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-War on Police-
DHS Report Finds Mounted Border Patrol Agents Did Not Whip Haitian Migrants… But Punished Anyway
[Breitbart] Border Patrol agents on horseback did not whip or strike migrants with their reins during a mass migration event in Del Rio, Texas, in September 2021. Customs and Border Protection officials released the findings of an Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) investigation on Friday. In addition to training and policy changes, the findings will still be used to pursue formal disciplinary actions against four mounted agents.

The announcement and release of the investigative report comes nearly nine months after the incidents in question. The investigation began shortly after the September 2021 incident near an outdoor encampment under a bridge holding roughly 15,000 mostly Haitian migrants. Ultimately, more than 30,000 migrants entered the United States in Del Rio in what would become the largest mass migration event in the agency’s history.

Activities conducted by Border Patrol agents during the migration event were captured on video and still photography by freelance journalist Paul Ratje. The images were widely circulated and sparked claims that agents were whipping migrants. Further examination, however, led many to concede the images showed agents using long reins to control the horses.

CBP convened a Discipline Review Board (DRB) to consider the individual conduct of four agents involved in the incident and has proposed disciplinary actions. The four agents have been performing administrative duties since the investigation began.

Under the Border Patrol’s collective bargaining agreement, the agents will now be afforded the right to contest the findings.

According to a source within CBP not authorized to speak to media, the employees are facing a suspension without pay for fewer than 14 days.

Posted by: Skidmark || 07/10/2022 10:19 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


Africa Horn
Lapid approves shuttering Eritrean embassy after ambassador blocked — report
In a time of rapid change, keep up or fall behind.
[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Yair Lapid, who is still serving as Foreign Minister, has recently approved closing Israel’s embassy in Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
, the Ynet news site reports.

Lapid approved the move after Eritrea has been stalling the arrival of the ambassador for two years, Ynet says. The embassy has remained empty.

Instead, Israel will open an embassy in Mozambique, the report says.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


Report: Somali president plans talks with parliament on possible ties with Israel
Truly we live in an age of miracles. Bless you, President Trump.
[IsraelTimes] A spokesperson for Somalia’s president said on Saturday that the government is set to consult parliament on the possibility of establishing diplomatic relations with Israel, Hebrew media reported.

Reports by Channel 12 news and Kan news could not be immediately verified.

Somalia media reports last month claimed President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud recently held contacts with Israeli officials while on a trip to the United Arab Emirates, even flying to Israel, according to one report. These reports were denied.

Mohamud secretly met with former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel in 2016 while serving his first stint in office, which ended in 2017.

Upon his reelection to the job in May, a Somali diplomat close to Mohamud told The Times of Israel that his return to power was a positive development for a potential normalization process between Mogadishu and Jerusalem.

Israel does not have diplomatic relations with the East African nation, which has a population of some 11 million. Somalia, a mostly Sunni Moslem country and a member of the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
, has never recognized the State of Israel.

There have been sporadic reports in recent years of growing ties between Israel and Somalia.

A lower-level meeting was held in Jerusalem in December 2015, involving representatives from the Economy Ministry and officials from Somalia, according to a bigwig close to Mohamud.

The report on possible normalization with Somalia comes against a backdrop of flourishing official ties between Israel and some Arab countries, as well as a push by Israel to strengthen its ties in Africa.

In addition to developments with Somalia, Channel 12 reported that Muse Bihi Abdi, President of Somaliland, an autonomous, relatively stable region of the country, recently told US officials he was making overtures to Israel but without any response.

In May, Israel’s embassy in La Belle France organized a conference, inviting French and African journalists, diplomats, entrepreneurs, and artists to examine the future of Israeli cooperation with African countries and businesses.

Somaliland was represented at the conference by its defense minister.

The Abraham Accords, a joint peace declaration initially signed on September 15, 2020, officially normalized diplomatic relations between Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Israel. In December 2020, Morocco and Israel inked a normalization agreement, establishing full diplomatic relations. Then, in January 2021, Sudan signed on to the accords, symbolically declaring its intention to advance normalization with Israel.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He must have a good insurance policy.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/10/2022 11:36 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Be Armed; Shoot Back If Terrorists Shoot At You, Then There Will Peace–Cleric Tells Nigerians
[SaharaReporters] The holy man urged Nigerians in areas ravaged by terrorism in the North to buy arms for self-defence, adding that until residents begin to defend themselves, there will be no peace in such areas.

