‼️How foreign mercenaries try to hide under the guise of humanitarian organizations‼️
☠️Dark Angels, a non-profit organization, operates in Ukraine
🇬🇧Its founder was British citizen Daniel Burke
▪️ Until 2009 he served at the rank of private in the 3rd Airborne Battalion of the Parachute Regiment which took part in the combat operations in the south of Afghanistan
▪️After the Manchester Arena terrorist attack in 2017, he went to Syria, where he participated in combat operations with the People's Self-Defense Units (YPG) until June 2018
▪️In 2019, he was arrested on charges of preparing terrorist acts, but the case was dropped due to lack of evidence
▪️In March 2022, Burke arrived in Poland, where, according to his own statements, he assisted refugees from Ukraine
▪️On April 29, 2022, Burke creates his own NPO, Dark Angels of Ukraine, at the same time he begins raising money on crowdfunding platforms
✍️"The reason is that other NPOs tend to fight against each other to show who's better. We are here for the Ukrainian people - period," Burke wrote on his Facebook page
🇺🇸He initially worked with another combat veteran, U.S. citizen Christopher Ezell, to remove French citizens from Ukraine to Poland
🪖By the end of May, the humanitarian organization's tasks had been adjusted, and the NCO became involved in medical and combat training of Ukrainian units (mostly territorial defense)
🔥And on June 9, the Dark Angels drove into the territory of the gray zone in the Kherson region accompanied by Ukrainian servicemen and hit a Russian APC with a Javelin, filming what was happening on video
🤔After the footage hit the Net, the humanitarian organization suddenly turned into a "foreign unit" in the publications of Ukrainian Telegram channels and media
👉According to a publication by the British tabloid The Sun, five people other than Burke participated in the Dark Angels' combat outing:
▪️Christopher Ezell, a former U.S. Marine Corps sergeant, veteran of combat operations in Afghanistan and a member of the U.S. Military and Veterans Success Center (UTRGV)
▪️Maxime Barratt is a French national who has participated in combat with the People's Self-Defense Units (YPG) since 2015 under the alias Gelhat Azadi (identified in The Sun as a pizza worker)
▪️Mark Ayres is former Royal Green Jackets regiment soldier Mark Ayres, who spent six years in prison after being discharged from the army (identified in The Sun as a "bartender of German descent," among others)
▪️Justin is a U.S. citizen, gun enthusiast, and veteran of combat in Afghanistan
▪️Sam Nyi is a British citizen, a student from Birmingham with no combat experience, filmed what was going on with a body camera
The unit currently has a strength of about 10 men
No new data has yet emerged about the Dark Angels' combat output
💁♂️But whatever the case may be, the Dark Angels and other similar structures, which are trying to hide their real activities under the guise of a "humanitarian organization" are mercenaries
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☠️Dark Angels, a non-profit organization, operates in Ukraine
🇬🇧Its founder was British citizen Daniel Burke
▪️ Until 2009 he served at the rank of private in the 3rd Airborne Battalion of the Parachute Regiment which took part in the combat operations in the south of Afghanistan
▪️After the Manchester Arena terrorist attack in 2017, he went to Syria, where he participated in combat operations with the People's Self-Defense Units (YPG) until June 2018
▪️In 2019, he was arrested on charges of preparing terrorist acts, but the case was dropped due to lack of evidence
▪️In March 2022, Burke arrived in Poland, where, according to his own statements, he assisted refugees from Ukraine
▪️On April 29, 2022, Burke creates his own NPO, Dark Angels of Ukraine, at the same time he begins raising money on crowdfunding platforms
✍️"The reason is that other NPOs tend to fight against each other to show who's better. We are here for the Ukrainian people - period," Burke wrote on his Facebook page
🇺🇸He initially worked with another combat veteran, U.S. citizen Christopher Ezell, to remove French citizens from Ukraine to Poland
🪖By the end of May, the humanitarian organization's tasks had been adjusted, and the NCO became involved in medical and combat training of Ukrainian units (mostly territorial defense)
🔥And on June 9, the Dark Angels drove into the territory of the gray zone in the Kherson region accompanied by Ukrainian servicemen and hit a Russian APC with a Javelin, filming what was happening on video
🤔After the footage hit the Net, the humanitarian organization suddenly turned into a "foreign unit" in the publications of Ukrainian Telegram channels and media
👉According to a publication by the British tabloid The Sun, five people other than Burke participated in the Dark Angels' combat outing:
▪️Christopher Ezell, a former U.S. Marine Corps sergeant, veteran of combat operations in Afghanistan and a member of the U.S. Military and Veterans Success Center (UTRGV)
▪️Maxime Barratt is a French national who has participated in combat with the People's Self-Defense Units (YPG) since 2015 under the alias Gelhat Azadi (identified in The Sun as a pizza worker)
▪️Mark Ayres is former Royal Green Jackets regiment soldier Mark Ayres, who spent six years in prison after being discharged from the army (identified in The Sun as a "bartender of German descent," among others)
▪️Justin is a U.S. citizen, gun enthusiast, and veteran of combat in Afghanistan
▪️Sam Nyi is a British citizen, a student from Birmingham with no combat experience, filmed what was going on with a body camera
