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Russia launches fresh wave of 35 Iranian-made suicide drones hitting Kyiv energy hub in huge explosion
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Fmr. DHS Sec'y Johnson: Migrants Know They Can Game Asylum Laws and ‘Low' Bar to Enter U.S.
[Breitbart]
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/19/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  When 90% of all new migrants have claimed asylum in the United States and in Europe - you know asylum is being abused and loop-holed by the globalists.
Posted by: mossomo || 12/19/2022 14:12 Comments || Top||

#2  If I ever go back to visit Europe again, I plan to claim asylum to save on hotel and food costs. Maybe, I’LL claim to be a minor. I’ve been helping my daughter with Algebra 2 so I think I can do the required homework.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/19/2022 15:35 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Libyan Militiamen Arrested Lockerbie Suspect Before Handing him to US
By Mohamed Emad

[LibyaReview] A former Libyan intelligence officer, who allegedly made the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, was kidnapped from his house in Tripoli by Libyan militiamen, according to the Associated Press (AP).

Four Libyan security and government officials with direct knowledge of the operation recounted to the AP the journey that ended with Abu Ajila Masoud in Washington.

The Libya officials said Masoud was taken from his home in the Abu Salim neighbourhood of Tripoli, by militiamen in two Toyota pickup trucks. He was transferred to the coastal city of Misrata, and eventually handed over to American agents who flew him out of the country.

Analysts told the Associated Press the Tripoli-based government – led by Abdel-Hamid Dbaiba was responsible for handing over Abu Ajila. It was likely seeking US goodwill and favour, amid the power struggles in Libya.

The officials spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. Several said the United States had been exerting pressure for months to see Masoud handed over. “Every time they communicated, Abu Ajila was on the agenda,” one official said.

The AP said Prime Minister Dbaiba discussed Abu Ajila’s case in a meeting in early November with the Head of the Stabilization Support Authority (SSA), Abdel-Ghani Al-Kikli (Ghnewa) who had been briefed on the matter.

“After the meeting, Dbaiba informed US officials of his decision, agreeing that the handover would take place within weeks in Misrata, where his family is influential,” an SSA official told the AP.

Last week, Masoud appeared in a US courtroom on Monday, according to a statement issued by the US Department of Justice. US Attorney General, Merrick B. Garland said the “relentless efforts over the past three decades led to the indictment and arrest of Abu Ajila for his alleged role in building the bomb used in the attack.”

“The defendant is currently in US custody and is facing charges in the United States. This is an important step forward in our mission to honour the victims, and pursue justice on behalf of their loved ones,” Garland added.

Meanwhile, the Libyan Parliament denounced the step. The Libyan Attorney General, Al-Siddiq Al-Sour announced that his office will launch an investigating into the incident.

Posted by: badanov || 12/19/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...Answers the question I asked a few days ago as to where this dude was all this time.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 12/19/2022 7:13 Comments || Top||

#2  To be traded for a trans celebrity to be named later.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/19/2022 7:15 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/19/2022 10:13 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Yemeni coastal defence commander vows protection of coastline against enemy incursions
by Emad Almarshahi

Major General Mohammed Al-Qadri, a commander of the Coastal Defence Brigade, has said that moves of the US, Israeli enemy and their allies in the Red Sea are “aiming to threaten the safety of maritime navigation in the Bab al-Mandab Strait.”

He affirmed that the actions of the hostile forces in the Red Sea are being monitored accurately, and pose a danger to the regional waters and the global trade movement.

Major General Al-Qadri affirmed that "protecting the Red Sea, the Yemeni islands, and the Bab al-Mandab Strait is a Yemeni responsibility,” and that the Yemeni Armed Forces and naval forces have the full ability to protect it."

He pointed out that "the region does not need invaders to protect it as they claim, because the Saudi-led coalition countries and their allies are the real enemy of safety and commercial and civil navigation."

