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Turkey rejects Belgium’s Nagorno-Karabakh resolution; upset that Belgian parliament referred to a genocide as a genocide
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Afghanistan
Helmand Roadside Mine Blast Claims 2, Wounds 2
[KhaamaPress] Local sources in Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province confirm that two people were killed and four others were maimed in a roadside kaboom blast in Grishk district of Helmand province.

Omar Zwak, a front man for the governor of Helmand, said on Saturday, that the incident took place as a result of a roadside IED blast on a Toyota Van carrying passengers in the Grishk district of the province.

Zwak blamed the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
for the incident, but the Taliban has not yet commented on the incident.

Helmand is one of the largest provinces in Afghanistan where the Taliban have a large presence.

The increase in Taliban attacks in the province in the last two months coincided with the Taliban’s peace talks in Doha, 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...
On the other hand, the Ministry of Interior reported that during several separate raids, ANP arrested 16 individuals on charges of murder, armed robbery & drug trafficking in Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
province.

ANP seized five pistols, three vehicles, four cycle of violences & some amount of drugs.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Imam Busted over Spreading Propaganda against Security Forces
[KhaamaPress] Amrullah Saleh, the first vice president, said that in a mosque in the fourth district, the imam was spreading propaganda against the security forces in imitation of ISIS and the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
Saleh added, that the man was being instructed from far distances, and was being summoned today under a security pact to end his misdeeds and misleads.
"far distances" - Qatar? Pakland?
Saleh said the insults and humiliation of the security and defense forces were intolerable and that they needed all our political, cultural, religious, and social support.

According to Saleh, wrong conspiracies against the country’s security forces is a crime under the law and will be investigated.

According to the Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs, most of the mosques in the country are outside the ministry’s administration, so people do not know how much propaganda is being spread in these mosques against the government and security forces.

He also said that two forces of Evil who had come to Kabul to plant magnetic mines and were previously involved in such acts were tossed into the calaboose by security forces.

According to the first vice president, one of these individuals claims that his family has been taken hostage by the Taliban and forced him to carry out such acts.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Taliban Face Heavy Retaliation, MoD Operations
[KhaamaPress] At least 53 Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
fighters were killed in Afghan National Army’s reciprocal attacks.

Ministry of Defense tweeted, that 10 Taliban were killed in Nazian district of Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province on Friday.

According to the ministry, these bully boyz were equipped with a large amount of ammunition and weapons, which were later destroyed by the security force members.

In a similar tweet, MoD reports 12 Taliban fighters were killed in the Qarabagh district of Ghazni province, on Friday night.

They were fully prepared to attack the Afghan National Army, during the festivities ANA destroyed a huge amount of their weapons and ammunition.

This comes as 31 affiliated members of Taliban were killed in Zherai district of Kandahar province, on Friday, MoD stated.

These holy warriors were planning to attack Afghan National Defense and Security Forces’ positions but were battered before targeting ANA.

MoD also indicates, that at least 300 newly trained soldiers were sworn in Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
province.

These soldiers pledged to protect people with all their powers, they are fully prepared to battle murderous Moslems on the field to defend the lives and properties of Afghans, the Ministry of Defense stated.

Earlier, 85 Afghan commandos had received certificates of accomplishing after training under the Afghan National Army Commando Corps.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Six Afghan Soldiers Killed in Badghis Attack: Official
[ToloNews] Six members of Afghan Public Protection Force were killed and four more were maimed in a Taliban
...Arabic for students...
attack on their outpost in Qala-e-Naw, the center of Badghis province, on Saturday, said Abdul Aziz Bek, the head of Badghis provincial council.

The incident happened near the Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
-Badghis highway, he said.

Badghis governor Hesamuddin Shams told TOLOnews that the soldiers were killed in a shooting by the security guards of a private construction company.

Shams said the guards attacked the soldiers after joining the Taliban.