According to Daily Post, this was contained in one of his sermons at the church’s headquarters, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, in which he urged Nigerians to shoot back when they are shot at.

He said, "All of you in the North, hear me: don’t do that Christianity; you too carry your walking stick. Buy walking stick and be walking with walking stick.

"All of you in the North, brothers and sisters, get good walking stick so that when you walk, the walking stick can support you.

"All of you in Kaduna, hear me: get good walking stick so that it can support you when you are moving. They are not the only ones who know where to buy walking stick.

"If they shoot, you too shoot; if they fire, you fire. Then there will be peace. Defend yourself."

SaharaReporters earlier reported that the Zamfara State Government advised the residents of the state to acquire guns to defend themselves against terrorist and bandit attacks.

The directive was contained in a special government announcement signed by the State Commissioner for Information, Hon Ibrahim Magaji Dosara.

In the special announcement, the government said it had directed the state police commissioner to issue licences to all those who were qualified and were wishing to obtain guns to defend themselves.

It said the state was ready to facilitate people, especially farmers to secure basic weapons to defend themselves, adding that it would establish a centre for the collection of intelligence on the activities of informants.

Zamfara is not the first state that has called for self-defence amid deteriorating insecurity across the federation. Recently, Ondo State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, noted that the governors "can no longer fold their arms or rely exclusively on the distant federal police to adequately protect the lives and property of residents."
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good advice for anybody, anywhere.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/10/2022 12:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Common sense, which explains why Dems are against the concept. For, in our case, the terrorists are the govt.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/10/2022 12:45 Comments || Top||

#3  One man's terrorist is another man's a crooked politician's constituent.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/10/2022 12:47 Comments || Top||

#4  I thought the sermon was dipping into the endorsement of walking sticks before picking up the tempo. 🙃 Preachers are like that, some of them.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/10/2022 13:31 Comments || Top||

#5  They send one of you to the hospital, you send one of them to the morgue.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/10/2022 14:03 Comments || Top||

#6  Is it ever bad to help a martyr achieve their fondest wish?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/10/2022 14:30 Comments || Top||

#7  They send one of you to the hospital, you send one of them to the morgue.

They hurt one of you, send 10-50 of them to the morgue. Otherwise the conflict drags out too much.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/10/2022 15:53 Comments || Top||


Terrorists Moving To Southern Nigeria To Take Refuge In Ondo Forests


The Ondo State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, has disclosed that forces of Evil are relocating southward to take refuge in the forests.

Akeredolu asserted that the only way to end insurgency in Nigeria is to have state police in the country,

He contended that a regional security scheme will ensure the security of lives and property because the Nigeria Police Force is overstretched, understaffed and lacks the capacity to adequately secure the people.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:


Arabia
Saudi cleric known for Auschwitz visit, interfaith dialogue, gives main hajj sermon
[IsraelTimes] Sheikh Mohammed al-Issa
...more formally Sheikh Dr. Mohammed bin Abdul Karim al-Issa, the head of the Moslem World League ...
speaks of Moslem obligation to bring hearts together; Israeli commentator says Saudis’ choice of ’Zionist imam’ is ’significant signal’


A holy man known for visiting Auschwitz and for his involvement in interfaith dialogue gave the main sermon at the height of the annual hajj pilgrimage at the Nimrah Mosque on Mount Arafat outside Mecca on Friday, after being chosen earlier in the week for the role by 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...
’s de factor ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia


Southern Movement calls for resistance against Saudi invaders
[HODHODYEMENNEWS] The Southern Movement, which is participating in the National Dialogue Conference, called on Thursday to line up and confront the Saudi-led coalition and occupation, as it is the real enemy of all the Yemeni people.

The Southern Movement affirmed in a statement that it stands and supports the uprising of the people of the occupied southern and eastern governorates against the occupying invaders and their local tools.

“The invaders and their tools were not enough with restricting the living conditions and services to the people of the occupied governorates, but they also used the most horrific and deadly means, especially the deadly societal pests such as drugs,” the statement said.

It added that the hate, regionalism and sectarianism speech promoted by the occupying countries in the southern and eastern governorates is a form of falsehood and deception through which they want to strike the one Yemeni social fabric.

