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Good Monday Morning July 25 .
I hope that you all had a great weekend
Regards,
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This Day in Navy and Marine Corps History:
July 25
1898During the Spanish-American War, a landing party from the armed yacht, USS Gloucester, single-handedly captures Guanica, Puerto Rico.
1946 The second of two nuclear weapon tests - BAKER - is detonated during Operation Crossroads at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. The first test was ABLE.
1943 The first Navy ship named for an African-American, USS Harmon (DE 678), is launched. USS Harmon is named in honor of Mess Attendant 1st Class Leonard Roy Harmon who posthumously receives the Navy Cross for heroic actions trying to save a shipmate on board USS San Francisco (CA 38) during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on Nov. 13, 1942.
1956 USS Edward H. Allen (DE 531) and USNS Private H. Thomas (AP 185) rescue more than 200 passengers from Andrea Doria and transport them to New York after the Italian liner collides with Swedish cruiser Stockholm off Nantucket on the New England coast. Forty-six people died from the collision, but 1,600 passengers and crew are saved.
1998 USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) is commissioned at Norfolk Naval Base, Va. The eighth aircraft carrier of the Nimitz-class is the first to be named after the 33rd president of the United States.
2019 Thanks to Crane Dawg and Amy With immense sadness and personal loss I pass the word that Rich Redditt has passed. At 2158 PDT in San Diego with Pat and Amy at his side he peacefully and painlessly slipped away. His valiant efforts to stay in the fight sustained him weeks longer than expected. He never gave up. It's an honor to be counted among his innumerable friends who will mourn his passing and celebrate a life well lived. Our condolences are sincerely sent to Pat, Michael, Amy, his grandchildren and brothers. . Today is a sad day of loss for the Naval Aviation fighter community.
In much sadness,
Crane Dawg
. As his Daughter Amy related a few days ago. We're coming up on three years on July 25 and miss him dearly. Make every day count
Today in History July 25
326 Emperor Constantine refuses to carry out traditional pagan sacrifices.
1394 Charles VI of France issues a decree for the general expulsion of Jews from France.
1564 Maximilian II becomes emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1587 Hideyoshi bans Christianity in Japan and orders all Christians to leave.
1759 British forces defeat a French army at Fort Niagara in Canada.
1799 On his way back from Syria, Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Ottomans at Aboukir, Egypt.
1814 British and American forces fight each other to a standoff at Lundy's Lane, Canada.
1845 China grants Belgium equal trading rights with Britain, France and the United States.
1867 President Andrew Johnson signs an act creating the territory of Wyoming.
1850 Gold is discovered in the Rogue River in Oregon, extending the quest for gold up the Pacific coast.
1861 The Crittenden Resolution, calling for the American Civil War to be fought to preserve the Union and not for slavery, is passed by Congress.
1894 Japanese forces sink the British steamer Kowshing which was bringing Chinese reinforcements to Korea.
1909 French aviator Louis Bleriot becomes the first man to fly across the English Channel in an airplane.
1914 Russia declares that it will act to protect Serbian sovereignty.
1924 Greece announces the deportation of 50,000 Armenians.
1934 Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss is shot and killed by Nazis.
1941 The U.S. government freezes Japanese and Chinese assets.
1943 Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini is overthrown in a coup.
1944 Allied forces begin the breakthrough of German lines in Normandy.
1978 The first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, is born in Oldham, England.
1984 Svetlana Savitskaya becomes first woman to perform a space walk.
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To All
After all the effort to get out the list of things that will make your Kidneys go bad
This is a list of 10 bad habits that are damaging your kidneys
Thanks to Dr. Rich
Mostly bogus Skip ..
Can't hardly find even one that is correct .. except maybe the one about pain killers … IF they specified NSAIDS like naproxen (Aleve®), ibuprofen (Motrin®), etc… and even they are safe if taken in modest amount, even with milder degrees of kidney failure. No problem w. acetaminophen (Tylenol®), narcotics (as prescribed!!), etc...
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Thanks to Buster
subject: Special Edition: A Covid Afterthought by Victor Davis Hanson, final quote by PlatoSubject:
Date: July 24, 2022 at 11:24:10 PM EDT
For those of you who may be unfamiliar with Victor Davis Hanson, you may want to look him up. He's a brilliant classics professor and Hoover Fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford.
