Who is Bob Destro - Robert A. Destro is Professor of Law at The Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law in Washington, D.C. He has been a member of the CUA Law faculty since 1982, served as Interim Dean from 1999-2001, and as Director of the University’s Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies from 2017-2019.
President Donald J. Trump nominated him to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor and the U.S. Senate confirmed his appointment on September 18, 2019. As Assistant Secretary, he led the State Department’s worldwide policy and foreign assistance programs on human rights and democracy issues such as free and fair elections, Internet freedom, and the growth of the surveillance state. His work on labor issues focused on State Department and inter-agency efforts to ensure that business supply chains do not include goods or services produced by slave or forced labor. He also served as the State Department’s Special Representative for Tibetan Issues.
In the domestic sphere, Professor Destro has been an advisor to churches and religious organizations from a variety of religious traditions, and is regularly involved in cases raising civil rights issues from free speech and free exercise, to employment law and tax policy. From 2004-2006, he served as Special Counsel to then-Ohio Secretary of State, Ken Blackwell, on voting rights and election security issues. From 1983 to 1989, he served as a Commissioner on the United States Commission on Civil Rights, where he led the Commission's discussions in the areas of discrimination on the basis of disability, national origin and religion. From 1977-1982, he served as General Counsel to the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, and from 1975-1977, was an associate at Squire, Sanders & Dempsey in Cleveland. With Michael S. Ariens, he was co-author of RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN A PLURALISTIC SOCIETY (2d ed. 2001), and is a prolific writer on legal issues.
Professor Destro was born and raised in Akron, Ohio. He received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1972 from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and his law degree (J.D.) in 1975 from the University of California, Berkeley. He is an active member of the Bar in Ohio and an inactive member of the Bar in California. Professor Destro lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife Brenda. They have two adult children, Gina and Mark.
[Washington Examiner] He’s a wannabe music star who boasts about being an insurrectionist in social media accounts filled with curse-filled rants against former President Donald Trump.
You would think the Jan. 6 march on the Capitol would be the last place to find John Earle Sullivan, yet the 27-year-old was seen continuously spurring on violence that day by pushing the crowd forward. He was just feet away from veteran Ashli Babbitt when she was shot dead by a Capitol Police officer outside the House chamber, court records show, and he even sold video he shot of the incident for $90,000.
But unlike some 80 other individuals who have been imprisoned for up to 300 days for storming the Capitol, Sullivan has been allowed to go home to Utah while awaiting a trial date on eight criminal counts. One of the protesters who has been in jail the longest, Kenneth Harrelson, is accused of pushing into the Capitol behind a mob. He stayed inside 18 minutes, walking around and taking photographs, and has not been accused of any violence in court documents reviewed by the Washington Examiner.
In contrast, Sullivan carried a knife into the Capitol and offered to use it, broke a window, and ordered officers to leave their posts where he would soon film Babbitt getting shot.
"He was head of a group Insurgence USA, which sounds like antifa and Black Lives Matter," Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene told the Washington Examiner.
The slickly produced website looks like a single use false-nose-and-mustache thingy to make his general Black Bloc anarcho-communist viciousness look like romantic social activism. Mr. Sullivan, who also goes by Jaydon X, formed the group in response to the death of George Floyd.
"John Sullivan is a professional rioter, and he is actually being treated really well in the two-tiered justice system in America. Democrats are not going to punish their own, which is why he is walking around free."
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Currently EU gets %80 of Kazakhstan oil exports.
Now Russia will control Kazakhstan's and Russia's oil sold to the EU.
(1/3) Russia’s militarisation in #Kazakhstan is going to have explosive consequences in the global oil and gas market, if Tokayev finally gives in. For past couple of years, Russia has been trying to control China’s oil and gas purchases from Central Asia.
[REGNUM] CSTO peacekeepers in Kazakhstan have the right to use weapons in the event of an attack by armed gangs. This was stated by the Secretary General of the CSTO Stanislav Zas.
"Yes, in this case, weapons will be used. The military personnel of the collective peacekeeping forces have such rights," he told RIA Novosti, answering the relevant question.
As reported by IA REGNUM , on January 6, CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas said that the transfer of the peacekeeping contingent of the CSTO countries to Kazakhstan has begun.
"The situation is difficult, but it is already possible to draw a cautious conclusion based on the events that took place at night and this afternoon ... A definite change is already being observed, for the better. And in the end, we hope this trend will strengthen." he said.
As reported by IA REGNUM , earlier the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev appealed to the CSTO for help in connection with the riots that gripped the republic. Peacekeepers from Russia arrived in the country. Also, servicemen from Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan will participate in the peacekeeping mission.
