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I’m exhausted and clearly ineffective tonight… and Fred (thank you, Fred!) has the key stories covered for Israel.

I’ll pick up again tomorrow.
trailing wife- 05/23/2025 02:03

What would we lose? Nothing
Frank G- 05/20/2025 06:42

Are we purging the -scourge- now?
Skidmark- 05/19/2025 09:53

Noted, with thanks.
trailing wife- 05/16/2025 23:10

The story on delegations leaving Istanbul is set for Sunday.
badanov- 05/16/2025 17:12

Kth. :-)
trailing wife- 05/15/2025 22:39

Yes, It is not time sensitive
badanov- 05/15/2025 21:40

badanov: just checking that you meant this to be for Saturday rather than tomorrow.
trailing wife- 05/15/2025 20:42

Definitely time for a bit of supervised exercises, Fred. My mother was an OT, so I have a soft spot for both of them, pitiless darlings that they all are.
trailing wife- 05/15/2025 20:10

Just falling three times in a week.
Fred- 05/12/2025 12:39

Enjoy the dear little OTs and PTs, Fred. I swear, you have more lives than a cat — what happened this time?
trailing wife- 05/11/2025 19:26

Get well!
Frank G- 05/11/2025 15:24

My participation will be limited for the next couple weeks. I'm in rehab again.
Fred- 05/11/2025 15:18

Good catch. The passage was translated: he was also wounded, which is a correct and direct translation. But a different translation changed the phrase to: who also was wounded.

You'd figure the web translation thing I use would be identical to their Google translate page. It wasn't.
badanov- 05/07/2025 20:05

badanov: please check the translation here. The sentence that concerns me is bolded and in italics.
trailing wife- 05/07/2025 18:36

Six paragraphs is perfect for short paragraphs, Fred. But for a piece with long paragraphs, that might approach 1000 words. Is something on the order of six line breaks or 500 words, whichever is less too complex?
trailing wife- 05/06/2025 22:59

Looks fine to me, Fred,
badanov- 05/06/2025 20:26

... or maybe six, disregarding blank lines?
Fred- 05/06/2025 19:22

Before I actually do this, let me have your opinions. I want to set it up so that front page only shows six paragraphs. Hitting the Link link (I know. Redundant.) opens the full text on poparticle.php. That way super-long articles are automatically condensed. Does that make sense? Is the cutoff (six line breaks) about right? Too short?
Fred- 05/06/2025 19:19

You are a joy and a wonder, Fred Pruitt. Truly, you’ve given us a wonderful toy to play with.
trailing wife- 05/05/2025 16:20

I've got an idea how to do it better and faster. Let me give it a try tomorrow.
Fred- 05/05/2025 01:38

P.49 can be edited only from Poster and Editor, NOT from Rantburg.com.

In Poster or Editor, click on Continued on Page 49.

This will give you a new tab: Continued.

You can make changes in the scrollable top section, while the fixed bottom section shows the original text. HOWEVER, the various editing buttons don’t work, so whatever you want to add will have to be typed manually or a copy pasted from elsewhere. Subtracting is done in the usual way. When done, click on the UPDATE button, which does work beautifully.

trailing wife- 05/04/2025 23:28

Getting an error like that usually means I'm missing something that's staring me in the face.
Fred- 05/04/2025 23:03

I'm getting a real stupid error message from Firefox's debugger. The code's pretty antique.
Fred- 05/04/2025 22:55

Let me take a look at it. It's been so long since I wrote it I can barely follow the coade.
Fred- 05/04/2025 21:19

3 articles Editor O Club Whois

Home Front: Politix

‘DOGE’ in the States: One State’s Success Story Making 25% of Regulations and Fees ‘Disappear’ (6)

Voice of America layoffs to result in dozens of deportations (6)

Israel-Palestine-Jordan

IDF soldier seriously hurt in north Gaza Thursday as dozens of Palestinians said killed in strikes (1)

In the Hoover...

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2. Universities of hate round-up: week of 5/18

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4. Netanyahu: Implementation of Trump’s Gaza relocation plan is condition for ending war

5. 3 Arab-Israelis indicted for smuggling drugs and cigarettes into Gaza via drones

6. Palestinian reports: 3 prisoners freed in hostage deal rearrested last night, including veteran terrorist

7. Responding to Netanyahu, Hamas rules out exiling its leadership or giving up its weapons

‘DOGE’ in the States: One State’s Success Story Making 25% of Regulations and Fees ‘Disappear’

Following up on a story we shared with you on April 25, more states are looking for their own “DOGE,” or Department of Government Efficiency.

In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis launched a “DOGE task force” to audit spending, cut bureaucracy, and eliminate DEI programs. Earlier this year, the Georgia Senate passed a bill aimed at reducing costs and increasing accountability for state agencies by having them review and update rules and regulations every four years. Iowa’s Gov. Kim Reynolds announced the creation of an official state DOGE task force. Similar efforts in Kansas, Missouri, New Hampshire, North and South Carolina, and Oklahoma are looking to find those places within the bureaucracy that have become overgrown.

While most DOGEs won’t be led by someone as enigmatic as Elon Musk, they will all need direction. Virginia’s version of DOGE is the Office of Regulatory Management and has been around since 2022, when Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued Executive Order 19 creating it.

Most magicians don’t want to give away the secrets to their act, but Reeve Bull, the director of Virginia’s Office of Regulatory Management, sits down with The Daily Signal to explain how he and the Virginia government agencies that he’s been working with have made nearly 25% of Virginia’s regulations and fees “disappear”:

Video at the link.

