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Ethel Ruby Keeler was a Canadian-American actress, dancer, and singer known for her on-screen pairing with Dick Powell in a string of successful early musicals at Warner Brothers, particularly 42nd Street. From 1928 to 1940, she was married to actor and singer Al Jolson. She retired from show business in the 1940s, but made a widely publicized comeback on Broadway in 1971.
Born: Ethel Ruby Keeler, August 25, 1909, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Died: February 28, 1993, Rancho Mirage, California, U.S.
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I'd say Edith Ruby Keeler, a great deal more respectable than:
Christine Margaret Keeler was an English model and showgirl. Her meeting at a dance-club with society osteopath Stephen Ward drew her into fashionable circles. At the height of the Cold War, she became sexually involved with a married government minister, John Profumo, as well as with a Soviet naval attaché, Yevgeny Ivanov.
Born: Christine Margaret Keeler, February 22, 1942, Uxbridge, Middlesex, England
Died: December 4, 2017, Locksbottom, Greater London, England
Ibrahim Ghandour, head of #Sudan’s disbanded former ruling National Congress Party and a former foreign minister, has been re-arrested less than a day after he had been released from jail, according to a source from his family.https://t.co/ZtsARLDfHn
#Ethiopia’s government says rebellious #Tigrayan forces had killed 100 youths in Kombolcha, one of two towns the rebel group says it captured over the weekend.https://t.co/dPY6rt2vC1
[AlAhram] Tribal protesters on Monday lifted their weekslong blockade on Sudan's main seaport and oil pipelines, and reopened roads linking the port to the rest of the country, a tribal leader said, following a deal with the military to remove the barricades for one month.
The development comes a week after the military dissolved the transitional government in a widely condemned coup in Sudan that threatens to further derail the country's already fragile transition after a popular uprising forced the removal of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir ...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hee was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it... in April 2019.
Pro-democracy activists have accused the military of engineering the port blockade and another pro-military protest outside the presidential place in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, to deflect from their military takeover of the country.
Kamal Sayed, secretary general of the Baja tribal council, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named the tribal leaders have reached a deal with the military to lift the blockade of the Red Sea port and oil pipelines, and reopen roads in the eastern city of Port Sudan for one month, to allow the formation of a new government.
The council represents six nomadic tribes that live in northeastern Sudan where the port is located. They have held street protests in Port Sudan for the past two months, setting up barricades and staying out on the streets to block the port, a lifeline for the country, oil pipelines and major roads.
The protesters demand the military fully dissolve the transitional government of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, whom the army put under house arrest following the coup. They also demand that a peace deal struck last year with a rebel alliance in the east be renegotiated.
The generals have denied accusations of engineering the port blockade, saying that the protesters' demands in Port Sudan and in Khartoum are legitimate and should be negotiated politically.
In the weeks before the coup, Hamdok's government and the UN had tried unsuccessfully to negotiate the reopening of the port and the key roads.
Sayed, the tribal official, said the makeshift barricades at the port's terminals and the main highway liking Port Sudan to Khartoum was removed on Monday morning. He said the barricades would be reinstated if their demands are not met.
The blockade has caused food and fuel shortages across Sudan, with the government warning last month the country was running out of essential goods, including medicines, food and wheat.
Meanwhile in Khartoum, a semblance of normality has returned, with several roads and bridges reopened after weeklong tensions and protests against the military's takeover.
The US Embassy in Khartoum said that movement in and around Khartoum has improved since Saturday, but that military checkpoints remain in place in several areas. Also, protesters have continued to set up makeshift barricades in some neighborhoods around Khartoum.
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The impoverished Hadendowa -- a subdivision of the Beja people, known for their support of the Mahdiyyah rebellion during the 1880s to 1890s -- are very unhappy. They reap few of the benefits from activity at Port Sudan. In all, the Beja total close to two million subjects in east=coastal Sudan and Eritrea. Give them weapons and they could be formidable.
[Garowe] Æthiopia’s prime minister has called on his supporters to redouble their efforts in the country’s civil war, as rebel forces claimed to have seized key cities that control a major highway toward the capital.
A move on the capital, Addis Ababa, would signal a new phase in the war that has killed thousands of people since fighting broke out almost a year ago between Æthiopian government troops and Tigray forces in the country’s northern region.
The prime minister’s spokeswoman, Billene Seyoum, did not immediately respond to a question Monday about the government leader’s current whereabouts or travel plans.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in a statement on Sunday said federal troops are fighting on four fronts against the Tigray forces and that "we should know that our enemy’s main strength is our weakness and unpreparedness."
The Tigray forces this weekend told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named they were poised to physically link up with another gang, the Oromo Liberation Army, with which it struck an alliance earlier this year. The Tigray forces now claim to control the key cities of Dessie and Kombolcha, though the federal government disputes this claim.
