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Fresh airstrike kills 40 Al-Shabaab members in central Somalia – official
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-Great Cultural Revolution
Nolte: Woke Nazis Want Aretha Franklin Hit ‘Natural Woman' Censored
[Breitbart] Members of the transsexual movement want Aretha Franklin’s 1968 hit “Natural Woman” banned.

Standing for Women Founder Kellie-Jay Keen told Australia’s Sky News it’s “really hard” to ignore the “misogyny” of the trans-rights movement when Aretha’s classic song is attacked as offensive to trans-women.

This might surprise some of you but I actually see where the trans-women are coming from here.

If I were a man pretending to be a woman, I would also find the term “natural woman” offensive.

Imagine you’re one of these mentally-damaged crossdressers, okay? You’re standing there with a full beard in a skirt and high heels. Who wants to hear the Queen of Soul sing about being made to feel like a “natural woman” woman when you’re hiking up that skirt while leaning against a urinal?

All I’m saying is, can we show a little empathy here?

The brave Kellie-Jay Keen didn’t stop her criticism of the fascist trans movement there…

“I don’t think many women really know how much we’re hated – I hate to say it … I don’t have a victim mentality, but it’s really hard to ignore the misogyny of this particular movement,” she said, adding: “It means a man who says he’s frightened to go in a man’s toilet – his words are more credible than a woman who says she doesn’t want that man in her space.”

That is very well put.

This isn’t over nothing. A group of these despicable trans-bullies in Norway is demanding Spotify and Apple Music remove the song.

The New York Post reports that an organization called The Trans Cultural Mindfulness Nazi Alliance (I added the “Nazi”) is also calling for Apple Music and Spotify to remove the song:

Aretha Franklin’s 1968 song ‘Natural Woman’ perpetuates multiple harmful anti-trans stereotypes,” the organization tweeted. “There is no such thing as a ‘natural’ woman.”

The message continued, “The song has helped inspire acts of harm against transgender women. TCMA is requesting it is removed from Spotify & Apple Music.”
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/24/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I guess Billy Idol ought to be quaking in his hobnailed, silver-spiked, calf height Doc Martens.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/24/2023 12:25 Comments || Top||

#2  "So close to Black History Month!?"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/24/2023 15:06 Comments || Top||

#3  I don’t have a victim mentality

Bullshit. If this was a sane world you would be in a mental hospital.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/24/2023 15:30 Comments || Top||

#4  "Blue Danube degrades Drag Queens!"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/24/2023 15:43 Comments || Top||

#5  The Woke are now coming for Motown - my dad WILL rise from the grave if this continues. It will not be pretty.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 01/24/2023 17:04 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
VDH - Mexico Is Not Really An American Friend
[Townhall] Left-wing Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador recently praised a visiting President Joe Biden: "Just imagine: There are 40 million Mexicans in the United States - 40 million who were born here in Mexico, (or) who are the children of people who were born in Mexico!"

Why wouldn't Obrador be delighted? Since Biden took office in January 2021, America has allowed some 5-6 million illegal entries across its southern border.

Obrador further congratulated the malleable Biden whom he sees as a kindred but complacent left-wing spirit: "You are the first president of the United States in a very long time that has not built even one meter of wall."

Translated that means Mexico is delighted the United States now cares little about the security of its border, the disappearance of which is wonderful news for Mexico.

Note that Mexico itself facilitates illegal transits across its southern border - as long as such Central American and other global migrants keep heading northward into the United States.

But when or if they pause, try to stay in Mexico, commit crimes, or expect Mexican social services, then almost immediately Mexico City sends thousands of troops to close its border with Guatemala, deports the illegal crossers, and revives talk of building a border wall of its own.

Biden has demolished America's southern border. His illegal nullification of U.S. immigration law is music to Obrador's ears.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/24/2023 00:05 || Comments || Link || [29 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...The Mexicans swore in Eighteen Hundred And Forty Eight that they'd get even.