July 24, 2022
Special Edition
A Covid Afterthought
By: Victor Davis Hanson
July 22, 2022
Recently, there has been increasing pressure on China either to produce more data exonerating itself of birthing the SARS-CoV-2 virus or to confess that the pathogen escaped from its secretive biosafety Level 4 virology lab and was human-engineered, showing insidious characteristics not found in nature.
If the latter is true, and an increasing number of scientists believe it is, the best Chinese case is that some preventable laxity resulted in an escaped gain-of-function deadly virus that has so far not petered out like prior coronavirus epidemics.
Whether it has been engineered to aid vaccine research or was some sort of dark bioweapon experiment, no one knows. We assume it was released accidentally not because the Chinese Communist Party is incapable of such nefariousness, but only because it apparently had no vaccine to protect its own from its own self-created virus.
Still, if the virus, as speculated, is a gain-of-function monstrosity, let loose out of criminal laxity, and the sin is compounded by deliberate lying and subterfuge, then consider:
The Chinese are responsible for millions of deaths worldwide. In essence, they have waged war on humankind and unleashed a weapon thousands of times more deadly than a nuclear bomb.
But to what degree and why are they exempt from consequences? Do they own politicians, fund university research in the West, contribute to medical journals, and threaten media and universities that promulgate skepticism of the crackpot pangolin or bat theory?
Ponder further. The lab has been the scene of prior viral breeches. It continues to engage in gain-of-function research. There is a strong possibility that another virus in some year in the future will be accidentally released and we will revisit the present nightmare years. Is that enough to concern us?
So, what good are the UN, The WHO, NATO, etc. if they cannot "persuade" the Chinese to shut down the lab? Is it not the equivalent, whether intended so or not, of a weapons lab whose continued existence poses an existential risk to mankind?
And what of our own scientists? Did some approve the transference of sophisticated gain-of-function infrastructure to China? Did Americans in the past give China the know-how to produce mice with human-engineered organs that would make possible such diabolical research?
In other words, per their redacted emails, did CDC and NIAID top officials, most prominently Anthony Fauci, knowingly aid and abet the sort of research deemed too dangerous and thus illegal in the United States, by routing money and expertise to the Wuhan lab in semi-nontransparent fashion?
If true, what does that make Dr. Fauci, the supposed viral guardian of America? If Fauci had even a small hand in promoting foreign gain-of-function research that led to the present COVID-19 pandemic and if simultaneously he was de facto our official arbiter of Covid-19 policies, then what sort of existential conflicts of interests did he engage in?
Ostensibly any policy, any attitude, any protocol that even tangentially was connected to a Chinese origin, and thus eventually an American role in it, would eventually involve decisions made by Dr. Fauci and others?
Do you get the point? How in the hell is this official still running a multibillion-dollar federal agency entrusted to keep us safe from coronaviruses when he may have promoted or at least agreed to the transference of knowledge and wherewithal that put us in such existential danger in the first place?
In sum, are we snoozing through the greatest scandal in U.S. history, one that dwarfs Watergate or Russian collusion?
Has Peter Daszak ever been called before Congress to explain the rerouting of federal dollars to Wuhan, his questionable role in the Lancet "investigation," and what exactly are his relationships with the CDC and NIAID and Drs. Fauci and Collins?
A paranoid would almost believe that the Chinese communist government had been partially funding or subsidizing Lancet, given its transparently unethical whitewash investigation of the Chinese lab and exoneration of Western scientists likely culpable in transferring some of the ability to make such a virus to Wuhan.
Historians soon will grasp that the COVID-19 pandemic destroyed a presidency, blew up a booming economy, created suicidal quarantine and lockdown policies that sent the nation into collective hysteria that fueled the woke insanity of summer 2020, ruined years of the lives of our school-age children, spiked suicide rates, substance abuse, and household violence, radically changed the 2020 election into a 102 million early/absentee ballot nightmare, destroyed over one million lives, perhaps disabled over 10 million, created nonending nightmares for families of the dead and serially sick, paved the way for millions of doses of not fully tested vaccinates whose side effects have crippled and killed Americans, devastated the U.S. labor force and helped create the supply chain/worker shortage, and gave the nation Joe Biden, arguably the worst president since James Buchanan.
