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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Conservative pundit Candace Owens attacks Alec Baldwin over accidental shooting calling it 'poetic justice' for his previous criticism of Donald Trump
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/25/2021 09:24 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The deed speaks for itself. I wish media & all pundits would just shut up about it.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 10/25/2021 11:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Candace Owens gives conservatives a bad name. She's exactly the type of whack job leftists want everyone to think all conservatives are.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/25/2021 11:36 Comments || Top||

#3  https://media.patriots.win/post/jDlSf5vT.jpeg
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 10/25/2021 11:56 Comments || Top||

#4  The deed speaks for itself himself: "I wonder how it must feel to wrongfully kill someone."

Indeed. Listen to Alec.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 10/25/2021 12:02 Comments || Top||

#5  As I said yesterday. It's not "what happened," it's what Baldwin did.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/25/2021 12:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Candice Owens is one of THE BEST voices we Conservatives have!

Baldwin's despicable comments in the past leave him fair-game for criticism!!
Posted by: George Big Foot9647 || 10/25/2021 15:00 Comments || Top||

#7  Baldwin, the person, pulled the trigger and tragically killed someone. Criminal negligence, at least. Baldwin, the producer, is responsible for the lack of gun safety process on the job site. Both Baldwins are financially liable for damages.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/25/2021 15:55 Comments || Top||

#8  So the lawyers for the two Baldwins will manage t put all the financial liability on Baldwin, the producer, who will have managed to empty the production company of all value, so the victims' and their survivors will receive nothing.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/25/2021 16:00 Comments || Top||

#9  His biggest role ever!
Acting as if his life depended on it.

Alec Baldwin 'inconsolable' after deadly 'Rust' movie set shooting, 'canceling other projects': report
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/25/2021 16:59 Comments || Top||

#10  "It's a case tailor-made for our cause,"
Sez Alinsky. A pause for applause.
"This Halloween season,
Let's go forth and reason
For common sense gun safety LAWS!"
Posted by: Glaque Grumble3477 || 10/25/2021 21:05 Comments || Top||


NYC man who tried to strangle 11-year old girl in park arraigned, out on bail
[NYPOST] A 29-year-old man accused of trying to strangle an 11-year-old girl in a Manhattan park was arraigned and released on $7,500 bail on Saturday night.Nathaniel Direnzo, of Saint Marks Place, was arrested on Saturday morning for a bizarre, broad-daylight attack on the maiden of tender years and another minor on Wednesday afternoon.

On Saturday evening, he appeared for his initial hearing with his father, donning a gray suit.

He was charged with second-degree strangulation, two counts of acting in a manner injurious to a child, second-degree harassment and two counts of assault.

According to police, just around noon on Oct. 20, Direnzo approached the girl and her classmates at Stuyvesant Square with her classmates and began to yell at them, before spraying water on the group and trying to attack them, cops said.

When the maiden of tender years tried to fight back, cops say Direnzo grabbed her by the hair and punched her in the face. He then allegedly "wrapped his hands around the girl’s neck," trying to strangle her, police said.



Posted by: Fred || 10/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

Looks like we aren't getting the whole story of Video again from the media.

So did some digging and watch various limited slices of the video.

It seems some of the stated narrative is ass-backwards.

Upfront YES.. he ain't no angle.

But the video also shows that seriously overweight ?11? y/o goes at him full KAREN.

Question: What was this group doing for him and others so ticked off?

Answer: Video from the cell phone had captured the start of the incident where the 3 dog walkers were yelling at the children who continued to throw dirt and firecracker "poppers" (noise makers the explode when thrown on hard surfaces.) at the dogs and their owners.

Where is PETA/ASPCA on this? Given the School kids being escorted by a school counselor no less attacked animals?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/25/2021 7:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Looks like our criminal justice system is a goner as their only concern is ginned-up political crimes. Welcome to the USSR.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/25/2021 9:44 Comments || Top||

#3  USSA
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 10/25/2021 9:56 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
ADL Warns: Avoid Culturally Insensitive, Gender-conforming Halloween Costumes
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/25/2021 11:08 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As the comments at Breibart show, a lot of people think the ADL has lost its way and is now maybe 10% focused on preventing defamation and 90% just another leftist policy org.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 10/25/2021 12:38 Comments || Top||

#2  /\Only 90%...? Bet that any stories that reflect on the left disappear.
Posted by: magpie || 10/25/2021 13:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Bite my butt ADL.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/25/2021 14:14 Comments || Top||

#4  My standard answer to all these American culture destroying vermin is now "F*** you Nazi"
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/25/2021 14:24 Comments || Top||

#5  If the ADL has nothing better to do than whinge about Halloween, that suggests their original mission has been accomplished, in spades. (oops!)

