[FoxNews] Suspects face federal racketeering, money laundering and firearms charges with trial set for March 2027
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it had carried out 20 federal warrants and 10 arrests last Wednesday in connection with sex trafficking operations in Los Angeles by the Hoover Criminals Gang (HCG), a group known for its human exploitation.
Officials identified 51 victims in connection with the arrests, some of whom were as young as 14.
"[Homeland Security Investigations] remains steadfast in our mission to protect victims and pursue justice against human traffickers," Special Agent Eddy Wang said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
The arrests are a part of Operation Broken Blade, an effort to target trafficking in Los Angeles' Figueroa Corridor, a strip of neighborhoods south of the city, according to the agency. They also highlight the continued threats law enforcement face, even as illegal border crossings have plummeted during the second Trump administration.
"This operation in Los Angeles resulted in the arrest of ten gang members, who now face federal racketeering charges including sex trafficking, money laundering, firearms offenses and narcotics offenses," Bis said.
Since the end of 2024, border crossings have fallen precipitously, going from over 144,000 encounters in December 2024 to just 13,500 in May — a 90% reduction.
Even so, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other federal agencies remain engaged in intercepting more organized smuggling operations that threaten to bring drugs, weapons and people illegally into the country.
In April, for example, CBP announced it had prevented a car carrying a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, 16 AK rifles, 24 rifle magazines, 16 rifle stocks, 20 pistol grips, and other weapon parts from crossing the border.
As a part of those continued efforts, Acting Assistant DHS Secretary of Public Affairs Lauren Bis said that DHS has made disrupting sex trafficking rings a priority.
"Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, DHS is dismantling human and sex trafficking rings," Bis told Fox News Digital.
Bis noted that the suspects arrested last week will also face charges that go well beyond their human exploitation.
"This operation in Los Angeles resulted in the arrest of ten gang members, who now face federal racketeering charges including sex trafficking, money laundering, firearms offenses and narcotics offenses," Bis said.
The agency described many of the suspects as "career criminals" with histories that include robbery, kidnapping and burglary.
Wednesday’s operation is the second round of arrests made under Broken Blade, an initiative originally launched in August 2025 by Homeland Security Investigations Los Angeles in cooperation with CBP, the Los Angeles Police Department and the California Highway Patrol.
The 10 suspects are expected to stand trial in March 2027, according to DHS.
"The actions taken today by HSI are another decisive blow against those who have exploited the vulnerable people of our community, and they will now face the consequences of those actions," Wang said.
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10 seems like a operation.
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[FoxNews] Raleigh mayor considers youth curfew following teen takeover, violent July 4th weekend. Around 10,000 teenagers flooded Brier Creek and Glenwood South as businesses shut doors to protect staff
The mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina, is weighing whether to impose a curfew for minors following a series of shootings and chaotic events over the Independence Day weekend, in which several fights broke out and nine people were shot amid a series of teen takeovers across the country.
The violence over the holiday weekend prompted Raleigh Mayor Janet Cowell to tell WRAL News she's considering enacting a curfew for those aged 17 and under.
"As Mayor, I am grateful for the actions of the Raleigh Police officers in response to the situations of juvenile violence across the city on the night of July 4 and the morning of July 5," Cowell told the news outlet. "Clearly, Raleigh is not exempt from the incidents of youth violence that are occurring across the country. We need to talk with the youth, their parents, schools, and the broader community to understand the root causes and to better coordinate strategies."
One approach, she said, may be a youth curfew for those 17 years old and under, which other cities in North Carolina have implemented. City leaders were exploring "many approaches" that are expected to be discussed at Tuesday's City Council meeting, the mayor said.
Around 5,000 teenagers showed up in Brier Creek and another 5,000 in Glenwood South, with half residing outside the city, the Raleigh Police Department said Sunday.
Raleigh police officers initially responded just after 10:05 p.m. Saturday to reports of a fight near a movie theater and nearby stores. The incident stemmed from a "teen takeover," a social media-driven phenomenon where massive crowds of youths coordinate to suddenly congregate at public spaces like beaches, malls, or restaurants.
A large fight broke out, followed by gunshots. One adult was shot and another was injured by shattered glass caused by the shooting, police said. A juvenile was found with a gun and detained, but investigators don't believe the teen was one of the shooters.
Hours later, at 1:35 a.m. Sunday, officers responded to multiple shootings. Six people were shot but were expected to survive.
At around 4:30 a.m., two people were shot following a fight at a gas station, police said. They were taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. No arrests were made.
Investigations into the shootings are ongoing, police said.
In a Monday post on X, Cowell called teen takeovers a "disturbing national trend."
An Instagram post from Milk Bar, a bar in the Glenwood South area, said the actions of a few ruined the peace for patrons in the area.
"While we had zero safety incidents inside Milk Bar, we made the proactive decision alongside other businesses to close our doors, to protect our patrons and staff from the surrounding unrest," the post states. "Gun violence and reckless behavior have no place in our nightlife scene. WE CAN DO BETTER, RALEIGH!"
[FoxNews] Crowds blocked roads and set off fireworks near Newport Pier as police made 402 arrests over the holiday weekend
July Fourth chaos erupted over the weekend on the West Coast. More than 400 teens and young people were arrested during a massive teen takeover event in Newport Beach, California.
Police say the mob descended upon the Balboa Peninsula neighborhood on July 4, with videos shared on social media depicting the madness with crowds appearing to set off fireworks in the middle of roadways, block busy streets and cause damage to local businesses.
From Friday, July 3, through Sunday, July 5, police made 402 arrests, with the local fire department responding to 102 emergencies, including 10 fires; it is unclear if the fires and emergencies were related to the illegal takeover event.
In a post to social media, the City of Newport Beach said in part:
"Social media posts drew a large influx of juveniles and young adults to the Newport Pier area within a matter of minutes. As the crowd quickly grew into the thousands, dangerous and unlawful behavior escalated, blocking roadways, preventing emergency access and putting families, visitors and first responders at risk."
