Probably the best explanation for the deepening Georgian Dream vs Church of Georgia rift is that the regime no longer needs the Church to stay in power; quite the opposite, the Church is probably the largest institution that could potentially rival the regime with influence.
So, the Church must now be fully subordinated to the party, which is also the state.
And many in the Church aren't comfortable with becoming just partisan bureaucrats.
God morgon. Tidigt i morse körde en överste i det ryska flygvapnet ut på motorvägen i södra Petersburg när en bomb detonerade. Översten som troligen var bombflygspilot och styrman i den ryska 6:e luftarmén och som deltagit i bombning av barnsjukhuset Ochmatdyt och andra civila mål i Ukraina likviderades på fläcken av explosionen från bomben som antagligen var fäst undertill på bilen.
Historic steps to protect Hungarian women.
We are tightening criminal law, taking action against all forms of domestic violence, amending the foetus' heartbeat regulation, tackling period poverty, abolishing the prescription requirement for the emergency contraceptive pill and increasing support for pregnant women.
We are also initiating the ratification of the Istanbul Convention.
ProPublica reports that a Republican election board member in Forsyth County, Georgia, who belongs to Cleta Mitchell’s Election Integrity Network, used a right-wing data tool called ELLY to flag four voters as dead. ProPublica found all four alive.
That same effort questioned more than 22,000 names on the rolls and disputed 69 voters, including 38 people who registered using a first initial. The cover letter said the data had not been verified by human review. Even fellow Republicans on the board rejected it. This is what voter suppression by spreadsheet looks like.
DID I MENTION MAGA IS A RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE OPERATION FROM START TO FINISH? Look at these MAGA shills whom are PREFERRED assets of a Known Russian intelligence handler. WELL DONE, MAGA!
Ust-Luga e Omsk (la raffineria più grande di Russia) colpite ancora!
E il nuovo modus operandi di attacco ucraino, come si può vedere bene dalle immagini, sta scatenando l'inferno in Russia.
La differenza è visibile già ad occhio nudo: fino a poche settimane fa c'era un unico punto di impatto dei droni, che si concentravano tutti su un unico obiettivo, per paura di mancarlo o di essere distrutti dalla contraerea.
Questo perché Starlink, occorre ricordarlo, non funziona sul suolo russo.
Con il sistema israeliano/italiano, invece, se uno dei droni colpisce l'unità principale, gli altri vengono dirottati su altri bersagli (serbatoi, centrali elettriche ecc), creando così molti più danni, e mettendo definitivamente fuori gioco la raffineria.
Di questo passo in poche settimane la Russia non avrà più nulla da riparare.
Veteran and veterans’ advocate @PaulRieckhoff on Hegseth being loudly admonished today at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington: “Pete Hegseth is a piece of shit. I have to say it. We can all see it now. The whole world can see it. He’s disrespectful. He’s despicable. He’s dastardly. He’s a liar. He’s lied to his wives. He’s lied to the country. He’s lied to the president. And they are bad people. And it’s no more obvious and egregious than on Veterans’ Day, when they act like that. And props to that guardian who has to stand up. That sentinel who bravely, basically, said to Hegseth, ‘don’t confuse your rank with my authority.’ He speaks for the troops. He speaks for our democracy. He speaks for America.”
🇧🇪 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗺 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗜𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘀
More than 30 European imams, Islamic scholars, theologians and Muslim peace activists have gathered in Brussels under the leadership of @Imam1chalghoumi.
Tomorrow, we will attend events at the European Parliament to send a strong and powerful message to the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist organisations:
We reject your destructive ideology of Islamism. We will not surrender to extremism, intimidation or ideological coercion.
We are determined to challenge Islamist extremism through knowledge, dialogue, peaceful activism and democratic institutions.
We also intend to present a memorandum, representing Islamic scholars and peace advocates from across Europe and Great Britain, to the European Commission, calling for a permanent ban on the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist organisations and institutions operating across Europe, where the legal grounds for such action are established.
Our message is clear: Islam and Islamism are not the same. We stand for peace, coexistence, democracy and freedom from extremism.
Europe must hear the voices of Muslims who reject political extremism and stand for a peaceful future.
יואב סגלוביץ, לא איזה ״שמאלני הזוי״, ניצב בדימוס, צנחן לשעבר, ולידו רופא ערבי, לא תאמינו, ד״ר מנסור עבאס.