As for me, I think I shall go trick or treating as a giant p3n1s. And if anyone asks, it is a female p3n1s.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/25/2021 14:58 Comments || Top||

#6  I am Admiral Lavine's haunted peNNis.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/25/2021 15:00 Comments || Top||

#7  Thank you 5 & 6 for adding to my nightmare fodder.

:p
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/25/2021 16:12 Comments || Top||

#8  The Flying Dutchrudder.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/25/2021 16:24 Comments || Top||

#9  Cowboy
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/25/2021 16:56 Comments || Top||


'The title of first female four-star officer gets taken by a man': Twitter SUSPENDS Indiana rep for misgendering transgender Assistant Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/25/2021 09:38 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  well he could have said 'The title...gets taken by an incompetent weasel who took his mother out of a nursing home before requiring nursing homes to take in covid positive patients and who got the job only because the Admin could virtue signal'
Posted by: Lord Garth || 10/25/2021 11:08 Comments || Top||

#2  ^1,

Preach it, Brother. What would be funny if it wasn't so serious is that the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians, and the Norks - all of whom cheerfully persecute and often execute their trans citizens - watch this horror show and convince themselves a little more each day that we'll be pushovers when The Day comes.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 10/25/2021 13:54 Comments || Top||

#3  'The title of first female four-star officer gets taken by a man'

Not surprising. It's like when Bruce Jenner won that "Woman of the Year" award. Anything you can do, I can do better, baby!
Posted by: SteveS || 10/25/2021 14:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Do not forget:

Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 10/25/2021 18:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Biden Administration = a ghoulish sitcom.
A 21st-c version of TheAddams Family.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 10/25/2021 18:04 Comments || Top||


Rhode Island to become first state nationwide to pilot safe-injection sites for intravenous drug users: 'There's almost like a moral oxymoron going on here' says state representative as nation remains divided on taboo topic
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/25/2021 09:26 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I have long thought it a good idea to convert abandoned military bases to 'drug centers' where people can have all the drugs they want, free, and access to all the drug rehab they want, free, but can only leave clean or dead.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/25/2021 15:52 Comments || Top||


Follow-up to Yesterday's Illinois Weed story - Verano Holdings CEO interview
[Ameritrade] Verano Holdings (VRNOF) CEO With A Company Overview. Verano (VRNOF) is an operator of licensed cannabis cultivation, manufacturing, and retail facilities. George Archos, Chairman and CEO of Verano Holdings, gives an overview of the company. Verano designs, builds and operates "Zen Leaf" branded dispensary environments. These brands include G-Line, Avexia, and Encore Edibles. Verano also has 84 operational retail locations, and its 2Q revenue increased 39% from 1Q. Tune in to find out more.

Ataraxia - A Greek term first used in Ancient Greek philosophy by Pyrrho and subsequently Epicurus and the Stoics for a lucid state of robust equanimity characterized by ongoing freedom from distress and worry. Wikipedia

With nearly 200 Illinois employees, greenhouse and facility expansion continues each year.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/25/2021 06:28 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not to be confused with ataxia, which is muscle weakness brought on by a variety of causes including such a thing as eating too much liqorice...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/25/2021 6:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Is it just me or does George's eyes and facial expressions look a bit strange? Could he also be involved in product sampling ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/25/2021 6:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Drugs (and let's cut the crap, that's what it is) is definitely an area where "not sampling the product" is one of the keys to success.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/25/2021 6:45 Comments || Top||

#4  ...Tony Montana to the courtesy phone.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/25/2021 7:51 Comments || Top||

#5  maybe y'all should try weed. I don't think it does what y'all think it does.
Posted by: Chris || 10/25/2021 8:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Sold and smoked a lot of weed in college. Anyone who tells you everything else in the drug world does not make itself available to the weed smoking cohort is a bullshitter.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/25/2021 8:21 Comments || Top||

