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Good afternoon
Jill Biden's Doctorate Is
Garbage Because Her Dissertation Is Garbage
Thursday December 17th, 2020

IdaLupino
Iraqi activist shot dead in Baghdad
Philippines Arrests Saudi Man Suspected of Helping Bring in IS Militants
Thai Authorities Arrest 4 Suspects in Policeman’s Killing in Deep South
Sky News publishes Turkish counter terrorism files showing how Iranian opposition activist HabibChaab was lured into a trap in Turkey and smuggled back into Iran.
BLM-antifa in Seattle have set up another autonomous zone at Cal Anderson Park in the Capital Hill neighborhood
Danish Minister Defends Ethnic Stats on Crime and Employment
Sen. Ron Johnson: China Was ‘Grooming'
Hunter Just Like They Did with Swalwell

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#1  Very contemporary look. Timeless glamour
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#2  Her career puts the lie to the glass ceiling myth.
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#3  I'da Lupino'ed given half the chance.
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#4 
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#5  VOLPINA!
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Afghanistan
Officials Deny Reports Afghan Forces Trapped in Ambush Attack
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan National Army Commando Corps freed Maidan Wardak-Jalriz highway from Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
, denying reports said Afghan forces are trapped in an ambush by the Taliban bandidos krazed killers in Maidan Wardark province.

In a report Monday, Mehdi Rasekh, a representative of Maidan Wardak in the parliament, said a long convoy of the Afghan cops are trapped in an ambush by the Taliban on Highway No. 2 of the province.

"Commando forces cleared off Maidan wardak-Jalriz highway from Taliban today," said the MoD in a tweet. "Reports about the blockade of these forces by the Taliban are false."

Official did not provide further details but said, "commando forces will continue their operations and will not allow the enemy to harass Afghans along this highway."

Taliban did not immediately comment on the incident.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/17/2020 01:23 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


ANA Safely Detonates Explosive-Laden Vehicle in Kandahar
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan National Army (ANA) has destroyed a vehicle fully loaded with Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), said the Ministry of Defense in a statement Tuesday, which targeted security forces in Arghandab district of Kandahar province.

According to officials, the explosive-laden vehicle were detonated in an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
. No one has been harmed during the earth-shattering kaboom.

"#ANA prevented a car kaboom in Arghandab district of Kandahar province today," said the MoD in a tweet. "A car full of explosives were destroyed in an airstrik in the district."

No group of individual has immediately claimed ownership of the explosive.

Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived...
at least 16 IEDs were defused after ANA discovered the explosives in both Kandahar and Uruzgan provinces.

"16 IEDs which were placed by Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
on public roads in Arghandab district of Kandahar province and Terin Kot district of Urzgan province, were discovered and defused by ANA, yesterday," said the MoD in a tweet.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/17/2020 01:23 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Ghor Council Deputy Killed in IED Blast
[KhaamaPress] Local sources in Ghor province say a magnetic mine blast near Ghor provincial council has killed the deputy head of the provincial council, injuring two others.

Mohammad Arif Aber, the front man for the governor of Ghor, said on Tuesday that a vehicle carrying members of the provincial council had been the target of an IED attack.

The blast occurred near the provincial council building at around 1 p.m., reports indicate.

He added that the deputy head of the provincial council Abdul Rahman was killed, and another member of the provincial council Abdul Rahim Rezazadah was maimed in the blast.

This is the second government official to be killed in Magnetic IED attacks on Tuesday.

In another incident, Mohammad Nabi, a civilian prosecutor was assassinated in PD2 of the provincial center in Kandahar, Jamal Naser Barakzai front man to the Kandahar Police told Khaama Press.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/17/2020 01:13 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Two People Wounded in Kabul IED Blast
[ToloNews] At least two people were maimed in a magnetic IED blast in Kabul city on Wednesday morning, Kabul police confirmed in a statement.

The incident happened around 6:34am local time in the "Panjsad Family" area in PD15 of Kabul city when an IED that was placed in a Toyota Hilux vehicle went kaboom!, the statement said, adding that the "victims have been taken to the hospital."

The statement did not provide further details.

