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It was pretty common practice in the 1920's for 'flappers' to de-emphasize their bust-line.
My grandmother told me that she used to wrap herself up pretty tightly to fit the styles (and yes, she had very little in the way of a 'filter' when talking to us kids).
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^^I did not know that. Learn something new every day...^^
[SudanWarMonitor] Western governments warn against an El Fasher-style scenario.
Fears are growing that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are preparing a major assault on El Obeid after weeks of drone attacks on the city and military reinforcements moving into surrounding areas.
That would make sense after the softening up campaign.
The city has remained under Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) control since the outbreak of war in April 2023, but suffered RSF incursions in 2023 and 2024. It is one of the army’s most important strongholds in western Sudan and serves as a gateway to Darfur, Kordofan, and central Sudan.
The latest attacks have targeted fuel infrastructure, commercial areas, and neighborhoods, raising concerns that the RSF may be seeking to weaken the city before launching a broader ground operation. Additionally, new combat groups have arrived in rural areas around the city, including some with newly imported armored vehicles.
The city itself has been heavily fortified. Extensive trench systems, which are visible from satellite imagery, have been dug around much of El Obeid’s perimeter, while SAF-allied Joint Force auxiliaries have conducted mobile patrols out of the city, attempting to keep the RSF from encroaching too close.
African Corps 🇷🇺 took control over NTllitt, confirmed via geolocations.
In Niger, JNIM unsuccessfully attacked the main airport in Niamey. JNIM attacks in Burkina Faso continue, with threats to states in the southern proximity. pic.twitter.com/1qMIOimSjB
African Corps 🇷🇺 took control over NTllitt, confirmed via geolocations.
In Niger, JNIM unsuccessfully attacked the main airport in Niamey. JNIM attacks in Burkina Faso continue, with threats to states in the southern proximity.
Après l'attaque à Niamey, une maison de terroristes découverte non loin de l'aéroport
À la suite de l'échec de l'assaut mené le 18 juin par des individus déguisés en conducteurs de taxi, les forces de sécurité ont localisé et fouillé un bâtiment utilisé comme base logistique,… https://t.co/Omgvdk6dGmpic.twitter.com/Jzf98xmSkK
After the attack in Niamey, a terrorists' hideout discovered not far from the airport
Following the failure of the assault carried out on June 18 by individuals disguised as taxi drivers, the security forces located and searched a building used as a logistical base, media reports.
On site, they discovered a taxi as well as weapons and communication equipment hidden underground.
[FOX] The U.S. Southern Command said it conducted a "lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations" at the direction of the leader of the Southern Command, Gen. Francis L. Donovan of the Marine Corps.
The military claimed, citing intelligence, that the vessel "was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations."
There were six male survivors in addition to the two men killed in the strike.
"Following the engagement, USSOUTHCOM immediately notified U.S. Coast Guard to activate the Search and Rescue system for the survivors," the military said.
The administration has been scrutinized in recent months over the strikes by Democrats and even some Republicans, including Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who has raised concerns about killing people without due process and the possibility of killing innocent people.
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[KavkazUzel] The Russian Supreme Court rejected the cassation appeal of Asker Budaykhanov and Gadzhi Imanmurzaev, who were sentenced to lengthy prison terms for organizing riots at Makhachkala Airport. The defense pointed out that witness testimony and evidence contradicted the findings of the court and the investigation.
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," on July 18, 2025, the Stavropol Regional Court sentenced four Dagestani residents in the case of the pogrom at Makhachkala Airport. The court found Devletkhan Ramazanov, Gadzhi Imanmurzaev, Asker Budaykhanov, and Patimat Sharudinova guilty of organizing mass riots and violating transport security and sentenced them to prison terms ranging from 11 to 11.5 years.
On October 29, 2023, mass riots erupted at Makhachkala Airport following the announcement of the arrival of a plane carrying passengers from Israel. More than 20 people were injured in the riots. The events at Uytash Airport are described in the "Caucasian Knot" report "The Case of the Pogrom at Makhachkala Airport."