There is something Hitlerian about the birth of this virus, and yet to even write or suggest the above is taboo and deemed dangerous to one's career.
Have we in our silence become absolutely unhinged?
If you do not take an interest
in the affairs of your government,
then you are doomed to live under
the rule of fools.
Plato
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ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED Thanks to the Bear … Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
Thanks to THE BEAR
… For The List for Monday, 25 July 2022… Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)
From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com post for 25 July 1967… Strife in America and MiGs in the Red River Valley…
This following work accounts for every fixed wing loss of the Vietnam War and you can use it to read more about the losses in The Bear's Daily account. Even better it allows you to add your updated information to the work to update for history…skip
Vietnam Air Losses
Access Chris Hobson and Dave Lovelady's work at: https://www.VietnamAirLosses.com.
This is a list of all Helicopter Pilots Who Died in the Vietnam War
. Listed by last name and has other info
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Thanks to Mugs
Needed: More good guys with guns!
Mugs
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I remember driving around in the back seat of my Dad's 37 Chevy when I was young. I even remember him teaching my mother how to drive it.
Thanks to Carl
(Interesting auto history! Excellent question under last photo at end!)
"Seattle or Bust" in a 1931 Chevrolet
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Thanks to Lurch
Sit back and enjoy.
Subject: The Day That Music Died........American Pie takes on a new meaning 7:00 MIN
The Day That Music Died!!!!!
Whether you are old enough or not to remember this song or not,you
will be mesmerized by this video. I never knew American Pie had so many
references.
"American Pie" was the name of the plane that Buddy Holly went down in.
I have listened to the words to American Pie for many years and I
thought I understood everything that was being sung.
However, when the words are put together with pictures and film
clips the song takes on a new meaning.
It took a lot of thought to produce this. Sure brings back lots of
memories.
It makes the lyrics really come alive!!
See video here: http://youtu.be/VhX3b1h7GQw
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Thanks to Carl and the Bunker boys
This is the basketball player currently in Russia who was caught with drugs
Brittney Griner;
Dear Mrs. Griner, We hope this letter finds you in good health and we understand you are having some rough times in your life. We are a group of old Vietnam Combat Veterans from North Carolina. Our average age is around seventy years old. We call ourselves, The Bunker Boys. We spent a lot of time living in rat and snake infested holes in the ground known as Bunkers. When we were not in the bunkers we were crawling through the jungle being shot at and shooting back at little people wearing black pajamas. We must be honest and tell you that the only thing we may have in common with you, is that we too, were drafted. We noticed you were drafted number one in the WNBA draft a few years ago. Since we all were drafted we thought we might let you know what it was like when we were drafted. Unlike you, most of us had no college. The people of the United States drafted us. We consisted of all colors, religions and personal beliefs. We had no choice of which team we played for; Army, Navy, Air Force or Marines. We were sent halfway around the world to fight and kill people we didn't know in a place we had never heard of. We were paid, we know you can relate to this, $3.00 a day and required to work 24 hours a day if needed. When we returned home many or most of us were treated very badly by our fellow Americans. We were spit on, hit by bottles and rocks as the police stood by and watched. We did not complain, we just continued on in life and made the best of it. We fought for God, family, country and of course, the Flag and the National Anthem; a poem that was written by, of all people, a lawyer. He wrote the poem as he watched bombs fall on and kill fellow Americans. Ever since that night, our nation has played that little poem before millions of social functions. For some people it's just a little song. For a Veteran it is a reminder of how many men and women of all colors, have given their life so the rest can have the right to be free.We found in our research that you requested the National Anthem not be played at sporting events. We find it odd that now you are requesting the citizens of the United States to pay for your release from a jail in Russia. Yes, we the taxpayers are paying for all of those diplomats working on your release. Our Government told you, and all fellow Americans in Russia, to leave Russia after the invasion of the Ukraine. You play basketball in a country that is known to treat Americans badly. You fly a great deal and must know by now, all the rules of what one can bring into a country. All of us that travel know the rules for entering