#7  i understand that in some himalyan mountain countries hemp is ground up and placed in their butter. Yum-Yum!
Posted by: jim murray || 10/25/2021 9:21 Comments || Top||


#9  Hemp is useful for making rope. If you don't have access to synthetic fibers like Dacron, Nylon, polypropylene...
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/25/2021 16:12 Comments || Top||


Extremely offensive house on the prairie: Cambridge University archive slaps 'trigger warnings' on classic children's books because of potentially 'harmful content'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/25/2021 00:17 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Did they do the same with their copies of Das Kapital?
It's proven harmful for over 100,000,000, and still counting.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/25/2021 7:47 Comments || Top||

#2  White people living without slavery, drugs or sexual degeneracy. So distasteful and contrary to the narrative.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/25/2021 7:51 Comments || Top||

#3  ^-- *LIKE*
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/25/2021 8:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Fahrenheit 451 was not intended to be a guidebook.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/25/2021 9:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Neither was Atlas Shrugged. But here we are.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/25/2021 9:16 Comments || Top||

#6  Nor 1984...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/25/2021 9:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Now, they are trying to teach young children in the schools about how to have sex and give BJs.

That's so much better than the old children's books (sarc)?
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/25/2021 9:37 Comments || Top||

#8  #2 they also lived more 'green' than all our contemporaries in that movement.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/25/2021 13:24 Comments || Top||

#9  This stuff is stickier than Herb's sheets.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/25/2021 17:00 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Mein HAIR! Hirsute men from across the world descend on Bavarian town to try their luck in Germany's annual moustache and beard Olympics
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/25/2021 00:23 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I personally like sending a clear-cut F-U to muzz world by going clean shaven. I also have a nice jaw and chin and decent skin. So other than the pain in the ass of actually shaving, beard-free works for me. Not claiming it's better or makes me better, so don't bother piling on.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/25/2021 6:43 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Man under house arrest asks Italian police to jail him to escape wife
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A man under house arrest in Italia showed up at a police barracks asking to be put behind bars because life with his wife at home was unbearable, police said on Sunday.undefined

The 30-year-old Albanian citizen living in Guidonia Montecelio, outside Rome, "was no longer able to cope with the forced cohabitation with his wife," Carabinieri police from nearby Tivoli said in a statement.

"Exasperated by the situation, he preferred to escape, spontaneously presenting himself to the Carabinieri to ask to serve his sentence behind bars," they wrote.

The man had been under house arrest for drug crimes for several months and had a few years left to serve, Captain Francesco Giacomo Ferrante of the Tivoli Carabinieri told AFP.

"He lived at home with his wife and family. It wasn’t going well anymore," Ferrante said.

"He said, ’Listen, my domestic life has become hell, I can’t do it anymore, I want to go to jail."

The man was promptly arrested for violating his house arrest and judicial authorities ordered his transfer to prison.
Posted by: Fred || 10/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Poor guy,
But, I Think
The Italian Judicial Genies 🧞‍♂️
Will Grant Him His Wish.

So, what did you do this weekend?
- Nothing really - I played with my cat.

Posted by: Bob Flavimp4041 || 10/25/2021 3:15 Comments || Top||

#2  "Exasperated by the situation, he preferred to escape, spontaneously presenting himself to the Carabinieri to ask to serve his sentence behind bars," they wrote.

The man was promptly arrested for violating his house arrest and judicial authorities ordered his transfer to prison.

Non stanno diventando più intelligenti, vero? :)

Mike

Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 10/25/2021 6:20 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/25/2021 6:29 Comments || Top||

#4  This could have been an article about Slick Willy.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/25/2021 9:42 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Illinois Supreme Court Rules Tax On Guns & Ammo Unconstitutional
[ZeroHedge] The Illinois Supreme Court ruled on Oct. 21 that two taxes on guns and ammunition in Cook County violate the state’s constitution because they affect law-abiding citizens’ Second Amendment right to acquire firearms for self-defense.

Supreme Court Justice Mary Jane Theis wrote in a 6–0 decision that the taxes violate the constitution’s uniformity clause, while also pointing out that the revenue from the generated tax isn’t directed toward funds or programs that reduce gun violence.

