for some reason sacred things. It could be in March. We must prepare for such events every day, and we are preparing."
19:39 Russia keeps about 11 thousand military personnel in Belarus, but there is no increase in groupings in the border areas, head of the State Border Service Sergei Deineko said: “Today, the number of Russian troops on the territory of Belarus is about 11 thousand military personnel. However, this figure changes daily due to the fact that the rotation of Russian units is taking place right now. We keep this under constant control."
19:27 Russia is dispersing a fake about a "big offensive": allegedly in the near future, a 600-700 thousandth group of invaders is ready to make a new attack. More details in the material Information Operation of the Russian Federation .
19:18 OSCE Chairman, Foreign Minister of North Macedonia Bujar Osmani, following a meeting with Zelensky in Kiev, called for the immediate return of the organization's field mission to Ukraine: "The mission will be of great importance on the ground, contributing to stability, security and human rights for all citizens."
19:09 Germany is deploying Patriot air defense systems to Poland - they will cover the logistics point where they collect military assistance to Ukraine, Spiegel writes. Three batteries will protect critical infrastructure near the border with Ukraine.
19:03 Great Britain announced the provision of the largest combat aid package to Ukraine to date. According to Secretary of Defense Ben Wallace, it includes:
a squadron of Challenger 2 tanks;
8 AS90 artillery mounts (more - at different stages of readiness);
100 armored vehicles, including the Bulldog armored personnel carrier;
dozens of UAVs;
100,000 artillery shells;
100 advanced missiles;
spare parts to support Ukrainian tanks and armored vehicles.
19:01 Turkish Ombudsman Seref Malkok said that Ukraine and Russia are working on a large exchange in which 1,000 people can take part: "The Ukrainian Ombudsman handed over to the Russian side a list of 800 people. The Russian Ombudsman handed over a list of 200 people to the Ukrainian Ombudsman. If we can create the Istanbul Platform, these issues can be discussed more easily. We are in the process of creating this mechanism."
18:57 Zelensky said that for the second time since the beginning of the year he had a conversation with Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte: “I am grateful to him for his willingness to continue working on strengthening Ukrainian air defense. In addition, they talked about possible scenarios for the development of events at the front and our joint activities in the near future".
18:20 With the beginning of joint tactical flight training with Russia in Belarus, the threat of air and missile strikes from the airspace of the Republic of Belarus is growing, because under the guise of joint training, the enemy has strengthened a combat aviation group near the Ukrainian border, the General Staff said in an evening summary . At the same time, no enemy offensive groupings were found in this direction.
According to the General Staff, on the territory of Russia, foreigners who are in line for obtaining Russian citizenship are invited to voluntarily be drafted into the Armed Forces and automatically receive a Russian passport. Also in Moscow, there is pressure on commercial structures in order to financially support the RF Armed Forces by transferring funds in the amount of 10 million rubles or more.
At the training ground of the Kadamovskaya Rostov region, in order to train and recruit the troops of the Russian Federation, the arrival of units with mobilized ones is expected. First of all, the additional staffing will concern PMC Wagner and BARS detachments, which are constantly losing personnel in Ukraine.
17:49 At the next meeting in the Ramstein format on January 20, the issue of supplying Leopard tanks to Ukraine will be discussed, Finnish Defense Minister Mikko Savola said. He stressed that in order to provide these tanks to Ukraine, a German permit for re-export is needed.
17:43 Slovakia has handed over to Ukraine the last of the promised - the eighth - Zuzana 2 self-propelled cannon howitzer, Defense Minister Yaroslav Nagy said. In addition to fulfilling the contract for the supply of eight howitzers, Slovakia has pledged to produce another 16 such vehicles for Ukraine, which will be jointly financed by Denmark, Germany and Norway.
17:35 The Norwegian authorities have confirmed that the Russian Andrey Medvedev, a former high-ranking member of the PMC Wagner, illegally crossed the border and asked for asylum. Medvedev's case was handed over to the Norwegian immigration police, and the Russian was transferred to Oslo, where he was placed in a center for violators of migration laws.
According to the Norwegian news agency NTB, Medvedev has been in hiding since he left the Wagner group on July 6 after a four-month contract expired. Russian Meduza writes that Medvedev was the commander of a unit that included Yevgeny Nuzhin, a Wagner mercenary whose execution was videotaped after returning from Ukrainian captivity in November.
The founder of the human rights project Gulagu.net, Vladimir Osechkin, said that this was the first time during the war that a former commander of one of Wagner's units fled from Russia to Europe. In addition, Medvedev agreed to testify against Prigogine. According to Osechkin, Medvedev witnessed many executions and extrajudicial killings by Prigozhin's security service. After Medvedev escaped, Prigozhin himself and his security service tried to detain him. Medvedev feared that he might be executed.
17:26 Attorney General Andrei Kostin claims that the GPU is aware of who gave the order to destroy a residential building in Dnipro: "We know for certain who exactly gave the order to destroy this residential building ... A missile, which, we are 99% sure , this house was destroyed - this is the same type of rocket that has already been used in other cases. We are talking about the strike on June 27 on the shopping center in Kremenchug, on July 1 - on Sergeevka in the Odessa region.
Kostin added that this missile is "virtually hypersonic" and very difficult to track. However, it is not an accurate weapon. The Prosecutor General stressed that in Sergeevka, Odessa region, and in Kremenchug, and in the Dnieper there was no military facility nearby.
Kostin also assured that the leadership of the Russian Aerospace Forces unit, which is responsible for all three of these strikes, has not changed: “That is, what they did in Sergeevka, in Kremenchug, in the Dnieper - all this, probably, is fully supported by the highest military political command of the aggressor country".