a foreign country. You are a guest and must go by the rules of the land. By your own admission, you were attempting to bring an illegal substance into a country that is known for its long prison sentences. You had to know this because you are making a million dollars a year to play a game and hold a college degree. At six feet nine inches tall, you know that security officers are going to focus on you from the moment you stand in the boarding pass line. We also noticed that you are now saying you placed the drugs in your luggage by accident. Please, that is something an 18 year old would say. We also found out that your net worth is somewhere around $ 5 million bucks for playing a game. For old guys like us, living on a fixed income, that's a lot of money for just playing a game. Don't get us wrong; we are not against you. We all went and fought so all Americans can have the freedom to make their own choices. We just hope the next time you have to endure the playing of that little poem, you will pay close attention to the, " Land of the free," part. Wishing you the very best,The Bunker Boys…
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This Day in US Military History
25 July
1864 – Boats from U.S.S. Hartford, Monongahela, and Sebago, commanded by Rear Admiral Farragut's flag lieutenant, J. C. Watson, reconnoitered the Mobile Bay area in an attempt to discover the type and number of water mines laid by Confederates off Fort Morgan. Watson and his men located and cut loose many of the torpedoes; they were aided by the fact that a number were inoperative. This hazardous work was indispensable to the success of the Navy's coming operations against Mobile. Several similar night operations were conducted.
1940 – The United States prohibits the export of oil and metal products in certain categories, unless under license, to countries outside the Americas generally and to Britain. This move is seen as an anti-Japanese measure, particularly because of Japan's needs for foreign oil. From this time Japanese fuel stocks begin to decline. There are similar problems with other raw materials. Japanese attention is, therefore, drawn south from China to the resources of the Netherlands East Indies and Malaysia.
1944 – The US 1st Army begins "Operation Cobra". The main attack is made west of St. Lo by the US 7th Corps with 8th Corps on the right flank and 13th Corps on the left flank. A massive bombardment precedes the assault. More than 3000 planes are involved, including 1500 heavy bombers of the US 8th Air Force. Some American casualties result from the bombers releasing their loads short of their target. Regardless, the American forces make good progress.
1944 – On Guam the American marine forces are still unable to link up the two beachheads. On the southern landing, there is also fighting on the Orote Peninsula. On Tinian, the forces of US 5th Amphibious Corps advance cautiously southward after repulsing Japanese counterattacks.
1944 – Two carrier groups from Task Force 58 (Admiral Mitscher) attack Palau while a third attacks Yap, Ulithi, Ngulu, Tais and Sorol.
1945 – The Potsdam conference recesses for the British delegation to leave for the announcement of the election results. Churchill, Eden and Atlee fly home. Meanwhile, Truman orders the atomic bomb to be dropped on Japan as soon as possible after August 3rd.
1945 – American cruisers Pasadena, Springfield, Wilkes-Barre and Astoria bombard Japanese air bases in southern Honshu. Meanwhile, aircraft from the US 3rd Fleet attack Kure naval base and the airfields at Nagoya, Osaka and Miho for a second day. The battleships Hyuga, Ise, and Haruna, the escort carrier Kaiyo and the heavy cruisers Aoba and Iwate are all sunk. There is not noticeable Japanese resistance to the strikes.
1945 – On Mindanao, all organized Japanese resistance comes to an end in the Sarangani Bay area. American mopping up operations begin.
1946 – The United States detonated a 2nd atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in the first underwater test of the device.
1964 – Following a meeting of the National Security Council to discuss the deteriorating situation in Saigon, the Joint Chiefs of Staff draw up a memo proposing air strikes against North Vietnam. These missions were to be conducted in unmarked planes flown by South Vietnamese and Thai crews. There was no action taken on this recommendation. However, the situation changed in August 1964 when North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked U.S. destroyers off the coast of North Vietnam. What became known as the Tonkin Gulf incident led to the passage of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which passed 416 to 0 in the House and 88 to 2 in the Senate. The resolution gave the president approval to "take all necessary measures to repel an armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression." Using the resolution, Johnson ordered the bombing of North Vietnam by U.S. aircraft in retaliation for the Tonkin Gulf incident. In 1965, as the situation continued to deteriorate in South Vietnam, Johnson initiated a major commitment of U.S. troops to South Vietnam, which ultimately totaled more than 540,000 by 1968.
.Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
LUCAS, GEORGE W.
Rank and organization: Private, Company C, 3d Missouri Cavalry. Place and date: At Benton, Ark., 25 July 1864. Entered service at: Mt. Sterling, Brown County, Ill. Birth: Adams County, Ill. Date of issue: December 1864. Citation: Pursued and killed Confederate Brig. Gen. George M. Holt, Arkansas Militia, capturing his arms and horse.
PARKER, ALEXANDER
Rank and organization: Boatswain's Mate, U.S. Navy. Born: 1832, Kensington, N.J. Accredited to: New Jersey. G.O. No.: 215, 9 August 1876. Citation: For gallant conduct in attempting to save a shipmate from drowning at the Navy Yard, Mare Island, Calif., on 25 July 1876.
. *GUILLEN, AMBROSIO
Rank and organization: Staff Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps, Company F, 2d Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division (Rein.). Place and date: Near Songuch-on, Korea, 25 July 1953. Entered service at: El Paso, Tex. Born: 7 December 1929, La Junta, Colo. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a platoon sergeant of Company F in action against enemy aggressor forces. Participating in the defense of an outpost forward of the main line of resistance, S/Sgt. Guillen maneuvered his platoon over unfamiliar terrain in the face of hostile fire and placed his men in fighting positions. With his unit pinned down when the outpost was attacked under cover of darkness by an estimated force of 2 enemy battalions supported by mortar and artillery fire, he deliberately exposed himself to the heavy barrage and attacks to direct his men in defending their positions and personally supervise the treatment and evacuation of the wounded. Inspired by his leadership, the platoon quickly rallied and engaged the enemy in fierce hand-to-hand combat. Although critically wounded during the course of the battle, S/Sgt. Guillen refused medical aid and continued to direct his men throughout the remainder of the engagement until the enemy was defeated and thrown into disorderly retreat. Succumbing to his wounds within a few hours, S/Sgt. Guillen, by his outstanding courage and indomitable fighting spirit, was directly responsible for the success of his platoon in repelling a numerically superior enemy force. His personal valor reflects the highest credit upon himself and enhances the finest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service. He gallantly gave his life for his country.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for July 25, 2021 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
25 July
1912: The Secretary of the Navy published the first general specifications for naval aircraft. (24)
1918: The Secretary of War approved a Joint Army and Navy Airship Board suggestion to assign rigid airship development to the Navy.
1927: Lt C. C Champion (USN) set a FAI altitude record of 38,419 feet in a Wright Apache, equipped with a Pratt & Whitney 425 HP engine. (9) (24)
1944: Operation COBRA. An effort to breakout US forces at Normandy began with 3,000 planes, including 1,500 Eighth Air Force bombers, attacking German posts at St. Lo near American lines for 3 hours. Although the operation succeeded, a few bombers hit the wrong target area and killed almost 500 US troops, including Lt Gen Lesley J. McNair, the US Ground Forces Commander. (4) (21)
1946: Operation CROSSROADS. Task Group 1.5, a 2,200-man US AAF element, conducted the second phase of this test to burst an A-bomb underwater off Bikini Island. This group provided aircraft and personnel to photograph and collect data on the explosion. (1)
1961: A Titan I completed its first full-range flight test with an all-inertial guidance system. It launched from Cape Canaveral and flew down the Atlantic Missile Range. (6)
1969: Mariner 7 shot its first pictures of Mars.