“While the taxes do not directly burden a law-abiding citizen’s right to use a firearm for self-defense, they do directly burden a law-abiding citizen’s right to acquire a firearm and the necessary ammunition for self-defense,” Theis wrote in a 14-page opinion (pdf) filed on Thursday.

“Under the plain language of the ordinances, the revenue generated from the firearm tax is not directed to any fund or program specifically related to curbing the cost of gun violence,” she noted. “Additionally, nothing in the ordinance indicates that the proceeds generated from the ammunition tax must be specifically directed to initiatives aimed at reducing gun violence.”

The justice concluded that the case will be remanded to the circuit court “for entry of summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs.”

In 2012, the Cook County Board of Commissioners approved a $25 tax on the retail purchase of a firearm within the county. The county’s Firearm Tax Ordinance was enacted in April 2013.

A separate county tax was enacted in 2015, which added $0.05 per cartridge for centerfire ammunition and $0.01 per cartridge for rimfire ammunition. Americans who fail to pay those taxes are subject to a $1,000 fine for the first offense and a $2,000 fine for subsequent offenses.

The trade group and gun-rights organization, Guns Save Life, challenged both taxes in a lawsuit against the county, saying they violate the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.

A spokesman for Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle said on Thursday they are disappointed in the ruling and will work to determine the next steps.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 10/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ....Don't be too encouraged. The Illinois Supremes left them a way out that even a Chicago pol can follow:

“Under the plain language of the ordinances, the revenue generated from the firearm tax is not directed to any fund or program specifically related to curbing the cost of gun violence,” she noted. “Additionally, nothing in the ordinance indicates that the proceeds generated from the ammunition tax must be specifically directed to initiatives aimed at reducing gun violence.”

It would take even a rookie Chicago alderman about five minutes to set up an utterly useless level of bureaucracy to cover the letter of the ruling. Not that a single dime of that money would ever reach anything resembling a worthy cause.

Mike

Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 10/25/2021 6:01 Comments || Top||

#2  If you live in Illinois and can't see clear to vote with your feet, at least use the window this ruling provides to stock up.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/25/2021 6:06 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Most residents have accept the fact that voting in Illinois is an exercise in futility. They choose to spend their time trying to figure out how to pay property taxes.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/25/2021 7:07 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ wonder how many will wake up one day and repeat what their ancestors did in Europe, abandon everything but what you can carry and set off for what opportunity they could find. Those who stayed behind got to experience European history good and hard.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/25/2021 7:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Here I was thinkin all y'all didn't like Zero Hedge.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/25/2021 9:02 Comments || Top||

#6  All the worthwhile aggregators bring in opposing views. ZH has some real droolers but some sharp observers too. If you aren't looking at RealClear Politics and RCDefense every day, you are underinformed. Their headlines are often 180 degrees apart on many issues.

It's always a good idea to understand what your enemy is thinking. Or Buying from "pundits."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/25/2021 9:12 Comments || Top||

#7  Here I was thinkin all y'all didn't like Zero Hedge.

I’m not keen on them, Skidmark, but from time to time... In this case their source was an Epoch Times article
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/25/2021 9:21 Comments || Top||

#8  ZH has actually cleaned up a bit. They actually got Tom Luongo and Caitlin Johnstone to cone somewhat back down to earth or find out what it's like to not be published anywhere.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/25/2021 9:24 Comments || Top||

#9  (slightly) OT: A blast from Alec Baldwin's past
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 10/25/2021 9:30 Comments || Top||

#10  A spokesman for Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle said on Thursday they are disappointed in the ruling and will work to determine the next steps.

Like Mike K. noted earlier, they're just gonna clean it up a tad make another run at this in the next legislative session.
Posted by: Raj || 10/25/2021 9:50 Comments || Top||

#11  Preckwinkle lost to Groot in the last Chiraq mayoral election. Will probably be the next mayor of Chiraq.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/25/2021 10:18 Comments || Top||

#12  Gives new meaning to the nickle bullet.

So killing twenty of the opposing gang would cost you a buck. No problemo.

Accuracy of law-abiding shooters drops, they can't afford to practice as much.

The problem in IL is there is no punishment for criminals violating their extensive firearm ordinances, because "arrangements".

Posted by: KBK || 10/25/2021 11:21 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister says OPEC will not change its strategy
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] OPEC will not change its strategy, and it does not have to solve a problem that it did not create, Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman told Asharq Channel in a TV interview.