17:08 The Ukrainian Defense Forces continue to defend in Soledar and on the outskirts of the city, said the speaker of the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Serhiy Cherevaty: "East of Ukraine remains the main direction of the aggressor's strike. The enemy has concentrated the main attack on the Bakhmut direction, especially in the Soledar area, where fighting is taking place .Ukrainian units continue to hold the defense in the city itself and on the outskirts."
Cherevaty also said that Russia lost more soldiers in the Bakhmut direction than the USSR during the ten years of the war in Afghanistan. According to him, the Russians continue to storm the entire Bakhmut direction using "cannon fodder": they launch numerous attacks on the corpses of their own soldiers. Their strategy has not changed since the Second World War.
16:47 Russia has hundreds of X-22 missiles, one of which hit an apartment building in Dnipro. According to Yury Ignat, spokesman for the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ukraine used to have them in service as well, but some of them were transferred to Russia as payment for gas debts, and the other part was disposed of. Ukraine will be able to shoot down such missiles when it receives Patriot or SAMP / T systems from partners.
16:38 Putin spoke on the phone with Erdogan. The parties touched upon the issue of the exchange of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine, primarily the wounded, discussed the implementation of the grain deal, the Kremlin said.
15:43 As a result of a rocket attack on a multi-storey building in the Dnieper, the death of 40 people was confirmed , including three children. 75 residents of the house were injured, including 14 children, the SBU reported. The security service has identified the Russians involved in this missile attack. According to preliminary data from the investigation, several dozen Russian servicemen were involved in the crime .
15:27 Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki during his visit to Berlin called on the German government to act decisively and supply Ukraine with all the necessary types of weapons: "We loudly demanded the presence of Patriot missile systems in Ukraine, and our voice was heard, for which we thank you. The defeat of Ukraine may become a prelude to World War III. Therefore, today there is no reason to block support for Kiev and postpone it indefinitely. I call on the German government to act decisively, providing Ukraine with all types of weapons."
14:50 Zelensky announced that he had held a meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander: "We discussed the events on the front line, separately analyzed the situation in the Donetsk region and the South. We heard information about the possible actions of the aggressor in the near future. We do not lose sight of the fact that the enemy will prepare new missile strikes, Therefore, we are developing the most effective countermeasures. In conclusion, we settled on providing the Armed Forces of Ukraine with ammunition and training tactical level commanders."
14:38 The EU regards the missile attack on a residential high-rise building in Dnipro as a sign of escalation and discusses its possible response to this, EU speaker Peter Stano said: "This is another example of how the Putin regime continues to foment this conflict, and the position of the EU has always been respond to any signs of escalation.We are now talking about the increase in targeting civilians in their homes after Russia decided to hit critical infrastructure important for people to survive the winter.This is another sign that the regime wants to escalate and doesn't want de-escalation."
In light of the approaching anniversary of the Russian invasion, the EU is keeping a close eye on the situation, he said: “This issue will be discussed at the upcoming meeting of EU foreign ministers next Monday. how to respond to the ongoing aggression and what to do in response to the latest signs of the Kremlin's escalation continues."
14:07 "Governor" of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev said that the air defense and the Black Sea Fleet allegedly shot down ten out of ten "Ukrainian drones" today, there are no damaged objects.
13:58 The OSCE stated that there are no observers in the Donbas, and cars with the corresponding logo that could be seen in eastern Ukraine are not used by the organization: "If you see any cars with OSCE markings in the Donbas, you can be sure that they are not being used for OSCE purposes."
Earlier, videos appeared on social networks with allegedly OSCE vehicles in Donbas. The special monitoring mission of the organization finally left Ukraine in March 2022.
13:36 In the Lugansk region, the Russians are closing cities for entry and exit due to the approaching front line, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the Ukrainian command understands the plans of the enemy and is proactive. Meanwhile, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are moving towards Kremennaya and Svatovo.
13:03 Speaker of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuriy Ignat considers the scenario of a Russian landing in Kiev or on the territory of Ukraine unrealistic: “Today, this is generally an unrealistic scenario ... Then the enemy failed, and it will not succeed now. Because it’s easy to fly so it will not be possible to land troops from the Il-76 to the capital in any way. I think that it will not be possible to fly to the border either. "
According to Ignat, the situation now is different from February 24, when the occupiers made a surprise attack on the outskirts of Kyiv. Now the defense forces are ready to adequately meet the enemy. The main thing is to get help from Western partners.
12:51 Trucks with enemy manpower began to arrive in Mariupol from the Donetsk direction, Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of the city, said. Some of them are located in Belosaraiskaya Spit. More than ten trucks arrived this morning alone. In this regard, Mariupol began additional recruitment of cooks and service personnel in "boarding houses", which are actually new barracks.
12:35 Peskov said that the Russian military allegedly does not strike at residential buildings and the social infrastructure of Ukraine. And the conflict between the Ministry of Defense and Wagner, in his words, "exists only in the information space."
12:26 Ukraine and the EU signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the provision of 18 billion euros of macro-financial assistance in 2023, Shmyhal said. This week, the first tranche of 3 billion euros is expected to arrive. The Prime Minister noted that this will help maintain macroeconomic stability and finance all critical expenses in a war.
12:23 German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht has resigned. She was criticized, in particular, for insufficient assistance to Ukraine and for her lack of experience in defense matters.
