[IsraelTimes] US imaging capacities played secondary but crucial role in recent rescue op, say officials, with Israel’s lackluster data underscoring its pre-Oct. 7 human intel failure
The United States made plans early in the war for a potential operation to rescue eight American-Israeli hostages held by Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... in Gazoo
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Israel has gradually increased its cache of human intelligence as the war goes on, including by interrogating detained Hamas operatives and scouring documents and digital files discovered during ongoing operations in the Strip.
Intelligence gleaned from such sources was used in Saturday’s hostage rescue operation, as well as in previous operations to recover bodies of hostages, the Post reported.
A process commonly referred to as 'All-Source Fusion' which can include:
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"We were totally gonna do it...but then we didn't"
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The guys in Operations make plans for every unlikely possibility.
The last thing you want is the Boss to say "What can we do?" and your answer is "I dunno".
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Staff Operations Officers can spend a lifetime anchored to "what-if" and update drills on a War Plan or capabilities assessment.
[IsraelTimes] Missiles launched by terror group hit Mount Meron air traffic control base but IDF says ‘no harm to the unit’s capabilities’; Israeli strike targets terror operative in Lebanon
Two missiles launched from Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... on Saturday struck the Israeli military’s sensitive Mount Meron air traffic control base, amid growing international concern the cross-border fighting between Israel and Hezbollah could descend into a full-scale conflict.
The Israel Defense Forces said there were no injuries and "no harm to the unit’s capabilities" in the attack.
Hezbollah took responsibility for the incident, claiming to have targeted equipment at the base with guided missiles.
The terror group has attacked Mount Meron, located some eight kilometers (five miles) from the Lebanon border, several times throughout the ongoing war. It has launched large barrages of rockets at the mountain, as well as guided missiles at the air traffic control base that sits atop it.
In another attack on Saturday, several explosive-laden drones launched by Hezbollah from Lebanon impacted near the northern community of Goren, sparking a fire. The IDF said it was investigating why it failed to down the drones.
Hezbollah in a statement claimed to have targeted a military base in the area. Like the missile attack on Mount Meron, the Iran-backed terror organization said the strike was carried out in response to Israel’s targeting this week of Taleb Sami Abdullah, the most senior Hezbollah commander killed so far in the fighting.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Big Shirley was still trying to snatch Nunzio bald-headed. She was already halfway there... the IDF confirmed carrying out a strike against a Hezbollah operative in southern Lebanon’s Aitaroun on Saturday morning. Video released by the military showed the strike against the operative riding a cycle of violence.
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... later announced the death of a member in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon, though it was unclear if it was the same attack. He was named as Zuhair Jalbout, 45. No further details were given on the circumstances of his death.
On Saturday night, the IDF said fighter jets struck a Hezbollah weapons depot in southern Lebanon’s Aitaroun. The IDF said jets hit several more Hezbollah targets in the town, including a building used by the terror group. Additional Hezbollah infrastructure was struck in Chihine, and another building used by the terror group was hit in Ayta ash-Shab, the military added.
In a strike on Friday night, the IDF said fighter jets targeted a building in southern Lebanon’s Kafr Kila that was allegedly used by Hezbollah and was adjacent to an area from which the terror group fired rockets at Metula on Friday.
The latest skirmishes came as CBS News reported that US officials are increasingly concerned that an all-out war could break out between Israel and Hezbollah due to increasingly deeper attacks by the two sides. Some US officials told the American network they believe recent Israeli strikes deeper in Lebanese territory were setting the stage for a broader operation, which they expressed concern would spark a war that Israel cannot complete without Washington’s support. Other US officials quoted in the report said they were worried by a scenario in which intensifying Hezbollah rocket attacks could result in "unintended consequences" that give Israel cause to launch a major offensive.
On Saturday, two senior United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... officials said they were "deeply concerned" about the escalation on the border. "The danger of miscalculation leading to a sudden and wider conflict is very real," said UN special coordinator for Lebanon Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, and head of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), Aroldo Lazaro. In a joint statement, they urged "all actors to cease their fire and commit to working toward a political and diplomatic solution".
In light of the US concerns, the Axios news site reported Friday that Amos Hochstein, a senior adviser to US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... , will arrive in Israel on Monday to try to put a lid on the escalation.
As part of the diplomatic efforts to defuse the tensions, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that Gay Paree, Washington and Jerusalem would form a contract group to work on doing so, though Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Friday ruled out Israeli involvement in comments that prompted a public spat with the Foreign Ministry.
Hezbollah has been attacking Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis since October 8, which it says it’s doing in solidarity with Paleostinians in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , amid the war started by ally Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... ’s terror onslaught.
So far, the skirmishes on the border have resulted in 10 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 15 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Hezbollah has named 342 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 63 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed.
[IsraelTimes] Fans from Scotland, Ukraine, Germany, Israel tour concentration camp as part of German ’Football and Remembrance’ program, learn about persecution of Jewish players, coaches there.
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Dachau, outside of Munich, was a concentration camp not an extermination camp. Mostly held Roman Catholics from the Bavarian region. In the museum, they display documentation that clearly shows it was a Waffen SS operation.
[IsraelTimes] 250,000 people turn out to demonstrate amid fears the vote will produce France’s first far-right government since World War II
Anti-racism groups joined French unions and a brand-new left-wing coalition in protests in Gay Paree and across La Belle France on Saturday against the surging nationalist far right, as frenzied campaigning is underway ahead of snap parliamentary elections.
The French Interior Ministry said 250,000 people turned out to protest, 75,000 of them in Gay Paree. Despite rainy and windy weather, those who fear that the elections will produce La Belle France’s first far-right government since World War II gathered at Place de la Republique before marching through eastern Gay Paree. Up to 21,000 police and gendarmes were deployed.
The protesters held placards reading "Liberty for all, Equality for all and Fraternity with all" — a reference to La Belle France’s national motto — and "Let’s break frontiers, documents for all, no to the immigration bill."
Some chanted "Free Paleostine, viva Paleostina," and wore keffiyeh scarves. Among them was Nour Cekar, a 16-year-old high school student from the Gay Paree region, who has French and Algerian parents and wears the hijab.
"To me, the extreme right is a danger because it supports an ideology based on the fear of the other, whereas we are all French citizens despite our differences," she told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
Cekar said she will vote for the left-wing coalition because "it is the only political party that addresses racism and Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... ."
Police in Gay Paree reported "numerous attempts at damage" by protesters. They said that nine protesters were arrested and three officers were maimed. An AP journalist said police used tear gas against demonstrators who tried to vandalize a bus stop and advertising boards.
In the French Riviera city of Nice, protesters marched down Jean Médecin Avenue, the city’s main shopping street, chanting against the National Rally, its leader Jordan Bardella as well as against President Emmanuel Macron. Local police said 2,500 people took part.
Nice is traditionally a conservative stronghold, but has over the past decade turned firmly in favor of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally and her far-right rival Eric Zemmour.
Crowds have been gathering daily ever since the anti-immigration National Rally made historic gains in the European Parliament elections on Sunday, crushing Macron’s pro-business moderates and prompting him to dissolve the National Assembly.
New elections for the lower house of parliament were set in two rounds, for June 30 and July 7. Macron remains president until 2027 and in charge of foreign policy and defense, but his presidency would be weakened if the National Rally wins and takes power of the government and domestic policy.
To prevent the National Rally party from winning the upcoming elections, left-wing parties finally agreed Friday to set aside differences over the wars in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... and Ukraine and form a coalition. They urged French citizens to defeat the far right.
French opinion polls suggest the National Rally — whose founder has been repeatedly convicted of racism and antisemitism — is expected to be ahead in the first round of the parliamentary elections. The party came out on top in the European elections, garnering more than 30% of the vote cast in La Belle France, almost twice as many votes as Macron’s party Renaissance.
Macron’s term is still on for three more years, and he would retain control over foreign affairs and defense regardless of the result of the French parliamentary elections.
But his presidency would be weakened if the National Rally wins, which could put its 28-year-old party leader Bardella on track to become the next prime minister, with authority over domestic and economic affairs.
[IsraelTimes] Initial probe finds armored combat engineering vehicle attacked after night of fighting; soldier wounded earlier in the week succumbs to wounds, raising ground op toll to 309
Eight Israeli soldiers were killed in a blast in southern the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip’s Rafah on Saturday morning, the military announced, in what marked the deadliest incident for the Israel Defense Forces in the enclave since January.
Six of the soldiers were named as of Sunday morning:
Cpt. Wassem Mahmoud, 23, from Beit Jann.
Sgt. Eliyahu Moshe Zimbalist, 21, from Beit Shemesh
Sgt. Itay Amar, 19, from Kochav Yair
Sgt. Stanislav Kostarev, 21, from Ashdod
Sgt. Or Blumovitz, 20, from Pardes Hanna-Karkur
Sgt. Oz Yeshaya Gruber, 20, from Tal Menashe
The troops all served in the Combat Engineering Corps’ 601st Battalion. Mahmoud was a deputy company commander.
The families of the other two slain soldiers were notified, and their names were due to be released later, the military said.
According to an initial IDF probe, the troops were all killed inside a Namer armored combat engineering vehicle (CEV). There were no survivors.
The soldiers had been driving in a convoy at around 5 a.m. on Saturday following an overnight offensive against Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... in the northwestern areas of Rafah’s Tel Sultan neighborhood, during which troops under the 401st Armored Brigade killed some 50 button men, according to the IDF.
The convoy was heading to buildings captured by the army, for the troops to rest following the overnight operation.
The Namer CEV was the fifth or sixth vehicle in the convoy, and at some point, it was hit by a major explosion.
It was not immediately clear if it was a bomb planted ahead of time or if Hamas operatives had approached the vehicle with an bomb and directly placed it on the CEV, the probe found.
Later Saturday, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said the military was also investigating the possibility that the CEV was hit by an anti-tank missile.
The military was also investigating the possibility that explosives stored on the outside of the CEV contributed to the massive blast. Normally, the mines and other explosives stored on the outside of a CEV would not manage to cause injuries to troops inside if they detonated.
There was no gunfire amid the incident, and the vehicle was not at a standstill when the blast occurred, the probe found. The disabled CEV was later towed to a safe location in the Strip.
"Following this difficult incident, a team of experts of the Defense Ministry and IDF will examine the armored vehicle and all the details of the incident, until we reach findings," Hagari said in a presser.
Separately on Saturday, an IDF soldier seriously maimed earlier in the week in Rafah succumbed to his wounds, the military announced.
He was named as Sgt. Yair Roitman, 19, of the Givati Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, from Karnei Shomron.
Roitman was maimed in a blast in a booby-trapped building on June 10, in an incident that killed four other soldiers and maimed six others, including four seriously.
The incidents brought the toll of slain troops in the ground offensive against Hamas and amid operations along the Gaza border to 309. The toll includes a police officer killed in a hostage rescue mission. A civilian Defense Ministry contractor has also been killed in the Strip.
The deadliest incident for the IDF in Gaza occurred in January, during which 21 soldiers were killed in a blast following Hamas RPG fire that collapsed two buildings.
Elsewhere in Rafah, the IDF said Saturday that troops of the Commando Brigade raided sites belonging to terror groups, killed several button men and located weapons above and below ground.
Additionally, the military said a rocket was launched from the Gaza Strip, striking an open field in the Eshkol Regional Council, and causing no injuries.
Hamas and 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... claimed to have launched a barrage of rockets at a military base near the community of Sufa. Sirens had sounded in Sufa and the adjacent towns of Sdei Avraham, Holit, Pri Gan, and Talmei Yosef.
On Friday night, Hamas snuffies launched five rockets at southern Israel. According to the military, the barrage was launched from the Israeli-designated "humanitarian zone" in the Strip. Two of the rockets crossed the border, impacting open areas near Kibbutz Kissufim. The other three fell short in the Strip, the IDF said. Hamas claimed to have targeted a military base in the area.
In a statement, the IDF said Hamas’s use of the humanitarian zone to launch rockets at Israel is "a further example of the cynical exploitation of humanitarian infrastructure and the civilian population as human shields by terror organizations in the Gaza Strip for their terrorist attacks."
Also Friday night, two rockets more were launched from the Gaza Strip toward the Sderot area, setting off sirens in the Nir Am shooting range. According to the IDF, both rockets struck open areas, causing no injuries or damage. The Islamic Jihad grabbed credit for the attack.
[IsraelTimes] 12 arrested in Tel Aviv as tens of thousands rally to urge a deal with Hamas, demand elections, decry Haredi draft exemptions, and fume at attacks on the north
Police arrested 12 demonstrators in Tel Aviv on Saturday night at the tail end of hours of protests in support of a hostage deal and against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition’s policies. Tens of thousands demonstrated in Tel Aviv, and numerous protests were held around the country, with some speakers declaring that complete victory over Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... is impossible and therefore the war should be ended to secure the hostages’ release.
Idiots at best, bought and paid for traitors profiting from their Bibi-hate at worst.
The weekly protests took place against the backdrop of deadlocked negotiations on a hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas, hours after eight IDF troops were killed fighting in southern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ’s Rafah, and amid government moves toward passing a bill that aims to maintain the broad exemption of Haredi men from military service. Some protesters on Tel Aviv’s Kaplan Street also burned tents to highlight what they saw as government inaction in the face of relentless Hezbollah attacks on northern Israel, while a representative of the hostage families — at a rally held by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum a few blocks away — asserted that Israel will never be able to fully win the war against Hamas.
The protesters on Kaplan Street skirmished with police soon after setting the fires, and there were also skirmishes when demonstrators sought to block the city’s main Ayalon Highway. Police said they arrested 12 people for alleged violations of public order, including blocking roads and demonstrating beyond the permitted time period.
Police were filmed arresting a photographer for the Haaretz daily, Itay Ron, despite passersby telling the officers that he is a journalist. According to Hebrew media reports, he was released an hour later.
Why should journalists be above the law when they misbehave?
Labor MKs Gilad Kariv and Na’ama Lazimi were present at the scene of one arrest, where they were met with jeers from right-wing demonstrators.
National Unity MK Benny Gantz also attended a demonstration, his first since withdrawing his National Unity party from the government last Sunday, at Sha’ar Hanegev near Gaza, calling for the return of the hostages.
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid addressed the anti-government demonstrators on Kaplan, deriding the recent Knesset decision to revive a bill that, if passed, would lower the age of exemption from mandatory service for yeshiva students from 26 to 21.
RESCUED HOSTAGE PLEADS: ’MAKE A DEAL’
In Hostages Square, a few blocks away from the Kaplan protest, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum took an unusually critical position towards the Israel-Hamas war, as one of the spokespeople emceeing its weekly rally told the crowd that Israel will never achieve Netanyahu’s promised total victory against Hamas.
"We all know the heavy losses that the Americans had in Vietnam and even the Germans did not snuff out the partisans," Rami Beja told the thousands who gathered in Hostages Square. "Hamas are like cockroaches: spray pesticides on them and they will keep returning. We need to strike them, but don’t tell me we can win. You can’t win here entirely."
In a recorded message, rescue hostage Andrey Kozlov said he and the other three hostages rescued by Israeli troops from Hamas on June 8 saw images from weekly rallies for their return while in captivity.
"Nearly every Saturday night they showed us rallies from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. I didn’t count how many people were there but we saw many," Kozlov said. "I remember how Almog [Meir Jan] saw his picture for the first time [on a poster at the rally] and it was like a breath of fresh air for him. You put in so much effort and time into getting us back home and it gave me hope. You are heroes."
He called on the government to "make a deal" with Hamas, which is demanding a permanent ceasefire, among other demands, as a prerequisite for returning the 120 hostages still held in Gaza, many of whom are not alive.
Earlier on Saturday evening, a number of hostage families demanding an end to the war as part of a hostage deal addressed the media at their routine spot near the Begin Gate of the IDF’s Kirya Headquarters, voicing similar sentiments.
By contrast on Saturday evening, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for a continuation of the fighting in Gaza after the eight soldiers were killed in Rafah, stating that "we are in a war for our existence."
JOINT PROTESTS IN JERUSALEM
In Jerusalem, in light of the late ending of the Sabbath, the Jerusalem branch of the Hostages and Missing Families Forum split the stage with the anti-government protest group "Safeguarding our Shared Home," resulting in one large, unified protest in Gay Paree Square, calling for both a hostage deal and the toppling of Netanyahu’s government.
Tom Barkai, an organizer with the Jerusalem Hostages and Missing Families Forum, accused Netanyahu of torpedoing a prospective hostage deal.
Saw on the TV news Saturday night. [Dallas Morning News/CBS channel KTVT] Fathers Are Essential
Inspired by an event held by the Dallas-based Daddy Stroller Social Club (DSSC), a group for fathers and "safe space" for people of color, Brandon Shaw wrote an 83-page typed letter to his father. Shaw sent the letter he wrote to his father for Father’s Day. He just hopes his father reads it. Others are welcome, read on.
The club, which Bridgewater said has usually hosted events with 30 or so dads since its inception in 2021, "blew up" in April 2024 after two Instagram videos went viral. The following meet-up in May drew over 150 dads with their children. Bridgewater, who comes from a family of farmers, drove to West Texas and sold three cows from the 30-acre cattle farm he owns with his dad to buy pizza and drinks for 300 people.
Brandon Cooper, who’s been part of the group for two years, attended the most recent event in June at the [very upscale] Legacy West shopping center in Plano. "Last time I came with my daughter, it was only a handful of us. Now we can barely walk down the street," he said.
At 10 a.m. that day, 75 dads showed with kids in tow, some walking or riding their scooters alongside the group. Most though, per the group name, were in a stroller.
The Daddy Stroller Social Club garners big smiles from passersby who quickly whip out their phones to capture dozens of fathers walking by, mostly in twos with their children in different types of carriages.
Toney has a 1-year-old daughter named Naiomi, and said becoming "a girl dad changed my whole little world." He’s become more patient and understanding, he said.
"Guys are used to sizing each other up," Toney said. In this group, though, that’s not how it goes. He regularly checks in with the group chat to ask how they’re feeling, and if anyone needs anything. Toney’s found himself telling people things he’s never told anybody before.
White dads will DM Bridgewater asking to join, prefacing that they "don’t want to step on any toes," Bridgewater said. Bridgewater says come aboard. "It’s a safe space for people of color, but it’s [also] for fatherhood. We’re all going through these things," he said.
A dad in the group who’s white has a kid who’s half-Black. Bridgewater recalled he said, "It’s important for my son to see me step up and do things for his mother, but with him being biracial, I want him to see [dads] of color doing the same thing." Toney added that he hopes the group will also reach teenage dads, who may not have been prepared for children.
