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Knickerbocker storm
The Knickerbocker storm was a blizzard on January 27–28, 1922 in the upper South and middle Atlantic United States. The storm took its name from the resulting collapse of the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington, D.C. shortly after 9 p.m. on January 28 which killed 98 people and injured 133.
Type:
Extratropical cyclone, Blizzard
Formed:
January 27, 1922
Dissipated:
January 29, 1922
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On a Lighter Note, Other Knickerbocker(s)
Knickerbocker Glory : Harry Potter - Fictitiously Delicious
Knickerbocker Bock Flat Top Beer
1940 Ruppert Knickerbocker beer stein
Heringbone knickerbocker
Knickerbocker Bar & Grill, New York
1962 Knickerbocker One Design
Knickerbocker Holiday Highlights
CITY Boots Knickerbocker Women's Navy Cowboy Boots
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Reminds me of the spring I left the Colorado mountains. Three day blizzard dumped 5 feet of snow. The Dodge would push through the fresh powder but I couldn't open the doors. Had to climb in and out the windows.
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Late entry for Things Knickerbocker
From The Oldest Bar in Every State
Knickerbocker Saloon, Lafayette Indiana (Est. 1835)
Reading the liquor license displayed on the wall in Indiana's oldest watering hole may be the only time you’ll see the words 'Knickerbocker" and "No. 1" in the same sentence this century. Even better, if you're a history buff, that liquor license was the first one issued in the entire state. Which makes sense, given it's the oldest bar.
[KhaamaPress] UN deputy rights chief Nada al-Nashif said that there are credible allegations that over one hundred extrajudicial killings of the former security forces in Afghanistan have been carried out between August and November.
The UN has said that the Taliban ...Arabic for students... are blamed for 72 of the killings among over one hundred that also include people that are associated with the former Afghan government.
Speaking to UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday, December 14 al-Nashif said that she was alarmed by the allegations under the Taliban rule despite their general amnesty announced by them after they recaptured power on 15 August.
She claimed that in several cases dead bodies are hanged and publicly displayed in particular in the eastern 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.
"In Nangarhar province alone, there... appears to be a pattern of at least 50 extrajudicial killings of individuals suspected to be members of the ISIS-KP," she said, with reports of "brutal methods... including hanging, beheadings, and public display of corpses".
On the other hand, spokesperson of Afghanistan’s foreign ministry Abdul Qahar Balkhi denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! and added that the government is fully committed to the decree of amnesty and added that anyone accused of the breach of the decree will be prosecuted.
[LIBYAREVIEW] On Tuesday, a medical source at the Sebha Medical Center said that they received two deceased and seven maimed cases, as a result of the armed festivities that took place in the city at dawn.The source explained in a statement to ’Akhbar Libya 24’ that one of the dear departed was a civilian, who was struck by a stray bullet. He added that two of the maimed were also civilians, who were able to receive the necessary medical care and left the hospital, after being hit by shrapnel.
A senior military source confirmed the outbreak of armed festivities between units of the Libyan National Army (LNA) and an gang affiliated with the Government of National Unity (GNU).
The source said that the 116th Battalion, led by Masoud al-Jadi attempted to attack LNA positions in the city. The military source added that "the army forces managed to defeat the attack, after armed festivities which lasted about two hours."
Medium and heavy weapons were used, causing an exodus from the nearby "Al-Qarda" area, while artillery shells continued to be fired between the two parties randomly.
In late November, the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said that it was following the continued closure of Sebha’s Court of Appeal, "with great concern."
In a statement, UNSMIL said that an gang has reportedly violent mostly peacefully obstructed the work of the judiciary in the city. It claimed that judges were physically prevented from entering the building, directly impeding the electoral process.
The mission added that it was alarmed by the increasing reports of intimidation and threats against judges and judicial employees, particularly those dealing with electoral-related complaints, across Libya.
It strongly condemned all acts aimed at jeopardising the integrity of the electoral process, and preventing Libyans from exercising their democratic rights safely.
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Urban Sebha is five hundred miles south from Tripoli. It is under neither GNU or LNA control and no one has come up with an idea to eliminate or at least reduce its lawlessness. There exists no Libyan Wyatt Earp walking into Tombstone to clean up the joint, and Libya's forthcoming elections promise no surcease.
Armed Gunmen Reportedly Surround Libyan Prime Minister Dbeibeh's Office in Tripoli
[SPUTNIKNEWS] According to local reports, a group of armed button men has surrounded the Presidential Council building in the Libyan capital city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... Photos shared on social media purported to show armed button men in technicals posted up around the offices of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, leader of the Government of National Unity.
Video purported to be of the button men at the site was also shared on social media, along with footage of the technical convoy on the highway.
According to al-Arabiya, power has been cut to the building as well.
Sky News Arabia reported that Salah Badi ...a Misrata militia commander, self-appointed colonel and a member of the Wafa Islamist bloc. He was cashiered from the Libyan army in 1992 because he was nuts... , leader of the al-Samoud Brigade militia, announced on Wednesday night that there would be no presidential elections in Libya and the UN-sanctioned group would close all state institutions in Tripoli.
