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This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

Anne van der Bijl, a Dutch evangelical known to Christians worldwide as Brother Andrew, the man who smuggled Bibles into closed Communist countries, has died at the age of 94. Van der Bijl became famous as “God’s smuggler” when the first-person account of his missionary adventures—slipping past border guards with Bibles hidden in his blue Volkswagen Beetle—was published in 1967. God’s Smuggler was written with evangelical journalists John and Elizabeth Sherrill and published under his code name “Brother Andrew.” It sold more than 10 million copies and was translated into 35 languages. The book inspired numerous other missionary smugglers, provided...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will face each other in a runoff race having come in second and first place, respectively, in Sunday’s presidential election.

President Donald Trump has called on Brazilian voters to re-elect President Jair Bolsonaro. “BRAZIL, VOTE FOR JAIR BOLSONARO,” Trump posted on Truth Social on Saturday night, calling the Brazilian president a “great and highly respected man.” Bolsonaro himself posted a video of Trump admonishing the Brazilian people to re-elect him, offering his endorsement and calling Bolsonaro “a fantastic leader, a fantastic man, [and] one of the great presidents of any country in the world,” specifically citing Bolsonaro’s management of Brazil’s economy. In the same tweet in which he shared the video of Trump, Bolsonaro said, “Thank you, my friend Trump!...

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A federal judge has ruled against an organization founded by Stacey Abrams, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee for Georgia, stating that the state’s election practices do not violate constitutional rights. The decision from U.S. District Court Judge Steve Jones marks the end of a four-year legal battle. “Although Georgia’s election system is not perfect, the challenged practices violate neither the constitution nor the [Voting Rights Act] VRA,” Jones wrote. “Having held a non-jury trial and considered the evidence and arguments of the parties, for the foregoing reasons, the Court finds IN FAVOR of Defendants and against Plaintiffs.” Fair Fight Georgia, which...

Occupiers in Melitopol grab men right on the streets, and those who want to leave are forced to wait in line for days, - Fedorov After holding fake "referendums" in the temporarily occupied territories of the Russian Federation, the troops began to "mobilize" the local population. Men are seized right on the streets and forced to become "military registration". Video of the day In addition, the invaders have significantly complicated the evacuation from the occupied territories. This was announced on the telethon by the mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov. According to him, the enemy's attempts to carry out the annexation...

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October 3rd 2022 Memorial of St. Theodore Guerin of Lafayette Indiana St Celestine Catholic Church at St. Mother Guerin Parish, Elmwood Park, IL 60707, United States Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingGalatians 1:6-12 ©The Good News I preached is not a human message but from Jesus ChristI am astonished at the promptness with which you have turned away from the one who called you and have decided to follow a different version of the Good News. Not that there can be more than one Good News; it is merely that some troublemakers among you want to change the Good...

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This is how it’s done. https://t.co/4UR1Zl2vzw— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) October 3, 2022.@KariLake completely flips a reporter question on abortion to highlight her opponent’s abortion extremism pic.twitter.com/9kn567pdi9— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) October 2, 2022

A former Pennsylvania congressman was sentenced to over two years in jail for committing election fraud aimed at helping Democratic candidates. "Protecting the legitimacy of elections is critical to ensuring the public’s trust in the process," FBI Philadelphia Division Special Agent in Charge Jacqueline Maguire said in a press release last week. "Through his actions, Ozzie Myers pointedly disdained both the will of Philadelphia voters and the rule of law. He’s now a federal felon twice over, heading back behind bars, with time to consider the great consequence of free and fair elections." Former Rep. Michael "Ozzie" Myers pleaded guilty...

A single-vehicle crash in Kinney County, Texas, claimed the lives of three migrants (illegal aliens.) A passing motorist discovered the grisly scene near Brackettville on Sunday and immediately notified authorities. According to Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe, the accident did not involve a law enforcement pursuit. Coe told Breitbart Texas he suspects the vehicle was exclusively occupied by migrants. Deputies identified a surviving passenger, one of five occupants in the vehicle, as the brother of the person driving the vehicle. The crash killed the driver (also a migrant) and two other migrants in the vehicle after the driver lost control...

Two Palestinian Arab terrorists were eliminated early Monday morning during a failed terror attack on IDF soldiers in Samaria. The incident occurred in the Jazalone refugee camp outside of Ramallah, when three terrorists driving in a car attempted to run down Israeli security personnel. Soldiers from the IDF’s elite commando unit “Egoz” opened fire on the terrorists as they approached, killing two and wounding one. No injuries were reported among the Israeli forces. The foiled attack is the third terror attack in Samaria in the past twenty-four hours. .....

Bush retweet-attacks Trump, backs Desantis, again.

The clamor of second graders breaking away from lessons to form lunch lines has gotten quieter in a rural New Mexico community, where families losing coal jobs have been forced to pack up and leave in search of work. At Judy Nelson Elementary, 1 in 4 students have left in an exodus spurred by decisions made five years ago to shutter a coal-fired power plant and mine that sit just up the road from the school in a largely Navajo community. The plant and mine had provided electricity to millions of people across the southwestern U.S. for nearly a half-century....

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D) is battling Republican Kari Lake for the state’s governorship this November, and told MSNBC’s Alicia Menendez that she’d welcome Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) joining her on the campaign trail.

Russia’s MP for Zabaykalsky region lieutenant general Andrey Gurulev has said that 1.5 million sets of military uniform had gone missing, reports local outlet Tayga.info. “I still don’t understand where 1.5 million sets [of uniform], which had been kept at personnel reception points, ended up. Today, we have either problems with uniforms, or something else happens. All of these things were there, where did they disappear to? No one can explain this to me in any way at all anywhere!” he said. According to Gurulev, personnel reception points need to be “equipped now for the future”, so they can “easily”...

* Young Egypt's Ahmed Hussein [Ahmad Husayn], had been repeatedly chasing after Hitler, while he was given a cold shoulder; the group adopting Nazi ideas and slogans. * Grand Mufti's link to Young Egypt's formation. * Habib Ibrahim Katibeh (Katibah, Habib Ibrahim, Habeeb Ibrahim), his 1933 pro Hitler propaganda; his links with Nazi Bund; his distribution of Ahmed Hussein fascistic material. He was Syrian born, "Arab-Palestine" activist. * The pro Nazi general atmosphere in the Arab world.________________ The Palestine Post⁩, 1 August 1938⁩. [https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1938/08/01/01/article/3]. YOUNG EGYPT LEADER WRITES TO HITLER EGYPT ABOUT TO SURPRISE THE WORLDCAIRO , Sunday ....

Texas school boards are being pressured to adopt policies giving transgender students the right to use preferred pronouns, school bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers, according to conservatives who feel schools are stepping on parental rights.Transgender rights group members protest against an “Our Bodies, Our Sports” rally at the Freedom Plaza in Washington on June 23, 2022. (Terri Wu/The Epoch Times)The Texas American Civil Liberties Union presented a “best practices” program on transgender student legal issues based on Biden’s Department of Education interpretation during a convention on Sept. 24 in San Antonio.The Texas Association of School Administrators and Texas Association of...