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Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan says he signed an ''extremely painful'' agreement with the leaders of Azerbaijan and Russia to end the war over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region
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Home Front: Politix
Party Against Fascism Begins Creating Lists Of Undesirables
[Babylon Bee] In the latest effort to defeat fascism once and for all, Democrat operatives have begun to compile a list of people who disagree with them politically so they can destroy their lives forever.

"These undesirables must be held accountable," said AOC, Biden's new Secretary of Holding Fascists Accountable. "They are complicit in all the fascist fascism that has been living in my head for four years! I won't rest until Trump's supporters are rounded up and held accountable with, like, swift and furious accountability."

According to AOC's new accountability plan, Trump supporters will be tried in special accountability courts before being herded into special accountability cars and sent to accountability camps. Those who resist being held accountable will be administered special accountability with accountability guns loaded with high-powered accountability bullets.

"This is just about holding people accountable," said AOC. "Accountability is the only way to defeat fascism and protect human rights."

Trump supporters are outraged by all the accountability and have vowed to hold AOC accountable.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2020 05:51 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm waiting for the Night Watch, don't suspect a friend, report them!
Posted by: Vinegar Spolusing6485 || 11/10/2020 7:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Tomorrow's news today.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/10/2020 10:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Already have my number.
# = Baptized date & Time
CCC= Christian Conservative Constitutionist
Posted by: 08011982-1039-CCC || 11/10/2020 11:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Unfortunately the bee is a bit late and now reporting real news....
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/10/2020 15:13 Comments || Top||

#5  ECT = Eurocentric Traditionalist
EMP = Ex-Military Patriot
IURI = Immigrant of Unreliable Racial Identity
Posted by: Gloter Hupaish5723 || 11/10/2020 15:18 Comments || Top||

#6  Do I lose a dollar if Bee is correct?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/10/2020 22:17 Comments || Top||


Georgia Democratic Senate Candidate Compares Israel's West Bank Policy to Apartheid
[PJ] Rev. Raphael Warnock, who won the right to participate in the January 5 Senate runoff election with Republican Kelly Loeffler, signed a letter last year in which a group of black pastors compared the state of Israel with "previous oppressive regimes," such as the "military occupation of Namibia under apartheid South Africa."

Warnock’s position on Palestine and the West Bank may play well with Democrats in Georgia, but it’s problematic for him otherwise. Supporting a terrorist state run by the terror group Hamas against the Democratic nation of Israel — a close and trusted ally — will cost him votes among evangelical Christians and many Jews.

Fox News:
The letter was written by a group of faith leaders from historically African American and South African churches, all of whom had just taken a trip to Israel in Spring 2019. Warnock was among the group who signed the letter.

The letter suggests that the group while visiting occupied territory witnessed: "The ever-present physical walls that wall in Palestinians in a political wall reminiscent of the Berlin Wall," along with "The heavy militarization of the West Bank, reminiscent of the military occupation of Namibia by apartheid South Africa."

No, it’s not "reminiscent" of South Africa’s brutal and inhuman occupation of southwest Africa. In fact, it’s not reminiscent of much of anything, since it’s a unique situation. One people with the stated goal of committing genocide against a neighbor is found nowhere else in the world. Israel’s "occupation" is wholly justified under the self-defense clause in the UN Charter.

But the eternal Palestinian victimhood culture has to create ever more wild and shocking analogies to keep the pressure on Israel. They’re not based on reality, but they look good in a headline.

Related:
Ilhan Omar: Defund Israel over illegal Bedouin homes that were demolished
[Jpost] “If they used any US equipment it also violates US law. An entire community is now homeless and will likely experience lifelong trauma," Omar tweeted.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2020 05:10 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Has the reform Jewish vote tied up with that call...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/10/2020 15:28 Comments || Top||

#2  The way people vote and how they are counted around here, it doesn't matter what these politicians say or do.
Posted by: Clem || 11/10/2020 17:53 Comments || Top||


It's possible that 2020's election fraud is way bigger than we thought
[American Thinker] Two massive Twitter threads contend that serious computer fraud two years ago in Texas, which turned strong red districts blue, was essentially a trial run for what's been playing out across America in this election. This post summarizes the core claims in those threads, along with interlineations of information I found.

