Newly mobilized Russian soldiers are using Iranian-made body armor.

 

Newly mobilized Russian soldiers are using Iranian-made body armor.

For months, the Russian army lacked in its own stocks of Russian-made, due to previous unreported thefts.

Source - https://t.me/LebUpdate

Medvedev announced "the beginning of the UN agony"

Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev sharply criticized the anti-Russian resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly.

Earlier, the participants of the special session of the General Assembly adopted a resolution on the creation of an international register of damage allegedly caused by Russia to Ukraine, as well as recognition of the need to create a compensation mechanism.94 countries voted in favor of the resolution, 14 voted against, 73 abstained.Medvedev called the situation "beginning of the agony of UN."In his Telegram channel, he noted that "the Anglo-Saxons are obviously trying to create a legal basis for the theft of illegally seized Russian assets.""They should accept the same recommendation on the full compensation by the United States for damage to Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Yugoslavia and other numerous victims of the Americans and NATO," the Deputy Chairman said.In his opinion, the unilateral policy of the UN will lead to a "torturous end" for the entire international community.
"We can live without such a "united nations" organization," Medvedev concluded.

U.N. General Assembly calls for Russia to make reparations in Ukraine

November 15, 2022  |  By Daphne Psaledakis

Nov 14 (Reuters) - The United Nations General Assembly on Monday called for Russia to be held accountable for its conduct in Ukraine, voting to approve a resolution recognizing that Russia must be responsible for making reparations to the country.

The resolution, supported by 94 of the assembly's 193 members, said Russia, which invaded its neighbor in February, "must bear the legal consequences of all of its internationally wrongful acts, including making reparation for the injury, including any damage, caused by such acts."

The resolution recommends that member states, in cooperation with Ukraine, create an international register to record evidence and claims against Russia.

General Assembly resolutions are nonbinding, but they carry political weight.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called the resolution an "important" one.

"The reparations that Russia will have to pay for what it has done are now part of the international legal reality," Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address.

Kyiv's Ambassador to the U.N. Sergiy Kyslytsya told the General Assembly before the vote that Russia has targeted everything from factories to residential buildings and hospitals.

"Ukraine will have the daunting task of rebuilding the country and recovering from this war, but that recovery will never be complete without a sense of justice for the victims of the Russian war. It is time to hold Russia accountable," Kyslytsya said.

Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told the General Assembly before the vote that the provisions of the resolution are "legally null and void" as he urged countries to vote against it.

"The West is trying to draw out and worsen the conflict and plans to use Russian money for it," Nebenzia said.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said on the Telegram messaging app that the "Anglo-Saxons are clearly trying to scrape together a legal basis for the illegal seizure of Russian assets."

Fourteen countries voted against the resolution, including Russia, China and Iran, while 73 abstained, including Brazil, India and South Africa. Not all member states voted.

In March, 141 members of the General Assembly voted to denounce Russia's invasion, and 143 in October voted to condemn Moscow's attempted annexation of parts of Ukraine.

Zelenskiy on Saturday said Russian forces destroyed critical infrastructure in the strategic southern city of Kherson before fleeing. Moscow denies deliberately targeting civilians, although the invasion has reduced Ukrainian cities to rubble and killed or wounded thousands.

"It will take a broad international effort to support Ukraine's recovery and reconstruction in order to build a safe and prosperous future for the Ukrainian people," Britain's U.N. Ambassador Barbara Woodward told the assembly.

"But only one country, Russia, is responsible for the damage to Ukraine, and it is absolutely right, as this resolution sets out, that Russia pay for that damage."

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At least 83 Muslim Americans elected in 2022 midterm elections: Report

  

 Monday, 14 November 2022

Muslim Americans have made history again as a record number of Muslim candidates were elected into office in the 2022 midterm elections, despite rampant hate and discrimination against the faith community.

At least 83 Muslim candidates swept up local, state, and federal seats during Tuesday’s midterm elections, according to a joint analysis by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a civil rights and advocacy group, and Jetpac, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing Muslim political representation in the United States.