It considered that all plans and projects of the forces of aggression and occupation will be destroyed with the awareness of the people of the southern provinces.

“We are confident and even bet that all the schemes and projects of the forces of aggression and occupation will be destroyed on the rock of your national awareness,” it said, addressing the people of the southern and eastern provinces. “There is no fear or danger for any Yemeni from his Yemeni brother, rather the danger lies in the destructive foreign projects of the countries of aggression and occupation, which target Yemen, land and people without exception.”
Posted by: Fred || 07/10/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:


Sayyid Abdul-Malik al-Houthi praises resistance in Jawf province
[HODHODYEMENNEWS] The Leader of the Revolution, Sayyid Abdul-Malik Badr al-Din al-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...
, has on Wednesday affirmed that Jawf province is "one of most important provinces prepared for agricultural renaissance and to contribute to the country’s renaissance."
In the middle of a drought? Good luck with that.
During his meeting today with dignitaries and residents of Jawf, the Leader of the Revolution
...Dear Leader, for short, or der Fuhrer...
made it clear that the province was deprived of the role that it can play at the national level, despite being important and qualified to be in the first row to contribute to the comprehensive renaissance in all fields, including agricultural and economic fields.

He pointed out that the previous regime "cared more than anything about personal and party gains."

"Jawf is one of the provinces that suffered the most, and the previous regime did not care about building this province and its people, despite the capabilities and bounties available in it," Sayyid Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said.

The Leader of the Revolution stressed that "everyone is concerned with moving with all seriousness because the enemies’ goals are to occupy the homeland and its provinces and control it."

He praised the role of the free people of Jawf province who stood with their country to confront the aggression, ensuri by that the occupation will be defeated in the province.

Sayyid Abdul-Malik al-Houthi stressed the need to move in both directions, in accordance with the slogan launched by Martyr President Saleh al-Sammad, "One hand protecs while the other hand builds", through building military and security capabilities and strengthening the factors of steadfastness in all provinces, foremost of which is Jawf.

He urged the officials in the province to exert more efforts to serve the province and take care of its people in all fields.
Posted by: Fred || 07/10/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


China-Japan-Koreas
Expert attributes Japan's former PM assassination to security failures
[Shafaq] A security expert says the personal security for former Japanese prime minster Abe Shinzo was inadequate, following his fatal shooting.
NO!!! An unbelievable conclusion based on the evidence.
Abe was shot on Friday while delivering a speech on the street in the western prefecture of Nara.

NHK world-Japan quoted former police officer and security expert Ito Koichi making comments after analyzing footage showing the attacker wandering around with a bag and walking straight up to Abe.

Ito said that when observing such suspicious behavior, the person must be kept away even before asking questions and inspecting belongings.

He also pointed out that coppers failed to effectively coordinate with each other to make appropriate responses.
Posted by: Fred || 07/10/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What would we do without Experts?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/10/2022 8:23 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Frank G || 07/10/2022 8:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Body guard with holstered revolver tries to grab assassin instead of shooting him.

Police seize DIY weapons found at home of Japanese ex-PM Shinzo Abe's 'assassin' including nine-barrel 'shotgun' controlled by mobile phone: Suspect set to be charged with murder tomorrow

Posted by: Skidmark || 07/10/2022 9:23 Comments || Top||

#4  9 barrel shotgun.

Has someone been watching too much Anime?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/10/2022 10:35 Comments || Top||

#5  If you could touch the barrels off one at a time, it could be useful. All at once would just be overkill, and probably hard to control.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/10/2022 10:45 Comments || Top||

#6  That is a homemade claymore mine.
Posted by: Rob06 || 07/10/2022 11:36 Comments || Top||

#7  From Skidmark’s link:

Unemployed Yamagami, 41, told investigators he acted because he believed rumors that Abe was connected to an organization that he resents, police said. Neighbours described him as a loner who did not reply when spoken to.

Japanese media reported that the man had developed hatred toward a religious group that his mother was obsessed about and that caused his family financial problems. The reports did not specify the group.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2022 12:17 Comments || Top||

#8  Evidently a "fact check" was done on Abe's twitter post and said it was faked. Of course, you know what that means.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/10/2022 12:24 Comments || Top||

#9  Heh. It is a fake
Posted by: Frank G || 07/10/2022 12:29 Comments || Top||

#10  Yeah, this one I'll believe. I don't think former foreign nation presidents sit around tweeting about Hillary's arrest. Besides, we have guys like John Durham to investigate. Oh, wait, sorry.....
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/10/2022 12:33 Comments || Top||

#11  Has someone been watching too much Anime?