Asker Budaykhanov and Gadzhi Imanmurzaev, convicted of organizing mass riots and violating transport security regulations at Makhachkala Airport, were unable to appeal their verdict in the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. Imanmurzaev's lawyers argued that the evidence presented in the verdict did not support the court's findings. For example, two victims testified in court that Imanmurzaev calmed the crowd, urged them not to commit unlawful acts, and asked them to leave the airport. The trial court also unreasonably denied a motion to include the full audio recording (approximately three minutes long) in the case file and have it examined in court, which indicates that A.B. Budaykhanov is not guilty of organizing mass riots, according to the Supreme Court's ruling.
"The judicial investigation cannot be considered objective, since more than 130 identified individuals who participated in the mass riots were not questioned regarding the organizing role of A.B. Budaykhanov and G.I. Imanmurzaev," the defense emphasized, noting that the punishment was unfair.
They also pointed out that Imanmurzaev is the dependent of a minor child, and the convicted man is the grandfather of nine grandchildren who live with him. Budaykhanov has four minor children. Both convicted men partially admitted their guilt and expressed remorse. The court found the defense's arguments unfounded and upheld the sentence.
More than 130 people have been convicted of participating in the mass riots at Makhachkala Airport, receiving prison sentences ranging from 6.5 to 15 years. Dagestani resident Bakhtiyar Radzhabov, sentenced to seven years in prison by the Georgievsk City Court in October, became at least the 136th person convicted for participating in the pogrom, according to the Caucasian Knot report " A Wave of Anti-Semitic Actions in the North Caucasus."
As a reminder, Ilya Ponomarev*, Israil Akhmednabiyev (Abu Umar Sasitlinsky), and Abakar Abakarov, who are on the international wanted list and whose death confirmation has been sent to Turkish authorities, have been sentenced in absentia to terms ranging from 15 to 19 years. Investigators and the court deemed them the organizers of the unrest at Makhachkala Airport.
Again? Those Moslem colonists sure know how to party on the public dime.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] More than 240 people were arrested, two people stabbed, and others raped, as France's biggest open air music festival descended into intense violence.
The 40-year-old man and woman, who have not been named, were attacked in the early hours of Monday at the Fête de la Musique – a nationwide 'street party' attended by thousands of British people.
Police also reported two alleged rapes, multiple other sexual assaults, muggings, and girls being stabbed with syringes, on a night of anarchy.
It was in the south west city of Toulouse that a male victim was knifed, close to midnight, while the woman was knifed in nearby Colomiers soon afterwards.
On Monday, both were in hospital and described as being 'in a stable condition'.
An investigating source said: 'Camera footage of the Fête de la Musique is being studied to try and find those using knives to stab people.'
There were also attacks on the streets of Paris, as thugs started fights in the centre of the city.
Car windows were smashed, and attempts made to break into shops, while thefts were commonplace.
There were some 148 arrests in Paris alone, according to an Interior Ministry spokesman, and '243 across France as a whole'.
More than 10 incidents of women being attacked with syringes were reported, as unidentified substances were injected inside them.
And a man was briefly detained for 'carrying syringes on his belt' in Paris, before running away.
A young woman in the 9th arrondissement was stung and then raped by a man in a private residence around 9.30pm, said the Interior Ministry spokesman.
In the northern suburb of Gagny, a 48-year-old man was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl.
And in Nogent-sur-Marne, another Paris suburb, a 15-year-old girl also reported being raped after attending a concert.
More than two million people attended the festival in Paris, where the first trouble started soon after 11pm, in the Châtelet area of the city, close to Notre Dame Cathedral.
'Streets became dangerously overcrowded, and trouble makers took advantage,' said a British witness, who asked to be referred to as Steve.
'A group of young men – some in Paris St Germain football shirts – began punching people, causing chaos.
'People were screaming, and there was a real fear that the fighting would cause a massive crush as people tried to get away.'
There was also trouble across the River Seine, in the St Germain de Prés district, where officers used tear gas to control crowds.
It followed President Emmanuel Macron pleading for calm, after Paris St Germain (PSG) supporters went on the rampage through the city following their team's victory over Arsenal in the European Champions League Final last month.
Mr Macron said: 'We are all going to be very vigilant, and you have to be vigilant yourselves – for yourselves, for your loved ones, for the most vulnerable.
'It is very important to follow all the recommendations, to celebrate and to be happy at this time, but to be so while being vigilant about the temperature.'
There were tropical temperatures of 30C+ in Paris across the weekend, so increasing fears that there would be trouble at the festival.
Alcohol was officially banned, but plenty of people were carrying their own bottles of wine, beer and spirits, while cannabis was being smoked openly.
