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Over 41 Terrorists, Commanders Killed As Boko Haram, ISWAP Shoot It Out Again In Borno
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3 16:21 Seeking Cure For Ignorance [14] 
3 21:05 Ulens Hupusotle1110 [12] 
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-Great Cultural Revolution
Now without the 'Fat Ass Girls'. Cancellation culture has reached Queen
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Aleksandr Tishchenko

[REGNUM] The "cancellation culture" widely spread in the West has reached the music albums as well. This time, they decided to “protect” women with impressive natural data. Universal will not include Queen's song "Fat Bottomed Girls" on the band's new hits collection. The compilation was released on the content platform for "smart speakers" Yoto: this is a device on which children can listen to music, podcasts and learn something new using thematic cartridge cards.

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Posted by: badanov || 08/25/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Drag queens and midget waiters? Does this idjut even know anything about Freddie Mercury?
Drag queens and midget waiters was the happy, smiley side of Freddie.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/25/2023 9:25 Comments || Top||

#2  The article isn't wrong.

If you don't have a copy, you don't have a copy.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/25/2023 9:55 Comments || Top||

#3  I can not think of a Sam Kinnison bit that would not be canceled.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/25/2023 11:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Saw Sam Kinnison in Knoxville in the late 80's - I'm pretty sure I pulled my spleen muscle when he did his "leper whore" routine.
Posted by: bman911 || 08/25/2023 12:46 Comments || Top||

#5  The commie authoritarian whores that support this,
will not fight the wars to protect this. And the people who fight our wars, they are not going to die for this. Woke is a curse and disease.
Posted by: mossomo || 08/25/2023 13:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Bill Hicks.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/25/2023 21:52 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
What is happening inside the Afghan resistance?
[TaskAndPurpose] "The only reason Afghans aren’t standing up against the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
right now is the perception that the Taliban are supported by the U.S."


After the United States left Afghanistan two years ago, grainy videos circulated online of resistance fighters coming together in austere regions of Afghanistan to fight the Taliban.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 08/25/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Based on the contents of the article, I believe that the State Dept-CIA complex will seek to prop up the Taliban with money on the down low so that it won’t look like the US screwed the whole thing up. They will say that Afghanistan needs peace as they shovel money into aid that they know is ending up in Taliban paws. It’s possible that they left them arms on purpose to that end. They will claim that they did not. In the end the Taliban will fall anyway. Something that the next president can address when the CIA is dissected.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/25/2023 12:49 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ Yuge gifting of US weapons to the TB was the initial non-monetary installment.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/25/2023 14:04 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Col. Douglas Macgregor on Patrick Bet Davis Podcast | Ep. 283
From about a month ago.

Posted by: badanov || 08/25/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Government by donors. The American people don't have much of a voice."

~ COL Douglas Macgreggor
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/25/2023 6:49 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/25/2023 12:29 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Always liked the version (Ramones?) that changed the motto to "Look out below!"). Now, about that olive branch... smartphone? Remote? Fetus? Golden hairpiece?
Posted by: Ulens Hupusotle1110 || 08/25/2023 21:05 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Not All Legislators Use the Poor and Minorities for Political Gain
[RCP] Hypocrisy — claiming to have beliefs to which one's behavior does not conform — has long been a defining characteristic of many politicians. But a few brave souls recently have bucked the official party line to stand up for their beliefs and constituents.

Georgia state legislator Mesha Mainor recently announced she is leaving the Democrat party to become a Republican, saying, "For far too long, the Democrat Party has gotten away with using and abusing the black community. For decades, the Democrat Party has received the support of more than 90% of the black community. And what do we have to show for it? I represent a solidly blue district in the city of Atlanta. This isn't a political decision for me. It's a moral one."

Minor says her Democrat colleagues crucified her when she decided to stand up for disadvantaged children in support of school choice.

Kansas Democrat Marvin Robinson hasn't changed party affiliation, but he is taking a lot of abuse from Democrats for supporting school choice for disadvantaged kids and protecting biological women's right to compete in the Fairness in Women's Sports Act. He says one female Democrat in the Legislature told him he should die.

Mainor says, "The most dangerous thing to the Democrat Party is a black person with a mind of their own."

Kansas Democrats also pressure members to vote against children and for the unions.