Psaki about Kazakhstan's appeal to the CSTO: the US authorities have questions
[REGNUM] The US authorities are not sure of the legality of Kazakhstan's request for the introduction of forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). This was announced on January 6 by the press secretary of the White House Jen Psaki at a briefing.
The US authorities have questions about whether it was legal or not, she said.
"We (the US government) do not know this," said the White House spokeswoman.
As reported by IA REGNUM , earlier the Secretary General of the CSTO Stanislav Zas said that the redeployment of peacekeeping units of the CSTO countries to Kazakhstan should be completed on January 7.
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It took five IL-76 aircraft to transport of Belorusian contingent of a single airborne rifle company.
Armenians are being trucked in, as are the Kyrgyzstan contingent.
If Russia's specially trained peacekeeping brigade goes in, it likely will be railed in, as will any elements of the Russian 77th Separate Naval Infantry Brigade from Kaspiysk, on the Caspian Sea.
Recall that Russia also has a peacekeeping contingent in Armenia.
[An Nahar] Dozens of protesters were killed in Kazakhstan in attacks on government buildings and at least a dozen coppers died, including one who was found beheaded, authorities said Thursday.
There were attempts to storm buildings overnight in the country's largest city, Almaty, and "dozens of attackers were liquidated," police spokeswoman Saltanat Azirbek said. She spoke on state news channel Khabar-24. The reported attempts to storm the buildings came after widespread unrest in the city on Wednesday, including seizure of the mayor's building, which was set on fire.
State news channel Khabar-24 cited the city commandant's office as saying Thursday that another 353 law enforcement officers were maimed in addition to the 12 killed.
Kazakhstan is experiencing the worst street protests the country has seen since gaining independence three decades ago.
A Russia-led military alliance, the Collective Security Treaty Organization, said early Thursday that it would send peacekeeper troops to Kazakhstan at the request of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. Kazakhstan has been rocked by intensifying protests that began on Sunday over a sharp rise in prices for liquefied petroleum gas fuel. The protests began in the country's west but spread to Almaty and the capital Nur-Sultan.
On Wednesday, Tokayev vowed to take harsh measures to quell the unrest and declared a two-week state of emergency for the whole country, expanding one that had been announced for both the capital of Nur-Sultan and the largest city of Almaty that imposed an overnight curfew and restricted movement into and around the urban areas. The government resigned in response over the unrest.
Although the protests began over a near-doubling of prices for a type of liquefied petroleum gas that is widely used as vehicle fuel, their size and rapid spread suggested they reflect wider discontent in the country that has been under the rule of the same party since gaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
Tokayev claimed the unrest was led by "terrorist bands" that had received help from unspecified other countries.
Kazakhstan, the ninth-largest country in the world, borders Russia to the north and China to the east and has extensive oil reserves that make it strategically and economically important. Despite those reserves and mineral wealth, discontent over poor living conditions is strong in some parts of the country. Many Kazakhs also chafe at the dominance of the ruling party, which holds more than 80% of the seats in parliament.
Many of the demonstrators who converged on the mayoral office Wednesday carried clubs and shields, according to earlier reports in Kazakh media. Tass later said the building was engulfed in flames.
The protests appear to have no identifiable leader or demands. Many of the demonstrators shouted "old man go," an apparent reference to Nursultan Nazarbayev ...served as the President of Kazakhstan since the Fall of the Soviet Union and the nation's independence in 1991. Contrary to commonly held belief, there is a difference between Kazakhs and Cossacks: Kazakhs have mustaches. Cossacks wear those great big hats. Or maybe it's the other way around... , the country's first president who continued to wield enormous influence after his 2019 resignation. Nazarbayev dominated Kazakhstan's politics and his rule was marked by a moderate cult of personality. Critics say he effectively instituted a clan system in government.
After the demonstrations spread to Nur-Sultan and Almaty, the government announced its resignation, but Tokayev said the ministers would stay in their roles until a new Cabinet is formed, making it uncertain whether the resignations will have significant impact.
At the start of the year, prices for the gas called LPG roughly doubled as the government moved away from price controls as part of efforts to move to a market economy.
1. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the main administrative buildings in the center of Alma-Ata were taken under control during the battles with the pogromists.
Nevertheless, it is too early to talk about full control over the city, even after lunch there was organized armed resistance, which is not surprising, given the fact that after the defeat and looting of weapons stores and weapons in state institutions, thousands of small arms fell into the hands of the thugs.
Of course, all this must be cleaned up as soon as possible, so that later Alma-Ata does not turn into an analogue of the Duma, Deraa or Aleppo, when the issues of eliminating this public had to be resolved by artillery and aviation.