The unit currently has a strength of about 10 men
No new data has yet emerged about the Dark Angels' combat output
💁♂️But whatever the case may be, the Dark Angels and other similar structures, which are trying to hide their real activities under the guise of a "humanitarian organization" are mercenaries
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⚡️One in four Germans slips inexorably into energy poverty because of anti-Russian sanctions - Welt am Sonntag⚡️
🇩🇪Most of Germany's population spends more than 10 percent of its income on gas, electricity and oil. A quarter of the country is slipping into energy poverty. Economists estimate that it's not just the low-income population that is suffering. As the German publication Welt am Sonntag points out in its article, based on the calculations of the Institute of German Economy (IW), the reason for this is the fuel crisis provoked by the restrictive measures of the European Union against Russia
🔋It is noted that more than 20 million citizens of Germany are already under the threat of energy poverty, and their number is growing rapidly. According to the housing economist IW, the risk of energy poverty of the entire German society has increased enormously
✍️"Nothing like this happened even during the oil crisis of the 1970s. Galloping energy prices are putting increasing financial pressure on private households," the analyst points out
💁♂️According to IW calculations, energy poverty hangs over "low-income families and households that are in difficult transition phases. This includes the unemployed, single parents, or people in retirement
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🇩🇪Most of Germany's population spends more than 10 percent of its income on gas, electricity and oil. A quarter of the country is slipping into energy poverty. Economists estimate that it's not just the low-income population that is suffering. As the German publication Welt am Sonntag points out in its article, based on the calculations of the Institute of German Economy (IW), the reason for this is the fuel crisis provoked by the restrictive measures of the European Union against Russia
🔋It is noted that more than 20 million citizens of Germany are already under the threat of energy poverty, and their number is growing rapidly. According to the housing economist IW, the risk of energy poverty of the entire German society has increased enormously
✍️"Nothing like this happened even during the oil crisis of the 1970s. Galloping energy prices are putting increasing financial pressure on private households," the analyst points out
💁♂️According to IW calculations, energy poverty hangs over "low-income families and households that are in difficult transition phases. This includes the unemployed, single parents, or people in retirement
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‼️The secret program 127e - US Proxy wars‼️
🇺🇸On July 1, the U.S. publication Intercept reported that the U.S. Department of Defense used the code name "127e" to carry out proxy warfare projects overseas
🔥In 2020, the United States launched at least 14 proxy warfare programs in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific region. The U.S. provides weapons, training, and intelligence to foreign militaries. The U.S. military once relied on Central Intelligence Agency assets
👉The CIA stuck to its tricky plans to sabotage and subvert overseas with the 5 fundamentals: funding the opposition, liquidation operations, economic destruction, media manipulation, and creating chaos
💁♂️While the documents obtained by The Intercept offer clues about the scope and contours of the 127e program, much remains unknown to both the public and members of Congress. Relevant reports required by law are classified at a level that prevents most congressional staffers from accessing them
A government official familiar with the program, who requested anonymity to discuss it, estimated that only a handful of people on Congress’s armed services and intelligence committees read such reports🤔
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🇺🇸On July 1, the U.S. publication Intercept reported that the U.S. Department of Defense used the code name "127e" to carry out proxy warfare projects overseas
🔥In 2020, the United States launched at least 14 proxy warfare programs in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific region. The U.S. provides weapons, training, and intelligence to foreign militaries. The U.S. military once relied on Central Intelligence Agency assets
👉The CIA stuck to its tricky plans to sabotage and subvert overseas with the 5 fundamentals: funding the opposition, liquidation operations, economic destruction, media manipulation, and creating chaos
💁♂️While the documents obtained by The Intercept offer clues about the scope and contours of the 127e program, much remains unknown to both the public and members of Congress. Relevant reports required by law are classified at a level that prevents most congressional staffers from accessing them
A government official familiar with the program, who requested anonymity to discuss it, estimated that only a handful of people on Congress’s armed services and intelligence committees read such reports🤔
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The Intercept
How the Pentagon Uses a Secretive Program to Wage Proxy Wars
Documents and interviews reveal that the Pentagon used its secretive 127e authority in “counterterror” missions on a greater scale than previously known.
