Eastern Ukraine Settlement Seized, Russia Claims
Russia’s defense ministry said Tuesday that its forces took control of the settlement of Pivdenne in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, as Moscow’s slow but grinding push through the industrial Donbas area continued.
Pivdenne, which Russia calls by its Soviet-era name of Leninskoe, adjoins Toretsk, a Ukrainian stronghold and coal mining town toward which Russia began pushing in June.
In 2022, Ukrainian authorities gave Pivdenne’s pre-war population as 1,404, and Toretsk’s as around 30,000. Kyiv did not immediately comment on Pivdenne’s status.
The towns are located close to the longtime frontline in place since 2014, when Russian-backed forces seized parts of the Donetsk region, including the city of Horlivka, seven miles from Pivdenne.
Russia’s push for Toretsk is one of the most active combat zones in the Donetsk region, with Moscow’s forces also moving toward Pokrovsk, a key Ukrainian transport hub located around 43 miles west of Toretsk…..
Over 1,000 Venezuelan crime organization members in US
More than 1,000 members of Venezuela’s largest criminal organization are in the United States, leading Border Patrol to warn those in Colorado and New York to watch out for attacks on law enforcement.
NewsNation obtained an internal safety bulletin sent across Border Patrol warning that Tren de Aragua (TdA) members were given the “green light” by the organization’s leaders to fire on authorities. Denver and New York received credible information about these threats, according to the bulletin.
“TdA is known to exploit immigrant populations and carry out acts of violent crime,” one alert says.
Officers in New York are being told to remain vigilant and to reach out to their Strategic Criminal Intelligence Unit Detective or GANG Detective if contact is made with an individual associated with TdA…..
Acting Secret Service Chief Played Key Role in Limiting Resources for Trump
Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe was directly involved in denying additional security resources and personnel, including counter snipers, to former President Trump’s rallies and events – despite repeated requests by the agents assigned to Trump’s detail in the two years leading up to his July 13 attempted assassination, according to several sources familiar with the decision-making.
Rowe succeeded former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who resigned last week after bipartisan calls following her widely panned testimony before the House Oversight Committee.
But both Rowe and Cheatle were directly involved in decisions denying requests for more magnetometers, additional agents, and other resources to help screen rallygoers at large, outdoor Trump campaign gatherings.
It was Rowe’s decision alone to deny counter sniper teams to any Trump event outside of driving distance from D.C., these sources asserted.
Rowe and FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate are set to appear Tuesday before a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security and Government Affairs committees.
Several local law enforcement officers assigned to a building on the outer perimeter of the Butler rally appeared on ABC News over the weekend and accused the Secret Service of failing to coordinate with them or even meet with them before the rally.
“We were supposed to get a face-to-face briefing with the Secret Service members whenever they arrived, and that never happened,” said Jason Woods, lead sharpshooter on the SWAT team in Beaver County. “So, I think that was probably a pivotal point, where I started thinking things were wrong because it never happened,” he added. “We had no communication.”…..
Furious Secret Service Sniper Demands 4 More Resignations, Expects Another Assassination Attempt Soon: Report
A new report said a Secret Service countersniper is irate at the failures that took place on the day former President Donald Trump was shot.
The report posted on X by Real Clear Politics White House correspondent Susan Crabtree cited an email from a sniper whose name is not shown.
The email said he would continue to call out the Secret Service failures on that day until “5 high-level supervisors (1 down) are either fired or removed from their current positions.” The reference is to the resignation of former Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle.
“This agency NEEDS to change,” the email said, “if not now, WHEN? The NEXT assassination in 30 days?”
The email said snipers who worked the Trump rally on July 13 “DID THEIR JOB with their hands tied.”
The sniper wrote that managers think of countersnipers as “‘guys who sit on the roof’ and don’t do much,” but said the mission of the Secret Service is not to guard “an EMPTY White House located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,” but to stop “another JFK style assassination, in whatever city that may be.”……
Sam Faddis On USSS Failure
“The Supposed Best Security Service, Protective Service On The Planet Couldn’t Stop A Rank Amateur”
Kamala Harris’ $5 billion green bus failure shows she can’t even handle the small stuff
From the border disaster all the way down to the small stuff, presumptive Dem nominee Kamala Harris’ record, like that of President Biden, is one of spectacular failure.
The latest case in point? A green school bus boondoggle.
In 2022, Harris was front and center screaming about how wonderful it was that the feds were poised to burn about $5 billion over five years to build electric school bus fleets as part of the 2021 infrastructure package that Biden signed into law.
Now? Fewer than 7% of the districts initially set up with the program have actually completed the switch to electric vehicles.
Huge numbers of districts have withdrawn from the program because their school boards opposed it, or because of the costly infrastructure upgrades necessary to charge the buses.
The project never made fiscal sense.