More videos shared online appear to show possible damage at a Pavilions grocery store in the area. Smashed produce and trash were seen strewn around the parking lot over the weekend.
"The safety and well-being of our customers and associates is our top priority," Albertsons, the company that owns the Pavilions grocery store, told Fox News Digital. "During the incident in the parking lot at our Newport Beach Pavilions, we secured the interior of the store, and all associates remained safe. While some exterior product displays were damaged, the store itself did not sustain any physical damage. The store reopened yesterday morning and is operating as normal."
The president of the Newport Beach Police Association, Joe DeJulio, posted a statement to social media that said, "a large group of agitators invaded Newport Beach spurred by an alleged 'TikTok Takeover.' These persons came to our city with the intent on causing harm, injury, and destruction, bringing harassment, disturbances, and mayhem."
A spokesperson for TikTok confirmed to Fox News Digital any content posted on the platform that promotes theft, property damage, criminal activity, or dangerous behaviors that could cause serious harm, violates the app's Community Guidelines.
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How does this even happen? Palantir sees all. It's recording this very comment!
They have the decryption keys and should have seen this coming a mile off. Every participant should have had their Telegram and Tiktok cut off like Canadian trucker bank accounts.
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Sneako: Islamic Republic of New Yorkistan. Inshallah.
Sneako declares New York an Islamic State ⁰“Islam will be in every household. Inshallah, the whole world will become Muslim.” pic.twitter.com/dzuzjRunHb
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According to KFI in Los Angeles, locals are blaming youts from Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, aka the Inland Empire, who travel to the beach looking for beach babes but find trouble instead. Of course, people in places like Newport Beach don't believe in life to the east of Interstate 5. It gets hot out there while the coast remains cool and coastal folk think of people who live out there as red necks. Beach babes wouldn't have anything to do with them.
This is not to say that everybody who lives in the Inland Empire is uncool. I mean, at least they're not Democrats. But the real estate is much less expensive.
Newport Beach is an affluent community in Orange County, well to the south of communist Los Angeles, and the folks there tend to vote Republican when they're not sailing their yachts. I only wish that I could live there. Let us please all hope that Newsom is not successful in his efforts to ruin it.
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And we were taught our forefathers ran around lynching people without cause, they did it for fun, for sport, I was taught.
[MSN] Supergirl box office collapse is now historically bad, and Gunn’s timing couldn’t be worse.
The verdict is in on Supergirl, and it’s ugly. After a soft opening, DC’s latest didn’t just fade in weekend two, it fell off a cliff, posting one of the worst second-weekend drops in superhero movie history.
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First weekend was weak at about $37 M
Second weekend was awful at about $ 9.6 MWarner Bros is looking at a $100+ M loss.
Also sorts of inside baseball stuff at the link, but the bottom line is that with Larry Ellison buying the studio and the directors’ contracts due for renewal, Mr. Gunn probably won’t be allowed to continue what was intended to be a ten-film series.
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The movie Young Washington pulled more on the July 4th weekend.
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Yeah but they'll be showing it on the FX cable channel for years to come and it will eventually turn a profit. The bummer is that Hollywood doesn't make blockbusters anymore, just a bunch of recycled crap like Supergirl.
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Odyssey is supposed to be that Summer Blockbuster.
We'll see; coming on the home stretch before release, I'm seeing elements of those advertising tricks usually done on movies with a waning interest leading up to the showing.
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warner bro does get a piece of the subscription pie from the cable channels (about $2/month per subscription)
but the number of subscribers is decreasing and the piece of the pie is based on all warner movies the cable channel runs so the amount attributable to any one movie isn't very much
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[DM] Thousands of people were evacuated in southern France on Monday as 'catastrophic' wildfires ravaged the region, while poisonous clouds swept through Greece and Costa Brava in Spain was put on alert.
It comes as temperatures across Europe are on the rise again, predicted to reach 40C in parts still suffering the aftermath of a recent record-breaking heatwave.
Hundreds of firefighters are battling blazes that have devastated more than 19,000 hectares (42,000 acres) of land - an area more than twice the size of Manhattan - across Portugal, Spain, France and Greece.
In southwestern France near the city of Perpignan, 700 firefighters backed by special aircraft battled to control a 'gigantic' blaze spreading in a hard-to-reach remote area, with more than 10,000 local residents evacuated.
Fanned by wind, intense heat and exceptionally dry air, the fire has nearly tripled in size since early Sunday, devouring 4,600 hectares and leaving a firefighter and a resident injured, local authorities said.
International climate bureaucracies are retreating from their original worst-case scenarios.
Their high-end 5-degree warnings from 20 years ago were used to drive public anxiety and justify massive overhauls to trusted energy systems. These are evaporating under the sheer weight… pic.twitter.com/ItoRqFiX03
The fear narrative may be ending, but the biosphere is flourishing. NASA satellite data reveal that between 25% and 50% of Earth’s vegetated lands have shown significant greening over the last four decades.
This is an expansion of biomass equivalent to twice the area of the continental United States—and CO₂ fertilisation is responsible for roughly 70% of it. The higher atmospheric CO₂ (hovering around 426 ppm) allows leaf pores (stomata) to stay open for less time to absorb carbon.
This is nature’s built-in water saver, drastically cutting moisture loss and boosting natural drought resistance. As a result, vegetation is actively reclaiming arid fringes of the Sahel, the Middle East and the Australian Outback. Nature is using this extra airborne fuel to thrive in regions once deemed too barren.
Nevertheless, climate bureaucrats are still fixated on economic modeling and their 2050 net zero bank balance target.
The planet itself doesn't care. Yet it demonstrates the profound, biological benefits of elevated CO₂.
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There is a sat point where C02 effects on the environment, blocking the sun, stop. We are already double that sat point number, have been since before mankind entered the picture. C02 has zero effect on global warming, climate change, or what ever the left offers up as a new problem. Never was a problem, never will be.
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Back around when Al Gore was a grad student, somebody did an analysis of some (Greenland?) ice cores and found the temperature and CO2 levels moved in lockstep. A fascinating result!
