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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Illegal Alien Found Guilty of Murdering Mollie Tibbetts


[BREITBART] An illegal alien has been found guilty of murdering 20-year-old University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts by a jury on Friday.

Cristhian Bahena Rivera, an illegal alien from Mexico, was arrested in August 2018 — about a month after Tibbetts first went missing on the evening of July 18, 2018, in Brooklyn, Iowa — and charged with first-degree murder.

Bahena Rivera led Sherlocks to Tibbetts’ body and he said he spotted her jogging, ran up to her, and became angry because she threatened to call the police. Rivera said he then blacked out and took her body from his car trunk and placed her in a cornfield, placing corn stalks over her.

Bahena Rivera first crossed the United States-Mexico border at 17-years-old and headed to Iowa where he has relatives. He worked at the Yarabee Farms dairy farm under the name "John Budd" from a stolen Social Security number.

Twelve jurors, including three Hispanic Americans and nine white Americans from 19 to 71-years-old, found Bahena Rivera guilty of first-degree murder following a nearly two-week trial and less than eight hours of deliberation.

Posted by: Fred || 05/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A Dreamer
We need his labor
Doing the work Americans won't do
A victim of global warming and racism and America's cruel foreign policy and um Trump
Posted by: Flusoling Therens6896 || 05/30/2021 6:26 Comments || Top||

#2  ...By the way, his alibi under oath was a beaut: two masked strangers kidnapped him and made him do it.

Given his likely future, what the hell - it was worth a shot.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 05/30/2021 8:45 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ and "I blacked out" ... Does that phrase actually signify something besides "I lost consciousness of my surroundings"?

Is it more like "freaked out" which means, to become a freak-- i.e. does it actually mean, "I became Black and starting acting as a Black would"?
Posted by: Lemuel Barnsmell3303 || 05/30/2021 10:26 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Famed Nazi fighter, Jewish partisan photographer dead at 101
[Just The News] Famed Jewish partisan and photographer Faye Schulman, who took up arms against the Nazi war machine she was at one point forced to photograph for vanity portraits, died last month, her daughter revealed this week.

Schulman was spared in a Nazi massacre of Polish Jews in 1942, after which the Nazis conscripted her to photograph them for commemorative portraits. She later joined a band of Russian resistance fighters, participating in offensive skirmishes against Hitler's war machine while documenting much of the struggle with photographs.

Her photos provided valuable evidence of both the atrocities of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust as well as documentation of the active Jewish struggle against the Nazi machine.

The news broke this week that Schulman died last month at the reported age of 101. She was residing in Toronto at the time. The Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation identifies her as "one of the only known Jewish partisan photographers."

The foundation quotes her as saying: "Jews did not go like sheep to the slaughter. I was a photographer. I have pictures. I have proof."
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/30/2021 01:23 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good Night Brave Lioness, May you rest in eternal peace knowing your photography will live as long as civilization is willing to remember the brutality that was Germany and the NAZI Movement.
You were God's Witness and Recorder, an honor few are given, and you succeeded for all to see on this earth for evermore. RIP
Posted by: Tiny the Well-mannered8492 || 05/30/2021 2:27 Comments || Top||

#2  RIP, ma'am.
Posted by: Clem || 05/30/2021 12:32 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Stone Mountain Memorial - How soon will the blasting begin ?
[CNN] Changes announced this week at Georgia's Stone Mountain Park, home to the nation's largest Confederate monument, are "the boldest step that has been taken" at the park since the state bought it decades ago, according to a park official.

Critics, though, say it isn't nearly bold enough.
Not "bold enough", imagine that.
The park's board on Monday voted -- unanimously, but with one abstention, according to its chairman -- to add an exhibit to an existing museum that will tell "the whole story" of the monument -- a giant carving of Confederate leaders on horseback -- including the history of the Ku Klux Klan on the mountain and its rebirth there in 1915, among other things.

