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General Oleksandr Syrskyi reportedly defied President Zelensky, telling him the lack of air support would turn the counteroffensive into a meat grinder.

Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrskyi, much like his predecessor Valery Zaluzhny, has come into open conflict with the Ukrainian president’s office.

There is even talk of Syrskyi’s dismissal for refusing to carry out Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s orders to execute a ground offensive deemed by the army chief as “futile.”

According to the news site EADaily, the commander-in-chief was ordered to launch a major offensive but refused, saying that without proper equipment and air support, such a counteroffensive would turn into a meat grinder in which many soldiers would die.

A source quotes Syrskyi as telling Zelensky that his soldiers would be killed in a futile, unprepared attack.

If reports of a disagreement are accurate, they explain the recent scandal involving Marjana Bezugla, a member of Ukraine’s parliament, who denounced the chief prosecutor for refusing to allow her to travel to the frontline, which Bezugla said was an obstacle to her exercising her constitutional rights.

It was not yet known why the MP wanted to visit the frontline fighters and see for herself the conditions there, but the feud between Zelensky and Syrskyi may be a factor.

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Farage has managed to turn criticism from Channel 4 on its head, accusing the broadcaster of “election interference.”

Around 5,000 people paid an entry fee to attend an impressive Reform UK rally in Birmingham on Sunday despite despite increasingly intense establishment attacks on the party.

The political class first went for Reform leader Nigel Farage over his comments that the war in Ukraine was at least in part “provoked” by NATO and EU expansion. The Conservatives were particularly pleased with the opportunity to bash Reform, having spent weeks losing voters—and, more recently, donors—to the insurgent party.

But the saga hasn’t really done much to Reform’s position in the polls (believe them or not), which is still much higher than at the start of the general election campaign. One particularly amusing poll over the weekend suggested that Farage is still the favoured candidate to replace prime minister Rishi Sunak, should he resign as Tory leader after the election, well ahead of Tory bigwigs like Penny Mordaunt and Suella Braverman.

A more sustained attack has, however, focussed on Reform’s parliamentary candidates. The Guardian complained this morning, on July 1st, that “at least 30” individuals hoping to become Reform MPs “have cast doubt on human-induced global heating.” The party did, in fact, drop support for three of its candidates before the end of June following reports they had made offensive or racist comments.

But the party has managed to turn the criticism on its head, claiming the establishment media is attempting to carry out a hit job for purely political reasons. This is especially in relation to a Channel 4 exposé on what it described as a Reform party canvasser in Clacton, where Farage is standing to be MP. The individual, Andrew Parker, was caught on camera suggesting—in working-class tones—that illegal migrants ought to be shot, and calling Sunak a “f*****g* P**i.”

Only, Parker is a self-described “well spoken” actor whose own bio pages (now taken offline) say he specialises in both “rough speaking” and “secret filming.”

Parker has insisted that his acting is separate from his volunteering for Reform. Channel 4, claiming “we did not pay the Reform UK canvasser,” said: “We strongly stand by our rigorous and duly impartial journalism which speaks for itself.”

But Reform has reported the leftist broadcaster to the elections watchdog over what it called “scandalous election interference.” The party’s lawyers also branded the affair an “absolute scandal.”

It seems that, if anything, these attacks have done more to shore up support for Reform among its sick-and-tired-of-the-establishment base, which continues to give Farage and company extraordinary levels of support (so far as British politics is concerned) wherever he goes. You just cannot imagine these levels of enthusiasm for any of the mainstream parties.

Nor can one imagine any of the major parties receiving £400,000 (€470,000) in just 24 hours “entirely from small donors,” as Reform says it has just done.

Really, the only thing that can now get in Reform’s way ahead of the national poll on July 4th is a fear of a Labour ‘supermajority,’ and what this might mean for the country over the next five (if not ten) years.

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“We don’t want a European empire.”

The European Union should not become a federalized, centralized state, but should instead focus on ending mass migration and the war in Ukraine, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told national media in an interview on July 1, the day his country assumed the revolving presidency of the EU.

Orbán stressed that the leaders in Brussels “have made a power pact whose only aim is to dominate the political positions in Brussels for another five years, but it won’t work because you can’t govern against the people, and that makes those of us who want change even stronger. It will lift us up, it will increase our strength and we will achieve this change. If not in two weeks, then in two months, but it will happen,” he said.

“We do not want a Europe that takes away, diminishes and erases everything that is important to us as patriots,” Orbán added, according to Hungarian news outlet Infostart.

Orbán has formed a new alliance at the EU parliament level, with the new Patriots of Europe parliamentary group already attracting the biggest parties in Austria and Czechia, the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and Czechia’s ANO, led by former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš.

“This is the mindset of the people who have gathered, or are beginning to gather, under the banner that we three raised in Vienna on Sunday: the leaders of the largest Austrian party, the largest Czech party and the largest Hungarian party. We will be a large parliamentary group faster than anyone thinks now. In four to five more days, many people will be surprised,” added the prime minister, who also revealed that negotiations are underway with many political groups and that the formation meeting of the group will take place on July 8.