Almost 150 Muslim Americans had run for office this year, including 51 state legislative candidates across 23 states.

"I'm inspired by the historic wins we are seeing in local and state elections across the country. It shows that the Muslim community is building solid infrastructure for sustained electoral success," Jetpac Resource Center executive director Mohammed Missouri said.

"Policy decisions on education, housing, climate, and civil rights are shaped by state legislatures and it is critical that our voice is represented in the policymaking process," he added.

Many of the wins were in Republican-leaning states, including Texas, Virginia and Georgia, and included 20 incumbents and 17 new candidates. Those seats range from city councils to the US House of Representatives, where congresswomen Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, and Rashida Tlaib, Democrat of Missouri, retained their seats.

This marks the highest number of electoral victories for the community of around 3.5 million people, breaking the record of 2020, when 71 Muslim Americans were elected into office.

CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said the "historic string" of victories in this year’s election "is a testament to our community's ongoing rise in American politics and the trust our neighbors have place in us to represent them and fight for their interests."

"We are witnessing the next step in the American Muslim community's political transformation from marginalized voices that were sidelined, or worse, to decision makers," he said. "These newly-elected officials are building upon the success of our community's decades-long investment in civic engagement, voter registration and running for office."

The victories also ushered in some historic firsts, with state legislatures in Maine, Illinois, Ohio and Texas getting their first Muslim American representatives.

In Illinois’ 51st District, Nabeela Syed, a 23-year-old Muslim candidate of Indian descent, defeated a Republican incumbent to become the first Muslim elected to the state legislature.

“It is so important for us to have a seat at the table, for us to have a voice in the legislative process,” she told local media soon after her victory.

Similarly in Minnesota, 25-year-old Zaynab Mohamed, a Democrat, became the first Muslim woman of Somali descent to be elected to the state Senate.

Four Muslim Americans were elected to state office in Georgia for the first time, including Ruwa Romman, who won a seat at the state House of Representatives, and Nabilah Islam, who was elected to the state Senate.

In Texas, the first two Muslim lawmakers getting elected into office were Salman Bhojani and Suleman Lalani, who won elections to House districts 92 and 76 respectively.

“the killer being first to show up at a crime scene.”

14Nov 2022

 ❗️The head of the Turkish Interior Ministry: we know where the terrorist attack in Istanbul was coordinated from, we do not accept the condolences of the US Embassy.

Serious statement

More and more Germans believe the Russian media, accept the Russian point of view - Spiegel poll:

 More and more Germans believe the Russian media, accept the Russian point of view - Spiegel  poll:

▪️40 percent of respondents fully or partially agreed with the statement that the "Russian aggressive war" was Russia's reaction to NATO's uncontested provocation. This is eleven percentage points more than in April.

▪️44% are fully or partially convinced that Putin is acting against the "global elite", which "pulls the strings in the background." This is twelve percentage points more than in April.

▪️14% fully agreed that Ukraine "historically has no territorial claims" and "is actually part of Russia." About one-fifth of respondents consider it partially.

▪️With nine percent, the number of those who fully believe that the war was "necessary" "to get rid of the fascist government in Ukraine" has almost doubled.

Medvedev's words after the surrender of Kherson:

In the routine of difficult everyday life and under the influence of very difficult military decisions, the results of this year, which are extremely important for our country and all of us, began to be overwritten.

I want to remind them.

1. Remind that it is Russia that protects its citizens. And what exactly our country is returning and has already returned the original Russian lands, and not vice versa. And this comeback will continue.

2. Recall that it is Russia today that is shaping the future world order, and not the states with Britain or dark Kyiv. And this new equal world order will be built.

3. Remind that Russia alone is fighting NATO and the Western world. Therefore, any parallels with the past are incorrect or conditional. Except for one thing: we alone can destroy a powerful enemy or enemy alliances.

4. Recall that Russia is conducting combat work, trying to save the lives of our servicemen and civilians as much as possible. Our enemies do not count the lives of their soldiers and civilians. And therein lies our great moral difference with them.