"We took the appropriate actions, and it's the boldest step that has been taken at Stone Mountain Park since the park was acquired in 1962," said Bill Stephens, the CEO of the Stone Mountain Memorial Association (SMMA), which oversees the park, about 15 miles east of Atlanta. "There have been virtually no changes to the Confederate imagery or anything since that time, and now we're moving forward."

But critics remain as unmoved as the granite the monument is carved into. They say the changes are tinkering on the edges, especially in the wake of George Floyd's murder and renewed calls for the removal of Confederate monuments and symbols around the country.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/30/2021 10:41 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There's actually a petition for this. A joke, I'm sure, but there is.

Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/30/2021 16:18 Comments || Top||

#2  If they keep erasing the past... pretty soon groups can deny it ever happen .. just like certain groups are denying the mass murder of millions of Jews now.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/30/2021 19:58 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Luxury Cornish hotel hosting G7 summit in two weeks 'looks like a building site' as it rushes to finish meeting complex before world leaders arrive [at the soft target]
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/30/2021 11:09 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:



Black Rifle Coffee Co. Memorial Day Tribute
[CoffeeOrDie] “Here’s to the good times, here’s to the bad times, and the memories we’ll always have.”

The most simple words, the most direct phrases, often land the hardest. As the nation winds down its longest war, maybe this Memorial Day weekend lands a little differently for some.

But most of America is preparing for this weekend the way that it usually does: cleaning off the grill, packing the fridge, and looking forward to a three-day weekend spent with friends and family. Many veterans dig out old pictures of friends who didn’t make it home to post to social media, while others prepare their hot takes about why Americans should not celebrate the weekend — that it’s a solemn day of remembrance.

But Mat Best, Jarred Taylor, Danny Worsnop, and about 20 of their closest friends dropped a new music video today, “Lay the Warriors to Rest,” that reminds everyone that, yes, you should remember — but it’s okay to celebrate, too.

Posted by: Besoeker || 05/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/30/2021 3:55 Comments || Top||

#2  That's one fantastic playlist, Grom. Thank you.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/30/2021 4:38 Comments || Top||

#3  ^😊
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/30/2021 4:44 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Fauci once argued for risky viral experiments ‐ even if they can lead to pandemic
[NYP] Dr. Anthony Fauci once argued that conducting experiments on contagious viruses to increase their potency was worth the risk, even if the work could accidentally lead to a pandemic, it was revealed Friday.

The nation’s chief medical advisor wrote in the American Society for Microbiology in October 2012 of the public health benefit to gain-of-function viral experiments — which center on manipulating viruses and making them stronger — as long as there is significant oversight.

In the article, first reported by The Australian, Fauci also noted that a pause on such studies should continue until researchers can figure out how to do them more transparently.

Gain-of-function experiments are the sort of work that was being conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology when the COVID-19 pandemic first started in China in late 2019 and some experts fear a lab accident is what led to the global outbreak that killed 3.4 million.

In the 2012 paper, Fauci acknowledged the risky research could lead to serious lab accidents but the chance is rare and the work is "important" because it helps the scientific community prepare for naturally occurring pandemics.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/30/2021 01:42 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wriggle out of that one, Fauxi
Posted by: Black Charlie Bluetooth1834 || 05/30/2021 6:31 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ "I was misquoted! It was out of context! The sun was in my eyes!"
Posted by: Frank G || 05/30/2021 8:38 Comments || Top||


#4  Should have been forbidden to work anywhere near Viruses after this quote.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/30/2021 23:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Didn't sleep in a Holiday Inn Express last night, but I'm beginning to think "The Fauci" is a freaking sociopath.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 05/30/2021 23:12 Comments || Top||


DRCongo’s government said Saturday that the eruption of the second volcano in the country’s Goma that been announced hours earlier was a “false alarm”
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "We heard some Yemeni prattling on about a Fire of Lava or some such shit, and got caught up"
Posted by: Frank G || 05/30/2021 9:47 Comments || Top||