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⚡️Biden's cynicism⚡️
Biden, during his speech, talks about how he has sunk billions of dollars into the Ukrainian regime and will soon be sending a lot more weapons to the war with Russia. And all this accompanied by footage from various U.S. states, where these billions would come in handy, to put it mildly, more powerfully
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Biden, during his speech, talks about how he has sunk billions of dollars into the Ukrainian regime and will soon be sending a lot more weapons to the war with Russia. And all this accompanied by footage from various U.S. states, where these billions would come in handy, to put it mildly, more powerfully
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⚡️"Stratospheric" $380 Oil on Worst-Case Russian Cut⚡️
▪️American bank JPMorgan Chase & Co has estimated an oil price hike to $380 a barrel if the G7 countries impose a price cap on Russian crude
▪️JPMorgan suggests that in response to such measures, Russia may reduce oil production by five million barrels per day. Russia's economy would not suffer much, but for much of the world "the consequences would be catastrophic"
▪️According to calculations, production reduction by three million barrels a day will raise the price to $190 per barrel. In the worst-case scenario, Russian energy supplies would be reduced by five million barrels per day, leading to a "stratospheric" price of $380
▪️ "The most obvious risk of imposing a price cap is that Russia could reject such an option and instead retaliate by reducing exports. It is likely that the Russian government would retaliate by cutting supplies to inflict defeat on the West. The density of the global oil market is now on Russia's side," concludes JPMorgan
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▪️American bank JPMorgan Chase & Co has estimated an oil price hike to $380 a barrel if the G7 countries impose a price cap on Russian crude
▪️JPMorgan suggests that in response to such measures, Russia may reduce oil production by five million barrels per day. Russia's economy would not suffer much, but for much of the world "the consequences would be catastrophic"
▪️According to calculations, production reduction by three million barrels a day will raise the price to $190 per barrel. In the worst-case scenario, Russian energy supplies would be reduced by five million barrels per day, leading to a "stratospheric" price of $380
▪️ "The most obvious risk of imposing a price cap is that Russia could reject such an option and instead retaliate by reducing exports. It is likely that the Russian government would retaliate by cutting supplies to inflict defeat on the West. The density of the global oil market is now on Russia's side," concludes JPMorgan
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Bloomberg.com
JPMorgan Sees ‘Stratospheric’ $380 Oil on Worst-Case Russian Cut
Global oil prices could reach a “stratospheric” $380 a barrel if US and European penalties prompt Russia to inflict retaliatory crude-output cuts, JPMorgan Chase & Co. analysts warned.
⚡️Akron Shooting Protests Day 4 - 100s Of Protestors Descend On City⚡️
👉After the fourth straight day of protests over police conduct in the deadly pursuit of black 25-year-old Jayland Walker, Akron mayor Dan Horrigan urged citizens to exercise restraint after tensions simmered between law enforcement and gathered crowds
💁♂️"I fully support our residents' right to peacefully assemble… but I hope the community can agree that violence and destruction are not the answer."
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👉After the fourth straight day of protests over police conduct in the deadly pursuit of black 25-year-old Jayland Walker, Akron mayor Dan Horrigan urged citizens to exercise restraint after tensions simmered between law enforcement and gathered crowds
💁♂️"I fully support our residents' right to peacefully assemble… but I hope the community can agree that violence and destruction are not the answer."