He also confirmed that seven other soldiers are missing.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Five rockets fired at US air base in Afghanistan
[Al Ahram] A major US air base north of Kabul was targeted in a rocket attack on Saturday but there were no casualties or damage to the airfield, NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
and Afghan officials said.

Five rockets were fired at Bagram Airfield in Parwan province at 6:00 am, said Waheeda Shahkar, spokeswoman for the provincial governor.

She said 12 rockets were mounted on a vehicle and five of them were fired at the base, while police defused the other seven.

A NATO official also confirmed the rocket attack.

"Rockets were fired towards Bagram Airfield this morning. Initial reporting is there were no casualties and the airfield was not damaged," the official said.

No group has immediately grabbed credit for the attack, and the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
denied any involvement.

The jihadist 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....
group previously grabbed credit for a similar rocket attack on the base in April.

In recent months, IS has claimed several assaults in Kabul, including two rocket attacks that struck several residential areas in the capital, causing fatalities.

The group also claimed brutal attacks on two separate educational centres in Kabul that left dozens of people, mostly students, dead.

Saturday's rocket attack targeting the airfield came a day after 15 children were killed when an explosives-laden cycle of violence blew up near a religious gathering in the eastern province of Ghazni.

Afghan officials blamed the Taliban for the blast.

Violence has surged in Afghanistan in recent months despite the government and the Taliban launching peace talks to end the country's grinding war.

The Taliban has carried out near-daily attacks targeting Afghan forces that have left hundreds of security personnel killed or maimed.

Earlier this week in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, General Mark Milley, the US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, held a rare meeting with Taliban representatives, calling on them to reduce violence in Afghanistan.
Posted by: Fred || 12/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
Death toll from a suicide bombing in Somalia has risen to 16
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Posted by: Fred || 12/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Africa Subsaharan
Suicide Bomber Kills 3 in NE Nigeria
[AnNahar] A teenage girl killed at least three people when she blew herself up in a crowd in northeast Nigeria
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
's Borno state, militia and humanitarian sources told AFP Saturday.

"We evacuated three dead bodies and two people who were seriously injured from the scene," said aid worker Abubakar Mohammed. The attack happened in the town of Konduga, about 38 kilometres (24 miles) from the regional capital Maiduguri.

The attacker set off her explosives among a group of men at a hangout next the local chief's home, said Ibrahim Liman, an anti-jihadist militia leader who gave the same toll.

Konduga and surrounding villages have been repeatedly targeted by jacket wallahs from Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
, which typically attacks soft civilian targets such as mosques, markets and bus stations, often using young women as bombers.

At least 30 people were killed last year in Konduga when three bombers detonated their explosives outside a hall where football fans were watching a match on TV.

Boko Haram and a splinter group, 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....
West Africa Province (ISWAP), have killed 36,000 people and displaced around two million since 2009.

The jihadist conflict has spread into neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
, prompting a regional military coalition to end the violence.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/20/2020 03:10 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)

#1  Nigerian teenage girl splody dope. Wonder why she did it, did they threaten her family or did she do it for the glory of Allan?
Posted by: jpal || 12/20/2020 16:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Wonder why she did it,

I’m under the impression they do the usual brutal rape with brainwashing, jpal, then offer the girl an easy way to wash her soul clean. But I could be confusing Boko Haram with another brutal jihadi group.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/20/2020 20:15 Comments || Top||


Hours after 35 passengers were kidnapped, Boko Haram attacks Ajiri community in Borno
[VANGUARDNGR] Suspected members of dreaded Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
Sect on Saturday evening invaded Ajiri village of Mafa Local Government Area of Borno state and wrecked havoc, leading to destruction of lives and properties.

This is coming barely 24 hours when armed turbans laid ambush along Maiduguri- Damaturu 125km road where over 5 people were killed with dozens kidnapped and injured.

Ajiri less than 50km drive from Maiduguri the state capital is near Mafa Local Government area where Governor Babagana Umara Zulum hail from.

