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Europe

Myśl Polska: Poland owes the country's liberation from the Nazis to Soviet soldiers

2025-05-05

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

[Regnum] Warsaw's policy of destroying the memory of Soviet-Polish cooperation may have negative consequences, writes the Myśl Polska newspaper.

“Poland owes its liberation from German occupation to the Soviet Union, which became the greatest tragedy of the Polish people in history,” the publication writes.
It also owed the massacre of its officers' corps to the Soviet Union, back when it was allied with Germany.
As the author of the publication recalled, during the years of the Polish People's Republic (PNR), cities were restored, industry, agriculture and culture developed. Hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers died for the liberation of Poland, the publication recalls.

At the same time, the newspaper notes, monuments are being torn down in Poland under the slogan of decommunization, despite the lack of public support for such measures. The publication warns that Warsaw's ingratitude and worsening relations with Moscow could deprive Poland of Russia's support in the event of a strengthening of Ukrainian or German nationalism.

“Can we count on Russia’s help given such a far-reaching deterioration in relations, despite the signing of the Treaty of Friendship?” the newspaper’s columnist asked rhetorically.

The Soviet Union played a key role in liberating Poland from Nazi occupation during World War II. In 1944–45, the Red Army carried out a series of major offensives, including the Vistula–Oder Offensive, liberating Polish territory from German forces. Historians estimate that more than 600,000 Soviet soldiers died fighting for Poland, highlighting the enormous price paid for its liberation.

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Government Corruption

Martha MacCallum Obliterates Condescending Teacher Union Boss Randi Weingarten During Segment on America’s Failing Schools

2025-04-23

[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] One of America's biggest villains received an epic beating on Fox News today when she tried to defend the indefensible and insulted her interviewer.

Randi Weingarten, the President of the American Federation of Teachers, is the chief proponent of trapping everyone in failing public schools and refusing to hold crooked school authority figures accountable.

She was also arguably the loudest advocate for shutting down schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused irreparable harm to the cognitive development of many children across the country.

Weingarten was invited on Fox News's ''The Story with Martha MacCallum'' to discuss the ongoing public school failures and pornographic books prevalent throughout school libraries.

Things got heated quickly when MacCallum lit up Weingarten for slamming school choice and for saying we should throw more money at the problem.

''So, if we can find other areas around the country where the proficiency levels are also ABYSMAL and should be embarrassing to every education organization, then we can start making assessments and say it's because of (school) choice or money,'' MacCallum said. ''We know that money does not equate to a better outcome.''

MacCallum cited an example from New Jersey that proves her astute point. Upon hearing this, Weingarten lost her patience and attempted to patronize the Fox News anchor.

''Martha, Martha, sweetheart,'' she began before an angry MacCallum cut her off.

''Don't call me sweetheart!'' MacCallum fired back.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

IDF’s 162nd Division hands responsibility for Gaza buffer zone to 252nd Division

2025-02-18

For information.

[IsraelTimes] The IDF’s 162nd Division has concluded its operations in Gaza after 15 months straight, and handed over the responsibility of the military’s buffer zone in the Strip’s north to the 252nd Division, the military says.

The 162nd Division lost 265 soldiers during the ground offensive in Gaza, during which it demolished numerous tunnels and killed thousands of Hamas operatives, according to the IDF.

The southern portion of the buffer zone and the Philadelphi Corridor, the Egypt-Gaza border area, is under the responsibility of the Gaza Division.

My thanks to whoever found and added the very informative image — you’re amazing!

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-Land of the Free

MAGA garbage truck to join Trump inauguration parade

2025-01-20

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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Arizona State University student stabbed entering classroom

2024-09-28

[NYPOST] An Arizona State University student is in the hospital after being stabbed by a female classmate — who was looking for someone to knife and attacked the victim for being an "easier target."

Mara Daffron,19, was stabbed last Thursday after Kaci Sloan,19, jumped from her seat and plunged a knife into her twice as she entered a classroom in Glendale, Arizona, 12 News, AZ Central and FOX 10 Phoenix reported.