The Saudi minister stressed that there must be a regulator for the markets adding that everyone should be aware of what OPEC has done to achieve this regulation.

The Saudi Minister of Energy considered that the shortage in the market in gas supplies is a result of policies that were previously taken, including lowering the production of electricity from gas.

“Accordingly, investments declined, causing a shortage in gas markets today,” the minister added.

Prince Abdulaziz said during the interview that Saudi Arabia’s goal of zero carbon emissions can be achieved before 2060.

“This goal will not have an adverse financial or economic impact in the Kingdom. Saudi Arabia seeks to be a source of confidence for all forms of energy. We have capabilities to produce and integrate new forms of energy into Saudi Arabia’s economy and exports,” the minister added.

Prince Abdulaziz added that investing in clean energy does not mean stopping investment in oil.

“The goal is to reduce emissions, not cutting to use oil,” the Saudi minister added.

“There is no contradiction between investing in energy and caring for the climate. The world cannot live on a single source of energy, or even on a few sources, but the world needs all the energy sources available,” the minister added.

Prince Abdulaziz added that there are three things the world must not compromise on; “energy security, economic growth, and sustainable prosperity, and confronting climate change.”

Posted by: Fred || 10/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1  Sounds like an Arabian version of “Let’s go , Brandon.”
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 10/25/2021 7:51 Comments || Top||

#2  They are reading white papers that say OPEC needs $300 / bbl to recover from the $50 / bbl years. Ain't gonna happen. Won't stop them from trying.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/25/2021 7:56 Comments || Top||

#3  OPEC gets frisky again thanks to the WH moron and those around him.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/25/2021 9:40 Comments || Top||

#4  As long as the Saudi bloc is at war with the Iranian bloc...
Posted by: magpie || 10/25/2021 11:07 Comments || Top||


Britain
'Trans criminals are not women': Home Secretary Priti Patel orders 'woke' police forces to stop recording offences as female crime statistics
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/25/2021 09:56 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Quoted from elsewhere: "The reason why woke demands are so outrageous is because they are meant to break your will and doubt your sanity. The objective is gaslighting not persuasion."

That why this pretend "gender" issues are pushed so hard. IF they can convince the general public that *these* facts are no longer facts, they can convince us that facts are no longer facts anywhere.
Posted by: Crusader || 10/25/2021 11:04 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Exactly -- "We have so much power over you that we can make you believe that a man wearing a dress is really a woman."

This is all quite insane.
Posted by: Matt || 10/25/2021 11:14 Comments || Top||

#3  part of the reason the police were recording it the way they were was probably to cover up crime by trans
Posted by: Lord Garth || 10/25/2021 11:18 Comments || Top||

#4  "What is this spike in violent assaults and rape by women?!"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/25/2021 13:10 Comments || Top||

#5  I don't think belief or persuasion enters into it. One of the major purposes behind propaganda is to force you to say and champion not only something untrue but things you absolutely know to be untrue.
Or else.
Posted by: Cesare || 10/25/2021 14:02 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
15 people detained after a mass brawl near Astrakhan
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Lead paragraph rewritten
[KavkazUzel] A total of 15 unidentified individuals were dewtained following a mass brawl in the village of Nachalovo near Astrakhan, according to Russian language news reports.

Information about the massive conflict between the inhabitants of the village of Nachalovo came to the police this morning, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Astrakhan region reported.

Police squads from the Privolzhsky district department and the city administration of Astrakhan were sent to the place of the conflict.

"The police officers who arrived at the scene found that the conflict was between two groups of local residents. The parties were split up, so the conflict ended. 15 of its most active participants were detained and taken to the police department," the statement posted on the department's website says.

The police are investigating the circumstances of the incident, the publication says.

The detainees are participants in a mass brawl, its reasons have not yet been established, informs "Astrakhan 24".

The village of Nachalovo is the administrative center of the Volga region, bordering Astrakhan, follows from the data of the Yandex. Maps service. According to the 2010 census, 5451 people lived in the village, the Rosstat website informs.

The "Caucasian Knot also wrote that in August 2005, in the village of Yandyki, Limansky District, Astrakhan Region , a fight broke out between Kalmyks
...Buddhist Mongol descendants...
and Chechens,
...Muslim Caucasians...
in which up to 400 people participated.

