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Sudan's Prime Minister Abadalla Hamdok to resign
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-Great Cultural Revolution
Know Your Enemy
A well written and researched site providing data on ANTI-FA, BLM and the key players running, funding and steering US / Global Radical Groups.
ABOUT ACTIVIST FACTS
Activist Facts, a project of the Center for Organizational Research and Education, provides the public and media with in-depth profiles of think tanks, activist groups, and foundations, along with information about the sources of their funding.

Some of these organizations provide a responsible public service. But some, despite their innocent-sounding names, are financial Goliaths that use junk science, intimidation tactics, and even threats of violence to push their radical agendas. We’ve analyzed over 500,000 pages of IRS records to bring you a comprehensive snapshot of where their money comes from, tracking more than $800 million to date.

We also offer valuable information about hundreds of deep-pocketed foundations, activist celebrities, and other key players in the animal rights, “food police,” and eco-terrorism movements.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/22/2021 06:34 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Very interesting site. Thx !
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2021 7:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Looks like a useful site. Bookmarked.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/22/2021 8:45 Comments || Top||

#3  But some, despite their innocent-sounding names, ... use junk science, intimidation tactics, and even threats of violence to push their radical agendas.

We see some of that here.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/22/2021 9:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Useful to sort out the scammers and wing-nut causes.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/22/2021 9:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Speaking of "junk science" serving to "push agendas," now even the World Health Org's leader is (perhaps inadvertently) admitting the jig's up, and calling BS on Booster Madness:

WHO Says Vaccine Booster Programs Will PROLONG Covid Crisis
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/22/2021 12:18 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Yeah, but only because we won't send more doses to third-world countries.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/22/2021 19:16 Comments || Top||

#7  Excellent resource - thanks NN2N1
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 12/22/2021 20:32 Comments || Top||


Mission Unaccomplished: Describing Failing US Military as 'Awesome'
BLUF:
[Common Dreams] When he decided which generals and admirals to fire and whom to hire in their place, Eisenhower didn't have to worry about identity politics. Top commanders were of a single skin tone in 1950s America. Today, however, any chief executive who ignores identity-related issues does so at their peril, laying themselves open to the charge of bigotry.

Which brings us to the case of retired four-star general Lloyd Austin, former Iraq War and CENTCOM commander. As a freshly minted civilian, Austin presides as the first Black defense secretary, a notable distinction given that senior Pentagon officials have tended to be white or male (and usually both). And while, by all reports, General Austin is an upright citizen and decent human being, it's become increasingly clear that he lacks qualities the nation needs when critically examining this country's less-than-awesome military performance, which should be the order of the day. Whatever suit he may wear to the office, he remains a general—and that is a problem.

Austin also lacks imagination, drive, and charisma. Nor is he a creative thinker. Rather than an agent of change, he's a cheerleader for the status quo—or perhaps more accurately, for a status quo defined by a Pentagon budget that never stops rising.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2021 06:17 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...Sometime in the next year or so, I fear we are going to have our asses handed to us in combat and the response of the men like SecDef will be to shrug and point fingers.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/22/2021 6:53 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ It's been a while since we fought a battle without complete air supremacy. I'm not so sure about the next one.
Posted by: Matt || 12/22/2021 9:33 Comments || Top||

#3  It's been a while since we fought a battle without complete air supremacy.

And satellite comms. And GPS. And a military with the will to win. I fear we are in for a shock.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/22/2021 10:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Equipment and manpower issues aside -- and they are substantial -- another question is who our Churchill would be in a war of any magnitude and duration. Maybe one of our younger combat veterans would step up, but on the national stage the only instinctive fighter I see is DJT. The current administration has appeasement bred into its bones.
Posted by: Matt || 12/22/2021 11:09 Comments || Top||

#5  We haven't had leaders with the will to win wars for over 30 years now.

Since the Cold War's end their ethos has been defined by warm-fuzzy BS goals like "nation-building", "responsibility to protect," "girls' education," and sundry other cookie-pusher, 3 cups of tea nonsense
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/22/2021 11:17 Comments || Top||

#6  another question is who our Churchill would be in a war of any magnitude and duration.

Have you seen Darkest Hour - the re-imagining of Winston Churchill as a drunken slur cribbing real thinkers while the women around him attempt to keep him upright, and a re-visit to the qualities of Nevile Chamberlain?

Its what the people who cheer and support Lloyd Austin think, and are trying to get the kids to believe. What we would get an angry tranny who will command the palace eunuchs and take the loss of face out on US Citizens, while finding and securing their niche in a bio-medical tyranny, occasionally deploying to protect favored overseas money assets.

Bet the thing is everyone including Austin himself knows he is a placeholder, and that is why he is so willing to be a mouth, put on a ridiculous display face protection, a giant sprocket, and march his 300 pounds ass in front of the smallest white Marines on the roster.