1981: A B-52 with an offensive avionics system (OAS) fired an ALCM for the first time. (6) (12)
1983: Through 15 September, MAC operated 29 C-141 missions to move 397 tons of equipment from the US and Europe to Chad as part of a security assistance program. (18)
2000: Through 23 September, in the worst fire season in decades fire consumed over 6.5 million acres in the American West, more than twice the annual average. For the fire suppression effort, AMC, the ANG, and the AFRC, and commercial carriers flew 48 missions between 1 August and 23 September to move 339 short tons of cargo and 5,967 Army and Marine troops to augment civilian firefighters in Montana and Idaho. Guard and Reserve C-130s equipped with modular airborne fire-fighting systems flew 774 sorties from 25 July to 6 September to drop 970,500 gallons of fire retardant on wildfires in California, Idaho, and Montana. (22) (32) The F-22 Raptor No. 02 successfully launched an AIM-9 missile at the China Lake test range to confirm its ability to launch an air-to-air missile from an internal weapons bay. (3)
2001: USTRANSCOM CINC and AMC Commander, Gen Charles T. Robertson, Jr., flew the first of three C-37A special airlift support aircraft, a military version of the Gulfstream V business jet, from the Gulfstream plant in Savannah to MacDill AFB for duty with the 6 AMW. The USAF purchased the C-37A to replace older EC-135 and CT-43 aircraft. Two other C-37As would be based at Andrews AFB, one at Chievres, Belgium, and a seventh at Hickam AFB. (22)
2005: The 337th Test and Evaluation Squadron from Dyess AFB, Tex., established a B-1B Lancer "first" at the White Sands Missile Range by having two B-1Bs auto-release a JASSM, a single warhead self-propelled missile, and three dissimilar weapons from the same launcher. The JASSMs struck their targets after traveling more than 170 nautical miles. (AFNEWS Article, "Dyess AFB Demonstrates B-1B's Upgrades, Combat Capabilities," 19 August 2005)
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World News for 25 July thanks to Military Periscope
USA—DSCA Announces Several Possible Arms Deals Defense News | 07/25/2022 The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency has announced several potential arms deals under the Foreign Military sales program, reports Defense News. On July 21, the agency announced four possible arms sales worth nearly $2 billion. One potential sale to the Netherlands, worth $1.2 billion, covers 96 MIM-104E Patriot Guided Enhanced Missile-Tactical (GEM-T) missile defense interceptors and associated equipment and support. Another proposed deal with Kuwait, worth $397 million, was for 60 AIM-120C7/8 AMRAAM air-to-air missiles and various 1,000-pound and 2,000-pound guided and freefall bombs to equip its new Eurofighter Typhoon jets. Australia is seeking to buy up to 80 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles-Extended Range (JASSM-ER) missiles for its F/A-18F Super Hornet and F-35A Lightning II fighters in a deal worth up to $235 million. Finally, the U.A.E. wants to buy an oceanographic observation equipment system worth up to $206 million.
Ukraine—Poland Delivers PT-91 Twardy Tanks Euromaidan Press | 07/25/2022 Polish officials have confirmed the delivery of more tanks to Ukraine, reports the Euromaidan Press (Ukraine). On Sunday, a spokesman for the Polish Armaments Agency said that Poland had delivered an unspecified number of PT-91 Twardy tanks to Ukraine, which would be replaced with South Korean tanks, reported the Visegrad 24 news site. The PT-91 is a heavy modernized version of the Soviet-built T-72 featuring Western thermal imaging cameras, the Drawa fire-control system, Obra defense module and a WPD-1 smoke grenade launching system, reported the Polish Press Agency (PAP). Poland has 232 PT-91s. Warsaw has delivered more than 200 T-72s to Ukraine since Russia launched its unprovoked invasion in February.
Russia—Wagner Mercenaries Recruiting Central Asians For Ukraine War Moscow Times | 07/25/2022 Russian mercenary group PMC Wagner is seeking Kyrgyz and Uzbek nationals to fight for Moscow in Ukraine, reports the Moscow Times. Kyrgyzstan's MediaHub investigative journalism outlet found Wagner advertisements for private security guards on Kyrgyz- and Uzbek-language news media and Instagram. When contacted, the recruiter indicated that the company was no longer seeking security guards but instead offered a job "performing tasks in the special operation zone in Ukraine" for US$4,383 per month. Russia has suffered significant casualties in its unprovoked military campaign in Ukraine and is trying to strengthen its forces without declaring a full mobilization, analysts said. The Wagner mercenary group earlier this year reportedly pulled 1,200 fighters out of Libya and Syria to join Russian forces in Ukraine. Central Asian nationals who have gone to fight in Ukraine since Russia's initial military operation in 2014 have faced criminal mercenary charges upon their return.