2. Attacks on the TV tower and the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were repulsed, the attackers were killed. Judging by these and other statements of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, today in Alma-Ata the security forces have filled up at least several dozen people.
On rare videos and photos, you can see both shootings and those arrested and the corpses of the pogromists. The overwhelming majority of the locals are staying at home after warnings from the authorities, and they themselves note that there are a lot of newcomers from the countryside in the city.
3. Also issued a warning: all who resist and will be caught with a weapon in their hands will be destroyed. In fact, this is already a complete carte blanche for the destruction of any organized resistance.
Read the scenario of Tiananmen and Andijan, where the political leadership also gave the security forces complete freedom to restore order. By their actions on January 4-6, the rioters in Alma-Ata themselves did everything to make their shooting perceived as a purely positive phenomenon.
4. Contrary to the stuffing that Alexei Venediktov also spread, the CSTO forces are still deploying in Kazakhstan and are not taking part in any suppression of protests, especially since such a task is not even set for them. The protests are crushed by the security forces of Kazakhstan, who are being pulled to the centers of the rebellion. The forces of the CSTO made it possible to release reliable people to strengthen the cleansing units.
5. In a number of cities, protesters say that they are not with the rioters in Alma-Ata, and in general they have already achieved their basic demands: they drove Nazarbayev out and lowered gas prices.
With these protesters, the authorities, I think, may well conduct a reasonable dialogue. The conversation with the characters from Alma-Ata will be short. The authorities also called on ordinary citizens who participated in the protests to go home, promising that there would be no prosecution for simply participating in the rallies. Questions will only be for the pogromists.
6. Kyrgyzstan today could not make a decision on the introduction of troops into Kazakhstan. We were unable to collect a quorum. They promise to accept it tomorrow, with a separate proviso that the Kyrgyz will not participate in suppressing the riots. Japarov said this several times for the deputies and the public. Russia, Belarus. Armenia, Tajikistan. All have already formalized the implementation of measures for the introduction of troops.
7. Erdogan said that he expects the soonest formation of the new government of Kazakhstan and the normalization of the situation in the country. Worried about Turkish business. China also called for an early end to the crisis and the restoration of stability. It is worth noting that all phrases about stability are associated exclusively with Tokayev. Not a word about Nazarbayev, as if he no longer exists.
8. The total number of killed employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Internal Troops was 18 killed and 742 wounded. Of those killed, two or three with their heads cut off.
Oh dear. If true, that’s not good.
The numbers are likely to rise by the evening. It is also reported that 30 protesters were killed at 1500 hrs, but this is most likely an underestimated figure.
Russian Duma wants to leave the CSTO forces in Kazakhstan to protect Russians
[REGNUM] The CSTO forces need to be stationed in Kazakhstan on a permanent basis, including to protect the Russian population. As a REGNUM correspondent reports on January 6, this was stated by the leader of the SRZP, State Duma deputy Sergei Mironov .
"The forces of the CSTO, which are based on Russian units, can become the basis for the formation in Kazakhstan of a system of countering extremism for years to come. One of the most important tasks of this system should be the protection of the Russian-speaking population. In this regard, it is advisable to consider the issue of the presence of the CSTO military in the republic on a permanent basis, " Mironov said.
However, the parliamentarian continued, military units alone cannot solve the security problem in Kazakhstan.
"For this, it is necessary to change approaches to ensuring civil peace and harmony, to create decent living conditions for people, to strengthen citizens' confidence in the authorities," he stressed.
He is convinced that the issue of protecting Russians should be one of the key issues for Russia when discussing security problems in Central Asia and the socio-economic development of the region as a whole.
"I hope that our partners in the CSTO will accept this position with respect and understanding," added Mironov.
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RIA shows Russian VDV paratroopers arriving in Kazakhstan earlier this morning, first troops to arrive in country pic.twitter.com/E83MBpBSh9
Russia has deployed to #Kazakhstan same military units (76th Guards Air Assault Division from Pskov and 45th Guards Spetsnaz (Special Purpose) Detached Brigade from Kubinka) who were lead force in occupation of Crimea in 2014.
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Boris Rozhin reported it is becoming clearer that support for the protests and riots came from some unidentified high Kazakhstan government officials.
So, the story of a nexus of support coming from Ukraine is falling apart, i.e. the story was a plant.
[NIKKEI] 'Landmark agreement' to raise cooperation; Tokyo also courts U.K., France
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Australian counterpart Scott Morrison on Thursday signed a treaty to facilitate joint exercises, as they vowed in a virtual meeting to strengthen security cooperation amid China's growing military influence in the Indo-Pacific region.
The Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) will facilitate faster deployment of Japanese Self-Defense Forces and Australian Defense Force personnel and ease restrictions on the transportation of weapons and supplies for joint training and disaster relief operations.
"This is a landmark agreement that will bring Japan-Australia security cooperation to a new level," said Kishida in signing the agreement.
Morrison said the pact will enable the two countries to cooperate at a high level.
Australia is the second country with which Japan has concluded such an accord after the United States.
Japan will also seek to reach such a pact with Britain, with which Japan launched negotiations in October, and France as the two countries have been increasing defense cooperation with Tokyo in response to an increasingly assertive China.
Japan and Australia agreed to start talks on the RAA in 2014 and reached a broad agreement in November 2020, but Japan's death penalty system had been an obstacle to concluding the deal.
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Sounds like something old might be new again?
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact, signed in September 1954.
[An Nahar] North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... claimed Thursday to have conducted the second successful test flight of a hypersonic missile, days after leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... vowed to bolster his military forces despite pandemic-related difficulties.
Wednesday's launch, the North's first known weapons test in about two months, indicates the country will press ahead with plans to modernize its nuclear and missile arsenals rather than return to disarmament talks anytime soon.
The official Korean Central News Agency said the Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party expressed "great satisfaction" at the results of the missile test, which was observed by leading weapons officials.
Hypersonic weapons, which fly at speeds in excess of Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound, could pose crucial challenges to missile defense systems because of their speed and maneuverability. It's unclear whether and how soon North Korea could manufacture such a high-tech missile, but it was among a wish-list of sophisticated military assets that Kim disclosed early last year, along with a multi-warhead missile, spy satellites, solid-fueled long-range missiles and underwater-launched nuclear missiles.
Wednesday's test was the second of its kind since North Korea first launched a hypersonic missile last September.
"The successive successes in the test launches in the hypersonic missile sector have strategic significance in that they hasten a task for modernizing strategic armed force of the state," a KCNA dispatch said.
The word "strategic" implies the missile is being developed to deliver nuclear weapons.
KCNA said the missile made a 120-kilometer-long (75 mile) lateral movement before hitting a target 700 kilometers (435 miles) away. It said the test reconfirmed the flight control and stability of the missile and verified its fuel capsule under the winter weather conditions.
While North Korea appears to have made progress in the development of a hypersonic missile, it still needs more test flights to determine whether it meets its tactical objectives or how advanced a hypersonic weapon it could develop, said Lee Choon Geun, an expert and honorary research fellow at South Korea's Science and Technology Policy Institute.
A photo of the launch shows that the upper parts of the missiles launched in September and this week have different shapes. Lee said this suggests that North Korea is testing two versions of warheads for a missile still under development or it is actually developing two different types of hypersonic missiles.
He said the missile's reported lateral movement would provide the weapon with a greater maneuverability to evade enemy missile defense systems.
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TIRANA, Jan 6 (Reuters) - The United States Special Operations Command Europe (SOCEUR) will open a forward-based headquarters in Albania on a rotational basis, Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama said on Thursday.
SOCEUR, based in Stuttgart, Germany, said on its website that the base in Albania would provide increased coordination with Albanian allies, important access to transportation hubs in the Balkans and greater logistical flexibility.
"This is a fantastic news ... it is an expression of a very high credibility and a very close cooperation," Rama said in a video message in which he read out the SOCEUR announcement.
Albania became a member of the NATO military alliance in 2009.
Highly trained and equipped with advanced communications equipment and weapons, special forces are often used in counterterrorism or reconnaissance operations. They can infiltrate enemy lines to tie down much larger numbers of opposition troops.
It was not clear what the role of these U.S. forces in Albania would be.
SOCEUR said its role is to "rapidly respond to emerging threats and if necessary, defeat aggression" together with its allies.
In the decade after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks U.S. special forces numbers more than doubled, their budget tripled and their deployments quadrupled.
The United States already has 600 troops based in Serbia's former province of Kosovo to maintain the fragile peace more than two decades after the end of the Kosovo War in 1999.
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"This is a fantastic news ... it is an expression of a very high credibility and a very close cooperation,"
Bullshi*! Albania already has Special Forces units. They assisted the US effort in AFG, but were NOT integrated into the SOF effort. They were used as mechanized infantry in Kandahar Province. We need to stay out of that Eastern Euro mess.
[BIZPACREVIEW] The price of natural gas skyrocketed more than 30% in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... on Tuesday after Russia continued to withhold key supplies with winter weather approaching.