The fighting could reach the Oromo region that neighbors the country’s capital. Ethnic Oromo once hailed Abiy as the country’s first Oromo prime minister, but discontent has since emerged with the jailing of outspoken ethnic leaders.
Also on Sunday, the government of the Amhara region, where fighting has been focused since Tigray forces retook much of their own region in June, ordered almost all government institutions to stop their regular activities and join the war effort. It also banned most activities in cities and towns after 8 p.m.
The Tigray forces say they are pressuring Æthiopia’s government to lift a months-long blockade on their region of around 6 million people.
Tigray leaders long dominated the national government before Ahmed took office in 2018.
[AnNahar] 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... on Monday executed a man convicted of trying to shoot dead security forces and weapons charges, with alleged links to figures accused of terrorist activities, state media reported.
He was executed in Dammam in the Eastern Province, which has seen bouts of unrest since 2011 when mostly Moslem Shiite protesters emboldened by the Arab Spring uprisings erupted into the streets.
The demonstrators demanded an end to what they called discrimination by the Sunni-dominated government, a charge Riyadh denies.
The Saudi man who was executed "took part in two shooting operations against security forces with an intent to kill" and "in dealing and possessing weapons," the interior ministry said.
He was "linked to people wanted for terrorism-related activities", the ministry added in its statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.
Human rights group Amnesia Amnesty International said in August that at least 40 people were executed between January and July in Saudi Arabia, more than for the whole of 2020.
More than 60 people have been executed this year in the kingdom, according to an AFP tally based on official statements.
Saudi Arabia put 184 people to death in 2019, according to Amnesty, which has said it was the highest number recorded in a single year in the country.
Earlier this year, Saudi Arabia's state-run Human Rights Commission said it had documented 27 executions in 2020, a decrease over the previous year due in part to a moratorium on the death penalty for drug offences.
[AnNahar] At least 22 people were killed in a Huthi rebel missile strike on a mosque south of the strategic 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 city of Marib, officials said on Monday.
"Twenty-two people, including children, were killed and 19 others were maimed in a Huthi missile attack on a mosque... in al-Jawba district" on Sunday night, a pro-government military official told AFP.
Yemen's Information Minister Muammar al-Eryani said on Twitter that 29 people were killed in the attack.
Possibly the same attack, reported a few hours earlier:
[AnNahar] At least 10 non-combatants were killed and 25 maimed when two ballistic missiles from Yemen's Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels stuck a religious educational facility in the central province of Marib, officials said Monday.
The missiles hit Dar al-Hadith - a religious school and a mosque - in the residential neighborhood of al-Aumd late Sunday and the casualties included women and kiddies, they said.
The attack also damaged nearby houses, said the officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief media.
There was no immediate comment from the Iranian-backed Houthis, who have attempted for months to take oil-rich Marib to complete their control over the northern half of Yemen.
The facility includes a religious school and a mosque attended by about 1,200 Moslem students from across the country. Most of the students and teachers left the area last month as the Houthis made progress in their offensive on Marib.
Muammar al-Iryani, information minister of the internationally recognized government, said the casualties included women and kiddies.
"This horrific massacre comes after a series of systematic killings of civilians that the terrorist Houthi militia committed in the past few days" in the government-held cities of Marib and Taiz, he said.
A Houthi ballistic missile struck the house of a key tribal leader in al-Aumd on Thursday, killing at least 11 civilians and wounding 16 others.
On Saturday, the Houthis shelled the residential Camp neighborhood on the outskirts of the government-held city of Taiz, killing at least three children from the same family. At least six other children were maimed, according to al-Iryani.
Meanwhile in Tazi, government forces and allied tribal fighters launched an offensive late Sunday on the last remaining pocket held by the Houthis on the city's the south western outskirts.
The government-run SABA news agency reported Monday that at least seven Houthi fighters were killed including a field commander, and six others were maimed.
[Breitbart] German federal police apprehended 23 migrants colonists along the German-Polish border on Sunday morning and detained two suspected traffickers, German news agency dpa reported.
Among the people discovered inside a van during a routine checkup were several children, police said. All the migrants colonists were from Iraq, while the two suspected traffickers were Syrians. The car was stopped near the east German border town of Goerlitz.
The driver of the car and his lover companion initially fled during the police control but were later detained and the van was confiscated, dpa reported.
Last week, police found found an Iraqi man dead inside a small truck near the Polish border in a suspected people-smuggling effort gone wrong.
Police found the body after officers spotted about 30 people getting out of the truck, also near Goerlitz. The 42-year-old driver of the vehicle is being sought.
Authorities in Germany have registered an increase in people illegally entering from Poland in recent weeks. On some days, officers have picked up several hundred people a day.
Many of those picked up by police are Iraqis and Syrians who flew to Belarus and then crossed into Poland before traveling west to Germany in the hope of claiming asylum there.
In October alone, almost 5,000 people were stopped while crossing the border from Poland into Germany, dpa reported.