Sloan was allegedly deciding between two different people to attack in class, but decided to go after Daffron because Sloan "believed the victim was an easier target," court documents obtained 12 News said.

Daffron was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after the stabbing and underwent surgery after the attack, police said.

Sloan was arrested soon after in connection with the stabbing, the ASU Police Department said.

Sloan came to class planning to hurt someone, according to court documents obtained by 12 News, although her exact motive remains unclear.

"The defendant admitted she came to class to hurt somebody and was planning the attack since the night prior," the documents said according to the outlet.

"This planning included placing the knife used in the attack in her backpack to bring to school. The defendant told detectives she knew the victim’s first name but did not know anything else about her. "

"She knew the victim from a prior class and shared a class with her this semester," the documents said.

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Fifth Column

'One in a million' Photo shows bullet passing Trump

2024-07-15

[RT] The New York Times has published a photo appearing to show a bullet flying past Donald Trump

...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
’s head, at the moment he was targeted by a gunman at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. The image was captured by veteran NYT photographer Doug Mills at the campaign event in the city of Butler, where the Republican presidential hopeful was giving a speech in the run-up to the November 5 election.

Several shots were fired, killing one spectator and severely injuring two more. Trump was whisked off stage by Secret Service agents, and later moved to a “safe” place.” Security officials later reported that the 20-year-old suspected shooter, who had reportedly fired from a nearby rooftop, was shot and killed.

Mills’ photo shows what appears to be a bullet streaking through the air to the right of Trump’s head. The photographer, who has been taking pictures of US presidents for more than four decades, described his experience to colleagues at the NYT.

Mills said the event started out as a “very standard, typical rally,” with him and several other photographers standing “in what is called the buffer area just a couple feet from the former president.”

“All of a sudden, there was what I thought were three or four loud pops. At first I thought it was a car. The last thing I thought was it was a gun,” Mills recalled.

He continued to take pictures, but soon could not see the former president as Trump was surrounded by Secret Service agents from all sides, with counter-snipers appearing on the stage.

Despite looking defiant and seemingly unfazed in his photo with a raised fist high, Trump appeared “very, very shocked” the moment after, according to Mills
I'm guessing Mills has never been shot at himself, much less taken a round through his ear.
The photographer told the paper he had “never been in a more horrific scene” during his decades-long career.

Retired FBI special agent Michael Harrigan, who currently works as a consultant in the firearms industry, confirmed to the newspaper that Mills’ photo most likely captured the “bullet’s path through the air.”

While technically possible with the camera used by Mills, “catching a bullet on a side trajectory as seen in that photo would be a one in a million shot… even if one knew the bullet was coming,” the former FBI agent noted.

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Government by assassin: Trump shot in Butler, PA event

2024-07-13

See also here and here.

Raised fist several times, so still alive.

Eight shots fired, Trump nicked on the ear, at least one person wounded.

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Iraq

Al-Mandalawi condemns the attempt to assassinate MP Al-Waeli

2024-07-08

[NINANEWS] Acting Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mohsen Al-Mandalawi, condemned the attempted assassination of MP, Taqi Nasser Al-Waeli, calling for the speedy arrest of the perpetrators and bringing them to justice.

Al-Mandalawi strongly denounced, according to a statement from his media office, the cowardly assassination attempt against MP Taqi Nasser Al-Waeli and his honorable family, following an armed attack launched by criminal gangs on his house in Al-Dulai area within the capital, Baghdad.

Al-Mandalawi called on the security services, led by the Minister of Interior and the Commander of Baghdad Operations, to take urgent action to uncover the circumstances of the targeting incident, arrest the outlaw group that carried out this failed operation, and bring them to justice.”