So they redid the analysis at a higher resolution and found the CO2 levels lagged behind the temperature by about 800 years. Oopsie! Like the great Feynman said, no matter how smart you are and how elegant your theory, if your predictions don't match the observations, your theory sucks donkey balls. (I'm paraphrasing)
It warms my nerdy heart to finally see the wheels coming off this long-running scam.
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[REGNUM.RU] On July 5, the Sun broke a two-year record for the number of solar flares in a single day. This was reported by researchers from the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Solar Terrestrial Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences on their Telegram channel.
According to them, scientists recorded 24 flares of category C or higher (UTC) within 24 hours. When calculated in Moscow time, the figure was 26 flares. These figures were the highest in the past two years.
Meanwhile, the magnetic storm that occurred on July 4th, the second most powerful this year, has completely ended. All geomagnetic indices and solar wind parameters have returned to normal, astronomers explained.
Scientists noted that these events are currently of purely scientific interest and pose no threat to Earth. Large sunspot groups, including object #4478, have finally moved westward and are retreating to the far side of the celestial body. Experts expect a decline in X-ray fluxes. According to astronomers' calculations, these sunspot groups may return to the field of view around July 20th, but the likelihood of them persisting for two weeks is minimal.
Earlier, on July 4, the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences recorded a strong magnetic storm of G3 level on Earth, which became the second most powerful since the beginning of the year.
Still bickering about whether South West State is part of Somalia or an autonomous state in federation, I see. I don’t understand why Turkey has to shove its airplane nose into the mix, though.
[GaroweOnline] Loud explosions were heard on the outskirts of Baidoa on Monday as Ottoman Turkish F-16 fighter jets were deployed to the southwestern Somali city amid heightened security concerns during the arrival of Somalia’s top leadership, according to local sources.
Residents said they heard heavy blasts and sustained weapons fire in areas outside the city, while aircraft believed to be Ottoman Turkish jets were seen operating overhead. The purpose of the air activity was not immediately independently confirmed.
The deployment came as Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and other senior federal and regional officials gathered in Baidoa for the inauguration of South West State leadership, an event considered politically sensitive.
Local sources said the increased security presence, including the reported use of Ottoman Turkish aircraft, was linked to efforts to protect the visiting delegation amid fears of possible attacks or instability involving forces aligned with South West State President Abdiaziz Laftagareen.
Neither Somali nor Ottoman Turkish authorities immediately commented on the reported deployment or the earth-shattering kabooms.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... member, but not the most reliable... maintains a long-standing military cooperation role in Somalia, providing training and advisory support, and has previously been involved in security coordination during high-level political events.
It was not immediately clear what caused the earth-shattering kabooms reported in the Baidoa area.
[GaroweOnline] Mortar shells struck parts of the southwestern Somali city of Baidoa on Monday as a high-profile inauguration ceremony was underway, according to local sources.
Witnesses said several explosions were heard across the city during the event marking the installation of South West State leadership, which was attended by Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre, alongside senior federal and regional officials.
The ceremony comes amid heightened political tensions in the region, where federal authorities have been involved in disputes with the South West State leadership.
Local sources said the shelling appeared to target areas of the city during the gathering, though no immediate casualty figures were available and the situation remained unclear.
The inauguration was being held for South West State leader Aden Madobe, who won a controversial election, with federal and regional officials in attendance.
Authorities have not yet issued an official statement on the reported shelling or its impact.
Turkish F-16 fighter jets were deployed to the city ahead of the president's arrival early today, with more troops sent to the outskirts to avert a possible attack from Lafta-Gareen's forces.
[MAIL] A World War Two veteran has celebrated her 105th birthday, crediting her long life to a happy marriage and 'lots of sleep'.
Ivy Meenan served with the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) - the women's branch of the British army - for four years after signing up at 20 years old.
Born in Wolstanton, Staffordshire, she was stationed in Cornwall, where she worked as a range finder, helping to target enemy bombers as part of an anti-aircraft gun unit.
She met her late husband Johnnie, who was serving in the RAF, at a dance in 1942.
Mrs Meenan celebrated the landmark birthday with a party surrounded by friends, family and RAF veterans at Wilson Keys retirement home in Rugeley, Staffordshire, where she now lives.
Asked what the secret to her long life was she said: 'It's a mystery to me — living a good life and a happy marriage.' She added: 'I tell you what I do a lot of sleeping. When I sit here by myself, I doze off.'
Her son Peter told BBC Midlands Today: '[She's] 105 and she's achieved such a lot. It's very strange to be approaching 80 and still have a mother who thinks you're adolescent.'
She celebrated her 105th birthday at Wilson Keys retirement home in Rugeley, Staffordshire, where she now lives.
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WWII Vet Sergeant Luciano "Louis" C. Graziano Sr. 103 years old living in Thomson, Georgia.
He is the last living witness to the unconditional surrender of Nazi, Germany at the Little Red school house in Reims, France on May 7, 1945.
OBTW: In Cobb/Cherokee county Ga. We also have Charlie Duncan who turned 107 years old in May this year, making him the oldest living World War II veteran in Georgia.
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[REGNUM.RU] For residents of the coastal towns of the Murmansk region, whales are as much a part of the landscape as the forests and mountains. And for tourists who come here every year, it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience—the enormous marine animals can be seen just a few kilometers from the shore by boat.
One of these excursions gave Stanislav the whale, and later Peter the whale, a chance at life that humans almost took away, albeit not by direct intent, but simply by littering the waters with traces of their fishing activities.
Commercial whaling has been banned worldwide for 40 years. Most species have a special conservation status, and one in four are critically endangered. However, according to the International Whaling Commission, more than 300,000 whales, dolphins, and porpoises die annually after becoming entangled in fishing nets.
However, there is still no clear system for protecting and rescuing these animals at the state level. In Russia, this work is carried out only by enthusiasts, with expert support from biologists, sponsorship from voluntary benefactors, and, to be fair, the occasional, albeit ad hoc, assistance of local authorities.