Argentina—New Report Touts Growth Of Trade With China Xinhua | 07/25/2022 The Argentinean government recently released a report highlighting the growth of trade with China and detailing future business opportunities, reports Xinhua, China's state news agency. The Report on Opportunities and Business with China, launched jointly by the Argentine-Chinese Chamber of Production, Industry and Commerce (CACPIC) and the Undersecretariat of Trade and Investment Promotion of the Argentinean Foreign Ministry, stated that bilateral trade increased 20-fold to nearly US$20 billion annually over the last 20 years. The document, overseen by Argentina's Undersecretary for Trade and Investment Promotion Pablo Sívori, covers foreign trade and China's Silk Road project; agribusiness; energy; mining and infrastructure; telecommunications and information technology; Argentina's brand in China; and Chinese tourism in Argentina. CACPIC officials said that Argentina has made a name for itself in Chinese trade circles and that an abundance of export, technology and information opportunities would be available for domestic firms in China.
Burma—Junta Executes Democracy Activists Irrawaddy | 07/25/2022 The military junta in Burma has announced the execution of four democracy activists, reports the Irrawaddy (Yangon). On Monday, the military government announced that the sentences against Ko Jimmy, Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw, Hla Myo Aung and Aung Thura Zaw had been carried out. The opponents of the regime were sentenced in a closed-door trial widely condemned by human-rights groups as being unfair, reported the BBC. Ko Jimmy served 21 years in Insein and Tharawaddy prisons from 1988 to 2005 and again from 2007 to 2012 for his pro-democracy activism. He got his start as part of the 1988 popular uprising. Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw was a hip-hop musician who later became involved in the pro-democracy movement, founding the Generation Wave youth group in 2008 to distribute anti-junta literature. He served as a lawmaker for the National League for Democracy (NLD) from 2012 to 2020, before returning to music. In 2021, he joined the armed resistance following the military coup. Hla Myo Aung and Aung Thura Zaw were hanged for allegedly killing a woman who was said to be a junta informer. The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners estimates that the junta has killed 2,114 people and arrested 14,847 since the February 2021 coup,
Italy—Snap Election Set For September After Parliament Dissolved Cable News Network | 07/25/2022 Italian President Serio Mattarella has dissolved Parliament following the resignation of Prime Minister Mario Draghi, reports CNN. Draghi resigned on July 21, with Mattarella dissolving Parliament later in the day. The president called it a last resort, noting that there was no possibility for the government to form a new majority after it lost a confidence vote on July 20. New national elections have been scheduled for Sept. 25. A conservative coalition including Fratelli d'Italia is widely predicted to win the vote, reported the Latvian News Agency.
Philippines—New U.S. Ambassador Takes Up Post In Manila Philippine News Agency | 07/25/2022 The new U.S ambassador to the Philippines has arrived in Manila, reports the Philippine News Agency. On July 22, MaryKay Loss Carlson presented her credentials to President Ferdinand Marcos at Malacanang Palace in Manila. She succeeds Amb. Sung Kim, who held the post from 2016 to 2020. Heather Variava, who served as charge d'affaires ad interim since September 2021, will remain in Manila as deputy chief of mission, the U.S. Embassy said. Carlson, a foreign service officer since 1985, has been posted to diplomatic missions in China, Ukraine, Hong Kong, Mozambique, Kenya and the Dominican Republic. She mostly recently served as deputy chief of mission and charge d'affaires in Buenos Aires. While presenting her credentials, the ambassador touted longstanding ties between the countries and pledged to strengthen relations with the Marcos administration.
Tunisia—Referendum Underway On New Constitution Reuters | 07/25/2022 Tunisia is holding a referendum on a new constitution that would hand President Kais Saied greater powers, reports Reuters. Turnout for Monday's vote was expected to be low with little popular enthusiasm for the move amid an ongoing economic crisis. Analysts expect the constitution to be approved. Opposition critics have called the referendum a coup attempt and warned that it would end democracy in Tunisia. Elected in 2019, Saied declared emergency rule and dissolved the parliament a year ago. The move found some support among Tunisians fed up with political infighting and a declining economy. Under the new constitution, the parliament's powers to form governments and set its own agenda would be shifted to the president. Additionally, the president would have legally immunity while in power and Tunisia's armed services would report directly to them rather than to the government as a whole. Hundreds protested the referendum in central Tunis on July 23.
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