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Poland: Migrants Attacking Border with ‘Full Aggression’ Using ‘Stones, Logs, Metal Poles as Weapons’
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-Land of the Free
Marine who criticized Afghan withdrawal, called for accountability discharged
[FoxNews] Former Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller Jr. said he has been officially released from the Marines following a special court-martial
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Africa Horn
Internet services in Sudan's capital disrupted ahead of protests
[Jpost]
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/25/2021 03:53 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

Or maybe not
Posted by: Jumbo Glolulet1033 || 12/25/2021 12:30 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russian Foreign Ministry Says Russian Consulate In Ukraine's Lviv Was Attacked
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Russia accuses Ukraine of an 'act of terrorism' over Molotov cocktail attack on its embassy in Lviv as satellite images reveal Putin has moved HUNDREDS more tanks to border

[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • The Kremlin has demanded an apology from Kiev today after attack on consulate in Ukrainian city of Lviv

  • Footage shows a man hurling a petrol bomb at the embassy and Ukrainian police have launched a probe

  • It comes as new satellite images revealed Vladimir Putin has moved troops and tanks to the Ukrainian border

  • Russian troops engaged in frenzy of 'exercises' including precision shooting at the Ukrainian border yesterday

  • Comes amid reports 'mass graves', each capable of holding 100 bodies, are being prepared along the border

  • Russia has been massing thousands of troops at Ukraine's border since October after a small buildup in April
Posted by: Fred || 12/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  and it starts
Posted by: Frank G || 12/25/2021 8:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Sounds like the Polish radio station attack 1939. Putie seems to have a sense of wry humor …
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/25/2021 16:20 Comments || Top||


Europe
Foreigners Behind 80 Per Cent of Violent Theft 62 Per Cent of Sexual violence on Paris Transit
[Breitbart] In 2020, non-French migrants colonists were accused of being behind 80 per cent of the violent mostly peaceful thefts on the Gay Paree region public transit system and 62 per cent of the acts of sexual violence.

The figures released by the French Interior ministry show the backgrounds of those accused of various crimes on public transit systems in the Ille-de-La Belle France region, as well as the rest of the country.

In the Ille-de-La Belle France region, which includes the city of Gay Paree and its various suburbs, Frenchies made up just 20 per cent of those accused of robbery with violence on public transit, while foreigners made up 80 per cent, the largest number, 61 per cent, coming from the North African region.

For thefts without violence, such as pickpocketing, Frenchies were even lower at just eight per cent of those accused, while foreigners made up 92 per cent, with North Africans again being the single largest group at 59 per cent.

In terms of those accused of sexual violence aboard public transit in the Gay Paree region, Frenchies represented 38 per cent of those accused, while foreigners accounted for 62 per cent, with sub-Saharan Africans being the largest represented group among foreigners at 23 per cent.

The figures come just over three years since a Gay Paree police officer admitted in 2018 that the majority of sex attackers on the Gay Paree metro system were migrants colonists from North African backgrounds.

Figures from the rest of La Belle France outside of the Gay Paree region showed French-born suspects the vast majority in all crimes on public transit except for thefts without violence, where North Africans accounted for 43 per cent, or nearly half.

Violence, including sexual violence, has been a rising problem on the Patis public transit system for several years, with a 2019 report noting that sexual assaults had risen by 30 per cent in 2018 compared to the prior year, with over 1,000 cases reported.

The Gay Paree Region Planning and Development Agency (IAU) produced and released a study in 2017 that showed over half, or 56 per cent, of the women in the Gay Paree region, were afraid to use public transit due to cases of sex attacks and thefts.

The French government statistics release reveals the total number of crimes of all kinds fell last year — the number of passengers having fallen, given the Coronavirus lockdowns — and cited the exploitation of migrants colonists by criminal gangs as a potential cause of the disproportionate statistics of presumed migrant criminals on transit.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/25/2021 01:52 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


Germany to increase job opportunities for foreigners to prevent illegal migration
Lie back and think of England.
[Rudaw] Germany will make legal entry to the country easier for people who want to enter the job market, and will create more opportunities as a step to prevent illegal migration, a minister for the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia told Rudaw.

