#1
According to LSD actions Illegal Immigrants are safe.
NO Ped's,
No sexual predators,
No cartel,
No Human Traffickers,
No Drugs,
No Gang members,
No Mental Illness,
All have basic Education,
All have skills and jobs,
None will not TAXPAYER Burdens in 6 months,
and ave places to stay awaiting them.
Which mean the DC Swamp has solved EVERY USA social and economic issues or problems we have, like:
Homelessness,
Unemployment,
Unfilled jobs,
The National Debt,
Balanced the budget,
The Overloaded Welfare and healthcare systems,
The Overcrowded basic Educational system (K-12) ,
The need to import basic foods, med's, oil, gas to support the existing population.
Plus Defunding Police, has halted "reported" crime.
etc, etc, etc,
I have to wonder why AF & BLoM have not raised cane about the related deep impacts and fundings this invasion will place on their political agendas and causes.
#2
Soon, very soon, they will run out of housing. They have asked for volunteers to house illegals in their private home. Next, those of you with empty vacation homes will volunteer. Whether you want to or not.
TALIBAN FORCES CONDUCT DRILLS IN THE SUPREME LEADER’S COMPOUND IN KANDAHAR – The Governor’s office in Kandahar announced that a series of drills by Taliban security forces would take place yesterday (possibly today) at the Mullah Omar compound. The drills did involve some live use of ordinance. A source in Kabul claimed that a Ministry of the Interior officer assigned as an observer to the security detachment for the Supreme Leader was denied access to the training. The source said the drills focused on defending the perimeter of the compound and reacting to a notional drone strike and/or rocket attacks.
MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR HAQQANI VIEWED AS POSSIBLE REFORM MINDED ALTERNATIVE TO THE SUPREME LEADER – In a recent controversial interview, Karen Decker, Chargé d’Affaires of the US Embassy in Afghanistan was asked if Sirajuddin Haqqani was a terrorist and if he was still wanted by US authorities for terrorist actions. Decker danced around the response and many see this as evidence the US and other international states may be warming to him as a potential counter-balance to the hard-liners in Kandahar. Both Haqqani and Yaqub (Minister of Defense) have made no secret of their views on the future direction the country should take and have openly challenged the parochial view of the Deobandist-minded cabal that surrounds the Supreme Leader. Clearly many are hoping that one or both of these men ‘solve’ the problem that Kandahar poses. However, several experts have pointed out that the rank and file of the Taliban share the vision the Supreme Leader has established and any potential challenge (bloodless or not) would most likely devolve into a civil war.
WAR CLOUDS FORMING OVER IRAN – The situation in Iran has continued to worsen over the course of 2023. Tehran seems intent on goading the US and the West into taking some kind of action in the Persian Gulf and many are now saying that a de facto state of war exists with Israel. Tehran has cozied up with Russia and is doing its best to make itself an indispensable supplier of arms and ammunition for Russia’s war in Ukraine. It received a bump in approval ratings for reestablishing relations with Saudi Arabia but many believe the foundations on which the Chinese brokered rapprochement has been laid could evaporate if the promises to halt military/technical/financial aid to the Houthi rebels in Yemen are not kept. While the protests that rocked the country in late 2022 have fallen off, Iran faces a dismal economic situation that has been made worse by falsified economic data that fails to reflect the economic realities faced by average Iranians. Finally, the rapid progress in the enrichment program has all but given Israel a countdown clock for action. In short, several pre-conditions for conflict now exist and some are saying that war is inevitable. Should a conflict erupt, few will be surprised.