5. Recall that Russia, for obvious reasons to all reasonable people, has not yet used its entire arsenal of possible means of destruction. And it did not strike at all possible enemy targets located in settlements. And not only out of our inherent human kindness. Everything has its time.

And last but not least. Only the closest unity, everyday hard work and the highest morale can ensure the victory of the country.

 - Medvedev

On Kherson - Ukraine and NATO build castles in the air

 Scott Ritter

    “He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious” – Sun Tzu, The Art of War

War has a terribly addictive quality to it. People are fascinated by the destructive power war brings to the forefront, and even as they are repulsed by the violence, they are attracted by the allure of watching man do what man does best—organized destruction. In the past, people far removed from the conflict followed the course of a war by reading about battles long after they were fought, and charting progress on a map. Today, with the advent of 24-hour news networks and internet-driven social media, people can follow events in near real-time. The intimacy this access to information provides also transforms people away from the kind of measured analyst time and distance mandated in the past, to impassioned activists today self-empowered to second-guess the actions of those who are not only given the responsibility of waging war, but upon whose shoulders the burden of command responsibility rests.

It’s easy to be a hero while typing on a keyboard far removed from the reality of the battlefield.

It’s another thing altogether to make life-or-death decisions while events evolve in an active war zone.

When General Sergey Vladimirovich Surovikin assumed command of the special military operation (SMO), he inherited a situation which could best be described as “unstable.” The SMO had been operating with a force structure which was not up to the task, with significant segments of the front line undermanned, often with just 30-60 men allocated per kilometer, and no defense in depth. The Ukrainian army that had existed at the start of the SMO had been eviscerated by the Russian forces. However, the decision by the United States and its NATO allies to reinforce Ukraine with tens of billions of dollars’ worth of heavy weapons (tanks, armored fighting vehicles, artillery, and aircraft), and to provide vital strategic depth for Ukrainian forces to be organized, trained, and equipped without fear of Russian interdiction, and for critical command and control, intelligence, and logistics networks to be organized in direct support of Ukrainian military operations against Russia, put Russia at a disadvantage.

With the assistance of the US and NATO (and aided by thousands of foreign combatants), Ukraine was, by mid-summer, able to reconstitute a force of around 50,000 men trained and equipped to NATO standards. In accordance with an operational plan devised with the help of NATO, this new force went on the offensive against Russian forces in the Kharkov and Kherson regions. To prevent the unnecessary loss of life, Russia opted to cede territory in the face of superior Ukrainian forces, ultimately consolidating their lines along more defensible terrain.

The price paid by Ukraine in terms of lives and equipment lost was heavy, with an estimated 20,000 Ukrainian soldiers being killed or wounded, and hundreds of tanks and armored fighting vehicles destroyed. 

So heavy were the losses that, to sustain the offensive, Ukraine was compelled to forgo the formation of a second 50,000-man corps-sized unit, instead throwing in the units designated for this second wave into the attack as soon as they were made available.

In response to this Ukrainian offensive, Russia undertook a “partial mobilization” of some 300,000 men; it is estimated that between 80-100,000 additional “volunteers” were assimilated by Russian recruiting centers at the same time.

Scott Ritter

The mobilized forces were all men with prior military experience. Some, who had been recently released from service and whose combat skills were still fresh, were subjected to a period of “refresher” training, and dispatched directly to the SMO, where they were integrated into existing formations, bringing them up to strength. Russian President Vladimir Putin estimated the numbers of such troops at around 80,000.

Others were allocated to reserve combat units, where they continue to receive specialized training on tactics and operations at the unit level. It is estimated that these forces, numbering some 200,000 men, will complete their training sometime in December. When they are dispatched to the SMO, they will be organized into a force of around 10-15 divisions, fully equipped and ready to be used as needed at the front.