The town was hitherto a ghost town, until mid this year when the Governor through the ministry of Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (RRR) constructed about 500 housing units, in which its Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) taking refuge in Maiduguri were relocated back home by the present administration’s drive to ensure IDPs back to their ancestral homes.
Posted by: Fred || 12/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Cameroon Says Boko Haram Infiltrates Top Business and Political Leaders
[VOA News] A Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
ian official said Friday he had found evidence that, as widely suspected, Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
gunnies have been establishing close ties in Cameroonian political and business circles. The revelation came after Cameroon's military arrested a former politician for allegedly supplying cattle to the Nigerian terrorist group.

Midjiyawa Bakari, governor of Cameroon’s Far North region, on Nigeria’s border, says that within the past two months, Boko Haram has been establishing ties with brass hats of his region. He spoke via a messaging app from the northern town of Maroua.

He says security reports indicate that Boko Haram has infiltrated some political, business and elite circles along Cameroon’s northern border with Nigeria. He says Boko Haram accomplices in the communities supply food and money for the holy warriors to procure weapons. Bakari says the military has been assigned to arrest those who have established ties with Boko Haram.

Bakari did not say how many people have been arrested for establishing ties with the terrorist group, but this week, local media reported the arrest by Cameroon’s military of a former member of parliament, Blama Malla, for alleged ties with the Boko Haram. He has been detained in the northern town of Mora.

The media reports that Malla, a member of President Paul Biya’s ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement party, is accused of supplying cattle and money to Boko Haram.

Commander tells VOA campaign calling for members to surrender and be pardoned has helped in the fight
Malla was arrested after his cousin, a member of a local militia in the border town of Kolofata in the Mayo Sava administrative unit, was seen transporting 10 cattle to a border area where Boko Haram fighters hide. He was arrested by the military. Local media said the cousin confessed that he had received orders from Malla to supply the cattle to Boko Haram.

The government has not issued a statement. VOA could not independently confirm his account.

Retired Colonel Didier Bajeck, a security specialist and former Cameroon defense spokesperson, says while the military is stepping up intelligence to arrest the suspects, civilians should be on the alert.

Bajeck says it is imperative for civilians to inform the military of the presence of strange people in their areas. It is also important, he says, that civilians report their neighbors who invite suspected Boko Haram members. He says civilians may not know of financial transactions between suspects and Boko Haram, but that the population should immediately call the military when they see food and cattle being transported to the bush, where holy warriors may be hiding.

Ejani Leonard Kulu, a political analyst at the University of Dschang in Cameroon, says Boko Haram has historically had ties with some top business figures and politicians in Nigeria. He says it is the same situation in Cameroon.

"Nigeria and Cameroon share so much ties together, cultural, religious ties, socio-economic ties," Kulu said. "Boko Haram in its modus operandi infiltrates the society, touch key persons at different areas. So it is something that has been a routine in Nigeria and in Cameroon when the president of the National Assembly said, "Il y a les Boko Haram parmi nous," such an information was not supposed to be taken lightly because these are people who are highly informed."

The "Il y a les Boko Haram parmi nous" that Kulu refers to means there are Boko Haram members in our midst. It is a statement made in 2018 by Cavaye Yegui Djibril, speaker of Cameroon’s National Assembly during a plenary session. At the time, Malla was still a politician from the Mayo Sava administrative unit. Djibrli did not specify names.
Posted by: Fred || 12/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Fifth Column
Antifa are planning a violent protest tonight at Elizabeth Caruthers Park
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Posted by: Fred || 12/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  1st of all
Thank-You Mr. Ngô
for your constant and dependable information. Surely ANTI-FArt and BLOM have Wanted Posters looking for you.

May you be safe.
But if not, post a request for assistance and rest assured many will quickly be there physically or virtually to address any concerns or issues.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/20/2020 6:48 Comments || Top||

#2 

Wanted to toss out a comment this morning posing a
creative mind question.

If you were President Trump and faced with the growing Domestic Terrorism actions of Anti-FArt, BLOM and a clearly rigged fraudulent voting process.

