>the spire of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Rouen on fire
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/10/opinion/joe-biden-democratic-nominee.html
George Clooney: I Love Joe Biden. But We Need a New Nominee.
is pizza gate a real thing or is it a debunked conspiracy theory
>'The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945 was nicknamed "Little Boy".'
Ukraine’s path to NATO ends either with the disappearance of Ukraine or the disappearance of the alliance
China rejects all claims of complicity in the Ukrainian conflict, noting that it does not supply weapons to either side.
the family of BBC commentator John Hunt was shot with a crossbow
Morocco signs 1 billion dollar deal with state-owned weapons manufacturer Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI), to acquire spy satellite
Lithuanian Rabbi Dov Landau: A state that recruits religious school students (to take part in war) has no right to exist
>Maybe they want to move beyond a constitutional crisis?
total goober
Nevermind the yarmulke.
lavender
Suddenly, a Bulgarian plainclothes intelligence officer arrived with an English interpreter and ordered the medical staff to leave the hospital room.
What were you doing handling weapons in our country? was the gruff question.
Dougherty immediately understood this was Bulgaria’s version of the KGB and that he could be facing years in a Bulgarian prison if he didn’t cough up the right answers.
Who gave you authorization to be in our country and fire military weapons?
As he lay there getting grilled, he realized he didn’t actually know the answers. While he had served in the US Army for 23 years, now he was a just private contractor, one of the legions of former soldiers who perform jobs once carried out by the US military. He’d been hired for this contract less than a month before.
What he knew was this: He was part of America’s covert, high-stakes effort to get weapons and training for Syrian rebels and sway one of the bloodiest wars in the world, a six-year conflict that has killed an estimated 450,000 people, forced more than 4.5 million people to flee as refugees, and sparked an anti-immigrant backlash across Europe and even in the United States. Dougherty knew his mission involved the secretive Special Operations Command, known as SOCOM (pronounced “SOH-com”), which oversees elite forces that run covert operations around the world. But he had never talked to any US government official about this job.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/aramroston/the-death-of-a-us-contractor-has-exposed-americas-failures
>he realized he didn’t actually know the answers
Purple Shovel was the “prime contractor,” meaning it signed the deals directly with SOCOM. But Purple Shovel farmed out crucial work to two other American companies, according to sources, government records, and court documents. SkyBridge Tactical was to provide a few highly skilled trainers who could teach American special operations soldiers how to handle Russian-designed weapons being sent to Syrian rebels. And Regulus Global, a Virginia firm, was to help Purple Shovel obtain powerful weapons for the rebels.
At the Purple Shovel headquarters in at an office park in Sterling, Virginia, there's a Purple Shovel logo on the mirrored front door. It shows a globe, a shovel formed from the letter "P," and the words "Around the world, Around the clock."
is that supposed to glow, because it does