One of the Kalmyks was killed, another one was injured. During the funeral of the deceased, a crowd of about 500 people began to burn houses and cars belonging to the Chechens and beat their owners. In total, eight houses were burned, three cars were smashed, and five people were injured.

The details of those events can be found in the "Information on the events in the Astrakhan village of Yandyki" prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Posted by: badanov || 10/25/2021 00:07 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sounds like a Chicago block party.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/25/2021 8:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Hey wait. No firearms involved?
This is actually progress.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/25/2021 11:11 Comments || Top||


Meteorologist warns of coldest day in October in European Russia
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

"The Wind of Winds" AKA Burana arrives early this year

[REGNUM] The lowest temperature in October is expected in the afternoon of October 25 in the Center of the European part of Russia. The scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center, Roman Vilfand, told reporters about this .

As the specialist specified, October 25 will be the coldest day for the Center of the European part of Russia, since then the temperature rises and in general, according to the meteorologist, October will be slightly above normal in temperature.

The air temperature during the day in Moscow will be + 2 to + 4 degrees, which is one degree lower than the climatic norm. At the same time, in the morning, residents of Moscow and the Moscow region need to be vigilant, since the precipitation that fell in the form of rain and sleet will freeze and an ice crust forms on the roads. It is expected to be around zero early in the morning, no precipitation.

Earlier IA REGNUM reported that in Moscow and the Moscow region declared a "yellow" level of weather hazard due to strong winds.

Posted by: badanov || 10/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  probably trying to say that today will be the coldest day of the week in Moscow
Posted by: Lord Garth || 10/25/2021 7:37 Comments || Top||


Russians hoping to apply for an immigrant visa to the US are now required to travel to the US Embassy in Warsaw
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why on earth are we ratcheting up tensions with Russia?

What is the end game?

What if anything are we trying to achieve by this relentless provocation without end?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 10/25/2021 1:15 Comments || Top||

#2  As we've seen, its faster to fly to Mexico and just walk across the border.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/25/2021 7:42 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 Because this is by far the most incompetent administration we've ever seen.
Posted by: Tom || 10/25/2021 12:58 Comments || Top||

#4  My Korean visa expired while I was in country.
I went to the visa offices in Seoul for a renewal.
They told me I had to go to the US Embassy in Seoul to file the visa paperwork. Same day, on my way to the US Embassy, I was arrested for having an expired visa. Money changed hands about 5 times. I got a new visa, same day, about $500.

Visas are funny things.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/25/2021 13:58 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China's debt-ridden Evergrande averts default, resumes work on more than 10 projects
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] China Evergrande Group said on Sunday it had resumed work on more than 10 projects in six cities including Shenzhen -- a statement that comes after it appeared to avert default with a last-minute bond coupon payment last week. Evergrande, deep in crisis with more than $300 billion in liabilities, has not disclosed how many of its 1,300 real estate projects across China it has had to halt work on.

The company said on Aug. 31 that some projects were suspended because of delays in payment to suppliers and contractors and it was negotiating to resume building.

On Sunday, it said in a post on its Wechat account that some of the projects it had resumed work on had entered the interior decoration stage while other buildings had recently finished construction.

Evergrande added that its efforts to guarantee construction would shore up market confidence and included several photos of construction workers on different projects, stamped with the time and date.

China’s second-largest property developer last month also promised potential buyers it will complete building of their homes and said that work on one of the world’s biggest soccer stadiums in the southern city of Guangzhou was proceeding as planned.

Last week’s move to pay $83.5 million in interest on a US dollar bond has bought Evergrande another week to wrestle with a debt crisis looming over the world’s second-biggest economy.

Highlighting the stresses on its core business, Evergrande also announced on Friday plans to give future priority to its electric vehicles business over real estate.

Evergrande’s woes have reverberated across the $5 trillion Chinese property sector, which accounts for a quarter of the economy by some metrics, with a string of default announcements, rating downgrades and slumping corporate bonds.

Its debt crisis is also being widely watched by global financial markets concerned about broader contagion.
Posted by: Fred || 10/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Five will get you ten the government secretly bailed out Evergrande. Not sure if China's real estate house of cards can survive.
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 10/25/2021 10:22 Comments || Top||

#2  They make a trillion dollars every year off the United States. Why wouldn't they use part of that to shore up Evergrande?

