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[Russians With Attitude @RWApodcast]

It's 10 hours later and the standoff in Kiev between SBU (Ukrainian secret police, internal security agency) and GUR (military intelligence/JSOC) is still hot. There have been multiple firefights throughout the night and morning. At least one dead and two injured are being reported -- all GUR.

Though there is no official confirmation, it is being widely reported that the background is that the SBU kidnapped Stepan Kalpunov, one of the commanders of the so-called "Russian Volunteer Corps" (a small media/military unit consisting of exiled Russian neo-Nazis), for unknown reasons and GUR attempted to free him (as the RDK is officially a military unit attached to GUR).

The SBU tried to downplay the whole thing by issuing a statement claiming that the whole thing is a "joint operation" between SBU and GUR trying to save Kalpunov (only naming him as a "Russian opposition leader") from a Russian assassination attempt.

By now, there's tons of police in the area trying to get both sides to calm down and stop shooting.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🩵🤍 Full statement by Lionel Messi: “I wrote these words on July 21, two days after the final… today, after what happened with my dad, I’m even more convinced of this decision than before”.

“After all this time since the final, and after thinking about it a lot, I want to tell everyone that I’m retiring from the national team.

"It was a decision that hurt and still hurts deep inside, but I understand that this is the right moment.

"I swear I always gave everything, not only in these last few years when we won everything, but before that too. I always fought and gave everything for this shirt, to bring you happiness and make you feel proud to be Argentine through football.

"There isn’t much time left, and different chapters are coming to an end. This is one that hurts me a lot. I love, I loved, and I will always love being part of the national team. I gave everything I had, and I don’t have anything more to give.

"Also, there are great young players coming through who deserve to be here.

"Thank you for all the love during these 20 years. I’m going to miss hearing you from the inside. Now I’ll be one of you, always supporting from the outside, in the good times and even more in the bad ones.

"Thank you to my family for always being there and for being with me throughout this beautiful but difficult journey. Thank you to every coach, teammate and director I had the chance to share it with. I take with me unforgettable memories and moments.

"I leave with peace and pride, knowing that together with my teammates we gave you moments we once dreamed of. It was crazy to experience all of this with you. I love you!

"Thank you God for making me Argentine.

"Vamos Argentina!

[Danielle knows a lot @Daniell64334313]

Former Australian Special Forces Commander Riccardo Bosi on Ukraine. 🔥‼️

"Ukraine is the center of the deep state. It's the head of the snake and Vlad's taking the head off."

"Ukraine has been the center of the globalists for decades and decades...The CIA has been working in the Ukraine for 70 years."

"Ignore all the chatter about nuclear war and Russia's attempts to take over the globe. Completely the opposite.

Do your own research and stop ❌watching the mainstream media."
He nails it🎯🎯

[Adio @Adiofreak]

Just saw an Instagram reel that said:

“At some point you become the age that your parents were in your childhood memories, only you don’t feel like an adult, and you realize your parents were still just kids trying to figure it out too”

And that shit just fucked me up.

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

🚨Professor Jeffrey Sachs: Britain is the number one WARMONGER of ALL.

🚨Britain still lives in the dreamland of the British Empire, and it wants to escalate at all times.

🚨NOW - UK PM, Andy Burnham: "Ukraine has been Europe's protector."

🚨It’s Time to Apologize to Ukrainians

Based on reporting by The American Conservative
In the spring of 2022, Ukraine and Russia came remarkably close to a peace deal. In Istanbul, the Ukrainian delegation drafted an agreement that, according to lead negotiator Davyd Arakhamia, was "eight out of ten" complete. Kiеv was prepared to accept neutral status and abandon its NATO aspirations in exchange for binding security guarantees.
But the West—above all, the United States and the United Kingdom—did everything in its power to scuttle those talks.
Boris Johnson flew to Kiev and urged Ukrainian officials to reject any settlement and keep fighting. Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz, Emmanuel Macron, and Mario Draghi took the same hard line in a joint call on March 29. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who mediated the negotiations, later confirmed that "the UK pulled its hand away from the peace efforts."