One Twitter thread comes from Roscoe B. Davis, the other from Bad Kitty.

Scytl is a Barcelona-based company that provides electronic voting systems worldwide, many of which have proven vulnerable to electronic manipulation. Scytl has (or had) Soros and Democrat party connections. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Vulcan Capital has invested $40 million in Scytl.

In 2012, Scytl acquired all the assets of SOE Software, which was then America's largest voting machine and software vendor. Scytl also acquired the trade name "Clarity Elections" and rebranded its American operations as "Clarity," with a data process domain at clarityelections.com.

Everything on the Clarity site is unsecured on Amazon Web Services. By 2018, Scytl, using the Clarity network, supported elections in more than 12 states and 900+ jurisdictions, covering 70 million voters.

The electronic voting software in Dallas came from Electronic Software & Systems, Inc. (ES&S), the largest manufacturer of voting machines in the U.S. (4,500 localities in 42 states and two territories). ES&S maintains all its data as unsecured files on the clarityelections.com domain, which is processed through Scytl servers in Barcelona. General election voting records are automatically forwarded to DNS addresses that include ES&S, Scytl in Barcelona, Smartmatic12 in London, and a Russian server at South Ural State University in Chelyabinsk.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2020 05:02 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Banana republic

If we were a third world country, no first world election observer would certify our election results as genuine
Posted by: Pliny Thererong5888 || 11/10/2020 9:15 Comments || Top||

#2  and a Russian server at South Ural State University in Chelyabinsk.

Why in Russia, even for a Spanish company?
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/10/2020 9:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Why is anyone trusting computer voting machines after the media mantra of Russian interference convinced a high number of Americans that the Russians hacked the machines.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/10/2020 21:46 Comments || Top||


Excuse Me While I Call BS: In Wisconsin
[Red State] Let’s face the fact here and now: Biden isn’t Obama. Not only does common sense say this, but the data also says it. In following the run-up to the 2020 election, I watched polling data, voter registration data, and other key factors that would lead to the suggestion of who would win the race in Wisconsin. Let me be clear, I didn’t predict a Trump landslide. I said he would win with 285 to 295 votes, with Minnesota being a super-reach state. In looking at the data coming out of the election, I still think this is going to be the case. For instance, in Wisconsin, data suggests that there are issues that need looking into in 5 counties in particular: Washington, St. Croix, Dane, Waukesha, and Ozaukee Counties.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2020 04:20 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Former President Barack Obama warned during the Democrat primary that his former Vice President Joe Biden could “f*ck things up (Breitbart)

Gates Stands By Statement That Biden Has Been Wrong On Nearly Every Major Foreign Policy Question
(Newsmax)

The guy's cheese has slid off his cracker judging from recent ravings.

Whether Trump stays as POTUS or Biden is deemed the winner, the country is in for a bumpy road. One side or the other is going to be extremely p!ssed.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/10/2020 15:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Biden is a complete f---head. Finally, something Blamtifa & the Trumpists can agree on
Posted by: Fat Bob Spearong5139 || 11/10/2020 16:05 Comments || Top||


It's Time To Admit: Drugs Won The War On Drugs
Is this an independent ZeroHedger opinion, or one that the Russians bought? One always wonders, given the things said about ZH...
[ZeroHedge]As I write this, we still don't know who won the presidency. It is, however, time to declare at least one winner. After almost sixty years of fighting, it's clear that the War on Drugs is almost over and drugs have won. As the Associated Press reports, recreational marijuana has been legalized in New Jersey and Arizona, it looks like it is about to be legalized in Montana and South Dakota, medical marijuana has been approved in Mississippi, and Oregon has loosened restrictions on hard drugs.
Hard to argue that the war on drugs has been anything but an abject failure.
Now that we’ve surrendered, we can lie back and think of England as the paranoid schizophrenics run murderously amok in schools, movie theaters, and streets. Yay.
Posted by: Iblis || 11/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The problems of drugs mainly stem from those using them being self-medicating and outside.

