Eight dead in fire at former research institute outside Moscow – media

Everyone who was trapped in the building is believed to have died, according to sources in the emergency services

A massive fire erupted at a former research facility outside Moscow, the local emergency services have said, adding that a rescue operation is underway as firefighters attempt to extinguish the blaze.

The local authorities have confirmed that at least two people died in the fire. Media reports, however, put the number of deaths at eight or nine. According to sources within the emergency services, two people jumped to their deaths when the fire reached them, while others who were trapped in the building are believed to have been crushed after the ceiling collapsed.

The local branch of the Emergencies Ministry (EMERCOM) said on Monday afternoon that a blaze had broken out in the ‘Platan’ scientific center in the town of Fryazino, some 50km northeast of the Russian capital. Footage circulating on social media shows an eight-story building engulfed in smoke, with a fire raging about mid-way up. Other clips show people inside smashing windows to breathe.

Other footage that emerged later shows a powerful explosion, with plumes of flame shooting out of the structure.

EMERCOM noted that one person had been saved by a first responder, who it said was evacuated via a staircase. It cited preliminary reports as saying that nine people are still inside the building.

Later however, Moscow Region Governor Andrey Vorobyov said that two people had died as a result of the fire.

https://www.rt.com/russia/599889-nine-people-trapped-burning-research-institute/

US lawmaker condemns attack on Crimea

The American military should defend its own country, Marjorie Taylor Greene has said

A volley of ATACMS missiles, provided by the US to Ukraine, targeted Crimea on Sunday. Cluster munitions from one of the missiles struck a busy beach near Sevastopol, killing five civilians and injuring over 150, including children.

“This should not be happening,” Greene posted on X (formerly Twitter). “Imagine if Russia, using a Russian satellite, fired cluster munitions on a Florida beach.”

“The only border our American military should be defending is our own border,” the Georgia Republican added.

Greene was quoting a report that showed a US Global Hawk military drone circling around in the Black Sea during the Ukrainian attack, appearing to help Kiev’s forces with using the US-supplied missiles.

“Are winning hearts and minds? How hard will [US President Joe] Biden continue to poke the bear ahead of the November elections?” the author of the post asked.

https://www.rt.com/news/599897-us-crimea-sevastopol-atacms/

Israel’s main goal is the extermination of Palestinians – retired NATO colonel

The IDF’s “brute force” strategy makes no sense from a counterinsurgency perspective, Col. Jacques Baud has claimed

Israel’s tactics in Gaza go against all the rules of counterinsurgency and can only be explained as a deliberate effort to “eliminate the Palestinians,” former NATO analyst and Swiss intelligence officer Col. Jacques Baud has said.

Speaking to ‘Going Underground’ host Afshin Rattansi on Monday, Baud said that Israel is “not trying to solve the problem [of Hamas violence] on the political side, as we normally should for a counterinsurgency.”

“They are doing it by brute force, meaning that they destroy people and that’s the name of the game,” he added.

https://www.rt.com/news/599901-israel-strategy-extermination-palestinians/

Russian forces strike large logistics center in Ukraine – MOD

The report comes after Kiev fired US-supplied missiles at Russia’s Crimean peninsula, killing four civilians and injuring more than 150

The Russian military has destroyed a large logistics hub used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to store and redistribute weapons, including missiles delivered to Kiev by the West, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.

The report comes after Ukraine launched a missile barrage on Russia’s Crimean peninsula on Sunday, which involved five US-supplied ATACMS equipped with controversial cluster munition warheads. While most of the missiles were shot down by Russian air defenses, one ended up exploding in the air over the city of Sevastopol, leading to multiple civilian casualties. The attack is estimated to have killed at least four people, including two children, and injured more than 150, according to local authorities.

In its regular update on the Ukraine conflict, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that its forces, using unmanned aerial vehicles, missiles, artillery, and tactical aviation, had conducted a strike on a “large logistics center of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.” This was being used for the “accumulation, storage and redistribution of weapons, including missiles delivered to the Kiev regime by Western countries.”

The report also claimed that, over the past 24 hours, Russian air defense systems had destroyed 176 Ukrainian drones, six US-made ATACMS missiles, four Patriot missiles, and ten HIMARS and Czech-made Vampire rockets

On Sunday, the ministry also reported that Russian forces had conducted a series of long-range attacks against targets across Ukraine using high-precision, long-range sea-based weapons. All of the missiles hit their designated targets, including a training center for Ukrainian pilots, the report said.

https://www.rt.com/russia/599891-russian-forces-hit-ukrainian-logistic-hub/

Texas Logistics Company With 500 Truck Drivers Abruptly Ceases Operations

About 2,000 truck drivers, warehouse and dock workers, and office personnel of Humble, Texas-based U.S. Logistics Solutions (USLS), formerly Forward Air Solutions, say they were blindsided late Thursday when they were notified via conference calls or by text messages that the company was ceasing operations and that they would not receive paychecks Friday.

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/texas-logistics-company-500-truck-drivers-abruptly-ceases-operations

🔴A challenge to the painful boycott

❌Pepsi in Lebanon deleted the red color from its traditional logo on its bottle caps, making it similar to the Israeli flag, and the Lebanese are demanding the withdrawal of its products from the markets.

🤡❌🇮🇱boycott Pepsi🇮🇱🤡❌

https://x.com/Mahmoud92544327/status/1804182190034440457

Cyber Group Claims it Hacked the Federal Reserve… But Cybersecurity Experts Express Doubts About Claims

‘Russian’ cyber group dubbed LockBit claims it hacked the Federal Reserve and exfiltrated 33 terabytes of sensitive banking data.