12:14 In the morning, the Russians hit Kherson with artillery. As a result of getting into an apartment building and a boarding school building in the Dnipro district, according to preliminary information, one person died, said the head of the OVA, Yaroslav Yanushevich. Also, the Russians once again attacked the regional children's clinical hospital - the neonatal building was damaged, which was empty, so there were no wounded.
11:58 OSCE Chairman, Foreign Minister of North Macedonia Bujar Osmani said that he had arrived in Kiev: "We are looking forward to productive meetings with Ukrainian leaders to discuss ways to strengthen security and stability in the region and provide assistance to people on the ground."
11:52 Ukraine's allies have provided more than 4,000 weapons since the start of the full-scale war, Bloomberg calculated. These are ballpark figures that may include weapons promised but not yet delivered:
410 Soviet-era tanks from Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and other post-Soviet countries;
300 armored vehicles, including 250 Soviet-made infantry fighting vehicles from post-Soviet countries;
1100 armored personnel carriers, including 300 M113 and 250 M117, more than 160 M113;
mobile infantry vehicles - 1540 units, including 1250 HMMWVs;
300 towed howitzers, of which more than 210 M777 155mm howitzers and 72 US 105mm howitzers;
more than 400 units of self-propelled artillery, of which 180 are on order;
38 HIMARS systems and over 40 Soviet-era 122mm MLRS from Poland and the Czech Republic;
37 German self-propelled anti-aircraft systems Gepard;
8 US-made NASAMS rocket batteries;
one American and one German Patriot missile battery;
6 Strela-10Ms missile systems from the Czech Republic and 6 Stormer missile systems from the UK.
11:29 As of the morning of January 16, the deficit in the energy system has grown significantly, Ukrenergo reported. This is due to a decrease in electricity production due to rocket attacks on power plants, as well as an increase in consumption with the start of the working week. Reduced consumption limits for the whole day have been brought to the oblenergos. Due to their excess, emergency shutdowns were introduced in four regions from 9:00, and from 10:00 - in five regions of Ukraine. It is also possible to use emergency shutdowns in other regions.
The situation is complicated by weather conditions (gusty wind, icing of wires), in the central region there are blackouts due to damage in distribution networks.
11:03 As a result of a night rocket attack on a residential area in the center of Zaporozhye, a five-story house was damaged by a blast wave, five people were injured from debris and glass, including two children, said the head of the OVA Alexander Starukh.
11:00 "Governor" of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev said that today three drones have already been shot down over the sea, air defense allegedly continues to repel the attack.
10:27 About 100 Ukrainian soldiers arrived in Oklahoma to be trained on the Patriot air defense system. The Pentagon said it has developed an accelerated training program for the Ukrainians, which should take several months. Standard training lasts from six months to a year.
10:19 According to the specialized publication Defense Express, on January 14, the Russians attacked Kiev with new S-400 missiles. While working on ground targets, its range is 230 km, and the weight of the warhead is 180 kg. Russia used such missiles for the second time - the first time the same debris was found near the destroyed private house in Protasov Yar and in the destroyed Alfavito hotel during rocket attacks on the capital on December 31.
10:15 A joint tactical flight exercise with Russia has started in Belarus, the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus reports. The main goal of the exercise, as stated in the department, is "increasing interoperability in the joint performance of combat training tasks." All airfields and ranges of the Air Force and Air Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus are involved in the exercise.
09:48 An expanded training program for the Ukrainian military from American instructors has begun in Germany, said Mark Milley, head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. According to him, over the next 5-8 weeks, it is planned to train about 500 people. The program includes work with different types of weapons and the development of joint actions and coordination of units of different types - infantry, mechanized brigades, artillery. The training will begin with theory and small group work and will gradually progress to the stage of complex exercises at the BTG level.
09:29 British intelligence reports that Ukraine probably maintains positions in Soledar despite the attacks of Wagner PMCs - fierce battles continued there over the weekend. Analysts also write about the fighting in the Kremennaya Lugansk region, which was characterized by a complex series of local attacks and counterattacks in a wooded area. The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue their gradual advance towards the outskirts of Kremennaya.
The key task for both sides is to create units of combat-ready troops not yet involved in the front, which will be able to use tactical successes to create operational breakthroughs, according to the British Ministry of Defense.
09:23 In the Kherson region over the past day due to Russian shelling, three people were killed, 14 were injured, the head of the OVA, Yaroslav Yanushevich, said.
09:21 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, seven civilians were injured - two each in Bakhmut and Avdiivka, one each in Velyka Novoselka, Liman and Soledar, said the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko.
09:10 In the morning, the enemy once again fired at Kupyansk - a private household and an apartment building were damaged, two people were injured, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
08:59 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that the Kremlin is likely to launch a decisive strategic operation over the next six months to seize the initiative and end Ukraine's string of operational successes. Analysts recalled that over the past 11 months, Russia has failed to achieve most of its main operational goals in Ukraine - to capture Kyiv, as well as the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, to hold onto gains in the Kharkiv region or Kherson. The Russian air and missile campaign directed against Ukrainian critical infrastructure, led by General Sergei Surovikin, also did not lead to significant operational consequences and did not demoralize Ukrainian society, as the Kremlin probably intended.
At the same time, ISW experts are convinced that Putin has not abandoned his aggressive goals and is already changing the fundamental approaches to the conduct of the war. In particular, the Kremlin is stepping up both short-term and long-term efforts to build up its armed forces, trying to rebuild its military-industrial base. Putin also recentralizes control over military operations in Ukraine under the leadership of the Ministry of Defense and appointed Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov as commander of military operations. The Kremlin is also strengthening the preparation of the Russian information space to support the war.
