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Good Morning

Jeff Flake: GOP Needs to 'Shun This Conspiratorial
Fringe Element of the Party,' Including Trump
Sunday May 30th, 2021

Talent on loan from Universal
Key US Military Base in Kabul Handed Over to Afghan Forces, 210 Talibs toes up in last 24 hours
Rafah crossing remained open for 13th day to receive injured Palestinians, deliver aid
Egypt said to convey to Hamas long-term truce with Israel must see prisoner swap
Cops arrest first suspect in firebombing of Jewish home in Lod
Hamas chief' niece has been hospitalized in Israel for over a month
Blast Targets University Bus in Parwan; 4 Killed
Illegal Alien Found Guilty of Murdering Mollie Tibbetts

Posted by: Fred || 05/30/2021 00:22 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Females from CATS Tour (modern equivalent ?)

Posted by: Grating Darling of the Lichtensteiners4385 || 05/30/2021 0:31 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Grating Darling of the Lichtensteiners4385 || 05/30/2021 0:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Catz be damned. Prefer the Universal girls
Posted by: Choluth Grack7442 || 05/30/2021 0:36 Comments || Top||

#4  No? Then how about Chorus Girls - Hope you don't mind.



Posted by: Grating Darling of the Lichtensteiners4385 || 05/30/2021 0:44 Comments || Top||

#5  All From UNIVERSAL Studios


Posted by: Grating Darling of the Lichtensteiners4385 || 05/30/2021 0:51 Comments || Top||

#6  That's mo betta
Posted by: Ulereting Protector of the Weak5995 || 05/30/2021 0:56 Comments || Top||

#7  Your Welcome - Best to You and Yours this Memorial Weekend
Posted by: Grating Darling of the Lichtensteiners4385 || 05/30/2021 1:00 Comments || Top||

#8  "We'll Meet Again."
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/30/2021 1:13 Comments || Top||

#9  Thank you Mr. B (Visitor), very fitting for this Memorial Weekend. As I lost nine friends in the South East Asian Conflict by 1974, they knew this song from their WWII fathers and mothers, brothers, sisters and relatives (really who didn't) I remember this weekend. To all Americans and Veterans of Our Wars, we remember the fallen and thank the living for their sacrifices, God Bless You All - You made America Great!
Posted by: Injun Tojo2762 || 05/30/2021 1:37 Comments || Top||

#10  Well said Injun.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/30/2021 9:48 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Florida shooting at Miami-area banquet hall leaves at least 2 dead, about 25 wounded: reports
[FoxNews] A manhunt was underway in the Miami area early Sunday after three gunmen opened fire on a crowd of people at a banquet hall, killing at least two and wounding about 25, according to reports.

At least one wounded person was in critical condition, the Miami Herald reported.

Police were searching for a white Nissan Pathfinder, a reporter with WPLG-TV of Miami wrote on Twitter.

The gunfire happened at the El Mula Banquet Hall in the Country Club Shopping Center in Hialeah, WPLG’s Parker Branton reported on Twitter.

Wounded people were transported to various hospitals, either by fire rescue vehicles or personal vehicles, Branton wrote.

The hall was being used for a concert when the Pathfinder drove up, three gunmen got out and started firing into the crowd, Branton wrote.

The gunmen used a combination of rifles and handguns, according to the Herald.

"We believe this is a targeted act of gun violence," Miami-Dade police Director Alfredo "Freddy" Ramiriez told the newspaper. "This is a despicable act of gun violence, a cowardly act."
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/30/2021 09:23 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Damn those White Supremacists attending a peaceful rap music concert!
Posted by: Frank G || 05/30/2021 10:11 Comments || Top||

#3  2 killed and 20 injured means the guns were held sideways most of the time.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/30/2021 10:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Ratio of 2 dead to 25 wounded...
Steve Sailer's rule tells us with 99% certainty the race of the shooter.
Posted by: Lionel Cromomble1780 || 05/30/2021 10:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Thank g-d these animals don't go out on the firing range from time to time and learn how to shoot accurately. Then we really would have to stock up and hunker down for a race war.
Posted by: Spats Greremp1986 || 05/30/2021 10:22 Comments || Top||

#6  learn how to shoot accurately That is just a matter of time.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 05/30/2021 12:32 Comments || Top||

#7  Thank g-d these animals don't go out on the firing range from time to time and learn how to shoot accurately.