DSSC promotes vulnerability and community, judgment-free companionship among fathers. There are lots of moms groups, said Bridgewater, who found that support for fathers was lacking. The yearn for community is global. People across the United States and from countries like the U.K., South Africa and Uganda have reached out to Bridgewater asking to start club chapters in their cities. Dads, Bridgewater said, have "seen this love," and want to express it, too. Happy Father's Day, Dads!
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[Declassified with Julie Kelly] The Netflix documentary "American Nightmare" sheds light on the destructive combination of corrupt law enforcement and unaccountable news media. J6ers have their own horrifying stories to tell.
This is part two of a guest post written by January 6 defendant Larry Brock, who was recently released from federal prison on nonviolent charges related to his participation in the Capitol protest. (Part one is here.)
Brock is a retired Lieutenant Colonel for the Air Force; he graduated from the Air Force Academy and went on to pilot the A-10 for more than 20 years in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria.
As more J6ers are released from jail, I plan to use my platform to help share their stories with you and the public so the American people can begin to understand the cruelty, vengefulness, and inhumanity of the legal/judicial/penal system weaponized against them and how the media only exacerbates the torment.
[The Free Press] Happy Father’s Day in the United States! I thought that, to celebrate, I would do the obvious thing and highlight a speech by the feminist Camille Paglia.
One of the strangest things that has happened in my lifetime is the emergence of the man as a pathetic figure, or a figure of fun. For the last fifteen years or so, you could see it in every walk of life—nowhere more so than in advertising.
There are two things you can always predict with 100 percent certainty if a family, any family, is featured in an advertisement. The first is that the family will be biracial. The second is that the man (especially if he is white) will be portrayed as an incompetent or a loser. If the problem is wrestling with the remote control, the children and wife will patiently have to show poor old dad how to work the darn thing. It is a small but significant example of a wider trend, because this is a time in which male role models have been stripped away from the culture.
We may have the culture of the "strong woman," which I referred to in my Mother’s Day column. But "strong man" is a phrase now used to denote fear and even loathing.
College dropout rates and levels of suicide among young men are just some of the many data points that underscore how males in Western society have become demoralized. "Macho" traits such as strength and competitiveness are now categorized as "toxic masculinity" rather than accepted as a natural part of humanity that have helped to build our successful economy and society.
Can some men be toxic? Yes. Obviously.
Can some women? Yes. Obviously.
So, why does the culture obsess over the ways in which men can be toxic and effectively ignore tarring all women with the equivalent brush?
The answer, I feel, is an apparent attempt to demoralize men. Just last month, officials in the Australian state of Victoria announced the creation of a new position in the government: secretary for Men’s Behavior Change.
"This is the first position of its kind in Australia and will focus largely on the influence the internet and social media have on boys’ and men’s attitudes towards women and building respectful relationships," the newly appointed secretary, Tim Richardson, a Labor Party member of parliament, tweeted.
If you think that "secretary for Men’s Behavior Change" has a strangely Orwellian ring to it, then you would be right: this is social engineering. This is the government deciding how the governed are to comport themselves. It is meant to change people, subtly and powerfully and permanently.
But again, note that nobody is suggesting the appointment of a "secretary for Women’s Behavior Change." Because, again, women are not seen as "the problem." Today, men are the problem, the bully, the butt of the joke.
Only an exceptionally brave woman could wade into this sea of male-bashing and help us rethink such institutionalized misandry. Enter: Camille Paglia, the iconoclastic literature scholar and culture critic who teaches at University of the Arts in Philadelphia and, in 2013, took part in a Munk Debate, in Toronto.
In addition to being an admirer of Paglia’s thinking and writing, I have always been a fan of her verbal skills. She is not the most soothing orator to listen to. Her style often sounds like someone machine-gunning a tin roof. But the sheer dexterity, speed, commitment, and energy of her delivery are something to behold.
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[ZERO] A 'reparations panel' for Alameda County, whose largest city is Oakland, has demanded $5 million to come up with a plan for reparations over racism, and say it will take them two years to do it.
According to NPR affiliate KQED, the 15-member commission was assembled in March of 2023 to 'study anti-black racism' and come up with a plan to compensate allegedly harmed residents. We should note, the commission was supposed to have completed its work by this July. Instead, as KQED notes, "it has hardly started." (plus the $5 million thing)
[Western Journal] Given the numerous — numerous — issues afflicting the country right now, one would think that people would have more constructive uses of their time than to attack a children’s summer camp.
One would think wrong.
Chick-fil-A, the shockingly polarizing fast-food chicken restaurant, has once again found itself in the crosshairs of bad-faith actors who just want to pick a fight with the Christ-forward franchise of eateries.
This time, however, it’s not about the company’s Christian origins or its adherence to the Sabbath. No, this time around, these dullards are attacking one Chick-fil-A restaurant’s summer camp event.
A Chick-fil-A in Hammond, Louisiana, announced this fun offering in a June 6 Facebook post:
The camp, which will take place across various days in mid-to-late July, will offer children (ideally ages 5-12) the chance to meet Chick-fil-A mascots and managers.
The camp will also involve a "behind-the-scenes look" at hospitality and service, as well as a "behind-the-scenes view of what it’s like to work at America’s favorite quick-service restaurant."
The camp will cost $35 per child, and will also include a snack, T-shirt and "some goodies."
It is as innocuous and innocent a little summer activity as one can imagine.— if a tad pricey for the value, but what isn’t these days?
And yet, terminally online dunces saw this pretty neat-sounding children’s camp as some horrible form of child exploitation.
A cursory glance at the Facebook post’s comments showed a number of upset commentators.
"This sounds like child labor with extra steps ..." one Facebook user commented.
"Wait. You’re wanting parents to *check notes* pay you, to use their young children as laborers," another user commented. "But they get a free meal, snack and shirt that will give you free advertising?
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The camp sounds like a great deal. The meal itself is worth $20. The certificate of attendance will probably waive their interview and orientation down the road. Also, how many times are those kids going to get blessed throughout the camp. It’s a good deal all the way around.
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Some people are so unhappy they want everyone to be unhappy.
[Epoch Times] The use of deadly force was legal and justified in the ATF’s March 19, early morning shooting death in the West Little Rock, Arkansas home of Bryan Malinowski, according to Pulaski County Prosecutor Will Jones. In a June 14 letter, Mr. Jones announced there would be no charges in the case.
Mr. Malinowski was executive director of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock until that morning, when a convoy of 10 law enforcement vehicles rolled into his upscale neighborhood and agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), holding automatic rifles in the ready position, placed tape on his video doorbell, announced their presence, and in less than one minute, broke into the home while he was sleeping. Mr. Malinowski, a gun collector, woke up, grabbed his gun, exchanged gunfire with the ATF, and Mr. Malinowski was shot dead in front of his wife.
The ATF had obtained a warrant to search his home for guns and evidence. The agency believed Mr. Malinowski was selling guns without a $200 Federal Firearms License (FFL) and without asking buyers for the proper information. According to an affidavit of probable cause, some of the guns he had sold were recovered during the commission of a crime, although the crimes did not involve the direct use of guns.
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The lawyer will ask if they did a threat assessment and looked at non lethal ways to apprehend him. Bashing the door in at zero dark thirty is looking to kill, not apprehend. Over a $200 dollar tax....
arresting him on his way to church or work. But then Hillary does have a knack for removing people that used to work for her.
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"In order to enlist 76 agents and officers, multiple military helicopters, a tank-like vehicle with a battering ram, M16 rifles, and hand grenades to execute the search and arrest warrant, the ATF lied in court that the compound hosted a meth lab. While the DOJ would later maintain that the Branch Davidians shot at the ATF first, multiple witnesses and survivors allege that the ATF, under the guise of shooting at the cult’s dogs, shot first."
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The FBI agents shot at Ruby Ridge shot the son's dog, failed to identify, was wearing jeans and flannel shirts. The kid had no idea they were FBI. The FBI sniper was then cleared to shoot the wife in the head while holding their baby in her arms. Our FBI and ATF is out of control. Now the IRS has special unit teams to perform SWAT events. Dont worry folks, after November they will be exercising their right to enter your home and kill you....
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[ZERO] A public records case over a leaked manifesto belonging to Audrey Hale, a transgender individual who shot up the Covenant School in a Nashville suburb - killing three 9-year-old children and three adults, has spiraled into a contentious legal battle which could see a journalist tossed in jail if he doesn't reveal his source.
On Monday, Chancellor I’Ashea Myles of Davidson County ordered Michael Patrick Leahy, editor and owner of the conservative news website The Tennessee Star, to appear in court. Leahy is to participate in a "show cause hearing" on June 17 to address why he should not be held in contempt over his publication’s use of the leaked documents.
[JustTheNews] The House of Representatives passed a resolution Friday that automatically enrolls young men for selective service, and expands the mandatory draft ages by one years, to men aged 18-26.
Young men are already required to register for selective service if they are between the ages of 18 and 25, but the new resolution would enroll them automatically. Although the draft has not been used in half a century, it is considered a felony if an eligible man fails to register, Fox News reported.
The resolution was included in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which approves the defense budget for the next fiscal year, and includes the government's top priorities when it comes to defense and national security policies. The NDAA passed the House in a 217-199 vote.
"By using available federal databases, the [Selective Service] agency will be able to register all of the individuals required and thus help ensure that any future military draft is fair and equitable," Democratic Pennsylvania Rep. Chrissy Houlahan said during debate on the resolution last month, according to Defense News. "This will also allow us to rededicate resources — basically that means money — towards reading readiness and towards mobilization … rather than towards education and advertising campaigns driven to register people."
The NDAA also included controversial measures on abortion, LGBTQ issues, and diversity efforts, which limits its ability to pass in the Democratic-led Senate. It also included a substantial pay raise for service members, including a 19% raise for junior enlisted members, and a 4.5% raise for other servicemembers.
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90 percent of the enrolled would be a totally worthless detriment to whatever service they were conscripted into. The candidates, likely, haven’t even ever played dodgeball, shovel sugar onto their Captain Crunch, make Cheech and Chong look Amish, and think wood shop is an online store where they can buy a Panda Suit and tasty lubricants.
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They will form a union like the Philadelphia coffee professionals did.
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Ah, guys, you already had that IAW Title 10 USC.
10 U.S. Code § 246 - Militia: composition and classes
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
All the 'draft' is nothing more than the selective activation of the unorganized militia. Proof that the clowns don't already know what the law is.
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I remember I received my draft notice during week 5 at MCRD, San Diego. I reported to my Senior Drill Instructor with the notice and it made him laugh, and say "Let me handle this TURD" GYSGT Raines called all of us TURDs (Trainee Undergoing Recruit Discipline), I'm pretty sure he made it up, but he loved using it!
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Wasn't it the SECARMY who didn't want a "warrior class"? Well, should this selective service stuff really get some legs, then the SECARMY might get her wish. She might not be the SECARMY come January 2025, but still.
[JustTheNews] The Biden administration is working on a plan to offer work permits to illegal immigrants who are married to U.S. citizens and have been in the U.S. for at least 10 years, creating a pathway to citizenship.
This program is titled "Parole in Place" and would create a program to offer permanent legal status and U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of migrants here illegally, according to CBS News.
The New York Post reports that the measures could be announced as early as next Tuesday, when White House officials will be hosting an event celebrating the 12th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
As of now, the plans have not been finalized.
Biden is also reportedly putting together another plan to make it easier for illegal immigrants to be able to get access to temporary visas, sources told CBS News.
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The Imperial Presidency has limitless powers vested in the penumbra of the Constitution as defined in the demonkrat fever swamp located on Kalorama Drive. But only when their DEI aristocracy has power.
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^^^^^
Proof on display last night in Holluwood!
That’s a wrap on record-setting Democratic fundraiser for Joe Biden’s reelection campaign (netting $28M). Former President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden offer final waves to Peacock Theater crowd as Obama then grabs Biden’s hand to lead him offstage following 40-minute conversation with Jimmy Kimmel.
[FoxNews] Recipients of the DACA program were temporarily protected from deportation.
"Today, most of the original Dreamers are grown. They’re serving their communities as teachers, doctors, lawyers, and having children of their own. But because the program that offered that protection remains temporary, they’re also living in fear of being sent back to a country many of them can’t even remember," Obama said in a post on X.
Obama praised the Biden administration for making it easier for Dreamers to access federal programs like health care. But he warned that Dreamers will "continue to live under a cloud of uncertainty" until Congress acts.
"That’s why I’m calling on Congress once again to pass a permanent legislative solution for Dreamers — one that offers them a pathway to citizenship and makes our immigration system fairer, more efficient, and more just," Obama said. No intentional correlation with previous article
[JustTheNews] Young men from non-intact families are more likely to end up in prison or jail, drop out of high school or not graduate from college.
"What we see for young men today is a family-to-prison-or-college pipeline that is more likely to deliver boys from intact families towards college graduation and boys from non-intact families towards prison or jail," the report states. "Young men raised by their two married, biological parents are almost 20 percentage points more likely to graduate college than end up in prison/jail."
It points to research conducted by an economics professor and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research who found that declining marriage rates are "driving many of the country's biggest economic problems." The research found that young men who grew up in a married household with their two biological parents are more likely to graduate college, among other outcomes.
The IFS report also points to a Journal of Research on Adolescence report that found that adolescent boys are more likely to be incarcerated if they grew up in father-absent households.
It also analyzes federal data that shows that "young men raised by their two married, biological parents … are almost 20 percentage points more likely to graduate college than end up in prison/jail. Strikingly, this is the only group where graduating college is more likely than prison/jail. Meanwhile, the statistic flips for young men from non-intact families."
According to the National Fatherhood Initiative, nearly 20 million American children live in homes where their biological fathers do not live.
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Time for the feminazis to eat crow in 3,2,...oh, who am I kidding?
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...they may drink Old Crow with their cat(s) in the evening, but it was the goal of the Marxists to destroy society to create a zero year to impose their rule. Plan is working pretty good from the casualty lists.
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“The King of Conception” is not some Israeli war minister. It was and will remain former NBA player Shawn Kemp.
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^ Antonio Cromartie will have a busy Father's Day today
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The guy who is charged with providing security on a budget is doomed to failure. The only way determine the value "just enough" is by finding out "not quite good enough".
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[IsraelTimes] Military stresses operations against Hamas in Rafah continue despite 11-hour pause each day on route leading from Kerem Shalom to Khan Younis.
[Breitbart] U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers assigned to the San Diego Field Office seized tons of illicit drugs during May. A single smuggling attempt led to the seizure of more than 11,000 pounds of methamphetamine — the third-largest meth seizure in CBP history.
On May 20, CBP officers assigned to the Otay Mesa Commercial Facility inspected a tractor-trailer carrying squash from Mexico to California. Officers referred the driver, a valid border crossing card holder, to the secondary inspection area.
During the secondary inspection, a non-intrusive scanner detected anomalies, leading to a physical search of the trailer. The search led to the discovery of 1,419 packages containing a substance that tested positive for methamphetamine. Officials valued the 11,469 pounds of methamphetamine at more than $18,000,000.
During May, San Diego Field Office officers seized a total of more than 16,000 pounds of methamphetamine, nearly 562 pounds of fentanyl, nearly 914 pounds of cocaine, 22 pounds of heroin, and more than four pounds of marijuana.
The drugs were found during 145 attempted smuggling incidents, CBP officials stated. The seizures were valued at $38,300,000.
The seizures occurred at the San Ysidro, Otay Mesa, San Diego air and sea ports, Calexico East and West, Tecate, and Andrade Ports of Entry.
The suspects were turned over to ICE Homeland Security Investigations.
[Breitbart] Former French President François Hollande said he will run as a candidate in the snap legislative elections after throwing his support behind the far-left-led “New Popular Front” alliance.
Seven years after leaving office from a presidency mired by Islamic terrorism and economic hardship, François Hollande has returned to the frontlines of French politics, throwing his hat in the ring to once again serve as a deputy in the National Assembly.
Hollande, a longtime member of the Socialist Party, was nominated by the leftist party to represent the so-called “New Popular Front” in the constituency of Corrèze, Le Figaro reports.
“In an exceptional situation, I had to make an exceptional decision,” Hollande said on Saturday, adding: “If I made this decision, it is because I felt that the situation was serious. The danger represented by the extreme right is now proven. How can we remain indifferent?”
While the far-left has been deeply divided over the past several months, particularly in the wake of the October 7th terror attacks on Israel and the rise of antisemitism in France, the Socialist Party, the green Les Écologists, and the French Communist Party announced this week they would partner with the far-left La France Insoumise (France Unbowed/LFI) party of radical leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The move of partnering with Mélenchon — the leading leftist in the country who is often compared to Bernie Sanders in the U.S. or Jeremy Corbyn in the UK and who has been accused of antisemitism and cosying up to radical Islamists — explained by the more centrist elements of the “New Popular Front” as being necessary to confront the rise of the populist right-wing National Rally of Marine Le Pen, which is predicted to win the snap elections called by President Emmanuel Macron after being trounced by the Le Pen party in the European Parliament elections earlier this month.
Although the New Popular Front — named after the alliance of French leftist parties in 1936 led by Socialist Prime Minister Léon Blum — has won the backing of leading left-wing figures such as former President Hollande, there have been many on the left who have criticised the new alliance.
Former Socialist Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who served as François Hollande’s second in command from 2014 to 2016, described the alliance with LFI as a “miserable electoral agreement” and a “moral mistake”.
“The fact that social-democratic and environmentalist parties are signing an agreement with La France Insoumise, whose anti-Semitic remarks, pro-Hamas and long-time pro-Putin positions are known to everyone, outrages me. The mobilisation of the left in the face of the peril of the extreme right, the use of hackneyed historical concepts like the Popular Front – not everyone can be Léon Blum – in no way justify crossing this red line,” Valls told Le Point.
“There is no reason to sign a pact with Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his friends. Everyone has been able to see the political and ethical abyss that should separate the other parties on the left from these people. Mélenchon considered the rise of anti-Semitism in France to be ‘residual’. This should disqualify him forever… It is a sad day for the left.”
Hollande’s decision to join the far-left alliance came as leading critics of Mélenchon were “purged” on Friday from the various leftist parties that comprise the New Popular Front.
Commenting on the cutthroat political manoeuvring, the centre-left Le Monde newspaper wrote: “This has created dissidence from the outset. The move, condemned by Mélenchon’s partners, is yet another sign of the authoritarian and sectarian practices that prevail within LFI. This settling of scores was the worst possible message to send at the dawn of this new union.”
[Gateway] The American Heart Association is estimating that as many as six in ten adults may suffer from heart disease over the next 30 years.
The report cited several reasons for the predicted rise but did not mention COVID-19 vaccines. What's the ratio of Men to Women in the US?