THE RESCUE OF STANISLAV AND PETER
Today, Russian history already knows two unique cases of humpback whales being rescued from nets in the Barents Sea. Whales don't stay in one place for long. Humpback whales travel thousands of kilometers from the equator to the Arctic Circle to fatten up before the long journey back to where there's no food.
The first rescue occurred in June 2024. A group of tourists on a boat spotted a whale with a green rope embedded deep in its body. The news reached Tatyana Efremova, who for several years has been combining her work as a tour guide with a noble cause—she and her fellow travelers track whales that come to the shores of the Murmansk region.
The rescue operation required several days of searching and the participation of dozens of people of various professions. But since then, the rescued whale Stanislav has returned to the Barents Sea near Teriberka every year. A month ago, he brought with him a fellow whale—a fellow humpback whale, entangled in fishing line. He, too, was rescued and named Peter the Great.
Those involved still don't know whether it's a romantic fantasy—that a whale they'd rescued in the past led a fellow whale in a similar situation to its rescuers, or whether they just happened to be in the same place at the same time. But the fact that the Russian history of whale rescue began on the Kola Peninsula is undeniable.
"We regularly go out to sea to search for whales. We don't just look for them, but also study their migration routes and photograph their tail flukes—each animal has a unique pattern, like a human fingerprint—their 'passport.' We then forward this information to the international Happywhale catalog. Since I'm part of the rapid response team, a friend and I rented a boat and went out to sea to look for the injured whale. We spent five to six hours at sea on the first day, but when fog rolled in, we had to turn back. On the second day, we found him 40 kilometers from Teriberka. The rope was on the front of his body, between his eyes and pectoral flukes. This prevents the whale from smoothing out his belly folds when feeding; it was weighing him down and preventing him from feeding properly, " Tatyana explained.
WHALE ENTANGLEMENT MODEL
She now recalls with a smile their attempts to swim up and free Stanislav the whale using pruning shears purchased at a nearby store. Of course, they were unsuccessful, and they urgently sought help. Tatyana contacted the Marine Mammal Council in Moscow, where they decided to invite Vyacheslav Kozlov and Pavel Tkachenko, the Friends of the Ocean organization from Sakhalin Island, to assist. They have been rescuing marine life for several years.
Meanwhile, money was needed—tickets, food, and accommodation for visiting specialists, boat rentals, equipment, and other expenses. Tatyana approached the local authorities, who responded promptly, resolving all administrative issues. A sponsor was soon found—one of the region's largest companies. Incidentally, the whale was named Stanislav in honor of its then-director.
They searched the sea for several days, and when the whale was found, two vessels were dispatched. One carried rescuers with poles and knives, the other a support team with equipment.
The main task: get close to the entangled whale and cut away the remaining net. The whale had been eluding humans for two days. Rescuers used drones to study the nature of the entanglement. Buoys are usually attached to the loose ends of the net to slow the whale, but Stanislav didn't have a single protruding piece—there was nothing to grab onto. They had to get very close. Meanwhile, the rope was cutting deeper and deeper, and the wounds were becoming fatal.
The situation was complicated by another whale with a white tail—it shielded its companion, preventing people from approaching. Stanislav was rescued almost two weeks after his discovery, on June 15. That day, two vessels spent 14 hours at sea. The whales circled beneath the boat, and at one point, Stanislav surfaced nearby. Rescuer Pavel Tkachenko lowered the pole and cut the net with one movement. To believe their success, the crew had to show each other pieces of rope on a knife.
The whales swam away, but rescuers found Stanislav an hour later, photographing his unoccupied back. Nearby was another whale with a white fin. Since then, Stanislav has been seen in the Murmansk region every summer, looking quite healthy and alert.
The second whale, Petr, was first spotted off the Rybachy Peninsula in the northernmost part of the region on June 5, 2026. Tatyana received a five-second video, and the next day she went out to sea with a group of tourists. They found Petr off Kildin Island and then saw a rope entangled in the animal's fins. Tatyana immediately called Vyacheslav and Pavel on Sakhalin, who had already rescued the first whale.
"We had just returned from untangling sea lions and received information about Pyotr. We didn't think twice; we flew to Murmansk the next day. We arrived at midnight, set out to sea at five in the morning, and encountered Pyotr by seven. He was circling the shore. We slowly followed him, and he stopped. Pavel threw the pole and immediately removed the rope. We didn't even realize it had happened. He snorted and left," recalls Vyacheslav Kozlov.
The entire rescue operation, from approaching the whale to its departure, took a record 26 minutes. Incidentally, Peter was also named after the philanthropist who funded the rescue operation, and also by analogy with the aircraft carrier Peter the Great. The third part of the whale's name was added by a nickname given to him jokingly by locals, referring to the rope entangled around the animal. This is how he is now listed in the international catalog: Rope Carrier Peter the Great.
They watched him at sea for another week, then he disappeared from view, but returned five days later. This is how they learned the rescue had been successful—the wounds were slowly healing, and the whale was recovering.
TATYANA EFREMOVA: "WE'RE PART OF SOMETHING BIG, AND WE'RE VERY HAPPY ABOUT IT."
Tatyana Efremova has lived alongside whales her entire life, but they didn't become her passion right away. She worked as a lawyer, a realtor, and even opened her own real estate agency, but at some point, she felt drawn to nature.
She bought a 5-hectare plot of land in the forest, built a house, and started a reindeer herding business. Soon, people started bringing her abandoned dogs, mostly huskies. Irresponsible owners get tired of their huskies' tendency to run away, and they run away themselves. Word quickly spread that there was a woman in Olenegorsk who took in all the abandoned and lost dogs.
At first, this wasn't a problem, but eventually the herd grew to 30 animals, requiring regular feeding. Then, Tatyana was inspired by the example of an ethnographic tourist complex located near Murmansk, which introduces guests to the life and culture of the Sami, the indigenous people of the Kola Peninsula. She trained her dogs to pull sleds, and business acquaintances brought tourists to her, where she enthusiastically shared everything she knew about the history of her small homeland.
