So, treat the 'men' better or the 'women' worse?
[JustTheNews] TSA announced changes on International Transgender Day of Visibility
The Transportation Security Administration on Thursday morning announced new standards for screening transgender, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming airline passengers at airport checkpoints.
The agency said the changes are to "improve the screening experience for all passengers" and announced them on International Transgender Day of Visibility.
TSA also said the new standards will go into effect after the implementation of new technology that will in part replace the current, gender-based system, which will be more accurate and "advance civil rights and improve the customer experience of travelers who previously have been required to undergo additional screening due to alarms in sensitive areas."
If the testing of the new technology proves successful, the agency will begin deploying the other updates to airports later this year including:
Reducing the number of pat-down screenings
Streamlining identity validation
Making TSA PreCheck more inclusive to include an "X" gender marker option on its application
Updating its Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender Nonconforming Passengers web page to provide information to the traveling public on all gender-related updates
[JustTheNews] The Biden administration has allowed a more than eleven-fold increase in the number of illegal immigrant offenders let out of Texas prisons and into the general U.S. population, despite federal immigration law requiring ICE to take convicts into custody after serving their time, usually in advance of deportation.
The disclosure emerges from state-initiated litigation that is beginning to shed light on what critics call the administration's secretive and lenient handling of immigrants beginning last year – treatment that is imperiling public safety, alarmed state authorities say.
Soon after President Joe Biden assumed office a year ago January, agents of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement began dropping their usually automatic requests to take custody from Texas authorities of immigrant convicts set to be released from the state's prisons and jails, so they could be deported.
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[TOLO] "A fella could have a pretty good week in Quetta with that"
The UN held a high-level virtual pledging event in cooperation with the United Kingdom, Germany and Qatar on Afghanistan, where a total of amount of $2.44 billion had been promised.
The meeting was held on Thursday.
The UN earlier said it was seeking $4.4 billion to alleviate the crisis in Afghanistan.
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Question: How much do they think will end up actually helping the Afghan people, after the Taliban leadership gets its hands on it?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemen’s government will take steps to arrange for the release of prisoners, open Sanaa airport and release oil ships via the port of Hodeidah, the foreign minister said in a tweet on Friday in support of calls for a truce during the holy month of Ramadan.
The minister also announced the release of the first two fuel ships through Hodeidah, saying that these steps come based on directives from President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.
UN and US envoys on Wednesday welcomed unilateral truce moves by Yemen’s warring sides as encouraging steps, while stressing the need for a more comprehensive ceasefire.
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[Washington Examiner] The newest Democratic selection for the Afghanistan War Commission is an MSNBC pundit who was among dozens of former intelligence officials who signed a letter in October 2020 claiming without evidence that the Hunter Biden laptop story was part of a Russian operation.
The Democratic chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Washington Rep. Adam Smith, announced he had picked Jeremy Bash for the Afghanistan investigation Friday, with the biography for Bash noting he served as chief of staff at the Pentagon and chief of staff at the CIA during the Obama administration. Former CIA Director Leon Panetta, for whom Bash worked, also signed the letter.
Bash’s LinkedIn lists himself as the founder of Beacon Global Strategies and as a national security analyst at NBC News and MSNBC.
Despite offering no proof, Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, along with many in the media, dismissed the laptop story as being a Russian disinformation operation. After the New York Post published emails belonging to his son, Joe Biden called the story "garbage" and part of a "Russian plan" during an October 2020 debate with then-President Donald Trump.
Joe Biden was referring to a Politico report about the letter in an article titled "Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say." The title was misleading because the letter never directly called it Russian "disinformation."
Bash himself strongly suggested it was "disinformation" on TV, however.
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Now the Media half heartedly is starting to pretend it is 2 page newsworthy.
But, it is clear the media and LSD's conspired to slander and harm many people for Years. It is also clear, that it was for personal, social, political, and/or financial gains.
May Trump and every other wrong, smeared, slandered person to sue those that deliberately lied to the American public to further their Political, Social, and/or perverted Agendas.
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They're just straight-up lying to your face now. They don't care. They will never suffer any consequences for it, so why don't you go fuck yourself, commoner?
[CitizenFreePress] "Today, I’m announcing my candidacy for the U.S. House seat representing Alaska," she said in a statement shared with DC Secrets on Friday night. "Public service is a calling, and I would be honored to represent the men and women of Alaska in Congress, just as Rep. Young did for 49 years. I realize that I have very big shoes to fill, and I plan to honor Rep. Young’s legacy by offering myself up in the name of service to the state he loved and fought for because I share that passion for Alaska and the United States of America."