What Executive Order(s) would you issue to legally (or gray area) address and expose their illegal activities?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/20/2020 6:55 Comments || Top||

#3  ...hmmm, per Title X USC, subparagraph Militia: composition and classes, direct that every member of the unorganized militia is entitled to the ownership of a weapon that is the same as issued and carried by the line infantry and marines of the nation and a minimum of 200 rounds of appropriate ammunition for said weapon.

You bet that would pucker some a'holes.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/20/2020 7:03 Comments || Top||

#4  #2, Whatever he does the democrats will mimic time 10. They will use his actions to stop all lawful assembly to stop "violent" protests.
On 1/6/21 I suppose it will begin....
See you in DC!
Posted by: Thimp Clusort2035 || 12/20/2020 9:22 Comments || Top||

#5  the government went after the WHITE armed groups in southern Ga and northern florida in the 90's , why can't they do it now?
Posted by: Chris || 12/20/2020 12:59 Comments || Top||

#6  #3 Anyone who loves liberty ought to be able to participate in the militia; even those who are 64 or older. There can be some useful role in today's technical world. Not everyone need be a trigger-puller.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/20/2020 16:54 Comments || Top||

#7  i am 83 and though not able to fight can still serve food and answer phone/email.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 12/20/2020 17:32 Comments || Top||

#8  O humble ol' hombre de Mayo
(or maybe, let's say, Monterrey),
Go, show us the way
With your lonely shillelagh,
Don "Leon Viejo" Alejo!
Posted by: Count Galeazzo Glomp3810 || 12/20/2020 23:59 Comments || Top||


Antifa violently confront law enforcement in Sacramento, Cal.
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Posted by: Fred || 12/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Is there any doubt that these people are domestic terrorists? Antifa is an international organization.

Why can't the anti-terrorism laws or the insurrection act be invoked to cope?

In lieu of a working Justice Department and FBI which is working for the people in this country; a rope and the nearest tree might be considered to deal with Antifa.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/20/2020 17:04 Comments || Top||


The Fight for the Soul of Seattle KOMO TV docu.
[YouTube/KOMO News]

“The Fight for the Soul of Seattle” examines the role of Seattle’s City Council in allowing the situation to reach what many experts consider epidemic levels under the guise of a compassionate approach to people who suffer from substance addiction and who commit crimes to feed their habit.

It documents the heartbreaking condition of people on the streets, and the crushing decisions Seattle entrepreneurs are forced to contemplate as their life savings and dreams are destroyed by theft, vandalism and a dwindling customer base. This documentary also explores potential bold solutions to treat those living on the streets and pair them with agencies and assistance that can provide a clear path away from the endless circle of addiction and crime.
Posted by: Unosh Hupinelet8756 || 12/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Seven across for "abbetting their own worst instincts."

Atavism
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/20/2020 10:20 Comments || Top||

#2  When I lived on Capitol Hill 20 plus years ago, the story went that the town was so law-abiding that you'd see people waiting for the Walk signal to change at 2:00am.
Then Silicon Valley moved to the Silicon Rainforest.
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/20/2020 11:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Those 'programs' fail because they ignore 'human free will' to continue to purse self limiting and self destructive behavior.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/20/2020 13:49 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Pakistan slams India over alleged attack on UN observers
[DW] The Pak government has called on the Indian chargé d'affaires to explain the "deliberate targeting" of a UN vehicle in Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
, according to an announcement published by Pakistain's Foreign Ministry on Saturday.Previously, the Pak authorities accused India of shooting at a vehicle which was carrying two UN observers. The observers were traveling through the Pak-controlled part of Kashmir to meet with the victims of a prior Indian violation of the cease-fire agreement.

The two UN employees were rescued by the Mighty Pak Army and escaped the incident unscathed, according to the dpa news agency.

'Flagrant violation' of international diplomacy
Saturday's statement called the attack "unambiguously premeditated" due to the distinctive markings of the UN vehicle.