08:47 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy as of the morning of January 16th.
personnel - about 116,080 (+790) people liquidated,
tanks - 3118 (+12),
armored combat vehicles - 6204 (+21),
artillery systems - 2099 (+5),
MLRS - 438 (+1),
air defense systems - 220 (+1),
aircraft - 286 (+0),
helicopters - 276 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 1872 (+0),
cruise missiles - 749 (+0),
ships/boats - 17 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 4870 (+24),
special equipment - 190 (+3).
08:26 The enemy is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut and Avdeevsky directions and suffers significant losses in manpower, the General Staff said in the morning report . Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces repelled the attacks of the invaders in the areas of the settlements of Belogorovka, Luhansk region and Verkhnekamenskoe, Krasnopolevka, Spornoe, Sol, Bakhmut, Kleshcheevka, Novobakhmutovka, Velyka Novoselka, Prechistovka, Krasnogorovka, Pobeda, Novomikhailovka, Vodianoe, Mayorsk and Marinka, Donetsk region.
07:28 In Dnipro, the number of people killed as a result of an enemy strike on a multi-storey building has increased to 35 people, including two children. 75 people were injured, including 14 children. 39 residents of the house were saved, the fate of another 35 is unknown , said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko. The search and rescue operation lasts almost 40 hours.
05:51 U.S. military officials are amazed at the ingenuity of Ukrainian defenders on the battlefield. At the same time, Ukraine has become a military laboratory for finding cheap but effective solutions, CNN writes, citing unnamed US officials. According to them, Ukraine has developed dozens of innovations on the battlefield , "often finding cheap solutions to expensive problems."
02:55 As a result of the Russian attack on Zaporozhye, three people were hospitalized with injuries, including two children of nine and 15 years old, said Anatoly Kurtev, secretary of the City Council.
01:37 The enemy launched a missile attack on Zaporozhye and the suburbs. There is destruction of civil, residential and industrial infrastructure. Information was received about several lightly wounded, said the head of the OVA Alexander Starukh.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] At least 10 people have been killed and dozens of others maimed in a kaboom during a service at a Protestant church in the eastern 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... (DRC), according the country’s army.
The explosion killed at least 10 people and maimed 39 others, army front man Anthony Mualushay said on Sunday. Both tolls were provisional, he added.
Mualushay said the attack during the Sunday service in the city of Kasindi, on the border with Uganda, was likely carried out by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan gang that has pledged allegiance to ISIS (ISIS).
Later on Sunday, the ISIS group claimed responsbility for the attack. The ADF, which began as an uprising in Uganda but has been based in the DRC since the late 1990s.
Survivors and witnesses said the blast severed some people’s limbs from their bodies.
[AlAhram] At least 14 people were killed in a church bombing in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo at the weekend, an army front man said Monday, raising an earlier toll of 10 dead.
On Sunday, a bomb destroyed an evangelical church in Kasindi, a town in North Kivu province on the border with Uganda.
The DRC government said the Allied Democratic Forces ...the ADF is one of several murderous Moslem groups in NE Congo. In 2019 the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on them for the usual reasons. They don't appear to be affiliated with al-Qaeda or Islamic State, though ISIS claims their work from time to time — they just like killing infidels.... (ADF), which the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group claims as its central African affiliate, was apparently to blame.
The Islamic State later grabbed credit for the attack, according to specialist monitoring group Site Intelligence.
Antony Mualushayi, a Congolese military front man, told news hounds on Monday that 14 people had died and 63 were maimed, raising an earlier reported toll of 10 dead and 39 maimed.
Uganda's military operation in the DRC said on Sunday evening that 16 had been killed and 20 maimed.
Mualushayi said a suspected jacket wallah was among the maimed and had been transferred to the nearby town of Beni for medical care.
"We pray to God that he lives so that he can give us the information we're looking for," he said.
A Kenyan national was arrested on Monday following the attack.
Mualushayi said that several more people had been arrested and that investigations, which are in their preliminary stages, are ongoing.
"According to the information at our disposal, there are still two bombs that are in the city and we are doing the best possible to detect them," he said.
The ADF is one of the deadliest of the more than 120 gangs in eastern DRC, many of them the legacy of regional wars that flared at the turn of the century in the vast impoverished nation.
It has been accused of slaughtering thousands of Congolese civilians and carrying out kabooms in Uganda. ADF operatives have also planted bombs in towns in North Kivu in the past.
Reads like victims were beaten with the pistol braces.
[FoxNews] Republican lawmakers and gun rights groups blasted the Biden administration over a new rule that tightens regulations on pistol stabilizing braces.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and Explosives (ATF) finalized a new regulation Friday that will treat guns with stabilizing accessories like short-barreled rifles, which require a federal license to own under the National Firearms Act.
The move is part of a comprehensive gun crime strategy President Biden announced in April 2021, in response to the massacre at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, where a gunman using a stabilizing brace killed 10 people. A stabilizing brace was also used in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio, that left nine people dead in 2019.
Announcing the rule, Attorney General Merrick Garland said that stabilizing brace accessories, which were designed to help disabled combat veterans enjoy recreational shooting, transform pistols into short-barreled rifles.
"Keeping our communities safe from gun violence is among the Department’s highest priorities," Garland said. "Almost a century ago, Congress determined that short-barreled rifles must be subject to heightened requirements. Today’s rule makes clear that firearm manufacturers, dealers, and individuals cannot evade these important public safety protections simply by adding accessories to pistols that transform them into short-barreled rifles."