#2  volcano ... was a false alarm

President Tshilombo just learned he cannot digest bell peppers. Everybody to your homes.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/30/2021 10:11 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Seattle police shut down massive beach party amid fights, arrests
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/30/2021 09:26 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Alki Beach - bet it was an appropriate name...
"One partier allegedly did a striptease on top of a police cruiser as officers attempted to disperse the group"
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/30/2021 10:19 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Two Men Escorted From Yankee Stadium For Unfurling Pro Trump Flag…
[Weasel Zippers] Two men were escorted out of Yankee Stadium on Thursday — one of them apparently in handcuffs — after they hung a large pro-Donald Trump banner from the second deck.

Video and photos show two men unveiling a "Trump Won Save America" flag on the first-base side of the stadium, which prompted a Bronx cheer of boos from many in the crowd.

At one point, someone on the deck below jumps up, apparently trying to pull down the banner during the second game of a doubleheader between the Yankees and Blue Jays.

The two men appear to be struggling over the flag with a security guard in pictures taken by a photographer for The Post.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/30/2021 01:51 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Publish their names and I'll send $50.00 each for bail: 85 Million other Americans will soon follow.
Posted by: Injun Tojo2762 || 05/30/2021 2:17 Comments || Top||

#2 
TWO EXTREMISTS ATTEMPT TERRORIST ACT AT YANKEE STADIUM

Brave rent-a-cops and NYPD on Thursday thwarted a deadly display of nationalism, featuring a leader democratically elected by deplorable Americans. The crowd was left traumatized and most demanded a refund as reparations. The Blue Jays claimed the Yankees must forfeit their victory.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/30/2021 2:31 Comments || Top||

#3  ...no snark here but under what rule were they ejected? Would they have been thrown out for unfurling a BLM banner?
Posted by: Spusogum Chusosh7265 || 05/30/2021 6:18 Comments || Top||

#4  They would probably have been thrown out for unfurling any non-approved banner. Well, except for a BLM banner.
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/30/2021 10:24 Comments || Top||

#5  The picture I saw showed another pair of guys right next to these two who also had a banner over the railing. As far as I can tell, those two guys weren't hassled.
Posted by: Raj || 05/30/2021 11:09 Comments || Top||


Britain
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson marries his fiancee Carrie Symonds in a secret ceremony at Westminster Cathedral
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Wonder if they had their child as ringbearer?
Posted by: Fred || 05/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Former Ukrainian GRU chief dies at Egyptian resort
[Interfax] Former head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine Viktor Hvozd has died, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (MFA) press service said.

"According to available information, on May 28, while diving in the Dahab Egyptian resort, former head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine Viktor Hvozd felt bad," the MFA press service told Interfax-Ukraine on Friday.

According to the MFA, rescuers lifted the body of the former head of the Foreign Intelligence Service to the surface of the water without any signs of life. On the shore, before the arrival of the ambulance, he underwent cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

"At the same time, despite the intensive resuscitation measures carried out during the emergency hospitalization, the doctors stated his death. The Ukrainian Embassy in Egypt interacts with the Egyptian side to find out the exact cause of death, keeps in touch with his family," the ministry said.

As previously reported by a number of Ukrainian media outlets, the former head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine was killed on May 28 near the Egyptian city of Dahab. According to journalists, the man was engaged in scuba diving at a depth of several tens of meters, after which he emerged too quickly.

Rescuers got Hvozd out of the water, after which he was taken to the hospital, but the doctors were unable to save him.
From Russian reserve FSB Colonel Irog Girkin's VKontackte page, via Elena Nichuk: Hvozd accidentally drowned.
Viktor Gvozd is a Soviet and Ukrainian leader of power and intelligence structures, a serviceman, diplomat and scientist. PhD in Military Sciences.

Former head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Defense Ministry of Ukraine (2008-2010).

President of Borysfen Intel, an independent analytical center for geopolitical research (2010-2014).