This comes after Mahbubullah Muhibbi, deputy governor of Kabul, and his secretary were killed in a blast in Kabul on Tuesday morning. Two of his bodyguards were also maimed.

The blast took place around 9:40am local time in the Macroryan 4 area in Kabul's PD9 when an IED that was placed on the vehicle went kaboom!.

Kabul: 3 Killed in Targeted Attacks in Past 24 Hours
[ToloNews] At least three people were killed in a fresh spate of assassinations in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul over the past 24 hours.

The first incident took the life of security guard of Ahmad Malikzada, the security guard in charge of Bagrami district in PD15 when an IED blast targeted his vehicle.

Malikzada and another guard were maimed.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch started the buffalo stampeding......
in Paghman district in the western part of Kabul, unknown gunnies shot and killed a police officer named Haji Ramazan. He was on his way to work when button men attacked him.

"Everyday there is an IED blast, there are liquidations, the security situation is quite fragile," said Baryalai Naseri, a resident in Kabul.

Also on Tuesday night, unknown gunnies bumped off a prosecutor in front of his wife in PD15.

"I spoke with the security in charge of Ahmad Malikzada at the hospital, he is in stable, pH balanced condition," said Khalid Malikzada, the cousin of Malikzada.

"There was a huge blast, I saw one man who was martyred, another man was maimed, but his driver was in good health," said Mohammad Salim, a resident of Kabul.

"I was sitting next to my father near the car’s window, we were due to move, when they shot with pistols," said Kaihan, the son of the slain prosecutor.

"Two people have been arrested, we call on the government to find other suspects too, otherwise we will not remain silent," said Mohammad Haroon, the cousin of the slain prosecutor.

Based on the statistics of the Attorney General's Office, at least 12 prosecutors have been killed in assassinations in Afghanistan since the start of the current year.

The Afghan Ministry of Interior recently said that 25 military personnel have been killed in the country in assassinations over the past one month. But members of the public say that the figure is much higher than the government’s tally.

Posted by: trailing wife || 12/17/2020 01:07 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


IED, Unknown Gunmen Assassinations Raise Concerns
[KhaamaPress] In a magnetic mine explosion in the northern province of Kapisa, one police officer was killed,

Shayeq Shoresh, a front man for the Kapisa police chief, said the incident took place in the Sar-e-Sayad area of ​​Parwan province while counter-crime officers were on their way to work.

One person was killed and another was injured in the incident, he said.

No group has grabbed credit for the attack.

In a similar liquidation case, Kabul police said, that Prosecutor Hashmatullah Daqiq Malekzadeh was killed on Tuesday evening, by unidentified button men in the Khwaja Boghra area of ​​Kabul’s PD15.

On the other hand, Haroon, the prosecutor’s brother, says that unknown button men shot Hashmatullah dead in front of his wife.

Recently journalists, government officials, and civilians were the main casualties of IED and mysterious liquidations.

Recently, mysterious liquidations and murders have increased in Kabul and other parts of Afghanistan.

Critics indicate weakness in the police system, detection, and reconnaissance procedures, and even most investigations remain unsolved.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/17/2020 00:55 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


13 Security Force Members Killed in Baghlan: Officials
[ToloNews] At least 13 security force members were killed and four others were maimed in Taliban
...Arabic for students...
attacks in northern Baghlan province on Tuesday night, local officials said on Wednesday.

The attack took place in the Wazir Abad and Neeyazullah area in Pul-e-Khumri city, capital of the province. The Taliban attacked two security outposts, according to officials.

The areas are about 3km away from the provincial police HQ.

The bodies of the victims were transferred to the governmental hospital and handed over to their families, official said.

Families of victims criticized the local officials over "not providing support on time."

The Taliban has not yet commented on the attack.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/17/2020 00:55 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


17 Taliban Killed in Gov’t Reciprocal Attacks, Uruzgan
[KhaamaPress] Fighting between Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
and security forces has been going on in Dehrawud district of Uruzgan province since Tuesday night, in which five Afghan security members and 17 Taliban fighters were killed.