The AHA reported on June 4, "The projected rise in heart disease and stroke — along with several key risk factors, including high blood pressure and obesity — is likely to triple related costs to $1.8 trillion by 2050, according to two American Heart Association presidential advisories published Tuesday in the AHA journal Circulation. One report looks at the projected increase in cardiovascular disease rates in the decades ahead, while the other projects their total related costs."
"The landscape of cardiovascular disease in the U.S. is seeing the arrival of a near-perfect storm," Dr. Dhruv S. Kazi, vice chair of the advisory writing group, said in a press release.
Kazi is head of health economics, associate director of the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology, and director of the cardiac critical care unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
"The last decade has seen a surge of cardiovascular risk factors such as uncontrolled high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity, each of which raises the risks of developing heart disease and stroke," Kazi continued. "It is not surprising that an enormous increase in cardiovascular risk factors and diseases will produce a substantial economic burden."
The AHA also reported that from 2020 to 2050, high blood pressure is expected to rise from 51.2% to 61% of the U.S. population.
"The last of the Baby Boomers will hit 65 in 2030, so about 1 in 5 people in the U.S. will be over 65, outnumbering children for the first time in U.S. history," Kazi said. "Since cardiovascular risk increases with age, the aging population increases the total burden of cardiovascular disease in the country."
[American Thinker] Blind hatred of America is so yesterday. It’s shadowboxing an opponent who has exited the ring. Activists on college campuses today, whether agitating for Hamas, BLM, or Occupy Wall Street, are fighting a caricature of America from the 1950s and ’60s, an America that doesn’t exist anymore. It’s the America of Bill Ayers and Richard Nixon — the radicals versus the squares and the capitalist pigs. They are obsessed with a phantom that faded away years ago.
A movie called The Music Never Stopped tells the story of a young man named Gabriel, who left home just before high school graduation in 1968 after a fight with his father over his views on America and the Vietnam War. Set in 1986, his parents haven’t seen him in 18 years, until they learn he is undergoing brain surgery to remove a benign tumor. The tumor is large, and its removal affects his memory processing, making it difficult for him to form new memories and trapping him in the familiar environment of the ’60s.
As Gabriel recovers, he asks about his friend, Mark, whom he had last seen when Mark got his draft card. His father tells him Mark died in Vietnam, and he cries out, "That bastard Nixon!" Gabriel is still fighting the bogeyman of yesterday in 1986. Today’s leftist protesters have a similar tumor on the brain, planted there by their university faculty. Like the character in the movie, they are all fighting yesterday’s enemy.
America today is far removed from the unreconstructed America that student radicals in the ’60s hated. From the boardroom to the stock room, America is now almost entirely woke, groveling in abject and continual apology. Diversity and inclusion are enshrined in our national life, despite the constant lectures on race. Movies and television are full of "people of color." Our national sports heroes are almost all black. Mixed-race couples dominate our national advertising. (Fortunately, we have an army of grievance professionals available to interpret the "systemic" racism in our every word and gesture, which they will do for large sums of money.)
In addition, marriage redefined is the law of the land. Gay pride is celebrated for the entire month of June. Homosexuality is mainstream. On transgenderism, parents in some states are still trying to establish their right to stop their minor children from being sexually mutilated without their consent. We’re woke, okay? The jury has spoken.
Nonetheless, leftist radicals take today’s events and jam them into the Procrustean bed of a 1960s worldview. College students with their Hamas sit-ins follow a playbook right out of the ’60s. Fight the power! Hillary Clinton, the student radical who insulted Republican senator Edward Brooke to his face while she addressed her graduating class at Wellesley, and Barack Obama, acolyte of radical organizer Saul Alinsky and Weatherman Bill Ayers in Chicago, would approve.
But the war is over. The left fought for and won on civil rights, women’s rights, and sexual freedom. It’s time to accept victory.
Young people are beginning to sense that white supremacists, uptight Christians, and big business aren’t really the problem anymore. The problem today isn’t the "establishment" making life miserable for people who want to live the way they want to; today, the establishment is the government. It’s the government’s power over their lives that young people should be fighting. The outdated ideology forced on today’s young people is pointing them at the wrong targets. An executive order forcing radical transgender policies on high schools and universities or a border policy allowing criminals and terrorists to flood into the country is much more likely to make an impact on their lives.
The radicals from the ’60s who wrote the playbook on campus activism went into the propaganda business at American colleges. But the young radicals they trained who are coming out of college today aren’t true believers. Their commitment is half-hearted, as demonstrated in their lack of understanding of the issues they protest, most recently the Hamas/Israel war.
Marxist radicals from the ’60s can’t accept that they didn’t carry the day back then, and they think they are poised to win now. But they’re wrong. Although the "vanguard" has expanded exponentially thanks to their campus indoctrination, the proletariat ain’t what it used to be. That’s why young people and minority voters are flocking to Trump.
Fifty years ago, young people were radicalized by the Vietnam War and the cultural changes roiling America after World War II. The Baby Boom gave that generation heft, and changes in American society created anxious young people acting out their anger against their square parents and an unjust war.
Similarly, black Americans were emerging from Jim Crow in the South and fighting for their rightful place in American society. But that’s not the case today. America is more diverse and integrated than ever before, despite what today’s DIE "experts" tell you, and people know it. Meanwhile, technological change has created a higher standard of living for all, and mindless entertainment on our smartphones makes it difficult to generate the raw anger required for revolution.
It’s not hard to see why the professional activists in the Hamas protests got more pushback than traction. America today is not fertile ground for Marxist revolution, despite all the funding being poured into it by George Soros and others. The George Floyd riots were an Antifa-fueled COVID lockdown phenomenon, not likely to be repeated. With little buy-in from the young generation, the ’60s playbook for revolution that leftist professors are pushing isn’t going to accomplish much.
Young people in this country are happy to be Americans, although they are worried about the future. In the Hamas demonstrations, the crowds have a smattering of students, but they are largely professional anarchists like Antifa, antisemitic anti-Israel groups, Muslim supporters of the Hamas terrorists, and homosexual and transgender activists like Queers for Palestine. (The cognitive dissonance of Queers for Palestine should give anybody a brain cramp.) University students might come out briefly because the university propaganda machine trains them to respond, but real support is thin.
Widespread and vigorous activism among young people should be percolating today, both on college campuses and in the streets. But it should be led by conservative activists, not radical leftists. What should they be agitating about? How about the national debt, which grows like a cancer, destroying the hopes and dreams of this generation, or Biden’s open border policy, bringing in wage competitors and criminals, or the looming threat of World War III, courtesy of our overseas military adventure in Ukraine.
If young people want to hit the streets this summer, grab a placard and do it for issues that will really affect your lives. If activists could channel their energy into something other than the perpetual grievance machine, who knows what might come of it? They might make the world a better place, instead of just complaining about it.
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It will be The Spanish Inquisition. Nobody expects that.
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People fight the fight that they like to fight.
If it's irrelevant and doesn't matter, no problem.
They are in a happy little fiction where they're the hero.
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One perspective of the American War of Independence was a movement to return to the 'benign neglect' of London that existed before the Seven Years War/French and Indian War. Pretty much ingrained in our culture still - just leave us alone. If that's the 'revolution' they're seeking to ignite, flame on.
[Red State] The U.S. military, specifically the Navy, has swung into action over the Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen's continued reckless attacks against foreign vessels, after many months of giving them free rein to terrorize whomever they please in the Red Sea.
via the Hill:
The U.S. military is striking radar sites operated by Yemen’s Houthi rebels after a merchant sailor and boat went missing in the Red Sea earlier this week.
U.S. strikes have destroyed seven radars within Houthi territory, the military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said. The Associated Press reported that the military did not elaborate on how the sites were destroyed and did not immediately respond to questions.
Separately, the U.S. destroyed two drone boats in the Red Sea that held bombs, as well as a drone that was launched above the waterway from the Houthi rebels.
CENTCOM acknowledged that one commercial sailor from the Liberian-flagged and Greek-owned cargo carrier Tutor has been missing since Wednesday, after the Houthis used a drone with a bomb on it to strike the boat.
The crew abandoned ship and were rescued by the USS Philippine Sea and partner forces, but the Tutor remains in the Red Sea and is "taking on water," the agency said, per the AP.
This comes after a mid-May attack by the Houthis on a foreign oil tanker in the Red Sea, just after Biden's folks quietly met with Iran to beg them to get the terrorists to cut it out already.
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This comes after a mid-May attack by the Houthis on a foreign oil tanker in the Red Sea, just after Biden's folks quietly met with Iran to beg them to get the terrorists to cut it out already.
[Washington Examiner] Talk show host Bill Maher revealed his own political prediction that the Democratic Party will lose this November due to the border crisis.
Maher’s prediction came after the European Union election results, which showed a wave of major victories for right-wing parties across the continent. France’s National Rally party, Germany’s Alternative for Deutschland party, Spain’s People’s Party, and Italy’s Brothers of Italy party all beat their respective opponents while running on platforms that called for stricter immigration regulations.
"Voters again for the European Parliament said we do not like this much immigration," Maher said on Friday’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher.
Earlier this month, President Joe Biden issued an asylum ban on all immigrants caught crossing the border. The talk show host mocked the criticisms the president received from members of his own party.
"And then they all stand back and go, ’We don’t want to be called a racist. So we will not make a move on to immigration.’ It’s going to get them f***ed on Election Day," Maher said. "It’s happening. It’s happening in Europe right now. That proves it in Europe, and it’s going to happen here in America. It happened with Brexit. It’s going to happen again."
With no melting pot incentive for citizenship and what is required of ALL US Citizens.
There is no adoption of a new way of life, culture, social norms, existing English language or laws.
All they are doing is moving here to reestablish everything they left back in their 2nd/3rd world society. As they build new closed door, location focused communities. Communities that in 4 to 6 years usually build in size.
Then the DC Swamp grant amnesty and citizenship. Then they remap the political districts for votes to give them Congressional votes for spending projects.
In a majority of cases the congressional mouthpieces are just puppets (AOC & Gang of 5) just reciting the DC Swamp Agenda, and promoting Anti-USA views and regs and laws.
On the more Extreme side of this MASS Illegal OPEN BORDERS, Agenda, there are the ISLAM Nations's. Nations that openly practice "Death to all Homosexuals", "Death to Infidels", religion practices. (eg. Subway Stabbings) Practice they have had in place for over 2000+ years.
I am surprised the LGBT?P & other S.I.G.'s Leaderships have not expressed concerns and continue to support their own potential demise?
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People have had enough of the whole Dem package not just immigration. There isn’t anything Maher are anybody else can do to turn the ship. It is like the Silver Streak headed towards the train station.
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It's weird hoping Bill Maher is right about the election
[MAIL] Tear-jerking video showed a beloved children's nurse receiving a guard of honor from colleagues after being taken off life support and wheeled away for organ donation surgery.
Patrice Sanders, 58, passed away Thursday, with distraught family members and colleagues lining the corridors of Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno as her body was taken to an operating theater.
Her sister Paige was in tears as she walked through the corridor behind the hospital bed.
'It's really touching to see all the people that she's touched and to who she meant so much to,' she told ABC 13.
Patrice was first diagnosed with gastroenteritis, before doctors determined she suffered a bilateral stroke. Her health continued to decline.
Third World banana republic tactics, just like the Biden administration has done to former president Trump.
[AFRICANEWS] Niger’s highest court lifted the immunity of the country’s democratically elected president, Mohammed Bazoum, nearly a year after he was tossed by mutinous soldiers, his lawyer said Friday, opening the door for the army junta to prosecute him for alleged high treason.
Bazoum and his family have been under house arrest since a military coup that overthrew his rule last summer. The junta authorities said they planned to prosecute him for "high treason" and for undermining national security, and earlier this year initiated legal proceedings to lift his immunity in a newly created State Court, which became the country’s highest judicial authority.
Before Bazoum was forcibly removed from power, Niger was the West’s last major security partner in the Sahel, the vast region south of the Sahara Desert that has become a hot spot for violent mostly peaceful extremism.
But the military junta ordered the withdrawal of Western troops from the country and turned to Russia for security assistance. U.S. forces are poised to leave by the middle of September, the Pentagon said earlier this month.
The proceedings before the State Court have been marred by serious irregularities, including violations of Bazoum’s rights to present evidence in his defense, to communicate with his legal counsel, and to be heard before an independent court, according to Human Rights Watch, a leading rights group.
Bazoum’s lawyer, Reed Brody, criticized the ruling as a "mockery" of the rule of law in Niger. "We never even got to speak to our client," Brody said. "This is a travesty of justice."
Bazoum’s lawyers have been unable to communicate with him since last October and have had restricted access to case material, according to HRW.
Late last year, the highest court of West African regional bloc ECOWAS ruled that Bazoum and his family were arbitrarily detained and called for him to be reinstated as President.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
The units of the Sever Group of Forces continue to advance deep into the enemy defences. The AFU 71st Jaeger Brigade and the 125th Territorial Defence Brigade have been hit close to Volchansk and Ternovaya (Kharkov region).
Russian troops have repelled seven counterattacks by assault detachments from the 36th Naval Infantry Brigade and the 13th National Guard Brigade.
The enemy losses were up to 350 troops, two tanks, three motor vehicles, one 122mm D-30 howitzer. and two Bukovel-AD electronic warfare stations.
The units of the Zapad Group of Forces have taken more advantageous lines and defeated formations of 14th, 63rd, 116th Mechanised brigades of the AFU, the AFU 117th Brigade and the 13th Brigade of the National Guard close to Sinkovka, Petropavlovka (Kharkov region), Dronovka, Grigorovka (Donetsk People's Republic), and Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic).
The AFU losses were up to 495 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, and nine motor vehicles.
In addition, during counter-battery fire, two 155mm U.S.-made M777 howitzers, one 155mm British-made FH-70 howitzer, one 152mm 2A65 Msta-B howitzer, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, and one 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS combat vehicle have been hit.
The units of the Yug Group of Forces have improved the position along the front line and also defeated manpower and hardware of 56th Motorised Infantry, 41st Mechanised, 79th Air Assault, and 46th Airmobile brigades of the AFU close to Elizavetovka, Kalinina, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Chasov Yar, Stupochka, and Gornyak (Donetsk People's Republic).
Russian troops have repelled one counterattack of the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade of the AFU.
The enemy losses were up to 630 troops, one infantry fighting vehicle, and five motor vehicles.
In the course of counterbattery warfare, one UK-made 155mm FH-70 howitzer, one U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzer, one U.S.-made 155mm M198 self-propelled artillery system, one 155mm AS-90 Braveheart self-propelled artillery system, one 152mm D-20 howitzer, 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, four 122mm D-30 howitzers, two U.S.-made 105mm M119 guns, one 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS combat vehicle, and one U.S.-made AN/TPQ-37 counter-battery station.
In addition, three AFU field ammunition depots have been destroyed.
The units of the Tsetr Group Forces have improved the tactical position and defeated formations of 47th and 110th Mechanised brigades of the AFU close to Vozdvizhenka, Novoaleksandrovka, Voskhod, Novopokrovskoye, and Yevgenovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Russian troops have repelled five counterattacks by assault detachments of 23rd and 24th Mechanised brigades of the AFU.
The enemy losses were up to 320 troops, three infantry fighting vehicles, two motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzer, three 152mm 2A65 Msta-B howitzers, three 122mm D-30 howitzers, and one U.S.-made 105mm M102 howitzer.
The units of the Vostok Group of Forces have taken more favourable lines and also defeated manpower and hardware of the 58th Motorised Infantry Brigade of the AFU, 102nd and 125th brigades of the AFU, and the 21st Brigade of the National Guard near Novoukrainka, Neskuchnoye, Oktyabr (Donetsk People's Republic), and Gulyai Pole (Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses were up to 140 servicemen, one tank, one armored fighting vehicle, three motor vehicles, two Polish-made 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery systems, and one 152mm 2A65 Msta-B howitzer.
The units of the Dnepr Group of Forces have defeated manpower and hardware of formations of the 23rd Brigade of the National Guard near Vyshetarasovka and Dobraya Nadya (Dnipropetrovsk region).
The enemy losses were up to 75 troops and three motor vehicles.
In addition, U.S.-made MLRS M142 HIMARS and M270 MLRS launchers, as well as one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system have been destroyed.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have neutralised manpower and military hardware in 106 areas.
Air defense facilities have shot down 54 unmanned aerial vehicles, four French-made Hammer guided aerial bombs, as well as ten U.S.-made HIMARS projectiles.
In total, 613 airplanes and 276 helicopters, 25,845 unmanned aerial vehicles, 529 air defence missile systems, 16,340 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 1,341 combat vehicles equipped with MRLS, 10,491 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 22,567 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
[IsraelTimes] Spokesperson for university says demonstrators caused ‘significant damage’ when they occupied and trashed building while president was inside, though no arrests carried out
The president of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,State University, Los Angeles, said demonstrators protesting against Israel over the war with Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... are no longer welcome on campus after some of them occupied and trashed a building while she was inside.
The takeover ended early Thursday without arrests, a school spokesperson said.
Protesters barricaded the multistory Student Services Building at 4 p.m. Wednesday with university President Berenecea Johnson Eanes and dozens of other employees inside, said spokesperson Erik Frost Hollins.
Most of the 58 employees got out by 6 p.m. except for a group of administrators who remained until after midnight to manage the situation. The group included Eanes, but Frost Hollins would not say whether the president interacted with the protesters.
"That falls under tactics that we are not discussing at this point," the spokesperson said.
Most of the protesters left the building around 1:15 a.m. Thursday and returned to an encampment on the campus. A few remaining protesters left when university police ordered them out, Frost Hollins said.
Pro-Paleostinian demonstrations and encampments against Israel have roiled campuses across the US since the war in Gaza was started by Hamas’s October 7 attack, in which thousands of forces of Evil stormed southern Israel to kill nearly 1,200 people and take over 251 hostages. Israel’s retaliatory offensive has affected a humanitarian catastrophe in the Strip where over a million Paleostinians have been displaced and the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says over 37,000 have been killed, an unverifiable figure that doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants.
Anti-Israel protesters in US universities have called on their institutions to boycott Israel. Some campus administrations have responded to unruliness — which has included instances of violence, vandalism and antisemitic harassment — by summoning law enforcement, leading to the arrest of over 3,000 students nationwide, according to the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... In a statement Thursday afternoon to the school community, CSULA President Eanes said she has engaged with protesters who have occupied the campus encampment for some 40 days.
"So long as the encampment remained non-violent mostly peaceful, I was committed that the university would continue to talk," the president wrote. But in the wake of the destruction and theft that occurred Wednesday, a line was crossed and "those in the encampment must leave."
"I am saddened, and I am angry," Eanes said. "Campus community: Know that we will recover from this, but also know that I am committed to doing everything we can to ensure this will never be allowed to repeat. I cannot and would not protect anyone who is directly identified as having participated in last night’s illegal activities from being held accountable."