"Certain so-called stabilizing braces are designed to just attach to pistols, essentially converting them into short-barreled rifles to be fired from the shoulder," said ATF Director Steven Dettelbach. "Therefore, they must be treated in the same way under the statute."
Second Amendment advocates were apoplectic over new requirements for gun owners to register existing pistols equipped with stabilizing braces with the government within 120 days, or else remove the brace or surrender the firearm to ATF.
"The Biden administration chose to shred the Constitution today," the National Rifle Association said.
"Joe Biden is an enemy of our Second Amendment," the group added.
Gun Owners of America, which bills itself as the only "no-compromise" gun lobby in Washington, D.C., vowed to file a lawsuit challenging Biden's new ATF regulation.
"This admin continues to find ways to attack gun owners. We will continue to work with our industry partners to amplify the disapproving voices in the firearms industry and [Gun Owners Foundation], our sister legal arm, will be filing suit in the near future," said Erich Pratt, senior vice president of Gun Owners of America.
"Pres. Biden just initiated the largest federal gun registration scheme in our nation’s history w/o even the passage of a new law. GOA is actively working with Congress to pass a resolution blocking this rule under the Congressional Review Act," added the organization's director of federal affairs, Aidan Johnston.
Their cause was taken up by Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., who in June 2021 wrote a letter signed by 140 lawmakers expressing opposition to the proposed rule on stabilizing braces.
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I think the feds continue this barrage of unconstitutional stuff because the Supreme Court can’t take all the cases so some of the bad laws and regs stick for a period of time. The language of the Constitution is pretty close to absolute, although no reasonable person would demand the right of incarcerated people to have guns during their incarceration. The New York stuff where the state leadership ignores the Supreme Court seems uncommon to me since Martin Luther King was alive.
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Seems like to purpose of the pistol brace is to enhance gun control. DV says any gun control is unconstitutional but you'd think Democrats would like it.
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Re #6. It beautifully encapsulates the folly of the liberal thought process - short-barreled rifles are not regulated because they are more dangerous but because the regulation already exists due to some past dumb, arbitrary choice that, because it is now written in law, becomes sacred to the left.
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The major opposition parties in #Turkiye established a coalition, but with less than four months till election day, they haven't named a presidential candidate yet.https://t.co/e0Jv6Tdy83
[JustTheNews] Bureau of Prisons won't reveal reason for absence.
A notable former ISIS leader serving a life sentence in the U.S. is no longer listed as being in Bureau of Prisons custody, with the bureau itself refusing to reveal where the man is located.
Alexanda Kotey
...more fully Alexanda Amon Kotey, half-Ghanaian, half-Greek Cypriot, all former British citizen, Alex was known in the press as ‘Ringo’. He recruited at least 25 of his peers in the area west of London, and gleefully beheaded captives for ISIS in Syria. His confession makes his little group sound like a bunch of Big Turbans...
was sentenced to life in prison in April of last year in connection with the killing of multiple U.S. and British hostages.
Kotey—whose particular ISIS group was known as the "Beatles" due to the British accents shared by the men in it—is normally held at the Bureau of Prison's high-security USP Canaan facility in Pennsylvania. Yet the terrorist this week was found to be listed on the bureau's website as "Not in BOP custody" as of Thursday, with his release date as "unknown."
A BOP front man told Fox News that the bureau did not disclose specific reasons for prisoners being out of custody but that the explanation could include "court hearings, medical treatment or for other reasons."
Bethany Haines, the daughter of one of Kotey's victims British aid worker Scot David Haines, told the Scottish Daily Record that she "was assured by U.S. Justice sources that Kotey is still detained in the U.S.," according to Fox News.
A BOP front man confirmed that Kotey "is not currently in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons" but said there could be "several" explanations for his recent disappearance.
In a statement to Fox News Digital, Randilee Giamusso said, "Inmates who were previously in BOP custody and who have not completed their sentence may be outside BOP custody for a period of time for court hearings, medical treatment or for other reasons."
The federal prison system does not disclose specific details relating to an inmate due to safety, security or privacy issues, the front man added.
Some reports suggested the notorious ISIS member could also be assisting with investigations into another case, though Fox News Digital could not independently verify this.
"In the past he has been traceable, as we have access to data via the U.S. victim notification scheme, and we at least had the reassurance that he was in a high security facility," Bethany Haines, 24 added, noting his disappearance wasn’t fair to the families of the victims "left to wonder where he is."
I want to address the violence of Black Hos!
[FoxNews] The professor complains how science is discussed in a 'very violent and hyper-masculine' way'.
My high school’s honours physics teacher enthusiastically illustrated every single blessed problem the first quarter using MiGs shooting off missiles. I had to drop down to the regular physics class, where I was bored stiff by the pace, but at least understood what the teacher was trying to explain. I don’t think it was a male-female problem, though, just that he was a tad eccentric. The other girls in the class were fine.
A Colorado professor believes astrophysics is steeped in systemic racism and White supremacy.
Natalie Gosnell, a professor of physics at Colorado College, wants to take an unorthodox approach to teach physics by interpreting it through the lens of race.
"Both artists and scientists are just observing things about the world, making interpretations about those observations, and then sharing their interpretation," Gosnell told Colorado College News.
Yes, but one is doing art, and the other is doing science. They are very different ways of analyzing the universe. And while they can have things to teach each other, that teaching takes place at the end of the process, not in the middle. The lady is an idiot... and probably not a good scientist.
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She should demonstrate gravity off the top of the Science Building.
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Natalie Gosnell, a liberal, attention seeking White Female Professor.
Is also quoted as saying "We aim to cross typical disciplinary boundaries to create art-science pieces that re-inscribe outer space as feminist space.".