Rep. Brad Boyd, an Olathe, Kansas Democrat who serves on the Olathe School Board, says school choice "targets black and brown kids, who can't afford to attend some of these prestigious private institutions when we take money away from public schools."
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/25/2023 07:14 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I can tolerate misguided people or those who have opinions that differ from mine. The corrupt ones need to be addressed.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/25/2023 16:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Nice to know there are good politicians out there. Sometimes I wonder.
Posted by: jpal || 08/25/2023 16:41 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Are you sure?
Posted by: Grom the Merciless || 08/25/2023 16:46 Comments || Top||


Department of Labor Investigation Shows a Disturbing Attitude Toward Trafficking
[PJ] Regular readers of PJ Media may recall that as far back as last year, we were talking about how a federal agency had been at best negligent and at worst complicit in the matter of human trafficking of minor illegal immigrants. Specifically, we told you the story of Tara Lee Rodas. Project Veritas featured two pieces about Rodas, who worked with the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity & Efficiency. She also volunteered by assisting Health and Human Services (HHS) with the Unaccompanied Children Program.

Rodas alerted HHS about how children were being sent to foster homes where they were being trafficked for labor and sex. She alerted HHS executives and was told, "’Tara, I think you need to understand that we only get sued if we keep kids in care too long. We don’t get sued by traffickers. Are you clear? We don’t get sued by traffickers." You can read those stories here and here.
Immigrants over the age of 40 need not apply.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/25/2023 06:57 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  Disturbing indeed, but MTG's assessment of Washington is accurate. No Marjorie, it ain't North Georgia.

Big money in drugs and all forms of prostitution? I hope the BCF doesn't find out about this !

Apologies to Sodom and Gomorrah.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/25/2023 7:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Trafficking hearings would break the Biden administration. It would probably run some very bad Dem reps out of town, as well. Nothing like a pro-trafficking sound bite to ruin your political viability.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/25/2023 16:38 Comments || Top||


No place for discussion. A key political institution dies in the US
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Malek Dudakov

[REGNUM] In the largest city of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, a two-hour debate of presidential candidates from the US Republican Party took place. The place was not chosen by chance. Wisconsin is exactly the state where the Republican Party itself appeared back in 1854. Now it is one of the most important "swing" states in the presidential election, for control of which there is a fierce struggle between Democrats and Republicans.

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Posted by: badanov || 08/25/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Interesting take on the American system. The only nuance not covered is the donor puppeteers who are financing some of the candidates and dictate their positions. Christie’s campaign makes sense only as a demolition derby car financed by someone that wants Trump and other candidates damaged rather than winning the race himself. I thought Liz Cheney would be another potential Kamikaze candidate, but she must have been deemed not drivable.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/25/2023 11:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Most of those in the debates are RINOs anyway,

Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 08/25/2023 16:21 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
200 Million & Counting... Trump Triumphant, Ramaswamy Runner-Up, DeSantis Dud
[American Greatness via ZERO] "Focus on the signal, not the noise," is a phrase that might as well have been coined by Steve Bannon given how frequently he and his acolytes make use of it. At this stage in the game, it should be the mantra of the MAGA movement writ large; for the hour is already late, there is a mountain of work left to do to haul President Trump over the finish line: navigating a corrupt, weaponized justice system; dealing with rigged election procedures; combatting both soft and overt censorship by mainstream networks and social media — and that is just the tip of the iceberg.

Which is why — given the enormity of the collective hole we have dug ourselves in — the idea of a normal politics-as-usual primary season was ridiculous from the start. The 2020 presidential election was undeniably the most unfair election in modern history — it necessarily produced an illegitimate outcome. That Ron DeSantis, Mike Pence, Chris Christie (and the rest) are behaving as if all of that does not matter, or that somehow the problems that got us in this dire situation as a country would miraculously vanish if Trump were removed from the picture is the ultimate indictment of their credentials. The other candidates are not serious contenders for the presidency for the simple purpose that they do not seriously care about America’s interests: if they realized the gravity of the crisis, they would have immediately stepped aside and thrown whatever miniscule political capital they harness upon the 45th President, knowing that he alone has a shot at achieving the near-insurmountable feat of winning the presidency.

In short, the primary process — personified above all by Ron DeSantis and his pitiful excuse for a campaign — is a colossal distraction and timewaster from where our focus needs to be.

Poll after poll has Trump with leads of 30, 40, 50+ points above his nearest competitor.

Even in the absolutely most competitive primary states, like Iowa, Trump’s lead is well over the 20-point mark, the largest such lead for that state’s Republican caucus in over two decades. Trump won this battle before the first shot was ever fired because grassroots voters can viscerally intuit just how high the stakes are this time around; that for America, 2024 is truly the make-or-break moment.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/25/2023 07:20 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If the voting machines, vote harvesting, drop-off boxes, and fraud cannot be overcome, the polls supporting Trump are meaningless.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/25/2023 7:23 Comments || Top||

#2  If, OHOH, the steal fails in 2024, Trump will have a mandate that will have the potential to usher in the biggest event in this nation's history since its founding.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/25/2023 7:58 Comments || Top||

#3  If Trump wins, he'll still have the same infestation of scoundrels to deal with, but now even more dangerous.