Former head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine (2014-2016). An active participant in the Revolution of Dignity in 2013-2014.
Posted by: badanov || 05/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Old: Epstein didn't kill himself
New: Hvozd didn't drown himself.
Posted by: Mercutio || 05/30/2021 8:52 Comments || Top||


Almost 220 WWII artillery shells found in Ukraine
[Korrespondent] Pyrotechnists in the Cherkasy region have found more than 223 shells from the Second World War, according to the State Service of Ukraine for Emergency Situations.

A dangerous find was revealed in the Zvenigorod region near the village of Erki. In particular, 192 artillery shells with a caliber of 76 mm, 21 artillery shells with a caliber of 85 mm, one mortar mine with a caliber of 81 mm and 6 grenades were seized. The survey of the territory continues.

We will remind, earlier it was reported that in the Donbass the girl escaped through a minefield from the occupied areas of Donetsk region. According to the Ukrainian police, a 16-year-old resident of the occupied Gorlovka expressed a desire to live in a free territory.

It was also reported that during the day in the area of ​​operation of the Joint Forces, pyrotechnics cleared 1.5 hectares of territory and transferred 30 explosives for destruction.
Posted by: badanov || 05/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

Take a look at the number of BOMBS still being from in London and in key Germany targets from WW2.

EG.
The remains of the Prüm Germany Ammo Dump on the mountain overlooking the area that exploded 1949. It spewed explosives everywhere and we were told they were still finding EOD stuff in area fields up to a 1.5+ Miles away.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/30/2021 7:05 Comments || Top||

#2  That's a lot of IEDs.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/30/2021 14:10 Comments || Top||


Russia in March became one of the three leading oil suppliers to the USA
Direct translation of the article
[REGNUM] The volume of oil and petroleum products supplied in March this year from Russia to the United States became a record in 12 years, according to the materials of the Energy Information Administration of the US Department of Energy (EIA).

According to this department, the volume of imports of Russian oil and petroleum products in March amounted to 22.938 million barrels - 1.8 times more than in February. Canada retained the first place with 139.869 million barrels, the third - Mexico with 17.616 million barrels.

The EIA stressed that the indicators relate to oil and oil products in aggregate. Separately, in terms of oil, Russia took only fourth place with a volume of delivery of 6.1 million barrels.

We will remind, the abnormal cold, which faced the state of Texas and a number of other regions of the United States in early 2021, brought down oil production in the country by almost 40%. For this reason, as well as because of the embargo against Venezuela and the OPEC agreement, the United States was forced to increase oil purchases from other countries, including Russia.

Read earlier in this story: Oil shipments from Russia to the United States hit a record amount
Posted by: badanov || 05/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Insane. Under OrangeMan we EXPORTED oil.

The world is truly upside down.
Posted by: Phaling Johnson3423 || 05/30/2021 0:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Not insane. The USSR is no more. We're now the USSA. Mutatis mutandis
Posted by: Angoluth Lumplump1200 || 05/30/2021 6:33 Comments || Top||

#3 

Any questions still...
On how quickly a Liberal Democrats can screw things up?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/30/2021 7:07 Comments || Top||


Russian government agency warns Disney about film with homosexual character
Direct translation of the article. Edited.
[REGNUM] The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) sent a preventive letter to the Disney Channel reminding them of the inadmissibility of propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors. This was reported on the website of the department.

The decision to send a preventive letter came after Disney released the animated short Out. The main character of the short film has a non-traditional sexual orientation, while the film is aimed at a child audience.

Roskomnadzor recalled that the dissemination of information among children that denies family values ​​and promotes non-traditional sexual relations is contrary to the norms of Russian legislation. Representatives of the TV channel were advised to strictly observe the laws of the Russian Federation and not to allow the dissemination of information that could harm the development of children.