Posted by: Skidmark || 07/10/2022 13:02 Comments || Top||


Europe
Half of Swedish Police Who Were at Muslim Easter Riots Claim Mental Health Problems
Coulda been worse.
Coulda been a small town school in Texas.

[Breitbart] Half of the police officers who attended the Muslim Easter riots in the city of Örebro say they have experienced mental health problems following the violence that saw several officers attacked and injured.

A total of 64 police officers claim to have suffered mental health problems following the riots that took place in the Sveaparken over Easter in reaction to Danish anti-Islam activist Rasmus Paludan threatening to burn a copy of the Islamic Qur’an in the city.

“Initially, we had quite a few sick leaves, partly due to physical problems but also for… mental problems. There are a lot of thoughts and concerns, as there were many police officers who feared for their lives,” Erik Hiding, chairman of the Police Federation in the region of Bergslagen, told broadcaster SVT.

According to the broadcaster, the 64 officers reported mental health issues following the riots, including problems with anxiety, difficulties sleeping, and difficulties eating.

A total of 135 officers were present during the riots in Sveaparketm and 50 officers were forced to seek medical treatment due to the violence against them by the mob of rioters, with reports of officers suffering various injuries such as bone fractures, concussions, and damage to teeth after the rioters hurled rocks and other projectiles.

Last month, officers who were at the Sveaparken riots stated that they feared for their lives during the violence, with one officer saying: “I was really scared. I was absolutely convinced that I would be beaten to death if I were to fall or something like that.”

Four men were convicted of crimes relating to the riots at the end of June, accused of violence toward police and sabotaging police operations during the riots.

Two of the four men convicted were also sentenced to be deported from the country as well, as they were foreigners.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/10/2022 10:07 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  I believe it is more of a gender issue.
Posted by: Dale || 07/10/2022 13:00 Comments || Top||

#2  The poor snowflakes! How will they ever deal with it? Maybe a safe space? With crayons, and stuffed animals, and videos of puppies playing?

Hey, it works for the American left.
Posted by: Albemarle Snerert7268 || 07/10/2022 14:09 Comments || Top||

#3  The Swedish gummint would throw any of those cops under the bus in a second if they harmed a hair of a muzz head. So those cops are smart to dial into the disability retirement track.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/10/2022 14:29 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Tributes paid to Kashmiri commander Burhan Wani in AJK
[Dawn] A large number of people, most of them young boys, took out a rally on Friday to pay tributes to young Kashmiri commander Burhan Wani
...1994-2016, he was a Hizbul Mujahideen emir, known for his social media presence which he used to seduce the young Moslems of Kashmir. After he was killed in a police encounter in Anantnag district, there were massive protests that killed almost a hundred and injured 15,000 civilians and 4,000 police...
as both parts of the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it (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....
marked his sixth martyrdom anniversary as ’Resistance® Day’.

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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2022 01:34 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Biden: My flight from Israel to Saudi Arabia is a symbolic step to normalization
[Jpost] Biden will be the first president to fly from Israel to Saudi Arabia.

US President Joe Biden's flight from Israel to Saudi Arabia would be a small symbol of "budding relations and steps toward normalization" between Israel and the Arab world, Biden said in an op-ed published in The Washington Post on Saturday.

In the article in which Biden explained to the American public why he was going to visit Saudi Arabia next week, Biden said he will be the first president to fly from Israel to Jiddah, Saudi Arabia.

Ahead of Mideast Trip, Biden Hails Restoring Funds to Palestinians After Trump Cut Them

[Breitbart] In an opinion piece riddled with misleading information and outright lies, President Joe Biden hailed his administration’s decision to restore funding to the Palestinian Authority, credited his administration for stopping the last war between Hamas and Israel, and defended his decision to visit “pariah” Saudi Arabia.

In the piece, titled “What I hope to accomplish in Saudi Arabia and Israel” and published in the Washington Post on Saturday, Biden vowed to keep “human rights” and “fundamental freedoms” on his agenda.