It's probaby enough money to shore up three or four Evergrade's a year.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 10/25/2021 13:00 Comments || Top||


Cyber
'Get Breitbart out of News Tab': Facebook employees 'tried to suppress conservative news outlets', whistleblower claims
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/25/2021 09:28 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:



Europe
Trafficked to Europe for sex: A survivor's escape story
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/25/2021 11:03 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


Home Front: Politix
The Three Bidens
[CNN] Sudeikis pretended to be a male version of Ellen DeGeneres. "Mellen is a man's man and you never know what Mellen might do next," the voiceover in the skit said. Sudeikis says as Mellen he would do segments like "which crypto is popping right now" and "what happens if you smoke a full cigar and run across a football field."
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/25/2021 09:06 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  larry curly and moe!
Posted by: Greng Black3494 || 10/25/2021 9:29 Comments || Top||

#2  "I don't understand. People used to like me. The press would call me 'Uncle Joe.'

That "Uncle Joe" would be Uncle Joe Stalin?
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/25/2021 9:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Moe! Larry! The cheese!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/25/2021 9:35 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 10/25/2021 17:58 Comments || Top||

#5  I watched it.

Not very funny.

Pretended Psaki was brilliant and truthful.

I don't understand why any conservatives would like it.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 10/25/2021 18:08 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Teen boy sells young wife to 55-year-old man, buys smartphone with money
[GEO.TV] Bhubaneswar, Odisha: A 17-year-old man in India's Odisha has been arrested by police after he sold off his young wife to a 55-year-old man to buy a cellular phone.

According to a report by The Hindustan Times, the teenager, who got married in July this year, found a job in Rajasthan to work in a brick kiln factory where he met the 55-year-old man.Police have rescued the wife, 26, from the south-eastern Rajasthan district of Baran after facing "great difficulty" because the villagers resisted handing over the woman to the police, saying that they had paid for her.

Per the police, the man took his wife to Rajasthan with him in August when he started the job but only a few days later, he decided to sell her to the 55-year-old man for ₹1.8 lakh (PKR4.18).

After obtaining the money, the man splurged money on dining and then bought himself a smartphone. Later on, he returned to his village and when the woman's family asked about her, he lied that she had eloped.

Police said that the woman's family did not buy his story and decided to lodge a complaint with the police. Upon further investigation, it turned out that that the boy had sold his wife off.

The report says that since the boy was under 18 years of age, he was sent to a juvenile court. The court ordered the man to be taken to a correctional facility.
What about the villagers who’d clubbed together to make the purchase?



Posted by: Fred || 10/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I don't know how to react to this. (。_。) ⚆_⚆
Posted by: Wren || 10/25/2021 0:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Why do so many well educated western elites cling to the notion of "universal values," e.g. a universal attachment to notions of individual dignity or human rights? Where did we get this absurd notion of a single global culture?

Aside from the purely physical -- like an attachment to comfort, or cell phones -- we have nothing in common with the savage primitives described in this article. The most backward rustic in America or Europe will react with fury to the idea that a young husband can sell his wife for a mobile phone.

We need to kill this idea that we have anything at all significant in common with the Global South.

We owe them nothing, and we are best advised to have as little to do with them as possible.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 10/25/2021 1:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Her impressionable husband (17) just about finished reading
his latest Western "Self Help" book; got to Reason 19, realized his marriage "to the Old Carriage (she is 26)" was Doomed and decided to "cash-in" while the goings were good.


Global Capitalism is NOT Dead,
Just Deviant.
Posted by: Cluck Darling of the Mongol Horde3294 || 10/25/2021 1:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Cleanup on Aisle 2. Troll on the loose
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 10/25/2021 1:52 Comments || Top||

#5  ^^^
Yes, We Know,
We Have Read Your Comments.
Posted by: Cluck Darling of the Mongol Horde3294 || 10/25/2021 2:43 Comments || Top||

#6  "Beauty is only skin deep"
~ Robert Mitchum - River of No Return.