As one superintendent put it, “This only makes economic sense if the bus is paid for with a grant like we received. The cost is so prohibitive that the cost savings are not worth it.”
As the Washington Free Beacon, which first reported on the fiasco, noted, the electric buses are three times more expensive, and replacing the entire nation’s fleet would top $200 billion……
Kamala Harris’ Voting Record on Display
Trump pollster John McLaughlin contends that Kamala Harris is unelectable because of her voting record.
Mass Protests Erupt In Venezuela As Voters Refuse To Accept Incumbent Dictator’s Dubious Election Victory
Mass protests broke out across Venezuela on Monday and Tuesday in reaction to incumbent socialist-dictator Nicolas Maduro’s questionable claim to victory in the country’s presidential election on Sunday, according to multiple reports.
Maduro declared himself the winner of the presidential election despite concerns that votes had been tampered with and the election set in his favor.
With the opposing party refusing to concede defeat and the international community condemning the election as rigged, protesters have taken to the streets of Venezuela to decry Maduro as his regime works to suppress resistance, according to several accounts.
“I’ll fight for my country’s democracy. They stole the election from us,” one masked protester told Reuters.
“We are tired of this government, we want a change. We want to be free in Venezuela. We want our families to return here,” another protester told Reuters.
Protesters took to Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, reaching government installations that had not seen such demonstrations in decades, according to The New York Times and Reuters. Some protesters in Caracas and other cities ripped apart posters of Maduro while others lit fires in the streets and threw petrol bombs at law enforcement, which in turn fired tear gas to disperse crowds……
Video: Sen. Mike Lee: Biden’s Decline & Obama’s Shadowy Power Grab
Senator Mike Lee recounts shocking firsthand accounts of Biden’s mental decline, and how Barack Obama has used Biden’s weakness to seize power.
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Backlash continues over Olympics opening ceremony.
This Day in History: John Kerry.
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Israel strikes Beirut targeting commander accused in deaths of 12 children
The Israeli military said Tuesday it carried out a strike on Beirut targeting the militant commander allegedly behind the deaths of 12 children and teens in a rocket attack on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights over the weekend.
Israel has blamed the rocket attack on the Hezbollah militant group, which has denied any role in the attack.
A Hezbollah official and the group’s TV station said that an Israeli airstrike hit Hezbollah’s stronghold south of Beirut on Tuesday evening, causing damage.
2 shooters? Audio calls official Trump assassination story into question
As a scientist, Dr. Chris Martenson knows better than to just take the official narrative of any large event in America at face value.
“I’ve looked into Oklahoma City, 9/11,” Martenson tells Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed.” “I’m a scientist, and if you have pieces of the story that don’t fit, it drives me nuts.” Regarding 9/11, Martenson couldn’t get past building 7 free falling for two and a quarter seconds.
“I don’t need to talk about who might have done it or how, I’ve got to explain that fact. And it’s impossible, right? Using the official story. So, we have to come up with a different story,” he explains.
The assassination attempt against Trump is no different, and while it warrants a thorough investigation to uncover the full scope of the incident, Martenson believes incredibly important details are being overlooked.
“I find out on CNN, of all places, that an audio expert concluded that there were two shooters,” Martenson says. “There were the sounds from the guns. One, two, and three were inconsistent with those from four, five, six, seven, eight.”
But the story then was memory-holed and forgotten.
“As soon as I see that silent space, I say, ‘Well, I got to dig into this.’ So, that’s what kicked me off,” he tells Gray.
Martenson then plays the audio from the shooting, where it sounds as if the shots are from completely different guns.
“Dramatically different,” Gray comments, stunned…..
Do You Regret Getting the Jab? | Man on the Street
There has been ongoing debate in the U.S. about vaccine mandates and the media’s role in conveying information.
Aldo asks people in Compton, California if they regret getting—or not getting—the COVID vaccine, how media narratives influenced their decision, and whether they consider the media a trustworthy source of reliable information.
Israel-Hezbollah exchange blows; Foreign Nationals urged to leave Lebanon TV7 Israel News 30.07.24
1) The IDF and the Lebanese Hezbollah continue to exchange low-intensity blow, ahead of Israel’s expected high-intensity retaliatory attack against the Iranian proxy.
2) European powers urge their citizens to immediately leave Lebanon, while efforts to limit prospects of wider escalation are ongoing.
3) Iranian President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian meets with Hezbollah deputy Secretary General Naim Qassem and Palestinian Islamic Jihad Leader Ziad al-Nakhala.
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10% of Massachusetts workforce can’t speak much English: Report
On Monday, MassINC, a nonprofit that works to promote “inclusive” economic opportunities in Massachusetts, and the UMass Donahue Institute, which wants to “advance equity and social justice” as part of the public and economic outreach for the University of Massachusetts President’s Office, published a report calling for better “English for Speakers of Other Languages,” or ESOL, services.