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⚡️Germany Records First Monthly Trade Deficit in 30 Years⚡️
📉Europe’s biggest economy reported its first monthly trade deficit since 1991, amid surging imports costs and weakened demand
🇩🇪Germany’s economy fell €1 billion ($1 billion) in May, while entire industries in the country could collapse due to natural-gas supply tensions with Russia, officials say
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📉Europe’s biggest economy reported its first monthly trade deficit since 1991, amid surging imports costs and weakened demand
🇩🇪Germany’s economy fell €1 billion ($1 billion) in May, while entire industries in the country could collapse due to natural-gas supply tensions with Russia, officials say
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⚡️UK Consumers Face Sweeping Supermarket Inflation⚡️
🇬🇧Shop price inflation in Great Britain has hit its highest rate since 2008, propelled by a sharp increase in perishable food prices. It's the result of soaring supply-chain costs and a decline in consumer spending, The Guardian reported, citing data from the British Retail Consortium BRC-NielsenIQ shop price index
📈Shop prices rose by 3.1% year-on-year last month, up from 2.8% in May. Food inflation alone surged to 5.6% in June, from 4.3% the month before, while perishable food prices were up 6.2% against last year’s figures, their highest growth rate since May 2009, pushed up by the “spiraling costs of fertilizer and animal feed”
📊The BRC data follows the latest figures from the UK’s Office for National Statistics, which showed that overall UK inflation soared to 9.1% in May, a 40-year high amid record fuel prices and the rising cost of food
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🇬🇧Shop price inflation in Great Britain has hit its highest rate since 2008, propelled by a sharp increase in perishable food prices. It's the result of soaring supply-chain costs and a decline in consumer spending, The Guardian reported, citing data from the British Retail Consortium BRC-NielsenIQ shop price index
📈Shop prices rose by 3.1% year-on-year last month, up from 2.8% in May. Food inflation alone surged to 5.6% in June, from 4.3% the month before, while perishable food prices were up 6.2% against last year’s figures, their highest growth rate since May 2009, pushed up by the “spiraling costs of fertilizer and animal feed”
📊The BRC data follows the latest figures from the UK’s Office for National Statistics, which showed that overall UK inflation soared to 9.1% in May, a 40-year high amid record fuel prices and the rising cost of food
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⚡️British officer evicts Ukrainian family with five children from temporary housing - Europeans once again demonstrate their "hospitality" toward refugees⚡️
🇺🇦A Ukrainian family of nine with five children and elderly parents may find themselves without a roof over their heads in a couple of weeks. For the British press this is a double shock, because the "heartless landlord" was not just the head of the local family with two children, but a high-ranking military officer, Dudley Malster. He is a senior officer in the Royal Navy with a 20-year military career and a veteran of Afghanistan, who sheltered refugees in the house next door
🇬🇧The Ukrainian family had been living in a detached one-story bungalow in Fereham, Hampshire, for a month, and their children had already begun attending a local school. The family no longer expected to return to their homeland, but whether the adults thought about work, or simply lived carelessly in a small English market town, the British newspaper, of course, does not specify
❗️The "guests" have to leave by July 15, but the Ukrainian family cannot find a new place to live - five real estate agencies, which the father called, hung up immediately after learning that the family is from Ukraine. And private landlords demand six months' rent in advance - it is about 12.5 thousand pounds
💁♂️The family is now collecting donations through a special refugee support service. The Daily Mail article also does not specify on what basis the family agreed to live in someone else's house - it is likely that it came as a surprise to the landlords that the Ukrainians did not expect to pay rent
🤷♂️To avoid being part of the information scandal, the Brits simply moved out of their house next door and did not answer the phone. Refugees are spoken to by their lawyers
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🇺🇦A Ukrainian family of nine with five children and elderly parents may find themselves without a roof over their heads in a couple of weeks. For the British press this is a double shock, because the "heartless landlord" was not just the head of the local family with two children, but a high-ranking military officer, Dudley Malster. He is a senior officer in the Royal Navy with a 20-year military career and a veteran of Afghanistan, who sheltered refugees in the house next door
🇬🇧The Ukrainian family had been living in a detached one-story bungalow in Fereham, Hampshire, for a month, and their children had already begun attending a local school. The family no longer expected to return to their homeland, but whether the adults thought about work, or simply lived carelessly in a small English market town, the British newspaper, of course, does not specify
❗️The "guests" have to leave by July 15, but the Ukrainian family cannot find a new place to live - five real estate agencies, which the father called, hung up immediately after learning that the family is from Ukraine. And private landlords demand six months' rent in advance - it is about 12.5 thousand pounds
💁♂️The family is now collecting donations through a special refugee support service. The Daily Mail article also does not specify on what basis the family agreed to live in someone else's house - it is likely that it came as a surprise to the landlords that the Ukrainians did not expect to pay rent
🤷♂️To avoid being part of the information scandal, the Brits simply moved out of their house next door and did not answer the phone. Refugees are spoken to by their lawyers
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⚡️A strike of oil and gas workers in Norway - why is this story dangerous for Europe, but profitable for the industry?⚡️
🇳🇴At midnight, a massive strike began at three oil fields in Norway - Gudrun, Oseberg South and Oserberg East. Oil and gas workers demand wage increases to compensate for rising inflation
💁♂️As early as Wednesday, workers from three other fields, including Heidrun, Aasta Hansten and Kristin, plan to join them. The authorities are so far inactive, saying they are "closely monitoring the conflict," and will intervene only if exceptional circumstances arise
🛢Oil and gas production will be cut by 89,000 bpd on Tuesday, of which gas production is 27,500 bpd, Equinor, the largest oil company, said. Wednesday's strike will reduce the country's gas production to a total of 292,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, a 13% reduction in daily production
⛽️And for the oil and gas industry, this situation can even become profitable - prices soar and the importance of Norwegian oil for the EU increases. Roughly speaking, now it will be considered not as an "enemy of ecology," but as an important backbone industry
📈It is noted that already by the next weekend, this situation could lead to a drop of 25% in gas production and about 15% in oil production. Yesterday the announced strikes became one of the reasons for a new gas price record in Europe - the price soared by 5% for the first time since March, exceeding $1700 per thousand cubic meters!