A front man for the Uruzgan governor, Ahmad Shah Sahil, told media that Taliban faceless myrmidons attacked security checkpoints in the Dehrawud district last night, prompting a retaliatory attack by security forces.

He indicated, 17 Taliban including the holy warrior’s deputy commander was killed and six others were maimed in the attack.

In another incident in Uruzgan, eight bandidos faceless myrmidons were killed and five others were maimed in another attack on Wednesday Morning, Sahil said.

Besided, MoD also confirms this claim on a tweet,

According to Sahil, five Afghan security members were also killed during the skirmish, and three others are maimed.

Government officials rejected the fall of Dehrawud district to the Taliban.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/17/2020 00:54 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
Ethiopian forces killed troops in cross-border attack: Sudan
[Al Ahram] Sudan's military Wednesday said a cross-border attack by Æthiopian forces and militias left causalities among Sudanese troops, a development that could strain ties between the two neighbors.

The military said in a statement that the attack took place late Tuesday as forces were returning from a sweep of the Abu Tyour area in the al-Qadarif province along the border with Æthiopia.

The statement did not say how many troops were killed or maimed.

Separately, military officials said the attack left at least four troops, including a major, dead and maimed a dozen others. They said the military sent enforcement to the borders with Æthiopia. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to brief the media.

There was no immediate comment from Æthiopia.

Sudan deployed more than 6,000 troops to the border at the start of fighting in Æthiopia's Tigray region that pitted the federal government against regional authorities last month.

Æthiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared victory in the fight. However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
festivities between Æthiopian federal and regional forces have continued.

The fighting in Tigray has sent over 52,000 Æthiopian refugees into Sudan, mostly in al-Qadarif. The influx of refugees adds to Sudan's economic and security burdens.

Tuesday's attack on the Sudanese troops came three days after Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok met with the Æthiopian leader in Addis Ababa.

Posted by: Fred || 12/17/2020 00:16 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Africa North
Algeria Says Arrested Four Islamists, One Surrenders
[AnNahar] Algerian security forces have arrested four Islamists, while another heavily armed krazed killer handed himself in, the defense ministry said in a statement Tuesday.

The Islamist who surrendered was in possession of a machine gun, two rocket-propelled grenade launchers and ammunition, in Tamanrasset, in the extreme south of the country near the border with Mali, the statement said.

The arrests take the number of people detained on suspicion of supporting "terrorist groups" to 17 across the country since the start of December, according to the ministry.

Algerian authorities use the term "terrorist" to describe armed Islamists who have been active in the country since the early 1990s.

On December 1, the ministry reported that three Islamists had been killed in festivities with the army in the northeastern province of Jijel, and said the following day that an Algerian soldier had been killed in festivities in the same area.

State media has reported that the army recently thwarted a plan by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) to redeploy.

AQIM's leader Abdelmalik Droukdel
... aka Abdel Wadoud, was a regional leader of the GSPC for several years before becoming the group's supremo in 2004 following the death of then-leader Nabil Sahraoui. Under Abdel Wadoud's leadership the GSPC has sought to develop itself from a largely domestic entity into a larger player on the international terror stage. In September 2006 it was announced that the GSPC had joined forces with al-Qaeda and in January 2007 the group officially changed its name to the Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb....
was killed in June by French forces in northern Mali, but was replaced in November by Abu Obaida Yusuf al-Annabi, a well-known AQIM veteran and Algerian national.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/17/2020 02:13 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Militias in Western Libya Clash Over “Migrants”​
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/17/2020 00:23 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Nagorno-Karabakh accuses Azeri forces of capturing its troops despite ceasefire deal
[Al Ahram] The leader of the ethnic-Armenian controlled enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh accused Azeri forces on Wednesday of capturing several dozen of its troops despite a ceasefire deal that ended six-weeks of fighting over the region. The region’s defence ministry said earlier it had lost contact with several military positions on Tuesday and it had carried out search operations throughout the night, but failed to find them.
Posted by: Fred || 12/17/2020 00:19 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


Europe
Germany resumes deportations to Afghanistan despite COVID
[DW] Germany is resuming deportations of rejected asylum-seekers to Afghanistan, which had been suspended with the first wave of coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
in March. The move has triggered fierce criticism.