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PAKISTAN ‘FREEDOM PROTESTS’ – The ousted former Prime Minister's calls for nationwide protests (Freedom Protests) have taken on an ominous tone. His YouTube speech after his release seemed to incite followers to ‘’snatch’ freedom and to be prepared to ‘sacrifice’ for it. The government has responded with similar incendiary remarks such as the Foreign Minister’s statement to Parliament that the PTI party has ‘one last chance’ to prove itself. The Army has made no bones about its intent to safeguard its bases and troops. Several small demonstrations have continued to take place in certain cities, both for and against the regime. However, these have not resulted in significant clashes. Most are looking to 17 May as the next potential flashpoint when Khan’s immunity from arrest expires. We agree that 17 May will likely be the next crucible date for the drama but at-risk Afghans in Pakistan should not discount the potential for problems starting today or tonight. We recommend people stock up on food/water and be prepared to shelter in place from Wednesday afternoon. We do not assess a specific threat to Afghan citizens in Pakistan but believe the main threat will come from being caught between the government and PTI lines.
[The Nation (Pak)] One month since Sudan’s conflict erupted, its capital is a desolate war zone where terrorised families huddle in their homes as shootouts rage in the dusty, deserted streets outside. As people hope to dodge stray bullets, they also endure desperate shortages of food and basic supplies, power blackouts, communications outages and runaway inflation. Khartoum, a city of five million, was long a place of relative stability and wealth, even under decades of sanctions against former strongman Omar al-Bashir ...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hee was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it... Now it has become a shell of its former self.
Charred aircraft lie on the airport tarmac, foreign embassies are shuttered and hospitals, banks, shops and wheat silos have been ransacked by looters.
Fighting continued Monday morning, with loud explosions heard across Khartoum and thick smoke billowing in the sky while warplanes flying overhead drew anti-aircraft fire, according to witnesses.
"The situation is becoming worse by the day," said a 37-year-old resident of southern Khartoum who did not wish to be named. "People are getting more and more scared because the two sides... are becoming more and more violent mostly peaceful."
The fighting broke out on April 15 between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, who leads the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). While the generals fight, what remains of the government has retreated to Port Sudan about 850 kilometres (500 miles) away, the hub for mass evacuations of both Sudanese and foreign citizens. The battles have killed more than 750 people, according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, with thousands more maimed and nearly a million displaced.
Multiple truce deals have been violated, and hopes are dim for an end to the fighting. Both sides "break ceasefires with a regularity that demonstrates a sense of impunity unprecedented even by Sudan’s standards of civil conflict," said Alex Rondos, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... ’s former special representative to the Horn of Africa.
In their latest moves, Burhan declared that he was freezing the RSF’s assets, while Daglo threatened in an audio recording that the army chief would be "brought to justice and hanged" in a public square.
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[ALESTIKLAL.NET] It appears that escalating disputes have developed into a proxy war between Egypt and the UAE on Sudanese soil. Abu Dhabi supports Rapid Support Forces leader Hemedti against the regular army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who is backed by Egypt.
Part of this battle seems to have spilled over onto Egyptian territory, as "the prime UAE vehicle investing in Egypt, has paused its projects in the country," as revealed by the Financial Times on April 28, 2023.
This can be seen as a form of punishment for Cairo after the visit of UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed to Egypt on April 12, 2023, three days before the Sudan war, to persuade Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to support Hemedti.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... the Financial Times indicated that another anticipated meeting between Sisi and bin Zayed in May 2023 could determine whether the freeze on UAE projects in Egypt continues or is lifted.
Observers consider this as confirmation of previous speculation that the earlier visit on April 12 was meant to pressure Sisi, while the second visit aims to determine the UAE’s final stance on Sudan.
PUBLIC BARGAINING
In light of these developments, analysts believe that the signal from the Financial Times regarding the resumption of Abu Dhabi’s investments and aid to Cairo, popularly known as "rice," after the meeting between Sisi and bin Zayed in May, indicates a public bargaining related to Egypt’s stance in Sudan to align with the UAE’s support for Hemedti.
They speculate that if Egypt agrees to adopt the UAE’s position in Sudan, Abu Dhabi will resume its projects through the sovereign fund.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... if Egypt refuses or maintains its non-intervention policy, as declared by Sisi in his meeting with the military council, and continues to support the Sudanese army covertly, the disagreements may persist, and Emirati investments will remain halted.