And unlike most people here - whose understanding of history begins and ends with things like the Kardashians - Mexico has a very, very long memory.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 01/24/2023 6:59 Comments || Top||

#2  I actually had friends like Mexico in college, but my mom demanded that I clear the house of them. I think the last straw was fat hungover CJ walking around the house with no shirt on as he teethed on a frozen hot dog like it was a popsicle. Yes, Mexico is like CJ, if he was a drug and human trafficker.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/24/2023 7:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Surprised it took VDH so long to figure it out.
Posted by: Bill Greans6336 || 01/24/2023 7:57 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ Washington remains in denial.

Posted by: Besoeker || 01/24/2023 8:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Kim Kardashian gives lecture at Harvard Business School
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/24/2023 8:21 Comments || Top||

#6  ^there is a part of me that cries out to see what Kim would choose to wear to Harvard, but instead I will walk away.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/24/2023 10:35 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ If a gay Armenian shmoo had a zoot suit made... for Kobe's funeral... ick. Wouldn't thrash her with your curling stick.
Posted by: Hupeash Henbane9574 || 01/24/2023 11:03 Comments || Top||

#8  Down Mexico Way

We've made los Estados Unidos,
Creator of Spicy Doritos,
Again like the land
That lies south of... [waves hand
at a thousand abandoned ejidos]
Posted by: Hupeash Henbane9574 || 01/24/2023 11:32 Comments || Top||

#9  Kim Kardashian gives lecture at Harvard Business School

"How to grow and peddle your a$$ as a business endeavor"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/24/2023 11:36 Comments || Top||

#10  #1 Here is my local history: In 1846, responding to several kidnappings and murders of settlers carried out by locals (Mexicans at the time peoples) settlers organized a resuce party and set out on a rescue that resulted in the Battle of Olompali, that was simultaneously the 1st Bear Flag Revolt battle to result in casualties, as well as the 1st actual battle of The War with Mexico. A local Mexican patriot, Maria Carillo had at least 2 sons who fought for the Mexican govt, one of which who fought with the Mexican Lancer force. Today, Maria Carillo is celebrated annually and has the newest, shiniest highschool named after her. I literally live in occupied/reconquered territory.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 01/24/2023 12:37 Comments || Top||

#11  From Skidmark’s link:

The net worth of Kim Kardashian is estimated to be $1.8 billion, while her company SKIMS is estimated to be worth $3.2 billion

That a$$ is quite lucrative.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/24/2023 12:42 Comments || Top||

#12  ^ I wonder how much of that money comes from people who continually screech that they cannot afford to pay back their education loans.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/24/2023 12:49 Comments || Top||

#13  #3. Read Mexifornia. VDH has been talking about mexico on and off for decades. At least in relation to California.
Posted by: ruprecht || 01/24/2023 13:59 Comments || Top||

#14  He's been talking about it for a long time now. Every few years he has to remind the gnat people people that the government of Mexico has never been a friend to anyone.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/24/2023 15:09 Comments || Top||

#15  Well, they are the most integrated economy the US has.

Their labor is cheaper than Chinese labor and better educated.

They provide the most value added products that the US imports.

Like it or not, we are stuck with them. Their government and the cartels are the main issue with how this relationship develops.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/24/2023 15:27 Comments || Top||

#16  ^ Latin American nihilism / fatalism guarantees that the corruption and criminality that rules Mexico and points south in the Western hemisphere is hard wired in the DNA and bone deep forever. They will never be "more like us."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/24/2023 15:33 Comments || Top||

#17  Darth, I agree we are stuck with them, and they could be an amazing asset but now with the current game plan of unlimited illegal immigration combined with Cartels running the show down south.
Posted by: ruprecht || 01/24/2023 15:48 Comments || Top||

#18  ^ I see that as "Born in the South, to breed in the North." That is the truth of it, just trace the strollers. It sounds ugly and horrific to say it but that is the truth. So there, I said it.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 01/24/2023 16:52 Comments || Top||

#19  The Reconquista is well underway, and nothing can be done to stop it unless you want to deport millions. WASP Americans are becoming an endangered species of citizens, and the land will be the much worse off for it.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 01/24/2023 18:30 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Why Russia Miscalculated in Ukraine: A Self-Inflicted Disaster in Three Acts
[YouTube] William Spaniel: Why did Russia miscalculate so badly in its invasion of Ukraine? The answer is more than two decades in the making. Putin's Persistent and intentional decay of Russia's institutions made it impossible for Russia's intelligence community and military to provide quality information to him. Facing the uncertainty---and wagering that it would take a true disaster for it have a deep effect on him personally---Putin pulled the trigger.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/24/2023 12:06 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I think Putin expected them to just fold. When President Z stayed despite offers to flee I think it gave the Ukrainians courage to fight, and the Red Army didn't seem to have a a good plan for a long fight.
Posted by: ruprecht || 01/24/2023 16:03 Comments || Top||


Fighting in the Stavropol Territory. Hot August 1942
Direct Translation via Google Translate.