Asked how he would position the Alliance within the EU parliament, the prime minister said: “Our name means Patriots for Europe. We are patriots who are passionate about our country and who care about Europe,” he said. “We want strong European cooperation for the sake of our own country.”

“We do not want a European empire, we do not want a United States of Europe, we do not want a gray blob, a command-and-control system controlled from Brussels. We want national sovereignty and independence under our own national flags.”

One of the common themes of the group is its promotion of peace within Europe, with the group looking to bring together parties that do not want to prolong the war between Ukraine and Russia, but instead want a ceasefire and an end to hostilities. 

“What has gone wrong?” the Hungarian prime minister asked. “The people of Europe want peace. Today, instead of peace, the people of Europe are getting war. We want order and security, but instead the people of Europe are getting migration and the resulting threat of terrorism and crime.”

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While Biden was applauding Elton John’s profane declaration of war on Christian morality and headlining a ‘pride’ fundraiser, his administration was quietly announcing that it is walking back support for child ‘sex changes.’

(LifeSiteNews) — On the heels of a disastrous debate performance, President Joe Biden is working to shore up support from the Democratic base as the strategists who melted down on TV while he was being helped from the debate stage begin to realize that there is no easy way to replace the Biden-Harris ticket at this stage in the game. Both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have come forward to endorse Biden staying in the race, and Biden’s family is apparently urging him to remain put. Biden, meanwhile, jetted into New York for two major LGBT events. 

Biden’s message on the debate stage was simple: He, Joe Biden, is a man of honor and integrity, and Donald Trump is a man with “the morals of an alley cat.” Biden reprised this refrain at a rally the following day, and his staffers posted the saying on X. This is coming from a man who hosted a “Trans Day of Visibility” on the White House Lawn, which resulted in a transgender-identifying man publicly exposing himself. At the unveiling of the Stonewall monument with pop star Elton John on Friday, Biden laughed and applauded when Elton John told the crowd that the LGBT movement was not giving up an inch of territory: “F*** that!”  

READ: Biden attacks DeSantis for protecting children from transgender mutilation: ‘Close to sinful’

Biden’s support for the LGBT movement has been a centerpiece of his administration, but interestingly, the New York Times reported on June 28 that it is quietly backing away from “sex changes” for minors. The Biden administration, along with the Trudeau government in Canada, has been one of the staunchest supporters of the most radical aspects of the transgender agenda, even as many European countries and medical institutions begin to condemn and move away from such practices. But now, according to the Times, the Biden administration has said it does not support transgender surgeries for minors, which the Times called Biden’s “most explicit statement to date on the subject.”

“The White House announcement was sent to The New York Times on Wednesday,” the newspaper said, “in response to an article reporting that staff in the office of Adm. [Richard “Rachel”] Levine, an assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services,” had pushed a prominent transgender activist group to eliminate age limits for “sex change” surgeries in its “standards of care.”  

READ: ‘Transgender’ Biden official Levine behind removal of age limits in ‘sex change’ surgery guidelines

The Times continued:

The draft guidelines would have lowered the age minimums to 14 for [cross-sex hormones], 15 for mastectomies, 16 for breast or facial surgeries, and 17 for genital surgeries or hysterectomies. The final guidelines, released in 2022, removed the age-based recommendations altogether.

“Adm. Levine shared [his] view with [his] staff that publishing the proposed lower ages for gender transition surgeries was not supported by science or research, and could lead to an onslaught of attacks on the transgender community [sic],” an H.H.S. spokesman said in a statement on Friday evening . . .

The Biden administration did not disavow its support for dangerous, mutilating transgender hormonal interventions for children, however, the newspaper noted.

READ: Biden DOJ indicts doctor who exposed transgender child mutilation at Texas hospital

This may not seem like much, but it is a significant walk-back. Obviously, these surgeries are irreversible – once a mastectomy or castration is performed, the damage is permanent. But this is a fact that is both obvious and much-denied. Interestingly, the very same day, June 28, the Texas Supreme Court upheld the state’s ban on “sex changes” for minors to the outrage of the LGBT movement. The statement of the radical Biden administration, however, would seem to support this decision, meaning that they are slowly coming to the realization that the transgender agenda is causing immense damage and that they need to oppose “sex changes” for minors before lawsuits start taking the entire industry down. 

Make no mistake: The Biden administration wouldn’t be taking this position if they didn’t see the writing on the wall. While Biden, a president with the morals of an alley cat, was applauding Elton John’s profane declaration of war on Christian morality and headlining a “pride” fundraiser, his administration was quietly telling the New York Times that they are backing off support for “sex changes” for children. The cracks in the consensus are spreading faster now. 

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It turns out that many of the journalists who were murdered by Israel in 2023 did not even have anything to do with Hamas. One of them, Hamza Dahdouh, the son of Al Jazeera bureau chief Wael Dahdouh, was bombed to death in an IDF airstrike on January 7.

An investigation by The Guardian (United Kingdom) found that Israel’s military considers media outlets affiliated with the resistance to its genocide in Gaza to be legitimate military targets.