General Surovikin took command of the SMO on October 16. Two days later, he gave a press conference in which he described the situation on the ground in the Kherson region as “tense.” On his orders, civilian authorities began evacuating non-combatant persons from the territory held by Russian forces on the west bank of the Dnieper River, including the city of Kherson proper. One of the reasons cited to justify this action was a growing concern on the part of Russian officials that Ukraine was preparing to destroy a major dam on the Dnieper, north of Kherson, at the Nova Kakhovka hydroelectric power station. If this dam were destroyed, a wall of water between 5 to 15 meters high would sweep down the river, washing away critical infrastructure, killing thousands, and trapping survivors—military and civilian alike—on the west bank. An estimated 200,000 civilians and 30,000 Russian troops would be put at risk. The evacuation of civilians from the west bank of the Dnieper River, when seen in this light, was a prudent humanitarian move in total compliance with the responsibilities assumed by a military commander under the law of war.

While this evacuation was taking place, Russian forces held off concerted attacks by the NATO-trained and equipped Ukrainian army. These attacks were all, without exception, defeated by the Russian defenders. In the month of October alone, Russia assesses that Ukraine lost 12,000 men in support of these operations, while Russian losses were limited to between 1,300-1,500 men. Most of the Russian casualties came because of artillery bombardment by the Ukrainian forces, using their western-provided heavy artillery, which were guided to their targets by real-time intelligence shared by the United States.

This artillery war was being conducted on terms which expressly favored the Ukrainians. Under normal circumstances, artillery attacks assume the character of a duel, with each side seeking to locate the artillery resources of the other either before or after they fire their rounds downrange. Despite western claims that the western artillery systems provided to Ukraine outrange their Russian equivalent systems, this is simply not true, and on an even playing field, Russia possesses artillery systems which, when combined with target identification techniques (drones, counterbattery radar, SIGINT, etc.), would enable Russian artillery to carry out effective counterbattery fires against the Ukrainians.

But when the Ukrainians can operate their artillery in a manner which allows them to interdict Russian logistics, making it difficult to resupply Russian artillery units or provide effective operational and intelligence support (i.e., interdiction of Russian command and control), the artillery duel becomes one-sided, and it is the Russian troops who pay the price. By pulling Russian forces out of the west bank of the Dnieper, the Russian command was eliminating the artillery advantage that Ukraine had accrued.

With Russian forces dug in on the east bank of the Dnieper, Russian artillery would be able to be employed in a fashion which maximized its qualitative and quantitative advantages. In short, any Ukrainian forces seeking to approach the Dnieper River would be targeted by massed fires, breaking up their advance. Likewise, Ukrainian artillery would find itself in an untenable position, unable to concentrate their fires or be employed in a tactically sound manner for fear of being detected and destroyed by Russian counterbattery fires.

Russian forces may very well have been able to sustain a presence on the west bank of the Dnieper, but at what cost? The highly favorable casualty ration that was produced in the October fighting would have evened out, or even been adjusted to favor the Ukrainians. The fundamental question facing Russian leadership was this: what price was Russia willing to pay to hold on to the west bank of the Dnieper River? No Russian leader was willing to sacrifice up to 3,000 troops to sustain a frontline which gave Ukraine all the advantages. General Surovikin recommended the adjustment, and General Sergei Shoigu, the Russian Minister of Defense, agreed.

Russian mothers, wives, and children should applaud this decision, as should anyone who holds the life of a Russian soldier in high regard.

Moreover, on can never forget the threat posed by the potential destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam. How could any responsible commander risk the lives of his troops under such a threat? Imagine the outrage that would be expressed by these very same keyboard heroes when trying to square the deaths of thousands of Russian troops, and the potential capture of thousands more, in the aftermath of such a catastrophe? Why didn’t the Russian commanders do something to prevent this, they would cry.

General Surovikin just did.

Ukraine and its NATO supporters will, of course, brag about this significant victory. But headline grabbing does not translate into battlefield success. At the same time Russia is preserving its most precious resource—its manpower—Ukraine will be squandering thousands more lives to obtain propaganda value from photographs showing the Ukrainian flag raised in Kherson. The Ukrainian “victory” in Kherson resembles that of the ancient Greek ruler Pyrrhus, in defeating the Romans at Asculum in Apulia in 279 BC.  While his forces held the field, it was accomplished only at a great cost. “If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans,” Pyrrhus said after the battle, “we shall be utterly ruined.” Pyrrhus was unable to call up more men, and his allies in Italy were becoming tired of conflict. The Romans, however, were able to quickly replenish their forces “as if from a fountain gushing forth indoors” and remained determined to see the war through to its end.