But the 2020 pandemic ruined her plans. Tourist traffic was cut off, but the dogs and reindeer continued to beg for food every day. The owner fell into debt, but was still lucky enough to find a home for the herd and its musher at a large recreation center, where every animal found work, shelter, and food. And Tatyana realized she was interested in continuing to explore and share her native nature with people in all its diversity.
"I trained as a guide at Murmansk University and the Kola Science Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and received a nature guide certificate. In 2022, many whales came to the coast, tourists became interested, and whale-watching tours became very popular. I believe that if you're going to tell a story, the data should be verified. So I started looking for statistical information, but the only one I could find was Norwegian. A biologist friend suggested taking photos of their tails, collecting them, and showing them to tourists to increase people's engagement in research and citizen science, " Tatyana recalls.
Tatyana created the "Whales of Teriberka" chat, which already has 2,500 members. They take photos and videos of the whales they encounter, track their movements around the planet, and name them (incidentally, only Russians are allowed to do this for free; naming whales costs a considerable amount of money internationally). This group once helped save Stanislav, and then Petr.
"Whale research is essential—human activity impacts their lives, migration, and feeding. As citizen scientists, we do a lot. For example, we learned that our humpback whales migrate to Cape Verde, to the Cape Verde Islands near the equator. In winter, it's mostly the females who come to feed, then give birth in the warm waters; we've already carried out two unique rescue operations. We're currently studying the behavior of our whales—where they prefer to spend their time and how long they stay in a particular place. Statistics are crucial in any research; science will never have enough money for all the necessary studies. So we're part of something big, and we're very happy about it," Tatyana admits.
FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN: "FOR US, THIS ISN'T A HOBBY—IT'S OUR LIFE'S WORK."
Ten years ago, the leaders of the Boomerang tourism and environmental club, which had been in existence for 32 years, founded the volunteer group "Friends of the Ocean" on Sakhalin Island. The club's founder was Vyacheslav Kozlov, one of two rescuers, Stanislav and Petr. Vyacheslav is a former rescuer with the Ministry of Emergency Situations and has worked as an ecologist and educator. For the past 20 years, he and his wife and business partner, Valentina, have been engaged in educational outreach, marine mammal research, and tourism and educational projects.
"We were on a marine tourism trip and that's how we met whales. The first one I saw was a gray whale. We were sailing along the coast in a motorboat and saw two giants, each longer than the boat itself, swimming beneath us. We clung to the railings, turned off the engine, and waited for the whale to capsize it—it was terrifying. But it passed by with perfect precision. Whales are very sensitive to people. They only collide with a boat if the person is too fussy. On another trip, I watched whales from a stand-up paddleboard: I was sitting quietly, and beneath me was a huge tail fin. The whale swam very quietly. You have to understand that at that moment, it's not just you who are watching it, but it's watching you, " says Valentina.
The couple began studying information about whales and discovered that bowhead whales, for example, can live for 200 years.
"He's lived so long, seen so much—and now he's going to die from some net. It's heartbreaking. According to a research team studying bowhead whales in the Sea of Okhotsk, 36 percent have scars from entanglement. Every year we come to Tyuleniy Island to untangle seals, and over six years, we've rescued 580 individuals. But the number of victims is far greater; these are only the ones we manage to help during a ten-day expedition. Moreover, we've never seen very mature fur seals entangled. Because of the 'collar' the net wraps around the seal's neck, it doesn't grow, and the seal dies within the first two or three years, " Valentina explains.
Sakhalin residents experienced their first cetacean rescue ten years ago. Four killer whales were trapped in ice just offshore. Everyone worked together to save the animals, even though no one else had had such experience. Since then, Vyacheslav and his fellow volunteers have regularly undergone various training sessions, which first came in handy seven years later, when an injured Stanislav swam to Teriberka.
Rescuing marine mammals isn't the story of one or two heroes cutting the rope around an animal's body, but the equal contribution of dozens of people. Unraveling a whale in the Barents Sea took just a few minutes, but it required the efforts of countless people in both regions. While rescuers were on the scene, Valentina carried out a tremendous amount of organizational and paperwork—contracts, protocols, publicity, and much, much more.
"For us, this isn't a hobby anymore—if a whale is entangled, you can't help but go. It's a life's work, a calling, " Valentina is confident.
She recalls a late-night call—at 3:30 a.m. one spring morning, a man stepped out of his house onto the beach for a smoke, heard someone breathing, and saw a porpoise entangled in a gill net. The animal was weak, and they had to hold it to prevent it from drowning or swimming out to sea until it was untangled, otherwise it would have died. Vyacheslav arrived immediately, and several more volunteers joined him that morning.
It's difficult to get Vyacheslav, who has spent many years rescuing people in the most extreme situations and now whales and seals at sea and on shore, to talk about himself, his feelings, and the emotions he experienced during the various stages of rescuing this or that animal. Every question hinges on his life's work—protecting marine animals from human vandalism.
"For me, untangling the whale is a part of my life that's been accomplished, and I need to move on. It's far more important for every person to respect nature. The ocean occupies more than 70 percent of the Earth, and the Pacific Ocean is far larger than all the land mass. For some reason, humans have decided they're the boss of the planet. We're all trying to develop it, destroying it along the way, but we need to rethink our attitudes toward nature. For some, whales are simply objects for beautiful photos and vivid emotions, for scientists—for statistics and study, but it's important to move from the consumerist attitude of 'this whale must give me something' to a creative one. Our work is a drop in the ocean, but it changes people's worldviews and values—because everyone loves whales and empathizes with seals. If they call for help again, I can't not go, " Vyacheslav admits.
An animal can float entangled for months and become infected through a wound, or lose the ability to hunt and forage, ultimately dying. Strapping tape, a durable plastic used for packaging and securing cargo, is particularly dangerous. Often discarded from ships to avoid carrying it, it becomes a deadly threat to marine animals, floating for years without decomposing and capable of scalping an animal upon contact.