The annual free music event sees mainly amateur artists performing on streets, squares and boulevards.
It has been running for more than 40 years, and music fans from the UK are some of its most enthusiastic participants.
Lamia El Aaraje, Paris's deputy mayor, had called for 'Europe's youth to come and party'.
This was despite incidents of hooliganism and sexual assault in 2025.
Ms El Aaraje said: 'Last year there was an impact on the public space, there were excesses, incidents, lots of sexual violence.'
Last year, there were reports of women and girls being among those being pricked with syringes containing suspicious substances.
This year, there were special cordoned-off safe spaces for women and disabled people in key locations, including near Bastille square.
During the PSG celebrations last month, two fans died after drowning in the River Seine, and there was widespread rioting.
This meant there were almost 5,000 police and gendarmes on the street last night, but they were told to hang back from crowds, and only intervene in incidents if 'absolutely necessary,' according to a senior Interior Ministry source.
[TH] Secretary Markwayne Mullin revealed the Iranian plot on Fox News Sunday morning.
“Most teams travel with around 120 people,” Mullin said. “That’s their support staff, doctors, coaches, everybody else that comes along with them and their delegation. We accepted 53 individuals coming in. The rest of the individuals Iran tried to bring in all also had direct ties to the IRGC and aren’t their normal traveling group.”
That attempted security beach should be enough to get them PNG-ed, except for the bad guys arrested.
“These games that Iran plays unfortunately makes them an adversary that you can’t trust,” Mullin added.
Iran are currently second in the Group G table after drawing their World Cup opener against New Zealand 2-2. They are set to play Belgium at 3:00 PM ET in Los Angeles. A win or draw against Belgium should place Iran as one of the Group G favorites to advance to the knockout rounds.
🚨 Iran’s Islamist Terror Regime tried to sneak IRGC-linked operatives into the US as part of the Iranian World Cup delegation, says Homeland Security Secretary @SecMullinDHS.
There has also been an influx of IRGC-tied operatives apprehended while attempting to enter the US via... pic.twitter.com/gQBHRewhoC
מקור חשף היום באתר האמירותי "ארם ניוז" פרטים נוספים על החוליות שהקימו משמרות המהפכה של איראן בעיראק במהלך מבצע שאגת הארי.
לפי פרסום קודם ב"רויטרס", החוליות הוקמו בחודשים האחרונים כדי לשגר כטב"מים מעיראק לעבר מדינות ערביות שכנות. המקור מסר לאתר האמירותי כי התאים הופעלו בתוך…
— שחר קליימן Shachar Kleiman (@skleiman5791) June 21, 2026
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A source revealed today on the Emirati website "Aram News" additional details about the cells established by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iraq during Operation Roaring Lion.
According to a previous report by "Reuters," the cells were set up in recent months to launch drones from Iraq toward neighboring Arab countries. The source told the Emirati website that the cells had been operating inside Iraq since the month of March and were linked to a team under the command of a senior IRGC official known as "Hajj Hamed."
According to the source, the cells were established to carry out special missions inside Iraq and beyond. They began operating in the southeastern provinces of Basra and Al-Muthanna, as well as in parts of the western province of Al-Anbar.
The cells transported drones in large trucks to change their launch sites and evade detection and strikes. The source explained that "the establishment of the groups was intended to carry out attacks against facilities inside the country and targets in neighboring countries. They carried out several operations in recent months using means that are difficult to track compared to traditional methods."
Of course, the question arises regarding the establishment of these cells, given that there are already pro-Iranian militias in Iraq. The source explained that the reason for this is the relatively heavy damage inflicted on organizations like Kata'ib Hezbollah and Al-Nujaba by U.S. strikes, due to their relatively overt activities. According to him, another reason was the desire to avoid embarrassing these militias when it comes to launches against neighboring countries, since they have representatives in the Iraqi government.
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[IsraelTimes] The IDF says troops shot dead two Palestinians who were hurling Molotov cocktails at the West Bank settlement of Karmei Tzur
…north of Hebron in the Judean hills between the Palestinian towns of Beit Ummar and Halhul in Gush Etzion …
this evening.
Troops of the 636th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit had been waiting in an ambush when they identified several suspects setting fire to tires and throwing firebombs at the settlement, the army says.