There were no arrests and no injuries were reported, but "assaults" were reported by three employees and one student, according to Eanes. Officials said those were a law enforcement matter.
The university, meanwhile, announced that all main campus classes and operations would be remote until further notice.
Images from the scene showed furniture blocking doorways from the inside, while the plaza out front was barricaded with a picnic table, umbrellas, a vending machine, and at least two overturned campus vehicles, one with a shattered windshield.
The interior and exterior of the building were graffitied with expletives about Zionism, calls to "end the genocide in Gaza," and disparaging remarks about the university president.
"We don’t have an exact appraisal on it but there was damage to the exterior, the interior, equipment, materials, structure — it was significant damage," Frost Hollins said.
The CSULA Gaza Solidarity Encampment, a group that has camped near the campus gym for about 40 days, sent an email indicating that members were staging a sit-in in the building, Hollins said.
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"I am saddened, and I am angry," Eanes said. "Campus community: Know that we will recover from this, but also know that I am committed to doing everything we can to ensure this will never be allowed to repeat. I cannot and would not protect anyone who is directly identified as having participated in last night’s illegal activities from being held accountable."
If you don't want a repeat, arrest and prosecute. Otherwise, there will be a repeat.
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got out by 6 p.m. except for a group of administrators who remained until after midnight to manage the situation.
I guess they 'managed' not to get beaten in the trashing. Nice work!
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Really. And what are you going to do about it?
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Tough talk.
Cancel'em and keep their tuition./sarc
[GEO.TV] At least 37,296 Palestinians have been killed and 85,197 injured in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since Oct 7, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
…or possibly 25,000, a shockingly high percent of which are jihadis for Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
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[Breitbart] FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr on Friday wrote that President Joe Biden has not connected one American with high-speed internet with $42.5 billion in funding from the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill.
“In 2021, the Biden Administration got $42.45 billion from Congress to deploy high-speed Internet to millions of Americans. Years later, it has not connected even 1 person with those funds. In fact, it now says that no construction projects will even start until 2025 at earliest,” the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner wrote.
“Meanwhile, the Biden Admin has been layering a partisan political agenda on top of this $42.45B program – a liberal wish list that has nothing to do with connecting Americans. Climate change mandates, tech biases, DEI requirements, favoring government-run networks + more,” he continued.
Carr is specifically slamming the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program, which allocated $42.45 billion to support broadband infrastructure and adoption.
The program was established by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), otherwise known as the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill. The bill had no conservative victories and had many leftist carveouts, as Breitbart News detailed.
Congress passed the infrastructure bill in 2021, which would mean that the BEAD program has had little success in its two years since Biden passed the bill.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg also struggled to explain why Biden has only built “seven or eight” electric vehicle charging stations, which the funding also came from the IIJA.
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isn't the whole problem of lack of internet access going away soon now that SpaceX will soon have 10k satellites and will be able to serve essentially anyone outside of the polar regions
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isn't the whole problem
If it ever was a problem and not just a $43B Demo sound bite. A lot like EV mandates or politically negotiated border controls.
As we already know, when DC passes $$$$ around to corporations, there is usually a foot in the door (tap) point to monitor customers.
eg. ISP's, Credit Cards purchases, and etc.
Also, ever wonder how much bandwidth and speed is taken running the US Internet traffic through Mae-West and Mae-east, DCSNet for snooping _ _ _ agenices?
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Dems and their RINO enablers cut the $42B up and ate it like a Stoeffer’s lasagna. Now the American people are discovering that the meaty filling was us.
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It never was anything but graft. They can see the end coming, and are cashing out.
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Three possibilites: nuts, jihadi, or gangland killer. No doubt all will soon be revealed.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A tense standoff has erupted on a residential Detroit street after a gunman opened fire on up to 10 people before fleeing to a nearby home.
Chaos broke out at a family splashpad in Rochester Hills in Michigan at around 5pm Saturday as up to 28 rounds were fired in quick succession, injuring children as young as eight-years-old.
The gunman then holed up in a nearby home within half a mile of the splash pad, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard told Local 4 in a press conference. He added that police were working on getting a warrant to access the property.
'It appears very random with no connectivity between the victims,' Bouchard explained.
Bouchard added that the gunman 'pulled up, exited a vehicle, approached the splash pad, opened fire, reloaded, opened fire, reloaded. And then left.'
As of early Saturday evening, police had cornered the gunman in the home, and said they were communicating with them in a tense standoff.
Police were on the scene within two minutes of the attack after a deputy was alerted to gunshots having been fired through the use of the city's new 911 tech.
Details of the condition of the victims is unclear, although a spokesman for the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office said the victims included children and adults, with the youngest just eight years old.
By the time he fled the scene, the gunman had fired 28 rounds with a 9mm pistol and three empty magazines were recovered by investigators, Fox 2 Detroit reported.
Aerial images from the scene showed a large number of evidence markers placed around the waterpark, where dozens of bullets were shot in quick succession.
No description of the shooter has been released but negotiators and a police SWAT team have cornered him outside the house he holed up inside.
Police said it is not yet known if there are other people inside the property.
Corewell Health said in a statement that it was confirming several victims were being treated in its hospital, but declined to offer specifics on their condition.
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“the gunman in the home, and said they were communicating with them.”
Odd use of plural pronoun.
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A tense standoff has erupted on a residential Detroit street
A residential street in Rochester Hills, a completely different city about 30 miles north of Detroit in Oakland County. It used to be a bedroom community for white collar auto industry workers.
[Jonathan Turley @ The Hill] This week, Attorney General Merrick Garland took to the pages of the Washington Post to lash out at critics who are spreading what he considers "conspiracy theories crafted and spread for the purpose of undermining public trust in the judicial process itself." His column, titled "Unfounded attacks on the Justice Department must end," missed the point.
It is Garland himself who has become the problem. The solution is in Wilmington, Delaware, where 12 average citizens just showed a commitment to the rule of law that seems to be harder and harder for the attorney general to meet. Since his appointment, Garland has repeated a mantra that he is apolitical and would never yield to the pressures of politics or the White House. When he was nominated, I believed that claim and enthusiastically supported Garland’s confirmation. He was, I thought, the perfect man for the job after his distinguished judicial service as a moderate judge.
I was wrong. Garland’s tenure as attorney general has shown a pronounced reluctance to take steps that would threaten President Biden. He slow-walked the appointment of a special counsel investigating any Biden, and then excluded from the counsel’s scope any investigation of the massive influence peddling operation by Hunter Biden, his uncle and others.
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QUESTION OF THE DAY
What alternatives do, WE THE PEOPLE HAVE?
When the Vote & Counting processes are clearly compromised.
When elected officials no longer have to worry about Voters or corrective administrations to apply justice.
When elected officials & their Elite Owners, control Social Media and the NEWS narrative, arrest, imprison bloggers and have silenced the Citizens.
When elected officials violate the Bill Of Rights, and they write new rules/regs at are clear violation of the US Constitution regarding the 2nd amendment.
So, I'll ask again.
What legal recourse for Constitutional Justice,
do WE THE PEOPLE HAVE?
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not just DOJ which is holding back info on Biden
the National Archives still has thousands of emails (maybe tens of thousands) that Biden sent or received from pseudonym addresses. Some have been released verbatim. Some redacted, some not yet released.
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/\ Issues of National Security likely in play. These things take time. It will all come out, you'll see.
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Corruption is a correct term for a corrosive process where something, once pristine, degrades over time. Garland was in charge of Waco. The corruption process is long completed. He’s as corroded as a used Pinto hatchback driving around East Cleveland.
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Garland wasn't in charge of the Waco action (which was headed by the ATF) but was in charge of the aftermath of the bombing of the federal center in Oklahoma City which was headed by the DOJ.
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^ Janet Reno IIRC
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[Regnum] The orbit of the International Space Station was increased by three and a half kilometers in preparation for docking with the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft. The press service of the state corporation Roscosmosreported this on June 15
It is noted that the weekend on the ISS began with orbit correction for the upcoming launch and docking with the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft and the landing of the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft.
The state corporation clarified that at 07:40 Moscow time, the engines of the Progress MS-26 cargo ship turned on and worked for 1390.3 seconds, producing an impulse of 2 m/s.
“After the maneuver, the average altitude of the ISS orbit increased by 3.5 km and amounted to 418.38 km above the Earth’s surface,” the report says.
As Regnum reported, earlier on June 15, it became known that astronauts from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) were delayed on the ISS due to failures in the systems of Boeing's Starliner. It was noted that five different leaks were found in the ship’s propulsion system.
Roscosmos announced on June 5 that cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko became the first person in world history whose total space flight exceeded a thousand days. The astronaut is already on his fifth space flight since September 15, 2023 on the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft.
[JNS] Americans expected Osama bin Laden to be found in a cave in Afghanistan. In reality, he was living comfortably in a military town in Pakistan under the protection of local authorities. Similarly, Israeli hostages, including the four who were rescued last Saturday, have come home telling stories of being kept captive in "civilian" households.
Many in the West fundamentally misunderstand what Islamic terrorism is. It’s not a "fringe group of extremists," as politicians and the media describe it, but an ethnic and religious movement. The religious values of Islamic terrorists are universally shared by the vast majority of Muslims, while the ethnic ones ground Islamic warfare in the interests of specific clans and families. Hamas is an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood and has a widespread base of support across the Muslim world, which is dotted with branches of the Brotherhood. But its ethnic power base is also grounded in the key clans and families that control Gaza. That is why Hamas still retains the support of the majority of the Muslim colonists currently occupying Gaza. It’s also why those same "civilians" held Israeli hostages prisoner and could be trusted not to inform on them.
The latest Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research poll shows that 71% of Gazans support the Hamas atrocities of Oct. 7, and 56% expect Hamas to win the war. Some 62% in Gaza are happy about Hamas’s performance during the war, and 59% want Hamas to stay in power. That’s because they are Hamas and the terror group is also them.
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a muslim is a person who adheres to sharia law.
sharia law states that female opinion is worth less than male opinion. muslims should not be welcome here.
Follow up to this story from a few days ago. Good to know it was caused by an electrical fault and not enemy action.
[AFRICANEWS] A witness spoke on Thursday about a massive fire at an oil refinery in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil that had been raging since Wednesday night.
Fakhir Talib said he "heard a kaboom" and "saw this big fire, and obviously it was the refinery that caught on fire."
"Several fire engines and firefighter teams came but they couldn’t do anything," he added.
At least 10 firefighters were maimed from the blaze which had also destroyed three fire trucks, according to the regional civil defense department.
Many firefighters suffered from breathing difficulties due to the thick smoke.
The fire broke out at an asphalt storage facility in an oil refinery on the Irbil-Gwer main road.
More than 40 firefighter teams were battling the inferno, according to the regional civil defense department in Kurdistan.
Thick smoke from the blaze has risen high into the sky, covering part of the city.
Municipality water trucks were rushing to supply fire trucks with water.
A Kurdistan Regional Government official, speaking anonymously because they were not authorized to talk to the media, told The AP that the fire was caused by an electrical fault and was not deliberate.
The refinery, one of the largest in Irbil, produces gasoline, kerosene, and white oil.
It features extensive storage facilities and is a joint venture between the regional government and a private company.
A worker at the refinery told the AP that there are around 40 tanks of fuel at the site, each holding 18,000 liters, and half of them are on fire.
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[PUBLISH.TWITTER] The poor darling is much too sensitive to be a foreign ministry mouthpiece for a would-be regional hegemon. Perhaps he should switch his efforts to flower arranging and painting watercolours.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman described the killing and wounding of hundreds of innocent people in an attack on the village of "Wad Al-Nura" in Sudan as shocking, calling for international measures to stop the situation.https://t.co/yMSlcpLH6bpic.twitter.com/qYGydJdcqP
8 Soldiers with the Combat Engineering Corps of the Israel Defense Force were Killed earlier today, after a Massive Explosion in the City of Rafah caused the Total Destruction of their “Namer” Armored-Personnel Carrier (APC). The Cause of the Explosion is currently Unknown,… pic.twitter.com/WQ2mzMrR7w
The Israel Defense Force has released the Identity of one of the Soldiers that was Killed in this morning’s Explosion near the City of Rafah; Captain Wassem Mahmoud, a 23-Year-Old Officer and a Deputy Company Commander in the 601st “Asaf” Battalion of the Combat Engineering Corps… pic.twitter.com/QkLvnHPJM9
Significant Brush and Forest Fires are Burning tonight on both Sides of the Border in Northern Israeli, with the Fire near the Towns of Bar'am and Yir'on in the Galilee Panhandle reported to be Out-of-Control. While across the Border in Southern Lebanon, an ongoing Large Brush… pic.twitter.com/QCct6PXICe
[AFRICANEWS] A police officer shot and injured magistrate Monica Kivuti at the Makadara Law Courts in Nairobi on Thursday, June 13 after she denied bail for his wife.
The officer was then killed in a shootout with other officers. Kivuti and three officers injured in the incident are stable and receiving treatment, according to local news report.
Chief Justice Martha Koome confirmed the shooter intended to kill the magistrate and ordered increased security at all courts.
The policeman's wife had pleaded guilty to obtaining 2.9 million Kenyan shillings ($22,700) by false pretences.
The officer entered the court through the magistrate's door and shot Kivuti in the chest and hip before being fatally shot by another officer.
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#Iran has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Thursday, one week after the agency's board of governors passed an anti-Tehran resolution, that it is expanding its nuclear program.https://t.co/gQkQ5Wv6eIpic.twitter.com/Vpud1OOtFQ
US slams Tehran for ‘expanding nuclear program in ways that have no credible peaceful purpose,’ threatens to respond ‘accordingly’; Khamenei adviser: Iran ‘won’t bow to pressure’
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... has started up new cascades of advanced centrifuges and plans to install others in the coming weeks after facing criticism over its nuclear program, the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... ’ atomic watchdog said Friday. The US called the moves "nuclear escalations."
Spinning up new centrifuges further advances Iran’s nuclear program, which already enriches uranium at near-weapons-grade levels and boasts a stockpile enough for several nuclear bombs if it chose to pursue them. However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... the acknowledgement from the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency did not include any suggestion Iran planned to go to higher enrichment levels amid wider tensions between Tehran and the West as the Israel-Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... war rages in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip.
The IAEA said its inspectors verified Monday that Iran had begun feeding uranium into three cascades of advanced IR-4 and IR-6 centrifuges at its Natanz enrichment facility. Cascades are a group of centrifuges that spin uranium gas together to more quickly enrich the uranium.
So far, Iran has been enriching uranium in those cascades up to 2% purity. Iran already enriches uranium up to 60%, a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%.
Iran also plans to install 18 cascades of IR-2m centrifuges at Natanz and eight cascades of IR-6 centrifuges at its Fordo nuclear site. Each of these classes of centrifuges enrich uranium faster than Iran’s baseline IR-1 centrifuges, which remain the workhorse of the country’s atomic program.
Tehran did not immediately acknowledge the decision. However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... it comes after Iran threatened to take action following a vote earlier this month at the IAEA’s Board of Governors that censured Iran for failing to cooperate fully with the agency.
The decision immediately drew criticism from State Department front man Matthew Miller.
"Iran aims to continue expanding its nuclear program in ways that have no credible peaceful purpose," Miller said in a statement. "These planned actions further undermine Iran’s claims to the contrary. If Iran implements these plans, we will respond accordingly."
Miller did not elaborate on what steps the US and its allies might take. However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... Iran already faces grinding economic sanctions from Washington and others that have deeply cut into its economy and sent its rial currency tumbling over recent years.
Ali Shamkhani, a former top security official within Iran’s theocracy who still advises Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> , wrote on the social platform X that Tehran remains committed to nuclear safeguards though it "won’t bow to pressure."
"The US and some Western countries would dismantle Iran’s nuclear industry if they could," Shamkhani wrote.
Since the collapse of Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers following the US’s unilateral withdrawal from the accord in 2018, it has pursued nuclear enrichment just below weapons-grade levels. Western powers say there is no credible civilian reason for that. Iran says its aims are entirely peaceful but officials have recently said it could change its "nuclear doctrine" if it is attacked or its existence threatened by arch-foe Israel. That has prompted alarm at the IAEA and in Western capitals.
Iran, as a signatory to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, has pledged to allow the IAEA to visit its atomic sites to ensure its program is peaceful. Tehran also agreed to additional oversight from the IAEA as part of the 2015 nuclear deal. However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... for years it has curtailed inspectors’ access to sites while also not fully answering questions about other sites where nuclear material has been found in the past.
The IAEA’s director-general, Rafael Mariano Grossi, visited Iran in May in an effort to boost inspections, but there hasn’t been any major public change in Iran’s stance.
All this comes as the Islamic Theocratic Republic also appears to be trying to contain the risk it faces from the US after launching an unprecedented attack on Israel. The assault — a response to a suspected Israeli strike on April 1 which killed two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps generals and others in Damascus, Syria — further pushed a yearslong shadow war between Israel and Iran out into the open.
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Iran’s top human rights official has hailed an attack by French police on the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group’s main headquarters in a Paris suburb, saying there will be "no safe place for terrorists."https://t.co/Wx7XWSYbatpic.twitter.com/yJi8hAt8dk
U.S. Central Command has announced that the Temporary-Floating Pier off the Coast of Central Gaza, which had just Resumed Humanitarian Aid Operations this Week after being Damaged on May 28th in Severe Weather, will be Partially-Dismantled and Towed to the Port of Ashdod in… pic.twitter.com/ZqCK4VwM9h
…in Southern Israel due to Rough Seas, which have been Forecasted for the Weekend. They further state that the Pier will be Reinstalled once Weather is Permitting.
UN, aid agencies say transfer of goods from pier to Gazans remains suspended due to perception Israeli military used area during last week’s hostage rescue.
The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that the pier would likely be moved to the Israeli port of Ashdod until sea conditions improve.Aid began arriving via the pier on May 17, and the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... said it transported 137 trucks of aid to warehouses, some 900 metric tons, before the US announced on May 28 that it had suspended operations so repairs could be made.
The UN said on Friday it had still not resumed transportation of aid from the pier to UN World Food Program warehouses.
"Our security colleagues are still working to ensure that secure conditions for humanitarian work can be re-established," said deputy UN spokesperson Farhan Haq.
UN officials also said they were reassessing the use of the pier, claiming that Israeli military activity nearby had jeopardized the perceived neutrality of the aid route.
Rushing out a mortally maimed Israeli commando after last week’s hostage rescue raid, Israeli rescuers opted against returning the way they came, across a land border, Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari told news hounds. Instead, they sped toward the beach and the site of the US aid hub on Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ’s coast, he said. An Israeli helicopter touched down near the US-built pier and helped whisk away hostages and the commando, according to the US and Israeli militaries.