I'd give "Fierce Criticism" all the respect it deserves: a rifle butt to the face
Around 40 rejected asylum-seekers from Afghanistan have arrived in Kabul, according to Afghanistan's Refugee Affairs Ministry.

Among them is a 21-year-old whom the German refugee organization Fluchtlingsrat Berlin describes as a heavily traumatized individual. The young Afghan was in a German prison for various petty crimes and was due to be released in January. "We don't want to belittle his crimes," the organization writes in a press statement. "But we think it is irresponsible of Germany — at a time of an international pandemic — to rid itself of an individual who came to Berlin as an underage refugee, after having suffered traumatizing events in his childhood."

Several German refugee NGOs had sounded alarms over Wednesday's planned deportation flight from Leipzig/Halle airport. The last deportation from Germany to Afghanistan was on March 11, just before the government in Kabul asked for a freeze, as it was struggling to cope with the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic.

'DEPORTEES FACE THREATS TO THEIR LIVES'
Afghanistan is one of the most dangerous countries in the world. Over the past 10 years, over 100,000 civilians have bit the dust there. The Afghan government and the krazed killer Islamist Taliban
...Arabic for students...
are currently in peace talks. But violence has increased markedly this year, with the deputy governor of Kabul and a renowned journalist among the most recent casualties.

Why the Afghan government agreed to accept the deportees now in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic is unclear. Afghanistan analyst Thomas Ruttig, with the Tony Blair Institute for Global Ideas, suspects a link to the Afghanistan donors' conference that was held on November 23 and 24 in Geneva, Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
. There all participating countries signed a final document committing themselves to facilitate the return of rejected Afghan asylum-seekers.

PANDEMIC FURTHER THREATENS HEALTH, WELFARE
Pro Asyl says it has learned that several individuals who had been scheduled for the deportation flight got German courts to halt procedures, pointing to the security situation as well as the pandemic, which would make it impossible for the returnees to be able to earn a living in the war-torn country.

The German Interior Ministry has also confirmed that the Afghan government has demanded all asylum-seekers test negative for the coronavirus before being deported. There has been no information on regulations on the protection measures for accompanying security personnel.

Germany is not the only country to resume deportations to Afghanistan. Earlier this week there were also reports of deportation flights from Austria and Bulgaria.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/17/2020 01:57 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems

#1  "The move has triggered fierce criticism."

and...

"...after having suffered traumatizing events in his childhood."

Gentle giant?
Posted by: Clem || 12/17/2020 2:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Afghanistan is one of the most dangerous countries in the world

Yeah, it's not like it has a different atmosphere; it's the people that make it dangerous, dummy!
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/17/2020 4:23 Comments || Top||

#3  I just pictured a goat-botherer with an AK in his Tali-turban and a face diaper.

Somehow I don't think they are complying with mandates.

The CDC should send some doctors to research that.
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 12/17/2020 7:03 Comments || Top||

#4  The CDC should send some doctors to research that.

Send St. Fauxi and Scarf Woman.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2020 7:37 Comments || Top||


Far-Left Anarchist Extremists Indicted Over Terror Plot To Kill Police
[Breitbart] French officials indicted seven far-left Antifa
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
anarchist Death Eaters in Gay Paree for forming a criminal terrorist organization, after security services foiled an alleged plot to commit violence against police and soldiers.

The seven ultra-left krazed killers, six men and one woman, are aged between 30 and 36. Five have been kept in jug while two others were released under judicial supervision.

The domestic French security service, the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI), dismantled the network, with arrests taking place in Toulouse
...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France...
, Cubjac, Vitry-sur-Seine, and Rennes last week, Le Gay Pareeien reports.

While conducting searches of properties tied to the suspects, Sherlocks found hunting rifles, ammunition, and several substances used to make bombs.

The members of the far-left group are also said to have trained on private land in some form of weapons tactics, using an airsoft club as a cover.

The leader of the group, 36-year-old Florian D., is also said to have travelled to northeastern Syria where he fought with the Kurdish YPG forces during their festivities with 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....
in Rojava.