Part of the so-called Gaza Project, an effort by the France-based Forbidden Stories NGO to analyze the killing of journalists in Gaza by Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the investigation determined that at least 103 journalists have died in the Gaza Strip since October 7. Roughly 30 percent of them worked for media outlets affiliated with Hamas.

At least 23 of the dead journalists worked for Al-Aqsa, which is considered to be the largest Hamas-linked media outlet. According to Israel, Hamas-linked journalists are the equivalent of Hamas militants, so their lives must be ended.

A senior Israeli army spokesman commented that there is “no difference” between working for a Hamas-linked media outlet and being a member of the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas.

“It’s a shocking statement … a complete misunderstanding or just a willful disregard for international law,” said Adil Haque, a professor of law at Rutgers University in New Jersey, about Israel’s callous disregard for human life.

(Related: Did you know that Western media sources are claiming without evidence that Hezbollah is “storing missiles and explosives at Lebanon’s main airport” in order to justify Israel’s apparently planned bombing of Beirut primary international transit hub?)

Israel has been bombing Al-Aqsa offices since long before October 7

Israel’s aggression against opposition journalists is not something new since October 7. It has been going on since at least 2019 when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed an order designating the network as a terrorist organization.

Whenever Israel decides it does not like something and wants it destroyed, it simply brands its targets as “terrorists.” When women, children and other innocents end up dying in large numbers, Israel simply uses the “human shield” excuse to disregard their lives as well.

By painting Al-Aqsa with the broad brush of terrorism, Netanyahu created “a blank check,” to quote legal experts who looked into the declaration, for IDF militants to indiscriminately murder journalists affiliated with the network.

At the start of the current Israeli genocide in Gaza back on October 7, Al-Aqsa’s offices were evacuated almost immediately because it was recognized that Israel would surely target the facility for bombings.

One Israeli source admitted to investigators that there has been “a permissive approach to targeting across” the Army when it comes to who is permissible to shoot or bomb as an “enemy.”

Another source who is privy to the legal advice given to IDF militants concerning who is a legitimate target during wartime also said that journalists affiliated with Hamas exist within a “grey zone” due to a “problematic view” within the Israeli military that “whenever there’s someone getting a salary ultimately from Hamas,” they become a legitimate target.

The U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) learned that more than 75 percent of all journalists who died in 2023 as a whole were killed by the Israeli military in Gaza. No other country behaves as savagely against its opposition than Israel, in other words.

It turns out that many of the journalists who were murdered by Israel in 2023 did not even have anything to do with Hamas. One of them, Hamza Dahdouh, the son of Al Jazeera bureau chief Wael Dahdouh, was bombed to death in an IDF airstrike on January 7.

Dahdouh died alongside fellow journalist Mustafa Thuraya as the two were reporting on the damage caused by IDF militants on a residential area between the southern Gaza cities of Khan Yunis and Rafah.

The latest news about the Israeli military can be found at Genocide.news.

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Father Michał Olszewski, a suspect in the Justice Fund scandal, experienced severe and torturous conditions of detention in Warsaw jail, including denial of water and restroom access.

Father Michał Olszewski, head of the Profeto Foundation, has described harrowing conditions during his detention at the Warsaw-Służewiec jail, alleging serious abuse, including denial of water and restroom access, and degrading treatment. His attorney, Krzysztof Wąsowski, has announced plans to seek intervention from both the Polish commissioner for human rights and international organizations.

Father Olszewski, who was arrested in late March amidst allegations involving the Justice Fund scandal, conveyed his experiences in a private letter that has now been made public by Sieci weekly and daily Gazeta Polska. According to the letter, his handcuffs were not removed even during moments of duress, leading to severe personal indignities. The priest describes being offered a half bottle of tap water and being told to urinate in a bottle in his cell. Additionally, he faced constant surveillance and was awakened hourly by lights throughout his first two weeks in custody.

“It turned out that I was under ‘special surveillance.’ Hence, the camera and handcuffs, even during walks, isolation from others […], being woken up by lights every hour throughout the night! That was the situation for the first two weeks,” the priest describes.

Attorney Krzysztof Wąsowski is calling it “a scandal on at least a European scale.” Media reports have fueled public and legal scrutiny, citing a systemic return to torturous practices in Poland, which violate both national and international law against cruel and dehumanizing treatment.

Practices such as denying water and toilet access have been classified as torture and degrading treatment under international conventions. According to the 1984 UN Convention against Torture, the term “torture” means “any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed.” Article 40 of the Polish constitution states: “No one shall be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment. The use of corporal punishment is prohibited.”

The district court in Warsaw recently extended Father Olszewski’s detention by another three months, despite objections from his legal team about procedural mishandling and alleged bias in the judiciary. In response, Wąsowski has criticized the court’s decision, arguing that it reflects a lack of engagement with the full material facts of the case and indicating a potentially prejudiced stance against his client.

The Justice Fund scandal, in which Father Olszewski is a suspect, involves allegations by prosecutors that €66 million in a special fund may have been misused under the former conservative justice minister, Zbigniew Ziobro.

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