The report claimed that the need for ESOL is “urgent” since some 480,000 Massachusetts residents — roughly 10% of the state’s workforce — lack important English-language skills. Such language issues prevent these “newcomers” from reaching “their full potential” and from contributing more substantively “to the commonwealth’s social and economic vitality,” the report said.
What’s more, the report indicated that these numbers might now be passé since they rely on data from 2022.
As Massachusetts is the only right-to-shelter state in the union, thousands of illegal immigrants have been transported there from the border in the last few years, causing the migrant population to swell.
The immigration population has gotten so out of hand in Massachusetts that far-left Gov. Maura Healey has begun to offer illegal aliens free flights out of her state. “I want to be clear, particularly to people outside of Massachusetts who may have gotten word that this is a place to come, that we do not have room here in Massachusetts,” Healey said on Tuesday……
Illegal alien allegedly beats man to death in Virginia after Fairfax County sheriff apparently ignores multiple ICE detainers
None of the suspects has a fixed address in the U.S., and at least one of them — Guzman-Videz — apparently has no legal right to be here in the first place.
Guzman-Videz, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, has a long history with local and federal law enforcement agencies. In November 2018, he was arrested by U.S. Border Patrol after he entered the U.S. illegally near Hidalgo, Texas. A year later, a judge ordered him deported.
Whether Guzman-Videz was ever deported is unclear, but between October 27, 2022, and June 28, 2023, ICE reportedly filed multiple immigration detainers against him with the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center — but ICE said the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office refused to honor the detainers, WJLA-TV reported.
At least one of those detainers was in connection with a particularly brutal incident in March 2023 when Guzman-Videz reportedly broke into a building and severely beat a woman. That June, he was convicted of burglary and assault and battery and sentenced to 11 months behind bars plus a 364-day suspended sentence.
On June 17, 2024, his 11-month sentence was up, and Guzman-Videz walked out of jail. Nicacio Hernandez Gonzalez was dead about a month later…..
Facebook parent Meta settles Texas lawsuit for $1.4B
“After vigorously pursuing justice for our citizens whose privacy rights were violated by Meta’s use of facial recognition software, I’m proud to announce that we have reached the largest settlement ever obtained from an action brought by a single State,” Paxton said in a statement.
“This historic settlement demonstrates our commitment to standing up to the world’s biggest technology companies and holding them accountable for breaking the law and violating Texans’ privacy rights,” Paxton’s statement continues. “Any entity abusing Texans’ sensitive data will be met with the full force of the law.”
The lawsuit, filed by Paxton in 2022, was the first major case to be brought under Texas’ 2009 biometric privacy law, according to law firms tracking the litigation. A provision of the law provides damages of up to $25,000 per violation.
Texas accused Facebook of capturing biometric information “billions of times” from photos and videos that users uploaded to the social media platform as part of a free, discontinued feature called “Tag Suggestions.”….
California city rolls out all-electric police fleet, first in US
South Pasadena, located northeast of Los Angeles, on Monday rolled out the South Pasadena Police Department’s (SPPD) all-electric fleet consisting of 20 Teslas, including 10 Model Ys and 10 Model 3s, according to a press release.
The city said the switch to Tesla police vehicles should bring both energy and maintenance cost savings. For energy specifically, the EVs should result in annual savings of roughly $4,000 per vehicle, according to South Pasadena.
It also said the EV police vehicles will environmentally benefit its city of 25,000 people, noting gas-powered police cars are “particularly high emitters” of pollution due to how often they tend to stand idle during the course of duty.
“This transition reflects the city’s vision of a sustainable future based on both sound fiscal management and environmental stewardship,” Mayor Evelyn Zneimer said in a statement….
Tech company pulls Olympics advertising after opening ceremony display many deem to be anti-Christian
The 2024 Olympic Ceremony opened up the games in Paris, France on Friday night, providing spectators with a taste of French culture and blasphemous art, leading to Christians around the world being offended and at least one sponsor dropping out.
Mississippi-based telecommunications and technology company C Spire posted on X that it had pulled all of its advertising from the Olympics over the ceremony’s mockery of painting created to show a biblical moment crucial to the Christian faith.
“We were shocked by the mockery of the Last Supper during the opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics,” the company posted. “C Spire will be pulling our advertising from the Olympics.”
“I am proud to see the private sector in Mississippi put their foot down,” Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, a Republican, said on X. “God will not be mocked. C Spire drew a common-sense, appropriate line.”
One user posted to X that the opening ceremony “sucked and was filled with blasphemy.”
“There are over 2 billion Christians around the world and many love to watch the games,” the user wrote. “Why would you make fun and open with that?”
Donald Trump: Kamala Harris is talking a big game, but her game is bad
Former President Trump calls out the vice president’s campaign and recalls the assassination attempt on his life on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’
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