Palin, 58, joined the race for a planned special House election just before the filing deadline closed. There are 40 other applicants in the race.
Goodness — an enthusiastic crowd.
Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy has set the special election’s primary for June 11 and the general election for Aug. 16.
In the statement, she said, "America is at a tipping point. As I’ve watched the far Left destroy the country, I knew I had to step up and join the fight. The people of the great state of Alaska, like others all over the country, are struggling with out-of-control inflation, empty shelves, and gas prices that are among the highest in the world. We need energy security for this country, and Alaska can help provide that — but only if the federal government gets out of the way and lets the free market do what it does best.”
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The left's visceral hatred of poor whites overflowed like a broken sewer when John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate in 2008. It would be impossible, and disturbing, to attempt to identify the single most offensive comment that leftists lobbed at Palin. One can report that attacks on Palin were so egregious that leftists themselves publicly begged that they cease; after all, they gave the left a bad name. The Reclusive Leftist blogged in 2009 that it was a "major shock" to discover "the extent to which so many self-described liberals actually despise working people." The Reclusive Leftist focuses on Vanity Fair journalist Henry Rollins. Rollins recommends that leftists "hate-fuck conservative women" and denounces Palin as a "small town hickoid" who can be bought off with a coupon to a meal at a chain restaurant.
>This past weekend, I went to Lollapalooza in Chicago. I wore my new shirt, which in big letters, states "Sarah Palin is A Cunt." I knew in this extremely liberal city, the hometown of Barack Obama, that I would not get lynched, but I wasn't expecting so many compliments. Literally over 100 people complimented me on my shirt, from "I love your shirt" to "I love your shirt."
[Dawn] Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... revealed on Friday that the "establishment" had given him three options: "resignation, no-confidence [vote] or elections", following the filing of a no-confidence motion against him in the National Assembly.
He shared this during an interview to ARY News, which was aired on Friday, while responding to questions about whether the opposition, government or "another party" had proposed early elections and his resignation as options.
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He wasn't told the fourth, because it's not an option.
[Dawn] The United States has ’clearly distanced’ itself from Pakistain, former US military chief Mike Mullen said as the White House and the State Department publicly reject claims of their involvement in Pakistain’s domestic politics.
"It is difficult, difficult to say," said Admiral Mullen when asked to describe Washington’s relations with Pakistain, which was once a close US ally in the war against terror and during the cold war.
"I think we have clearly distanced ourselves from Pakistain over the last decade and Pakistain has more and more fallen under the umbrella of China," he told VOA Urdu Service in Washington this week.
He recalled that as the US army chief he had told a congressional hearing that Pak intelligence agencies were active in Afghanistan "and I still believe ... that connectivity is there. It sort of cuts both ways."
Admiral Mullen, who was chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 2007 to September 2011, was also named in the so-called Memogate controversy, which revolved around a memorandum, ostensibly seeking US support for preventing a feared military takeover in Pakistain that never happened.
He noted that China was not only Pakistain’s neighbour but it "has been supportive of Pakistain" as well.
This closeness, he said, "suits China’s global ambition" because Beijing would prefer to have a neighbor "closer to them and not close to the US".
For these reasons, the US-Pakistain relationship "is going to... be tense for quite some time," he added.
Asked if he believed Pakistain helped the Taliban ...Arabic for students... take over Kabul in August last year, Admiral Mullen said: "They did not do much to stop it for sure."
He recalled that as the US army chief he had told a congressional hearing that Pak intelligence agencies were active in Afghanistan "and I still believe ... that connectivity is there. It sort of cuts both ways."
The former US military chief reiterated a complaint that’s often heard in Washington that Pakistain "played on both sides (the US and the Taliban)" in Afghanistan.
On Thursday afternoon, the White House and the US State Department publicly addressed Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... ’s claim that foreign powers were supporting the attempt to unseat him.
During a regular press briefing, White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield, however, rejected this claim as incorrect.
"Absolutely no truth to that allegation," she said, responding to a question.
At the State Department, spokesperson Ned Price also responded to a question about the alleged US involvement in Pakistain’s domestic politics.
"We are closely following developments in Pakistain, we respect and support Pakistain’s constitutional process and rule of law," Mr Price said. "However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... when it comes to that allegation, there is no truth to it."
