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Joe Biden's campaign says he will have path to victory later Wednesday
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There is no joy in Mudville...
Election calls...
Wednesday November 4th, 2020

Billiedove3
Khamenei has finally spoken, as expected, in favor of Azerbaijan.
ISIS Wilayat Sinai release a new claim of responsibility - IED attack targeting a military bulldozer near Sheikh Zuweid
Responding officers to the Starbucks antifa smashed up at @Portland State tonight found an accelerant had been dumped all inside it
Arrested at the violent antifa Portland protest & found w/riot weapons
incendiary munition allegedly used by Azerbaijan in Karabakh.
Protests staged by employees of Electricity Ministry outside the Finance Ministry in Baghdad to demand disbursing of delayed wages

Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2020 16:50 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...There are still a couple of ways he could win, but neither of 'em are likely at this point. The good news is that the GOP has held on to the Senate, and look for them to pass a metric crapton of judicial appointments in the next few weeks.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 11/04/2020 17:56 Comments || Top||

#2  It's not too late if vote fraud court battles mean anything. Still I don't see my life changing all that much under the Biden/Kamala Harris regime.
Posted by: jpal || 11/04/2020 18:25 Comments || Top||

#3  ∆Stupidest Goddamn comment I have ever seen here.
Posted by: Angeater Omick2705 || 11/04/2020 18:27 Comments || Top||

#4  No limits on packing the Supreme Court members, the removal of the Electoral College, and the introduction of every gun control, affirmative action, covid lockdown measure you can imagine, all the while a flood of immigrants to overwhelm the culture and voter rolls. There will NEVER be another Republican President after they fill the cities and subirbs with new citizens here with their handout! Do you really think they aren't coming for your prosperity and wealth?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/04/2020 19:13 Comments || Top||

#5  This is not only an indictment of how corrupt the USA has become, but it's also an indictment of the gullibility and level of intelligence of John Q. Public. Of course Trump isn't perfect, but that someone with a straight face can tell me that Joey Biden "deserves" to be President is utter fantasy and patently absurd. Crime does pay. Joey proved that. Joey and his not-so-little helpers.
Posted by: Clem || 11/04/2020 20:18 Comments || Top||

#6  Removing the electoral college requires a Constitutional amendment, and that ain't making it past the Senate, let alone the states.

Most of the rest will die in the Senate, too. Sure, that will lead to screeching about obstructionism, but standing against that tyranny will be a good look for the Republicans.

And Biden ain't won yet.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/04/2020 21:25 Comments || Top||

#7  Kinda quiet tonight, on the ol' 'Burg.

I understand.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/04/2020 23:20 Comments || Top||

#8  Interesting how they simply stopped reporting or counting for about 12+ hours and suddenly find a whole shitload of Biden votes.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/04/2020 23:29 Comments || Top||

#9  O Burgers, observe brother gorb
A barbarous outburst absorb,
Disdaining the pain
And ignoring the stain
G-d bestows on the other guy's orb.

Kidding... duh. God help us all.
Posted by: Lumpy the Low-priced5776 || 11/04/2020 23:59 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
ANP Defuses 11 Roadside Mines in Kabul, Khost
[KhaamaPress] Afghan National Police discovered and defused at least 11 roadside mines in capital city Kabul and Khost province
... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name...
in eastern Afghanistan, said the Ministry of Interior Affairs in a statement Monday.

"The engineering teams of ANP following point-to-point search operations, managed to discover & defuse 11 roadside kabooms in Kabul & Khost provinces," said the MoIA in a tweet.

Security officials blame terrorist groups for targeting "innocent civilians" throughout Afghanistan, with many usually claimed by the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
holy warriors.

"The forces of Evil had planted the bombs to target the innocent civilians," the tweet added. "Police are committed to protect people."

The Taliban, however, did not immediate comment on the incident.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/04/2020 00:11 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:


81 Taliban Killed in Kandahar Province Sunday: MoD
[KhaamaPress] At least 81 Taliban
...Arabic for students...
snuffies where killed and further 37 maimed in a battle with Afghan National Defense Security Forces in Arghandab district of Kandahar province, the Ministry of Defense confirmed Monday.