Then there's that fucking wrecking ball Milly Cyrus, who is well know to be able to wax Alexander's choice of foods over properly set dishware but was caught off guard when leaving Afghanistan totally ass backwards, but made sure we got a photo of the last general on scene leaving nobody behind...well, no Afghans at least, just a bunch of allies and citizens and equipment and pallets of cash and one last drone strike and what was left of our reputation.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/22/2021 13:26 Comments || Top||

#7  I don't think we'll lose a war so much as decline to fight when needed.
Posted by: ruprecht || 12/22/2021 17:39 Comments || Top||


Mrs. Fraudci Calls on Fox News to Fire Jesse Watters‘The guy should be fired on the spot'


Jesse Watters encouraged attendees at a conservative conference to rhetorically "ambush" the president’s chief medical adviser.

"That’s awful that he said that. And he’s going to go, very likely, unaccountable," Fauci told CNN of Watters’ remarks. "I mean, whatever network he’s on is not going to do anything for him. I mean, that’s crazy. The guy should be fired on the spot."

Speaking on Monday at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference, Watters encouraged attendees to rhetorically "ambush" Fauci with dubious questions about the National Institutes of Health funding "gain-of-function" research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Posted by: Woodrow || 12/22/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Watters isn't the one responsible for thousands of needless deaths. A bureaucratic megalomaniac is.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/22/2021 6:41 Comments || Top||

#2  He IS going to protect that $400,000.00+ a month government check he is getting.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 12/22/2021 11:14 Comments || Top||

#3  But how can you k!ll Science Itself? Please explain, Doc
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/22/2021 11:18 Comments || Top||

#4  "Is the new Biden puppy a lab rescue?"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/22/2021 13:28 Comments || Top||

#5  Turns out CNN doctored the tape to look like that's what Waters was saying. Damned liars.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 12/22/2021 14:52 Comments || Top||

#6  dang, would never have thought CNN of all stations would lie.
Posted by: Chris || 12/22/2021 16:00 Comments || Top||

#7  Apparantly the word rhetorical is above their grade level.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/22/2021 17:14 Comments || Top||

#8  Even though the anchor specifically mentioned rhetorical Kill shot either Fauci missed the word rhetorical or doesn't understand its meaning. An honest person would have said 'rhetorical you meat-head, this is nothing. Ask me a real question."
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/22/2021 17:16 Comments || Top||

#9  /\ Rhetorical "violence"? Look up "ambush journalism" before squawking next time.
Posted by: magpie || 12/22/2021 20:54 Comments || Top||

#10  Isn't the crux of Fauxi's shtick "It's (COVID, unvaxxed, unboosted, unmasked) skeery because I say it is?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/22/2021 20:59 Comments || Top||

#11  "Is the new Biden puppy a lab rescue?"
no, it's a new lab experiment for people with dementia, it's called a "comfort companion", since it doesn't speak, the patient can 'talk to it however they want without being challenged', unlike his present situation with Harris & Psaki.
Posted by: Slavitch Lumplump9030 || 12/22/2021 22:40 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Ethiopian Civil War: Lessons and Parallels
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
A good backgrounder on the Tigrayans.
by Anatoly Shirokoborodov

[Alternatio] Since November 2020, a civil war has been going on in Ethiopia, in which the Prime Minister of the country, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Abiy Ahmed Ali, began a full-scale military campaign against the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Tigray (or, as we now like to write, "Tigraya"),
(We do? Why?)
which controls the eponymous region. The reason for the conflict was the fact that the federal center refused to recognize local elections and allocate money to the Tigray budget. In response to this, the regional authorities stopped paying taxes to the state treasury and recalled their deputies from parliament.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: badanov || 12/22/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Putin: Bloodshed is absolutely not our choice
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin

[ColonelCassad] Interesting statements from the Collegium of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: badanov || 12/22/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Of course, the US refusal to make any agreements with Russia will only strengthen the rapprochement between Russia and China and the further triumph of bloc politics in international affairs.

Exactly so. Think about the trade made by Clinton and Bush fils, and doubled down on by Bathhouse and Pres. Magoo:
- we got Russia to dissolve the Eastern Bloc (Warsaw Pact)
- we got Russia to create a new China-Russia bloc

So we used to play the China card against Russia.
Now China is playing the Russia card against us.

We Are Ruled By Morons
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/22/2021 11:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Russia has some, er, experience in how communist regimes operate. I'd imagine that would play a role in how they view and deal with China.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/22/2021 13:00 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Where do the billions of dollars in foreign aid to Gaza really go?
[IsraelTimes] From 2014 to 2020, UN agencies spent close to $4.5 billion in Gazoo, including $600 million in 2020 alone.

The international community has sent billions of dollars in aid to the 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...
Strip in recent years to provide relief to the more than 2 million Paleostinians living in the isolated, Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,-ruled territory.

