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The Rockettes are an American precision dance company. Founded in 1925 in St. Louis, they have performed at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, since 1932. Until 2015, they also had a touring company.
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A poetical man of New Haven
One drear Christmas Eve was still slaving,
When, up on the roof,
What a racket! Then, "Oof!"
'Twas a huge aboriginal raven.
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Whether you celebrate on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, or cherish the opportunity for a quiet Chinese dinner and a movie, I wish you and yours all the merry and happy and peace on Earth.
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Chinese Communist Party set to attack should Santa Claus attempt to breach Chinese territory ---CCP Hyper Missiles WILL confront this running Dog of Global Capitalism - Per The Peking Times
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No Offence. but buy our crappy stuff, after all we consider ourselves Santa's Elves ay this time of year, Communist Capitalism notwithstanding, Ya'll.
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Whether you celebrate on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.
Said a prayer of thanks when I got out of the Publix parking lot yesterday. Celebration began right after the Christmas Day Feast supplies were in the fridge.
However ya celebrate, all y'all, celebrate so hard that Pope Fauxi gets gout. And a migraine. Until Easter.
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ISIS, rebels refusing to submit to the Talib conquest, former Afghan army special forces? A girl who just wanted to go to high school? Trapped Americans taking their vengeance? Lots of possibilities to give the Talib Lions of Islam nightmares...
[AlAhram] A would-be jacket wallah was rubbed out Thursday outside Kabul's main passport office, police said, as hundreds of Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters lined up for travel documents on a day reserved exclusively for their applications.
"He was identified and killed at a checkpoint at the entrance," Mobin Khan, front man for Kabul police, told AFP.
There have been several attacks against Taliban fighters since their return to power in August -- most claimed by the local chapter of 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.... group.
Around 200 Taliban fighters had gathered at the passport office from dawn after authorities announced that Thursdays would be set aside exclusively for them to apply for passports.
It was unclear why the fighters wanted passports -- or where they planned to travel to -- as security operatives barred news hounds from interviewing them.
Civilians who arrived to process their applications were held back or sent home by Taliban security, who also tore up documents of some as they pressed to enter.
"Issuing passports to the Taliban members was cancelled due to overcrowding," said Qari Shafiullah Tassal, a front man for the office.
...but definitely not because of stray ears and bits of intestine strewn across the landscape...
Many people were also falsely claiming they had Taliban links, he told AFP.
Taliban fighters were also given the opportunity Thursday to apply for passports in the southern city of Kandahar, according to an AFP news hound there.
Taliban authorities stopped issuing passports after the hardline Islamic group returned to power on August 15, citing staff issues, faulty equipment and a lack of supplies.
Operations resumed on Sunday but hundreds of thousands of Afghans are desperate to flee a growing humanitarian crisis in the country.
The Ministry of Interior Affairs said that an attack was stopped in front of the passport department on Thursday afternoon in Kabul.
An early message to media from a government source said there had been a boom-mobile, but this was later changed.
The Interior Ministry tweeted the following:
"An attack was prevented in front of the Central Passport Department in Kabul. This afternoon, an attacker who tried to enter the Central Passport Department was eliminated by the security personnel of the Central Passport Department. No one was killed or injured in the attack."
"Before the (attacker) reached his goal, he was targeted and eliminated. The attack took just minutes and ended up with the killing of the attacker," said Alam Gul Haqqani, head of the Passport Department.
Earlier, a front man for the Kabul security department, Gen Mobin told TOLOnews that the attack was due to a boom-mobileing.
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It was unclear why the fighters wanted passports -- or where they planned to travel to
That was my first thought when I read the headline.
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Vegas, Baby!
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"I only came for the violence."
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Meanwhile, I get that each country's respect for other countries' passports is a delicate dance, but who in the hell is going to accept an AIE passport? And if they do, we should revoke acceptance of their passports in response.
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Can muslims please kill n' bomb each other so that the world can live peacefully?
[Garowe] Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual name-calling or slapsy... has resumed in Bossaso, the commercial capital of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... , just hours after the regional government declared a ceasefire, amid pressure from local and international partners, who raised concerns about the conflict.