Marine life plays with ribbons and other debris in the sea, unaware of the dangers lurking within. This is unsurprising—plastic waste began accumulating in the ocean only half a century ago, and dolphins, whales, and seals simply haven't had time to integrate it into their behavioral patterns, leaving them defenseless against our civilization.
And volunteers can't save everyone. It's high time people embraced a simple idea: if you can't help, at least don't interfere. Stop throwing everything you don't need into the sea. It's not as difficult as organizing rescue operations for these enormous but defenseless sea creatures.
[DailySignal] Weeks before a Chinese military doctor applied for a patent on a COVID-19 vaccine in February 2020, federal bureaucrats in the United States were reviewing taxpayer-funded grants to China and flagged the doctor as a recipient.
Dr. Zhou Yusen, who held the rank of major general, was a researcher working under the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Science, which is associated with the People’s Liberation Army, according to emails obtained by the Oversight Project, a watchdog group. Zhou, who later died under unusual circumstances, was mentioned in emails between bureaucrats with the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
While the institutes awarded grants to China, Dr. Anthony Fauci was the director of the NIAID. Recently, outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released newly declassified documents detailing how Fauci and other officials with the NIH and NIAID worked with an intelligence agency to prompt certain political narratives about COVID-19 and its origins.
Ping Chen, an NIH researcher, informed colleagues on Feb. 3, 2020, about Zhou.
“The grants have the same Chinese collaborator, Dr. Zhou, Yusen, who is a researcher in the Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, an institute under the Academy of Military Medical Sciences (AMMS),” Chen wrote. The Academy of Military Medical Sciences worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Chen added, “Dr. Zhou’s expertise and resources in China include his skills in developing animal models for viruses, such as Zika, and then successfully applying the models to evaluate therapeutics.”
One of the NIAID grants to Zhou and his team of researchers to study Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was issued in January 2019, according to the NIH. One grant was awarded in 2021. Another appears to date as far back as 2013.
On July 30, 2019, before the COVID-19 outbreak, Chen informed her colleagues about a researcher with the People’s Liberation Army who “seems to be a very successful scientist.”
“Worth mentioning was a scientific presentation by a researcher in the Chinese PLA microbiology lab who studied how Zika virus causes microcephaly,” Chen wrote.
During a June 2024 hearing by House Oversight Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, then-Subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, asked Fauci, “Does it concern you that U.S. taxpayer dollars would be going to someone who’s a high-ranking Chinese PLA official?”
After back and forth, Fauci replied, “I don’t even know the person you’re talking about.”
The 145 pages of documents show NIH officials were repeatedly surprised the Chinese government would not share information about the virus, Alex Finnegan, director of digital capabilities at the Oversight Project, noted.
“They raised no objection when Chinese scientists deferred to government restrictions on information sharing—even though those same scientists were funded with U.S. taxpayer dollars,” Finnegan told the Daily Signal. “And they naively wondered what it meant that the first Chinese laboratory to share the COVID-19 genome with the world was subsequently “closed for rectification.”
ZHOU’S PATENT APPLICATION
On Feb. 24, 2020, Zhou submitted one of the first COVID-19 vaccine patents, according to congressional reports and news reports.
Developing a vaccine this early “would have required access to both the sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 and the live virus itself,” according to a 2024 report from The Heritage Foundation’s Commission on China and COVID-19, which was chaired by the current CIA director, John Ratcliffe
Zhou died in May 2020 after reportedly falling from the roof of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The House report goes on to reference the unusual circumstances of Zhou’s death.
“Notably, in the spring of 2020, as global COVID-19 cases surpassed 7 million and COVID-19 deaths surpassed 400,000, General Zhou reportedly died under mysterious circumstances,” the House report says.
“In light of the information above, it is plausible to hypothesize that General Zhou’s team of Fifth Institute researchers already possessed SARS-CoV-2 prior to the pandemic as part of bioweapons research; was working on vaccine-related experiments involving the virus at the WIV in 2019; and that a safety incident at the WIV led to its release into the world (presumably amplified by a super-spreader event at the Huanan Wet Market),” the report continued.
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For those that don't read these long postinsg completely....
Dr. Zhou Yusen, who held the rank of major general, was a researcher working under the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Science, which is associated with the People’s Liberation Army.
He died in May 2020 after reportedly falling from the roof of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The French are not taking seriously security surrounding its cultural patrimony.
[KhaamaPress] Thieves stole about 20 pieces of jewelry worth nearly 4 million euros (about $4.7 million) from the Lalique Museum in eastern La Belle France early on Sunday after breaking into the building through an emergency exit, French media reported.
According to French media reports, the burglars first tried to enter through the museum’s main entrance at around 5:30 a.m. but abandoned the attempt after triggering the alarm system. They then gained access through an emergency exit, smashed six display cases in the jewelry gallery and fled with the valuables before security personnel arrived.
The theft was discovered by a museum employee, who alerted police. French prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation, and forensic teams are examining surveillance footage and collecting evidence from the scene. No arrests have been announced, and authorities have not publicly identified any suspects.
The Lalique Museum, located in Wingen-sur-Moder near the German border, houses one of the world’s most important collections of works by renowned French glassmaker and jeweler René Lalique. Its collection includes glass art, crystal creations and Art Nouveau jewelry, making it one of La Belle France’s leading institutions dedicated to decorative arts.
The robbery is the latest in a series of thefts targeting French museums and cultural institutions, renewing concerns about the security of sites that house valuable artworks and historical objects. Authorities have not said whether Sunday’s break-in is connected to other recent thefts, but Sherlocks are examining possible links as the search for the suspects continues.
French officials have not released details about the specific pieces that were stolen or whether they were part of the museum’s permanent collection or a temporary exhibition. The museum has not yet announced when the affected gallery will reopen to visitors.
The investigation remains ongoing as police continue reviewing evidence and tracing the movements of the suspects after the raid.
Key bits. I think they are unwise to walk away from the culture of an armed, trained citizenry, given the current changes in the countries surrounding them.