If the experience of Pyrrhus sounds familiar, it is because it directly mirrors the situation encountered by Ukraine in confronting Russia in Kherson in the present times. Ukraine has lost more than 12,000 men in the weeks leading up to the Russian withdrawal from the west bank of the Dnieper River and will lose thousands more trying to consolidate and hold the territory Russia has evacuated. While Ukraine is in the process of training and equipping some 20,000 new troops, the ability to generate more forces beyond that is questionable, given the dearth of modern equipment remaining in the inventory which can be transferred to Ukraine.

Russia, on the other hand, is in the process of finalizing the organization, training, and equipping of 200,000 fresh troops. When they arrive on the battlefield sometime in December, Ukraine will be hard pressed to respond in a meaningful fashion. Like Pyrrhus, Ukraine, in taking Kherson, has been “utterly ruined.”

And Russian troops will soon be like a “fountain gushing forth.”

 Nov 10 '22  

Millions of Ukrainians affected by blackouts – Zelensky

More than four million Ukrainians have had their electricity supply cut off, with the capital and its suburbs the worst affected, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said on Sunday. His statement followed weeks of Russian strikes on Ukrainian power infrastructure, after Moscow accused Kiev of ‘sabotage’ attacks.

In his address posted on Telegram, Zelensky noted that as of Sunday evening, power outages continue in Kiev and six Ukrainian regions. “More than 4.5 million consumers are without electricity. Most of them are now in Kiev and the Kiev region. It’s really difficult," he said.

The Ukrainian leader gave assurances that the government is preparing for all possible energy scenarios.

Source RT 

Biden's approval plummets to 39% as Democrats brace for midterms, poll shows

Wednesday, 26 October 2022 12:32 AM

Moment Joe Biden trips on stage during a speech in New York | US Midterms

US President Joe Biden’s approval rating has dropped to 39 percent as more and more Americans show dissatisfaction with him due to high inflation and rising gas prices in the country, according to a new poll.

A Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll completed on Tuesday found that 39 percent of Americans approve of Biden's job performance, just two weeks before US midterm elections that will shape the rest of this term.

Democrats are worried they could lose control of both chambers of Congress on November 8 which would give Republicans the power to bring Biden's legislative agenda to a halt. Biden's unpopularity is helping drive this view.

Biden's term has been marked by the economic scars of the global health crisis, including soaring inflation. Biden’s popularity hit a record low of 36 percent in May and June.

US consumer inflation hit a 40-year high of 8.6 percent in the 12 months through May, with gasoline marking a record high and the cost of food soaring, Labor Department data showed.

The surging costs have become a political headache for the Biden administration, which has tried several measures to lower prices but said much of the responsibility to control inflation falls to the Federal Reserve.

In the meantime, the Biden administration has been making efforts to bring down gas prices while continuously pinning blame on Russia.

Biden and his administration are concerned that the unharnessed high inflation in the United States, exacerbated by the rising fuel prices across the country, could lead to the defeat of the Democrats in the midterm elections.

Meanwhile, a majority of Democratic voters have said Biden should not run for the White House in 2024, according to a September poll.

The ABC News-Washington Post poll, produced by Langer Research Associates, found that 56 percent of Democratic voters oppose Biden’s reelection bid, while 9 percent said they had no opinion

Convoy of Iranian fuel tankers targeted en route to Lebanon

 ⋯ “[Collapse will enable] Lebanon to somehow be rebuilt from the ashes, and freed from the curse of Hezbollah”, said US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Barbara Leaf, on 4 ⁠November.

In a similar strategy, the US is blocking the implementation of a joint Lebanese-Syrian-Jordanian energy project, although it had been proposed by the US to counter last year's plan by Hezbollah to import Iranian fuel.