"81 TB [Taliban] were killed and 37 others were maimed in Arghandab district of Kandahar Prov. after they attacked ANDSF positions yesterday," said the MoD in a tweet.

According to the statement, forces seized a large number of arms and ammunition, belonging to Taliban krazed killers, during the operation carried by ANDSF.

"Large amounts of TB’s [Taliban’s] weapons, ammunitions and vehicles were destroyed and seized during the operations which were conducted according to ANDSF’s DP."

The incident came at a time the Taliban intensified offensive more recently throughout the country despite ongoing peace efforts by the administration.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/04/2020 00:11 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Suicide Attack Near Border Force Outpost in Kunduz
[ToloNews] A suicide boom-mobileer was killed by security forces near an outpost of the Afghan Border Force in the northern province of Kunduz before reaching his target on Tuesday morning, the Ministry of Defense said.

The incident happened at 7:00 am local time in Imam Sahib district in Kunduz after a jacket wallah wanted to enter an outpost of the border force but he was recognized and was stopped by the Afghan soldiers, the statement said.

Some attackers started shootout with security forces after the blast, said the statement, adding that some attackers were killed and other fled the area.

The ministry said the situation is under control of the security forces.

The ministry did not provide more details on the incident.

Source said that festivities in the area are ongoing.

Taliban
...Arabic for students...
so far has not commented on the incident.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/04/2020 00:11 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Horn
Sudan: Aid worker killed, another injured in Greater Pibor
[SUDANTRIBUNE] An aid worker was killed and another maimed when unidentified armed attacked a team of Plan International’s humanitarian workers on a road near Pibor on October 29, the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
said in a statement.

"The team was returning to Pibor on foot after delivering critical nutrition services to children and new mothers affected by violence and flooding in the area. The nutrition programme, funded by the South Sudan Humanitarian Fund, is temporarily suspended following the incident," partly reads the statement.

Alain Noudéhou, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan, condemned the killing of the aid worker in the greater Pibor area.

"I strongly condemn this attack and the killing of yet another humanitarian worker, this time in the Pibor area. I call once again for authorities and communities at all levels to guarantee the safety and security of aid workers and the people they serve. The perpetrators of this violent mostly peaceful act must be brought to justice and be held accountable," said Noudéhou.

He added, "This year in South Sudan, eight humanitarian workers have already bit the dust while providing aid to people in need. This is unacceptable".
Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan


Africa North
French Airstrikes Kill Over 50 Islamic Fighters In Mali Following Paris & Nice Attacks
More on this report from yesterday.
[ZeroHedge] On Monday, the French government said it launched airstrikes that killed over 50 Islamic militants in Mali. The operation took place on Friday in an area near the borders of Niger and Burkina Faso.

"On October 30 in Mali, the Barkhane force conducted an operation that neutralized more than 50 jihadists and confiscated arms and material," French Defense Minister Florence Parly announced.

Operation Barkhane is a French-led counter-insurgency operation in Africa's Sahel region that has been ongoing since 2014. France, a former colonial power in the region, first intervened in Mali in 2013.

Parly said the operation took place after a drone detected a large motorcycle convoy in the "three borders" region. The strikes were carried out by one drone and two French Mirage jets. Parly said the offensive dealt a "significant blow" to Ansarul Islam, an Islamic militia she said is linked to al-Qaeda.

Killing 50 fighters in a single operation is a high casualty rate for the French in Mali. The last offensive with a similar number of casualties took place between February 9th and 17th, when two French-led operations killed about 50 militants.

Friday's operation took place after two terrorist attacks rocked France, and some analysts speculate the French offensive in Mali could be related. Evidence suggests the suspects of the terror attacks in France have connections to international terrorist organizations, although nothing so far links them to groups in the Sahel region.

On October 16th in Paris, France, an 18-year-old Muslim man of Chechen descent beheaded a middle-school teacher, allegedly for showing students depictions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Sources have told French media that the perpetrator was in contact with a Russian-speaking jihadist located in Idlib, Syria, an enclave mostly under the control of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an al-Qaeda linked militant group.