“The troops opened fire and eliminated two terrorists and neutralized another terrorist,” the IDF says, adding that the forces began searches for additional suspects.
No other injuries are reported.
Firefighters are meanwhile working to extinguish a blaze outside the settlement sparked by the burning tires, the military adds.
[IsraelTimes] IDF says Islamic Jihad commander took part in kidnapping of child, was targeted for trying to rebuild terror group; separate strikes kill two Hamas moneymen and another operative
A man and girl were killed Sunday in an Israeli strike west of Khan Younis 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 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... , Paleostinian media reported, as the IDF said strikes last week had killed three Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... operatives and an 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... commander involved in the abduction of 12-year-old Yagil Yaakov on October 7, 2023.
Khan Younis’s Nasser Hospital reportedly received several people maimed in the IDF strike on Mawasi, as well as the bodies of Akram Abu Madi, 31, and Julia al-Balaawi, who was reported to be between 8 and 11 years old. The IDF did not comment on the reports.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his other shoulder...... the IDF and Shin Bet said Sunday that a strike in southern Gaza on Friday had killed Zaki Youssef Mahmoud Abu Mustafa, the elite forces commander of Paleostinian Islamic Jihad’s Khan Younis Brigade, who the military said helped rebuild PIJ in violation of the Gaza ceasefire.
In the October 7 onslaught that sparked the Gaza war, Abu Mustafa raided Kibbutz Nir Oz — one of the hardest-hit border communities — and took part in the abduction of Yaakov, who was released as part of the week-long November 2023 truce, the IDF and Shin Bet said. The military published a photo showing Abu Mustafa and several other hard boyz during the abduction.
"In recent months, Abu Mustafa played a significant role in rebuilding the terrorist organization’s military capabilities in the Gaza Strip, in violation of the ceasefire agreement," the IDF said.
Abu Mustafa had also advanced attacks on troops and "attempted to conduct training for hard boyz at Nasser Hospital, while exploiting the hospital to advance terrorist activity," according to the military.
"Due to his recent activities and the immediate threat he posed to IDF troops, Abu Mustafa was eliminated in a precise strike," the military said.
It added that a separate strike over the weekend had killed an operative in Hamas’s elite Nukhba Force.
The operative, Mohammed Osama Abd al-Aziz Saba al-Eish, "attempted to advance training and instruction for the organization’s hard boyz and worked to recruit additional hard boyz to the organization," the military said.
An Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in southern Gaza on Wednesday also killed Hussein Qadra and Mohammed Farra, Hamas moneymen responsible for transferring half a billion shekels (roughly $169 million) to the terror group, according to the IDF.
The military has struck and killed several Hamas financial operatives in both Gaza and Leb ...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.... in recent months.
The IDF said Qadra and Farra served in the military wings of Hamas and PIJ but operated under a "Hamas-run financial network responsible for transferring funds into the Gaza Strip."
"Qadra, who headed the network, together with Farra and other operatives, acted under the direction of Hamas leadership and facilitated the transfer of more than NIS half a billion to Hamas’s military wing by operating a network of dozens of couriers and money exchangers in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... and the Gaza Strip," the IDF said.
"Through these funds, the Hamas terror organization continued, especially in recent months, to pay salaries to its hard boyz and finance terror activities against IDF troops and Israeli civilians, in violation of the ceasefire agreement," the military said.
At least 1,012 Paleostinians have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect on October 10 last year, according to the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry, whose figures do not differentiate between civilians and combatants. The IDF has reported five deaths in its ranks during the same period.
[IsraelTimes] The Shin Bet security agency says it foiled dozens of planned terror attacks in the West Bank directed by Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... operatives in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... in the past year.
In a statement, the Shin Bet names several Turkey-based operatives in Hamas’s so-called West Bank Headquarters, a unit in the terror group responsible for advancing attacks against Israel from or in the West Bank.
"Over the years, and with increased intensity over the past year, operatives in the West Bank Headquarters have been directing and advancing extensive military activity into Judea and Samaria [West Bank] and Israel from Ottoman Turkish soil, including recruiting operatives to carry out attacks and transferring weapons and funds into the area to advance military activity," the agency says.
According to the Shin Bet, Istanbul-based senior Hamas official Zaher Jabarin is the head of Hamas’s West Bank activity, and Ayman Abu Khalil heads the military wing in the territory.