Read earlier in this story: Pixar has released a cartoon with a gay character.
Homosexual propaganda is illegal in Russia

Posted by: badanov || 05/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  the inadmissibility of propaganda

Love those words.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/30/2021 2:06 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/30/2021 3:47 Comments || Top||

#3  the inadmissibility of propaganda

Yes, I like the sound of that.
Wish we could summon the clarity and backbone needed to enforce that concept here
Posted by: Ebbineger Lumumba3829 || 05/30/2021 6:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Tell Snagglepuss to Exit, stage right
Posted by: Thor Hupinesh3183 || 05/30/2021 6:44 Comments || Top||

#5  Good lord, g(r)omgoru. Do they have choreographers and cameras to get going to the bathroom just right, too?
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/30/2021 9:58 Comments || Top||

#6  #6 You have to ask the guys (Rabfak) who made the clip.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/30/2021 11:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Reason 4,304 not to get the Disney+ channel.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/30/2021 12:04 Comments || Top||

#8  Oh, how I wish their stock (DIS) would plummet to zero.
Posted by: Clem || 05/30/2021 12:08 Comments || Top||

#9  Disney is in trouble on several fronts: ESPN is and has been bleeding subscribers for a while--so much so that Disney had to mention it in their SEC filings. The tanking Oscar ratings mean lower ad revenue for ABC, which Disney again had to comment on publicly. The California theme park was closed all last year. And watch this space--I would bet there is more to come.
Posted by: Tom || 05/30/2021 15:34 Comments || Top||

#10  Like the 'executives' at Coke, they're trying to attract a small demographic by throwing away a third of their established demographic.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/30/2021 15:44 Comments || Top||

#11  Can somebody please explain to me how wokeness helps profits? How are companies surviving revenue losses [if indeed they are suffering from them] from people just leaving them? Are people leaving them for other brands, alternatives? I don't understand what's the motive here if not profit.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/30/2021 16:03 Comments || Top||

#12  ^Management salaries not connected to revenue?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/30/2021 16:07 Comments || Top||

#13  ^ But how long can that be sustained? Corps are cruel at laying off when the stock dips, no? Do the marketing Em-bee-yaays just find another place to turn to shit?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/30/2021 16:21 Comments || Top||

#14  Do the marketing Em-bee-yaays just find another place to turn to shit?

Yea, and they call it "the march of progress".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/30/2021 16:24 Comments || Top||

#15  Does Disney send the same stuff to China?
Posted by: Sgt.D.T. || 05/30/2021 20:56 Comments || Top||

#16  Disney is not in trouble. Hate the Woke BS as much as anyone but the stock is a screaming buy. The parks are reopening and will finally contribute to earnings again. Pre-COVID those parks contributed 1/3 of Disney's revenues.

Don't let your politics interfere with savvy investing.
Posted by: Grusogum Guelph3528 || 05/30/2021 22:13 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
US President JoeBiden told the country's military service members that Chinese leader Xi Jinping is convinced that China will ''own America'' in the next 10-15 years
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  You and your Chinese puppet-boy crackhead spawn would love that, wouldn't you, Plugz.

Enough of Pres. Asterisk. Who's next?

The whore in waiting has disappeared from public view. Who's REALLY next?
Posted by: Shinegum Smith5176 || 05/30/2021 0:41 Comments || Top||

#2  And he's doing all he can to make it happen.
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/30/2021 0:42 Comments || Top||

#3  What a sick nation

Turns my stomach to contemplate this retarded seditious puppet stop our nation as we celebrate Memorial Day

This country is sick in mind and sick at heart
Posted by: Injun Gray2679 || 05/30/2021 0:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Certainly plausible. The Chinese already own Biden and family, the Democratic Party, a slice of the Republican Party, Wall Street, Hollywood, MSM, retailers, ports, lots of farm/ranch land and buildings, and our home grown revolutionaries.
Posted by: Spats Ghibelline1754 || 05/30/2021 2:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Did not mean to leave out many tech oligarchs. Whether by ideology, finances and/or marriage.
Posted by: Spats Ghibelline1754 || 05/30/2021 2:03 Comments || Top||

#6  I don't think they're going to want it after the coming ten years.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/30/2021 2:17 Comments || Top||

#7  #5 don't forget the universities
Posted by: Omuck Squank4291 || 05/30/2021 6:35 Comments || Top||

#8  New slogan: Joe Would Know.
Posted by: Mercutio || 05/30/2021 8:50 Comments || Top||

#9  Note to the established senior management of the services - China is not running around the globe to be the world's policeman. While it dabbles around the globe its focused on China and its classical sphere of influence first.