In April 2018, a group of French Antifa bandidos snuffies in Afrin, who were fighting Ottoman Turkish forces, vowed to return to La Belle France and fight the French state after President Emmanuel Macron’s government evicted far-left squatters.

"Our priority targets are the Ottoman Turkish state and the French state, as well as all the fascist
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
groups," the bandidos snuffies said, and vowed to use guerilla tactics to attack police, military, and intelligence officials who they labelled "powerful but not invulnerable".

According to Le Gay Pareeien, Florian D. returned to La Belle France in 2018 and was on the anti-terrorism watchlist known as the S-File. He is currently unemployed and has no fixed address.

A source also told the newspaper that several other members of the network were believed to have been under observation by the French intelligence services.

Across many parts of Europe, Antifa bandidos snuffies have been shown to have links not only to the Kurdish YPG but also to the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is banned in many European countries as well as the UK.

Earlier this year in Austria, ultra-nationalist Ottoman Turkish Grey Wolves attacked Antifa members and PKK supporters in Vienna, with Austrian officials placing blame on Ottoman Turkish Islamist President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
for stoking tensions in the country.

In Germany, controversy erupted in Hamburg after it was revealed that a constitutional judge was linked to both Antifa and the PKK and gave speeches about representing members of the PKK in court cases at the notorious Rote Flora Antifa squat.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/17/2020 00:15 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  The French can do it. Why can't we round them up here?
Oh ... I keep forgetting.... Never mind
Posted by: Sneth Jones6089 || 12/17/2020 3:22 Comments || Top||

#2  We ought to follow France's lead. But then, who would the Dems use for shock troops?
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/17/2020 10:06 Comments || Top||

#3  never thought I would read someone saying we should follow Frances lead.
Posted by: Chris || 12/17/2020 11:26 Comments || Top||

#4  The French are hitting their domestic jihadis, hard

The French don't allow absentee ballots because, well, they know that absentee ballots are prone to abuse

The French don't tolerate illegal immigration

The French tried a wealth tax, it was a complete failure, so they scrapped it

Maybe we should consider moving to France?
Posted by: Hupeart Gromble1992 || 12/17/2020 14:50 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ Yes! Saint-Hippolyte south of Strasbourg about 60k's, on the old Wine Road. Just a small place near or in the village, one car garage and a simple garden.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2020 14:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Hupeart, if you live in NY or CA you shkujd definitely covsuder it. The marginal tax rate for high earners in those states is now higher than the French marginal tax rate.

There's VAT, true, but France has cut their income taxes while American blue state tax rates have soared
Posted by: Ebbusose Ghibelline7029 || 12/17/2020 15:06 Comments || Top||

#7  The French don't tolerate illegal immigration

Yes, they do, Hupeart Gromble1992. They also tolerate their illegal immigrants pretty much taking over both organized and unorganized crime. Only in the past few weeks have they started to change their minds about jihadis who attack domestically.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/17/2020 17:40 Comments || Top||


Pakistani Migrant Accused of Drugging and Raping Minors
[Breitbart] A Pak migrant drug pusher in Athens has been accused of taking two teenaged girls prisoner before drugging them both and raping one in his apartment.

Police stated the girls, Greeks aged 16 and 17, had claimed that the man had held them captive in his fifth-floor apartment and had threatened them with violence, saying he would kill them if they tried to leave.

According to a report from Greek newspaper Proto Thema, the migrant raped one of the girls, while violent mostly peacefully assaulting the other.

Eventually, the pair managed to escape and ran down a street shouting for help in the early hours of Monday. Police found the teens, who were being pursued by the half-naked man. Officers then subdued and arrested the drug pusher.

During a search of the apartment, police found 49 packages of cannabis, 70 pills of the date-rape drug Rohypnol, and an undisclosed amount of heroin. Police believe the man sold the drugs on the streets of Athens.

The case comes just weeks after Greek police in the capital undertook a manhunt for another migrant, also believed to be Pak, who raped a woman while wrapping a thick metal chain around her neck to subdue her.

In July, two Pak migrants colonists were sentenced to 14 and nine years in prison after kidnapping a 17-year-old boy, blackmailing, and raping him in the city of Thessaloniki.