Last Thursday, an assailant killed three people in a similar attack in Nice, France. A Tunisian-born man was shot by French police and detained. A group called Ansar al-Mahdi took credit for the Nice attack, and Tunisian authorities arrested a man linked to a video released by the group.
Posted by: Clem || 11/04/2020 07:56 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Only 50 Islamics expunged? I would think so many French lost lives would be worth considerably more.
Posted by: jpal || 11/04/2020 16:17 Comments || Top||


ISIS Wilayat Sinai release a new claim of responsibility - IED attack targeting a military bulldozer near Sheikh Zuweid
Golly — a bulldozer? That’s hardcore, man.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Attack on the pyramid of Zoser:
At Saqqara, Muslim in dozer
Breaks open the tomb
And explodes a kaboom
Because pharoah's queen's clothes so expose her.
Posted by: Lumpy the Low-priced5776 || 11/04/2020 23:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Cracks, even. Sigh of size.
Posted by: Lumpy the Low-priced5776 || 11/04/2020 23:02 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Shushi, the heart of Artsakh Karabakh, shelled today by Azerbaijan, using “Smerch'' MRLS
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


Armenian forces 'unleashed hell' on Azerbaijani special forces in southeast Karabakh
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


Azerbaijan claims commander of Armenian military unit killed in Karabakh
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Tuesday, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense announced the killing of the commander of an armored battalion of the Artsakh Defense Army (ADA).

According to a statement by the Office of the Press of the Ministry of Defense, their forces targeted the Armenian troops with anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM), inflicting a number of casualties within the ranks of the latter.

The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense then claimed that the Artsakh Defense Army commander, Nelson Hakopianian, was killed by their forces.

On Tuesday, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense announced the destruction of a tactical helicopter of the Armenian Armed Forces.

Several international parties are working to settle the conflict in the Karabakh region between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as several countries hosted negotiations between the foreign ministers of the two countries concerned with the conflict, and the first such meeting was held in Moscow with the participation of the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, on October 9. Last October, this resulted in the declaration of a humanitarian truce
..The purposes of a truce are twofold: 1.) bring up more arms, ammunition, and reinforcements; and 2.) get the enemy to relax his vigilance. A truce is not the same thing as a ceasefire, and a ceasefire doesn't mean you have to stop shooting...
On September 27, armed festivities erupted on the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces in the Karabakh region and its adjacent areas, in the most dangerous escalation between the two sides in nearly three decades, amid mutual accusations of starting fighting and bringing in foreign murderous Moslems.
Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


incendiary munition allegedly used by Azerbaijan in Karabakh.
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 11/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


Europe
Man with machete arrested in Paris - police
[Jpost] A man who was walking around in the Pere Lachaise area of central Gay Paree on Tuesday with a machete has been arrested in his hotel room, a police front man said.

Bystanders reported the man to police who briefly cordonned off the area, the front man added.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/04/2020 07:34 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nothing to see here. Probably just a member of the Venceremos Brigade off to Cuba for the sugar cane harvest.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/04/2020 18:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Perhaps he got a head-start on the nouveau beaujolais
Posted by: Clem || 11/04/2020 20:21 Comments || Top||


Vienna shooting: Austria hunts suspects after 'Islamist terror' attack
[BBC] Austrian police have urged people to stay indoors as they hunt for suspects after a multiple gun attack in the capital Vienna that killed four people.A gunman rubbed out by police has been identified as a 20-year-old "Islamist terrorist" who was released early from jail in December.

Two men and two women died of their wounds after button men shot up six locations in the city centre on Monday evening.

Twenty-two people were maimed.

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said the four who died were an elderly woman, an elderly man, a young male passer-by and a waitress. Witnesses described how the button men had opened fire on people outside bars and chased them as they fled inside.

It was clearly an attack driven by "hatred of our way of life, our democracy", the chancellor said. He earlier spoke of a "repulsive terror attack".