“My views on human rights are clear and long-standing, and fundamental freedoms are always on the agenda when I travel abroad, as they will be during this trip, just as they will be in Israel and the West Bank.”

Oddly, the president took credit for ending the 11-day conflict between Israel and the Hamas terror group in May 2021, even though the ceasefire deal was brokered by Egypt.

“In Israel, we helped end a war in Gaza — which could easily have lasted months — in just 11 days. We’ve worked with Israel, Egypt, Qatar and Jordan to maintain the peace without permitting terrorists to rearm.”

It is also highly unlikely that the conflict would have lasted months. There is no precedent for such an occurrence, with previous flare-ups between Hamas and Israel lasting as little as a week.

Biden also praised his administration’s decision to reinstate funding to the Palestinian Authority. The Trump administration cut aid to the Palestinians over its so-called pay-for-slay scheme paying convicted terrorists and their families, which the PA has deemed a “noble national deed” that will never be stopped. According to the PA’s Finance Ministry, roughly NIS 100 million ($30,000) is paid out per month to around 35,000 terrorist prisoners and their families.

“We also rebuilt U.S. ties with the Palestinians,” Biden wrote. “Working with Congress, my administration restored approximately $500 million in support for Palestinians, while also passing the largest support package for Israel — over $4 billion — in history. And this week, an Israeli prime minister spoke with the president of the Palestinian Authority for the first time in five years.”

Biden also hinted at expanding ties under the Trump-led Abraham Accords normalizing ties between Israel and Arab nations. He pointed to his direct flight from Israel to Saudi Arabia a sign of things to come between the two nations.

“On Friday, I will also be the first president to fly from Israel to Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. That travel will also be a small symbol of the budding relations and steps toward normalization between Israel and the Arab world, which my administration is working to deepen and expand.”

Biden is due to land on Wednesday for a whirlwind trip to Israel that will include meetings with Israeli leaders, a tour of the newly minted Iron Beam air defense system, a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, and a speech at the opening ceremony of the Maccabiah Jewish Olympic games.

The American president will meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem, and is expected to announce measures aimed at strengthening the PA, a senior US official told The Times of Israel.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/10/2022 09:44 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  A-hole is now trying to take credit for Trump's success.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/10/2022 12:37 Comments || Top||

#2  A-hole is now trying to take credit for Trump's success.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/10/2022 12:37 Comments || Top||

#3  That bears repeating.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/10/2022 12:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Biden theme
Posted by: Dale || 07/10/2022 13:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Jeez, this guy can't even get 'Style Over Substance' right.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/10/2022 17:21 Comments || Top||


Israel has given up on harming Iran’s uranium enrichment — report
Shhhh.... Pay no attention to us...
[IsraelTimes] Jerusalem said focusing on other areas of nuclear program as it assesses Iran
...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...
already has enough enriched uranium for a bomb, according to TV network


Israel has largely given up on further harming Iran’s uranium enrichment capabilities, Channel 12 news reported Saturday.

"Iran already has enough enriched uranium [for one or more bombs]," the network said without citing a source.

The network assessed that this was the reason for alleged Israeli attacks against other factors related to Iran’s nuclear programs, such as liquidations of scientists and strikes on missile development bases, and a focus on Iran’s weaponization program — the capacity to mount a bomb onto a missile.

Israel is widely believed to have carried out various acts of sabotage against Iran’s nuclear program, including cyber-attacks and physical sabotage at enrichment facilities, as well as the killings of scientists, engineers and other officials key to the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s nuclear development efforts.

On Tuesday, Iran claimed that it had arrested Mossad agents who were planning to assassinate nuclear scientists in the country.

The announcement did not detail the alleged agents’ nationalities or how many people were tossed into the calaboose. There were no further details given on the alleged plot.

Iran often detains individuals it claims are linked to foreign intelligence services without providing public evidence.