שניהם פשוט מבינים שבשביל שיהיה פה טוב, גם הערבים צריכים להיות שותפים. הם לא באו לגנוב לכם את העוגה, אבל פרוסה אחת לערבים (אחרי עוגות שלמות לחרדים ולמתנחלים), נשמע לי הוגן כהתחלה.
תהיו יואב ומנסור, כל אחד מהם, בלי לוותר על להיות יהודי או ערבי, הוא ישראלי מדהים ופטריוט אמיתי. בדרכו.
More than 1,600 kilometres. Over 80 days.
One powerful message: Tibetan language must survive! Tibetan activist Kalsang Tharchen has completed his extraordinary march from Dharamsala to Leh and back, raising his voice against China's so called Ethnic Unity Law and its threat to Tibet's language, culture and identity.
While Beijing pushes forced assimilation and attempts to erase Tibetan identity, Kalsang walked thousands of kilometres to remind the world that a language is the soul of a people.
Tibetans will not surrender their mother tongue or allow their identity to be erased. Respect the Tibetan language. Defend Tibet's identity!
#Tibet #TibetanLanguage #SaveTibetanLanguage #FreeTibet #StopForcedAssimilation #CCP #HumanRights
BREAKING: Families of USS George H.W. Bush sailors yelled at senior Trump administration Navy leaders in a combative Norfolk meeting after being told the carrier won't be coming home for holidays due to upcoming escalation with Iran, per MS NOW exclusive audio.
One spouse said her husband "wanted to try to kill himself four times while on the Bush" but was denied help by the administration.
"He doesn't even want to fucking live anymore! And you're going to sit up there and be like, 'Oh, we're doing everything we can, I understand.' No, you don't! No, you fucking don't!" she told them.
The families were also being told to now plan for a yearlong deployment.
Another called the escort mission through the strait "unsustainable and unaffordable" and said it could go on for 10 years. "They still have the nuclear material," she added.
Families also described rapidly worsening food, broken toilets/washers, and sailors hand-washing oil-soaked gear "because the boat's falling apart."
French Foreign Minister @jnbarrot accused @JLMelenchon of becoming “the Kremlin’s spokesperson”. Nothing could be more accurate: Mélenchon continues to echo Putin’s propaganda, lending legitimacy to the idea of a referendum in #Ukraine’s Donbas despite Russian occupation.
In 1991, 83% of #Donbas voters already chose Ukraine’s independence and freedom from Russian imperialism.
Peace cannot come at the expense of international law. And above all, not at the expense of the Ukrainian people.
🚨 IMPORTANTE
Exclusiva de Reuters muestra el verdadero móvil de la operación militar que llevó a la captura de Maduro
La investigación reveló que una semana antes de la operación militar del 3 de enero, el vicepresidente JD Vance abordó la futura venta del crudo venezolano con un operador de la firma Vitol y megadonante de su campaña, allanando el camino para que Vitol y Trafigura recibieran sin licitación el monopolio de comercialización petrolera que ya les ha generado cientos de millones de dólares.
Registros de vuelo ubican el avión oficial de JD Vance y el jet privado de John Addison (operador de Vitol) juntos el 27 de diciembre en Bozeman, Montana, rumbo al exclusivo Yellowstone Club.
Según una fuente enterada del encuentro, Vance preguntó qué tan rápido podrían vender el crudo venezolano si EEUE tomaba el control del suministro.
Aunque Addison negociaba gasolina en EEUU y carecía de experiencia técnica en contratos internacionales de crudo, había donado 300.000 dólares a Vance en 2022 y 7 millones de dólares a comités de Trump en 2024 (el mismo año en que Vitol pagó 50 millones en California por un caso de manipulación de precios donde Addison fue señalado).
Recomendado por Vance, Addison recibió el 5 de enero (dos días después de la operación) la llamada del secretario de Energía, Chris Wright.
La Casa Blanca omitió la licitación pública y el 9 de enero Vitol y Trafigura ya tenían las licencias.