They'll know exactly what's coming and be even more rabid than before. This time they won't even try to hide it. The legal (and illegal) sh*t will start long before Day 1.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/25/2023 10:20 Comments || Top||

#4  The next three months are critical. If Biden is finally canned for obvious corruption early and the border invasion debacle blows sky high, I think the Uniparty will be in serious difficulty. Like Maui the key is the children. If the administration is facilitating child trafficking, the American will lose it.

I believe their plan is to have Biden announce his decision not to seek re-election at the convention with no primary season. Then they just install a new candidate who gets a bump and they campaign hard for a couple months. The plan fails if the Biden administration comes apart early like Steve Austin’s test plane. Then they have to improvise. It will not go well for them, in that case.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/25/2023 13:00 Comments || Top||

#5  The Toricelli maneuver. They invented it. They perfected it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/25/2023 13:14 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Interesting theory Supe.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/25/2023 14:00 Comments || Top||

#7  "It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes."
Posted by: Grom the Merciless || 08/25/2023 14:05 Comments || Top||

#8  /\ Joe Stalin quote, and entirely accurate it would appear.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/25/2023 14:14 Comments || Top||


#10  a·poc·ry·phal
[əˈpäkrəf(ə)l]
ADJECTIVE
(of a story or statement) of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true:
"there is an apocryphal story about a disgraced rock star who ended up in bankruptcy court" · "many remarks were attributed to him, most of them probably apocryphal"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/25/2023 14:45 Comments || Top||


VDH: The Biden Clan's Con Is Coming to an End
[Am Greatness] Hunter is still out of control, and could take the family down with him

Despite years of Biden family and media disinformation, we are finally learning that Joe Biden really did fire Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin for looking into state corruption involving the oil company Burisma and Hunter Biden—and ultimately Joe Biden himself.

As Vice President, Biden, in his own words, bragged that he had threatened to cancel the deliverance of American foreign aid to Ukraine unless Shokin was dismissed.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Frank G || 08/25/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  "the former drug addict Hunter" - former?
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 08/25/2023 6:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Nothing will happen. The DOJ will not lift a finger to investigate the Biden family unless or until a more preferable stooge can be installed. The Deep State will continue to cheat on elections and maintain their power.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 08/25/2023 6:38 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ A tragic but nonetheless accurate assessment TWU. Washington has become a Chicago on the Potomac.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/25/2023 6:53 Comments || Top||

#4  The Dems knew all of this. Every senior person in the DOJ, IRS and State Dept knew this was going on. Their response was to rig the primaries and general election to install Joe in the Oval Office. Corruption was the criteria that made Joe stand out for them. Bernie was corrupt by all accounts. He just wasn’t corrupt enough for to be president.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/25/2023 11:49 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ The Dems knew all of this. Every senior person in the DOJ, IRS and State Dept knew this was going on.

Exactly! It's actually a 'small' community of very well networked people.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/25/2023 11:54 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Fri 2023-08-25
  Over 41 Terrorists, Commanders Killed As Boko Haram, ISWAP Shoot It Out Again In Borno
Thu 2023-08-24
  Niger Coup: Suspected terrorists shoot Ghanaian driver at Burkina Faso border, burn several trucks
Wed 2023-08-23
  Prigozhin Dead?
Tue 2023-08-22
   Iranian drones and speedboats swarm two US warships with 4,000 troops on board in Persian Gulf
Mon 2023-08-21
  Hundreds of Wagner Group forces arrive to support Niger
Sun 2023-08-20
  ISWAP Terrorists Reportedly Challenge Rival Boko Haram To Gunfight In Sambisa Forest, 100+ toes up
Sat 2023-08-19
  W.Africa Military Chiefs Prepare Possible Niger Mission
Fri 2023-08-18
  Gunmen kill 31 civilians in Niger
Thu 2023-08-17
  IRGC brings military reinforcements in Syria’s Homs, Deir ez-Zor
Wed 2023-08-16
  Hundreds of migrants arrive on Italian island of Lampedusa
Tue 2023-08-15
   Philadelphia teen charged with plotting potentially 'catastrophic terrorist attack'
Mon 2023-08-14
  DR Congo kills 14 in militant attack
Sun 2023-08-13
  Al-Shabaab bases destroyed in central Somalia
Sat 2023-08-12
   IS attack on bus kills 23 Syrian soldiers
Fri 2023-08-11
  Molotov cocktail thrown at Swedish embassy in Beirut amid Quran-burning tensions


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