👉Most likely they will try to come to an agreement with the strike participants, as the given situation is rather dangerous for Europe. On the other hand there is a probability that it will take the Norwegians a very long time to settle the problem. But the longer the strike lasts, the more expensive gas will be
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🇳🇴At midnight, a massive strike began at three oil fields in Norway - Gudrun, Oseberg South and Oserberg East. Oil and gas workers demand wage increases to compensate for rising inflation
💁♂️As early as Wednesday, workers from three other fields, including Heidrun, Aasta Hansten and Kristin, plan to join them. The authorities are so far inactive, saying they are "closely monitoring the conflict," and will intervene only if exceptional circumstances arise
🛢Oil and gas production will be cut by 89,000 bpd on Tuesday, of which gas production is 27,500 bpd, Equinor, the largest oil company, said. Wednesday's strike will reduce the country's gas production to a total of 292,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, a 13% reduction in daily production
⛽️And for the oil and gas industry, this situation can even become profitable - prices soar and the importance of Norwegian oil for the EU increases. Roughly speaking, now it will be considered not as an "enemy of ecology," but as an important backbone industry
📈It is noted that already by the next weekend, this situation could lead to a drop of 25% in gas production and about 15% in oil production. Yesterday the announced strikes became one of the reasons for a new gas price record in Europe - the price soared by 5% for the first time since March, exceeding $1700 per thousand cubic meters!
👉Most likely they will try to come to an agreement with the strike participants, as the given situation is rather dangerous for Europe. On the other hand there is a probability that it will take the Norwegians a very long time to settle the problem. But the longer the strike lasts, the more expensive gas will be
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⚡️Tensile strength of the Western economy⚡️
🇪🇺The eurozone’s annual rate of inflation accelerated to a fresh record high in June – the consumer prices were 8.6% higher than a year earlier, a pickup from the 8.1% rate of inflation recorded in May and the highest since records began in early 1997
📊The acceleration was again driven by energy and food prices amid Ukraine crisis regarding increased amounts of aid to Kyiv. Household energy charges were 41.9% higher than a year earlier, while food prices were up 8.9%
📈Consumer prices rose more slowly in the eurozone than in the U.S. in 2021, but have been catching up since March. The U.S. recorded an inflation rate of 8.6% in May, but hasn’t yet released a June figure
🏦That surge has prompted the European Central Bank to bring forward its plans to raise its key interest rate, which it has said it would do on July 21. Policy makers last month said their first move likely would be a quarter percentage point rise
An increasing pressure on policy makers at the ECB may persuade them to move more aggresively from September: the key rate could be expected to reach 1% by the end of this year, from minus 0.5% now🤔
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🇪🇺The eurozone’s annual rate of inflation accelerated to a fresh record high in June – the consumer prices were 8.6% higher than a year earlier, a pickup from the 8.1% rate of inflation recorded in May and the highest since records began in early 1997
📊The acceleration was again driven by energy and food prices amid Ukraine crisis regarding increased amounts of aid to Kyiv. Household energy charges were 41.9% higher than a year earlier, while food prices were up 8.9%
📈Consumer prices rose more slowly in the eurozone than in the U.S. in 2021, but have been catching up since March. The U.S. recorded an inflation rate of 8.6% in May, but hasn’t yet released a June figure
🏦That surge has prompted the European Central Bank to bring forward its plans to raise its key interest rate, which it has said it would do on July 21. Policy makers last month said their first move likely would be a quarter percentage point rise
An increasing pressure on policy makers at the ECB may persuade them to move more aggresively from September: the key rate could be expected to reach 1% by the end of this year, from minus 0.5% now🤔
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Nytimes
Eurozone inflation rises to 8.6 percent, the highest ever, driven by energy prices.