According to the statement, the Acting Speaker of the House of Representatives called on the relevant authorities not to tolerate such crimes that would destabilize security and stability in Baghdad and all governorates, and to develop a proactive plan to arrest criminal gangs and activate the intelligence side to prevent any attack that threatens the security of the country and citizens.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Netanyahu tells ministers he's disbanding war cabinet, amid Ben Gvir's demands to join

2024-06-17

[IsraelTimes]It served its purpose, but conditions have changed. The ENTJ personality type is very flexible about the methods that will accomplish their goals.

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-Short Attention Span Theater-

Paddy Mayne aka Robert Blair, The Irish Lion (video)

2024-06-11

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Minutes later, the towering figure of Paddy Mayne, the Irish Lion, observed the fireworks from afar. The enemy base was in flames, but that was not enough for the Irish warrior, who said: (QUOTE) "Damn, we did 40 aircraft. Some of the bloody primers must have been damp."

Unsatisfied with the havoc he had just unleashed with only three SAS commandos, he ordered them back to their heavily armed jeeps and told them the job was not over yet.

The commandos wanted to obliterate the entire base, storming into the blazing perimeter guns.

Such was the restless nature of the Irish Lion Commando, unleashed onto North Africa, leaving a path of destruction and paralyzing the Axis powers.
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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Haitian national who came to US with Biden 'parole' program indicted for child rape in Massachusetts

2024-05-27

[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] A Haitian national that was on President Joe The Big Guy Biden
Joe <q>The Big Guy</q> Biden

...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
’s "parole" program and was charged in a rape case that took place in Massachusetts at a Comfort Inn in Rockland has been indicted for child rape.

Cory Alvarez, 26, who was arrested in March has been indicted this week by a grand jury with charges of child rape of a disabled 15-year-old girl. He traveled to the US with the Biden administration's Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuela

...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south...
n parole processes.

According to a blurb from District Attorney Tim Cruz, "A Plymouth County grand jury returned indictments charging Cory B. Alvarez, 26, with one count each of Aggravated Rape of a Child with 10 Year Age Difference and Rape of a Child by Force."

"In March, Alvarez was found dangerous, and he currently remains held without bail," the release continued. After Alvarez was brought to the hotel-turned immigrant shelter, he was reported to authorities after a call to the police.

Alvarez reportedly brought the 15-year-old girl to his room through an app on a device and then committed the alleged crime.

The indictment blurb added, "Upon arrival, Rockland Police encountered the 15 year-old female victim, who was then transported to South Shore Hospital for treatment. As a result of their investigation, Rockland Police developed probable cause to arrest Alvarez, and he was taken into custody."

The case received national attention with politicians commenting on concerns over the background check process for those who are enrolled in the parole program and then brought into the country.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey said that Alvarez passed two background checks. One was done by the state and the other for im~~migrants~~ colonists specifically.

Alvarez will be arraigned on the indictment in a superior court at a later date.

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Fifth Column

Radical anti-Israel nonprofit urged rampaging Columbia occupiers to recreate BLM 'summer of 2020' riots

2024-05-06

[NYPOST] The anti-Israel protesters who stormed Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall were urged by a radical activist group to rekindle the bloody Black Lives Matter riots of the summer of 2020, a new report says.

Furiously pumping the bellows is New York City nonprofit The People’s Forum (TPF), an anti-Israel organization with known ties to the Chinese Communist Party and backed by American businessman Neville Roy Singham, a self-described socialist known for financially supporting left-wing causes through Goldman Sachs’ charity arm.

At a Monday night meeting in Manhattan hosted by TPF — hours before the infamous building takeover — around 100 mask-wearing activists were worked into a lather by the organization’s executive director, Manolo De Los Santos, who called for a "final blow to destroy Israel" in a viral video earlier this year.

Eh? How is violent revolution in one tiny corner of New York City going to behead a nation of 8 million on the other side of the world?

Addressing the group, De Los Santos spewed invective about Columbia’s "Zionist" administration, whom he skewered for wanting "to be more like their masters in Israel," the Washington Free Beacon wrote.

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