Wednesday, October 05, 2022

5: Ukraine

Ukraine is hitting Russia hard in the regions Moscow is trying to seize Reports from the ground suggested that voting took place both essentially and literally at gunpoint.

Putin formalizes annexation claims even as Ukraine forces Russian military to retreat Kyiv said that its troops were making rapid advances in the south and the east, retaking land and exposing the Kremlin’s struggle to match its political theater with the reality on the battlefield. ........ Ukrainian advances exposed the Kremlin’s struggle to match its political theater with the reality on the battlefield. ....... Ukraine's military has forced Russian troops to fall back to their second defensive line, but there has not yet been a collapse like the one seen during Ukraine’s lightning counteroffensive in the northeast last month ...... The troops being mobilized will still take weeks to arrive in numbers, and seem likely to be poorly trained, badly equipped and supplied, and fed into a military organization that is already in many cases demoralized ....... “Modern land warfare is lethal to poorly trained troops,” he added. “It is likely that any newly mobilized forces will evaporate like water under the stress of combat.”



We Know Shockingly Little About What Makes Humanity Prosper Patrick Collison calls for a new “science of progress.” ........

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To Make The Hijab Compulsory Is Idolatry

Banning it is also not right. The French wear some of the weirdest headgear. Where do you want to start?

But to make the hijab compulsory is to reduce God to that one piece of cloth. How shallow can you get?

There were those who quoted the Bible to justify slavery in America. They obviously skipped the Book Of Exodus.

If you managed to figure out one or the other prophet's hairstyle, and decided copying that hairstyle was the beginning and the end of your faith, then where are we?

Oppression is Satan's way. Liberation is God's.

The women of Iran are in the right and are leading the way. May the men of that land follow them.

Pastor Renn Was Moses When She Was Moses

A barrier of fear has been broken in Iran. The regime may be at a point of no return A woman dressed in black raises a framed portrait of her son, Siavash Mahmoudi, in the air as she paces the sidewalk in Iran’s capital, Tehran. “I am not scared of anyone. They told me to be silent. I will not be,” the woman seen in a viral social media video yells, her voice fraught with emotion. “I will carry my son’s picture everywhere. They killed him.” ....... For weeks, a nationwide protest movement has relentlessly gathered momentum and appears to have blunted the government’s decades-old intimidation tactics. Slogans against the clerical leadership echo throughout the city. Videos of schoolgirls waving their headscarves in the air as they sing protest songs in classrooms have gone viral, as have images of protesters fighting back against members of the formidable paramilitary group Basij. ....... these protests transcend Iran’s many social and ethnic divisions, breaking a decades-old barrier of fear and posing an unprecedented threat to the regime. ...... At night, a chant that has become a staple of the protests — “death to the dictator” — sounds from the rooftops of buildings. It’s a reference to Khamenei, who was once considered beyond reproach because of his elevated clerical status. ...... Anti-regime demonstrations have also penetrated the Islamic Republic’s power bases, including the Shia holy cities of Mashhad and Qom. Ethnic minorities — notably Kurds in the country’s north and northwest, and Baloch people in the southeast — have also staged protests, enduring what appear to be some of the most brutal crackdowns, with scores reportedly killed. Secondary schools and universities around the country are flashpoints, and women and girls have been taking off their mandatory headscarves, known as hijabs. ...... “If the dust settles and we stop protesting, they are going to kill even more of us. They are going to detain even more people and they are going to turn us to North Korea,” the impassioned protester said. “This is not the end. I promise you that.” ........ The threat posed by these protests, analysts say, is existential to the regime ......... “I say clearly that these riots and the insecurity were engineered by the US and the occupying, false Zionist regime (Israel), as well as their paid agents, with the help of some traitorous Iranians abroad,” said Khamenei in his address. ........ “The protests transcend social sectarian boundaries, bringing together a much broader strata of Iranian society than we have seen in years,” said Ali Vaez, director of the International Crisis Group’s Iran Project. “But they suffer from the same shortcomings that the previous movements in Iran also suffered from. Primarily, the lack of leadership.

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