The conflict began following a deadlock over the control of Puntland Security Forces [PSF], a key ally in the fight against terrorism that soared after president Said Abdullahi Deni sacked PSF director Mohamud Osman Diano on November 24.
Witnesses said fighting re-started late last night in the vicinity of PSF headquarters in Bossaso that caused a new displacement of residents ongoing in the city, in what could further trigger a humanitarian crisis in Somalia's northeastern Federal State.
Puntland government is blaming sacked PSF director for inciting violence in the port city, which links Puntland to the rest of the world. In a statement, Puntland's presidency accused Diano's loyalists of shelling residential areas.
"The Puntland government declares that the former PSF director is inciting violence in Bossaso by indiscriminately shelling the city with PSF arms," read the statement, which comes hours after both sides pledged to embrace ceasefire.
"The Puntland government reiterates that it is giving time to efforts to bring a peaceful end to the situation in Bossaso," the statement further read.
Puntland government has declared a ceasefire on Wednesday, a move which was welcomed by President Mohammed Abdullahi Farmaajo and a host of Puntland leaders led by former Presidents Abdirahman Farole and Abdiweli Gaas as well as ex-PM Omar Abdirashid Sharamarke.
On Wednesday, the US Africa Command, which has been training PSF, also warned about the violence, arguing that it could trigger a resurgence of al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... in the country. US Africa Command hailed PSF as a tough force in counterterrorism.
Puntland security minister, Abdisamad Mohammed Galan, announced the cease-fire Wednesday, saying the decision was made after intervention from traditional elders, scholars, and business leaders who urged that the fighting be stopped.
[AlAhram] Egypt’s border guards arrested 2,267 irregular migrants colonists of different nationalities at strategic border areas over the past month, Armed Forces Spokesman Gharib Abdel-Hafez said in a statement on Thursday.
The corps also seized and destroyed tons of drugs over the last month in border areas and South Sinai, read the statement.
The drugs included 1,050kg of hashish, a drug derived from cannabis; 1,020kg of weed; 10kg of opium; 150kg of hydro; and 93,000 pills of different kinds.
In South Sinai, the forces removed narcotic plants cultivated over 90 feddans. More than nine tons of hemp, including hemp seeds, were seized and destroyed. Two hashish factories were also seized.
The border guards detected 12 tunnel portals, 230 vehicles used for the transportation of smuggled objects, 240 weapons, 120 firearm magazines, as well as 9,000 bullets, added the statement.
"This comes in continuation of the intensive efforts and all the measures implemented by the border guards round the clock to secure Egypt's borders... and intensify procedures of tightening control over all border crossings and ports of the state," the statement said.
[TheNationalNews] Hydro, a powerful synthetic drug which mimics marijuana, is more potent than its organic derivative and, arguably, more dangerous as the addiction rate is higher and long-term health effects are unknown.
#BREAKING: Massive airstrikes on Sana’a sports stadium where Saudi-led coalition says Iranian-backed Houthis have stored weapons including explosive drones and other munitions pic.twitter.com/Da87R0Uadh
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[KavkazUzel] A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced a native of Dagestan Nizami Alisultanov to 7 years and 4 months in prison, recognizing him as a member of a terrorist organization.
Nizami Alisultanov, a 29-year-old native of the village of Khiv in the Khiva region, was accused of participation in a terrorist organization (part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of Russia), an attempt to participate in an illegal armed group (part 1 of Article 30 - part 2 of Article 208 of the Criminal Code of Russia).
"It was established that in August 2015 the defendant, with the aim of joining the ranks of the banned terrorist organization Islamic State, together with his common-law spouse and two children, crossed the Russian-Azerbaijani border by car, and then flew to Turkey on the same day.
"Alisultanov, being in Istanbul, at the direction of the person with whom he spoke on the issue of crossing the Turkish-Syrian border, arrived by road to the border settlement for transportation to Syria, where, while trying to cross the specified border, he was detained by Turkish law enforcement officers and on August 21 In 2015 he was deported to Moscow," the press service of the Southern District Military Court told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent .
Alisultanov was sentenced to 7 years and 4 months in prison in a general regime correctional colony. He did not admit his guilt. The verdict has not entered into legal force and can be appealed, the press service of the court said.
"Caucasian Knot" does not have any comments on the convicted person or his representatives regarding the verdict.