Posted by: badanov || 12/19/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


Soddies holding at least five fuel ships bound for Yemen
by Emad Almarshahi


Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC) reported on Saturday that the US-Saudi aggression has seized a new gasoline ship, bringing the number of fuel ships detained to five.

“The US-Saudi aggression has detained the gasoline Ji Atash Osten ship despite its inspection and obtaining entry permits from the United Nations,” the spokesman for the YPC Essam Al-Mutawakel said.

Mutawakel indicated that the US-Saudi aggression seized the gasoline Ji Atash Osten ship after it was delayed in Djibouti for inspection and obtaining entry permits from the United Nations Verification and Inspection Committee.

He held the aggression and the United Nations responsible for seizing the fuel ships and causing the suffering of the Yemeni People to double.

Posted by: badanov || 12/19/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia


Home Front: Politix
Texas to resume border wall construction after reaching deals with private property owners, Abbott says
[FoxNews] The Texas government will resume construction of a wall on the state's border with Mexico, according to Gov. Greg Abbott.

The announcement comes after an extended period of negotiation between Texas officials and private property owners for the construction of infrastructure on their land.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/19/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  I would walk the California border next if I were Texas.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/19/2022 9:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Texas doesn't have a California border. But I like the idea.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/19/2022 9:09 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Wall not wall. I am a geographically challenged Midwesterner. For a lot of reasons Ohio is not a popular destination for fleeing California liberals.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/19/2022 10:07 Comments || Top||

#4  you're lucky then super hose
Posted by: Chris || 12/19/2022 11:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Only 6 months a year.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/19/2022 11:24 Comments || Top||

#6  I'd suggest New Mexico be walled off next given their political tendencies even if I do have rels. there.
Posted by: AlanC || 12/19/2022 13:19 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Invictus wins contract to update DIA's top-secret intranet
[C4ISRNET] The Defense Intelligence Agency disclosed the winner of a “significant” IT modernization contract it announced this week: Washington, D.C.-based cybersecurity firm Invictus.

The contract is to modernize the top-secret Joint Worldwide Intelligence Collection System, or JWICS. DIA announced the deal Wednesday, but did not initially reveal the winning company. It’s the largest investment ever made in the network used by the intelligence community and the Department of Defense to transmit sensitive information, agency officials said. The DIA, which provides the U.S. Department of Defense with information about foreign countries’ military capabilities, manages it.

Program manager Katie Lipps told reporters during a briefing at the DoD Intelligence Information Systems Worldwide conference in San Antonio, Texas, Thursday that Invictus is the lead on the eight-year contract and will have a diverse team of subcontractors.

JWICS was designed in the 1990s to provide secure video teleconferencing between DoD and DIA headquarters, but its scope and user base has grown significantly since then. The network now includes data and email services and has more than 200,000 users, according to DIA Chief Information Officer Doug Cossa.

That increased demand, a need for greater security and a desire to incorporate new technology are the drivers behind the JWICS modernization initiative, he said during a Dec. 15 briefing.

“It has become the connective tissue that brings everything together — whether that’s collection or analysis that supports strategic competition,” Cossa said.

The modernization program will focus on three lines of effort: replacing outdated infrastructure; improving cybersecurity; and ensuring that the system can meet the long-term requirements of military and intelligence community users. One area of interest for the agency is making JWICS more mobile so that it can operate in hard-to-reach areas using secure satellite communication networks.