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Voice of America layoffs to result in dozens of deportations

[TheDesk] Many independent contractors laid off by the broadcaster last week hold work visas that require continued employment to stay in the United States.

Dozens of independent contractors who were laid off at the Voice of America (VOA) last week are likely to be deported within the next month as a result of their job losses, The Desk has learned.

The contractors — around 60 in total — participate in the Exchange Visitor Program, which entitles them to J-1 visas to live and work in the United States as long as they are engaged in certain roles, including the production and distribution of journalism.

The workers were among more than 500 whose contracts were terminated last week by the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the parent organization of VOA. The layoffs come about two months after President Donald Trump

...Oh, noze! Not him!...
signed an Executive Order that required USAGM and six other agencies to significantly reduce their operations and fire employees accordingly.

More than 1,000 VOA workers were laid off and hundreds of contracts were temporarily suspended, triggering legal challenges across the board. Those challenges have resulted in favorable decision by lower courts, some of which have been partially reversed by appellate judges.

Earlier this month, USAGM special advisor Kari Lake said the agency intends to partner with right-of-center news broadcaster One America News (OAN), which will license news packages that VOA can use on its radio and TV networks and digital platforms. So far, VOA has yet to broadcast or publish any OAN material, but the partnership served as a partial catalyst toward the independent contractor layoffs last week.

The 60 visa holders are required to maintain employment as part of their ongoing participation in the J-1 program. Their status remains in limbo after VOA ended their contract employment last week. Without new employment, many face the likelihood of having their work permits revoked, which would lead to deportations.

In a note circulated to employees last Thursday, VOA Director Michael Abramowitz said he was "heartbroken to learn about today’s mass terminations of personal service contractors [PSCs] working for Voice of America."

"PSCs have been a critical part of VOA’s mission, and they have made enormous contributions to VOA’s important work," Abramowitz wrote. "Some of VOA’s most talented journalists have been PSCs — many of whom have escaped tyranny in their home countries to tell America’s story of freedom and democracy. Many have served VOA’s viewers and listeners for years and are deeply versed in the markets in which VOA broadcasts."

Abramowitz called the firings "inexplicable, and, to my knowledge, no rationale has been provided by USAGM for this decision."

"We will continue to make efforts to help individual PSCs, especially those who face possible return to hostile countries, in any and every way we can during this difficult time. This remains among my most important priorities, and I hope it will be a priority for USAGM as well," he affirmed.

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IDF soldier seriously hurt in north Gaza Thursday as dozens of Palestinians said killed in strikes

[IsraelTimes] Military says 98th Division has returned to the enclave, operating in Khan Younis; Hamas-run Gaza civil defense says 52 killed in aerial bombardment in past day

An IDF tank commander was seriously maimed during fighting in the northern 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 a rusty 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 on Thursday as the military pushed ahead with its widened offensive in the enclave.

Gaza’s health authorities said the ongoing campaign had killed more than 50 people over the past day.

The military said that the injured tank commander, who serves in the 401st Armored Brigade’s 52nd Battalion, was evacuated from the Strip to a hospital, and his family was notified.

In a separate incident on Thursday, a soldier was lightly maimed when a grenade went kaboom! during operations in southern Gaza.

Late last week, the military launched its new offensive dubbed Operation Gideon’s Chariots, which Israel says seeks to destroy remaining Hamas
Hamas

..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
capabilities and seize and retain Gaza territory while relocating Paleostinians across the enclave.

The military announced on Thursday that the IDF’s elite 98th Division had returned to operating in the Gaza Strip, bringing the number of divisions acting in the enclave to five. The elite formation of paratrooper and commando units — made up of thousands of soldiers — is operating in Khan Younis, the military said, and is working to establish "operational control" and destroy Hamas’s infrastructure in the southern Gaza city, both above and below ground.

The army said that troops of the division had already killed dozens of terror operatives, including in close-quarters combat and through directing ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
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s. Some 200 sites used by terror groups had been demolished, including tunnels, the army added.

At the same time as the IDF operated across large parts of southern Gaza, it issued an evacuation warning for Paleostinians in 14 different locations in the enclave’s north.

Among the areas included in the evacuation zone were Sheikh Zayed, Salatin, Beit Lahiya, and Jabaliya.

In a post on X, the IDF’s Arabic-language front man, Col. Avichay Adraee, warned that the military was operating "with great force" in these areas and that they were considered "dangerous combat zones."

A map posted alongside the warning showed a swath of territory marked in red.

The army had issued a similar evacuation call for northern Gaza late Wednesday following rocket fire on southern Israel.

The vast majority of Gaza’s 2.4 million have been displaced at least once during the war.

Hundreds of people have been reported dead across the Strip since the start of the new Israeli offensive, and on Thursday evening, the Hamas-run civil defense agency said that 52 people had been killed in the past day, and dozens more had been injured. The figures, which do not differentiate between civilians and button men, could not be verified.

Israel says it only targets terror groups and makes efforts to minimize harm to civilians.

AFP footage of northern Gaza showed numerous plumes of smoke rising from the area over the course of the afternoon.

Earlier on Thursday, the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said a tank shell hit a medicine warehouse inside al-Awda Hospital in Beit Lahiya, on the northern edge of the enclave, and set it ablaze.

Videos taken by a health official at al-Awda showed walls blown away and thick black smoke billowing over wreckage.

While rescue workers were trying to extinguish the fire, medics said tanks had been stationed outside the hospital, effectively blocking access to it.

Hospital director Mohammed Salha said that the civil defense agency had spent three hours trying to contain the fires and failed.

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