Appalling photos at link. It’s a wonder Israel has survived. Yes, they have a super high-tech fence surrounding the Gazoo strip, but the West Bank appears as unprotected as our southern border.
[IsraelTimes] ’This is how a terrorist can get from Jenin to Bnei Brak in an hour,’ Englman says, urging Israeli politicians to ’come to their senses’ amid deadly terror wave
Israel’s state ombudsman on Thursday accused authorities of allowing the West Bank security barrier to fall into disrepair, saying that the defensive measure credited with helping staunch the Second Intifada over 15 years earlier was "no longer relevant."
State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman made the comments while visiting a broken section of the barrier near the town of Matan, northwest of Tel Aviv, days after a Paleostinian terrorist, who apparently drove into Israel via a hole in the fence, rubbed out five people in Bnei Brak.
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President Biden said something similar to President Putin shortly before the current excitement over there....
[IsraelTimes] US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides says Israel won’t be faced with any US restrictions if it wishes to act against Iran, whether or not a nuclear deal is signed between Tehran and world powers.
“The president… will do whatever he can do to make sure that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon… It’s clear we’d like to do it through a diplomatic channel,” Nides tells Channel 12 news.
Regarding the progress of the negotiations on a deal, he says: “The Israelis know very clearly exactly what is going on. I’m not suggesting they necessarily like it always, but there are no secrets here.”
He dodges a direct question on whether Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps will be delisted, as he also does in a Channel 13 interview.
Channel 12 asks Nides if the US expects Israel to “sit quietly and not do anything” if a deal is signed.
“Absolutely not. We’ve been very clear about this,” Nides says. “If we have a deal, the Israelis’ hands are not tied. If we don’t have a deal, the Israelis’ hands are certainly not tied.”
“Israel can do and take whatever actions they need to take to protect the state of Israel,” he adds.
Asked about Israel’s efforts to tackle terrorism, Nides says: “We’re not going to tell the government what to do.”
On Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s highlighting of settler violence and settlement expansion during his recent visit, as opposed to Palestinian terrorism, Nides says: “No one likes violence. Period. It doesn’t matter if it’s settler violence, you know, Palestinian violence…”
He says he made clear, in his own confirmation testimony, that the Palestinian Authority’s payments to terrorists and their families must be halted: “Martyr payments… must stop,” he says.
He stresses US support for the two-state solution:, noting: “We can’t lose the vision… (though) we can’t impose anything on anyone.”
Regarding Israel’s policies on Ukraine, Nides says, “We’re very comfortable with what the Israelis are doing vis a vis Ukraine. And as for any mediator role that they can play, we welcome that.”
Reminded that senior State Department official Victoria Nuland warned against Israel being the “last haven” for Vladimir Putin’s dirty money, Nides says: “When we have issues, we express them, as Israel expresses them to us…. I am very comfortable today on the relationship, with what they’re doing with Ukraine.”
[AnNahar] Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial... 's electricity company is charging $16 million to supply power on the day of the May 15 parliamentary polls, a sum that exceeds the overall election budget by nearly 30 percent, the interior minister said.
Holding credible elections is one of the main steps Lebanon's major donors are insisting on to deliver more assistance to the country, which is mired in a deep financial crisis fuelled by endemic corruption.
The state-owned Electricite du Liban (EDL) presented a quote of $16 million to the government, which is trying to provide just half a day's worth of power to polling stations for the critical vote.
"I held several meetings with EDL, which apparently couldn't provide electricity except at a very high cost," Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi said.
"The entire elections, at home and abroad, don't cost this much," Mawlawi said, saying his total budget for the vote was capped at $12.5 million.
Mawlawi was adamant the government was working for the polls to go ahead as scheduled, despite persistent rumors they could be called off.
Lebanon, grappling with an unprecedented economic crisis since 2019, and which defaulted on its debt in March 2020, has suffered from severe power shortages for nearly a year -- largely because the government can't afford fuel for power stations.
Power cuts last up to 22 hours a day in most regions, forcing many to rely on expensive generator subscriptions to keep the lights on.
The international community has long demanded a complete overhaul of Lebanon's loss-making electricity sector -- which has cost the government more than $40 billion since the end of the 1975-1990 civil war -- as one of the basic conditions to disburse billions of dollars in desperately needed financial support.
EDL had asked for its payment in cash, Mawlawi said.
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Mawlawi said the government may turn to private generators to power voting centers, which will need electricity to light the room at night when the votes are counted immediately after polls close.