Typically, these are armed gangsters shooting at specific armed gangsters. That means that they are trying to hit their targets, while trying to stay out of the way of the opposition's bullets but not deliberately wasting bullets on bystanders. When blacks are looking to kill specific unarmed people or random bystanders, they generally amass a decent body count. The Dallas shooter took out 5 cops.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police_officers

Omar Thornton killed 8:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_Distributors_shooting

Colin Ferguson killed 6 and severely injured a dozen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Long_Island_Rail_Road_shooting

That's what happens when shooters are dealing with armed opposition. In the following gunfight, one cop exchanged 54 rounds of ammo with the perp who tried to bushwhack him:

https://americanhandgunner.com/the-ayoob-files/the-lessons-of-tim-gramins/

This occurred in under 1 minute. They were doing this outside the confines of a gun range and definitely not against fixed targets. At it occurred at point blank range, with no need to adjust for windage. The difference? Range targets neither shoot back nor maneuver to avoid being shot.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 05/30/2021 15:07 Comments || Top||

#8  And here we've been told that your average mass-murderer is a white guy.
Posted by: Clem || 05/30/2021 15:23 Comments || Top||

#9  Any difference between Black gangsters, Hispanic gangsters, Asian gangsters, etc? The sense I have is that the Hispanic narco gangs are both more violent and more vicious, but this has not been an area of interest for me.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/30/2021 16:27 Comments || Top||

#10  And here we've been told that your average mass-murderer is a white guy.

The media has been lying to us for a very long time. An excerpt from a typical left-wing journal article which admits that mass murderers lean black, like the perps in every other category of crime:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0011392115617227
"In the popular discourse, it is commonly assumed that mass murderers and mass shooters are different from most criminals in the United States, because they are almost always white. The present study uses data on 308 mass murderers who attacked from 2006 to 2014 to evaluate this assumption, test for racial differences between mass murderers and all other murderers, and identify characteristics of mass murderers’ behavior by race and ethnic group. Findings suggest that, overall, the racial composition of mass murderers is similar to that of other murderers, and thus may be largely explained by similar social forces, such as structural disadvantages and social inequalities."
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 05/30/2021 16:28 Comments || Top||

#11  When one talks of mass murder, or any heinous crime, the one factor to not overlook is motivation. And no crime is the same, yet there are an alarming number of crimes with non-black victims and black perpetrators, fueled by racial hatred.

Mental illness and deviant political views may be resulting in some insane acts and are unfortunate, true. But when cultural imperatives featuring supremacy and ethnic revenge are conscious motivators, black supremacy and islamic sasquatchery are way more dangerous elements.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/30/2021 16:43 Comments || Top||

#12  A key datum missng from both the Fox News and Daily Mail articles, courtesy of PJ Media:

Monday is the culmination of “Urban Beach Week,” sometimes called “Black Beach Week,” an annual hip-hop event with roughly 300,000 people in attendance. Past events have seen tremendous violence and hundreds of arrests.

Also

Investigators found hundreds of bullet casings.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/30/2021 21:29 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Key US Military Base in Kabul Handed Over to Afghan Forces, 210 Talibs toes up in last 24 hours
[ToloNews] A key military base of US forces in downtown, the New Kabul Compound, also known as NKC, was handed over to the Ministry of Defense at a ceremony on Friday.

Fawad Aman, a front man for the Defense Ministry, said that at a ceremony on the occasion, US and NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
forces commander Gen. Scott Miller emphasized the international community's continued support to Afghan forces.