Israel and the US deny that any aspect of the month-old US pier was used in the Israeli raid. They say an area near it was used to fly home the hostages.
However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... the UN World Food Program, which works with the US to transfer aid from the pier to warehouses and local aid teams for distribution within Gaza, suspended cooperation as it conducts a security review. Aid has been piling up on the beach since.
The UN has to look at the facts as well as what the Paleostinian public and gangs believe about any US, pier or aid worker involvement in the raid, Haq said.
"Humanitarian aid must not be used and must not be perceived as taking any side in a conflict," Haq said. "The safety of our humanitarian workers depends on all sides and the communities on the ground trusting their impartiality."
Rumors have swirled on social media, deepening the danger to aid workers, humanitarian groups say.
"Whether or not we’ve seen the pier used for military purposes is almost irrelevant. Because the perception of people in Gaza, civilians and gangs, is that humanitarian aid has been instrumentalized" by parties in the conflict, said Suze van Meegen, head of operations in Gaza for the Norwegian Refugee Council.
Oxfam International and some other aid organizations said they are waiting for answers from the US government because it’s responsible for the agreements with the UN and other humanitarian groups on how the pier and aid deliveries function.
Questions include whether the Israeli helicopters and security forces used what the US had promised aid groups would be a no-go area for the Israeli military around the pier, said Scott Paul, an associate director at Oxfam.
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Finally realized, after being told it wouldn't work, that it's not working, huh? At least Joey got his photos.
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Pull the other leg Haq, it has bells on it.
"Humanitarian aid must not be used and must not be perceived as taking any side in a conflict," Haq said.
[Rudaw] Nearly half of the population of the cities and villages in the Kurdish areas of Syria (Rojava) have fled their homes since the start of the civil war over a decade ago, a study showed, noting that Arab settlers replaced the population in some cities.
The study was conducted by the European Center for Kurdish Studies with funds from the German Federal Foreign Office through the Institute for Foreign Relations (IFA), across 13 cities and 880 villages using official Syrian government data for the year 2010, the last year before the start of the war, and compared with 2023 data collected by an unnamed NGO. It showed the impact of the war on the displacement and migration of the population of those areas.
The cities selected for the study were Qamishli in northeast Syria, Kobane and Jindires in northern Syria, as well as other cities and surrounding villages.
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[SHABELLEMEDIA] A tragic incident unfolded in the border regions of Bay and Bakool in southern Somalia, as a devastating explosion claimed the lives of the commander of the 8th battalion of the 60th CXDS division and several other soldiers.
The explosion took place while the officers and soldiers were responding to a call for support from government forces engaged in operations in the area. The incident occurred near the border between the two regions, highlighting the ongoing security challenges faced by Somali forces in this volatile area.
Local sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the situation, revealed that the blast was believed to have been caused by a mine planted by holy warriors. This tactic has been frequently used by groups opposing government forces in the region, aiming to disrupt military operations and spread fear among the local population.
The South West administration has yet to issue an official statement regarding the incident, leaving many questions unanswered about the circumstances surrounding the earth-shattering kaboom and the steps being taken to address the security situation in the area.
This incident comes amidst ongoing efforts by the Somali government to strengthen security in the country and combat the presence of holy warrior groups. The loss of a high-ranking military officer and other soldiers is a significant blow to the Somali National Army and underscores the challenges faced in maintaining stability and security in the region.
As the investigation into the earth-shattering kaboom continues, the incident serves as a stark reminder of the persistent threat posed by holy warrior groups and the ongoing need for vigilance and cooperation in the fight against terrorism in Somalia.
[GEO.TV] An Elite Force officer was arrested on Saturday for allegedly killing two lawyers, including former district bar president, over personal enmity in Punjab's Attock district, Geo News reported citing police.
Police said that the arrested suspect, Intizar Shah — who is an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of the Elite Force — was shifted to Attock City Police Station.
The slain lawyers were identified as former Attock Bar President Israr Ahmed and Advocate Mirza Zulfiqar, who were rubbed out by the cop in their chamber, sources affiliated with the police said.
The bodies of the slain lawyers were shifted to District Headquarter Hospital, Attock and later sent to their hometown after post-mortem.
Reacting to the gruesome murders, Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar expressed deep grief over the lawyers' deaths and offered condolences to their families.
The minister directed Punjab inspector general of police (IGP) to initiate investigation into the matter immediately and assured the bereaved families of taking the case to a special court.
He said that a probe team was formed to investigate the dual murder.
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Were they divorce lawyers?
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As long as the dinner is good and the servers shapely, what matters it that no progress will be made toward a hudna none of them want? And anyway, Israel isn’t suicidal to agree to whatever idiocies Hamas demands.
[GEO.TV] White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Saturday that mediators for Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and Egypt plan to engage Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... soon to see if there is a way to push ahead with a Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ceasefire proposal offered by US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... Sullivan spoke to news hounds on the sidelines of a Ukraine peace summit and was asked about diplomatic efforts to get an agreement for Hamas to release some hostages held since Oct 7 in exchange for a ceasefire lasting at least six weeks.
Sullivan said he had spoken briefly to one of the main interlocutors, Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, and that they would speak again about Gaza on Sunday while both are in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... for the Ukraine conference.
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[GEO.TV] Artillery strikes have been launched on several areas southwest of Gaza City, as per the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
Israeli naval vessels bombarded the Tel al-Hawa and Sheikh Ajlin neighborhoods, while Israeli military vehicles also opened heavy gunfire in the areas, Wafa said, reported Al Jazeera.
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[GEO.TV] Hezbollah on Saturday kept up retaliatory attacks on military positions in northern Israel, and one person was killed in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , days after an Israeli strike hit a senior commander from the Iran-backed group.
Senior Hezbollah commander Taleb Abdallah was killed in an Israeli strike in the village of Jouaiyya on Tuesday, alongside three comrades, a source close to the group had told AFP.
Hezbollah said Saturday that it targeted the Meron base in northern Israel with "guided missiles", and sent "attack drones" towards another Israeli base "as part of the response to the attack and liquidation carried out by the enemy in Jouaiyya".
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Yea, well, when Libanese Shia are living as refugees in Syria, don't tell me you weren't warned.
[GEO.TV] The armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad said on Saturday the only way to return Israeli hostages is through Israel's withdrawal from Gaza, ending its attacks and reaching a deal for exchanging Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners.
[IsraelTimes] Hamas politburo member in Beirut Osama Hamdan denies rescued hostages were subjected to abuse in Gaza; claims WSJ report that Sinwar praised Gazan civilian deaths is ‘fake message’
“No one has any idea" how many of the 116 remaining hostages in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... who were kidnapped from Israel on October 7 are still alive, senior Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... official Osama Hamdan told CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... on Thursday.
"I don’t have any idea about that. No one has any idea about this," he said, while denying that the four hostages rescued by Israeli forces last weekend had been abused during their more than eight months in the terror group’s captivity.
"I believe if they have mental problems, this is because of what Israel has done in Gaza," Hamdan told CNN in Beirut, upon being pressed on the testimony of a doctor who treated the rescued Israelis and said they were beaten "almost every day" and suffered from malnutrition.
The status of the remaining hostages is a key topic in negotiations for a potential deal between Israel and the terror group, which triggered the war on October 7, when thousands of faceless myrmidons poured into southern Israel from Gaza, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 251 hostages.
Hamas has refused to provide a list of the hostages still living, and has only sporadically provided signs of life for some captives, mainly in the service of propaganda.
As part of a potential deal, Israeli negotiators have demanded that living hostages be released before dead bodies, while Hamas negotiators have sought deals that would allow them to release an indeterminate number of bodies in place of living captives.
Hamas is "ready for a comprehensive deal which entails a ceasefire, withdrawal from the Strip, the reconstruction of what was destroyed, and a comprehensive swap deal"
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The IDF has, per the USA diktat, going slow in Rafah.
This began about 25 May and should have been over already. However, only about 30% or so of Rafah has been cleared. The slow go is resulting in more IDF deaths.
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] The Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ese army announced Friday the death of Ali Yaqoub,
… more fully Ali Yagoub Gibril …
the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Operations Commander in North Darfur, during an attack on El Fasher. The RSF downplayed the loss, asserting that his death would not affect their morale or determination to fight.
Joint forces in the Darfur region published photos and videos of Yaqoub’s body, which the Sudanese army later transported to their headquarters. Also, El Fasher residents celebrated the death of the RSF figure.
Yaqoub, who commanded the Central Darfur sector, was a close associate of RSF leader Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo. He led numerous military operations throughout Darfur, particularly in the absence of the RSF’s second-in-command, Abdel Rahim Daglo.
The high-ranking RSF commander’s death occurred less than 24 hours after the UN Security Council resolution demanding that the RSF end its siege on El Fasher, cease fighting, and de-escalate tensions in the city and surrounding areas.
Sudanese Armed Forces front man Nabil Abdallah, in a statement received by Sudan Tribune, said, "The army and joint forces thwarted an attack by the RSF this morning, inflicting heavy losses, including hundreds of dead and maimed, among them their criminal commander Ali Yaqoub."
Abdallah emphasized that the attack on El Fasher directly challenged the recent UN Security Council call for a cessation of hostilities and the lifting of the siege on the historic capital of Darfur.
A field commander within the Joint Force of Darfur gangs informed Sudan Tribune that their troops eliminated Yaqoub and his lover companions as they attempted to infiltrate El Fasher from the south with a large force comprising vehicles, cycle of violences, and infantry.
He stated that their forces engaged in a fierce battle with the attacking force near the livestock market, one of the largest markets in El Fasher, and neutralized the entire group.
The commander further revealed that Yaqoub had addressed his forces the day before, declaring their intention to pray Friday prayers at the Khatim al-Anbiya Mosque in the North Darfur capital and overrun joint forces’ positions at the livestock market and its surroundings.
[AFRICANEWS] The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution Thursday demanding that Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ’s paramilitary force immediately halt its siege of the only capital in the vast western region of Darfur that it doesn’t control and where more than a million people are reportedly trapped.
The British-sponsored resolution, which was approved by a vote of 14-0 with Russia abstaining, also calls on the paramilitary Rapid Support Force and Sudanese military "to seek an immediate cessation of hostilities" leading to an end to their more than year-long war.
It expresses "grave concern" at the spreading violence and credible reports that the Rapid Support Forces are carrying out "ethnically motivated violence" in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, as well as last year in El Geneina in West Darfur.
Britannia’s U.N. Ambassador Barbara Woodward told the council after the vote that the resolution sends a clear message: the RSF must "immediately stop the siege of El Fasher and that all sides step back from the brink."
"An attack on the city would be catastrophic for the 1.5 million people sheltering in the city," she warned. "This brutal and unjust conflict must end."
Sudan plunged into conflict in mid-April 2023, when long-simmering tensions between its military and paramilitary leaders broke out in the capital Khartoum and spread to other regions including Darfur. The U.N. says over 14,000 people have been killed and 33,000 injured.
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[Regnum] The newest Russian SSGN nuclear submarine Arkhangelsk, Project 885M, poses a huge threat to the North Atlantic Alliance, especially to NATO military bases located off the coastline. This was reported by the British edition of the Daily Express.
“There are fears that (Russia’s) Western opponents will not be able to detect its silent nuclear submarine with cruise missiles,” the material says.
According to journalists, the Arkhangelsk nuclear submarine will pose the greatest threat to NATO bases, naval convoys and coastal critical infrastructure.
It is noted that Arkhangelsk will significantly strengthen the Russian Navy. In addition, the submarine can be equipped with nuclear missiles capable of reaching speeds of up to 6,670 miles per hour (about 10,700 kilometers per hour).
The fourth generation multi-purpose nuclear submarine began factory sea trials in the White Sea in June 2024. It is planned to join the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy at the end of this year. Project 885M submarines are capable of carrying Onyx and Zircon anti-ship missiles, as well as Kalibr cruise missiles.
As Regnum reported, at the beginning of the year the Russian Navy received the Project 677 diesel-electric submarine Kronstadt (Lada). As Nikolai Evmenov, who was then Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, pointed out, the submarine showed excellent results during state sea trials. "Kronstadt" was included in the Northern Fleet.
On June 12, Sevmash General Director Mikhail Budnichenko said that the Russian Navy will receive nuclear submarines by the end of 2024, which will strengthen the country’s nuclear triad.
Russian and Egyptian warships conducted joint exercises in the Mediterranean Sea, the press service of the Pacific Fleet reported on June 15.
“During the exercises, we practiced the formation of a detachment of warships in a designated area, joint tactical maneuvering in various formations, conducted communications training and provided flights of deck-based helicopters,” the fleet press service said.
At the end, a farewell ceremony took place, during which the ships of the two countries parted on opposite courses to the sound of sirens.
The press service noted that the frigate Al-Qadir participated from Egypt. The joint training at the Pacific Fleet was called the next practical step in strengthening Russian-Egyptian naval cooperation.
Earlier, a detachment of Russian ships consisting of the missile cruiser CG Varyag and the frigate FFG Marshal Shaposhnikov left the port of Alexandria, which they were visiting on a business visit.
As Regnum reported, at the beginning of June, the Russian and Syrian military carried out exercises during which they repelled enemy attacks on the Tartus base. It is noted that the crews of the Pantsir-S air defense system, together with the crews of the anti-sabotage boat of the Black Sea Fleet "Cadet" and small missile boats of the Syrian Navy, destroyed naval drones of a mock enemy that were trying to break into the internal roadstead of the port. Also during the exercises, the military worked on preparing the systems for combat use and carried out, without actual use, electronic missile launches against surface targets in the Mediterranean Sea at a distance of more than 150 kilometers.
From May 27 to May 31, as part of the improvement of a unified regional air defense system, Belarus and Russia, under the leadership of the commander of the Air Force and Air Defense Forces, conducted joint tactical flight exercises. The military worked on the issues of managing diverse aviation forces, as well as organizing interaction when they performed combat training missions.
Harris calls Putin's peace proposal a call for Kyiv's capitulation
[Regnum] On June 15, US Vice President Kamala Harris said at a conference on Ukraine in Switzerland that she considers Russian President Vladimir Putin ’s proposal for a peaceful settlement a call for Kiev’s capitulation.
“Yesterday Putin put forward a proposal. However, we must say honestly that he is not calling for negotiations, but for capitulation,” she said.
Harris added that she will continue to work with United States President Joe Biden to ensure that Russia bears the costs of the NWO. At the same time, she emphasized that the United States supports Ukraine not as part of charity, but in its own strategic interests.
As Regnum reported, on June 14, Putin announced his readiness for peace negotiations on Ukraine if Kiev withdraws troops from new Russian regions. He also promised that the Russian Armed Forces would stop hostilities if the withdrawal of the Ukrainian Armed Forces begins and Kyiv announces its refusal to join NATO.
The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, said that he considers the initiative for negotiations an “ ultimatum.” In his opinion, Russian troops will not stop advancing if Kyiv fulfills Moscow’s conditions.
Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said on June 15 that many representatives of Western countries during the conference on Ukraine spoke about the Russian leader’s proposal, but all statements were unconstructive.
The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, wished the participants of the Swiss conference on Ukraine to discuss the proposals of the Russian leader if they really want to save the world.
More from regnum.ru Fidan calls Putin's peace proposals a "glimmer of hope"
Russian President Vladimir Putin's peace proposals for Ukraine are a glimmer of hope. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan announced this on June 15 at the opening of a conference on Ukraine in Switzerland.
Does anyone at all care what Turkey says, nowadays?
“Russia recently put forward new conditions. Regardless of their content, they are an important step and a glimmer of hope to begin with,” he said.
Fidan added that the conference in Switzerland would be more result-oriented if Russian representatives were present at it.
According to the minister, Ankara believes in the need for a full-scale solution to the conflict based on diplomacy and is always ready to accept new negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv.
As Regnum reported, the conference on Ukraine, to which Russia was not invited, is taking place from June 15 to 16 in Bürgenstock. Many countries refused to participate, and the number of conference participants dropped to 78, while Bern initially stated that he had sent out invitations to about 150 countries.
Any credible process to resolve the Ukrainian conflict requires Russian participation, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud said at a conference in Bürgenstock.
On June 14, Putin said that Moscow is ready to conduct peace negotiations on Ukraine if Kiev withdraws the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the territory of new Russian regions. He added that Russian troops will cease fire if the Ukrainian leadership begins to withdraw troops and announces its refusal to join NATO.
Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted on June 15 that the Kremlin has nothing to convey to the participants of the so-called peace summit on Ukraine. He added that Russia intends to gather next time at a more substantive and promising event. The Kremlin representative clarified that the issue of peace in Ukraine is not being discussed in Switzerland, and Putin’s proposals for peace negotiations will not be on the agenda.
Even more from regnum.ru France explains NATO's refusal to put Putin's peace proposal on Ukraine
NATO rejected President Vladimir Putin's proposal for a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Ukraine due to a desire for war with Russia. This opinion was expressed on June 14 by the leader of the French Patriots party, Florian Philippot, on the social network X.
“It’s just crazy! “NATO has announced that it rejects the peace proposal made today by the Russian leadership,” he wrote.
Filippo noted that the alliance also responded to Moscow with threats, saying that several hundred thousand military blocs are in a state of high alert.
"They want war!" - the politician added and called on Western countries for peace, and France to leave NATO.
As Regnum reported, on June 14, at a meeting with the leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Putin announced Russia’s readiness for peace negotiations on the Ukrainian conflict. The President called the conditions for this the complete withdrawal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the new regions of Russia within the borders in which they became part of Ukraine, as well as the refusal of the Kiev regime to join NATO.
The head of state named the lifting of Western anti-Russian sanctions as another condition for negotiations. According to Putin, Kyiv and the West must recognize the new territorial realities and status of Crimea with Sevastopol, as well as the LPR, DPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions as subjects of Russia. At the same time, basic agreements on the peaceful resolution of the conflict need to be fixed in international treaties that will spell out the rights, freedoms and interests of Russian-speaking citizens in Ukraine, the Russian leader added.
Later, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenbnerg said that the bloc does not consider Putin’s proposal to resolve the conflict in Ukraine peaceful. He noted that the alliance will continue to supply weapons to Kyiv.
In turn, the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, called Putin’s initiative an “ ultimatum.” In his opinion, Russian troops will allegedly not stop the offensive after Kiev fulfills Moscow’s conditions.
Press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov said on June 14 that Putin was informed about the reaction of Kiev and the West to his peace initiative in Ukraine. The Kremlin spokesman clarified that the president called her predictable.
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[Regnum] On June 15, the American newspaper The New York Times allegedly published a draft agreement between Russia and Ukraine dated April 15, 2022, which the parties never signed.