"I can't rely on the state because despite the high cost demanded, EDL can't guarantee solid results... which may lead to a sudden blackout," the interior minister said.
"The issue of electricity is the biggest problem facing Lebanon... but we will be able to solve it for the day of elections," he added.
Lebanon's energy crisis is just one of its many economic woes, with the currency having lost more than 90 percent of its value.
Most of Lebanon's population lives below the poverty line.
Power outages mean streets are dark at night and surveillance cameras are effectively obsolete, leading to a spike in certain types of crime, Mawlawi said, who cited deepening poverty as another driving force.
Interior ministry figures show armed robberies surged by 135 percent in 2021 compared with the previous year, and car theft increased by nearly a quarter over the same period.
At the same time, Lebanon's security forces have been weakened because officers have quit to look for other work, since their salary barely covers enough to buy basic food for a family.
At least 478 security officers working for Internal Security Forces or the General Security Agency have quit ranks since the start of the country's crisis, documents provided by the ministry showed.
"There is a problem," Mawlawi told AFP.
But "the number of those defecting is not large. We should not exaggerate the problem," he added.
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Well, it's all part of the plan. Rolling blackouts will let them decide which voting districts get to vote and will allow undesirable voting results to be "lost" when power goes out "unexpectedly."
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[Rudaw] United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... experts said on Friday that the fate of 100 children detained in Hasaka prison in northeast Syria (Rojava) is unknown following a jail break by 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.... in January.
ISIS attacked al-Sina’a prison in Hasaka on January 20 with explosive-laden vehicles and other weapons. This led to over a week of intense festivities between ISIS fighters and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Control of the prison was retaken by the SDF with the support of the global coalition against ISIS, with the recaptured prisoners transferred to another prison.
"We are extremely concerned that since the January 2022 attack, the fate and whereabouts of at least 100 of those boys remain unaccounted for which raises serious concerns relating to their right to life," the UN human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. experts said a statement. "Some of these cases might amount to enforced disappearance, and where children are concerned, States — and de facto authorities — must undertake special measures of protection that reflect their vulnerability."
International rights groups, including Save the Children and Human Rights Watch, have previously said 700 boys had been in the Kurdish-run jail in northeastern Hassakeh province before it was attacked by 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.
Aged 12-18, the detainees included many who had adult relatives inside Ghwayran prison and were transferred from nearby displacement camps housing thousands of children of jihadist fighters.
The independent experts called on the de facto authorities to allow all humanitarian actors to have full and unimpeded access to children still held at Ghwayran.
"Harm to these children must be identified, and those responsible must be held accountable to prevent impunity," the UN experts said.
The IS prison break attempt from Ghwayran triggered a week of festivities inside and around the Kurdish-run facility, leaving hundreds dead, before Kurdish-led forces recaptured the jail.
[IsraelTimes] Announcement comes a day after Blinken’s meeting with Abu Dhabi crown prince, two days after call with Saudi FM as US seeks to calm their frustrations over lack of support.
The United States on Wednesday announced sanctions against Iranian defense companies after a spate of ballistic missile attacks on targets in Iraq, 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... and the United Arab Emirates
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[Free Beacon via Bongino] The Biden administration's new nuclear accord with Iran is likely to include a loophole that will "allow Iranian nationals linked to terrorism to enter and stay in the United States," according to a new Republican-authored policy analysis circulating on Capitol Hill and reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
With negotiations over a revamped nuclear deal inching closer to completion, the Biden administration is considering a concession that will remove Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) from the U.S.-designated terrorist list.
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Did Barry convert him while he was with him? Is Joe actually Yusuf Rubabuddin Biden? Because at this point in world history I can totally see that.
I'm beginning to see indo-wakandan sugar tits Harris as the lesser evil now.
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True dat. Let's hope the deepState can dredge up enough competence to forestall the doom of its own gravy train, and install a better asshole. Or they could give democracy a chance this time. Gawd willing.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[JustTheNews] The Biden administration has allowed a more than eleven-fold increase in the number of illegal immigrant offenders let out of Texas prisons and into the general U.S. population, despite federal immigration law requiring ICE to take convicts into custody after serving their time, usually in advance of deportation.
...aka 
...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial...
...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 
...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 
[Free Beacon via Bongino] The Biden administration's new nuclear accord with Iran is likely to include a loophole that will "allow Iranian nationals linked to terrorism to enter and stay in the United States," according to a new Republican-authored policy analysis circulating on Capitol Hill and reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