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] At least four migrants colonists have died after their boat was wrecked on an islet north of the island of Antikythera on Thursday, the Greek coastguard said, adding that rescue crews had mounted an operation to rescue about 90 other people.
Greece is one of the main routes into the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... for refugees and migrants colonists fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia but the most cross on rubber boats to islands close to the Ottoman Turkish coast.
Thursday’s shipwreck is the second in the Aegean Sea this week, with rescue crews still searching for a second day for dozens of asylum-seekers feared missing after their boat sank off the island of Folegandros.
Antikythera and Folegandros are not on the typical route for migrants colonists and officials said the boats, which set off from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... , were likely to have been aiming for Italia.
The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... refugee agency UNHCR called the Folegandros shipwreck "the worst" in the Aegean this year.
"This shipwreck is a painful reminder that people continue to embark on perilous voyages in search of safety," Adriano Silvestri, the UNHCR’s assistant representative in Greece said.
"Such tragic deaths are avoidable, including through the establishment of regular and safe pathways that could prevent people from resorting to smugglers," he added.
The UNHCR estimates that more than 2,500 people died or went missing at sea while attempting to reach Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... this year.
Greece, which was the frontline of Europe’s refugee crisis when it began in 2015, has since hardened its stance and boosted land and sea patrols to deter people from reaching its shores.
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[OneIndia] The Jammu and 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.... police have averted a major tragedy by destroying an IED in Pulwama.
The Pulwama Police averted a major tragedy. Acting on specific information the police along with the 50 RR and 183 BN CRPF found an IED of approximately 5 kilograms.
Is that large? Small? It isn’t clear to me whether the tragedy truly would have been major or not — One India does get a bit excited about such things.
The same was planted on the New Srinagar road. The bomb disposal squad of the Police and Army destroyed it on the spot, the Pulwama police said.
Earlier this week, the Pulwama police arrested 2 terrorist associates of the Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... with the assistance of the 55 RR and 182 Bn. CRPF. The police recovered incriminating material and ammunition from them. A case was registered against them and further investigation is continuing.
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Three ISIS turbans have been killed in a security operation of the Iraqi forces in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... spokesperson to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Major General Yehya Rasool, said on Thursday.
Rasool said in a statement earlier today that a force from the Counter-Terrorism-Services (CTS) was able to eliminate three members of the terrorist organization of ISIS in Wadi Zayghoun in Kirkuk.
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[Rudaw] An Iraqi criminal court on Thursday handed death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... s to three people accused of having a hand in a terrorist kaboom that targeted southeastern Iraq earlier this month, the country’s Supreme Judicial Council announced.
The sentence was handed to the alleged suspects by Dhi Qar criminal court for their "participation in detonating cycle of violences equipped with explosives in Basra's al-Jumhuriya neighborhood which led to the death and injury of a large number of civilians."
The statement added they were sentenced in accordance with Article Four of 2005 Counter-Terrorism Law which states "anyone found guilty of committing a terror offense is given the death sentence, with life imprisonment given to those who assist or hide those convicted of terrorism."
An explosion struck Basra's city centre on December 7, killing four civilians and injuring four others.
Iraq is one of the world’s top four executioners after China, Iran, and 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 Amnesia Amnesty International.
Since the rise of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) in 2014, thousands of people have been detained across Iraq for suspected links to terrorist groups, including ISIS, while hundreds have been executed.
At least 17 people sentenced to death for terror charges have been executed this year, reported AFP while Amnesty recorded 100 executions in Iraq in 2019, a number that dropped to 45 in the following year.
Three men were hanged in Nasiriyah city for terror offences earlier this month.
In January, an official from Iraq's presidency told AFP more than 340 execution orders "for terrorism or criminal acts" were ready to be carried out.
Another presidency official earlier this year told AFP that all the orders were signed after 2014, most of them under ex-president Fuad Massum and at a time when Islamic State (ISIS) occupied a third of the country.
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[Rudaw] Iraqi forces arrested five 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), including a health worker that has admitted to treating ill and maimed members of the turban group, Iraqi Security Media Cell said on Thursday.
Five people were arrested "for their affiliation with ISIS terrorists" in an operation carried out by the Federal Intelligence and Investigation Agency in the Ministry of Interior, read a statement from the cell, published on their Telegram channel.