Columnist Dalia Ziada, who supports the Egyptian regime, wrote about this matter on April 30, confirming that Egypt is under immense pressure from both near and far, exploiting the economic file.
She explicitly states that the UAE holds Egypt by its greatest weak point, referring to the economic collapse that would occur if the UAE did not support Egypt with investments.
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"...the meeting between Sisi and bin Zayed in May, indicates a public bargaining related to Egypt’s stance in Sudan to align with the UAE’s support for Hemedti." This is very mysterious. Why the UAE should support Hemedti other than to tweak Egypt's nose makes no sense. This has become a tribal war, and both UAE and Egypt under normal circumstances would back Burhan and his Arab Nile River military force against the triblals of western Sudan. Unfortunately, there is very little reporting from Nyala and Fashr in Darfur, although clashes continue in Khartoum. I would use the analogy of America's Civil War because both sides have dug in, and there can be only one winner.
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I suspect maybe French/Germany are drawing down to reduce the likelihood of an incident with Wagner which has an increasingly visible footprint in the Sahel.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The angry popular discontent increased among the citizens of Aden governorate against the US-Saudi-UAE aggression coalition and its mercenaries, amid the collapse of the electricity system during the past hours.
Sources confirmed that dozens of people gathered to protest during the early hours of Monday. They reported that a number of young men blocked some main streets in a number of areas due to the power outage for over eight hours during the night. "Dozens"
It is noteworthy that the people of the Saudi-UAE occupied Aden are subjected to collective punishment in various services, including electricity, after the city’s electricity announced, Sunday, that more than 80 megawatts had left the power system after running out of fuel in the governorate.
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[ALESTIKLAL.NET] Since 2015, information exposing the UAE’s surveillance of hotel guests in Dubai, particularly politicians, journalists, and celebrities, has been spreading. The purpose behind this surveillance is to exert pressure and blackmail individuals to serve its own interests.
In early May 2023, activists launched hashtags to expose the practices of the UAE. Technological experts have shared videos demonstrating the discovery and detection of Emirati surveillance devices within their hotel rooms.
Activists linked the campaign to the threat made by Israeli journalist, associated with Mossad, Edy Cohen, against Kuwaiti tweeter Waleed Almutairi. Cohen threatened to leak a video recorded in al-Mutairi’s hotel room in Dubai.
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[IsraelTimes] Foreign Minister Eli Cohen meets in Stockholm with his Swedish counterpart Tobias Billström, the first such visit by Israel’s top diplomat in 22 years.
According to the Israeli readout, the meeting focused on the noticeable positive change in Sweden’s approach toward Israel.
"We are opening a new page in relations between Sweden and Israel after years in which Sweden had a critical posture toward Israel," says Cohen. "The visit in Stockholm, the first for an Israeli foreign minister since 2001, signals a change in the direction of ties between the countries."
A number of Swedish political parties have called for moving the country’s embassy to Jerusalem, and its parliament unanimously passed a measure urging the government to brand the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization.
Sweden holds the EU presidency and is actively working to join NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... . Israel sees an opportunity for its defense technology to play a key role in Sweden’s military build-up in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
[The Nation (Pak)] Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Syed Asim Munir presided over Special Corps Commanders Conference (CCC) held at GHQ on Monday.
The participants paid rich tribute to the Shuhada, who have laid their lives in defence of the motherland while fighting the menace of terrorism. "The forum acknowledged the successful counterterrorism and intelligence-based operations in the country by security forces, especially valiant response given by the troops in the Moslem Bagh attack, and paid rich tribute to the supreme sacrifices made by the brave sons of the soil," says a blurb issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
The forum was briefed in detail about the prevailing internal and external security environment, the ISPR said. "The forum took comprehensive stock of the law and order situation in the past few days that was created to achieve vested political interests." The forum was briefed that a well coordinated arson plan involving desecration of Shuhada pictures, monuments, burning down of the soil," says a blurb issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
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[IsraelTimes] PA President Mahmoud Abbas says Israel ‘lies like Goebbels’; Foreign Ministry says it convinced dozens of nations to stay away; US boycotts event over ‘anti-Israel bias’
Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... compared Israeli rhetoric to Nazi propaganda, demanded Israel be suspended from the UN if it does not grant Paleostinians a state and a "right of return" for millions of refugees, and denied Jewish ties to the Temple Mount during a speech at UN Headquarters in New York on Monday.