Elections are presently scheduled for December 24, but earlier on Wednesday, the head of the Interior Affairs Committee in the Libyan House of Representatives warned the country wouldn't be ready to hold elections by then and called on the government to accept the situation. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said earlier that a postponement of the elections would be acceptable provided the outcome is accepted.
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May 30, 2019 — One of the militias supported by Turkey is the al-Samoud Brigade led by Salah Badi, who was put on a UN sanctions list late last year.
[AlAhram] Tunisia's navy rescued 78 migrants colonists on Wednesday and retrieved the body of another after their boat sank off the country's coast during a bid to reach Europe, the defence ministry said.
The migrants colonists, mostly Bangladeshis and Egyptians aged from 12-45, had set off the previous night from Abu Kammash just across the border in neighbouring Libya near Zawara, it said.
A decade of lawlessness in Libya has turned it into a major launchpad for migrants colonists attempting to reach Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... by sea.
The latest rescue follows a string of similar Tunisian operations to thwart sea crossings or to save migrants colonists in unseaworthy boats.
They had "intended to slip across the maritime border in the direction of Europe," but their boat ran into trouble 20 kilometres (12 miles) off the coast south of Tunisia's second city of Sfax, the ministry said.
It said the migrants colonists had been taken to the port of El-Ketef and handed to the national guard.
The body of the dead migrant, an Egyptian, was handed to municipal authorities, it said.
The Tunisian Red Islamic Thingy told AFP another migrant was missing.
Tunisia is also a key departure point, just 140 kilometres from the Italian island of Lampedusa.
According to the FTDES rights group, the Tunisian coasties intercepted about 19,500 people attempting to cross the Mediterranean in the first nine months of this year.
It said the trend had accelerated since the establishment in June of a direct line of communication between Rome and Tunis to coordinate efforts against illegal immigration and share information.
[SAHARAREPORTERS] Violence erupted on Tuesday evening when irate youths went on rampage at Sabon Gari area of Kano State.
Sabon Gari, inhabited largely by non-indigenes, is the epicenter of ethnic and religious violence in the state.
Security sources told Daily Nigerian that the crisis began when officials of Hisbah went to make arrest at a red light district of Ballat Hughes Road.
"At the moment, I can’t tell you specifically what transpired between the Hisbah officials and the youth. All I can say is that the Hisbah operation went awry, and youth started attacking and burning places," a security agent said.
Witnesses said there was stampede around Sabon Gari area as bonfires were set by hoodlums.
Some sources noted that some people were killed and many others injured in the clash.
The front man for Kano State Police Command, Abdullahi Kiyawa, did not respond to our telephone calls.
#Breaking 🇸🇦 | The Royal Saudi Air Force conducted an airstrike on Houthis targets in Sanaa and Marib, an air defence system was destroyed in southern Marib. pic.twitter.com/UZOIiOAwbJ
The Arab Coalition intercepted and destroyed two missiles launched by #Yemen’s #Houthi militias targeting the southern city of Abha in #SaudiArabia, state news agency SPA reports.https://t.co/ykgxDHgKAl
[Breitbart] Abdul Elahi, a serial blackmailer who targeted 2,000 victims online, forcing them to self-harm and engage in paedophilic activity, was tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! after admitting 158 charges committed against 72 victims.
Abdul Elahi, 26, forced his victims, around 550 of whom were British, to send degrading images of themselves or others to him.
The National Crime Agency (NCA), roughly equivalent to America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... ), said that Elahi would target vulnerable people, such the underage and people in debt, by posing as a wealthy individual on ’sugar daddy’ websites and promising large sums of cash for indecent photos.
After he obtained the photos, Elahi would use them as blackmail to extort more extreme photos and horrific videos from his victims, demanding that they film themselves self-harming and/or physically abusing young children and younger siblings, for example.
If victims refused to send Elahi what he demanded he would become aggressive and threaten to send their explicit photos and videos to their families and friends.
When his victims begged for mercy or said they were suicidal, Elahi would laugh at and ridicule them.
Elahi would sell this content via encrypted platforms and made upwards of £25,000 in the process. One customer alone purchased over 1,000 hours of ’box set’ content from Elahi.
When questioned in court Elahi admitted that he viewed his "sadistic" crimes as a job and was "trying to make as much money" as he possibly could.
His victims ranged from eight-month-old babies to adults, and detectives believe there are many more victims to be discovered.
More than 67,000 images were recovered from Elahi’s hard drives and victims are believed to be from around thirty different countries.
Sentencing judge Sarah Buckingham described Abdul Elahi as the "very worst type of predatory offender ever identified thus far".
She told Elahi he had "plainly derived pleasure from the agony you caused — with complete disregard for your victims’ suffering," and that there was "a sadistic element to your offending, demonstrated through the blackmail and the relentless targeting of children and young adults."
"The abhorrent nature of your crimes warrants an extremely long sentence for the protection of the public," she said, handing down a reported sentence of 32 years — although he will be eligible for release after serving only two-thirds of it.
The NCA had been working with the Revenge Porn Helpline for over two and a half years in an attempt to remove Elahi’s content from social media and pornography sites. They have so far removed 135,000 individual images.