The two men, aged 25 and 29, kept the teen captive for around 24 hours and forced him to contact his uncle living in Spain, demanding he send the two men cash. They then filmed themselves stripping boy naked and threatening to publish the footage if they were not paid.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/17/2020 00:03 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems

#1  I understand the Ewwropean Union has callously pared away all dignity from citizens of its captive member States; but are even the indigenous criminal undergrounds without any self respect?

A decent underworld would not tolerate Paki scum operating in their turf protected by stupid laws.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/17/2020 3:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Actual criminals, selling drugs, running prostitutes and operating black market activities supplied by stolen goods laugh at the police being sent out to protect the muzz filth from the indigenous populace.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2020 11:19 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Yes, garden variety banditry. Modern irrigation techniques, growing corn and soybeans just isn't going to happen. Or, am I missing something ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2020 11:25 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Antifa put up a large banner on Storrow Drive in Boston, Mass. that says “Avenge Michael Reinoehl.”
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/17/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  "Free Moo-mee-ah..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2020 7:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Zero articles on this from the local Boston websites.
Posted by: Raj || 12/17/2020 15:45 Comments || Top||

#3  They probably don't want to offend their new masters, Raj.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/17/2020 16:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Oldie but goodie (from Winchester, but still...): Residents disgusted by offensive flyers
Posted by: Ominenter Stalin7955 || 12/17/2020 18:25 Comments || Top||


BLM-antifa in Seattle have set up another autonomous zone at Cal Anderson Park in the Capital Hill neighborhood
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/17/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM


Portland lets Antifa win big — again
[NYPOST] Last week, Portland law ­enforcers raided a house that had for months been ­illegally occupied by trespassers affiliated with Black Lives Matter and Antifa
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
. At the barricaded property, officers made arrests and found a stockpile of firearms.
The African-American Kinney family have described themselves as “sovereign citizens,” likely members of the century-old Moorish Sovereign Citizens movement (also known as Indigenous Moors), that along with the Nation of Islam is a troublesome offshoot of the Moorish Science Temple cult that has claimed that African-Americans (“Moors”) are the true original inhabitants of North America, and therefore exempt from American laws while being the true owners of all property within its borders. Also, they believe themselves to be Muslim, leaning heavily, like the Mormons, on long lost chapters of the Koran secretly revealed to their founding prophet.
Under normal circumstances, the armed trespassers would be prosecuted, and that would be the end of the story. But in riot-plagued Portland, Oregon, things are very far from normal.

The city’s "progressive" district attorney immediately dropped the charges against the occupiers, and their comrades soon sent in reinforcements to build a sprawling autonomous zone in the middle of a densely populated residential area.

The murderous Moslems called the place the Red House Autonomous Zone — named after the red-painted house occupied at the heart of the zone. In doing so, they took inspiration from the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle, Washington. During the summer, leftist Death Eaters chased police out of a six-block area of the Emerald City and drew their own "borders," complete with checkpoints manned by armed "security." The three-week ­experiment in lawlessness ended in mass vandalism, ­attempted rape, multiple shootings and two homicides.
Posted by: Fred || 12/17/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  To recap, the Portland antifettes staged an armed insurrection in support of some folks who consider themselves to be Sovereign Citizens. Not one of the insurgents will spend so much as a night in jail. You have to conclude that Wheeler the Mayor and Schmidt the DA are (1) personally terrified of the antifettes or (2) in league with the antifettes or (3) both, but are willing to make some pretense of maintaining law and order so the normies don't take their property taxes down the road to one of Oregon's many red jurisdictions (or to Idaho or Texas). Portland has or had an awful lot going for it economically, but that will change quickly if property rights are no longer legally enforceable.
Posted by: Matt || 12/17/2020 13:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Rest of OR outside Portland & Eugene needs to secede.

But be clever about it. Don't join Idaho - it's already red. Join a purple state: Nevada.