Last month, it was reported that Iran suspects Israel killed two Iranian scientists several weeks ago by poisoning their food, as tensions flared between Tehran and Jerusalem amid Iranian progress on its rogue nuclear program and a series of mysterious deaths in Iran.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Frighteningly prescient of a strike a the place where the Atomic Weapons are being assembled or stored. My guess is an urban area, deep underground, and immune to most conventional weapons. No matter the kind of ordnance needed to be effective, there will be radiation and/or persistent agent consequences, and likely mass casualty effect, opening a whole new level of warfare.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/10/2022 13:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Hush, now the Iranians don't need to lock the back doors in their labs!
Posted by: magpie || 07/10/2022 16:03 Comments || Top||


Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan President flees, PM calls for emergency party meeting; Pres, PM to quit
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Protesters demanding the resignation of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa breached security barricades and entered his official residence, braving tear gas and water cannons forcing the leader to leave his compound.
Rajapaksa left his official residence at about 10:00 a.m. this morning, his secretary Gamini Senarath said over the phone, adding that he could not contact the leader currently and didn’t know his whereabouts. Earlier, French news agency Agence La Belle France-Presse cited an unidentified defense official as saying that Rajapaksa was escorted to safety away from the compound.

Civil-rights activist muppets, religious leaders and artists were among thousands from across the South Asian island who gathered Saturday at an oceanfront protest site near the presidential residence in the capital, Colombo.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has called an emergency meeting of party leaders to discuss the current situation, a text message from his office said.

Ahead of the protest, Omalpe Sobitha, a senior Buddhist monk at one of the main monastic orders and an outspoken critic of the government, told news hounds the crisis is not the result of famine or natural disaster but mis-governance.

Sri Lanka is in the worst tailspin of its independent history, with inflation seen hitting 70%. It has been facing shortages of everything from fuel to medicine for months, prompting protests that led to the resignations of all the Rajapaksa family members who were in the government, except for the president.
The Times of Israel adds:
Sri Lanka’s president and prime minister agreed to resign Saturday after the country’s most chaotic day in months of political turmoil, with protesters storming both officials’ homes and setting fire to one of the buildings in a rage over the nation’s severe economic crisis.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said he will leave office once a new government is in place, and hours later the speaker of Parliament said President Gotabaya Rajapaksa would step down Wednesday. Pressure on both men grew as the economic meltdown set off severe shortages of essential items, leaving people struggling to buy food, fuel and other necessities.

Police had attempted to thwart promised protests with a curfew, then lifted it as lawyers and opposition politicians denounced it as illegal. Thousands of protesters entered the capital, Colombo, and swarmed into Rajapaksa’s fortified residence. Video images showed jubilant crowds taking a dip in the garden pool. Some people lay on the home’s beds, while others made tea and issued statements from a conference room demanding that the president and prime minister go.
Posted by: Fred || 07/10/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:



Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Lebanon To Deport 15.000 Syrian Refugees Monthly
[NPASyria] On Monday, Lebanese Minister of Displaced Affairs, Issam Sharaf El-Din, supported the issue of deporting Syrian refugees to their country, and he revealed a plan to deport about 15.000 refugees on a monthly basis.

"It’s unacceptable that Syrian refugees don’t return to their country after the end of the war there," Sharaf El-Din said.

This came in a meeting, in which President of Lebanon Hezbollahstan
...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ...
Michel Naim Aoun was briefed about a previous meeting between Sharaf El-Din and the Representative of UNHCR in Lebanon, Ayaki Ito, on the return of the Syrian refugees.

"Lebanon is no longer able to bear the burdens of the displaced," he said

During his meeting with Aoun, he discussed proposals submitted by Lebanon to Ayaki Ito, who promised to review his reference and return to answer.

The Lebanese minister revealed the proposal which is to stop aid provided to each group of refugees, numbering 15.00. "since they receive aid on Lebanese soil, this encourages them to stay in Lebanon," he noted.

"The Syrian state extends its hand for cooperation on this file," he added.

He stressed, "It is necessary to work in coordination with the Syrian state, donors and specialized organizations to ensure a safe and dignified return to their country."

The minister said that he made proposals to Ito, on the return of refugees, including the formation of a three-way committee with Syria and UNHCR.

He also spoke of a four-way plan with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
, Iraq, and Jordan on the return of the Syrian refugees, without giving further details.

The number of the Syrian refugees residing in Lebanon is approximately 1.5 million, about 900.000 of whom are registered at the UNHCR.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


Iran switches to advanced centrifuges for uranium enrichment — IAEA
[DW] The UN's nuclear watchdog, the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency, has found that Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
is now using machines that allow it to switch more easily between uranium enrichment levels.