Fifty-fifty odds it’s real versus entirely invented in the NY Times editorial office.
According to the draft agreement, Ukraine is a neutral state and undertakes not to join any military alliances and not to station foreign military bases and contingents on its territory.
The UK, China, Russia, the USA and France are named as guarantors of Ukraine's security. It is noted that the guarantor status for Belarus has not been agreed upon with Kiev, and for Turkey - with Moscow.
One of the points included a guarantee from Kyiv that Russian is the official language and functions on an equal basis with Ukrainian in all government bodies and institutions of the country.
In addition, Kyiv had to condemn and prohibit the propaganda of the ideas of Nazism, fascism, and neo-Nazism. According to the newspaper, the Kiev regime refused to discuss these articles.
As Regnum reported, in April 2024, the German newspaper Die Welt wrote that in 2022, one of the reasons for Ukraine’s refusal to negotiate peace with Russia was allegedly the demand to make Russian the second state language. According to journalists, in Istanbul the parties were close to concluding a peace agreement, but Ukraine did not want to make Russian the second state language, lift mutual sanctions, abandon claims in international courts and legally prohibit Nazism.
Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, answering the question whether Ukraine really thwarted these agreements, said that at the negotiations in Istanbul, the delegations of the two countries initialed the document, but Kiev, under pressure from London, refused to continue working on it.
President Vladimir Putin said on May 17 that the initialed draft agreement between Russia and Ukraine, which was agreed upon at negotiations in Istanbul, could become the basis for resolving the conflict. He recalled that the draft document was signed by the head of the Ukrainian delegation, David Arakhamia. There was no mention of any other additional conditions; they had never been heard of in Russia, Putin added.
On June 17, 2023, Putin, at a meeting with the leaders of African countries, showed them the initialed peace treaty with Ukraine, which provided for the neutrality of Kyiv and security guarantees. He also showed a draft of the Istanbul Treaty, which took into account various provisions, including the number of military equipment and personnel. The Ukrainian authorities abandoned the agreements as soon as Russia withdrew its troops from Kyiv, the president emphasized.
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[Regnum] The Swedish Armed Forces said that a Russian Su-24 aircraft allegedly violated the country's airspace on June 14, the Expressen newspaper reported.
According to Air Force Commander Jonas Wikman, the bomber was allegedly discovered east of the island of Gotland. The plane was accused of deviating from the route and, having received no response, two JAS fighters were scrambled to intercept.
“We observed his movement; the violation was quite short-lived, less than two minutes,” the newspaper quoted the military commander as saying.
The country's Defense Minister Paul Johnson noted that he had already been informed about the “violation” of Swedish airspace. The Foreign Ministry said it would call a representative of the Russian embassy to clarify the situation.
As Regnum reported, on June 14, the Finnish border service stated that four Russian military aircraft allegedly violated the country’s airspace on June 10. It was noted that these were two bombers and two fighters, which allegedly proceeded into Finnish airspace at a distance of two and a half kilometers.
On June 10, Russian Tu-95MS missile carriers and Tu-22M3 bombers made a planned flight over the neutral waters of the Baltic, Barents and Norwegian seas. They were accompanied by Su-30SM, Su-27, Su-33 fighters. According to the Ministry of Defense, at certain stages of the route they were accompanied by fighters from foreign countries. Long-range aviation pilots perform all flights in strict accordance with international rules for the use of airspace, the department emphasized.
On the evening of June 10, the Finnish Foreign Ministry sent a request to the Russian embassy in Helsinki, stating that the Russian plane allegedly violated Finnish airspace and demanded clarification. The Finnish Foreign Ministry claimed that the plane was allegedly in the airspace of the republic for about two minutes.
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[REGNUM] The Israeli Air Force is carrying out massive strikes on southern Lebanon after an escalation of fighting between the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) and Lebanese Hezbollah on the border of the two countries. The activity of modern Israeli aviation is complemented by the unexpected use by ground forces of medieval catapults and trebuchets to throw incendiary mixtures. The seemingly strange medieval tactic was probably the only way IDF commanders could think of to set fire to the bush on the Lebanese side where Hezbollah fighters might be hiding. This may also indicate the beginning of preparations for an Israeli ground invasion of Southern Lebanon and the creation of a safe pre-field for the deployment of larger forces directly along the border.
The escalation began on Tuesday, June 11, when an Israeli strike killed Taleb Abdullah,
…alternative spelling Taleb Abdallah, killed with three henchmen in Jouaiyya, 15 km from the Israeli border …
commander of the Nasr Division, one of Hezbollah's three main formations. In response, Hezbollah launched rocket attacks into northern Israel and the occupied Golan Heights.
The Iran-backed group, whose name translates to "Party of God," fired 170 rockets at Israeli positions on Wednesday. The attacks continued on Thursday.
In particular, the strikes hit six Israeli military targets, and the arsenal of weapons used was supplemented by a squadron of drones that hit three Israeli bases. The targets included the main intelligence center in northern Israel.
The current escalation between Hezbollah and Israel is the largest since October 7, 2023, when Hezbollah came out in support of Palestinian Hamas allies and now threatens to escalate into a full-scale war between Israel and Lebanon.
HIKE TO THE NORTH
It is worrying that the current round of confrontation occurred immediately after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on June 5, during a visit to border villages on the Lebanese-Israeli border, said that the Israeli army was ready “for very powerful actions” in the north of the country, and the government announced an additional conscription of 50 thousand reservists into the army.
Why worrying? Israel warned —> Israel acts. Otherwise, why bother?
Back in April, Israel's Channel 13 reported that the IDF had completed preparations for a potential military campaign in the north. According to him, the military’s initial plan is to push back Hezbollah fighters 8-10 kilometers deep into Lebanese territory. De facto, this would be consistent with the essence of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 adopted in 2006, which ordered Hezbollah to withdraw its military to the Litani River.
It should be borne in mind that Hezbollah itself did not set out to launch an invasion of Israel, only supporting its Hamas allies with rocket attacks and strikes on IDF positions in the border area. The red line after which the Party of God will be ready to move on to full-scale operations will be the threat of the complete destruction of Hamas. However, this has not happened so far.
The limiting factor for Hezbollah’s more active involvement in the conflict is its position in Lebanon.
The “Party of God” is primarily a Lebanese political force, represented in the country’s government and parliament, and only secondarily a member of the “axis of resistance” led by Iran.
Therefore, Hezbollah will correlate any of its steps with how the Lebanese themselves will perceive it, who are by no means eager to be drawn into the conflict and, to one degree or another, share the fate of the Palestinians of Gaza who are dying under bombs. Naturally, such a scenario will have a negative impact on Hezbollah’s popularity in Lebanon.
Based on this, Hezbollah itself is inclined to act from the position of not a “spear”, but a “shield” against Israel, and if Israel itself launches an invasion of Lebanon, then here the “Party of God”, acting as a defender of Lebanon, on the contrary, can strengthen positions. Especially if, as in 2006, the group manages to emerge victorious from the confrontation. Or at least not lose.
It’s the not losing that’s key. Kind of like getting a pension from the CIA.
Although it should be noted that, despite the success in 2006, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was still forced to make excuses to the Lebanese who suffered from the conflict, claiming that he did not expect such harsh and cruel actions by Israel, which decided to invade.
STRONG OPPONENT
For Israel, Hezbollah will still remain the “sword of Damocles”, which does not allow its residents to be safe.
The events of October 7 have already demonstrated how vulnerable Israeli defenses are. Now Israeli leaders need to reassure their population that this time the intelligence services can anticipate any attack and the military can stop it.
This is a difficult task given Hezbollah's capabilities, and the discreditation of military and intelligence officials following the Al-Aqsa Flood has made it even more difficult.
The Lebanese Party of God has a much higher military potential than the Palestinian Hamas. And if they decide to invade, the group’s DRGs could penetrate much deeper into Israeli territory, threatening large cities, such as Haifa.
In this context, the only option for the Netanyahu regime may be a preventive invasion of Lebanon. Until a buffer zone is created in southern Lebanon, the threat of a breach of the border line and a Hezbollah invasion of Israel will be a constant risk. This risk will also prevent the return of temporarily displaced Israelis, of whom there are more than 100 thousand, to the north of the country.
The Netanyahu government is already facing criticism for what happened on the northern border.
Thus, according to Avigdor Lieberman, a former finance minister who heads the opposition party, the Israeli government was weak in the north: “The red line turned into a white flag - the war cabinet surrendered to Hezbollah and lost the north.”
AT THE PEAK OF FORM
Israel does have something to fear, as Hezbollah is now at the peak of its military form.
The Party of God was able to fully recover from the losses it suffered during the Syrian civil war. The core of the most experienced fighters who went through the Syrian campaign remained in the ranks; appropriate conclusions were drawn and the experience of Hezbollah’s participation in that conflict was generalized.
Good job, guys! You’re now thoroughly trained in fighting low tech, semi-trained jihadis specializing in mobile mass attacks, where the most important skill, as far as I can tell, is to hold your position as a unit and not flee in terror. Fighting the IDF requires you not to be a recognizable target or at/near a target location, a very different skill. But perhaps Allah will at some point change his mind and help you survive what’s to come…
At the same time, the group received new modern weapons from Iran, which it did not yet have during the Syrian war. In addition, as a result of the Syrian conflict, the “Party of God” was able to acquire a fleet of armored vehicles, forming mechanized units equipped with T-72, T-62 and T-55 tanks. According to some reports, Hezbollah was also able to obtain the Pantsir air defense missile system.
Oooohhhh…. is that one of the ones that is no help whatsoever against the IAF?
The elite of Hezbollah’s armed wing is the Al-Haj Radwan regiment, a special forces assault unit that can be classified as “commando”, numbering 2.5 thousand fighters in its ranks.
But the backbone of Hezbollah’s forces remains the light infantry, which includes about 30 thousand active fighters, distributed across three infantry divisions “Nasr”, “Badr” and “Aziz”, and up to 20 thousand trained reservists. However, in a short time, the number of armed formations of the “Party of God” and allied forces can be increased to 100 thousand people.
Do they come pre-trained, ready to fight as a unit? Because if not, what use are they in this kind of war?
Some Lebanese Sunni factions are already operating in the ranks of Hezbollah, for example, the Dawn Forces, which represent the military wing of the Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood (banned in the Russian Federation).
The group can also count on fighters from its allied Lebanese Shiite movement Amal, which is capable of deploying up to 15 thousand people, using them under the Hezbollah flag. And this despite the fact that about 3 thousand Amal fighters are already forming the 6th brigade of the Lebanese ground forces.
It is obvious that help for Hezbollah will also come from Syria, where numerous units operating under the auspices of the “Islamic resistance” (the military wing of Hezbollah), consisting not only of Lebanese, but also of Syrians, as well as Iraqis, are deployed, and are known as "Syrian Hezbollah".
Hezbollah uses modern methods of warfare, its fighters and commanders are trained in stealth, mobility and autonomy, and its tactics are based on a concept that NATO calls “mission command”.
Under this methodology, subordinates are given the opportunity to make independent decisions on the battlefield only based on the general intentions of the commander. This force structure allows Hezbollah to operate effectively in small groups in the face of overwhelming Israeli firepower.
After the 2006 war, Hezbollah continued to exploit the strengths of this approach as it continued to decentralize its command and reorganize itself.
In the event of hostilities, it is capable of forcing the IDF to fight in mountainous or urban areas, where movement fighters can take advantage of hidden fortified positions and operate from ambushes in small groups.
ROCKET FIST
Hezbollah’s missile potential is also impressive, including various versions of the Soviet OTR SCUD, numbering up to 50 units with a range of 300–500 kilometers. In addition, a similar class of missiles is represented by the more modern Iranian Fateh-110, capable of hitting targets at a distance of 300 kilometers. The group has an arsenal of 400 such missiles.
Hezbollah is also armed with thousands of Iranian Zelzal-1 and Zelzal-2 missiles with a 600-kilogram warhead and a range of up to 200 kilometers.
Finally, the “Party of God” has more than 100 thousand MLRS missiles Fajr, Falaq, Raad, Shahin, Burqan, etc., which can be used from various non-standard launchers with high mobility and stealth. Many launchers are designed on light vehicles or are generally portable. It may take only half a minute to dismantle them and cover them after a shot.
This arsenal is complemented by more than 2 thousand drones, among which there are modern Iranian-made UAVs of the Mohajer-4/Mirsad-2 (equipped with ATGM), Shahed-129/Ayoub (with two 34-kg bombs), Samed (KAS-04), Karrar (two 125-kilogram bombs, ATGM or anti-ship missiles), Saegheh and others. Hezbollah UAVs have already successfully overcome Israeli air defenses, hitting military targets on its territory after October 7, 2023.
The “Party of God” has the real ability, if necessary, to overload Israeli air defense and hit strategically important targets throughout Israel with the most effective and heaviest missiles.
That has, indeed, been the key threat thus far. Though at one point the claim was that Hezbollah had 150,000 rockets and missiles. Where did the last third of them go?
In general, Hezbollah's use of more advanced weapons, including missile-equipped UAVs, kamikaze drones and a new Iranian-made ATGM known as the Almas-4, which has proven highly effective, has already caused alarm among the Israeli military.
The IDF like getting alarmed. It helps them focus beyond the immediate needs of the moment.
Here we can also recall the Tharallah ATGM, created specifically to overcome the active protection of Israeli Merkava tanks.
All this is superimposed on the difficult terrain, where in the event of an invasion the Israeli army will have to advance along narrow mountain roads, exposing armored vehicles to attacks from ATGMs and remote mines.
THE HISTORY OF WARS IS NOT IN FAVOR OF ISRAEL
Israel has fought Hezbollah several times since its creation in the early 1980s, mostly unsuccessfully.
They’ve fought to mow the grass thus far, not to win definitively. Looking at the war in Gaza, that seems to have changed.
The first success of the “Party of God” was the withdrawal of the IDF from southern Lebanon and the defeat of the local pro-Israeli puppet government in 2000.
Since early 1999, the group has intensified attacks against the Israeli military and its proxies in occupied Lebanon. The commander of the Israeli Golani brigade and an entire platoon of Israeli paratroopers were killed in the ambushes.
One of the commanders of the puppet forces of Southern Lebanon, Akl Hashem, was blown up in his own home. Israeli territory was periodically fired upon by Hezbollah rockets, which led to American strikes on the group’s positions.
In the spring of 2000, Hezbollah became significantly more active, operations were accompanied by constant attacks on Israeli military posts in the occupied territory of Lebanon. On May 24, Israel announced that it would withdraw all troops from southern Lebanon. His entire force left Lebanon by the end of the next day, more than six weeks before the deadline.
The IDF withdrawal led to the rapid advance of Hezbollah forces and the defection of the pro-Israeli army from southern Lebanon. This was seen as a landslide victory for Hezbollah and greatly increased its popularity in the country, especially after Lebanese Muslims were able to return to liberated territories from which they had previously been expelled by pro-Israeli Christian militias.
Despite Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon, Hezbollah continued to attack it from time to time under the pretext that the small area at the intersection of the Lebanon-Syria-Israel border, Shebaa Farm, remained occupied. Hezbollah claimed that the farms were Lebanese territory and thus the Israeli occupation continued.
A low-intensity conflict between Israel and Hezbollah escalated into full-scale war in 2006 following a cross-border kidnapping operation by Hezbollah against Israeli military personnel.
It is significant that at that time the “Party of God” deflected the blow from Hamas, against which an invading army had already been deployed. As a result of Hezbollah's actions, it was transferred to the north and began an offensive in southern Lebanon.
Many Israelis considered the war a disaster due to the high death toll and huge losses of armored vehicles. Then the brigade set was knocked out, in particular 52 Merkava tanks, most of which, however, were restored and returned to service after the conflict. The IDF's performance on the battlefield was widely criticized.
The 2006 war ended with UN Security Council Resolution 1701, according to which Israeli troops were forced to leave Lebanon again. A buffer zone was created between the Blue Line (border) and the Litani River along the borders of Israel, Lebanon and Syria.
Hezbollah, however, rejected such language, saying its troops would not leave. Despite this, the IDF was still forced to leave Lebanon, unable to effectively confront Hezbollah and push it out of the buffer zone.
The lessons of the Lebanese wars are well remembered in Israel, which is why many politicians point out the risks that the IDF will face if the “Third Lebanon War” breaks out. Up to forecasts about the defeat of Israeli units in Southern Lebanon.
However, on the other side of the scale lies the risk of Hezbollah invading Israel itself, which forces the country to live under constant threat. In any case, Israel now has no good solutions.
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israel has no choice. They have enclaves of people sworn to israels destruction and enemies on their borders. israel needs to 1: obliterate gaza and west-bank. 2 not allow followers of sharia to live in israel. go to war with hezbollah and kill them all. Tell egypt and jordan to shut-up.
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Israel might want to wait until deployment of more air defense weapon systems such as Red Sky against low flying UAVs) and Iron Beam against missiles
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[NewsFront] 23:59 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 06/15/2024 to 00:00 06/16/2024.
A total of 16 facts of armed attacks by the UFU were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
Information has been received about the death of two civilians
DAMAGED:
One residential building.
Twelve artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction.
Four artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction.
A total of 44 units of various ammunition were fired.
22:01 Khar'kov direction (district of Kupyansk settlement) Ivanovka.
It is reported that after the liberation in the vicinity of the village. In Ivanovka, MLRS and TOS are operating at positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, camouflaged in forest belts and ruins. Strikes are also delivered by fire from the MSTA-S self-propelled gun.
Su-25M crews provide fire support to Russian troops.
21:35 Military expert Boris Rozhin about the situation in the Ocheretinsky breakthrough zone in the Donetsk section of the Northern Military District.
Karlovka.
The Russian Armed Forces advanced along the northern and southern shores of the Karlovskoye Reservoir, establishing control over part of the dacha area. Karlovka is still under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. To the north there is an advance from Netaylovo to Yasnobrodovka, the enemy has lost a number of landings.
Yasnobrodovka.
The Russian Armed Forces are fighting near the eastern and south-eastern outskirts of the village, the village itself is still under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Novoselka First.
After the liberation of Novopokrovsky, the Russian Armed Forces continue to advance to the eastern and northeastern outskirts of Novoselka First. The enemy is trying to strengthen the defense of the village, while demoralization of enemy personnel who have withdrawn from the Novopokrovsky area is noted.
Ocheretino.
To the west of Ocheretino, fighting continues on the eastern outskirts of Sokol, part of Sokol is in the gray zone.
To the north-west, the zone of control of the Russian Armed Forces around Novoaleksandrovka continues to expand.
The enemy claims that the forward positions of the Russian Armed Forces are already seven kilometers from the key logistics route Krasnoarmeysk-Konstantinovka.