"We will now have a new migration policy which allows people from other countries to come to Germany through work contracts, and for that we will create a job market that provides more opportunities," Joachim Stamp, the minister of children, family, refugees and integration for the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia told Rudaw’s Alla Shally last week.

This comes after a boat carrying 33 migrants colonists capsized in the English Channel on November 24. There are two known survivors of the disaster while 27 migrants colonists drowned, among which were 17 Kurds, and four people are still missing.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 12/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


The Grand Turk
Turkey freezes assets of 770 people for alleged terror links
The Turkish treasury is ever hungry, with all their sultanly adventures abroad to be funded. So the next lot of enemy Gulenists has been rounded up for sacrifice. ISIS and Al Nusra are legit jihadis, and the PKK is only to be expected whenever anyone else is on the block.
[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
froze the assets of 770 Ottoman Turkish nationals and a reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
-based foundation, according to a decision published Friday in the country's official gazette.

The list of targets includes 454 people with alleged links to Moslem holy man Fethullah Gülen
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world. Gülen and Erdogan used to be really good friends, but only one of them could be sultan, and Gülen lost...
, who lives in the United States. The Ottoman Turkish government accuses Gulen and his network of being behind a bloody coup attempt in 2016. Gulen has denied the allegation.

Gulen is the honorary president of the Chicago foundation that had its assets in Turkey frozen. The Niagara Foundation's parent organization, the Alliance for Shared Values, is a nonprofit of the Gulen movement, which Turkey designated as a terror group.

The list published Friday shows 119 other people had assets frozen for links 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....
group, al-Qaeda, the al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
Front and other alleged ``terror groups that abuse religion.''

Another 108 people were targeted for alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK, which is designated a terror group by Turkey and the United States.

Eighty-nine people with alleged links to leftist groups designated as terror organizations were also listed in the ruling.

The decision was signed by Turkey's interior, treasury and finance ministers.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


India-Pakistan
Take strict action against those inciting hatred, violence: Priyanka on Haridwar hate speech
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq
In Iraq, Christmas is becoming many Muslims' favorite new holiday
[DW] More Iraqi Moslems are celebrating Christmas than ever. Yet Iraq's Christians are an endangered minority and some Moslem holy mans are vehemently against it. So why are there so many Christmas trees in Baghdad?

Iraqi woman Kholoud Khardoum suspects she was the one who introduced Christmas to her village in southern Iraq. It all started six years ago with a small plastic Christmas tree and some gifts for her nieces and nephews during a visit home, the Iraqi journalist, who resides in Baghdad, recounted.

"At first, it was a bit weird. People kept asking what the tree was. It was something they had only seen on TV," she told DW; her hometown is just outside the city of Karbala, a comparatively conservative place with a Shiite Moslem majority that is also a major destination for Moslem pilgrims. "But with the lights and the decorations and gifts, the children really loved it. Then the neighbors came over and they liked what we were doing too."
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Posted by: trailing wife || 12/25/2021 01:04 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


Southeast Asia
Thailand, BRN Rebels to Resume In-person Peace Talks Next Month
[BenarNews] Malaysia next month will host the first face-to-face talks in nearly two years between Thailand and southern BRN rebels, sources from both sides said Thursday about in-person negotiations that were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The high-level talks brokered by Malaysia are expected to resume after a surge in festivities in late 2021 between Thai government forces and suspected rebels from Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN),
...the Salafi Barisan Revolusi Nasional-Koordinasi (BRN-C), the largest group in the south Thailand Islamist jihad. Trained in Bandung, Indonesia and retreating to safe havens in Malaysia, they’ve been causing trouble — mostly kabooms — for two decades as they work to make southern Thailand ungovernable...
the most powerful separatist group in Thailand’s majority-Moslem Deep South.

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Posted by: trailing wife || 12/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran fires 16 missiles during drills in warning to Israel
[Rudaw] Iran
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
fired multiple ballistic missiles Friday at the close of five days of military drills that generals said were a warning to arch-enemy Israel.