A report by the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) found that Iran is changing the process of uranium enrichment at its underground Fordo plant.

Iran has informed the UN agency that the country is using IR-6 centrifuges with "modified subheaders," the IAEA told DW on Saturday. According to Iran, the declared purpose of the enrichment process is to create uranium isotope enriched up to 20%.

This remains well below the 90% enrichment level that is needed to create weapons-grade uranium.

The special subheaders that are now in use allow for easier and faster switching to higher purity levels.

According to a report by the Rooters news agency, Iran is obligated to inform the IAEA if it changes its enrichment targets. But if Tehran chooses not to do, the change might escape detection for some time.

UKRAINE WAR RAISES THE STAKES
Iran has repeatedly insisted that it has no intention of developing a nuclear weapon. Also, Iranian scientists are already enriching up to 60% at locations outside the Fordo plant.

The latest changes are likely to spark additional concern as Western politicians scrambling to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. Under the deal, which was dismantled by US President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
in 2018, enrichment levels were capped at 3.67%.

Iran has signaled that it would not unilaterally abide by the currently defunct accord. Though the United States has sought to revive the deal since Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage. The dumbass who abandoned Afghanistan....
took power in 2021, Iranian diplomats have called for new concessions, including lifting at least some sanctions, before the country agrees to new limitations.

Iran has also reportedly requested guarantees against another US pullout. Earlier this year, Tehran and Washington also clashed over Iran's Revolutionary Guard, with the US refusing to remove the "terrorist" label from the corps. The Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra)
...the gang of subgeniuses trying to pass themselves off as the adults in charge of the series of calamities characteristic of the administration of a mentally challenged geriatric case...
says the demand is not linked to the nuclear proliferation deal.

But the Ukraine war has given the West more reasons to secure a thaw with oil-rich Iran, as European powers struggle to replace Russia's energy deliveries.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Terror Networks
BBC: ISIS calls for hijra to Africa. Rebuilding caliphate?


Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Russia, Iran, Iraq, and Syria have decimated that CIA/MOSSAD created ISIS, they are destroying and annihilating each of every cell in all the ex-Soviet republics. The bastards Israeli and American CIA where using this bunch of poor bastards to destabilize countries around China and Russia, so I guess with the creation of the Russia China India Iran block, the parasites are now trying to destabilize and exploit Africa.
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/10/2022 13:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Spittle!
Posted by: Frank G || 07/10/2022 13:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Don’t choke!
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/10/2022 13:21 Comments || Top||

#4  CIA because their incompetence It’s not even pretending anymore they don’t run and farm Muslim extremists, and then pretend to fights them on the eyes of the taxpayers Religious whack jobs always make fertile ground for creating chaos.
CIA like Fbi are chaos creators, so they can keep their jobs. This is not anymore about intelligence and security.
Is anybody paying attention since 9/11?

They are so confident of immunity that they are having fun with the business now and pissing in the American peoples faces at the same time...
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/10/2022 14:01 Comments || Top||

#5  *Wow* just *Wow*. This rates a solid '9.5' on the Juche-O-Meter™ !
Posted by: magpie || 07/10/2022 14:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Juche-O-Meter™

Heh. Heh...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/10/2022 14:51 Comments || Top||

#7  "Acapulco" notwithstanding, I'm going with "Dr Herb and Mr Drink."
Posted by: Alistaire Poodle5338 || 07/10/2022 15:20 Comments || Top||

#8  Looks like Joe doesn't believe Muslims are capable of independent thought, and that Americans are omnipotent and omniscient.

Go away, you stupid white supremacist.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/10/2022 15:39 Comments || Top||

#9  #7 - Herb is discouraged in Belarus ;-)
Posted by: Frank G || 07/10/2022 15:47 Comments || Top||

#10  Go away, you stupid white supremacist.
^ this moron must be menstruating …Aca Joe is Hispano Asian ……..for your future references.
Ps Belarusia has beautiful blond blu green eyes models….
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/10/2022 18:25 Comments || Top||

#11  Hispano? Like, Latinx? Yeah...no
Posted by: Frank G || 07/10/2022 18:30 Comments || Top||

#12  No.
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/10/2022 18:46 Comments || Top||

#13  Every nation has beautiful models, both male and female. The question is what the ordinary ones look like, which translates directly to good nutrition, exercise in the fresh air and sunshine, and a lack of disfiguring accidents.

