...Highland Park, (click here) which is well known as the backdrop of several movies, including Home Alone and Ferris Beuller's Day Off, has a relatively low crime rate. The suburb has a population of about 30,000 people and is safer than 72 percent of U.S. cities, according to online database Neighborhood Scout....
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Monday, July 04, 2022
Highland Park is an idyllic city, until today.
...Highland Park, (click here) which is well known as the backdrop of several movies, including Home Alone and Ferris Beuller's Day Off, has a relatively low crime rate. The suburb has a population of about 30,000 people and is safer than 72 percent of U.S. cities, according to online database Neighborhood Scout....
There are too many guns on the street.
By Venessa Romo
More than a year (click here) after the FBI began its investigation, the agency has completed an analysis of the man behind the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting in Las Vegas, concluding there was "no single or clear motivating factor" driving Stephen Paddock's killing rampage and subsequent suicide.
The FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit shared key findings Tuesday from the report, which explored details of Paddock's developmental, interpersonal and clinical history as they related to his behavior before the attack, as well the 11-minute massacre, during which he killed 58 concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest festival and injured nearly 1,000 others....
How about the motive being an "itchy trigger finger?"
The balance of power and peace's progress has been destroyed.
By David Cohen
Speaking on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Scholz told host Margaret Brennan that the brutal invasion launched in February by Russian President Vladimir Putin had shaken the world out of its complacency.
“I think too many in the world were hoping that we are living in a different world that is different to the experiences of the last century and the centuries before,” Scholz said, adding that a part of that gentler world order was that “we have had an agreement that there should be no attempt to change territory, to change borders, to invade the neighbor.”
He told Brennan: “And this agreement is now canceled by Putin.”
Scholz said Putin was a throwback to those leaders who saw conquest as a demonstration of a nation’s greatness....
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad (click here) has indicated that Russian victory in Ukraine is in the interests of both Syria and Iran.
His comments came during his reception of Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir al-Lihyan in Damascus on Saturday.
The Syrian president said that Russian dominance in Ukraine “serves the interest of Syria, Iran and all peoples and nations that seek to defend their rights, principles, freedoms and sovereignty.”
Western losses caused by the war, described by al-Assad in the interview as “the slipping of the mask”, represents a redistribution of global power away from America and the West, he said.
“The steadfast relationship that has strengthened over decades between Syria and Iran has become a coalition committing to overthrowing the hegemony of the west”, continued al-Assad in his speech.
Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky had previously severed diplomatic relations with Syria, after Damascus recognised the independence of Luhansk and Donetsk from Ukraine at the end of June....
Russia states victory in Donbas
What that tells me is that Russia is unable to advance but only hold land that has already been destroyed by years of bombings and cruelty. It is interesting that Ukrainian forces were able to penetrate it at all. It appears Russia can only fight for so many square miles of land at a time leaving the territory taken open for invasion again.
Russians are currently in the process of building drones. Evidently, they are in mass production. Russia has been impressed by their effectiveness early in the war. The Ukrainian drones were owned and operated by private citizens who know what they were doing. I doubt seriously, the Russian drones will be as effective. Russia has to teach their military to operate them. I would not underestimate the drone capacity in the beginning, but, realistically, the Russians are simply mimicking the Ukrainians and hoping to have the same result. That should tell The West all they need to know about the future of Russian drones.
Ukrainian grain has come into focus. The grain is normally supplied to other countries. Turkey (click here) has intercepted a ship stated to have stolen grain from the stores in the country. The UK is monitoring grain shipments with destinations to the rest of the world. The UK is using aerial surveilance to protect those shipments.
Basically, The West is doing everything it can to end genocide everywhere before it begins. Let's hope The West continues to be the advocate for the well being of all people. Russia or it's satellites such as Belarus cannot make that claim.
July 4, 2022Russia is setting its sights on the eastern Donetsk region (click here) after seizing Kyiv’s final major foothold in neighbouring Luhansk, a regional official said Monday.
Luhansk governor Serhiy Haidai told Reuters he expects Russia to target Slovyansk and Bakhmut in particular, as the Kremlin seeks to take control of the larger Donbas area, which includes both Luhansk and Donetsk, in the latest phase of its invasion. While Haidai said that Ukrainian forces still controlled a “small part” of Luhansk, the loss of the city of Lysychansk means Moscow has seized virtually all of the region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky remained defiant after the loss of Lysychansk on Sunday and pledged to return, saying: “Ukraine does not give anything up.”
Elsewhere, attention will turn to Switzerland Monday as senior Ukrainian officials gather with European leaders in the city of Lugano for the Ukraine Recovery Conference. Zelensky is set to address the conference virtually....
By Shweta Sharma
Vladimir Putin (click here) has sent almost 100,000 Ukrainian refugees thousands of miles away from their home, to resettle in remote corners of Russia, including Siberia and the Arctic Circle, according to Kremlin documents.
Moscow made the emergency order last month to move 95,739 people of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Donetsk, and Lugansk away from the war zones to be resettled as far as 5,500 miles away from their homes, the Kremlin decree seen by The i stated.
It comes amid several reports that Russian forces have allegedly forcibly disappeared, held captive or interrogated people in Ukrainian towns since Mr Putin’s invasion of the country on 24 February....