I would say the best way to end the war on drugs and mitigate problems is to make sure those who take them become the responsibility of those who supply them
AND
while "high" the taker submits themselves at their own costs for the equivalent of psychiatric hospital.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/10/2020 2:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Sure, legalize it until the coke fiend, meth head, PCP berserker, heroin/fentanyl, etc... addict is someone in your family.
Posted by: Thusoting Big Foot1716 || 11/10/2020 2:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Hard to argue that the war on drugs has been anything but an abject failure.

Oh, wait to what happens when you do end it and the consequential impact upon society. Then you'll have a basis for comparative analysis. We ended Prohibition but we've lost more on our highways to DUI than we've lost in the wars since. That doesn't count other non-auto related deaths. It's a trade off. There is no perfect. However, please be honest about it, you are going to pay another way that probably will be just as destructive.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/10/2020 7:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Good. The metaphorical war on drugs was a b.s. "tough on crime" mantra, probably billions of dollars down the drain for what? To incarcerate people for victimless crimes? To assist the pharmaceutical-indusrial complex?
Posted by: Clem || 11/10/2020 7:43 Comments || Top||

#5  However, please be honest about it, you are going to pay another way that probably will be just as destructive

100%. There is a real cost to legalization. But I would argue that cost is substantially less than the cost of prohibition. I mean, there is a cost associated with alcohol consumption too. We just figured out those trade offs long ago.
Posted by: Iblis || 11/10/2020 9:34 Comments || Top||

#6  Drug prohibition just ensured that drug addict is stealing from your family, it prevents nothing and drives crime.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/10/2020 10:22 Comments || Top||

#7  Big Foot1716: exactly! until they are someone in your family, imported Cocaine is a problem and a nasty drug, Meth is even worse, Fentanyl sometimes just "darwins" the user,problem solved. I'm at a loss as to how to prevent them doing the stuff.....
Posted by: 746 || 11/10/2020 12:14 Comments || Top||

#8  The war on drugs was never any more than a slogan. The government never actually waged it. Just for show, now and again, they would announce a big drug bust. But the supply on the streets never dwindled.

Now, the question is, why won't Congress authorize a border wall? I suspect massive amounts of cartel cash finding its way into the bank accounts of politicians.

Trump was the only president in the history of this so-called war who tried to solve the problem and they all hate him for it. You have to wonder why.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/10/2020 13:54 Comments || Top||

#9  Your gun that has never hurt anybody is a huge problem, but hard drugs flooding the streets is no problem at all...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/10/2020 15:32 Comments || Top||

#10  But the FDA and Anti-Vaxxers will still have veto power on "safe" drugs.
Posted by: magpie || 11/10/2020 21:45 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Forming Lebanon's new cabinet is like mission impossible
Forget it Jake, it’s Lebanon.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The creation of a new cabinet in Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
seems to be heading toward deadlock, and the optimism that a cabinet may be formed from the presidential press office has been squandered.A public visit by the leader of the Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
(FPM) Gebran Bassil, who happens to be President Michel Aoun
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 11/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah



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Tue 2020-11-10
  Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan says he signed an ''extremely painful'' agreement with the leaders of Azerbaijan and Russia to end the war over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region
Mon 2020-11-09
  Iraqi forces launch 'large scale' anti-ISIS air and ground operation in Salahaddin
Sun 2020-11-08
  Turkish-backed forces attack Syrian Christian city in Hama
Sat 2020-11-07
  Vienna anti-terror chief suspended after failure to prevent Islamist shooting
Fri 2020-11-06
  Marauding mob of antifa smashed up buildings one-by-one in Portland to protest election, IED and other weapons found
Thu 2020-11-05
  Armenian forces stifle Azerbaijani advance into key city
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


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