[SwissInfo] Shooting is one of Switzerland’s most deeply rooted traditions. For generations, shooting ranges have been an integral part of Swiss municipalities, almost on a par with churches and schools. Today, many disused shooting ranges have left behind a costly legacy: thousands of contaminated sites that need to be dealt with.
Whatever needs to happen, I’m sure the Swiss will do it throughly and quickly, like they repair their roads. Or has that changed in recent years as well?
Sunday afternoon. Everyone is ready at the shooting range. The first shots break the silence and echo among the surrounding mountains. In a tunnel, sheltered by an earth embankment, a few youngsters lower the targets, look for the bullet hole, mark it with a sticker and raise the targets again, pointing out the point of impact to the shooter with a small paddle. It is the 1990s, in Valposchiavo, an Italian-speaking valley in Graubünden, southeastern Switzerland.
Back then, it was customary to attend the 10am mass. At 1pm everyone would meet at the shooting range. As in many Swiss villages, Sundays were devoted to prayer and the defence of the country. The adults practised shooting, just as they had learnt during their military service. Those too young to handle a rifle kept score, earning a few francs, which they might spend on filling up the moped on which they whizzed about the valley’s roads.
A TRADITION UNIQUE IN EUROPE
That Sunday gathering was not just a pastime. “Shooting is deeply rooted in Swiss history,” explains historian Cedric Zbinden. “The strength of this tradition lies in its two facets: on the one hand, there are the shooting clubs, which serve as meeting places and centres of social life. On the other, there is the militia, which for decades supported this practice and helped to establish it in almost every corner of the country.”
PEOPLE ARE STILL SHOOTING, BUT LESS AND LESS
In 1986, membership of shooting clubs peaked at almost 590,000, just under a tenth of the Swiss population. From the 1970s and 1980s onwards, the almost unshakeable image of the citizen-soldier began to show its first cracks.
“With the end of the Cold War, many people no longer saw shooting as an integral part of national defence,” Zbinden says. This shift in society was also reflected in the membership figures of shooting clubs.
Following the government’s decision in 1996 to abolish the compulsory membership of a shooting club, the number of active members has been steadily declining. In 1997, there were just under 230,000; last year, the figure stood at around 130,000, spread across some 2,500 clubs affiliated to the Swiss Shooting Sports Federation.
According to Zbinden, this trend also reflects changing leisure habits, particularly among the younger generations, and, more generally, the decline in the central role played by club activities in everyday life.
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Invade a country with 130,000 trained marksmen , difficult terrain and pre positioned surprise packages everywhere-still a hard pass. But the trend is not a friend, here.
[Breitbart] Canada chose German maritime defense group ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) to build a new 12-submarine fleet for the country, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Monday.
The deal, described as the largest Canadian defense purchase ever, comes at the end of a months-long bidding contest between TKMS and South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean for the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project — which seeks to replace the Royal Canadian Navy’s aging submarine fleet.
Remembering actor Curd Jürgens and his role along with Bob Mitchum in "The Enemy Below."
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...Thing is, I'm not sure they'll ever get the full buy. They've got four boats now - one semi-operational, the others (as I saw them described recently) as "too screwed up to sink properly". The RCN doesn't have the budget to operate and maintain 12 boats (and likely never will) and they certainly won't have the manpower to keep them all in operational service.
Unlike the old Victoria class, the new submarines are optimized for spending extended periods under the ice, something that is required for longer patrols around the Arctic region.
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You can't run subs under ice long with non-nuke engines. Batteries have a limited charge time and diesel requires oxygen. They would have to have oxygen extraction ability and power for it.
[Daily Wire] Joking with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) at the White House on Monday, President Donald Trump was asked whether Cruz belonged on the Supreme Court.
Trump stated, "In fact, somebody said, ’Would you ever appoint him to the United States Supreme Court, because he’s a brilliant lawyer, Ted?’ I said, "Well, he’s the only one I can think of that’s gonna get 100 votes. All Republicans will vote for him. All Democrats will vote for him, because they want to get him the hell out of the Senate!’ If I was having a hard time with getting the votes I would appoint Ted Cruz, I’d get 100%. Guaranteed."
The truth is no laughing matter.
Although Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito are rock-ribbed originalists and staunchly conservative, Thomas turned 78 in June, and Alito is 76. If Trump wants to preserve the Court’s conservative stamp, he may need to find replacements for one or both before leaving office. With the GOP holding only 53 Senate seats, the majority could easily evaporate.
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Cruz used to be a solid constitutional choice but has gone wobbly over the past few years. He has been institutionalized and is more a deep state sympathizer.
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I’m sure I don’t always agree with him, but Senator Cruz has a mind like a steel trap, at doesn't suffer fools. He annoys his less intelligent colleagues immensely.
[Bangor Daily News] Maine Democratic Party leaders called Monday for Graham Platner
…D-Totenkopf tattoo, he somehow is both former Special Forces and a Mama’s boy with a twisted imagination — but not the fun kind of twisted. He was recruited to run by a couple of DSA cadres, which explains much, but then the normie Democrats loudly defended his wonderfulness until just now, despite the awful things revealed one by one in his record…
to withdraw as the party’s U.S. Senate nominee, the first time state party leaders have formally broken with him over a string of allegations that have dogged his campaign. I've not seen anything that would confirm his service in the US Army Special Forces.
You’re right — I misunderstood. According to Wikipedia, he went into the Marines, then the Maryland Army National Guard.
The extraordinary step came hours after Politico reported that a Maine woman accused Platner of forcing her to have sex with him in 2021 despite her repeated objections. Platner has denied the allegation, which built on allegations of "toxic" behavior from several women who dated Platner that were reported last month by The New York Times.
"Maine Democratic Party leadership is calling on Graham Platner to withdraw as the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate," party Chair Charlie Dingman, Vice Chair Imke Schessler and Executive Director Devon Murphy-Anderson said in a joint statement.