The figures also show that the US had by last week officially handed over five facilities to the Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan.
The withdrawal of the US and NATO forces from the country started on May 1. So far, according to figures provided by US Central Command, the Pentagon has retrograded the equivalent of approximately 160 C-17 loads of material out of Afghanistan and has turned over more than 10,000 pieces of equipment to the Defense Logistics Agency for disposition.

The figures also show that the US had by last week officially handed over five facilities to the Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan.

Pentagon officials have said that the US has completed up to 25% of the entire withdrawal process.

President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money...
at a ceremony at the Kabul University on Thursday said that with the withdrawal of the US and coalition forces from the country, a new chapter has been opened in Afghanistan’s relations with its allies as well as with the region. He reiterated that the new chapter requires proper planning.

Violence remains high in the country, especially after the three-day ceasefire from May 13 to May 15.

The Ministry of Defense on Saturday said that at least 210 Taliban
...Arabic for students...
were killed in festivities and defensive operations by Afghan forces in 18 provinces, including Kabul, in the last 24 hours.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1 

Kinda reminded of Saigon 30 April 1975, 46 years ago and 1 month to the day ago.

When will we, the US Citizens, put our foots down? Haven't we learned yet we should not be fighting wars like NAM and Sandlands the same way we did WW1 and WW2?

It is cheaper to use Surgical Strike Teams (Black Ops) and eliminate the Leaders .

But just like the 1960's and 1990's and 2000's too many politicians and their families have a vested interest ($$$$) in long protracted wars.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/30/2021 6:37 Comments || Top||

#2  It is cheaper to use Surgical Strike Teams (Black Ops) and eliminate the Leaders.

You recommend rebooting Phoenix?
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/30/2021 10:15 Comments || Top||

#3  huge numbers of Taliban commanders have been killed

and for that matter huge numbers of regulars have been killed, about 50k since 2001 which compares to their current strength of about 60k

they have been able to replenish losses by recruiting or commandeering from the madrassas
Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/30/2021 10:35 Comments || Top||

#4  huge numbers of Taliban commanders have been killed

and for that matter huge numbers of regulars have been killed, about 50k since 2001 which compares to their current strength of about 60k

they have been able to replenish losses by recruiting or commandeering from the madrassas


I wouldn't call 50,000 huge. At a time when its population was similar to Afghanistan's, the UK lost about a million dead in the course of the Great War. The traditional counter against guerrilla war was a huge initial massacre against recalcitrants - an exemplary atrocity that punished those who resisted to warn others of the consequence of fighting on, combined with benefits - mainly being left alone - for those that did not. We've heaped on the bennies without that large-scale atrocity. That's why the resistance continues. All cheap, quick and successful pacifications of rearguard resistance have commenced with large-scale atrocity. That includes the sepia-toned accounts of the immediate aftermath of Communist revolutions in the 20th century, which have been distorted by fellow travelers as example of Communist humanitarian ideals. The reality was more prosaic, with millions slaughtered in summary actions:

Wikipedia: Chinese Land Reform

But this isn't some new development. The ancients did this stuff and worse:

Wiki: Sack of Thebes
Wiki: Alexander Sacks Persepolis
Wiki: 70CE Destruction of Jerusalem

That is why so many rebels in antiquity chose to commit suicide when surrounded and faced with certain defeat - the end game upon surrendering was execution after gruesome tortures.

In Indonesia, a communist revolt came to a quick end after the authorities slaughtered not just party members, but their kin.

Wiki: Indonesian Mass Killings of 1965
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 05/30/2021 13:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Large-Scale Atrocity.

Hmmm... No problem with those words. Especially when it's about moslems. And yes, that is what works. It's why people made the A-bomb.

Eliminate leaders.

Any decisive action would be again misplaced if it didn't include the devil's den, Quetta, and neither the WH nor the ⭔ will touch that, for reasons best known to them.

But all this is moot since the objectives of wars shifted from dominance and deterrence to grift and posturing. Also, the conventions of martial propriety imposed by militaries on themselves, the factoring of ROEs and collateral avoidance, an unregulated media empowered by elevated liberal laws ... there is just not much margin for atrocity anymore.