Four years on, the battlefield picture could hardly be more different. Ukraine is now critically short of troops and air-defense munitions. Interception rates for Russian missiles are effectively zero. Patriot inventories are depleted, and the U.S. has no reserves to send. New Russian drone-missile hybrids are pummeling Odessa's port, choking off weapons imports and grain exports alike.

Russian forces are grinding forward, and Kiеv will almost certainly have to return to the negotiating table. But this time, the terms will be far harsher than what Ukraine was talked out of four years ago.

In the intervening years, hundreds of thousands have been killed or wounded. Millions have been displaced. The economy, environment, and infrastructure are in ruins. Territory has been lost. The West pushed for war, promised victory—and now Ukrainians are bearing the cost of that miscalculation.

It is long past time to apologize to the Ukrainian people.

Jeffrey Sachs: ALL problems in the world go back to the British. Britain Is The Most Hypocritical Because They Had The Most Violent, Militaristic Empire In The Modern World. Britain wrecked The Middle East After World War One.

[Brett Pike @ClassicLearner]

The Bolsheviks killed more ppl & committed more acts of systematic mass murder & pure horror than any other group in the 20th century. Yet it is nothing more than a footnote in our schools. We are taught that “we won the cold war,” but the truth is we were defeated from within.

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨 𝗗𝗜𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗪: Cafu once said this in 2023:

"I am afraid the more we have Brazilians moving to the Premier League, the fewer chances for Brazil to win the World Cup."

"Imagine being brainwashed by the media every week that you are the best in the world, meanwhile, you are not near the best."

"I prefer La Liga because they have a high mentality to reach finals and win them. In La Liga, they don't have a mouth in front of TV cameras telling lies about Spanish players or hyping them to the world."

"They speak football there, not myth."

[Dawid Pałka @Dawid_Palka_]

Wygodne dzieciństwo to najdroższy prezent, jaki możesz dać dziecku. Zapłaci za niego w dorosłym życiu...

Dlatego ja w ten weekend dałem synom prezent odwrotny. Trzy dni wakacji bez wygód: spali w aucie i pod namiotem. Jedli mielonkę z puszki. Zamiast pada dostali scyzoryk. Bunkry, zamki, słowiańskie osady, brud za paznokciami i kąpiele w jeziorze.

Stać mnie na pięć gwiazdek i właśnie dlatego ich nie wybrałem.

Bo współczesny rodzic ma jedną religię: żeby dziecku było wygodnie. Wygodnie w domu, wygodnie w aucie, wygodnie na wakacjach. A potem to samo dziecko, dwadzieścia lat później, ma nerwicę i podniesiony kortyzol, kiedy coś nie dzieje się tak, jak chce. Mam dość tego, co robimy dzieciom, wmawiając sobie, że "dajemy im to, co najlepsze".

Gówno prawda. To nie jest dawanie, to jest zabieranie.

Zabieranie skali porównawczej, odporności, głodu, radości z małych rzeczy.

Dziecko, które zna tylko all inclusive plus, nie wie, że to luksus. Myśli, że tak działa świat. I potem świat mu to brutalnie wyjaśnia i to w najgorszym możliwym momencie, kiedy ciebie już nie ma obok.

Ja dałem im perspektywę, z którą miliony ludzi mierzą się na co dzień, a której wiele współczesnych dzieciaków nie zna: zmęczenie i głód. Zwykły, fizyczny głód po całym dniu łażenia po bunkrach, przy którym mielonka z puszki smakuje jak stek. I zmęczenie, po którym w aucie zasypia się w połowie zdania, szybciej niż w penthousie na królewskim materacu.