LockBit boasted about the breach on the dark web this week.

“33 terabytes of juicy banking information containing Americans’ banking secrets,” LockBit wrote. “You better hire another negotiator within 48 hours, and fire this clinical idiot who values Americans’ bank secrecy at $50,000.”

https://x.com/H4ckManac/status/1805159382881009779

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/lockbit-ransomware-group-federal-reserve-hack-claim/

Entire UK Establishment Piles On Nigel Farage For Saying 'We Provoked' Ukraine War

Populist firebrand politician and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is at the center of a storm of criticism and backlash over comments made in a Friday BBC interview wherein he pointed out that it was NATO's constant eastward expansion that's fundamentally to blame for the Russia-Ukraine war.

Farage made it clear that while President Putin made the decision to invade Ukraine, the Reform UK leader emphasized that: "We’ve provoked this war. Of course it’s his fault. He’s used what we’ve done."

The Western military alliance's expansion right up to Russia's doorstep gave Putin the pretext and justification to tell the Russian population that "they’re coming for us again".

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/entire-uk-establishment-piles-nigel-farage-saying-ukraine-war-we-provoked-it

Maine Independent Commission Withholds Important Drug Information on Mass Murderer Robert Card

The saturation of media coverage on government “special commissions,” failed gun control legislation and mass mental health spending in the aftermath of mass killings, whether by intent or accident, misses the singular thing that usually is withheld… the name of the drug, or cocktail of psychiatric drugs, the killers have been prescribed and by who.

The failed attempts to legislate violent human behavior, and the deep thinkers appointed to commissions that routinely produce investigations that fail to answer even the most basic questions, do nothing to reduce mass violence. In fact, what these commissions really are revealing is an apparent determination to withhold behavioral health information, including psychiatric drugs use among the mass shooters.

The Maine Interim Report released in March 2024 was supposed to provide an update about the investigation into why Robert Card, a military reservist, killed 18 people and wounded 13 others in October of 2023 in Lewiston, Maine. So far, it appears that the Independent Commission set up by Governor Mills is looking to place blame on gaps in mental health coverage then expand power to the behavioral health industry, increase mental health funding and try and ram thru more gun control.

This is a very similar game plan to what came from the Virginia Tech Commission after Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32 people in April of 2007. The University came to the conclusion that mental health information wasn’t shared and, therefore, the public needed massive increased mental health funding. These commissions don’t reflect successful track records and at some point the public has to ask whether it is really possible to completely identify the singular cause of mass shootings?

Interestingly, what is being revealed with each new mass shooting is the role mental health is playing. It takes time, but with each new commission review we find that law enforcement knew of the mental health aspect of the case within hours of the shooting. It makes sense, right? Law enforcement would be privy to that information as soon as the perpetrator had been identified. They’d know whether the shooter was receiving mental health services, where and from whom and what psychiatric drugs they may have been prescribed.

Of course, what we find out too late is that this information is imperative to understanding why the person may have snapped. In the case of Robert Card, the interim report released by the commission completely skips over what medications Card had been prescribed. This is a problem. The commission had no problem revealing that Card had been prescribed medications while a patient at the Four Winds Psychiatric Hospital but didn’t bother to let the public know which drugs had been prescribed. This is serious. This information would help everyone understand what may have caused the violent behavior. Why would the commission deliberately withhold that information?

Well, let’s guess. Is it possible that Card was prescribed a cocktail of psychiatric drugs while he was a patient at Four Winds? Sure. Perhaps some of the known side effects of that cocktail of drugs included mania, psychosis, abnormal behavior, violent behavior, and homicidal and suicidal thinking. Then let’s remember that Card apparently didn’t like the drugs and stopped taking them after leaving the psychiatric facility. Oops! Bad things happen when people cold turkey off psychiatric medications. Is that what occurred? Who knows, but the point is that the public has a right to know what drugs the killer had been taking.

Governor Mills promised a legitimate review. So far, the commission has been playing fast and loose with important information. If the drug information is protected, let us know why. If not, provide it. Then, and only then, can we have an informed conversation about whether restrictive gun legislation, if any, is needed, whether increased mental health funding is necessary or maybe, just maybe, we need to discuss whether mental health played a role in the violent attack.

https://www.ablechild.org/2024/06/23/maine-governors-independent-commission-withholds-important-drug-information-on-robert-card/

Cheating Democrats Run Ads in Pennsylvania Telling Republicans That Trump Doesn’t Want Them to Vote by Mail

https://twitter.com/i/status/1805234189240811755

EXPOSED: White House Visitor Log Show, a Michael Knaapen, Visited The Biden White House Three Times.

@iFightForKids

Previously exposed Michael Knaapen, who served as Maryland’s Democrat LGBTQ Diversity Council Chair.

In

@iFightForKids

report, Knaapen Attempted to Meet With a boy he believed was 14 years old and sent sexual messages to him.

On May 20th, 2023 Knaapen visited the "Office" of the White House.

On June 1, 2023, he met up with Special Assistant to Biden Jessica Schubel.

On June 22, 2023, he attended an event on the South Lawn.

Unless there's another Michael Knaapen running around in politics, the Biden admin literally allowed a predator into the White House THREE Different Times.

Not to mention, he visited Kamala Harris' House!

https://x.com/AnthonyScottTGP/status/1805051665038327848