In the north of Ocheretino, the Russian Armed Forces are fighting southwest of Kalinovo. There is no progress in the direction of Rozovka yet.
Generally speaking, the Russian Armed Forces continue to develop an offensive to the west and south of Ocheretino, creating the threat of advancing deeper into the western Donbass in the direction of the Krasnoarmeysk logistics hub. The enemy is trying to stabilize the situation, but the reserves tied up in the battles in the Khar'kov region cannot yet be transferred to the Donbass.
20:02 Around 18.00 Moscow time suppressed another attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using aircraft-type UAVs against objects on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Duty air defense systems destroyed a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle over the territory of the Belgorod region.
19:15 Kherson direction.
Reported, that today the aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces worked on identified enemy positions on the right bank. The crew of the 152mm D-20 gun was hit. UVAB-250 and UVAB-500 hit enemy fortified positions and deployment points of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
18:39 Advancement of the Russian Armed Forces near Chasov Yar -map.
18:07 In the Sumy region on the border with Russian held mandatory evacuation of the population.
17:47 Russian Armies left seven km to cut the main supply route for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donbass - BILD.
16:55 Statements by representatives of the North, West, South, Center, East and Dnepr groups on the progress of the special military operation (as of June 15, 2024) -video.
16:18 Special military operation. Situation on June 15 –map.
15:59 Advance of the Russian Armed Forces near Berestovoe -map.
15:48 Sumy region. district settlement Konotop.
Reported about a new night arrival at the location of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. That night, our airborne forces again hit one of the enterprises of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense and equipment located nearby.
14:57 Telegram channel “Fisherman":
Donetsk direction: advance of the Russian Armed Forces to Krasnogorovka and assault on Nevelskoye, situation as of 13:00 June 15, 2024
In the Donetsk direction, Russian units continue the assault on Krasnogorovka, and are also advancing on the northern flank.
Over the past week, the enemy was driven out of some positions on the western and eastern outskirts of Krasnogorovka. In the west, the advance of Russian troops is recorded in low-rise buildings along Parkhomenko, Gorky and Suvorov streets.
Significantly greater progress on the eastern outskirts. There, the development to the east of Mayakovsky Street, including the territory of the central hospital and technical school, came under the control of the RF Armed Forces.
The enemy was also knocked out from the high-rise buildings north of Sovetskaya Street. According to our sources, if the enemy’s presence there remains, it will be in the form of isolated “losses.”
There is also progress on the northern outskirts of Krasnogorovka in the area of Nakhimov Street. According to some reports, Russian attack aircraft advanced along it to the intersections with Leo Tolstoy and Bogdan Khmelnitsky streets.
Successes in the north of Krasnogorovka are associated with the resumption of assault operations in Nevelskoye and the surrounding area. Recently, attack aircraft were able to enter the village, but not without losses of equipment from the operating armored group.
To date, according to our data, it has not been possible to establish control over Nevelskoye. The enemy is resisting fiercely due to the importance of the heights to the west of the settlement in the defense of Krasnogorovka.
At the same time, earlier successes north of Domakhi in the area of ??Pervomaiskoye and Netailovo, and now the resumption of the assault on Nevelskoye, directly affect the enemy’s defensive capabilities both in Krasnogorovka and in the area as a whole.
Thus, the enemy forces operating in Krasnogorovka itself began to have problems with their moral and psychological state, and among the prisoners, so-called citizens recently mobilized by the “little catchers” are increasingly found. Ukraine.
To the south, in the Georgievka area, local attempts to advance the Russian Armed Forces are also observed. Based on footage from the enemy, Russian attack aircraft have latched on to the buildings in the east of Maksimilyanovka, and armored vehicles with landing troops are operating in the fields to the south.
14:23 Khar'kov and Khar'kov region.
New blows of our aviation bombs FAB-500 and KAB-500 with UPMK on military buildings and structures of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the offensive actions of our attack aircraft.
13:25 Volchansk. According to updated information, the city center is behind the Russian Armed Forces. There are battles for every building -map.
12:55 Operator of the Verba MANPADS from the 98th Airborne Division knocks down Ukrainian reconnaissance UAV aircraft type "Furia".
11:47 Telegram channel “Fisherman":
Bakhmut direction: advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the Kanal microdistrict and to the north of it.
The main hot spot in the Bakhmut direction remains Chasov Yar, where fighting is taking place in the Kanal microdistrict.
Over the past few days, Russian troops have managed to make significant progress within the borders of the “Canal” and establish control over most of the industrial zone in the north. The fighting is taking place outside Oleg Koshevoy Street, and the high-rise buildings to the south were under enemy control by the end of last day.
To the north, two wide forest belts on both sides of the railway came under the control of the RF Armed Forces. This allowed not only to partially secure the flank in the “Canal”, but also to a neighboring unit to clear the forest south of Bogdanovka.
In the vicinity of Bogdanovka itself the situation remains difficult. The enemy holds Kalinovka, from the adjacent heights and Grigorovka. The active use of HIMARS was also recorded in this area, which somewhat complicates the offensive of the Russian Armed Forces.
To the south, in the area of Ivanovsky (Krasny), Russian troops advanced in the direction of Kleshcheevka, occupying several forest belts. At the same time, it is curious that practically no information appears in open sources about the battles in the Stupki-Golubovskie-2 nature reserve. Apparently, there are either no attempts to advance the RF Armed Forces, or, on the contrary, they are very successful.
In the area from Kleshcheevka to Kurdyumovka the situation is hidden by the “fog of war.” There has not yet appeared any footage of objective control from anyone’s side that would allow us to establish the status of Kleshcheevka and the heights to the north.
High activity of enemy UAVs is recorded in the area, mining both the gray zone and supply routes for Russian troops, including anti-tank mines from Baba Yaga drones.
11:11 Donetsk direction.
Our units of the “Center” group of troops after the liberation of the village of Netailovo in the DPR improved tactical positions and move further north and west of the settlement.
10:44 Frontline summary for the morning of 06/15/2024
Zaporozhye Front. No major changes. Positional battles continue in the Rabotino area and northwest of Verbovoy.
On the Donetsk Front, offensive actions by the Russian Armed Forces continue in the area of the settlement of Konstantinovka, as well as in the direction of the settlement of Maksimilyanovka, which is north-west of Georgievka, which was liberated the day before.
In Krasnogorovka, Russian troops have advanced from the eastern side, and fighting continues in the central part of the city. In Karlovka and Yasnobrodovka, fighting continues on the outskirts of settlements. There are tactical successes of Russian troops in Sokol.
Chasovoyarsk direction. With the support of aviation and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces, the assault on the eastern suburb of Chasov Yar continues. To the south, in the area of the settlement of Bogdanovka, the Russian Armed Forces were able to improve their positions, which further complicates the position of the Ukrainian garrison in this area.
Khar'kov front. No major changes. Fighting continues in the central part of Volchansk. There are small advances of Russian troops, but they are not easy. In the Glubokoe area, the Ukrainian Armed Forces once again tried to carry out attack actions - without results.
10:07 Telegram channel “Fisherman":
Chronicle of a special military operation for June 14, 2024.
At night, Russian troops launched another attack on infrastructure facilities in enemy-controlled territory. According to preliminary data, among the targets hit are the Starokonstantinov military airfield and the underground gas storage facility in Stryi.
In turn, Ukrainian formations carried out one of the most massive drone attacks on Russian territory. More than 80 Ukrainian drones destroyed air defense systems over various regions tonight.
Fierce fighting is taking place in the Slobozhansky direction in Volchansk, and a difficult situation remains in the area of ??the aggregate plant.
In the Bakhmut direction, Russian troops are fighting in the eastern suburb of Chasov Yar, and to the north, volunteer units have cleared the forest adjacent to Bogdanovka.
In the Donetsk direction, Russian troops advanced from the eastern side of the Solnechny microdistrict, where Russian fighters occupied the territory of the city hospital and school No. 1.
In the Ugledar direction, the enemy was completely driven out of Paraskovievka. At the same time, part of the village is in the gray zone due to the high intensity of artillery fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
09:52 Criminal Kyiv regime continues to fire at the civilian infrastructure of populated areas on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from cannon artillery::
-- n.p. Alyosha five rounds;
-- in Solontsy two rounds;
-- n.p. Kakhovka three rounds;
-- in the village of Novaya Kakhovka four rounds;
-- n.p. Dnepryan three rounds
-- n.p. Lyubimovka three rounds.
As a result of the strike on the settlement. Alyoshka, a woman is wounded. In addition, the village came under attack from the UAV. Kakhovka.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Tavriysk, n.p. Kakhovka, n.p. Korsunka, n.p. Kardashinka, n.p. Aleshki, firing a total of 20 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.
09:20 “We already have almost all Western equipment in our piggy bank.”
FPV drone calculation engineer with call sign “Altai”toldabout frontline combat and how his unit destroyed the vaunted American Abrams tank.
Altai’s responsibilities include preparing kamikaze drones for flight, as well as working directly with ammunition, including improvised explosive devices.
Showing the warhead from a hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher, the serviceman notes that this projectile is light in weight, has good destructive power and is suitable for long-distance flights.
Recently, thanks to such a “carrot,” as fighters call an RPG grenade, a crew of FPV drones destroyed an American-made Abrams tank.
08:50 During last night suppressed an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Three Ukrainian UAVs were destroyed by air defense systems on duty over the territory of the Rostov region.
08:00 Official summary of Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC:
A total of 37 facts of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC.
There were no reports of civilian casualties.
Damaged:
Four residential buildings,
Three cars,
One unit of municipal equipment,
Two civil infrastructure facilities.
A total of 18 attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction,
A total of 19 attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Gorlovka direction.
In total, the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired 106 units of various ammunition.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21:36 President of the European Council Charles Michel said that to achieve peace, dialogue with Russia is needed, but “this dialogue must be based on international law and the UN Charter. It is Ukraine that must determine when this will be possible.” He added that Ukraine can always count on the EU.
20:13 Scholz spoke out against the ceasefire in Ukraine at the Peace Summit: “An immediate ceasefire without serious negotiations, without a road map to a just and lasting peace will simply legitimize Russia’s seizure of Ukrainian land and lead to a new frozen conflict.” At the same time, the chancellor noted that “peace cannot be achieved without the involvement of the Russian Federation.” But, he said, “today Russia has abandoned the collective call for peace.”
20:07 Zelensky said that at the first Peace Summit “we must decide how to achieve a just peace, and at the second we must record a real end to the war.” According to him, the world must decide together what a just peace means and how it can be achieved on the basis of the UN Charter.
“Russia is not here now. Why? If Russia were interested in peace, there would be no war... Then, when the action plan is on the table, agreed upon by everyone and transparent to the peoples, then it will be communicated to Russian representatives. So that at the second Summit peace, we could record the real end of the war,” Zelensky emphasized.
In turn, Swiss President Viola Amherd said that “we also want to discuss how and under what conditions Russia can be included in this process.” According to her, finding a path to peace requires persistence, will and effort: “We can achieve a concrete goal when we unite. Even where our thoughts differ. At this summit we will take the first step. It is very important that it is followed by the second.”
17:51 On Sunday, June 16, hourly outage schedules will not be applied throughout Ukraine, Ukrenergo reported.
16:12 Russia’s artillery advantage at the beginning of the year was 7:1, but has now decreased to 5:1, said First Deputy Defense Minister Ivan Gavrilyuk.
14:46 Ukraine does not rule out negotiations with Russia during the second peace summit, said the head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak: “No compromise with independence, no compromise with sovereignty and territorial integrity. We are looking for an opportunity to present this plan to the representative of the Russian Federation. We think that this could happen at the second summit."
13:40 The United States is allocating more than $1.5 billion for the energy sector and humanitarian needs of Ukraine, Vice President Kamala Harris said during a meeting with Zelensky on the sidelines of the Peace Summit in Switzerland.
13:28 The Russians fired at the village. Ulakly Volnovakha district of Donetsk region - three people were killed, five were injured, the prosecutor's office reported.
10:47 The document on negotiations with Ukraine on joining the European Union included Hungary’s demands for the protection of national minorities, said the country’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó. According to him, the document states that “Ukraine must return the rights taken away from Transcarpathian Hungarians over the past few years.”
09:16 On June 14, the Russians shelled the village. Glushkovka, Kupyansky district, one person died, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the local police department. Two more people were wounded as a result of enemy shelling. Boguslavka, Izyum district.
09:10 In the Kherson region over the past 24 hours, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed and another was wounded, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin. Seven private houses were damaged.
08:28 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of June 15:
personnel - about 525,150 (+1090) people,
tanks - 7956 (+20),
armored combat vehicles - 15,263 (+29),
artillery systems - 13,855 (+37),
MLRS - 1103 (+2),
air defense systems - 853 (+4),
aircraft - 359 (+0),
helicopters - 326 (+0),
UAVs of operational-tactical level - 11 148 (+51),
cruise missiles - 2293 (+7),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 18,911 (+57),
special equipment - 2322 (+12).
07:59 In the Kiev region, rescuers completed extinguishing a fire at an industrial enterprise that broke out on June 12 as a result of a Russian attack, the State Emergency Service reported.
07:13 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that air defense allegedly destroyed three drones over the territory of the Rostov region at night. Governor Vasily Golubev said that the UAVs were shot down in the city of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky - fragments of the drones fell on the territory of the industrial site, the glazing of a non-residential building was damaged, but there were no casualties. In Kamensk there is a federal government-owned enterprise, the Kamensky Combine, which is listed in CIA documents as the location for the production of composite fuel for rocket engines.
03:50 Last night, Ukrainian forces used at least 70 Dragon and Splash drones to strike the Russian Morozovsk airbase, Budanov told The War Zone project. According to him, the damage to the Russian side is currently being assessed. The War Zone notes that the Morozovsk airfield, located in the Rostov region, is home to dozens of Su-34 fighter-bombers, which are the main weapon in the war.
[IsraelTimes] Mothers share accounts of their children’s captivity at conference, with one saying girls forced to clean and cook
The mother of Liri Albag, a 19-year-old female soldier kidnapped on October 7, shared information Friday about her daughter that she said came from freed female hostages and also matched the account of Noa Argamani, who was rescued from Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... captivity in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... last week.
"As Noa Argamani said, they were slaves, and so were the [female soldiers], including Liri. They cleaned the yard, did dishes, and prepared food that they were not allowed to eat," Shira Albag told a conference of female municipal leaders in Ganei Tikva, south of Tel Aviv.
Shira Albag said that as far as she knew from accounts, her daughter was initially moved between some four homes, among them a luxury villa, and was only allowed to shower a month into her captivity. After 40 days, according to Albag, Liri was moved into Hamas’s network of underground tunnels, where there was little food and no light, and the water was salty and rationed.
Argamani was rescued in an Israeli security forces operation on Saturday, along with Shlomi Ziv, Almog Meir Jan and Andrey Kozlov, who were held separately from her.
Meir Jan’s mother Orit Meir also spoke at the conference on Friday, sharing information about her son’s conditions in captivity.
"Almog was in a wealthy home. He received food once or twice a day, not always tasty, not healthy, but he didn’t starve," said Meir. "He also had company: Shlomi and Andrey, who were rescued with him. He wasn’t alone."
Liri Albag was one of five female surveillance soldiers kidnapped from the Nahal Oz military installation during Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, when thousands of bully boyz stormed southern Israel to kill nearly 1,200 people and take over 250 hostages, mainly civilians.
Three of the other surveillance soldiers’ mothers also spoke at the event on Friday: Meirav Berger, mother of Agam Berger; Orly Gilboa, mother of Daniella Gilboa; and Ayelet Levy Shahar, mother of Naama Levy.
Orly Gilboa said little was known about her daughter and another of the kidnapped soldiers, Karina Ariev, who she said were held separately from the others.
"One of the Thai [workers who were kidnapped] who got out of there said he saw them in transit, they were covered from head to toe," said Gilboa.
A video taken by Hamas of the abduction of five female soldiers was released by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum in May. All five are still held hostage by Hamas in Gaza.
[IsraelTimes] Spokesman says finance titan remains committed to defense sector, as bands accuse it of ‘bankrolling a genocide’ in Gaza; group leading backlash hails ‘historic victory’ for BDS
Barclays said Friday it has suspended its sponsorship of several leading UK music festivals, after an artist-led backlash over the bank’s provision of financial services to defense companies supplying Israel.
The British bank revealed it had been asked by United States entertainment giant Live Nation to "suspend participation" in its remaining 2024 festivals, which include this weekend’s Download event in central England.
Other high-profile festivals impacted include the Isle of Wight Festival later this month — set to be headlined by Green Day, The Pet Shop Boys and The Prodigy — and July’s Latitude Festival.
Barclaycard’s branding had apparently disappeared Friday from the events’ websites.
The development came after protests and boycott threats from some bands and fans over Barclay’s links to defense firms that supply Israel, leading to accusations the bank was "bankrolling a genocide."
Several bands, including crossover thrash metal outfit Pest Control, had announced they were pulling out of Download and staging a benefit concert for Paleostinians instead.
Live Nation said only: "Following discussion with artists, we have agreed with Barclays that they will step back from sponsorship of our festivals."
A Barclays spokesperson confirmed the move, saying the bank "was asked and has agreed to suspend participation in the remaining Live Nation festivals in 2024."
"The protestors’ agenda is to have Barclays debank defense companies which is a sector we remain committed to as an essential part of keeping this country and our allies safe," its statement added.
It noted that Barclays bank branches have been repeatedly vandalized and staff intimidated, in incidents for which pro-Paleostinian activists have grabbed credit.
"The only thing that this small group of activists will achieve is to weaken essential support for cultural events enjoyed by millions," the Barclays spokesperson added.
"It is time that leaders across politics, business, academia and the arts stand united against this."
Bands Boycott Barclays, a collective of musicians and industry professionals that spearheaded the backlash, hailed the suspension.
It called the move "a historic victory for the Paleostinian-led global BDS movement," referring to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions strategy favored by some activists.
Launched by Paleostinian civil society organizations in 2005, BDS advocates political and economic action against Israel over its treatment of Paleostinians. The movement is regularly accused of antisemitism by Israel and its key backer the United States.
[FoxNews] Campaign sought to discredit China's Sinovac vaccine.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. military launched a secret campaign to counter what it perceived as China’s growing influence in the Philippines, a nation hit especially hard by the deadly virus. The clandestine operation has not been previously reported. It aimed to sow doubt about the safety and efficacy of vaccines and other life-saving aid that was being supplied by China, a Reuters investigation found. Through phony internet accounts meant to impersonate Filipinos, the military’s propaganda efforts morphed into an anti-vax campaign. Social media posts decried the quality of face masks, test kits and the first vaccine that would become available in the Philippines – China’s Sinovac inoculation.