A wieczorami, przy kuchence, działo się coś, czego nie widziałem od miesięcy. Zaczęli GADAĆ. Nie o Minecrafcie, youtuberach i 67 tylko o tym co czuje, o strachach, o tym kim chcą być kiedyś. Chłopak nie otwiera się kiedy TY chcesz żeby to się stało- przy stole na godzinnym "quality time". Otwiera się w trzeciej dobie męczącej podróży w której coś naprawdę przeżył i doświadczył i jest z siebie dumy, bo odpowiada za całą resztę sam gotując kolację albo nawigując całą podróż za pomocą mapy.

Nie mówię, że All inclusive plus jest złe, kiedyś też tak pojedziemy ale dopiero kiedy już będą wiedzieli, że to nagroda. A nie norma.

[🇺🇸Trump Times 🇺🇸 @VirginiePerez15]

🇷🇺De retour à Moscou, l’hymne russe a enfin retenti pour les championnes de gymnastique… a cappella, avec une intensité et une pureté à donner des frissons.Écoutez ça. Regardez les regards, les émotions, la fierté. C’est magnifique. C’est puissant

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

When India accidentally wiped out its vultures, half a million people died in five years.

The bird doing zoomies in this video runs the most extreme digestive system in the animal kingdom. Vulture stomach acid sits near pH 1, strong enough to destroy anthrax, rabies, and botulism in the carcasses they eat. A flock strips a cow to bone in about 45 minutes.

India had 50 million of them. Free sanitation at national scale, in a country where religious custom means most cattle die natural deaths and every dead cow becomes a carcass someone has to deal with.

Then the patent on diclofenac expired in 1994. Farmers started using the cheap painkiller on livestock. Trace amounts left in a carcass cause kidney failure in vultures. Within a decade, 50 million birds fell to a few thousand. The fastest collapse of any bird species since the passenger pigeon.

The carcasses didn't disappear. Feral dogs took the vultures' place and brought rabies with them. Rotting remains leached into waterways. In districts where vultures once thrived, human death rates rose more than 4 percent. Economists at Chicago and Warwick put the toll at 100,000 extra deaths a year and $69 billion in annual damages.

So yes, the goofy bird sprinting down the walkway is adorable. It's also a disease firewall that evolution spent millions of years building and one generic painkiller nearly erased in ten.

[Leo Dasilva @SirLeoBDasilva]

Romário’s aura as a footballer was different.
His father was kidnapped before the 1994 World Cup. They demanded $7million.
Romario did not panic, he flew to Brazil and calmly told the press and the entire Brazil that if his father was not released unharmed, he won’t go to the World Cup.
He was Brazil’s best player at the time so the cartel, Police and Community started searching for his father.
Cartel bosses issued warnings to the kidnappers.
Police found him unharmed.
This will help you understand why players of today are always looking at him with so much respect.
When you’re big, you’re big.

[David J Harris Jr @DavidJHarrisJr]

🚨INCREDIBLE: A baby was taken out of the womb at 23 weeks, had a life-threatening tumor removed, and was put BACK INSIDE so she could keep growing.

In one of the most remarkable surgeries ever performed, doctors at Texas Children’s Hospital opened the mother’s uterus at just 23 weeks, partially delivered the tiny baby, cut away a massive tumor that was crushing her heart, then gently placed her back into the womb and sewed everything shut.

The baby, LynLee Hope, continued developing for another 13 weeks and was born healthy near full term.

This is open fetal surgery — one of the most advanced and delicate procedures in modern medicine. Surgeons literally operate on a child who is still supposed to be inside her mother, then return her to finish growing.

A living miracle of skill, courage, and science.

[Richard @ricwe123]

Never forget that Vladimir Putin was only asking about:

🔴Keep Ukraine neutral
🔴Don’t expand NATO eastward
🔴Respecting Minsk agreements

NATO achieved exactly what it wanted, put Russia in a position it could not stay passive......