The nation was engaged not in a battle between Christians and Moslems, he stressed, but "between civilisation and barbarism".

Interior Minister Karl Nehammer described the dead gunman as an "Islamist terrorist", tossed in the slammer
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
for 22 months in April 2019 after trying to get to war-torn Syria to join Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS) jihadists. The 20-year-old had been released early last December under more lenient terms for young adults.

Mr Nehammer urged Austrians to "please stay at home if possible" during the police operation and "avoid the inner city". Children should stay at home, not go to school on Tuesday, he said.

Austrian daily Der Standard reports that 90% of shops in the city centre are now shut.

The victims were in a city centre area busy with people in bars and restaurants, near Vienna's central synagogue.

Police cordoned off some streets and brought in reinforcements. They are also being helped by the Austrian army.

Addressing a news conference, Mr Nehammer said police had searched the home of the dead gunman and seized video material. He had been wearing a fake boom belt, police said.

The man was originally from North Macedonia and had a previous conviction for terrorist association, Mr Nehammer said. He had both Austrian and Macedonian citizenship.

Several arrests were made during searches of 15 nearby homes. Two suspects were also arrested in St Pölten, a town to the west of Vienna.



Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Christians and Moslems, he stressed, but "between civilisation and barbarism".

A distinction without a difference.

After all this why can't people call it what it is, an attempt by the barbarian Islam to eliminate our civilization?
Posted by: AlanC || 11/04/2020 7:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Just keep letting them in, Europe (EU).
Posted by: Clem || 11/04/2020 7:36 Comments || Top||

#3  It's an attempt to deny the fact that islam destroys civilisation.

Civilised wealthy people (inevitably non-muslim) are evidence that Mohammed was a solely a mentally ill, child-abusing liar not a prophet.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/04/2020 7:36 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Arrested at the violent antifa Portland protest & found w/riot weapons
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM


Responding officers to the Starbucks antifa smashed up at @Portland State tonight found an accelerant had been dumped all inside it
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM


India-Pakistan
POONCH: 4 packets of narcotics seized by police from Dhargloon area of Mendhar in Poonch district
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


Iraq
Iraq anti-riot police violently disperse sit-in in Basra
[TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Protests staged by employees of Electricity Ministry outside the Finance Ministry in Baghdad to demand disbursing of delayed wages
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
PFLP balloon unit Groups of the Martyr Wadih Hadad launched explosive-laden balloons in protest of the Balfour Declaration
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: PFLP

#1  in protest of the Balfour Declaration

Little late, ya cockroaches?
Posted by: Frank G || 11/04/2020 6:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Paleostinian gender reveal party
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 11/04/2020 7:32 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Jihadists surround another base belonging to Turkish-backed forces in Syria
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte



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Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2020-11-04
  Joe Biden's campaign says he will have path to victory later Wednesday
Tue 2020-11-03
  Day 2: Vienna synagogue shooting: Active shooter situation in Austria
Mon 2020-11-02
  Report: At least one dead in shooting attack near synagogue in Vienna
Sun 2020-11-01
  Islamic State claims responsibility for church attack in Congo
Sat 2020-10-31
  Car smashes through front door of Grand Mosque in Mecca.
Fri 2020-10-30
  Philly Police Were 'Ordered Not to Arrest Looters' by Deputy Police Commissioner Who Took A Knee For BLM
Thu 2020-10-29
  Another Beheading in France!
Wed 2020-10-28
  Clashes continue in Nagorno Karabakh despite truce deals
Tue 2020-10-27
  US says airstrike killed 7 leaders of al-Qaida in Syria
Mon 2020-10-26
  Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri titzup
Sun 2020-10-25
  At least 18 killed in ISIS suicide attack in Shiite neighborhood in Kabul
Sat 2020-10-24
  'Permanent ceasefire in all areas of Libya'
Fri 2020-10-23
  Tanzania confirms Islamist militants carried out attack near southern gas fields
Thu 2020-10-22
  Rifle-carrying trans Muslim Antifa arrested at riot in Phoenix
Wed 2020-10-21
  UAE submits official request to open embassy in Tel Aviv


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