Turn Nevada red.
Posted by: Glavins Turkeyneck4403 || 12/17/2020 13:55 Comments || Top||

#3  we're 64% Red, a disturbing percentage. Boise's getting more Blue as its population grows. Blaine county (Sun Valley) is Blue as is Latah county (Univ. of Idaho in Moscow)
Posted by: 746 || 12/17/2020 15:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Gerrymander the states.
Posted by: Snolung Scourge of the Faith4386 || 12/17/2020 15:51 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Baghdad Booze Bombings: Islamic Vice Squads or Turf War?
[AnNahar] Escalating attacks on the Iraqi capital's few liquor stores have terrified shop-owners who fear hardline Islamists are flexing their muscle against alcohol consumption.

But there may be a bigger story behind the Baghdad booze bombings, as some suspect pie fights for control of the lucrative niche trade in the Moslem majority country.

Over the past two months, at least 14 alcohol shops across the city have been Molotov cocktailed in the middle of the night or just before dawn, with three simultaneous attacks in different districts Monday night alone.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/17/2020 02:07 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Iraqi activist shot dead in Baghdad
[THEBAGHDADPOST] An Iraqi anti-government protester was rubbed out in east Baghdad by masked button men on Tuesday evening, according to a security source, a medic and an activist network.

Salah al-Iraqi was well-known for his active role in the rallies that erupted in Iraq's capital and the Shiite-majority south last year, slamming the government as corrupt, inefficient and beholden to neighbouring Iran.

Iraqi was killed in the capital's Baghdad al-Jadida district, according to a medic, a security source and the Iraqi Network for Social Media (INSM), a collection of activists who reported on the protests and their aftermath.

All three sources confirmed to AFP that Iraqi died on his arrival at the nearby Sheikh Zayed hospital.

Baghdad al-Jadida is a few kilometres (miles) from Tahrir Square, the epicentre of the capital's protests from where Iraqi, always energetic, would broadcast live footage.

INSM said he had already been targeted twice before Tuesday's shooting.

In his last post on Facebook on Tuesday afternoon, Iraqi had written: "The innocent die while the cowards rule."
Posted by: Fred || 12/17/2020 00:11 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Southeast Asia
Thai Authorities Arrest 4 Suspects in Policeman’s Killing in Deep South
9 December
[BenarNews] Authorities in Thailand’s Deep South said Wednesday they had arrested four suspected Death Eaters allegedly linked to the killing of a coppers in Pattani province earlier this week.

Lt. Weerasak Sarapon, 54, was shot at multiple times while riding a cycle of violence away near a hospital in Koke Pho district on Monday evening. Ten spent shells from an assault rifle and two shells from a 9-mm handgun were found near the scene, police said.

The men on a cycle of violence who shot officer Weerasak were both dressed as women,
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Posted by: trailing wife || 12/17/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems


Philippines Arrests Saudi Man Suspected of Helping Bring in IS Militants
9 December
[BenarNews] Government security forces arrested a Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
n national who allegedly facilitated the entry into the Philippines of 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....
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Posted by: trailing wife || 12/17/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Ten NDF members killed and injured in western Al-Raqqah
[SYRIAHR] Syrian Observatory activists have monitored the death of three members of the regime-backed "National Defence Forces" (NDF) and injury of seven others in an attack by ISIS cells on their bus on the road to Athariya in the west of al-Tabaqah city in the western countryside of al-Raqqah.

Yesterday, Observatory activists documented the death of at least 11 members of the regime-backed "National Defence Forces", as a result of fierce battles and attacks by the 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....
on frontlines of the villages of Rasim Abu al-Mayal, Jab Abyad, al-Shahatiya, Twal al-Qaysoum and Rasim Sheba in eastern desert of Hama, along with cessation of Russian aerial operations for more than 24 hours.