Nearly half the countries in the currency area have now reached double-digit inflation.
⚡️Insatiable desire of the West for the past to be sanitized⚡️
📰Elizabeth Mary “Libby” Purves, a British radio presenter, journalist and author says in her column for “The Times”, the demolition of 300 Soviet-era statues carried out by an energetic Latvian government set her reflecting on recent rows about the former PM of the Cape Colony, Cecil Rhodes, and the rest, and how people can suddenly resent familiar statues to the protective dismay of others
💁♂️Among these statues a 79-metre obelisk in Riga, giant brutalist faces of Red Army soldiers threaded around a 14-metre bayonet, and an enormous granite head of Lenin parked in a forest. That was saved by townspeople when the USSR collapsed, for apparently not all in the Russian speaking minority welcome the demolitions
✍️Ms. Purves notes that this century has seen a prim new demand for the physical past to be sanitized, and every new generation allowed to treat statues, irrespective of artistic merit, as if their models were still alive and plaguing us. Meanwhile a separate clamour for “diversity” demands that they be balanced according to our latest demographic
🇬🇧The British journalist rightly concludes that the statues are solidified communal memory, defying mortal fragility, and only rarely deserve to topple. She claims, the PM for once was right: “We have a complex historical legacy all around us, reflecting our history in all its diversity, for good or ill. You can’t go around seeking retrospectively to change or bowdlerize it”
👉“You may not like Churchill or Thatcher statues, but they happened, they mattered,” Ms. Purves insists. At the end of the column she expresses a humble hope that Latvian museums claim some Red Army fragments, just to bear witness
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📰Elizabeth Mary “Libby” Purves, a British radio presenter, journalist and author says in her column for “The Times”, the demolition of 300 Soviet-era statues carried out by an energetic Latvian government set her reflecting on recent rows about the former PM of the Cape Colony, Cecil Rhodes, and the rest, and how people can suddenly resent familiar statues to the protective dismay of others
💁♂️Among these statues a 79-metre obelisk in Riga, giant brutalist faces of Red Army soldiers threaded around a 14-metre bayonet, and an enormous granite head of Lenin parked in a forest. That was saved by townspeople when the USSR collapsed, for apparently not all in the Russian speaking minority welcome the demolitions
✍️Ms. Purves notes that this century has seen a prim new demand for the physical past to be sanitized, and every new generation allowed to treat statues, irrespective of artistic merit, as if their models were still alive and plaguing us. Meanwhile a separate clamour for “diversity” demands that they be balanced according to our latest demographic
🇬🇧The British journalist rightly concludes that the statues are solidified communal memory, defying mortal fragility, and only rarely deserve to topple. She claims, the PM for once was right: “We have a complex historical legacy all around us, reflecting our history in all its diversity, for good or ill. You can’t go around seeking retrospectively to change or bowdlerize it”
👉“You may not like Churchill or Thatcher statues, but they happened, they mattered,” Ms. Purves insists. At the end of the column she expresses a humble hope that Latvian museums claim some Red Army fragments, just to bear witness
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www.thetimes.co.uk
Prim distaste for statues ignores our story
Libby Purves: Even if they are regarded as repellent, monuments matter to our collective memory and only rarely deserve to fall
⚡️What will it be when the time to pay the piper comes?⚡️
💁♂️Edward Lucas, a security expert and a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis states in his column for The Times that the big picture for the British Army is bleak and clear: London lacks the kit for its main military task. “Our plight stems from shocking Complacency,” he explains
🪖Ben Hodges, a retired general who commanded U.S. forces in Europe, told Mps that the British Army got through “every bit of important ammunition” in about eight days during last year’s Warfighter exercise. A land warfare conference last week heard that at Russian rates of fire the British military would run out of artillery shells in just two days.
🤔Mr. Lucas is of an opinion that the most likely war British soldiers face now is in Estonia, a 24-hour, 1,500-mile journey. “The British ability to move large quantities of equipment and supplies across such distances is untested even in peacetime,” he reminds. The British security specialist suggests that when conventional munitions run out, only the overstretched Americans, or nuclear weapons, stand between UK citizens and defeat. “If Russia can survive the first week, it wins,” he assumes.