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How can there be a "what supremaciss" problem when all they talk about is dark matter and dark energy?
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My time at the Zoo offered many opportunities for hardship. One was dealing with the freaks at CC. My first encounter with them, I couldn’t help but notice the difference. In our uniformity we were individuals of every background working for a common goal. In their “individuality” they were all the same. White dreds and TYE die shirts with Birkenstock sandals.
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deGrasse Tyson is a pop culture huckster. I would not ask his opinion of why a magnet has two poles.
If you want to see him say some stupid, totally wrong stuff, watch any of the YouTube videos of his appearances on Joe Rogan's show.
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My observations of the fields do not match hers. Which is a polite way of saying she's lying. The quote in (3) may be found here; this is how she wants to be known.
I don't recognize her, but my circles and hers may have differed.
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OSINT group Molfar linked #Russia's 52nd Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment to #Dnipro🇺🇦apt. building attack. They say the regiment also flew the missile that struck the Kremenchuk shopping center in June. Investigators ID 44 crew commanders, pilots, technicians, staff. #WarCrimeshttps://t.co/GjgnY9eQuX
Feds turn reservist spy?
[FoxNews] Baimadajie Angwang was accused of gathering intelligence on the Tibetan immigrant community to report back to the Chinese consulate in NYC.
Brooklyn federal prosecutors reportedly dropped their case against an NYPD officer previously indicted for allegedly spying on behalf of the Chinese government.
In 2020, Baimadajie Angwang, a New York City Police Department officer and Army reservist granted secret-level security clearance by the Department of Defense, was described as the "definition of an insider threat" by FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office William F. Sweeney.
He was arrested in September of that year after initially joining the country’s largest police department in 2014.
But by Friday, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Breon Peace’s Office filed vague documents saying their further investigation "obtained additional information bearing on the charges," N.Y. Daily News reported.
Without providing more specifics to their reasoning, prosecutors asked Judge Eric R. Komitee to dismiss the indictment, the New York Post also reported.
Angwang, who initially overstayed his visa and was later granted asylum in the United States by claiming he had been tortured by the Chinese government partly due to his Tibetan ethnicity, was accused of using his position as a community liaison officer in the 11th precinct in Queens as a means to spy on Tibetan immigrants and provide the People’s Republic of China (PRC) with access to senior NYPD officials through invitations to serious events.
In fact, federal prosecutors had said Angwang failed to disclose that both his mother and father were Chinese Community Party members. His brother and father both worked for China’s principal military force, the People’s Liberation Army (PLC). All three of them live in China, according to court documents.
Federal prosecutors had wanted a jury to hear wiretapped conversations between Angwang and his Chinese handler at the PRC Consulate in New York City.
In one such talk, Angwang, a naturalized U.S. citizen, allegedly said he wanted to get promoted within the NYPD to "bring glory to China." In another call, he told his handler that superiors in Beijing "should be happy … because you have stretched your reach into the police," according to the criminal complaint.
Angwang’s attorney John F. Carman alleged to the Post that federal prosecutors now are hiding behind the Classified Information Procedures Act to dodge explaining why the indictment was dropped "in an effort to give the impression that this was a legitimate prosecution, which it was not."
"Mr. Angwang is a great American who served his country in combat in Afghanistan and our government repaid him by treating him like he was the leader of the Taliban," Carman said.
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:23 Air defense and the Black Sea Fleet shot down 10 Ukrainian drones, the governor of Sevastopol said. 22:32 Peskov about the collapse of a residential building in Dnepropetrovsk: the Russian military does not strike at residential buildings and the social infrastructure of Ukraine. He also drew attention to the fact that some representatives of Kyiv have already called the air defense work the cause of the tragedy.
21:43 Report about explosions in the Kharkov region.
20:54 An air raid alert was announced on Monday in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine and the Kyiv-controlled part of the Zaporozhye region, testify to data online maps of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation.
19:25 Umbrella Salt completely released subdivisions of PMC "Wagner".
This is an important transport hub, control over which eliminates the possibility of direct communication between Bakhmut and Seversk, two major defense hubs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In addition, the liberation of Salt will have a positive effect on the current ongoing offensive towards the northern outskirts of Bakhmut.
Reports about the capture of Kleshchievka (Kleshcheevka) have so far turned out to be premature. PMC "Wagner" is engaged in heavy fighting for this settlement with the support of its own aviation and artillery.
19:17 Seven more defenders of the DPR, released from Ukrainian captivity, returned to the Republic.
This was announced by the Commissioner for Human Rights in the DPR Daria Morozova.
18:27 Soldiers of PMC "Wagner" took under control Kleshcheevka near Artemovsk, military correspondents report.
Previously, Wagner PMC attack aircraft knocked out the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Kleshcheevka in the south of Artemovsk, WarGonzo military correspondents reported.
Probably, now the RF Armed Forces have opened the way to enter Artemovsk, exit to Ivanovsky, as well as fire control over the Artemovsk-Konstantinovka highway.
16:37 Reconnaissance and attack helicopter Ka-52 "Alligator" in the sky over the Donbass -video
16:36 Destroyed Ukrainian armored car "Kozak" in the Bakhmut (Artyomovsk) direction -video
16:25 The result of hitting the Vushnikov car, which was hidden in the garage of civilians -video
Probably, the Ukrainian soldiers themselves arranged for themselves a position inside a civilian house
16:21 DPR special forces scouts destroyed the enemy crew SPG-9 -video
Scouts of the 3rd Guards Special Purpose Battalion, during reconnaissance, using a thermal imager, discovered a crew of an SPG-9 (“boot”) recoilless rifle, which was shelling our positions and a camouflaged enemy car. The identified group target was destroyed with the help of ATGMs.