The Shin Bet names several more operatives who it says reside in Turkey and operate under Hamas’s West Bank Headquarters.
They include: Ayman Sharawna, who worked to recruit operatives; Muhammad Mallah, who also spends part of his time in 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 worked to transfer funds for terror activity; Majed Jaaba, who assisted in providing the weapon used in a November 2023 shooting attack at a Jerusalem-area checkpoint; Walid Abu Nassar, who financed a Hamas network in Bethlehem; and Salam Yaish, who recruited operatives to carry out attacks.
The Shin Bet says the Hamas operatives "carry out their activities unhindered from Ottoman Turkish territory," and exploit "infrastructure in the country to transfer instructions and funds" to snuffies in the West Bank.
🔴טרלול מוחלט - 8 ק"מ מגבול ישראל - מנהרת טרור של החיזבאללה עם יותר מ—50 כטב״מים ומעל 8(!) טון של אמצעי לחימה🔴 המנהרה באורך של 200 מטר אותרה בכפר במג'דל זון על ידי חטיבת מילואים 551, והיו בה 20 מחבלים שחוסלו, 4 פירי שיגור ועשרות כטב״מים חלקם יכולים להגיע עד אילת צה״ל כבר תקף את… pic.twitter.com/5imCGUajCA
🔴Total Madness - 8 km from Israel's Border - Hezbollah Terror Tunnel with Over 50 Drones and Over 8(!) Tons of Weapons🔴
The 200-meter-long tunnel was discovered in the village of Majdal Zoun by the 551st Reserve Brigade, and it contained 20 terrorists who were eliminated, 4 launch shafts, and dozens of drones, some of which can reach as far as Eilat
The IDF already attacked the tunnel from the air in 2024, but Hezbollah rebuilt it. In recent weeks, fighters from 551 conquered the village and discovered that the entire village is used for terrorism. The village is on its way to complete erasure from the map
There is no right to exist for Shiites in southern Lebanon; they will be forced to find another place to live in Lebanon, not near the border with Israel, like Beit Hanoun and Rafah—nothing will remain of this village, not a single house standing.
Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. shared footage of Hezbollah’s tunnel network, writing: “Imagine how long it takes to carve a tunnel network like this into a mountain.”
He added: “Don’t be fooled - this is who Hezbollah is - terrorists occupying Lebanon… pic.twitter.com/Bq01k0HBWZ
Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. shared footage of Hezbollah’s tunnel network, writing: “Imagine how long it takes to carve a tunnel network like this into a mountain.”
He added: “Don’t be fooled - this is who Hezbollah is - terrorists occupying Lebanon at the behest of Iran in order to attack Israel.”
Obviously there is a coordinated effort to tell half a story on the Israel-Lebanon effort against Hezbollah. Hezbollah isn’t some new issue, they’ve been a lethal problem to any western nation longer than some of the people commenting have been alive.
[AnNahar] Leb ...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. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... 's central bank on Saturday condemned a "direct and deliberate" Israeli attack on one of its branches in the southern city of Nabatieh, where Israel had intensified its strikes despite a ceasefire.
"Israeli forces directly targeted a branch of the Bank of Lebanon in Nabatieh," the bank said in a statement.
It condemned what it called "a deliberate attack against an official building that is inseparable from Lebanese state institutions".
The building was empty at the time of the strike and sustained only material damage, it added.
The central bank called on the United States and allies "to guarantee the protection of civilians and Lebanese official institutions".
Hezbollah had pulled Lebanon into the conflict in early March when it fired rockets at Israel in retaliation for the killing of Iran's supreme leader in U.S.-Israeli strikes.
Despite a new ceasefire announcement on Friday as part of the memorandum of understanding signed by Tehran and Washington, Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah had continued to clash in the Nabatieh region. The fighting stopped later on Saturday after Israel's politicianship ordered its army to halt operations
[AnNahar] Lebanon's health ministry said Saturday that Israeli attacks since March 2 when the latest Israel-Hezbollah war began had reached 4,057 dead, including 135 health and emergency workers, and 12,121 people wounded.
The ministry also raised the toll in Israeli attacks on Friday from 47 to "a final toll of 83 martyrs and 141 wounded," most of them in south Lebanon but also in the country's east.
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
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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.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says troops shot dead two Palestinians who were hurling Molotov cocktails at the West Bank settlement of 
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
...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. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....