🤷♂️Mr. Lucas points out that helping Ukraine makes political and strategic sense but it runs down skinny stockpiles further. Countries such as Denmark have invested in ultramodern weapons platforms such as new frigates, but without the stockpiles of smart munitions they would fire in a real war
👉Despite the fact that London has some of the best weapons platforms in the world, the British journalist rightly notes that even the most advanced tank, warplane or naval vessel is no use if it is missing vital spare parts, has run out of fuel, lacks crew members – or has nothing to shoot with
💷For years UK’s defense budget has had a black hole, with too many tasks backed by too few resources. That was disguised by crimping less-visible spending on logistics and spares
Now the real cost is exposed!
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💁♂️Edward Lucas, a security expert and a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis states in his column for The Times that the big picture for the British Army is bleak and clear: London lacks the kit for its main military task. “Our plight stems from shocking Complacency,” he explains
🪖Ben Hodges, a retired general who commanded U.S. forces in Europe, told Mps that the British Army got through “every bit of important ammunition” in about eight days during last year’s Warfighter exercise. A land warfare conference last week heard that at Russian rates of fire the British military would run out of artillery shells in just two days.
🤔Mr. Lucas is of an opinion that the most likely war British soldiers face now is in Estonia, a 24-hour, 1,500-mile journey. “The British ability to move large quantities of equipment and supplies across such distances is untested even in peacetime,” he reminds. The British security specialist suggests that when conventional munitions run out, only the overstretched Americans, or nuclear weapons, stand between UK citizens and defeat. “If Russia can survive the first week, it wins,” he assumes.
🤷♂️Mr. Lucas points out that helping Ukraine makes political and strategic sense but it runs down skinny stockpiles further. Countries such as Denmark have invested in ultramodern weapons platforms such as new frigates, but without the stockpiles of smart munitions they would fire in a real war
👉Despite the fact that London has some of the best weapons platforms in the world, the British journalist rightly notes that even the most advanced tank, warplane or naval vessel is no use if it is missing vital spare parts, has run out of fuel, lacks crew members – or has nothing to shoot with
💷For years UK’s defense budget has had a black hole, with too many tasks backed by too few resources. That was disguised by crimping less-visible spending on logistics and spares
Now the real cost is exposed!
#UK #WarInUkraine #FindTruth
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Our overstretched military is out of ammo
Edward Lucas: Russia knows that decades of complacency and cost cutting have left UK forces ill-equipped
⚡️When doing nothing is better that wrongdoing⚡️
While UK’s defense authorities are slow to fix the defense budget’s black hole, Jonhson’s wrongdoing is etched by “The Times” artists
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While UK’s defense authorities are slow to fix the defense budget’s black hole, Jonhson’s wrongdoing is etched by “The Times” artists
#UK #FindTruth
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⚡️NATO is not “brain dead” – NATO is schizophrenic⚡️
At the end of the NATO summit last week, the Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said, the alliance had been preparing to face off Russia for 8 years, since 2014. He explained, NATO had strengthened its military presence in the Eastern Europe, and the member countries had increased their military budgets
Stoltenberg also noted that the alliance “gave a signal” to Ukrainian President Zelensky to prepare for a “long war.” At the same time, the resolution of the conflict should take place at the negotiating table, but after Kyiv demonstrates success on the battlefield
How, after all, should they understand the NATO policy – and when its leaders have been selling lies convincing the world society, the military alliance was not threatening Russia in any way and was not seeking to aggravate relations
#NATO #FindTruth
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At the end of the NATO summit last week, the Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said, the alliance had been preparing to face off Russia for 8 years, since 2014. He explained, NATO had strengthened its military presence in the Eastern Europe, and the member countries had increased their military budgets
Stoltenberg also noted that the alliance “gave a signal” to Ukrainian President Zelensky to prepare for a “long war.” At the same time, the resolution of the conflict should take place at the negotiating table, but after Kyiv demonstrates success on the battlefield
How, after all, should they understand the NATO policy – and when its leaders have been selling lies convincing the world society, the military alliance was not threatening Russia in any way and was not seeking to aggravate relations
#NATO #FindTruth
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⚡️Biden’s command twitteconomy⚡️
✍️“Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you’re paying for the product. And do it now,” Biden tweeted on Saturday
📝“Ouch. Inflation is far too important a problem for the White House to keep making statements like this. It’s either straight ahead misdirection or a deep misunderstanding of basic market dynamics,” Bezos criticized a bit after