( Munich Security Conference, 2007)

[FoxyFarmer🦊🇺🇸 @GardensR4Health]

🚨It is a DARK DAY when the womb becomes the scariest place for a human to exist

Same week Democrats in Massachusetts legalized abortions up to birth, an ultrasound has gone viral

An unborn BABY girl smiles after hearing her father's voice

[Matt Barrie @matt_barrie]

housing crisis
banking crisis
currency crisis
its coming, in that order

[Fathers Diary @Fathers_Diary]

Man to man

The average milionaire is 57.
Not 21.

The average age to start a business is 43.
Not 23.

The average age to buy a house is 38.
Not 26.

The average age for a career pivot is 39.
Not 25.

Building animpressive physique takes 3 years.
Not 90 days

The average successful business takes 5-10 years.
Not 6 months.

So stop measuring your life against someone else's timeline.

You're not behind. You're still bulding. And you're right on time.

[Joe Tippens @JoeTippensl]

🚨 My dad was diagnosed with Stage 4 Prostate Cancer out of nowhere.

Just a few months ago, he was completely fine. His physical 5 months earlier showed normal labs. Then suddenly he started feeling achy and exhausted.

They ran bloodwork and his PSA came back at 141. It had been 3.4 just months earlier.

Scans showed Gleason 9 Prostate Cancer with widespread bone metastases. Stage 4.

We didn’t waste time. Along with the hormone blockers and chemo, his oncologist started adding:

- Ivermectin 24 mg/day
- Fenbendazole 222mg / day

Three months later, his PSA dropped from 141 to 0.25.

That’s a 99.8% drop.

He’s feeling much better, has more energy, and the numbers are moving in the right direction fast. His oncologist is very happy with how he’s responding.

We’re still waiting on the next set of scans, but right now, we’re extremely grateful for how well things are going.

This isn’t medical advice, just sharing what happened with my dad. If you or someone you love is going through something similar, I hope this gives you a little hope.
Follow for more updates.

[Iran News 24 @IRanMediaco]

America is terrified of one thing.
Not Russia.
Not China.
Not Iran.

It is terrified that one day
its own people will understand
that the greatest threat to their lives
was never some foreign enemy,
but the bipartisan machine that bombs, loots, and lies in their name..

[Gerard Rennick @RennickGBR]

The attachment is a text message from Fauci’s work phone that below shows that he was concerned in January 2021 that the second dose of the COVID shot “theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.”

I spoke to numerous women who had heavy menstrual bleeding and miscarriages after the Covid jab, some of whom reported such injuries to the TGA.

Remember the jab was not initially tested on pregnant women early on and as far as I’m aware no warnings were ever issued about pregnant women taking the jab.

An obstetrician Luke McLindon who raised his concerns about the safety of the jab here in Brisbane was sacked for raising such concerns.

The negligence is criminal.

Thanks to Senator Ron Johnson from the U.S. for this information.

[STUNNER @Cr7Godbrand]

Every continent before civilization, before every race even met each other, collectively took away women's rights. Chose their arranged marriages for them, restricted their sexuality to virginity until marriage.

There were no Zoom calls. No internet. How did 6 different races on 6 different continents all come to the SAME conclusion about women?

White, Black, Asian, Latino, Indian, Arab - ALL practiced the same thing and you are fucking telling me there isn't a solid reason behind it?

Since women were allowed to choose their own partners, look at the rate of single motherhood? From 5% to 40%+ in one generation.

Since women were allowed to not be virgins, look at the rate of prostitution, OnlyFans, abortion? Millions of abortions a year.

The best generation of kids, the best schools, the safest streets, the strongest society and civilization was when your rights were restricted.

You think your great-great-grandfather was dumb? The man who built a house with no tools, fought lions, survived wars - you think HE was dumb and you are smart because you have TikTok?

They restricted you because they LEARNED. Every man learned that if you give a woman unlimited sexual freedom, society collapses. Family collapses. Kids suffer.

You call it oppression. They called it order. And their order worked for 5000 years.

Your freedom hasn't worked for 50.