"This content is some of the most extreme that the helpline has ever dealt with," the helpline has said.
Elahi’s co-defendant Kirsty Nicholls, 35, of Northolt, west London was also sentenced to a notional six years and nine months for her role in assisting Elahi create indecent images of children, with the prosecution noting she had willing abused a young boy on camera for Elahi in a BDSM-style performance and "even made suggestions as to what to do in the next video" for him.
A shootout broke out between holy warriors and security forces in Redwani Bala area of south 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.... 's Kulgam district on Wednesday night.
According to news agency GNS the encounter broke out shortly after a joint team of police and army launched a cordon and search operation in the area following a tip off about the presence of holy warriors there.
As per sources, two holy warriors are believed to be trapped in the area.
In a statement, the Agency said, "in cooperation with the Muthanna Police Directorate, our forces thwarted an attempt to blow up the natural gas pipeline between the governorates of Baghdad and Basra in the area of al-Jarbouiya, of al-Muthanna governorate."
The statement indicated that an explosives expert in al-Muthanna Police dismantled the device without human or material losses.
[SHAFAQ] Ottoman Turkish aircraft reportedly rocked sites inside the territory of the Kurdistan Region earlier today, Wednesday.
A source told Shafaq News Agency that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... 's warplanes bombarded sites in Jala Sur in Mount Matin that overlooks the Amadiyah district, north of Duhok.
"Apparently, the attack targeted sites of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), but no information is available on the damages until the moment," the source said.
[Rudaw] A Syrian refugee was found rubbed out in the early hours of Wednesday morning in the notorious al-Hol camp in northeast Syria (Rojava), a conflict monitor reported while noting a string of recent murders at the camp.
A Syrian woman was shot full of holes in the fourth section of al-Hol, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Wednesday.
The monitor attributes the recent murder to 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.... (ISIS) sleeper cells that are active in the camp.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) arrested thousands of ISIS fighters and their wives and children when they took control of the group’s last stronghold in Syria in March 2019. Most of these people are held at al-Hol, which is home to more than 60,000 people - mostly women and kiddies of different nationalities.
The death of the Syrian woman is one of several recent incidents of murder at the camp. Three other killings have been reported in the camp this month.
The body of an unidentified woman was found in the sewage complex of the camp on Tuesday, according to SOHR. Another Syrian woman and an Iraqi man were killed in al-Hol earlier in December.
An Iraqi child and two Iraqi women were also killed in al-Hol when a water tank crashed into their tent in November, Save the Children reported.
The camp has been branded a breeding ground for terrorism.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch... ’s Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi ordered the country’s General Security to deport members of Bahrain’s Shia Wefaq opposition party after they held a conference that sparked the ire of Manama, state-run media reported Wednesday.
The order was sent in a letter from Mawlawi to General Security to deport the non-Lebanese members of the party, Lebanon’s National News Agency said.
Mawlawi’s move came as a result of the presser held in Beirut on Dec. 12, 2021, which "harms relations between Lebanon and the Kingdom of Bahrain and [negatively] impacts Lebanon’s national interests."
Last week, Bahrain’s Foreign Ministry denounced Lebanon for hosting a presser for individuals it described as "hostile personnel" on terror lists with the purpose of "broadcasting and promoting abusive and malicious allegations against the Kingdom of Bahrain."
Mawlawi held a call with his Bahraini counterpart on Wednesday.
The latest incident also comes after Bahrain, and a number of other Gulf states asked Lebanese diplomats to leave, against the backdrop of a series of statements and stances issued by Lebanese officials.
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[JPost] The latest airstrike comes just over a week after an alleged Israeli airstrike targeted containers at the Latakia port in northwestern Syria.
A Syrian soldier was killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike targeting sites in southern Syria on Wednesday night, according to the Syrian state news agency SANA. Material damage was also reported.
The report claimed that most of the Israeli missiles were shot down by Syrian air defenses.
Most. Oh dear.
A military cargo flight from Tehran reportedly landed in Damascus earlier on Wednesday. Israeli airstrikes often take place after flights between Tehran and Damascus, as the flights often carry military equipment to Syria meant for pro-Iranian militias in Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The latest airstrike comes just over a week after an alleged Israeli airstrike targeted containers at the Latakia port in northwestern Syria. The Latakia area is a stronghold for Russian forces in Syria, with the Russian Khmeimim Air Base located near Latakia.
Last week, Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad warned that Israel would respond to Israeli airstrikes against Syria, saying that such attacks "could not go unanswered."
In November, a number of alleged Israeli airstrikes targeted Syria, with a number of casualties reported.
Over the past year, while Israeli strikes have intensified in Syria, the response time by Syrian air defense batteries has become quicker, leading the Israel Air Force to change how it acts during such operations — including by having larger formations so that more targets can be struck at once during an operation instead of having jets return to the same target.
Iran has begun deploying advanced anti-aircraft missile batteries to the region in an attempt to challenge Israeli jets.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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...Arabic for 
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...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 
...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch...
[JPost] The latest airstrike comes just over a week after an alleged Israeli airstrike targeted containers at the Latakia port in northwestern Syria.