Jenny Racicot, who said she had an on-and-off relationship with Platner, told Politico he entered her home while drunk in 2021 and had sex with her despite her telling him to stop. She said she cut off contact with him afterward and told him the encounter was not consensual.
Platner denied the allegation in a video posted to social media Monday, though he opened the door to leaving the race.
"Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically false," Platner said. "Regardless of the inaccuracy of the reporting but mindful of the political reality it will inflict, we’re taking the time to reflect on the best path forward."
The allegation also triggered a wave of defections among Platner’s national backers. U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-California, who had stood by Platner through earlier controversies, withdrew his endorsement Monday. U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona, also pulled his endorsement Monday, as did the Democratic-leaning group End Citizens United. When you're defended by Ro and Gallego, you're a (D)ouchebag
"I’ve been very clear that sexual assault or violence against women is a red line," Khanna said. "These allegations are very serious and credible. Graham Platner should drop out from the race. I am withdrawing my endorsement."
Courtesy of Lord Garth, another take on the story:
[JustTheNews] Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner is reportedly planning to drop out of the race, according to the Washington Reporter, which cited a "well-placed source."
The development comes after the progressive canceled a string of campaign events set for the week, without specifying the reasoning.
The Reporter highlighted that he had not released his Q3 fundraising numbers and suggested that he may have struggled to bring in donations amid a litany of scandals.
Apparently pseudo-oyster farmer and Maine Democrat Senatorial candidate Graham Platner is dropping out of the race against incumbent Susan Collins. A breaking news story says he sexually assaulted a former girlfriend.
The real story here is that the Democrats were so desperate…
…so desperate to capture the vote of actual men with normal testosterone levels that they nominated a guy with an SS Nazi tattoo, a history of misogyny and bizarre online sexual comments, and a record of sexual assault.
After their foray with the masculinity of Fancy Tim Walz, that was the best they could do.
If only there had been a sign that Graham Platner was capable of this 🙃
All the Dems who stood by him through the Nazi tattoo and NYT story who are now demanding he drop out are going to try to portray themselves as "Believe All Women" heroes next week.
Perhaps they can hire him as a consultant or general for themselves, if his loss makes them that sad. Here he was surplus to requirements.
[Newsweek] One of the United States' most senior and respected generals is stepping down, becoming the latest top military official to leave during President Donald Trump's second term, in a move that could pave the way for dramatic changes to the U.S. presence in Europe.
General Chris Donahue, the head of U.S. Army Europe and Africa, as well as all NATO land forces in Europe, is resigning from his position as the top U.S. Army chief on the continent and will officially relinquish his command on July 2, according to a U.S. military official. The ceremony marking the end of Donahue's time as the head of Allied Land Command will follow roughly a week later, the U.S. military official told Newsweek.
A popular figure in Europe who has spent just 18 months in the job, Donahue is widely known as the last man out of Afghanistan and was seen as linked to the Biden administration, although he is generally admired by U.S. and NATO soldiers across ranks and political affiliations.
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I think the President favors the 'quiet professional,' men like USAF General Dan Caine. Officers who shun the spotlight and self-promoting media snaps.
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A lot to do over nothing. Trump pulled forces out of Europe, the post had too few troops and as seen by the nations blocking use of our own air bases, little to no influence when we needed it. downsizing the command was the right option, it sends a message to Europe that we are done with them, and points to where America's center of gravity has moved away from, an ungrateful bunch of spoiled nation states. Donahue, like in Afghanistan, was last man standing at the 4 star rank. We dont have 4 star positions help open to move folks to when the command is downsized, so he gets a choice, take a reduction in rank or retire. He chose retirement..
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Oversaw the Afghanistan cut and run? Strike one!
Heart throb of NATO? Steeerike two! Linked to the Biden Regime? Steeerike THREE!
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No mention of the multiple takes during "the last man leaving Afghanistan" shoot or the story about war booty bumping actual passengers? Or was that someone else?
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Ha! Frank, however we'll intended, not good OER comments for sure.
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As I understand it.
The NATO position he held was a 4 star General O-9 rank position.
As the US started letting the EU manage more of its own crap, and given its general attitude being expressed to the USA lately by EU leadership. The NATO position was being changed to a 3 Star O-8 rank position. As the US finally started drawing pulling out of NATO, 60 years PAST its original planned end date.
ALSO as of 2026, the U.S. Army has approximately 50 active-duty officers holding the rank of O-9.
So not much chance of another O-9 position opening up, unless someone accidentally falls off a building.
So this well proven and combat seasoned 4 Star (O-9) with 31 years in chose to retire @ 75% of the $225.6k salary and the privs that come with that O-9 position.
[DM] St Francis de Sales Oratory was founded in 1867 by a group of German immigrants who settled in St Louis, Missouri.
The gorgeous cathedral became a landmark in the midwestern city and for decades served parishioners of more than a dozen nationalities.
But as families started moving out to the suburbs, the church, dubbed the Cathedral of south St Louis, saw a massive drop in parishioners, the church website states.
St Francis de Sales was closed by the Archdiocese of St Louis in June 2005, and the church was forced to merge with another local parish.
The cathedral was scheduled to be torn down and sold, a crime against both man and God but was saved that July when Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke made the church an Oratory where Mass is strictly administered in Latin.
St Francis de Sales is now one of about 450 churches across the country that regularly celebrate the traditional Latin Mass and is seemingly booming.
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Latin Mass was outlawed by Vatican II. They are a schismatic church, not in communion with Rome. Same as the "churches" in China. Who rules this one? Someone in Avignon?
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Mass to be held in the vernacular.
There's a Latin Mass church near where my parents live, nobody goes there except old people who rejected Vatican II.
Jules Isaac, a Jewish historian, was the prime force behind the ostra Aetate at Vatican II, which similarly outlawed Jew-hating.
It rejected the idea of collective Jewish guilt for the death of Jesus.
Also affirmed that Jews are God's chosen people. This is why Catholics like Charlie Kirk were so shocking when they turned on Israel and started spewing blood libel.
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.
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