As for the 'huge' numbers of Taliban dying everyday, I wouldn't trust any numbers reported by the Afghans themselves. If they're so goddamn good at killing tangos they didn't need your help anyway.

The best thing the taxpayer can demand is complete disengagement with this place. Trump realized this and would have pulled out. These bastards are going to play act and dig deeper in somehow, I'm sure.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/30/2021 14:51 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Start with the media.
Posted by: Chesney Henbane8088 || 05/30/2021 23:01 Comments || Top||


Blast Targets University Bus in Parwan; 4 Killed
[ToloNews] Four people were killed in a kaboom that targeted a bus carrying lecturers and employees of Alberoni University in Bagram district of Parwan on Saturday afternoon, a health official said.

Qasim Sangin, chief medical officer at Parwan Hospital, said 17 others were maimed in the earth-shattering kaboom.

The blast happened in Rabat area in Bagram district at around 3:15 p.m. on Saturday afternoon, according to Bagram police.

Noor Ahmad Ahmadi, a lecturer of Education Faculty at the university, and Maiwand Farooq, a lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine at the university, were among those killed in the earth-shattering kaboom.

Sangin said three of the maimed are at death's door.

One of those maimed in the incident said the bomb was placed on the vehicle and exploded when they were on the way to Kabul.

No group has grabbed credit for the blast.

Most of those affected are lecturers from Alberoni University in Parwan province.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Horn
IED leaves three dead in Baidoa as SNA troops crush Al-shabaab in Middle Shebelle
[Garowe] An Improvised Explosive Device [IED] left three civilians dead in Baidoa, the regional administrative capital of Southwest state on Friday, state media reported, in yet another round of attacks targeting innocent people in Somalia.

The blast, authorities said, targeted a Khat market in Baidoa city center, leaving the three civilians dead and dozens of people injured. Those injured have been admitted to various hospitals within Southwest for urgent treatment, police said.

"Three non-combatants were killed, and Thirteen others sustained injuries in a bomb explosion in Baidoa town. Preliminary reports say the blast. An improvised bomb occurred at a khat market in the city center," state media reported.

It's not clear who the attackers targeted, but such attacks are synonymous with the al-Shabaab
...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
holy warriors, who control large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia. The al-Shabaab forces of Evil are yet to take responsibility for the attack.

The attack comes at the time Æthiopian National Defense Forces [ENDF] are plotting a major onslaught against the forces of Evil in coming weeks ahead of their exit after the implementation of the Somali Transition Plan [STP], which will see AMISOM troops hand over security responsibilities to Somali National Army [SNA].

Also, the earth-shattering kaboom comes just a day after Somalia's top leadership signed a pre-election pact which would see elections held within the next sixty days. In the past, politicians were magnanimous that al-Shabaab forces of Evil should be crushed by December 2022.

The al-Qaeda linked group has created havoc in the country, mainly targeting security forces, senior government officials, and even innocent civilians. 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...
on Tuesday termed the group as a "dangerous outfit" in a statement issued by UN envoy to Somalia James Swan.

At the same time, the Somali National Army crushed al-Shabaab forces of Evil in Gallabashiir village in Middle Shebelle on Friday, state media said, noting that at least 15 forces of Evil were killed and several injured during the operation.

During the operation, a senior commander told state media, the terror group suffered immense losses, including but not limited to destruction of their bases and confiscation of their fighting paraphernalia.

"Somali National Army killed 15 members of al-Shabaab in security operations at Gallabashiir village, in Middle Sh.region. SNA commanders say Lions of Islam suffered a huge loss in the operations. SNA destroyed Shabaab bases and recovered weapons as operations keep continuing."

The al-Shabaab holy warriors, who are notorious for responding to such reports, are yet to state the information. Somalia has been struggling to contain the forces of Evil since 2007, when they first struck in the Horn of Africa nation.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Africa Subsaharan
Islamic State in West Africa Now Dominates in Northeast Nigeria
[AllAfrica] 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....
in West Africa (ISWA) has announced that it has replaced Abubakar Shekau
...the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down. Last seen in 2017, sneaking into Cameroon while wearing a burka...
with Abu Musab al-Barnawi. Abu Musab "takes over all territories that were under Shekau.

