| To: Les H who wrote (42982) | 7/22/2024 9:16:52 AM | | From: Les H | | | | Biden forced out by frozen funds
Media reports citing sources said several significant Democratic donors have informed Future Forward, the biggest super PAC of supporters of the United States President Joe Biden that pledges totalling about $90 million are now on hold if the incumbent remains the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
According to a New York Times report, some eight-figure pledges are among the frozen funds. This comes after Biden's poor debate performance against his rival and predecessor Donald Trump.
A group donor shared that Future Forward had approached them and their friends several times since the debate, asking for money, but they had been “holding off.”
According to a New York Times report, some eight-figure pledges are among the frozen funds. This comes after Biden's poor debate performance against his rival and predecessor Donald Trump.
A group donor shared that Future Forward had approached them and their friends several times since the debate, asking for money, but they had been “holding off.”
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The possible shortage of super PAC funds also coincides with the campaign preparing for a challenging July fundraising period, as key donors question Biden's chances of winning in November.
Future Forward, designated by Biden's campaign as its primary super PAC for the 2024 race, has already reserved $250 million in TV and digital ads starting after the Democratic National Convention (DNC) next month.
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| To: Les H who wrote (42940) | 7/22/2024 9:31:39 AM | | From: Les H | | | | 'Too Bad You Returned': Freed Israeli Hostage Says She's Received Negative Comments
Agam Goldstein-Almog was kidnapped to Gaza from Kibbutz Kfar Azza, along with her mother and brothers. She says the public didn't like that she described her relations with her captors, and that 'People just can't grasp' what it was like as a hostage
Agam Goldstein-Almog, an Israeli teen who was held hostage by Hamas and released from captivity in November's hostage deal, said she is hurt by some of the responses she has received from Israelis since her release.
"Where can one find the space within the loss to deal with such horrific comments from people who live on this same land? Comments like 'too bad you returned,' or 'you had it easy in captivity.' It does something," she said at the MuniWorld Expo in Tel Aviv.
Goldstein-Almog said following interviews she gave, people reacted as if "they were my enemies. It took a toll on me, I didn't imagine I would have to deal with negative comments. Why would anyone say something mean, how can you?" she asked.
She added that the public didn't like that she "described my relations with my captors. But those were my captors: my food, my water, my life and my death. People just can't grasp it."
Agam and her mother told Haaretz their family sometimes ate rice and pita, and experienced some hunger. They played games, and, on good days, listened to the radio. Agam said then, "The fear was constant, and it's in my head now too when nothing is happening."
They also said once in a while, they were moved to a different location. When they were moved to a tunnel, they met six girls who were held alone. "Many girls experienced severe sexual abuse, they are injured – very, very serious and complex injuries that are not being treated," Agam said in December, "I can't even imagine what their situation is, what hope they hold on to."
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Many are going to be disappointed if the return of hostages means the end of razing Gaza in preparation for Israeli settlements. Society has been thoroughly corrupted by financial incentives to appropriate Palestinian properties and by the impunity for any means applied to coerce their turnover to Israeli hands. People that profitted from the original Nakba are in no position to criticize. |
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| To: Les H who wrote (42984) | 7/22/2024 9:35:10 AM | | From: Les H | | | | Pagan sacrifice goes wrong
Goat Dies as Israeli Woman Attempts to Sneak It Into Temple Mount for Sacrifice
Police were alerted when the goat began moving around and making noises under the woman's dress in the entrance to Jerusalem's Old City. Attempts to smuggle animals for sacrifice have increased amid perceived support from far-right Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir
A goat kid suffocated to death on Wednesday after a young Israeli woman pretending to be pregnant attempted to smuggle the animal inside her dress in order to sacrifice it on the Temple Mount.
The young Jewish woman and a male teenager accompanying her attracted the attention of police Wednesday afternoon at the Jaffa Gate entrance to the Old City as they were waiting in a security line when the baby goat began moving around and making noises under the woman's dress.