…which, to be fair, turned out to be a terribly ineffective vaccine.
Reuters identified at least 300 accounts on X, formerly Twitter, that matched descriptions shared by former U.S. military officials familiar with the Philippines operation. Almost all were created in the summer of 2020 and centered on the slogan #Chinaangvirus – Tagalog for China is the virus.
#1
....the Central Intelligence Agency used a fake hepatitis vaccination program in Abbottabad as cover to hunt for Osama bin Laden, the terrorist mastermind behind the attacks of September 11, 2001.
This was a 'target surveillance' activity. UBL's location had already been determined. The "fake hepatitis vax" program simply provided access to the target area.
VAX campaign emphasis and fears were not emphasized in the 'control group' area depicted in the graphic. VAX related Myocarditis and pericarditis problems were virtually non-existent in this region.
#3
Interesting ....
Is the idea being planted that those of us that refused the Clot-Shot were part of the DOD plan?
Did the DOD save millions of lives here in the USA?
Because didn't China use mainly Ivermectin, the best proven treatment for COVID-19 used by many nations?
Example: India has 4x's the population of the USA.
But it only had roughly 1/2 the infections and 1/2 the C-19 Deaths and less than 1/34th the critical cases of the USA.
The Israeli Defense Array is reported to have utilized the “David’s Sling” Medium-Range Surface-to-Air Missile Interceptor to Down an “Unknown Aerial Projectile” this morning that was coming from the Northeast, with the Projectile being Successfully Intercepted outside of Israeli… pic.twitter.com/291zBKkxGS
… Airspace. At the same time, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq claimed to have launched an Advanced Version of the Iranian “Al-Arqab” Long-Range Cruise Missile at the City of Haifa in Northwestern Israel.
That sounds like it didn’t get anywhere near Haifa, or even Israel.
[FoxNews] Victor Martinez Hernandez, 23, was arrested in the murder of Rachel Morin.
An illegal migrant from El Salvador is responsible for the murder of Rachel Morin, a Maryland mother of five, police announced.
In a press conference on Saturday, Harford County Sheriff Jeffery Gahler said that Victor Martinez-Hernandez was arrested late Friday night and booked on Saturday morning.
"Five hours after meeting with [Morin's] family and just before midnight our time, police in Tulsa, Oklahoma assisted by our federal partners, located and arrested Rachel's murderer: Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez," Gahler said.
He was charged with first-degree murder and first-degree rape.
The 23-year-old migrant illegally crossed into the United States in February 2023, police announced.
"We all suspected that Rachel was not his first victim," Gahler said. "It is my understanding that this suspect, this monster, fled to the United States illegally after committing the brutal murder of a young woman in El Salvador a month earlier, in January of 2023."
Gahler said that their first DNA match for Martinez-Hernandez was from a Los Angeles attack in March 2023.
"Once in our country, and likely emboldened by his anonymity, he brutally attacked a nine-year-old girl and her mother during a home invasion in March of 2023 in Los Angeles," Gahler said. "And as everyone I believe is aware, that was our first DNA match linking Rachel's case to the one in Los Angeles."
#6
This illegal immigrant POS seemed to be all over the country. Has there been any confirmation that the US Taxpayers were paying to fly him around the Country via DHS frequent flyer program?
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[LB] At the end of May, the situation in the Pokrovsky direction began to acquire some ambiguity for our enemy. His troop group "Center" achieved tactical success in the Ocheretny region, made several breakthroughs in different directions, so the question arose before him: what to do next? His main forces, successfully taking advantage of the replacement of our brigades, moved along the railway from Avdiyivka in the north-west direction to Ocheretyn — Novooleksandrivka. The width of the area of the breakthrough on May 24 is approximately two kilometers, that is, it is possible to shoot through with the DShK, but the unprotected flanks of this area restrained the offensive rush of the aggressor.
by Viktor Kevlyuk
If the commander of the "Center" military unit, Colonel-General Andriy Mordvichev, had limited himself to going to the Novobakhmutivka - Solovyove and Novokalynove - Keramik lines, entering the operation on the left flank of part of the forces of the 27th Motorized Rifle Division of the 2nd Army and the 35th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the 41st Army on the right, then now we would have a different operational situation. But the 30th and 35th Mechanized Brigade from Ocheretiny advanced to Novooleksandrivka, setting themselves up for counterattacks by our "Tavria".
That is, this operational decision of the headquarters of the "Center" Military Command, which is managed by Lieutenant General Denys Lyamin, involved not fixing on the achieved line, not solving the problems of the flanks to ensure the advance of troops into the depth of our defense, but deepening the breakthrough. For this purpose, not only the main forces of the 2nd Army (27th Motorized Rifle Division and 30th Infantry Brigade), which were already moving in the north-west direction, but also the 35th, 55th, and 74th Infantry brigades were brought into the operation of the 41st Army.
Here, an operational error can be seen - the enemy brigades were introduced into the operation in stages, and not simultaneously (that is, the "Center" headquarters did not adhere to the principles of concentration of efforts and massing of troops). In addition, all three brigades of the 41st Army had previously advanced in other directions, which required a turn to new ones, and this was a regrouping of the entire order of battle. Which, of course, was good for Tavria.
The enemy captured Keramik, Novokalynove and Arkhangelsk, pushed the units of "Tavria" out of this area beyond the cascade of ponds north of the last village, and broke through to the east of Novooleksandrivka. According to the results of these battles, it became clear that even the capture of Novobakhmutivka and Solovyovoi did not provide the flank of the 30th and 35th OMBR, and the circumstances demanded to go to the line Sokil — Novopokrovske and clear the area between Novooleksandrivka and Arkhangelsk.
As a result of this persistent movement to Novooleksandrivka, the 35th EMS Brigade and the 433rd MSP of the 27th Motorized Rifle Division became a threat to receive a powerful blow from the "Tavria" from the Sokol area on Ocheretyn, which could create huge problems at least for the advanced units of the enemy that climbed into this gut.
It must be admitted that the headquarters of the "Center" military unit noticed this in time and deployed its reserve - the 15th EMS Brigade in the direction of Sokil. But "Tavria", showing superhuman resilience in defense, for almost a week held back the attacks of the 15th and 74th Infantry brigades on Sokil and Novopokrovske.
Similarly, the enemy did not succeed in advancing beyond the line of ponds in the direction of Kalinovoy or storming Novooleksandrivka. All this was very similar to an offensive without a goal, just a movement somewhere. It would be logical and well-founded to attack the Sukha Balka-New York border in order to bypass the defense area of our tactical group near Toretsk from the south.
The lack of ammunition and other resources prevented Tavria from punishing the enemy for all these mistakes.
During the week, the 228th Mechanized Brigade and the 239th Tank Regiment of the 90th Tank Division of the 41st Army, in cooperation with the 1st EMS Brigade of the 1st Corps, occupied Netaylovye and Umanske, but the problem of the flanks of the strike group advancing in the direction of Ocheretyne — Novooleksandrivka, only worsened.
The 15th and 55th Infantry Brigades stubbornly attacked in order to reach the line Sokil — Novopokrovske, and the 114th Infantry Brigade of the 1st Corps and several battalions of the 74th Infantry Brigade of the 41st Army pressed in the direction of Semenivka — Novoselivka Persha.
The 35th and 132nd Infantry brigades, without stopping their attacks in the direction of Arkhangelsk — Kalinov, slightly changed the vector of their attack from Arkhangelsk — Kalinov to Keramik — Oleksandropil, closer to the road Kostyantynivka — Yasinuvata.
All these actions clearly indicated the intention of the headquarters of the Center military headquarters to create the conditions to conduct a further offensive operation in the Toretsk area. Taking into account the actions of the adjacent flank of the "Yug" UA, the enemy's clear intention to cover Toretsk from the north and south emerges.
In another week of fighting, the "Center" got hold of Novooleksandrivka and eventually secured the left flank of its Ocheretyn group by advancing to the line between Sokil and Novopokrovskoe.
After June 10, advanced units of the 30th and 35th Separate Mechanized Brigades and the 433rd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 27th Motorized Rifle Division occupied Novooleksandrivka and advanced north of the railway to Lozuvatskyi. Although the southern flank of the "Center" military base was in relative safety, the enemy tried to advance in the direction of Novoselivka Pershoi in order to advance far abroad, which guaranteed the safety of his troops in Ocheretino.
The enemy was making efforts to advance in the western and northwestern directions, but was not active in the lane of attack of the 132nd EMS Brigade of the 1st Corps, for example, on Kalinov or Oleksandropil. And this strange, at first glance, attempt means that the "Center" military command center wants to create serious operational problems for "Tavria", because the "Center" headquarters in this area has acquired variability in its further actions, first of all, to advance as deeply as possible behind the right flank of the Torets tactical group Landslide "Tavria" from the south all the way to the Pokrovsk — Kostyantynivka road.
In the course of the week, we should expect the release of the "Tsentr" military aircraft carrier at the Novopokrovske-Umansk border and its capture by the troops of Yasnobrodivka. If he succeeds in this, then the threat of a flank strike to the enemy's tactical group in the Ocheretiny region — the 30th, 137th EMS Brigade and the 433rd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 27th Motorized Rifle Division — will be completely eliminated. And this will be a favorable condition for continuing the offensive in the north-western and western directions, that is, on Lozuvatske, Sokil and Novoselivka Persha.
It can be assumed that the 74th and 55th Infantry Brigade of the 41st Army, the 15th Infantry Brigade of the 2nd Army and the 114th Infantry Brigade of the 1st Corps with reinforcements (in fact, meat farms from the territorial troops and other formations " mobilization reserve") will attack through Vozdvizhenka to the Pokrovsk — Kostiantynivka road in order to cut it in the Malynivka — Nova Poltavka section and reach the Vovcha River in the Progress — Komishivka section and create several bridgeheads there if the course of events is favorable for the enemy.
The introduction of the 137th Infantry Brigade into operation in the Pokrovsky direction and the arrival of reinforcements to the 15th Infantry Brigade (to the battalion) are in favor of this development of events.
In the direction of its main attack, the "Center" submarine has a significant advantage in forces and means, skillfully maneuvers it, bringing it to totality at the right moments of the battle in selected areas.
If General Mordvichev puts two or three brigades and three or four reserve regiments into operation, then almost 100%, not only the Tavria anti-aircraft missile defense system, will solve a crisis on an operational scale, which the Defense Forces have not had for two years.
You should carefully read the news about the development of events in the direction of Oleksandropil, Kalynov and in the Karlivka area, i.e. on the adjacent flank of the enemy's "Center" and "South" anti-aircraft defenses and in the lane of attack of the 132nd Infantry Brigade, directly behind its battle formations. Obviously, the enemy will try to take advantage of the results of their success in the Pokrovsky direction.
The total number of enemy attacks on the front line reached 44.
by Ivanna Kapustyanska
The greatest activity of the enemy since the beginning of the day has been observed in the Pokrovsky direction. Almost a third of all clashes took place there today. At present, the total number of enemy attacks on the front line has reached 44.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces informs about this.
The border areas of Chernihiv and Sumy regions suffer from artillery shelling from the territory of the Russian Federation. Since the beginning of the day, terrorists have been subjected to insidious artillery strikes: Bilovody - from the direction of Vnezapny (Russian Federation), Grabovskoe - from the direction of Staroselj (Russian Federation), Mikhalchyna Sloboda - from Guzovka (Russian Federation).
Also, the aggressor from his territory continues to hit the Kharkiv region with guided aerial bombs. From the side of Belgorod (Russian Federation), the enemy struck with two anti-aircraft guns in the direction of Synelnikovo. Fighting continues in the areas of the settlements of Tykh and Vovchansk.
In the Kupyansk direction, seven enemy assaults are ongoing in the areas of Petropavlivsky, Andriyivka, Grekivka, and Nevsky.
In the Lymansky direction, the enemy became more active in the area of Makiivka, where the battle is currently being fought. Also, the occupiers are active in the Kramatorsk direction, namely in the area of Chasovoy Yar. Two skirmishes are ongoing.
The enemy is most actively trying to storm today in the Pokrovsky direction. Seven attacks have been repulsed, eight are still ongoing. The fighting is taking place in the districts of Novooleksandrivka, Kalinovoy, Sokol and Novoselivka Persha.
In the Kurakhiv direction, the number of attempts by the aggressor to improve his tactical position increased to six. All are unsuccessful.
Seven enemy attacks were repulsed in the Vremivsk direction today, in particular, in the Staromayorsky, Sweetsky and Urozhany districts.
In the rest of the directions, the situation has not changed much.
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[LB] The tense situation remains in the Pokrovsky direction.
by Ivanna Kapustyanska
According to detailed information, over the past day, in total, the enemy launched 6 missile strikes on the positions of our troops and populated areas, using 17 missiles, 33 air strikes (in particular, dropped 56 anti-aircraft missiles), carried out more than 3,000 attacks, 104 of them from rocket salvo systems.
According to the General Staff, 112 combat clashes were recorded at the front during the day.
Over the past day, the Air Force and missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces hit three anti-aircraft defense facilities, an anti-aircraft control point, three artillery facilities, two ammunition depots and 15 areas of concentration of personnel and OVT of the occupiers.
As a result, last day the total losses of the Russian invaders amounted to 1090 people. The enemy also lost 20 tanks, 29 armored fighting vehicles, 37 artillery systems, two anti-aircraft guns, four air defense systems, 51 operational-tactical BpLA, seven missiles, 57 vehicles and 12 units of special equipment.
Already today, 31 combat clashes took place. The occupiers carried out 12 airstrikes with the use of 19 air defense systems, 547 shelling of the positions of our troops. Russian terrorists also used 18 kamikaze drones for the attacks.
In the Kharkiv direction, since the beginning of the day, Russian terrorists have tried to push our soldiers from their positions three times. The attack was repulsed near Tychy. Fighting continues in two locations in the Vovchansk region.
According to updated data, the enemy lost more than 112 people killed and wounded in this direction yesterday. An armored combat vehicle, ten cars, three units of special equipment and three warehouses with ammunition were also destroyed. A tank, two artillery systems, five cars and a unit of special equipment were damaged.
Five clashes are currently ongoing in the Kupian direction. In the areas of Petropavlivka, Andriivka, Grekivka and Nevske settlements, the occupiers are trying to knock our units out of their positions. The situation is under control.
In the Seversky direction, the enemy is attacking our soldiers near Rozdolivka. The battle continues. The enemy has no success.
As in the previous day, the most tense situation remains in the Pokrovsky direction. There are now three military clashes going on in the Novooleksandrivka, Yevgenivka and Novoselivka Persha districts. So many attacks have already been repelled.
The defense forces continue to make efforts to stabilize the situation, inflict complex fire damage.
In the Kurakhiv direction, five enemy attempts to penetrate our defenses near Pobyeda and Paraskoviyvka were successfully repelled.
Since the beginning of the day in the Vremivsk direction, our soldiers have been repelling an attack in the Staromayorsky district. The situation is under control. Four skirmishes near Urozhany and Vodyany have already ended. The enemy has suffered losses and is regrouping.
In the Orihiv direction, the enemy made two unsuccessful attempts to dislodge Ukrainian soldiers from their positions in the area of Mala Tokmachka and Robotyny. The losses of the occupiers are being clarified.
In the rest of the directions, the situation did not undergo significant changes.
#1
Ha! He'll never see the inside of a jail cell. Two months of probation at most. Unsupervised.
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Bets are a $$,000 fine for each charge.
Plus 2+ years probation. Then a Pardon by JB as he resigns.
Other bets are:
* 6 months Drug Rehab and 3 to 5 years Probation. Followed by a Pardon after the election night.
* Some jail time in a Club Fed/Club Med.
Followed by a Pardon after the election night.
At the low end, a Hillary type solution. with less than a week before election night. With the Liberal Media 24/7 10x an hour blaming a Trump supporter, or Far Right Wing Extremest.
#3
What the guy in the video says is that Hunter should not receive probation because that is not available with respect to federal sentencing guidelines for gun crimes. Regardless, I don’t see Joe making it to the election as a candidate or being able to physically finish his term in office. For instance, when was the last time you saw Joe ride a bike?
Mostly Hunter is screwed. If they remove Joe by the 25th Amendment, he can’t do a bunch of pardons on the way out the door. Hunter has leveraged his father’s power into an unsustainable lifestyle that will surely end in the near term. Having a background in extortion, influence peddling, money laundering and smut is not going to generate much interest via LinkedIn.
At one time Rolling Stone might have hired him to take drugs and write groovy stuff, but they are broke. Hunter does possess a wealth of information about stuff that he should not know. All of that info is more likely to earn him a dirt nap rather than a paycheck. He is also due to lose Secret Service protection some time soon.
In short, the betting markets should be on his life expectancy not his prison term.
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^ Likely analysis. Hunter has no value to any political operation going forward. If he did have interactions with the IC he is now a liability and a loose end.
He has no more "access" to sell.
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#5
What happened to the guns he laid his hands on. Maybe they need to send that ATF assault force to find out.
[IsraelTimes] Blacklisting Tzav 9 for disrupting aid deliveries, State Department vows no tolerance for ‘acts of sabotage and violence targeting this essential humanitarian assistance’
The Biden administration on Friday announced sanctions against a far-right Israeli group that has been behind attacks on humanitarian aid convoys en route to the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip. The sanctions target Tsav 9, a group with ties to Israeli army reservists and Israeli settlers, over activities including blocking, harassing and damaging aid shipments.
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#5
Their children aged under 10 taken and given to loving jewish families to be raised as jews
We don’t do that — too much history of that being done to our children both in Christendom and the Ummah. We only want those who come to us out of desire and several years of hard study in the teeth of overt discouragement. Even children we adopt as infants, if it’s not known that the birth mother is Jewish, go through formal conversion after their thirteenth birthday, should they choose to do so.
[KFVS12] ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) - A shooting in a Texas park left two people dead and several wounded on Saturday, authorities said.
The victims were shot shortly before 11 p.m. Saturday during a Juneteenth celebration at Old Settlers Park in Round Rock, about 19 miles north of Austin.
An altercation began between two groups during a concert at the event and someone started shooting, Round Rock Police Chief Allen Banks said during a news conference at the scene.
The two victims who were pronounced dead at the scene were not involved in the altercation, Allen said.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A tense standoff has erupted on a residential 
[SHABELLEMEDIA] A tragic incident unfolded in the border regions of Bay and 
[GEO.TV] An Elite Force officer was arrested on Saturday for allegedly killing two lawyers, including former district bar president, over personal enmity in Punjab's Attock district, Geo News reported citing police.
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
[KFVS12] ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) - A shooting in a Texas park left two people dead and several wounded on Saturday, authorities said.