The aid is intended to ease the burden on civilians of the Egyptian and Israeli blockade imposed on Gaza when Hamas seized power of the Strip in 2007. Israel closely supervises aid to try to ensure it bypasses Hamas. But the Hamas-run government benefits from foreign countries footing the bill for schools, hospitals and infrastructure, allowing it to conserve its own resources, including the taxes and customs it collects.

Here’s a look at the main forms of international aid to Gaza:

— From 2014-2020, UN agencies spent nearly $4.5 billion in Gaza, including $600 million in 2020 alone. More than 80% of that funding is channeled through the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees, who make up three-fourths of Gaza’s population. Some 280,000 children in Gaza attend schools run by UNRWA, which also provides health services and food aid.

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...
has provided $1.3 billion in aid to Gaza since 2012 for construction, health services and agriculture. That includes $360 million pledged in January for 2021 and another $500 million pledged for reconstruction after the war in May. Qatar’s aid also goes to needy families and to help pay Hamas government salaries.

— The Paleostinian Authority says it will spend $1.7 billion on Gaza this year, mainly on salaries for tens of thousands of civil servants who stopped working when Hamas took over in 2007.

— Egypt pledged $500 million in aid after the May war, but it’s unclear how much has materialized. It sent construction crews to clear rubble over the summer.

— Germany and other European countries will spend nearly 70 million euros ($80 million) on water projects in Gaza this year, in addition to their contributions to UNRWA.

— The US has spent at least $5.5 million in Gaza this year on cash assistance and health care, in addition to contributing $90 million to UNRWA operations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

— Israel is granting work permits to 10,000 Gazooks who undergo security vetting, providing a crucial source of income for families with no known connection to Hamas.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/22/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Iran.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/22/2021 12:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Classic Jew propaganda “need your sympathy” article:
Where does the money GO; BUT, give NO PROOF!!??
You tell where it comes FROM and what SUPPOSEDLY designated for, but NO PROOF, ACCOUNT, transparency, accredibility!!
You call this HONEST reporting?? Journalism?!; I say NOT!
Disgusting pro Israeli propaganda??….. Yes.
Another rantburg failure……of reading material…..
Posted by: King Gillette || 12/22/2021 16:36 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ No hamantaschen holiday treats for you KG.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/22/2021 16:41 Comments || Top||

#4  I would sympathize with the razor king, who is clearly suffering greatly, but we’ve always been very clear here which side we’re on.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/22/2021 18:12 Comments || Top||

#5  As for his criticism, all he need do is check the websites or do a google search using key words — those donating to the Gaza Strip trumpet their pledges as a demonstration of virtue. It shouldn't take more than twenty minutes of minor effort to confirm or disprove the claims made in the article, if he really wants to know rather than just whine about how awful Rantburg is.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/22/2021 18:16 Comments || Top||

#6  I say NOT! sounds so much better with a mouth full of kool-whip. Maybe tuck your thumbs into some shirt folds. Monocal optional but recommended.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/22/2021 18:27 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
The newest time waster on the Internet
Navypedia.
Posted by: badanov || 12/22/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Looks a bit like an updated version of Haze Gray and Underway. Nice.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/22/2021 10:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Just another place to throw my spare cash at.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 12/22/2021 11:44 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2021-12-22
  Sudan's Prime Minister Abadalla Hamdok to resign
Tue 2021-12-21
  Saudi Arabian 'potential terrorist' nabbed at US-Mexico border
Mon 2021-12-20
  Death Toll In Fresh Bandits’ Attack On Kaduna Communities Rises To 38
Sun 2021-12-19
  2018 Bodh Gaya blast: 3 JMB terrorists get life imprisonment
Sat 2021-12-18
  ISIS-linked extremists decapitate Christian pastor in Mozambique
Fri 2021-12-17
  US Navy rescues Iranian drug smugglers from burning ship off coast of Oman
Thu 2021-12-16
  Libya PM's office surrounded by militia
Wed 2021-12-15
  Police foil Al-Shabaab's attempt to abduct Imam in Kenya Mosque
Tue 2021-12-14
  Taliban Seek Ties with U.S., Other ex-Foes
Mon 2021-12-13
  Four dead at funeral of Hamas member killed in Lebanon explosion
Sun 2021-12-12
  Warring Libyan Armed Forces Agree to Unite Army
Sat 2021-12-11
  Pakistani Taliban have called off a ceasefire mediated with the help of the Afghan Taliban
Fri 2021-12-10
  Bandits Raid Another Mosque In Niger State, Shoot 15 Worshippers Dead
Thu 2021-12-09
  French cops foil 'ISIS' Christmas knife rampage as they arrest two
Wed 2021-12-08
  Syria Says Israeli Warplanes Hit Latakia Port Containers


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