[AlAhram] Bulgaria on Monday deployed 350 soldiers to the border with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... to help police cope with the growing influx of migrants colonists, the defence minister announced.
"Soldiers arrived at the Bulgarian-Ottoman Turkish border since today to back up the border police," Georgi Panayotov told the private bTV channel.
The 350 troops deployed with 40 units of equipment, he added.
This year has already seen more than 6,500 people cross illegally into Bulgaria, three times the numbers for the first nine months of 2020, according to the interior ministry.
The east European country sits on one of the main routes migrants colonists use to enter the EU from the Middle East and Afghanistan.
Bulgaria is an external border for the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... . A partly damaged barbed-wire fence runs the length of the 259-kilometre (161-mile) frontier with Turkey.
Parliament agreed in August on the dispatch of 400-700 soldiers on the borders with Greece and Turkey, mainly to help build fencing.
Bulgaria is the poorest EU member state and has never taken in large numbers of asylum-seekers, most of whom try to move on through the EU before waiting for a response from Sofia on their refugee status.
EU countries have feared an influx of people from Afghanistan since the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... seized control on August 15, with memories still fresh from the migrant crisis that shook Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... in 2015.
[OneIndia] A Special NIA Court in Patna has awarded a death penalty to four Indian Mujahideen A locally recruited auxilliary of Pakistain's Lashkar-e-Taiba, designed to give a domestic patina to Pakistain's terror war against its bigger neighbor... operatives in connection with the 2013 Gandhi Maidan serial blasts. It may be recalled that the blasts took place just before Narendra Modi, the then prime ministerial candidate was to deliver an address during the Hunkar rally.
The court had last week convicted 9 persons in the case. Two other holy warriors were sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment, two to 10 years RI and one more was awarded a seven year sentence.
While 9 were convicted, one person Fakhruddin has been acquitted in the case. The sentencing of the nine accused including Haider Ali, Numan Ansari, Majibullah, Umar Siddiqui, Firoz Aslam and Imtiaz Alam will take place on November 1.
Six people were killed and scores were maimed in the serial blasts that took place in Patna, Bihar on October 27 2013. The rally however went on with Modi delivering the address, thanks to which a stampede was avoided at the packed Gandhi Maidan. The speech also calmed the nerves of the people present there.
The Indian Mujahideen was accused of carrying out the blasts. Nine IM operatives and a cadre of the Students Islamic Movement of India were made arraigned as accused in the case.
Haider Ali alias Black Beauty, Human Ansari, Mohammad Ansari, Umar Siddiqui, Azharuddin Qureshi, Faqruddin Mohammad, Ahmed Ansari, Mohammad Alam were identified as the accused. The identity of one accused was protected as he was a minor. The minor was sentenced to three years by the Juvenile Justice Board.
One accused, Tariq Ansari died while trying to plant a bomb inside a public toilet in Patna. The accused are currently launched in a Patna jail.
The case was taken up by the NIA on November 6 2013 and a chargesheet was filed on August 21 2014. The NIA said that the accused had planned the Patna blasts after they failed to get close to Modi during his previous rallies in Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Delhi.
In this case there were 250 prosecution witnesses all of whom deposed before the court. In all there were 17 IEDS of which seven had been detonated.
#Iraq’s supreme court sentences a man to death by hanging for the murder of two journalists covering anti-government protests in the southern city of Basra last year.https://t.co/fwKb1QGWTa
[IsraelTimes] Shin Bet says suspect entered Israel to visit his ailing mother in the West Bank but stayed illegally and was recruited by al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades terror group.
Israeli security forces arrested and charged a Paleostinian man from the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip suspected of committing two arson attacks in the central Israeli city of Ramle in September and October, the Shin Bet security service said Monday.
According to the Shin Bet, the suspect — Suleiman Kassab, 29
…alternate spelling Saleiman Kasab…
— entered Israel with a permit but then remained in the country illegally.
Kassab was charged with carrying out two arson attacks in Ramle, one on September 30 and another on October 4. In the September attack, he is suspected of setting fire to a number of ceremonial booths, or sukkot, that had been set up for the Jewish festival of the same name, and in October, he is believed to have set fire to a bus.
No one was injured in either of the attacks.
According to the Shin Bet, Kassab had been recruited by the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades terror group to conduct "serious attacks in Israel," such as bombings, kidnappings and shootings. However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... he had received neither weaponry nor funding from the group in order to carry them out.
Kassab was arrested on October 12 and was indicted for arson on Monday by the Central District state attorney.
He first entered Israel in January 20 in order to visit his ailing mother, who was receiving medical care in the West Bank.
"This case joins previous arrests of Gaza residents who entered Israel for humanitarian reasons and were recruited to carry out terror attacks in Israel. This stresses the clear potential threat from [Paleostinians] illegally living in Israel," the Shin Bet said.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to 
...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...
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