True in 1954. True yet today.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/25/2021 5:58 Comments || Top||

#7  Bob Mitchum was a wag, a quipmeister, today he'd be called a Sh*tlord. My favorite of his jibes: After spending a weekend in jail on a marijuana charge, one of the reporters waiting outside upon his release asked "So, how was jail, Bob?" Mitchum replied "It was swell. Like Palm Springs without the riff-raff."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/25/2021 6:10 Comments || Top||

#8  US feminazis utterly silent.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/25/2021 7:05 Comments || Top||

#9 

So the US Coup BIDEN Admin, a collections of Socialist and Democrats failed to follow the roadmap for Afghanistan withdraw and properly support the Afghani gov. while doing so.

Now the Taliban took control and re-applied their 12th century culture. Now again are selling young, just entering puberty, females to old horny men.

Something we call Pedophilia Sex Trafficking here in the USA and most of the civilized / Christian world.

Question: So where are the Pink Hatters and NOW'ists?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/25/2021 8:17 Comments || Top||

#10  Just remember, slavery is a uniquely american sin. Happens nowhere else.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/25/2021 10:41 Comments || Top||

#11  1. A marriage is arranged between 17 year old man and 26 year old woman.

2. 17 / 2 plus 7 equals 16. She's ancient.

2. Woman decides the kid is a doofus and cottons onto a 55 year old man. The affection is returned.

3. 55 / 2 plus 7 equals 35. She's kind of young, but love is blind.

4. An offer is made and accepted. The kid comments that, "At least I can turn the phone off."

5. Indian culture asserts itself. Boy is punished, then the loving pair are reunited. Families are satisfied. Life goes on.
Posted by: KBK || 10/25/2021 10:58 Comments || Top||

#12  ^Are you a troll?
Posted by: Wren || 10/25/2021 12:58 Comments || Top||

#13  where he met the 55-year-old man

The boy may have found his preference.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/25/2021 13:48 Comments || Top||

#14  So the boy is fine if the wife's family sells his kidney's and liver then right?
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/25/2021 21:58 Comments || Top||

#15  A wicked old colonel of lancers
Awaited the newlyweds' answers.
As one: "It's a deal!"
"Mazel tov! What a steal...
For one wife... and two wonderful dancers!"
Posted by: Glaque Grumble3477 || 10/25/2021 22:20 Comments || Top||

#16  "I just met bought a girl -- Marianne! --
To have and to hold while I can.
Hasn't half of my years--
But, my dear, dry your tears!
I shall leave you a handsome young man."
Posted by: Glaque Grumble3477 || 10/25/2021 22:24 Comments || Top||

#17  Oh, hell... the Bradford angle... but gotta run.
Posted by: Glaque Grumble3477 || 10/25/2021 22:26 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Scientists use camera connected to brain implant to help blind woman see
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Scientists in the US used a camera connected to a brain implant to help a blind person see again, NPR reported.

The former teacher who had been blind for 16 years had the device implanted in her brain with no disruptions to brain activity or other health complications, according to a study published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Researchers from both Spain and the US advanced what they call "a long-held dream of scientists" to give a basic form of sight to blind people by sending information directly to the brain’s visual cortex.

"These results are very exciting because they demonstrate both safety and efficacy," said Eduardo Fernández of Miguel Hernández University in a statement.

"We have taken a significant step forward, showing the potential of these types of devices to restore functional vision for people who have lost their vision."

After a training period, the test subject was able to decipher basic visual information fed from a camera on a pair of glasses directly to her brain.

The effect of the device was somewhat limited; the test subject could not identify all the letters of the alphabet.

Her brain implant was inserted through a "minicraniotomy" in which researchers made a 1.5 inch hole in the subject’s skull.

A clinical trial related to the study is scheduled to continue through May of 2024.



Posted by: Fred || 10/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  After a training period, the test subject was able to decipher basic visual information fed from a camera on a pair of glasses directly to her brain.

The effect of the device was somewhat limited; the test subject could not identify all the letters of the alphabet.


Suggest The Scientists Limit Communication Topic and "Center IN" on only the Most Important Topic


Pictured Above With the Glasses, (Electronics) Nose, (Antennas) Fuzzie Eyebrows & Mustache...
Stay on Topic, She Will Appreciate That...
Posted by: Cluck Darling of the Mongol Horde3294 || 10/25/2021 1:31 Comments || Top||

#2  1.5" is not "mini".
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/25/2021 9:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Then, after she saw, she killed herself.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/25/2021 22:40 Comments || Top||



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