Con más de 200 millones de barriles exportados en lo que va de 2026, expertos estiman que los operadores ganan entre 3 y 3,50 dólares por barril (un margen de 3,5 % a 4 %, superior al 1 %–3 % habitual de Vitol). Ambas firmas mantienen en secreto sus contratos con PDVSA, y Vitol confirmó tener además relación comercial con NABEP, la petrolera de Alejandro Betancourt
Este reporte se suma a la filtración del informe de KPMG publicada ayer por The New York Times, según la cual Vitol y Trafigura concentraron el 61 % de los 12.260 millones de dólares ingresados a la Cuenta de Custodia de Venezuela antes de que Washington transfiriera casi la totalidad de esos fondos de vuelta al Banco Central de Venezuela
Es decir:
Una semana antes del ataque militar, el gobierno de Trump ya estaba coordinando en un club privado de esquí cómo repartir la comercialización del petróleo venezolano a sus megadonantes de campaña sin licitación pública.
https://t.co/U3MFGkmOn9
🚨Meghyn Booth resigned Monday as treasurer of Michigan’s Maple Valley Township. The reason was no secret: her husband, Christopher Booth, is an active neo-N*zi influencer exposed by The Guardian as “Shameless Sperg,” the voice behind videos such as “Why I Hate J*ws” and “Black Crime Matters.” He has since moved to GoyimTV, declaring he gets “no peace of mind” unless he is “doing at least something for my race.”
Booth insisted she personally rejects racism and antisemitism. What she would not do was treat her husband’s open N*zi propaganda as disqualifying for a public official’s household. Instead, she spent community forums defending his First Amendment right to it. Constituents, including Tricia Wells, had asked for the bare minimum: ethics or diversity training, any concrete signal she did not share or tolerate the ideology. They got free-speech lectures instead.
Township Supervisor Bruce Deur said she had “done nothing wrong.” The board issued a generic condemnation of discrimination while affirming speech rights. That was not enough for residents who did not want their local government associated with white supremacy—especially while racist and antisemitic literature continues to appear on Montcalm County porches.
Public office is not a private marriage. When your spouse is producing and distributing neo-N*zi content and you respond by primarily defending the speech rather than clearly repudiating the substance and the person producing it, you forfeit the presumption of fitness.
Booth’s resignation is not a free-speech tragedy. It is the predictable result of refusing to draw a bright line between elected authority and active racial hatred. The husband remains free to rant. The township is better off without the ambiguity.
💥 TOTAL SYSTEM FAILURE IN LENINGRAD! ⚡️🔥
Losing a Ka-52, Mi-8, and MiG-31 alongside all 7 crew members during a single drone raid points to a catastrophic collapse of air coordination! 🚨
💥 HOW IT HAPPENED: THE TOP 3 SCENARIOS:
🚀 Panic Friendly Fire (Fratricide): Swarm attacks trigger absolute chaos. Blinded by heavy EW and transponder failures, panicking SAM crews (Pantsir/S-400) routinely mistake their own low-flying interceptors for incoming hostile drones! 🎯❌
🚁💥🛩 Mid-Air Collisions in the Dark: Scrambling high-speed jets alongside night-hunting helicopters in blackout conditions creates a lethal environment where spatial disorientation leads to direct mid-air strikes.
📡⚡️ Electronic Warfare Self-Sabotage: Aggressive GPS spoofing and radar jamming disrupt onboard terrain sensors, driving low-altitude crews straight into the ground or each other!
💀 WHY NO ONE SURVIVED
Zero Altitude: Drone-hunting occurs near tree-top level—leaving zero time for ejection or parachute deployment before impact.
Trapped in the Cockpit: A high-speed collision or SAM impact ruins the Ka-52’s rotor-blade jettison mechanism, preventing ejection! 💥🚫
⚡️ THE BOTTOM LINE: Friendly fire, low-altitude collisions, or EW self-sabotage—losing 3 front-line aircraft and 7 elite aviators hundreds of miles behind the frontlines is an unprecedented operational disaster! 📉🔥
Neuvěřitelná ostuda! V Polsku 11 evropských zemí cvičí, jak po skončení války zajistit bezpečnost Ukrajiny a pomoci s její obnovou. Česko jednotky neposlalo a Okamura se tím ještě chlubí! Zatímco spojenci jednají, my stojíme stranou. Komu tím vláda prospívá?! 🤬
ספרו לי קצת על היהדות והאידיאולוגיה של האשפות שהלמו אתמול במוט ברזל בפניה של אשה בת 70(!) שהגיעה לעזור במסיק של קול רבני לזכויות אדם - ואחר כך קינחו בסדרת בעיטות כשהיא על הרצפה, שוברים לה שלוש צלעות וגורמים לחבלות קשות בפנים. היא עדיין מאושפזת. נשמות שחורות