🇺🇸In the meanwhile, Americans are still paying close to $5 at the pump. That isn’t going to stop them from hitting the road this July analysts say
📈The average price for a gallon of gasoline Friday was $4.84, compared with $3.12 during the same day last year, according to OPIS, an energy-data and analytics provider
📊Yet many drivers aren’t changing their pump habits much, despite the 55% year-over-year increase. Gasoline demand in the week ended June 25 is down 6.3% compared with the same period last year
💁♂️Let’s see, to what extent is Biden’s command twitteconomy, actually, operational
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✍️“Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you’re paying for the product. And do it now,” Biden tweeted on Saturday
📝“Ouch. Inflation is far too important a problem for the White House to keep making statements like this. It’s either straight ahead misdirection or a deep misunderstanding of basic market dynamics,” Bezos criticized a bit after
🇺🇸In the meanwhile, Americans are still paying close to $5 at the pump. That isn’t going to stop them from hitting the road this July analysts say
📈The average price for a gallon of gasoline Friday was $4.84, compared with $3.12 during the same day last year, according to OPIS, an energy-data and analytics provider
📊Yet many drivers aren’t changing their pump habits much, despite the 55% year-over-year increase. Gasoline demand in the week ended June 25 is down 6.3% compared with the same period last year
💁♂️Let’s see, to what extent is Biden’s command twitteconomy, actually, operational
#USA #Biden #FindTruth
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⚡️Does a third person come into play?⚡️
The Harvard CAPS/Harris poll found that 71% of Americans did not think Biden should seek a second term, as the economic downturn and questions over competency take a toll. Two thirds of respondents thought that Biden was too old – he will be 82 at the election, while 45% said he was not up to the job. The president’s overall approval rating was only 38%
👉Reports from the White House suggest Biden has become irritated by the speculation about his future. Soaring inflation, foreign policy setbacks and difficulties in passing legislation have all compounded the problem
💁♂️By the way, it had been widely assumed that Trump would wait until after November’s elections before deciding whether to run again, so that he could gauge his popularity from the success of candidates he is backing in congressional and gubernatorial races
📊A majority of those polled said they would consider a moderate independent candidate in 2024, with 60% saying they could support a third person if Biden and Trump ended up securing their parties’ nominations
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The Harvard CAPS/Harris poll found that 71% of Americans did not think Biden should seek a second term, as the economic downturn and questions over competency take a toll. Two thirds of respondents thought that Biden was too old – he will be 82 at the election, while 45% said he was not up to the job. The president’s overall approval rating was only 38%
👉Reports from the White House suggest Biden has become irritated by the speculation about his future. Soaring inflation, foreign policy setbacks and difficulties in passing legislation have all compounded the problem
💁♂️By the way, it had been widely assumed that Trump would wait until after November’s elections before deciding whether to run again, so that he could gauge his popularity from the success of candidates he is backing in congressional and gubernatorial races
📊A majority of those polled said they would consider a moderate independent candidate in 2024, with 60% saying they could support a third person if Biden and Trump ended up securing their parties’ nominations
#USA #FindTruth
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Key Results – June
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‼️Natural Gas Prices Up 700% in Europe Since Last Year – Bloomberg‼️
“In short, natural gas now rivals oil as the fuel that shapes geopolitics. And there isn’t enough of it to go around,” the financial outlet states
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“In short, natural gas now rivals oil as the fuel that shapes geopolitics. And there isn’t enough of it to go around,” the financial outlet states
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⚡️Chicago July 4th Shooter Broadcast Violent Content⚡️
☠️The suspect arrested for allegedly shooting six people dead and injuring 36 others at a July 4 parade in Chicago on Monday had posted amateur rap videos promoting extreme violence
👮♂️Robert Crimo III had posted at least two videos with a bizarre stick figure holding a firearm and tactical gear, with one showing the figure shot dead by cops
💁♂️Among the lyrics now taken down was a line suggesting he would have no regret: “I am unable to stop and think. My actions will be valiant and my thought is unnecessary. I know what I have to do”
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☠️The suspect arrested for allegedly shooting six people dead and injuring 36 others at a July 4 parade in Chicago on Monday had posted amateur rap videos promoting extreme violence
👮♂️Robert Crimo III had posted at least two videos with a bizarre stick figure holding a firearm and tactical gear, with one showing the figure shot dead by cops
💁♂️Among the lyrics now taken down was a line suggesting he would have no regret: “I am unable to stop and think. My actions will be valiant and my thought is unnecessary. I know what I have to do”
#USA #FindTruth
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