The pair are activists from "Hozrim Lahar" (Return to the Mount) a fringe right-wing group dedicated to bringing Jewish worship, including sacrificial rites, back to the Temple Mount.
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| To: Les H who wrote (42983) | 7/22/2024 9:52:53 AM | | From: Les H | | | | What a Ukraine peace treaty brokered by Trump might look like
I hazard the guess that notwithstanding the claims that Trump may make that he has forced concessions on both sides to reach a peace, that peace will be largely based on the latest proposal by Vladimir Putin on the day before the phony Summit on Peace held in Switzerland in June.
To be sure, the Russians will give up their territorial claims to the entirety of the 4 provinces they have already incorporated into the Russian Federation but never fully conquered. It may even be that they will keep only two of these, Donetsk and Lugansk, while Kherson and Zaporozhie are returned to Ukraine under conditions that guaranty substantial autonomy to them, in the sense of the Minsk-2 accords that were never implemented for lack of active intervention by the West European guarantors of the accords. After all, Russia’s national interest was never territorial aggrandizement but its security from NATO encroachment.
Why the distinction between the 4 provinces? Firstly, because Lugansk and Donetsk constitute the most heavily Russophone part of Ukraine and suffered the greatest losses of people killed and property destroyed from the 8 years of shelling and ‘anti-terror’ marauding by Ukrainian military units as from 2014 to the start of the Special Military Operation in 2022. They are also the most valuable territory for their metallurgical and general manufacturing traditions. And they are essential to ensure the viability of Russia’s hold on Crimea. Letting go Kherson and Zaporozhie would return to Ukraine valuable Black Earth land which is essential to ensure the economic viability of the rump state.
At the same time, surely the Russians will set as a non-negotiable demand the formal refusal of Ukraine to ever seek NATO membership, a prohibition on the placement of foreign military infrastructure or personnel on Ukrainian territory and limits on the size and capabilities of the Ukrainian armed forces.
It is virtually certain that Russia will raise no objections to Ukraine joining the European Union. And it is conceivable that Russia will contribute to the rebuilding of Ukraine by ceding part or all of the 350 billion dollars in frozen Russian state assets now in the West as an act of good will, not as war reparations. Russia can well afford to do this because it recouped a large part of this amount in the first year of the war from the vastly inflated prices of the hydrocarbons it sold on world markets as a result of global disruptions in energy supplies. In return, Russia will surely demand, and likely the West will agree to rescind all economic sanctions that have been imposed on the country.
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| From: Les H | 7/22/2024 3:10:46 PM | | | | | | Fixed-price contracts to drive new losses for Boeing’s defense arm in second quarter: Exec
“We had a good start to the year, but this quarter you’ll see to be significantly challenged. It'll look like it looked the third quarter of last year,” Boeing's defense CEO Ted Colbert told reporters ahead of Farnborough Airshow.
By VALERIE INSINNA
on July 21, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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| To: Les H who wrote (42990) | 7/22/2024 3:33:18 PM | | From: Les H | | | | UN: Afghan Taliban increase support for anti-Pakistan TTP terrorists
The U.N. sanctions monitoring team released the assessment late Wednesday amid a dramatic surge in TTP-led terror attacks against Pakistani security forces and civilians, killing hundreds of them in recent weeks.
“TTP continues to operate at a significant scale in Afghanistan and to conduct terrorist operations into Pakistan from there, often utilizing Afghans,” the report read. It noted that the globally designated terrorist group, also known as the Pakistani Taliban, is operating in Afghanistan with an estimated strength of 6,000-6,500 fighters.
“Further, the Taliban have proved unable or unwilling to manage the threat from Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan, whose attacks into Pakistan have intensified,” the document said. “Taliban support to TTP also appears to have increased.”
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Countering increased US/Pakistan support for ISIS-K in Afghanistan. ISIS-K originally drew from the TTP in Pakistan as well as ISIL in Iraq and Syria. |
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