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[Regnum] A magnetic storm began on Earth on May 15 and will last for three more days. This was reported on Friday by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The magnetic storm began on May 15 at around 6:00 AM Moscow time. Initially, its intensity corresponded to class G2. The peak intensity persisted for three hours, after which the intensity of geomagnetic fluctuations temporarily decreased, according to the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The next time geomagnetic fluctuations reach the "yellow" level is at 9:00 PM Moscow time. By 6:00 AM Moscow time on Saturday, May 16, the storm will reach G1 status and last for three hours, scientists warned.
On May 10, a powerful M5.7-class flare occurred in a new active region of the Sun. The Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences clarified that the plasma released by the flare will not impact Earth, but two days later, this group of sunspots will enter the planet's zone of influence.
On April 24, the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported a solar flare of the highest class, X2.5, the most powerful in nearly two and a half months. The event was accompanied by a plasma ejection, but experts estimate that it posed no threat to Earth due to the direction of the material's movement.
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Spaceweather.com has good heads up on flares, magnetic storms and such. I watch it daily at work as flares and CME's can affect our comms with the rigs in the gulf.
[Guardian] The hardest part of the parachute jump, according to Capt George Lacey, is falling backwards through the air. It is Saturday and Lacey, and his squad of six plus two medics, have just leapt out of an RAF transport, 2,500 metres over the south Atlantic.
"The parachute can only go forward so quickly," he says, meaning that it has to be pulled at precisely the right moment. "So you have to turn into the wind and basically fly backwards, which is a very weird sensation, as you can imagine."
Below, with only its volcanic peak visible above the prevailing cloud cover, was Tristan da Cunha, the most remote of the British overseas territories, population 221, normally accessible only by boat, six days’ sail from Cape Town or the Falklands.
A resident suspected of having coming down with hantavirus after disembarking from the ill-fated MV Hondius cruise ship last month needed urgent treatment, including oxygen. It had been deemed there was only one way to get supplies over quickly enough. Hat tip to Capt Lacey and his team.
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The Naafi (PX) at Brize used to let yank servicemen shop there, but that was a long time ago. Take the Brize Norton road North to the A40. Left on the A40 for a couple of miles to Burford. Plan on spending a day or two in the shops, pubs, and eateries on High Street. You won't want to leave, I assure you.
In a remarkable development, CIA Director John Ratcliffe travelled to Cuba on Thursday to meet with Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro the grandson of former Cuban President Raúl Castro. Also present at the meeting was Cuban Interior Minister Lazaro Alvarez Casas and the head of Cuba’s intelligence services.
In late April of this year, a few State Department officials visited Havana and held talks with Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro about a potential diplomatic deal. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has also previously spoken directly to Mr. Rodríguez Castro who appears to be acting as somewhat of a bridge between the Cuban government and various Trump administration officials.
[Breitbart] Gill said, "Taking a Marxist economic framework and putting it on top of civil society and culture more broadly...that has been their political strategy ... It comes down to we hate the president, we hate Christians, we hate white people."
The Alex Marlow Show, hosted by Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow, broadcasts coast to coast on weekdays from noon to 1 p.m. Eastern on the Salem Radio Network stations. You can listen to the radio show online here. The show also airs at 9 p.m. Eastern on the Salem TV news channel. Marlow’s podcast, The Alex Marlow Show Presented by Breitbart News, is released weekdays at 9 p.m. Eastern. This sharp young fellow squarely nails it.
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Brandon Gene Gill[1] (born February 26, 1994)[2] is an American politician, media proprietor, and former investment banker serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 26th congressional district since 2025.[3] A member of the Republican Party, he is the youngest Republican member of Congress. His district is anchored in Denton County, a suburban county north of Dallas and Fort Worth.
Born in New Mexico and raised on a ranch in Texas, Gill graduated from Dartmouth College with a bachelor's degree in history and economics. After a brief career as an investment banker, Gill founded the online newspaper D.C. Enquirer in 2022. He worked as publisher and editor-in-chief of the paper until moving back to Texas to run for the U.S. House of Representatives. Wiki
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Brandon Gene Gill[1] … Gill was born in Clovis, New Mexico, on a United States Air Force base to a father who was an officer in the United States Air Force. Gill grew up in Eula, Texas. He attended Dartmouth College, where he headed the conservative student newspaper The Dartmouth Review and graduated with a bachelor's degree in history and economics.[4]
Career
After graduating, Gill worked in New York City as an investment banker at Nomura Securities.[5][6]
Gill founded the online newspaper D.C. Enquirer in 2022, saying that he was "going to bat for President Trump in the public square." He marketed his father-in-law Dinesh D'Souza's 2022 film 2000 Mules, a political film stating the 2020 United States presidential election was stolen.[7][2]
i think we can trust the honourable youngest Congressman’s evaluations.
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Marxism, communism, fascism, Nazism are all the same language just with different accents. They all want -
Centralization of authority
Concentration of Power
Tell the people what the Party/State expects of them (great replacement, DEI..et al)
Those on the 'right' want -
Decentralization
Checks and Balances
The government doing what the people, not the few in power, want
badanov: Note original Rantburg location: http://rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=844636%3E
[IsraelTimes] After PA president gave non-committal response to visiting Egyptian official, members of Dahlan-led faction left out of major gathering where elections held for party’s top panels
A major gathering of Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....> ’s Fatah party went ahead this week without hundreds of members from a faction headed by a rival of the PA leader, despite efforts by Egypt to promote inclusion.