15:41 Over Sevastopol shot down in a day ten Ukrainian drones, Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev said.
According to him, all of them were shot down over the sea; as a result, no one was injured, including objects in the city and the Black Sea that were not damaged.
15:20 The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized terrorist organization of the international neo-Nazi movement MKU (“Maniacs. The cult of murders”) and banned its activities on the territory of the Russian Federation.
The organization was founded in 2017 by a citizen of Ukraine Yegor Krasnov, who is currently wanted on suspicion of murder. The stated goal of the movement's participants is "racial cleansing". They also practice their own "Religion of Murder", according to which death is ascended by a god-like entity that drives the supporters of the organization with a thirst for murder, thereby performing racial cleansing.
15:10 In the capable hands of the medical special forces: in the special operation zone, the military doctors of the medical battalion of the Western Military District continue to provide medical assistance to servicemen and injured civilians -video
Soldiers and civilians who cannot be provided medical assistance on the spot are evacuated to military doctors by helicopters and vehicles.
The main goal of operations performed by doctors is to stop bleeding, remove fragments and create all conditions for wound healing. Only after that the patient is subject to further evacuation.
Military doctors are able to save the life of the victim, even with hopeless wounds.
14:50 Army and Navy reflected massive attack on Sevastopol.
Governor Razvozhaev: “The result of today's enemy attack on Sevastopol: the air defense and the Black Sea Fleet shot down 10 out of 10 UAVs over the sea.
No objects either in the city or in the water area were damaged. Everything is calm in the city.”
14:18 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine (16.01.2023)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.
In the Kupyansk direction, the army aviation and artillery of the Western Military District defeated units of the 92nd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 103rd Territorial Defense Brigade in the areas of the settlements of Sinkovka and Berestovoe in the Kharkiv region. More than 30 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles and three vehicles were destroyed.
In the Krasno-Limansky direction, artillery units of the Central Military District, during the fire destruction of accumulations of manpower of the 95th Air Assault Brigade and the 125th Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Serebryanka and Terny settlements of the Donetsk People's Republic, destroyed over 75 Ukrainian servicemen, three tanks, five armored fighting vehicles and a pickup truck.
In the Donetsk direction, units of the Southern Military District, in cooperation with units of the Airborne Forces, continue offensive operations. During the day, more than 50 Ukrainian servicemen, an armored personnel carrier and eight vehicles were destroyed in this direction.
In the South-Donetsk direction, units of the Eastern Military District inflicted a complex defeat on the 65th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement of Stepovoe, Zaporozhye region and the 108th Brigade of territorial defense in the area of the settlement of Novoselka of the Donetsk People's Republic. Up to 30 Ukrainian servicemen, an armored combat vehicle and two pickup trucks were destroyed.
Operational-tactical aviation, missile troops and artillery of groups of troops (forces) of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation hit a warehouse of weapons, military and special equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the settlement of Krasny Liman of the Donetsk People's Republic, a hangar with military equipment of the 9th Special Purpose Regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine in near the settlement of Malokaterinovka, Zaporozhye region, as well as 79 artillery units in firing positions, manpower and military equipment in the 101st district.
In the course of a counter-battery fight, the following were destroyed during the day:
Ukrainian combat vehicle 122mm MLRS "Grad" and howitzer 152mm 2A36 "Hyacinth-B" near the village of Avdievka of the Donetsk People's Republic;
howitzer 122mm D-30 near the village of Antonovka, Donetsk People's Republic;
152mm howitzer 2A65 "Msta-B" and self-propelled howitzer 152mm 2S3 "Acacia" in the areas of the settlements of Zaliznichnoe and Orekhovo, Zaporozhye region;
Self-propelled howitzer 122mm 2S1 "Gvozdika" near the village of Inzhenernoe, Kherson region.
In addition, two US-made counter-battery radars were destroyed: AN/TPQ-37 in the area of the village of Karmazinovka in the Luhansk People's Republic and AN/TPQ-50 in the area of the village of Avdiivka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
During the day, three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by means of air defense in the areas of the settlements of Novoselovskoe and Sofiyivka of the Luhansk People's Republic.
Seven HIMARS and Uragan multiple rocket launchers were also intercepted in the areas of the settlements of Surovtsevka in the Luhansk People's Republic, Fedorovka in the Donetsk People's Republic and Vasilyevka in the Zaporozhye Region.
In total, since the start of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 372 aircraft, 200 helicopters, 2,885 unmanned aerial vehicles, 401 anti-aircraft missile systems, 7,537 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 983 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 3,841 field artillery and mortars, as well as 8,066 units of special military vehicles.
14:10 Combat work of the army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces to destroy firing points and positions of ukrofashists in the area of the special operation -video
13:32Ukrainian truck destroyed by precise hit by Russian artillery -video
13:30 Army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the area of the special operation -video
13:28 Heavy fleet snipers destroy enemy militants and equipment at long distances in the DPR —video
An experienced shooter with precision weapons is an important tactical unit on the battlefield. A group of fighters with large-caliber rifles strikes enemy infantry and lightly armored vehicles at distances up to two km.
An officer of the heavy sniper group of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy with the call sign “Yary”, who destroyed more than 100 fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, spoke about his combat work on one of the sectors of the front in the DPR.