The immediate replacement of Shekau was a major Dire Revenge against the former 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...
leader that exhibited 'highhandedness and ruthlessness' against humanity in the Northeast." The announcement also included that ISWA had arrested thirty top commanders that were loyal to Shekau.

It appears that ISWA has absorbed Shekau's faction. A credible hypothesis is that the thirty commanders "arrested" will either switch allegiance to Abu Musab or be killed, with the former alternative the more likely. ISWA is already the larger fighting force: in February 2019 it was estimated to boast around two to three times more fighters (3,500-5,000) than Shekau's faction (1,500-2,000).
Actual numbers — good to know.
It should be noted that there is still no definitive evidence that Shekau is dead. The Nigerian government has been careful to say that it is still investigating; no corpse, or even a picture of a corpse that might serve as proof of death, has been found. That said, there has been no statement by Shekau's supporters that he is still alive.

It remains to be seen whether this apparent consolidation of Boko Haram factions will make the movement more lethal and dangerous to the Nigerian state. Shekau's displacement or demise raises the question of what group now hold the more than one hundred Chibok schoolgirls that remain in captivity.
I thought all the Chibok girls had been sold on years ago, along with most of the other girls Boko Haram kidnapped over the years, while kidnapped boys were forced to become fighters. Didi I miss something?
It is to be hoped that there might be some movement toward their release.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)


Arabia
Arab Coalition Brigadier General Turki Al-Maliki says that the Iran-backed Houthi militia is spreading fabrications of fake victories
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Houthis takes control of dozens of positions in southern Saudi Arabia, 80+ Saudi casualties
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i sources reported on Friday night that the Yemeni army and popular committees had taken control of dozens of positions in southwestern Saudi 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. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
According to the reports, the Yemeni army and popular committees have liberated dozens of positions on the Jazan axis in Saudi Arabia following several large-scale offensive operations.

Yemeni forces have been able to force the Saudi military forces, Sudanese mercenaries, and other aggressor forces stationed along the border to flee in this large-scale operation.

The report added that Saudi forces had suffered heavy damages during these operations.

The report also states that various units of the Yemeni army took part in the operation and that more than 40 positions were released.

The Yemenis consider the Jizan, Najran
a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen. It is the capital of the province of the same name, a favored target of Houthi rocket forces because they can see it, so there's no math involved....
, and Aseer areas in southern Saudi Arabia to be occupied territories, which the first Yemeni president, former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
, ceded to Saudi Arabia.

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Caribbean-Latin America
US officials are monitoring two Iranian warships, which they suspect may be headed to Venezuela
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Oil industry workers, equipment and support/security forces. The Cubans and the IRGC will run Venezuela. And think of the mischief in the hemisphere.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/30/2021 13:55 Comments || Top||

#2  If JFK were in charge there would be a blockade up by zero dark thirty tomorrow.
Posted by: jpal || 05/30/2021 16:16 Comments || Top||


Colombia Four people die in and around protest-hit Cali as talks to end month-long demonstrations remain stalled
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Azerbaijan says one of its soldiers was wounded after Armenian forces opened fire along the border amid recent tensions between the two Caucasus countries
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Ottoman Proxies


Fifth Column
Tensions rise in Tulsa as Black Panthers and hundreds of black gun owners take part in 2nd Amendment march ahead of the 100th anniversary of city's race massacre
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Hundreds of black gun owners marched through downtown Tulsa to honor of the lives lost during the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

  • Members of the Black Panther party and over a dozen gun clubs marched down North Tulsa chanting 'Black Power' and 'Black Lives Matter'
    ... this makes it Fifth Column, not merely Great Cultural Revolution. Much like that group of Black separatists that started out “protecting” Stone Mountain, then recently appropriated some square blocks of downtown Austin as an independent Black homeland, ignoring the rights of the actual owners...
  • The march commemorated the 100th anniversary of the massacre that saw whites in Oklahoma city attacking the black Greenwood district and its residents