Meanwhile you've wasted away resources and manpower on the opposite end of the earth for what?* You can not even protect your continental borders or even care to.

* promotions, medals, and retirement in the 'system'?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/30/2021 9:38 Comments || Top||

#10  Meh. They’ve been telling themselves this is inevitable for two decades or so. Before that, Japan, Inc. owning America was also inevitable. And before that, the USSR could not help to be victorious — the science of history guaranteed it. But in the end possession is nine tenths of the law, and they don’t and won’t have what it takes to enforce their purchases without our consent.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/30/2021 9:55 Comments || Top||

#11  ^ "Japan's going to dominate the world!!! Rising Sun!"
Did I say Japan? I meant China
Posted by: Whaiper Oppressor of the Danes3772 || 05/30/2021 10:05 Comments || Top||

#12  #10 true, but those 'competitors' never owned or leased so many of our ruling caste as the Chinese now do.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/30/2021 10:31 Comments || Top||

#13  The whore in waiting has disappeared from public view. Who's REALLY next?

It would be nice to know if the Deep State works both ways.
Posted by: Clem || 05/30/2021 10:33 Comments || Top||


#15  Can anyone understand comment #1? It's in some kind of bizarre, impenetrable slang.
Posted by: Sheger Thromotch7944 || 05/30/2021 11:31 Comments || Top||

#16  Can anyone understand comment #1? It's in some kind of bizarre, impenetrable slang.

Seems perfectly clear to me - and English is my 3rd language.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/30/2021 11:47 Comments || Top||

#17  Biden wants to know, why so long?
Posted by: Slappy || 05/30/2021 11:49 Comments || Top||


NorthKorea authorities have ordered the elimination of cats and pigeons in border areas due to coronavirus fears,
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  I'd assume all the cats & pigeons in North Korea were eaten long ago.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/30/2021 5:36 Comments || Top||

#2 

Here in the USA the BLOM has ordered the Elimination of Whites.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/30/2021 7:09 Comments || Top||

#3  ^
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/30/2021 7:21 Comments || Top||


Economy
A Republican in California thinks outside of the box
h/t American Thinker
As so frequently happens in California, a state that’s prone to cyclical droughts, California is suffering from a severe drought. Chris Mathys, who’s gearing up to run for the House of Representatives in Fresno, which is a major city in California’s Central Valley, has an idea: It’s time to declare the Delta smelt extinct and get the federal government to stop forcing massive amounts of Sierra run-off into the ocean. It’s a creative idea and shows someone thinking outside of the boxes in which leftists traditionally trap conservatives.
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Sipping in the rain, Parisians flock to cherished cafés after Covid-19 shutdown
[France24] Parisians flocked to outdoor terraces in drizzling rain on Wednesday morning as restaurants, cafés and bars opened for the first time in six months amid cautious optimism that the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic is over. FRANCE 24 reports from the celebrated Paris neighbourhood of Saint-Germain des Près.

Waiters weaved their way among the tables, the café rang out with the clattering of plates and the clamour of conversation as the smell of fresh coffee and croissants drifted out into the street. One man began work on his laptop as a woman removed her mask and lit a cigarette; another settled into his chair for the morning with a copy of French daily Le Monde.

Ten minutes after opening, every seat at the legendary Café de Flore, and its rival and neighbour Les Deux Magots, was taken.
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Southeast Asia
Large ferry with nearly 200 people on board catches fire while traveling to a remote island in northeastern Indonesia
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