A Lebanon-bound convoy of Iranian fuel tankers has come under attack on the Iraqi-Syrian border despite holding official and legal permits.

According to reports, two tankers were targeted by an “Israeli drone” after eight of them passed from Iraq’s al-Qa’im border.

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Report: The US and Mikati ‘fooled’ Lebanon into thinking Iranian fuel would be permitted. (The Cradle (https://thecradle.co/Article/news/18027))

Informed sources told Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar that the US has no plans to grant Lebanon sanctions-waivers to import Iranian fuel for its power plants, even if the Iranian fuel is gifted as humanitarian aid.

PM-designate Najib Mikati was allegedly aware of Washington’s true intentions, but decided to play along and “fool the Lebanese ministry of energy and Iranian officials”.

On 26 ⁠September, Minister of Energy Walid Fayyad disclosed a plan (https://t.me/LebUpdate/27546) to power around 8-10 hours of daily electricity with 600,000 tons of fuel gifted by Iran.

Nuclear Talks, no longer in Switzerland

 Moscow and Washington To Resume Nuclear Talks

The parties will meet under the New Start treaty to discuss arms reduction after talks were paused following the Ukraine conflict, US State Department spokesman Ned Price has confirmed. 

The meeting may take place in the Middle East, Kommersant reports, as Russia no longer views Switzerland - the traditional venue for talks - as sufficiently neutral after its sanctions imposed on the country. 

The discussions will see to it that "the ability… to pass messages back and forth and to engage in dialogue has not - does not - atrophy," Price told Reuters. 

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Bolton: 'Opposition' groups in Iran being armed with weapons from Iraqi Kurdistan

Former US national security advisor John Bolton

Tuesday, 08 November 2022 10:27 AM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 09 November 2022 8:53 AM ]

Former US national security advisor Bolton says subversive groups in Iran, which he characterized as the opposition, are being armed with weapons seized from Basij forces and imported from Iraq's Kurdistan.

In an interview with London-based BBC Persian TV channel, Bolton, who spearheaded former US president Donald Trump’s anti-Iran policies for years, expressed hope that the ongoing protests in Iran, sparked by the death of a young woman in police custody, would lead to "regime change."

He made a comparison between protests in major cities across Iran in 2009 following the election victory of former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the recent sporadic riots.

Bolton accused Iran's security forces of acts of repressions in 2009, claiming that the alleged crackdown had intensified and become much wider in the wake of the recent riots.

Bolton, who is notorious for his hawkish stances, said the "perspective of the systematic effort" of the subversive groups is not only to protest but to use coercive force against the Iranian government to convey the message that it is no longer unarmed and can confront the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC).

Former White House national security adviser John Bolton says "the Iranian opposition" is now being armed with weapons smuggled into the country from the Iraqi Kurdistan region, praising the use of force against Iran's security forces.

6 Nov, 2022

 

Defense News: The United States is increasing the grouping of satellites to conduct reconnaissance for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine on the eve of the offensive in the Kherson direction.

The US National Directorate of Military Space Intelligence (NRO) has accelerated a program to increase the grouping of satellites in Ukraine at the expense of commercial satellite companies. To this end, NRO will additionally use the resources of five companies: the American division of Airbus, the California Capella Space and Umbra, the Florida PredaSAR and the American branch of the Finnish ICEYE.

According to the publication, the NRO has an orbital satellite grouping consisting of 50 satellites for intelligence gathering. It is reported that they monitor the movement of Russian troops, the course of hostilities in Ukraine, and also monitor the situation on the implementation of the "grain deal" in the Black Sea

Maria Zakharova, Russian MFA Spokeswoman wanted to know?

 

by Maria Zakharova, Russian MFA Spokeswoman (top most)

Frankly, I do not care who obtained this information and how. I'm interested in London's answer to the following question:

“Did UK Prime Minister Liz Truss send a message to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying “It’s done” immediately after the Nord Stream gas pipeline explosion? 