  • The Elmer Geronimo Pratt Gun Club of Austin, Texas and The New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense organized the march
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/30/2021 10:04 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good for them; they understand what the Second Amendment is about. Not sure who is getting tense, but they look pretty well behaved to me.
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/30/2021 12:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Probably 'tense' for the members of the main stream media.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/30/2021 15:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Moved to Fifth Column. This is the intersection of Black Panthers and BLM, not your anodyne 2nd Amendment civil rights celebration remembering a very ugly event in our country’s history.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/30/2021 16:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Not enough racial divisiveness for you? Let's go to the wayback machine Mr. Peabody and see if we can't dig up some more.
Posted by: jpal || 05/30/2021 16:23 Comments || Top||

#5  How about a march to stop the slaughter that happens EVERY WEEKEND in Chicago.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 05/30/2021 20:10 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iraqi forces nab 12 ISIS in Nineveh
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Rudaw adds:
Almost 100 ISIS-linked families were repatriated from al-Hol camp in northeast Syria (Rojava) on Tuesday, sent to al-Jada camp near Qayyara in Nineveh. The move has sparked criticism, including from Yazidi survivors of ISIS captivity.

In its weekly propaganda newspaper al-Naba, released on Thursday, ISIS claimed it had carried out 16 attacks in Iraq from May 20 to 26, killing and injuring 33 people.
Posted by: Fred || 05/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Missile remnants of the US C-RAM hits a hospital in Baghdad
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] A security source reported on Saturday that missile remnants from the US C-RAM system fell on a government hospital in the center of Baghdad.

The American Embassy in Baghdad had activated the system earlier today.

The source told Alghadeer News that the missile remnants fell on the emergency hospital of al-Karama in central Baghdad but no casualties or injuries were registered.

The source indicated that Rescue Services patrolled the area to make sure that no remnants had fallen on residential areas and that there were no victims among civilians.

It informed Alghadeer News, "The embassy located in the high-security diplomat square in Baghdad, activated the system and alarm sirens as a part of a security drill."

The inhabitants of neighboring areas were able to hear the alarm sirens.

The US C-RAM or counter-RAM system is a set of systems used to detect and/or destroy incoming rockets, artillery, and mortar rounds in the air before they hit their ground targets, or simply provide early warning to protect areas of high importance.
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IRGC-linked Mashregh News citing ''Palestinian activists'' reports that Palestinian militants buried Yemeni national Husayn al-Wa'eli
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] was he dead?
Wait... what???
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#1  "first Yemeni martyr in path of liberating Jerusalem."

We endeavor to please.
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Cops arrest first suspect in firebombing of Jewish home in Lod
[IsraelTimes] Police have made a first arrest following the Molotov cocktailing of a Jewish home in the ethnically mixed central city of Lod.

The suspect is an Arab Israeli in his 20s, according to the Kan public broadcaster.

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Philippine Military, Police Capture 9 Suspected IS Militants
[BenarNews] Nine suspected Filipino forces of Evil belonging to the local 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....
chapter were captured after a brief firefight in the southern Philippines on Saturday but two sub-leaders of the group escaped, the military said.

The police, backed by army and navy commandoes, launched a dawn raid in Tuburan, a town in Lanao del Sur province, to catch Daulah Islamiyah-Maute Group (DI-MG) sub-leaders Farahufon Hadji Satar (alias Abu Omar) and Muna Kali (alias Abu Dimam), said Lt. Gen. Corleto Vinluan Jr., chief of the military’s Western Mindanao Command.
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Indonesia Releases Iranian, Panamanian Tankers Intercepted in Illegal Oil Transfer at Sea
[BenarNews] Indonesia released two oil-tanker captains from China and Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
as well as their vessels, days after a court convicted them for carrying out an unauthorized ship-to-ship petroleum transfer in Indonesian waters four months ago, the coasties said Saturday.