"It was communicated to the Indian side that the brazen act was a flagrant violation of established international norms and represented a complete disregard for principles enshrined in the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
Charter," the official statement read.

The Twitter account for the spokesperson of Pakistain's armed forces published a tweet showing the damage done to the UN vehicles.

The tweet accused the Indian Army of carrying out "unprovoked fire" in the Chirikot sector of the "Line of Control" (LoC) — a de facto border between the two countries which divides up the region of Kashmir.

"Indian troops deliberately targeted a United Nations vehicle with 2 Military Observers on board," the spokesperson added.



Posted by: Fred || 12/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  How cute.
Posted by: Wren || 12/20/2020 8:10 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Afrin: The death of Turkish-backed ''Faylaq al-Sham'' leader ''Hamzah Abu Zaid'', pegs out after being wounded by explosion in Afrin region a few day ago.
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Posted by: Fred || 12/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Tel Rifaat: Turkish occupation forces are shelling Şera and Şêrawayê district of Afrin
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Posted by: Fred || 12/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


International Coalition sends a convoy of 25 trucks, loaded with weapons and logistical reinforcements, to Hasake
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Posted by: Fred || 12/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1 

How about a fresh approach?
Instead fueling another generational Middle East war.

What if the International Community arrived with a 100,000 troops, or a few dozen Special Ops Teams. Capture/Arrest the LEADERS of both groups.

Hold Public international court addressing their crimes and motives. With a goal of a trial and sentencing in under 180 days.

After the sentences are carried out a Monitoring Team will oversee elections by citizens seeking peaceful citizen focused leaders over the next 90 days.

Because when you boil it all down.
It is really one A-hole group elitists seeking domination over another group of A-hole elitists for greater power and wealth. With the people always sandwiched in between suffering and killed in greater numbers than the elitists A-Holes.


Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/20/2020 7:17 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ Your concept has both great merit and potential NN2N1. Prior to foreign marketing however, some domestic beta-testing may be prudent.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/20/2020 7:23 Comments || Top||

#3  #2 Wasn't this tried already: Somalia, Libya, etc...?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/20/2020 7:34 Comments || Top||

#4  ..technically it was tried before, it was labeled 'colonialism' aka a period of peace between warring factions.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/20/2020 7:57 Comments || Top||

#5  ^😊

Mind you, the first thing I thought of when seeing if the International Community arrived with a 100,000 troops in ME, it would be to threaten Israel - am I paranoid?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/20/2020 8:02 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Not if you believe the sacking of the Warsaw ghetto was a fiction.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/20/2020 8:04 Comments || Top||

#7  ^Thank G*d for Dimona association of mushroom growers.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/20/2020 8:08 Comments || Top||

#8  With the Red Army waiting at the Vistula waiting for the Nazis to finish the job.
Posted by: Clem || 12/20/2020 8:08 Comments || Top||

#9  ^There is no justice - but sometimes things balance.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/20/2020 8:14 Comments || Top||

#10  A homebody down in Pomona
Once sprouted a luminous boner.
His wife thought it queer,
But he quoted her Lear
And sang her a song
By the light of his dong,
Which lit a fire in 'er:
They went out for dinner!
And now they're both dead from the 'rona.
Posted by: Count Galeazzo Glomp3810 || 12/20/2020 19:46 Comments || Top||

#11  ^Golf Clap
Posted by: Frank G || 12/20/2020 20:49 Comments || Top||


SDF special forces carried out an infiltration operation on several areas of northern Ain Issa countryside, killing ''dozens'' Turkish-backed terrorists.
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Posted by: Fred || 12/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Ain issa: Turkish-backed terror groups announce an operation to capture Ain Issa town, and SDF wait for them.
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Posted by: Fred || 12/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Iran executed two ethnic Baluchi citizens on unclear charges
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Posted by: Fred || 12/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Lebanese riot police scuffle with students
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Posted by: Fred || 12/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah



Who's in the News
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7Sublime Porte
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