Annotation by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:

Video is translatable into English

[ColonelCassad] Annotation:

An interesting documentary about a little-known episode of the battle for the Caucasus.

The film tells about a little-known episode of the Battle for the Caucasus - the fighting of the 1st separate rifle corps against the vastly superior forces of the Wehrmacht at the Smykov-Grigoropolskaya line in August 1942.

Filming took place on the battlefields - in the Izobilnensky and Novoaleksandrovsky districts of the Stavropol Territory, as well as on the left bank of the Kuban, in the east of the Krasnodar Territory.

Posted by: badanov || 01/24/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:


Government Corruption
The festering rot at the FBI seems bigger and deeper than we ever guessed
[American Thinker] Charles McGonigal, a retired counterintelligence investigator from the FBI’s New York Field Office, was just arrested because he allegedly took substantial sums of money from Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire, to get the latter off a U.S. sanctions list. Where this goes beyond the ordinary corruption that periodically crops up among people with too much power, too few morals, and too little accountability is that McGonigal was one of the people investigating Trump over the Russia Hoax, while Deripaska employed Christopher Steele, whose false dossier seeded the Russia Hoax.

Anyone who paid attention during the "hot" years of the Russia Hoax recognizes Deripaska’s name. He was a close ally of Vladimir Putin and, in 2018, the U.S. government sanctioned him for his involvement in Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea. Specifically with regard to the Russia Hoax, in 2021, Jerry Dunleavy summarized how closely allied Steele and Deripaska were:
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/24/2023 00:26 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We ought to be able to take the Mueller investigation back to customer service for a refund or at least an exchange, but please don’t bring Mueller before any committees to testify. That guy is further gone than Joe.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/24/2023 5:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Actually, this discovery has been hanging around for some time. Viz, Dec 20, 2021 at 11:14 AM So why now?

Retired Top FBI Counterintelligence Official Worked With Ex Russian Intelligence Officer Close to Deripaska, Foreign Agent Paperwork Reveals
A former senior Soviet Foreign Ministry official in the U.S. filed as a Foreign Agent for a top aide to Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, who has been described by the U.S. Senate as a key figure in the Kremlin’s malign influence operations.
The paperwork filed under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) has raised numerous concerns from experts who have noted that the aide, Yevgenyi (Evgeny, Evgeniy) Fokin, has reportedly been flagged by the FBI as a former senior Russian intelligence official.
In addition, the filing raises questions about the involvement of a former senior FBI counterintelligence official who reportedly connected Fokin to a law firm and business intelligence consultants.

The FARA filing was first publicly spotted by Wendy Siegelman, an independent investigative journalist
Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 || 01/24/2023 8:15 Comments || Top||


#4  Guess better.
Posted by: Angstrom || 01/24/2023 9:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Matt Gaetz has floated the idea for the reorganization of the FBI. He says the FBI 7th floor power should be decentralized across the U.S. with agents reporting to Federal Senate-approved prosecutors in these locations. I'd like to see more on such a concept.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/24/2023 12:10 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Black Voters Are Transforming the Suburbs ‐ And American Politics
[Politico] HOUSTON — Back in 2017, Jon Rosenthal, a mechanical engineer who’d been spurred into politics, like many Democrats, by Donald Trump’s election, was having drinks with a group of local party activists when one of them suggested that he run for office: Why not challenge the Republican who’d been holding onto his state House seat for more than 20 years?