The Panama-flagged MT Freya and the Iranian-flagged MT Horse crude-oil tankers set sail from Indonesian waters with both captains aboard, Adm. Aan Kurni, the commander of Indonesia’s Maritime Security Agency (Bakamla), told BenarNews.

"They returned to their home countries on Friday," he said.

A Bakamla ship, the KN Pulau Dana-323, escorted the foreign tankers and their captains as they departed Indonesian waters from Batu Ampar port, in Batam Island, Aan said.

On Tuesday, a court in Batam handed suspended sentences of one year each to Chinese national Chen Yo Qun, captain of the Freya, and Mehdi Monghasemjahromi, captain of the Horse, after finding them guilty of violating Indonesia’s navigational rules by conducting an oil transfer at sea without a permit in late January.

The Indonesian coasties seized the ships and their crews after catching them carrying out the operation in waters off West Kalimantan, an Indonesian province on Borneo Island.

The two captains will not have to serve time in prison unless they are caught committing a similar offense during the next two years, the court ruled on May 25.

The court also ordered Captain Chen to pay a fine of 2 billion rupiah (U.S. $140,000) for dumping oil in territorial waters.

On Jan. 24, Bakamla intercepted the two foreign ships after detecting that the tankers’ identification systems were turned off near West Kalimantan, and discovered that an illegal oil transfer was under way, authorities said then.

In February, Indonesian government officials said that the violations committed by both tankers included transferring oil ship-to-ship, concealing the vessels’ origin, turning off their automatic identification systems (AIS), and spilling oil.

Thirty-six Iranian nationals crewed the Horse, while 25 Chinese nationals crewed the Freya, officials said. The Panama-flagged tanker is owned and managed by a firm listed as the Shanghai Future Ship Management Co., according to information from MarineTraffic.com.

"We were not involved in the court’s decision. What is clear is that the ships were found guilty, and it was the court’s decision that allowed them to return home," Aan, the coasties chief, said.

Iran’s state-run Islamic Theocratic Republic News Agency (IRNA) confirmed on Saturday that the MT Horse, which is owned by the National Iranian Tanker Co., was released Friday after 125 days in Indonesian custody.

"The tanker resumed its mission and will return home once their mission is complete," IRNA said.

An Indonesian attorney for Monghasemjahromi, Elindo Saragih, confirmed that his client had departed the country.

"They left Indonesia yesterday," he said.

Iran has been accused in recent years of violating U.S. sanctions on its oil exports by hiding the international movements of its tankers through turning off their automatic identification systems.

Bakamla said it had become more vigilant after a Chinese survey ship went through Indonesia’s exclusive economic in January with its AIS turned off.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Pro-Iranian militias in Syria's Deir ez-Zor receive reinforcements
[NPASYRIA] On Saturday, militias backed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), received new military and logistic reinforcements in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria, which is under the control of the Syrian government forces.

"Eight trucks loaded with medium and heavy ammunition, in addition to logistic materials entered Syrian territory," Khaled al-Hassan, a pseudonym for a member of Liwa Fatemiyoun, told North Press.

"These reinforcements were provided by the IRGC-backed Iraqi Popular Mobilization to Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba and Liwa Fatemiyoun in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor," he added.

The trucks entered Syria through illegal crossings in the vicinity of Abu Kamal in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor near the Iraqi border, and they were put in the designated warehouses for food materials of the IRGC, according to the source.

The aim of these reinforcements is to fight ISIS sleeper cells and to enhance the militias’ influence in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor, as well, the source noted.

These trucks will be unloaded and then the materials will be distributed to the headquarters and military points, as well as the ammunition depots in the eastern and western countryside of Deir ez-Zor.

The trucks were patrolled by Liwa Fatemiyoun and Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba when entering the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.

On April 11, the pro-Iranian factions in eastern Syria, received logistic and military assistance.

Those reinforcements consisted of Hummer military vehicles, medium and heavy machine guns with ammunition, in addition to medical and first aid materials, according to local sources.
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