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Limited information on a very interesting subject. Hopefully more will be revealed later.
[IsraelTimes] Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... terror group didn’t directly join fighting, but reportedly offered support after Israel launched offensive; Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... said to offer PIJ $5 million for every day of fighting
Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, provided hiding places for leaders of Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... during Israel’s five-day offensive in the Gaza Strip, according to a report Sunday.
The terror group’s military wing lent its assistance after Israel began Operation Shield and Arrow with the liquidation of three senior PIJ commanders on Tuesday, Channel 12 news reported, without citing sources.
Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, did not actively take part in the recent round of violence, effectively helping to keep it limited.
In its campaign, Israel eliminated some of PIJ’s big shotship in a series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s, while the terror group fired some 1,500 rockets at Israel until an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire came into effect Saturday night.
Hamas and PIJ are both part of the so-called "Joint Operations Room" of Paleostinian factions in the Gaza Strip. After the truce, the groups said that "the round of fighting is over" but warned that if "the policy of liquidations [renews]... we are ready with a firm finger on the trigger."
Channel 12 also said that Iran, a major backer of Islamic Jihad, promised the terror group $5 million for every day of conflict with Israel, without providing a source for the claim.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Livia had made her point with her knee to Jane's stomach... as the fighting was going on in Gaza, the head of Hamas abroad, Khaled Mashaal, was filmed attending a wedding in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... Kan news reported that some Paleostinians expressed anger at Mashaal on social media, questioning his decision to celebrate while fighting was ongoing in the Strip.
[IsraelTimes] Military prosecutors have filed indictments against two Paleostinians accused of carrying out a terror shooting attack near Jericho in the West Bank on February 27, killing dual American-Israeli citizen Elan Ganeles.
Luai Ma’arouf and Maher Shalloun, residents of the Aqbat Jabr refugee camp near Jericho, were detained by troops on March 1, just days after the deadly highway attack.
According to the indictment, the pair planned the attack together, purchasing a firearm, ammunition, and a car. The indictment says they drove along the Route 90 highway looking for Israeli-owned cars.
During the attack, one of the men shot up Ganeles’s car on the highway, as he was heading to a friend’s wedding in Jerusalem, killing him, before opening fire at several other cars in the area. The pair then set fire to their car as they fled the area toward Jericho.
The Israel Defense Forces says the indictments against Ma’arouf and Shalloun charge them with intentionally causing death — the military court’s equivalent of murder — and other offenses.
The pair will be held until the end of legal proceedings.
[An Nahar] Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh has decided not to attend the May 16 interrogation session in Gay Paree and is instead planning to retire in Sharjah, UAE, media reports have said.
Salameh fears that he might be detained or banned from traveling if he goes to La Belle France, the reports said. Instead, the governor and his legal team will argue that he has not been officially notified of the French interrogation request.
In remarks to al-Akhbar newspaper, Lebanese investigative judge Charbel Abou Samra confirmed that Salameh has not been notified of the session’s date.
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[An Nahar] Hezbollah is confident of its ability to secure Suleiman Franjieh’s election any voting session that might be held, a media report said.
"It is pressing to neutralize the Aounist Movement’s bloc by offering it guarantees that it will be influential in the coming period," Annahar newspaper reported.
"Hezbollah is trying to sway the FPM, not into electing Franjieh but rather into not electing any of his competitors," the daily added.
The report comes on the eve of a meeting in Sin el-Fil between Hezbollah liaison and coordination officer Wafiq Safa and FPM chief Jebran Bassil.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
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