Aca Joe is Hispano Asian? What does that mean? I thought you were a Ukrainian immigrant to America.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2022 18:58 Comments || Top||

#14  1924 Hispano-Suiza H6b. Definitely a pretty model.

Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/10/2022 19:05 Comments || Top||

#15  The Hispano-Suiza H6b. It’s just pretty junk the only decent Hispano S was the j12. I prefer the Isotta Fraschini 8b for cars of the era,
@Trailing wife
Not Russian not Belarusian not Ukrainian not Jew,
I’m American.
Born in Mexico City, Mexican father, Asian American mother
Sold everything moved permanently in California Retired 11 years ago owned 17 Aca Joe retail shops in Puebla in Angelopolis
Guadalajara Andares shopping center
Monterrey in Paseo San Pedro
Villahermosa, Veracruz, Queretaro shopping center. Etc etc.
My hobbies travel (I’ve been anywhere in this planet)
Music . Member of the Malibu and Orange County audiophile association
Video , I’m an early adopter of some of the most advanced forms of films reproduction in an home contest. Theatrics, Theta Digital Wilson Audio etc etc
Dogs I raise two African boerboels one tan and one black
Married four times
divorced 8 year and in a relationship now
Can you remember now.
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/10/2022 20:44 Comments || Top||

#16  Married four times
divorced 8 year and in a relationship now
Can you remember now.


Wow.

You're brave. 😁
Posted by: badanov || 07/10/2022 20:49 Comments || Top||

#17  It’s not bravery It’s was luck I’m still ( separately) in relative good relations with all four of them .
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/10/2022 21:07 Comments || Top||

#18  Can you remember now.

I’ll try, Aca Joe, but I make no promises — my memory is not what it was before I got sick. Thank goodness the others here remember things for me. :-) It sounds like you’ve had an admirably busy and productive life, even if we disagree on the current contretemps in the East, and the usefulness of the female cycle as an insult. Is that a Mexican thing? I’ve never heard it used that way, you see, though I admit that may be the result of having lived a sheltered life.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2022 21:25 Comments || Top||

#19  If there was anything memorable.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/10/2022 21:38 Comments || Top||

#20  No it’s not an insult, it’s the way normal peoples all over the world talk. Regarding your memory at my age 78 years I’m benefiting enormously from glutathione , nac, NAD and resveratrol every other day. I suggest if you have the curiosity to research them
https://www.nmn.com/
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/10/2022 21:44 Comments || Top||

#21  I’ll save the site for later perusal, Aca Joe, and give you in return my go-to: https://www.lifeextension.com/magazine. Mr. Wife found it useful when he was working with the nutraceutical research team at his company. Unfortunately, memory issues are a common symptom of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, although with medication and vitamins it’s much, much better now than at my nadir.

I see that you will be adding to my education in all sorts of directions — one of the reasons I treasure Rantburg.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2022 22:22 Comments || Top||

#22  Aca Joe, any truth to wrapping your skull in tinfoil to reduce Thetan putzing?
Posted by: Woodrow || 07/10/2022 22:25 Comments || Top||

#23  I do not understand what the hell are you saying, are you one of those drunken Presbyterians from some Floridian trailer park that want do a penis contest?
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/10/2022 23:15 Comments || Top||

#24  Thank you @Trailing Wife
Life extension is a very good site never used …
Use The Vitamins shoppe or Amazon
Posted by: Aca Joe || 07/10/2022 23:20 Comments || Top||

#25  He understood quite well I'd say.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 07/10/2022 23:26 Comments || Top||



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  Photolog: We will not forget, we will not forgive: Moscow and St. Petersburg mourn for the murdered children of Donbass
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  Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe shot
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Sun 2022-07-03
  Grenade Explosion at an Islamic Seminary in East Afghanistan Wounds Eight People
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  21 Terrorists Killed As Boko Haram, ISWAP Fighters Clash Again In Borno
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Tue 2022-06-28
  At least 13 dead after Russian missiles strike Ukrainian mall crowded with 1,000 shoppers
Mon 2022-06-27
  Myanmar authorities torch more than half a billion dollars’ worth of narcotics
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  Day 2: Pro-Abortion Democrats Riot in Democrat-Run Cities LOL


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