While the price, measured by the Dutch natural gas index, fell after its early spike, it remained about 20% higher at around midday Tuesday, Rooters reported. In December, Russian state-owned gas provider Gazprom slowed gas flows transported through the Yamal-Europe pipeline to Germany and reversed the flows’ direction from westward to eastward.
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[PJMEDIA] Thomas Edsall, one of the few decent contributors at the New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , published a valuable piece of journalism Wednesday on the sheer size of philanthropic commitment to left-wing "racial justice" measures.
With nearly 3,000 words of interviews and assorted content, he explores how much money — nearly $25 billion it turns out — was donated by progressive elites to divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... racial endeavors after the May 2020 killing of St. George Floyd ...the patron saint of Minneapolis, a sterling example for our children and indeed for us all. St. George was martyed by the Devil's agents in blue while standing on a street corner preaching tolerance and racial justice or something like that...
Before Floyd’s death, Candid — a website for wealthy "people who want to change the world with the resources they need to do it" — said philanthropic entities provided about $3 billion in "racial equity funding" from 2011-19. Since then, Candid found, "50,887 grants valued at $12.7 billion" and "177 pledges valued at $11.6 billion."
Among the top funders are the Ford Foundation, at $3 billion; Mackenzie Scott, at $2.9 billion; JPMorgan Chase & Co. Contributions Program, at $2.1 billion; W.K. Kellogg Foundation, $1.2 billion; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, $1.1 billion; Silicon Valley Community Foundation, $1 billion; Walton Family Foundation, $689 million; The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, $438 million; and the Foundation to Promote Open Society,
...George Soros’s little project funder...
$350.5 million.
This is the largest amount of philanthropy ever spent on one cause in such a short period — probably by a factor of 10.
This institutional caving-in to bogus theories of racial inequity and victimhood is mind-blowing and also poses a great danger to Democrats because these causes are so far left of where even their voters are, much less where everyday Americans are.
Some liberal strategists worry about unintended political consequences from this surge in virtue signaling.
Matt Bennett, senior vice president of Third Way, a center-left think tank, told Edsall:
"Whether inadvertent or not, some progressive foundations are funding work that is shortsighted and harmful to the long-term progress they hope to achieve. It’s crystal clear that some ideas being pushed by activists and funded by lefty foundations go beyond that paradigm, treading into territory that is flat-out politically toxic and that undermine our collective goals."
And it’s all failing, too.
"Defund the Police" was voted down in Minneapolis two months ago and performed worst in areas with the largest black populations — where a whopping 61% opposed. Wealthier, liberal strongholds supported the preposterous amendment to disband the city’s police department by a 57-43 margin.
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MacKenzie Scott = Amazon, the predatory pricer Oligarch that was never prosecuted for anti-competitive practices on the way to its founder grabbing a $200B fortune
JP Morgan, one of five corrupt TBTF Oligarch banks that stuck the American people with an $8 trillion tab for their malfeasance in 2009
Now they've kicked back $25 billion in virtue-signaling baksheesh. Chump change for them; a huge negative incentive for every one of 100,000 or more shitty little race-hustlers to mau-mau whitey and shake down billions more ...
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At $25B they have a “defense” budget that would rank 13th globally. Less than Brazil but greater than Canada. More of an “attack” budget in actuality.
[ZeroHedge] A federal judge has rejected a request by the FDA to produce just 500 pages per month of the data submitted by Pfizer to license its Covid-19 vaccine - and has ordered them to produce 55,000 pages per month. Assuming there are roughly 450,000 pages, that means it will take just over eight months for the world to see what's under the hood.
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I expect this to be appealed, again and again... right up until after the 2022 election. Then stuff will be released that makes the establishment vaccination narrative look really, really bad.
[Sputnik] The Catholic and a number of Orthodox churches celebrate Christmas on 25 December, while the Jerusalem Orthodox Church, as well as the Russian Orthodox Church, adheres to the Julian calendar, according to which Christmas falls on 7 January.
The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III is serving the Christmas mass in Bethlehem, Palestine, on Thursday night, which completes the Christmas Celebrations for local Christians.
The mass is held in the Church of the Nativity, which is considered along with the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem as one of the main Christian shrines. It is jointly managed by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Armenian Apostolic Churches.
Bethlehem is believed by Christians around the world as the birthplace of Jesus Christ. The city, venerated also by Jews and Muslims, is located on the West Bank of River Jordan, 10 kilometres from Jerusalem.
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.
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...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...the patron saint of Minneapolis, a sterling example for our children and indeed for us all. St. George was martyed by the Devil's agents in blue while standing on a street corner preaching tolerance and racial justice or something like that...