Rosenthal was intrigued. And as he began considering his prospects, poring over demographic data on a laptop in his suburban Houston home, he saw an opening. People of color were exploding as a proportion of the population in the 135th state House district — Latinos, but also Black people, the Democratic Party’s most reliable voting bloc. Given the district’s rapidly increasing diversity, it made no sense to Rosenthal, who is white, that his Republican representative, Gary Elkins, who is also white, was still in power. And it seemed possible to him that a Democrat — even one who had never held elected office — could flip that seat.

With the help of Odus Evbagharu, a political strategist Rosenthal had befriended, Rosenthal began campaigning door to door, where his biggest challenge was convincing people that the district had changed enough that a Democrat could win. "There’s a perception of the suburbs that, ’Oh, it’s all these white, affluent people," said Evbagharu, who is Black. "So, convincing people that this race was winnable was tough."

Posted by: Besoeker || 01/24/2023 05:02 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You mean crime ridden "inner cities" are crime ridden for a political purpose ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/24/2023 5:07 Comments || Top||

#2  ...aaaand they start turning the nice suburbs into the inner city war zones that they fled from in the first place.
Posted by: Fat Bob Thrart2867 || 01/24/2023 6:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Fentanyl addiction is speeding the osmotic transfer of evil into the hinterlands.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/24/2023 6:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Fentanyl has been in the hinterlands since 2016...the osmotic transfer of evil into our lands is complete. This destabilization will soon manifest itself in scenes of Democratic Ozymandias... The inner cities rot and the once independent folks of the hinterland are brought low by a new generation trained to dependency by a complicit federal government who attempt to dull their shame with laced illicit narcotics...and even out here we are left with...

"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Posted by: Tennessee || 01/24/2023 8:46 Comments || Top||

#5  His chance of election might be even better if he ran as a Republican.
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/24/2023 10:55 Comments || Top||

#6  Short of gummint mandated fentanyl intake, there will always be people who don't get with the program.

Well, there's always the water supply...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/24/2023 10:57 Comments || Top||

#7  From the article:

In Rosenthal’s district as it’s currently drawn, the Black population — a segment of the electorate that went overwhelmingly for Democrats in last month’s midterms — jumped to more than 21 percent, up from just 9 percent in 2000, the largest growth in suburban Black population of any U.S. county. But his district isn’t the only one experiencing these demographic shifts.

Questions:
1. Weren’t the districts redrawn recently?
2. Looking at the Houston befoe-and-after population distribution maps at the link, the Representative Rosenthal’s district looks awfully gerrymandered. Not quite the classic salamander with a tummy ache, but definitely wasp waisted.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/24/2023 12:09 Comments || Top||

#8  Yep there is a transformation underway and HUD is the core of this effort.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 01/24/2023 12:50 Comments || Top||

#9  So this is the positive spin on White Flight?
Posted by: ruprecht || 01/24/2023 15:51 Comments || Top||

#10  Chanson à la wop pour soprano:
"Who killa da neighborhood? HANO!
Who come from Chicago,
New York or Carthago
Or up in da District, huh? HANO!"
"Unhand dat dere innocent piano!"
Posted by: Professor Henbane9574 || 01/24/2023 16:03 Comments || Top||


DAVID MARCUS: Biden is now America's condescending, SNL-posturing, utterly shameless liar-in-chief - and even the lapdog mainstream media know he has brought his mighty office low. He must GO!
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/24/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  I still think it's a plan to bring who they really want in his place. Could it be ______ & Michelle Obama 2024 TICKET?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/24/2023 10:12 Comments || Top||

#2  World Class Liar Title? I thought the Hildabeest had that title nailed down.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/24/2023 12:14 Comments || Top||

#3  I think Joe has gotten the marshmallow like Obama legacy too close to the campfire. Barack wanted a puppet. He chose Chuckie.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/24/2023 12:29 Comments || Top||

#4  ...yawn...
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 01/24/2023 17:21 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Is THIS why the length of Earth's days has been increasing? Our planet's inner core may have recently paused and could be REVERSING, study reveals
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] I did see THIS movie.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/24/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If this screws up how my toilet flushes, I am going to be mad.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/24/2023 5:30 Comments || Top||

#2  And the moon is moving further out. So long and thanks for all the fish.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/24/2023 7:12 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm gonna park this one with "dark" matter and energy and NASA claims to have "found inhabitable planets" at astronomical distances.