“We’re now looking all around the world at some of the most difficult possible places to provide connectivity to,” Cossa said. “Traditionally, our networks have been terrestrial, so looking at physical fiber lines, undersea cables that connect us with the rest of our sites around the world. . . . What if that doesn’t exist in the future, especially in those hard-to-navigate areas?”
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/19/2022 07:25 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Seem to remember the self proclaimed leader of FOAK having the nom de guerre as one "Augustus Invictus". He was then dating a chicklet who protrayed herself as 'conservative!" and who spoke at 2nd Berkeley. They were all fake, and AI (heh) himself was early on considered an infiltrator who he most certainly was.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 12/19/2022 12:32 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ I was gonna say, "Katie Lipps" sounds like a pr0n actress name.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/19/2022 12:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Ah, my sweet JWICS. How I loved you.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/19/2022 13:36 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ Hey Darth, have you tried the Rantburg 'High Side?'
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/19/2022 13:51 Comments || Top||

#5  It will probably be lame like Parler.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/19/2022 15:49 Comments || Top||


Cottonmouth Amphibious Recon Vehicle Prototype Joins The Marines
[TheDrive] The technology-packed Cottonmouth is competing to replace the aging LAV-25, but its future isn’t guaranteed as changes sweep the Marines.

Textron has delivered the first prototype of the 6x6 Cottonmouth wheeled amphibious reconnaissance vehicle to the U.S. Marine Corps. This is one of two designs competing to become the Corps’ next Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle or ARV. Variants of the winning ARV are slated to succeed the service’s four-decade-old Light Armored Vehicle, or LAV, family of vehicles.

Textron handed off the Cottonmouth prototype to the Marines on Dec. 1 at the privately owned and operated Nevada Automotive Test Center, located in Silver Springs in that state. The delivery signified the completion of contractor verification testing of the prototype’s “mobility, swim capability, vetronics integration, and C4UAS [command, control, communications, and computers-unmanned aerial system] mission capabilities,” which wrapped last August in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is also worth noting that the prototype delivered is actually the “second iteration of the vehicle informed by lessons learned from an original Alpha prototype vehicle and approximately 3,000 miles of testing,” according to Textron.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/19/2022 07:06 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The ARV program seeks to produce a vehicle for Marine Light Armored Reconnaissance (LAR) battalions that will replace the service’s fleet of LAVs, which is scheduled to begin phasing out in the mid-2030s, with a system more capable of ingesting [!!] and analyzing battlefield data. The first in the LAV series of vehicles entered service with the Marines in 1983 to provide LAR units with greater mobility and combat support.
Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 || 12/19/2022 7:40 Comments || Top||


Mayhem Hypersonic Strike-Recon Jet Contract Awarded To Leidos
[TheDrive] The Air Force has said it wants the experimental Mayhem air vehicle to demonstrate strike and intelligence-gathering capabilities.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/19/2022 06:58 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:



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Mon 2022-12-19
  Russia launches fresh wave of 35 Iranian-made suicide drones hitting Kyiv energy hub in huge explosion
Sun 2022-12-18
  Bomb blast kills at least 9 Iraqi police officers near Kirkuk - sources
Sat 2022-12-17
  Iranians hit the streets in restive southeast as protests enter 4th month
Fri 2022-12-16
  Oberlin College pays $36.6 million judgement in full
Thu 2022-12-15
  DOJ Arrests Sam Bankman-Fried For Running Out Of Bribery Money
Wed 2022-12-14
  Ugandan army says 11 Islamists killed
Tue 2022-12-13
  Ukraine tightens the noose on Putin's armies: 'Saboteurs' destroy bridge in Melitopol choking off key supply route for Russia's troops
Mon 2022-12-12
  Lockerbie bombing suspect in US custody two years after being charged
Sun 2022-12-11
  Mass graves of 800 civilians found in Severodonetsk
Sat 2022-12-10
  Bulgaria will send military aid to Ukraine for the first time
Fri 2022-12-09
  A Russian couple were detained by Mexican law enforcement in Tijuana, Baja California with $587,550 in cash with them
Thu 2022-12-08
  Five electricity substations in Oregon and Washington are attacked just days after two in North Carolina were shot up causing widespread power outages
Wed 2022-12-07
  Iraqi security arrests 11 ISIS terrorists in different governorates
Tue 2022-12-06
  ISIS Families Flee al-Hole In Syria's Hasakah
Mon 2022-12-05
  Suicide bombers in women's veils - ISIS claims Pak embassy attack


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