Millions of people around the world are now waiting for an official response to this question and they have a right to know what happened to global energy security and what role the Anglo-Saxons played in the terrorist attack.

Never charged, Guantanamo’s oldest inmate freed after nearly two decades

 31 Oct 2022

The oldest inmate at the US-run infamous Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba, Saifullah Paracha, has been released to his home country Pakistan after 19 years of detention without trial.

Cuba’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Saturday it had "completed an extensive inter-agency process to facilitate the repatriation" of Mr. Paracha.

“We are glad that a Pakistani citizen detained abroad is finally reunited with his family," added the statement.

In his mid-seventies, the Businessman was arrested in 2003 in Thailand and accused of financing al-Qaeda, but was never charged like most prisoners.

Like most prisoners at Guantanamo, the businessman was never formally charged and had little legal power to challenge his detention.

In May, the US approved Paracha’s release concluding only that he was “not a continuing threat” to the US.

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US accelerates plan to send upgraded nuclear weapons to Europe

31st 0ct 2022

 The United States will be accelerating its plan to locate upgraded nuclear weapons in European NATO bases as Russia continues to threaten Ukraine, according to a report.

Politico reports, citing various sources familiar with the issue, that U.S. officials told NATO allies during a closed-door meeting that an upgraded B61-12 air-dropped gravity bomb initially scheduled to be transported to Europe next Spring, will now arrive this December.

Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder told the outlet the “modernization of US B61 nuclear weapons has been underway for years and plans to safely and responsibly swap out older weapons for the upgraded B61-12 versions is part of a long-planned and scheduled modernization effort.”

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UN pushes to declare 'Israeli occupation' illegal, may seek ICJ opinion

A request for such an opinion has already been submitted to the UN's Third Committee by the Commission of Inquiry.

A request for such an opinion has already been submitted to the UN's Third Committee by the Commission of Inquiry on "the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel," headed by South African legal expert Navi Pillay.

Created last year, the three-member permanent COI published on Thursday its second report, which will be debated by the UNGA Third Committee on October 27.

More here >> https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-720130

UNGA - Israel must dispose of all its nuclear weapons

 Israel must dispose of all its nuclear weapons and place its nuclear sites under the International Atomic Energy Agency’s purview, the United Nations General Assembly’s. (https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-720828)

First Committee stated in an initial 152-5 vote.

US forces officially deploy to Ukraine - Oct 31

The Pentagon has couched these as "weapons inspectors" - making sure that US weapons are arriving where they need to. In reality, they may also serve advisory roles, which are parallel to those of field commanders. This is getting good! @NewResistance

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Excerpts 👇🏾 from 👆🏽

WWIII Has Effectively Begun, Says Economist Roubini

A new world war is practically underway, “certainly in Ukraine and cyberspace,” economist Nouriel Roubini explained.

Last week, the New York University professor was interviewed by Der Spiegel and listed some of the world’s most acute problems.

Recalling a recent event hosted by the International Monetary Fund, he referred to historian Niall Ferguson who “says in a speech there that we would be lucky if we got an economic crisis like in the 1970s – and not a war like in the 1940s.”

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Russia has filed to to the UNSC US and Ukraine biological weapons

Russia has filed a complaint to the UN Security Council for non-compliance by the US and Ukraine with the Convention on the prohibition of biological weapons - Russia's permanent representative to the UN

Iraq was bombed back into the Stone Age for less for example!

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Final Draft on US Biological Activity in Ukraine Presented to UNSC

Russia presented their final draft to the the UNSC today, covering all of the evidence compiled in their dossier, and it is currently being reviewed by experts from the various nations. The contents of the dossier include the evidence presented over the course of the past 8 months.

I highly recommend everyone read the full statement. These allegations are historic. Hunter Biden’s Metabiota, Black and Veatch, negligence of deadly pathogens, drones equipped with aerosol canisters to disperse airborne water particles containing pathogens, aerial release of infected mosquito armies, all of it.

https://bioclandestine.substack.com/p/final-draft-on-us-biological-activity

source https://t.me/ConflictChronicles