IOW, color me skeptical.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/24/2023 7:22 Comments || Top||

#4  The core flipped in the 70's and nobody noticed. Toilets safe for now.
Posted by: Bill Greans6336 || 01/24/2023 7:59 Comments || Top||

#5  If this screws up how my toilet flushes, I am going to be mad.

No worries, dude. You just sit facing the other direction.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/24/2023 9:37 Comments || Top||

#6  You'll need to go down under for a right handed swirl.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/24/2023 14:11 Comments || Top||


Early retirement may ACCELERATE dementia because you don't use your brain as much, study suggests
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] SO...that's why!
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/24/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fake news... I use just as much wattage figuring our how to avoid chores on the Honey-do list as I ever did avoiding work.
Posted by: Mercutio || 01/24/2023 8:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Just SIX extra minutes of physical activity each day 'boosts brain power in middle age'

Need more trips to the beer fridge.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/24/2023 9:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, that's one way to explain the Left.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/24/2023 9:46 Comments || Top||


#5  One crisis that the Biden Administration has proactively addressed.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/24/2023 12:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Super, you can't trust science or the Dims.. Just some "guys, girls of what ever, working on their PHDs
Posted by: Thogum Sproing6437 || 01/24/2023 16:11 Comments || Top||


Houston, we have a problem! Inside the biggest battle for cislunar space - the area between Earth and the moon - since the Cold War era as nations and private companies plan 100 lunar missions in the next decade
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/24/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now they are trying to sexualize lunar space. Fight the patriarchy.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/24/2023 5:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Cislunar? As one who knows how to set up an equatorial mount and clock drive on a telescope, I see no escaping the fact that some people - OK, a lot really - will need to be disposed of sooner rather than later. I'm very comfortable with my observations.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 01/24/2023 12:49 Comments || Top||


Antidepressants can numb enjoyment as well as pain by making patients feel emotionally dull, scientists say
Feel like a neutered zombie?
They say the same thing about schizophrenia meds.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIS) cause 'blunting' of enjoyment

  • They target serotonin and take away emotional pain but also some enjoyment

  • 'Blunting' could affect between 40 and 60 per cent of patients taking SSRIs

Posted by: Skidmark || 01/24/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When your spouse is yelling at you its good to have your senses dulled!
Posted by: borgboy || 01/24/2023 13:27 Comments || Top||

#2  I've known many people on these and I can attest about half of them are like this. Now can science figure out why some they effect like this and others they don't?
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/24/2023 21:54 Comments || Top||



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Tue 2023-01-24
  Fresh airstrike kills 40 Al-Shabaab members in central Somalia – official
Mon 2023-01-23
  Burkina Faso says 66 women, children freed from extremists
Sun 2023-01-22
   Iran Guards warn EU terror label would be 'mistake'
Sat 2023-01-21
  Turkish-Backed SNA Leader Killed, Militants Wounded In Syria’s Azaz
Fri 2023-01-20
  Antifa Shoots a Cop in Atlanta; Call for a ''Night of Rage''
Thu 2023-01-19
  Boko Haram Terrorists Launch Attack On Borno Community, Kill Farmer, Abduct Eight Others
Wed 2023-01-18
  Al-Shabaab attacks military base after loss of key stronghold, driven off leaving 21 deaders behind
Tue 2023-01-17
  Terrorists Storm Church In Katsina, Northwest Nigeria, Kidnap 25 Worshippers
Mon 2023-01-16
  Man arrested after uranium found at UK’s Heathrow Airport
Sun 2023-01-15
  33 ISIS Militants Arrested In Five Iraqi Governorates
Sat 2023-01-14
  Senior ISIS leader killed in Somalia’s Puntland state
Fri 2023-01-13
  Coordinated attacks kill 14 Malian soldiers
Thu 2023-01-12
  Al-Qaeda Emir Killed During Ma'rib Clashes with Sana'a Forces
Wed 2023-01-11
  Thai troops kill six Bad Guys near Myanmar border
Tue 2023-01-10
  McCarthy confirms Swalwell, Schiff & Omar will be off committees


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