A spokesperson for the Fatah Reformist Democratic Faction, headed by the PA’s exiled former 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... security chief Mohammad Dahlan, confirmed to The Times of Israel that members were not invited to the Fatah conference being held in Ramallah from Thursday to Saturday.
Abbas called the gathering for the first time in a decade to hold elections for Fatah’s powerful Central Committee and Revolutionary Council.
While Fatah has touted what it says is a Democratic process with a record number of participants, those heavily critical of Abbas were not included.
Egypt sought to encourage the PA leader to allow greater political representation, with a bigwig from Cairo raising the issue during a meeting with Abbas in Ramallah last week, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
Abbas’s response to the Egyptian request was non-committal, according to one of the sources.
Egypt has long pushed Abbas to democratize Fatah, arguing that full participation of members will allow for a revival of the movement stained by charges of corruption.
But Abbas has long withstood calls to reconcile with Dahlan, whom he had thrown out of the West Bank in 2011 following a bitter political dispute.
Dahlan moved to Abu Dhabi, where he became a close confidant of UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed and has been more freely able to criticize the PA’s conduct, particularly over the lack of general elections.
Abbas has blamed Dahlan for the subsequent rapid deterioration of the UAE’s ties with the PA.
"The gathering taking place in Ramallah does not qualify to be called a Fatah conference. All efforts to hold a Fatah conference failed due to the president’s insistence on continuing with his autocratic regime," he said in a statement.
In addition to Ramallah, satellite gatherings were also held in Beirut, Gaza City, and Cairo, with over 2,500 total delegates taking part.
The Egyptian gathering was held at the Paleostinian embassy in Cairo, with the diplomatic mission meant to serve tens of thousands of Paleostinians shuttered for the political event. Holding the conference in Egypt allowed for the participation of members who were released over the past two years in Israel-Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... hostage-prisoner deals.
The UAE was once one of the largest donors to Ramallah, but in recent years has preferred to independently finance aid projects for Paleostinians, rather than go through the PA. Abu Dhabi spent more on humanitarian assistance for Gaza than any other country during the recent Israel-Hamas war.
Under Arab and Western pressure to reform the Fatah-dominated PA, Abbas announced in 2023 that he would "grant amnesty" to any members expelled from Fatah.
However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the party has maintained that the amnesty requires each expelled member to file a letter recognizing their infraction of the party bylaws — something Dahlan’s faction members have refused to do because they maintain that they have not made any violations.
While representatives of Abbas met with members of Dahlan’s Reformist Democratic Faction in recent weeks, the sides were unable to reach a compromise. Abbas allies rejected the Dahlan supporters’ request to file a joint application to have their general Fatah membership reinstated.
Reformist Democratic Faction spokesperson Dimitri Diliani told The Times of Israel that Abbas is violating Fatah’s own charter by holding the conference on such terms.
In an announcement of the closure, the embassy offered a phone number for those seeking emergency services.
A Fatah spokesperson issued a statement defending both the party’s conduct toward the Dahlan faction as well as the decision to shutter the entire embassy in order to hold the conference there.
"We affirm that the position of the [Fatah] movement’s leadership and that of President Mahmoud Abbas has been clear and publicly declared for years. Furthermore, this position is not contingent upon any specific visit, mediation effort, or request from any external party," the Fatah statement said, referring to the party’s policy regarding the return of exiled members.
"During the Emergency Arab and Islamic Summit held in Egypt in November 2023, President [Abbas] explicitly announced the [Fatah] movement’s decision to grant amnesty to all individuals who had been expelled on the grounds of organizational infractions. This decision stems from a deep commitment to preserving the movement’s unity and reinforcing its national and organizational cohesion," the statement said.
"Moreover, the Fatah movement has officially outlined the approved mechanism for implementing this decision. This mechanism requires any individual subject to an expulsion order to submit a personal letter and an individual application to the relevant organizational bodies, which will then review the request and render an appropriate decision. Indeed, a number of cases have already been processed in accordance with this mechanism. Consequently, several members have returned to the party, with some now serving as full members or candidates at the ongoing 8th Fatah conference."
"Conversely, the Fatah movement has repeatedly affirmed its refusal to engage with any specific faction or political current within its ranks on a collective basis, including those associated with the supporters of Mohammed Dahlan," the Fatah statement continued. "The movement maintains that any such matters must be addressed exclusively through established organizational channels and on an individual basis, rather than being treated as a collective issue or a distinct political faction within Fatah."
As for holding the conference at the Paleostinian embassy, the Fatah spokesperson noted that Cairo had given it the go-ahead to hold the event in Egypt, while stressing that the approval was not tied to any discussions regarding the participation of Dahlan’s faction. The spokesperson did not address criticism of a partisan political event being held at a diplomatic mission.
The Egyptian foreign ministry did not respond to a request for comment.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
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.
In a remarkable development, CIA Director John Ratcliffe travelled to Cuba on Thursday to meet with Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro the grandson of former Cuban President Raúl Castro. Also present at the meeting was Cuban Interior Minister Lazaro Alvarez Casas and the head of Cuba’s intelligence services.
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