"These exercises were designed to respond to threats made in recent days by the Zionist regime," Iran's armed forces chief of staff Major General Mohammad Bagheri told state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
."Sixteen missiles aimed and annihilated the chosen target. In this exercise, part of the hundreds of Iranian missiles capable of destroying a country that dared to attack Iran were deployed," he added.

The military drills dubbed Payambar-e-Azadm, or "Great Prophet", began Monday in Bushehr, Hormozgan and Khuzestan provinces, each of which touch the Gulf.

"The military exercise... is a serious warning to Zionist regime officials," said Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps chief Major General Hossein Salami.

"Make the slightest mistake, we will cut off their hand."

The drills come after US national security adviser Jake Sullivan met Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, amid the Jewish state's opposition to efforts to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

Bennett has accused Iran of "nuclear blackmail" and charged that revenue it gained from sanctions relief would be used to acquire weapons to harm Israelis.
Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard fired more than a dozen surface-to-surface ballistic missiles, the official IRNA news agency reported on Friday.

The report said the Guard fired 16 missiles during an ongoing major military exercise across the country's south. It said the name of missiles were Emad, Ghadr, Sejjil, Zalzal, Dezful and Zolfaghar and that their range is from 350 to 2000 kilometers (220 to 1250 miles). The short-range and medium-range missiles, Iran has said, can reach U.S. bases in the region as well as archenemy Israel.

It said the missiles successfully hit one target at the same time as 10 drones simultaneously hit their targets. State TV showed missiles launching in the desert.

Iran had displayed and test fired the missiles in the past.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Al-Rahi Slams 'Unilateral Will' that is 'Paralyzing Institutions'
[An Nahar] Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Friday lashed out at the parties that are imposing their "unilateral will" on state institutions to the extent of "confining and paralyzing" them.

"We demand the restoration of our democratic system, because we have been living for years in a state of disorder," al-Rahi said in his Christmas message.

He also called for "recovering our state, because we are living outside its boundaries and it is living outside its legitimacy, constitution and National Pact."

The patriarch also reiterated that "the only gateway for salvation and rescue would be declaring Lebanon Hezbollahstan
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years. It produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. That's three statements. Only the first is subjective....
’s positive and active neutrality, in line with the National Pact that rejects turning Lebanon into a place or passageway for any foreign presence."
Posted by: Fred || 12/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Port Blast Probe: What's the Snag?
[An Nahar] Sixteen months since a monster blast destroyed the Lebanese capital, the judge investigating the tragedy has been beset by numerous lawsuits, mostly filed against him by officials demanding his removal.

With Judge Tarek Bitar forced to suspend his probe for a fourth time in the face of such complaints, here is a look at the increasingly complex web of court challenges obstructing investigations into Lebanon Hezbollahstan
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ...
's worst peacetime disaster.
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Posted by: Fred || 12/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies



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Sat 2021-12-25
  Poland: Migrants Attacking Border with ‘Full Aggression’ Using ‘Stones, Logs, Metal Poles as Weapons’
Fri 2021-12-24
  Egypt’s border guards arrest over 2,000 irregular migrants, seize tons of drugs
Thu 2021-12-23
  Nigeria: Fulani Jihadists Kill 45 Christian Farmers in 'Barbaric' Attack
Wed 2021-12-22
  Sudan's Prime Minister Abadalla Hamdok to resign
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  Saudi Arabian 'potential terrorist' nabbed at US-Mexico border
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  Death Toll In Fresh Bandits’ Attack On Kaduna Communities Rises To 38
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  2018 Bodh Gaya blast: 3 JMB terrorists get life imprisonment
Sat 2021-12-18
  ISIS-linked extremists decapitate Christian pastor in Mozambique
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Thu 2021-12-16
  Libya PM's office surrounded by militia
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  Police foil Al-Shabaab's attempt to abduct Imam in Kenya Mosque
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  Taliban Seek Ties with U.S., Other ex-Foes
Mon 2021-12-13
  Four dead at funeral of Hamas member killed in Lebanon explosion
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  Warring Libyan Armed Forces Agree to Unite Army
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  Pakistani Taliban have called off a ceasefire mediated with the help of the Afghan Taliban


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