Four of the suspects worked in the terror group's ranks in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... partaking in several attacks while the fifth was an employee at the Iraqi health ministry.
The health worker admitted to treating sick and injured ISIS members, "as well as providing them with medicines and medical equipment, taking advantage of his position at the health ministry," noted the statement.
[IsraelTimes] Unclear if boy, who was in Israel illegally, intended to carry out terror attack
Authorities arrested a 14-year-old Paleostinian boy on Thursday in Tel Aviv’s Central Bus Station for carrying a knife.
The boy was caught after a security guard noticed him acting suspiciously near a bus departure gate and began questioning him.
The suspect was cooperative, and during the questioning the guard realized the boy was Paleostinian and asked for identification.
He found out the boy was in Israel illegally and called other security personnel to the scene. The guards patted down the suspect and found a large kitchen knife under his coat. It was not clear whether he intended to carry out a terror attack.
The guards held the suspect and called police, who took the boy for questioning.
[IsraelTimes] Qassem Asafra and cousin Nasir Asafra, a Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, member, stabbed the student to death in West Bank
Two snuffies who killed an Israeli teenager in 2019 were sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday.
Qassem Asafra was handed an additional 40-year sentence, and Nasir Asafra an additional 20 years.
Dvir Sorek, 18, was stabbed to death near the West Bank settlement of Migdal Oz in August 2019. He was a yeshiva student enrolled in a program known as hesder that combines Torah study with military service. He was off-duty at the time of his killing.
Qassem Asafra was also convicted of an attempt to kill two Israelis in a 2011 terror attack in Beersheba, which he had not been caught for at the time.
The military has said that Nasir Asafra was a member of the Hamas terror group. The two convicts are cousins.
Sorek’s body was found on a road leading to the religious seminary where he was studying.
The attackers expeditiously departed at a goodly pace but were apprehended in the town of Beit Kahlil after a 48-hour manhunt.
The attackers told Sherlocks they killed Sorek due to "the suffering of the Paleostinian people" and "the situation at al-Aqsa [Mosque]," according to transcripts of their interrogation obtained by the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
They planned the murder ahead of time, drove to an intersection and waited for an Israeli to attack, they said.
Nasir Asafra attacked Sorek after he got off a bus, first attempting to subdue him with a stun gun, then repeatedly stabbing him in the chest, he said.
"He tried to defend himself by covering his face and upper body with his hands. Then he remained still and didn’t move and I got into the car," the attacker told Sherlocks.
[IsraelTimes] Suspects were detained in Israel after allegedly attacking PA security forces amid ongoing popular unrest
Israel this week handed over two Paleostinians wanted by Ramallah to Paleostinian security forces, according to a report Wednesday.
Kan news said the two are suspected of attacking Paleostinian police in the Bethlehem area earlier this month, hurling an bomb at them. The incident occurred during local celebrations for the release of a security prisoner by Israel, when Paleostinian forces arrived to confiscate Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, flags waved at the event., leading to some rioting.
The two suspects were arrested in Israel in recent days for entering illegally. They were handed over to the Paleostinian Authority on Tuesday, the report said.
Kan noted that while Israel hands over suspects wanted by the PA from time to time, such steps are usually taken quietly.
The West Bank has recently seen an uptick in violent mostly peacefulfestivities between Paleostinians on the streets and PA security forces.
The Paleostinian Authority has suffered deteriorating legitimacy for months. In April, PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... indefinitely delayed scheduled Paleostinian national elections that would have been the first in 15 years. While Abbas blamed Israel, most observers agreed that he sought to avoid an embarrassing loss to his rivals in his own Fatah faction and Hamas.
Hamas saw skyrocketing approval ratings among Paleostinians following its May battle with Israel. Paleostinians contrasted the so-called "resistance" pursued by the terror group — which fired thousands of rockets at Israeli cities and towns from its 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... stronghold — with Ramallah’s policy of coordinating with Israel, which many Paleostinians say has failed to achieve their demands.
Israeli officials have vowed to strengthen the Paleostinian Authority by easing its ballooning deficit and making some policy concessions. But none of the steps taken thus far appear to have shored up the PA’s waning popularity.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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...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...
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