12:51KA-52 gunship "Alligators" "Brave" destroy equipment and manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video
Attack helicopters Ka-52 regularly cover the fortified positions of Ukrainian militants and hit their equipment and manpower. Our helicopter pilots approach at extremely low altitudes and launch missiles from a pitch-up, which makes it possible to hit the enemy from a long distance without entering his air defense zone. The onboard complex of the helicopter allows you to conduct accurate shooting in this way.
12:49 Legendary "ghosts" of Mozgovoy destroy the fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video
Artillerymen of the 2nd Army Corps of the LPR from 14 armored personnel carriers, founded by our fallen comrade Alexei Mozgov, are destroying enemy positions in the battles in the Donbass.
12:47 Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev announced seven downed drones.
12:45 Tank T-90 "Breakthrough" is working on the enemy. Adjustment is carried out using a drone -video
12:03 Over the sea in Sevastopolshot down3 UAVs - Governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev
11:53 In Sevastopol again air defense works.
09:35 In the Dnipropetrovsk region, the distribution of summons for conscription for military service continues -video
Summons are handed to Ukrainians anywhere - in public transport or just on the street.
09:15 RF Armed Forces are working on Ukrainian positions in a constant mode, not letting them raise their heads -video
08:34 Plans were thwarted: tankers of the Southern Military District destroy objects and positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - video
The tank crews of the Southern Military District once again frustrated the enemy's plans to attack the fixed positions of the Russian troops.
The servicemen of the tank unit destroy the enemy with direct fire and using a modern fire control system.
“We are fulfilling the tasks of destroying the Ukrainian militants of the National Battalion… The mood of the enemy is generally deplorable, they are slowly starting to give up. The day before yesterday, five people came themselves - they crawled. Crawled first. We thought that they were going on the offensive, but it turns out they just raised their hands up and went to surrender to ours, ”explained a serviceman of the Russian Armed Forces with the call sign “Businessman”.
Tensions are rising between Hamza Division, a Turkish-backed militia, and an allied group in #Syria's #Afrin over a crucial smuggling route. https://t.co/OnSQb7sy6g
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The main private sponsor of this office is the notorious US citizen Bill Gates, he pours just an unmeasured amount of dollars into it.
[RIA] Sometimes it seems that the modern information agenda is specially tailored so that what is really important does not fall into it. For example, while we were celebrating the old New Year in Geneva, the sixth meeting of the committee to review the health regulations of the World Health Organization was going on quietly and imperceptibly.
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The WHO was an effective part of the world wide effort to eliminate smallpox and polio (the latter is not yet eradicated but that is not the fault of WHO).
Like a lot of other organizations, foundations, etc., it has been captured
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I have 2 good friends who are still terrified of covid so much they will not leave their house without masks. He said, "We are not taking any chances". It's sad.
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/\ Keep an eye on those two friends DB and report back to us on their status....if we're still living.
"Progressivism"
[FoxNews] Progressive effort to enforce top-down social reform expanded federal law enforcement and criminal activity.
The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a progressive effort to enforce social reform via expanded federal power and popularly known as Prohibition, was ratified on this day in history, Jan. 16, 1919.
"The manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all the territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited," the amendment states.
Prohibition remains unique among the 27 amendments in three ways.
It is the only amendment that limited the rights of U.S citizens rather than restrict the powers of government, as was originally intended by the Bill of Rights.
It quickly proved hugely unpopular despite initial overwhelming support by state assemblies.
And it proved so bad that it was overturned by the 21st Amendment in 1933.
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Quoting Google .....
The Senate vote was 65 to 20, with the Democrats voting 36 in favor and 12 in opposition and the Republicans voting 29 in favor and 8 in opposition.
The House of Representatives then passed a revised resolution on December 17, 1917.
By 1922, 46 states had ratified the amendment. With only 2 states rejecting the amendment: Connecticut & Rhode Island.
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Number of deaths in America's wars since the repeal of Prohibition vs the number of deaths due just to DUI* since the repeal of Prohibition. Guess which is highest.
* not including the classical - "here hold my beer while I do this"
Unknown attackers targeted on Monday a military vehicle of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS, formerly al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front) with an IED. The attack, which took place in the HTS-controlled Idlib, northwestern Syria, killed two Death Eaters and injured another.
A media source close to HTS said that the vehicle went kaboom! on the road to the city of Jisr al-Shughur, west of Idlib.
The injured bully boy was transported to the hospital of Jisr al-Shughur.
On January 7, an HTS bully boy was killed and another was injured when unknown button men attacked them west of Idlib region.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Russia has warned that any Challenger 2 tanks that Britannia sends to Ukraine to help the war effort "will burn".
British prime minister Rishi Sunak confirmed the UK will provide Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine during a call with Volodymyr Zelensky over the weekend.
Responding on Monday, Kremlin front man Dmitry Peskov said new arms supplies from countries like Britannia and Poland would not change the situation on the ground.
"They are using this country as a tool to achieve their anti-Russian goals," he added. "These tanks are burning and will burn just like the rest."
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, another bullet hole appeared in Butch's hat...... Russia and Belarus began joint air force drills today, which have triggered fears that Moscow could use its ally to launch a new ground offensive in Ukraine.
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I'd heard UK could get Challengers to Ukraine, but not post to France.
Their line was something like, we aren't sending many, but maybe what we send will spur others on.
Guess its like Call of Duty, just run up next to the vehicle, press 'E', and bang pop know the ins and outs of operating a top tier armor platform vs. modern battlefield theory.
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He was placed in charge of a Wagner division in Ukraine, where the mercenary group supplied him with around 30-40 troops every week, Mr Osechkin said.
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