Since 24th of March 2019, SOHR has documented the killing of at least 1,082 regime soldiers and loyalists of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, including at least two Russians, and 144 Iranian-backed snuffies of non-Syrian nationalities. All were killed in attacks, bombings and ambushes by the "Islamic State", west of Euphrates in the deserts of Deir Ezzor, Homs, and al-Suwaidaa.
Posted by: Fred || 12/17/2020 00:33 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Forces and proxy factions reinforce their positions near Ain Issa, amid popular fears of imminent offensive
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/17/2020 00:30 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Syrian regime’s authorities allow partial return of residents of Wadi Barada villages in Damascus countryside
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/17/2020 00:28 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  "Welcome back to your rubble"
Posted by: Frank G || 12/17/2020 8:47 Comments || Top||


Eastern Homs countryside Russian jets target ISIS positions
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/17/2020 00:26 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Security chaos in Daraa New explosion rocks northern countryside
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/17/2020 00:25 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Sky News publishes Turkish counter terrorism files showing how Iranian opposition activist HabibChaab was lured into a trap in Turkey and smuggled back into Iran.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/17/2020 00:09 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


-PC Follies
Seattle politician who defunded the police called 911 to protect her from a crime she wants to legalize
[Post Millennial] A Seattle City Council Member who was at the forefront of the effort to defund the Seattle Police Department, called 911 Friday night for a crime that she is pushing to legalize.

As first reported by police sources to the neighborhood safety group Safe Seattle, Council Member Lisa Herbold called 911 and requested the police for criminal damage done to her home, a crime that the council member is pushing to legalize.

Allegedly a man threw a rock through Herbold's window. In a redacted police report, Herbold told responding officers that she "was on the west side of the living room near the kitchen when she heard a loud noise that sounded like a gunshot and dove into the kitchen for cover."

A witness said he saw an "…unathletic and a bad runner" leaving the scene. The suspect was described as a clean shaven, white male in a black hoodie and jeans.
All black? Sounds like Antifa/BLM.
The witnesses told officers that he would recognize the suspect if he saw him again, but declined the officer's business card to contact him for follow up. Ironically, Herbold is pushing for legislation that would make the alleged crime legal.

In October, Herbold, chair of the Seattle City Council's Public Safety Committee, introduced legislation to "…excuse and dismiss" almost all misdemeanor crimes committed in Seattle by "…persons with symptoms of addiction or mental disorder." At the time, Herbold was criticized for trying to sneak the legislation in as part of the budget cycle rather than through the normal legislative process and with no public discussion about the proposal.
Posted by: Frank G || 12/17/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cookie grab
Posted by: Ackoopmed || 12/17/2020 0:03 Comments || Top||

#2  gets what she wants, doesn't want what she gets
Posted by: 746 || 12/17/2020 0:29 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Clem || 12/17/2020 2:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Google "nomenklatura".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/17/2020 3:12 Comments || Top||

#5  It's too bad the cops bothered to show up at her house.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 12/17/2020 3:47 Comments || Top||

#6  ...should have sent a social worker to take notes, copious notes.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/17/2020 7:03 Comments || Top||

#7  Antifa should do further quality assurance testing with this city councilor.
Posted by: Raj || 12/17/2020 7:40 Comments || Top||

#8  Karma be Bitch, Biatch.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/17/2020 9:10 Comments || Top||

#9 
Make it a molotov next time, Mr unathletic bad runner !
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/17/2020 9:31 Comments || Top||

#10  It's Daddy Issues all the way down.
Defund the Police because you're not the boss of me!
But when push comes to shove, it's Daddy, Daddy, Help me!

No, it's not logical. But facts don't matter any more. It's all about the feelz.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/17/2020 9:48 Comments || Top||

#11  Well honey, you can't have it both ways.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/17/2020 10:08 Comments || Top||

#12  Just wait until the cops don't respond to you.

Or are the ones doing the shooting at you.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/17/2020 10:57 Comments || Top||

#13  I can imagine a lot of rocks smashing through Seattle politicians' windows very soon.
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/17/2020 12:50 Comments || Top||

#14  "…unathletic and a bad runner"

i am guessing this is a euphemism for morbidly obese

wouldn't want to fat-shame anyone, after all
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 12/17/2020 15:06 Comments || Top||

#15  "Listen you Proles! I'm an elite elected official. It's a crime when it happens to me..so shut your racist pie-holes"
Posted by: Warthog || 12/17/2020 16:40 Comments || Top||

#16  Seem Seattle's 911 needs a 'do no call' blocker
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/17/2020 18:10 Comments || Top||



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